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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 | VOL. 95 NO. 2 | EST. 1924
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WU administration prepare to announce new five-year plan
Out of steam
By HARRY OAKES
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A strategic plan casts the vision of an institution over the coming years. As 2018 is approaching, it is time for Waynesburg University to create a new plan. Although the details of the plan have not been established, the ultimate aim is to pursue initiatives that will have a positive impact on the campus community. According to Mary Cummings, senior vice president of Graduate Programs, the ultimate vision is to touch student’s lives. “A strategic plan is kind of the guiding principle or the road map for any organization, whether it’s a big business, a non-profit, a for-profit – all organizations typically need some sort of plan,” Cummings said. The university’s previous plan cast a vision for the years 2013 to 2018. One of the endeavors of that plan involved technological development. Cummings said that technology looked quite different five years ago from today. “That’s been something we strategically wanted to undertake over the last cou-
Ca ee mpu ff o c s survivi ng first semester without free By JOE SMELTZER
Editorial Assistant
For the first time in more than seven years, Waynesburg University’s Eberly Library entered a Fall semester without a coffee bar. Last semester, to put more funding towards other endeavors, Student Senate decided to no longer fund the caffeination station, causing it to no longer exist. The coffee bar itself was estimated to have taken up over half of Senate’s budget. Student Senate president Nick
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Cordova said that because Student Senate is no longer funding the coffee bar, a lot of other opportunities have opened up. “I would say that the Student Senate actually benefitted greatly from the elimination of the coffee bar, mainly because it freed up a great deal of funds to be spent on the students in other areas,” Cordova said. “We were actually able to expand our budget for events to the point where it’s actually eight times [greater than] what it was at this point last year." As a result of having COFFEE >> A3
ple years,” Cummings said. The process of developing the new plan involves looking ahead, as well as analyzing how things worked out in the past. Cummings said that the new plan could be in effect until 2023. “We’ll be assessing that plan, learning from it, and then starting to create the new plan which will be 2018 forward,” Cummings said. An institution might typically designate a committee to take care of plan development, but Waynesburg’s approach to developing a strategic plan is different. “For our undertaking of this plan – we have decided to make this a very participative plan for all of the employees,” Cummings said. Faculty and staff have scheduled sessions throughout the month to come together and discuss ideas. Cummings said that these sessions involved easelboarding analyses concerning strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. “We’re pretty early on in the process, but there has been talk of inviting some student input,” Cummings said. PLAN >> A3
Hurricane Stover Scholars perform Constitution Day play Harvey Seventh annual event features 1942 Supreme Court case impacts alumnus By HOLLY HENDERSHOT Convergence Editor
By MATTIE WINOWITCH Executive Editor
It was a Friday when the rain began. As it fell, Tom Miltenberger and his wife, Charise, began to worry about their home in Missouri City, Texas. They flicked on the TV and saw Hurricane Har vey slowly carve through the small towns in Texas like a band saw carving through plywood. “That’s when they started sending out hurricane warnings,” Tom Miltenberger said, thinking back to Friday, Aug. 25. “At that time, the evacuations were only voluntary.” HARVEY >> A3
Waynesburg University’s Stover Scholar Program put on its annual Constitution Day play, “From Framers to Farmers: The Substantial Effect of Wheat upon the Constitution,” last Thursday at 12 p.m. in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center on campus. Featuring the case of Wickard v. Filburn, this year's play was about the prosecution of Roscoe Filburn, under the New Deal’s Agricultural Adjustment Act, for growing too much wheat for his family’s own use. The play was written this year by Stover Scholars Tyler McCoy, T.J. DeNofrio, Olivia Schultz-Falandes and Micah Stanko. This is the seventh year the Stover Scholars have performed the Constitution Day play. For the past six years, the plays' scripts have been written
by Stover Scholar students. For student writers junior Olivia Schultz-Falandes, history and political science double major and junior Tyler McCoy, history major, this was their second year helping to write the play. McCoy said the decision of the subject of the play started around November of last year with a conversation among the Stover Scholars about which cases might be interesting for the play this year. “‘Wickard v. Filburn’ is a key case for a lot of the powers of the Federal Government, and the power that is given to it under the commerce clause is often cited, so it is an important case in that area of the legal field,” said McCoy. Dr. Lawrence Stratton, associate professor of Ethics and Constitutional Law and director of the Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership, said he as-
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During the annual Constitution Day performance, Stover Scholars get a chance to get under the spotlight. sembled hundreds of pages of trial transcripts, briefs, articles and chapters through the spring and sent them to the four play-writers. The writers had a rough draft by July 1, and by Aug. 1, had a final draft prepared. Stratton said that because not everything in the courts
was recorded during the 40s, he could not find a transcript for the arguments before the courts, so the student writers based the arguments used in the play on the record of the trial and other documents and records. Schultz-Falandes said the case is interesting because it
cam make people think about the role government plays in people’s lives and how far that role should extend. “It really involves the idea of conflict of interests and relationships that I think is really good for people to take SCHOLARS >> A3
TWO NEW SHEETZ BUILDINGS COMING TO WAYNESBURG
'STARTING THE CONVERSATION' WITH JANET PALADINO
New Sheetz locations are being constructed in Waynesburg: one on Furman Highway, right next to the current Sheetz, and another on Murtha Drive, by Wal-Mart.
In the wake of multiple Category 5 hurricanes hitting the southern portion of the U.S., one Waynesburg professor ponders if anything can be done to combat climate change.
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COACHES HOLD ATHLETES ACCOUNTABLE
WU IDOL ROUND ONE
Sometimes it's off the field where athletes need the most support. Coaches have the opportunity to lead others through their own personal battles.
The annual SAB-hosted event kicked off its first round with students singing "Summer Hits" for their shot to become the next Waynesburg Idol
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