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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Vol. 88 No. 5

51 W. College St. Waynesburg, PA 15370

University finalizes purchase of High Street property

By Rachel Brown Executive Editor Waynesburg University finalized the purchase of 25-27 W. High St. on Thursday, Sept. 30, according to the deed submitted to Register and Recorder Tom Headlee.

The University purchased the property for $245,00 from John Juskowich, of 346 Locust Road.

Earlier last week, on Sept. 27, the University had filed a civil lawsuit against Juskowich, the property’s owner, alleging Juskowich had

breached a contract between the two parties.

According to the lawsuit, the University signed an agreement with Juskowich on April 27 to purchase the property, which houses apartment buildings, Lam’s Garden Restaurant and Colonial Bar. The lawsuit alleges that on Sept.

20, the University received word that Juskowich would not sell the property.

Despite moving the sale’s closing date several times, Juskowich had increased the price of the building

by $50,000, from $220,000 to $270,000, the lawsuit said.

In filing the suit, the University wanted Juskowich to sell the property at the agreed upon price.

Both parties went before Greene County Judge William Nalitz on Tuesday.

Nalitz ordered the parties to seek mediation, and the University and Juskowich reached an agreement on Thursday.

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‘To these kids, it’s a lifesaver’ Students strive to help 300 children through holiday charity

By Kyle Edwards Editorial Assistant On Monday, Oct. 4, Waynesburg University set a goal to fill 300 shoeboxes for impoverished children as part of Operation Christmas Child.

“Operation Christmas Child is a program sponsored by Samaritan’s Purse, a non-profit organization,” said Pat Bristor, associate dean of students.

“The goal is to provide Christmas presents for children around the world who possibly haven’t ever received a Christmas gift before.”

The event began with a kickoff program at noon on the first floor of Stover Campus Center.

During the program, Bristor explained more about the University’s history with the program.

“This year will be our third year with the program,” said Bristor.

Photo by Amanda Rice

The University recently purchased the Colonial Inn and Lam’s Garden Chinese Restaurant.

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Activities to be based on popular television shows

By Stephanie Laing Editorial Assistant

Photo courtesy of Marissa Barr

Students collect shoeboxes to fill for impoverished children as part of Operation Christmas Child. A kickoff event was held on Monday.

“We’re asking students, clubs and organizations to sponsor children by filling up the shoeboxes with appropriate gifts.”

Freshman education major and Student Chair

Lauren Grasso also spoke at the meeting.

Grasso shared stories of some of the children she has met that have received presents through Operation Christmas

Homecoming week is arriving.

From Oct. 10 to 16, students and alumni have the opportunity to participate in a week filled with events.

“Student Activities and Student Senate work together to produce activities through the week,” said Assistant Director of Student Activities Kelley Hardie. “We have a committee on Student Activities that actually oversees

both homecoming week and spring week” This year’s theme is TV Land, with events focused on different television shows.

The University has invited alumni to also participate in homecoming week.

“Homecoming is always a wonderful time to celebrate the impact that Waynesburg University has made on its graduates,” said Waynesburg University President TimSee ACTIVITIES on A2

Child.

“It may just be a shoebox filled with random stuff to us,” said Grasso, “but to these kids it’s a

Soccer teams raise money to fight Exiled novelist discusses life, writing pancreatic cancer

By Sarah Bell Staff Writer Horacio Castellanos Moya was one of the University’s guests during Who’s Your Neighbor Week.

Moya, who has been exiled from his native country, El Salvador, now resides in Pennsylvania.

His lecture took place at 7 p.m. in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, Sept. 29.

Moya discussed how every time he publishes a book he reads the reviews.

“I was afraid to go back, and writing was away of not thinking about it; it was a personal objective.”

Horacio Castellanos Moya Author

The reviews talk about the type of literature he writes, calling it literature of violence.

“My novels express

reality,” said Moya.

“Everything is violent; wars, killing – read Shakespeare there is a lot of blood there too.”

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The setting of many of Moya’s stories is El Salvador and the surrounding area. Moya has lived all over the world but continues to write about his native country, he said.

According to Moya, he will never forget what happened in El Salvador; the country turned into a militarized state before it fell to civil war.

In his stories, Moya is trying to release his feelings about what happened in his native country, he

By Aaron Thompson Assistant Sports Editor

“You can hope or you can help.”

That is the slogan for the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research.

This Saturday will mark year two of the “Kick Pancreatic Cancer” event held by the Waynesburg University women’s soccer team at John F. Wiley Stadium.

The event was held last See AUTHOR on A4 year after Catherine

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On Saturday, the Yellow Jacket volleyball team hosted a tri-match.

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Fourteen singers performed Friday as the sixth annual Waynesburg Idol competition began.

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested at Trinity High School.

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Moore’s father was diagnosed with the illness.

At the time, Moore was a senior on the women’s soccer squad. The event not only raises proceeds that are donated to the Hirshberg Foundation but also brings attention to the deadly illness. The impact of the diagnosis stretched across campus, because it did more than just impact the team. Ken Moore serves as the Board Chair of Waynesburg Uni-

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‘Come to Jesus and come hungry,’ pastor says at Chapel

By Andrew Buda Staff Writer The stage was cleared of the usual podium this Tuesday in Chapel in order to make room for a single chair on which Pastor Jim Walker of Hot Metal Bridge Faith Community centered his emotional and animated message.

Although he did sit shortly, his sermon consisted mostly of him moving about, in front, behind and atop the stage on which he portrayed dramatic scenes from the story of Zacchaeus found in Luke 19:1-10.

“Zacchaeus longed for life and for freedom but he was trapped in his chair,” said Walker.

Zacchaeus was a

hated man because he was an unjust tax collector and seen as a traitor, Walker said in his message.

He was a Jew collecting taxes from his own people for the Roman Empire.

“It would be like China invading the United States and making Americans collect taxes from their own people,” Walker said, drawing an analogy.

The chair that would be in Zacchaeus' house was not just a chair in this story.

“The chair represents Zacchaeus’ shame,” said Walker.

“It represents his selfcenteredness and his sin.”

Then Walker addressed the chapel body, “It’s not just Zac-

chaeus’ chair. It’s my chair and it’s your chair.”

Walker said that all of humanity is the same as Zacchaeus.

“We are Zacchaeus because we get consumed with ourselves.

Meanwhile, God is full of love and grace and is calling out our names,” he said.

Walkers advice for hiding this shame is to get busy with earthly activities.

Zacchaeus was a busy man, because his business could hide his loneliness and sin.

Walker set the scene to be a dark and helpless place but not hopeless. The story took place at the beginning of the Jewish Passover Feast, which is a time for family, getting

together and celebrating.

“Zacchaeus was not invited,” said Walker.

When Walker introduced Jesus into the story, he ran to the front of the stage and said, “He’s coming this way! It’s life; it’s Jesus.

He’s coming this way!”

Jesus came into the town and everyone was following him through the streets, his disciples, the women with them on the journey and the crowd.

Because Zacchaeus was not a tall man and the crowd wouldn’t let him in front to see Jesus, he climbed a tree, Walker said.

“This guy’s is out on a limb so that he can see Jesus,” said Walker.

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Photo by Andrew Buda

Pastor Jim Walker spoke at Chapel about Zacchaeus and how his story relates to humanity.

Preliminary hearings scheduled for students Ola attends business conference in Illinois

By Kaitlin Edwards Managing Editor

Preliminary hearings for two students charged in alcoholrelated incidents have been scheduled for Nov. 2 at the Magisterial office of Lou Dayich, according to

the criminal docket from the Magisterial District Judge.

The hearing for Eric Fait, 21, is scheduled for 3 p.m., with the hearing for Tyler Hellwig, 20, to follow at 3:30 p.m.

Both Hellwig and Fait have been charged with a

misdemeanor of furnishing alcohol to minors during a Sept. 25 keg party, according to the Waynesburg Borough police criminal complaint.

According to police reports, police found Brandon Cartwright, 19, unresponsive at 280

West High St. at 1:53 a.m. due to alcohol poisoning.

Cartwright received a citation for the Purchase, Consumption, Possession or Transportation of Liquor or Malt or Brewed Beverages, according to the non-traffic citation issued.

“We would rather give them something that they may not know what to do with, than put a toy gun in the box and then ship it off to a child in a country that has been devastated by war for years.”

Bristor went on to explain that although there is a $7 shipping cost per box, volunteers should not let that discourage them.

“Do not be discouraged by the shipping costs,”

she said.

“I’d rather you fill the box and leave me to worry about finding the money than not fill it because of the money.”

Bristor then described how the boxes should be wrapped.

“The green and red boxes that we received from Operation Christmas Child don’t have to be wrapped at all,” said Bristor.

“But the normal shoe

boxes that were donated should have both the box and the lid wrapped separately.”

Right before the close of the program, Bristor said that while placing a picture and contact info inside the box was not required, it was certainly not discouraged.

“Feel free to put your picture and a personal note in the box,” she said.

“See if you can hear back from the child.”

opportunity to participate in student events through the 5K run/walk on Saturday, Oct. 16.

“There are several opportunities for them to gather, reconnect, meet and mingle,” said Hardie.

“One of the biggest things that we work with for the alumni is the 5K homecoming race. Many of our former students come back to participate in that.”

At the football game, the University will have a

white out.

According to Hardie, attendants will receive Tshirts with the TV Land logo printed on them.

“I think by having homecoming week here at Waynesburg University it increases school spirit and it also allows students to reach out to the athletic teams for more support,” said Hardie. “It showcases those student activity events and student senate.”

The week will start off

at 9 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 10 with Alan Irvine, a ghost storyteller, in Johnson Commons.

On Monday at 8 p.m., students may participate in “Let’s Make A Deal” bingo in the Beehive.

On Tuesday at 8 p.m., teams of five will participate in “Friendly Feud” in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center.

On Wednesday at 4:30 p.m., “Bill Nye the Science Guy” and various science novelties will be

available in the Beehive.

From 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, “Recess Games,” “Legend of the Hidden Temple” and a pig roast will occur in Johnson Commons. Music by 99.5 the HIVE will also be provided.

Friday consists of three events: Black and Orange Spirit Day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., a pep rally and fireworks at Wiley Stadium at 7:30 p.m. and the Waynesburg Idol finale in the GPAC at 9 p.m.

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“It is exciting to welcome back members of the University family and afford them the opportunity to reconnect.”

Student Activities has provided the alumni the

Staff Writer Three weeks ago Christian Ola, assistant professor of Business Administration, attended the Second Annual Meeting of the Academy of Behavioral Finance and Economics.

The conference was held at DePaul University in Chicago, Ill., from Sept. 15 - 17.

There were more than 20 different renowned speakers at the conference speaking on a variety of topics.

The most prevalent of these topics was that although ‘numbers’ people like rational explanations for everything that happens, the reality is that people are not rational, he said.

“In class we like to teach quantitative, hard numbers.

We like rational explanations for business. However, what we’re discovering is that people are not rational and often make bad financial decisions,” said Ola. This new type of science is called Behavioral Finance and Economics, and it has only been around for roughly 25 years, according to Ola. It is considered a marriage between psychology, economics, finance and sociology.

Its main focus is to try and predict why

Shoeboxes due Oct. 29 lifesaver.”

After Grasso was finished speaking, Bristor played a video that explained more details about Operation Christmas Child.

According to the video, since 1993, 70 million shoebox gifts have been given to children in more than 30 different countries.

This year, Operation Christmas Child is planning on giving a record number of Christmas gifts to the children of Haiti, who were devastated by a magnitude 7 earthquake earlier this year.

After the video, Bristor explained the type of gifts that should be placed into the box.

“When you’re filling the box, keep in mind that while these children may not have ever seen a yo-yo and may not know what to do with it, but we ask that you put it in the box anyway,” Bristor said.

By Jake Roberts

Photo courtesy of Marissa Barr

Andrew Oreski (left) and Derek Platt gather shoeboxes to fill for their organizations as part of Operation Christmas Child.

people are irrational, and why they make the decisions that they do, he said. It is trying to take quantitative numbers and provide rational explanations for why they do not always work.

Ola used an example of investment markets and how the markets have particular bubbles, such as tech bubbles.

“A good example is websites,” said Ola. “Certain people or groups buy a website because they feel it is a good investment, so everyone else decides to buy a website as well without any rational reason for doing so.”

He also went on to say markets are moved by fear and greed.

Ola feels that if an investor becomes fearful of losing profit or becomes too greedy, they will make irrational decisions.

There is a similar type of rationale in sports, particularly basketball, dealing with the subject of a ‘hot hand.’

The reality is that there is no such thing as a ‘hot hand,’ even if a player goes five for six on three–point attempts in the first half of a game, statistically that player will end up going five for 10 by the end of the game, he said.

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Saturday will conclude the week with the 5K run/walk at 7:30 a.m., a picnic game and “Minute to Win It” at the football pregame at 11:30 a.m. and a white out at the football game against Westminster College at 1:30 p.m.

“Family feud is the only event besides the 5k homecoming race that you need to sign up in advance,” said Hardie. “[The other] events you can come and participate at the designated times.“

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Doctor recommends getting a flu shot Pittsburgh Project seeks volunteers

By Amanda Wishner Staff Writer

This year flu vaccine is being recommended for all Americans over the age of six months for the first time.

Flu season is said to officially start in October of every year with a peak in January, February and occasionally early March.

The season typically comes to an end in May. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is already reporting an early outbreak of influenza.

Late June and July marked unusually premature cases in an estimated twelve states, nearly four months before the projected flu season, according to their website.

“I predict people will

get the flu, but I don’t subscribe to the doomsday prophets who think the end is near,” said Dr. Joseph Chadwick, a Family Practice Physician in Carmichaels. “Influenza has survived for centuries because of a concept known as antigenic drift, in which a portion of the

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Soccer teams raise money

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Infographic by Michelle Naymick

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Common thinking will rationalize that the player has the ‘hot hand’ even though statistically they will balance out to their normal level of production by the end of the game.

Ola explained how the new Investment Lab in Hannah Hall and experiments in class help to teach students why the numbers may work but the person is irrational.

“The Investment Lab is great because it allows the students to do the quantitative work [investing], and then watch the news on television to see what actually happens.” said Ola. He also explained how his students have become accustomed to experiments in class such as “The Ultimatum Game” and auctioning off a $20 bill.

He uses these experiments to teach students how to think rationally.

“The first real investment bubble occurred in the late 1600s with tulips, of all things,” said Ola. “We’ve proven to be perfectly irrational in nearly everything we do, from choosing a career, a spouse...why should investment be any different? Humans have the ability to not learn from our past mistakes.

“That’s what makes the science so intriguing to so many.”

versity Board of Trustees.

Even though Catherine Moore, graduated there was an overwhelming consensus to continue the event.

“The girls make me so proud that they would keep up the event for pancreatic cancer research because not only is it a great charity but also the closeness I have with that specific charity is so great,” Catherine Moore said.

“Personally it is an honor to see them carry out another charity game and that the game is for pancreatic cancer research is amazing because the disease needs so much help. My family and I are very proud of the team for continuing the fight and the support.”

The team has centered their efforts to grow the event and make it bigger than last year by reaching out to the campus and local communities.

According to Sarah Spicuzza, a senior defenseman for the Yellow Jackets, the preparations for the event have really helped bring the team together.

“Kick Pancreatic Cancer is a great team bonding experience for our team,” Spicuzza said. “It is a unique way for everyone to get involved and use their individual talents.”

The team has used numerous ways to create publicity for the event.

The team created a Facebook event page a few

University buys building

a later date.

Waynesburg University also owns the adjacent property, 17 W. High St, which it purchased in July for $135,000.

The property, formerly owned by McNay Rental LP, housed Hudson’s Jewelers.

University officials have not commented on the plans for the two properties.

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After the Colonial closes, Juskowich will hold an auction to sell items inside. Details of the auction will be announced at

virus evolves, resulting in the year-to-year variance in strains and localized epidemics. Periodically, the virus changes itself dramatically, known as antigenic shift.

“This results in a particularly nasty virus that can cause pandemics.

We’re about due for this

kind of event, which is what created so much anxiety with last year’s H1N1 outbreak.”

Despite strong recommendations from medical officials to receive the flu shot, the CDC states that the number of See FLU on A3

The Pittsburgh Project is a year round nonprofit community development organization that has been serving Pittsburgh for 25 years.

Waynesburg University has held a partnership with the Pittsburgh Project for the last 20 of those years.

The vision of this organization is for “Pittsburgh [to] be called a City of Truth, where once again men and women of ripe old age will sit in the streets each with cane in hand because of age, and where the city

streets will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”

The Pittsburgh Project hopes to develop servant leaders and uphold the dignity of vulnerable homeowners.

“The Pittsburgh Project has what I like to think of as two different spokes,” said Dave Calvario, dean of students and director of Center for Service Leadership.

“The first spoke is the Youth Development program which provides tutoring and mentoring for school age students. The one See NONPROFIT on A4

Photo courtesy of Sarah Markwardt

Junior Sarah Markwardt (left) and Waynesburg alumna Catherine Moore are raising money for the Hirshberg Foundation to find a cure for pancreatic cancer. weeks back and already has over 120 people signifying they are attending.

They have also contacted the local Chamber of Commerce, churches and youth soccer programs in the area.

The event raised $10,615 dollars last year and is looking to bring attention to a cancer, which only four percent of patients live beyond five years.

Junior forward Sarah Markwardt said the event is taken seriously by all the players, even if they have never had a family member impacted by any form of cancer.

“Any of us who have lost someone to pancreatic cancer or any form of cancer at all,” Markwardt said, “we know how hard it is to watch such a fast, steady decline of our loved ones. Maybe our efforts will never help us or someone we know directly, but the thought of alleviating that pain for someone else is what makes the KPC event so

important.”

According to the Hirshberg Foundations website, pancreatic cancer is one of the few cancers for which survival rates have not been improved substantially over the last 40 years. The average life expectancy after a diagnosis is just three to six months.

The website indicates the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research’s goal is supporting the ongoing efforts to find a cure for this disease.

Now in its 13th year, the Foundation’s dedicated efforts have significantly raised awareness and understanding about the form of cancer, a disease that continues to be one of the most fatal and least funded of all cancer types.

Through continued funding of basic and translational research the chance to offer life extension, better treatment options and, eventually, a cure.

“My hope is that people know the facts, see the

need for help and then actually do something about it whether that means donating a few dollars, telling someone else or even starting an event such as Kick Pancreatic Cancer,” Spicuzza said.

Members of the team will be selling the following items: purple T-shirts for $10, Hirshberg Foundation wristbands for $3 and cutout paper soccer balls that will be hung in the Stover Campus Center for $1.

Attendance for the event should be aided not only because the Jackets are facing a local conference opponent but also because of the Jackets strong start to the season and the promotional work they have done leading up to the event.

“We are thrilled to play our part in helping find a cure to kick pancreatic cancer,” said Sean McCarthy, head coach of both soccer programs at Waynesburg. “Our teams are certainly doing their part to raise awareness.”

According to Spicuzza, the success of the team should pull more fans to the game.

“Between the support of the men’s team, parents and classmates, our games have been attracting more people than I’ve seen in the last four years,” she said.

“Our games are certainly more exciting and it keeps the fans coming.

As Saturday is our only home Saturday game, I hope whoever stays oncampus for the weekend comes to the game to support the teams and pancreatic cancer research.”

The Jackets will also be selling purple Eat’n’Park smiley cookies at the game and many other items and gift baskets will be raffled off.

People attending are encouraged to wear purple. The event will take place all day as the Jackets women’s team plays Washington & Jefferson at noon while the men’s team plays rival Washington and Jefferson at 2 p.m

Author talks to students

“I am not complete in the mind,” the character repeated throughout the passage.

“He is an obsessive character,” Moya said after reading the excerpt.

“I needed to emphasize through repetition. It is a musical technique applied to writing.”

Moya was a journalist and a political editor in Guatemala.

He did not want to return to Guatemala when he did, but he was in need of a job.

“I tried to get rid of the memories and when I thought about going back, I started to write,” Moya said.

“I was afraid to go back, and writing was a way of not thinking about it; it was a personal objective.”

He also said that when

he was in Mexico City he did not feel in exile, because he always considered that city his capital.

However, being in the United States feels more like exile because he is surrounded by another language, he said.

“When you are surrounded by another language things change,” Moya said. “You lose the spirit of a language.”

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Moya read an excerpt from his novel, “Senselessness,” which he said is based on reality.

The character is fiction but is put in a real situation.

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Professor of Political Science Richard Waddel speaks to an audience about genocide and governments’ reactions to genocide at a faculty panel, held at noon on Sept. 29.

At panel, professors discuss genocide

By Jon Ledyard Assignments Editor Who’s Your Neighbor Week, which came to a close last Saturday, had an international twist to it this year, teaching students about mistakes made in history and how best to avoid those mistakes in the future.

One event of the week that really reinforced this idea was the “Guarding the Future” Faculty Panel, which took place this past Thursday at noon.

The panel consisted of Noah Haiduc-Dale, Richard Waddel, Ezekiel Olagoke and Elizabeth Wang.

The main focus of the week was the genocide issues around the world, particularly in Africa and how the United States and more powerful European countries can help prevent these genocides.

“Genocide occurs mostly in Africa because of the legacy of colonialism there,” said HaiducDale, assistant professor of History.

“It is often spoken of as tribalism by tribes there but in reality, genocide, at least in its current form, has much more of a colonial legacy.”

According to Haiduc-

Nonprofit needs aid Continued from A3 that we primarily work with here at Waynesburg is the Housing Ministry program.”

The Housing Ministry program provides members of the Pittsburgh community who are elderly, disabled, facing health issues or on fixed income with help for keeping up their homes. Volunteers help by doing

Dale, there is no way that genocide can be completely eliminated in the near future because of its prevalence in so many areas, however there are steps that can be taken to fight the expansion of this tragedy.

“What could help is an international interest in being involved in human rights and then being active in that,” said Haiduc-Dale.

“We can talk the talk all we want, but until we walk the walk, nothing will be done to stop genocide.”

Waddel, professor of political science, believes that the only way to put an end to genocide is by using force.

“The only way you end genocide is to use troops,” said Waddel.

“But unfortunately, the government has had a loss of confidence in using troops since Vietnam.”

According to Waddel, the United States and

other larger European countries are far too hesitant in deploying troops in order to fight genocide.

“We don’t have the will to sacrifice, meaning that the big powerful countries refuse to intervene because they are afraid of losing their own soldiers,” said Waddel.

“In the United States we had 18 body bags in Somalia and we left, and that country has been a mess ever since. But this applies to all of Europe, not just the United States.”

Waddel says that the American government is scared of making the sacrifices necessary to put an end to genocide and help out struggling countries.

“In America, it’s hard to call yourself a great nation if your not willing to be great,” said Waddel.

“With the U.S. government wimping out you wonder if citizens will too.

“The American people are willing to make that sacrifice, but it’s the government that’s scared here.”

Haiduc-Dale agrees that force can be part of the solution to ending genocide, but says it must be done carefully and in the right context.

“I hate to use the word force, but unfortunately it is sometimes necessary to show force to put an end to greater violence,” said HaiducDale.

“But it needs to be done through an international body and is not something we should be doing alone as a country.

But in the context of international cooperation it is sometimes necessary for our troops to even be put on the line in order to fight genocide.”

Waddel encouraged American citizens to use their voice and make a difference in the tragic issue of genocide.

“There are definitely things people can do as individuals and citizens by demanding a policy that the U.S. will be involved in stopping genocide,” said Waddel.

“The way they do that is through the ballot box and voting people into office that will aid this cause.”

things for these homeowners such as patching roofs and doing yard work.

So far this year, more than 234 homeowners have been served through this program.

Many of these homeowners live below the poverty line, with an average monthly income of $1,140.

One hundred fifty percent of the Federal Poverty Guideline for a family of one is an income of $,1354 per month.

Pittsburgh Project Weekend takes place in

the first weekend of this November.

Waynesburg University students have the opportunity to participate in the event.

Students can sign up anytime from now until the Friday before the Pittsburgh Project Weekend in the Center for Service Leadership.

“What I love is not just the service that our students do, but the opportunity that students have to see the challenges that people throughout our own area are facing,” Calvario said.

He said he has full respect for those who participate in the program and highly encourages anyone who participates in the program to get to spend some time with the homeowner and hear their story.

It can be just as valuable as the physical work that is done, he said.

“You gain such a respect for these people, and they are so incredibly grateful for someone to just come and help them in their time of need,” he said.

“The American people are willing to make that sacrifice, but it’s the government that’s scared here.”

Richard Waddel Professor of Political Science

people being administered the vaccine is far below its target goals.

Only 36 percent of Americans aged 18 to 49 received the vaccination for the 2009 - 2010 flu season.

Controversies surrounding the flu shot are often attributed to its low vaccination rates.

One common misconception about the vaccine is that it may cause the flu itself.

Chadwick said that the shot itself is a killed virus and is incapable of causing the disease but may lead to an occasional immune response of achiness and fever.

“The most worrisome complication is Guillain–Barré syndrome, a neuropathic disorder associated with viral infections,” said Chadwick. “In the 1970s, a bad batch of flu shot resulted in a number of cases, but it is a very rare complication today.”

Vaccination rates are recently increasing however, especially in children and young adults.

The number of vaccinations in this age group rose from 24 percent to a

Walker gives message Continued from A2 “Sometimes to see Jesus, we have to shimmy out on a limb, deny ourselves, pick up our cross and follow him.”

Walker pointed out, “You can’t walk on water if you don’t step out of the boat,” referring to Matthew 14:22 when Peter walked on water with Jesus.

As a result, Jesus saw Zacchaeus and decided to go and eat dinner at his house.

Walker said this was shocking to the crowd and they could not believe that Jesus was going to eat with a “sinner” on Passover.

Walker’s message gained intensity as he shared how Jesus entered Zacchaeus’ house.

Describing Zacchaeus’ shame over his one and only chair Walker shows us that the Jews really disowned Zacchaeus.

Walker said that Zacchaeus, like most of us, probably expected Jesus

record-setting 40 percent for the 2009 - 2010 flu season.

“I think that the media attention from the H1N1 outbreak will result in more people getting vaccinated,” said Chadwick.

According to Carol Young, full-time nurse director of Student Health Services, very few students received the vaccine last year, despite the outbreak of H1N1 and the free vaccination offered at the University.

Young would like to see more students get the vaccine because of their heightened risk of contracting the illness.

She also said that high stress, lack of sleep and confined living space increases students’ chances of catching the flu.

“Asthmatic students are more at risk for complications from the flu, so they are more strongly advised to get the vaccine,” said Young.

“Other students at risk include those with diabetes or other chronic illnesses.

A flu clinic will be held at Waynesburg University in conjunction with the University’s nursing students.

Students interested in receiving the vaccine should report to the Stover Campus Center on Oct. 18 and 22.

to hit him with the chair as punishment for the way Zacchaeus had lived his life.

“Jesus doesn’t beat us with the chair,” said Walker.

“He sits in it, then someone comes and puts a bag over his head and punches him in the face. They beat him, flog him and crucify him.”

Jesus took on Zacchaeus' shame explained Walker.

“We are all like Zacchaeus. We find ourselves in our chair, consumed by our stuff,” he said.

Walker had two challenges for the chapel body. One, that they come to Jesus and come hungry. Two, that they love others, and invite others to the feast.

Students who attended Chapel understood how their situations compared to Zacchaeus’.

“It was a good association,” said junior biblical ministries studies major Peter Mally. “It is a concept that everyone can agree with. We are all lost and guilty sinners.”

Together, guest columnists Jenna Pounds and Alicia Chiasson discuss their study abroad experience in Uganda.

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Thursday, October 7, 2010

World Habitat Day aids in neighborhood revitalization

By Sierra Shafer Op/Ed Editor Monday marked the annual World Habitat Day, as declared by the United Nations. The purpose of World Habi-

tat Day is to call attention to current global circumstances and push towards adequate housing for all, according to the Habitat for Humanity website.

According to Dave

Calvario, director of the Center for Service Leadership, World Habitat Day is designed to educate those who live in a first world country about the living conditions in the rest of the world.

“It services to heighten awareness in the population to the sheer number of humans living in unacceptable standards and to put simple, decent, affordable housing on the heart of every-

one no matter where you live,” Calvario said.

This year, World Habitat Day is putting an extra focus on neighborhood revitalization as part of the overall goal to eradicate poverty hous-

Controversial church group protests at area school on way to Washington, D.C. court date.

Road rally to occur Saturday

ing.

“The biggest strides [towards neighborhood revitalizations] are in providing homes from families in need; one See HOMES on B4

Public libraries facing cuts

By Aaron Thompson

By Mitch Graham

Assistant Sports Editor

Staff Writer

This Saturday, GreeneSaver is sponsoring the third annual GreeneScene Road Rally.

Pam Blaker and Shelly Brown of GreeneSaver publication started the event after their former business partner B.J. Quallich died unexpectedly at the age of 54 in 2007.

“We wanted to do something beneficial to the community,” Brown said. “B.J. was a key member of this organization and a member of the Greene County United Way.” Registration for the rally begins at 3 p.m. with the rally beginning at the Greene County Fairgrounds.

“B.J. was a very charitable person and loved to have fun,” Brown said.

“She loved Greene County and the Road Rally is a perfect way to honor her memory.”

According to Brown, Blaker came up with the idea after participating in a road rally and suggested it to Brown. The event has seen increased success in each year of its existence.

“We have been able to donate over $7,000 to the United Way through the Road Rally,” Brown said.”

The rally is not a timed event. The winner is based on who comes the closest to the roadmaster’s course time while answering the

protest consisted of eight WBC members who touted religious and constitutional talking points, as well as choreographed renditions of popular songs, reworded to condemn American students. Roughly 30 counter protesters lined the streets as well as a number of Washington County veterans, who silently protested the church by holding up American flags.

“I’m here to reaffirm the principles of the founding of America, of patriotism, of celebrating our veterans, not going to funerals protesting the deaths of American soldiers,” said protester Joshua Habursky.

“It’s a reverent time for people when they have

Public libraries across the nation are facing a dilemma.

Libraries everywhere are suffering from budget cuts, which cause layoffs, reduced hours or scaled back book acquisitions. Furthermore, some libraries are closing their doors for good.

The Buffalo and Erie County Library system is cutting more than 130 jobs because their budget dropped $4.8 million this year. One of the region’s local libraries, Marianna Community Public Library in Washington County, has been affected also. Cindy Bailey, library director, said that their budget cuts have made it much more difficult to run the library.

“We originally were open 35 hours a week, but we were forced to cut back to 30,” said Bailey.

“It’s hard to keep the library open six days a week with only two people on staff.”

Bailey said that private donations are also down, along with public funds.

“When people hear about the budget cuts, they get nervous. So our private donations take a hit, too,” said Bailey.

Flenniken Library, located in Carmichaels, has also been affected by budget cuts.

“We’ve experienced drastic cuts in our state funding. Last year, 20 percent was cut, and in 2011, we are looking at

See WESTBORO on B4

See LIBRARIES on B4

Photos by Amy Mina

Westboro Baptist Church members protest near Trinity High School in Washington County on Monday, Oct. 4.

Church members made several stops on the way to Washington, D.C.

Offensive opportunity

By Amy Mina Staff Writer School let out early for students in the Trinity Area School District in lieu of a controversial church group protest.

The Westboro Baptist Church, located in Topeka, Kan., is sparking heated controversy across the nation with its anti-gay remarks.

This past Monday, they brought their divisive message to Washington County’s doorsteps.

“We’re here to give you a delicious, refreshing frosty mug of ‘obey your God,’” said Jael Phelps, a WBC member who, throughout the protest, held lewd signs condemning homosexuals. “All throughout the

government, and religious organizations, fags are running rampant.”

Paul Kasunich, superintendent of the Trinity School District, said he approved an early dismissal for all students so they would not be exposed to the protest.

“We felt it was important for us to make sure our students were not

engaged or around this activity. There is no redeeming message to the value that was being sent,” said Kasunich.

At approximately 1 p.m., police officers and canine units began patrolling at and around school property. At 2:30 p.m., WBC arrived for their planned protest.

The twenty-minute

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Greene goes purple to raise domestic violence awareness

By Natalie Bruzda Region Editor In the United States, statistics show that every 15 seconds, a woman is abused.

Statistics in Greene County show that domestic violence is just as much an issue locally as it is nationally.

Greene County had 351 new victims of domestic violence in 2009, with 25 to 30 new victims every month, according to Cheryl McCready, coordinator of the Satellite Office of the Washington Women’s Shelter, Inc. in Greene County. There were also 156 protection

from abuse orders filed and more than 460 hours of counseling provided to victims.

As the month of October has just begun, signifying the beginning of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, it is the goal of the Satellite Office of the Washington Women’s Shelter, Inc. to

turn the county purple through the third annual purple ribbon campaign.

McCready explained the main purpose behind the decision to continue the campaign.

“We’re remembering the victims of abuse, the people who have not survived abuse and we are trying to stop abuse from

happening in the future,” she said.

Ribbons are placed in trees or bushes as well as in local Greene County stores and organizations in order to shed light on domestic violence.

“Domestic violence is all about power and control,” McCready said.

“One person has power

and control over the other person in a relationship.”

According to McCready, a number of churches picked up ribbons and bows from the center while two local libraries, Bowlby Library in Waynesburg and FlenSee CAMPAIGN on B4

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Editorial

Awareness in October Yellow Jacket now available online Focus on domestic violence and breast cancer Pink and purple.These are two colors that represent two national movements in the celebrated throughout the month of October.

Pink symbolizes Breast Cancer Awareness while purple denotes Domestic Violence Awareness.

Both are issues that affect a high number of women in America. In 2009 alone the American Cancer society reporter about 207,090 new cases of invasive breast cancer in women.

Approximately 350 victims of domestic abuse seek help annually in Greene County.

The sheer number of individuals affected by these two problems does not go unnoticed by the students on Waynesburg University’s campus.

University students involve themselves in a number of activities that show support for both cancer awareness and domestic violence awareness.

The University has its own Colleges Against Cancer chapter that students can join. In addition, the Annual Mini Relay For Life is an easy way for anyone on campus to stand up in the fight against cancer.

Last year, the University hosted a domestic violence awareness program where individuals in attendance heard from speakers who have lived with or lost loved ones to domestic violence.

Furthermore, the Greene County Women’s Center is continuing to educate the community through the purple ribbon campaign.

Decorating trees and store displays with purple ribbons, the center wants to shed light on this local and national problem. With the number of initiatives by the University and the local community, it’s difficult to turn a blind eye to these issues .

And walking past a purple tree is certainly a reminder.

Registration trouble Registration booklets delivered late University seniors will be staying up until midnight on Sunday to register for classes this week.

At this point, they are old pros. They have registered a million times.

OK, only seven. But still, it should be no problem.

However, there is a problem. The course registration booklets did not arrive in student mailboxes until half way through the seniors’ advising week.

While advisers are beginning to schedule meetings with their students, students are unable to come prepared.

As college students, we are expected to act like adults and be advocates for our own education.

If we are not given the proper resources, this will be a struggle.

It is frustrating when the University does not provide us with the materials we need to be responsible for ourselves – especially without communicating why.

Yes, things change, glitches happen. But we ask that the University let us know if this is the case.

And in this particular case, provide us with a solution.

Waiting to the last minute does not reflect the values we are taught at a collegiate level.

We can only expect the same from our administrators.

In the mean time, we can just guess at which classes we’ll be taking.

During the past few weeks, you should have noticed columnists writing about the value of online media.

Two weeks ago, Kaitlin Edwards wrote about newspapers’ migration to online content.

Last week, Sierra Shafer wrote about social media as news.

This week, the staff of the Yellow Jacket would like to announce that the issues of the newspaper can now be found online.

To view the online paper, become a friend of the Yellow Jacket on Facebook.

RACHEL BROWN Columnist

Click on the tab labeled, “YJ Online.”

Then choose “Open Publication” or click on the publication image to open the viewer.

If you can’t read the articles, click on the document to zoom in.

Clicking on the document again will zoom out.

Use the arrows on either page to flip through the newspaper, just like the print edition.

Dedicated volunteers lead the ‘Way’ It’s amazing what people can accomplish when they all work together.

That might have been the cheesiest line you have heard all day, but honestly, it’s true.

Ask any soccer, football, basketball –even tennis– team the value of working together and I guarantee they will tell you that they can’t accomplish anything without it.

Even groups and clubs like student senate groups and bible

If you don’t have Facebook, visit issuu.com/wuyellowjacket to see the most recent issue.

The online edition will be updated Thursday afternoons along with the print edition.

Posting a copy of the printed edition is only part one of the Yellow Jacket’s online migration.

We want to still provide the Waynesburg University campus with a quality print edition; that goal will not change.

However, we want to expand that coverage with an interactive web-

KAITLIN EDWARDS Columnist

studies rely on the input and participation of everyone involved.

Charity organizations live by these words and they too understand the value of working together.

This past weekend, 78 people gave up their Saturday to go and volunteer for the United Way Day of Caring.

During this day, everyone was put into seven different groups and sent to different places in the local area.

One woman talked about her experience with the Observer-

site that we’re working to create. Staff members will let you know when the website becomes available through an announcement.

Throughout this transitional period, we want to know your thoughts.

Do you like the online edition? What would you like to see online that we don’t include now?

Write to us; let us know.

——On Monday, members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested gay rights and See LEAVE on B3

Reporter and described how much she appreciated all the work done for her throughout the day.

Janet Callender, who is 63 years old and lives in Peters Township, said she had a hard time keeping up with her property.

Whether it was with weeds in her garden or fallen trees in the back, she was in need of a little help in caring for her home.

The United Way Day of Caring provided that help.

Completing these projects throughout the area would not have been a success though if it wasn’t for the group effort of all 78 volunteers.

Volunteers for charity organizations can have a great impact See TEAMWORK on B3

Becoming part of the Ugandan family The shock of living in Africa is wearing off and life here starting to seem normal again. I’m really enjoying most of my classes and I feel like we’re finally starting to learn about Africa and the culture here.

Things at my home stay are going well. My family, Jamba, is absolutely great. My Taata (my dad) and I have had a few good discussion about life in

JENNA POUNDS

ALICIA CHIASSON

Guest Columnist

Guest Columnist

Uganda and I hope that we can talk more this semester because there is still so much I want to know.

My Maama and I have a hard time talking because of her limited English. I think she is happy that I’m learning

Luganda.

The power has gone out five nights in a row and it’s been great because my brother and Taata have been teaching me the language.

Right now we’re still on simple words and phrases, but I know it’s going

to be really hard to learn.

It’s a tonal language so the same word means different things depending on what syllables you emphasize.

For example, I learned numbers a few days ago and instead of saying “million,” I kept saying “very small old woman.” I can’t hear the difference between the two at all.

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Op-Ed

Leave hate to the adults Continued from B2

Community colleges see new support As an instructor at a community college, I’m delighted the White House is spotlighting the importance of institutions like mine.

On Oct. 5, Jill Biden, Vice President Joe Biden’s wife and a 17year veteran professor at a community college, will convene the first-ever White House Summit on Community Colleges to address their “critical role ... as part of America’s economic vision for the future.”

The future has always been very much in sight at community colleges, which diligently prepare millions of professionals for careers that have a tremendous impact on our lives.

Future accountants, actors and directors, computer software engineers, electricians, entrepreneurs, nurses, plumbers and teachers get degrees there.

Though our work usually goes unheralded, community colleges are booming.

The number of students enrolled at community colleges last fall was 11.4 percent higher than in fall 2008, and 16.9 percent higher than in fall 2007.

I see this growth every day in my classroom. I welcome more eager new students every semester.

Among my students are young veterans just returning from serving our country, single mothers striving to improve their families’ odds, immigrants who are the first to attend college, grandmothers who lost their longtime jobs and seek retraining and high school honor students who couldn’t afford tuition at private schools.

My students humble and challenge me with their zeal, intelligence and drive: like Alberta A., a middle-age student who worked the graveyard shift at a hospital, but still managed to arrive on time to our 8 a.m. class.

Like Helen V., mother of a 20year-old college student, who got on the Dean’s List before he did.

Community colleges are successful because, unlike private colleges, they don’t care where you’ve been - personally, socially or economically.

But they are focused on where you want to go, and in helping you get there.

They are also truly accessible, both geographically and financially.

Most are located at the hearts of the communities they serve. And going to community college costs only about $2,500 per year.

The College Board reports that on average, in-state tuition for public four-year colleges is almost three times more expensive than the tuition for community colleges. Tuition at private four-year colleges is more than ten times as costly.

Because community colleges are relatively inexpensive, they attract a diverse student body: 42 percent are the first to attend college in their families.

About 40 percent are students of color and 16 percent are 40 or older, as reported by the American Association of Community Colleges.

It is about time the national spotlight shone on community colleges. But after all the fanfare and attention fade, we’ll go back quietly about our business shaping the future of this country, one student at a time.

Regional Construction Updates - Holes that were left in the sidewalk by Marisa Fieldhouse because the telephone poles needed to be removed will be paved over in the next few weeks - Trees will also be planted along Washing

ton street in the next few weeks - The Borough of Waynesburg is starting to make some efforts to improve the parks.

It is unsure as of yet whether or not the new lamp posts along Washington street will be continued all the way to the end of the street by the

future site of the Roberts Chapel.

- University officials are still progressing on the armory building.

University attorneys have not closed the transaction as of yet, but it is hoped that this will happen within the next 60 days.

-By Kyle Edwards

They explained to me so many different rules about marriages. It was very interesting, but I’m not sure if they were serious or not.

I’m pretty sure I didn’t need to know all of these rules because I’m not actually in their clan nor will I be marrying anyone in the next three months.

My family goes to a church service that is in Luganda, so I went to church at the University by myself.

The worship is absolutely amazing and I have been teaching Sunday school there.

A few weeks ago at community worship, like our Chapel, the message was about obedience and contentment.

“If you are short, and you say ‘I want to be tall!’ then you are wasting your time,” the pastor said.

“You are not going to

be tall, you should just be happy. It is not going to change.”

He said the same thing about those who were born in Uganda wishing to have been born in America.

“You should be happy that you are from Uganda. Do you know why?

Because in America, they have winter. Winter is like living in a refrigerator. Be happy you are in Uganda.”

I thought it was a great way to end the sermon.

This past weekend, the two of us traveled to Gulu – one of the areas most affected by the civil resistance in Uganda.

We had the opportunity to work with Child Voice International; one of the organizations working to help reintegrate former child soldiers back into society.

Many of the children

housed there are teen mothers who had been child soldiers.

Seeing these young girls and hearing their stories was very emotionally overwhelming for our whole group.

We also visited The Recreation Project; a development center that facilitates activities for secondary school students.

The foundation strongly believes that in order for the conflict in Uganda to end, young children must learn to trust and rely on each other.

There is a great deal of conflict affecting northern Uganda right now.

But it is comforting to see and be apart of the resilient efforts to create a brighter future and find healing.

Pounds is a junior, international studies major studying in Uganda alongside Alicia Chiasson, junior English major.

Chapel

Washington Street

- Scaffolding is up around the east walls - Workers have begun to hang duct works for basement heating/ventilation systems - Workers have also begun to work on the plumbing for the basement

Still conflict in Uganda Continued from B2 My brother says that because I’m a mzungu (white person) everyone will understand what I am meaning to say.

When I greet my parents in Luganda, I kneel to them as a way to show respect because they are my elders.

In return, they gave me a new name, Nnyaboyybga, and officially welcomed me into their clan.

I cannot yet pronounce the name of our clan nor can I spell it because the letters are not a part of the English alphabet.

When I became part of the clan, my Taata told me that now I cannot marry anyone in his clan or my Maama’s clan.

lifestyles outside of Trinity High School, Washington.

West Borough Baptist Church, based out of Kansas, is famous for their anti-gay messages and belief that God is killing American soldiers as a way to punish a nation that supports the rights of homosexuals.

They held signs and sang homemade antimilitary songs during the protest.

Some of the signs read, “Thank God for Dead Soldiers.”

A number of counterprotesters also stood outside the high school during the protest, and police separated the two groups to ensure the protest would not become violent, as this has been the case before.

Footage of the event shows Westboro Baptist Church members singing and waving signs, but even more disturbingly, young children were carrying signs that proclaimed messages of hate.

Teamwork necessary Continued from B2 on their community, but they can also learn a lot themselves.

So many groups throughout the county have been working to the betterment of their community.

Even University students spend hundreds of hours per week volunteering with various organizations.

I personally applaud people who donate their time and effort towards organizations who work for the greater good.

Although the volunteers are necessary, I would also like to mention something about the people who lead these organizations.

They are not like the leaders of giant corporations or even a regular business. They are people who are constantly forced outside of their comfort zones to complete their jobs for little or no compensation.

Every week, the leaders of these non-profit organizations work intense hours to coordinate and eventually be able to reach people in

According to media studies, children under the age of seven can’t identify between reality and fantasy.

How would they be able to decide their stance on gay marriage at that age?

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church are allowed to protest; that’s in the Constitution.

I can’t deny them that right no matter how poisonous and hateful their message.

However, keep children out of it.

Children are too young and impressionable to make a decision about federal policy.

There is a reason they cannot vote until age 18.

They should be taught about the government and should learn about the freedoms provided by the Constitution.

Parents should teach their children about voting and how to be responsible citizens.

Take them to protests to watch, but don’t make them carry signs they cannot even read.

Leave the hateful protesting until they’re old enough to make a conscious decision of their own.

need.

Even though every organization works towards certain goals, these leaders are solely focused on helping those in need.

Problem: the leaders of these organizations are hardly ever, if at all, recognized for all the work that they do.

But they should be.

We should remember those countless, unrecognized leaders who work so hard for your community.

They deserve it.

Now I am not saying everything is always going to work out easy for every job.

With every plan, there is a pretty good chance something can, and probably will, go wrong. An e-mail goes astray, someone gets lost or hurt or sick or virtually anything can be the cause of troubles. But you know, in the long run, everything is worth it. The fighting between clashing personalities, the long nights of no sleep, suddenly become worth it when the final product is unveiled.

Don’t be afraid to take on challenges and to lead events or volunteer.

These things can literally change your life.

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Libraries cut employment Continued from B1 another 11 percent drop on top of last year’s cut,” said Linda Orsted, Library Director and CEO of Flenniken Public Library.

“Because of this, we had to cut two part-time positions, which doesn’t help the economy either.”

“Our private donations have gone up,

Homes built in county Continued from B1 Photos by Gregory Rinehart

family at a time,” said

Bowlby Library set up a display in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Greene County had 351 new vic- Calvario. “Home ownership helps in improving tims of domestic violence in 2009, with 25 to 30 new victims every month.

Campaign commences Continued from B1 niken Library in Carmichaels set up a display as well.

In addition, the Peer Educators Group along with the Criminal Justice Club are working to decorate trees on Waynesburg University’s campus.

Volunteer Kelsey Brownlee, a junior business management major at Waynesburg University decorated Hooper Park in honor of the purple ribbon campaign.

“I think people should know that it’s more of a problem than people realize,” Brownlee said.

“You don’t find out about it because people don’t come forth about it, but it’s really a serious problem.

Just because you love someone doesn’t mean that they can treat you that way. It doesn’t mean that they can emotionally or physically abuse you.”

McCready expressed similar sentiments, explaining that the campaign aids in spreading the word about domestic violence, to both the

Westboro protests Continued from B1 such great loss, and we should be thanking them, not chastising them.”

Earlier this year, WBC exercised its First Amendment rights by protesting outside private military funerals.

The father of U.S. Marine Corp. Matthew Snyder of York, Pa., sued WBC for protesting at his son’s funeral, saying that the protesters are a harassment.

“My dad’s a Vietnam veteran, and God forbid if they ever came to my dad’s funeral,” Tammy Post, a resident of Washington County, said with tears in her eyes.

“God doesn’t punish.

community and especially to victims of abuse.

“Too many times a victim comes in and they say that they didn’t know that help was available,” McCready said.

“So them seeing the signs and the purple ribbons, it gives them an idea that there is help and there is a place they can go for that help.

Sometimes a friend will bring them in here and they’re so happy because they didn’t know there was help, didn’t know there were other people.”

The Washington Women’s Shelter, Inc. offers a plethora of services for victims of domestic violence: safe, temporary shelter, a 24hour hotline, empowerment counseling and support, advocacy, transitional housing, a children’s program and more.

“First we help with safety planning, we give them options,” McCready said.

“We don’t force anyone to leave a relationship but we give them options to stay safe.”

Office hours at the Satellite Office of the Washington Women’s

God does good, and I believe that their signs are inappropriate, especially in front of a school.”

The WBC made another stop in Hagerstown, Md., before making their way to Washington, D.C. where they protested in front of the White House.

“What they’re going to do is they’re going to uphold the law,” Shirley Phelps, a spokesperson for the WBC, said.

“You will not have a First Amendment in this country if they don’t uphold the rule of law.”

Phelps plans to defend her right to protest at soldiers’ funerals in the Supreme Court case against Snyder.

The Court will decide whether Snyder can sue WBC for $5 million in damages.

Local businesses, like Pizza Hut, place purple ribbons in trees or bushes to recognize domestic violence.

Shelter, Inc. in Greene County are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, no appointments are necessary.

If interested in having your business, school or church join in the purple ribbon campaign, contact McCready at 724852-2463.

“Probably everybody

Event to raise money Continued from B1 most questions correctly. Drivers are handed a course map and instructed to set their mileage gauge to zero. Drivers will have checkpoints along the way.

“Once people actually run it, they do enjoy it,” Blaker said. “We try to tweak and improve the rally a little more each year.”

Blaker serves as the roadmaster and drives the route 10-12 times to get the most accurate average time they can.

According to Blaker, the route is completely different and more challenging this year, therefore more fun.

“The beautiful rural

knows somebody who is affected by domestic violence,” McCready said.

“And it happens here in Greene County just like it happens in the big cities.

People are concerned about the wars and violence in the world but domestic violence affects us in our homes.”

landscape of Greene County makes it a beautiful course,” Brown said. “The course takes you through paths that some may have not traveled before. The route features historical sites and fascinating views of Greene County.”

According to Brown, the participants may have to get out of their vehicle and the course is easy to follow for contestants that are unfamiliar with the roads.

The rally should last around an hour and a half to three hours.

Brown said the event is a good way for students to get to know the county in which they go to school in.

“It’s a blast for any student to take part in,” Brown said.

“You always need to bring a few other people

self-esteem and allows a person or family to begin increasing their personal assets.”

Greene County Habitat for Humanity is celebrating their 25th year working towards this same goal. They have currently built 23 news houses in Greene County since their foundation in 1985.

The past five years however, have seen the most growth.

“There are two new houses we’ve acquired recently that need remodeled and that’s in West Waynesburg,” said Construction Supervisor, Rich Long. “There’s also a duplex in Clarksville that we’re building from scratch.”

According to Calvario, the news projects are being funded entirely by grant money.Long said that there are plans to put together more housing packages in the warehouse in the near future.

Greene County Habitat for Humanity hosts up to 15 volunteer work camps each year. Waynesburg University has a long standing relationship with GCHFH and many students participate in volunteer opportunities throughout the year.

“We’ve had students

mostly from the surrounding community,” she said. “We’ve received a lot more memorial donations since 2007, and we have also fundraised more aggressively to help close the gap.”

Orsted said that the library will survive. “We may have to reduce services and cut collection expenditures, but it also helps that we are in a library district,” she said.

“This allows our library and others within the district share resources.”

from the University up to help,” said Long.

“They’re all volunteers. I have a group coming up this week to help with new construction and cleaning up after a remodel.”

This year, in collaboration with the 25th anniversary, University students are working with Habitat for Humanity and New Vision to bring renewable energy solutions to Greene County.

For those struggling with poverty, the cost of heating and lighting a home can be extremely difficult. Green energy is affordable and environmentally responsible.

According to Long, GCHFH is working with the New Vision initiative on all new construction, including the two remodels and the new duplex.

“We’re also putting in a solar panel at the warehouse to help with electric,” said Long.

Calvario said that while a lot of details still need to be worked out between New Vision, Greene County Habitat for Humanity and Waynesburg University, there is great potential for future projects.

“Greene County Habitat is a vital partner to our University and our service-learning program,” he said. “The mission of Greene County Habitat and Waynesburg University fit well together and provide great learning opportunities for our students.”

Photo courtesy of Pam Blaker

The GreeneScene Road Rally provides drivers with a course through Greene County rural landscape. to help navigate. The event is a good way to get to know Greene County.”

The winner will of the Road Rally will receive $300.

Following the rally there will be an after party at 6 p.m. at the Waynesburg club for Veterans of Foreign

Wars. Food prizes, an auction, raffles and more will be available.

Registration for the event plus the party is $30 plus $10 per passenger. Cost to just attend the after party is $10 per person.

For more information, call Brown or Blaker at 724-627-2040.

Jack of all trades Chris Hardie is much more than just the Jackets’ head cross country coach.

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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Rough Women’s soccer falls just short in PAC opener weekend for WU athletics

By Matt Miller Staff Writer

Dave Floyd Senior Sports Editor

With five Waynesburg University athletic teams participating in seven contests this weekend, opportunities abounded for those squads to further their seasons’ successes, especially when it came to conference action.

Unfortunately for the Yellow Jacket faithful, Waynesburg teams failed to produce a single victory Friday or Saturday.

Below is a timeline of the two-day stretch, one mired in disappointment.

Friday, 4 p.m. – Facing a Thomas More squad in the midst of a six-game road trip, the women’s tennis team seemed poised to even their conference record at 3-3. The Jackets had beaten the Saints the previous year 63 and finished one spot ahead of them at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships.

Despite those prior successes, though, Thomas More captured four tight matches and dispatched Waynesburg 7-2.

It was a match they needed to have if they desire a positive PAC record in the regular season.

Now, the Jackets will have a difficult time clawing back to .500 in conference play with only two matches remaining, one of which is against a strong Saint Vincent squad. Earlier in the year, the Bearcats scored a 7-2 victory over Chatham, a team the Jackets lost to 9-0.

Saturday, 10:30 a.m. – Coming off that tough defeat the day before, the women’s tennis team was unable to bounce back on the road at Westminster.

The Titans shut out the Jackets 9-0 for the second time this season.

Fortunately for Waynesburg, the match did not count against their conference record.

11 a.m. – The women’s volleyball team hosted a tri-match after traveling on the road to compete in triangulars the previous two Saturday’s.

However, the confines of the Rudy Marisa Fieldhouse proved unfriendly to the Jackets.

They dropped the first match to provisional PAC member Geneva 3-1.

2 p.m. – After a 42-16 blowout victory over Grove City on Sept. 25, the football team appeared

The women’s sevengame unbeaten streak ended Saturday afternoon as Waynesburg lost to Westminster 2-1. The match was the first for both teams in Presidents’ Athletic Conference play.

“It was a fairly even match,” head coach Sean McCarthy said.

“I thought we kind of took it to them the first 20 minutes. The second 20 minutes I thought they got the better.

“To start the game we

had two really, really good opportunities, borderline breakaways, that we didn’t finish” McCarthy added. “I thought that changed the outcome of the game. It would’ve been a new game had we finished one of those two chances.”

The action was back and forth for the entire game. Thirteen minutes into the second half Westminster scored, as McCarthy phrased it, a “fortunate goal” to take a 2-0 lead off of what seemed to be an offside play.

That goal appeared to be the turning point as the Yellow Jackets weren’t able to capitalize on any scoring opportunities until the last minute when senior Amy Macurdy netted a goal with just 14 seconds left in the game.

The goal was Macurdy’s fourth of the season, the second most on the team “We pressured hard and kept the ball on our offensive side the majority of the second half, and finally found the back of the

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Freshman defender Victoria Shepherd recorded one shot in Saturday’s game at Westminster.

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Sophomore wide receiver Christian Jackson tries to run past Bison tacklers Saturday at Bethany.

Bison hand Jackets first PAC defeat Bethany carries 48 times, holds ball nearly 40 minutes

By Zach Shoaf Staff Writer Bethany freshman quarterback Matt Grimard gave the Bison community a homecoming to remember as he led a 2417 upset of the Waynesburg University football team Saturday afternoon.

With the score tied at 17-17, Grimard ran for a five-yard touchdown with 7:45 left in the game for the game-winning score

over the Yellow Jackets who were previously unbeaten in conference play.

It was the second consecutive victory for the Bison (1-2, 2-3) over the Jackets (2-1, 2-2) at home after knocking off the Yellow Jackets 31-24 in 2008.

Grimard, the Massachusetts native, rushed 20 times for 116 yards and also went 17-22 for 173 yards and an interception.

“We were ready I think,” said Bison head coach Tim Weaver. “We want to be a balanced team, and I felt we ran the ball really effectively. We had a freshman in there

directing the offense, and he did well. He made one mistake that resulted in an interception, but he’ll learn from that and move on.”

Grimard’s counterpart, senior quarterback Brad Dawson, struggled after returning to the Jackets’ offense after being sidelined with turf toe last week against Grove City.

Dawson went just 2-11 for just 29 yards in the first half but rebounded with a 12-18 effort for 145 yards in the second half.

Jackets’ head coach Rick Shepas felt the Jackets missed opportunities in the game.

“Dawson had a good week in practice,” said Shepas. “He was a little sluggish, but it’s something he will have to work through. That said I thought our wide receivers did well for us, such as Christian Jackson and others. I felt we just overall missed some opportunities.”

The Jackets rallied from an early 14-0 first quarter deficit and tied the game at 17-17 when Dawson connected with sophomore tight end Adam Moses for a 19-yard touchdown with 10:49 See JACKETS on C2

Volleyball team hosts home tri-match

By Katie Rihn Staff Writer

The Waynesburg University women’s volleyball team struggled to scratch out wins last week, going 1-3 in four matches.

The Yellow Jackets hosted their first trimatch Saturday, bringing in Presidents’ Athletic Conference provisional member Geneva and full PAC member Thomas More.

Geneva came into Saturday with a 16-2 mark on See IMPERFECT on C4 the season. The Golden

Tornadoes continued their successful campaign, downing the Yellow Jackets by a final of 3-1.

Things did not get much better for the Yellow Jackets when they faced off with Thomas More, as they dropped that match in three straight sets.

Head coach Stephanie Benkowski recognized the problem areas for her team during those two matches.

“Serve receive, blocking, individual and team confidence,” said See VOLLEYBALL on C3

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Sophomore Carly Smithyman sets the ball to her teammates in Wayneburg’s match Thursday versus Carlow.

For the sport of baseball, October is the most important time of the year.

Eight teams will be battling for Major League Baseball’s ultimate prize.

It can certainly be said that it is an exciting time of the year, as playoff drama in the big leagues rarely disappoints.

It’s never too early to think about Waynesburg University baseball, either.

In fact, the Yellow Jacket team just recently participated in a doubleheader involving Pitt-Greensburg and Westmoreland County Community College. Waynesburg came away from the day with a split, defeating WCCC and losing to Pitt-Greensburg.

These two contests were the last competitive games that the team will have before a slew of new NCAA rules go into effect regarding the speed of the game, the obstruction of fielders and bat regulations.

Speed of play has long been an issue among all levels of baseball, although perhaps most so in the big leagues.

However, when talking to baseball players of all levels, it becomes clear that a common pet peeve is that of a pitcher that attempts to slow the game down.

Last year the NCAA experimented with using clocks both between pitches and between innings to try to cut down on time wasting. It went well, and the NCAA decided to implement them fully for the 2011 season.

Pitchers will be required to start their See RULES on C3

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Jackets humbled in 5-0 loss to Titans Geneva President becomes chair of Presidents’ Council

By Dave Franczak Staff Writer The Waynesburg University men’s soccer team opened up their chase for the Presidents’ Athletic Conference title Saturday against the Westminster College Titans.

Conference play started out on the wrong foot for the Jackets, as they lost their first match 5-0 to the Titans.

“I thought we would win,” said head coach Sean McCarthy. “After Hiram, I thought we were prepared for conference play.”

The Jackets went out onto the field with eight freshman starters. The only three upperclassman starters were junior forward Erick Burke, junior defender David Floyd and sophomore defender Phil Henry.

“It’s tough being young and seeing the conference for the first time,” said McCarthy about the freshman.

The Titans came out firing shots at freshman goalkeeper Dan Buzzard.

Waynesburg was out shot in the first half 11-6.

Westminster struck first with a penalty kick goal almost 10 minutes into the game. The Titans struck again just over two minutes later, and again another two minutes after

Jacket streak snapped Continued from C1 net in the last minute,” junior Courtney Ebersole said. “Unfortunately, we missed a few opportunities early in the game, but we fought hard until the last minute, and I think that shows the perseverance in our team.”

“The girls fought hard,” McCarthy said. “It was a tough environment being on the road for the first conference game.

The fans were a little crazy, the calls really weren’t going our way and we just put our head down and kept battling, and we got our goal towards the end of the match. Unfor-

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Moses finished with the second most receiving yards on the Jackets with three receptions for 44 yards, while the sophomore Jackson caught six passes for 68 yards.

The teams traded field goals in the third quarter as Jackets’ sophomore kicker John Storck drilled a 35-yard field goal at the 11:42 mark of the third quarter to briefly cut the Bison lead to 14-10, but Bison kicker Robert Headden kicked a 20-yard field goal with 5:04 left in the third quarter to put the lead back to a touchdown

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that. After 14 minutes of play, the Jackets trailed 30 with a long game ahead of them.

The Titans would score one more time before the half.

“No one showed up. It was everyone’s worst game at the same time,” said McCarthy. “The game was over before it started.”

Westminster scored only one second-half goal.

They peppered Buzzard with shots, outshooting Waynesburg 18-8.

“I understand that we are a young team. We show it game in and game out,” said McCarthy.

Prior to the conference loss to the Titans, the Jackets finished up their

non-conference schedule with a thrilling victory over Hiram.

The Jackets lit up the scoreboard first with a goal by junior Erick Burke. The goal by Burke gives him 10 goals on the season. With the goal, Burke now sits at second in the PAC for goals and total points.

The Terriers scored back-to-back goals before the half, making the score 2-1 Hiram.

Just two minutes into the second half, freshman midfielder Danny Griebert netted his second goal of the season to tie the game. Later in the match, freshman midfielder Simseth SaintHillien found the back of

the net for the second time this season off of a header to put the Jackets up for good with 15 minutes left in the match.

The Jackets have a tough road ahead of them this week, playing the top two PAC teams from a season ago. “We are excited to play the champs [Thomas More College] at home and early in conference play,” said McCarthy. “We are capable of playing them. We just need everyone’s best and a collective effort.”

Waynesburg will take on the PAC champions from a year ago Thursday at 8 p.m. They will also host conference rival Washington and Jefferson this Saturday at 2 p.m.

The Presidents’ Athletic Conference Presidents’ Council for the 2010-2011 academic school year will have a new chairman as Dr. Kenneth Smith, the President of Geneva College, takes over.

The council, made up of the Presidents from each member institution, is the governing body of the PAC. This council handles the issues that are outside the normal realm of operations.

“The council handles the long-term strategic issues of the conference,” said PAC Executive Director Joe Onderko. “[It] stays away from the operational side in most cases.”

The council meets during the months of December and April to make decisions on the topics concerning the PAC. Such decisions range from rule changes in to votes on topics at the NCAA level.

“The Presidents’ Council acts as the Supreme Court,” says Onderko.

tunately, it wasn’t enough.”

Junior Katrina Kelly started in net for the Jackets. Kelly played all 90 minutes, making four saves on the day.

The loss Saturday brings the Yellow Jackets record to 6-3-2, 0-1 in the PAC. The loss also ends the team’s longest unbeaten streak since before 2002.

“The seven-game unbeaten streak was very exciting,” Ebersole said.

“It gave us time to play together while also switching things around to see what works and does not, so that way when it comes to the PAC games, we’ll be ready.”

“It definitely gave us a strong mentality heading into the most important games of the season.”

McCarthy knows that tough games are ahead, especially moving forward into conference opponents, and there is no time to waste on a hard loss.

“We never want to lose points going into a conference game. So, yeah, it is really tough to start our conference season that way,” McCarthy said. “At the same time, we don’t have any time to dwell on [the loss] and put our heads down.”

The Yellow Jackets look to bounce back from their first loss in a month as they continue PAC play Thursday and Saturday at John F. Wiley Stadium against Thomas More and rival Washington & Jefferson respectively.

Thomas More defeated Waynesburg 4-1 in

Crestview Hills, Ky. in the last game of the Jackets’ 2009 campaign.

In that contest, thensophomore Rebecca Snyder provided the lone Waynesburg goal with her first-half tally.

Kelly, also a sophomore a year ago, started in net for the Jackets.

The Saints enter Thursday’s game undefeated at 6-0-3.

They are also on a twogame winning streak, during which they’ve outscored their opponents by a combined total of 101.

“We’ve got Thomas More coming in on Thursday who was top 25 last year and has a terrific team, players and coach,” McCarthy said. “We are excited to [host them], and we’re going for three

points. We are not [playing] to tie; we’re [playing] to win, and hopefully we get that win.

Waynesburg also suffered defeat in a road contest at Washington and Jefferson in the 2009 season.

After then-junior Sarah Spicuzza collected an unassisted goal less than four minutes into the game, the Jackets gave up the next two tallies and lost 2-1.

The Presidents were riding a three-game winning streak this season before their game Wednesday against Bethany.

The result of the Washington and JeffersonBethany matchup were not available at press time.

“Every conference

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Freshman defender Adam Roberge battles a Hiram player for the ball as classmate Danny Griebert (23) looks on in the teams’ game Thursday at Wiley Stadium.

Rush defense, pass protection plague Waynesburg Despite what their head coach thought was a solid week of practice, poor rush defense and pass protection played a major role in the Jackets’ demise at Bethany.

“We had a great week of practice,” head coach Rick Shepas said. “We had great scouting of Bethany, and I thought we were prepared going into the game.

“We didn’t play with any intensity like we did in previous weeks, and we didn’t play well up front on either side of the ball.”

The statistics coming in pointed to the fact that Bethany was a run first offense. They had carried the ball more than twice as much as they had thrown it.

In the game against Waynesburg, Bethany ran the ball 48 times for 180 yards, which led to three Bison touchdowns.

Bethany had two players rush for over 75 yards, led

by Eric Walker with 96 yards. Walker also had two rushing touchdowns and three receptions for 13 yards in the game. at 17-10.

Bethany junior running back Eric Walker put the Bison ahead on their first drive with a nine-yard

touchdown run to cap off a three-play, 20-yard drive with 13:41 left in the first quarter.

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“Bethany beat us in time of position and field position,” said Shepas. “We weren’t playing with intensity, and they took control of that and capitalized on any mistakes we made.”

Quarterback Brad Dawson was hurried on numerous plays, which led to more incomplete passes than completions for the senior signal caller. He was only 14-of-29 passing with 174 yards and just one touchdown.

“We lacked focus out there on Saturday,” Dawson said. “We prepared all week and then just didn’t execute. Bethany capitalized on it and just outplayed us.”

When Dawson tried to lead the Jackets on a gametying drive late, he was sacked and fumbled on the Bethany 16-yard line with 4:41 left in the game, allowing Bethany to run out the clock and win.

By Tim Chilcote Staff Writer three-and-out Walker doubled the Bison score with another touchdown run to cap off a 10minute, 18-play, 85-yard

drive with 2:03 left in the first quarter.

Walker finished with 26 carries for 98 yards, while freshman Bertrand

“They have the final say.

They are the top of the line.

“I serve the council,” he added.

“They give me guidelines of how they want things to be done. I work closely with them in order to keep the conference at its best.”

The chairman position rotates annually in an alphabetical order.

A president can hold the chairman for more than one year if the council feels it necessary to do so.

As Smith enters his seventh year as President of Geneva College, Geneva enters their fourth year as a member of the PAC. Geneva also enters their final year as a provisional Division III member of the NCAA. Onderko is clearly pleased with how the Golden Tornadoes have integrated themselves into the conference in their first few years.

“From the very beginning Geneva has been considered a full member of the PAC,” said See SMITH on C4

game is going to be a tough game, but we obviously respect every opponent,” McCarthy added.

“We believe that we’re better. We’re not scared of anybody, per se, but we definitely respect our opponent and what they can bring to the table.”

According to Ebersole, Waynesburg’s leading scorer, the challenge won’t deter or shake the Jackets confidence.

“The upcoming PAC games will be tough,” Ebersole said. “But we have been preparing ourselves all season for them.”

“We just need to play strong defensively and make every shot count.

It’s not going to be easy, but it definitely can be done and we’re ready for the challenge.”

Ngampa was the leading rusher for the Jackets with 11 rushes for 60 yards and the Jackets’ first touchdown with 12:15 left in the second quarter that made the score 14-7.

Waynesburg junior Justin Falcon finished with nine rushes for 31 yards and one reception for 16 yards.

The Jackets take on Geneva Saturday on the road.

They will look to finally solve the riddle that has been the Golden Tornadoes in recent years.

Geneva has defeated Waynesburg in each of the past three seasons, including a 49-39 victory at John F. Wiley Stadium last year.

Kickoff for Saturday’s game in Beaver Falls is set for 4 p.m.

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Hardie serves in Men’s XC prepping for meet at CMU numerous roles

By Matt Paris Staff Writer

By Nicole Forte Staff Writer Chris Hardie is known as the head men’s and women’s cross country coach to some and an assistant coach to the men’s and women’s track team to others. But something that a lot of people might not know about Hardie is that he manages to hold a full-time job outside of Waynesburg University.

Hardie works as the Greene County Planner in the Department of Economic Development.

“My main function is to assist with the Greene County Planning Commission,” said Hardie.

“We administer an ordinance that oversees proper building and site preparation for all land developments within the county.”

Although it is evident that Hardie leads a busy life, he always makes an effort to have time for his family at the end of a long day.

According to Hardie, he and his wife Kelley have an unspoken rule to be home every night before eight, so they can share a few hours together.

After spending just one season as an assistant coach to the men’s and women’s cross country teams, Hardie stepped into the head coaching role, replacing 11-year head coach Blair Zimmerman.

According to Heather Flower, a senior member of the women’s cross county team, Hardie has already implemented different techniques into the team’s training routine.

“Coach Hardie has incorporated many different training techniques into the program,” said Flower.

“Most of our practices consist of running, but Coach Hardie has also incorporated a weight training program and swimming to give our bodies a break after hard workouts. We also do a lot of cross training so that we can recover from injuries as quickly as possible but still maintain endurance.”

According to senior Sarah Beth Rood, Hardie has not changed as a

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Team captain and sophomore setter Carly Smithyman touched on one very specific area the team lacked Saturday afternoon.

“The most noticeable of areas would be our serve receive passing,” Smithyman said. “It is the most essential part of volleyball, and without it we cannot set the hitters.

At times we struggled to

The Waynesburg University men’s cross country team is well rested after a week off last week and is now preparing for the Carnegie Mellon Invitational Saturday.

“The plan for this week is to keep the intensity the same but begin to drop their mileage slightly,” said head coach Chris Hardie.

“We are giving our legs a slight break in mileage so that they will perform flawlessly for us down the stretch,” said freshman runner Jonathan Blatt.

Hardie had the Jacket men up to the 60-70 mile a week range during practices to keep them sharp and focused. “Our biggest meet of the season occurs in a little over three weeks,” Hardie said. “So the goal is to have them healthy and strong at the right time.”

The runners feel the same way. “The last four weeks we have been on this phase of running a speed workout one day and an up tempo five to seven miler the next,” said Blatt. “It has about killed us all, but what doesn’t kill us will only make us stronger.”

Because of the fact that the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships are three weeks away, and then are fol-

coach since stepping into the title of head coach, and fellow teammate Flower Hardie agrees.

“Coach Hardie was involved whole-heartedly as assistant coach, and he has continued to demonstrate this as head coach,” said Flower.

“Not only is he great with recruiting, but he also takes the time to listen to us as individuals.

His goal has always been to make the cross country program as great as he possibly can.”

According to Hardie, since becoming head coach he has worked hard to teach his athletes to be accountable for their actions.

“I think we may have lacked a little bit of accountability. Many of the athletes had to learn that every decision that they make will affect the team in some way,” said Hardie.

“I started by hiring two amazing assistant coaches who have a plan and challenge each athlete to make the most of the plan. We preach accountability in every decision.”

According to Flower, the team has taken well to Hardie’s new coaching position, as well as his frequently used phrase “embrace the challenge.”

“That saying [embrace the challenge] is instilled in every runner I coach. If you give 100 percent every day and embrace the challenges that are placed before you, you will be a better athlete, a better teammate and a better person,” said Hardie. “I urge my athletes to forget the pain in whatever form it comes in and do the best that they can to embrace that challenge.”

After being off this past week, the Yellow Jackets will return to action Saturday when they participate in the Carnegie Mellon Invitational at Schenley Park.

Waynesburg placed 11th out of 17 teams in their last meet at Cooper’s Lake on Sept. 25.

Saturday’s race is scheduled to get underway at 10:30 a.m.

delivery in no more than 20 seconds when there is no one on base. Umpires will be required to both monitor and enforce this rule. Also, any non-televised game will have an umpire enforced 90-second limit between each half inning.

Gary Overton, chair of the NCAA Baseball Rules Committee, is very optimistic about the new time rules.

“We believe that enforcing these time limits will keep the pace of the game moving without artificially altering the game,” Overton said recently.

The committee also

made the decision to change a rule concerning obstruction. This rule change will provide fielders the opportunity to make a play on the ball in the midst of a play at the base.

Previously, obstruction could be called on any contact between a fielder and a runner unless the fielder had possession of the ball.

Now, a fielder that has established himself will have the opportunity to field the throw without being penalized.

The other, and perhaps most talked about rule, is regarding bats.

The NCAA will now test the ball’s liveliness off of the bat as opposed to its speed off of the bat to determine if it meets performance standards.

The NCAA wants to make certain that the power created by the metal and composite bats is no more than that of a wood bat.

This new standard will result in the players feeling less of a trampoline effect off of the bats and

will also lower the performance level of the bats by five to six percent from the 2010 season.

Waynesburg University freshman infielder Andrew Rose says that the new bat rules will have an immediate effect on the game.

“The new rules will force teams to play more of an old-fashioned, ‘small ball’ style of game,” Rose says.

It is safe to say that the bat rule will not be the only new rule that ends up having a significant impact on the game. Perhaps the most popular is the time limit regulation, as the length of games has long been a topic of discussion among both fans and those that participate in the games. All of the new rules will have an influence on how the game is played.

keep our heads up, making it difficult to work together as one.”

Junior outside hitter Jordan Barton, also a team captain, credits the team’s will to never give up even when things were not going as they hoped.

“Our team does not give up very easily,” said Barton. “We were down by two sets against Geneva and still had the will to come back and win the third set of the game. We don’t give up, and that is a very good thing when we are under high pressure situations.”

Barton finished the day in double digits in both kills, with 11, and in digs, with 25.

She is currently ranked in the top 10 in the PAC in kills with 121 on the year.

Freshman middle hitter Mabel Culp tallied nine kills during the afternoon, and classmate Natalie Ranallo added a team-high 31 assists, 24 of which came against Geneva.

Even with matches not going in Waynesburg’s favor, Benkowski said her team’s work ethic has never lacked.

“The team is working very hard every day at practice and are motivated to get better, which is good,” Benkowski said.

“We have four weeks left and every match counts.

We need to be pushing each other daily.”

Barton agrees that the team keeps working extremely hard because of their love of the game.

“Our losing streak of three games has been a rough stretch, but our team still keeps up a very good work ethic,” said Barton.

“We play volleyball because we love the game, and at the end of the day, that’s what matters the most.

“We are doing what we love, and the losses may hurt, but we pick ourselves back up again by looking at each other for encouragement and positivity.”

In addition to Saturday’s tri-match, the Yellow Jackets competed in two non-conference matchups. Waynesburg was defeated by the Carlow Celtics 3-1 but picked up a win versus the La Roche Redhawks in a dominating three sets.

Smithyman picked up 21 assists against Carlow and sits in the 10th spot in the PAC in assists.

She has nothing but confidence that her team still has the ability to compete at a high level with other teams in the conference.

“We have been looked upon as the underdog for way too long, and we want to prove to everyone

that we can play together much better than we have displayed in this past week,” Smithyman said.

“There is no doubt in my mind that we have the ability to go far in the PAC playoffs.

“It is just a matter of being consistent and always playing to our fullest potential no matter what the skill level of the opposing team may be.”

The Yellow Jackets are now 7-11 on the season and 1-5 in conference play. They look to pick up a couple of PAC wins this weekend when they travel to Saint Vincent for a tri-match with the Bearcats and the Thiel Tomcats.

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Freshman Justin Angoti (777) and the rest of the Waynesburg men’s cross country team will run in the Carnegie Mellon Invitational Saturday. lowed by the NCAA Regionals, Hardie doesn’t want to burn the team out.

“The kids have worked so hard,” said Hardie.

“They deserve a break.”

This week’s race is going to be a good test for the Jacket men heading into regional’s.

The team will run against PAC members Bethany, Geneva, Washington and Jefferson, Saint Vincent and Chatham.

The big test, though, will be against nationallyranked Carnegie Mellon.

“Over the course of the last 12 years of this program we have faced some of the highest ranked teams in the nation,” Hardie said. “Our teams are used to seeing the top

runners and do what they can to adapt.”

Even though the big buzz is about national powerhouse Carnegie Mellon, Hardie and the Jacket men have to be focused on the other teams competing as well.

“Our sport is unique in that we go head to head with 15 or 20 teams each race,” said Hardie.

“So we do not get wrapped up in the talk about nationally-ranked teams.”

The men are looking to post a solid finish at Saturday’s race to build momentum heading into the final stretch of the season, but some are not happy with just placing.

“I have never been one to be happy after a race,”

“We believe that enforcing these time limits will keep the pace of the game moving without artificially altering the game” Gary Overton Chair, NCAA Baseball Rules Committee

said Blatt.

“I set such lofty goals for myself that keep me hungry for more.”

Blatt is always looking for ways to improve.

“Right now all I want to do is break 29 minutes in my 8K,” said Blatt.

“Once I beat that goal, I’ll go down to breaking the 28-minute mark.”

That’s the mentality that Hardie wants to see.

“I don’t like to settle into any certain time ranges,” Blatt said. “As soon as I reach my goal I have set for myself, I immediately have another time barrier in mind I want to break.”

The Carnegie Mellon Invitational will be held at Schenley Park at 10:30 a.m.

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Women’s tennis endures tough stretch

By Dave Rykala

despite suffering an ankle injury, took her singles match the distance but ended up losing 6-3, 0-6, 3-6.

“I’m still happy with the team working hard and trying to get better,” said Christman. “You just can’t gain a lot of experience from practice, and experience is what we need.”

As the team continued their brutal schedule of three games in four days,

they took on Chatham University last Wednesday in a PAC matchup.

The Cougars currently hold an 8-3 overall record and a 5-1 conference record and is ranked second in the conference behind Grove City College. Waynesburg is currently sixth in the conference with a 3-8 overall record and 2-4 conference mark.

McAndrews and Kody are tied for the most sin-

gles wins on the team with four, and Gustafson is behind the two juniors with three wins.

The pairings of Kody and Kelsey Diesel and McAndrews and Logan McDonald both share the lead with three doubles victories.

The Jackets released a schedule change Monday.

Their match scheduled for this past Tuesday against Penn State Altoona has been moved to Oct. 13.

According to Christman, this postponement is a good opportunity for the team to regroup and get back on track.

“I think having Tuesday off will help,” said Christman.

“We are going to be OK going into the tournament once we get over some injuries and gain experience against tough competition.”

The Jackets will be in action today as they host a PAC match against the Bethany College Bison at 3 p.m.

They’ve already beaten the Bison once this year.

Waynesburg defeated Bethany 6-3 back on Sept.

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Bison squad controlled the clock against the Jackets and handed Waynesburg a 24-17 loss.

So, instead of separating themselves from everyone not named Thomas More or W&J, Waynesburg fell right back into the middle of the pack in the PAC and further muddied the standings as the season wears on.

In order to take the next step after two mediocre seasons, the Jackets need to win games like Saturday’s at Bethany 2 p.m. – Riding the

momentum of a 3-2 victory Thursday against a quality opponent in Hiram, the men’s soccer team turned their attention toward PAC play Saturday at Westminster.

That momentum fizzled quickly, however, as the Jackets came out flat, giving up four first-half goals en route to a 5-0 defeat.

Instead of starting off new head coach Sean McCarthy’s PAC career on the right foot, Waynesburg turned in a performance reminiscent of their poor play in recent years.

A 5-5-1 record outside of conference, while a vast improvement from a season ago, means very little without at least some league success.

The road doesn’t become any easier for the Jackets either. On Thursday, they welcome defending PAC champ Thomas More to John F. Wiley Stadium.

3 p.m. – On the heels of their morning setback against Geneva, the volleyball team lost their second match of the day 3-0 against Thomas More.

The Saints trounced

Staff Writer The Waynesburg University women’s tennis team dropped their third match in four days in a non-conference match against Westminster College this past Saturday 90.

“The schedule killed their legs,” said head coach Ron Christman.

“We were a half step slow, which made it tough on the team.”

The Yellow Jackets battled but were unable to keep up with the Titans, as freshman Logan McDonald was the only Jacket to take her match into the third set.

The previous night the Jackets hosted Thomas More College for a Presidents’ Athletic Conference match.

Freshman Markie Gustafson took her first singles match to the third set and pulled out the victory 7-5, 6-2, 7-5. The other point getter for the Jackets was junior Jenny McAndrews as she prevailed 7-5, 2-6, 6-3.

Those were not the only two putting up a fight. Junior Jess Kody,

Imperfect weekend Continued from C1 primed to run the table until their final two games of the regular season against PAC powers Thomas More and Washington and Jefferson.

Enter Bethany, a team the Jackets handled to the tune of 52-13 a year ago.

Despite that score, their 3-7 record in 2009 and their 1-3 mark coming into Saturday, an athletic

Photo by Dave Miller, ADM Photography

Freshman Logan McDonald was the only Jacket to take her match to three sets Saturday against Westminster.

PAC award Sophomore kicker Jon Storck was honored as the Presidents’ Athletic Conference special teams player of the week after another solid performance this past Saturday.

The 2009 first-team All-PAC kicker picked up his first such conference honor of the year after making a 35Storck yard field goal during the Yellow Jackets’ 24-17 loss at Bethany.

He also connected on two PAT attempts against the Bison.

He’s now three-for-three on field goal tries this year and 17-for-17 on extra point tries.

Storck’s other two field goals this season, a 33yarder and a 28-yarder, came in the Jackets’ 34-6 PAC victory at Thiel.

In 2009, along with being named to the PAC’s first team, Storck was honored as an Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Division III Southwest Football All-Star. This was after Storck led all PAC kickers in scoring.

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“Geneva is clearly committed to the principles of the PAC. They have fit in very well, and I have no doubt in my mind we are better for having them.”

Along with Chairman of the Presidents’ Council,

Geneva representatives will also head other PAC Councils. Geneva Athletic Director Kim Gall will be chair of the PAC Athletic Directors Council and the PAC Senior Woman Administrators Council.

Geneva’s Faculty Athletic Representative Denise Murphey-Gerber will serve as chair of the PAC Faculty Athletic Representative Association.

Waynesburg in the first two sets, winning 25-12 in each one before the Jackets rallied to make the third set much more competitive.

An opportunity to win two straight in conference play went by the wayside, and the team began a stretch of seven consecutive PAC matches in ominous fashion.

4 p.m. – Back in New Wilmington, Pa., the women’s soccer team went into Saturday’s game against Westminster on a seven-game unbeaten streak.

Like many other positives that Jacket teams brought into this past weekend, that streak ended with a 2-1 Titan victory.

And much like the Jacket men’s team, the women must perform in conference in order to truly turn the corner as a program.

On the bright side for the women’s soccer team and the rest of Jacket athletics, teams have 12 tries from Thursday through Saturday to get back on the winning track in 2010.

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Bristow sings in Beehive

Who will be the next Idol?

By Brandon Reed Staff Writer Beau Bristow, solo artist, was in the Beehive this past Tuesday for a coffeehouse.

Bristow began his life as a traveling full-time artist in 2005, just a year after graduating from Nashville’s Belmont University with a degree in guitar and music composition.

Bristow did not start facing the hardships that come with touring until the fall of 2006, he said.

In the six months following the tour, he became doubtful of his choices and wrestled with life.

Through continued prayer and reflection he emerged in 2007 with a new clarity and devoted himself to writing and recording.

Through all of this he released his third album, “Standing. Still.” in early 2008 and has now returned to the road life to reconnect with his audience.

“I will be touring for 10 days,” said Bristow, “with stops in Indianapolis, Kentucky, Iowa and Mississippi.”

Waynesburg is just the first of those stops for Bristow as he begins this short tour.

Jillian Fedoris, co-chair of Musical Entertainment, was in charge of getting Bristow to come to campus.

“We had a planning meeting and picked Beau from the National Association of Campus Activi-

Band performs first fall concert

By Melissa Bosley Staff Writer

were very different from one another in their performance styles and song selections.

Dave Call was the first performer of the night.

He started off the competition by singing Fall Out Boy’s “Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet.” During the opening night, each contestant sang a song of his or her choice.

A wide variety of music genres represented in their selections.

Owen thought it was great to see all of the dif-

This past Monday, the Symphonic Band held its third annual fall concert.

This year, the Symphonic Band played music from different countries including Russia, Scotland, Australia, United States and Ireland.

“In my point of view, the music for this semester has probably been the most challenging out of what we have played before,” said Angela Takos, president of the Symphonic Band and a senior psychology major, “which is awesome because it shows how much the band has improved over the last few years that I have been there.”

At the fall concert the band played a variety of music ranging in difficulty.

“The Symphonic Band is made up largely of nonmusic majors, with a vast range of experience levels,” said Ronda DePriest, director of the Music Program and the Symphonic Band.

With 56 members on its roster, the Symphonic Band has members from around the world, including Vietnam.

Altogether the band had eight rehearsals before the concert.

“I’d have to say that being a part of the band has been one of the best experiences during my college years,” said Takos.

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Photos by Andrew Buda

Fourteen contestants competed at the third annual Waynesburg Idol performance at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 1.

From left, Kirsten Repco and Kaitlin George sang while judges (below) Luke Payson and Megan Pebbles listened.

Fourteen students look toward second round of Idol

By Alex Hinton Staff Writer

The opening night of Waynesburg Idol was Friday, Oct. 1 in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center. The show began with host Lanny Frattare, assistant professor of Communication.

He introduced the contestants as well as the panel of four judges: 2009 winner of Waynesburg Idol Megan Peebles, 1999 Waynesburg University alumni Adam Jack, Resident Director of Martin Hall and Assistant Men’s and Women’s Track and See SINGER on D2 Field Coach Luke Payson

and Director of the Counseling Center Jane Owen.

Fourteen contestants competed, including 11 female performers and three male performers.

This was the first season of Waynesburg Idol so far that had siblings competing against each other: Kaitlin and Natalie George. The two sisters

Charleston RiverDogs announcer speaks to electronic media class

By Kelsey Bradley Staff Writer

Photo by Amanda Rice

Drum roll please...

Danielle Norris played the marimba during the Chamberworks concert was held at noon on Sept. 30 in Benedum.

Several small groups performed including saxophone, flute and percussion ensembles.

Daniel Reed is the playby-play announcer for the Charleston RiverDogs, a minor league baseball team from Charleston, S.C. Reed is a 2007 Waynesburg University graduate, with a degree in sports broadcasting/sports information with a minor in marketing.

“Typically guest speakers aren’t just a few years out of school,” said Reed.

“So it made me feel good that I could come back but different that I was coming back as an alumnus.” On Sept. 21, Reed

came to speak to Assistant Professor of Communication Lanny Frattare’s Introduction to Electronic Media classes about his career, the work it took for him to get there and how important it is to make a name for yourself in the business of broadcasting.

“We were hopeful he would do great things,” said Richard Krause, chair of the Department of Communication.

“He has accomplished a lot in a short period of time, to be where he is in his career,” said Krause.

Before Reed came to Waynesburg University as See ANNOUNCER on D2

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Arnold, a composer from the mid-twentieth century.

“You will recognize the Irish melody: we would know it as ‘O, Danny Boy,’” said DePriest,

introducing the next piece called “Irish Tune from County Derry,” by Percy Grainger.

This was the first of two pieces by Grainger in the program.

The next piece the band played was called “Emblem of Unity.”

According to DePriest, it went along with the unifying idea of the concert.

This piece was then fol-

lowed by “Harvest Hymn,” by Percy Grainger.

The last piece was titled “American Salute,”

by Morton Gould.

“You’ll recognize it from ‘When Johnny Comes Marching Home,’” said DePriest.

At the end of the concert, DePriest encouraged the audience to attend the upcoming Christmas concerts at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 4 and 5. The Symphonic Band and the Lamplighter Choir will be performing at these concerts.

“It was an especially delightful performance; I especially loved ‘Harvest Hymn,’” said Amber Matella, a freshman with an undeclared major.

The audience showed appreciation by applause after each performance.

“I enjoyed all of the music, especially the fact that they chose both British and American music,” said Stacy Weaver, a freshman with a double major in political science and English.

Idol finishes first round

The Waynesburg Idol contestants showed a lot of personality through their performances, and some of them even got the whole audience involved, such as Andrew Dennis with his rendition of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” which had everyone in the crowd singing along.

At the end of the night, the audience voted for

their favorite contestants.

Each member of the audience was allowed to vote only once.

The theme for this Friday will be “Songs from your Birth Year.”

The top eight contestants who moved forward from last Friday will compete in round two.

The finale will be Friday, Oct. 15 at 9 p.m.

The final four contestants

will compete for the title of Waynesburg Idol and a $200 cash prize.

The theme for the evening will be “Movie Hits.”

Owen gave some advice to the contestants as they move forward in the competition.

“Relax and have as much fun on stage as you can, and try to connect with the audience.”

Band plays first concert Continued from D1 “We do our best to give the band a sense of being a family by having various get-togethers throughout the semester, as well as a big brother/big sister mentor relationship between the officers and the freshmen/new members to the ensemble.”

Both DePriest and Takos encourage people who are interested to become involved with the Symphonic Band.

“It’s the best balanced Symphonic Band since I’ve been here,” said DePriest, who has directed the band for five years.

“If you don’t have a march, you don’t have a concert.”

She incorporated her theory into the program.

The program began with the “Procession of the Nobles,” by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Photo by Gregory Reinhart

The symphonic band performed their first concert of the semester on Monday, Oct. 4 in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center led by Dr. Ronda DePriest. They performed six selections including a piece titled “Harvest Hymn.”

Between each piece, DePriest gave commentary on the band and the pieces to come.

The band went on to play “Four Scottish Dances,” by Malcolm

Continued from D1 ferent genres throughout the night.

“I think it will be hard for students to decide who to vote for,” Owens said.

“I am impressed by the caliber of talent.”

Announcer gives advice Continued from D1 Photo by Gregory Reinhart

Beau Bristow performed in the Beehive during a coffeehouse event at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 5.

Singer performs Continued from D1 ties,” said Fedoris. “Then Pat Bristor contacted Beau and got him to come.”

Bristow had been to Waynesburg in the past, so contacting him and asking him to come was not a problem, Fedoris said.

Beau’s albums, “From the Front Seat,” “Coffee Not Included,” and “Standing. Still.” are all similar in one way, they all draw inspiration from life.

“To be inspired by life, you have to observe life,” Bristow continued to say,

“And then you have to reflect and think about life. There’s inspiration all around.”

Bristow did admit that not all inspiration he received from life was positive, but that is all a part of life. Bristow’s website, beaubristow.com, includes all the latest news and information on where he will be and whether he will be coming out with any new music. Bristow has potential plans for new albums in the future.

“Right now, it is questionable whether or not I will record a traditional album,” said Bristow.

All of Beau’s music is currently on iTunes and can be purchased for $4.95.

a student, he competed for the Department of Communication Merit Scholarship. Right away, professors noticed how impressive, verbal and bright Reed was.

“The best advice I can give is to take advantage of every opportunity possible so you can find out what you truly love to do,” said Reed. “The more doors you open, the more that will open for you.”

From day one, Reed was involved in the Department of Communication.

He worked as a sideline reporter, play-by-play announcer for the basketball team and worked five summers with little league baseball.

Reed also worked the print side, working for the Yellow Jacket for a period of time.

“The best advice I can give is to take advantage of every opportunity possible so you can find out what you truly love to do.”

Daniel Reed Announcer for Charleston RiverDogs

In addition to his involvement with the Department of Communication, Reed was a fouryear member of the football team, a member of Xi Psi Epsilon and Lambda Pi Eta. “I preferred it that way because it never let me lose my focus,” said Reed.

“When you don’t have much to do, your mind wanders and it’s tough getting motivated. If you stay busy, both with academics and athletics, you have to stay focused in order to keep up and do the best that you can.”

Reed began working for the Charleston RiverDogs

as the Assistant Director of Media Relations in March 2008. Occasionally he would substitute as the play-by-play announcer.

Reed is currently the Chief Radio Announcer for Kirkman Broadcasting.

Frattare’s goal is to have recent graduates come in and speak to classes and also to find out what they have learned at Waynesburg.

He felt that it would be beneficial for Reed to students about being new to the business and how he would get to his future goals within the business.

“I am extremely confident that Daniel lecturing

college students will be as beneficial to him as it will be for the students,” said Frattare. “It forces you to evaluate before you stand up in front of somebody.”

Reed first contacted Frattare when he was still broadcasting for the Pittsburgh Pirates, asking Frattare about for any advice he could give Reed before graduating.

“Daniel was well aware for the need for someone interested in broadcasting,” Frattare said. “To be a successful sports broadcaster you have to love more than sports. You have to love being a sports announcer.”

Freshmen like Marlin Cowsert, a public relations major, really responded to what Reed had to offer students.

Cowsert felt that Reed’s presentation was encouraging and “nice to see someone did make it after college. It was good to see that jobs are available in the real world,” said Cowsert. “And not just in my mind.”

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Kagan begins work in Supreme Court

By David G. Savage Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court opened its term Monday with new Justice Elena Kagan on the bench _ but for only one of the two cases being heard.

Throughout the fall, the pattern will be much the same. Kagan will be deciding about half as many cases as her colleagues, the result of her previous job as the government’s chief lawyer before the high court.

As the U.S. solicitor general, she decided which federal cases would be appealed. Now, however, she is obliged to step aside, or recuse herself, in all of the cases in which she had played a role.

The ninth justice votes last in the court’s private conference, and she is the tie-breaker. But the court will often be without its tie-breaker for the first months of this term, and the justices could find themselves deadlocked and unable to rule in several major cases.

They include the closely watched dispute over Arizona’s crackdown on employers who hire illegal immigrants. A 2007 law threatens to strip such businesses of their license to operate if they hire illegal workers.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the state law and argued that only the federal government can enforce immigration rules. The Obama administration agreed in May shortly after President Barack Obama nominated Kagan for the high court.

Though Kagan did not sign the government brief, she nonetheless said she will not participate in the case when it is heard in December. If the court splits 4-4, the Arizona law will stand, since it was upheld last year by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On Tuesday, the court will hear three cases, and Kagan will be absent for all for three.

They include a privacy case to decide whether the National Aeronautics and Space Administration may require scientists and other contract workers at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif., to submit to new background checks and to answer questions about their private lives.

Kagan will help decide this term’s major freespeech disputes involving funeral protests and video games. She could also be a tie-breaker in a death penalty case from Texas where a Death Row inmate is seeking DNA testing of the crime scene evidence. She will also participate in a churchstate dispute from Arizona to decide whether the state can give $500 tax credits to those who help pay tuition of students in religious schools.

On Monday Kagan got a first glimpse of the mundane aspect of her new job. In her first case, the justices were called upon to decide whether a bankrupt Nevada man could take a $471 per month allowance for a car payment, even though he owned a 2004 Toyota Camry and had no car payment.

(Staff writer James Oliphant contributed to this article.)

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Apology issued to Guatemalan patients

Brazilians elect Presidential successor

MEXICO CITY – The U.S. government acknowledged Friday that government scientists had infected some 1,500 Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in experiments from 1946 to 1948.

U.S. scientists infected prostitutes and patients at a mental health hosptial with syphilis or gonorrhea and sent them to have unprotected sex with soldiers or prison inmates.

None of the subjects were informed about the study or offered consent, U.S. officials said.

The statement said current regulations prohibit such “appalling violations” of ethics regarding human medical research and added that the two departments would launch “a thorough investigation” of the 1946-1948 study in Guatemala.

Friday’s acknowledgment shed new light on U.S. medical experiments that included the infamous Tuskegee study in which scientists observed, but didn’t treat, hundreds of AfricanAmerican men with late-stage syphilis.

BRASILIA – Brazilians Sunday will choose the successor to highly popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and his hand-picked candidate Dilma Rousseff leads in the polls.

Lula’s foreign policy was ambitious but a lot more controversial at home and overseas. The U.S. in particular hasn’t been pleased at his embrace of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, and Cuba’s Fidel and Raul Castro.

Lula likes to explain the relationships in pragmatic terms, based on Brazil’s trade and investment interests. For many critics, he’s been too tolerant of, perhaps even complacent about, the human-rights abuses and anti-democratic practices.

2 State of emergency declared in Ecuador CARACAS, Venezuela - Ecuador declared a state of emergency Thursday as protesting policemen shut down the international airport, burned tires in the street and sent President Rafael Correa to the hospital after he was overcome by tear gas.

Speaking to the Telesur network from his hospital room, Correa said police were trying to break into his room.

“The worst that can happen is that they kill me, and that’s a price I’m willing to pay to make sure these types of barbarities never happen again,” he said before quoting Pablo Neruda.

“They can cut down the flowers, but they can’t stop the spring.”

Correa said the rebellious police officers were working with “conspirators” in congress to overthrow him.

The vast majority of the police were still loyal to the president.

4 White House to install solar panels WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will become the first to use solar energy as a means for powering the first family’s White House residence.

Plans to install solar panels and a solar hot water heater on the roof of the White House residence were announced Tuesday.

It is estimated that installing enough solar equipment to generate roughly 80 percent of the energy consumed by the White House residence would cost $107,900 and would save roughly $1,610 in monthly utility costs.

5 Afghanistan bans private security firms KABUL, Afghanistan – Moving to enforce a pledge that has rattled Afghanistan’s foreign community, President Hamid Karzai has begun dissolving the Afghan operations of private security companies, including the firm formerly known as Blackwater, the government announced Sunday. Karzai caught Western officials by surprise in mid-August when he announced a ban on private security firms that would take effect by year’s end.

Afghan police and military ready to step in and fill the role of security contractors.

Rutgers community mourns student who committed suicide

By Erik Shilling The Record NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Several hundred gathered Sunday night near the Rutgers University student center for a solemn candlelight vigil in honor of Tyler Clementi, a freshman who killed himself nearly two weeks ago after harassment over his sexuality.

Many students openly wept at the vigil, though few said they knew Clementi, who had been on campus just a month before a roommate allegedly taped Clementi’s intimate encounter with a man in his dorm room and broadcast it online. Days after the incident, Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge. The roommate, Dharun Ravi, 18, and Ravi’s friend Molly Wei, 18, have since been arrested on invasion of privacy charges.

“We need, as a community, to show that we can change,” said Paul Zilber, an 18-year-old freshman from North Brunswick.

“There’s so many other kids out there that are

Photo by Kevin R. Wexler/The Record/MCT

A candlelight vigil was held for Tyler Clementi, a freshman who killed himself nearly two weeks ago after harassment over his sexuality, on the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University on Sunday evening, Oct. 3. reaching out, trying to reach out for help.”

Organizers said they distributed around 1,000 candles, and a period of silence lasting 30 minutes was broken only by street traffic and the clicks of news media photographers. Most students stood in silence, while others propped up signs or unfurled banners. A group of Princeton University students also came to

show their support.

Speakers that included clergy and campus staff encouraged those in the crowd to promote tolerance.

One clergy member, Kevin E. Taylor, a campus chaplain and liaison to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, also urged the crowd to “stop and pay attention.”

A majority of the crowd were Rutgers stu-

dents, many from the LGBT community. Jaycee Wissner, 17, came clad in a rainbow-colored, bodylength cape. Wissner, a freshman, identifies as transgender and said that despite what some people have described as a tough environment for LGBT students at Rutgers, he found it to be generally welcoming.

“There’s still always going to be the few (trou-

blemakers),” Wissner said. “But it’s definitely a situation that should open up one’s eyes.”

Hundreds of Rutgers students identify as LGBT in some fashion, an event organizer said, and in the wake of the incident the university has urged calm.

Rutgers President Richard McCormick was also at the vigil Sunday night but did not speak from the podium, instead

telling reporters that the vigil was a chance to “reaffirm our commitment to the values of civility, dignity, compassion and respect for one another.”

Taylor, the campus chaplain, said that up until Thursday some were still holding out hope that Clementi, who had been missing for several days, may have still been alive.

It was in a meeting of 40 or so student leaders who had gathered to talk about Clementi that word leaked out that his body had been found and identified, washed up in the Hudson River.

Jenny Kurtz, who was the primary organizer of Sunday’s vigil and a campus staff member who was among those in the Thursday meeting, said she saw the vigil not as closure but as a new chapter for the university.

“I think there could always be more support” for LGBT students, Kurtz said, adding that that she came out as gay in when she was 19, the age of many of the vigil’s observers. “If we ever start thinking that we’re done, we’ve failed.”

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Tea party has brought energy, but it’s unclear if it will deliver

By David Lightman McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — The tea party movement’s grassroots conservatives rocked the political world this year by upsetting mainstream Republicans in several nominating contests, but they remain an uncertain force in November.

The movement has yet to be tested in a general election, when a much broader electorate votes.

“Tea party supporters will turn out, and in some states, their presence will be felt. But in purple and blue states (those that lean Democratic or are split politically), they may cost Republicans seats they should have,” said Jennifer Duffy, political analyst for the Cook Political Report, an independent political research firm.

The tea party gained political stature this year when candidates supported by the loosely defined movement upset Republican establishment choices in Alaska, Nevada, Kentucky, Utah, Colorado and Delaware. The tea party also forced Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to

Photo by Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT

Thousands of Tea Party activists gather for a "Restoring America" rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 2010. The rally was held on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic march. leave the Republican Party and seek election to the Senate as an independent.

However, the tea party now faces a focused opposition that it lacked in GOP-only contests: Democrats are pushing hard to persuade voters that the tea party is

extreme. Democrats cite how tea party activists disrupted lawmakers’ town halls in summer 2009 and remind voters that tea party leaders today call for privatizing popular programs, including Social Security.

In November, Duffy said that a brewing back-

lash against the tea party could wound the GOP Senate candidates in Nevada and Delaware two states where Republicans are banking on picking up Democratic-held seats, and crucial to their hopes for gaining control of the Senate.

Obama won both states

in 2008, but in Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has lost popularity and is fighting for political survival.

In Delaware, Republican Rep. Michael Castle had been expected to win the general election easily - he won 12 statewide contests before.

However, he was toppled by tea party candidate Christine O’Donnell in a low-turnout GOP primary.

O’Donnell beat Castle in the closed primary with only about 30,000 votes. It takes far more to win a Delaware general election - Sen. Tom Carper, a Democrat, won his 2006 race with about 170,000 votes, while Castle won his 2008 race with more than 235,000 votes.

Democrats make up about half of the state’s 650,000 registered voters, and independents another third.

Republicans need a net gain of 39 seats to win control of the House of Representatives, a goal that independent analysts consider well within reach. In the Senate, the GOP must pick up 10 seats to win a majority.

That’s considered much less likely, though possible.

Surveys taken in the last two weeks show tea party-backed Senate favorites ahead in five states: Ken Buck in Colorado, Marco Rubio in Florida, Mike Lee in Utah, Joe Miller in Alaska, and Rand Paul in Kentucky.

Seen as an economic success, bailout Computer virus program still offers political fodder aids in world-wide cyber-theft ring

By Kevin G. Hall and David Lightman

McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — A wildly unpopular government rescue program credited by economists with preventing another Great Depression will go out of business Sunday, two years to the day it was created.

On Oct. 3, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, known as the bank bailout bill, loses authorization to make new expenditures. From that point forward, TARP will be in wind-down mode, although much of money lent out already has been repaid - at a profit for taxpayers.

Originally envisioned as a blank check for the government to spend as much as $700 billion to rescue the financial sys-

Graphic by MCT Campus

tem, the actual cost to taxpayers is estimated now to be only a seventh of that amount.

The government has earned almost $13 billion in dividends from the bank stock it received in exchange for the taxpay-

ers’ investment, and earned another $8.2 billion from the sale of preferred stock.

The Treasury Department estimates that taxpayers are still on the hook for about $100 billion at this point - a num-

ber expected to shrink with continued repayments and asset sales.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently put the estimated total TARP cost at around $66 billion.

Still, TARP became politically poisonous.

People still considered it free money for Wall Street executives whose recklessness dragged the world into the Great Recession.

Now those executives are wallowing in bonuses again while taxpayers remain plagued by 9.6 percent unemployment.

“Objectively, TARP has been an economic success. Politically it’s been a miserable failure,” said Darrell West, director of governance studies at Washington’s Brookings Institution, a center-left policy research center.

By Keith Herbert Newsday NEW YORK — It used to be that a gun and a mask were tools of the trade for bank robbers.

But Manhattan and federal prosecutors, who Thursday announced that they had made arrests in an international cybercrime ring. Thirty-seven people have been indicted on charges of using a computer virus - delivered by e-mail - to steal bank account information and passwords, and then transfer cash from identity theft victims’ accounts.

The suspects stole at least $3 million, said Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

The computer virus, known as Zeus Trojan Virus, originated in Eastern Europe, and “cyber mules” were used to transfer the stolen money back to ringleaders in countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus, prosecutors said in Manhattan Thursday.

“The last several years have shown that the mouse and the keyboard could be much more effective than the mask and the gun,” Bharara said.

An investigation revealed that foreign students, in the United States on student visas, used fake passport information to open bank accounts for the purpose of receiving cash transfers from identity theft victims’ accounts.

Ecuador declares state of emergency as police protest

By Jim Wyss and Frances Robles McClatchy Newspapers CARACAS, Venezuela — Ecuador declared a state of emergency Thursday as protesting policemen shut down the international airport, burned tires in the street and sent President Rafael Correa to the hospital after he was overcome by tear gas.

Speaking to the Telesur network from his hospital room, Correa said police were trying to break into his room.

“The worst that can

happen is that they kill me, and that’s a price I’m willing to pay to make sure these types of barbarities never happen again,” he said before quoting lines from poet Pablo Neruda. “They can cut down the flowers, but they can’t stop the spring.”

Correa said the rebellious police officers were working with “conspirators” in congress to overthrow him.

Security Minister Miguel Carvajal said the armed forces were backing the government and

he said the vast majority of the police were still loyal to the president.

As hundreds of supporters gathered in front of the presidential palace, foreign minister Ricardo Patino told the group to head to the police hospital to defend the president.

“You are the only guarantee that this attempted coup does not happen,” he said. “Let’s all go together and rescue the president of all Ecuadoreans.”

Local news media said police were trying to keep the marchers from making their way to the build-

ing.

The Organization of American States has called an emergency session to deal with the crisis. Police took to the streets Thursday after congress passed a law Wednesday that might affect their bonuses. Security Minister Carvajal tried to reassure the military and the police saying the new law would not impact their salaries.

Local media said the police swarmed the Mariscal Sucre international airport in the capital of Quito and burned

tires. There were reports of looting in the capital and the coastal city of Guayaquil. A group of police officers later urged officers to return to their patrols and concentrate their protests at their respective stations.

“We are ready to cover the needs of the citizenry,” an unnamed police officer said at a press conference aired on Venezuelan TV. “Citizens, we are not against you. Nor are we against the president.

On the contrary, we are with you. We urge you to rescind this decree.”

Legislator Maria Agusta Calle told CNN en Espanol that right-wing forces led by former President Lucio Gutierrez were behind the protest. The police, she said, had misinterpreted the new law, which offers many increases in benefits but seeks to shield the government from the economic burden caused by promotions. “These types of actions today correspond to our past,” Vice President Lenin Moreno said on Ecuadorean television. “This is not a sign of the present.”