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Crashed: Virus infects shared drives New Southpointe

By Sarah Bell and Tim Neral

Yellow Jacket staff Last week, a computer virus infected Waynesburg University’s online network, making the shared drives inaccessible to students and faculty

members.

Due to the actions taken by the Information Technology department, the virus was completely removed from the network within three days.

The virus went undetected by McAfee, because it was so new

that the security protocols were not in place to defend the network.

“Someone had to go into a rogue website or open an email with an attachment. That releases the virus,” said Donna Posivak, executive director of Information Tech-

nology. “It’s actually embedded in a file, and you have to open the file up… that launches the virus.”

According to Posivak, anyone that has access to the Waynesburg Universi-

center offers more space, updated tech

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New VP of Student Services hired

Staff Writer This summer, Waynesburg University’s Graduate and Professional Studies Program – located in Southpointe, Monroeville, Seven Fields and Waynesburg – moved its Southpointe location two miles down the road for the convenience of staff members and students.

The GAPS program offers graduates the

opportunity to further their education in nursing, business, counseling and education.

The program was relocated from the north end of Southpointe park, by the Hilton Garden Inn, to the first floor of the Embassy Park building.

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Energy management concentration added to graduate program

By Chelsea Dicks Editorial Assistant Photo by Angela Wadding

her calling was to higher education after she had her first child.

Once again, Cummings climbed the ladder to earn the position she now holds at Waynesburg.

“I began by teaching as an adjunct for different schools and went from there to full time at Carnegie Mellon University working in executive education and teaching leadership programs to

This year, the Masters of Business Administration program at Waynesburg University has a new concentration: energy management.

The new concentration focuses on the different aspects of the energy industry, including oil, gas, coal, water and renewable energy, and how they can be used.

“As a leading institution educating working professionals at the graduate level in business in the Pittsburgh region, this is a natural fit for us,” said the Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies, David Mariner.

“Any student that wants to learn about the energy industry will benefit from this concentration.”

This new concentration will provide students with abundant information and the ability to meet the needs of the growing energy field in the local area.

Mariner believes that some of the needs of local companies include human resources departments, marketing departments, accounting and finance departments and also purchasing and supply chains.

It could take from one to seven years to earn a

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Mary Cummings, vice president of Student Services, meets with members of the Bonner foundation. In addition to working with Student Services, she will work with the Stover, Bonner and Leadership Scholars.

Cummings aims to bring ‘global viewpoint’ to students

By Nick Farrell Assistant Sports Editor Many new changes are in motion this school year at Waynesburg University.

Among those new to the campus is Mary Cummings, the new vice president of Student Services.

Assistant Dean of Student Services Kelley Hardie is excited to have Cummings at Waynesburg.

“Mary offers a wide

leadership background within business and higher education,” said Hardie.

“I think, with her background, she offers a fresh eye to Waynesburg University in things that are happening in a positive way and maybe some ways that need to be improved.”

Cummings’ career has sent her to many different countries.

During her time with Bell Telephone, a compa-

ny that later became Verizon, Cummings worked in telecommunication internationally for seven years as she worked her way up to a vice president position.

Cummings worked in many different functional departments and proudly boasts the fact that she was one of the first people to communicate using text messaging.

While she experienced success with Bell Telephone, she realized that

Students voice opinions on upcoming election

By Carson Fox Staff Writer On Nov. 6 the people of the United States will file to the polls to cast their votes for the President of the United States.

Registered voters will express their right to vote between incumbent President, Barack Obama of the Democratic Party and former Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, of the Republican Party.

Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and Jill Stein of the Green Party are also on the ballot.

A vast number of the eligible voters are students. According to civicyouth.org, 46 million young people ages 18-29 years old are eligible to vote.

In the 2008 Presidential election, voter turnout rose to 51 percent for students.

Dr. Lawrence Stratton,

professor of American Constitutional Law and American National Government and director of the Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership, encourages students to get out to vote because it is their duty as citizens.

“If we [citizens] don’t [vote], we are basically allowing other people to make the decisions for us ... there have been a lot of blood shed and tears to

bring us the right to vote.”

Stratton advises all students to become thoroughly informed, read the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, figure out how the economy works and vote your conscience.

He also recalls his voting experience in 1981 in which he was directed to the wrong polling station.

“They put my mother and I into the wrong party polling machines ... so

must fill out absentee ballots.

Student Senate President, Shawn Wharrey, does not foresee any problems with students filling out absentee ballots.

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Waynesburg coach John Yates’ shares relationship with Olympic medalist.

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Katie Conmy, membership director for the Women’s Ordination Conference, offered new perspective on women’s ordination in the Catholic church last Thursday.

Commissioner Pam Snyder is ready to face off against Mark Fischer in the 50th district.

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rather than redo things, we had to switch parties.”

Unfortunately, voting is sometimes difficult for students. According to campusvoterproject.org, 1.9 million votes were lost in 2008 because people didn’t know where to go to vote.

Because registered voters must vote in the district in which they are registered, many students

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Chapel speaker notes Lecturer discusses creationism, theology importance of virtues

By Ryan Legarsky Staff Writer

By Greg Maxwell Staff Writer The Sept. 11 Chapel Service at the Roberts Memorial Chapel hosted guest speaker James K.A. Smith.

The chapel service began with a reflection on the Sept. 11 attacks that occurred eleven years ago.

“My sense is that [Sept.

11] doesn’t quite carry the same emotion in the college setting as it did five years ago,” said University Chaplain Tom Ribar.

“But certainly it’s a constant reminder that life is very valuable and fragile.”

Students and faculty in attendance had a moment of prayer to take time for those who served and do serve.

Smith’s lecture began with a metaphor comparing the habit of repeatedly clothing a three-year-old to that of repeatedly “putting on” Christ as well as love and virtue in one’s life.

“I read the metaphor in a passage in the Bible and then thought of a way to put on clothing,” said Smith.

Smith went on to say that a major influence in

Students talk politics Continued from A1 “As long as students are proactive about getting an absentee ballot from their home county then they should be fine,” Wharrey said.

“If [students] are serious about voting, then they should be getting their absentee ballot a couple weeks in advance.”

On July 25 Waynesburg Associate Dean of Students, Pat Bristor, emailed students about filling out an absentee ballot.

Students, who deleted this email by mistake, may visit votespa.com to obtain an absentee ballot.

Students can obtain information for the upcoming election by picking up any of the informational packets located on the first floor of the Stover Campus Center by the bookstore.

Students can also speak to any members of the Young Democrats Society or any members of the Young Republicans Society.

Wharrey encourages students to not just depend on this information but to also do their own research if they are serious about voting.

The Head of College Democrats, Luke Feldner, advocates for President Obama in his advance for a second term in office.

“I believe President Obama, more so than any other President, has looked out for the people of our generation,” Feldner said.

“He has almost doubled the amount of pell

the way he thought of the three-year-old child metaphor is the fact that he has four children of his own.

He was also influenced by the time he spent living in Canada.

Smith completed his Ph.D. at Villanova in 1995. Afterwards, he got his first job in Los Angeles and eventually moved to Michigan, where he currently teaches.

Virtues were a common topic in the lecture, as Smith stated that virtues are good moral habits while vices are bad moral habits. Chapel attendees also learned that virtues are acquired over time, and when someone is virtuous, they don’t have to think about what they do.

When asked about a real-life application of his metaphor, Martin Luther King Jr. came to Smith’s mind.

“He [King] was showing a model of preaching through non-violence,” Smith said.

Smith presented as a part of the Christ and Culture Lecture Series on Tuesday night. It is held twice each year.

grants and financial aid and he has fought to not let the interest rates on our federal loans go up.”

Feldner admires Obama for his devotion to the national health care plan, job creation and reducing the deficit.

Also, supporting gay marriage and contraceptive care for women with the right to choose how a woman cares for her body are two social issues Feldner believes Obama stands for.

The President of College Republicans, Blair Howarth, endorses Mitt Romney’s campaign for President.

Unlike Feldner, Howarth does not agree with President Obama’s stance on health care as well as his stimulus package for the economy.

“I believe that Romney has a plan that would be able to truly help our nation get on the correct path,” said Howarth.

“Romney will try to change ObamaCare and fight what Obama has put into action,” Howarth also said that Romney would try to modernize Social Security, get the economy running again and stand for Gun Rights.

Being an Education major, Howarth believes Romney will also strengthen the education system in America.

Election Day is slowly approaching, which means students that plan to vote should, if they have not already, take the necessary steps to prepare for the voting process.

Waynesburg University students have the opportunity to be part of the nation-wide student population that makes 2012 the year to remember for student voters.

Waynesburg University’s Christ and Culture Lecture Series began Monday in Robert’s Chapel. The speaker for the three part series this semester was Dr. James KA Smith, professor of philosophy at Calvin College.

Smith has been a professor at Calvin College for the past three years after teaching at Loyola Marymount University for ten years. Smith received his degree from the University of Waterloo, and later earned his Ph.D. at Villanova University.

Beyond teaching, Smith travels across the country to speak to audiences about creationism.

On top of that, Smith also has published almost 20 works on the subject of theology.

Chaplain Tom Ribar said that Smith was brought to Waynesburg to speak because of his writing.

“Faculty and staff have raved about his writings after reading,” said Ribar.

Ribar went on to explain that Dr. Smith’s writings bring in a new aspect of combining the teachings of Jesus Christ and American cultures.

Smith started off the lecture with the reading of Genesis 1:26-31, which tells of God creating mankind in the image of His likeness.

The theme of his lecture was “everything matters.”

According to Smith, the main ideas from the events include that cre-

Cummings hired as VP Continued from A1 international business executives and also to MBA students,” said Cummings.

Cummings was an adjunct instructor of graduate and professional studies programs at Waynesburg University since 2009, teaching marketing and organizational behavior.

“I fell in love with the organization and that’s what made me continually watch the website for opportunities that matched my level of experience,” Cummings said.

One point that Cummings will stress during her tenure at Waynesburg is what she calls a “global viewpoint.” She gained her own global viewpoint through her travels with Bell Telephone.

“I think regardless of what industry you get into today, you’re going to have involvement with people of diverse backgrounds that are different that you,” said Cummings.

“Even here within Waynesburg University, working as a team on any type of activity requires people to work together to achieve a result. The ability to work together

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Dr. James KA Smith was the first Christ and Culture Lecture Series speaker on Monday. Smith encouraged students to spread the word of God wherever they go. ation is not just where we came from, but where we are as Christians.

Smith said that he believes there are four verbs in creation: image, unfold, occupy and invite.

Image, meaning that Christians must image their God; unfold meaning you must cultivate His earth as well as be fruitful and multiply. He also says to occupy creation and take up the mission of the Bible to spread the word of God and creation while inviting strangers to the story that is the Bible.

Smith quoted J.R.R. Tolkien in saying that we as humans are sub-cre-

ators.

Smith also compared the audience’s relationship with Christ and culture to the movie “Stranger Than Fiction.”

In the movie, the main character, played by Will Ferrell believes he was in a story. Similarly, Smith addressed the members in the audience by saying that they are living the story of God’s creation.

Students enjoyed hearing Smith’s lecture because his points of view about Christians in relation to culture were very interesting.

“He was a good speaker,” said sophomore Colin Phillips. “Dr. Smith was

“I want to emphasize that faith is within the person in whatever field they go into and whatever their purpose is.”

Mary Cummings

Vice President of Student Services

requires learning about the other people, respecting them and using the strengths of the different people you’re working with.”

Cummings said that individuals must learn to cooperate and work with others of different backgrounds in order to develop working relationships “In order to be successful in the outside world you need practice at dealing with people who think differently than you do and respecting them for those differences, not judging them for those differences,” said Cummings.

As for Cummings’ roles with at Waynesburg, she will be involved with the Student Activities Board, Service Learning, the counseling center, Career Services, Health Services and Christian Life.

“I focus on operational efficiency with processes, procedures and policies,” said Cummings.

“Although I’m stationed within Student Services, I truly look at

Waynesburg University as a whole and the processes across departments to make sure there is involvement.”

Cummings also hopes that her international background will bring more foreign students to Waynesburg, which would diversify the campus and better prepare all students for their future.

This, Cummings said, will be achieved over time.

Cummings will also work closely with the Stover Scholars, Bonner Scholars and Leadership Scholars.

Among those three groups, she will be most closely tied to the latter of that trio.

“Though I have the greatest respect for the program that has been used in the past, I think I bring a different set of experience to the table, so I’d like to integrate some of that experience from what I call ‘the real world from a global view’ into that program,” Cummings said.

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engaging and I enjoyed it thoroughly, and I got a feeling that he really knew what he was talking about.”

Another student had an interesting take on the lecture.

“I enjoyed hearing another point of view than what we hear during chapel at Waynesburg,” said sophomore Jordan Totty.

Many Waynesburg University students had the opportunity to hear Smith’s lecture at the Jubilee conference this past February in Pittsburgh. The lecture had the same theme as Monday night.

mission statement, Cummings knows that faith is an integral part of Waynesburg University.

Her personal mission aligned with the mission of Waynesburg University.

“I want to emphasize that faith is within the person in whatever field they go into and whatever their purpose is,” said Cummings.

“Even in traditional roles that aren’t faith based, the faith is in the person, not the role.”

Hardie is also fond of the University’s mission statement and believes that Cummings will easily carry it out and express its powerful meaning to students.

“Her faith is evident in the way in which she walks the Bible and lives it out every single day,” Hardie said.

“She is very passionate about serving others and is very involved in a number of nonprofit organizations including the American Cancer Society.”

Cummings is here to prepare the young men and women of Waynesburg University for their lives after college by sharing with them her experiences in life and how they helped her develop her own faith.

Her work toward that goal and the goals of Waynesburg students begins now.

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Programs ‘reflect total commitment’ Counseling receives national certification

By Zack Rogers Staff Writer Waynesburg University students studying counseling will have a leg up on competition due to a recent national accreditation.

The Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Programs, the nation’s primary accrediting body for counseling programs, recently approved both of the Clinical Mental Health and Addictions degree specializations for graduate students focusing on counseling.

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Program added Continued from A1 degree with this concentration, said Janice Crile, director of the MBA program.

“The uniqueness is the ‘step-in, step-out’ program, which lets students take classes when it is most convenient for them. The program also has year-round submission dates, and classes meeting in four locations: Southpointe, Mon-

Concentration in online teaching offered to educators

By Erin Powell Staff Writer This fall, Waynesburg University created a new concentration in online teaching as well as a 30 credit Master of Education program.

With technology making new advances in the classroom, these programs are beneficial to teachers who now need the new technology skills to keep up in schools, especially online courses. More and more schools are

upgrading to online courses and cyber schools.

Dr. Lawrence Kushner, director of Graduate Programs in Education, said, “We started this program because we see that teachers must have these skills to teach in the brick and mortar schools, hybrid classes, and online.”

The concentration in online teaching can be obtained by taking five courses 15 credits standalone, as part of a 30 credit Master of Education Program or as part of

a 36 credit Master of Education in Instructional Technology Program (with or without a certificate).

The concentrations include curriculum and instructional leadership, online teaching and autism.

“This concentration is all that there is out there for teachers to qualify as someone who knows how to teach online,” Lawrence said.

“There is no certification available yet.”

programs for Waynesburg University, said that the university meets all of the practice standards required to train professional counselors.

In addition, Tracy is proud of the ability to say that the accreditation makes Waynesburg University’s program even

more unique, and will give students more opportunities.

“Waynesburg University currently has the only addictions specialization counseling program that is CACREP-certified in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” said Tracy.

“This approval by our peers really reflects the total commitment of Waynesburg University to provide the very best training and academic commitments to our graduate counseling students.”

Completing this CACREP approved train-

ing at Waynesburg University has many benefits for students according to Tracy.

“Immediately after graduation students will be nationally certified, which makes the path to getting licensed easier,” Tracy said.

“This certification can

roeville, Seven Fields and Waynesburg,” said Crile.

“The growth of the natural gas industry, sustainable sources, as well as the continued strength in the coal industry prompted the University’s interest to develop the new concentration.”

The energy management concentration is the first one of its kind in the Pittsburgh market, and was created and will be taught by professionals in the industry, including Dr. Darryl Husenits, vice president of Material and Supply Chain Management at CONSOL Energy

and Dr. Jeanna Cooper, manager of E-Services at CONSOL Energy.

“We surveyed 300 current MBA students with the proposed concentration to find out their interest. Nearly 80 percent of those respondents expressed strong interest in the courses,” said Crile.

“The students recognize that with this concentration they will be equipped with an advantage within the work force that other applicants may not have.”

According to Mariner, 90 percent of the students who have gone through

the MBA program are currently working in full time positions.

“With our focus on leadership, I envision our students as mid- to upperlevel managers in energy companies across the region,” said Mariner.

“The growing energy industry such as the local Marcellus and Utica shale are providing more opportunities for Waynesburg University students with a degree in MBA. Learning is a lifelong process, and the transfer of knowledge is the outcome that we have a focus of achieving in every class.”

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Virus infects networks Continued from A1 ty network could have caused the virus.

However, she added that students do not have access to the administrative network - they just have access to the wire network.

As soon as Posivak heard about the virus, she and her team got together and devised a “plan of attack.”

Posivak and her team started to put their plan in motion.

After concluding that the virus originated from the Southpointe campus, the IT department went to the site of the virus to resolve the problem.

“After we understood what was going on, I deployed several people to go up to the Southpointe campus to help eradicate the virus,” Posivak said.

Before the computer network was restored, all three of the shared drives – N, S and P – were unavailable.

“This virus invades and corrupts files, and in our case, it went into our network drives and started deleting information and files,” Posivak said.

The Information Technology department addressed the problem by restoring network drives from backup.

be transferred throughout the United States should a student need to relocate.

The program has seen many benefits with this certification, including fifty-two first year students, a new record for the program.”

Alignment with the national standards also has yielded some academic gains.

Although the program has been proven successful, the national certification could be a motivating factor for students to continue to strive for success even after graduation.

“Last year’s graduating class achieved a 100 percent pass on the National Counselor Exam,” said Tracy.

The graduate counseling program is offered at Main, Southpointe, Monroeville and North Hills campus locations.

By CJ Filippi Staff Writer Four new faculty members were added to the Waynesburg University staff over the summer, and all were hired with the same mission for their students.

Although Dr. Michael Bates, Andrew Heisey, Dr. Wayne Rossiter and Dr. Richard Pierce come from different backgrounds and work in different departments, they all share a common mission: to integrate faith in the everyday

GAPS moves office Continued from A1

“The PC’s that were infected we either reimaged them, and some were due for replacement,” Posivak said.

“We just took the outof-service computers and gave them the new computers a couple of weeks earlier than planned.”

The Southpointe campus was scheduled to have the computers replaced within the next few weeks either way.

Posivak and the rest of the Information Technology department decided that it would be best to replace the computers

early, rather than clean the computers that were about to be replaced.

After all of the new computers were installed, and the Information Technology staff had time, they cleaned the virus off of the old computers as well.

Posivak also encouraged students to be careful when they are online and shared several tips for students on how they can reduce the risk of getting a computer virus.

Opening email attachments that are from an unknown source or end in

.exe, .vbs or .lnk, continually running the computer without appropriate maintenance, visiting random websites and clicking on links or other “free” offers and attempting to access links in instant messages that have no context are steps that should be avoided to prevent viruses, she said.

Posivak also recommended that students avoid freely sharing computer programs and system disks, or downloading software and files through file-sharing application.

that can seat up to 70 people.

“When our lease expired at our previous location, we were pleased to find space in a brand new building in the heart of the energy sector of Southpointe,” said David Mariner, dean of Graduate and Professional Studies.

“The move has been very successful, and we are very pleased with our new center.”

As well as being more convenient, the new location has updated electronics, such as the new smart boards and computers.

“Since we moved, we were able to customize the layout of the center with brand new classrooms, and two new computer labs,” Mariner said.

“The technology upgrade has been wonderful. We also have wireless capability in all of our classrooms. Students and faculty have repeatedly commented that they really enjoy the new center.”

Mariner also said that since 1997, when Gradu-

lives of their students.

Dr. Rossiter, assistant professor of Biology, strives to integrate Christian faith with his students and hopes they will carry that with them when they graduate.

Dr. Bates, assistant professor of Business, graduated from West Point and served in the United States Army.

Bates instructs Principles of Management and Human Resource Management.

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ate and Professional Studies first branched off, the program has grown to over 1,000 active students in all locations combined.

The Director of GAPS Counseling Program, Dr. Scott Tracy, said that a record number of new students matriculated this fall.

“This program is built on quality and emphasizes evidence based practice. For the Capstone Process, our students are implementing unique and exciting projects across this region,” said Dr. Kimberly Whiteman, a codirector of the only doctoral program.

Aside from the new, high-tech Southpointe location, GAPS is innovating its curriculum.

Dr. Larry Kushner has helped to develop several new programs in the education department, including an online teaching program, an Endorsement in Autism Spectrum Disorders and a redesigned Master of Education degree, Mariner said.

In addition, Janice Crile has recently unveiled a new concentration in Energy Management in the MBA program.

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Professors recognized for excellent work

By Molly Winters

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Staff Writer On May 13, three professors from Waynesburg University were awarded the Lucas-Hathaway Teaching Excellence Award.

Dr. Sut Sakchutchawan, Professor Anthony Bocchini and Professor Brandon Szuminsky were the three faculty members to receive this award.

Continuing a tradition that honors outstanding teaching by Waynesburg University faculty, the Lucas-Hathaway Charitable Trust has established an endowed fund that provides two annual teaching excellence awards for fulltime faculty members and one award for a part-time faculty member.

The professors were awarded a plaque along with $1,200.

This award recognizes faculty in three categories: have an extensive history of teaching excellence, relatively recent history of teaching excellence and those who teaching parttime.

The award procedure followed a two-stage process of nomination and selection, and the process is kept a secret to the teachers being awarded.

Nominations were made by students, faculty, administrative personnel or alumni.

Sakchutchawan, associate professor of Business, has a relatively

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Three professors (from left) Brandon Szuminsky, Sut Sakchutchawan and Anthony Bocchini were awarded the Lucas-Hathaway Teaching Excellence Award at the graduation ceremony in May. recent history of teaching.

He has been at Waynesburg University for six years.

“This award is a milestone for a teacher. It is the highest achievement you can have,” said Sakchutchawan.

Sakchutchawan spends most of his time inside the classroom with five classes.

However, he spends a lot of time outside of it as well.

Every year Sakchutchawan writes a 15 page research paper and has it published.

“I tell students to write a paper, so I write one too, “said Sakchutchawan.

Sakchutchawan has published seven of his papers.

“You cannot just be a

good talker, you have to be a good doer, too,” said Sakchutchawan.

Sakchutchawan is using his cash award to further his research for his papers. He hopes one day to write a book.

Bocchini is a professor with an extensive history of teaching excellence.

Bocchini is a Professor of Business Administration and Accounting and has been teaching at Waynesburg for 35 years.

Bocchini is among three professors who have been at the university for that long.

Bocchini provides courses for students that are academically demanding, but he lets them know upfront how to be successful in those classes.

“My philosophy is not to make decisions for students, but to inform them of their options,” said Bocchini. “The student then makes his or her own decision.”

He recognizes that each student is different and they all perform at different academic levels.

“It is good to know that I was somehow responsible for a student realizing that he or she could do more than that student thought possible,” said Bocchini.

Brandon Szuminsky, a lecturer in the Department of Communication and the Department of English and Foreign Language is a part-time professor since 2008. Szuminsky is also an adviser to the Yellow Jacket.

“When I was looking for schools, I was originally thinking out west,” said Bates.

“Waynesburg University was the first interview I had and it was nice to see a university that went back to its Christian roots.

My wife Andrea and I knew that we were meant to be here.”

Dr. Pierce, assistant professor of English, is from Allegheny, N.Y. Pierce originally wanted to teach math but fell in love with English, particularly creative writing and poetry.

Pierce said English was “a way to explore our everyday lives.”

Dr. Pierce loved Waynesburg area and wanted to be given an opportunity to work with students and help them become better writers.

His goal is to help his students to understand the problems that many Christian writers face, and teach them how to overcome those problems and be received wherever life takes them.

Heisey, assistant professor of Art, comes from the Lancaster, Pa. area, where he grew up on a produce farm.

Though Heisey never thought he was any good at art, he enjoyed art classes in high school.

Practice makes perfect, and today Heisey shares his passion with students.

Heisey primarily teach-

es sculpture and ceramics at Waynesburg.

According to Heisey, he prefers to have only a few classes because he is able to prepare his material more and expand his teachings.

He’s able to go more in depth, as well as run the gallery.

Heisey is excited to have the opportunity to demonstrate his artistic abilities while he is at Waynesburg University as well.

“I’m looking forward to showing off my pieces. I want people to know that you can still be a Christian and an artist at the same time,” said Heisey.

Heisey is currently preparing for the first art show on Sept. 25.

He will be showing off his latest works, which include a brick egg and a studio.

According to Heisey, the brick egg symbolizes new life, and the studio was made out of recycled materials to symbolize a person’s worth.

Heisey said that he works mainly with general education students who feel that they aren’t able to create something meaningful.

When students take his classes, he shows them how to be creative and succeed in situations unfamiliar to them.

Heisey’s goal is to show that you can be Christian and an artist at the same time.

He hopes to inspire students.

“No one is ever beyond hope; no one is ever beyond God’s love,” said Heisey.

University utilizes social media accounts to recruit, communicate

By Katherine Mansfield Staff Writer Waynesburg University is now a click, Like or retweet away.

The university’s online presence — Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest accounts, as well as a YouTube channel and a blog site — is part of a growing trend of higher education schools utilizing social media tools to recruit prospective students, communicate with current ones and engage both alumni and the community.

According to the third annual CASE Social Media Survey, released Aug. 28 by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the majority of schools using social media outlets believe that their online efforts are highly effective in achieving their social media goals. Eighty-six percent of the 1,187 institutions surveyed ranked Facebook the most valuable social media tool for achieving those goals.

“Facebook’s the king of connecting with brands for anyone,” said George Cicci, director of Marketing at Waynesburg University.

“People like to help tell that story of things they’re proud of being associated with. That’s why the ‘like’ button was invented.”

When Cicci joined the

Waynesburg University community last December, the university’s Facebook page had roughly 1,000 “likes.” Today, over 2,500 people like the page.

“I think we’ve done a great job of promoting it.

Everybody here within University Relations and Admissions have really rallied around increasing ‘likes,’ so you do that by creating good content,” said Cicci.

Good content is not limited to Facebook status updates, and Cicci is quick to note that, while Facebook is an accessible means of communication, it is not the only social media tool that reaches the masses.

According to the CASE study, Twitter use among schools surveyed increased from 67 percent in 2010 to 80 percent in 2012. Waynesburg University has two Twitter accounts, @WaynesburgU and the more active @WaynesburgNews, that inform followers of all things “WU.” Links to university press releases and the latest blog posts, along with 140-character updates, are tweeted frequently to help Twitter users stay current on school happenings.

“Twitter is the quicker, faster way of communicating with people,” said Cicci. “We’re embracing both [Facebook and Twitter].”

The university is also venturing into uncharted waters: it recently joined Pinterest, the newest social media trend.

“We’re finding out there are some people who’re a little more active on Pinterest than they are on Facebook, and we’re using it to kind of show off the best photos we have,” said Cicci.

The school’s blog site is also an attempt to broaden the university’s horizons.

Though only 17 percent of survey respondents utilize blogs, the versatility of a blog is

appealing to the university.

“It’s kind of a way to engage different groups simultaneously,” Cicci said.

He said that between student posts, weekly scripture posts and miscellaneous college-related posts, the university’s blog gives web browsers a broader picture of what Waynesburg is all about.

The main goal of social media use for institutions across the country and around the world are to engage alumni and current students; create and sustain or improve brand

image; and increase school awareness, advocacy and rankings, according to the CASE study.

For Cicci, the main objectives of social media use are to recruit new students and disseminate information about the university to all interested parties.

Like most schools surveyed, Cicci believes that analyzing the return on investment in social media is difficult, because the concept is so new.

He also believes that social media campaigns are most effective when coupled with print mar-

keting campaigns.

“Traditional media is extremely important to what we do,” said Cicci.

But, while traditional media remains a valuable tool for WU, social media allows the university to advertise and interact with a broader audience in new and exciting ways.

“It’s a way for people to really experience the story of Waynesburg University in new ways, beyond a press release that is a little more formal,” said Cicci. “[Social media] is one of the best ways to put the best face of Waynesburg out there.”

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Columnist Nick Farrell talks about remembering the brave men and women who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.

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Snyder’s campaign ‘up and running’ for State Rep. race After replacing DeWeese, commissioner ready to take on Fischer in Nov.

By Kyle Edwards Region Editor It’s been nearly one month since Greene County Commissioner Pam Snyder was selected by Democratic Committee members in the 50th Legislative District to run for state representative this November.

In that time, Snyder said she’s been hard at work on the campaign trail.

“I am currently getting my campaign organized,” she

Snyder said. “I’m trying to get out and see and talk to as many people as possible in the next 60 days. Hopefully, we’ll be successful on election day.”

Even though her opponent, Republican candidate Mark

Fischer, has quite a head start on her, Snyder said that after she was selected, she got to work immediately.

“I’ve got my campaign office up and ready, my campaign funds are in – a crew of volunteers put them together last Monday – we’ve already had one political gathering and we’ve got quite a few more planned,” Snyder said.

“Our objective for the next 60 days is to work hard, campaign hard and reach as many people as we can before election day.”

This election will not be the first time that Snyder has run for State Representative.

In the 2010 primary election,

she ran against and lost to now former Representative Bill DeWeese, who is currently serving two and a half to five years in prison after being convicted of conspiracy, conflict of interest and theft. Snyder said she has eyes for only this election.

“This is a whole different election, a different opponent and a different campaign,” she said. “This election isn’t about me or my opponent. It’s not about the past, it’s about the future. It’s about the people of the 50th District.”

Once the Democratic committee filed suit in an effort to remove DeWeese from the ballot due to his five felony

convictions, committee members then had to select his replacement, according to Snyder.

“Once the position became vacant on the ballot, the State Democratic committee and the local comities that comprise the district – one from Greene County, Fayette County and Washington County – had to call a meeting. Those people came together and nominations were taken on the floor and voted on,” Snyder said. “I was lucky enough to be the only one nominated and was chosen as the candidate in a See SNYDER on B4

50’s fest attendees undeterred by rain

By Katherine Mansfield Editorial Assistant Car enthusiasts walked amidst the raindrops, admiring immaculately-kept cars old and new, as classic 50’s tunes danced from the steps of the courthouse to the farthest reaches of High Street Saturday at Waynesburg’s 11th annual 50’s Fest and car cruise.

Despite gray skies and occasional showers, a large number of attendees turned out to listen to music and check out the sweetest rides in the area with umbrellas in hand.

“The rain probably kept a lot of the crowd away,” said Carl Basile, a 50’s Fest regular who was undeterred by morning rainstorms.

“They don’t want to get their cars all dirty.”

For those unafraid of a little mud on the tires, the 50’s Fest – one of the last car shows of the season – again proved a uniquely splendid way to while away the day.

“There’s nothing else like it,” said Nick Garcia, a Masontown resident who has yet to miss 50’s Fest.

“There’s no trophies involved, no plaques. It’s just a cruise We come and look at all the cars.

It’s a lot of fun.”

In previous years, Garcia and his wife, Teri, have shown their “67 dust-rose Mustang at the Fest. This year, they

Photo by Kyle Oland

Olympic bronze medalist Coleman Scott spoke to crowds on the steps of the Courthouse in Waynesburg.

Hometown Hero Event celebrates return of hometown Olympic bronze medalist Coleman Scott

By Nick Farrell Assistant Sports Editor On Thursday Aug. 23, members of the WaynesPhotos by Katherine Mansfield burg community and (Above) Glen Kinsey and his daughter Karen show off their hot rod during last other avid wrestling fans weekend’s 50’s Fest and Car Cruise. (Below) Cars lined the streets for the cruise. gathered outside the debuted their newest Greene County Courtfamily addition: a gray house to welcome “09 Shelby.

Olympic Bronze Medal“This one,” said Teri ist Coleman Scott back Garcia, pointing to her to his hometown of youngest daughter, “can Waynesburg, Pa. spot a Mustang from a Scott wrestled his way mile away. They’re being to a bronze medal in the raised with cars and car 60 kilogram classificashows.” tion, overcoming For some car enthusiKenichi Yumoto during asts, car shows are a famthe waning seconds of ily tradition. Waynesthe Bronze Medal burg resident Glen Kinsey participates in the fest every year; his daughter Karen, who lives in Houston, Texas, journeys north every couple of years to admire the cars her father proud- said Kinsey. “He used to burg, marks the 50’s Fest ly parks along High race cars when I was on his calendar every year. younger.”

Street.

Fellow ex-racer Dave “He restores and builds cars all the time,” Maset, also of Waynes- See FEST-GOERS on B4

Geocaching highlights county historic sites News Editor Thursday, Waynesburg University participated in the geocaching events that are being sponsored by the Greene County department of Recreation.

Geocaching is an outdoor treasure hunting game that uses a global positioning system (GPS) or a map to

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Valuable Pa. artifacts showcased in two-day Art Blast on the Mon

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By Lucas Diethorn

Match. His only defeat during the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London came during the semifinal round against eventual gold medalist Toghrul Asgarov of Azerbaijan.

Around 300 people, ranging from Waynesburg residents to wrestling enthusiasts from other states, came to listen to Scott recall his Olympic journey.

Prior to the start of the afternoon assembly, Scott arrived in the backseat of a Ford Mustang

find items or places.

The “Cache Me if You Can” event involves sites across Greene County.

For the Greene County edition of the game, participants had to travel to eight locations, take a photo at the site and turn in a 4by-6 printout to the Department of Recreation.

The event started at

4 p.m. in Johnson Commons, where the group of participating students met.

The participants then took a university van and began their trip to the sites listed to take the pictures required.

Communications Director of Tourism Elizabeth Menhart was very excited about the opportunity for Greene

Editorial Assistant

The Nathanial Greene Historical Foundation held its seventh annual Art Blast on Saturday Sept. 1.

The two-day event held multiple exhibits and hosted various speakers that showcased some of the most valuable artifacts that Pennsylvania had to offer.

“The purpose of the event is to have differSee HISTORIC on B4 ent kinds of interactive

County.

“We are very excited about the chance to display some of the historic sites in the county and also raise attention for parks and recreation throughout Greene County,” said Menhart.

“We hope the event makes everyone more aware of the things

art available as well as different artistic bands and food for everyone to enjoy,” said Darlene Garrett, Greensboro Office Manager.

These items weren’t worth as much as the Mona Lisa or an original Picasso, but they have important historical worth to their respective areas that can only be compared to a redwood in California.

“This is the earliest glass, as well as the See ARTIFACTS on B4

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Editorial

Welcome back to all Take advantage of new opportunities It’s almost over, yet it is just the beginning.

The days are slowly getting shorter, the weather is steadily getting colder and soon the leaves will begin to change.

Summer is slowly fading into fall, but this isn’t just an end to the summer months.

It also signals the beginning of a whole new school year at Waynesburg University.

For the past few weeks, returning students have been settling back into their old routines and the new students have been adjusting to their new lives as college freshmen.

Since this is the first issue of the Yellow Jacket for this year, up until now, the Jacket Staff wasn’t able to say anything to these new and returning students.

But with our first issue finally hitting the newsstands, all that changes.

So to all of the new students, both freshmen and transfers: welcome.

And to all of the students who have returned – whether it’s for a second, third or final year – welcome back.

Welcome back to the land of opportunity.

Each year, students who previously held positions of responsibility across the campus graduate and move on to the next stage of their lives, leaving their positions to the next generation of students – plenty of opportunities to show the world your mettle.

But only if you take advantage of those opportunities.

Aim high.

Try something new.

Push yourself to get better and to learn as much as possible.

Step up and make this year a great year.

Activities abound Weekends full of activities bring happiness With the new semester comes new students and, hopefully, new excitement.

Last Friday was a hopeful sign of said new excitement and new events for campus life.

Friday night was a sort of pep rally for the first home football game of the season.

There was a much larger turn out of students than expected and more importantly the ones that attended had a great time.

Many students leave Waynesburg for home on the weekends, turning the campus into a ghost town.

This year many students are hopeful that there will be more events on the weekend that will keep students on campus.

Most of the complaints about the university are that there is nothing to do.

There is an easy solution that the students can apply.

Create more events and more clubs. The more students that stay on weekends and have a good time, the more students that will remain on campus.

The university is pushing for more events that will attract students.

But in the end, it has to be the students that make the change for themselves.

Don’t count days, make days count The third week of classes is barely even over and I’m already wishing my senior year away. In case you were wondering, there are only 13 weeks until winter break, and I graduate in a little over eight months.

I went through my planner on the first day of class and marked off every vacation and each important date from now until graduation.

And I’m sure I’m not the only one. If I can survive my midterms in October, I can make it to Halloween.

I’ve already bought

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three concert tickets for the month of November to see a few of my favorite bands, and fall break falls somewhere in between.

I’ll get to see my boyfriend again in December after more than four months apart – he’s in the air force, and he’ll be home from Wyoming for at least a few weeks.

I’ve got a lot to look forward to over the next

Stand united to remember 9/11 heroes I, like most other human beings, am an emotional person – but some say I’m a little too emotional.

Take this example: I cried on the first day of school each year until I was in the sixth grade. I loved being around my family so much that I dreaded that first day of the school year each fall.

Regardless of what people

few months. But what about right now?

I had a small revelation the other night while reading a little book called “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch. In case you haven’t read it, I can best describe it as a cross between an autobiography and self-help book written by a man who was given only three to six months left to live after being diagnosed with a fatal form of pancreatic cancer.

I’ve covered the pages with tabs and highlighted some of my favorite lines, but somewhere

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said of my emotions, I still continue to love my family and express my sadness when I’m away from them.

Much like my family situation, all people are shaped by the relationships they partake in, the experiences they undergo and the events that they witness throughout their lifetimes.

September 11, 2001 was a day that shaped an entire country and impacted every American citizen in some way.

along the way I stumbled across this gem: “Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think.”

Really makes you think, doesn’t it?

This year is going to be tough. Things got off to a rocky start. I started my first 8 a.m. class ever, and I’m the farthest thing from a morning person; I’ve slept through my alarm and ran to class half-dressed and half-asleep more often than I’d like to admit.

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Like most Waynesburg students, I was in grade school when two hijacked planes took a nosedive into the World Trade Center that fateful morning. At the time, I couldn’t comprehend the day’s events.

But as this great nation grows older each year, it must collectively recall America’s second most infamous day and commemorate the men and women that lost their lives that day.

The terrorist attacks on Sept.

11 changed and affected many processes in the United States, from security regulations at airports to the way mail is transSee UNITE on B3

Sometimes a little good news goes a long way Sometimes I get tired of hearing bad news.

The world evidently thrives on hearing bad news.

It makes up a large majority of the content we see on the news and read in newspapers.

Hearing about evil and misfortune every day really brings me down.

I’m not bashing the media. I enjoy journalism, and I know it’s important to stay informed about what’s going on in the world.

But sometimes I just

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want to hear a little bit of happy news to restore my faith in humanity.

I’m not naïve.

I know that bad news won’t just disappear if I try to avoid it.

I know terrible things happen to good people on a daily basis.

In fact, someone attempted to scam me out of nearly $2,000 a few weeks ago on a car

that didn’t exist. Luckily, I didn’t fall for it.

After a little research, I found out this same person had already scammed six others out of large sums of money with the same story, using different names and vehicles.

She went as far as posting pictures of the vehicles and real vin numbers (I’m not sure where she got those?).

She would ask the buyers to send money through a “secure payment method,” tell them that she’d take

care of shipping and never send the car.

Supposedly, she wanted to get rid of a car that belonged to her son who was killed by a drunk driver while traveling with his fiancé to his little brother’s birthday party.

It’s so sad that someone would use emotional weakness in others to steal money, and that’s nothing compared to all of the tragic shootings that have recently taken place.

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Op-Ed

Make each day matter Continued from B2

Independent voters still up for grabs The Barack Obama the nation saw Thursday night is an older, hopefully wiser and undeniably more realistic version of the candidate who accepted the Democratic nomination in Denver in 2008.

Chastened by four years of partisan infighting in Washington, President Obama replaced the soaring vision he once offered - "hope and change" - with a sobering appraisal that the road to recovery won't be "quick or easy."

The second term Obama wants is certainly within his grasp - as it is for Romney - but he didn't clinch the sale.

The voters he has to reach, particularly independents who haven't made up their minds, have yet to be persuaded that his first term was successful and that he can finish the job if given more time.

On the first part, Obama has a strong case to make. He pulled the

economy out of a steep dive and turned it upward, passed the Affordable Care Act, imposed new limits on Wall Street, killed the world's No. 1 terrorist, pulled the troops out of Iraq, began the withdrawal from Afghanistan, cut taxes for the middle class, rescued the auto industry and put two moderate female justices on the Supreme Court.

The second part of the equation is more problematic. His speech contained specific promises that are feasible and desirable.

Creating 1 million manufacturing jobs by 2016 would extend the trend of the last few years.

The same goes for doubling exports by 2014.

Slowing the growth of college tuition in half and training two million workers at community colleges would likewise be welcomed as valuable

education initiatives, and probably are doable.

But after that, the picture is murky. Former President Bill Clinton gave Obama a big assist in his rousing speech to the DNC. Obama, he said, "inherited a deeply damaged economy, he put a floor under the crash, he began the long, hard road to recovery." It's not clear, however, that this laid the foundation for a new economy, as Clinton suggested.

Exactly how will Obama do that? He promised to shrink the deficit by $4 trillion, a target the he announced last year, but that's going to demand shared sacrifice.

First, Obama must make clear what he's going to demand from the broad middle class in order to get there, and then he has to negotiate successfully with Republicans to get the right balance that can both cut the deficit and

boost the economy.

Despite his various initiatives to spark a housing revival, millions are still underwater across the country. It's time to try something new.

President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney offer two contrasting visions for America. The diversity of people and faces to be found in the delegates at the convention in Charlotte suggest that Obama's version holds greater promise for the kind of country that America is becoming, one that reflects today's South Florida.

In his first term, however, he failed to translate necessary pieces of his legislative program into reality.

Persuading voters that he can do it in a second term remains his biggest electoral challenge. ___

This editorial originally appeared in the Miami Herald.

This Day in History... both black and non-African American colleges and universities across the country.

By Eric Bost Editorial Assistant Sept. 13, 1980:

Sept. 13, 1989:

The first United Negro College Fund telethon was held.

The organization brought in singer Lou Rawls to lead an annual telethon, initially called the “Lou Rawls Parade of Stars” to raise money for UNCF scholarships.

The annual telethons raised more than $200 million through 2006, the year of Rawls’s death.

In addition to funding for the now 39 member institutions, it provides over $100 million in financial assistance annually to over 65,000 scholars who attend

Be happy, be healthy Continued from B2 Anyway, I Googled “good news” when I was feeling particularly low one morning this week. I stumbled across the Good News Network.

It made my day to find out that there are actually websites dedi-

Desmond Tutu led an antiapartheid march throughout Cape Town, South Africa.

Over 30,000 people marched from Parliament to St. George’s Cathedral, making it the largest anti-apartheid rally in history.

A one-minute silence was held at the city hall for those killed in recent violence due to the apartheid movement.

The movement was created by the National Party in South Africa and was created to maintain white domination while extending racial separation.

cated to sharing hundreds of positive news stories.

The founder of the Good News Network made a goal to turn her website into a business to prove that good news can sell.

I wish her the best as she achieves her goal.

I found several other sources of happy news during my search.

The stories on these sites are about heroes who have saved lives,

Sept. 13, 1996: On September 7, 1996, minutes after getting into his car to head to a Las Vegas party, hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur was hit by multiple bullets in a drive-by shooting.

Six days later, even after an announcement was made saying he was recovering, Shakur died of the gunshot wounds in the hospital.

In 2011, filmmaker Reggie Rock Bythewood made a documentary for the award winning 30 for 30 series made by ESPN called “One Night In Vegas,” recalling the tragic night when the famous West Coast rapper was gunned down.

people who have overcame hardships and good deeds, such as the 8,000 pounds of leftover food that was donated to charity after the Democratic National Convention.

Maybe you happen to be one of those people who thrive on reading bad news.

In that case, you may now be smashing your head off your desk and wondering why you just wasted five minutes

reading my column.

But for all you optimists out there, good news and positive thinking has proven health benefits, and according to a study paid for by Bayer, people who hear good news in the morning are more likely to be productive and happy at work.

So, if you’re having a tough semester, maybe seeking out some good news every morning will lift your spirits.

I moved into an apartment with no air conditioning and no bedroom doors. We spent our first night battling a nasty swarm of ants and trying to get rid of a few unexpected house guests – a family of baby mice.

Yesterday our doorknob fell off.

But all things aside, it didn’t take me long to come to the conclusion that this year has the potential to be one of my best.

I’ve been given the chance to live with three of my best friends. My classes are great, and I just landed my perfect internship, writing about music for a prestigious Pittsburgh paper.

Things really couldn’t be better right now. So why am I in such a hurry to wish it all away?

I know it’s easy to dwell on the little things

Unite for 9/11 heroes Continued from B2 ferred from person to person.

It also plunged American soldiers into the turmoil of the Middle East. Some of those men and women in our armed forces linger in Iraq and Afghanistan, 11 years after the War on Terror was declared.

“The attacks on Sept. 11 entrenched America more broadly throughout the world militarily,” said Dr. Lawrence Stratton, director of the Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership.

“It expanded the concern about public security across our lives.”

Dr. Stratton said that the securitization of the government is and has been of the utmost importance since that day. Every American citizen, no matter how big or small, has experienced some sort of drastic change since those four hijacked planes crashed on our home soil 11 years ago.

“This day underscored how vulnerable we really are,” said Stratton.

But in that vulnerability, a few brave Americans stepped forward and did every-

and live life constantly anticipating your next big move.

But reading about a man who was able to celebrate each day with such a sense of optimism and “carpe diem” in the face of a sure death sentence has a certain way of putting things into perspective.

A broken door or a few months spent apart aren’t that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.

So here’s my little gem for you, borrowed from Mary Engelbreit: “Bloom where you’re planted.”

(Or, you know.

“YOLO.” I’m sure some of you will understand that a little better.)

She and Pausch had the right idea. Don’t take anything for granted, and make the best of every day because you never know how many you have left.

Unless, of course, you’re counting down the days until fall break.

(There are 65.)

thing they could to protect their country and save their countrymen.

Todd Beamer’s “Let’s Roll” battle cry on United Airways Flight 93 diverted a likely impact on the United States Capitol. Welles R. Crowther, better known as The Man in the Red Bandana, sacrificed his own life while bringing people trapped inside the burning Twin Towers to safety.

Those two men as well as the nearly 3,000 other American citizens must be honored and remembered on this day each year.

On the eve of this particular anniversary, a deal was reached to complete the construction of a 9/11 museum at Ground Zero, the former site of the Twin Towers. According to a report on Yahoo! News, the museum could be completed by 2013.

The terrorist attacks on 9/11 must always be remembered; not out of fear, but in honor of those who died.

In their honor, we must continue to use our freedoms of speech and religion and our right to vote. In their honor, we must work toward the betterment of society, overlooking disputes of color and creed. In their honor, each and every day, we must commemorate 9/11 and stand united.

In their honor, United we stand.

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Region

Waynesburg Borough to spend $5-6 million over next few years

By Sarah Bell Executive Editor Within the next few years, the Borough of Waynesburg will spend five to six million dollars on a number of projects.

At the Waynesburg Borough Council meeting Monday, borough manager Bruce Wermlinger detailed several upcoming projects and addressed many others that were completed in the last couple years.

Within the next year or two, the Borough

Medalist returns home Continued from B1 convertible.

Waynesburg Mayor Blair Zimmerman started off the ceremony by welcoming the Olympian back to town, and then Commissioner Pam Snyder spoke words of congratulations to the wrestler and the crowd.

Both politicians expressed their pride and presented Scott with certificates of achievement.

“You did not just make America proud, you made this community proud,” said Snyder.

After Snyder and Zimmerman took their seats, Scott made his way to the podium set on the stairs outside the courthouse.

The wrestler, wearing his white U.S.A. Polo shirt and Olympic Bronze medal, recalled the goals he set for the London Games.

“When I started this whole process, my dream was to have the National Anthem played with me standing at the top of the podium,” said

Snyder ready for Rep. race Continued from B1 unanimous vote.

If elected, Snyder believes that she has the background to be able to step into her new role and hit the ground running.

“I’ve been Commissioner for nine years,” she said. “I understand the legislative process, I

Fest-goers ignore rain Continued from B1 “I’m too old for [racing] now, so this is what I do,” said Maset.

Car shows are his hobby, and he always arrives in style.

“That’s kind of a rare car,” Maset said, standing next to his brown 1925 Maxwell.

Though the antique automobile is in mint condition, Maset calls it his “driving around car,”

Council plans to complete the Lincoln Street makeover and the High & Woodland Culvert project, improve the bridge next to the McDonald’s on Sugar Run Road and finish a Borough Sewer separation project.

Although not all of the projects will be completed in the next year, Wermlinger anticipates spending five to six million dollars on the plans.

Wermlinger also addressed the Borough Council-approved

Scott.

Though he didn’t achieve his ultimate goal, Scott encouraged those in attendance to chase their dreams like he did in London. A focus of Scott’s speech was the influence the community of Waynesburg had on his journey to the podium. His bronze medal was his way of saying thanks to the community for its support.

“The bronze medal wasn’t for me, it was for everyone else,” Scott said.

The day’s festivities brought people from many different regions together to celebrate Scott’s achievements.

Josh Hawk, 18 of Virginia, saw Scott wrestle his cousin at Oklahoma State University. Hawk said that Scott’s performance in London and his speech that day were very encouraging.

“It’s awesome to see, being a wrestler [myself].

It’s great to see someone go all the way,” said Hawk. “It makes me want to give 150 percent in everything I do and inspires me to be the best I can be.”

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know how it works. It will be different – I will be travelling more – but I understand how important this is.”

Snyder said when she was selected as the Democratic candidate, she was very overwhelmed.

“It was a room full of people that I’ve known for a long time – good, close friends. I was very humbled and honored that they voted for me,” she said.

“The people of this

and Saturday’s Fest was its second appearance in a car cruise.

Music is provided courtesy DJ Doug “The Greaser” Wilson, whose live broadcast from the courthouse steps aired on WNBE and included authentic radio ads from the 50’s and 60’s.

“I love the music, I love the cars. I just like the whole thing,” said Wilson.

As he spun songs and chatted with attendees who stopped by to say hello, kids and teens congregated on the courthouse steps to

changes to the Police Manual.

“The last time the manual was approved by Council it was in 2003,” Wermlinger said.

“There’s been some additions and updates.”

Some of the additions include adding specific information about the police dog in Waynesburg and a number of policies approved by Wermlinger and Mayor Blair Zimmerman.

During the Mayor’s report, improvements to damaged areas of town

were discussed.

“I know truck traffic has decreased, but someone needs to address the post office curb,” Zimmerman said.

“It’s terrible right now.”

Although the curb is damaged, the state is responsible for fixing the damage, Wermlinger said.

After the Mayor’s report concluded, the Borough Council discussed the 50’s Fest, which took place on High Street last week-

end. They agreed that rain was an issue, but the event was still considered an overall success.

When making some final remarks, Larry Marshall commented on the updates that the Borough made during the last year.

Marshall was most impressed with the work on Hoffman Street, and the amount of feedback he received regarding the improvements.

“It’s amazing how many people up there

say the street’s so nice,” Marshall said. “That’s good because we heard so many people complaining about it.”

In addition to completing the Huffman Street makeover, the borough also finished paving a number of borough streets and the Morgan Street bridge.

They previously paved Greene and High streets, added LED traffic lights, fixed a number of the curbs in town and completed the Street Scape project.

Historic sites highlighted

from the entered teams, but no more than five winners will be drawn each month.

The five lucky winners will receive Cache Me if You Can T-shirts as a prize.

The game runs until Dec. 1 of this year, so there is still time to enter.

For a full brochure and more information on the event, you can contact Menhart or call the Department of Recreation at 724-8525323.

Continued from B1 there are to do in Greene County.”

Some of the sites listed for the event were Wana B Park in Carmichaels, the Greene County Airport and Fairgrounds, Mon Photo by Kyle Oland View Park, Greene Scott arrived at the courthouse via Mustang convertRiver Trail and the ible. He encouraged the crowd to chase their dreams.

Alpha Aquatic Center. year-old student at Way- rewards from the count- Winners will be drawn nesburg Central, came to less hours he spent trainsupport the former Way- ing in Waynesburg.

“This is something he nesburg Central wrestler, saying it was worked and trained for “pretty cool” to see his whole life. It was Scott achieve his pretty neat watching Olympic dream. Much him and knowing him like Hawk, Rush was and his family,” Ms. Continued from B1 inspired by Scott’s Rush said.

Scott noted during his achievements on the mats to never give up on speech that all he earned prettiest and the nicest came from his passions in the area,” said James his dreams.

Randolph, Rush’s mother, Julie, for training and for “Fuzzy” Waynesburg University was happy to see a local wrestling.

His commitment museum curator. The boy who she watched grow up perform on the earned him a trip to Lon- items that Randolph don and may earn him talked about included world’s biggest stage.

Ms. Rush lives in another trip to the pre to early 1800’s glass Waynesburg and used to Olympic Games in Rio and pottery that is rich in history, especially to see a much younger in 2016.

“I’ll keep training, and this area. Some of the Scott training on hot summer days. She was I guess we’ll plan on a earliest pottery was pleased to see that Scott gold medal in 2016,” made before colonists arrived, according to was able to reap his said Scott.

Randolph.

“I usually talk about the Greensboro pottery, Despite Fischer’s the early 1800’s glass district are good, hardworking, honest people. doubts, Snyder feels and the pre-history of The communities that that her track record as Greensboro around the comprise this district Commissioner speaks time of the Indians,” said Randolph. are all very unique and for itself.

“The Monongahela “I’ve worked hard for special. I just hope I have the opportunity to the people of Greene Indians were the last listen to them and to County over the past Indians to be living nine years,” she said. along the Mon. They serve them.”

While campaigning “I’ve done my best to made pottery called last Saturday, Fischer bring jobs and economic cord marked pottery.”

Cord marked pottery expressed his surprise at development to this the committee’s selec- area and I hope that the allowed the artist to tion of Snyder. “I didn’t people of the 50th dis- form the clay around a which was get the sense that she trict will see that, and I cord, was a popular subject in would be extremely advancement in pottery Greene County,” Fisch- blessed to serve as their making in its day.

These types of pottery, voice in Harrisburg.” er said. along with early American glass were the topics of discussion when Randolph spoke at the Art Blast over the weekend. Randolph was able to show what the historical specimens looked like as he brought multiple items from the collection at the Paul R. Stewart Museum at Waynesburg University.

“We have one of the finest collections of potPhoto by Allyson Wernert tery and probably THE The 11th annual 50’s Fest and Car Cruise featured vehi- finest collection of glass,” said Randolph. cles of various makes, models and years.

“Experts come from all hula-hoop and blow bub- er and enjoying the com- over to study our collecble-gum bubbles. munity we know as tions.”

The collections “[It’s great] just seeing Waynesburg and Greene include not only some everybody come togeth- County,” said Wilson.

Artifacts showcased

“We have one of the finest collections of pottery and probably THE finest collection of glass.

Experts come from all over to study our collections.”

James Randolph University museum curator

of the early pottery, but some pieces of glass that this area has produced.

Randolph explained that the first glass manufacturing company east of the Allegheny Mountains was the Gallatin Glass Works located about 90 miles south of Pittsburgh. In the early 1800’s, the time period of Randolph’s collection, five glass making companies in the Greensboro area produced over $160,000 worth of glass. Today that amount would come to nearly two million dollars, making it one of the most profitable businesses of that time. According to Garrett, it was this knowledge of the history of the glass and pottery that makes Randolph the obvious choice as a speaker at the Art Blast event.

“We picked (Randolph) because he’s the definitive expert on historical pottery and glass in the area,” said Garrett.

The annual Art Blast on the Mon event was sponsored by the Nathanael Greene Historical Foundation cosponsored by the Associated Artists of California University of Pennsylvania.

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six of his 24 pass attempts for a pedestrian total of 16 yards while tossing two interceptions as well.

“Last week, I played terrible,” said Fatigante.

On Saturday, in the home opener for the Yellow Jackets, Fatigante’s play did a full 180.

Fatigante threw two touchdowns and ran for another, accounting for all three touchdowns in the Yellow Jackets’ 21-7 victory over the visiting Bobcats of Frostburg State.

With the victory Waynesburg improved to 2-0

while Frostburg fell to 1-1.

Senior all-american tight end Adam Moses, who was on the receiving end of one of Fatigante’s touchdown throws, acknowledged seeing a different Fatigante on the field Saturday.

“He played great,” said Moses. “I told him this whole week to just slow it down in your head; play fast from your neck down and play slow from your head up. Just slow the game down and you’ll be

Coming off a shaky performance in his season debut a week ago against Sports Editor Muskigum, senior quarterback Tyler Fatigante knew he had to play better One constant in my this week against FrostPhoto by Michael Kabay life, despite the wild turns burg State University.

Waynesburg quarterback Tyler Fatigante looks for life throws at me, has been Against Muskigum, running room during Saturday’s home opener. a passion for sports.

Fatigante completed only See FOOTBALL on C4 I remember when I was eight years old lying in my bed every night listening to the Baltimore Orioles games on my M&M AM radio until I fell asleep.

The next morning I would rush outside, grab the Carroll County Times, pull out the sports section, and check the box score from the night before.

More often than not,

By Luke Campbell Staff Writer my day did not start out quite so well, as I was usually disappointed from By Kyle Oland “If we can grow by one another O’s loss. Too bad I Sports Editor percent each and every couldn’t have been eight week, this team will The Coleman Scott years old this year; I would accomplish some special have been one happy effect. things. It’s all about the one That’s how John Yates camper each morning. percent,” said Chris Some of you are proba- describes it.

Hardie, head coach of the bly thinking, “Did this kid He had seen it before, Women’s Cross Country grow up in the 30’s before and when it happened, team.

Photo by Dawn Yates there was television or Yates was not surprised – That is the rallying cry ESPN?” actually he expected it. that the women’s cross Waynesburg wrestling coach John Yates (right) poses with Waynesburg native and No, I did not grow up It’s the final period in a Olympic bronze medalist Coleman Scott (middle) and his father, Jaime Scott. country team is motivated back then, though some three-period match by as they look to contend would say I probably against Japanese wrestler team and former high was on bottom, and with points needed to win the in the competitive Presishould have. My family Kenichi Yumoto for the school coach of Scott, sits 10 seconds to go, he hit bronze medal. dents’ Athletic Conference never had cable because bronze medal in the 60kg in the London stands see- just a Coleman Scott After seeing his pupil this year. my dad always said it was weight class of the Lon- ing an all too familiar explosive move where he win an Olympic medal, After finishing third out a waste of money. don Olympics. sight. Yates is having pushes back into the guy, Yates, recalled the feelings of 14 teams in Saturday’s So, instead of watching Waynesburg native flashbacks of matches overpowers him, and not going through his head.

Waynesburg Invitational, games on television or Coleman Scott trails when his former pupil just gets a reversal, but “For me it’s a thrill; you the Yellow Jacket women’s highlights the next morn- Yumoto with only 10 sec- overcame similar circum- takes the guy to his back.” can’t even describe it,” cross country team has ing on ESPN, I resorted to onds left on the clock. stances.

Just as he did during his said Yates. “I am not a ter- high hopes for the rest of a now more ancient form Scott must make a move, “In the Beast of the days as a grappler for ribly emotional person, their season. of media to passionately and make it fast. If he is to East finals he is wrestling Yates, Scott overcame a but that day when he was Throughout the season, consume my sports. slow, he returns to Amer- a boy from DeMatha,” seemingly impossible on the awards podium it Hardie will look for veterThis semester marks a ica with nothing to show said Yates. “In the state deficit. felt good.” an leadership from capnew chapter in my life as I for his efforts. finals his senior year he is As the seconds on the For Scott, the journey tains Megan Fortna and take on the position of Yates, an assistant wrestling a returning state clock tick closer to zero, to London began in Way- Elizabeth Johnson to lead Sports Editor for the Yel- coach with the Waynes- champion. In both, not Scott drives Yumoto to the charge of his young and low Jacket. burg University wrestling only was he losing, but he his back, scoring the two See SCOTT on C2 inexperienced team.

Growing up, I never “Mentally, our team is liked writing – actually I the strongest I have ever despised the act of writing coached,” said Hardie. and found it to be tortur“What they lack in experious. ence, they make up for in If you had asked me confidence.” during my freshman year This youth may pay off if I had any aspirations of By CJ Trammell Sophomore forward Natalie “They were very physical, for the Jackets as the freshwriting for a newspaper, Staff Writer Abraham has really stepped up to defended well as a team and always man class looks strong. let alone becoming an edifill the void left by Courtney Eber- got numbers behind the ball,” said Megan Ferrick, Jen Brown tor for an award winning The Waynesburg University sole, last year’s leading scorer.

Abraham. and Olivia Latimer head college newspaper, I women’s soccer team is off to a She came into camp fit, strong The Yellow Jackets were credited the rookies looking to would have given you an strong start despite losing their and hungry for goals,” said head four shots in the game. Only one of make an imprint on the emphatic no – funny how most recent match against Hiram. coach Carl Griffiths. “She did the their shots was on target. program early. life seems to work.

Waynesburg won their game Fri- work in the summer and it’s paying After a scoreless, back-and-forth The coaching staff is Looking back, I can see day against Oberlin to off in the fall.” first half, the game was still tied; also very impressed by the where my childhood pre- start off its season on a The second-year forward is lead- however, Hiram took the lead early improvement made by pared me for such a task three-game winning ing the team with five goals and in the second half. sophomores Jenn Ling, that I am undertaking this streak. They then faced off eleven points.

Sophomore midfielder Erica Annette Aho, Kristen semester. with Hiram on Sat“I think we have some young Nordlund was called for a foul in Stone, Jess Leiby and Joy Like I said, my morning urday and lost 2-0 players that have stepped up and the box, giving up a penalty kick Talbott. ritual began with a news- to fall to 3-1 on taken the leadership roles that towards the beginning of the second The Jackets have many paper. I would flip through the season. were vacated by graduating half of the game on Saturday. Soph- up-and-coming stars in the sports section, analyzThe Yellow Jackets began seniors,” Griffiths said. omore midfielder Samantha Zupon- their program; however, ing box scores, reading this season without a few of Although Abraham is cic scored the penalty kick to give junior Bre Paul has been game recaps and dreaming their key pieces from last year’s off to a strong start, she Hiram the lead. the heart and soul of this about the day I would be team, but they did not couldn’t find the back of “It was an unnecessary tackle, squad. featured as the high school let that slow them the net against Hiram. we had players in front of the ball,” Whether it’s her ritual of athlete of the week. down. The Jackets have She was held scoreless Coach Griffiths said. “But we will praying while she runs or I guess what started for won three out of their for the first time this learn from it.” the fact that she runs as me as morning ritual, first four games this year, season.

Hiram added another goal six fast as she can for as long as scoring a total of 12 goals Photo by Michael Kabay See SOCCER on C2 See RUNNERS on C3 See UNFORESEEN on C4 while only giving up four.

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The journey of a lifetime

WU coach helps guide Coleman Scott to bronze medal

Women’s soccer suffers first loss

Women XC take third at invitational

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Volleyball drops two Coach expects to break slump

By Marvin Sampson Jr. and Nick Farrell Yellow Jacket staff With the women’s volleyball season in full throttle, the Yellow Jackets remain focused as the season progresses.

Through the first seven games, the Jackets are 2-5 following a three game losing streak.

Head volleyball coach Stephanie Bentkowski is confident that the Jackets will power out of their current slump.

“We will continue to show improvement in our play,” said Bentkowski.

The Jackets showed great upside early on by winning two out of their first four games, defeating Division II Ohio Valley twice during the River City Tournament at Marietta College.

Since placing third in the tournament, Waynesburg has dropped consecutive matches to Franciscan, Thiel and Grove City.

The Jackets picked up a set against Franciscan last Wednesday before being swept in straight sets by Presidents’ Athletic Conference foes Thiel and Grove City on Saturday during a tri-match at Grove City.

Bentkowski said that she emphasized defense to the team during off-season practices.

She also stressed the importance of making passing an efficient tool and being “scrappy” against teams with height.

Having only one player six-feet or taller (junior Mabel Culp, 6-0) the Jackets are at an extreme

height disadvantage against teams with tall players.

Through last week’s action, the volleyball team did not exceed Bentkowski’s expectations.

“The team can be a lot more consistent everywhere on the floor,” Bentkowski said.

Part of the inconsistency is due to the lack of experience on the squad.

Waynesburg fields just two seniors (Presley Cupp and Carly Smithyman).

Those players that are experienced are experimenting with new roles at different locations on the court.

“Key players are playing at positions that they aren’t used to and more freshman are playing this year,” said Bentkowski.

Looking ahead, Coach Bentkowski will stress consistency to her team that is still searching for an identity.

A more consistent style of play will relieve some pressure from the Yellow Jackets as they approach the bulk of their home conference schedule. “[We] can’t be worrying about what other teams are doing,” Bentkowski said.

“We need to focus on what we have to do and play Waynesburg-style volleyball.”

The Jackets will be in action next on Saturday when they host a trimatch against Bethany and Chatham, continuing PAC play.

Last season the Jackets went 3-15 and will look to improve on that mark.

After the losses this week, Waynesburg sits at 0-2, but have a chance to even that mark on Saturday.

Scott wins bronze Continued from C1 nesburg where he was taught the skills needed to become a world-class wrestler from current Waynesburg University wrestling head coach Ron Headlee in middle school, and Yates at Waynesburg Central High School.

“I knew [Scott] since he was real young, probably six or seven,” said Yates.

“When I was the high school coach, he was in our little league program.

We always had a real close relationship between our high school, middle school and little league programs.”

Like many great athletes, Scott showed undeniable talent at a young age.

“I was obviously aware of him from a real young age,” said Yates. “He had wrestled in a bunch of big tournaments. When he came in as a freshman, it was pretty fun to watch him every day.”

While talent alone will bring success, Yates remembered seeing more than just raw talent in

Soccer takes first loss Continued from C1 minutes later after freshman goalkeeper Ciara Scott miss-kicked her punt directly to Hiram forward Ernestina Zappa.

“We had plenty of opportunities to win the game, we just need to come out with more intensity to start the match,” Griffiths said.

Scott is in her first year

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Waynesburg native Coleman Scott after receiving his bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics.

Scott.

“I had a lot of talented kids come through, and [Scott] was one of the most talented kids I had,” said Yates. “But, he had that combination of work ethic and talent. It’s work ethic that will get you to the next level. Coleman was pretty gifted athletically, but he wasn’t satisfied with just what that would do for him. Coleman had that rare blend.

He had talent and the

work ethic – he was always looking to improve.”

In addition, Scott learned how to listen to Yates’ instructions in high school, making him a coachable athlete.

“I learned how to work hard and listen from Coach Yates,” said Scott.

“You put trust in your coach and you listen to him. I used to just show up and do what they said.

That’s what I do now; I

“We had plenty of opportunities to win the game, we just need to come out with more intensity to start the match.”

Carl Griffiths Head soccer coach, Waynesburg University

as a goalkeeper and has been playing well in net for the Yellow Jackets.

“Ciara stepped up and proved herself in game one, capable and ready.

She’s done a great job this

year,” said Griffiths.

Injuries kept the Jackets from fielding their complete lineup Saturday.

Junior defender Victoria Shepherd missed the game against Hiram due

show up and do what my coaches say, and that’s the biggest improvement I made overall.”

Seeing his athletes win has always been a wonderful sight for Yates, but it is not the most important factor for him. This mind set carried over to London when Yates sat watching Scott contend for a medal.

“I don’t need to win or lose any more matches as a coach, I just want the kids to do their part,” said Yates. “When my guys lose I feel the disappointment for them.”

Scott echoed Yates’ thoughts, knowing his former coach just wanted him to do the very best he could do.

“I know that no matter what, they want your best interests,” Scott said. “I found out that’s the special thing about Coach Yates – and that’s what made him a great coach.”

Still, the bronze medal around Scott’s neck was a special sight for Yates.

“I felt really satisfied; and I saw the pride he had stepping onto the podium and the American flag going up,” said Yates. “It was a pretty moving experience as a coach.”

to an injury. Coach Griffiths expects Shepherd to return to action Wednesday.

“Jordan Eicher stepped up and filled in nicely; however, we did miss her vocal leadership in the back,” said Griffiths.

The Jackets will try to learn from their first loss and get back on track when they face Marietta at John F. Wiley Stadium on Sept. 15.

The match will begin at 2 p.m. and be broadcast live by WCTV.

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Athlete of the Week Freshman nearing men’s program record XC team takes fourth at Waynesburg Invitational

Senior quarterback leads football team to undefeated start Fatigante

By Brandon Reed

By Nadine Leishman Staff Writer

Staff Writer Senior quarterback Tyler Fatigante bounced back from a less than stellar first game with a standout performance against Frostburg State University on Saturday to earn the first Yellow Jacket Athlete of the Week for the 2012-13 sports season.

Following a hard hit that sidelined him for the rest of the game last week at Muskingum, Fatigante put any worries about his health to rest.

Fatigante carried the Jacket offense by scoring every touchdown in the 21-7 victory over Frostburg State, one using his feet and the other two through the air. He also went 11-14 for 122 yards.

In addition, Fatigante led all Yellow Jackets in rushing yards for the first time this season with 11 carries for 64 yards.

Fatigante will look to keep his numbers high this week as Waynesburg looks to go 3-0 for the fist time since 2007 when the Jackets travel to Latrobe, Pa. to take on a St. Vincent team that has given up nearly 350 rushing yards in two games this season.

Photo by DKatherine Mansfield

Junior Bre Paul (left) runs during the Waynesburg Invitational. Paul finished a team-best 10th place.

Runners look strong Continued from C1 she can, Paul has been a constant success in her time at Waynesburg.

“Have guts, give all you have, and never leave anything back,” Paul said.

That ambition and work ethic of the twosport athlete is simply unmatched.

“She leads by example in every aspect of her life.

Bre works extremely at practice, she maintains personal academic standards, she is very committed to her faith, and she maintains a very healthy diet. That commitment is well respected by her teammates and coaches,” said Hardie.

The women opened up the 2012 campaign with the Marty Uher Invitational, hosted by California University of Pennsylvania. The six-team field included PAC rivals Grove City and Saint Vincent along with several other Division II programs. The Jackets found themselves near the middle of the pack with a fourth place finish.

Paul led all PAC runners at the event by placing eighth overall with a time of 21:12. Ferrick started her collegiate career off on a very high note finishing in 13th place. Talbott and Aho along with Fortna also placed respectably high in the 106-woman field.

This past Saturday, the team hosted its annual home invitational. Out of the 132-woman field, Waynesburg was well represented near the top with four top-20 finishers. Paul who placed 10th in a time of 24:54.6, Ferrick who finished in 12th (25:20.3) and Fortna (25:20.3) who crossed the line in 14th place were the first three Jacket finishers. Rounding out the top four was Talbott in 19th place with a time of 25:44.5.

Geneva took home the team title after finishing with an impressive four of the top eight runners in the field. Silver went to Division II opponent California, while the Jackets took home the bronze.

Waynesburg returns to action on Saturday, Sept.

22, when they compete at the Saint Vincent Invitational.

This past Saturday at Greene County Airport, the men’s cross country team hosted the Waynesburg Invitational, taking fourth out of 10 teams.

Windy and rainy weather conditions weren’t the best for a race.

“I thought everyone just battled through the course well with the conditions,”

McAuley

said Junior Jonathon Blatt.

Head coach Chris Hardie felt that the weather didn’t affect his team’s

performance.

“I think the men may have had one of the best days in history of our program,” Hardie said. “Six runners broke their personal bests today.”

The Jackets were lead by freshman Benjamin McAuley, who finished with a near school-record time of 28:26 for an 18th overall finish. Following

McAuley, were John Allison in 21st, Brandon Dugan (23rd) and Blatt (24th).

The Jackets also beat out PAC teams Washington & Jefferson; who came in fifth place, and Bethany College, who placed eighth.

After finishing in a time of 30:28 in his collegiate debute, on Saturday McAuley took more than two minutes off his his previous time.

“I think I was more prepared [for the Waynesburg Invitational] then the last one, and I was also nervous at the first meet,” McAuley said.

The freshman,

McAuley has shown great potential in the past two races, posting the fastest time in school history in only his second race.

Hardie acknowledged that the fast times were a result of hard work at practice.

“From a coaching perspective, we have seen a drastic increase in the volume of work that our men bring each and every day and we can see a drastic improvement in the level of confidence,” said Hardie.

The men’s cross country team will continue their season when they compete at the Saint Vincent Invitational on Sept. 22.

Women’s tennis goes 1-2 this week

By Rob Longo Editorial Assistant Traveling to Baltimore, Md. over the weekend, the Waynesburg women’s tennis team took on Goucher college, falling in five sets after rain shortened the match.

“If we would have known ahead of time it was going to rain that early, then we wouldn’t have made the trip,” said head coach Ron Christman.

With the loss, The Yellow Jackets fell to 1-2 on the year.

The Jackets then

returned back to conference play Tuesday as they faced Bethany in their first home match of the season.

In the preseason poll, Waynesburg was projected to tie for fourth place in the PAC with the Bethany Bison.

“Even though we were picked to tie Bethany, I think we have more depth than them,” he said.

Christman’s point was proven. Bethany brought six players to the match while the Yellow Jackets were able to field their entire squad.

Waynesburg jumped

out to an early lead as they took two of three doubles matches.

The second doubles duo of Madison DuBrock and Ellen Limback won their pro set by a score of 8-3.

Third doubles Emily Meier and Sarah Reyes teamed up to win their set by a score of 8-2.

Reyes, a freshman, is the sister of Rebeka Reyes, a member of Jacket tennis team last year.

The Jackets continued to roll in the singles portion of the match, only losing two matches. One of those matches, first sin-

gles, was a close one as freshman Rachel Klemash was defeated 6-7 (3), 4-6.

Sophomore Alyssa Daniel was able to win her match by a score of 6-3, 6-1.

However, Daniel and her partner Klemash were defeated in doubles play, 2-8.

“We just didn’t execute,” said Daniel. “We know what we need to work on.”

Next on the slate for the Yellow Jackets is a very difficult Westminster team, who was undefeated last year and is picked to finish first in the PAC this year.

Men’s soccer cools off after hot start Melone and Daughtry off to fast starts

By Eric Bost Editorial Assistant It was the best of weeks; it was the worst of weeks.

The Waynesburg men’s soccer team opened the first week of its season with the ultimate Jekyll and Hyde experience.

The Jackets started their season hot, scoring seven goals while jumping out to a 2-0 record.

The bad quickly overshadowed the good as the winning streak ended abruptly. Suddenly Waynesburg was on the opposite end of a streak, going 0-2 over the weekend losing to some of the better teams in Division III soccer, Oberlin and Hiram College.

“It was definitely hum-

Photo by Michael Kabay

Freshman Victor Browne looks to move the ball upfield. Browne and his teammates are 2-2 on the bling,” said sophomore midfielder Ray Melone.

“It shows those are the kind of teams that we’ll have to beat if we want to have a chance at winning the PAC this year.”

After an offensive outburst the first two games of the season, the goal scoring came to a sudden halt over the weekend.

The Jackets had only four shots on net during the next two matches - the main reason for the losses.

“Most of our chances

came off of counter attacks,” said sophomore goaltender Brandon Daughtry. “It was tough getting numbers up forward because we were playing so much defense over the two games. It wasn’t a good offensive flow which hurt us.”

The Yellow Jackets lost both weekend games 2-0, allowing 21 shots on net in the process.

“You’re bound to make mistakes when you’re playing defense the whole game,” Melone added.

Daughtry has played phenomenally in goal for the Jackets since the season began two weeks ago.

Over the course of four games, Daughtry has faced 31 shots.

Though Daughtry has been hot, the team’s defensive success has been a joint effort.

“The defense has been playing great. We could have easily given up 10 goals so far this season compared to the four we have allowed,” said

Daughtry. “The goals the other teams scored were not phenomenal goals; they were more off of our mistakes.”

The Jackets aren’t focusing on the bad part of their two losses this past weekend. Instead, they are looking to learn from the experience and rebound in the upcoming games.

“Both teams that we played against [this weekend] played pretty similar.

They wanted to keep the ball, they played simple, played fast and that’s what Coach Griffiths has wanted us to do,” said Daughtry. “So we’ll go back and study film and see what they did and incorporate that into our own game style. We want to be the team that everyone can’t catch up to.”

The Jackets have a lot of time to become that team. With the starting lineup made predominately of freshmen and sophomores, the team is looking to become a force in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference in the very near future.

“I believe we can win this year,” said head coach Carl Griffiths.

“Although we do have a lot of young players, our expectations are to get the job done this year. Our goals for this year are to be in the top four of the PAC and to make the conference tournament. Once we’ve accomplished that, we’ll look to set new goals.”

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Week three football preview: Saint Vincent Jackets look to go 3-0 Saturday

By Nick Farrell

one game under his belt helped the quarterback settle down and focus on the task at hand.

“I think with a game start under his belt, Tyler felt much more comfortable,” Shepas said. “I thought we did a good job with the game plan giving him some throws that were gonna be there.”

Offensive Coordinator Matt Stansfield, a former assistant at Duquesne University, said that the Yellow Jackets will look to continue their balanced attack.

“The emphasis on our team so far has been to be smart with the football, make good decisions and control the clock by running the ball,” Stansfield

said.

Shepas wants to continue to see the offense thrive in good passing situations.

“We want to be sure we’re lining up in down and distance situations.

Some of [Fatigante’s] bigger throws came in second and medium situations. Those are good downs to throw the football in,” Shepas said.

Look for the Jackets to control the pace of the game again this week like they did in the second half of their win against Frostburg State, mixing in a balanced play selection of both run plays and pass plays Blocking the Saint Vin-

cent 4-3 Defense The battle in the trenches is important during each football game, and Saint Vincent’s aggressive 4-3 defense is a formidable force that will be hard to overcome.

“We’ve gotten better each week at being physical, playing confidently and playing fast,” said Stansfield. “That was our emphasis last week and Saint Vincent has some more experienced players, so that emphasis will remain the same.”

Coach Shepas is confident that the offensive line will continue to improve each week and will open up huge holes for his runningback by committee approach.

“We definitely wanted to assert ourselves in this weekend’s football game, and building off a physical performance is going to be necessary because the Saint Vincent front plays with some great energy.”

The game will be broadcast live on WCYJFM with pre-game commentary beginning at 12:30 p.m. Nick Coyle and Aaron Anderson will have the call of action, beginning with kickoff at 1 p.m.

return by senior Christian Jackson and a 15-yard personal foul penalty by Frostburg, which gave Fatigante and his offense great starting field position at the Frostburg 42yard-line, the Yellow Jacket offense capitalized as Fatigante found sophomore Andrew English for a 14-yard touchdown with 25 seconds left in the first half.

The touchdown reception, the first of the receiver’s collegiate career, put Waynesburg up a touchdown, 14-7.

The third quater was scoreless as both defenses held stout.

Leading the defensive wall for the Jackets were junior safety Bryan Gary, 14 tackles, 11 of which were solo stops, and senior defensive lineman Matt Krause, two sacks.

Gary was lauded as Presidents’ Athletic Conference Defender of the Week for his performance.

Any chance of life for the Bobcats was all but killed in the fourth quarter when the Waynesburg

offense went on a 13-play, 72-yard methodical drive that took 7:28 off the clock.

Using a balanced rushing attack, the Yellow Jackets called 11 running plays against only two pass plays.

The drive ended when Fatigante scored on a oneyard rushing touchdown to put the home team up by two scores, 21-7.

Looking like a completely different quarterback than a week prior, Fatigante credited his teammates to his success in Saturday’s victory.

“We played our butts off,” he said. “Defensively, we only gave up seven points. Offensively we pounded them. Our offensive line killed them all game. Our run game was great. It’s easy to have a good pass game whenever you’re running the ball well. Everyone came out to play today.”

The Jackets travel to St. Vincent this Saturday where they will look to go 3-0 for the first time since 2007.

decisions to the Bearcats.

A few offensive and defensive match-ups will be keys to the Jackets’ success this weekend.

Assistant Sports Editor The Yellow Jackets football team improved to 2-0 last Saturday with a 21-7 win over the visiting Frostburg State Bobcats.

Waynesburg will start its Presidents’ Athletic Conference schedule this weekend on the road against the winless Saint Vincent College Bearcats.

The Jackets have a chance to go 3-0 for the first time since 2007 when they travel to Latrobe, Pa. Waynesburg’s upcoming game, scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday at Chuck Noll Field, is a rematch of the Jackets’ only home loss of the 2011 season.

Saint Vincent kicker Morgan Porter stole the Homecoming Day spotlight after booting a 24yard field goal through the uprights and giving the Bearcats a 17-14 lead as time expired.

The Jackets are hoping to make this weekend’s installment of the series a different story and avoid dropping back-to-back

Waynesburg Secondary vs. St. Vincent Passing Attack The Bearcats sported a very balanced offensive attack against Wooster last weekend, opting to run the football just one more time than pass it.

Head coach Rick Shepas said that Saint Vincent will look to use its running attack to open up the pass, utilizing the speed and size of the Bearcat wide receivers.

Shepas said that Saint Vincent has a tendency to lull a defense to sleep with the run and then surprise the defense with a long play action pass.

“All of a sudden, they run this deep crossing route and a couple of wrinkles off of it that can be a pain for our guys to deal with in the secondary,” said Shepas.

Shepas also said that the only reason this play wasn’t effective last season against Waynesburg was because of the sloppy weather conditions that forced some dropped balls.

With sunshine in the forecast for Saturday’s game, stopping this particular play will be a key to victory for Waynesburg.

“Be smart with the football” In its win over Muskingum two weeks ago, Waynesburg commanded a very run oriented offense. Tyler Fatigante passed for only 16 yards on six completions while the running game earned 223 total yards and contributed all four Waynesburg touchdowns.

Week two was a much different story for Fatigante, completing 11 of his 14 tosses for 122 yards and two touchdowns. In Shepas’ opinion, having

fourth downs, one being a fourth and 16 pass, to

keep their drive alive.

“On the fourth-down

pass, it just came down to fundamentals on that throw,” said Shepas. “The great thing about Saturday’s game is that they had some great receivers, which put some pressure on our guys. I am kind of glad we faced that kind of receiving group because it better prepares us for the future.”

On the following drive, the Yellow Jackets started from their 25-yard-line and used their run game to move the ball down field.

Waynesburg answered the Bobcat score with 11:45 to play in the second quarter when Fatigante connected with Moses in the back of end zone for his first touchdown pass of the season.

On the catch, Moses displayed some nice footwork, getting both feet in bounds before going out of the end zone.

Junior Alex Henry tied the score up at 7-7 when he nailed the extra point try, capping a 10-play, 75yard drive.

Following a five-yard

succeed the standard he set.

Likewise, for many others at Waynesburg University, the Fall 2012 semester marks a new beginning.

When I entered Waynesburg back in the fall of 2010, I had been recruited to play football and had high hopes of making a difference on the Yellow Jacket football team.

Subsequently, after a tearing my ACL and meniscus in the second game of my freshman year against Thiel College, life had a different path set for me.

As a result of my

injury, I made the tough decision to focus solely on my education and stop playing football.

Instead of playing at John F. Wiley stadium on Saturday afternoon’s, I now work for the Sports Information Department and cover the football team for the newspaper.

The path I am on now is not what I had envisioned as a freshman, but it seems to be the right path.

For you freshman, this may be the first time you have spent a significant time away from home.

You may feel homesick, missing your loved

ones and friends back home.

You may feel stressed from an increased workload you hadn’t experienced in high school.

Despite these feelings, keep pushing forward and take advantage of the unexpected twists life may throw at you – in the end, you may look back and be glad that life took you down an unexpected path.

I for one can attest that two years ago, I never imagined being in the position I am today, but I am sure excited for the journey this life is leading me on.

Football goes to 2-0 Continued from C1 great - and he knows he can do it, and he just came out and did it.”

A week removed from a rough start, head coach Rick Shepas saw a different quarterback leading his offense.

“I am just happy for him,” said Shepas. “He put the complete thing together; high percentage – pretty happy with his performance.”

Playing on a rain soaked field from pregame storms, both teams’ offenses took some time to get moving.

With 2:16 to go in the first quarter, the Bobcats broke onto the scoreboard first when junior running back Chuky Iweh lunged into the end zone from a yard out on fourth down to put the Bobcats up 7-0.

During that drive the Bobcats were able to convert on two separate

Unforeseen path in life Continued from C1 inherently put me on the path to where I am today.

Heading into this semester, I am quite nervous and anxious to design the sports section each week.

Dave Floyd, the Sports Editor for the past two years, set a huge bar that I can only hope to match.

Through his leadership and dedication, Dave influenced my life during my two years at Waynesburg. I will do my best to replicate and hopefully

Photo by Michael Kabay

Senior tight end Adam Moses hauls in his first touchdown, keeping his feet in bounds to secure the catch.

PAC awards For the past three seasons, redshirt junior safety Bryan Gary has patrolled the secondary for the Yellow Jacket football team, delivering hit after hit on opposing offensive players.

With each punishing tackle, Gary’s accolades keep increasing. A two-time first-team All-PAC honoree and preseason third-team All-American this season, Gary’s intimidating style of defense Gary is gaining national attention.

Following his performance in Saturday’s win over Frostburg State, Gary was named the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Week.

Gary totaled a team-high 14 tackles, including 11 solo stops against the Bobcats.

The Waynesburg defense led by Gary held the Frostburg offense to a single touchdown, just one week after the Bobcats scored 56 points a gainst Geneva.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Friday Night Lights

Bonner scholars help international students adjust

By Brittany Rumple Staff Writer

Photo by Rachel Narasimhan

Brooke Larson and Lauren Shawnee enjoy their s’mores during the Friday Night Lights event last weekend. The Student Activities Board provided s’mores, mountain pies and other treats, as well as music by Joe Materkowski.

Students kick off football season with s’mores and more

By Abby Pittinaro Staff Writer Last Friday, an evening event on campus brought students together and pumped them up for the first home football game of the season.The Student Activities Board sponsored Friday Night Lights in Johnson Commons.

Around 7 p.m., the fire pits were lit and s’mores and mountain pies were ready to be made.The music for Friday Night Lights was provided by Joe Materkowski.

To most of the attendees, it was a unique way to bring the student body together before the football game on Saturday.

Casey Dascenzo, sophomore nursing major, is glad she stayed on campus for the weekend.

“I normally go home every weekend, but I decided to stay for the game,” Dascenzo said.

“And I’m glad I did.

This event was fun and a great way to bring the campus together.”

While the event was primarily about the music

and fire roasting, students took it upon themselves to toss the football and lacrosse ball around.

All these activities encouraged students to join in and make new friends while getting excited for the game the next day.

“Honestly, the turnout was really decent,” said Kendle Parsons, sophomore psychology major.

“I didn’t expect to see this many people here interacting with each other.”

Parsons enjoyed the music, but she was mostly happy to see all of her friends together after the summer break.

“I think it’s really great to see all my friends back together having a good time while hanging out on the lawn listening to some good music,” she said.

David Stephens, sophomore public relations major, was pleasantly surprised by the turnout and could not believe how much fun he had.

“I enjoyed the food and the music was actually

Over the weekend, the Bonner Scholars traveled to Jefferson, Pa., for the annual Bonner retreat.

The Bonner scholars arrived Friday at Cornerstone Camp, where the group of roughly 80 students started the evening with icebreaker events to break them out of their comfort zones and connect with others on a more personal level.

Guest Speaker Rev. Gary Grau of First United Methodist Church spoke to the students about “When Helping Hurts,” a lesson on how to react to those in grief.

Grau spoke from his own personal experience after losing a member of his congregation over the summer.

“We should be a listen-

ing ear and ask how it is we can best help,” he said.

Saturday, a handful of students traveled to the Holy Family Institute in Pittsburgh to educate international students on the United States.

The remaining students stayed at Cornerstone Camp to assist with tasks such as mailings, landscaping and bench-building, despite inclement weather conditions.

The Bonners introduced international students to America: lessons in American food, fun and geography helped the international students get a better picture of the United States.

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Professor conducts Argentinian concert, enjoys new culture

By Brittany Semco Staff Writer Photo by Rachel Narasimhan

Kaelee Franko, Jess Boyer and Ryan Condello roast marshmallows around a fire in Johnson Commons. pretty good,” he said.

Stephens thought that most of the students that attended had an above average time the night before the game.

“There was definitely a lively crowd – there was an enjoyable atmosphere,” Stephens said.

“A vast problem with the Waynesburg student

body seems to be the lack of students that stay on campus during the weekends.”

However, he believes more weekend events could be the fix.

“I think this event [and others like this will] give students an incentive to stay on the weekends,” Stephens said.

On Saturday, Aug. 25 at 6 p.m., Waynesburg University music lecturer and conductor Alejandro Pinzón performed as guest conductor for the Argentinean orchestra “Camerata Cattaruzzi.”

The concert took place at the University of Buenos Aires.

Pinzón spent a total of 10 days in Buenos Aires and its surrounding regions.

Along with Pinzón was his esteemed colleague and friend, a performing pianist.

The pianist, Sabrina Blebel and Pinzón met in 2004 when Pinzón was invited to play as a violinist in South America’s “Youth Symphony Orchestra of Mercosur.”

After meeting, the two musicians wished to one day perform together in concert.

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Speaker spreads message of gender equality within church

By Tori Kramer Staff Writer On Thursday, Sept. 6, Waynesburg University students had the opportunity to listen to Katie Conmy, Membership Director for the Women’s Ordination Conference, and gain a new perspective on the issue of women’s ordination within the Catholic Church.

Senior business management major Carmen Adamson coordinated the event alongside university chaplin Tom Ribar, Biblical and Ministry Studies professor Jeff Kisner and the entire Department of Biblical and Ministry Studies.

The goal was to open people’s eyes to the lack of gender equality within the church and to show the courage of these women who no longer wish to deny their calling into the priesthood.

“I really wanted to have the message of the Women’s Ordination Conference

Photo by Jennifer Schouppe

Guest speaker Kate Conmy speaks with student Anne Schrock about the Women’s Ordination Conference following her presentation last week. come to Waynesburg because I feel it is rare to find an organization that helps Catholic women to become priests,” said Adamson.

The event consisted of a viewing of the documentary “Pink Smoke Over the Vatican,” which narrates the lives of a few women who have taken a huge step

and have gone against the Catholic Church in order to follow their calling to become ordained priests and bishops.

After the showing Conmy went on to discuss her own personal involvement with the organization, as well as discuss the focuses of the organization as a whole.

“We work to renew church governance to be inclusive, accountable and transparent?, bring about justice and equality for Catholic women and to incorporate women-centered theologies into every-day Catholicism,” she said.

The purpose of the speaker was for the students to leave this event with more open hearts and minds on the subject of women’s ordination, said Adamson.

“The presentation made me feel sort of uneasy,” sophomore sports broadcasting major Nick Farrell said.

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Arts & Life

Fall play auditions held, cast hopes to ‘make people laugh’

By Brandon Rainelli

nephew Teddy to help keep their secrets a mystery. The intriguing part about Teddy is he thinks that he is Teddy Roosevelt.

“This is a world famous comedy,” said Powers.

“It was on

Broadway in the early 40s and it has been a very popular show amongst educational theaters, community theaters and regional theaters for about six years.”

The play intrigued Powers for many reasons.

He first saw it live six years ago in London.

While Powers has the advantage of seeing this play professionally done, he also brings a lot of experience to his position. “Arsenic and Old Lace” is his 13th play at

Waynesburg University after starting in the fall of 2000.

This is his 37th major production at the university.

“A lot of the work today is often times edgy and mean spirited, and they call that comedy,” said Powers.

“I don’t think it fits me and I don’t think it fits necessarily for us.”

Although the play is set in the past, Powers said the play’s unique plot is likely to appeal to a wide audience and the humor of the play will keep theatregoers on the edge of their seat.

The play casts 14 actors and the list was released Monday morning.

Cast members began practicing that night.

Aunt Abby will be

of Buenos Aires’ School of Law’s Auditorium or “Room of Acts.”

“The School of Law’s Room of Acts was very beautiful and reminded me of Waynesburg University’s Alumni Hall with its tall ceilings and classic wooden style,” Pinzón said.

Pinzón enjoyed many aspects of his trip including the cuisine, the venue, the importance of community among many of the locals and the professional relationships he made during his time in South America.

“Besides the meat, one of my favorite parts of the whole trip was the venue,” he said.

Pinzón wishes to continue the artistic relationships with the orchestra and the musicians he met on his South American tour.

Pinzón also hopes to perform once again alongside Blebel.

“Sabrina does many concerts, and we hope to one day soon do a concert here in America,” Pinzón said.

Bonners aid students

tional students was something I’m very proud of,” said Digiandomenico.

“I cannot imagine how hard it would be to come to America and try to learn our culture all while participating in schools.

I believe we made their experience here a little

less stressful.”

Every semester the retreat allows Bonner scholars the opportunity to connect, explore and build relationships with the community and with fellow colleagues.

“It was very laid back and comforting,” said Digiandomenico.

“I was able to bond

Staff Writer Auditions for the fall play were held in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center on Sept. 5 and 6. More than 20 students came to auditions hoping to make the cast list.

“Arsenic and Old Lace” is the play chosen for the fall semester by Associate Professor of Theatre Edward L. Powers. It is set in the 1940s in Brooklyn on the eve of World War II. In the play, two little old ladies, Martha and Abby Brewster, have a secret and a bad habit.

Martha and Abby murder lonely old men and they consider doing it a charity in this dark comedy according to imdb.com.

The ladies trust their

Pinzón conducts Continued from D1 “Camerata Cattaruzzi” invited Pinzón to conduct their orchestra and Blebel’s piano solo that they would finally perform together in front of an estimated 400 people.

“The amount of people we counted was impressive and exciting for a classical music concert,” Pinzón said.

Pinzón conducted “Camerata Cattaruzzi” as part of the University of Buenos Aires’ “Cycle of Great Concerts,” as best translated into English.

Pinzón’s concert consisted of “Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major” with Blebel as the soloist, “Sarabande, Gigue and Badinerie,” “Panamanian Dances,” “Spanish Serenade” and “Caminante del Mayab.”

Every Saturday evening, as a part of this cycle, an ensemble performs in the University

Photo by Angela Wadding

Brianna Hozak, Kim Peters, Shawn Wharrey, Tabitha Newman and Alex Caruso audition for a role in “Arsenic and Old Lace.” The play will premiere Oct. 24.

Continued from D1 omore psychology major, enjoyed working with the international students.

“Helping the interna-

Conmy speaks out Continued from D1 “As a Roman Catholic, I know that the ordination of women is against church doctrine.”

He said, however, that Conmy’s presentation was definitely thought provoking.

Despite all the opposition these women have faced by papal authority, the passion demonstrated by the movement to have women ordained was impressive, said senior biblical and ministry studies major Marissa Barr.

At the end of it all, Adamson believed that the event was a success in that it brought light to this issue.

This speaker opened the door to an issue that most students did not know about.

“Any time students show initiative to bring speakers to our campus, we’ve succeeded,” Kisner said.

The event was inspiring because it allowed students to know that despite obstacles and opposition, Catholic women are finally taking a stand so they can gain the right to do what they believe God has called them to do, said Adamson.

played by Briana Hozak, Aunt Martha by Tabitha Newman, Teddy by Alex Caruso and the other nephew Mortimer by Shawn Wharry.

Caruso is a criminal justice administration major who has been involved in theatre since high school.

“I’m excited about the costumes, and the fact that I get to be funny,” said Caruso, who is looking forward to playing the role of Teddy.

“I like to be funny and make people laugh.”

Caruso said the play is a lot of work but he is excited for it.

He also praised Powers for his effective directing.

“Arsenic and Old Lace” premieres in the GPAC on Oct. 24 and will run through Oct. 27.

with the people I see every day on a deeper level and was able to catch up to others I normally would not have time for.

“The late night worship session, cheesy ice breakers and constant picking on each other is what I look forward to the most.”

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The Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Across 1 It can keep a watch on you, located on bookbags 6 Phi follower?

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