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Congressman addresses graduate nursing studentsBy Stephanie LaingEditorial Assistant

One year ago, thehealth care reform billwas signed into law.Major changes have leftmany individuals, includ-ing health care providers,

with questions and con-cerns.

One class in Waynes-burg University’s Master

of Science Nursing pro-gram, a cohort group fromUPMC Mercy Hospital,took the initiative to findanswers.

Congressman JasonAltmire visited Waynes-burg University’s Mon-roeville Center yesterday

from 1 to 2 p.m. to answertheir questions.

Altmire, who votedagainst the original healthcare reform bill, explainedhow the reform affectsthem as health careproviders.

The group continued

to discuss Medicare andMedicaid, effects on hos-pitals, single-payer sys-tem and health informa-tion technology.

“[I found most valu-able] the specifics of

Studentstold to ‘takeback night’on April 4By Kyle EdwardsRegion Editor

For the third consecu-tive year, WaynesburgUniversity will host“Take Back the Night,” aprogram that aims toraise awareness of sexualviolence.

The Waynesburg Uni-versity Peer Educators arethe hosting the event,which starts at 7 p.m. onApril 4.

“Take Back the Nightbegan as a reaction to theneed for women to avoid‘being out at night,’meaning they alone weretraditionally responsiblefor protecting them-selves,” said Mary Hamil-la, director of the Univer-sity peer education pro-gram.

“Often sexual assaulthas been dismissed as notsuch a big deal or as thevictim’s fault and victimsrarely spoke of it.”

Unfortunately, whilepenalties for sexualassault have becomemuch more stringent,many victims still do notfeel supported in report-ing the crime, Hamillasaid.

“We hope to empowervictims to be heard and toempower bystanders tohelp prevent this crime,”she said.”

Take Back the Night is

High and liftedRoberts Chapel construction continues,workers finish installation of steeple

up

Photos by Amanda Rice, Gregory Reinhart and Lisa Jaeger

The steeple arrived on campus last week on three trucks (top left). On March 16 and17, workers hoisted the two sections of the steeple onto Roberts Chapel. The Chapelis scheduled to be completed by August.

By Megan CampbellStaff Writer

The University hostedits annual youth day onMarch 19. The eventhelped youth discoverwhat it means to followJesus Christ throughactivities and games, wor-ship and workshops.

The theme this yearwas “The Making of aReal Hero.”

Many WaynesburgUniversity students aswell as various youthgroups from all aroundGreene County andthe  surrounding Pitts-burgh region participatedin the event.

University ChaplainTom Ribar helped withthe event.

”Our focus is to invite

University should celebrate Christian heritage,pastor says at 161st Charter Day convocationBy Sarah BellEditorial Assistant

Enter the processionled by the sound of bag-pipes. This is the start ofWaynesburg University’sCharter Day Convoca-tion, celebrating 161years.

Dr. Dana Baer, dean ofUndergraduate Studies,opened the event with acall to worship.

“Let us prepare to standbefore the Word of God,”Baer said. “Let us worshipGod in spirit and truth.”

The invocation waspresented by the Rev.

William A. Sukolsky, pas-tor of First PresbyterianChurch in Waynesburg.

President Timothy

Thyreen introduced thespeaker through a quoteby St. Augustine, “Pray asthough everything

depended upon God.Work as though every-thing depended uponyou.”

The Rev. Dr. StuartBroberg addressed theConvocation in hisspeech, “The Seed of aNation.”

According to the Way-nesburg University web-site, Broberg has been apastor for 25 years.

He commonly address-es the issues of plannedgiving, capital campaigns,stewardship and churchrevitalization and growth.

Photo by Lisa Jaeger

The Rev. Dr. Stuart Broberg addresses the congrega-tion during the Charter Day convocation, held Tuesday.

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U.S. Congressman Mark Critzalso visited Greene County

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a national event, so thereare rallies all over thecountry throughoutApril, Hamilla said.

Monday night’s pro-gram will start with abrief overview of the his-tory of Take Back theNight and a summaryabout the scope of sexualviolence.

“There will be discus-sion of this year’s theme,which is ‘It’s time to getinvolved,’” Hamilla said.

“The theme highlights

the fact that it is not justthe victim who needs todeal with this issue butall of us can help.”

After the discussion,survivors of sexual vio-lence will share the sto-ries of their ordeals andhealing.

“Some of the WU peereducators will facilitatethe educational part ofthe program,” Hamillasaid.

“One of our students,Jessie King, is doing herinternship with [a Wash-ington County organiza-tion that raises awarenessabout sexual violence andprovides counseling forvictims] this semesterand will speak specifical-

ly about Take Back theNight.”

A survivor/therapistwill tell her own story ofvictimization and sur-vival and several Waynes-burg students will speakas well.

“We want to empha-size that it is not onlywomen who are victimsof this crime,” Hamillasaid.

“Many boys are sexu-

ally victimized and adultmen experience rape aswell. We hope that theytoo are empowered tospeak up and seek thehelp and support theyneed.”

The evening will endwith a candle lightingceremony.

“The ceremony sym-bolizes hope, healing andlighting the night,” saidHamilla.

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Charter Day recognizes University’s history By Sarah BellEditorial Assistant

On March 22, Waynes-burg University celebrat-ed the anniversary of itscharter. The universityreceived its charter 161years ago, one year after itwas established.

“Charter Day is the cel-ebration of the Universi-ty’s founding. It wasfounded by people thatwere very committed totheir faith,” PresidentTimothy Thyreen said. “Itwas founded by peoplethat supported the idea ofmen and women gettingan education; that all peo-ple are children of Godand should have equalopportunities.”

Heidi Szuminsky,director of Alumni Rela-tions, said that charterday is an event that recog-nizes and celebrates theuniversity’s mission.

“Overall it’s a time forus as an institution to cel-ebrate the fact that we’rean institution and our

mission,” Szuminskysaid. “We celebrate theway we got our charter tobecome Waynesburg Col-lege at the time.”

The Charter Day cele-bration was held at theFirst Presbyterian Churchin Waynesburg at 11 a.m.

The service recognizedstudents chosen for the2011 Who’s Who AmongStudents in AmericanUniversities and Colleges.The convocation also con-sisted of a prayer service, aspeaker, a procession offaculty and a performanceby the Lamplighter Con-cert Choir.

“Because it is a celebra-tion of our history and ourmission we invite alumnito come and just partici-pate in the servicebecause our alumni arethe foundation of the Uni-versity,” Szuminsky said.“They are part of our his-tory and so we just invitethem to come back andenjoy the service.”

The InstitutionalAdvancement Office

works with the Presi-dent’s Office to plan theevent.

“I think it’s a way ofcelebrating but alsoremembering our respon-sibilities being Waynes-burg alumnus that thepeople who worked sohard to make sure thisschool would be [here areremembered],” Thyreensaid. “We need to recog-nize their efforts, but wealso need to make thesame efforts ourselves tonot only improve ourcommunities and ourstate but to reach out tothe world as we do withmany of our missiontrips.”

Szuminsky believesthat Charter Day is acommunity event and itis important that thecommunity and campuscelebrate together.

“Charter Day hasalways been open to thecommunity because thecommunity is part of ourhistory as well,” Szumin-sky said. “We invite those

who want to celebratewith us.”

Although the CharterDay celebration was heldin the First PresbyterianChurch for many years,next year the event willtake place in the finishedRoberts Chapel.

President Thyreen rec-ognizes the importance ofstudents having an under-standing of the universi-ty’s charter and founda-tion before they graduate.

“I think as a campusmany times a studentcould go through here andnot understand the found-ing; the founding is whatis so important becausethat is what a WaynesburgEducation should beabout,” Thyreen said.

“It’s important for thestudents, faculty and staffto have a clear under-standing of who we are,what we are and what wewant our students to do,not only when their herebut also when they leaveus and go out to theworld.”

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The Lamplighter Concert Choir performs during Charter Day , held at First Presbyterian Church in Waynesburg.

Broberg began hisspeech by joking with theaudience and addressingthe students chosen forthe 2011 Who’s WhoAmong Students in Amer-ican Uni-versitiesand Col-leges.

In ref-erence tothe stu-dents, hesaid thatif he wereto sum-marizehis speechit wouldbe simple;“Theseare myliving ser-mon illustrations today. Ido believe you are the seedof a nation.”

He continued hisspeech by discussingWilliam Penn, who hedescribed as a reformer,Christian, Quaker and thefirst governor of Pennsyl-vania.

Broberg quoted Pennsaying, “There may beroom there for such a holyexperiment, for thenations want a precedentand my God will make itthe seed of a nation. Thatan example may be set upto the nations that wemay do the thing that istruly wise and just.”

Broberg referred back tothis quote throughout hisspeech. He said that asmall seed planted withfaith could grow into alarge tree.

“There is spirituality inthe heart of humanity forevery good thing that is

then done. Music, thearts, knowledge, writing;it all began in the humanheart, but by a spiritualimpulse placed there bythe Creator,” Broberg said.“The seed is planted bythe hand of God.”

Waynesburg Universitywas founded by the Cum-berland PresbyterianChurch 162 years ago.

The char-ter for theuniversitywas signedone yearafter thefounding.

“Thecharter ofthis uni-versitywas plant-ed as aseed bythe handofGod...thiswas a

place unashamed of itsChristian heritage; a placewhere the best of academ-ic excellence would com-bine with Christianity,”said Broberg.

“This is a snapshot ofWaynesburg Universityon Charter Day 2011.”

He also said that God isthe sower and the princi-ples that students learn atWaynesburg Universityare the seeds.

“The advertising says‘We are Waynesburg Uni-versity.’ We are the seed ofa nation,” Broberg said.“We are the peopleWilliam Penn envisionedand hoped for so longago.”

The service also con-sisted of the recognition ofthe Who’s Who Students,the benediction by theRev. Tom Ribar, universi-ty chaplain, and two per-formances by the Lamp-lighter Concert Choir.

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“This was a placeunashamed of itsChristian heritage; aplace where the bestof academic excel-lence would combinewith Christianity.”

Stuart BrobergCharter Day Speaker

health care reform andhow it’s perceived aroundparty lines. It is unfortu-nate how much politicsplays into health caredecisions and health carereform,” said MichelleFontana, a student in theclass and manager of theTrauma and Burns Pro-grams at UPMC MercyHospital.

Altmire encouragednurses, despite theirexpertise and level of edu-cation, to work togetheras they determine thesafest and most cost effi-cient way to providehealth care.

“You talk about not themoney that is involved.You want to talk abouthow, and you’re uniquelypositioned to do this ashealth care providers, theimpact of your job andwhat you do on the peoplethat we [government offi-cials] represent,” said Alt-mire. “That helps meremember the personalside of this.”

The discussion veered

awayfrom thehealthcare sys-tem,movingontootherpoliticalissuessuch asstem cell

research, budget cuts andfunding, welfare reformand the nation’s ability toeffectively respond tonational crises.

“I try to emphasize tothe students [that theyshouldn’t] just believe onepoint of view,” said ChadRittle, the class’ facilitatorand fulltime faculty onthe VA grant.

“You need to do yourresearch; you need to askquestions. You need tolook at all sides thenmake up your mind. [Alt-mire] has one point ofview; it is an influentialone because he is in Con-gress, but he is just onepoint of view.”

Although Altmire pre-sented specifically to thePolitics and Health Policyclass, the event was opento other MSN studentsand any interested nursingfaculty.

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Students must take action to alleviate spring allergies, nurse saysBy Marisa van der EijkStaff Writer

Sneezing, itchy eyes,runny nose: You may besuffering from more thana cold.

As the weather starts towarm and the flowersstart to bloom, springallergies start to appearand cause problems forpeople of all ages. CarolYoung, director of healthservices, said that as soonas the cold stops, the bat-tle with allergies starts.

“People are usuallyallergic to dust in the win-ter and pollen in thespring,” said Young.“[But] some people justtend to be more allergicthan others.”

Donna Haines, a staffnurse at health services,says that body changescould also contribute tovarious allergies as well.

In addition, Young saidthat quantity of allergenssubstances can oftenaffect an individual’s aller-gies.

“A person might expe-rience a greater allergicreaction if they are in anenvironment with a lot offlowers,” she said.

Haines said numeroussubstances contribute tospring allergies.

“Different types ofpollen, ragweed and grass-es can all cause allergiesduring the spring time,”Haines said.

However, the symp-toms are rarely badenough that studentshave to miss class, Young

said. Itchy and watery eyes,

inflamed sinuses, an itchythroat or even experiencemigraines all might indi-cate an allergy.

To lessen the symp-toms, students can pur-chase allergy medicationsat grocery stores, as manydo not require prescrip-tions. Because of the vari-ety, individuals are able tosee which one works bestfor them.

“There is good newsthere,” Young said. “The

pharmaceuticals now aremuch better than theywere 10 years ago.”

In addition, Young saidstudents should take sev-eral precautions if they dohave allergies.

“It’s important to vacu-um and cover your bedand pillowcases,” Youngsays.

Haines says that it’salso important to limitthe amount of stuffed ani-mals in rooms.

“Animals can also bean allergy trigger,” Haines

said. Finally, Haines says

that it is very importantto just be prepared forallergy season in general.

“Buy your allergy med-ication in advance andcarry your inhaler,”Haines says. “Also washyour hands; just in case.”

Young says to payattention to the pollencount on the televisiondaily. Keeping an eye onthe count will help indi-viduals plan their dailyevents.

Meal guest passes now available for students• Because the Univer-

sity went trayless, stu-dents can now use oneguest pass for a meal thissemester.

Only one pass wasgiven to students becausethe decision to go tray-less was made in midse-mester. Students on 10-,14- or 19-meal plansreceived passes.

• The candidates fornext year’s Student Sen-ate Executive Board willbe in the Beehive fromnoon to 1 p.m. on March29 and in Benedum Din-ing Hall from 5:30 to 6:30p.m. on March 30.

Students are encour-aged to visit them to dis-cuss their goals for Sen-ate.

They will also be ableto vote for next year’sExecutive Board.

• Only six studentsapplied for positions. The

lack of applicantsbrought many questionsto mind for many sena-tors and when PresidentMike Quinn opened the

floor to questions aboutthe voting situationsophomore history majorBrandon Grainy had a lotto say.

Grainy asked Quinn ifa low turnout had been aproblem in previousyears, and Quinn saidthat this was a problemwhen electing last year’sexecutive board.

Grainy asked, “Don’tyou think that wouldmean there’s a generallack of interest in Stu-dent Senate among thestudent body?”

“Every organizationgoes through somethinglike this,” said Quinn.

Due to the fact that allof the positions are run-ning unopposed and thecandidates will receivethe positions theyapplied for regardless ofhow the voting goes, sen-ators began to questionthe purpose of voting andwhether the students’voice will matter in thevoting.

~ Brandon Reed

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Senate Academic Vice President Brian Werhle talksabout Executive Board elections for next year.

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Networking opportunities abound forbusiness students at R.I.S.E. conferenceBy Matthew SnyderStaff Writer

Known as the largeststudent investmentconference in theworld, the RedefiningInvestment StrategyEducation conferencewill offer four Waynes-burg University stu-dents the chance tolearn from some of thetop names in theinvestment worldtoday.

R.I.S.E. XI will givestudents the chance tointeract with industryleaders.

Puja Mikkilineni,Joel Wingard, MarkHlatky and JoshuaCogar will travel to theUniversity of Daytonfrom March 31 untilApril 2 to take part inthe interactive environ-ment R.I.S.E. presents

to the students and pro-fessionals that willattend the conference.

“This is a really greatchance for our studentsto participate in higher-level discussionsregarding investmenttheory, practical appli-cation and meet sometremendous contacts inthe industry,” saidAssistant Professor ofBusiness Administra-tion Christian Ola.

“Their resumes weredistributed to 350 plusprofessionals fromindustry, graduateschools, etc. I look for-ward to watching themlearn from this eventand hope to make it anannual trip for somemembers of the studentinvestment club.”

Ola will be takingmembers of the Invest-ment Club to theR.I.S.E. conference for

the first time this year. Students attending

the conference wereencouraged to haveresumes prepared andsent to the conference.

The conference givesstudents a chance tomake valuable connec-tions and give them-selves a better chancein the investmentworld.

The R.I.S.E. confer-ence has a history ofgiving students a first-hand look into theinvesting world.

Events such as hav-ing Dr. Ben Bernanke,chairman of the FederalReserve Board, speak atthe conference andhosting NASDAQ’sfirst-ever-on-a-college-campus remote closingbell ceremony have

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“I look forward towatching them learnfrom this event and hopeto make it an annualevent....”

Christian OlaAssistant Professor of Business Administration

Director of GAPSurges students to lookinto graduate schoolBy Alex HintonEditorial Assistant

Waynesburg Universi-ty’s Graduate and Pro-fessional StudiesDepartment of Educa-tion has many things tooffer.

The education pro-grams, includingInstructional Technolo-gy, Special Educationand Teaching, are a greatopportunity for anyoneinterested in furtheringtheir education after col-lege.

Debra Clarke, direc-tor of the GAPS educa-tion programs, believesthat it is important forWaynesburg students toexplore their choicesand look into graduateprograms.

“My advice would beto cast a wide net andlook at as many optionsas possible as far as whatyour dreams are,” shesaid.

“Some people limittheir options by pigeon-holing themselvesbecause they didn’t lookat a wide variety ofoptions.”

Each of the three pro-grams in the educationdepartment offers some-thing a bit different.

There are two pathsto the instructionaltechnology program.

One is a Master ofEducation designed forthose who currentlyteach and would like toknow more about theincorporation of tech-nology in the classroom.

The other is aninstructional technolo-gy specialist certifica-tion, which allows thosewho complete the pro-gram to work at schooldistricts as technologycoordinators or coaches,Clarke said.

There are also twoseparate tracks for theSpecial Education pro-grams, Clarke said.

There is a master’sdegree and a SpecialEducation certification,which is an add-on to ateaching certificate.

“Many school dis-tricts require dual certi-fications,” Clarke said.

“This allows teachersto add that second certi-fication.”

The teaching programoffers a Master of Arts inTeaching, a post-bac-calaureate degree afteran initial teachingdegree.

The certification isfor those who alreadyhave an undergraduatedegree but are not certi-fied to teach. The MAThas focuses in English,mathematics, biology,chemistry, general sci-ence and social studies.

“We really find thatprogram is for two typesof people,” Clarke said.

One type are the indi-viduals who haverecently completed adegree in one of theareas the program focus-es on but do not yetknow what they want todo with that degree andlater decide on teaching,she said.

“The other is folkswho have been in thework force for a whileand want to make acareer change and say ‘Ithink I’d like to be ateacher,’” Clarke said.

The Education pro-grams are offered atWaynesburg’s threeGAPS locations: South-pointe, Monroeville andNorth Hills.

The graduate programis an accelerated pro-gram, which runs in

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area-wide youth, middleschool and high schoolage, and give them a day-long experience that is amix of games and work-shops that are all aimed athelping them think morecarefully about what itmeans to be a follower ofJesus,” said Ribar.

Maranda Roach, fromthe First Baptist Church,and Nicole Conaway,from West WaynesburgJesus Distributor, partici-pated in Youth Day.

“I loved everythingabout it and I learned thatGod made us all superheroes,” Conaway said.“The atmosphere wasrelaxed and I reallyenjoyed meeting all thenew people.”

This event establishedbridges between denomi-nations and traditions, aswell as giving the youthan opportunity to makenew friends and connectwith old ones.

“I would love to attendYouth Day again becauseit’s so easy to connectwith people here, andeveryone who came lovesGod,” Roach said.

One goal of this event

was to provide an environ-ment for making newfriends and exploringidentity.

“Our hope was thatthey leave with a deepersense of God’s calling ontheir life to follow Jesusand what that means,”said Ribar.

“If they came not quitesure about what theChristian faith is about,that they heard theGospel and they’re goingto see Jesus and who Jesusis and also what it meansto trust in him and followhim in a fresh light,”

Ribar said.Jordan Merenick, a jun-

ior creative writing major,helped coordinate as wellas participated in YouthDay.

“Youth Day consists ofan all day event which isdesigned to bring the kidscloser to God or to intro-duce them to the savinglove of Jesus,” Merenicksaid.

The students thathelped coordinate theevent set up the games forthe gym, co-led work-shops, led the games andbonded with their group

of youth. The workshopsdiscussed the ways tobecome a hero using thetalents God has bestowedupon the youth involved.It helped remind the kidsof God’s love for all ofthem and the endless pos-sibilities of that love.

The day consisted ofinteractive games in bothgyms, two sessions thatallowed University stu-dents to talk to the teensfor 45 minutes, a sermonby Ribar, a concert byEs.Oh.West and worshipto open and close theevent.

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A Youth Day participant climbs through the obstacle course as senior Kyle Kooyers,dressed as Optimus Prime, watches. Youth Day was held last weekend.

Freshmen invitedto complete surveyabout experiencesBy Cori SchipaniStaff Writer

With spring student to-do lists consisting ofsearching for next year’sroommate, registering forfall classes and makingsummer plans, it is easy tolet messages in the uni-versity email account pileup or ignore them alto-gether. An item easily lostin the spring bustle andtacked onto a never-end-ing task list is the Associ-ation of Independent Col-leges and Universities ofPennsylvania First YearSurvey invitation sentthrough email.

Sent March 11, fromProvost Robert Graham,the email asked freshmento complete the 37-ques-tion survey “to evaluatethe strengths and weak-nesses to the institution’seducational and curricularprograms.”

“The voluntary surveygives students an opportu-nity to voice theirapproval or disapprovalabout their freshmanexperience,” said Graham.

According to Graham,survey participationvaries, but he statedonline surveys generallyreceive fewer responses.

“If they choose not toparticipate, yes, it savesthem a few minutes,” saidGraham. “But it doesn’thelp the institution.”

Graham felt failure tocomplete the survey alsonegatively affected thestudent population.

“It doesn’t help it to bea better place,” he said.“Not only for the studentwho doesn’t respond, butalso for students comingin future years.”

Freshman psychologymajor Jenna Schmiedeldid not know about thesurvey. She said shewould have participatedsooner if the survey wasbetter publicized.

“If it was that impor-tant, if they really wanted

you to know, I feel like Iwould’ve heard about it,”said Schmiedel.

Loni Gibson, a fresh-man nursing major,knows about the surveybut does not plan on tak-ing it. Gibson stated shemight have completed thesurvey if there were somesort of incentive. They areconsidering incentives,according to Graham.

“Survey results areshared with the Institu-tional Assessment Com-mittee, departments andother areas of the universi-ty that can make properuse of the information,”said Graham. “There real-ly is an assessmentprocess. We try to reviewand make changes, partic-ularly as we’re thinkingabout future directions forthe institution, or if wefind out there’s a particu-lar program or course orsome aspect of what we’redoing that’s not workingwell.”

Students’ individualresponses are not seen,according to Graham.Only aggregate informa-tion is viewed so studentprivacy is protected.

“We will be able toassess how we’re doingwith our freshmen stu-dents,” said Graham.

“What are the areasthat are really doing well?What are areas where weneed to focus more atten-tion? We want to makesure this is the very bestexperience possible forour incoming students.”

Results from the surveycan be compared withthose of 24 other institu-tions that are members ofthe AICUP, according toGraham. Through theother AICUP participants,the University observeswhich problems are uni-versal and which are spe-cific to the campus.

“I hope students take itseriously and give us a fewminutes to take this sur-vey,” said Graham.

been major highlightsfor this conference.

Mikkilineni says sheis excited for opportu-nities the conferencewill give her.

“It would be great toput in your resumebecause there is somany big names com-ing in to talk to us,”said Mikkilineni.

“I’m hoping to get alittle experience, thinkabout the situationright now and hopeful-ly come back to usethose concepts withour club.”

The conference willbe broken down intodifferent seminars andprograms so that stu-dents and professionalsare able to choose theone that appeals tothem.

Mikkilineni said shewas excited for KeynoteSpeaker Kathleen

Hayes of BloombergTelevision.

She works with thebusiness report at theuniversity and wouldlike to hear Hayesspeak about her workwith business reportsat the national level.

Chairman of theBusiness DepartmentDr. Gordon McClungsaid he was excited forthe opportunity for thestudents.

“It is a great opportu-nity for students to getexposure to prominentnational and interna-tional speaker in thearea of finance,”McClung said.

“It also helps interms of having ourstudents engaged withstudents from otheruniversities interestedin finance.”

The two-and-a-half-day conference willbring together topnames in the businessworld and studentslooking to gain theknowledge and experi-ence to get ahead intheir career.

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eight-week sessions.Some of the courses areentirely online.

Others are blendedand include face-to-faceinstruction some weeks,while other weeks theclass is online.

The remaining cours-es are primarily face-to-face, so students get arange of exposures,Clarke said.

“We really believethat if individuals wantto advance their knowl-edge in teaching, theyneed the opportunity forface-to-face [interaction]and to see the goodteaching skills modeled

by teachers,” she said.The most successful

parts of the educationprograms are the Uni-versity’s ability to meetthe requirements of thePennsylvania Depart-ment of Education andoffer a program thatmeets the needs of adultstudents, said DaveMariner, assistant deanof GAPS. Mariner saidthat a program in educa-tion allowing studentsto complete both theirbachelor’s and master’sdegrees in five years isbecoming an option formany students.

“Consider continuingeducation as soon aspossible,” Mariner said.“Education is lifelong.Sooner or later peoplewill need an advanceddegree, especially ineducation.”

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Guest columnist Natalie Bruzda talks about thejob hunt many seniors are on.Read more on B2

Photo by Amanda Rice

40 years youngThe Greene County Historical society celebrated its 40th anniversary on Sunday with a dinner dance and winetasting. Members were able to sample wines from local wineries as the Beaver Bop Cats band performed on stage.

Marcellus Fund grantshelp ease concerns ofcontaminated waterBy Sierra ShaferOp/Ed Editor

The Marcellus Envi-ronmental Fund hasgiven away $900,000 inthe first round of grants.The fund establishedthis past December wasfounded to bring atten-tion to the environmen-tal impact of drilling forMarcellus Shale in west-ern Pennsylvania.

The Colcom Founda-tion based out of Pitts-burgh is the creator andsponsor of the fund andintends the grant moneyto be used to conserva-tion and environmentalprojects that will help tosustain the environmentand current living stan-dards.

“It is great for theFoundation to see enthu-siasm by volunteers,”said John Rohe, vicepresident of philanthro-py at the Colcom Foun-

dation. “We are fortu-nate this area has a num-ber of organizations andindividuals who are verywilling to volunteer theirtime.”

Much of the volun-teered time Rohe is refer-ring to includes timespent monitoring theaffects of MarcellusShale, then doing moreextensive research inorder to provide educa-tion about the process.

According to Rohe,the Foundation estab-lished the MarcellusEnvironmental Fundwith that hopes that theMarcellus shale drillingindustry would operatewith high levels ofintegrity and responsibil-ity.

“Our intention hasalways been to under-stand the risks and quan-tify the risks,” Rohe said.

Recognizing 50 years of reading and service in Greene CountyBy Stephanie LaingEditorial Assistant

A pharmacy that pri-oritizes customer care,McCracken PharmacyInc. has treated 50 of itscustomers to $50 gascards to Sheetz.

Celebrating 50 yearsin Waynesburg,McCracken Pharmacydrew numbers to selectthe winners Tuesdaymorning, March 15.

The winners of the gascards stopped by thepharmacy and picked uptheir prizes at their con-venience.

“It was just a chanceto visit, hear a lot of sto-ries and thank Waynes-burg for supporting usfor the last 50 years,”said Jeff McCracken,owner of McCrackenPharmacy Inc.

“I got to hear a lot ofstories about my dad,”McCracken said. “Hepassed away two years

ago.”Jeff McCracken’s

father, Jack McCracken,started the pharmacy,which remained family-owned and operated afterhe died.

Along with JeffMcCracken, his brotherJack McCracken hasworked with the phar-macy for about 30 years,running all the deliveriesfor the pharmacy.

Jeff McCracken’sdaughter, Elissa, is cur-rently in her second yearin pharmacy school atOhio Northern Univer-sity, where both herfather and grandfatherattended school.

Jeff McCrackenexpressed concerns forthe future of independ-ent pharmacies such asMcCracken Pharmacyas changes in Americanhealth care continue.

“I just hope that withthe changes in healthcare that there will still

be a place for the inde-pendent pharmacist,” hesaid.

As mail-order phar-macy prescriptions haveincreased, Jeff McCrack-

en considers them hismain competition.

“A lot of people areforced to use mail order

By Natalie BruzdaSocial Media Manager

For 50 years Flen-niken Library has servedthe Carmichaels com-munity. During Nation-al Library Week, April10 to 13, the library willcelebrate its past, pres-ent and future with thecommunity.

“We’ve been able toprovide literacy, educa-tion, information, recre-ation, materials andservices for 50 years,”Library Director andCEO Linda Orsted said.

Although FlennikenLibrary is celebrating its50-year anniversary, thelibrary has actuallyserved the communitysince 1946.

In 1946, the libraryopened as a one room,volunteer-led readingcenter in a part of thelocal bank. It was not

until 1961 that thelibrary was able to moveinto its own quarters,following a donation byEarl Flenniken inmemorial to his parents,William and Mary Flen-niken.

“I’m not sure whatthe collection size wasat the beginning, but itwasn’t a lot,” Orstedsaid. “But by 1961everything had beenmoved into the libraryand the doors wereopened.”

Currently, the libraryhouses 3,500 square feetof usable space. Butaccording to Orsted,that is not sufficient.

“According to thestudies that show ourcommunity’s popula-tion, we need at least10,000 to 12,000 feet toproperly serve the com-

McCracken Pharmacy family-owned, operated since 1961 Flenniken Public Library celebratespast, present, future of reading

Critz visits Waynesburg, hears students’ financial concernsBy Rachel Brown andKaitlin EdwardsYellow Jacket Staff

Waynesburg Universi-ty freshman JuliannHudak knew collegewould be expensive.

That’s why she choseWaynesburg University.

The combination ofthe lower tuition andfinancial aid helped tosway her decision.

In addition to loans

and other scholarshipsshe received for her goodgrades, Hudak alsoreceives federal grantmoney, including thePell Grant.

“The Pell Grant is animportant part of myeducation,” Hudak said.“By the time I get out ofhere, I’m going to haveover $20,000 in debt.The Pell Grant is just afew thousand dollarsevery year that I won’thave to pay, that is the

government helping meget through college andthe government helpingme to have a future.”

However, that moneymay not be there nextyear if the Senateapproves a spending res-olution already adoptedby the U.S. House ofRepresentatives.

The resolution wouldcut $176 million in fund-ing from Pennsylvaniaand $5.7 billion nation-wide.

Currently, studentscan receive a maximumof $5,550 from PellGrants, which are need-based grants awarded tolow-income undergradu-ate students.

Students could see asmuch as $785 disappearfrom their federal fund-ing if the cuts are adopt-ed.

One local congress-man visited Washingtonand Jefferson Collegeand Waynesburg Univer-

sity Monday to learnhow the cuts wouldimpact students.

“This is an issue withthe Pell Grants that Iwanted to discuss withreal students to see whatthe impact was for thempersonally,” U.S. Rep.Mark Critz (D-12) said.“[I want to] use that toextrapolate what I sup-port going forward andhow I argue and debatethe protection of the PellGrant program.”

Critz spent an hourwith students at eachschool, listening to theirstories.

Approximately 15 stu-dents attended the infor-mal session at Waynes-burg University, identi-fying how Pell Grantshelped them to affordcollege.

“Everyone has theirindividual stories, butthere’s enough individu-

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McCracken Pharmacy has been a major presence inWaynesburg since its opening in 1961.

School is my thing.It was my thing in

fifth grade, in highschool and in my fresh-man year of college.

School is still mything now, even as I ampreparing for graduation.

I’m good at school.School and I go wayback.

I’ve been in some sortof classroom for the past17 years, and in those 17years, I’ve excelled.

But pretty soon, inless than two months tobe exact, I’ll be leavingmy good old buddybehind.

Frankly, I’m scared.School is all I’ve ever

known. I kind of wish Icould stay in school for-ever.

At my high schoolcommencement, my fel-low senior class mem-bers spoke of the “realworld,” and how theclass of 2007 was aboutto embark on a newjourney.

But I’d like to clarify

something, and if anyhigh school seniors arereading this, I hate toburst your bubble: col-lege is not the realworld.

College is school. Andas I already established,school is my thing,therefore, college and Igot along great.

But now, I need totrade my old friend in fora new one: the job force.

Yes, ladies and gentsof the 2011 graduatingclass, it’s time to get ajob.

Unless of courseyou’re going to grad

school, which, in thatcase, school is still yourfriend.

Last week I heard myvery first positiveresponse from a poten-tial employer and if youwere anywhere near mewhen I read the email,you might have thoughtI won the lottery.

Don’t get too excitedyet.

No, I was not offeredthe position, the posi-tion, unfortunately, hadalready been filled.

But I was told that I

“Hey guys, watchthis!”

Standing outside themall, I looked over theedge of the wall I wasstanding on, about toperform my greatest featever (or at least so Ithought).

It would be a JackieChan reenactment thatwas so epic my audience(my sisters, really) wouldnever be able to ever for-get.

The stunt was to be sodramatic that there wasno way I could fail andnothing could stop me.

And then there wasthe ice.

The ice I couldn’t see.

Nor could I envision theharmful effects that thatlittle patch of ice wouldhave upon my well-being.

The patch of frozenwater that ruined myperformance (one guessat how this ended).

Needless to say, Iended up looking slight-ly less than heroic, but atleast my sisters got agood laugh.

I will openly admitthat I may have failed

more than once atpulling off what wouldhave been an incrediblycool stunt if gravity had-n’t interfered.

“Hey guys, watchthis!”

Famous last wordsfrom infamous peoplewho are about to dosomething incrediblystupid.

This phrase is typical-ly followed by a trip tothe emergency room orsome other health-careprofessional.

Although almostevery time (sometimes Imanage to pull off some-thing really extraordi-nary) I end up looking

less than exceptionalwhen I try to imitatestunts from movies,other people have theability to pull off inter-esting stunts.

Which leads to mynext question…

“How hard can it be?”This is exactly what

someone was thinkingwhen they decided toreenact the house beingcarried away by balloonsin the movie “Up.”

Three hundred hugehelium balloons and acustom built house later,the house not only leftthe ground, but floated

Fearlessly embracing the job market

There’s always that one class.It’s not in your major—or

maybe it is. It certainly doesn’tinterest you.

You’re not quite sure whyyou’re taking it, just that youhad a hole in your schedule.

Perhaps your adviser recom-mended it, and you somehowfound yourself agreeing becauseit was a nice day outside and

you wanted to leave so youcould throw a Frisbee with yourfriends.

But somehow, you find your-self attending that class on thefirst day of the new semester.

And, surprise, surprise, youstill don’t like it, but you tryanyway.

You complain about the classduring the entire semester. Yourroommate begins to hate theclass as well.

The work makes you feel like

you’re banging your headagainst a brick wall.

You’re trying, but nothingseems to make sense, nothingseems to work.

Tutoring, asking the professorfor advice: You’ve tried that.The class content still seems tobe beyond comprehension.

So the class ends. Maybe yougot a C. Maybe a B. Hopefully anA. But you never know.

What matters is the class isover.

You never have to thinkabout the class again, neverhave to spend another minuteon a worksheet, never have to

Bad-news budgetFederal budget cuts bad for education

Is it that hard to make good movies?

Even classesoutside majorworthwhile

Charter Day chicken.It comes once a year, every year.And we welcome it, along with the silver serving

trays, the white tablecloths, the floral arrangementsand of course, the pastel-colored cloth napkins.

It’s a lunch to be savored, because it won’t comearound again.

Until next year. But when it does, we’ll celebrateagain and have Charter Day chicken again.

But why the celebration? What is Charter Day?This year, Charter Day commemorated the 161st

anniversary of the establishment of WaynesburgUniversity as an institution of higher education.

So cheers to another year and the strides we’vemade. Charter Day is a chance to step back and lookat where Waynesburg University has been, where itis headed, and this year – at the new steeple.

In your time at Waynesburg, you will have fourchances to enjoy Charter Day chicken. Four chancesto celebrate and reflect.

And the spring after you graduate, when you startto get a hankering for the delicious, celebratory meal,that will also be a great time for you to make yourfirst alumni donation, propelling our institution for-ward through another year.

And to more chicken.

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On Tuesday, the Obama administrationbegan offering competitive grants to help statesincrease their college completion rates.

A $20 million Comprehensive Grant Pro-gram, a $123 million initiative to hold downtuition, increase completion rates and graduatestudents faster and $50 million College Com-pletion Grants are all part of the administra-tion’s plans to further their goal.

The campaign aims to provide incentives toschools who implement reforms that help theadministration meet its goal of eight millionnew college graduates by 2020. The Obamaadministration may have good intentions byimplementing this program, but all they aredoing is further hindering the students whoreceive financial aid.

Especially students who attend the 14schools in the State System of Higher Educa-tion, who are already looking at a 50 percentcut in funding thanks to Governor Corbett’sbudget proposal.

It is fiscally irresponsible to cut financial aidmoney from students who wouldn’t otherwisebe able to attend college, yet give colleges moremoney as incentives to graduate more stu-dents.

What the Obama administration needs to dois take the money that they put into the incen-tives program and build it back into FAFSA.The money they are setting aside would be ableto cover about two thirds of Pennsylvania’sPell Grants.

This would help a lot of students out,enabling them to continue furthering theireducations. This would also help PresidentObama’s administration to hopefully meettheir goal by the year 2020.

Charter Day

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GuestColumnist

RACHELBROWN

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KAITLINEDWARDS

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NATALIEBRUZDA

Why we celebrate and reflect

for more than an hour,according to Odd Newson Yahoo.

No engines, nomotors, no wings – onlyballoons. Anyone elsethink this is pretty cool?

This stunt was donefor a new show ironicallycalled “How Hard Can ItBe?”

Although the conceptis interesting, the plot ofthe show seems to bevaguely similar to anoth-er show called “Myth-busters.”

“Mythbusters” is ashow that takes urbanmyths, as well as moviestunts, and tests them tosee if they could everpossibly be true.

In one episode, thehosts of the show testedthe James Bond-jump-ing-out-of-a-helicopter-and-onto-a-snowtube-and-surviving-myth.

Although I thinkthese shows can be a lotof fun and entertainingto watch, I think thereneeds to be more varietyon the television.

Clearly I am support-

ive of testing thesemyths, but looking atthe whole range of tele-vision and movies, theamount of copy-cats areoverwhelming.

I mean, how manyshows can we havemimicking Steve Irwinon Animal Planet?

Seriously, one of himwas more than enough.

Even with romanticcomedies, everything isso predictable.

A couple of days ago, asome people were dis-cussing the movie, “NoStrings Attached” andthey were discussinghow they wished themovie had ended differ-ently just so it would nothave been so predictable.

And Jersey Shore –well, don’t even get mestarted with that show.

With some of themost creative people andskilled writers workingin this industry, youwould think they couldbe a little more creativewith what they put onair.

It’s time they startmaking movies with alittle more pizzazz.

Coming up with newshows - “How hard canit be?”

Apparently very.

sit through anotherconfusing lecture.

You resolve to nevertalk about the class. It’sjust a bad memory,waiting to be sup-pressed.

Go ahead, sell yourbooks. Help yourfriends sell theirs.

Move on to the nextclass, the next semes-ter.

And when you’re asenior, you look for ajob.

You get an interview.Go ahead, celebrate.

Then buckle down.Prepare.

The job descriptionwasn’t exactly descrip-tive, so you prepare foranything. You don’tknow what to expect,but you know you wantthis job.

It’s the day of theinterview.

You’ve traveled along way to get here.

You’re dressed to thenines: a nice suit, niceshoes, your portfolio inhand.

You sit in the car,staring at the door ofthe building.

Time for a mentalpep talk.

Then another one.Your feet seemed

glued to the floor.Finally, your handreaches for the car doorand you step outside.

It’s raining, and yourumbrella is how manymiles away at home.Whoops.

You walk into thebuilding, but you can’tforget that missingumbrella.

You introduce your-self and wait to becalled into the inter-view room, prepared foranything.

So the interviewstarts.

Your interviewerasks for your résumé,so you hand it over,hoping she doesn’tnotice that your hand isshaking from thenerves.

It’s silent as shereads.

Your thoughts race:Should you say some-thing?

Finally, she smiles.“Grant writing?” she

asks. You nod, wary of the

implications.“You know this is a

grant writing position,right?” she continues.

Your breath catches.Your heart skips.

That class. That class you took

and thought you’dnever use again. Thatclass you tried to forget.

That class might justget you a job.

have good clips and wasadvised to continue tokeep an eye on journalis-mjobs.com; the news-room situation is“fluid,” he said.

For the first time inthis annoying and frus-trating thing called “jobsearching,” I saw a veryminiature, atom-sizedspeck of light at the endof the tunnel.

At least I knew thatsomeone out there,someone very far awayto be exact (the newspa-

per was in Arizona), wasreading my work. And,to top if off, he liked it.

Monday, however,called for even more cel-ebration.

Although the editor ofthe newspaper in Ohiodidn’t offer the position,(her reasoning: she need-ed the position filledimmediately), she said Ihad excellent writingskills. She said that Ihave talent.

And even moreimportantly, she saidshe was going to passalong my resume toanother editor at anoth-er newspaper.

So I’ve decided thateven though I’m scared

of where I’m going to beand what I’m going to bedoing in two months,and even though I’mscared of this big scarything called the job mar-ket, I think that wecould eventually getalong great.

I’ve decided that jobsearching isn’t really allthat bad, especially ifyou have talent and youmarket your own talentwell.

I was told that out of150 applications, youmight only hear backfrom five and only getthree interviews.

With those statistics,who wouldn’t be scared?

But, (and this is com-

ing from a girl who hasworried about anythingand everything herentire life), I’m not tooscared anymore.

I need to approach thejob market like Iapproached school backin kindergarten.

I need to introducemyself, and if I couldshake hands and makeeye contact with said jobmarket, I would.

I need to make myselfknown.

I need to make myskills known. I need toshow the job marketthat, if just given thechance, I can do it.

And hopefully, I’llmake a new friend.

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NCAA athletes must win in classroom, tooThe 68-team NCAA

men’s basketball tour-ney just got under way.But teams have alreadyunofficially competed inanother tourney. Thoseresults are in, and theyare sobering. A goodnumber of the athletesattending tournamentschools often dazzle onthe court but founder inthe classroom. Far toomany never graduate.

That’s what The Insti-tute for Diversity andEthics in Sport at theUniversity of CentralFlorida found in a studyreleased Monday.

The annual report iscalled “Keeping ScoreWhen it Counts: Gradu-ation Success and Aca-demic Progress Rates forthe 2011 NCAA Divi-sion I Men’s BasketballTournament Teams.”The study examines thegraduation success ratesand academic progressrates for teams as report-ed by the NCAA.

The graduation rate isbased on the four-yearclass average of enteringfreshmen from 2000-2001 to 2003-2004, andthe academic progressrate is based on four-yeardata from 2005-2006 to

2008-2009. So thesenumbers are not specificto this year’s players. Buta decade of these studiesshow continuing prob-lems.

This year’s results doas well, though improve-ments are evident, too.

The schools in themen’s tourney graduated66 percent of their bas-ketball student athletes,up 2 percentage pointsfrom last year’s study.But this big problemremains.

The graduation ratefor white players ismuch higher than therate for black players _and the gap is widening.

White players show a91 percent graduationrate, up 7 percentagepoints from the 2010study. Black players’ 59percent graduation ratewas up just 3 percentagepoints. This is the thirdstraight year the gap hasincreased.

In a sport dominatedby black players, thatshould be troubling,especially to those wholove the sport. “It is astaggering gap,” saidRichard Lapchik, theinstitute director andprimary author of the

study. Fifty-four percentof the teams studied hada gap of at least 30 per-centage points or morebetween the graduationrates of white and blackathletes.

The good news is thatblack male basketballplayers have higher grad-uation rates than blackmale students overall.The rate for black malestudents as a whole isjust 38 percent.

That’s abominable.But that doesn’t makethe basketball players’graduation any morepalatable. Schools haveto do more to help thesestudents succeed aca-demically. Some schoolsalready have the recipesfor success.

Twelve of theseNCAA schools havehigh grad rates for theirmale basketball stu-dents, regardless of race.Among those with 90percent or better ratesare Notre Dame, Vil-lanova, Wofford, Illinois,BYU, Utah State andVanderbilt. North Car-olina and Duke faredwell also, with overallgrad rates of 88 percentand 83 percent respec-tively.

Some basketball pow-erhouses were disap-pointing. UConn had abasketball grad rate forthis period of a mere 31percent (for blacks it was25 percent; for whites,50 percent). Kentucky’srate was 44 percent (just31 percent for blacks and100 percent for whites).Arizona came in with a20 percent rate (14 per-cent for blacks, and 100percent for whites).

Those are appallingstats. We hope schoolshave improved dramati-cally over the last coupleof years. But past years’studies illustrate thatprogress has been slow,and still falls short. Socheer for your team dur-ing this year’s NCAAtournament.

The athletes haveworked hard to get tothis elite stage. But afterthe tourney is over and achampion is crowned,remember there’s anoth-er competition theseathletes need to win.Many schools need towork much harder tohelp athletes win thatone.This editorial originallyappeared in The CharlotteObserver.

Being wellrounded

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Beating theodds

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For-profit schools should do better or closeNo doubt you’ve seen the TV

commercials: Enroll in so-and-so college and you, too, can findgainful employment in thelucrative whatever field.

The come-on sounds reallynice. But too often it’s just that,an enticement that leavesyoung people strapped with acollege-loan debt and very littlechance of obtaining a job intheir major.

To correct that, the Obamaadministration has proposednew rules that hold for-profitcolleges and community col-leges more accountable.

Lawmakers considering thislegislation must stay focused onthe greater good, which is thewelfare of the students, not thefor-profit colleges. Federal stu-dent aid accounts for 90 percentof the revenue for for-profit col-

leges. But the government esti-mates about 16 percent of for-profit programs could lose theireligibility for federal loans andgrants under the new rules.

That would not be a tragedy.Some for-profits have gradua-tion rates below 10 percent;they should do better or close.

This editorial originally ranin the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Region

now,” he said. “I don’twant people comingthrough my store thatdon’t want to come here,but I think people shouldbe given the choice onwho they want to use fortheir pharmacist.”

According to theowner, McCrackenPharmacy has providedthe best customer careand employed technolo-gy to remain competi-tive and successful.

“I would think thatprobably we have uti-lized technology as

much as we possibly canfor filling prescription [inthe last 50 years],” saidJeff McCracken.

The pharmacy hascontinued to work atproviding the best serv-ice to its customers, hesaid.

“[We’ve improved]through years and yearsof practice, experienceand relying on the thingsmy dad taught me abouthow to always treat thecustomer right,” saidMcCracken.

Because of his father’slessons, Jeff McCrackenhas kept customer serv-ice as his number onepriority.

“The customer is notalways right, but usuallyis,” said Jeff McCracken.

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munity,” she said. “Asit is now, the library ismuch too small. It’s notadequate for modernlibrary services.”

By holding a weeklong celebration, Orstedhopes to raise aware-ness, with an openhouse on April 13.

“We need to raise

awareness,” she said.“By getting people intothe building, especiallypeople that haven’t vis-ited the building lately,we will be able to showthe services that weoffer and what we cando with more space.”

On April 13, thelibrary will providepamphlets with infor-mation on the libraryitself, as well as refresh-ments, giveaways anddoor prizes.

“We want it to be abig open house celebra-tion,” Orsted said.

Orsted, who has beenwith the library since

2004, envisions a brightfuture for FlennikenLibrary.

“We want FlennikenLibrary to be the go-tolibrary for the area,” shesaid. “Our theme for theweek is going to be‘Libraries: The heart ofevery community.’When people needsomething they willthink of the library asthe place to find theanswers.”

The most effectiveway she can make this

happen is by addingmore square feet; how-ever, the task before heris a difficult one.

Flenniken Library iscurrently in a buildingthat used to be a home.

“We need space thatis designed especially tobe a library,” she said.

“A home is notdesigned to be library.We have to work aroundit, and we don’t have theroom and we haverooms that are notusable.”

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Photo courtesy of Linda Orsted

The William F. and Mary A. Flenniken Library inCarmichaels has served Greene County for 50 years.

“This way we can assurethe future does not haveto suffer the costs.”

The Marcellus Shaleis a geologic formation ofsedimentary rockstretching primarilyacross Pennsylvania,New York, Ohio andWest Virginia that con-tains natural gas, asdefined by the most

active natural gas driller,Chesapeake Energy Cor-poration.

This natural gas isharnessed by drillingdown as deep as 7,000feet into the rock and isthen distributed as a fuelsource for both residen-tial and commercial use.Yet as this new trend infuel extraction is pro-pelling the local econo-my forward, some areconcerned with the envi-ronmental impacts of thedrilling, namely concern-ing water quality.

“Bromide seems to be

liberated by Marcellusshale drilling,” saidRohe. “When bromidefinds its way into riversand streams it will even-tually make its way intoour water system. Thisis one of the risks we’relooking at.”

If bromide mixes withpurified drinking waterit can form a carcino-genic, or cancer-causing,mixture, said Rohe.

The grant moneyawarded by the Environ-mental Fund will help toease some of the con-cerns of environmental-

ists and local citizens aswell as lessen the impactto the local environ-ment. The ColcomFoundation stated in apress release early thismonth that the grantrequests demonstrated aparticular need for waterquality monitoring.

Conservation groupsand volunteers havebeen organizing them-selves to track toxins inlocal water. Of thetwelve groups whoreceived grant funding,one third are focusedstrictly on water quality.

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als that are very simi-lar,” said Critz, who ben-efited from Pell Grantsas undergraduate at Indi-ana University of Penn-sylvania.

“So not only are theytalking about them-selves, they’re talkingabout people across thisnation.”

Multiple studentsmentioned that theywere responsible for pay-ing for college on theirown, were one of at least10 children or wereworking three jobs to

make ends meet.“When you have peo-

ple who may not get togo to school because oftheir financial wellbe-ing, that’s not right,” hesaid. “That’s not whatthis country is built on.”

Hudak, who attendedthe session, is one of 670Waynesburg studentsaffected by the cuts.

“I feel like they aredecreasing the equalityof education if theydecrease the amount ofmoney available,” shesaid.

Hudak shared herexperiences with Critz,saying she hopes thegovernment willincrease Pell Grant fund-ing instead of cutting it.

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By Dave FloydSports Editor

A season laden with success recently came to a fit-ting end for the Waynesburg University wrestling team.

Sophomore 125-pounder Alex Crown used a fourth-place finish at nationals to garner All-American honors.His efforts punctuated an already accolade-filled seasonfor the Yellow Jackets that included a Presidents’ Ath-letic Conference team title and three wrestlers qualify-ing for nationals.

A No. 8 seed, Crown was upset in his opening-roundmatch but stormed back to rattle off four straight victo-ries and claim fourth. His finish marked the highest anyPAC wrestler since 1993, and it gave the Jackets an All-American for a second straight season.

“That’s what I was looking for all year,” Crown said.“It meant a lot to me to be able to bounce back after thatfirst match.

“Running through my head, I thought, ‘This is goingto be tough; I just lost to a kid who wasn’t even rankedand I was ranked,’” Crown added. “I just knew I had totake it one match at a time to bounce back.”

By Jon LedyardAssignments Editor

Down 11-2 to CatholicUniversity just under fourminutes into the ECACchampionship game,Waynesburg women’sbasketball head coachSam Jones called timeoutand huddled up with hisstruggling team on theirhome court sideline.

“To be honest I justlooked at them and said,‘Are we done? Are weready to play focused bas-ketball?’” said Jones.

The answer was aresounding yes.

The top-seeded YellowJackets stormed backfrom the early deficit tocapture their first ever

ECAC South title with a67-63 victory over the sec-ond-seeded Cardinals onMarch 6. The win con-cluded a three-game runthrough the eight-teamfield in Waynesburg’s first

appearance in the ECACtournament.

The Jackets’ run is evenmore impressive giventhe fact that they lost fourof their last six games ofthe regular season en

route to a 21-9 overallrecord and a 10-6 confer-ence record.

“I really wasn’t tooconcerned consideringthree of the four teams welost to at the end were

nationally ranked oppo-nents,” said Jones. “It waspartly bad luck in ourschedule, and then ofcourse the bad loss toGeneva. But the girls wereexcited and focused onplaying well in the tour-nament.”

The Jackets neededevery bit of focus they hadto bury the relentless Car-dinals, who trailed by oneat halftime but battled allthe way down the stretchagainst the Jackets in thesecond half. In the end itwas free throws that wonthe game for the Jackets asthey went 11-for-12 fromthe line in the game and6-for-6 in the last 48 sec-onds when Catholic wasforced to foul.

“Free throw shootingwas something we talkedabout all year – to notleave those easy points on

By Steve HullingsStaff Writer

Senior midfielderMaria Shepas played per-haps the best game of hercareer this past Saturday,as the Waynesburg Uni-versity Yellow Jacketstook on the MedailleMavericks at John F.Wiley Stadium. Shepasscored seven of the Jack-ets’ nine goals, breaking asingle game programrecord.

Her performance alsomade her the program’sall-time leader in both

goals and points.Not only was this a

huge stepping-stone for

Shepas, but for thewomen’s lacrosse pro-gram as well. Despite the17-9 loss, the Jackets (0-4)set a new program recordfor goals in a game.

Medaille (1-1) came outhot, scoring two goals, butShepas’ first goal pulledthe Jackets to within onewith 16:14 left in the firsthalf.

However, the Jacketswere outscored 8-3 therest of the half, with soph-omore Molly Kramer ofWaynesburg adding to theJackets’ list of scorers.

Down by 12, the Jack-

In a little more than aweek from now, everyspring sport at Waynes-burg University will beunderway. With the springsports season heating up,here’s the top three story-lines to watch for the restof March, April and May.

3. Zacoi in chargeIn its fourth season of

existence, the women’slacrosse program finallyboasts a head coach withquality experience in thesport. Tom Zacoi comes toWaynesburg after guidingChartiers Valley HighSchool to its first WPIALplayoff appearance inschool history.

Zacoi faces the toughtask of turning a programaround that went a com-bined 3-26 in its first threeseasons. While the situa-tion appears bleak, Zacoi’ssquad returns numerousplayers from last year, wel-comes back a legitimateoffensive threat in MariaShepas and is bringing inat least one freshman,goalie Kelsey Schlieper,who has significant expe-rience in the sport.

Although the team’sfirst four results in 2011were all losses, give Zacoisome time, and that wintotal should eventuallybegin to rise.

2. On the diamondWith each squad return-

ing six position starters,both the baseball and soft-ball teams look to make itback to the PAC playoffsafter missing out in 2010.

The baseball team near-ly qualified for the leaguetournament a season ago,but a tie-breaker gave thefourth and final spot toWestminster. Offensively,key pieces such as centerfielder Rob Cool Jr.,infielder Corey Goeggel-man, shortstop AnthonyDefilippo and catcherBrendan Scioscia are back.However, the team willhave to deal with the lossof all-everything secondbaseman Wes White Jr.,who meant so much tothe team in so many dif-ferent facets of the game.Up to this point, the Jack-ets have struggled to dealwith White’s loss and oth-ers on offense. The teambatting average hasdropped well below lastyear’s total, and Waynes-burg’s overall record sits at2-10.

As always, though, thesuccess of the season will

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Dave FloydSportsEditor

Whatto watchfor thisspring

See SPRING’S on C4

Men’s tennis shuts outGeneva after long layoff.Read more on C4

Crown’s fourth-placefinish at nationals capsmemorable season

Photo courtesy of Waynesburg University Sports Information

The women’s basketball team poses after winning the 2011 ECAC South title. Thatvictory closed the Jackets’ 2010-11 campaign at 21-9.

Senior also becomesschool’s all-timeleading scorer in loss

Softballcruisesto sweep

JACKETS WIN

15-1, 14-4MEDAILLE - 17, JACKETS - 9

Photo by Dave Miller, ADM Photography

Senior midfielder Maria Shepas tries to shake twodefenders loose Saturday against Medaille.

Photo by Dawn Yates

Shepas breaks single-game goals mark

By Aaron ThompsonAssistant Sports Editor

After having two dou-bleheaders postponed thispast week, the Waynes-burg University softballteam finally got back intogame action Saturdaywhen they traveled toGreensburg to take onPitt-Greensburg.

The Yellow Jackets (6-4)did their best to shake offany rust that may haveaccumulated over the pastweek by blasting the Bob-cats (2-6) 15-1 in game oneand 14-4 in game two tosweep the doubleheader.

Waynesburg head coachLou Giachetti said thatoverall he was pleasedwith the performance andattitude of his team.

“What I like is our atti-tude on our team,” Gia-chetti said. “All 22 playershave been positive andhave showed great enthu-siasm. Everyone knowsthat we’re in this togeth-er.”

The Jackets offense hasbeen a key early on thisseason. The overall teambatting average is .306,and the Jackets haveoutscored their opponents57-28 through the first 10games. Waynesburg’soffense features sevenplayers with batting aver-ages over .300.

According to Giachetti,the biggest difference hasbeen the team’s aggressiveattitude at the plate.

That continued against

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Women’s basketball ends season with ECAC titleTeam looks back atcampaign in whichthey finished 21-9

ALL-AMERICAN ENDING

By Brandon ReedEditorial Assistant

An individual careerthat helped build Waynes-burg University’s presti-gious back-to-back cham-pionship wrestling teamhas come to end.

Senior 141-pounderNick Garber fell just shortof All-American statusthis year, going out in away much more anticli-mactic than he wouldhave hoped.

“It was an OK season,”said Garber. “I fell short,so I am disappointed.”

People have come toexpect a great deal out ofthe Yellow Jacketwrestling team, but thiswas not always the case.Since Garber was a fresh-man, the program hasmade huge strides in theright direction. Garbercalling this season “OK”is just a testament to howfar Waynesburg wrestlinghas come as a unit.

Garber was one of twowrestlers with a winningrecord his freshman year.Now, he is one of 11 andhad the second highest

divisional winning per-centage behind sopho-more All-American AlexCrown.

Garber helped build theprogram from the groundup, starting with his fresh-man year. He was the firstwrestler to win a tourna-ment in a number of yearsfor the Jackets. He actual-ly tore his knee during thechampionship match andcame back to win thePresidents’ Athletic Con-ference title as a fresh-man.

During his sophomoreseason, the school

acquired his junior highand high school wrestlingcoaches, Ron Headlee andJohn Yates. Garber saidthat this helped his devel-opment a lot, and theyhelped him achieve hispotential.

“When I went to prac-tice I knew what toexpect,” said Garber.

“I knew what coachwanted me to do, and Iwas able to do it and set agood example to theyounger guys.”

Garber went on to qual-ify for nationals that sea-son and the next, earning

All-American honors lastseason as a junior at 133pounds.

Headlee, the headcoach, said that it wasgood to have Garber in theroom showing the under-classmen how to work onthings.

“Nick was a big help,”said Headlee. “He knewwhat we wanted, and weknew how far we couldpush him.”

Garber’s fearless intim-idation that was often rec-ognized at matches was

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Garber’s career concludes at nationals

Photo by Dawn Yates

Senior 141-pounder Nick Garber (top right) controls SUNY Cortland’s AljamainSterling at nationals earlier this month. Garber upset the third-seeded Sterling 2-1.

Senior ends seasonone victory shy ofAll-American status

In BriefTRACK AND FIELD

As they prepare for the outdoor portion of theirrespective schedules, the Waynesburg Universitymen’s and women’s track and field teams maintaineda presence in the latest NCAA Division III MideastRegion according to d3rankings.us.

The Yellow Jacket men are currently ranked 12th,while the women, who will try to improve on lastyear’s second-place finish at the Presidents’ AthleticConference Outdoor Championships, are listed at10th.

The Jackets wrapped up the indoor portion of the2010-11 season at Marietta and are off until March 26when the men and women travel to Wheeling JesuitUniversity to take part in the Bill Van Horne Invita-tional – their first outdoor meet of the season.

GOLF

Second-year Waynesburg head golf coach ScottVenick is seeing some definite progress in the YellowJacket golf programs, as they get ready for the springseason. Rosters have increased not only in size, but inexperience and talent as well.

The Jacket men’s golf team opens the spring sea-son on March 28 at the Westminster Titan Invita-tional, which will be held at the New Castle Coun-try Club. The women kick their season off a weeklater at Westminster’s Mary Cleland Eckles Invita-tional.

SOCCER, WOMEN’S TENNIS

The Waynesburg University men’s and women’ssoccer teams, under the guidance of second-year headcoach Sean McCarthy, recently released their sched-ules for the upcoming 2011 seasons.

The Waynesburg women’s tennis team alsorecently released its 2011 fall schedule for theupcoming school year.

Both schedules can be seen by going to www.way-nesburgsports.com.

Crown’s opening-match upset came at thehands of SUNY Cort-land’s Dave Colagiovanni.A first-period takedownproved to be all Colagio-vanni needed, as theunseeded fifth-year seniorheld on for the 2-1 win.

“It was pretty depress-ing and pretty upsettingalso,” Crown said. “It wasa close match, so just onething could have changedit.”

Crown reboundedquickly, however, scoring

an 8-2 decision victoryand then a 16-1 technicalfall to secure All-Ameri-can status.

In the All-Americanround, the Carlisle nativewon a thrilling 6-5 boutover Cornell College’sTimothy Hood. Down 5-4in the third period, Crowntilted Hood from the topposition to snag two near-fall points and the victory.

The sophomore mayhave saved his best winfor his last, though. Facingfifth-seeded RikiReynolds of Mt. Union,Crown found himselfnearly pinned in the firstperiod. Reynolds had putCrown on his back for afive-point lead. But theJackets’ 125-pounder

rolled through, reversedReynolds and notched apin in 2:26.

“I’d never seen thathappen before,” headcoach Ron Headlee said.“In the span of 10 sec-onds, he went from get-ting pinned to getting apin.”

Crown’s run eventuallyended in the third-placebout when he was over-matched by Wartburg’sMark Kist, a sixth-yearsenior who had trans-ferred from Division Ipowerhouse Iowa State.

Senior Nick Garber(141 pounds) and fresh-man Brandon Fedorka(285) also competed in thenational championshipsin La Crosse.

Garber started off red-hot by winning his firsttwo bouts, including apinfall and a 2-1 upset vic-tory over third-seededAljamain Sterling ofSUNY Cortland.

One win away fromsecuring All-Americanhonors for the secondstraight season, Garberfaltered. He lost 11-2 todrop into the consolationsand then saw his decorat-ed college career come toa close with a 5-2 defeat.

“I just thought [afterthat win over Sterling]that things were going togo his way this weekend,”Headlee said. “But thenext guy just overpoweredhim a little bit, and Ithink he got down on

himself a little bit.“I thought [the kid he

wrestled last] was a kid hematched up with well; hejust never got into hismatch well. The kid justoutwrestled him.”

Fedorka went 0-2 at theevent. He was pinned inhis first match by the No.2 seed Mark Corsello ofElmhurst, who was unde-feated at the time. Then,trailing just 3-2 in his sec-ond match, the freshmangave up a third-periodtakedown that ended hisseason.

As a team, Waynesburgfinished 20th out of 60teams competing in LaCrosse, Wisc. Headleecited finishing in the top20 as one of the goals

coming in.The national champi-

onships ended a seasonfilled with numerousteam and individual acco-lades for the Jackets. Way-nesburg went 12-2-1 over-all, swept the PAC regularseason, won its secondstraight PAC team title,accounted for six of 10individual PAC champsand boasted three individ-ual winners at regionals.

“I was really happy. Ithought we reachedalmost all our goals forthe year,” Headlee said.“We’re definitely stillshooting for a nationalchampion and our goalwas to win regionals, butoverall it was just a greateffort by our guys.”

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the table,” said Jones. “Itwas something we didwell all season and setrecords for team percent-age and free throws madein a season.”

Perhaps the biggestcontribution for Waynes-burg came from theirbench, an ironic twistconsidering that the Jack-ets had only gotten eightpoints from their bench inthe previous two gamescombined. However,down the stretch sopho-more Emilee Wagner andsenior Malaeja Leggettcame up huge when theJackets needed them to.

Leading by just onewith less than five min-utes to play following aCatholic layup, Wagnerscored on an open layup,was fouled in the processand knocked down thefree throw to completethe three point play andextend the Jackets’ lead tofour. Then with just over

a minute remaining andthe Jackets up 61-59,Leggett stripped the Car-dinals’ Katarina Owunnaof the ball and was fouledwith 48 seconds left. The44 percent free throwshooter, the Jackets’ worstby more than 10 percent,proceeded to knock downboth shots to all but icethe victory for Waynes-

burg.“Emilee’s attitude

throughout the whole sea-son whether she wasstarting or coming off thebench was just great,”said Jones. “She bought[to the team] what wasbest for the team, andwithout her contributionswe don’t win.

“Malaeja was a phe-

nomenal defender all yearand does all the littlethings that don’t show upon the box score. It was acommon theme of ourteam all season, for play-ers to accept their rolesand thrive in them.”

While the bench cer-tainly deserves credit, thisgame, like so many of theJackets’ contests this sea-son came down to theirstarting five, and they didnot disappoint. Senior for-ward Elisha Jones pouredin 15 points to go withthree blocks in her finalgame as a Jacket, and jun-ior point guard HannahHunter led the Jacketswith 15 points, fourassists and seven steals.The team co-captain alsoburied all four of her freethrows inside the last 30seconds to put the nails inCatholic’s coffin.

“It’s a lot of hard workthat goes into a seasonlike this,” said Hunter.“It’s putting in extrahours and changing themindset of losing that washere and becoming men-tally tough.”

Sophomore guard Brit-tany Spencer notched her

second double-double ofthe tournament with 14points and 11 rebounds.Sophomore guard JessiDrayer chipped in 15points, five rebounds, andfive steals.

As a team the Jacketsforced Catholic into 24turnovers, including snag-ging 19 steals. A huge partof that was Drayer, whohad 17 steals throughoutthe ECAC tournament.

“The great thing aboutJessi is she came on unas-suming and worked veryhard and is very talented,”said Jones. “She did what-ever we asked of her, andthe defensive pressure sheapplied really took ourdefense off the charts.”

For Elisha Jones, herplay in the tournamentsent her out in style as aJacket, as she garneredMVP following the victo-ry. The four-time All-Presidents’ Athletic Con-ference performer com-pleted one of the bestcareers in program histo-ry, racking up 1,372 pointsto go with 621 reboundsand 150 blocked shots.

“Once we heard wehad received the No. 1

seed in the tournamentour first thought was to goout there and win it forElisha,” said Hunter. “Sheis one of the most dedicat-ed players on the team,and winning is a big partof who she is as a person.Her example and focusmakes everyone aroundher play harder.”

As a team, this seasonwill be remembered asone of the most successfulin Waynesburg history.The Jackets improvedfrom a nine-win seasonlast year to 21 victoriesthis season and won theirfirst conference tourna-ment game since the2005-2006 season. The 21victories also gave themtheir first 20-win seasonsince the 1994-1995 sea-son.

“All season long I wasso proud of the effort thegirls put forth,” said Jones.“This season we wereable to come back andwin some close games,and that was evident inthe championship game.

“It’s taken a lot of effortto change the mentality ofthe program, but I thinkwe are there now.”

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Head coach Sam Jones cuts down the nets after histeam won the ECAC South title earlier this month.

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By Nate RegottiStaff Writer

The Waynesburg Uni-versity baseball teamdropped two home gamesto the Penn State-BehrendLions this past weekend,6-2 and 6-4.

In the first game, theLions (7-3) scored threeruns in the first twoinnings off Jacket startingpitcher sophomoreAnthony Longo. Longoleft the mound after fourinnings. He surrenderedfive runs on eight hits,walked two batters andstruck out one.

The Yellow Jackets (2-10) eventually got some-thing going at the plateduring the fourth inning.Senior shortstop AnthonyDeFilippo took a pitch tothe elbow. Junior desig-nated hitter Noah Pustfollowed with a well-placed bunt down thethird-base line and beatout the throw to first base.DeFilippo was able toadvance safely to second.Following two quick outs,junior third baseman TimChilcote smacked a basehit to right field to scorePust and DeFilippo tomake the game 5-2.

The Jackets did not pro-duce much more offenseat the plate. Lions closerChad Zurat pitched lightsout, throwing two inningswithout giving up any hitsto earn the save with a

final score of 6-2.Waynesburg senior

pitcher Jesse Gonzalez gotthe start for the Jackets ingame two, but he allowedthree runs in the firstinning. However, Way-nesburg responded onceagain by tying the game atthree with a two-run sin-gle by Chilcote to rightfield.  

The Lions were onceagain able to grab the lead.Penn State-Behrend post-ed two runs on two hits inthe second inning, send-ing Gonzalez to an earlyexit. Junior Rob Baumgar-tel entered the game inrelief of Gonzalez. In onlyhis fourth appearance theseason, he kept the Jack-ets in the game and was

able to get the Jackets outof a bases loaded situationin the second.

Baumgartel threw fiveand one-third innings inrelief, throwing eightstrikeouts and allowingjust three hits and noearned runs. Mental mis-takes hindered the Jack-ets’ performance in thefifth inning. An error bysophomore first basemanTy Holderbaum extendedthe fifth and allowed theLions to pull off a double-steal to make it 6-3. Sen-ior right fielder Bill Spina’ssacrifice groundout in thebottom of the sixth wasnot enough, and the gameended with a score of 6-4.

Defilippo went four-for-four with a double ingame two.

Defilippo went five-for-six total with a walk inthe doubleheader.Chilcote’s four RBI wasthe highest total for anyWaynesburg hitter.

The Jackets will try torebound Friday when they

open Presidents’ AthleticConference play at homewith a nine-inning gameagainst Bethany.

First pitch is scheduledfor 3 p.m.

Waynesburg will alsotake on the Bison Satur-day when they hit theroad and travel toBethany, W.Va.

Saturday will be a dou-bleheader between thetwo teams.

First pitch for thattwinbill is set for 1 p.m.

Team Leaders:

AverageDefilippo (.375)

Home runsDefilippo (3)

RBIsTwo tied with 7

ERA (min. 8 IP)Kreke (2.08)

WinsTwo tied with 1

Innings pitchedLongo (24.0)

StrikeoutsBaumgartel (15)

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Pair of Jacket seniors named Athletes of the WeekBy Aaron ThompsonAssistant Sports Editor

A pair of seniors waslauded as this week’s Yel-low Jacket Athletes of theWeek. Lacrosse playerMaria Shepas and baseballplayer Anthony DeFilippowere honored for theirrespective athletic per-formances over the pastweek.

Shepas was the brightspot in the lacrosse team’sSaturday loss to MedailleCollege at John F. WileyStadium.

Shepas scored seven ofthe Yellow Jackets goalsin their 17-9 defeat. Thescoring tally broke thesingle-game programrecord for goals scored in asingle game, and she alsoracked up the most totalpoints in a single game.

The seven goals bringShepas’ total to nine onthe season. She alsobecame the school’s all-

time leader in goals andpoints.

The Jacket lacrosseteam will be in action

today when they hostWilson College at 4:30p.m.

Although the Waynes-

burg University baseballteam is suffering from a10-game losing streak,that does not mean that

DeFilippo hasn’t been per-forming well for the team.

The Mount Lebanonnative leads the team inthe main three offensivecategories, with a .375batting average, threehome runs and seven runsdriven in.

DeFilippo went five-for-six with a walk in thedoubleheader Saturdayagainst Penn State-Behrend.

The Jackets will try toget back on track whenthey begin conferenceplay Friday by hostingrival Bethany College.First pitch is scheduled for3 p.m. at WaynesburgField.

They will also take onthe Bison Saturday atBethany in a doublehead-er, which will get under-way at 1 p.m.

Above photo by Laura Rayle, File Photo at right

(Above) Senior midfielder Maria Shepas, shown in anearlier contest, broke multiple team records Saturday.(Right) Senior shortstop Anthony Defilippo went five-for-six with a walk in Saturday’s doubleheader.

Baseball team swept in doubleheaderthe Bobcats, as Waynes-burg exploded for eightruns in the top of the sec-ond inning in game one.

Freshman second base-man Shannon Falleronigot the Jackets on theboard with a two- rundouble. Senior designatedplayer Amanda Baugh-man followed Falleroniwith a three-run homerun to make it 5-0 Way-nesburg. Senior KristenLautenschlager and fresh-man right fielder JasmineBlackwell each had RBIwalks in the inning.

UPG got on the boardwhen they scored theironly run of the game inthe bottom of the secondinning.

Waynesburg got thatrun right back in the topof the third inning whenFalleroni drove in anotherrun. Junior third basemanSam Volponi got the bighit in the top of the fifthwhen she smacked athree-run double.

In the circle, freshmanCarrie Maier had a strongpitching performance. Shegave up just one unearnedrun on three hits andissued just one walk, asshe struck out six batters.

In game two, Waynes-burg trailed 4-3 after threeinnings, but the Jacketswent ahead for good in thefourth inning when theypushed three runs acrossthe plate. Blackwell andFalleroni both scorchedRBI doubles as the Jacketswent ahead of the Bobcats6-4. After that it was allWaynesburg as the Jacketsscored eight more runs tobring the total to 11 unan-swered. Sophomore LizzBombara highlighted theoffense by knocking apitch over the fence for atwo-run home run.

Junior Lauren Minorworked the first threeframes to pick up the vic-tory. She allowed just oneearned run on five hitswhile walking none.

Baughman came on topitch three scorelessinnings for her secondsave of the season.

Giachetti said he has

liked whathe has seenfrom hisentire pitch-ing staff sofar this sea-son. Baugh-man, theteam’s toppitcher, hasonly startedtwo gamesin the circleto thispoint, asGiachettihas lookedto get juniorLaurenMinor and

Maier a little more experi-ence.

Falleroni, the Washing-ton, Pa., native, led Way-nesburg on the day as shewent five-for-seven at theplate. She also scoredthree runs and talliedseven RBIs. Baughmanalso came up big in thebatter’s box by going five-for-nine at the plate.

Falleroni and Blackwellhave brought an extrapunch to the top of theJackets batting order.

“It obviously showsyou a lot about these twoplayers when you can battwo freshman first andsecond,” Giachetti said. “Iknew coming into the sea-son they would help us alot.”

Giachetti said he ispleased so far but said theteam is trying to work onthe mental part of thegame, specifically defense.

“I think physically weare as good as anybody,but I think when we getinto conference play thatthe mental part of thegame will be key.”

Waynesburg will lookto keep that offense goingSaturday against Carlowin a 1 p.m. doubleheader.

Team Leaders:

AveragePivik (.423)

Home runsThree tied with 1

RBIsFalleroni (12)

ERABaughman (1.40)

WinsMinor (3)

Innings pitchedBaughman (25.2)

StrikeoutsBaughman (32)

Softballsweeps UPG

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PENN STATE-BEHREND WINS 6-2, 6-4

Offense strugglesagain in squad’s10th straight loss

Blackwell

Falleroni

Photo by Dave Miller, ADM Photography

Junior third baseman Tim Chilcote fires a throw to first base during Saturday’s dou-bleheader. Chilcote had four RBIs in the two games.

On Saturday, two Waynesburg seniors excelled on the field for their respective teams. Lacrosse player Maria Shepas broke multiple team recordswith her seven-goal performance, while baseball player Anthony Defilippo went five-for-six in his team’s doubleheader.

By Dave FloydSports Editor

In its first match at itsnew six-court facility, theWaynesburg Universitymen’s tennis team scoreda shutout victory Satur-day over Geneva College.

The 9-0 triumph endeda month-long layoff forthe Yellow Jackets, whoopened their seasonMarch 19 with an 8-1 lossto Penn State-Behrendand had not played since.

“The guys, for the mostpart, played smart ten-nis,” head coach RonChristman said. “[That]makes me feel goodbecause they were doingsome of the things we’vebeen working on. In sever-al cases, [though], we did-n’t get pushed real hard.

“[And] we love our newfacility; those courts areso nice to play on,”Christman added. “It’s ahuge plus having those.”

The Jackets startedquickly, racing out to a 3-0 lead after doubles play.

At first doubles, theWaynesburg tandem ofjunior Peter Mally andsenior Emile Khourydefeated Geneva’s DavidWitt and Caleb Miller 8-2.

“Emile and I haveplayed really, really wellfor not having played a

whole bunch until thislast week and thismatch,” Mally said. “Ithink we’ve pretty muchpicked up where we leftoff last season just work-ing well together and get-ting wins.”

Jacket sophomoresJason Logan and JonAnderson teamed up atsecond doubles to score an8-3 victory over the Gold-en Tornadoes duo of MattDavis and Jordan Hillwig.

With only five players,Geneva was forced to for-feit the number-threedoubles match. Waynes-burg freshman Nate Huff-man and sophomore JoeKromer were the benefici-aries, picking up the winby default.

Christman was pleasedwith how his team startedoff the match.

“I feel because we work

on doubles as much as wedo, and the technique ofdoubles, we’re going tocome out and start mostmatches pretty strong,”Christman said. “We’vehad matches where ournumber-one doubles teamwill win, and then we’lllose in singles at both oneand two because the guysknow how to play togeth-er at doubles who do it.”

In singles play, theJackets made quick workof the Golden Tornadoes,with all five Waynesburgplayers in action notchingtwo-set victories.

At first singles, Mallybested Witt 6-3, 6-4 in theday’s closest match, com-ing back from 4-2 down inthe final set.

“I started off prettystrong, and I took the firstset pretty easily,” Mallysaid. “He started to play a

lot better in the secondset, and maybe I underes-timated him a little bit,but I turned it around. Iturned it up, and it endedup being a good win forme.”

Khoury took downMiller 6-0, 6-2 at number-two, Logan defeated Davis6-2, 6-4 at number-threeand Anderson toppedHillwig 6-0, 6-1 at num-ber-four.

Huffman picked up hisfirst competitive colle-giate win (excluding hisforfeit victory earlier inthe match) at fifth singles,defeating Jared Hartzel 6-0, 6-0.

At sixth singles,Kromer garnered anotherwin by default.

According to Christ-man, the Jackets utilized alot of what they hadworked on during the longlayoff.

“Footwork, return ofserve, smart play at thenet and doubles – that’swhat we put our time intothe last several weeks,”Christman said. “And itshowed.”

As a team, the Jacketsevened their record at 1-1on the year with Satur-day’s triumph. Theylooked to notch win No. 2Wednesday at Marietta.Results were unavailableat press time.

Waynesburg’s nextmatch is at home todayagainst Pitt-Greensburg.The match is set to beginat 3 p.m.

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Junior Peter Mally scored his first two victories of theseason this past Saturday in the Jackets’ 9-0 win.

Waynesburg winsfirst men’s matchat new facility

JACKETS - 9, GENEVA - 0

ets found a spark andscored five unansweredgoals, four by Shepas.

Sophomore CarlySmithyman also scoredfor Waynesburg in the sec-ond half. The goal was her

first of the season.Starting in goal for the

Jackets was junior ErinBurry. She also broke acouple records of her ownby recording 16 saves, ateam season high and per-sonal career high.

Waynesburg looks toget its first win of the sea-son today against the Wil-son College Phoenix (0-1)at 4:30 p.m. at Wiley Sta-dium.

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depend a great deal on thequality of pitching. Expe-rienced starters Jesse Gon-zalez, Tim Knight andAnthony Longo return,and what they can do onthe mound will go a longway in determiningwhether or not the Jacketscan get over that playoffhunt.

Unlike the baseballteam, the softball teamreturns its top player inpitcher/infielder AmandaBaughman. She’s a big rea-son for any optimism sur-rounding the squad in2011, but it’s Baughman’ssupporting cast who willdetermine whether or notthe Jackets can make itback to the PAC playoffs.

So far, those other play-ers are performing well, asWaynesburg currentlysports a 6-4 record overall.

1. Taking the next stepsAfter a second-place

finish in the Presidents’

Athletic Conference teamchampionships a seasonago, the women’s trackand field team looks totake the next step as a pro-gram in 2011.

With a ton of talentcoming back and a strongrecruiting class, anotherPAC title for Waynesburgsports is a real possibly.The returners must con-tinue to improve andthose promising freshmanmust pan out, but if theydo, the Jackets can addanother trophy to theircases.

Plus, keep an eye on afew individuals. ElishaJones and MarybethRocco advanced to nation-als in the javelin, Jonesbecoming the school’sfirst two-time outdoortrack and field All-Ameri-can. Krystal Baker alsoqualified for nationals inthe triple jump.

Look for these three toimprove on those finishesand add more All-Ameri-can honors to the Waynes-burg record books.

With all these story-lines and more, they’ll bea lot to watch this spring.

Spring’s topstorylines

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evident to his coach aswell.

“I’ve never seen some-

one so aggressive,” saidHeadlee. “He wasn’tintimidated by anybody.”

On the final day of thisseason’s York Duals, Gar-ber faced Chris Albright,one of the best wrestlersin the PAC, and won bydecision, 5-3.

“Nick was great,” said

Headlee. “I saw him beatthe Albright boy, and thatwas on one of his offdays.”

Headlee said that Gar-ber prepared very wellbefore each match, sayingthat he knew how to getready and just did it whenhe needed to.

Garber said that hehopes to wrestle one lasttime, at the UniversityNationals. Wrestlers fromall divisions are allowedto compete, and the toptwo get invited to try outfor the Olympic team.

“It is a good way for ourboys to get a sense of real-

ity and realize how manyother great wrestlers thereare out there,” saidHeadlee.

According to Headlee,Garber had a great careerat Waynesburg, and hehas nothing to beashamed of.

Headlee just hopes one

thing sticks with theyounger guys from Gar-ber’s time here.

“I hope they can findhis same work ethic,”said Headlee. “He workedhard day in and day out,and I would love to seesomeone step up and fillhis shoes.”

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By Brandon ReedEditorial Assistant

It’s that time of yearagain for photographers allaround campus to showWaynesburg off to the restof the world.

For its third year, the“Show Me Waynesburg”photo contest will be heldon campus. It has contin-ued to grow since itsinception in 2009.

Director of Admissions,Sarah Zwinger, is incharge of the contest.

The photos chosenare used as promo-tional material forthe university.

Many of the pic-tures used for theadvertisementsare recycled fromprevious years,but a few pic-tures are used

By Rachel DavisStaff Writer

For most college stu-dents, spring break is aweek to get away from thetypical college grind ofwork and classes and achance to relax withfriends and family. But for75 Waynesburg Universi-ty students, spring breakwas a time to serve local-ly, nationally and interna-tionally.

The universitysent out five serviceteams to Ecuador,Belize, theBahamas,Pittsburgh

and North Carolina.Assistant Professor of

Biology Janet Paladino ledthe service trip toEcuador, where she andher team of studentsworked with SummitAdventure, which focuseson environmental stew-

ardship.Thegroupalsoworkedwith the

Happiness Foundation, aChristian orphanage thatteaches sustainability.

“It was a very success-ful trip and diverse trip inthat we got to look at thebeauty of creation andhow people fit into cre-ation and teach the kids,”Paladino said.

University studentsaided the orphanage incaring for a guinea pigfarm as well as workingwith other environmentalissues like alfalfa farming.

They also took the chil-dren to a local rainforestconservation to observe

hundreds of butterfliesand hummingbirds.

For some it was thefirst time they have beento a rainforest, said Paladi-no. Kids wrote and drewpictures about their timeat the conservation.

“Not only can yousee creation; you haveto experience creation,”Paladino said.

The team also climbedtwo volcanoes.

“You felt a big accom-plishment when youreached the top,” Paladinosaid.

For the third year,Richard “Skip” Noftzger,senior vice president for

By Matt GiardinaStaff Writer

Every year the StudentActivities Board plans athemed Spring Week fullof events and foods.

This year’s SpringWeek theme is “AllAround the World.”

Jen Brusstar, the vicepresident of SAB and asenior biology majorsaid, “Spring Week andhomecoming week areboth operated by the fes-tive events committee.”

The SAB encounteredlittle to no problems dur-ing the setup for Spring

Week. “I have been a mem-

ber of the Student Activ-ities Board for four years.I know how to come upwith ideas that fit thebudget and Pat Bristor isour faculty advisor,” saidBrusstar.

“She helps us withbooking events, perform-ances and oversees every-thing SAB does. It is stillmostly student runthough.”

Not only is Brusstarvice president of SAB,she is also the head of thefestive events committeewhich coordinated

Spring Week.“The festive events

committee came up withthe idea last spring,”Brusstar said.

“Danielle Brush[senior psychologymajor] was studyingabroad the semesterbefore and the generalidea for Spring Weekcame from her stories.We then brought ourSpring Week idea up thispast fall.”

Because of the “All

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Musician Jason LeV-asseur returned to Way-nesburg University thisweek to perform withband mate, Jerry Chap-man. LeVasseur and Chap-man, both singers andsong writers, performedfor a small crowd Thurs-day night in Alumni Hallat 8:00 pm. The StudentActivities Board sponsoredthe event.

While Thursday’s showwas not Lavasseur’s firstWaynesburg experience, itwas the first time Life inGeneral has performed atWaynesburg. During thetwo-hour performance,the duo performed 10songs that featured guitar,mandolin, harmonica,drums and bongos. Inbetween songs, LeVasseurand Chapman jokedaround with the audience,something audience mem-ber Lauren Friday, a sopho-more social work andcounseling major, enjoyed.

“They were really com-ical,” Friday said. “Ithought they really con-nected with the audi-ence.”

Freshman nursingmajor Elyse Matt alsoenjoyed the duo’s humor.

“They were reallyfunny. It was cool; theywere joking around withthe audience,” Matt said.“It made the performancereally entertaining.”

While the duo played afew cover songs, the per-formance consisted main-ly of original songs writtenby both LeVasseur andChapman.

‘To make a difference’

Curtain set to open on ‘State Fair,’ musical begins March 30By Rob GriffithStaff Writer

The Waynesburg Uni-versity players take thestage with music, danc-ing, action and romanceto present their version ofa classic golden age musi-cal, “State Fair.”

The performance isscheduled for Wednesday,March 30, through Satur-day, April 2 in the Good-win Performing Arts Cen-ter.

Each performancebegins at 7:30 p.m. andthe public is cordiallyinvited to attend.

Eddie Powers, directorand associate professor oftheatre, said he chose theplay to introduce classicmusical writers Rogersand Hammerstein to a

generation that has“grown up on ‘Grease,’‘Footloose,’ ‘Wicked’ andanything that AmericanIdol sings.”

“We’ve lost sight of thegreatness of Rogers andHammerstein,” Powerssaid.

“So it’s good to picksome of these chestnuts,if you will, some of theold standards, the clas-sics.”

Originally written as amovie in 1945, “StateFair” tells the story of anIowan farming family’sthree-day trip to the IowaState Fair.

The adults in the fami-ly go in hopes of winningblue ribbons, while thechildren are more inter-ested in finding romance.

Waynesburg’s perform-

ance of “State Fair” willstar seniors David Call,Melissa Grom, AndrewOreski, Kirstin Repco,Ryan Bistarkey, JamieCardenas and SableGriedel in lead roles.

“We have an enthusias-tic cast, a group that iswilling to work and ishaving fun doing it. Theenergy level is so high,and that’s always a lot offun,” Powers said. “It’salways great for the direc-tor to see that the actorsare having a good time.”

Ben Crawshaw, a juniorchemistry major whoplays reporter Pat Gilbertin the musical, agreed.“This is the third musicalI’ve done, and it’s definite-ly been the hardest,” Photo by Amanda Rice

Ben Crawshaw and Kirsten Repco perform during the musical performed by theWaynesburg University players titled “State Fair.”

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Photo by Lisa Jaeger

On Monday night, students learned to fiesta dance inthe Beehive as part of spring week activities.

Students travel to five service locations over spring break

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Around the World”theme, every day ofSpring Week has activi-ties that signify a coun-try.

“On Monday thetheme for the day will beMexican. There will be afiesta with tortillas, salsadip and salsa dancing les-sons in the Beehive at7:30 p.m.,” Brusstar said.

Tuesday is focused onJapanese culture andthere will be an orientaldelight event from 2 to 4p.m.

Students had theopportunity to makedessert sushi. Instead offish we will be usingfoods like fruit roll-upsfor the sushi.

Denice Gordan, afreshman biblical min-istries study major,attended oriental delight.

“Oriental Delight wasfun. The Korean writingwas beautifully paintedand the artists obviouslyhad talent and practice.The dessert sushi wascreative and tasty,” shesaid.

“I especially enjoyedmaking origami. It’s notas difficult as it seems,and I made a cute paperpiano.”

The rest of SpringWeek will continue the“All Around the World”with more events andcultural foods.

Wednesday isCaribbean day and we aregoing to host a luau inJohnson Commons at 5pm.

It will have a pig roast,a steel drum band andpeople will be handingout free leis.

“Thursday is Ameri-can day and will havedueling pianos in AlumniHall at 8 p.m. Friday isFrench day, said Brusstar.“There will be Frenchdessert foods such ascrepes and éclairs in thedining hall.”

Friday is also special asStudent Senate is spon-soring a world fair oncampus.

There will be carnivalgames to play, prizes towin and food to eat.

All of this will takeplace from 4 to 6 p.m. inJohnson Commons.

All the festivities ofSpring Week conclude onSaturday with the springformal.

Brusstar said, “Thisyear the spring formalwill be held at the Lake-side Party Center onMarch 26 at 7 p.m.

“The theme for thedance is China so theroom will be decoratedwith lots of gold andred.”

“We get inspirationfrom everything- inter-viewers, T.V. shows, per-sonal stories, anything,”Chapman said. “We liter-ally get inspiration fromlife in general.”

LeVasseur and Chap-man alternated vocalsduring the performance,each singing songs fromthe duo’s collection, aswell as songs of their own.Both men perform as soloacts when not performingtogether.

“We play more sepa-rately than we do togeth-er,” LeVasseur said. “It’sgreat to play togetherthough. I like to hearJerry’s stuff.”

Although they may bepursuing solo careers, theduo has been playingtogether since 1992. Thetwo met in North Caroli-na during LeVasseur firstyear of college.

“My band was playingat Jason’s school and heasked me if he could play

me a song on the guitar,”Chapman said. “Jason’snot the kind of guy to playjust one song though- heplayed me five. After that,the rest is history.”

During their 19 yearstogether, Life in Generalhas recorded over 100songs and released 10

albums. The duo has wonseveral awards and hasbeen awarded the Cam-pus Entertainment AwardArtist of the Year fivetimes. Currently, LeV-asseur and Chapman areon separate tours, touringPennsylvania and NorthCarolina.

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English lecturer nominated for publication in poem bookBy Jessica SchinkovecStaff Writer

A Waynesburg Univer-sity Department of Eng-lish lecturer has beennominated for publicationin a literary book titled,“Pushcart Prize.”

“Pushcart Prize” is abook of short stories,poems and essays fromchosen writers.

It has been publishedevery year since 1976with different pieces fromwriters that have beenchosen for the year.

“It’s an honor becauseit comes from the peoplewho really are in the pub-lishing world,” saidRobert Randolph, lecturerof English.

“I have been nominat-ed four times and Ihaven’t made it in yet, somaybe this year.”

Nomination for a Push-cart comes from editors ofjournals that publish poet-ry, or the board of editorsof Pushcart Press.

“It is the best of allpoems published the pastyear, as judged by edi-tors,” Randolph says.

Once a person is nomi-nated they can choosewhich three pieces of

work they would like tosubmit. Then a number ofpieces are chosen by acommittee and put intothe book.

“This year I had twopoems that I really liked

better than the others,”said Randolph.

Randolph’s first choicewas a poem he wrotewhen he spent some timein Greece.

The poem is about

older men that would sitin a cafe by the harborearly in the mornings.The men would get asmall cup of dark coffee,take the first sip and sigh.

Randolph said itseemed like a ritual, andthere was a feeling ofcommunity.

“One of my friendsfrom Greece said to me,‘this is what you’re sup-posed to do,” Randolphsaid.

“He even tried to trainme in the proper way tosigh.”

Randolph’s secondchoice is a poem about hismother and his wish thatshe were still here.

“I used to think I couldjust start writing rightnow, where I’m at now,”Randolph said.

“But these days theremay be some things I keepreturning to. I’m verydrawn the natural world,family and relationships.”

Writers such as Ran-dolph are constantly writ-

ing; it is what they love todo.

“Writers write. I’m notsaying I don’t have anoth-er life, but that’s just whatthey do,” said Randolph.“That’s what amazes meabout this department.”

Randolph says that theamount of talent andaccomplishments in theWaynesburg UniversityEnglish Department isamazing.

Randolph has hadmany other accomplish-ments throughout his life,along with the manyother professors in theEnglish department.

“The creative writingenergy here amazes me,for the number of peoplewe have and what goes onhere,” Randolph said.“Right here you havethree people that havebeen nominated for Push-carts in past years.”

Randolph says for hisstudents he wishes that,“win, lose or draw, theynever give up.”

Photo by Lisa Jaeger

Robert Randolph, lecturer of English, will be published in the “Pushcart Prize” bookwhich publishes poems and essays from selective writers.

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from the photo contest.

According to Zwinger,there are at least 20 appli-cants this year, and manyphotos have already beensubmitted.

Last year, there were600 photos submittedfrom around 40 students,

Zwinger said. “More and more people

are participating,” saidZwinger. “That is good forus and many other organi-zations around campusthat use their pictures.”

Pictures range fromstudent activities to the-ater as well as missiontrips.

“We are looking for awide variety of pictures toget the best representa-tion in our pamphlets ofwhat Waynesburg has tooffer,” said Zwinger.

While these photos arebeing turned into Univer-sity Relations and Admis-sions, other organizationscan use them.

The Yellow Jacket andMad Anthony are two ofthe on-campus organiza-tions that use the photos.

These photographersdo not only take thesephotos for the diversity oftheir portfolios. The topfour pictures receive giftcards, and the top threereceive trophies.

Last year’s winnerswere honored via email,but Zwinger said shewould like to recognizethe winners in BenedumDining Hall this year aswell so that the photo-graphs can be viewed bythe campus community.

The photographs aredue on April 11, andaccording to Zwinger,there are still plenty ofopportunities to takegreat pictures.

She said, “We need pic-tures of everything fromathletics to student activi-ties and mission trips.”

Crawshaw said. “But thatmeans that we’re comingtogether and forming acommunity. A lot morepeople are helping out andpitching in.”

Powers said selectingthe yearly musical is atime-consuming process.

“We have so many stu-dents who would like tobe involved, so we try topick a show that is goingto have a significant cho-rus,” Powers said.

“We like to choose ashow that allows us tospotlight not just themajor characters, butsome of the minor charac-ters as well.”

Gender ratios for a cast

with more women thanmen and stage and setrequirements must alsobe taken into account.

“Some shows require agreat deal of scenery, and Ihave to look at a show andconsider our small wingspace and small shop,”Powers said.

“How can we achievethis with minimum set?”

Given all these consid-erations, Powers saysState Fair fit the bill.

“With ‘State Fair’ beinga Rogers and Hammer-stein show - the same peo-ple that gave us Oklaho-ma, Carousel, The Kingand I - the music is won-derful,” Powers said.

“Looking at the story,it’s going to challenge ouractors and it’s always niceto have some good dancenumbers in there as achallenge.”

Powers says he chal-

lenges his actors andactresses to “totallyencompass” their roles forthe audience.

“It’s not Dave, Sable,Mel and Ryan on stage

now. It’s Abel, or Emily,or the judge,” Powers said.“When we, the audience,accept them in those char-acters then the magic oftheatre has occurred.”

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(Above) The play will begin on March 30 and will run through April 2 and will be held in the Goodwin PerformingArts Center. (Below) Kirsten Repco sings during one of scenes of the musical.

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Institutional Planning,Research and EconomicDevelopment led a groupto Belize City, Belize towork with Unity Presby-terian Church and Pri-mary School.

The 12 studentsexpanded and painted thesecurity gate outside andalso worked inside withthe teachers by complet-ing activities like hands-on science experiments.

“The biggest challengewas that the children arelovable and friendly andyou can lose sight of whatthey really live in,” saidNoftzger.

A group of nursing stu-dents also traveled inter-nationally to Nassau,Bahamas to set up a clinicfor Haitian refugees.

Lynne Christopher,freshman, explained thethree stations the grouporganized.

Patients first wentthrough the check-in/entertainment station,which allowed students toget to know the peoplethey would be workingwith and to “have funwith the little ones wesaw,” she said.

Following the check-in,patients went to theassessment room, wherethe nursing students tooktheir vitals and found outwhat was ailing thepatient.

Finally, they wentupstairs to the pharmacy.

“We brought vitamins,tooth brushes, toothpaste, soap and a comb forall of our patients,”Christopher said. “Thenwe gave them the othermedicine that they need-ed for their symptoms.”

According to Christo-pher, it was very challeng-ing to be unable to providedental work to therefugees.

Despite the challenges,the group was also able to

worship with the Haitianpeople, which became themost powerful momentfor Christopher.

“It was so amazing thatthese people loved andtrusted God as much asthey did when they hadnothing,” said Christo-pher. “We were thankedthroughout the serviceand throughout our daysof the clinic, but after theservice people came up tous, children did too, andthey hugged us, held ourhands and truly thankedus and thanked God forbringing us to them.”

Sarah Brandstetter,coordinator of the BonnerScholar program, led agroup of students to Pitts-burgh to work with thePittsburgh Project. Thestudents splint workedwith people in the Pitts-burgh community whowere unable to makerepairs on their homes.

While working in anarea where the majority ofthe homes were beingcondemned, one groupwitnessed part of a housefall off the hillside, whichhelped to reinforce thereason they were there.

Some students evensaid that although theyare from the Pittsburgharea, it was a side of Pitts-burgh that they havenever seen and wouldn’thave ever seen if it wasn’tfor the trip.

Brandstetter said thatreason for the trip was to“help to make a differencein their lives.”

Pat Bristor, associatedean of students, also led atrip where studentsworked with their hands.

She and her studentsworked with Habitat forHumanity of CabarrusCounty, N.C.

The group stayed andworked in Concord, N.C.,building a ranch stylehome. The group startedwith a concrete founda-tion and built the exteriorand interior walls, builtthe roof and did other mis-cellaneous prep work forthe future groups.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Obama pledges millions in drug-fighting aid Police serach for escaped komodo dragons

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Reflecting onAmerica's role in another war-torn country, ElSalvador, President Barack Obama paid homageTuesday evening at the tomb of a Catholic arch-bishop gunned down by U.S.-linked deathsquads more than three decades ago.

Obama pledged $200 million to CentralAmerica to battle a new menace: drug cartels.He hailed President Mauricio Funes, the firstleftist leader in El Salvador's modern history, forhis moderate policies and efforts to "overcomeold divisions" still visible in this tiny nation.

Narcotics, public security and immigrationwere the main topics as Obama and Funes metin the ornate presidential palace, surrounded bytropical gardens.

As much as 80 percent of the cocaine from theAndean region passes through Central America,and drug gangs from Colombia and Mexico havemoved heavily into the region.

Two Air Force aviators rescued after crash

WASHINGTON – Two Air Force aviatorswere rescued after they bailed out of a U.S. fight-er jet late Monday before it crashed in northeastLibya due to a mechanical malfunction.

Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III said both crewmembers were in U.S. hands.

Locklear, the operational commander of theair war in Libya, spoke by phone to reporters atthe Pentagon.

A U.S. military official said one of the crewmembers was found by a U.S. search and rescueteam and the other was found by Libyan rebelsand was safe.

The aircraft, normally based in England, wasflying out of Aviano Air Base in northeasternItaly when it crashed.

The military said it was not releasing theiridentities until family members were notified.

A photograph in the Telegraph, a British news-paper, showed the wreckage of what looked likea U.S. warplane in a field in Libya surrounded byonlookers.

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Police in Indonesia's sec-ond-largest city were investigating the disappearanceof three komodo dragons from a local zoo, a newsreport said Tuesday.

The venomous giant lizards, all 1 year old, wentmissing earlier this month from the zoo in Surabaya,the capital of East Java province, the state Antaranews agency said.

The zoo is left with 56 other komodos.At 2 to 3 yards long, the komodo dragons mostly

eat carrion, but also have a toxic bite which they useto weaken live prey.

Portugal’s government on brink of downfall

LISBON – Portugal's governing Socialistsmade a last-ditch attempt Tuesday to stave off agovernment collapse as parliament prepared tovote on an austerity package ahead of a key Euro-pean Union summit.

This would lead to Prime Minister JoseSocrates' resignation, early elections and a possi-ble request for international help by Portugal.

A political crisis would push Portugal towardsa financial rescue. The fall of the Portuguesegovernment would lead to months of politicaluncertainty, eroding investor confidence in all ofthe eurozone’s weaker members, analysts said.

Palin visits Israel, cancels visit to Palestine

JERUSALEM – Fox News Channel commenta-tor and former Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, metMonday with Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu and settlement supporter DannyDanon. She toured the Western Wall tunnels,one of Judaism's holiest sites.

Israeli officials said she had not coordinatedher visit with Palestinian authorities, thoughany person possessing a U.S. passport can enterBethlehem.

Palestinian officials expressed disappointmentthat Palin hadn't visited them, but added theywere "not surprised."

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By Laura KingLos Angeles Times

TOKYO — This year in Japan, the rites of spring havetransformed themselves into the rituals of sorrow.

Monday’s national holiday marked the vernal equi-nox, the start of a season enshrined in the nation’s clas-sical art and literature as a time of fragile, fleeting beau-ty. But at this spring’s onset, Japanese find themselvesgazing upon an unfathomable landscape of death anddestruction wrought by earthquake and tsunami.

The vernal equinox, like its autumn counterpart, istraditionally associated with reunions of kinfolk andvisits to graves of ancestors. Both of these conventions,though, carry terrible resonance at a time of shatteredfamilies and nameless bodies piling up in makeshiftmorgues, a particular horror in a society with meticu-lously observed funerary customs.

“I came here to rest my mind for a moment,” saidTaro Okuzawa, pausing at a tiny Shinto shrine perched,incongruously, on the rooftop of a busy departmentstore in Tokyo’s Ginza district. “I try to grasp what hashappened to us, and I cannot.”

Springtime normally ushers in a procession of Japan-ese matsuri, or festivals, many with roots in the eternalrhythms of agrarian life, the turning of seasons or theways of the natural world. This year, for many, nature’sterrors hardly bear contemplating: shaking earth, waveslike dark mountains, radiation’s invisible menace.

Although cherished as cultural touchstones even in ahyper-modern, gizmo-laden land, traditional matsuriare likely to be scarce this spring. Their loss, only oneamong so many, is nonetheless mourned.

In the old shrine-dotted Tokyo neighborhood ofAsakusa, organizers had prepared for months for a cele-bration known as the Golden Dragon Dance, an exu-berant whirl of lanterns, chants and drumming. But itwould have fallen on March 18, only a week after theearthquake; it was swiftly called off. So was an even big-ger festival in the neighborhood, a three-day extrava-ganza known as the Sanja Matsuri, which normallytakes place in May.

“The earthquake we just had is a once-in-a-thousand-year event, and we decided we needed to forgo our fes-tival,” said Kouji Yano, a Shinto priest at Asakusa’smain shrine. “We just wouldn’t be in the mood.”

Perhaps Japan’s most indelible springtime ritual ischerry-blossom viewing, and that too is likely to be cur-tailed.

The delicate pink flowers, regarded here as a poeti-cally melancholy symbol of life’s evanescence, have notyet bloomed in Tokyo, or in the country’s ravagednortheast.

Normally, at this time of year, the public avidlytracks the sakura zensen, or cherry-blossom front, as itmoves steadily northward with warming temperatures.

By Nancy A. YoussefMcClatchy Newspapers

BENGHAZI, Libya —Two days after U.S. andcoalition forces imposed ano-fly zone over Libya,rebels moved Monday toretake the city of Ajd-abiya, a critical crossroadsin their fight to regain theterritory they lost lastweek.

Forces loyal to Libyanleader Moammar Gadhafistill held the bulk of Ajd-abiya, about 50 milessouth of Benghazi, butrebels said they hadentered the outskirts.They said that after Ajd-abiya, they would moveto the oil terminal townsof Brega and Ras Lanuf,and the village of BinJawad, which they lostlast week to Gadhafi loy-alists, and then wouldtackle Gadhafi’s home-town of Sirte.

But that seemed like anambitious goal on Mon-day, for the forces in Ajd-abiya were poorly armedand scattered, some com-ing to battle only withknives.

The fall of Ajdabiya toGadhafi’s forces Saturday

triggered a wholesale exo-dus of Gadhafi opponentsfrom Benghazi, which hadbecome the rebel capitalin eastern Libya. Butwhen French fighter jetsbombed Gadhafi tankshere and the U.S. andGreat Britain followed

with Tomahawk cruisemissiles and bomberattacks on Gadhafi’s anti-aircraft defenses outsideTripoli, the rebels floodedback. The boost to rebelmorale from the alliedbombing strikes could beseen everywhere here.

Residents who didn’t fleeSaturday emerged fromtheir homes for the firsttime in days.

How far the alliedbombers will go in sup-porting the rebel advancewas unclear, however, andit isn’t certain that the dis-

organized and untrainedrebel force would be ableto retake the towns alongLibya’s coastal highwaywithout allied attacks onGadhafi’s tanks andartillery.

The war could well beheaded to a stalemate. On

Monday, the western cityof Misrata sustained moreattacks from pro-Gadhafiforces, which apparentlywere undeterred by theallies’ bombing campaign.

U.S. Army Gen. CarterHam, the commander ofthe U.S. Africa Com-mand, which is responsi-ble for Libya, toldreporters Monday that theallies wouldn’t take sidesin the conflict.

The U.N. SecurityCouncil, which approvedthe imposition of the no-fly zone last week, sched-uled a closed-door sessionMonday to hear concernsfrom Russia, India andChina over how the U.S.,Britain and France hadcarried out the resolution.

Despite the alliedattacks, Benghazi seemedfar emptier Monday thana few days ago, suggestingthat not everyone is con-vinced the fighting here isover. Many suggestedrenaming the city’s mainhighway for French Presi-dent Nicolas Sarkozy,conceding that pro-Gad-hafi forces would havetaken the city if Francehadn’t mounted its airassault here Saturday.

A sorrowful springarrives in Japanafter earthquakes

Allied airstrikes boost confidence of Libyan rebels

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A rebel fighter celebrates on a smoldering tank on March 21 in the village of Zwitina, Libya, located nearAjdabiya approximately two days after U.S. and coalition forces imposed a no-fly zone over Libya.