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‘Money well spent’

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Andrew Stewart looks at merchandise on display at the Ten Thousand Villages store.

Ten Thousand Villages storeopens on Washington StreetBy Rachel BrownExecutive Editor

A holiday tradition isreturning to Waynesburg.

For the past sevenyears, Waynesburg Uni-versity students haveopened a Ten ThousandVillages store. This year isno different.

The store, located at 68S. Washington St., openedNov. 10.

“The primary reason[for the store] is to serveartisans whose crafts are

for sale,” said UniversityChaplain Tom Ribar.“You’re contributing tothe health and livelihoodof people all around theworld.”

Ten Thousand Villagesis an international organi-zation that works withartisans in countries allover the world. The organ-ization buys crafts at fairprices from economicallydisadvantaged artisansand resells them in storesin the United States andCanada.

“We want to use thisstore as an opportunity tobring the world to Way-nesburg,” said StudentDirector Rhonda Wolo-shun.

“For most of us, we’renot going to see all 38 ofthose countries in our life-time, so this is a greatopportunity to bring apiece of each of thoseplaces to Waynesburg.”

Ribar brought TenThousand Villages to

Concerns raisedabout violent crimenear WU campusBy Kaitlin EdwardsManaging Editor

Waynesburg Boroughpolice and campussecurity have beenforced to deal with sev-eral incidents involv-ing University stu-dents.

“The amount of inci-dents reported and theseverity of the inci-dents over the last cou-ple of weeks is a dis-turbing trend,” saidWaynesburg Borough

Chief of Police Timo-thy Hawfield.

“We are afraid some-thing worse is yet tocome, and we definite-ly don’t want to seethat.”

According to campussecurity, roughly 52recordable incidentshave been documentedsince Sept. 5.

These incidentsinclude fire alarms,medical transport, dis-

Study finds teens,young adults text55 times per day By Sierra ShaferOp/Ed Editor

On average, 18 to 24-year-olds are sendingupwards of 1,600 textsper month, according to arecent Nielsen Mobilestudy.

While the averageteenager sends twice theamount, the 18 to 24-year-old age group is alsospending the most timeon the phone when com-pared to all other agegroups.

Based on this study,that is an average of 55texts sent every day.

To do so takes a sub-stantial amount of time,not including timespending readingresponses.

Some parents and edu-cators find this problem-atic because this is timespent wasted or timewhere texting becomes adangerous distraction.

“Like all other issues

MidpointresultsreleasedBy Jon LedyardAssignments Editor

As environmentalissues grow on a nationalscale, Waynesburg Uni-versity’s awareness ofthese issues continues toexpand as well.

The Eco-StewardsClub’s Campus WaterChallenge has successful-ly saved 51,000 gallons offresh water since the firstday of classes this semes-ter, according to thehalfway results submit-ted by club PresidentDorothy Rurak.

“The Campus WaterChallenge is a competi-tion between dormswhere winners get 10 per-cent of their savings fortheir dorm,” said Rurak,a senior environmentalscience major.

“To save this manygallons in the first semes-ter of this water challengehas been a great success.”

According to Rurak,Thayer Hall is leading allthe residence halls at thehalfway point, with a sig-nificantly lower percent-age of gallons used thissemester as opposed tolast semester.

Actual numbers willnot be released until theend of the semester.

Martin Hall is in sec-ond place with East,South and West collec-tively grouped in third

CLIMATE CHALLENGE

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FDA to investigate safety of caffeinated alcoholic beveragesBy Amanda WishnerStaff Writer

The 82,000 Facebookusers who “like” the fanpage of the beverage FourLoko may not approve ofthe FDA’s decision toinvestigate the safety ofalcoholic energy drinks.

“The FDA has beenunder a lot of pressure tomake a decision onwhether or not thesedrinks should bebanned,” said Waynes-burg counselor JenniferChajkowski.

“They have beeninvestigating for almost ayear, but results have notbeen released yet. Wealready know the dangersfrom previous research,and there are legitimate

concerns and reasons toban the beverages.”

The potential dangerof drinks such as Jooseand Four Loko is thatthose who consume thebeverages are mixingalcohol, a depressant,with the stimulant caf-feine.

People report a feelingsometimes referred to asa “wide-awake drunk.”The depressive effects ofalcohol, such as fatigueand sleepiness, are coun-teracted by the added caf-feine.

Without the typicalside effects caused byalcohol, drinkers mayunderestimate theamount of alcohol theyare consuming and con-sequently continue to

drink, which can lead toalcohol poisoning.

Mixing alcohol andcaffeine may also resultin dehydration, moodswings and increased car-diovascular risk.

A study published byWake Forest Universitydiscovered that studentswho mix energy drinksand alcohol are at a high-er risk of suffering alco-hol-related injuries thanthose who drink onlyalcohol.

Because of itsadverse effects,Four Loko issometimesreferred to as“legalized liquidcocaine” and even“black-out in acan.”

“I partially agree withthe critics of the drinksbecause I understandthat the combinationdoes not go well togetherand that it could be dan-gerous,” said ZacharyStacey, senior interna-tional studies and politi-cal science student.“The whole thing comesdown to whether or notthe consumersknow

their limits and howresponsible they arebeing when drinking.”

Beverages like FourLoko and Joose are rela-tively new to the market.Neither are older thanfive years, yet both havemanaged to grow sub-stantially in popularity,especially

among college students.The main appeal of

these caffeinated maltbeverages is their lowprice point and high alco-hol content. For an aver-age cost of $2, buyers can

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Waynesburg 16 years agoafter being introduced toit as a pastor in Pitts-burgh.

“Those of us whoworked with missiontrips thought it would be agood ministry andfundraiser for the commu-nity,” he said.

Some of the proceedsfrom the store go to theMission Trip ScholarshipFund, which is availableto Waynesburg studentsgoing on mission trips.

Since the first storeopened, Ribar has beenimpressed with their suc-cess. Last year, the storemade more than $13,000.Because of the store’s pre-vious success, Ribar saidthe sales goal for this yearis $18,000.

“As people in the bor-ough become more famil-iar with the store, saleswill increase,” he said.“However, we can’t affordto open a permanentstore, which would beideal.”

To promote the store,Woloshun and Ribaradvertised in local busi-nesses and on the radio.They also contacted 250local pastors about theopportunity.

Ribar supervised theopening of the store alongwith Woloshun.

“This is her secondyear helping with the pro-gram,” he said. “She’svery organized and pas-sionate.”

Woloshun and Ribar,along with 40 to 50 volun-teers, designed the storefrom scratch.

According to Ribar,they received $24,000worth of merchandise,

which they had to organ-ize and display in thestore.

“It takes ingenuity andcreativity to find enoughracks and tables that areadequate for displaying allthe merchandise,” hesaid. “It’s a lot of work.”

In addition to arrangingall of the merchandise,Woloshun and Ribar hadto deal with a change inlocation. Last year, thestore was located on HighStreet, but a business rent-ed the space.

“Even though it’s off ofHigh Street, it’s still in acentral enough locationthat students can walkthere,” said Woloshun.

“Better still, we’re locatedin the old Hot Rod’s facil-ity, and that’s a very com-mon Waynesburg land-mark. That makes it veryeasy for us to direct peoplefamiliar with the area tothe store.”

To attract visitors tothe store, Woloshun andher volunteers will be giv-ing a free gift to peoplewho purchase $15 or morein merchandise, Ribarsaid. The free gift will beavailable while supplieslast, which should be afew days.

“We hope people comedown and shop,” Ribarsaid. “It’s money wellspent.”

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Follow God’s call to be successful, author tells campusBy Andrew BudaStaff Writer

This Tuesday’sChapel gave studentsthe opportunity to hearthe author of children’sand history booksspeak.

This week, studentsheard from Yale gradu-ate and Christ and Cul-ture Lecture Seriesspeaker Eric Metaxas.

His resume containsall of the above, not tomention his writing ofseveral books including“Bonhoeffer: Pastor,Martyr, Prophet, Spy”and the story of WilliamWilberforce, “AmazingGrace.”

Metaxas has appearedon CNN, C-Span, FoxNews and NPR.

He has written forthe New York Times,the Washington-Postand the Christian chil-

dren’s series, VeggieTales.

Bonhoeffer was thefocus of Metaxas’ firstlecture in the Christand Culture LectureSeries Monday night ashe shared about thebiography he wroteabout Bonhoeffer’s lifeand death.

In Tuesday’s chapel,Metaxas continued theLecture Series withanother book he wroteabout the life andachievements of aboli-tionist William Wilber-force, “Amazing Grace:

William Wilberforceand the Heroic Cam-paign to End Slavery.”

When discussing partof his book, “Every-thing You AlwaysWanted to Know AboutGod,” he spoke ofWilberforce saying, “Hewas a man that took theBible seriously, and itchanged the world.”

He was then asked towrite a biography onWilberforce.

Although Metaxaslikes the movie “Amaz-

Author Eric Metaxasspoke on ChapelTuesday. He alsospoke Monday andTuesday nights aspart of Christ andCulture Series.

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place.“The dorm buildings

have done a great job offinding ways to savewater,” said Rurak.“Whether it’s shutting offwater, washing theirhands or taking shortershowers, students havefound ways to conservean amazing amount ofwater.”

Pollock Hall, followedby Willison Hall, roundout the top five.

Rurak said that post-ing flyers was only asmall part of the processof promoting the Cam-pus Water Challenge.

“I have had meetingswith all of the residentassistants and residentdirectors and have talkedto many organizations oncampus as well,” saidRurak.

“Also, at the dorms, Ihave done several waterprograms and even con-tacted the radio stationhere on campus to pro-mote this event.”

Rurak’s personal pas-sion for environmentalissues comes from herseeing the differencesbetween urban and ruralareas.

“As an environmentalscience major, my pas-sion for environmentalissues comes at leastsomewhat from growingup in Chicago and thenmoving to Pennsylva-nia,” said Rurak.

“When I moved it here

it was amazing to seehills and mountains andgrass and it definitelyheightened my love ofthis environment and thebeauty of God’s nature.

Seeing the contrastbetween urbanizationand the more countrylike environment herehas been awesome.”

According to Rurak,the event has plenty ofroom to expand, an actthat she would like to seehappen after she gradu-ates.

“I would love to see abigger kickoff eventaround campus,” saidRurak.

“Also to see the chal-lenge expand to not onlydorms but buildings too.But the changes that I’dlike to see are incorporat-ed into the growth of theprogram, which willhopefully succeed itself.”

Jacob Waltmeyer, amember of the Eco-Stew-ards Club, said that stu-dents recognizing theimportance of theseissues is key to thegrowth of the program.

“I think it’s importantfor residents to be respon-sible with what the Uni-versity is providing forthem and a way for themto show respect is to savewater,” said Waltmeyer,a junior psychologymajor. “We have a greatopportunity here livingin excess and we need tobe careful with howmuch we waste andbeing stewards of cre-ation as well.”

Rurak said that fullresults from the chal-lenge will not be avail-able until January 2011.

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“What you are called to do isimpossible. But with God you can’tfail.”

Eric MetaxasAuthor

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Senate to conduct polls at hall meetingsabout possibility of Trayless Tuesdays By Gregory ReinhartStaff Writer

Food and publicity taskforces joined forces thisweek to push along Tray-less Tuesday during theSenate meeting.

“It’s a conglomerateeffort with Senate,” saidChelsea Cummins, Stu-dent Senate secretary.

The first stage of thepromotion is to get thestudent body’s opinionand to get the campusaware of the TraylessTuesday, according to Stu-dent Senate AcademicVice President NatalieGeorge. The food taskforce would promote theevent by creating polls tobe distributed in hall

meetings in all residentialdorms, she said.

The task forces wouldwork in conjunction with

the residence life staff tohelp get a general consen-sus of student interest.

George and Cummins

both wanted to get theproject started as fast as

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Student Senate Secretary Chelsea Cummins (right) gestures during Tuesday’s meet-ing. Task forces discussed Senate’s effort to make the campus trayless.

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related to classroombehavior and decorum, Iask students to be cour-teous and professional,”

said Dr. Dana Baer, deanof undergraduate studies,in an email.

“I ask them to consid-er whether using theircell phone for texting inclass disrupts the teach-ing and learning environ-ment of the class for theinstruct and or the other

students.”Dr. Baer hopes stu-

dents are aware that ifthey use their cellphones for texting duringclass in violation ofclassroom policy, theymay be subject to thepenalties set forth in thatpolicy.

Waynesburg Universi-ty has a blanket policyabout classroom behav-ior and decorum, but fac-ulty and staff are asked todeal with the issue on anindividual basis.

While classroom dis-ruption is one issue

regarding the high num-ber of text messagesexchanged by 18 to 24-year-olds,

Assistant Dean of Stu-dents Shane Peters,expressed concern thattexting in class couldinfringe on academicintegrity.

“If students are usingtheir phones to textanswers to each other orat times when theyshouldn’t be, that’s obvi-ously going to be a prob-lem,” he said.

However Peters alsorecognized cell phones as

a regular part of life and atool that when usedproperly, can be veryhelpful.

“There are going to beemergency cases whereyou need to have yourphone with you in class,”said Peters,

“However, be discreetand don’t disrupt class.Let your professor knowwhat is going before thestart of class.”

Both Peters and Baeracknowledged there is nospecific policy in the Stu-dent Handbook regardingtexting in class but that

if the syllabus says tostay away, that is what isexpected.

In addition to affectingclassroom performance,excessive texting mayhave other severe conse-quences.

A study done last yearof 4,200 students in theCleveland area foundthat hyper-texting teensare more likely to engagein sex, drinking anddrugs than those who donot send as many mes-sages. Researchers saythey are starting to see aclear link between exces-sive text messaging andrisky behavior.

The study found thatyoung people who text atleast 120 times a day(more than twice theaverage for 18 to 24-year-olds) are more than threetimes more likely tohave had sex that thosewho text less than that.

They were also morelikely to have been in aphysical altercation, par-ticipated in underagedrinking and used illegaldrugs or abused prescrip-tion medications.

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The Waynesburg Uni-versity Players presented“The Skin of Our Teeth”last week in the Good-win Performing ArtsCenter. Written byThornton Wilder, theunconventional three-act play won the 1943Pulitzer Prize forDrama.

”I thought it wentvery well and the actorsdid a very fine job withit,” said Eddie Powers,associate professor oftheatre and director ofthe fall play.

“It’s a difficult playwith the stopping inaction but underneaththat it’s a very simplestory about man dealingwith one catastropheafter another.”

Wilder’s comedy-drama tells of the fic-tional Antrobus family’sstruggles to survive thevarious hardships lifethrows at them, includ-ing an ice age and aseven-year long war.

Written in 1942, theplay parodies the chaospeople felt during theturmoil of World War IIand demonstratesmankind’s ability to sur-vive and start over.

“It was a little hard to

follow and I know some-times we lost some ofthe audience,” said sen-ior Sable Griedel, whoplayed the Antrobus’maid, Sabina. “I enjoyedit though, especiallyinteracting with theaudience.”

Griedel’s characterand others frequentlyaddressed the crowddirectly, as Wilder wrote“The Skin of Our Teeth”as a play within a play.

“You really had tothink about it,” fresh-men nursing majorRachel Handley said ofthe plot line. “But Ienjoyed it a lot.”

Though happy withthe results, Powersadmitted this particularplay was not his firstchoice. In fact, thosethat auditioned for the

play were to be cast inTad Mosel’s “All theWay Home.”

“I actually had anoth-er play in mind butcould not cast enoughchild actors. So Ithought to myself,‘What can I do?’” Powerssaid. “I had ‘The Skin ofOur Teeth’ in the backof my mind so I lookedat all the scripts, rereadthem and told myself,‘Okay. This could work.This is a very interestingplay.’”

Eight-year-old CalebGallagher made the cut.One of only two to tryout for “All the WayHome,” Gallagher wasasked if he would like apart in the new play.

“His character wasnot in the play original-ly,” Powers said.

“We found a spot forhim and created the roleof Dinosaur Jr.”

Gallagher appeared inAct I as Dinosaur Jr. andas a tourist in Act II andwas a crowd favorite.

“The small dinosaurwas adorable,” Handleysaid.

Audience member formultiple shows, seniorReid Stevens said theshow overall wasimpressive.

“I enjoyed it. Ithoughts there was goodcomedic value in thefirst two acts,” saidStevens. “I actually sawit three times.”

Powers estimated thatthe final product was aresult of around 100hours of rehearsal time.

“We ended up witharound 12 hours perweek just with rehears-al,” said Powers.

“That’s not countingthe tech side of things –the props, costumes,lighting and that wholeundertaking.”

Senior cast memberMike Winland, whoplayed Mr. Fitzpatrick,said all their practicepaid off.

“There were no glar-ing errors,” Winlandsaid. “I was very happywith how everythingturned out.”

Fall play finishes four-performance runPhoto by Amanda Rice

Members of the Waynesburg Players perform in “The Skin of Our Teeth,” which ran Nov. 3-6.

ing Grace,” which isbased on the life ofWilberforce, he saysthat a lot is left outincluding the conver-sion of Wilberforce.

“Although Wilber-force was born into a‘Christian’society, peoplewho took theBible seriouslywere looked down upon,and were most oftenMethodists,” saidMetaxas.

“The culture in GreatBritain in the 1750s waspulling away from thegospel. When a culturepulls away from thegospel, someone suffers.Usually it will be thepoor.”

Metaxas explainedthat the roots of Wilber-force’s faith came fromhis aunt and uncle whohappened to beMethodists.

They often had visi-tors like John Newtonand other revolutionaryChristians of that timemeet in their home.They took the Bibleseriously.

“Wilberforce’s moth-er and grandfatherwould have none ofthis,” said Metaxas.

“They decided toscrub his soul clean ofthis ‘serious’ Christiani-ty.”

At age 16, Wilber-force enrolled at Cam-bridge University, andat age 20 he was electedto Parliament.

“He was becomingthe popular and power-ful politician his motherwanted him to be,” saidMetaxas.

However, on one1,200-mile carriage ridewith his vacation com-panion Isaac Milner, hewas convinced throughconversation of the loveof God he once felt as achild with his aunt anduncle.

“He was convincedthat the Bible was true

and that Jesus wasLord,” said Metaxas.

Wilberforce also feltGod’s call through a let-ter from John Newtonwho told him to stay inpolitics because that iswhere God could usehim.

“Wilberforce had twocalls from God,” saidMetaxas. “To abolishthe slave trade and toreform the manner or

moralityof GreatBritain.”

Metaxassaid that we all have acall from God and thatthey are all different.

“But if God doesn’tcall you to something,you cant get it done,” hesaid.

Metaxas believes thatwhat Newton said toWilberforce also appliesto Christians todaywhen he said, “Whatyou are called to isimpossible. But withGod, you can’t fail.”

Wilberforce’s abolish-ment of the slave tradein 1807 and total changeof the British culture ismeant by Metaxas toencourage others.

Sophomore computerforensics major MattSnedden felt the mes-sage was thought pro-voking.

“It helps me thinkabout how we need tolisten to God and notjust do whatever wemight want to do withour lives. We need to letGod use us.”

Sophomore account-ing major Justin Bense-ma agreed.

“It made me thinkmore about what I amcalled to do and lessabout what I want todo,” he said.

Metaxas encouragedeveryone to listen toGod’s call for them per-sonally.

“We are all Wilber-force. One day God isgoing to ask us all thesame question: Wereyou obedient and didyou use my blessings tobless others?”

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“It’s a difficult playwith the stopping inaction but... it’s a verysimple story about aman dealing with one catastrophe afteranother.”

Eddie Powers Associate Professor of Theatre

possible, consideringThanksgiving break isapproaching fast. Thiswould help to project theirmessage of urgency andthe task force will contin-ue discussing when toimplement the polls dur-ing news weeks meetings.The task forces have yetto talk the residence lifestaff about the idea toimplement the poll duringthe hallway meetings,George said during themeeting. The Eco-Stew-ards Club played a keypart in helping to gather

data for the project duringTuesday’s meeting andlast week’s meeting.

“A lot of the informa-tion would be disseminat-ed from the Eco-StewardsClub and the food taskforce,” said Cummins.

According to Cum-mins, the publicity taskforce will create flyers anduse the Senate Facebookaccount to promote Tray-less Tuesday. However,the publicity task forcecannot take any furtheraction until they receiveinformation from bothorganizations.

No time frame wasannounced during themeeting for when thisinformation would be col-lected.

ciplinary actions, pub-lic drunkenness as wellas any other issuesassociated with cam-pus security.

“It seems that thisearly in the year thereare more studentsinvolved in a negativelight that involve alco-hol and other problemsthan in previousyears,” said MikeHumiston, director ofthe Department of Pub-lic Security.

“I know that as partof the administrationtrying to stop this, thatit is frustrating,because this behavioris not becoming of aWaynesburg Universitystudent.”

The most recentincident occurred at 10p.m. on Tuesday, Nov.2 in which a fighterupted between twofreshman WaynesburgUniversity students,according to police.

One student wastaken to the hospitalwith facial injuries andhas since beenreleased.

A previous incidentinvolving Zachary andTyler Fatigante is alsobeing investigated bypolice.

Both Zachary andTyler Fatigante weretaken to Ruby Memori-al Hospital in Morgan-town, W.Va. on Oct. 24after they were alleged-ly assaulted by Bethanystudents at a partylocated at 376 N. Rich-hill St.

“We are continuingto sort through theinformation we havebeen gathering,” saidHawfield.

“It is an ongoinginvestigation, and weare going to keep work-

ing on it.”No arrests have been

made in that incident.A previous incident

that occurred earlierthis semester on Sept.30 involved two stu-dents being chargedwith furnishing alco-hol to minors whileone underage studentwas taken to South-west Regional Hospitalfor alcohol poisoning.

That same night, inan unrelated incident,another student wastaken to Ruby Memori-al Hospital after jump-ing over a railing andfalling 12-feet onto acement driveway andmetal grate.

He suffered facialand head injuries afterbecoming intoxicatedand running from Bor-ough Police.

“So far this year wehave had significantinjuries including, butnot limited to, under-age drinking, alcoholpoisoning, threats ofviolence and well asacts of violence them-selves,” said Hawfield.

“We’re going to beworking against acts ofmisconduct that come

to our attention, andwe have to take astrong stand againstthe mounting numberof incidents.”

According to Haw-field, police will be per-forming their normalduties but will also bekeeping an eye out forsuspicious behavior.

“We are very con-cerned with what isgoing on with the stu-dents right now,” saidHawfield.

“The irresponsibleconduct being dis-played in the incidentsis far more profoundthan in the past and weare afraid that some-thing could go terriblywrong and we don’twant to see that.”

In the past threeyears, no more thanthree simple assaultseach year were report-ed to campus security.

However, within thefirst semester, Waynes-burg students havebeen involved in atleast two allegedassaults that requiredBorough Police tobecome involved.

According to Richard“Skip” Noftzger, senior

vice president of Insti-tutional Planning,Research and Educa-tional Services, theUniversity is also tak-ing extra precautionsto stop illegal behaviorby University students.

“We are always mak-ing the normal effortsto keep the campussecure, but in light ofrecent events, we havemade some changes,”said Noftzger.

“We have addedadditional people onthe night shift andhave made schedulingchanges to have morestaff simultaneouslyworking.”

Both Waynesburgadministration andBorough Police willcontinue to worktoward keeping thestudents safe.

“We care a great dealabout the students andthe University,whether they live on oroff campus,” said Haw-field.

“Because of that, weneed to take a standagainst these acts andprevent them fromhurting themselves andsomebody else.”

purchase one 24 oz. canthat contains an averagealcohol content of nineto twelve percent ABVper can, as compared tofour to six percent ABVfound in beer.

“Another appeal couldbe the “trend” of drinkslike Four Loko andJoose,” said Chajkowski.

“There are fan pageson Facebook where col-lege students are talkingabout their experienceswith the drinks; how it isan extreme high andencouraging other peopleto try it.”

One of the most popu-lar Facebook fan pagesrefer to Four Loko as“blackouts in a can andthe end to my morals.”

Despite their manyrisks, alcohol energydrinks continue to rise instatus. Four Loko rankedfourth in sales growth at7-Eleven stores as of 2009and continues to be oneof the fastest-growingalcoholic beverages.

The FDA is puttingincreased pressure on themanufacturers of thesecaffeinated malt bever-ages, challenging them toprove the legality andsafety of the drinks. Fail-ure to do so may result ina countrywide ban of thebeverages.

“Banning drinks likeJoose and Four Loko isstep in the right directionto preventing studentsfrom exhibiting danger-ous behaviors,” said Cha-jkowski. “However, it issimply not enough. Even

if banned, students havethe freedom to mix ener-gy drinks like Red Bullwith alcohol on theirown.”

Some college studentsargue that prohibitingthe drinks is not the solu-tion, often citing negli-gent drinkers as thecause of the alcopop bev-erage’s bad reputationrather than its controver-sial contents.

“Kids will still findways to get them andstill drink them,” saidjunior criminal justicemajor Neil Hill.

“If you drink responsi-bly they aren’t danger-ous, just like any otheralcohol.”

The state of Michiganhas become the first toissue a statewide prohibi-tion of Four Loko, effec-tive as of Dec 4.

Several colleges anduniversities, such asRamapo College in NewJersey where 23 studentsexperienced alcohol poi-soning as a result of thedrink, have banned thebeverage.

As of early November,the Pennsylvania LiquorControl Board has sentletters to 17,000 beer dis-tributors throughout thestate, urging them to dis-continue selling the bev-erages.

“Whether or not theyare outlawed, both gov-ernment and college offi-cials have the power tofocus on efforts of teach-ing individuals how todrink responsibly,” saidChajkowski, “which iswhat we strive to andwill continue to do in ouralcohol prevention pro-grams on campus here atWaynesburg.”

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Each year, Waynesburg University Department of Public Safety release statisticsabout the incidents to which they responded the previous year. Statistics for 2009were not available as of press time.

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Hidden Treasures settles into its new location in Wide Water Commons. The store moved from its location on

High Street after conditions in the old building proved to be too difficult.

Columnist Aaron Thompson believes students should

show more pride in college athletics by attending

games—no matter what the weather.Read more on B2

By Natalie BruzdaRegion Editor

Greene County has historically been a Democrat-ic-dominated area, but that would be a difficult factto swallow after examining the results from the Nov.2 general election.

Republican Tom Corbett carried both Washingtonand Greene counties in his successful bid for gover-nor, and Republican Pat Toomey won Washingtonand Greene counties in his successful run for U.S.Senate. Furthermore, when examining the straightparty ticket in Greene County, only 52 percent voted

Democrat, down from 71.5 percent in 2009 and 77.2percent in 2007.

However, registered Democrats outnumberRepublicans by about 2.4-to-1 in Greene County.

What then accounts for this trend?“I think the voters want to be respected and they

don’t want to be dismissed by the politicians,”Adviser to the Young Republicans Rea Andrew Reddsaid. “And it seems that within the last two years,they’ve been disrespected and dismissed. So I thinkthey’re sending people to Congress, the Pennsylva-nia Assembly and the United States Congress, whoare going to care more about the issues that people

“I think the voters want to berespected and they don’t want to bedismissed by the politicians.”

Rea Andrew ReddAdviser to the Young Republicans

Hidden Treasures finds success innew store a month after transition

Boroughaims torevitalizearea

Statebeatsnationalaverage

Food for the holidays: County drive raises more than $50,000

Democrat-dominated Greene County votes for Republicans

By Natalie BruzdaRegion Editor

Food banks acrossPennsylvania are fortu-nate in that the stateprovides funding to keepthe programs afloat.

However, the GreeneCounty Corner Cup-board Food Bank hasbeen stretched thin thisyear; the state reducedthe food bank’s funding

by almost $17,000. According to Jan Cald-

well, director of theGreene County CornerCupboard Food Bank,this diminished fundingmakes the impact fromthe annual food driveheaded by CONSOLEnergy Inc. even morepronounced.

“[The food drive] hasalways helped us tomake it through the

year,” Caldwell said. “This year it was crit-

ical, especially with thehuge amount of fundsthat won’t be comingfrom the state.”

On Wednesday, Oct.27, CONSOL EnergyInc. held a food drive forthe Greene County Cor-ner Cupboard Food Bankin front of the GreeneCounty Courthouse.

Numerous business-es, agencies and individ-uals made a stop in frontof the courthouse to

donate food and moneyto help the food bank.

Even Mel Blunt, a for-mer Pittsburgh Steelerand Iceberg, the Pitts-burgh Penguins mascotcame to show their sup-port.

“We have receivedabout 2,000 pounds offood and it’s still comingin,” Caldwell said.“We’ll be keeping trackup until Thanksgiving.People just keep jump-ing on board.”

According to Lynn

Manning, public rela-tions supervisor forCONSOL Energy Inc.,close to $50,000 wasraised solely through thecompany’s efforts, withan additional $3,000 ormore coming from thecommunity.

“[CONSOL EnergyInc.] is an incrediblecompany and we owe itto the employees whojumped on board and toeverybody who gave sogenerously,” Caldwellsaid.

According to Man-ning, CONSOL EnergyInc. donated $5,000 tokick off the food drive,and through the sale of t-shirts, employees donat-ed almost $32,000.

Furthermore, thecompany offered amatching grant of $2,500if the community donat-ed the amount duringthe course of the fooddrive.

“It was just tremen-

See REPUBLICANS on B4

See FAMILIES on B4

By Aaron ThompsonAssistant Sports Editor

Returns from the U.S.Census Bureau showthat Pennsylvaniareturned more 2010 cen-sus questionnaires thanthe national average.

Statistically, the par-ticipation rate in thestate of Pennsylvaniawas at 77 percent. Thenational return rate was74 percent.

“We are very pleasedwith the public’sresponse to the 2010Census, and theseresults demonstrate thatthe public stepped up tobe counted,” censusBureau Director RobertGroves said in a newsrelease.

The census data iscollected every 10 yearsto get a perspective ofhow the population hasincreased or decreasedin towns, cities andstates across the UnitedStates.

The counted data isalso presented to deter-mine the number ofseats each state has inthe U.S. House of Repre-sentatives and bound-aries for districts onstate and local levels.

“As the law requires,we look forward toreporting to the nationby Dec. 31 the national

See CENSUS on B4

By Kyle EdwardsEditorial Assistant

Hidden Treasures, athrift store run by theWashington City Mis-sion that offers free orlow-cost merchandise tothe needy, has settledinto its new location inWide Water Commons.

“We’ve been opensince Oct. 4,” said storemanager Judy Streit. “Sowe’ve been here justabout a month now.”

The store was origi-nally located at 78 W.

High St. in downtownWaynesburg, but movedto its new location at 55Sugar Run Road afterconditions in the oldbuilding proved to be toodifficult.

“The old store washard to work in,” Streitsaid. “It had no air condi-tioning or anything likethat, and it was a smallerbuilding, so it madethings feel a littlecramped.”

Streit explained thatthe Mission’s decision tomove the store was

based on more than justcramped quarters.

“Actually they [theWashington City Mis-sion] really wanted thestore to be in conjunc-tion with the otherstores,” said Streit.“This new locationhelps us to do that.”

According to Streit,the move has greatlybenefited the store.

“Donations haveincreased by a lot,” shesaid.

“We realized that wehad a loading dock in the

back of the old store, andthat’s where a lot of peo-ple would drop off theirdonations, and we wouldnever get them.”

The new locationsolved that problem,according to Streit.

“Now that we’re herewe saw an increase inthe donations becausethere isn’t a loading dockand we can keep track ofall the donations that arebrought in.”

The other problem

By Stephanie LaingEditorial Assistant

Waynesburg Boroughhas recently been recer-tified as a “BlueprintCommunity.”

Blueprint Communi-ties, developed by Feder-al Home Loan BankPittsburgh and its part-ners, aims to revitalizeand create sustainablecommunities in thePennsylvania region.

To be recertified, acommunity mustdemonstrate that fourprimary activities areoccurring: planning,implementing, engagingand commitment tocontinue, according toLaura Rye, communityinvestment consultant -West Virginia forFHLBank.

Waynesburg submit-ted a request to recertifybased on those fouractivities.

“Of interest is theirability to implement theplan,” said Rye.

Waynesburg’s planincludes improvementof the High Street/Route21/19 streetscape,greater coordination inplanning among MainStreet business owners,a farmers’ market proj-ect and partial fundingfor sewage plant expan-sion.

See BOROUGH on B4 See STORE on B4

Food bank continues to receivedonations two weeks after drive.

CENSUS RETURNS

Lately, I have noticeda disturbing trend grow-ing on our fine campus.

Not only am I disap-pointed, but also I amappalled at the campuscommunity for theirlack of attendance atnumerous campusevents.

Support for manyevents and activities arecertainly leaving a lot tobe desired. Some eventshave even been canceleddo to lack of participa-tion.

Apathy has clearly setin. Students, faculty andstaff all should share

equal responsibility.My frustrations start-

ed a few weeks agowhen I attended andworked the home foot-ball game against Frost-burg State on Oct. 23.

The Yellow Jacketsrolled to a 41-7 victoryover the Bobcats. Thatwas the good news. Thebad news was that anestimated crowd of 650

people attended thatgame.

Keep in mind that thetemperature reached thelow 70s that day. Theweather was clearly notan issue or a reason toskip out.

Only, 650 people for afootball game, really?

That is the best thatwe can do? I understandpeople may not like ath-letics or football, butthere is only five homefootball games each sea-son.

Is it really too muchto ask to take a fewhours out of your Satur-

day afternoon to comedown to the game withyour friends, hang outand support your fellowclassmates?

At that time I resistedthe urge to write a col-umn or start an opendiscussion via Facebook.

I was understandablyfrustrated. I brushed itaside mainly because Iknew that Waynesburghad its two most impor-tant and critical gamesremaining in the lasttwo weeks of the regularseason.

To graduate fromWaynesburg University,I have to meet certainrequirements.

We all do. I have tocomplete 124 credithours and take certainclasses.

Including Chemistry,and, no, I do not knowanything about how theoxygen end of a watermolecule is negativelycharged and the hydro-gen end is positivelycharged and how thatmeans that the hydrogenof one water moleculecan attract the oxygen ofits neighbor.

No idea.In other news, I am

also taking ServiceLearning this semesteras part of meeting mygraduation require-ments.

This weekend I ful-filled my service hoursby volunteering at awork camp with thePittsburgh Project.

Joined by a few hun-dred other volunteers,we piled into our vansand spread out to do ourservice projects.

Some of the volun-

teers were with theirmiddle school youthgroups, others withchurches, and still otherscame in groups fromtheir schools.

Our group from Way-nesburg University waslargely there to meet arequirement.

A lot of the middleschool kids were therebecause they were happyto get away from momand dad. And many ofthe adults felt it was away to give back, nowthat they had establishedsolidarity to their lives.

None of these reasonshowever, are mutuallyexclusive.

Any combination ofthese reasons or manyothers could have moti-vated us to work withthe Pittsburgh Projectthis weekend.

Maybe our motiva-tion doesn’t really mat-ter. The work got done.

But it’s interesting tothink about what moti-vates us to do servicework, or to volunteer, orto ever give of ourselves.

Chances to be trulyselfless are rare, if theyhappen at all. And theservice we do is likely tonever be 100 percentaltruistic.

Empty stands reflect poorly on campus

During Saturday eveningmass at St. Ann CatholicChurch in Waynesburg, the Rev.Richard Thompson’s homilybrought tears to my eyes.

November, he said, is themonth of remembrance, a timeto remember loved ones whohave passed.

Memories of my grandma,who passed last February, filled

my mind. I was afraid the tearswere going to overcome me.

But after a moment of sad-ness, I focused on the wisewords of my priest.

November is truly a month ofremembrance, with two holi-days specifically designated tothis idea of paying tribute todeceased loved ones.

Celebrated on Nov. 1, AllSaints’s Day, also known as AllSoul’s Day, commemorates the

faithful departed.And today, Nov. 11, is

Veterans Day, the annualUnited States federal holidayhonoring military veterans; aday that has been celebrated formore than 90 years.

I’m sure we all have personalmemories associated with thisnational patriotic holiday.

I’m sure a majority of us haverelatives who have served ourcountry in some capacity.

I’m certain that this holidayis able to resonate with everyAmerican citizen.

As a majorette in high school,I participated in a special cere-

Shop locallyHoliday gifts can be found on campus, in town

Legal does not always mean safeConsider your motivation to serve

Novemberreminds usto remember

A second college has banned the caffeinated maltliquor Four Loko. After an incident at Central Wash-ington University left 23 students in need of medicalattention, both CWU and Ramapo College of NewJersey have taken steps to remove the drink fromtheir campuses.

Take a hint from those less fortunate and learnfrom their mistakes.

The stove is hot; don’t touch it.Finding out that this “blackout in a can” is

extremely dangerous is not a pass to go purchase asix-pack, rather a glaring warning sign to stay away.

Our bodies can’t process caffeine and alcohol atthe same time. The side effects are as rough as theyare dangerous.

As the FDA begins to review the safety of suchbeverages, take this as a warning that Four Loko maynot be the safest choice for a Friday night justbecause it sits legally on the liquor store shelves.

Similar to the warning labels on tobacco products,alcohol warning labels do little to deter.

While it may sound like a fiesta, a trip to the hos-pital for alcohol poisoning is no party.

On the other hand, who are we kidding thinkingthat banning one branded beverage is going to havethe slightest affect on the binge drink habits of col-lege students?

See REASONS on B3

See SHOW on B3

See REMEMBER on B3

It’s time to put the Halloween costumesaway. Pack up the pumpkins and start thinkingturkey.

But maybe you’re one of those people wholike to start Christmas shopping early evenbefore stores change their decorations fromback-to-school to Christmas.

Or perhaps you like to wait until the lastminute, rushing to the mall a few days beforeChristmas to find that perfect gift.

No matter what type of shopper you are, youcan find gifts in Waynesburg for anyone.

Downtown shops like Artisans, Our GlassCreations and Grandma’s Attic offer craftyitems, like stained glass sun catchers or paint-ings.

However, on Nov. 10, students gained anoth-er shopping option: Ten Thousand Villagesopened at 68 S. Washington St.

The shop carries anything from intricatelycarved boxes to detailed beaded purses towooden toys to beautiful Christmas ornamentsfrom places such as Asia, Africa, Latin Ameri-ca and the Middle East.

Ten Thousand Villages is one of the largestfair-trade organizations in the world and part ofevery sale will benefit the Waynesburg Univer-sity Mission Trip Scholarship Fund.

In addition to supporting the Mission TripScholarship Fund, sales from Ten ThousandVillages also support the makers of the items.

Students, faculty and staff should makeevery effort to visit and support the shop whileit’s open. The store benefits good causes andprovides interesting goods.

Just imagine the look on your mother orgrandmother’s faces as they open their gift tofind such exotic gifts.

Don’t be ‘Loko’

AARONTHOMPSON

Columnist

NATALIEBRUZDA

Columnist

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SIERRASHAFER

Columnist

Even times when we“get nothing in return,”we are really getting, atthe very least, smallrewards for the servicewe do.

Sure, we all want togive back or we want tobe a part of somethingbigger than ourselves.

We want to feel con-nected, feel like we’remaking a difference ordoing something goodabout ourselves or lessguilty for what we have.

Maybe we want tomeet new people or trav-el somewhere new,maybe we want to havefun or we’re just bored.

Or we want to passService Learning.

There are countlessreasons we choose tovolunteer or to serve oth-ers. More times than notwe are getting somethingout of it.

This weekend, thePittsburgh Project took afew more steps towardtheir vision.

We all came togetherto restore the homes ofsome very needing peo-ple in the poorer parts ofthe city.

Whether we had to bethere or we wanted to be

there or some combina-tion of the two, we madea lasting difference inlives of strangers.

And maybe we made adifference in our ownlives too.

I know, it’s a Hall-mark thought, but it’s avalid one to consider.

Some of us got some-thing out of this week-end besides meeting arequirement. Others didnot.

So while we may havere-shingled a few roofs,installed a few new toi-lets, painted a couplewalls and called it a day,there was the chance totake something awayfrom this weekendbesides dirt under ournails and holes in ourjeans.

Your motivation isyour own, and there isno guilt to be placed forthose of us who haverequirements to meet orobligations to fulfill.

Cliché as it may be,there is nothing wrongwith being affected bythe work we did. In fact,quite the opposite maybe true.

Showing up is almosteverything. Doing thework and doing it well isalmost the rest.

How affected you arewhen you put down thehammer and walk awayis everything else.

mony to commemorateveterans in our localcommunity who havegiven their lives toserve our country.

Although I only havea few memories of mygrandfather, I remem-ber when my grand-mother was presentedwith the American flagat his funeral.

On the nationallevel, this holiday iscelebrated every yearwith the NationalVeterans DayCeremony at theArlington NationalCeremony.

But on the locallevel, and on a smallerscale, communitiesacross the country puttogether their own pro-grams to honor veter-ans.

In Greene County,multiple events areheld in order to cele-brate this national holi-day.

This past Sunday, theRogersville UnitedMethodist Church rec-ognized veterans withits program that washeld in lieu of churchservices.

Today, at 11 a.m., theWaynesburg VeteransDay parade was held.

John and Jean Gusicof Waynesburg, bothWorld War II veterans,were the parade mar-shals.

Following theparade, a program tookplace at the GreeneCounty Courthouse,featuring Marine Col.Michael H. Belding asthe speaker and a 21-gun salute by the honorguard of WaynesburgAmerican Legion Post330.

Celebrations weresimilar in Jeffersontoday. A Veterans Dayparade took place thismorning, with a 21-gunsalute in front ofAmerican Legion Post954 and ending atJ e f f e r s o n - M o r g a nJunior-Senior HighSchool. A program fol-lowed the parade.

Although by thetime you read this,Veterans Day willalmost be at its close, Iwould hope that youwould take a momentto pause and rememberthose who have giventheir lives to protectthis country. It’s a holi-day of remembrance,and one that shouldnever be pushed to thewayside.

It is completelyunderstandable thateveryone is busy as thesemester is heading intoits final weeks finishingup projects, studying fortests and trying to finishthe semester to the bestof their abilities.

My frustration dieddown a bit, or at leastuntil this past Saturday’sgame against nationallyranked opponentThomas More.

The Saints rolled intotown with a chance toclinch the Presidents’Athletic Conference forthe third straight season.

This game was with-out a doubt the most sig-nificant home gamesince 2007.

The Jackets respond-ed by pushing the firstplace Saints to the brinkbefore losing 14-10 inthe final minute.

The team undoubted-ly left it all on the fieldas the Saints earnedtheir 21 consecutive reg-

ular season victory. The same can’t be

said for the Yellow Jack-et faithful, or lack thereof. Attendance this timewas listed at 900.

Some students havebeen willing to offer rea-sons why they didn’tattend or why studentsshould attend athleticand other campusevents.

Maybe the campusisn’t as apathetic as Ithought.

They are however fullof excuses and differentreasons why they can’tattend these events.

The majority of thefeedback I received per-tained to the weather. Ieven received a com-ment saying to calmdown because “it’s onlyDivision III athletics.”

That comment wasfrom an athletenonetheless.

Let’s step back for amoment and take achance to realize that ofthe eight football teamsin the PAC, Waynesburgranks seventh in atten-dance. Only winlessThiel College has hadless people on average

attend its games. Waynesburg had

2,200 as the projectedattendance for Home-coming earlier this sea-son against Westmin-ster.

If that total werereached each homegame I would have noproblem or concern atall.

A great atmospherecan help an athlete or aperformer in the schoolplay.

Case in point atmos-phere may have added toWaynesburg’s perform-ance when Waynesburgtraveled to Beaver Fallsto take on Geneva lastmonth. The Jacketsresponded with theirbest offensive perform-ance of the year, win-ning 55-42.

Geneva had morethan 7,000 fans for thatcontest against Waynes-burg.

Barring a strongcrowd this Saturdayagainst rival Washing-ton and Jefferson, Way-nesburg won’t surpass7,000 for the entire sea-son.

What an embarrass-

ment. I am tired of allthe excuses. The fieldisn’t on campus or theweather.

The problems don’tjust exist with footballeither, all Waynesburgsports rank toward thebottom of the confer-ence in attendance.

Other activities havesuffered as well do todwindling attendance orinterest.

The Winter Galasemi-formal event thatwas scheduled fortomorrow was canceled.

It would be interest-ing to find out why thisis occurring.

The real questionhere is why don’t peoplecare about these activi-ties and what can Stu-dent Senate or the Stu-dent Activities Board doto get more studentsinvolved and interestedin activities campuswide?

The campus does afantastic job of having avariety of activities orevents available on cam-pus and off-campus.Now it is time for stu-dents to follow throughand show up.

Reasons weserve others

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Scholarship athletes not on a ‘free ride’

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Op-Ed

Those struggling topay for higher educationmight find it hard toshed a tear for athleteson full scholarships.

But a new studyshows many don’t getthe “free ride” they mayhave been promised,even as colleges andcoaches reap the rewardsof their athletic prowess.

Even with a scholar-ship covering tuition,fees, room, board andbooks, a Division I stu-dent-athlete can expectnearly $3,000 a year inother school-relatedexpenses, says the studyby Ithaca College profes-sor Ellen J. Staurowskyand the National CollegePlayers Association.

Out-of-pocket expens-es can include parking,software, medical careand more.

Depending on theschool, the estimateduncovered expenses forlast year ranged from$200 to almost $11,000.The study found a gap of$1,500 a year at Villano-va, $2,345 at Rutgers,$3,924 at Penn State, and$4,436 at Temple.

Meanwhile, manyhead football and basket-ball coaches get six- orseven-figure compensa-tion packages.

The NCAA has signedan $11 billion, 14-yearcontract with CBS andTurner Sports to televiseits men’s basketballtournament.

The scholarship gapwas calculated by com-paring the full cost toattend these institu-tions, as reported by thefederal government, toexpenses covered under

NCAA rules. Some col-lege officials disputedthe extent of the gap, butdidn’t deny its existence.

Of course, the costsborne by elite athletesare dwarfed by those fac-ing most students andtheir families.

But the players’ asso-ciation notes that theidea of a “free ride” fortalented athletes hasbecome so ingrained thatmany expect just that.

Moreover, the short-falls exist across institu-tions and sports, so mostof the athletes involvedare not headed for lucra-tive pro careers. And,having expected a freeeducation, they may beespecially ill-equipped topay for it.

Several athletes havetold Sports Illustratedthey took illicit pay-

ments because scholar-ships didn’t cover alltheir expenses.

There have been somehalting steps to addressthe issue.

The NCAA reportedlyconsidered changing itsrules so scholarshipscould cover the full costof attendance, but it ulti-mately dropped the idea.

It should reconsidertaking that step.

Last month, Califor-nia began requiring col-leges to disclose moreinformation about thetotal cost of attendance.

Making at least thatmuch clear to prospec-tive students, whetherthey’re athletes or not,should be standard prac-tice everywhere.

Editorial originallypublished in the Philadel-phia Inquirer.

Rememberloved ones

Continued from B2

Show up tosupport

Continued from B2

Regional Political Updates

United States Senator- Pat Toomey (REP)Governor- Tom Corbett (REP)Representative in Congress for 12th Congres-

sional District- Mark S. Critz (DEM)Senator in the General Assembly for 46th

Senatorial District- Timothy J. Solobay (DEM)Representative in the General Assembly for

50th Legislative District- Bill DeWeese (DEM)

In the House of Representatives, the Democ-rats lost 60 seats, leaving them with 188 seatsand giving Republics 239 seats.

In the Senate, Democrats lost six seats, butmaintained the majority with 53 seats. Repub-licans left the election with 46 seats.

All listed districts include Greene County.-By Stephanie Laing

Results of the 2010 General Election

and state populations aswell as the allocation ofseats to each state inthe U.S. House of Rep-resentatives,” Grovessaid.

Locally, GreeneCounty was at 76 per-cent, Fayette County’srate was 79 percent,Washington and West-moreland counties bothranked above 80 per-cent, ranking with per-centages at 82 and 84percent respectively.

Greene County’s pop-ulation was 40,672 andWashington County’swas 202,897 at thebeginning of the 21stcentury when the Cen-sus was conducted in2000.

According to the U.S.Census Bureau, just 22states, 1,553 counties

and 278 cities with apopulation of 50,000 ormore met or exceededtheir 2000 participationrates.

Furthermore, PuertoRico and District ofColumbia also exceededthe expected rates.

Census collectorsmade trips to the 47million households thatfailed to return theforms back by deadline.According to theBureau, they made vis-its to 100 percent of thehousing units in theUnited States.

The Census alsohelps to determine howmore than $400 billiondollars of federal fund-ing is spent on infra-structure each year.

Services like hospi-tals, job training cen-ters, schools, seniorcenters, emergencyservices and publicworks projects areincluded within thatfederal funding that is

awarded. Livonia, Mich., had

the highest return rateamong cities with popu-lations of 100,000 ormore.

Livonia had an 88percent return rate.Rochester, Minn., Cen-tennial, Colorado, Ster-ling Heights, Mich., andNaperville, Ill., all hadan 83 percent returnrate.

The results certainly

were what the CensusBureau had hoped for.

“This is a significantachievement; thenation has stepped upto the challenge of par-ticipating in this once-a-decade civic event,”said Census BureauDirector Robert Groves.

“We knew the jobwould be more difficultin 2010 than in 2000,yet the nation respond-ed tremendously.”

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feel every day.”The anti-Democratic

and anti-incumbent sen-timent was evident assix Democratic congres-sional seats in the statewent to Republicans,who were also successfulin taking control of thestate House.

“A lot of what’s com-ing out of Washington,D.C. is this is good foryou but you don’t under-stand it, we’re going tomake you do it,” Reddsaid. “There’s certainlythat type of attitude andI think that’s the attitude[the voters] wantchanged.

They want reasonabletaxes, reasonable healthcare and they want adegree of understandingthat they have voicesand feelings that shouldnot be dismissed out of

hand.”Adviser to the Young

Democrats MartinCockroft, however, dis-agrees.

He attributes the thiselection year’s strongRepublican support tothe down economy.

“Personally, I hesitateto say there’s a trendtoward being Republi-can,” Cockroft said.

“Historically, if you gointo a midterm electioncycle and you’re in adown economy andyou’re the dominantparty, you’re going tolose seats. It’s going tohappen no matter ifyou’re a Republican or aDemocrat. To me, mylarger conclusion is notthat people are necessar-ily no longer Democrats

in Greene County orthat Americans areswinging to becomeRepublican.

But rather that in adown economy, whenunemployment is 10percent or higher in a lotof areas, and it doesn’tseem to be improvingfast, people are going togo for whatever alterna-tive there is.”

“Basically, with theBlueprint Community,”said Bruce Wermlinger,Waynesburg Boroughmanager, “you’re eligi-ble to receive grantsfrom the BlueprintCommunity Program.”

The grants will helpWaynesburg Boroughimprove the downtownarea, according toWermlinger.

“We will try to getfunding to do theremaining part of thestreetscape from Wash-ington Street west andprograms in the parksfrom tree planting tosidewalk repair,” saidWermlinger.

“We are going to buybaskets for the new lightpoles and banners, and[we’ll have] more façaderepair and improve-ment.”

Waynesburg has plansto move the farmersmarket to a different

location.“It [the farmers mar-

ket] is actively involvedin getting the communi-ty and downtown areainvolved,” saidWermlinger.

“They [the farmersmarkets] are going tomove back to the down-town area, to the centerof town.”

Waynesburg also willseek partial funding forthe sewage plant expan-sion.

“We have a formallyinvolved project toreduce and eliminatethe combined sewageoutlet,” saidWermlinger. “We willredo our main intercep-tor, which improves thequality in town.”

Along with these,Wermlinger said thatanything that increasestraffic and the numbersof businesses adds to therecertification process.

“Anything they [theBlueprint Communitiesprogram] see as a plusfrom beautification toadding businesses aidsin the recertification,”

said Wermingler.According to

Wermlinger, there willbe further attempts toincrease corporation inplanning among busi-ness owners in Waynes-burg.

There are three differ-ent lines of financialassistance available tothe recertified Waynes-burg.

“The smallest is amini-grant programdesigned to support themomentum of specificprojects identified incommunity plans,” saidRye.

This mini-grant isworth $2,500.

“In addition to thatmini-grant program,there has been a set-aside of funding avail-able through the Bank-ing on Business smallbusiness loan program,”said Rye, “Availablethrough member bankson an as-needed and as-qualified basis.”

The last grant offersup to $250,000.

“Many BlueprintCommunities seek out

funding from the Afford-able Housing Program,”said Rye, “Available ona competitive basisthrough memberbanks.”

The AHP supportsprojects that provideaffordable housing toindividuals and familieswhose incomes aredefined as low or verylow, according to Rye.

All Pennsylvania’s 22Blueprint Communitieshave undergone trainingin leadership, organiza-tional development andstrategic planning skills,according to Rye. Alongwith this, the communi-ties have prioritized keycommunity goals, estab-lished general consensusfor specific projects andtaken steps in imple-menting those plansinto the community.

“This recertificationopens the door to addi-tional in-kind and finan-cial assistance as theseBlueprint Communitiescontinue to implementthe community revital-ization plans they havedeveloped,” said Rye.

with the old locationwas that people keptdropping off furniturethat the store couldn’tsell because it was so old,according to Streit.

“It’s better allaround,” she said.“We’re glad we made themove.”

Director of Stores BobWelsch agrees.

“It [the move to thenew location] has givenus a larger customerbase, and it’s allowed usadditional space andmore shopping conven-ience for the customers,”he said.

“Our downtown loca-

tion did not have park-ing, but this one hasplenty of room for every-one to park.”

Welsch explained thatthe original location wasless accessible for somecustomers.

“The old location hadsteps, which were veryinconvenient for the eld-erly,” Welsch said.

“This new locationonly has one floor, mak-ing it much more acces-sible.”

Welsch is optimisticfor the future of both thestore and the Mission inGreene County.

“I see us expanding inthe future, as in our pres-ence in the WashingtonCity Mission,” he said.“We hope to raise publicawareness of the Missionand what it provides.”

dous,” Manning said.“Greene County is justabsolutely great. Theycame to the rescue andhelped out.”

For the holidays, spe-cial food boxes are pro-vided, which include theregular items providedmonthly but also theholiday items, such asturkey, gravy and stuff-ing.

Manning explainedthat CONSOL EnergyInc. began the food drivethree years ago when itcame to the company’sattention that the foodbank could only give outchicken breast forThanksgiving.

During an eight-hour,emergency food driveonly days before Thanks-giving, the companyraised $48,000

Caldwell said that sheconsiders the donationsthat come in up toThanksgiving as a rippleeffect stemming fromthe annual holiday fooddrive.

“Obviously withoutthe CONSOL Energysupport the holidayswouldn’t be as bright,”

Caldwell said. “They make it possi-

ble for us to providemore food throughoutthe year to less fortunateand food insecure fami-lies.

“Sometimes we haveto do more with less andsomehow we always getit done.

“We are thankful forCONSOL’s support.”

Greene County resi-dents were not the onlyones to support theGreene County CornerCupboard Food Bank.CONSOL Energy Inc.employees from othercounties and even fromas far away as Utahdonated to the fooddrive.

“We sold T-shirtscompany wide, here toUtah,” Manning said.“The people in Utah,they don’t know any-thing about GreeneCounty, but they knewthat people needed help.It was a true familyeffort.”

Caldwell expressedsimilar sentiments.

“When you think thatCONSOL’s employeescome from other coun-ties except Greene, hatsoff to them,” she said.

“It shows the incredi-ble giving spirit of theCONSOL family.”

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Republicanstake over

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Voters went to the polls on Nov. 2 to vote in the 2010 General Election. When exam-

ining the straight party ticket, only 52 percent voted Democrat in Greene County.

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By Matt ParisStaff Writer

The Waynesburg Uni-versity men’s cross coun-try team is preparing forits final race of the year.

The Yellow Jackets aregearing up for the 2010NCAA Regionals.

“Our message for thisteam has remained the

same all year,” said headcoach Chris Hardie. “Wetalk about running a goodrace and a smart race.”

The Jackets are comingoff of a fifth-place finish atthe 2010 Presidents’ Ath-

letic Conference Champi-onships two weeks ago.

The men hope to buildoff of that finish as theyprepare for Saturday’srace.

“I expect the team willbe excited towards theend of the week,” saidHardie. “At this point inthe year, the team is soregimented in how they

do things on a daily basisthat it will seem likeanother week.

“The stakes for thisrace are so much higher,”added Hardie. “But I thinkthe team realizes that.”

One runner agrees withcoach Hardie.

“At the moment this

By Steve HullingsStaff Writer

After previewing itsskills and talents at theOrange and Black Wres-tle-offs Nov. 6, the Way-nesburg Universitywrestling team headed toGrantham, Pa., Saturdayto take on some unfamil-iar competition at theMessiah Invitational.

The first tournamentwas a success for the Yel-low Jackets as they tiedwith host Messiah for theteam title by scoring 105points, despite wrestlingwithout one of their 133-pounders and a 197-pounder.

Not only did the teamtie for the title, but twoWaynesburg wrestlers

won individual champi-onships, and two othersfinished in second place.

“It says a lot becauseeveryone is wrestling real-ly well, and all of our hardwork is starting to showwhen we outwrestle otherteams,” said senior NickGarber.

Garber (141 pounds)

went 3-0 on the day, win-ning two matches by fallin the first period, withone match lasting only 14seconds against JarrodCawley of Elizabethtown.Garber, being one of thetwo champions for Way-nesburg, has now wonindividual gold four timesat this event.

“It was a great accom-plishment for me becauseit just means I have beenable to go to a tournamentfor four years and be thebest kid in my weight,”said Garber. “It was reallygood for me to win itagain.”

By Aaron ThompsonAssistant Sports Editor

With less than threeminutes remaining in Sat-urday’s contest at John F.Wiley Stadium, the Way-nesburg University foot-ball team and head coachRick Shepas were onedefensive stop away fromshocking No. 9 ThomasMore. However, within amatter of minutes, a sea-son-long goal, the chanceto play for a conferencechampionship and a Divi-sion III playoff berth weregone.

Nationally ranked andundefeated Thomas More(7-0, 9-0) clinched its thirdstraight Presidents’ Ath-letic Conference champi-onship after Saints quar-terback Robert Kues con-nected with receiverMercier Doucette for afour-yard game-winningtouchdown to beat theYellow Jackets 14-10.

The Jackets (4-2, 6-3)matched up toe-to-toewith the Saints for a full60 minutes but couldnever deliver the knock-out blow.

There are so many

words that could describethe loss for Waynesburg –heartbreaking, gutwrenching and perhapsthe cruelest of all, seasonchanging.

Waynesburg headcoach Rick Shepas saidthat even in defeat thegame showed a lot aboutthe Waynesburg footballprogram.

“I think first and fore-most it speaks highlyabout the type of playerswe have here and the pas-sion they play with,”Shepas said. “I think itspeaks to the job that we

do as coaches in gettingthe guys ready to play. It’salso a reflection of our-selves to how close we areto being the kind of teamand program that we wantto be. It is something thatcould definitely catapultus if we look at it the rightway.”

Waynesburg appearedready to earn its biggest

victory in years after tak-ing the lead with just 6:44remaining in the contestwhen freshman runningback Dom Moore pushedhis way across the goalline to give the Jacketstheir first lead of the gameat 10-7.

The Jackets defense

It doesn’t get muchmore heartbreaking thanthat.

As Thomas More’s JakeFishburn corralled thegame-clinching intercep-tion, the Jacket footballteam saw their dreams of aPAC title, and subsequentNCAA playoff berth, fadeinto oblivion.

With a loss so late in agame of such magnitude,it was easy for anyoneassociated with Waynes-burg football to feel thesting of the Jackets’ latestloss.

Moreover, it’d be all toofacile for Waynesburg todwell on the difficultdefeat and simply comeout flat in Saturday’s regu-lar season finale againstWashington and Jefferson.

However, that should-n’t be the case on Satur-day.

Not versus this team.Not with so much to

play for.First of all, it’s the rival-

ry.Granted, in the 37

games the two teams haveplayed, Waynesburg hasbeaten W&J only threetimes, and the Presidentshave won the last sixmeetings.

But there’s a reason thecontest has becomeknown as the PAC Back-yard Brawl. Despite thelopsided results, the geo-graphic locations of thetwo schools have turnedthe matchup into an annu-al battle for braggingrights.

If there’s one game theJackets should feel com-pelled to get up for eachyear, it’s the matchupwith W&J.

Secondly, when the twosquads meet up Saturday,an ECAC postseason bidcould very well be on theline.

Considering Waynes-burg already has threelosses and W&J two, thepossibility of the PACsending a second team tothe NCAA playoffs is vir-tually nonexistent. How-ever, the chance of eitherteam snagging a berth inone of the ECAC SouthRegion’s three bowl gamesis highly likely.

In 2007, the Jackets fin-ished the regular seasonwith an overall record of 8-2 and a second place finishin the league.

That was good enoughto earn them a trip to theECAC Southwest Bowl atDickinson.

While Waynesburg’sguaranteed to have at leastthree losses this time

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Dave FloydSportsEditor

No timeto dwellon loss

See MOTIVATION on C3

Garber, Johnstonwin individualcrowns Saturday

Photo by Andrew Buda

Thomas More’s Jake Fishburn intercepts a pass to seal a 14-10 victory for the Saints Saturday at John F. Wiley

Stadium. The pass sailed just out of reach of Jackets junior wide receiver Jeff Young.

Four Jacket athletes were

honored for their academic

and athletic achievements.Read more on C3

Out of reachJackets’PAC title hopes dashed in final minute

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Wrestling ties for team title at Messiah

Photo by Dawn Yates

Junior Garrett Johnston turns his opponent on his back Saturday at the Messiah

Invitational. Johnston went 5-0 on the day en route to first place at 157 pounds.

Jacketsreflect,look tofuture

Jacket men ready for NCAA regionals

By Matt MillerStaff Writer

The Waynesburgwomen’s soccer teamwrapped up their first sea-son under head coach SeanMcCarthy. The team hadtheir first winning seasonin almost a decade at 10-6-3.

Reflecting on his firstseason, McCarthybelieves that he had some-thing special with thisyear’s team.

“The performance wasgood; it was what it shouldbe,” McCarthy said. “Itshould be competitive. Itshould be together as ateam. That’s one thing Ithink the girls have.

“They’re all friends,”McCarthy added. “Ialways say to recruitswhen I see one girl oncampus I’m seeing five ofthem because they allchill together all the time,[and] that’s a good thing.”

The Jackets also fin-

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just feels like anotherweek of practice,” saidfreshman Jonathan Blatt.“As the week continues,though, I will start gettingmore and more nervous.”

The Jackets’ prepara-tion will be business asusual, no matter how bigthe circumstances are.

“The coaching staffwants the team to go intothis meet with no added

pressure,” said Hardie.“And by doing the samethings that we do everyweek it will allow theteam to fall into theircomfort zone.”

“The intensity is stillthe same, but the mileagehas been trimmed down,”said Blatt. “I am just tak-ing this race as anotherrace, though, and try toset another personalrecord.”

Blatt will be running inhis first NCAA regionalrace of his collegiatecareer. “I am excited formy first big regional raceand to see where I stand at

the end of the season,”said Blatt.

Along with Blatt,Hardie expects the otherfreshman to have a littlenervous energy as well.“This is the biggest racesome of our freshman willever run in,” said Hardie.“But most of them havecompeted in larger highschool meets and invita-tionals, so they know thefeeling of a larger field.”

Hardie is expecting asolid race from the team.

“If the opportunitypresents itself to be greatat any given moment,then the team is taught to

strike at the chance andembrace that moment,”Hardie said. “I think wecould have five runnersunder 29 minutes. It mayhappen if the conditionsare right.”

“I want nothing moreout of this race than to seta new personal record tofinish out my freshmanseason,” said Blatt.

The NCAA regionalswill be held at the site ofthe pre-regional race earli-er this season at Cooper’sLake.

Saturday’s meet isscheduled to begin at 11a.m.

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Basketball briefsMEN

- The Waynesburg University men’s basketballteam will be looking to exceed expectations this sea-son as the Presidents’ Athletic Conference releasedits annual preseason hoops poll.

The Yellow Jacket men, who are led by first-yearhead coach Mark Christner, were picked to finish ineighth place after going 2-22 overall and 0-12 in PACplay last year. Christner has four returning startersand a deep, experienced bench to help him climb theconference ladder.

Thomas More, which lost in last year’s PACChampionship game to Grove City, was picked tofinish first by a slim margin over Thiel, which waspicked to finish second. Bethany was voted to finishthird, while the defending champion Wolverineswere picked to finish fourth.

- The men’s team battled with Franciscan Univer-sity in a scrimmage Friday.

The Jackets found much success, winning all threeperiods that were played. A normal game would usu-ally consist of two 20-minute halves, but along withthat, there was an additional period of 12 minutesplayed.

“I thought tonight went pretty well. It was a greateffort put forth by the entire team. We played veryunselfishly by distributing the ball well, and we hitopen shots,” senior guard Patrick Crawford said. “Weare learning a new defensive system, so there issomewhat of a learning curve, but at the same time,our communication and defensive rotations got bet-ter as the game went on, which is encouraging.”

First-year head coach Mark Christner was pleasedwith his team’s performance.

“We are progressing in the understanding of howhard you have to play every possession at the colle-giate level. It’s hard work on both ends of the floor,and if we relax, it’s either a basket for the other teamor a turnover for us,” he said. “I think we executedoffensively pretty well tonight, given we start a fresh-man point guard, and Franciscan really mixed it updefensively.”

The Jackets next scrimmage is set for Saturday atMuskingum College, with tip-off at noon.

By Emilee WagnerStaff Writer

WOMEN

- The Waynesburg University women’s basketballteams will be looking to exceed expectations thisseason as the Presidents’ Athletic Conferencereleased its annual preseason hoops poll.

After finishing in fifth place at the end of the 2009-10 season with a 5-9 conference record and a 9-17overall mark, the Waynesburg women hoopsterswere picked to finish seventh this year. The YellowJackets, who are led by third-year head man SamJones, boast four returning starters, including seniorforward Elisha Jones, who is expected to eclipse 1,000points and 500 rebounds this year, and junior pointguard Hannah Hunter, who led the PAC last seasonwith 3.27 assists per game.

The defending PAC champions from ThomasMore were the overwhelming favorites to take thisyear’s crown. The Saints received 17 of a possible 20first-place nods. Saint Vincent, which is in its firstyear as a full-fledged conference member, picked uptwo votes and was selected to finish second. Wash-ington & Jefferson, who got the only other first-placevote, was picked to finish third.

- The women’s team competed against Franciscanlast Friday as well.

The Jackets’ scrimmage consisted of two 20-minute halves and one 10-minute half. A regularNCAA women’s collegiate game only consists of two20-minute halves.

Waynesburg won the first half by a large margin.“Our defense was very good, and we came out

with great energy,” junior guard Brittany Spencersaid. “As a result, we were able to get a lot of stealsand cause turnovers.”

Waynesburg showed its offensive ability by put-ting up 41 points in the first half.

The Jackets went on to win the second and thirdhalf by a few points each.

“We did a good job of pushing the tempo,” headcoach Sam Jones said. “A higher tempo works to ouradvantage.” This scrimmage was the Jackets’ secondand final scrimmage before their winter seasonbegins.

According to players on the team, they haveshown improvement between their first and secondscrimmage.

“We definitely improved on running the floor andgetting easier baskets,” sophomore guard MorganHoone said. “That is definitely going to be one of ourstrengths this year.”

The team will take a break from competition thisweekend, anticipating Nov. 16 when it will take onPenn State Fayette to open the season at the RudyMarisa Fieldhouse.

By Steven IserStaff Writer

Women’s XC preps for Cooper’s LakeBy Nicole ForteStaff Writer

Eight members of theWaynesburg Universitywomen’s cross countryteam are preparing tocompete in the NationalCollegiate Athletic Asso-ciation Regionals Satur-day at Cooper’s Lake inSlippery Rock, Pa.

Head coach ChrisHardie has high expecta-tions for his team thisweekend as they run intheir final race of the 2010season.

“We [the coaching staff]think we can have a verysuccessful placing thisweekend at Regionals,”said Hardie. “The girlshave been running hardand have balanced a verytough academic week.We expect them to beclose to a top-20 rankingwhen it is all said anddone.”

After running in thepre-regional on Oct. 9 jun-ior captain MichelleNaymick is hoping to runher top time to close outthe season.

“My personal goal isrun my best race of theseason,” said Naymick. “Ireally want to get a timethat I will be proud of.”

Hardie believes run-ning in the pre-regionalwill help his team thisweekend at Regionals.

“Having run the pre-regional race was veryimportant. We need theteam to be as relaxed aspossible on race day,” said

Hardie. “A lot of our kidshave also competed hereat their regional highschool championships, sowe should be comfortablewith the layout of thecourse.

The women had thispast weekend off to restup for the final meet ofthe season. Hardie hasconfidence that his teamwill perform well regard-less.

“At the end of the day,the team will be relaxedand well rested cominginto this race,” saidHardie.

According to Hardie,the workouts for thisweek are all about intensi-ty. The team is workingas close to maximum

intensity as possible tostay ready for the race.

“Keeping them sharp isa concern, but I think wecan handle that with ourspeed work,” said Hardie.

For senior Sarah BethRood, this will be her lastrace as a collegiate ath-lete. Hardie said she is ateam player and will beready to race Saturday.

“She will be runningwith some emotion.Running your final race inyour final season isalways a tough thing todo,” said Hardie. “Thecoaching staff will do ourbest to get her mind andher emotions in the rightplace. She may not sleepwell the night before, butshe will be ready to help

the team on Saturday.That is just the type orcompetitor she is.”

According to Naymick,the team will want to runhard for the seniors andclose the season on a pos-itive note.

“We want the seniorsto be proud of the teamand what we have accom-plished this season,” saidNaymick. “The effortsthat we have put in allseason will be shown inour performances this Sat-urday.”

The women will face50 teams, the most theyhave competed againstthis year. The men’s raceis set to start at 11 a.m.,with the women’s race tofollow at noon.

Photo by Tim Jackson

Junior captain Michelle Naymick (left) leads the eventual champion (No. 192) in the

Oct. 30 PAC Championships. Naymick and the Jackets are prepping for regionals.

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Softball team to hold clinic for youthBy Dave RykalaStaff Writer

The Waynesburg Uni-versity softball team willhost their youth softballclinic this Saturday.Beginners and experi-enced high school playersalike will come to Way-nesburg to learn the basicsand advanced elements ofsoftball.

“This will be our thirdyear putting on the clin-ic,” said head softballcoach Lou Giachetti. “It isopen to all ages; I’ve hadgirls from age six to 18come to the clinic.”

The attendants willlearn all aspects of thesport, which includes hit-ting, fielding and pitching.Other coaches, as well asmembers of the Waynes-burg softball team, willassist Giachetti. Onemember of the team thatwill be helping out is sen-ior infielder Katie Rihn,

who enjoys giving back tothe youth of the game.

“It’s great seeing thelook of accomplishmenton the kid’s faces,” saidRihn. “Especially whenyou tell them great job orwhen you show themsomething and they getit.”

The purpose of the clin-ic is to promote the gameof softball and help theyounger players improvetheir game.

According to Giachetti,the clinic helps promotethe school and allows hisplayers the opportunity togive back.

“It’s good exposure forthe school for theprospects possibly lookingto come to Waynesburg,”said Giachetti. “This alsoalways gives my girls achance to give back,maybe not to the commu-nity, but to the game.”

The clinic will utilizeboth gymnasiums in theMarisa Fieldhouse to facil-itate the event. The oldgym will hold the hittingportion of the clinic totake place in the battingcage that is already there.The old gym will alsohold the fielding part ofthe clinic. The newer gym

will be used primarily forthe pitching segment asthis is the largest group ofthe clinic.

“I just enjoy watchingyoung kids learn,” saidGiachetti. “I try to put myown twist on things andshow my way of doingthings, but I really want topromote softball.”

The proceeds of theclinic help fund the team’sspring trip to Florida.Though it is still early, thespring trip is just aroundthe corner for the YellowJacket women, as once thewinter break ends, thebulk of the preseasontraining will commence.According to Rihn, theclinic really gets her look-ing forward to the season.

“We have been doingconditioning for about amonth now,” said Rihn.“But getting around thegame again makes meexcited for the upcomingseason.”

“It’s great seeing the look ofaccomplishment on the kid’s faces.”

Katie RihnSenior softball player

By Dave FranczakStaff Writer

The season is over forthe Waynesburg Universi-ty men’s soccer team, butthat doesn’t mean the Yel-low Jackets are doneachieving.

ESPN The Magazinerecently honored juniorsErick Burke and DaveFloyd as members of theESPN The Magazine Aca-demic All-District 2Men’s Soccer Teams.

The members areselected annually by theCollege Sports Informa-tion Directors of America.

Being named to thisteam requires the athleteto carry at least a 3.30cumulative grade pointaverage and have reachedtheir sophomore year bothacademically and athleti-cally.

The athlete also must

participate in at least halfof the team’s games as astarter or a contributingbench player.

The nominees for thecollege division are select-ed from both Division II

and III schools. Each dis-trict is broken downregionally.

Burke was named as amember of the secondteam. He holds a 3.35GPA as a criminal justice

major.“It’s great to see that I

am already achieving thebenefits of working hardboth in and out of class,”

Defensive linemen also recognized

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around, a victory over thePresidents at the tail endof the year would go along way for the Jackets’chances of an extended

season.That has to be motiva-

tion for a team whose sea-son could end in vastlydifferent ways dependingon Saturday’s result.

Last, but certainly notleast, emotions are sure tocome into play prior tokickoff.

Not only is the pro-

gram honoring its seniorclass, but it is also payingtribute to a fallen com-rade. Following the recog-nition of the 2010 seniors,but before the gamebegins, the team plans tohold a special ceremonyfor the late Mike Czer-wien.

Czerwien, of course,

was one of the school’svery best players duringhis four-year tenure as astudent-athlete, breakingthe NCAA’s all-divisioncareer sack record amongmany other accomplish-ments. He also was serv-ing as a graduate assistantwith the team upon hisdeath.

It would be shocking tosee a team that didn’t layit all on the line for theirseniors and the man theycalled “Ish.”

With all that said,there’s little reason theteam shouldn’t feelsupremely motivated tostop their skid against thePresidents this Saturday.

Let’s face it, the successof their season depends onit.

A win, and the Jacketsjust might find them-selves in an ECAC bowlNov. 20.

A loss, and Waynesburgwould finish 6-4, just onewin better than a seasonago.

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was leading the charge allgame long. It appearedThomas More wouldscore on the ensuing pos-session when Kues hitDoucette for a 54-yardgain that took the Saintsall the way down to theJackets 19.

That’s when the Jack-ets stuffed Thomas Moreon three straight plays,highlighted by a sack byjunior linebacker NateHarr on third down thatforced a game-tying fieldgoal attempt for ThomasMore.

Saints kicker DustinZink missed the 42-yardfield goal wide left, andthe Jackets took over withjust 3:58 remaining. Jack-ets running back BertrandNgampa was stopped ahalf yard short on thirddown, so that meant theSaints would get it back.

The Saints got the ball

back at their own 20-yardline after a punt by sopho-more Zach Rogers wentout of bounds deep inThomas More territory.

Waynesburg nearly hada chance to stop the drivewhen Saints receiverAustin Studer fumbledthe ball while fighting forextra yardage on the firstplay. Jackets defensivebacks Bryan Gary andRyan Williams both had a

shot to grab the ball, butneither could gain posses-sion before the ball wentout of bounds.

“It was a great hit by[junior defensive back]Spencer McKim thatcaused the fumble,” Shep-as said. “The ball was lay-ing there like an egg. Itwas just sitting there, andin the fight for the ball, itgot knocked out ofbounds.”

The Saints maintainedpossession and drovedown the field for thegame-winning touch-down. Kues completedeight-of-nine passes onthe drive, including thetouchdown to Doucettewith just 49 secondsremaining.

Shepas said despite theloss the defense played ata very high level.

“I thought our defen-

sive staff did a great jobidentifying tendencies tolead to a good game planagainst Thomas More,”Shepas said. “I reallythought Coach [Scott]Venick did a great jobwith the live game defen-sive situation call.”

Waynesburg had onelast gasp on the next pos-session. On the ensuingkickoff, senior TroyGarove set up the Jacketswith good field position ashe returned the ball to hisown 46-yard line.

The Jackets had notimeouts remaining andonly 43 seconds to workwith. After a completionon first down, senior quar-terback Brad Dawsonthrew up a desperationheave deep into Saints ter-ritory; however, Saintsdefensive back Jake Fish-burn intercepted the pass.

All it took was onekneel by Kues for theSaints to become three-time defending confer-ence champions.

Dawson finished 31-of-54 passing for 215 yards.He had no touchdowns

and was intercepted threetimes.

Kues collected 345yards of offense whiletossing two touchdownsfor the Saints.

Gary had a game-high13 tackles for Waynesburgand also forced a fumble.

With the chance at aconference title lost, Way-nesburg must now shiftits focus to senior day Sat-urday.

“There will be a lotgoing on,” Shepas said.“It’s our Senior Day andanytime we get a chanceto honor our kids, it’s agreat day. We are playingour conference archrival.We need to make it a con-sistent rivalry. We won’ttreat the game any differ-ent from Thomas More.The excitement should bethere.”

The Jackets will nowtake on bitter rival Wash-ington and Jefferson (5-1,7-2) at John F. Wiley Stadi-um Saturday as part ofPAC rivalry week. ThePresidents hold a com-manding 34-3 advantagein the all-time series.

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Photo by Andrew Buda

Freshman running back Dom Moore (16) barrels across the goal line in the fourth

quarter of Saturday’s game. It was the Jackets’ lone touchdown on the day.

Defense stout, butmissed chancesprove costly in lossBy Tim ChilcoteStaff Writer

In Saturday’s loss toThomas More, the Way-nesburg defense did wellto allow only 14 points toa Saint offense averagingnearly 40 points per gamecoming into the contest.

In the third quarteralone, the Jackets allowedjust 19 total yards andforced three punts. Theyalso forced two turnoverson downs on the day.

Waynesburg forced twoturnovers on the day. Oneoccurred early during theSaints’ first drive. Sopho-more defensive backBryan Gary forced a fum-ble, and senior defensivelineman AnthonyCalcagni recovered. Way-nesburg then started fromthe Thomas More 42-yardline but was unable tocapitalize for points.

Sophomore Alex Men-ton had an interception inthe second quarter, whichonce again didn’t lead toany Waynesburg points.

“The defense playedwith great intensity,”Waynesburg head coachRick Shepas said. “We hada great game plan, and weexecuted it.”

While the defense didwell containing ThomasMore, dropped passes,penalties and intercep-tions hurt the Waynes-burg offense throughout.

The Jackets’ firstturnover of the game wasan interception thrown by

senior quarterback BradDawson. The interceptionoccurred in Thomas Moreterritory while the Jacketswere driving to score.

Dawson ended the day31-of-54 passing for 215yards and three intercep-tions. He was also sackedfour times during thegame.

“Some of the mistakescould have been prevent-ed,” said Dawson. “Butgive the Thomas Moredefense credit, they playedreally well.”

During Thomas More’sgame-winning drive, afumble occurred on theWaynesburg sideline. Theball somehow escaped thegrasp of multiple Waynes-burg defenders and wentout of bounds, allowingThomas More to main-tain possession. Recover-ing the fumble wouldhave gone a long waytoward sealing the victoryfor the Jackets.

The Jackets still have achance to play in the post-season. A win over Wash-ington and Jefferson Satur-day would increase theJackets’ odds of making anEastern College AthleticConference bowl game.

“We are going to buildoff the Thomas Moregame,” Shepas said. “Dur-ing the time of any game,you can find somethingyou can improve on. Weare going to improve andkeep playing with intensi-ty and take it into W&Jnext week.”

ished the season on a five-game unbeaten streak.

“I think we ended on avery positive note as ateam,” senior SarahSpicuzza said. “We have avery good team dynamic;we have a very strongfamily. I think that kindof reflects on how ourrecord was this year.”

McCarthy seemed con-fident the hot streak couldcontinue into next fall.

“It’s perfectly doable. Itcould very well go intonext season to be quite

honest,” McCarthy said.Moving into next sea-

son the Jackets lose fiveplayers to graduation:Spicuzza, Danielle Dan-hires, Amy Macurdy,Malaeja Leggett and Brit-tany Spitznogle.

“We are proud of theseniors,” McCarthy said.“I think they reallyshowed a lot of leadership;the performances fromthose five lead our team.”

The future of thewomen’s team is lookingup as they take their firststep toward next seasonand recruiting, while alsoreturning some team lead-ers.

“We’re recruiting reallyhard,” McCarthy said.“We’re returning a really,

really good goalkeeper[junior Katrina Kelly], agirl up top in [junior]Courtney [Ebersole] who,I think, has potential to beplayer of the year in theconference even this year;she’s definitely in the con-versation.”

Even though the teammay have a different looknext year, McCarthybelieves that differentisn’t always a bad thing.

“It’s not going to be bet-ter or worse, just differ-ent,” McCarthy said. “Weare going to have a goodrecruiting class, I think,and we are really going tolean on the players whowent through this seasonand had the experience toteach those younger play-

ers what it’s like to play inthe PAC.

“We’re really excitedabout the future,”McCarthy added. “Theperformance this past sea-son was terrific; we justhope to continue to buildoff of that.”

Spicuzza’s confidentthat improvement willcontinue.

“We can certainlyimprove in years to come,but this was a really bigstep that we needed tomake since last year,”Spicuzza said. “I think theprogram is headed in avery good direction.You’ll certainly be seeinga lot of good things com-ing out of the women’ssoccer team.”

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Soccer players honored for academics

A pair of Waynesburg Universitydefensive linemen was also recentlyhonored for its excellence on the fieldand in the classroom.

Senior Anthony Calcagni and sopho-more Matt Krause were both lauded asmembers of the ESPN The MagazineAcademic All-District 2 College Divi-sion Football Teams, which are alsoselected by the College Sports Informa-tion Directors of America.

Calcagni, who carries a cumulative3.40 GPA as a business managementmajor, has started all eight games thisyear at anchor. He is seventh on theteam in total tackles (28), has recorded4.5 tackles for loss, one sack and aforced fumble. He’s also been credited

withbreakingup twopasses.

Krause,who car-ries acumula-tive 3.35

GPA as a nursing major, has started alleight games this year at defensive tack-le. He is fifth on the team in total tack-les (37), has recorded three tackles forloss, two sacks, a forced fumble and aninterception in just his second seasonwith the team.

The requirements to qualify for theteam are the same as in soccer.

Calcagni Krause

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By Katie RihnStaff Writer

The Waynesburg Uni-versity women’s volley-ball team wrapped up itsseason Oct. 30 and fin-ished with an 8-21 overallrecord and a 2-14 mark inPresidents’ Athletic Con-ference play.

The Yellow Jacketsended the year rankedeighth in the PAC, justahead of last-placeChatham, who the Jack-ets defeated twice for theironly two conference wins.

The Thomas MoreSaints were on top all sea-son, taking the regularseason conference cham-pionship, with an unbeat-en 16-0 conference record.Last Friday they complet-ed their perfect season inleague play, beating sec-ond-place Thiel in theconference tournamentchampionship match.

“We should have donebetter,” said head coachStephanie Benkowski.“We have the ability tohave done better, but alsobeing as young as wewere, we have a lot towork on individually andas a team.”

The Jackets began theseason with just five play-ers returning from lastseason and brought oneight newcomers, sevenof which were freshmen.

“I think the freshmendid very well; they contin-

ued to push hard all sea-son,” said Benkowski. “Ithink they’ll be more pre-pared next year, andthey’ll understand whatthe upperclassmen orcoaches were saying whenwe’d say, ‘This team doesthis.’ They did well instepping up and played abig role on the team. Theyhelped us tremendously.”

Freshman outside hit-ter Katelyn Blaich saw themost playing time of anyJacket player, appearing in96 total sets. Blaich fin-ished second on the teamin kills, tallying 154, andsecond in service aceswith 24 on the year.

“Coming in as a fresh-man, I knew that I wasnot an upperclassmananymore and that I had totake a step back on taking

ownership,” said Blaich.“As the season went on, Irealized that I had to stepup and not be the timidfreshman anymore.”

Freshman NatalieRanallo split time withsophomore Carly Smithy-man at the setter position.Ranallo led the duo inassists with 368 total anda 4.09 assists per set aver-age.

Freshman ShaylaMitrik began most of herplaying time toward themiddle of the season,becoming the team’slibero. Mitrik finished theyear fourth on the team indigs, notching 141, withher season-high of 15coming four differenttimes.

“I honestly had no ideawhat to expect coming in

as a freshman,” saidMitrik. “I did not come inexpecting anything, but Icame in with a goal,which was to get someplaying time. At thebeginning of the season Idid not play, but thatdrove me to work harderto reach my goal, and mydrive and hard work paidoff earning the position oflibero.”

According to Benkows-ki, the recruiting processfor next year is going bet-ter than usual. She hasbeen attending highschool volleyball playoffmatches, and assistantcoach Laurie Lindner willbe heading out to campsover winter break toremain in contact withprospective students whomay still be undecided.

As for off-season plans,Benkowski said the teamwill begin lifting withstrength and conditioningcoach Tanner Kolb nextweek and continue withthat into the spring. Fromthere, they will decide onpractice times and focus alot on individual skillsets.

“I am very excited fornext year,” said Benkows-ki. “We have everybodycoming back, so I knowexactly where we are as aprogram right now. Iknow what we need towork on, I know what wecan do in the off season,and I know our potential.”

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- While helping his team tie for theteam title at this past Saturday’s Mes-siah Invitational, junior Garrett John-ston earned some individual recogni-tion from the Presidents’ AthleticConference.

Johnston went 5-0 at Saturday’sevent on his way to winning the 157-pound championship at Messiah. For

his efforts, he was named the first PAC Wrestler ofthe Week of the 2010-11 season. The third-seededJohnston won his first three matches with two pinsand a major decision. After upsetting second-seededDaniel Carr of the University of Maryland BaltimoreCounty 6-2, Johnston took the crown with a 10-8overtime win over Ryan Pastore of Messiah.

Johnston also won the final weekly conferenceaward of the 2009-10 season.

PAC award

Johnston

Underclassmen gain experience in 2010

Garrett Johnston (157pounds) went 5-0 on theday, winning two of hismatches by pin fall. Hedefeated the University ofMaryland BaltimoreCounty’s Daniel Carr, thesecond seed, in a 6-2 deci-sion and later sealed histitle by defeating Messi-ah’s Ryan Pastore in a 10-8 overtime victory.

Sophomore AlexCrown took second placein his weight class. Helost in a tough matchagainst top-seededWilliam Bentley for thechampionship after win-ning his first three match-es by technical fall, pinfall and a major decision.

Waynesburg’s othersecond-place finisher,sophomore heavyweightMarty Kisla, made his col-legiate debut by winninghis first match againstCase Western Reserve’sCale Harter in a 3-1 deci-sion. He went on to beatMessiah’s Patrick Hoganin a 9-1 major decision butlost the championshipmatch against the top-seeded wrestler.

“We were really

pleased with the fresh-men,” said head coachRon Headlee. “They are alot farther along than wethought they were. Twoguys that really stood outwere [freshmen] LukeLohr and Levi Hosselrodewho did excellent jobstaking third in theirweight classes.”

After losing his firstmatch of the day, Hossel-rode battled back for theJackets and won fivestraight matches to winthe consolation tourna-ment. Lohr made animpressive performanceby wrestling first for theJackets and taking thirdplace after going 6-1 onthe day, winning onematch with a takedownwith just five secondsremaining in the match.

Junior Alex Evanofftook third place in the157-pound bracket.Sophomore Cody Catali-na and freshmen JoshMihalik and Sam Lambar-do took fourth place intheir weight classes.

“We were pleased,”said Headlee. “Our guyswrestled really hard. Theyall wrestled together,stuck together and werehelping each other out.”

On Saturday, the Jack-ets take on John Hopkins,Shippensburg and York atthe Duals at Hershey.

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Shayla Mitrick (left) and Katelyn Blaich (8) were two of

the many freshmen to contribute to the Jackets.

said Burke.Burke not only works

hard in the classroom, buthe excels on the field aswell.

This past season, theNorwin native posted 11

goals and two assists toaccumulate 24 points,third best in the Presi-dents’ Athletic Confer-ence.

Floyd boasts a 3.96GPA. He is a communica-tion major with emphasesin both journalism andsports broadcasting. Floydwas added as a member ofthe third team.

“I know it’s a bit clichébut time management is

important,” said Floyd, acaptain of the men’s team.“I just look at my sched-ule and find time to study.You’ve got to make itwork and focus on yourschoolwork too.”

On the field, the Irwinnative was again theleader of the Jacketdefense, starting all 19games and tallying oneassist.

Along with Floyd and

Burke, five other men’ssoccer players fromaround the PAC werenamed to the team.

“Anything that pro-motes our conference isgreat,” mentioned headsoccer coach SeanMcCarthy.

“Our conference iscompetitive in everysport, and it’s good for usto get national recogni-tion.”

Burke, Floydhonored

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By Kyle EdwardsEditorial Assistant

Dancing with the Staffsteps back onto campusfor its third year on Fri-day, Nov. 12.

“This is the third timewe’re holding the event,just not in a row,” saidKelley Hardie, assistantdirector of StudentActivities. “We didn’t doit last year because thereweren’t enough partici-pants.”

Participation has beena problem since the sec-ond year of the event,according to Hardie.

“The very first yearthat we did it, we had 14couples,” she said.“Then the second yearwe had eight, and thisyear we had five, but onecouple dropped out sonow we have four, so

participation has beencut in half every yearwe’ve done it.”

Hardie explained thatparticipating couples arerequired to learn a dancefrom a professionaldancer and also choreo-graph a freestyle danceof their own.

“As a group, they allselected the dance thatthey want-ed the pro-fessional toteach them,”Hardie said. “But thefreestyle dance can beany freestyle of theirchoice. They can selectthe style of the danceand their musicchoice, so every-thing is completelyup to them. “

Luke Payson, residentdirector for Martin Hall,is excited for the event.

“I wasa judge for

WaynesburgIdol,” Paysonsaid. “So it will be niceto be on the other sideof that.”

Payson saidthat he met his

partner, senior Res-ident AssistantHalie Theriault,through RA train-ing at the begin-ning of the year.

“It was herenergy towardsthe event that

made me wantto do it,” he

said. “Halie is prettymuch the brains behind

By Brandon ReedStaff Writer

A musician with anational fan base hasmade Waynesburg part

of histhree-

week touracross the east coast.

Singer/songwriterSteve Means will per-form in the Beehive at 8p.m. this Thursday,Nov. 11 during a coffee-house.

The event will behosted by the Waynes-burg University StudentActivities Board.

This is the secondtouring artist that SABhas brought to Waynes-burg this year.

Born in Cincinnati,Means currently lives in

Nashville where he con-tinues to produce music.

Although he is now inhis early 20s and playingin cities across the Unit-ed States, Means beganproducing music atOhio State Universitywith friends.

Means will be goingon a three-week tourthat includes severalstops in the northeastand upstate New York.This tour will alsoinclude performances inMaryland, Pennsylvaniaand New Jersey.

“My booking agent inNashville set up mytour,” Means said.

According to Mean,his sound has been com-pared to John Mayer.

By Mitch GrahamStaff Writer

Waynesburg Universityis dedicated to maintainan environment charac-terized by fairness andjustice as expressedthrough institutional poli-cies, according to themost recent edition ofWaynesburg’s studenthandbook.

This includes policiesset to reduce crime andharassment, specificallysexual harassment.

Recently at a universi-ty in New Jersey, a stu-dent committed suicideafter his roommaterecorded him having sex-ual relations with anotherman in his dorm room.

Tyler Clementi, 18,who was a freshman atRutgers University, tookhis own life by jumpingoff the George Washing-ton Bridge that crosses theHudson River on Sept. 22.

The students responsi-ble for recording the sce-nario without consenthave been charged withcounts of invasion of pri-vacy.

Dharun Ravi, Clemen-ti’s roommate, turned onhis webcam remotely andshared it with a networkof friends on the programiChat, according to theNew York Post.

Ravi also posted aboutthe video on Twitter priorto the posting stating“Roommate asked for theroom until midnight. Iwent into molly’s roomand turned on my web-

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Eric Metaxas spoke on campus three times between Monday and Wednesday for the Christ and Culture Lecture

Series. He is an award-winning author and is known for his work with VeggieTales and his children’s books.

DancereplacescanceledGalaBy Alex HintonStaff Writer

Student ActivitiesBoard had planned asemi-formal dance forWaynesburg Universitystudents this Friday.

Due to the limitednumber of studentsthat signed up, thedance has been can-celled.

The Winter Gala,themed “Home for theHolidays,” was to takeplace in Alumni Hall.

The Winter Galawould have been possi-ble if there had beenclose to 50 studentssigned up, but onlyabout a dozen studentsshowed interest.

“We started [theWinter Gala] threeyears ago, because stu-dents expressed inter-est in more of a formaldance,” said Pat Bristor,director of StudentActivities Board.

Two years ago, thesemi-formal dance wascalled the Fall Ball, andlast year it was left offthe schedule.

“In the past, somestudents dressed upreally fancy but theydon’t have to,” Bristorsaid.

Students were askedto pay $5 per personupon signing up for thisyear’s Winter Gala toaid the Student Activi-ties Board with the costof food, Christmascookies, hot chocolateand hot hors d’oeuvres.

WU setspoliciesaboutrooming

Metaxas uses humorto reach audience

Speaker discusses‘outrageously secular’cultural centers

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By Carrie MaierStaff Writer

Tuesday’s continua-tion of the Christ andCulture Lecture Seriesbrought Veggie Taleswriter Eric Metaxas backto the Goodwin Perform-ing Arts Center.

His lecture, titled“Katie Couric, Canni-bals, and Christians inAmerican Culture,”focused on Christianinfluence of the culturalbut secular elite.

“I thought he washilarious,” said freshmenBrooke Larson. “He saidabout how humor inChristians is sometimesuncommon, and Ithought he was veryfunny.”

Metaxas said humor is

a useful approach inrelating to an audienceand a tactic he oftenemploys. His lecture pro-moted Christian influ-ence and criticized the“outrageously secular”cultural centers of Holly-wood and New York, butstill held his trademarkhumorous tone.

“Speaking to youngpeople is becoming morechallenging because myreferences are gettingolder,” Metaxas saidwhile laughing.

Though introduced as“diverse,” this may havebeen an understatementas Metaxas is a graduateof Yale University with afocus on humor writing,as well as an author, edi-

By Carrie MaierStaff Writer

The third installmentof the fall Christ and Cul-ture Lecture Seriesbrought award-winningauthor Eric Metaxas tothe Goodwin PerformingArts Center Monday.

Known for his workwith the animated chil-dren’s series VeggieTales,Metaxas is also theauthor of 30 children’sbooks, and his work hasappeared in the NewYork times and the Wash-ington Post, among oth-ers.

“I’m still trying to takein some of the things hesaid,” sophomore Biblicaland Ministry Studiesmajor Evan Kephart said.

“I’m a biblical min-istries major, so this was

right in my area, and Ireally liked what he hadto say.”

Metaxas spoke of hisown relation to Chris-tianity and the impactChristians can have onculture. In his lecture,Metaxas especiallyemphasized the value ofhumor in relating to audi-ences about a serious sub-ject while reaching out.

“I thought he was verygood and had a good senseof humor,” Kephart said.

Brought in by Waynes-burg University ChaplainTom Ribar, Metaxas firstfell on Ribar’s radar afterthe publication of hisbook “Bonhoeffer: Pastor,Martyr, Prophet, Spy” inApril.

“I was invited by Tom

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Photo by Rachel Brown

Jennifer Brusstar

and Shane Peters

danced in the

2008 competition.

Students, staff take to dance floor

our dance, and EmilyMartin is our choreogra-phy assistant, so I just dowhat the ladies tell meto do.”

Payson admitted thatthis will be a new experi-ence for him.

“This is the first timeI’ve ever done any kindof dance competition, sothis will be a learningexperience for me,” hesaid.

Despite this, he feelsthat he will have noproblem competing onthe stage.

“I performed six playsin the Goodwin Perform-ing Arts Center for EddiePowers [as a student], sothat stage is very famil-iar to me,” he said.

Hardie feels that theevent is popular with thestudent body and hopesthat it will continue.

“I would hope itwould continue, andthat’s something that theStudent Activities Boardwill have to decide after

the event, but we reallyneed more couples toparticipate,” she said.

“It’s really disappoint-ing because these cou-ples have been workingreally hard over the pastfew weeks working witha professional dancer andchoreographing their

own freestyle dance.”Payson encourages

students, faculty andstaff alike to come outand enjoy the show.

“This is a uniqueactivity because itallows both faculty andstaff to showcase theirtalents,” he said.

Hardie agrees. “I just think it’s great

because it fosters com-munity outside of theclassroom,” she said.

“It’s a great way to getto know your professorsand staff. It’s a fun eventthat everyone can partic-ipate in.”

cam. I saw him makingout with a dude. Yay,”and again saying “I dareyou to video chat mebetween the hours of 9:30and 12. Yes it’s happeningagain.”

Then, around 8:50 p.m.on Sept. 22, TylerClementi posted on hisFacebook status, “jump-ing off the gw bridgesorry.”

According to AOLNews, Clementi reachedout for help on a gay mes-sage board called justus-boys.com. It has beenreported that he did con-tact his resident assistantafter the second sexualencounter because hisroommate was upset.

It has been said thatthe resident assistant said“We’ll see what hap-pens.” Clementi said thattrying to talk to his room-

mate about it “didn’tseem like an option”because he was upset.

The last post made byClementi on Sept. 22included a written state-ment about the incidentsto college officials thatshowed they “seemed totake it seriously,” accord-ing to AOL news.

“Here at WaynesburgUniversity, we have azero tolerance for anytype of harassment. Allreports are taken veryseriously, and are handled

as a disciplinary case,”said Kelley Hardie, direc-tor of housing.

“Regardless of whattype of harassment, stu-dents are held responsiblefor their actions.”

Hardie recommendsthose students who are inan uncomfortable posi-tion with a roommate oranother student to con-tact their respective resi-dent assistant or director.

They will then file areport that will be direct-ed to the Assistant Dean

of Students Shane Peters,and he will handle the sit-uation from there.

Confidentiality istaken seriously as well.According to the studenthandbook, which statesthat the filing of a com-plaint, other than a delib-erate false accusation,will not reflect upon anindividual’s educationalstatus.

Any attempt at retalia-tion against an individualfor bringing a complaintis prohibited.

Harassmentnot tolerated

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The plans were todecorate Alumni Hallwith Christmas decora-tions, including lightsand a tree with pres-ents underneath.

The music was to beprovided by DJ ChuckWebb, a video disc

jockey from a nearbyagency. “He’s verygood. We’ve hired himfor many years,” Bris-tor said.

A photographer whowould take photos ofthe students and theirdates was also plannedfor the Winter Gala.

The photos taken atthe dance would besent out to the stu-dents afterwards forfree.

Instead of the Winter

Gala, there will now bea smaller dance in theBeehive this Friday.

The dance will nowbe free, and studentsare not required towear semi-formalattire in order to attendthe dance.

The few studentswho had paid to attendthe Winter Gala havebeen reimbursed, Bris-tor said.

Cancellations of stu-dent activities at Way-

nesburg Universitywill continue if stu-dents do not take ini-tiative to sign up forevents that the StudentActivities Board andother campus organiza-tions plan.

“When we didn’thave it, students askedabout it, but when weplan it, nobody signsup,” Bristor said of herfrustration about thedisinterest for the Win-ter Gala.

Students shouldbegin to show moreconcern about theevents that organiza-tions plan for them ifthey want to continueto be offered fun activi-ties, according to Bris-tor.

It takes a lot of plan-ning for the StudentActivities Board toorganize events and isa disappointment whenthey have to cancelevents that theyinvested much time inplanning, Bristor said.

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“I grew up listeningto a lot of older Motownand ’90s R&B music,”Means said.

Means has alreadymade three EPs that areon iTunes and hopes toattract enough attention

to get a possible recordor publishing deal withthe fourth album he isworking on currently.

Means released an EPtitled Rescue Me inMarch of 2008, whichwas featured on MTV’sNewport Harbor.

Means would alsolike anyone interestedin his music to checkhis pages out onMyspace, Facebook andTwitter.

Ribar who heard of methrough my Bonhoefferbiography,” saidMetaxas. “But I traveland I speak a lot, to a lot

of different groups of peo-ple.”

“Bonhoeffer: Pastor,Martyr, Prophet, Spy” isa book about GermanLutheran pastor, theolo-gian and martyr DietrichBonhoeffer.

His involvement in aplot to assassinate AdolfHitler resulted in his exe-cution in 1945.

“That biography wasdefinitely one of the

things that sparked ourinterest since the fresh-

men take their annualtrip to the HolocaustMuseum,” Ribar said.“Also, he himself isengaged in Christianityand relating it to cul-ture.”

Metaxas brought tolight the potential posi-tive influence of Chris-tians in secular parts ofthe world if they could

just find a way to com-municate.

“He appeared attrac-tive and fit what we werelooking for because of hisbackground as a sort ofsocial commentator,”said Ribar.

The Christ and Cul-ture Lecture Series willcontinue in the springsemester.

tor and commentator.His repertoire includesworking and writing forVeggieTales, The NewYork Times and AtlanticMonthly among others.

“I make all thearrangements for the lec-ture series,” said Univer-sity Chaplain Tom Ribar.

“We make a list ofpotential speakers whoare themselves engagedin Christianity and cul-

ture. We contacted himand he agreed to comedown.”

Metaxas also spoke atthe University’s Chapelservice in Alumni HallTuesday.

“In Chapel he spoke alot what he went throughin his life and how Godimpacted that,” said Lar-son.

During the lecture,Metaxas encouraged theaudience to “live faith-fully in life, in word, andin deed.”

The Christ and Cul-ture Lecture Series con-tinues in the springsemester.

Means to perform

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Hosts of the 2008 Dancing with the Staff event, Josh Beppler and John Paiani confer

with Pat Bristor and Kelley Hardie during the competition.

Christiansimpact culture

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“I’m a biblical ministries major, sothis was right in my area, and I reallyliked what he had to say.”

Evan KephartSophomore biblical and ministry studies major

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Yemeni begins hunt for al-Qaid bomb maker Israeli Prime Minister to join U.S. peace talks

SAN’A, Yemen – Yemeni special forceslaunched an offensive Tuesday searching for anal-Qaida bomb maker believed to have designedexplosives concealed in printer cartridges thatwere intercepted in two packages last weekbefore reaching the United States.

The hunt for Ibrahim Asiri, a Saudi-bornmunitions expert, intensified in militant strong-holds. It is the third major operation against al-Qaida in recent months but one that has takenon new urgency since a plot to blow up aircraftover the U.S was uncovered Friday.

Investigators allege Asiri is one of al-Qaida’smost lethal strategists.

Awlaki, a charismatic speaker who hasemerged as an al-Qaida leader, will be tried inabsentia with his cousin, Osman Awlaki.

Volcano rumbles as more bodies found

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesia’s MountMerapi rumbled Saturday, a day after the vol-cano’s eruptions killed dozens of people andforced thousands to flee to emergency shelters.

The death toll from the volcano’s series oferuptions since October 26 stood at 122, withmore than 200 injured.

The agency said nearly 200,000 people wereevacuated after the expansion Friday of the dan-ger zone from 9.3- to 12.5-mile radius from Mer-api’s peak.

A presidential aide in charge of disasterresponse said three more bodies were found Sat-urday.

Before Friday’s blast, many residents hadrefused to leave their homes, fearing for the safe-ty of their livestock and other property.

Experts said Friday’s blast was the volcano’smost powerful in about 100 years. Jets of searinggas and volcanic debris burned homes and every-thing in their path.

The airport in Solo in Central Java province,which was closed Saturday morning, reopenedat midday, an official said.

JERUSALEM, Israel – Israeli Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu is set to arrive in the United Stateson Sunday to discuss the Middle East peace process.

Last week he told the Israeli parliament he wouldalso meet Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary ofState Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The talks with the U.S. administration over theMiddle East peace process come after mid-term elec-tion gains last week by Republicans.

U.S. State Department deputy spokesman MarkToner said Friday the Obama administration stillviews the peace process as a “priority” and wouldwork with Congress to advance the direct negotia-tions.

Cholera crisis still spreading through Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The number ofHaitians infected with cholera and cholera-likesymptoms continued to mount Saturday.

As of Friday evening, the Haitian governmentreported that 2,364 Haitians have been hospital-ized for cholera and 194 have died.

The death toll is expected to rise.The country’s worst fear is that the disease

could reach the 1.5 million people living inabout 1,000 unsanitary camps in Port-au-Princeand other cities ravaged by the Jan. 12 earth-quake.

Grim outlook for grizzlies in Yellowstone

CODY, Wyo. – The tally of grizzly deaths inthe states bordering the greater Yellowstoneregion is fast approaching the worst on record.

And that’s before the numbers come in fromthe current hunting season, a time when acci-dental grizzly shootings are traditionally high.

Here in Wyoming, more bears were killed thisyear than ever.

Two years ago, 52 grizzlies died from humancauses in the Yellowstone area. As of the end ofOctober, 48 bears have been killed this year.

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By Luis ZaragozaThe Orlando Sentinel

ORLANDO, Fla. —Close to 600 students in asenior-level businesscourse at University ofCentral Florida mustretake a midterm examafter a professor wastipped off to cheating.

Students who admit tocheating will be given thechance to complete thecourse if they attend anethics seminar, ProfessorRichard Quinn told stu-dents.

Those who don’t stepforward will be found outanyway, Quinn promisedduring an emotional lec-ture.

The incident, Quinntold students, has lefthim “physically ill,absolutely disgusted” and“completely disillu-sioned” after 20 years ofteaching.

All the students _ eventhose who didn’t cheat _must take the rewrittenmidterm exam by mid-night Wednesday. Stu-dents who are found notto have cheated will beable to keep the higherscore of the two.

Cheaters typically riskdisciplinary action thatcould include expulsion,university officials say.

But Quinn brokered adeal with the businessdean that would allowstudents to clear theirrecords if they owned upto cheating before therewritten exam startedbeing administered Mon-day morning.

An investigation isunder way to determinehow students got theirhands on the exam key inadvance. All faculty have

been alerted about theapparent security breach,Quinn told students.

Someone anonymous-ly dropped off a copy ofthe exam key at Quinn’soffice not long after theexam was given earlierthis month. Some stu-dents also were startingto complain about class-mates who were braggingabout acing the exambecause they had copiesof the exam key.

Quinn reviewed examscores and discovered it islikely that one-third ofthe students in the strate-gic management coursecheated. He decided notto cancel the coursebecause it would beunfair to students whodid not cheat.

But he did toss theexam scores for every-body. Faculty membershave rewritten themidterm _ 200 questions_ so the exam key for theoriginal test is useless.The final exam still to begiven has also beenrewritten, Quinn toldstudents.

Quinn was not imme-diately available for com-ment.

“The days of being ableto find a new way tocheat the system areover,” Quinn told stu-dents. “This type ofbehavior cannot, will notbe tolerated.”

“It’s disappointingthese actions took place,”UCF spokesman GrantHeston said of the appar-ent cheating, but the inci-dent demonstrates poli-cies in place to detectcheating are working.

UCF has testing labsthat are monitored todeter cheating.

Hundreds involvedin cheating scandalat Central Florida

Negligent driving death launches crusade against injusticeBy Robert McCoppin and

Dan HinkelChicago Tribune

CHICAGO — With thesetting sun glaring in hiseyes, a man in a black hatand coat peered frombehind bushes outside asuburban warehouse,looking for the womanwho forever changed hislife.

Greg Zaffke II neverpictured himself doingsurveillance. But that wasbefore Lora Hunt, achurch-going grandmoth-er who was painting hernails while driving,smashed into the back ofa motorcycle carryingZaffke’s mother, killingher instantly.

Convicted of recklesshomicide, Hunt was sen-tenced in May to 18months of periodicimprisonment, whichkeeps her locked up atnight but lets her out forwork by day. The formernurse now spends up tofour hours a day commut-ing some 72 miles eachway between the jail com-plex in Waukegan and herjob at an industrial com-pany in New Lenox.

Zaffke, 32, suspected

no one was monitoringher whereabouts, whichwas why he decided to doit himself until he learnedlast week that authoritieswere tracking Hunt’smovements by a globalpositioning satellite sys-tem. But no deputychecks on Hunt in thefield, and Zaffke stillbelieves she is minimiz-ing her incarceration by

taking too much timetraveling.

On occasion this fall hehas followed her to seewhere she was going, andworried aloud on onestakeout that she couldstop with her husband toeat or do anything else.

“I shouldn’t have to dothis,” he said, standingnext to his motorcyclenear Hunt’s workplace.

“I’m not looking to stalkher. When you’ve takensomeone’s life and youspend most of the day outof jail, it boggles mymind.”

Zaffke’s complaint getsinto a gray area of periodicimprisonment. Widelyvarying rules - determinedcase by case by judges andjailers but not detailedpublicly - can rile victims’

relatives such as Zaffke,who complained that hefound out about the GPSsystem from a reporteronly days ago.

Work release struckZaffke as too lenient asentence to begin with,and the shifting rules onlymake him more uneasy.

But his efforts, someexperts say, raise a ques-tion of whether crime vic-tims or their relativesshould be tracking offend-ers.

The case of the “nailpolish driver” roused amedia frenzy when thecrash occurred near LakeZurich in May of last year.

Hunt was on her wayto deliver a crib to herdaughter and tried totouch up her nails whiledriving.

She testified that shesaw a yellow light andplanned to go through theintersection, but didn’tsee Anita Zaffke, 56, whohad stopped on her motor-cycle in front of her. Zaf-fke, thrown 200 feet, diedimmediately.

Hunt, 49, of Morris,lost her nursing and dri-ver’s licenses followingher conviction, but wasallowed to work. At night,

she doesn’t actually stayin jail. She sleeps in anearby facility known asthe Community BasedCorrections Center,which typically housesabout 100 periodic releaseinmates in dormitory-style beds and commonareas rather than in cells.

As he tried to check onHunt’s whereabouts, Zaf-fke said he followed heron three different occa-sions. Based on his obser-vations, he said she has tocatch a train as early as5:26 a.m., and gets back aslate as 7:45 p.m.

One morning, he gotup before dawn to drivehis motorcycle from hishome in Wauconda todowntown Chicago,where he secretly inter-cepted Hunt at theOgilvie train station. Hesaid he saw her catch abus to change trains at theLaSalle Street station.Later that day, Zaffketried to spot Hunt board-ing the train home butdidn’t see her, he said.

On another day, hedrove to New Lenox,where he watched a manpick Hunt up at the train

Photo by Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/MCT

Lora and Mark Hunt walk into the courthouse in Waukegan, Ill., where Lora Hunt

was sentenced in a distracted driving accident that killed Anita Zaffke. Hunt was

distracted while painting her nails as she was driving.

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station in time to driveher to her $10-an-hoursecretarial/custodial job atan industrial company.

On yet another occa-sion, he waited outsidethe Waukegan correctionscenter and saw Huntreturn at 7:45 p.m., hesaid.To check on Zaffke’sconcerns, a Chicago Tri-bune reporter waited out-side the corrections centerone night last monthwhen Hunt arrived about6: 50 p.m. Asked aboutallegations that her pun-ishment had been toolight, she started sobbingas she leaned against thedoor frame of her tempo-rary home.

She had just come fromvisiting her probation offi-cer, she said.

“No one knows theprice I’ve paid and thatI’ve paid every day,” Huntsaid.

“The only way to fixthis would be to bring herback, and that’s not howlife works,” she cried.

Asked later if shestopped to see a movie orany other diversion, Huntsaid, “There’s no time forthat. They don’t allowtime for that.”

Jail officials would notspecify how long Hunt isallowed out each day, butsay her employer verifiedher working hours. Whilethe Lake County sheriffdoes not have the person-nel to track each offender,it does use the global posi-tioning satellite system.

Will Marling, executivedirector of the NationalOrganization for VictimAssistance, said Zaffke’stactics were unusual butthat victims are free totrack offenders if theyaren’t harassing them.

Many crime survivorsdon’t want contact withoffenders, he noted.

“I can see where he’strying to build aware-ness,” Marling said.

Typically, judges setgeneral parameters for

periodic imprisonment -in Hunt’s case allowingher to leave for work,church or counseling. Butthe law leaves it up to jailofficials to work out timesand conditions of release.

Some counties, such asDuPage, limit the numberof hours inmates may beout, restrict out-of-countyjobs and post the restric-tions on the Internet.Lake County is revisingits rules and currentlydoesn’t post informationabout the program on theweb.

Periodic imprisonmentcan be given for all but themost serious felonies suchas murder.

It’s typically used fordefendants with a fairlyclean rap sheet who havejobs and need to keepworking to support theirfamilies, said Steve Bakerof the Cook County Pub-lic Defender’s office.

Cook County has noperiodic imprisonmentprogram, because thelarge volume of inmateswould make it difficult toadminister. But during his

years as DuPage Countypublic defender, Bakersaid he didn’t rememberany egregious violationsof the conditions ofrelease.

After his mother’sdeath, Zaffke founded theBlack Nail Brigade, agroup dedicated to fight-ing distracted driving,whose members woreblack nail polish in mem-ory of Anita Zaffke. Now,looking to broaden itsappeal nationally, Zaffkehas stopped using nail pol-ish and is ready to re-

brand the group asCRASH — Curbing Reck-less Actions on ourStreets and Highways.

Hoping to raise dis-tracted driving to the levelof drunken driving, thewebsite and graphicdesigner wants to makenegligent driving a crimein all 50 states as anotheroption for prosecutorswho now must choosebetween a traffic ticketand reckless homicide.

“We want,” he said, “tohold distracted driversaccountable.”

By Jacqueline Charles,

Trenton Daniel and Curtis

MorganMcClatchy Newspapers

LES CAYES, Haiti —Residents awoke Fridaymorning with HurricaneTomas knocking hard attheir doors but, asidefrom a few floodedhomes, an initial surveyfound no major damage inthis low-lying city of40,000 on the southwest-ern coast.

“We were lucky,” saidEsteban Sacco, a teamleader with the UnitedNations’ Office for theCoordination of Humani-tarian Affairs.

Other parts of thecountry were not. InLeogane, the River Rouy-onne burst into the city,flooding parts of it. TheUnited Nations sentbuses to try and evacuatepeople.

Interior Minister Paul-Antoine Bien-Aime saidJeremie, at the top of thesouthern peninsula, was“isolated” by impassableroad and the city’s mayorhad to order evacuationsduring a predawn deluge.In the Grande Ansetowns of Anse d’Hain-ault, Irois and D’AnneMarie, the surging, roughocean pushed inland.

“The people who werestill reluctant to leave arenow facing the reality.This is the first time theyhave seen the sea comeinland like this,” saidMayor Flobert St. Fleur ofAnse d’Hainault.

Flood waters wereknee high, he said, it wasstill raining.

And Tomas, whichintensified overnight intoa Category 1 hurricane,was far from done withHaiti. Rain, much of itheavy, was falling acrossthe country, raising therisk of deadly floods witheach inch of rain andevery passing hour.

At 11 a.m. EDT, theNational Hurricane Cen-ter said Tomas was pass-

ing through the Wind-ward Passage EasternCuba and Western Haitiwith 85 mph sustainedwinds. All of Haiti, fromcoastal villages to the cap-ital city filled withmakeshift settlementsdensely populated withearthquake refugees, layunder the “dirty” side of

Tomas, which was drag-ging a long train of strong,wet thunderstorms thatforecasters expectedwould take a day or moreto blow through.

At least one death wasblamed on the storm, aman drowning in a pick-up truck accident.

But the government

was hoping that nearly aweek of preparations andbroadcast warnings urg-ing evacuation of the vul-nerable camps wouldlessen the death toll for anation that lost an esti-mated 300,000 to the Jan-uary earthquake and isbattling a deadly choleraepidemic.

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More misfortune:

The residents of Leogane,

Haiti, south of Port-au-

Prince, cope with flood

waters created by

Hurricane Tomas, Friday,

Nov. 5. All the main road

in the town were flooded.

In other parts of Haiti

including Grande Anse,

Irois and D’Anne Marie,

the towns were flooded

stranding residents. In

many places the waters

were knee high.

Photos by Peter Andrew Bosch

Miami Herald/MCT

Hurricane Tomas floods coastal cities in Haiti

By Joanne JacobsThe Hechinger Report

Fast-growing for-prof-it colleges, under fire forsaddling students withunmanageable debt, arerolling out new policiesaimed at raising gradua-tion rates while alsohoping a Republican-controlled House willblock unfavorable legis-lation.

“We have a greatopportunity to educate(the newly elected repre-sentatives) on the valueour sector plays in thehigher education systemand the economy,” saidHarris Miller, presidentof the 1,800-memberAssociation of PrivateSector Colleges and Uni-versities (APSCU).Miller is hoping thatPresident BarackObama’s push to getmore Americans to com-plete college could meaneducation will becomean area of bipartisanagreement in a dividedCongress.

The Republicans’pledge to cut federalspending also couldmean less money for stu-dent loans and grants,which could hurt for-profit colleges that areheavily dependent onfederal aid for their pro-fessional, technical andvocational training pro-grams.

Days before the elec-tion, the Obama admin-istration announced reg-ulations banning bonus-es for recruiters andrequiring the disclosureof graduation rates atfor-profit schools. But itdelayed a decision onregulating “gainfulemployment” thatpotentially could denyloans or limit programenrollment if studentsend up with high debtand low wages.

Education SecretaryArne Duncan hasattacked what he calls“bad apples” in the for-profit sector, whileacknowledging that for-profit institutions arekey to achieving thepresident’s goal of creat-ing a highly educatedworkforce and becomingthe world leader in col-lege graduates by 2020.

Representatives of for-profit schools - whosestocks have been bat-tered in recent months -argued in hearings at theEducation Departmentlast week that enforcinga gainful employmentrule would unfairly limitchoices for students.

“The department’sproposal will denyaccess by shuttering pro-grams and putting mil-lions of students out ofhigher education,” theAPSCU said in a pre-pared statement.

Soaring growth at for-profit schools - from673,000 students in 2000to 1.8 million in 2008 -has put the sector in thespotlight.

In Senate hearingsthis summer, for-profitcolleges were accused ofsoaking up a dispropor-tionate share of federalloan money, recruitingstudents with inflatedpromises, fudging finan-cial-aid applications andleaving graduates withcrushing debt and bleakjob prospects.

Eleven percent of allhigher-education stu-dents are enrolled in for-profits, but they receive26 percent of federal stu-dent loans and accountfor 43 percent of default-ers.

“They’re very gratefulto get a feel for what it’sgoing to be like,” saidUniversity of PhoenixPresident William Pepi-cello.

For-profit collegeswork to avoidtougher regulation

Hunt goes totrial

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