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HOMECOMING 2014

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Facelift in Miller creates more usable space Alumni Hall receives new carpet, lighting; more to come

By JENNY SCHOUPPE Convergence Editor

Renovations are underway in one of the most historical buildings on Waynesburg University’s campus.

Miller Hall, specifically Alumni Hall, has received a

facelift this semester and the overhaul has only begun.

Alumni Hall, the large gathering room on the third floor of Miller Hall, has received mostly cosmetic updates so far. The older, worn carpet has been replaced with a lavish maroon carpet with navy blue and gold circle design. The dim ceiling lights have also been replaced with brighter, modern lights.

Though updates have been made to the area, the historical architecture, such as the large stained glass windows, remain

in the hall.

“The changes really dress up the room,” said Douglas G. Lee, university president.

“It’s a really special room for the university.”

Lee made sure to point out that the renovations are still not complete.

As he walked around Alumni Hall, he pointed out that the large projector screen needs to still be framed in, the hanging curtains by the screen will be taken down and some of the plaster needs to be redone.

The renovations done in this room were made possible by the donations of alumni.

“This entire room is a gift from alumni,” said Lee. “Their donations have allowed us to keep the room in great condition.”

Alumni Hall was originally used as a chapel for many years but is now mostly used for public speakers, dinners and other large university events.

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New role designed with Poteet in mind University recommits to international integration and advancement

By NICK FARRELL Executive Editor

The Rev. Carolyn Poteet knows a thing or two about international travel.

Between her current passport and a now-expired passport issued in 1992, Poteet has collected stamps from exactly 40 countries.

“I used to say I’ve visited a country for every year I am old,” said Poteet.

She’s going to start accumulating more stamps soon — and gain the five stamps she needs to again be able to make that claim — through her new role at Waynesburg.

As announced by the university in a press release Friday, Poteet will step into the newly formed position of director of international programs, leaving her post as director of Faith and Mission.

In addition to the change in Poteet’s title, The Rev. Jim Tinnemeyer, director for the Center for Leadership and Christian Ministry, will become university chaplain.

This change, according to Mary Cummings, vice president for Student Services, is a sign of the institution’s recommitment to a specific aspect of its strategic plan

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The Rev. Carolyn Poteet, Waynesburg's new director of international programs, shows off her expired passport with stamps from nearly 40 different countries. by focusing on international education through a newly developed position.

“It’s a step toward dedicating a resource to some-

thing we know we need to do in our strategic plan,” said Cummings.

As stated in one of the seven points in that strate-

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“I think there are a lot of things this office does that not It’s a place some may not many people realize that we know, but provides help to help them,” said Carr. many on campus. It is a cenAccording to Carr, the tralized place for Center for Student students to get help Success receives when their grades referrals through a become problems system that alerts or they just need him to students that some assistance are not doing well. with classes.

The referrals from The Center for faculty allow Carr Student Success to determine what provides students academic resource with opportunities is best suited for Carr to receive assistance each situation. through tutoring programs, The system has students help with the writing process meet with Carr to give them and mentoring through their the opportunity to realize what time at Waynesburg. services can be provided to Brian Carr, director of Cen- help each individual student’s ter for Student Success and needs.

Disability Services, leads the “There is such a wide range team that provides these pro- of issues our students are congrams, and he believes helping tending with on a daily basis,” students through many areas said Carr. “Things as basic as is just a part of the Waynes- time management and orgaburg way. nizational skills, those basic The focus for Carr is pro- executive functioning skills viding all the programs for that are paramount in a prostudent success in a central- fessional setting, sometimes ized place for all students to students aren’t equipped with receive help. them so we are helping them “Part of the Center for Stu- in some instances.” dent Success was really taking Pam Abbe, tutor coordinaresources and putting them tor and director of the Knox under one roof,” said Carr. Learning Center — Educa“We have a spot and location tional Enrichment Program, for students to know, this is also believes that students where I go to get help and get realize the great benefit they a great support service, wheth- receive by speaking up, despite er it’s tutoring or the writing hesitation to admit the need center.” for help.

The Center for Student Suc“Students finely admit and cess gives students opportuni- say, ‘OK, I’ll do it,’” said Abbe. ties to get assistance in all areas “Once they do it they realize of academic life and according it painless and it’s only great.” to Carr, each part provides a One instance in which the valuable service that helps stu- Center for Student Success dents improve. helps students is the mentorThrough his work in the ing program. center, Carr has encountered Students enrolled in the many students that thought program are mandated to be they may not have needed help, are unaware what he and See SUCCESS on A4

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Students, counselor Homecoming events slated for weekend share mixed emotion about nearing recess

By KIMMI BASTON Managing Editor

By JACOB MEYER Managing Editor

With the university adding a fall break to the academic schedule this semester, differing opinions exist among students about the break.

Some students are in favor of the fall break because they think the grind of classes and other activities from lateAugust to late-November is very difficult, as is being away from their families for that long of a period.

Others are not in favor of the fall break because it shortens their Christmas

break by a week. Some students have to travel a great distance to go home, so they either have to pay more money than usual to go home, or stay on campus that week when most of their friends are away.

“Incoming freshmen students’ for their first time away from home are coming in in August and they have to make it all the way to November before receiving a break,” said Mary Cummings, vice president for Student Services. “It was See BREAK on A4

Waynesburg University’s homecoming weekend always includes a variety of events for students and alumni. This year, planning the weekend posed a greater challenge than ever, since Homecoming falls on the same weekend that the university’s newly instated fall break begins.

Pat Bristor, associate dean of students, said this did raise some concerns for the planning staff, which includes Theresa Butler and Emily Hoffman, chairs of the Special Events Committee for the Student Activities Board. In the end, however, Bristor hopes there will still be a large turnout.

“Honestly I think there’s a

large number of students that have to be here anyway from sport teams, to cheerleading, to the band,” said Bristor.

“After we thought about it, there will be a nice number of students who will be here through Friday anyway. My hope is that a lot of them will stay and support the teams and go home after the game.”

Homecoming activities began on Monday, Oct. 6 with the Cram the Van kickoff. Between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., WCYJ-FM The Hive played music outside Benedum Dining Hall while SAB served lemonade and hosted activities.

According to Bristor, the goal was “to get people aware of why the van is there and what our goal is.” The van will be parked outside of the cafeteria through Oct. 11,

and students can bring clothing and nonperishable food items to fill the donation van with. The items benefit the Salvation Army.

On Tuesday, SAB hosted Sting’s Teaser in Johnson Commons. The event featured ice cream and was held to prompt students to sign up for Sting’s Gauntlet.

The bulk of the Homecoming festivities begin on Thursday, Oct. 9. In the past, events were spread over the whole week, but adjustments were made to accommodate midterms.

“We’ve learned over the years that when Homecoming falls on midterm week, attendance is sporadic because academics are a priority,” said Bristor. “So rather than stress the students out that attend and the ones that

have to plan, we tried to put more things on Thursday and Friday.”

At 6 p.m. on Thursday, students can take part in Sting’s Gauntlet at Purman Run. According to Bristor, this event used to be a sort of mud run obstacle course. This year, it is being advertised as a “Wacky Olympics” event.

Afterward, there will be a bonfire and s’mores at Purman Run, and sophomore Amelia Graves will be providing music.

Friday’s dinner will be served picnic-style in Johnson Commons for students and alumni.

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hardie: get involved in bible studies

Chris Hardie, assistant dean of Student Services, encouraged students to get involved in bible studies on campus in his chapel address Tuesday. Hardie told a few stories about his experiences with bible studies when he participated in them with other leaders at his college, and he urged students to do the same.

University to offer fall break mission trips

By SAMANTHA PEER Op/Ed Editor

The culture for students at Waynesburg University during breaks from classes, such as Thanksgiving, winter and spring break, are synonymous with going on mission trips.

However, to Laurie Steere, resident director of Burns and Ray Hall and newcomer to Waynesburg University, this equivalency is unfamiliar.

Steere, a Michigan native and alumnus of Spring Arbor University, led several service trips as a student at her alma mater.

However, Spring Arbor only offered trips during select breaks, such as Spring Break.

“I know a lot of schools offer spring break mission trips, but the fact that we have trips offered in the fall, winter, spring and summer is fantastic,” said Steere. “When you have a mission statement that is faith, serving and

learning, I think every opportunity to empower that and to implement it not just into the curriculum of the school but also to the hearts of the students is fantastic.”

Steere loves Waynesburg’s emphasis on service in the mission statement.

“I so believe that serving is so imperative whether you are a follower of Christ or not,” said Steere.

Steere will lead the fall service of the Pittsburgh Project on Oct. 11.

Students will be leaving Waynesburg University at 8 a.m. for Pittsburgh to serve elderly homeowners by providing them with free home repairs.

She hopes that students will embark on the trip with love in their hearts for those they are serving.

“Whenever you talk about service, you hope that there is love behind the service,” said Steere. “I hope the students attending the trip will learn how to love people regardless of what they look like. I hope

they learn to love people just for the sake of being people.”

Steere hopes this day of service will also open the door to a continued relationship with the Pittsburgh Project.

“I hope that the students realize that Pittsburgh isn’t too far away, so this doesn’t have to be something that only lasts for one day,” said Steere.

Being from Michigan, Steere hopes to learn more about the city and culture of Pittsburgh through this experience.

“I hope this will give the students a greater understanding for Pittsburgh as a whole, and I hope to understand that better as well,” said Steere.

The cost to participate in the Pittsburgh Project trip is $10.

The other service trip offered during fall break is a service trip that offers students a chance to volunteer with local organizations entitled, ‘Greene County Im-

mersion.’

Chris Hardie, assistant dean of Student Services and Kelley Hardie, assistant dean of Student Services, along with Ashley Kelver, assistant director for Residence Life and her husband Josh Kelver are the founding fathers for the Greene County Immersion trip.

Chris Hardie and Kelly Hardie started leading the trip five years ago in an attempt to immerse the students into the Waynesburg community.

“The intention of the trip is to get students outside of the white picket fence of Waynesburg University and to get them to become more familiar with the community around them,” said Kelley Hardie.

Kelley Hardie said the goal of the Greene County Immersion trip is to get Waynesburg students more involved with service on a regular basis.

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students.

Following a return from fall break, Cummings and Poteet will begin evaluating the university’s current international status and develop a future plan by evaluating needs and priorities.

Poteet and Tinnemeyer will relocate offices as well, with Poteet moving to the Morris International Center on the third floor of the Stover Campus Center and Tinnemeyer moving to Poteet’s former office on the first floor of Stover.

No true specifics are currently set for Poteet’s new role, but the principle of it is concrete: find more ways for Waynesburg students to interact with the international community at large.

“We can’t send 1,400 undergrads to a different country,” said Poteet. “What we are looking to do is bring more international students here.”

This, Poteet said, likely lies first in international recruiting at boarding schools she has connections with, such as Black Forrest Academy in Germany and Rift Valley Academy in Kenya. Poteet said she was reminded of some of these connections after posting the press release announcing her new posi-

tion on Facebook and seeing responses from friends in various locations worldwide.

Cummings said the university has not neglected its commitment to international interaction in the past, citing the numerous annual mission trips on which students embark. Rather, Poteet will be a resource utilized to strengthen this commitment and make Waynesburg more unique by giving undergraduates a more worldly experience.

“We can do a really good job of teaching students and preparing them to lead a life of purpose for the glory of God with other green jelly beans, but if everyone in the jar is a green jelly bean [at Waynesburg], it doesn’t correctly prepare you to go out into the world where the jelly beans are all different colors,” said Cummings. “I think that’s one of the important things we need to do here -- give as close to a real-life experience as we can.”

Poteet reiterated the fact that, with successful execution of her duties, Waynesburg could serve as a launch pad for students wishing to develop a strong worldview in college.

“It will be more attractive for students to come to Waynesburg because they can get an international experience here they can’t get

anywhere else,” said Poteet.

In her work with World Vision during the 1990s, Poteet noted that Christianity was visible in different ways around the globe. She hopes to expose Waynesburg students to this as an extension of the school’s core values of faith, learning and serving.

“God is so much bigger than what we see in Greene County. His work is in so many different places,” said Poteet. “My hope is to expose students to all His gifts and the way He works. I’d love to expose our students to the way these people have worshipped and the sacrifices they have made.”

One example that stood out to her was the story of Mama Zipporah whom she met in Kenya. Mama Zipporah, who shares the name of Moses’ wife, had a heart condition and asked God to heal her. If she was healed, she promised she would take in a child.

Poteet said Mama Zipporah has healed, and at last check, had developed an orphanage that housed 80 children.

“She was so full of joy and was doing so much with so little,” said Poteet. “The challenge for us is to see the potential of ministry. There’s so much we can do with very little.”

Poteet said she is excited

to get back to her traveling ways, but is glad to have the opportunity to travel this time with a true home. During her work with World Vision, she said she did so much traveling that, at times, she felt she didn’t have a home.

“I definitely have missed it. I want to get back on the road,” said Poteet. “The coolest thing is I’ll get to connect this community — my home community — to the rest of the world.”

Cummings explained why Poteet is ideal for this role.

“Carolyn brings to us a fantastic set of international experience, so she’s somebody you could put on a plane and send anywhere in this world,” said Cummings.

“She could confidently travel there and can very well communicate who we are in a way that could attract students from other countries.”

Cummings added that she is excited about Waynesburg’s future and how this announcement could shape the institution.

“I’m excited about where this campus goes and what it will look like a decade from now,” said Cummings. “I hope there’s a visible difference in the amount of global awareness and appreciation for multicultural differences on this campus 10 years from now.”

Students and faculty may not all know about Waynesburg University’s Blackboard program, but lack of program recognition should not discourage students and staff alike from looking into the many functions it serves.

Located in the Quick Launch section on the left hand side when logging into myConnect, Blackboard is a program that aims to assist faculty and students in managing their courses online in an easy-to-use site.

Bill Dumire, chief information officer for Waynesburg University, noted that having course content and material online in one secure location is an advantage to having the Blackboard program available.

“Blackboard allows students to collaborate with each other in an electronic format,” said Dumire. “[It] allows students to learn from each other in a process which I think is very positive.”

A statistic from non-profit organization Project Tomorrow’s 2014 Speak Up Survey notes that 57 percent of students say that online classes put them in greater control of their own learning.

One such student, Melissa Sargent, who is seeking a Masters of Business Administration in Applied Business, had never used Blackboard during her undergraduate years at Waynesburg University but has seen the value of Blackboard in her current studies.

“The program manages my class schedule, grades and announcements from my instructors,” said Sargent. “I personally like that instructors can upload course documents, assignments and PowerPoint slides onto their Blackboard page, and that these documents can be accessed for the entire eight-week session.”

Currently, Waynesburg University does not require that undergraduate students use Blackboard, although it is a requirement for students in graduate classes. Provost Jacquelyn Core explained that the university has this policy for curriculum reasons.

“Bl ackb o ard is us e d more often in our graduate programs, as portions of their instruction occur on the online platform,” said Core. “Some undergraduate instructors choose to incorporate those elements, and others do not. As an institution, we believe the best instruction is brought about by giving instructors the freedom to control their own delivery.”

Yet, while it is not a requirement for undergraduate students to use Blackboard, both undergraduate and graduate faculty have

found great value in what Blackboard can bring for their students.

Biology professor Bryan Hamilton says he is a novice when it comes to using Blackboard, but so far he has found it “quite useful, especially as a way for students to keep track of their grades as they become available.”

On the other hand, Beth Merry, instructor of communication, has used Blackboard for more than five years. She said while some aspects were a bit frustrating at first, she has come to love and appreciate the program.

“B efore the semester starts, I can get all my files uploaded and see the students enrolled in my class,” said Merry. “It takes some getting used to, but there’s so much you can do with the program. And all of the info that I need is at my fingertips, which makes this a great tool to help teachers and students.”

However, no academic group appears to use Blackboard more often and to its fullest extent than the Graduate and Professional Studies (GAPS) Nursing Program.

Rob Salosky, a remote help desk analyst for Waynesburg University’s Southpointe Center, said that the GAPS Nursing Program very frequently uses the Collaborate feature of Blackboard, enabling a video/audio chat session similar to Skype.

Through Collaborate, students and faculty can engage in a virtual classroom setting, with the capability to also enable special guests and guest lecturers to communicate with students.

“All of the GAPS courses have to have some online component to it,” said Salosky. “Some classes never actually meet in person or meet only once a week.”

Salosky noted that older students, or those who have not been in the educational atmosphere for some time, need some time to learn the program; but overall, the student response to Blackboard has been positive.

If any student or faculty member would like to learn more about how Blackboard works, they are encouraged to use the program’s ondemand help and learning catalog, located in the bottom-center of Waynesburg University’s Blackboard homepage.

For any immediate assistance regarding Blackboard, contact the Help Desk by calling 724-8523413, emailing them at helpdesk@waynesburg.edu, visiting ITS at the Wiley Armory – located in front of the Fitness Center – or by filling out an online request form by logging into myConnect and clicking the request form link under the Technology header on the left sidebar.

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Prospective students compete in business simulation game

By ANNIE MCGLAUGHLIN For the Yellow Jacket

On Oct. 7, 2014, the second annual WU Biz Games was held in Alumni Hall from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Virtual simulation of the marketplace and investing dollars into a company were among the activities.

Admissions counselor, David Floyd and business department chair, Gordon McClung were in charge of the event, which was aimed at prospective students interested in a major in the Waynesburg University Department of Business Administration.

Students attended the event from various local high schools including Yough, Albert Gallatin, Bentworth and others.

In Alumni Hall, tables were set up in groups of about five each, with laptops and binders, while McClung explained the game and how it is played. Other professors and senior level students were on hand as well.

During the game, students had the opportunity to create

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Six prospective students compete in the WU Biz Games Tuesday in Alumni Hall. The Department of Business Administration held the event to give the students a simulation of managing different aspects of a business. a marketplace and sell microcomputers in a simulation game.

The game is set up in four quarters and they have to invest, sell and compete for consumers and profit in a virtual business world. It

teaches the students how to account responsibly with their limited resources.

It is based on what those students would be doing as a business major at Waynesburg.

“We enjoy having prospec-

tive students come in and experience this and learn about business,” said Joshua Chicarelli, assistant professor of business administration.

The quarters and decision periods in the game are as follows; quarter one,

organize the firm and set up shop; quarter two, go to test market; quarter three, skillful adjustment and market expansion and lastly quarter four, which includes investing for the future.

These quarters have spe-

cific objectives that are needed to succeed in the game and win over consumers and reach their goal.

Several challenges come with the playing of this game, such as consumers wanting the best product for the lowest price, different consumer views and creating what the consumer wants to their best ability.

“Success is not easy, but this is the essence of marketing,” stated the document for student review provided by McClung.

Many senior business majors have played the game in higher-level courses, and those students are around during the event to help guide the others.

Senior forensic accounting major, Alyssa Daniel stated “It is a great opportunity, showing the students the type of things they would be doing in a class in the business department.”

For more information on upcoming events throughout the Department of Business Administration contact Gordon McClung or the Office of Admissions.

Future Alumni Society Dept. of Comm. to hold writing contest searches for members of all backgrounds

By DANIELLE SCHUYLER Editorial Assistant

By BRITTANY MCGARY For the Yellow Jacket

The Future Alumni Society is currently looking for new members throughout the current and upcoming semesters.

The Future Alumni Society is run by President Abby Pittinaro, and is a bridge between the students and alumni.

Being a member of the group comes with its own benefits, including professional development and mentorship opportunities throughout the academic year and the ability to travel to local alumni events to represent the student body.

The Future Alumni Society is looking for new members from all academic years and majors. The main requirements are that each student be in good standing with the university and have a lot of spirit for Waynesburg.

“We want people who are passionate about Waynesburg and its mission,” said Victoria Beppler, assistant director of Alumni Relations.

If accepted, members of the organization are required to attend monthly meetings.

Participation also includes attending activities and events that are planned and spreading the spirit of Waynesburg University throughout the campus.

After graduation, members continue to spread input about Waynesburg in their everyday lives.

“We want to make sure that each and every student stays in touch with Waynesburg University after they graduate, and the Future Alumni

Society helps make the transition from student to alumnus a positive one,” said Beppler.

Pittinaro, who has been a member for the past two years, stated she has had the opportunity to meet many alumni and hear their Waynesburg stories while also sharing hers. She has also had the opportunity to thank alumni for their gifts to the school.

“I always enjoy meeting alumni and sharing my Waynesburg story, because they are always so different,” said Pittinaro. “The school changes so drastically about every decade with new buildings and renovations. Even though the campus may have been different, there is always a common theme with the stories, that being that everyone enjoys their time at Waynesburg and they love the people they meet.”

One of the founding members of the Future Alumni Society is now a member of the Alumni Council. According to Beppler, one of the many reasons he was voted to that position is because of his involvement on campus as a student.

The Future Alumni Society also plans Tuition Freedom Day. “It is important for the students to know that 25 percent of the tuition cost is covered by alumni donations and is a great day for us to write thank you’s and acknowledge the alumni-student connection,” said Pittinaro.

Any inquiries can be sent to vbeppler@waynesburg. edu.

Waynesburg University is introducing the John C. Knox Writing Contest, an opportunity for high school students to practice their print journalism skills and win cash prizes.

On Nov. 1, sophomores, juniors and seniors representing multiple Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia high schools will meet at Waynesburg University to compete for $1,000 in prizes and have their article published in the university’s award-winning newspaper, the Yellow Jacket.

This contest was named after the Yellow Jacket’s first student editor, Knox, who made a notable impact on Waynesburg’s history with print journalism.

Whi le planning t his event, the Department of Communication had two basic goals in mind.

“Our primary goal was to recognize good writers, those with promise,” said Brandon Szuminsky, instructor of communica-

tion. “Our second goal was internal: we wanted to use the contest as a recruiting event for the university.”

Szuminsky said the selection of what high schools were invited came down to simple geography. The department wanted to keep the recruitment for the contest to schools within a twohour drive or shorter from the university's campus.

After deliberating, the department decided on the counties of Greene, Fayette, Allegheny, Beaver and Westmoreland from Pennsylvania; Monongahela, Ohio, Preston, Wetzel and Marshall from West Virginia; and Jefferson, Belmont and Monroe from Ohio.

The contest will start at 9:30 a.m. with an hour-long news conference from the former voice of the Pittsburgh Pirates and current Assistant Professor of Communication Lanny Frattare.

Students will be expected to ask Frattare questions and take notes on what he tells them about his career.

After the conference, the students will be guided to

the computer lab in Buhl Hall, where they will have up to two hours to type a personality profile on Frattare.

“The structure of this portion of the contest is designed to give the students a taste of what newspaper deadline pressure is like,” said Szuminsky.

Selection of who would judge the articles was boiled down to three specific categories.

Those currently working in the field of journalism were necessary, so staff members from the Observer-Reporter were called.

Waynesburg Department of Communication faculty with expertise in journalism, such as Szuminsky, were other obvious choices.

Lastly, student leaders who are well versed in the field joined the ranks.

“Student involvement in this event is vital,” said Szuminsky. “Also, we couldn't have done this event without the assistance and expertise of theDepartment of Admissions. They've been a great help in making the inaugu-

Business graduate students reflect on trip to Europe

By CONNOR WALSH

For the Yellow Jacket

Members of Waynesburg University’s Business Graduate program recently had the opportunity to travel to Europe to study international business practices.

The trip lasted for nine days, with the group departing on Sept. 26 and arriving back on U.S. soil Oct. 5.

A total of 19 members from the university went on the trip, of which 12 were students.

Janice Crile, director of graduate programs in business administration, was the trip organizer.

“The purpose of the trip is to actively engage students in global business practices at companies based outside of the U.S.,” said Crile. “Our students’ goals include gaining new knowledge in the areas of international travel, culture, diversity and country specific laws that govern corporations.”

London and Paris were the two cities where the group spent the majority of their time. Crile said the two cities were chosen as the destinations because London and Paris are “among the largest cities in the world, and we wanted to experience the business and culture of two renowned cities.”

While in these two famous

cities, the group got involved in a variety of activities that were meant to enrich their understanding of international business.

Almost every day, they had the opportunity to visit different locations such as banks, local corporations and colleges to hear lectures.

For example, on one day they went to a bank and got to visit with top executives, and then went to a business lecture at a nearby university.

Being that this trip involved graduate students, the average age of the group was 32-years old. All members have full-time jobs in the business world and go to school on top of their professional lives.

The trip was made open to all current students and former alumni of the program.

Rinaldo Policicchio was one of the students on the trip. Policicchio, an accountant, said despite the cost of going on the trip, the opportunity to go just could not be passed up.

“I am a firm believer that life is a gift from God and we only have one of them, so make the most of it,” said Policicchio. “Even though the trip is costly the experience is priceless.”

Despite the packed schedule, the group was able to squeeze in some sight-seeing and down time.

Iconic locations in London such as Big Ben and Buckingham Palace were destinations for the group.

In Paris, they got to visit Notre Dame Cathedral and the Louvre, among other tourist hot spots.

Jennifer Dunn, a relationship manager for Fifth Third Bank and another one of the students who went on the trip, said she liked “sitting at cafes with amazing views” the most. Dunn viewed the trip as an opportunity to make up for not studying abroad as an undergraduate student.

“I thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Pavegen, a company that converts kinetic energy from footsteps into electricity,” said Dunn. “It was fascinating to witness technology that hasn’t been widely available due to pricing and limited availability. All the businesses we met with were very kind and happy to answer our many, many questions.”

Now that the group has returned, Crile hopes that those who went acquired the desire to continue traveling.

“My personal goal is for students to enjoy the travel experience with the hopes of each individual traveling again on their own,” said Crile. “Anywhere in the world is only a plane ride away.”

ral event happen.”

On the competitors’ end, schools with student newspapers have been encouraged to pass along information on the contest to their students. Uniontown Area High School in Uniontown, for example, has a group of students who have experience with the type of writing needed for the contest, said teacher Tammy Marzano.

“We have a class called Digital Publishing,” said Marzano. “The students compose an online newsletter called Tomahawk Talk through the Wordpress program.”

Marzano’s class published a press release about the John C. Knox Writing Contest in its newsletter. She has also been sharing with all of her students this opportunity to better their writing.

“I have passed out about 12 printouts now, and we’re hoping to get the word out to even more people,” said Marzano. “I do not know exactly how many of my students are interested, but they seem to be intrigued with the idea."

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“The hope is that upon being exposed to various different sites that students will fall in love with one of them and continue to serve at the site after the trip concludes,” said Kelley Hardie.

The six sites that students will volunteer at are Cornerstone Bible, the Greene County Historical Society, St. Ann’s Soup Kitchen, W.W.J.D., Greene County Habitat for Humanity and 2nd Sam 9.

The trip will be taking place from Oct. 12 to Oct. 18 and the cost for participation is $40.

The service trip to Toms River, New Jersey, which was originally intended to take place during the fall break, has been canceled due to the lack of student interest, said Kelley Hardie.

Students may sign up for the trip to the Pittsburgh Project and the Greene County Immersion trip via the service tab located on myConnect. Students are also encouraged to visit the Center for Serivce Leadership in Stover for more infrmation.

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Homecoming: Events planned through Sat. Continued from A1

Photo Courtesy Pat Bristor

meet the homecoming court

Senior members of the 2014 Homecoming Court pose for a photo. Front Row: (Left to right) Jessica Gavin, Rebecca Lane, Shelby Tabrosky, Cara Petrone and Kristen Stone. Back Row: (Left to Right) Kenneth Cline, Jacob Shultz, RJ Tonks and Phillip Szalla.

Success: Students benefit from tailored program Continued from A1

involved, but Carr does not see it as a punishment as much as they are trying to help students succeed. “[Students] in this program have demonstrated they have gone downhill a little bit, maybe struggling in a class that brought their grade point average below a 2.0, and ultimately we want to catch those students and write the ship,” said Carr.

According to Carr, the program runs off volunteer faculty and staff that provide assistance to students who have a bad semester or semesters, and ultimately fix the problem.

Another area that Carr says is beneficial to students, but many students become apprehensive about asking for help is the tutoring program run by Abbe. This has been the situation for Carr many times, but

once [students] go through the process they really see that tutoring is beneficial and helpful.

Abbe added the true success of students starts with the help many receive from the tutoring program.

“I really believe that we would not have the success rate and the achievement in terms of good students if we didn’t have this program,” said Abbe. “Everybody benefits.

Professors benefit because they are getting support. The students that tutor benefit because they know it that much benefit. Thirdly the other student benefits.”

On top of Carr’s work with the other programs he also works with students with disabilities, helping them transition from high school to college, informing them of the resources provided by Waynesburg.

“A lot of times the students who receive accommoda-

tions up front may realize they don’t need them,” said Carr.

“I would much rather see that then students starting off here and digging themselves a hole.”

With the successes of each student they help, Carr says they encounter students that do not want the help provided.

One specific example was a student who was helped through the mentoring program by a staff member who, according to Carr went above the call of duty to help this person. Ultimately the student did not want to attend classes and they could not help in any other way.

“We can’t wake you up and drag you to class or take the tests,’ said Carr. “Ultimately the student’s success is on the student, but we try whatever we can to help the student to become successful.”

Carr believes through all the success of what his depart-

ment does, all of it is due in part to the people that put in the work.

“You have professionals that are caring and want to see the students succeed,” said Carr.

“There are open door policies and its not that were trying to just show up, we’re here to help students and we want to see them succeed.”

Carr believes it takes a special person to fill those positions to help students, and what is done through his office is just part of the Waynesburg atmosphere.

“When you look at the caring nature of people who are really dedicated to helping our students here, it just represents the Waynesburg way,” said Carr. “That is not just individual to the Center for Student Success, but there are countless examples all over campus and that’s what makes this place so great, it’s the people.”

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a lot of weeks and we could see through our counseling centers and academic mentoring people we would get feedback that the stress level for the students was really high and they just needed a break.”

University counselor Chaley Knight, who has been a counselor at Waynesburg since the spring of 2011 and was a student before that, believes the newly implemented fall break is a fantastic idea.

“I have witnessed firsthand from students that around mid-October, they are pretty burned out,” Knight said. “So I believe that this break will offer them a time of rest, reflection and relaxation to be able to finish out the semester strong.”

Knight has experienced this burnout with students she has interacted with in her time as a counselor.

“Many of the people who seek out counseling for personal reasons have issues that are anxiety or stress related, and a lot of times that is induced from their classes, exams, papers that are due or the rigorous schedule of a student,” Knight said. “Seeing how that affects their mental health and many other aspects of their life, this break can offer them some rest.”

Sophomore marine biology major Ethan Quinn has experienced this burnout twice.

Quinn said as a freshman it was very difficult for him being away from home for the nearly three months until Thanksgiving break.

“I do like the fall break because it gives a break for the students in the middle of the long semester,” Quinn said.

“Since I live far away it isn’t as easy for me to go home on the weekends, but it’s a long enough break that it makes sense to go home.”

Quinn said last year his burnout really affected him

around this time and hurt his effectiveness in his academics and school activities.

“My motivation has dwindled down since the start of the year,” Quinn said. “This break will increase my motivation that I need to strive as a student.”

Sophomore pre-med major Tyler Pittman understands why some students like the fall break, but personally would rather not have it.

“It’s a nice break for some students especially after midterms, but I’d rather spend more time around the holidays than for one week for no reason,” Pittman said. “I think it’s useless because it’s unnecessary to take a week off of Christmas break and take a week off in the middle of the fall semester.”

Knight sparked a discussion in her Fiat Lux course about the fall break to see what her freshmen thought about it.

“Half of them said, ‘I would rather have four weeks for Christmas than a week off in October,’ and the other half said the opposite,” Knight said. “But these are also freshman who have yet to experience a month off for Christmas. Around week three from Christmas, many students are ready to come back. I think that four weeks away is a little long. It throws you out of your routine of classes, so three weeks is a perfect break for Christmas.”

No matter what students do over fall break, Knight hopes students choose to do whatever will be restful for them.

“For many students, going home is restful. They want to sleep in their own bed and eat home-cooked food from mom and dad. Some students live very far away, so that’s something that they’re unable to do, but they will hopefully be able to find rest by not having class or having the time to do things they don’t usually have the time to do,” said Knight. “Those

students who can go home may choose not to go home because, for some students, home isn’t a place for relaxation. If a student is questioning if they should stay or go home, the question should be ‘where will I find that rest?’”

Cummings said the primary factor for the implementation of the fall break is for service trips.

“We have the spring break in the spring semester, which is the perfect time to have service trips where you have a chance to talk about how you’ll be serving, go and serve and come back and process what you’ve learned and how your experience was,” Cummings said. “We didn’t have that in the fall semester. What we were doing was traveling during Thanksgiving break and Christmas break, which are probably the two worst times to try and travel in the United States.

By putting a fall break in, it gave us a wonderful oppor-

tunity to, by next year, have some good service trips take off there.”

Junior marine biology major Derrion May will be in Greensboro, North Carolina for the last weekend of the fall break representing his fellow Bonner Scholars at the Bonner Congress conference.

“I think the fact that the fall break is designed around service means it may not reach its purpose because I think most students will want to take that week off and catch up on school work,” May said. “Although I do see some students are taking advantage of the fall break to go on service trips, I would rather take that week to catch up and end the semester on a good note.”

Knight said despite the variety of opinions about the fall break, the majority of students she has spoken with are very excited for fall break to have a break from classes and take a rest.

urday’s football game. The Homecoming court will be introduced at the rally.

Directly after the pep rally, the finale of Waynesburg Idol will also be held in Johnson Commons. This is the first year that, weather permitting, the pep rally and Waynesburg Idol will be held outside.

At 8:30 on Saturday morning, the 18th Annual Homecoming 5K Race will begin.

Students can register for the race right up until the race starts by either going online or registering in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center on Saturday morning. Bristor believes the turnout for the race will be respectable.

“I’m hoping to have about 120-150 [participants],

which I’m really excited about because of fall break,” said Bristor.

The proceeds from the race go to the student mission trip fund.

At 10:30 a.m., Jacket Fest will begin in Johnson Commons. Here, students will create booths about their respective clubs and organizations for alumni to peruse and learn from.

Then, at 1:30 p.m. at Wiley Stadium, the Homecoming football game against Case Western Reserve will begin.

The Homecoming King and Queen will be crowned at halftime, and Homecoming will conclude with alumni events planned for after the game.

Rain locations have been planned for outdoor activities in the case of bad weather on the weekend.

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honor of Alfred Brashear Miller, college president from 1859-1899.

In the last years of his presidency, Miller was significantly involved in the construction of Miller Hall, which was officially dedicated to him in June 1899, the year Miller stepped down as president.

According to the book “The Waynesburg College Story,” the building was constructed with 803,000 clay bricks. Some of that clay used even came from lake Juanita. It took a total of two years to complete the brick making process and another eight years to build the foundation. The pace of construction depended on the availability of funds and on the weather, which caused the completion of Miller Hall to take many years.

Miller entered Waynesburg College as a student in 1851 and after graduating in 1853, was immediately elected professor of mathematics at the college until 1858.

From there, he was chosen to serve as president of the

college.

Miller worked together with his wife, Margaret Kerr Bell, to improve the university. Throughout his career at Waynesburg College, Miller taught approximately 7,000 students.

In 1875, he was chosen as the national delegate of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and named to the annual conference of the Evangelical Union in Scotland and was moderator of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1877.

He was also editor of the “Cumberland Presbyterian” and author of the book, “Doctrines and Genius of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.”

According to Waynesburg University’s website, Miller said of the structure, “I verily believe that God bids us to build a monument that will not only record the liberality of a grateful church, but send a blessed influence through the centuries.”

Waynesburg University is working to maintain buildings like Miller Hall to continue to have a blessed influence on the students, faculty and staff.

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Homemade creations give woman meaning

By ABBY WERNERT Chief Photography

For Rachel Miller, her business of making and selling homemade skincare products has had a huge impact on her life. It’s become something of an extension of her being.

Miller may have grown up in Pittsburgh, but she always felt drawn towards gardening and plants.

As a child, she would spend time gardening side by

side with her grandmother, who also used to make skincare products.

Just like her ancestors, Miller originally started making the products for her family.

After getting married and having children, Miller moved out of the city and into a more rural area.

Because of the move, as well as Miller’s lack of a driver’s license, she had to turn to making the items that otherwise could have easily

been bought in stores.

“Actually, I made skincare products from scratch for my own family first before selling,” said Miller.

“And of course I didn’t get to stores because I didn’t drive, and being out in the country and not being able to get to a store, you have to make your own products.”

When Miller first started selling her products, which now range from herbal hand and body lotions to body sprays and face creams, she

didn’t realize the need or want there was for homemade skincare items.

The first time she ever sold any of her skincare items, it was just one product she brought with her to the Westmoreland County Fair.

It was met with such great reviews that Miller decided to expand on her business and sell more items.

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Rachel Miller smells one of her homemade products that she sells at the local farmers market weekly

MY THS AND LEGENDS- PART ONE

'Do you know who I am?'

Jenny Schouppe, Yellow Jacket

A memorial plaque in the cemetery near Waynesburg University is the only remaining landmark of the legacy of Thomas Slater. His remains still lay beneath housing complexes in Waynesburg, and it has been told that his ghost is known to make appearances every so often in these homes.

Ghost story involves unanswered questions, hauntings by the founder of Waynesburg

By JOHN LYDIC

Multimedia Manager

“Do you know who I am? Do you know who I am?”

This is the question asked by the founder of Waynesburg’s ghost.

In 1796, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed legislation to create Greene County, dividing Washington county into two parts with the lower part becoming Greene County.

Part of the legislation required a city to take the county seat for the section of land. According to local resident Glen Toothman, former Greene County District Attorney, the commissioners chose Waynesburg as the place for the county seat because it was in the center of the county.

Thomas Slater owned the land which is now Waynesburg. According to the Living Places website, Slater purchased the land from a Native American for a two-year-old heifer and a flint-lock rifle. In that time, land development required a patent from William Penn. The town at that time was referred to as Eden, named after his wife Elanor’s maiden name, according to the Angel Fire website.

Toothman believes that the Eden name brought

good fortune to Waynesburg.

“I always say Waynesburg has been a special place because it began with the name Eden,” said Toothman.

County commissioners bought the 158 acres of land from Slater for $2,376 for the purpose of building a jail, courthouse and other public buildings. The commissioners changed the name to Waynesburg, after Revolutionary War General Anthony Wayne.

Despite selling the land though, Slater remained in the area.

He lived next to the Waynesburg VFW where two trailers now sit. Slater lived in his house until his death in 1815 at the age of 76, according to Toothman.

He was buried in what was the Hookstown Cemetery located on Liberty Street.

The cemetery was eventually torn down to make room for public housing. A court order was issued to remove the bodies, but because of the age of the cemetery, the order could not be carried out. Only the headstones were removed, leaving Slater’s remains underneath the housing complex, according to Toothman.

One day about 10 years ago, a lady showed up at the Cornerstone Genealogical Society on East Green Street, asking for help to find out about Thomas Slater,

Construction on schedule Local work on schedule to be completed by July 2016

By TIM NERAL

For the Yellow Jacket

The constructional upgrades to widen state routes 19 and 21 from two lanes to four lanes are on schedule to be finished by July 2016.

During the summer, work crews began water diversion of the creek. This would dry up the surrounding area for construction of the river bridge deck, which was completed this past weekend.

The plan is to divert traffic to this bridge while the current one is repaired to ward off vehicle pileups.

Phase two will involve making a secondary rail line for the train. “It’s a three-year project, so not a lot’s been done, but it takes time,” said

Justin Simkovic, a project manager for the Pennsylvania State Department of Transportation.

Construction of the railroad bridge will be the main focus during the winter months. The pylons to solidify the train track arch should be finished this week, according to Simkovic, and an abutment to provide added support on the Waynesburg side should be completed sometime next week.

With coal being a major export of the Waynesburg economy, trains will not be stalled at any point during the construction. A second track will be built alongside the current one so a train can be diverted while crews work on the current rail line and arch.

Once the new trestle is built over the underpass, the second track will remain to allow for two-train traffic, which will be more costeffective for the Waynesburg coal industry.

80 percent of funding for the project is coming from the federal government while the remainder will be charged to the state.

A majority of the 20 percent remainder is due to Governor Tom Corbett’s transportation bill, which was passed in the spring of 2013.

While the bill increased gas taxes and motorist fees it allowed the state to provide as much as $2.3 billion more a year to transportation construction.

In August of last year, about 4,500 state-owned bridges were in need of repair; more than in any other state. With Waynesburg’s gateway bridge to the rest of the world repaired and expanded, PennDot will be able to check another bridge off the list.

Once the $15.1 million project is complete, the corridors where Route 19 and Route 21 divide are expected to be expanded to four lanes.

according to Toothman.

The unnamed lady asked a worker about who Thomas Slater was, and the worker asked why she was inquiring.

“He is a ghost living in the closet of my bedroom,” the lady replied. “He asks me ‘Do you know who I am? I am Thomas Slater. Do you know who I am?”

When she replied “no,” Slater said, “you need to find out who I am.”

The volunteer told the lady about Thomas Slater and who he was, but she asked where this lady lived.

The woman replied, “I live on Liberty Avenue where the public housing is located,” according to Toothman.

The volunteer went agape because the location of the lady’s house was right over top of Thomas Slater’s gravesite.

The lady left with her answer and never returned.

According to Toothman, Slater still walks the lands around Waynesburg where his house was located and his gravesite. He adds that reports of Slater encounters have also happened at the graveyard behind the girls’ dorms.

So if you encounter a person asking, “Do you know who I am?” you can answer his question.

SAME THROUGH SERVICE - PART THREE

WU students volunteer with St. Ann's to help community

By NIKA ANSCHUETZ

News Multimedia Editor

The High Impact initiative aims to bridge the gap between Waynesburg University students and the community. The program encourages students to get involved by serving throughout the area.

St. Ann’s Catholic Parish serves as a place for a warm meal and fellowship to those in the community. Students at Waynesburg University have had a longstanding relationship with St. Ann’s.

12 to 15 years ago, a service learning class focused on poverty and hunger – led

by Pat Bristor, associate dean of students – created the free Tuesday dinners at St. Ann’s.

The Bonner scholar students have continued this service

throughout the years.

St. Ann’s soup kitchen serves meals to members of the community for lunch on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, as well as a special Tuesday evening dinner served by Waynesburg University students.

St. Ann’s soup kitchen has their food donated by Aladdin’s Food Service.

“We are so grateful for the donation that Aladdin’s has been making to help provide full meals for our guests,” said junior finance major and site coordinator Casey Wiltshire.

The soup kitchen has also seen an increase in guests in the past year.

“We went from around 20 to 25 guests to around 50 guests per week,” said Wiltshire.

Bristor believes the increase in attendance can be attributed to a combination of things.

“During the summer we average 40 to 50 people,” Bristor. “Because we continue the soup kitchen when students aren’t around, it becomes a regular thing in their calendar.”

Student involvement in the community is crucial to making things like the soup kitchen readily available.

Wiltshire is thankful for his early involvement in the St. Ann’s soup kitchen.

“I started serving there the first week of classes when I was a freshman,” said Wiltshire. “It’s not like a typical soup kitchen where you just serve the food and you See IMPACT on B4

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Stay for fall break

Homecoming a special event not to be missed Just as the seasons change every spring, summer, autumn and winter, Waynesburg University experiences new changes every year.

This semester, the biggest change to the campus community is the fall break, taking place from Oct. 11 to Oct. 19.

Many students might see this as just another Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter break – a time when they can leave campus and relax at home or on vacations.

But this break from academics is different, for one very important reason.

Students have the choice to stay on campus.

This weekend will kick off the break with Homecoming activities, as the Homecoming game and court announcements will occur on Saturday afternoon.

This tradition is a huge community event among both alumni and current students, so we should all want to be a part of it.

If you are planning to return home for the break, at the very least, consider staying for the Homecoming game.

Many alumni of the university will be returning to attend this event.

If the crowd at Wiley Stadium is comprised entirely of former students with only a handful of current students, what kind of a message about community does that give to the alumni? It is easy enough to pack the stadium for a normal home football game.

The Homecoming game should be no exception simply because fall break will commence on this precise weekend. It should be just as easy to fill Wiley Stadium with students – past and present alike – this Saturday in such a huge community event.

Underclassmen should be taking every opportunity to appreciate this sense of community. that Homecoming offers. As juniors and seniors are looking at their last chances to experience a Waynesburg Homecoming as a student, they are more likely to realize how impor-

tant it is to savor these special traditions.

Underclassmen, on the other hand, have three or four Homecoming experiences in front of them.

But why would freshmen want to skip out on their first college Homecoming?

In addition to the actual Homecoming festivities, many other activities will lead up to the “main event.”

After a picnic dinner and pep rally, the Waynesburg Idol Finale will take place on Friday night in the Johnson Commons.

As one of the most popular events on campus, the audience is typically packed for this event.

The fact that there is a break from classes the following week should not be responsible for a sudden dip in attendance.

As a whole, the events on Friday will be the fall semester’s equivalent of the Relay for Life event: there will be music, fun and, of course, food, all taking place outdoors.

Why not stay simply for all of that?

Bottom line: just stick around.

See what it’s like to stay on campus during a week where there are no classes.

It will be a stress-free, fun week.

You can catch up on sleep, hang out with friends at the Waynesburg Idol Finale and the Homecoming game, and just enjoy having zero responsibilities for an entire week.

If this is the only chance you may have to see family this year, or if there are any other personal decisions that need to be considered, then by all means – don’t feel forced to stay.

It is only encouraged for those who have the time and ability to stay on campus to do so.

The university administration is leaving residence halls open and planning events for the week for us in hopes to create a greater sense of community; so why not show our appreciation in taking advantage of that?

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Chelsea dicks Columnist

He knows what the doctor is about to say: cancer.

He has known ever since that terrible day in the bathroom, when he shut the door.

He never shuts the door.

After 32 years of marriage you don’t have to shut the bathroom door anymore.

But he did. That was the first sign that something was wrong.

And now as he hears the six-letter word slip through the doctors’ mouth, he feels his wife’s hand squeeze tighter. He knows she is starting to cry, but he doesn’t.

It is not because he is trying to be strong for her.

It is not because the truth of those words hasn’t hit him yet.

It is because his mind is on the small stack of wood at home. He needs to cut more as soon as he gets back since the temperature is dropping, and winter is right around the corner.

He gets home to a caravan of family members. This was the first time that they had all been there for a while. Everyone is silent for too long.

He doesn’t like that. He yells for requests for dinner. No one speaks up. He says heck with it, he is making what he wants, buckwheat pancakes.

He gets out all the ingredients and starts humming his old western theme songs.

It is too quiet, he hates that.

He yells for his daughter to tell him about her vacation she just got back from. He

wanted to see pictures of the beach and sunsets and the stories behind them. He wanted the house to be filled with noise.

He wanted normal.

A family was gathered in that small house prepared for crying, hugging and awkward silences, but instead he gave them buckwheat pancakes and a laughing living room.

He knows he is going to be okay no matter what the next doctor says. That confidence is in every swing of the axe, every stir of the recipe, every laugh in the living room.

The man has been through horse kicks, seizures, openheart surgery and 32 years with the same crazy woman.

If anyone thinks cancer is going to change the man he is, they are mistaken.

This is a story of a man,

not a disease. A story of one person going through something that so many of us can relate to: cancer.

It’s the Ryan Seacrest of all diseases, the buzzword of our generation.

Talk to anyone and they will tell you a personal experience that they have had with the disease.

This is my personal story of my grand pap. I feel we can all relate to this story, and I believe that these people going through this life-changing, six-letter word cannot receive enough credit. I thank you warriors who hear the news and fight for laughter in the living room, buckwheat pancakes in the middle of the night; for a life still worth living. They are all more than that six-letter word.

This is a story of a man, not a disease.

Media doesn't always paint a pretty picture ABby wernert Columnist

In this day and age, it’s hard to find someone whose thoughts and beliefs haven’t been influenced by media in the slightest.

While there are other factors that go into helping shape what we believe, there is no denying that the media has a huge impact on our perceptions of the world.

For the majority of my relatively short time here on earth, there’s been one perception, a rather awful one, that seems to have become almost synonymous with fact in America.

The Islamic faith is viewed by many as a violent religion,

and those who practice it are regarded as terrorists.

After the horrific events of Sept. 11, 2011, most of America easily accepted the notion that anyone of the Islamic faith must be inherently evil and bent on destruction.

No matter where you went, you were guaranteed to find someone who believed that Muslims were set on destroying the sanctity of America.

Racial profiling became heavily prevalent in places such as airports, where anyone who looked like they were from the Middle East whether they actually were or not, found themselves placed under tighter restrictions and more likely pulled aside for more thorough security searches.

Many American Muslims became victims of slurs and

threats, some of which may have been carried out.

In the years since the attack, some of the hostility seems to have died out. The idea that we are all human and equal is becoming more universal.

With the recent events regarding ISIS, however, anger and prejudices toward Muslims are on a rise yet again.

These opinions are even worse in small towns such as Waynesburg, where there isn’t that much exposure to Islamic culture except through the depictions of the media.

Without first-hand experiences, those in small towns can only base what they know from the information they receive from television shows and news sources.

With the popular assump-

tion that Islam is a violent religion, the likelihood of the media saying otherwise is slim.

This is harmful to those who rely on the media for objective reporting, as it will lead them to have a negative view of the Islamic faith and those who practice it.

Ignorance is not a good thing but it also doesn’t have to be permanent.

It is important to be educated about the world. In order to do that, one must learn to not base decisions wholly on what the media says.

Muslim writer and scholar Reza Aslan said in a recent interview with CNN, that just because one nation or one group of people that See MEDIA on B3

Walking by Faith: Bailey Thorne Editor's Note: The following is an interview with Bailey Thorne, resident director of Denny Hall, as part of a series of weekly conversations with members of the campus community about living out vocational faith.

By SAMANTHa Peer Op/ Ed Editor

Q. When did you first come to Waynesburg?

A. May of 2013. I am going on my second year here at Waynesburg.

Q. What led you here?

A. I was looking for a Resident Director position.

That is where I felt called to be and where I had gone to graduate school to pursue.

I got my masters in higher education.

I wanted to start off my career in higher education as a RD because that is my dream job.

I kept looking for RD positions and nothing was available in my first year out of graduate school.

However, some doors opened here in the spring of 2013 and a friend told me that there was an opening and that I should apply.

An RD within a small Christian college was my ultimate focus.

That is where I felt most at home and felt that I could make a difference.

I felt like I could be a part of something good and special anywhere, but my heart was at a small Christian college.

Waynesburg was our top choice because my husband needed to work in the area as well.

Q. In what ways do you demonstrate your faith at Waynesburg?

A. It is so easy for me to demonstrate my faith here at Waynesburg because there are so many opportunities to do so.

Upper Room with students on Sunday nights, Chapel with students and faculty on Tuesday mornings, everyday conversations with the excellent people that I work with and the stu-

dents that I get to live with all present great opportunities.

My one-on-one meetings with my Resident Assistants are a huge component of that.

I ask them how they are growing, how they need to be pushed and challenged and how I can pray for them and I encourage them to do the same with their residents.

It feels like everyday I get to have some kind of really good conversation with someone.

It is easy to live out my faith here because it is a welcoming environment to do so.

What I love about Waynesburg is that it encourages people to grow in their faith versus forcing it upon people who aren’t at that

point in their life. The fact that Waynesburg encourages people to grow in their faith makes it possible for them to grow even if they weren’t expecting to.

Q. Have any specific moments in your position at Waynesburg in interacting with residents or faculty members affirmed your faith?

A. Absolutely. I think back to some of my first conversations with the RAs last year being a first year RD here.

When I was an RA, my RD touched my life in sharing her personal testimony, which entailed the good, the bad and the ugly.

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Cheat Sheet: Ebola case creates scare for Americans Editor's Note: The following is a synopsis of a recent topic trending in world or national news.

After his return from Liberia, Thomas Duncan was hospitalized after becoming ill.

Showing symptoms of Ebola in the hospital, he became the first person to have a reported case of the infection in the United States.

Ebola is an infectious disease that causes fevers, internal bleeding and other problems such as a severe headache, muscle pain, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal (stomach) pain and unexplained hemorrhaging (bleeding or bruising), according to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“The virus that causes Ebola is not airborne and can only be spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids — blood, sweat, vomit, feces, urine, saliva or semen — of an infected person who is showing symptoms,” said Star-Telegram.

According to CDC, “symptoms may appear anywhere from two to 21 days after exposure to Ebola, but the average is eight to 10 days.”

Due to the fact that the disease is toxic and extremely contagious, anyone who has been in contact with Duncan since he began showing symptoms is now being closely monitored.

Unfortunately, Duncan’s

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Texas Health Presbyterian hospital in Dallas, where Thomas Duncan tested positive for the Ebola virus.

Duncan is the first person to have a reported case of the Ebola virus in the United States. condition has worsened.

“Duncan took a turn for the worse Saturday and is now in critical condition at the Dallas hospital that is treating him,” said CBS News. CDC Director Tom Frieden later told CNN that Duncan had started “fighting for his life.”

The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital determines that

there are a total of 50 people that have been in close contact with him since he began showing symptoms.

These people are at lowrisk of the virus but are still susceptible to it.

These people include his family members, the different hospital employees that worked with him and a homeless man who was

the next person in the same ambulance that Duncan was transported to the hospital in.

Since Duncan’s problems increased, officials decided that it was time for his family to leave their home, which Duncan had been living in since his return from Liberia.

CBS News reported that

the family of Duncan has been taken to “a new location: an isolated home in an undisclosed gated community, to calm public fears.”

This is to not only keep an eye on them, in case one of the Duncan’s family members show symptoms of the virus, but also to keep the family away from the public eye.

Despite Frieden saying that

there wouldn’t be any experimental drugs used in Duncan’s case, on Sunday when his circumstances worsened, he was given brincidofovir, an experimental drug used to help fight cytomegalovirus.

ABC News reported that on Sunday around 2 p.m.

Duncan’s brincidofovir treatment began.

Daily Mail reported on Oct. 6, “A Spanish nurse who treated an Ebola victim in Madrid has become the first person in the world to contract the deadly virus outside of Africa.”

Although officials believe that due to the Hazmat decontaminations and the hospitals ability to limit the people who have come into contact with Duncan that those in contact with Duncan are not infected, the people who have come into contact with him are going to be supervised.

Additionally, the employees are having their temperatures taken daily.

In order to aid in the stopping of the disease, CBS News reported that Frieden “reassured every person leaving the infected West African countries is subject to preflight health screenings.”

Officials are now debating whether the Ebola screenings should become mandatory for persons exiting West Africa.

Information curated by MITCHELL KENDRA For the Yellow Jacket

In the news: Ten headlines you need to know this week Editor's Note: The following is a summary of the 10 stories from last week that a college student needs to know.

1. Dallas Ebola patient in terrible shape According to CBS News, Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient from Texas, is in critical condition. A Hazmat crew did another sweep of Duncan’s apartment on Sunday. Doctors haven’t used experimental treatments, like Zmapp, on Duncan. “The medication can be quite difficult for patients to take and can transiently worsen their conditions,” CDC Director Tom Frieden said to CBS. Dallas Judge Clay Jenkins says that he is confident that the Ebola virus will not spread beyond Texas.

–CBS News, Oct. 6 2. Teen from Chicago tried to join ISIS On Saturday, Oct. 4, a Chicago teen was charged with trying to go overseas to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. FBI agents arrested 19-year-old Mohammed Hamzah Khan at the O’Hare International Airport. They accused him of attempting to support terrorism overseas. According to CBS News, Khan is charged

with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. CBS also states that the charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years and a maximum fine of $250,000. It is possible that he will be under supervision for life.

–CBS News, Oct. 6

3. Enterovirus D68 claims first known victim Eli Waller, a four-year-old preschooler, is the first confirmed death from Enterovirus D68 in the United States.

CBS News says Waller died on Sept. 25, but his death wasn’t released until Friday.

Eli Waller stayed home from school because he had pink eye. He went to sleep that same night, but never woke up. The symptoms of the virus include a fever, coughing, sneezing, an occasional rash, difficulty breathing, and asthma attacks. According to CBS News, kids in multiple states have experienced unexplained paralysis or muscle weakness – including at least 11 cases in Colorado. CBS News reports that so far this year, 538 people have contracted the virus in 43 states.

–CBS News, Oct. 6 4. University to host John Knox Writing Contest

On Saturday, Nov. 1, the John C. Knox Writing Contest is being held on campus for high school students.

This event is sponsored by the Observer Publishing Company. The contest will begin at 9:30 a.m. with a welcome and instruction from Lanny Frattare, the voice of the Pittsburgh Pirates for 33 years and an assistant professor at Waynesburg. A twohour writing period centered on the conference’s content will follow. The first place winner will get a $500 cash prize; the second and third place winners will receive $300 and $200 respectively.

The first place winner will also be published in the Yellow Jacket. All participants will receive a shirt.

–Waynesburg University, Oct. 6 5. Greene County Library System holding a contest: Next week, the Greene County Library System is sponsoring a contest for individuals to be awarded an Amazon Kindle. In order to win the prize, participants must be able to identify pictures of local Greene County scenes on their media sites.

According to the Observer Reporter, the library will be posting five pictures next week – one per day – of their outreach vehicle in various parts of the county. Submis-

sions are to be completed by Oct. 15. The winner will be contacted the week of Oct. 20.

–Observer Reporter, Oct. 6

6. Playground for Sandy Hook victims open On Sunday, Oct. 5, playground number 26 opened.

Playground number 26 honors the lives lost at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

NBC News says this last playground is dedicated to heroic Principal Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung.

The movement for the playground was initiated by a retired firefighter Bill Lavin, who had the idea to build playgrounds for each of the 26 victims from the Dec. 14, 2012 school shooting. “I think, what the families love most is it celebrates who these children were, who the teachers were, their favorite color,” said Lavin. “It doesn’t talk about how they left us and celebrate the day or the anniversary of that horrible shooting. But rather the color pink and purple, and butterflies.”

–NBC News, Oct. 6 7. Observer-Reporter editor dies in crash Editorial page editor Lou Florian died on Sunday, Oct. 5 at UPMC-Presbyterian

hospital after a crash near his North Franklin Township home. Florian’s vehicle struck a tree and then a gas meter at the intersection of Grandview and Sylvan Drive.

Fire Chief Dave Bane told the Observer-Reporter that Florian may have suffered a medical condition prior to the crash. Florian started his career with the Observer Reporter in 1961.

–Observer-Reporter, Oct. 6 8. One-of-a-kind lunar eclipse occurred last night On Oct. 8, a total lunar eclipse of the moon and the rising sun occurred. According to CBS News, the proper name for this effect is called a “selenelion,” a phenomenon that celestial geometry says cannot happen.

During a lunar eclipse, the sun and moon are exactly 180 degrees apart in the sky. This perfect alignment is called a “syzygy”. Many people east of the Mississippi River had the chance to observe this unusual sight first. The time window of seeing the amazing sight was roughly two to nine minutes.

–CBS News, Oct. 6 9. Pittsburgh Schools use grant for violence study On Monday, Oct. 6, superintendent of Pittsburgh

Public Schools, Linda Lane, said there is an image problem with Pittsburgh Public Schools. According to TribLive, U.S. Attorney David Hickton joined Lane at the district’s board room in Oakland to announce a $3,021,407 grant to study and combat violence at roughly half of Pittsburgh’s schools.

Lane said the grant will prevent a “revolving door of punishment” for local kids.

–TribLive, Oct. 6 10. Tropical Storm Simon continues to grow weaker As of Monday, Oct. 6, tropical storm Simon is growing weaker in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico. The winds decreased to almost 45 mph.

According to ABC News, the U.S. National Hurricane Center says additional weakening is forecasted and Simon is expected to be at a remnant low on Tuesday.

The storm is centered about 235 miles southwest of Punta Eugenia, Mexico. Simon is continuing to move northward at 7 mph. The rainfall expected from the storm is three to six inches.

–ABC News, Oct. 6 Information curated by YURIKA BLEVINS For the Yellow Jacket

Faith: Thorne in her dream job as RD Media: Muslims often misportrayed

Continued from B2

She really showed us her heart.

She shared with us the moments that she struggled and how she overcame those moments and how her faith was strengthened as a result of them.

She discussed how those dark times brought her to even brighter times and she shared the community that brought her to those bright spots.

Through her testimony, I learned that it is so important to be real and transparent with people if you want to grow deep in life with them.

If you let them know who you are then maybe they will let you know who they are, and that makes life better.

It opens up opportunities for people to grow, even

if it is not in their faith, but maybe to grow in maturity or to overcome things from the past that they are harboring.

I think back to my first conversations with my RAs here and really testing how I let them into my life and telling them my story and then letting them tell me my stories as well.

It really touched my heart to hear stories about their families.

Hearing of someone who lost their father at a young age then hearing of how they’ve grown and the people that impacted their life through the experience and how their faith has been strengthened and not weakened.

There were times that were dark but now they are stronger in their faith.

This year, in those first meetings with the RAs, I

shared my story. The RAs shared their story also, as much as they were ready to share.

Some that didn’t say much during the first meeting little by little have opened up more to me in our one-on-ones.

Each time they share a piece of their heart with me, it really impacts me a lot.

Q. Do you feel you are where God wants you to be?

A. Absolutely. I think that was confirmed even over the summer for my husband and I. We spent so much time traveling over the summer for friends’ weddings.

Every weekend in June we were gone for a wedding then we went on our vacation, hiking and camping.

When we got home, he

told me “it is really good to be home.”

That really warmed my heart because being a RD and being married, I try to keep my husband in mind in terms of how he is feeling and where he is in this journey with me.

It can’t be easy to live in a Residence Hall with a bunch of females, but Ryan has been a huge blessing to me in that he loves it.

We work with great people and it is fun to have interactions with residents.

Ryan enjoys people popping in and saying hi.

We are a part of a great church at the First Presbyterian Church of Waynesburg, so we feel right at home in the community.

We absolutely know this is where God wants us to be and that is so very satisfying.

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practices Islam has exhibited violence, does not mean that every Muslim is prone to violence.

Islam is a religion that does not, in fact, preach violence over peace.

Pointing out the violence in Islam would mean that violence in other religions shouldn’t be ignored either.

Religions such as Christianity and Buddhism have both had moments where groups of people belonging to those faiths participated in extreme acts of violence.

In Myanmar, Buddhist monks acted out violently against groups of Muslims who lived there.

The Westboro Baptist Church, while not the most

violent of groups, is largely accepted as a hate group.

Those who practice these religions will argue that not everyone is like that.

Most Christians do not have the same beliefs as the members of the Westboro Baptist Church and Buddhism is a generally peaceful religion.

So why is it okay to assume that all Muslims are “violent terrorists”?

It’s time to ignore what the media says and start making judgments for yourself.

Take some time to learn about the Islam faith and base your decisions off of that.

Media is an important part of society, but you might find that it’s not always the only part.

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October 9, 2014

Road Rally gives to local historical society

By KARA BEMER

Advertising Director

The 7th Annual GreeneScene Road Rally sped off with booming success as over 150 participants gathered on Saturday, Oct. 4, to participate.

The road rally is not only viewed as an entertaining event, but one that holds special meaning among the community as all profit that is made is donated to a nonprofit organization in the Waynesburg community; this year, the Greene County Historical Society received the donation.

The road rally had an entrance fee, raffle tickets and a Chinese auction available at the after-dinner party to help raise the donation funds.

Upon completing the race and the dinner party, the event collected in total over $5,000 from supporters and sponsors.

A total of 48 vehicles ran the race, and drivers had to navigate through the course with written directions while filling in blank spaces with clues hidden along the course during the car ride.

The course this year, titled “Million Dollar View,” took riders through three of the four highest elevations in Greene County, where you could see miles away and the highland view.

Before the rally, three

women gathered in their car, lively, excited and ready to take on the course.

In previous years, Lori Patterson, Laura Keene and Tammy Henderson had placed among the top three to finish the race.

They have continued to participate because they all have fun together and it supports a good cause.

“The past five years we have done the road rally, and our favorite part of it is traveling the back roads and seeing things that we haven’t seen before,” said Keene.

“The course was difficult this year, but it made things interesting. The course took around two hours and ten minutes to complete. We have not always done the rally together, but we love to have fun together and we are the best of friends.”

Mark Fischer, president of the Greene County Historical Society, and other staff volunteered during the Road Rally’s after party to serve dinner to the participants.

Fischer was pleased to help with the event and was excited to see so many people come to the rally to help support the Greene County Historical Society.

“The Road Rally helped support our existing operation in a major way,” said Fischer. “Greene County Historical Society just had cuts

made, and it was wonderful to see the generosity and support people shared for us.

The Road Rally will benefit our funds by supporting our day-to-day operations. The community was very helpful and this will keep our lights on at the museum.”

Fischer was appreciative of the financial help and stated that it could not have come at a better time, because the months of October and November are among the busiest months at the Greene County Historical Society.

Some upcoming events in October include Harvest Fest, Fright Night and a lecture about the myths and facts of the Underground Railway.

The Greene County Historical Society is also seeking support and volunteers among the community to help with these upcoming events.

Shelly Brown, president and CEO of Direct Results, was also pleased with the turn out for the Road Rally this year.

Direct Results plans and executes the Annual Road Rally, as it is held in honor of their co-founder Roberta J. “BJ” Qualich, who passed away unexpectedly on Sept.

23, 2007.

The participation increased from last year, but it was not quite as high as their

GREENE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM

UPCOMING EVENTS

October 5: Opening Reception of Greene County in the Civil War Exhibit

(The Civil War Exhibit will be open for the month of October) This year the GCHS Museum will serve as the host site for the Heinz History Center’s Traveling Civil War Exhibit. We are inviting local individuals, organizations and institutions to participate in this exhibit. The event will commence at 2 p.m. and will be followed by a showing of “Gettysburg” at 4 p.m.

October 11, 12: The Forty-Third Annual Harvest Festival

The highlight of every season here at the museum is the annual Harvest Festival. This year will be our forty-third year of offering Greene County the best in local craftsmen, food, performers and vendors as well as living history demonstrators recreating the rich history of Greene County through agricultural demonstrations, an eighteenth century tavern and everyone’s favorite, the Civil War skirmish. The Forty-Third Annual Harvest Festival will be October 11 and 12 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.

Admission: $5

October 25: Flashlight Fright Night at GCHS

Ghosts, ghouls, hosts and haunts. Please join us at the Greene County Museum for a night of TERROR-RIFIC fun! Activities will be inside and outside of the museum. Lanternlit museum tours, haunted hayrides, Halloween costume contest, refreshments and much, much more! Open from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. If you are afraid of the dark, bring a flashlight because it’s lights out on this night out! See you there.

Admission: $5

October 18: Underground Railway

The Underground Railway Lecture discussion at 5 p.m. will be about the myths and facts behind the railroad.

November 1: Paranormal Investigation

The Paranormal Investigation will take place at the museum 9 p.m. - 6 a.m. Western Pa. Paranormal Investigators will be your guides. Ten people are chosen to win from a raffle and can bring one guest.

Raffle tickets: $5/one OR $20/5

peak year.

“I believe that this was the best year yet, despite what the numbers say and it

is always a great time,” said Brown.

“I would love to see Waynesburg University stu-

dents at the event next year, because I know that they would have a great time and it is for such a great cause.”

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SURROUNDED BY COLOR

Route 19 in Waynesburg is framed with the orange and red colors of fall. With temperatures dropping to the 30's this week, the colors may not last long.

don’t communicate with the guests. We get to build community and engage our guests.”

Brianna Watt, a senior early childhood and special education major, serves at St. Ann’s because of her passion for people.

“I volunteer because I love helping others,” said Watt.

“In a weird way, it’s kind of a selfish reason. To me, it’s a getaway from work and my crazy schedule.”

“I’m also from this area, so to give back and help my community is so important,” added Watt. “I have been insanely blessed and my life

was given to me, so I was one of the lucky ones. I want to give back and help others almost as a thank you to God for giving me the life I never truly earned. “ Through the Bonner High Impact initiative, students are encouraged to be engaged with the community not only through service, but also through different activities.

“St. Ann’s is the perfect place to get engaged,” said Bonner scholar and junior early childhood education major Shakila Kienholz.

Students can get involved by simply signing up in the Center for Service Learning office or on the service trips tab on myConnect.

Although there are specific service sites and processes, Bristor encourages students to be creative with service.

“Think outside the box, think about other ways to serve these people other than providing a meal for them,” said Bristor.

Wiltshire is using the skills he learns in the classroom to help serve others, and he encourages others to do the same.

At St. Ann’s, Wiltshire is in charge of the budgets and recording statistics, as well as production.

“Use your talents and your skills to make a difference in the community,” said Wiltshire. “It’s your community; why not help out?”

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ther homegrown or locally bought supplies.

“So from there, I try and keep everything local,” said Miller.

“And so what I do, I get local honey, local goats milk from the farmer in Washington county, I get emu from the emu farmer and that way I’m able to keep my prices at a minimum.”

By using local suppliers

and being an independent business separate from a soap makers guild, Miller is able to keep her prices affordable and her products of top quality.

A majority of the herbs Miller uses she grows herself.

She takes the herb or flower and infuses it into oil.

Then, the sun is used to heat up the oil.

After that, scents are incorporated; as well as whatever herbs are used for the specific product.

“Well, it’s a recipe,” said Miller.

“L i ke anyt hing els e, whether it be a homemade soap or crème, you start out with – most of it is oil based so I start out with whatever oils I choose: avocado, apricot, grape seed, emu or olive oil – and so that I incorporate scent or herbs to bring about whatever I want – healthy skin, eczema, split feet. It really is all about skincare. The other part, the medicinal end came a little later. The key

of the business was to have healthy skin.”

Currently, Miller spends every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. selling her items at the farmer’s market located on East High Street.

She has a wide variety of customers, from workers on their lunch break to students taking a moment to explore the town.

Junior psychology major Josh Parnell recently stopped by to check out the farmers market and was pleasantly

surprised to come across Miller’s booth.

“She was a very caring woman who loved her work,” said Parnell.

“Her products were magical.”

Miller has been fortunate to take something that started off as a hobby and family need to a business that she loves.

Miller said that, by starting her business – named Autumn – she has been able to discover other parts of

herself that she never knew existed. In fact, the name of the business is in reference to what Miller believes is a “stronger, more aggressive part of Rachel.”

“I could remember the time was right. My children were growing up, they were all in school, and there was this moment in time where I thought it’s not all about them anymore. I was somebody’s wife and somebody’s mother, and now I was able to be who I really was.”

This season marks the 60th anniversary of the Presidents' Athletic Conference.

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Football blanks Grove City for second-straight year

By JACOB MEYER Managing Editor

After last week’s loss to Bethany, in which Carter Hill completed just 46 percent of his passes, head coach Rick Shepas said he wanted to see “premium throws” out of his senior quarterback Saturday against Grove City.

Hill did just that by completing 20 of his 34 pass attempts for season-high 311 yards and career-high five touchdowns in the 35-0 win.

Hill’s five touchdowns in Saturday’s game are the most by a Waynesburg quarterback since Josh Graham threw six on Oct. 8, 2011 against Geneva.

“I think he just went out

there and wanted to have some fun,” Shepas said. “I think he put a lot of expectations on himself and this offense at the beginning of the season, and forgot about the most important thing is to just go out there and have fun. The way he was getting the ball out of his hand and letting it loose, he was back to the guy we’re used to.”

Hill did not wait long to execute premium throws, as Waynesburg went 11 plays for 63 yards and a touchdown on its first drive of the game to jump ahead 7-0.

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After five picks in last three games, Hill sets season-high in passing

By AUSTIN ANDERSON For the Yellow Jacket

Senior quarterback Carter Hill threw for 311 yards and five touchdowns in a 35-0 victory over Grove City Saturday afternoon.

Hill’s performance was an improvement from last week’s effort, when he threw for 235 yards, two touchdowns and an interception against Bethany the prior week.

“I think [Hill] went out there and wanted to have some fun,” said Shepas. “I think he put a lot of expectations on himself and on us offensively, and forgot about the most important thing, which is to go out there and have fun. The way he was getting the ball out of his hands and getting it loose [showed us] he was back to the guy that we’re used to.”

A common belief is in order to perform well, one must practice well. Shepas connected the dots between Hill’s practicing before the game and his performance Saturday.

“I thought [Hill] had a better week of practice, [especially] on Wednesday and Thursday. [He] was very sharp, definitive [and the] game plan was pretty decisive about what we wanted to get done,” said Shepas. “The biggest thing [Hill] needed to do was see things [defensively]. Because of that, he was able to get the ball to some playmakers, and really make some big plays. We had some very big explosive plays in the game.”

Hill revealed that the offensive improvements were not really improvements, per se.

“All week, it kind of was the back to basics week for us,” said Hill. “We went back to some plays that we put in on day one. And that’s how we got our premium looks.”

Shepas went into further detail to clarify what Hill meant by basics.

“We always look for the basic stuff early,” Shepas said.

“When [Hill] says basics, he is talking about his comfort zone. We definitely try to do that.”

One aspect that Hill and the Waynesburg offense excelled at was fourth down conversions. The team was 4 for 6 on fourth down conversions, three were passing “We always have our fourth down calls [and] our third down calls,” said Hill.

“When we get into the red zone, its two-down territory and that’s something we take pride in on offense to convert on fourth down.”

In fact, Hill’s first touchdown pass was on a fourthdown conversion. He tossed an 18-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Bernie Thompson.

“I always know I can count on [Thompson] and all of the receivers to get open and they were playing man coverage there,” said Hill. “So I just threw it up and gave him a chance. Those guys make me look good all the time.”

The longest play from scrimmage was a 91-yard touchdown screen pass by Hill to running back Willie

Men's soccer wins in 2OT

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For the second consecutive year, the Waynesburg defense was able to keep Grove City off the scoreboard. Last season, the Jackets defeated the Wolverines 33-0.

the saddle

Leavell. Hill said Leavell was not the first option on that play though.

“It wasn’t [designed],” Hill said.

“It was a quick pass because he was uncovered.

We had

them all.”

Shepas agreed with Hill.

“I’d rather not say we have a top guy,” said Shepas. “Although, last year, [Thompson] and [English] both had 69 catches. They are our two top guys.

[Defenses] tip coverage

to one of those two guys.

That in turn, opens things up to everybody else, and that’s where our strength is, because we do have other guys that do catch the ball and make plays.”

a different play on. We have those hot routes where if you are uncovered, I just get the ball out to the playmakers and let them do things like that.”

Shepas commended Hill for noticing the defensive breakdown.

“You could see the confusion in their defense,” said Shepas. “Their corner knew that they were misaligned.

[Hill] saw the field, recognized it, [and] dumped it to [Leavell]. We didn’t even block anybody on that.”

One of the reasons the offense was successful was because Hill spread his passes to six differen receivers. Four had 30-plus receiving yards.

“That’s exactly what we want,” said Hill. “We line up in different formations to get people in different spots. They are all versatile, so they can do everything, and that’s what we want: to be more balanced.”

Even though the offense is spread out, Hill has confidence in all of his receivers.

“I always tell them, if it was my choice, they would all have five catches and a touchdown because they are all pretty balanced,” Hill said. “Obviously, our leaders are Andrew [English] and [Thompson]. In my mind, I trust

On a rainy Friday night at John F. Wiley Stadium the Waynesburg men’s soccer team came out a big winner in its first contest in Presidents’ Athletic Conference play against Grove City, as the Jackets won a hard fought 2-1 game in double overtime.

When Grove City missed an opportunity on a corner kick with 50 seconds left in regulation, it quickly turned into one last opportunity for the Jackets.

“A lot of us thought we had a tie once we saw the corner kick sail over the net,” said head coach Brad Heethius.

“The guys never gave up, Brandon [Daughtry] got a good kick off and Cody Lemke did the rest.”

When Lemke buried his chance into the net with 27 seconds in double overtime the Waynesburg players, bench and crowd erupted in excitement with the huge goal being the difference in a 1-1 tie.

“Brandon got a good kick off, and I was just sprinting down the field hoping that the ball would get to me,” said Lemke. “Once it did, I just had one thing in mind: get it through to the back of the net.”

Waynesburg's Daughtry finished the day with 13 saves, which garnered him with the PAC Defensive/ Goalkeeper Player of the Week and the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Division III South Co-Defensive Player of the Week.

The Jackets got a huge win to start PAC play. According to senior Ray Melone, it’s always good to open up conference play with a win and get things rolling in the right direction.

“To get that first win it felt great,” said Melone. “We never gave up, played hard, gritty defense, and won important individual battles to give us the chance to win a big game at home.”

The Jackets overcame a lot to get the win, as they were outshot by a total of 31 to 8 and on corner kicks 10 to 3. “They took it to us in the first half pretty good,” said Heethuis. “We regrouped at half and came out the second half and played together and better.”

Both Heethuis and Lemke agreed that improvements need to be made to make the PAC playoffs down the road.

The Jackets will travel to Greenville, Pennsylvania to take on t he Thiel Tomcats Saturday.

Match time is at 3 p.m.

With conference play heating up, men's soccer peaks at right time ROB LONGO Sports Editor

Timing is everything. Just ask the Waynesburg University men’s soccer team.

Heading into this season, the Jackets had some uncertainty at the helm, as former head coach Carl Griffiths bolted for NAIA school Belhaven University in Jackson, Mississippi after being in charge of the men’s and women’s squads for two seasons. Enter new head coach Brad Heethuis, the third new coach in four seasons for the Jackets.

After setting the highest winning percentage in program history in 2013, there were some questions head-

ing into the new year. A new coach, new system and in some cases, the potential for players to be utilized in different roles, which could have become issues for Jacket players.

Unlike a traditional transitional period, Waynesburg went 1-0-2 in its first three games under new direction, scoring 10 goals in that span.

Last year’s Jackets started off just as hot, scoring 11 goals in three matches.

However, things began to unravel for a short period of time. The Jackets went on a three-game losing skid, and were outscored 7-2.

But, since a 1-0 shutout on the road at Capital Sept. 12, Waynesburg has gone 4-11, including a 2-1 thrilling double-overtime win over Grove City.

Last year, the Jackets shut out the Wolverines 1-0 on the road, the first win against them since 2002. Three hundred and sixty four days later, Waynesburg pulled off the feat once again.

The majority of credit for the victory can be credited to senior goalkeeper Brandon Daughtry, who was named the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Defensive Player/ Goalkeeper of the Week because of Friday’s performance.

Daughtry made 13 saves and allowed one goal against Grove City. That lone goal came on a penalty kick in the 33rd minute. As of Tuesday, Daughtry was 19th in Division III in save percentage (.882). Tuesday, Daughtry was also lauded by the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Con-

ference Division III South Co-Defensive Player of the Week.

Daughtry has been a rock on the end line all season for the Jackets, except for one hiccup.

In Waynesburg’s 4-3 overtime win against Bluffton Sept. 27, Daughtry was forced to leave the game in the first half after injuring his head twice on two separate occasions.

The Jackets had a 2-1 lead when Daughtry exited, and needed extra time to defeat a Bluffton team who was 4-7 heading into competition on Wednesday.

But as in any other sport, non-conference games don’t really matter a whole lot.

Overall records don’t need to be phenomenal for a team to pick up a wildcard spot in

the NCAA Division III Playoffs; that’s what the PAC automatic berth is for.

And right now, the Jackets are peaking at the right time.

After a lengthy eight days off, Waynesburg travels to Thiel to take on the Tomcats Saturday, a team that the Jackets beat 7-0 last year. After Thiel, Waynesburg hosts Bethany, a team that can swing into the top-four in the conference, but was projected to finish seventh in the PAC preseason coaches’ poll after losing two-time PAC Player of the Year Arkangelo James to graduation.

However, the schedule then begins to get a little dicey for Waynesburg. The Jackets battle Thomas More, which was projected to win the conference this season.

The good news, though, is

the fact that the Jackets play that match at home Oct. 18.

Geneva and Washington & Jefferson also remain on the slate, which were projected to finish higher than the Jackets in the preseason poll.

The only time Waynesburg made it to the PAC playoffs was in 2001, when the Jackets finished fourth in the conference.

Waynesburg has a chance to make program history by not only making the playoffs, but by making some noise if it can find a top-four regular season finish.

If Daughtr y can stay healthy and the Jackets can continue to produce on offense, Waynesburg can shock the conference. WU Footy has found its swagger again.

And it just so happens to be at the perfect time.

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October 9, 2014

Academics over athletics leads Gerber to WU PAC celebrates 60 years

By BRENDAN KEANY Staff Writer

“I started running during seventh grade track season, and that was the first time I ran competitively,” said Waynesburg freshman cross-country runner Julie Gerber. “I didn’t even know what cross-country was until eighth grade.”

Much to the delight of the Waynesburg women’s cross country program, and much to the dismay of other schools in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference, the freshman sensation Gerber discovered her talent in distance running. A successful high school running career saw to her recruitment as a collegiate athlete, and as fortune would have it, she chose Waynesburg as her destination.

“I was pretty set on going to Pitt,” said Gerber. “But this team [Waynesburg] was a lot like my high school team. Everybody was a family.”

Also a major factor that drew much of Gerber’s attention lies in the esteemed Waynesburg University nursing program. Pursuing

a career in nursing adjusted to everyrelatively close to thing, but I actually her home reprelove it. I’m glad that sented a pleasing I came here.” scenario for GerAs a woman who ber. hails from Union“As of n ow, town, PennsylvaI would like to nia with a quieter work in pediatpersonality, it is rics,” said Gerber. understandable as “I know Children’s to why a smaller Gerber Hospital in Pittsschool setting and burgh, and I think working family atmosphere would there would be something I be appealing. However, that would be very interested in personality quickly changes doing out of college.” when it comes to competiWith the semester nearly tion on race day for Gerber. halfway completed, Gerber Known as a competitor who reflected on the decision that fights for every possible spot, brought her to Waynesburg, she undergoes a personality and as of now, she describes transformation while on the her feelings toward the cross-country course. school as contentment. This “Whenever we get to feeling comes as a relief to wherever we are running the cross-country star, who the meet, my mentality just portrayed her initial opin- changes,” said Gerber. “My ions of beginning college life body just takes over and as apprehensive. prepares me, and I get into “I didn’t really know what a zone.” to expect coming into colThat “zone” contributed to lege,” said Gerber. “It wasn’t one of the more impressive like I was not looking for- string of races ever built by ward to it, but I was just kind a Waynesburg cross-country of happy with where I was, athlete. Gerber’s first four and I don’t like change at all. collegiate races resulted in It was kind of hard for me a first place finish at Westduring camp week getting minster, three Eastern Col-

lege Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week awards, and three PAC Runner of the Week awards. Gerber possesses a significant collection of hardware, despite the fact that slightly less than half of the season remains.

Although she expresses excitement regarding the beginning of her career as a Yellow Jacket, Gerber understands the larger goals at stake, and she realizes her desire to win as a team, this season and beyond.

“Individually, my goal is to win the PAC championship,” said Gerber. “As a team, I really want us to win. I think we definitely can. If we do win this year, I feel like it will be easier to accomplish for the next four years.”

Gerber and the rest of the women’s cross-country team return to action Saturday in the annual Homecoming five-kilometer race to stay in shape.

The women travel to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania next Friday to complete a service project on one of the battlefields, and they will also participate in the Gettysburg Invitational the next day.

Women's soccer loses PAC opener

By BEN NICHOLS

For the Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg women’s soccer team suffered a tough loss Friday night in its first Presidents’ Athletic Conference match of the season, losing to Grove City 3-0.

In the first half, the Jackets could not seem to muster up any offense, but defensively, stepped it up, holding Grove City to one goal, which slipped through the hands of junior goalie Ciara Scott.

Scott however, had eight saves on the night.

“The first half, the goal we let in was a little deflating for the team,” said head coach Laura Heethuis. “It was just kind of an unfortunate goal, slipping through her hands.

Unfortunately, those things happen. I think something our team needs to work on is being resilient and being

able to bounce back.”

The Jackets played tough defense in the first half against the Wolverines, despite being let down by a goal, according to senior defenseman Taylor Bombalski.

“After that first goal, our team always gets their heads down,” said Bombalski. “We have to stop doing that, and learn to push ourselves, and start coming back when we get down because we can do it.”

The Jackets only attempted four shots on goal the entire game because of the tremendous defense of Grove City.

Though, the Jackets did have three opportune chances to score goals on the Wolverines goalkeeper.

Waynesburg hit a low point in the second half when Grove City scored its second and third goals of the night within two minutes of

each other.

“Defensively, I thought we played pretty solid, despite the 3-0 loss,” said Heethuis.

“But now, it’s about us finishing, and taking the chances, and being able to convert on any attack we get.”

The loss dropped the women’s team to 4-5-2 overall, but the critical thing was the Jackets suffered a conference loss. Last season, the Jackets suffered a 4-1 loss to Grove City on the road, but immediately turned it around with three-straight victories.

The 2013 women’s soccer team finished 5-3-1 in conference play, and barely missed out on the playoffs.

Bombalski hopes that despite the loss to Grove City, the team can repeat what it did last season, but more importantly, reach the playoffs.

“Although we are off to a

rough start, its still early in PAC play so don’t write us off yet,” said Bombalski.

After facing the Chatham Cougars on their home turf, the Jackets will travel to Greenville, Pennsylvania Saturday to take on the Thiel Tomcats. The match’s start time is scheduled for 1 p.m.

After the Jackets travel to Thiel, they begin a two-game homestand against conference opponents Bethany and Thomas More. The match against Bethany is scheduled for Oct. 14 at 6 p.m., while the match against the Saints from Crestview Hills, Kentucky is slated for four days later Oct. 18 at 1 p.m.

All seven games remaining on Waynesburg's regularseason schedule are against conference opponents. The Jackets were projected to finish fifth in this year's preseason coaches' poll.

By KYLE DAWSON

Editorial Assistant

It is an exciting time for the Presidents’ Athletic Conference as it is celebrating its 60th anniversary this academic year, and two former members, Case Western Reserve University and Carnegie Mellon University, have rejoined the conference as affiliate members.

When the conference was formed in 1955, the four original founding members: John Carroll University, Wayne State University, Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University did not know what the future held. Two of those schools merged.

“Case Institute and Western Reserve were two of the original founding members of the PAC,” said PAC Commissioner Joe Onderko. “It’s ironic that, even though as one school, they are back this year.”

The two schools, Case Institute and Western Reserve eventually merged into one school, but had two competing bodies: Adelbert (the academic body formerly Western Reserve) and Case Tech, in 1967. The two undergraduate bodies combined in 1970 and began competing in the PAC as Case Western Reserve University.

Carnegie Mellon joined the conference as a competing affiliate in 1968.

Case Western Reserve then withdrew from the conference at the end of the 198384 academic year. CMU followed, and departed from the conference after the 1989-90 academic year.

“Both of these schools [CMU and Case Western] are big parts of the conference’s history and have ties to our past,” said Onderko. “So it kind of feels like we’ve come full circle a bit."

Fast forward 60 years from its creation, and the PAC is still going strong on its core, original values with the two returning affiliate members and its other members.

“Understanding that the conference is 60 years old, and that we have had a really strong and really steady conference throughout those

six decades is a big deal,” said Kevin Fenstermacher, PAC Assistant Commissioner and Director of Communications.

“That’s one of the messages we’re trying to spread when we talk about it [the anniversary].”

Onderko echoed Fenstermacher’s statement.

“Quite frankly, it’s a celebration for us,” said Onderko.

“Sure we are proud of the 60 years. But, we are perhaps more proud that our principles and the things that we were founded on have not really changed.”

The PAC was founded on two concepts: one, that the presidents are in charge; and two, that athletics are part of the educational mission and not a standalone entity, according to Onderko.

Both Onderko and Fenstermacher people realize how historical this milestone is for the conference.

“I don’t know a rank on where we stand as a conference in comparison to standing as long as others,” said Fenstermacher. “Sixty years is 60 years. It’s pretty monumental for a league to stay together for this long, especially when you consider most of the members have been in the PAC for a long time.”

The anniversary will be tied in with the annual endof-the-year scholar athlete awards banquet, as well as the creation of 60-year All-PAC teams to celebrate the past and present membership and student-athletes.

“They are not necessarily a hall of fame for those sports,” said Fenstermacher. “If you look at some of those teams, you will see some All-PAC athletes but it’s more of a celebration of the participation.” .Fenstermacher does not think the celebration will interfere with or overshadow the PAC Championship events.

“I do not think it will overshadow what we consider our bread and butter which are our championship events,” said Fenstermacher.

“This will likely run a close second, and while it is about the PAC, the schools matter too because the conference is nothing without the schools that make it up.”

PRESIDENTS’ ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ROUNDUP FOOTBALL STANDINGS

Bethany Wash & Jeff Waynesburg Thomas More Saint Vincent Carnegie Mellon Case Western Reserve Thiel Geneva Grove City Westminster

MEN’S SOCCER Conf. Overall 3-0 4-1 2-0 4-0 2-1 4-1 2-1 3-2 2-1 2-3 2-2 2-2 2-2 2-2 1-2 2-3 0-2 1-3 0-2 0-4 0-3 0-5

Saturday’s Box Score

WAYNESBURG 35, GROVE CITY 0 Waynesburg 7 21 7 0 35 Grove City 0 0 0 0 0

SCORE RECAP

First Quarter: WAY - Thompson 18 yd pass from Hill (Lewis kick), 10:39 Second Quarter: WAY - Leavell 91 yd pass from Hill (Lewis kick), 14:09; WAY - Leavell 15 yd pass from Hill (Lewis kick), 8:26; WAY Thompson 30 yd pass from Hill (Lewis kick), 1:48 Third Quarter: WAY - English 8 yd pass from Hill (Lewis kick), 9:54

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

Waynesburg passing COM ATT YDS TD C. Hill......................... 20 34 311 5 Waynesburg rushing

ATT YDS TD Forsythe................................ 23 98 0 Roar...................................... 5 39 0 Waynesburg receiving

STANDINGS

Conf. Overall 1-0 9-2 1-0 6-3-2 1-0 5-4-3 1-0 5-6-1 0-0 4-8 0-1 5-4-1 0-1 4-6 0-1 2-8 0-1 1-9

Thomas More Geneva Waynesburg Westminster Saint Vincent Grove City Wash & Jeff Thiel Bethany

Friday’s Box Score

WAYNESBURG 2, GROVE CITY 1 (2OT) Grove City 1 0 0 0 1 Waynesburg 0 1 0 1 2

SCORE RECAP

First Half: GRO - Loew, 33:54 Second Half: WAY - Brommer, (Browne assist), 79:00 Overtime: WAY - Lemke, 109:33

RECENT RESULTS

Friday, October 3: Geneva 3, Thiel 0; Waynesburg 2, Grove City 1 (2OT) Saturday, October 4: Thomas More 9, Bethany 0; Westminster 1, Wash & Jeff 0

UPCOMING GAMES

Saturday, October 11: Grove City at Bethany - 12 p.m.; Geneva at Wash & Jeff - 3 p.m.; Waynesburg at Thiel - 3 p.m.; Westminster at Saint Vincent - 3:30 p.m.

PAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Offensive: Eli Nienaber, Freshman Midfielder, Thomas More Deffensive: Brandon Daughtry, Senior Goalkeeper, Waynesburg

REC YDS TD Thompson............................. 6 93 2 English.................................. 6 45 1

WOMEN’S SOCCER STANDINGS

Conf. Overall Grove City 2-0 3-8-1 Thomas More 1-0 10-1 Westminster 1-0 8-2-1 Wash & Jeff 1-1 5-5-1 Thiel 1-1 3-10 Saint Vincent 1-1 1-10 Waynesburg 0-1 4-5-2 Bethany 0-1 3-7 Chatham 0-1 3-7 Geneva 0-1 1-9

Friday’s Box Score

GROVE CITY 3, WAYNESBURG 0 Grove City 1 2 3 Waynesburg 0 0 0

SCORE RECAP

First Half: GRO - Mathes, 14:13 Second Half: GRO - Thomas, 57:32; Kouzelos, 59:21

RECENT RESULTS

Friday, October 3: Thiel 1, Geneva 0; Grove City 3, Waynesburg 0 Saturday, October 4: Thomas More 13, Bethany 0; Saint Vincent 2, Chatham 0; Westminster 2, Wash & Jeff 0

UPCOMING GAMES

Friday, October 10: Grove City at Bethany - 7 p.m.

Saturday, October 11: Thomas More at Chatham - 1 p.m.; Geneva at Wash & Jeff - 1 p.m.; Westminster at Saint Vincent - 1 p.m.; Waynesburg at Thiel - 1 p.m.

PAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Offensive: Olivia Huber, Junior Forward, Thomas More Deffensive: Laura Page, Freshman Goalkeeper, Westminster

Grove City passing

COM ATT YDS TD Lundmark................. 14 27 150 0

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Grove City rushing

STANDINGS

ATT YDS TD Ramsey.................................. 7 15 0 Maskrey................................. 6 11 0 Grove City receiving

REC YDS TD Peach...................................... 6 70 0 Folkmire.................................. 4 18 0

RECENT RESULTS

Saturday, October 4: Bethany 25, Case Western Reserve 14; Carnegie Mellon 27, Westminster 24; Waynesburg 35, Grove City 0; Thiel 21, Saint Vincent 20; Wash & Jeff 51, Thomas More 28

UPCOMING GAMES

Saturday, October 11: Thiel at Westminster - 1 p.m.; Case Western Reserve at Waynesburg - 1:30 p.m.; Carnegie Mellon at Bethany - 2 p.m.; Thomas More at Geneva - 2 p.m.; Wash & Jeff at Grove City - 7 p.m.

PAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Offensive: Pete Coughlin, Sophomore Quarterback, Washington and Jefferson; Defensive: Nadim Raddar, Junior D-Lineman, Bethany; Special teams: Tyler Kohman, Freshman Kicker, Carnegie Mellon

Grove City Saint Vincent W&J Westminster Thomas More Bethany Waynesburg Thiel

Conf. Overall 7-0 8-5 5-2 8-2 5-2 8-8 4-3 6-7 4-3 4-7 2-5 6-8 1-6 3-9 0-7 0-7

Friday’s Box Score

Singles: Hauser (SVC) defeats Daniel (WAY) 6-2, 6-1; Auman (SVC) defeats McDonold (WAY) 6-1, 6-1; Ellis (SVC) defeats Limback (WAY) 6-2, 6-0; Liberoni (SVC) defeats DuBrock (WAY) 6-3, 6-3; Woloshun (SVC) defeats Cowden (WAY) 6-0, 5-7, 10-8; Kahn (SVC) Wilson (WAY) 6-1, 6-2 Doubles: Hauser/Ellis (SVC) defeats Daniel/Cowden (WAY) 8-1; Auman/Woloshun (SVC) defeats McDonold/ Limback (WAY) 8-5; DuBrock/Wilson (WAY) defeats

Liberoni/Gismondi (SVC) 8-6

RECENT RESULTS

Friday, October 3: La Roche 6, Bethany 3; Geneva 8, Marietta 1; Saint Vincent 8, Waynesburg 1 Saturday, October 4: Thomas More 5, Geneva 4 Sunday, October 5: Medaille 6, Bethany 3; Thomas More 8, Defiance 1; Wash & Jeff 9, Mount Aloysius 0

UPCOMING EVENTS

Friday, October 10: Saint Vincent at Wash & Jeff - 3 p.m.; Thiel at Grove City - 3:30 p.m.; Alderson Broaddus at Waynesburg - 3:30 p.m.

Saturday, October 11: Brescia at Thomas More - 11 a.m.; Wash & Jeff at Franciscan - 1 p.m.; Carlow at Thomas More - 3 p.m.

PAC Players of the Week

Courtney Brennan, junior, Washington & Jefferson

CROSS COUNTRY MEN RECENT RESULTS

Team Saturday, October 4 PITT-GREENSBURG BOBCAT INVITATIONAL 4. Thiel, 86 pts.

SUNY GENESEO INVITATIONAL 10. Saint Vincent, 262 pts.

Individual PITT-GREENSBURG BOBCAT INVITATIONAL: 1.

Steve Morgan, Thiel, 26:51; 2. Nathan Repetz, Penn St. Altoona, 27:09; 3. Kyle Zenchak, Pitt Johnstown, 27:35 SUNY GENESEO INVITATIONAL: 1. Alex Brimstein, Geneseo Alumni, 24:35; 2. Matt Giannino, RIT, 24:50; 3. Nick Stender, Dickinson, 25:01; 63. Brandon Holmes, St. Vincent, 26:32

UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, October 11: Waynesburg at Waynesburg Homecoming 5K - 8:30 a.m.; Geneva at Slippery Rock Mack Cooper Invitational; Wash & Jeff at Carnegie Mellon Invitational - 11 a.m.; Westminster at Carnegie Mellon Invitational - 11 a.m.

WOMEN RECENT RESULTS

VOLLEYBALL STANDINGS Conf. Overall Thomas More Bethany Geneva Westminster W&J Grove City Saint Vincent Thiel Waynesburg Chatham

5-0 8-1 6-2 6-3 4-3 4-4 4-5 4-5 1-9 0-10

15-2 14-6 13-7 12-8 10-4 11-8 12-8 7-13 5-19 0-17

Tuesday’s Box Score

WASH & JEFF 3, WAYNESBURG 0 Wash & Jeff 25 25 25 Waynesburg 8 14 14

RECENT RESULTS

Saturday, October 4: Bethany 3, Saint Vincent 1; Bethany 3, Waynesburg 0; Grove City 3, Thiel 0; Westminster 3, Grove City 2; Saint Vincent 3, Waynesburg 0; Thiel 3, Westminster 1

UPCOMING GAMES

Team Saturday October 4 PITT-GREENSBURG BOBCAT INVITATIONAL 2. Thiel, 60 pts.; 3. Bethany, 73 pts.; 7. Chatham, 172 pts.; Individual PITT-GREENSBURG BOBCAT INVITATIONAL: 1.

Meredith Steinmetz, Thiel, 19:28; 2. Bryn Allston, Frostburg State, 19:42; 3. Alyssa Pagano, Pitt Johnstown, 19:43

Saturday, October 4: Bethany at Elmhurst - 10 a.m.; Thomas More at Grove City - 11 a.m.; Saint Vincent at Waynesburg - 11 a.m.; Bethany at St. Mary’s College 12 p.m.; Saint Vincent at Pitt-Greensburg - 1 p.m.; Wash & Jeff at Thomas More - 1 p.m.; Wash & Jeff at Grove City - 3 p.m.; Pitt-Greensburg at Waynesburg - 3 p.m.; La Roche at Westminster

Saturday, October 11: Saint Vincent at Disney ESPN Cross Country Classic - 8:15 a.m.; Waynesburg at Waynesburg Homecoming 5k - 8:30 a.m.; Chatham at Carnegie Mellon Invitational - 10 a.m.; Wash & Jeff at Carnegie Mellon Invitational - 10 a.m.; Westminster at Carnegie Mellon Invitational - 10 a.m.; Geneva at Slippery Rock Mack Cooper Invitational

PAC M. SOCCER LEADERS

UPCOMING EVENTS

PAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Men’s: Steve Morgan, Senior, Thiel Women’s: Meri Steinmetz, Junior, Thiel

PAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Dakota McKenzie, Sophomore OH, Bethany

POINTS: Lemke, 18, WAY; Elsea, 14, THI; Proctor, 14, SVC GOALS: Elsea, 7, THI; Lemke, 7, WAY; Luthy, 5, SVC ASSISTS: Proctor, 8, SVC; Loew, 5, GRO; Ahia, 5, THI SHOTS: Luthy, 38, SVC; Proctor, 36, SVC; Calvert, 33, W&J

PAC FOOTBALL LEADERS

PASSING YARDS: Hill, 1320, WAY; Coughlin, 1177, W&J; Gebhardt, 1140, TMC

PAC W. SOCCER LEADERS

GOALS: Huber, 18, TMC; Flagge-Echols, 12, TMC; Sieg, 10, CHA ASSISTIS: Flagge-Echols, 10, TMC; Huber, 8, TMC; Work, 5, TMC

WAYNESBURG ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Brandon Daughtry, Men’s Soccer Lauren Cowden, Women’s Tennis

RUSHING YARDS: Hayden, 931, TMC; Ruffing, 632, WAY; Forsythe, 556, WAY TACKLES: Raddar, 48, BET; Kpadehyea, 47, BET; Sindlinger, 44, THI SACKS: Raddar, 8.5, BET; Dishong, 5.0, CWR; Shane, 5.0, THI INTERCEPTIONS: Cannon, 4, GEN; Fuller, 4, TMC; Heck, 3, WES

PAC VOLLEYBALL LEADERS

KILLS: Hughes, 239, GEN; McKenzie, 217, BET; Skinner, 197, WAY ASSISTS: Lauber, 627, BET Trageser, 597, GRO; Christy, 583, SVC

Case Western Reserve at Waynesburg - 1:30 p.m.

WCYJ-FM, 99.5 The Hive; WCTV

BLOCKS: Freyermuth, 87.0, WES; Algriere, 71.0, GRO; Smith, 59.0, GEN DIGS: Mouch, 369, BET; George, 352, SVC; Trenta, 332, GRO

Yellow Jacket

October 9, 2014

Weekly Awards

Two senior fall-sport athletes continued to lead their respective teams this week, and because of their performances, the duo have earned the honors of Waynesburg University Athletes of the Week.

Daughtry Cowden Senior tennis player Lauren Cowden picked up Waynesburg’s lone singles win this past week, when she scored a 7-6, 6-1 win against Washington & Jefferson at sixth singles.

Cowden was one of the few bright spots for the women’s tennis team this week, as the Jackets dropped matches to both W&J and Saint Vincent College 8-1.

Cowden and her teammates will look to get back in the win column and perform better as a team when they return to action today against La Roche and tomorrow against Alderson-Broaddus.

On the men’s side of things, senior goalkeeper Brandon Daughtry earned the athlete of the week award after his stellar play in net for the soccer team.

Daughtry was the driving force behind a 1-0-1 week for the Yellow Jackets. The Burrell High School graduate played all 110 minutes of the 0-0 double-overtime draw with Frostburg State last Tuesday, which snapped its four-game winning streak.

Daughtry followed that strong performance up with a 13-save effort in the Jacket’s 2-1 double-overtime victory over Grove City Friday.

He totaled 20 saves over the two matches and boasted a .952 save percentage, while being lauded by the Presidents’ Athletic Conference as its Defensive Player/Goalkeeper of the Week.

Daughtry and the rest of the Jackets will return to the pitch Saturday when they travel to Greenville, Pennsylvania to battle the Thiel College Tomcats.

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Volleyball falls to Presidents in straight sets

By LAUREN DRANE

For the Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg volleyball team suffered another disappointing Presidents’ Athletic Conference match loss Wednesday to arch-rival Washington & Jefferson. The loss leaves the Jackets with an overall record of 5-20 and 1-10 in the PAC. It was also the annual Dig Pink game for the Orange and Black.

Throughout the week, the volleyball team had been marketing its annual "Dig Pink" game by selling t-shirts to the students on campus.

The "Dig Pink" game brought in a lot of fans wearing their shirts to show support for the volleyball team, and to also help raise money for breast cancer awareness month.

Waynesburg fell short in all three sets: 25-15 in the first set, and identical scores of 25-16 in the second and third sets.

“We may have lost, but we definitely learned a lot,” said junior Kourtney Skinner. “In order to play well together, it is important to be able to trust one another on the court.”

“We have really been struggling with playing together as a team,” said coach

Tyler Wolfe, Yellow Jacket

Junior Jessica Dorazio (left) recorded five digs and a pair of kills in Tuesday's loss.

Junior Kourtney Skinner (right) had a team-high 14 digs, paired with three kills.

Stephanie Benkowski. “If we can start meshing together, while adding other factors that we are struggling with such as blocking, we may see better results.”

Offensively, Skinner and freshman Casey Hall both put up five kills each between the three sets. Sophomores Rachel Lang and Jordan Faust, as well as freshman Shannon Morgan, each had three kills. Waynesburg ended the three sets with 22 kills.

Freshman Delaney Denniston led the team with 19 assists in the match. Defen-

sively, Skinner had the most digs with a total of 14 out of the 52 that Waynesburg produced.

“Our third set was our best set, but that doesn’t show much,” said junior Savannah Paladin. “We can’t just show up in the last set and expect to see good results. We have to learn to play the whole entire game.”

In the third set of the night, going on a five point rally, Waynesburg bounced back from a score of 15-9 to make it 15-14. The fans were to thank for that, according

to Skinner.

“We fed off of their energy,” said Skinner. “When we were down, their cheering helped boost our confidence. We really appreciate their support and we are very hopeful that they will continue to come out and cheer us on.”

Waynesburg currently holds a seven-match losing streak and is looking for just their second conference win.

The Jackets' next PAC match is tonight at 7 p.m., when they take on Thomas More at home.

Women's tennis drops second-straight conference match

By COLE LONG

For the Yellow Jacket

The women’s tennis team dropped its second-consecutive match Friday at the hands of Saint Vincent College 8-1. Waynesburg fell to 7-4 after the loss, while Saint Vincent boosted its record to 6-4 and surpassed Waynesburg in the Presidents’ Athletics Conference standings.

The Jackets played a rare indoor match at Saint Vincent, and it proved to be an immense advantage for Saint Vincent.

“Indoor facilities, no matter where you play, the home team has an advantage be-

cause usually [the courts] are a little quicker,” said Waynesburg head coach Ron Christman.

For the doubles team of Madison DuBrock and Rachel Wilson, the court did not seem to have as much of an effect on them, as the duo won their doubles match 8-6, giving the Jackets their only point of the match. To make their victory even sweeter, they defeated the same doubles team of Breana Liberoni and Maria Gismondi that they had lost to in 2013.

“Saint Vincent is usually pretty tough, so I was a little nervous going into that one,” said Wilson. “But we ended

up playing the same girls that we did last year, and after I saw that it was the same two girls, I felt a lot better.”

The Jackets ended doubles play down 2-1 and short of Christman’s expectations.

“I truly believed that we would come out of doubles play at least at 2-1 in our favor, not down 2-1,” said Christman.

The difference between the Jackets’ win and two losses was that the doubles team of DuBrock and Wilson stayed aggressive throughout their match, according to Christman. Wilson echoed her coach’s opinion.

“I think for the first time all season, [DuBrock and I] actually played aggressively for the entire time,” Wilson said. “The last two games were a little rocky, but we finished it strong.”

DuBrock had a slightly different opinion of their play, but was still on the same page.

“I think we played aggres-

sive, but most important, I think we played smart,” DuBrock said.

Perhaps the smartest thing DuBrock did was serve to the backhand of Gismondi.

“Everytime she was at the baseline, I would serve to her backhand and she would either miss the ball, the ball would go out of bounds, or the ball would hit the net,” DuBrock said.

Once again, the Jackets were without top singles player Rachel Klemash.

Waynesburg has only had one match this year in which all players were at their appropriate positions, with that match being the 7-2 victory over the Thomas More Saints on Sept. 20.

The injury bug is not one that has plagued the Jackets, but rather the class conflict bug. Nearly all of the top-six players for the Jackets have had to miss matches because of a class being scheduled during the match. Despite this fact, Christman’s expec-

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Waynesburg's Rachel Wilson (left) and Madison DuBrock (right) had the lone win for the Jackets. tations for his team have not lowered.

“I expected it to be a tough match and have us win 5-4,” said Christman. “Their talent is similar to ours, but I expected to be on the other side of it.”

Tuesday’s non-conference match at Division II opponent Fairmont State was postponed due to rain.

The Jackets will play host in their final four matches of the season, with two of the four schools being non-conference opponents. Only two opportunities to move up in the PAC standings remain.

Waynesburg is currently fifth in the conference, and will host non-conference opponent La Roche College today at 3:30 p.m.

Football: Jackets roll to win on road Continued from C1

threw a perfect pass into the hands of sure-handed senior wide receiver Bernie Thompson in the back left corner of the end zone.

“I always know that I can count on [Thompson] and all the other receivers to get open,” Hill said. “They were playing man coverage there, so I just threw it up and gave [Thompson] a chance. Those guys make me look good all the time.”

On Grove City’s first drive, sophomore running back Tyler Ramsey fumbled and junior defensive end Jordan Voitus recovered the ball to put the offense in good position at the Wolverine 42-yard line.

Waynesburg could not take advantage of the gift from Ramsey, though, as the offense turned the ball over on downs.

After a Grove City punt pinned the Jackets deep in their own territory, senior running back Willie Leavell caught a screen pass on the second play of the drive and sprinted 91 yards untouched to make the score 14-0.

“It was a quick pass because he was uncovered,” Hill said. “We had a different play on, but we have those hot routes where if someone’s uncovered, I just get the ball out to the playmakers and allow them to do things like that.”

Waynesburg started its next drive on the Grove City

36-yard line and scored eight plays later on a 15-yard pass to Leavell in the back left corner of the end zone to go up three scores.

“They weren’t really covering me in the slot when we had empty personnel in, so [Hill] just gave me a corner route because they were off me,” said Leavell.

When junior running back Jerry Lawman sustained a high-ankle sprain earlier in the season, Leavell stepped up and helped fill that role.

The role he filled more on Saturday, though, was as a receiver partly because of sophomore wide receiver Tim Cooper injuring his leg late in the first quarter.

In that role, Leavell caught four passes for 125 yards and two touchdowns. Shepas loves seeing Leavell’s hard work pay off in the games so far this season.

“I love Willie and his personality, his temperament and his hard work both on the field and in the classroom,” Shepas said. “He just plays hard and makes plays.

In every single game he’s played in, he’s made some kind of play for us.”

Hill said Leavell is a playmaker for the Jackets whether it is on special teams, in the slot or as a ball carrier.

“He’s got some wheels on him, so we’re going to try and break him loose, get him the ball and let him do what he likes to do,” Hill said.

Shepas said the goal for both Lawman and Cooper is for them to get on the prac-

tice field this week.

Before the end of the first half, Hill connected with Thompson on a 30-yard touchdown to increase the Waynesburg lead to 28.

Thompson ended the game with six catches for 93 yards and two touchdowns.

Waynesburg’s defense forced a Grove City threeand-out on the Wolverines’ first drive of the second half.

Thompson returned the ensuing punt 20 yards into Grove City territory to give the offense phenomenal field position for the second time of the game. “[The defense] comes out every week with a chip on their shoulder,” Hill said.

“They don’t get enough credit. Field position is so huge when you get the ball on the 40 or 50-yard line. It opens up our playbook. [I give] all the credit in the world to them when we get the ball around midfield.”

After a few runs by senior running back Jake Forsythe, Hill connected with senior wide receiver Andrew English for an eight-yard touchdown to go up 35-0. English ended the day with six receptions for 45 yards and a touchdown. Hill believes a strength of the offense is the plethora of receivers he can throw to.

“We line up in different formations to get people in different spots, and they’re all versatile,” Hill said. “We want to be more balanced like that. If it was my choice they would all have five

catches and a touchdown because they’re all pretty balanced. Obviously our leaders are Andrew [English] and [Thompson], but I trust them all.”

Forsythe, who ran for more than 100 yards in each of his previous three games, did not reach triple digits, as he ran for 90 yards on 23 carries against what Shepas believes is a strong front seven from Grove City.

“I’m really disappointed we didn’t get him another 100-[yard] game,” Shepas said. “That’s our fault. We didn’t get a check to see how close he was. I wanted to get a couple of looks at those other backs. He’s running the ball hard; he deserves to get those 100-yard weeks.”

Junior linebacker Aaron Palmer led the team in sacks with two and tied for the team lead in tackles with six.

Defensive backs Zach Sniadach and Mike Lopuchovsky also had six tackles, while sophomore defensive tackle Zach Machuga clogged up the Wolverine rushing attack with his five tackles.

The Yellow Jacket defense held Grove City to 232 total yards, while the offense gained 469.

Saturday's homecoming game against Case Western Reserve at John F. Wiley Stadium can be seen WCTV channel 14, as well as online at www.waynesburgsports. com.

Kickoff is scheduled for 1:30 p.m., with coverage beginning at 1:10 p.m.

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Week six football preview: Case Western Reserve

By CARSON FOX

Assistant Sports Editor

After dismantling winless Grove City 35-0 Saturday, the Waynesburg University football team comes home for its annual Homecoming game, after spending the last two weeks on the road. The Jackets have won their last four homecoming games, but face an unfamiliar foe, as it is the first time in program history that they take on the Spartans of Case Western Reserve University.

“It’s always good when it’s homecoming,” said Waynesburg head coach Rick Shepas. “But it’s no different.

We want to win every game.

We’re excited to be playing a new conference team. We understand the challenges that go with it.”

Before the Jackets battle the Spartans at John F. Wiley Stadium Saturday at 1:30 p.m., here are a few story lines to follow: Clear for takeoff After throwing five interceptions during the previous three games versus Presidents’ Athletic Conference opponents, senior quarterback Carter Hill had a field day airing the ball out against Grove City’s defense.

Hill threw for a season-high 311 yards and a career-high five touchdowns against the Wolverines. The Ohio na-

tive now leads the PAC in passing yards (1,320) and is ninth in Division III with 14 touchdowns passing to his credit. Shepas believed that Hill was able to convert on what he deemed premium throws, and he looks for that to be a continuing trend moving forward.

“The biggest thing that [Hill] needs to do is see things defensively,” said Shepas. “[Saturday], he saw things.”

Case Western Reserve head coach Greg Debeljak credits Waynesburg’s offense as being extremely balanced. His team anticipates facing a versatile offense of Hill in the passing game and senior running back Jake Forsythe in the running game.

“If we concentrate on one or the other, they’re smart enough to shift over,” said Debeljak. “We’ll have to channel our game plan to contain the offense. You have to play sound football.”

Free Willie Shepas said that he and the coaching staff are game planning how to combat Case Western Reserve’s 30 or 40 front this week, since the Spartans boast the number-one rush defense in the PAC (114 yds/game). If the Spartans decide to fill the box to stop Forsythe, the conference’s third-leading

rusher, ample opportunities should be available for senior Willie Leavell to make plays.

Leavell led Waynesburg in receiving yards last week, after a 125-yard, two touchdown performance on four receptions. This performance included a breakaway 91yard screen pass from Hill.

“In every single game [Leavell has] played for us, he’s made some type of play” said Shepas. “When you saw him take off on that 91-yard run, you realize he’s another guy you have to deal with.”

Shepas said that he and the coaching staff will continue to monitor Leavell’s usage in the offense, but wide receiver Tim Cooper went down this week with a leg injury and the Jackets have

been without junior running back Jerry Lawman for the past two games. Look for Leavell to be used both as a complement to Forsythe, but most effective as a receiver, after recording his first-career multi-receivingtouchdown game.

Day at the Beech After passing for 301 yards and two touchdowns in Case Western Reserve’s week-one 30-0 victory over Carnegie Mellon, senior quarterback Billy Beecher has completed just 58 percent of his passes for 866 yards and eight touchdowns to four interceptions. Though, Beecher adds another dimension to the Spartans’ offense, as he

leads the team in rushing attempts (53) for 64 yards and a touchdown. Debeljak said Beecher is a NorthSouth runner, who will have to diagnose what Waynesburg does defensively to make the right reads in the Spartans’ offense.

“We put a lot of decisionmaking on him in both our running and passing games,” said Debeljak.

“We’ll ask him to continue to make plays with both his legs and his arm, but more importantly, his brain. His decision-making will make us a better team offensively.

Against Bethany a week ago, Beecher completed under 50 percent of his passes and was sacked five times by what Debeljak deemed an unbelievably athletic Bethany defensive front. “ We’re starting three freshmen on the offensive line,” said Debeljak. “We didn’t give him the opportunity to make reads, since he was kind of running for his life. He made some things happen on the run and didn’t throw any interceptions. Our turnover ratio is poor. That’s what has kept us from being a better team.”

No player other than Beecher has more than two touchdowns scored through four games. With Case Western Reserve failing to have a player who averages more than 40 yards per game on the ground or 50

yards receiving per game, the Waynesburg defense’s focal point has to be stopping Beecher.

Linebacking CWRU Despite averaging just 21.8 points/game, Case Western Reserve boasts the number-one scoring defense, thanks in part to its stout core of junior linebackers.

KJ Pederson is fourth in the PAC in tackles per game (9.5), and has two sacks and a fumble forced to his credit.

Aaron Weisberg is 18th in the PAC in average tackles per game (7.5).

But, the key player defensively for the Spartans is Everett Dishong. The Ohio native is second in the PAC in tackles per game (9.7), has the second most sacks in the conference (5), is tied for fourth in the conference in tackles for loss (8.5), and has the second most pass breakups of any player in the PAC (5).

“O ur 3-4 defense is predicated on having our best players as our outside linebackers,” said Debeljak.

“Everett and [Pederson] are going to be put in situations to make plays, and we’re counting on them to make plays. Aaron is kind of the quarterback of the defense.

He gets everybody in the right place, he makes all of our adjustments, and is kind of our coach on the field guy.”

Men's and women's basketball Case Western a familiar head to Canada for fall break opponent to WU's Sikora

By JEFF CHAMP

For the Yellow Jacket

It is a trip four years in the making.

From October 13-16, the Waynesburg University men’s and women’s basketball teams will be making a trip to Canada to participate in two exhibition games against Redeemer College and Waterloo University, which are both located in Ontario.

This will be the second time the women’s team has made a trip like this, while the men will take it for the first time. When the women’s team went four years ago, it was because of head coach Sam Jones’ knowledge of the country.

Jones lived in Canada for 14 years, and it was because of time spent north of the border that he was familiar with the landscape of college basketball programs in Canada. With this knowledge, Jones began to make phone calls to the colleges and was able to formulate a trip.

“I wanted to go somewhere different than where we went last time,” said Jones.

“I also came up with the idea to invite the men’s team to make this a dual trip just because I enjoy working with Coach Christner and the men’s program.”

The trip won’t just be about basketball, as there will be plenty of opportunities for team building activities. These other aspects are really at the center of what Jones hopes his players get out of a trip like this.

“We want to have a lot of fun as a team,” said Jones.

“We want to do things completely unrelated to basketball to bond us as a team.”

It will also consist of a joint service project with the two basketball teams from Redeemer College.

“Working with Redeemer University College will allow for more of a comprehensive trip,” said men’s head coach Mark Christner. “We will be doing a service project with them, then we will use their facility to practice before playing them the next night.”

Men’s for ward Jacob Fleegle believes that there will be benefits for the team on the court too. “ Trips like this have multiple benefits,” said Fleegle. “One is it gets us

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Reigning Presidents' Athletic Conference Coach of the Year Mark Christner is poised for another strong year. playing as a team earlier and begins to build our chemistry. The added intensity and urgency it brings to the preseason is also a plus. It will be a good gauge as to where the team is at, and where we can improve, as we continue to work toward the season.”

Due to the condensed schedule of the first trip, there weren’t many opportunities for the team to bond and come together. The concept of getting away is something that women’s senior guard and team captain Hayden Giuliani believes will benefit this team on and off the court.

“We can just completely enjoy it,” said Giuliani. “We will be able to welcome the freshmen in and really solidify our team before the season begins. Knowing your teammates off the court is important. If you know your teammates off the court, then that will help you on the court.”

On the court, Jones’ goal for the team is simple: to be a better team when it returns than when it left. Even though these games won’t count toward Waynesburg’s overall record, Jones’ hope is to return to the States 2-0.

On the men’s side, the team has been prepping for this trip in many ways, including having nine extra practices and making some changes to its preseason workouts.

“This year, for our preseason workouts, we added

an extra day of team conditioning to help us prepare, since our season is starting two weeks earlier than usual,” said Fleegle, who will not be participating in the trip due to academic obligations on campus.

“We also upped the intensity during our workouts and conditioning, knowing we needed to have a sense of urgency without the two extra weeks.”

The fundraising for the trip has included players working at other Waynesburg sporting events, as well as the teams being able to use funds from the various camps they have put on throughout the year.

NCAA regulations dictate that teams are only allowed to make trips like this every three years, so Waynesburg aspires to be able to do something like this every four years.

Waynesburg won’t be the only Western Pennsylvania school to be participating in a trip outside of the country. Allegheny College, who Waynesburg plays this season, will be participating in exhibition games in Toronto.

Both teams and coaches are optimistic of how the trip will help their respective teams going into the regular season, which begins for both teams on Nov. 15.

The women’s team hosts Carnegie Mellon University and the men’s team locks horns with Muskingum.

When recruiting a prospective athlete, what college wouldn’t want someone who is not only an impeccable athlete, but also a 4.0 student, who was a valedictorian of his class? Waynesburg senior linebacker John Sikora was both of those in high school.

“When it came down to it, there were two main factors when deciding where I would go to school,” said Sikora. “It came down to the affordability and the coaches.”

One of the first schools Sikora went to visit as a recruit before entering his senior year of high school was Case Western Reserve University.

The Spartans entered the Presidents’ Athletic Conference this year, and will take on Waynesburg for the first time in program history this weekend. With Case Western’s location being just outside of Cleveland, Ohio, this

school would have been a lot closer distance for Sikora, a native of Campbell, Ohio.

The school’s proximity to home was one of the things that attracted him to Case Western at first.

But at the end of the recruiting period, even though it’s a bit further, Sikora ultimately chose Waynesburg.

“I chose Waynesburg over Case because Waynesburg allowed me to not only earn a great education, but also play the sport I love at an affordable cost to my family and I,” said Sikora. “Whereas Case was not the best financial decision.”

Sikora has had great success here both on and off the field. In 2013 he earned Honorable Mention AllPAC honors for the second consecutive season; he was named a Capital One Academic All-American by the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America; he ranked second on the team in tackles; and was named to the PAC Fall Academic Honor Roll.

“The football team, from the coaches to players, is a family to me and has helped me to grown to the best man I could be,” said Sikora.

Sikora is extremely fond of head coach Rick Shepas, since he and Shepas have similar values, and both have a desire and love of football, which sold Sikora to Waynesburg.

Shepas was very excited when he found out Sikora was going to attend Waynesburg in the fall of 2011 since he was one of the Jackets’ top recruits in the class and because Shepas recruited him personally. Even though Sikora is playing against a school he was interested in attending at one point in time, it doesn’t make a difference to this sensational student-athlete. He said it is just a game to come out and play. The past is the past.

“Looking back three years, I am proud and happy with my decision,” said Sikora. “I am in an environment where I can be successful on and off the field.”

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Four singers to fight for the WU Idol crown Round two of Waynesburg Idol decides finale

By YURIKA BLEVINS

For the Yellow Jacket

Twelve contestants entered the first round of Waynesburg Idol last week, but only eight got to perform on Friday.

Amber Lambing, Cara Badger, Danielle Schuyler and Jennifer Tustin all had their journey end before the show.

Four more contestants will be eliminated this Friday, Oct. 10. The remaining students will perform for a chance to be crowned this year's Waynesburg Idol.

The first performer in the second round of Waynesburg Idol was Rachel Philipp, freshman arts administration major. Philipp sang “Come and Get It”

by Selena Gomez.

She said she picked this song because it is fun to sing and dance to.

Her musical role models are Coldplay, John Mayer and Justin Timberlake.

Philipp said she decided to do Waynesburg Idol because she loves to sing.

Business Management major John Wicker was the second performer of the night.

He sang “Never Gonna Give You Up”

by Rick Astley. Wicker said he sang this song because it is a fun and go-to pleasure type of song.

His musical role models are John Mayer, Dallas Green, Matt Corby and Dan Smith from Bastille.

He also said he chose to do Waynesburg Idol because he loves to sing and it is a good performing opportunity.

Brenna Ross, a forensic accounting major, performed “Love Story” by Taylor Swift.

Ross said she picked this song because it is a good interpretation of fairy tales and it is fun to sing. Swift is Ross’ musical role model, along with Coldplay and Lenny Kravitz.

She chose to do Waynesburg Idol this year because she was too nervous to perform last year, and because she was in musicals and county chorus before.

She added that it would be a fun experience to perform and be a part of the competition.

The fourth performer was human services major Shonah Russell. Russell sang Christina Aguilera’s “Ain’t No Other Man.” “I picked this song because I didn’t want to play it safe and because it’s fun and gets the audience involved,” said Russell.

Adele and Aguilera are her two musical role models.

Russell decided to compete in Waynesburg Idol for her mom, who was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

If she wins, she plans on putting the money toward her mother’s medical bills.

“Prayer of the Refugee” by Rise Against was performed by freshman biology/pre-med major Sarah Flowers.

Flowers picked this song because she loves

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Sheryl Sesay performs at the second round of Waynesburg Idol last week.

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University band celebrates arrival of fall Residence Life aims to prepare students for world

By SHON MEADE and ADAM KIRASIC

For the Yellow Jacket

The Marsh Center was filled with the sounds of the seasons changing on Oct. 1 as the Waynesburg Symphonic Band held its fall concert.

There was a large turn out for the show with the majority of the seats filled.

The Waynesburg Symphonic Band consists of 40-50 regular members who participate.

These members range from music majors to others who have a passion for music and enjoy playing.

Also included in the group are a few community members and even faculty members at Waynesburg.

The conductor of the band is Dr. Ronda DePriest, associate professor of instrumental music and the director of the music program.

The band played six songs throughout the evening with a variety in musical selections such as marches and symphonic selections.

“It’s a lot of practice and working together to get it all done,” said junior psychology major and percussionist Kaitlyn Mignogna.

The first musical arrangement the group played was “Washington Grays March”

by Claudi Grafull.

This was a Civil War era regimental band march that was written in 1861 to honor the eight Regiment of the State Militia of New York.

“I wanted to start and end

with marches,” said DePriest.

“The middle pieces were based on melody.”

That was then followed with “A Song of Loudest Praise” by Andrew Boyson, which was a variation based on a traditional hymn.

“Tis a Gift” by Anne McGinty was the next piece that was played.

This piece is broken into three separate sections, each with a different meaning; the innocence of youth with the eagerness to experience all life has to offer, the gift of understanding and the willingness to forgive and the courage to persevere and remain optimistic, according to the program.

John Mackey’s “Sheltering Skys” and Fred J. Allen’s “When the Stars Began to

Fall” were the next pieces that were played.

The well-known composer Henry Mancini composed the final piece played, “Drummer’s Delight.” Mancini is known for writing various scores for television and movies, including the Pink Panther.

DePriest said she wanted the event to be a learning experience for the students.

“I felt that the atmosphere was very relaxing,” said freshman psychology major and trumpet player Marla Holland. “We got through each piece with grace and ease.”

The next time the band will play is on Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m. for their Christmas Concert titled, “A Childhood Christmas,” accompanied by The Lamplighters.

Couple shares love of music with campus Coffeehouse performers share journey

By JOHN LYDIC

Multimedia Manager

A couple’s desired passion for service and music brought the duo that performed at Waynesburg University Saturday night to their career paths.

The Waynesburg University campus came together for another one of its traditional Coffeehouse events, with So Long Solo performers headlining.

The event kicked off at 7 p.m. with the group mixing a variety of acoustics, brass and much more.

So Long Solo played many of their favorite hits throughout the night from “Under the Bridge” to “Awaken.”

The main focus of the evening was the group sharing their journey to success and the paths that they have taken in their journey.

The Indie Folk Pop couple got their individual starts 25 years ago, the two living just 45 minutes apart, but never knowing.

Each member of the duo has traveled to separate parts of the world, helping serve while developing their music passion.

Mark Miller spent the past five years in Tokyo, Japan playing music and teaching guitar.

Heather Miller got her start by finishing a music education degree, then head-

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Mark and Heather Miller, members of the musical group So Long Solo, perform some of their favorite hits at Coffeehouse Saturday. ing off to Uganda and South America to help orphans.

Heather Miller said that her life plan was about making an impact.

“I was trying to think about what made the biggest impact in my life, and teachers did, because during my childhood my parents weren’t very present,” said Heather Miller. “I thought I could be that difference too by being a teacher.”

When she thought about her goal of teaching, her plans became altered because she understood sharing her faith with students would not be ideal in the school setting.

This sent her on a path of

missionary work, according to Miller.

The two met at a canceled coffeehouse near their hometowns and took off in their careers and relationship.

According to the two, they have traveled to over 70 colleges, performing in front of crowds like Waynesburg.

The duo enjoys the college crowds because of the exploration the students are going through.

“We love it. We love the college campus,” said Mark Miller. “We love how people are figuring out life, and its just a fun environment to be in.”

The couple has performed

200 shows in places across the United States and world, according to their website.

They shared teas from around the world with the students at the coffeehouse, and for many of the students it was a big hit to give relaxation to a stressful week.

“I had Chai tea and it was delicious,” said sophomore math education major Taylor Garret. “It was nice that the performers brought tea for us.”

The group ended by sharing their thoughts on the Waynesburg experience.

“It was great here,” said Mark Miller. “They are great listeners and fun people.”

Diversity room educates about various cultures, traditions

By LUISA SINGLETARY For the Yellow Jacket

Waynesburg University Residence Life is attempting to combat a lack of cultural knowledge by giving students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the world, its diversity of peoples and their unique cultures – without leaving campus.

The Diversity Room was held on Oct. 1 and 2 in the Guesman Prayer Chapel on the first floor of Stover as a part of the Res-Life Growth Initiative.

The program highlighted the diversity of disabilities, family, hunger around the world, language, education, religion, the traditional wear of other countries and the importance of water as a resource, through individual stations dedicated to each topic.

Resident Assistants from Burns Hall and Ray Hall planned and created each station for the program.

Sophomore resident assistant for Ray Hall Amber Martin chose world religions as her exhibit topic.

“I picked it because my major is youth ministry, but it’s important to teach people about other religions as well. It’s not right to say our religion is ‘right’ or yours is ‘wrong’,” said Martin. “Until you understand every religion, it’s not fair to judge them on a couple aspects you don’t agree with. It’s important to keep an open mind to other things.”

Every station provided ways for students to interact directly with the topic to better learn from it.

For example, the hunger station allowed students to smell different scents of spices and coffee from around the world.

The traditional wear station allowed students to try on certain articles of clothing, and the family station encouraged viewers to write an acrostic poem about their own family.

Junior English secondary education major Mary Hoff-

man enjoyed learning about traditional wear.

“I loved the different items of clothing and the ability to try on a few,” said Hoffman.

Laurie Steere, resident director of Burns and Ray Halls and the facilitator of this event was very intentional about the program’s interactivity.

“We tried to make it as hands-on as possible,” said Steere. “We wanted it to be about seeing and touching and making it a full experience instead of just staring at a projector.”

The Diversity Room has been held for three years as a part of the Res-Life Growth Initiative.

Each Resident Director is responsible for one of the following six different areas: Community, Diversity, Science, Faith, Wellness and Vocation.

Throughout the year, they serve as facilitators as the Resident Assistants work together to create and run events that represent these key areas.

Ste ere b elie ves ver y strongly in the importance

“You don't just live in a dorm. I mean, you sleep and study there, but you also learn and grow there.”

LAURIE STEERE

Resident Director

of this kind of intentional programming—especially its connection to the residence halls.

“You don’t just live in a dorm. I mean, you sleep and study there, but you also learn and grow there,” said Steere. “When you go out on campus, hopefully events like this can be used as a source of growth.”

Steere’s area is diversity and The Diversity Room is just one of many diversity initiative events that will be held throughout the year. She sees immense value in these experiences.

“Any opportunity to learn about different cultures or what makes people different can help you see how similar you are,” said Steere.

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Student ensemebles illustrate multiple cultures in one concert

By TIM NERAL

For the Yellow Jacket

As a person got closer to the Marsh center at noon, they began to hear the echoing thud of the drums.

It was followed by the lighthearted and spirited, childlike energy of the woodwind ensemble, which in turn was countered with the full sound of the majestic brass.

The jazz group was what a person would expect, illustrating the sassiness of the saxophone, quirkiness of the trombones, blatancy of the drum set, agreement of the piano and bass and romanticizing of the trumpet.

To end on a loud hurrah, the pipe and drum band exuded the bagpipes obnoxious and yet admirably proud tones, depicting an unyielding, Braveheart-esque portrait.

The audience’s claps of approval were evident at the end of each travel in place and time throughout the cultural collection encompassed in the event’s program.

“The beauty of ensemble

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The brass ensemble performs as part of a Chamberworks concert on Thursday, Oct. 2. Various student music ensembles created music to emulate a variety of cultures for their audience. music is that it can be both poetic and practical,” said Dr. Ronda DePriest, associate professor of instrumental music and the director of the music program. “The poetic side is in the same connection of painting a picture.

With the percussion, you really got a sense of the West African drumming. You got the opposite with the pipe

band. You’re getting a culture full of music in one concert.

That’s the spice of life.”

The purpose of chamberworks ensembles is to create more one-on-one opportunities between students and instructors. Chamberwork concerts offer a different repertoire than larger ensembles and DePriest said that small ensembles give music majors

a chance to practice a different repertoire.

“A lot of people want to keep playing and singing but they don’t have the time to participate in the larger ensemble,” said DePriest.

“It [chamberworks ensembles] is an area that calls for teamwork. As an individual student, sometimes you lose sight of how you mix with

the ensemble.”

Senior music major Phil Hurd, who participates in the drum, jazz and pipe and drum ensembles, said being part of a smaller ensemble is much different from being in a band.

“There’s a lot of community in the smaller groups,” said Hurd. “It’s exhilarating for me and calming at the

same time.”

Hurd said he has benefited from performing at Waynesburg.

The more he performs, the more he practices.

The balance between professionalism and community is huge and something that Hurd has been able to find here.

To better understand what describes chamberworks ensembles, Hurd used the words entertaining, intimate and expansive.

“The entertaining just comes from the music and the intimate comes from there being six people in the group,” said Hurd. “Our audience isn’t 20 feet away.

They’re right in front of us and that’s what makes us so intimate.”

What chamberworks ensemble successfully did was promote the music of many cultures, so as to make the performance as relatable to as many people as possible.

“People chose to take part of their lunch time,” said DePriest. “It shows the community sees what we’re trying to do, too.”

Student's art displays wonder of God's work Diversity: Residence Life program focuses on student growth

By MATT KOLL

Editorial Assistant

Senior art major Laura Shawver showed off her hard work throughout her career at Waynesburg when her art exhibit opening was held on Monday, Oct. 7, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center.

The exhibit showed off all 35 pieces of her work, including drawings, paintings, ceramics and printmaking, as well as photography and textiles.

Monday marked the first time Shawver was a part of an exhibit dedicated solely to her work. Shawver’s art included an overlying theme of people in nature, and the connection the two have.

“I love people and I love nature,” said Shawver. “There is a relationship that I find there and it is really interesting to me.”

Shawver wants people to reflect on the personal relationships with each other and with God, and she tries to convey the beauty in nature and in people despite their imperfections. She implements her faith as part of her art.

“I really try to convey the beauty that I see around me of people’s personal lives and the different personality types people have,” said Shawver. “In nature, I really like flowers and the connection that we as humans have

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Laura Shawver talks with visitors at her art exhibit during its opening on Monday.

In her art, Shawver said she aims to show the beauty of human imperfection. with nature. I also like to from their ideas and techHeisey feels that this is an bring out the message that niques, Shawver uses her opportunity not only for the God can create beautiful own life experiences to draw audience to observe and apthings out of the messes in inspiration for her work. She preciate the artist’s work, but our lives so I try to imple- also wants people to never an opportunity for the artists ment that into my work as underestimate the power of themselves to better appreciwell.”

God. ate their own work.

Andrew Heisey, gallery “A lot of this comes from The galleries also effecdirector for the exhibit, is my own life experience of tively document the impact impressed with the way understanding how God that the students make on Shawver portrays human works to perfect us,” Shawver the university and signify imperfections in her work said. “He creates beauty out the apex of their careers at using her own unique style. of things that we see as bad, Waynesburg.

“Her work is very spiritu- He can turn things com“You make all that work, al,” said Heisey. “She wants pletely around. When I’m but you don’t always get to it to show that even though even thinking about draw- appreciate the amount that we have imperfections, there ing something or creating you do or the quality of it unis something beautiful about something, I think about that til you see it all around you us. So in some of her work, first a lot of times, because in a room,” said Heisey. “It’s she has left those imperfec- I’ve experienced that in my different to see your work tions in her work, not be- own life.” on a wall with a light on it cause she can’t do it any other Senior art majors are re- as opposed to in your dorm way, but instead of fixing ev- quired to hold an exhibit like room or on the table. As an ery little mistake, the mistake this to show off their work art major, it’s the pinnacle of becomes part of the work to from their four years at the their career here because it really make it beautiful.” university, as well as making gives them a chance to look Along with observing oth- something in particular for back and reflect on all they er artists’ work and drawing the exhibition. have done here.”

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metal and it was the closest thing to not having to scream.

“It relates to my life,” said Flowers.

Her role models are Norah Jones and Panic! At The Disco’s Brendan Urie.

Flowers loves to sing, which is why she chose to participate in Waynesburg Idol.

She also just wants to see how far she can make it.

Freshman Adam Kirasic, sports broadcasting/ sports information major, performed “Cups” by Anna Kendrick.

He wanted to perform this song because the visual of the cup added the element of talent.

Kirasic’s musical role models are Phillip Quast and Ramin Karimloo.

His reason for participating in Waynesburg Idol was because it seemed like a lot

of fun.

Sheryl Sesay, a psychology major, was singer number six. Sesay sang “Momma Knows Best” by Jessie J. “It’s a personality, rock-out type of song,” said Sesay.

Her role model is Jessie J, and she did Waynesburg Idol this year because participated last year, and it was a good experience and she loves to perform.

The last singer was freshman Entrepreneurship major Kiana Levi. She sang “The Climb” by Miley Cyrus.

Levi picked this song because she loves the message, as it is very inspirational.

Adele is her musical role model because of the power she has.

She chose to perform in WU Idol because any chance she has to sing, she’ll take.

Also, her passion is singing and she loves being around other singers.

The finale of Waynesburg Idol is slated for 8 p.m. in the Johnson Commons.

business, or maybe to do missionary work—it can look different—but it’s our responsibility to prepare them to do well on their work.”

Martin also agrees with the goals of the diversity initiative.

“The diversity program exists so people can learn to be more open minded, and so we’re not stuck in our own world,” said Martin.

The Diversity Room itself

is held once a year, but its return is already being anticipated by students who attended.

“I would definitely go again,” said Hoffman. “I think it’s a great opportunity for students to explore other cultures.”

Hoffman’s thoughts mirror Steere’s hopes for the program’s future at Waynesburg.

“We wanted to create and do something memorable,” said Steere. “We hope to create a tradition that will be something students will look forward to every year.”

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WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS

1. Lollobrigida of film 5. Just for laughs 10. Stand watch for, say 14. Kosher food carrier 15. Half a classic comedy team 16. Sound from an Abys sinian 17. Twice-monthly tide 18. System with a Porte de Versailles station 20. Not pure 22. Respectful bow 23. Flower part 24. River blocker 25. Instrument using rolls 33. Acapulco dough 37. Six-Day War statesman 38. Ending for bobby 39. Tech support caller 40. Long Island airport town 42. “What __ you think ing?”

43. NFLer until 1994 45. Colorado natives 46. Fusses 47. In the U.S., it has more than 950 stations 50. Defective firecracker 51. Defeat decisively 56. Most joyful 60. Vegas hotel known for its fountains 63. Pasta sauce ingredient 65. Bacon buy 66. Longfellow’s “The Bell of __” 67. Knighted golf analyst 68. Fictional submariner 69. Nursery supply 70. Impose unjustifiably

71. Cereal “for kids”

DOWN

1. Biological group 2. Graff of “Mr. Belvedere” 3. Anti-discrimination org.

4. Dominant, among animals 5. Rascals 6. In order 7. Cab __ 8. Ocean State coll.

9. Daytona 500 org.

10. One making impres sions 11. Intrude, with “in”

12. Blunders 13. “Iliad” setting 19. Childhood ailment, typically 21. Wildspitze, for one 24. Didn’t allow 26. Aromatic garland 27. Ridiculous 28. 1945 conference city 29. Home to Cedar Falls and Cedar Rapids 30. Chopped down 31. “I, Claudius” role 32. Unrefined finds 33. Juicer refuse 34. Son of Isaac 35. Belgrade native

LAST WEEK'S SOLUTION

36. Like some presentations 41. Letters on tires 44. Center 48. Discontinued 49. Nocturnal bird of prey 52. Lacks 53. Obvious flirt

54. Biscayne Bay city 55. Many a bus. address, and a literal hint to 18-, 25-, 47- and 63-Across 56. Data in coll. transcripts 57. Middle harmony choral part

58. Doctor Zhivago 59. Jannings of “The Blue Angel” 60. Indonesian resort island 61. LAX data 62 Burglar’s haul 64 “Little Red Book” writer

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THE BACK PAGE

Written by Danielle Schuyler

This is a grouping of the “top 10” new television series whose first seasons have aired this fall. Their ranking percentages were determined by combining critics’ ratings from metacritic.com and rottentomatoes.com.

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“The Affair” (Showtime) - 92% - Premieres on Oct. 12 at 10/9c “The Affair” shares what it is like for the cheated-on when two married people delve into infidelity. Psychological and emotional effects are presented from the female and male perspective.

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“Jane The Virgin” (CW) - 91% - Premieres on Oct. 13 at 9/8c “Jane The Virgin”has a title that lays ground for a pretty obvious main character trait. The not-so-obvious detail is that she is accidentally artificially inseminated by her gynecologist. After discovering that her new boss - who is also a cancer survivor and her previous crush - is the sperm donor, Jane must decide if she is going to keep her baby.

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“Constantine” (NBC) - 88% - Premieres on Oct. 24 at 10/9c DC Comics fans will recognize the name of this series, which is based on the comic book set Hellblazer. John Constantine, played by Matt Ryan, is a demon hunter who has given up on his quest to save souls from Hell. His fate changes one day when an angel name Manny (Harold Perrineau) comes to him, requesting his services in order to save mankind.

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”Survivor’s Remorse” (Starz) - 86% - Premiered on Oct. 4 at 9/8c “Survivor’s Remorse” is a comedy about a novice basketball player, Cam Calloway, that has just received his first professional basketball contract. As any ‘baller’ would, this man must navigate his way through fake friends and the glitz of fame, trying to not forget where he has come from. LeBron James is the producer for this series.

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”Marry Me” (NBC) - 83% - Premieres on Oct. 14 at 9/8c “Marry Me” is a romantic comedy about a man and woman who want to get married, but there is one catch...they cannot master the proposal. Entirely too focused on making it a spectacular presentation, the couple’s stumbles make for entertaining episodes.

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”The Flash” (CW) - 82% - Premiered on Oct. 7 at 8/7c “The Flash” tells the story of Barry Allen, played by Grant Gustin, who becomes the Flash after an explosion of the particle accelerator at S.T.A.R. Labs. Allen decides to use his superpowers to save mankind with Detective Joe West, his surrogate father, at his side. This series is CW’s answer to the fans plead for an Arrow spin-off.

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”Black-ish” (ABC) - 81% - Premiered on Sept. 24 at 9/8c “Black-ish,” starring its creator Anthony Anderson, is a comedic exploration into the establishing of cultural identity. Anderson’s character Dre, has a bi-racial wife and four kids, including one who really wants a bar mitzvah even though they aren’t the slightest bit Jewish. Hannibal’s Lawerence Fishbourne is cast as Dre’s father who wears velour tracksuits all of the time just because he can. Dre, despite all of their family’s craziness, is persistent in getting his kids to bond with their ethnic background.

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”Gotham” (Fox) - 81% - Premiered on Sept. 22 at 8/7c Telling the origin of Gotham city’s police commissioner Jim Gordon, played by Ben McKenzie (Southland), “Gotham” has pleased many DC Comics fans. Jim Gordan is a young detective who with his partner Havery Bullock, investigates the murder of Bruce Wayne’s parents. “Gotham” is said to also describe the beginnings of Catwoman, the Riddler, and the Penguin.

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”How to Get Away with Murder” (ABC) - 76% - Premiered on Sept. 25 at 10/9c Shonda Rhimes, program creator of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal”, has introduced another thriller that’s already capturing audiences. Viola Davis ( The Help ), plays a defense attorney and law school professor who takes her job further than most. Davis’ character teaches her students to go far beyond the classroom, the real-life-application keeping everyone - even the viewer - on their toes.

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”Kingdom” (DirecTV) - 71% - Premiered on Oct. 8 at 9/8c “Kingdom” is an intense mixture of family values, Mixed Martial Arts, and the battling with one’s own conscience. Alvey Kulina, played by Frank Grillo (Prison Break), an MMA legend and owner of Navy St. Gym, must take the majority of his fights outside the ring.

Design by Alexis Boudreau Sources: rottentomatoes.com, metacritic.com, and tvguide.com

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