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De La Cruz remembered: ‘We all loved Clari’ A year later, she was back as a member of the freshman class. “Once she went to the camp, that was it; Claribeth De La Cruz’s journey she knew it was the place she belonged,” from Chicago to Waynesburg began said Beth De La Cruz. “She loved the Chriswith a message from a Christian radio tian atmosphere.” station. Beth said her daughter was clearly happy Her mother, Beth, heard an adverat Waynesburg up until her unexpected tisement on K-LOVE for the univerdeath Sunday. The two shared time together De La Cruz sity’s annual CSI Camp, something just a weekend prior, and Beth said Clari that meshed with Clari’s desire to learn about —despite a recent dip in health—gushed with joy, forensic science. Clari wrote an essay and won a scholarship to the camp in the summer of 2013. See MEMORIAL on A3 By NICK FARRELL Executive Editor

Community joins together in mourning freshman's passing By KIMMI BASTON and CHELSEA DICKS Staff Report

This past Sunday, on a cold, dark day, in the midst of the rain and strong winds, a community put on its winter coats, stepped through the large puddles and climbed the stairs up to Roberts Chapel. See COMMUNITY on A3

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STUDENT PRODUCED SINCE 1924

“How I get through this every day is by thinking that, after all of this, I'm going to be able to help people.”

Nursing a life of stress

Jacket football writes history with a tale of two kicks By NICK FARRELL Executive Editor

Jenny Schouppe, Yellow Jacket

Nursing major Elizabeth White completes an assignment in Eberly Library, where she and other nursing students are so frequently seen. White likes to study in between bookshelves.

For members of the campus’ toughest major, college is all work, no play enough to make White shake her head again in disbelief and slight animosity. Costly schooling supplies, simulation labs, clinicals Her unselfish desire to help people had landed her that provide students with “real-life” experience in a here: Monday afternoon, sitting on the couch in a dorm hospital setting, open labs, and a homework load larger she shares with two roommates, a Pharmacology text- than life. It’s enough to set anyone on edge. book in her hands and pages of handwritten, colorOnly those in the nursing major truly feel these adcoded notes scattered around the living room. ditional burdens before classes even start. For those She sighed, looking down at the sketches of biological who don’t know—well, it never really concerned them. cells in her textbook, then glanced up at the far wall. And why would it? It doesn’t affect them in the least; It was blank, just like her expression. and yet they wonder what sets the nursing JACKET LIFE “I didn’t know it was going to be this hard.” An occasional series student apart. Elizabeth White is one of many nursing maWhite can say she knows how it feels. She’s jors at Waynesburg University. All have their own indi- on the wrong—or right—side of the wall. vidual stories, but they all face the same struggle. The struggle of the major they chose. *** In nursing, anything below a 77 percent is failing. If your GPA drops below a 3.0, you are forced out of the She looks around at the jumble of her waiting schoolprogram. Extra expenses are through the roof, as no work, her tired eyes instantly stopping on her roommate. other major necessitates hundreds of dollars of lab fees She shares her dorm with two others: Alina Samoilo to be paid; or additional medical equipment for classes —another nursing major—and Sydney Stec, a psycholto be purchased; or the minor details of textbooks to ogy major. Stec was nestled on her bed in a closed-off be bought. corner of the room, her headphones on as she typed Textbooks. The word makes White cringe. away at her laptop. She approximates having to purchase 12 to 15 textWhite shook her head and sighed again, forcing her books for her classes this semester, totaling over $1,200. eyes back to the textbooks and her painstakingly struc“Let’s put it this way,” she said, shaking her head and tured notes that were strewn across the living room in an leaning forward over the table covered with Pharmacol- organized mess—on the couch; the table; even the floor. ogy notes. They were printed, but handwritten words “They have it easy,” she said with a humorless laugh. were scribbled along the margins in four different colors White used to know what it was like to have less stress of pen. “I got them a lot cheaper online. If I would have and more rest. After transferring from Slippery Rock bought them at the bookstore, I would have spent over University in the fall of 2013, she originally enrolled in $5,000.” the science department at Waynesburg. That $5,000—equivalent to 25 percent of tuition costs at Waynesburg University—on top of everything else. It’s See NURSING on A4 By REBECCA BURCHAM Copy Editor

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The kicking unit trots onto the field on fourth down. There is no hesitation. Rather, there is a quiet confidence. This was how Waynesburg was destined to win Saturday and achieve something it hadn’t in over a decade: earn a rare win against archrival Washington & Jefferson. “I knew I was going to go out there and make it for our seniors,” said junior kicker Scott Lewis. “They deserve it.” Lewis is about to kick a field goal that will forever live in Waynesburg football lore. He knew it might come down to this moment in the backand-forth contest. But as he approaches the line of scrimmage before the attempt – only his third this season – everyone at John F. Wiley Stadium Saturday holds their breath. “Scottie wanted it on the left hash. For me, I wanted it on the right hash,” said 10th year head coach Rick Shepas in a postgame interview on the Waynesburg University Sports Network. “I knew if the ball was on the right hash, I knew he was making it just from the way he has been practicing.” Would Lewis’ kick break a 28-28 tie in overtime, giving

Waynesburg just its fourth win in a series that dates back to 1897? Would the Presidents, with a miss, regain confidence and rally to win—as always— to maintain a perfect season?

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The players are over the ball. Just a few plays prior, W&J kicker Blake Davis had a kick blocked by Waynesburg senior linebacker Kyle Richey, thus giving the Yellow Jackets a golden opportunity to earn their first win against the Presidents since 2003. “That was huge,” said senior quarterback Carter Hill. “[The defense] did the same thing against Thomas More. They gave us a chance late in the game by blocking a field goal.” Added Lewis: “If he doesn’t get that block, who knows what happens. Nobody knows what the outcome of the game could have been. It was clutch.” The chance is there with an historic win in reach. But in a series haunted by bad luck and poor decisions, is another miss See HISTORY on A4

In wake of election, faculty express need for private higher ed By JACOB MEYER Managing Editor

A key aspect of recently elected Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Wolf ’s campaign on higher education was to help public institutions, not private institutions such as Waynesburg University. “I am very concerned that private universities such as Waynesburg will be at a competitive disadvantage in terms of funding vis-à-vis public institutions,” said Dr. Larry Stratton, director of the Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership.

“The whole focus in his campaign was to help the public institutions.” In his press conference Nov. 11, University President Douglas G. Lee mentioned what he believes to be the importance of private higher education in the state of Pennsylvania. Lee split the higher education institutions in Pennsylvania—excluding community colleges—into three categories: private, statesystem and state-related. Lee referenced a survey done by the Association of IndepenSee ELECTION on A4

JACKETS ROLL TO ECAC BERTH

BAND ROCKS BENEDUM

For the fourth straight season, the Waynesburg football team is set to compete in the postseason.

Visiting a cappella act Ball in the House returned to campus last week for a concert in Benedum Dining Hall.

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