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The complete list of Sex Week events at Cal U March 31 - April 4 . Topics such as “Concepts of virginity”, “Learn your love language” an the i erences between sex and gender to be among the hot topics.

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CRISIS IN UKRAINE

724 DINING TOUR

Sta writer Stetson rovance breaks down the conflict in Europe .

Belle Vernon’s Old Mexico is featured in Katie Delverne’s Mon Valley restaurant tour

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This week, our athlete spot-light is on Cal U sophomore and softball pitcher Alexandra Sagl

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Alpha Sigma Tau Sweetheart Search

Fraternity brothers compete for AST title

photos: Aaron ZimmermanAlpha Sigma Tau sorority poses with the two runner ups and winner of this year’s “Sweetheart Search”.

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A total of nine fraternity members and new members competed on Feb. 26 for the chance to become Alpha Sigma Tau Sorority’s newest sweet-heart and help raise money for their philanthropy.

Since the competition got its start in 2009, the sweetheart competition is held annually in the spring semester. The competition’s purpose is to help the sorority nd their new sweetheart (a fraternity brother who helps and supports them whenever they need him to), but the competition is also a philanthropy event.

Erika Novak, 21, a junior com-munication disorders major, is the nance assistant for Alpha Sigma Tau sorority and is also the woman in charge of the AST Sweetheart Competition. Novak has been in charge of the event for the past two years.

“This is my second year,” No-vak said. “This year was a little bit easier than last year, because I’ve gotten through it.”

Novak said that part of the money raised goes to Alpha Sig-ma Tau (AST), but the rest goes to the ine Mountain Settlement School, a school that teaches children about the environment.

“The ine Settlement School is a school that teaches children about environmental things like

going green, things like that. It’s also good for teaching them about being safe to the environ-ment,” Novak said.

According to Novak, the event raised a total of 13 for the ine Settlement School.

“It was a big success.”Novak said that they had a

table in the union where they had the contestants sign up – this year there were exactly nine contestants in the pageant style event, in ve of the eight fraternity’s on campus.

Michael Anderson, Benjamin Collins and Zachary Chylin-ski represented the Delta Chi fraternity in the competition. Jonathan Veres and Joseph Bradley represented the Acacia fraternity in the event. Ryan Edie represented the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity, Kyle Hillsey represented Tau Kappa Epsilon, Justin Diperna repre-sented the hi amma Delta (FIJI) fraternity and Matthew Arcuri represented the Theta Xi fraternity.

The competition consists of ve rounds casual wear, swim-

wear, talent, formal wear and questions.

AST alumna sat on the judge’s panel for the event and judged the contestants based on wheth-er they felt that the brothers deserved to be their sweetheart or not, according to Novak.

Novak said that the brother who wins the competition holds the title for one year, during which he will hang out with

the AST sisters and even have the possibility to attend their formal.

“The sweetheart gets to be on our composite and receives an AST-printed t-shirt with ‘sweet-heart’ on it,” said Novak. “It’s a good incentive and the guys love it because whoever is our sweetheart hangs out with us a lot more for the year and we invite him to certain things, like our formal.”

This year’s competition win-ner was Matthew Arcuri, a junior sport management major

and a member of Theta Xi. This was the second year that Arcuri competed for the title and he was happy to have won.

“It hasn’t really kicked in yet,” Arcuri said.

Kyle Hillsey from Tau Kappa Epsilon was this year’s first runner up and Jonathan Veres from Acacia received the crowd pleaser award.

More photos from the event on page 7.

This year’s competition winner Matthew Arcuri, member of Theta Xi.

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Cal U Police ReportsWindow BreakingOn March 6 at 2:17 a.m., police were called after it was reported a male was breaking windows on Fourth Street.

Hit and RunOn March 6 at 1:03 p.m., a vehicle struck and dam-aged another vehicle parked in the Vulcan Ga-rage.

So Much for RehabOn March 7 at 7:29 p.m., a drunken female was “breaking up” a house. It was later discovered that the person in question had recently been released from rehab.

Stolen water lines?On March 7 at 2:11 a.m., a water line break occurred on Wood Street. After investigation, police con-cluded copper water lines had been stolen from the scene.

Break-inOn March 9 at 6:13 p.m., police were called after a break in occurred on Green Street. 3 juveniles, all males, were taken into custody.

TrespassingOn March 10 at 6:45 p.m., it was reported that “un-wanted people” were found in and removed from the WCAL radio station.

Weird News GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP)

— It’s soon expected to be OK to be willfully annoying in Grand Rapids.

The Grand Rapids Press re-ports that the City Commission is nixing a 38-year-old section of city code that states “no person shall willfully annoy another person.”

City Attorney Catherine Mish recommended repealing the language, saying the wording is “unconstitutional in terms of being vague” and “simply unenforceable.” A nal decision is expected March 11.

Even with the change, re-lated crimes such as obstruct-ing someone in a public place or assault would still be on the books.

Mish has been scouring city code to nd archaic rules.

Last year, rules that got a look included one prohibiting people from riding horses on a sidewalk and another allowing jail time for failing to return a library book.

LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — Workers at a Mississippi funeral home say they found a man alive and kicking when they opened a body bag.

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Holmes County Coroner Dex-ter Howard calls it a miracle that 78-year-old Walter Williams is alive.

The coroner was called to Williams’ home in Lexington, a community north of Jackson, where family members believed he had died.

Howard says Williams had no pulse and was pronounced dead Wednesday at 9 p.m.

Early Thursday, workers at Porter and Sons Funeral Home were preparing to embalm Wil-liams when he started to kick in the body bag.

Family members were called and Williams was taken to a hos-pital. Howard says he believes Williams’ pacemaker stopped working, then started again.

Family members say Wil-liams, a farmer, told them he’s happy to be alive.

QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — A doughnut shop chain won’t be selling doughnuts at a new Mas-sachusetts location.

Quincy’s licensing board this week approved a plan for Hon-ey Dew Donuts to open a shop inside the city’s new $30 million YMCA.

A spokeswoman for the Y tells The Patriot Ledger that because of the organization’s emphasis on physical tness, no dough-

nuts will be sold. The shop will sell co ee, low-fat mu ns, salads, sandwiches, yogurt, fruit cups and smoothies. All menu items must be approved by the Y.

According to Honey Dew’s website, its low-fat muffins contain more calories and sugar than many of its doughnuts.

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta police are searching for a wom-an dressed in a Wa e House uniform who walked into a res-taurant pretending to be an area manager — and left with about $100 in cash from the register.

The heist happened shortly after 6 a.m. Wednesday at one of the chain’s 24-hour diners on the city’s southeast side.

Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones says the suspect be-gan acting as an area manager and conducted an inspection of the restroom area, then con-tinued her routine as real area managers do.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitu-tion reports that she also turned the cash register key and took out about $100.

Police say the woman was seen leaving the store in a Mer-cury Mountaineer SUV with Georgia tags and a male driver behind the wheel.

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“The 39 Steps” to the Blaney Theater _______________________BY KATIE DELVERNE for the Cal Times

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sylvania’s production of “The 39 Steps” took over the Blaney Theatre during its run this past weekend.

The play, modi ed from both the 191 novel by John Buchan and the 193 film by Alfred Hitchcock, is a story about a British spy who attempts to help a counterespionage agent avoid The 39 Steps, an organization of spires, from stealing top-secret information.

Cal U’s production of the show also incorporated Monty Python.

To play out the plot the cast consisted of only four people – two of which played multiple

characters throughout the pro-duction.

The cast did not seem to mind working with such a small group of actors. In fact, Jordan Brooks, a senior theatre major, was one of the cast members who played multiple roles. He enjoyed that part the best.

“It was unforgettable,” Brooks said. “With a cast like that, it makes the process so intimate because you see how each per-son has grown and developed up close and personal through-out the whole short process of it all.”

Clayton Rush, a sophomore theatre major who played Rich-ard Hannay, enjoyed his close

group of cast mates the most throughout his experience with the show.

“I have never been this close to a cast before,” Rush said. “They made this show so memorable for me. We really were like a four-person family. I am going to miss the show of course, but most of all I am going to miss working with them.”

With the play set in London, the actors had to collectively learn the four dialects used in the show – Standard British, Cockney, Scottish and German. For cast member Jordan Brooks, learning Scottish was his biggest challenge.

“I was well versed in the

standard British and Cockney, but the Scottish was the biggest one we had in the show,” Brooks said. “I had to spend a lot of time on that personally.”

For cast members like Clayton Rush, transforming into their role was a challenge. Rush said he usually plays over-exag-gerated characters that are not very realistic, but playing his character Richard Hannay was a big change for him.

To prepare for his role, Rush also had to dye his hair brown and grow a mustache. Dedi-cated to portraying his character accurately, he said he also had to keep his comedy at a low in the role.

“My one big challenge that I had was keeping Hannay a realistic character and not a caricature,” Rush said. “I had to tone down my comedy and make the jokes more subtle.”

The show came to a very emotional ending for two cast members and their director, Michele Pagen.

The two graduating seniors in the show, Jordan Brooks and Sarah Schumaker, were both directed by Pagen in their rst show at Cal U and now their time on the campus’ stage is coming to a close.

“I’ll be seeing them out the door in their last show,” Pagen said. “It’s touching to me.”

My attempt at an igloo ended with the three foot high slightly lopsided structure being only partially completed. I had real-ized I should have done more research before just jumping into starting the project, because then I would have known what I was getting myself into.

I sprang into action telling everyone I knew about my plan to build an igloo in my yard. A couple of my friends were all really excited; however, some of them did not think I was actually being serious. It was not until I started building my igloo that they realized I was being serious.

On Monday, Feb. 10, I, along with some help from my room-mate Lia, started attempting to build the bottom part of the igloo.

Going in I had my own ideas of how to build an igloo, I did not think that I would need to do any research, how hard could it be to build an igloo I decided that to build the bricks needed to construct the igloo, I would use old shoe boxes.

So Lia and I went out into the mildly cold afternoon to our side yard to begin construction. We took with us two old shoe boxes and two pots from the kitchen which we planned to use as shovels.

It did not take us long to real-ize that the snow on the ground at that point in time was not the type needed to build an igloo, it was too powdery and had a layer of ice over most of it. In order to build the igloo, we needed wet snow which is good for packing together. So we attempted to wet the snow ourselves and pack it together; however, it only made the snow stick inside of the shoe boxes.

Lia said that she heard it was supposed to snow later in the week so after looking at the

weather forecast, I decided to wait until then to build my igloo. Within the next couple of days California, Pa. had received around six inches or more of the wet snow I needed to build my igloo.

I started by picking an area big enough to t the igloo, then using my boot covered feet I began kicking snow out of the way to form a cleared area. Then I started packing snow into the empty shoe boxes I had from Monday’s attempt, and ar-ranged the blocks I made into a straight doorway, and then fol-lowing the bricks that created the doorway I formed the bricks into a circular shape.

After spending what seemed like an eternity, I decided the work had become too di cult for just one person, and decided to call a couple di erent friends for help.

One of the friends that I called was my best friend Savanna, because I gured she would not be busy.

“Hey what are you doing ” I asked Savanna as soon as she picked up her phone.

Savanna said she was going home to do homework, and when I asked her to stop by my house to help me build my igloo she replied in disbelief.

“Wait what You were seri-ous I thought you were just kidding around,” Savanna said.

After calling Savanna, I called my friends Allison, Peyton, Erin, and Lia--that they were busy, so I decided to do some more work on my igloo myself.

I gave up and went inside for the day not even another forty-

ve minutes later after packing more snow into the shoe boxes, arranging more bricks around the area I had cleared for the structure, and moving more excess snow out of the way with a shovel that my room-mate Jordan had luckily found in our shed.

Then next day, I decided to work on my igloo. I was able to round up two of my closest

friends, Peyton and Allison, were willing to spend the after-noon helping me.

The rst thing I told Peyton and Allison was that we needed more shoe boxes, because the ones I had been using were a dilapidated mess of soggy card-board. Allison o ered to bring along some of the extra shoe boxes she had lying around her dorm room.

Peyton offered to drive the three of us to my house, because I live on the other side of town and we wanted to conserve as much of our energy for igloo building as possible. On the

ve minute drive from campus to my house we all discussed how excited we were to build the igloo; however, there were some concerns.

Peyton asked if I had looked up how do make an igloo or anything, and I said no that we were winging it and that if little kids can build them so can we. She laughed in response to me and said okay.

After we got to my house we began construction. I began by showing Allison and Peyton how to take a shoe box, ll it up with snow and pack it down to form a brick. Once I nished my demonstration, we each began packing snow into bricks and stacking them on top of the bot-tom layer of the igloo that I had made the day before.

Not long into making our shoe box bricks, Allison chimed in and said that her shoe box was already falling apart.

“Well this box has bit the dust,” said Allison. “What should I do ”

I told Allison to keep using the other shoes boxes lying around, and then something dawned on me, how the hell am I going to enclose my igloo to form a roof

“Guys two questions, one how do Eskimos do this And two how are we going to build a roof on this thing ” I asked dumbfounded.

“I know ” Allison exclaimed. “I’ll ask Siri for directions.”

Three websites and a YouTube video later, we nally realized that the shoe boxes were not going to work, and that we were stacking the bricks incorrectly. Instead of stacking the bricks horizontally one top of the other, we needed to stack them verti-cally angling the bricks inwards more and more with each layer.

“Let’s go back inside the house and try and nd some-thing else to use to make bricks,” I suggested.

About 1 minutes later, we had nally decided upon using an extra trash can that was lying around the house.

“How about one of us shovels, another packs the snow down, and the other stacks the bricks ” I asked Peyton and Allison.

“Sounds good,” they replied.Allison decided to shovel,

I decided to pack the snow down, and Peyton chose to stack the bricks; however, it became crowded around the small trash can too quickly so I packed the snow and stacked while Peyton

lled in holes on the igloo with extra snow.

We soon started to look like an assembly line, and things were looking productive, un-fortunately it did not last. The

three of us started to grow cold and tired.

“What time is it ” I asked while packing stacking a brick.

“Holy cow, it’s almost 6 o’clock We’ve been out here for almost three hours ,” Allison exclaimed.

The three of us then came to a mutual agreement to stop working on the igloo to go and get something to eat for dinner.

While at dinner, we discussed future plans with the igloo and eventually came to the same general consensus, it was time to cut our losses and stop working on the igloo.

“Are we really going back outside,” Peyton whined. “It’s so cold, I can’t feel my ngers, and my pants are completely soaked.”

“I mean I’d like to see it n-ished, but my back hurts from lifting and my butt is still thaw-ing out,” I replied.

“Sooo are we just going to say we attempted it and call it quits ” asked Allison.

We all unanimously replied yes. I cannot deny that I had fun attempting to build my igloo; however, I have decided it is probably better to leave it to the experts—the Eskimos.

Building an igloo from the ground up in California, Pa.

photo: Emily GeyerEmily Geyer poses on top of her igloo made when California, Pa. was hit with a snowstorm in February.

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“Dirty Dancing” In the summer of 1963, Frances Houseman (who everyone

calls “Baby”) goes to a mountain resort with her family for a sum-mer vacation and gets pulled into the drama that surrounds the resort’s dance sta . Through a series of twists and turns she falls in love with Johnny, the lead male dancer. She is privileged and sheltered while the man she gets involved with is a typical bad boy. They end up learning a dance together, but being torn apart due to unfortunate circumstances. In the end, Johnny returns to deliver the famous line, “Nobody puts Baby in the corner,” and they dance into a happy ending. It’s a classic.

Genre: romantic comedyOriginally Released: August 21, 1987Starring: Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach

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Name: Nicholas J. RosinskyDj name: Cheez WizClass Standing: JuniorFavorite music: New Hard Rock, Classic RockBands: Five Finger Death Punch, Nickelback, Breaking Benjamin,

Escape the Fate, Skillet, Three Days Grace, Bullet for My Valentine, ZZ Top

I’m an avid sports fan of the Pirates, Penguins, Steelers and multiple collegiate teams. I got interested in radio at WCAL thanks to some of my Delta Chi fraternity brothers last year. We decided to do a mid-day show in Fall of 2013 titled “Hold on Loosely.”

We discuss any topic you can possibly think of and play any kind of music as well. I have loved being a part of the radio station ever since.

I hope to keep it going until I graduate. Tune into 91.9 WCAL between noon and 4 p.m. on Wednesdays to hear your favorites!

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The Performance Center in the Natali Student Center was host to a crowd of broke, hungry col-lege students on March who were trying to win free food.

Roughly 7 people attended Grocery Bingo, an event put on by the Student Activities Board Underground, which was held at 8 p.m. Participants had a chance to win one of 10 bags full of food from Walmart. The themed bags included groceries for breakfast, pizza, tacos, junk food, drinks, pasta, sandwiches, TV dinners, healthy foods and hot drinks, picked by the presi-dent and weeknight chair of

SABUG. The game was played traditional horizontal, vertical and diagonal, postage stamp and then in the shape of an X, a T and a postage stamp.

Each time “Bingo!” was called out from the crowd, a jubilant face rose from their seat to the stage to have the numbers on their card verified. If it was indeed a bingo, cheers rang out from friends, while grunts and boos could be heard from other disappointed patrons who had to clear their cards.

“I think it’s a great way to use resources for campus activities,” Dakota Pats eld, pre-law and business major, said. “I also liked that they were doing in-termission and lettings us learn more of the programs they have available to us.”

Pats eld learned of the event through the Cal U Activities twitter, and the posters hung around the Student Center. Oth-er campus activities mentioned in the intermission included the Acapella night at the Under-ground Caf and Funny Freak-ing Fridays featuring comedian Tracey Ashley.

Dan Carmichael, a political science and pre-law major and SABUG member, helped to work the event. Carmichael is a familiar face every time bingo comes to campus, having sta ed bingo events multiple times before.

“I love it. People actually get really angry when they don’t win and really happy when they do. It’s great,” commented Carmichael.

Grocery bingo in the Performance Center

photo: lauren griffithDakota Patsfield checks her bingo card against a friend’s.

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The 724 Dining Tour: over the border to Old Mexico_______________________BY KATIE DELVERNEfor the Cal Times

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It’s my pleasure to welcome you to the 724 Dining Tour. I’ll be your guide on this exciting and hopefully delicious tour. Living in the 724 area code my entire life, I’ve had the pleasure of dining at of some of the most enjoyable and interesting restau-rants in the area. Now and even when I was young, I’ve always had a taste for delectable food, and just where to nd it. Now, going to a university so near to my home, I found that not a lot of college students know of the countless restaurants this area has to o er. So, I felt it was my personal duty to educate the people of California University of Pennsylvania about the hole-in-the-walls – the diners and exquisite restaurants the 724 has to o er its visitors and residents.

This week in the tour, I took a trip south of border to Old Mexico, a 15-minute drive from Cal U – or, as they like to say, “south of the border avor and fun.”

Despite the fact I’m very Italian and should love Italian foods, Mexican is always my go-to when deciding what sort of cuisine I want. Through-out my 20 years of living, I have searched for my favorite relatively-authentic Mexican restaurant, and Old Mexico takes the cake.

The restaurant o ers a pleth-ora of dishes. They have a wide range of appetizers, combina-tion platters, salads and special-ties to please even the pickiest of eaters. They have a vegetarian portion on their menu with a few di erent options as well. The average price range for main dishes is between $7 and $12, with the max being $13. Also, they serve domestic and imported beers and wine and margaritas for those of you who are of-age to drink.

When you hear Old Mexico, you may be thinking of a quaint little place symbolizing “old” Mexico – not very flashy but good home-style Mexican food. Well, Old Mexico is not exactly that. Yes, when you walk in you will be greeted with delicious, spicy smells and stereotypical Mexican decorations. However, it’s located in a plaza next to an Aaron’s furniture store and a Sally’s Beauty Supplies, and above the entrance hangs a neon sign in green reading ‘OLD MEXICO.’ A little less than glamorous, but like I said, I’m introducing you to restaurants in the 724 that I deem appetizing and Old Mexico’s food de es expectation.

On this particular visit I went with a few of my sorority sis-ters after a long day of classes. We were starving and wanted nothing less than a plate full of unhealthy and delicious food. We walked in around 7:00 p.m. and were seated immediately by a friendly server.

We were greeted at the table with baskets of homemade tortilla chips and two di erent kinds of salsa, which are com-plimentary to every guest. Also, they never stop bringing them, when you’re done with one basket – they bring another, and another and another. You get the point. Endless chips and salsa.

We ordered queso dip ($4) and guacamole dip ($4) after our drinks. Both were brought to us within minutes and we proceeded to devour both just as quickly as they were brought to the table. The cheese was warm and rich and the guacamole was freshly made. Both delightful.

I chose an option from the combination portion of the menu for my entree. It was com-bination BB, one chile relleno, one chalupa and rice ($7.75) Ever since I’ve started going to Mexican restaurants I can’t leave without eating a chile relleno. It’s spicy, but it’s also warm and gooey from the cheese. Unfortu-nately, the menu doesn’t give a

description of what some items are, which can sometimes be a pain – I’ll do my best to explain what both a chile relleno and a chalupa are.

A chile relleno is a roasted poblano pepper stuffed with minced meat and melted queso cheese and coated with egg and mesa our. It is then fried and topped with a red enchilada sauce and melted cheese. Prob-ably the cheesiest thing you can order there, but it’s so good.

A chalupa is corn cup led with refried beans, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese and guaca-mole. Old Mexico serves it over the rice that comes with the combination. Though this combination only consisted of three things, it was so lling. I couldn’t even move when I was done from being so stu ed.

The combinations tend to be my go-to items at Old Mexico because there’s quite literally a combination of every basic they serve. However, their chicken and steak fajitas ($11) are always cooked perfectly and come served with rice, beans and gua-camole salad and our tortillas. You can get them for two for $21 as well. The fajita burrito ($9) is also a favorite. You can either get a chicken or steak fajita stu ed in a flour tortilla shell with beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, then smothered with melting cheese. Their Enchiladas ($2 for cheese, $2.25 for chicken or beef for one) are also very good if you are in the mood for something simple.

Mexican cuisine may not be for everyone, but if you are looking for either a casual din-ing place to grab some fairly-priced authentic Mexican food or a place to try out Mexican cuisine for the rst time, Old Mexico is a go.

Old Mexico125 Sara Way, Rostraver Square, Belle Vernon, PA724-929-3211

photos: katie delverne

Cal U clubs offer unique college experience

The O -Roading club is composed of roughly 20 CalU students. The members can often be found in the woods 4-wheeling, rock-climbing, and even picking up trash left behind by others. This club was founded by Seth Ellison in the Fall of 2013. Be sure to check them out on facebook at CalU O -Roading.

The Japanese Anime club meets every Thursday at 5:30 in Duda Hall 103. The 30-50 students spend hours watching di erent shows and even break to perform a “Who’s dub is it anyway ” Watching anime is not all that they do. They also attend a conference every year in Pittsburgh called Tekkoshocon. Be sure to check them out.

This club meets every Monday and Wednesday night from 6-8pm. They teach and perform dances from Swing dancing to Salsa. They even host events like Salsa night where you can learn the dance yourself. For more information please feel free to contact Hayley Whittaker at whi1274 calu.edu.

The travel club is composed of several Tourism Studies majors. They attend conferences every year in New York City and Washington, D.C. The club was lucky enough to meet with several professionals at Walt Disney World to discuss internships and job opportunities while also experiencing the magic. For more information stop by the Tourism Research Center in Eberly 261.

BY ANGELIQUE HOLMESfor the Cal Times

There are a lot of clubs here on campus. Some are more active than others though. You see booths, events and yers all the time advertising places you can nd like-minded individuals to connect with. Here are a few of those clubs that don’t always get shown in the spotlight.

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WCAL to host annual Lock-in_______________________

about the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh FoundationThe Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation is the singular source of fundraising for Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. The group raises money through specified campaigns, grants and special events like the 2014 WCAL Lock-in.

Money from the foundation’s fundrais-ing efforts is used to support the hospital’s mission of excellence in research, health education and patient care.

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AST Spring Sweetheart Search

Justin Diperna, Phi Gamma Delta Ryan Eddy, Alpha Kappa Lambda

Kyle Hilsey, Tau Kappa EpsilonJonathan Veres, Acacia Ben Collins, Delta Chi

Winner: Matthew Arcuri, Theta Xi

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Crisis in the Ukraine:How Did We Get Here and What’s Next?

Despite reports last Wednes-day from Secretary of State John Kerry that a meeting be-tween foreign ministers from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and Ukraine had led to a unanimous decision that healthy dialogue, not ghting, would solve the crisis in Ukraine, tensions still remain high in the region.

The crisis, which escalated when Russian troops invaded the Crimean peninsula (located in southeastern Ukraine) on Feb. 28, has roots that span the last decade.

In 2004, Ukrainian citizens suspected that Russia played a role in rigging the country’s presidential election in order to put Viktor Yanukovych, a candidate with favorable ties to Russia, in o ce. In fact, Na-tionofchange.org, a nonprofit progressive news outlet, reports some Ukrainians believed Rus-sia went so far as to attempt to poison the candidate who op-posed Yanukovych after polls showed Yanukovych trailing by 10 points in the months leading up to the election.

The suspicions of corrup-tion didn’t end there. In 2010, Yanukovych was reelected to a second term. Shortly thereafter – 2011 to be exact – his opponent, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshen-ko, was imprisoned after being charged with criminal abuse of her o ce over a deal she made with an oil company. Ukrainian citizens, according to Nation of Change, believed Tymosh-enko was unjustly punished by the pro-Russian government, mostly due to her desire to align Ukraine and its government with the United States and the rest of Europe instead of Russia.

Then, in November of 2013, president Yanukovych backed out of a trade deal with the Eu-ropean Union amidst pressure from Russian president Vladi-mir Putin (according to Putin, the Ukraine was being “bullied” in the deal).

Ukraine, a nation crippled with debt, could ill-afford to back out of this free-trade agree-ment, which would have aligned them more closely with the rest of Europe through a plan of economic modernization. As a result, citizens in favor of the deal protested the decision in the country’s capital city, Kiev.

Despite efforts by Putin to quell the situation by buying $15 million of Ukraine’s debt and discounting the price of national gas, These protests lasted into early January of this year.

By the middle of January, Ya-nukovych had signed laws that restricted the right of Ukrainian citizens to protest and, although

these measures were later re-pealed, the damage had already been done. Fighting ensued between police and protesters in Kiev and an estimated 100 people were killed.

Up until this point, Russian involvement in the Ukraine had no basis and, despite the circum-stances, Yanukovych was still in power. On Feb. 21, that changed. Yanukovych was removed from o ce, charged as a criminal in Ukraine and, to avoid prosecu-tion, he ed to Russia.

With Yanukovych, who Putin called “a legitimate leader,” gone, the Russian president claimed he had the right to protect Russian citizens in Ukraine from violence stem-ming from political unrest. Ukrainian o cials didn’t agree. Prime Minister Arseny Yatse-niuk called the Russian invasion and subsequent takeover of Crimea “a declaration of war,” and, although troops located in Crimean military bases agreed to peacefully disarm, the Ukrai-nian government mobilized troops in other parts of the country. To this point, neither the Russians nor Ukrainians have opened re.

Over the last few weeks, President Barack Obama and Kerry have both made it clear they stand with Ukraine. Two weeks ago, in an e ort to end the crisis, President Obama called Putin. According to Putin, since the situation in Ukraine (Crimea in particular) directly a ects his country and its interests, the Russian Parliament had every right to invade the region.

This didn’t sit well with Obama. The president claimed that Russia‘s efforts to put troops on the ground in Ukraine placed them “on the wrong side of history.”

Since President Obama’s statement, he and high-ranking o cials within his cabinet have met to discuss what measures they would be willing to take to deal with Russia.

Currently, the White House is said to only be exploring eco-nomic and diplomatic measures. However, in order to increase U.S. presence in the region, the government sent a destroyer ship to the bordering Black Sea and ghter jets to neighboring Poland late last week.

According to CBS, one of the aforementioned diplomatic decisions the United States could make would be having President Obama skip this sum-mer’s G-8 conference in Sochi if Russia’s stance doesn’t change.

Economically, the US has al-ready approved an agreement with Ukraine for $1 billion in loans to the country.

Additionally, the US is pre-pared to impose sanctions on Russia, which, according to President Obama, would “iso-late Russia and have a negative

impact on Russia’s economy and status in the world.”

Moving forward, one ques-tion the Obama administration will have to face is whether or not sanctioning Russia is feasible.

CNBC reports that Russia is in the process of passing a law that would allow their government to seize property and accounts owned by United States citizens and companies in the country if sanctions are imposed.

Another issue facing the ad-ministration – and the rest of the world – is how to deal with a movement by the Crimean Parliament to join Russia.

Last week, Crimea’s Par-liament voted unanimously to secede from Ukraine and join Russia, but directly after

that decision, the Ukrainian government and other world leaders (including President Obama) said a Crimean succes-sion would be illegal. Crimea’s 2 billion residents (over half of which are Russian) will vote on a succession on March 16.

If that vote comes back as ex-pected and succession is chosen, what happens next? If the con-

ict turns violent, would the US get involved militarily?

According to Joseph Heim, a history professor at California University of Pennsylvania, the U.S. would be incapable of doing so.

“I don’t see the USA being involved in a military way in Ukraine because it’s beyond our capability to sustain a signi cant presence in an area that is within

Russia’s sphere of in uence,” Heim said. “On the whole, I am con dent diplomacy will bring about a settlement, even if it is not entirely to the wishes of some Americans who think, and think incorrectly, the USA sim-ply can impose its will on this situation.”

As for the future of Ukraine, Heim said that, although Russia won’t be able to take complete control of Ukraine, it could po-tentially absorb Crimea.

“Russia cannot simply absorb the entire Ukraine, even if Putin would wish to do so, which I’m not so sure he does,” he said. “I think Russia will, however, attain signi cant autonomy for those areas of Ukraine where Russians form a local majority of the population, like Crimea.”

Nina

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CORNERBS

U BY MICHELLE COOPER

Our annual BSU formal will be March 29, 2014 at the Willow Room in Belle Vernon, Pa. Transporta-tion will be provided from in front of the library. Tickets are $10 single, $15 couple and $70 for a table that seats eight people. The last day to purchase tickets will be March 14 so that we can get a head count and know how many people to prepare for.

If you are looking to become a member of the e-board next year, nominations are being held at the meeting on April 3. In order to vote and to be nominated, you must have attended 75% of the BSU general body meetings. Elections will be April 10.

Our annual talent show will be on April 24 in the performance center. We will have sign-ups and auditions Sunday, March 30. More information will be given at our meetings. Keep in mind that we meet every Thursday in Carter Hall Multipurpose Room at 5:15 p.m.

Elizabeth Eckford was born in Little Rock, Ark. in 1942. Due to segregation in the south, she had to attend a school primarily for blacks. It was not until 1954 that the Supreme Court said that separate schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional. De-spite the ruling, some schools did not easily accept the desegrega-tion. On Sept. 4, 1957, Elizabeth Eckford and eight other African American students attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School. They were stopped at the door by the National Guard, who were taking orders issued by the governor of Arkansas. Dwight Eisenhower, president at the time, tried to persuade the governor to accept the ruling of the Supreme Court. After 18 days, Eisenhower sent federal troops to the school to escort “The Little Rock Nine” inside.

They su ered great physical and racial abuse during their time at the school and the parents of the kids lost their jobs. The gov-ernor eventually closed all the schools down, so Eckford moved to St. Louis to get a bachelor’s of arts in history. She also became the rst African American to work in a bank in St. Louis in a non-janitorial position.

Attention! The following is an important announcement about the Internship Intent process. Any student who wishes to apply for an internship for the fall 2014 semester needs to enroll in the Internship Intent during the registration period of March 10 through March 24 for courses next semester. If you do not enroll in this section by March 24 then you will not be approved for an internship for the Fall 2014 semester. You may enroll in the Internship Intent through the VIP Portal. Contact Tracie Beck for any questions regarding this process at beck_t@calu.edu or 724-938-1578.

Internships:-Public Relations & Communications Intern: The National Center

for Missing and Exploited Children is looking for an intern for the Fall 2014 semester. You must have completed at least two years of university and have a minimum grade point average of 3.0 on a 4-point scale to apply. The intern will support the Vice President of Public Relations and Communications with administrative matters; assist with media database management; coordinate with public relations managers to respond to general correspondence from the media and the public, as well as other duties.

-Young Athletes Internship: This internship is with Special Olympics Pennsylvania. This Internship is a half-year commitment aimed at developing leadership skills through a variety of job re-sponsibilities, community relations and hands-on opportunities by developing a new component of their program – the Young Athletes Program. The intern will gain an understanding of the non-pro t sector and Special Olympics. The selected intern will report directly to the Senior Sports Director but will have the opportunity to work with other Special Olympics Pennsylvania sta , volunteers and other leaders who will help transition the intern to the program.

-Internship Program in Applied Sport Psychology: American Board of Sport Psychology is looking for an internship for Summer 2014. The internship is located in New York. The summer program counts towards ABSP certi cation program practicum and nal project requirements. The intern will work a minimum of 20 hours per week.

-Human Resources Internship: Westmoreland Community Ac-tion is looking for a human resources intern for Summer 2014. The intern will assist with overall maintenance of the Human Resources Department while demonstrating professional qualities while in-teracting with sta and performing daily duties.

To view these and all of our internship opportunities, create a pro le in InternLink at www.myinterfase.com cup student.

The Internship CornerBY DEVEN L. BOURQUIN

Don’t know what to do? I’ve got an employable major for you! Social work is an increasingly employable major to graduate with at both the undergraduate and

graduate levels. Perhaps it is because social workers hold jobs, including positions in government, non-pro t organizations, schools, prisons, hospitals and work with the elderly. Although social work-ers all share a love for helping mankind in some way, speci c interest areas vary.

That is what is great about both the BSW and MSW programs that are o ered here at California University of Pennsylvania. At the undergraduate level the BSW focus is on “generalist practice” and at the MSW level the focus is on “advanced generalist practice.” This means you are trained to work with a variety of population groups and at various levels of practice. The BSW program is a standard four-year track with real world experience built into the curriculum. The MSW program is a two-year full-time program, but can be completed in as little as a year and a half if a student has a BSW.

Both the BSW and MSW programs also have their own clubs associated with them. These clubs help build your resume while doing what social workers do best – helping their community! The organizations hold events such as clothing and food drives, providing holiday cheer to the elderly, donating blankets and teddy bears to children, donating blankets to animals, collecting supplies for schools and homeless shelters and more.

March is social work awareness month. To celebrate this, Dr. Boyle will be heading up a day of service. Both the BSW and MSW students will participate in the day of service that will be held on Wednesday, March 12, 2014. The agencies that are participating include Golden Living, East End United Community Center, Community Action of Fayette County, Cross Keys Human Services, Center in the Woods, Goodwill and the Salvation Army.

Students can help in a variety of ways, such as cleaning, delivering meals, holding small groups, taking part in activities with the elderly, working with children in after school programs and painting. Students are also free to select outside of the list in their home communities as well.

Overall social work is a helping profession that covers many di erent areas. Both of Cal U’s social work degrees (BSW and MSW) prepare students to be marketable in their eld.

Social Work Awareness MonthBY KATHLEEN CASEY MCALARYMSW graduate assistant, for the Cal Times

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Sophomore David Marcus and the Cal U baseball team 4-5 this season with a 3-3 record at home. Marcus was a huge contributor to the Vulcans success in their double header against Salem International, collecting three hits and three RBI in the two games.

Vulcans split weekend series’ with Clarion and Salem International_______________________BY JOSE NEGRONsports editor

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Despite having a double-header against West Chester cancelled on Saturday due to inclement weather, the Califor-nia University of Pennsylvania baseball team was back on the diamond at CONSOL Energy Park on Sunday and Monday for back-to-back double-headers against Clarion University and Salem International.

The Vulcans got out to an ear-ly lead and never relinquished it in game one of the double-header on Saturday against Clarion University. Cal U put one on the board in the second inning on an RBI double from junior Justin Taylor that trav-eled down the right eld line and scored sophomore David Marcus to make it 1-0 Cal U. Marcus would reach base again in the sixth and eventually score to give the Vulcans their second run of the game on an RBI triple to left-center eld from sopho-more pitcher Mick Fennell, who threw a gem on the mound Sat-urday night. Fennell pitched a complete game shutout, giving up only four hits and striking out four batters. The Vulcans would add another run in the seventh on a bases-loaded walk by Marcus that scored senior Giovanni Morales. Cal U would go on to win game one 3-0.

The Vulcans started game two where they left o by scoring

one run in the opening frame on a RBI elder’s choice from ju-nior Matt Peters and getting two in the third inning on a two-run triple to right-center eld from Marcus to give the Vulcans an early 3-0 lead. Clarion would get back into the game in the sixth inning on a sacri ce y from freshman Mitch Holmberg and an RBI single from senior Nick Maskrey. The Vulcans went into the ninth with a 3-2 lead but were unable to hold onto it. Maskrey tied the game on an RBI double down the left eld line that scored Holmberg – two batters later sophomore Shayne Reimold singled to right eld, scoring Maskrey and giving Clarion a 4-3 lead. The Vulcans were unable to answer in the bottom of the ninth inning and the Golden Eagles would go on to win.

Despite picking up a no-de-cision in the loss, junior pitcher G.J Senchak pitched eight solid innings, giving up three runs on eight hits and striking out

ve batters. The Vulcans were back in

action a day later for another double-header against Salem International at CONSOL En-ergy Park.

The Vulcans continued their recent streak of scoring early and often in ball games. They got one run in the rst inning on an RBI double by Peters to take a 1-0 lead and followed it up with a big second inning. The Vulcans were able to stretch their lead to four runs on an RBI double from senior Derek

Zeroski, a sacri ce groundout from junior Will Kaufman and an RBI single from senior Ben Carson. Salem International was able to get back into the game, scoring two runs in the fourth and the fth inning before the Vulcans bats began to dominate. In the bottom half of the fth inning after Morales and Peters reached base, Marcus ripped a two-run triple down the line to extend the lead to 6-2. Cal U was not done in the inning, as they would add three more runs to take a dominating 9-2 lead. In the next half inning, the Tigers would add three more runs, but were unable to muster up a comeback. The Vulcans added one more run in the sixth inning and would hold on to win the

rst game 10-6. In the second game, the Vul-

cans were once again able to get a run in the opening frame of the game, as Marcus picked up his third RBI of the afternoon on a double to left center eld, scor-ing Morales. Unfortunately for the Vulcans, this was the only o ense they would be able to get from Salem International sopho-more pitcher Charles Atherton, who threw seven innings of one-run baseball. The Tigers were able to get two runs in the fourth and fth innings and would go on to get their rst win of the season at a score of 2-1.

The Vulcans get back on the diamond this weekend when they take on Lake Erie College in back-to-back double-headers on Saturday and Sunday at CONSOL Energy Park.

Petty reports to AZ for spring training_______________________BY MATT KIFERsports information

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With MLB teams already a week into Grapefruit and Cactus League actions, former Califor-nia University of Pennsylvania All-American Kyle Petty (Stew-artsville, N.J./Phillipsburg) re-cently reported to minor league spring training with the Seattle Mariners in Peoria, Ariz.

Petty is making his rst ap-pearance in minor league spring training after being selected by the Mariners in the 23rd round of the 2013 MLB Draft. A consen-sus All-American last season, he became the rst Cal U player in nearly two decades to be chosen in the MLB Draft.

A four-year starter for the Vulcans, Petty played in both the Arizona Rookie League and Northwest League last sum-mer after being drafted in June. He registered a .349 average (15-for-93) with eight doubles and 13 RBI in 22 games in the Arizona Rookie League before

being promoted to the Everett AquaSox, which is the Class-A short-season a liate for the Mariners.

Petty nished with a .264 av-erage (24-for-91) and 12 RBI in 27 games with the AquaSox. He was utilized primarily as a rst baseman after starting games at seven di erent positions during his college career. Everett led the North Division of the Northwest League last year with 44 overall victories before losing back-to-back games in a three-game playo series in September.

A national nalist for the Tino Martinez Award last spring, Petty was one of only four play-ers in school history with at least 175 hits, 100 runs scored, 100 RBI and 50 stolen bases. He also ranked among the top 10 in school history with 45 pitching appearances and 11 saves.

The Mariners feature nine minor-league affiliates with three Class-A teams. In addition to Everett, Seattle features the Clinton LumberKings (Class A) and High Desert Mavericks (Class A Advanced) as Class-A a liates.

Enslin competes in 50 freestyle_______________________BY MATT KIFERsports information

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California University of Penn-sylvania senior Clarissa En-slin (Dalview, South Africa/St. Andrews School for Girls) competed in the 50 freestyle on Wednesday morning during the rst day of the 2014 NCAA Division II Championships at the SPIRE Institute.

Enslin placed 39th overall in the preliminaries of the 50 free-

style with only the top-16 times and two alternates advancing to the nals. She touched the wall in 24.06 seconds after entering the eld with a season-best time of 23.78 seconds set during the preliminaries at last month’s Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Champion-ships.

A four-time All-American, Enslin returns to the pool at the NCAA Championships, tomorrow, Thursday, March 13, when she competes in the 200 freestyle.

NCAA Division II Swimming Championships Full Schedule of Events Thursday, March 13

10:30 a.m. - 200 freestyle (preliminaries)

Saturday, March 15

10:30 a.m. - 100 freestyle (preliminaries)

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Athlete Spotlight: Alexandra Sagl

Class Rank: SophomoreAge: 20Major: Criminology

Hometown: Oakville, Ontario, CanadaHigh School: Oakville Trafalgar High School

Before her time playing softball for California University of Pennsylvania, sophomore pitcher Alexandra Sagl had early success playing for travel teams in her native Canada. She won a National Championship with her former travel team and competed for her

tournaments. As a freshman last season, Sagl

the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and

of the week four times last season and was voted

named to the Canadian Junior National Team and played in the International Softball

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