MARCH 28, 2014

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LEAVE JUDGING IN THE PAST

VAGINA MONOLOGUES

Cal Times contributor Lind-sey Leonard has something to say about a recent Cal Times article

Eve Ensler ’s famous play “Vagina Monologues” was brought to life by Cal U stu-dents.

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The Cal U softball team re-cently played at the Salem Invitational, compiling a 4-2 weekend record

SOFTBALL FINDS SUCCESS AT SALEM INVITATIONAL

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Dr. Karen Kosiba speaks to Cal U meteorology students during a visit as part of the Meteorology Clubs spring “Colloquia Series” in the Eberly Building of Sci-ence and Technology on Tuesday.

Meteorology Club hosts scientist Dr. Karen Kosiba

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California University of Penn-sylvania’s Meteorology Club hosted its second speaker of the semester as part of its spring Colloquia Series lineup on Tues-day, March 25.

Dr. Karen Kosiba spoke to Cal U students and the public about her research on tornadoes, hurricanes and lake e ect snow at 11 a.m. in the Eberly Build-ing of Science and Technology, room 120. Each semester the Cal U Meteorology Club hosts a variety of professionals in meteorology and related elds on campus to give presentations to students and to the public.

Dr. Karen Kosiba is an atmo-spheric scientist for the Center for Severe Weather Research in Boulder, Colo. She obtained a bachelor ’s in physics from Loyola University, a master’s in physics along with a master’s in teacher education from Miami University, and a Ph.D. in at-mospheric science from Purdue University. Her research focuses on characterizing the low-level wind structure in tornadoes, supercell storm dynamics and

quantifying the boundary lay-er winds in hurricanes. She has participated in many eld projects, including the Radar Observations of Tornadoes and Thunderstorms Experiment (ROTATE). She has also worked on the Veri cation of Rotation in Thunderstorms Experiment (VORTEX2), where she operated the Doppler on Wheels (DOW) 7, the Long Lake-Axis-Paral-lel Lake-E ect Storms Project (LLAP), Hurricanes and Land-fall (HAL) and Convectively and Orographically-Induced Precipitation Study (COPS). Karen has also been featured on the Discovery Channel’s “Storm Chasers” series. She is passion-ate about science education and has received multiple awards for her performance as a teacher.

Karen has participated in outreach programs across the United States.

This presentation was open to the general public and is free of charge.

For more information about future speakers, contact the Col-loquia Series chair, Robert Mc-Ginnis at MCG0108@calu.edu.

Club’s spring “Colloquia Series” continues with second speaker of the semester

photo: Matt Kaminski

Kosiba spoke to students about her longtime research on tornadoes, hurri-canes, and lake effect snow during the presentation.

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GENE AXTON...........................................................EDITOR IN CHIEFTAYLOR BROWN......................................................OPINION EDITORJOSE NEGRON..........................................................SPORTS EDITORJAMIE RIDER...............................................ENTERTAINMENT EDITORMATT HAGY.................................................................STAFF WRITERLAUREN GRIFFITH.......................................................STAFF WRITERDAN MADER...............................................................STAFF WRITERLAURA ZENO................................................WEBSITE COORDINATOR JEFF HELSEL..........................................DIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS

Cal U Police ReportsSuspicious Activity

On March 21 at 9:58 a.m., University Police are in-vestigating a male bring-ing illegal objects onto campus.

Smoke and Mirrors

On March 14 at 2:44 p.m., a Smoke Detector head was reported missing and a male is in custody for Act 64.

Lock Your Doors

On March 15 at 3:53 p.m., a student reported theft of an ‘X-Box’ gaming console from his unlocked dorm room.

Help! I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up

On March 15 at 4:56 p.m., medical call in lot number 7 for an elderly male that had fallen outside.

Break In

March 9 at 3:13 p.m., Cal U police assisted Califor-nia Borough at 855 Green St. with break in. Three male juveniles were taken into custody.

Weird News in PennsylvaniaA woman who, as a newborn, was abandoned in the bathroom of a Pennsylvania fast-food res-

taurant said she has found her birth mother just three weeks after launching a search that garnered worldwide attention, and as her mother prepared to look for her.

Katheryn Deprill, 27, said Tuesday she felt “pure joy” when she met her biological mother for the rst time Monday at an attorney’s o ce. And, after she learned the sad details of her conception and

abandonment, she said she understood why her mom did what she did.The woman had decided about six months ago to launch her own search for the daughter she gave up.Deprill began her quest on March 2 by posting on her Facebook page a photo in which she held up

a sign that said, “Looking for my birth mother. ... She abandoned me in the Burger King bathroom only hours old, Allentown PA. Please help me nd her by sharing my post.”

The photo was shared more than 30,000 times by Facebook users around the world, and Deprill’s story landed in numerous media outlets. That caught the attention of the woman who abandoned her, and she came forward to attorney John Waldron, who arranged for them to meet.

Deprill said she bears a very strong resemblance to the woman, whose name she wouldn’t disclose.“It looked like I was looking in a mirror,” she said.Deprill, an EMT and married mother of three who lives outside Allentown in South Whitehall

Township, said she embraced her mother.“I got the hug that I had wanted for the last 27 years, and that broke the ice,” she said. “I asked if I

could have it, and she said, ‘absolutely,’ and just held her arms open, and the rest is history.”The pair met for about four hours and exchanged contact information. Deprill said they plan to

meet again.“We are de nitely going to have a relationship,” she said.Deprill declined to address the circumstances of her abandonment, referring those questions to

Waldron.The attorney said the woman said that, as a 16-year-old, she was raped while traveling abroad and

became pregnant. The woman said she hid the pregnancy from her parents and, after giving birth in her bedroom, felt she could not take her newborn to the hospital because she would have to answer questions.

Waldron had his sta prepare for the reuni cation with owers, chocolates and boxes of tissues. Deprill, who had launched the search with the blessing and encouragement of her adoptive parents, was accompanied by her adoptive mother and her youngest son, 7-month-old Jackson.

“It was one of the most emotional, joyful, dramatic, exciting things I’ve ever seen,” Waldron said, adding there’s no doubt in his mind that his client is Deprill’s mother.

“If you sat there for ve minutes and heard them and watched them and observed them and looked at them, you would know,” he said.

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CUTV partners with PCN for live broadcast_______________________BY MATT HAGY

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Two weeks ago the Califor-nia University of Pennsylvania TV team traveled to Edinboro University for a special televi-sion opportunity. Pennsylva-nia Cable Network, the main statewide television network in Pennsylvania agreed in partner-ship to broadcast the Pennsylva-nia State Athletics Conference women’s basketball champion-ship game live on PCN using CUTV’s production. This is not the first time that CUTV and PCN have paired up for a live broadcast.

“It is always a great experi-ence for the students to show-case all their hard work to a large audience,” CUTV Director Gary Smith said. “We are lucky

to have the relationship we do with PCN for the past 15 years to have produced just over 20 shoots for their network.”

The women’s championship game was the third production between CUTV and PCN this school year the other two being a high school football game be-tween Clairton University and Cal U and the PSAC football championship game last No-vember between Slippery Rock and Bloomsburg.

The weekend adventure be-gan with covering the two semi-

nal games that were held the day before the championship game just as a dress rehearsal to prepare for the upcoming big day. The rst game featured Bloomsburg University and Gannon University that ended with the Golden Knights getting revenge on the Huskies who

defeated them for the PSAC championship last season. The second semi nal game saw the host Edinboro Fighting Scots dismantle the Golden Rams of West Chester University to set up an all Erie County nal the next day. On championship Sunday, the CUTV crew was at the McComb Fieldhouse in Edinboro bright and early to get ready for the live broadcast at 1p.m. in snowy conditions oustide.

The two announcers for the game was sophomore Zach La-marre, who has called all three PCN broadcasts this season, and CUTV graduate assistant Allison Steinheiser who was making her PCN announcing debut calling the play-by-play action.

“It is fun as students for us to travel to a di erent game and

it is always fun to cover the championship games,” Stein-heiser said. “It is nice to cover something completely live on cable because it’s a little bit more structured and you get that experience as well, we are not used to covering live games. Also being able to work with the PCN and being able to establish those connections and learn some di erent things.”

The production of the cham-pionship game went rather smoothly with minor issues showing the hard work that truly paid o all week to prepare for this big weekend for CUTV. CUTV covers all California Vulcans PSAC west basket-ball matchups throughout the season including the playoff games as well. PCN broadcasts all PSAC championships every school year and with the well-

known reputation that CUTV, the PSAC continually gives CUTV opportunities to partner with PCN to cover these cham-pionship games even if Cal is not featured the championship game.

“The PSAC has sought us out to cover these games for the west which means they trust our abil-ity and like what we do,” Smith said. “On the PCN side, they know that we can bring home the broadcast and provide a good live show for the state.”

The full broadcasts of all three games done by CUTV that week-end have been uploaded to the station’s sports YouTube page at CUTVSPORTS1. This gives an opportunity for anyone who missed the championship game or any other CUTV broadcast done in the recent school year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House and Senate worked Wednesday to quickly resolve their di erences and send the White House a bill to sanction Russia and aid Ukraine to show U.S. displeasure with President Vladimir Putin’s military incur-sion into Crimea.

Lawmakers said the plan was to get one version accepted by both sides, pass it and get it to President Barack Obama’s desk as early as Thursday night. It was unclear whether the work could be nished that quickly.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Wednesday that both sides were discussing ways to get a bill out of Congress post haste. Asked whether he expect-ed problems reconciling the two bills, Boehner said, “You never know. But there’s an awful lot of cooperation and discussion under way to try to avoid that.”

Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign A airs Com-mittee, said he hoped the Senate would embrace the House bill. “Our goal is not to go to confer-

ence because of the urgency of the situation,” Royce, R-Calif., said.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said he hoped the House would adopt the Senate version of the bill, but that even if they were forced to negotiate a nal mea-sure, the process would not be lengthy because the two ver-sions were similar.

“I am getting the sense that they (House members) will either conference with us and adopt most of our provisions or they will just take it,” Mc-Cain said. “I don’t think they’ve made that decision yet.”

McCain pushed to strengthen provisions in the Senate bill that call for additional defense equipment and military training to countries in central and east-ern Europe, including Ukraine.

“Vladimir Putin is on the move,” McCain said in a speech on the oor in which he called Russia a “gas station masquer-ading as a country.”

Democrats backed down Tuesday and stripped Interna-

tional Monetary Fund reform language from the bill, which had stalled its progress. With tens of thousands of Russian troops massed on Ukraine’s eastern border, Senate Demo-crats decided it was more im-portant to denounce Russia, codify sanctions against Putin’s inner circle and support Ukraine rather than push now for the IMF changes.

D e m o c r a t s w a n t e d t h e Ukraine legislation to include provisions to enhance the IMF’s lending capacity, but Republi-cans were opposed. And since more than two weeks have passed since Russia’s incursion into Crimea, Democrats de-cided it was important to move quickly to provide $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine and sanction Putin’s inner circle.

Eight Senate Republicans in-troduced an amendment to the Senate measure to remove the IMF provisions.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he strongly supported IMF reform, but the

main thing was to get the aid to Ukraine.

“We have to get IMF reform. But we can’t hold up the other,” Reid told reporters Tuesday. “As much as I think a majority of the Senate would like to have gotten that done with IMF in it, it was headed to nowhere in the House.”

Reid said Wednesday that he agreed with Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the Senate’s sec-ond-ranking Republican, that more needs to be done to help Ukraine. “I hope we can move beyond what we are going to do tomorrow for the Ukrainian people,” Reid said. He called for bipartisan support for a pack-age of other things Congress could do in the next few weeks to show that American stands with Ukraine.

The move signaled a retreat for the Democrats and the Obama administration, which had promoted the IMF provi-sions.

The IMF provisions would have increased the power of

emerging countries in the IMF and shifted some $63 billion from a crisis fund to a general account the lending body could use for economic stabilization operations around the world.

Republ icans have long spurned the administration’s at-tempt to ratify the IMF revisions, saying they would increase the exposure of U.S. taxpayers in foreign bailouts. Making the shift now, opponents argue, also would marginally increase Russia’s voting power over the fund’s nances.

The Obama administration and Democrats counter that un-less the U.S. approves the new rules, Washington will lose its in uence at the IMF and ham-per the body’s ability to avert economic meltdowns in places precisely like Ukraine. The U.S. is the only major country that has yet to sign o on the IMF changes.

House and Senate work in tandem U.S. sactions a bill to go to Ukraine’s aid against Russia

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“Goon” Hockey ghts and Seann William Scott, that might be all

you need to know. If not, continue on for more details. This movie tells the story of Doug Glatt, a not so bright bouncer

who loves hockey. After getting in to a ght at a hometown league hockey game he gets a call from the team coach asking him to be an enforcer. him to becoming an enforcer for a minor league team in Canada, protecting skilled prospect Xavier La amme who hit some serious setbacks that kept him in the minors.

Glatt reaches out to La amme and the two help lead the team to victory until Glatt takes a puck to the face and breaks his ankle in one foul swoop hurting their chances in the playo s.

Genre: Sport ComedyOriginally Released: February Starring: Seann William Scott, JayBaruchel, Liev Schreiber

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Name: Derek BendelDJ Name: DJ BShow Name: The Frantic Trans Atlantic ShowTime: Thursday 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.Genres: rock n roll, jazz, experimental, independent, psychedelic,

folk, noise, blues, avant garde, world, surf, garage, punk, ambient.

I’m a senior commercial music technology major. I found out about the radio station and joined before the rst week of classes my freshman year. After some training and hanging out, a new-found friend of mine, Josh Hishar, started “The Frantic Trans Atlan-tic” show and I co-hosted. Once he graduated I was passed down leadership and was proud to keep the name and the show going.

I enjoy music and recording way too much (Saxophone and Guitar). I also enjoy playing in bands and creating a lot of di erent sounds and textures. I’m also a proud Boy Scout and completely adore nature and hiking.

Annual production of the Vagina Monologues encourages enlightenment_______________________BY LAUREN GRIFFITH

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The popular “Vagina Mono-logues production” recently visited California University of Pennsylvania. The play, which showed March 12, 13 and 14 at 7 p.m. in the Natali Performance Center, was sponsored by Cal U’s Women’s Center. This is the 11th year that the play has been on campus. Ten

percent of the $5 admis-sion cost went to VDAY, a global movement to end violence against women and girls, while the rest of

Women’s Center.The play, written by Eve Ensler, covers a range of topics about the women’s reproductive area, from the location of sexual organs to the use of feminine prod-ucts. Stories were told from different points of view – from a young teenage

largely unfamiliar with sex to an elderly woman. Sexual orientation was also a hot topic for the night. “It was a life-changing ex-perience,” Abigial Petrosky, a junior social work major who participated in the Va-gina Monologues last year, said. “It’s not just focused on learning lines. You learn about yourself. You grow a lot over the two months that you do it.” Over 30 females participated this year.While the play was largely

comedic, the cast from Cal U did not fail to emphasize the seriousness of the rape crimes that are happening all over the world. A star-tling statistic from the show is that 200,000 women in the United States are raped each year. “We have faithful followers who attend every year,” said Kay Dorrance, coordina-tor of the Women’s Center. “We also have students who are not familiar with the concept of the show but are

intrigued to learn more and -

ally what they were expect-ing, but are still entertained and enlightened.” The Women’s Center is located in Carter Hall, G45, and aims to support students af-fected by sexual or psycho-logical abuse or violence.“My favorite part is seeing the transformation the cast goes through from auditions in November to the show in March,” Dorrance said.

photo: lauren griffithDorrance said she enjoys seeing the contrast in the actors from the beginning to the show to the end.

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Last ‘Fireside Sessions’ Show Set for April 12

MONESSEN The Raise Your Voice Campaign presents its nal Fireside Sessions Show for this season. The free concerts have been a prelude to the 3rd Annual Raise Your Voice Music and Arts Festival, which will be held on Saturday, May 3, 2014 from Noon-7pm. This next and nal Fireside show will feature several groups from Cal U, including the all-male a cappella group, Vulcanize the all-female a cappella group, ACappella Stella as well as AmyeParhetta on Euphonium (Baritone) and Shane Turner, on acoustic guitar. The show is free and open to the public, and will begin at 2pm at Monessen Public Library.

Friday, June 6 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. One of American music’s most accomplished songwriters and founding mem-

ber of Wilco.

Sam Bush Saturday, June 7 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Grammy Award-winning “King of Newgrass” and “King of Telluride” head-

lines Bluegrass Day.

Sunday, June 8 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. A roots music hybrid awarded 10 Best Album of 2012 by the Associated Press.

Monday, June 9 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Critically-acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest orchestras.

Kaiser Chiefs Tuesday, June 10 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m .Platinum-selling British post-punk art-rock band.

Amos Lee Wednesday, June 11 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Acclaimed performer and chart-topping songwriter.

Thursday, June 12 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Hard-working New Jersey-based band with three decades of contributions to

rock ‘n’ roll.

Saturday, June 14 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.3-time Grammy Award-winner.

Curtis Harding Friday, June 13 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.Driving, foot-stomping soul performer from Atlanta, GA and former back-up

singer for CeeLo Green.

Jake Bugg Sunday, June 15 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. “One of the most electrifying young British singer-songwriters to emerge in recent

memory ”

2014 Three Rivers Arts Festival concert series lineup Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Arts Festival has been pulling in crowds for years, recently its featured some great musical acts like last year’s act Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Here is the lineup for this year at the Dollar Bank Stage that will be set up at the Three Rivers Park feild across from the festival:

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photo: emily geyerDirector of Fraternity and Sorority life Joy Helsel continues the long Helsel family tradition at Cal U

Once a Vulcan, Always a Vulcan_______________________BY EMILY GEYER for the Cal Times

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Joy Helsel has been around California University of Penn-sylvania her entire life and has watched the university grow into the campus it is today.

Joy Helsel, 53, is a 1983 gradu-ate of California State College and a 1986 graduate of Califor-nia University of Pennsylvania. Helsel, who is four foot-ten inches, legally blind and par-tially albino, has a bachelor’s and master’s in communication and is currently the director of fraternity and sorority life at Cal U. Helsel is also in charge of the university’s special publica-tions – mainly the yearbook and student handbook.

However, Helsel’s history with the university did not start when she received her current positions. She grew up in the town of California, Pa., and has lived here for the majority of her life.

Helsel explained that she actually grew up here because her dad was faculty member at the university. Helsel’s father went to school here, left to teach a year in public school, and then came back to instruct in technology education. From there he moved into university administration – he started as the director of campus plan-ning and later became the vice president of administration and

nance.“We actually lived where

Azorsky is until I was eight, and then the college bought our street and we moved,” Helsel said, laughing. “So I went to elementary school in Noss Hall. It was an elementary school – it was actually Noss Laboratory School, but it was tied to the col-lege. We were the college back

then… they used our classes to try any new teaching methods, and let me tell you some of them did not work. I’m still not very good at math.”

Joy isn’t the only Helsel who works at Cal U. Her brother, Jeffrey Helsel, 46, is director of multimedia journalism for the Student Association, but he mainly oversees the Cal Times.

When asked about working with his sister, he describes it as a unique experience.

“She feels to me more like a friend and a colleague, and I think it’s very unusual for fam-ily members to work together,” he said. “I think it’s positive for us in many ways – it brings us together as a family.”

However, along with all of Helsel’s commitments, she is also living with Multiple Scle-rosis, which a ects her walking and day-to-day activities.

“Sometimes it’s a struggle,” she said. “From the minute I was diagnosed it was, ‘this isn’t going to run me, I’m going to run it.’”

Helsel explained that she was diagnosed in March of 2001 after she experienced vision problems following a trip to Florida. Helsel said that she had felt exhausted every night of the trip, but felt that it was nothing out of the ordinary. Then, while in the airport between ights on the way home, she started to experience blurry vision. Helsel expressed her issues and concerns with her parents after returning and decided to make an appointment with her eye doctor.

“I get an appointment and [the doctor] took one look and said, ‘I think you have a de-tached retina, I’m going to send you to a retina specialist.’ So of course like two days later I get in to see [the retina specialist] and he says, ‘nope you have optic neuritis I’m sending you

to a neuro-optometrist,’” said Helsel, jokingly.

Helsel said that her father even joked that soon she would have to start seeing a doctor who specialized in eyes that hurt on only Thursdays.

Helsel now has a walking de-vice that helps to stimulate her leg muscles when she moves so that she has full use of her right leg without a risk of falling. The device has a sensor located on the bottom of the heel that sends a signal to a cu that goes around her calf, which trig-gers electrodes to stimulate her muscles as she walks.

Along with the walking de-vice, Joy gives herself an injec-tion every morning seven days a week.

Helsel’s brother said that this disease has not affected her work in a negative way and that he’s impressed with how she’s handled having MS.

“While I do see that she has moments where she struggles with it, she doesn’t let on that she’s having difficulties,” he said.

Helsel’s brother is not the only person who is impressed with how she handles living with MS – her coworkers are as well.

Pamela Delverne, 52, director of technology services for the student association has known Helsel since sixth grade but lost touch with her until the two re-connected at Cal U 12 years ago.

Delverne said that she and Helsel work hand-in-hand on various projects within the stu-dent association and that unless someone mentions it she doesn’t even notice Helsel’s MS.

“It’s just one of those things that you deal with like I have an arthritic knee, or someone else may su er from allergies… I guess it does really impress me how she’s just able to make it that way – it’s just something that she deals with. It has to be

a tremendous challenge for her, but she doesn’t make it a dis-ability,” Delverne said.

Delverne said that Helsel is constantly on the move, trying to get things done.

“People will say I can never find Joy, she’s never in her o ce…she’s always busy, I al-ways see her scurrying around to get things done.”

Delverne also talked about some of the positive things in Helsel’s life, like her hat being a staple at homecoming each year.

“She always wears a nice dress hat, and it’s her homecom-ing hat… if she would come to homecoming without her hat people would not know that it was Joy,” Delverne said, laugh-ing.

Another coworker who has gotten to know Helsel is Diane Hasbrouck, 27, director of the center for civic engagement. Hasbrouck has not only worked with Helsel on service projects, she was also Helsel’s graduate assistant.

Hasbrouck said she had to do two internships in the spring semester in graduate school and that Helsel helped her out by letting her be her intern for Greek life.

“My focus with that was so-rority recruitment and I was a coordinator for Greek Week,” Hasbrouck said.

Hasbrouck said that when she thinks of Helsel the words excitement, enthusiasm, dedi-cation and hardworking come to mind.

“She is by far the most trans-parent student a airs worker I know. She’s comfortable with having a personal relation-ship with each of the students, no matter what organization they’re from.”

Hasbrouck went on to say that working for Helsel is also how she met her husband, Tom Has-brouck, who works at Herron Recreation and Fitness Center.

Hasbrouck got to know him during the Greek Week that she helped Helsel with, and while at a conference not long after Greek Week, Tom asked Helsel about Hasbrouck.

“She told him that I had bro-ken up with my boyfriend and that I wasn’t seeing anybody, so when he got back from the conference he asked me out on a date,” Hasbrouck said.

Helsel’s brother also recalled memories from when he and his sister were growing up and they would come to campus to play while their father worked.

“Joy and I use to come down to campus when we were kids when our father would come down to work in the wood shop… the campus was like our playground. One time Joy and I were playing on the mound of dirt that was to be the Keystone Education building and a secu-rity o cer came out and yelled us to get out of there… we ran into Coover Hall where our dad was working and the officer thought that we were trying to break in there and chased us. When the o cer realized our dad was a teacher he let us go.”

Helsel brings a lot to not only this campus and its students, but to Greek Life as well, and Matthew Kaminski, 21, senior geographic information systems major can attest to that.

Kaminski has known Helsel since he was a freshman in Greek Life and he’s worked with her on the Cal Times pub-lications as well as Greek Life business.

“She puts up with a lot of our bullshit, and compared to other Greek advisors that I’ve seen she cares a little bit more – actually, a lot more,” Kaminski said.

Kaminski said that even with all of the work and things that she is involved in, Helsel han-dles the stresses very well and never takes out her stresses on other people – even though she probably could get away with it.

“She’s very grateful for people to help. She’s a good person.”

Kaminski said that Helsel helps Greek Life stay alive, be-cause if they did not have all of the workshops she sets up for the fraternities and sororities, they would not be where they are today.

Another student who gets to spend a lot of one on one time with Helsel is Cameron Bucklew, 21, senior business administration-management major and an employee of the fraternity and sorority life o ce.

Bucklew has known Helsel since she pledged during spring 2011 but didn’t o cially start to work for her until last school year, though as of August she’s been with her for two years.

“She has a lot on her plate,” Bucklew said. “Not only is she the Greek Life advisor – aka she has to deal with hundreds of college students who have a million questions regarding everything – but she is in charge of the school yearbook too. Not to mention she has a life of her own. I know she has spent many spring breaks, winter breaks and Thanksgiving breaks work-ing. She loves what she does and she is passionate about it. I know how much the Greek com-munity means to her and she does everything in her power to keep them in a positive light.”

Bucklew has enjoyed working for Helsel and even considers her to be a mom away from home.

“She has become l ike a friend… that I know I can al-ways go to for advice,” said Bucklew. “She’s funny too. She has funny stories from when she was in college that will make you laugh. Even after I gradu-ate this spring she will still be someone I keep in touch with. She is an optimistic person and being around her has changed my perspective of things too. I also admire what she does. She has to deal with a lot of bullshit from a lot of people yet she comes to work every day with a smile on her face and that says a lot about a person.”

Helsel has experienced a lot of things in life, some of them good and some of them bad – it seems that she never lets that bad overpower the good.

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New borough manager Tim Buchanan is all business_______________________BY KATIE DELVERNEfor the Cal Times

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When Tim Buchanan stared out of Old Main’s windows on California University of Pennsylvania’s campus as a child, little did he know he was peering out on a town he would one day call home. Today Bu-chanan, 50, serves as borough manager of California, where he solves town problems, resident concerns and has designed a master plan to revive California Borough.

“I used to pretend I worked for the president,” Buchanan recalled, remembering sitting in Old Main Hall doing his home-work as a child.

His father was an instructor for the TRA Training Program at Cal U teaching electrical en-gineers proper skills and tech-niques. Buchanan said when he came to Cal U with his father – he would sit at the front desk of Old Main while his father taught classes on campus. Bu-chanan said he would look out the windows while doing his homework and imagine he worked for the president of the university.

Though Buchanan is origi-nally from Bethel Park, Pa, he has lived most of his life here in California. Buchanan gradu-ated from California University of Pennsylvania in 1983 with a

degree in organizational psy-chology.

He became a systematical analysis for former university President Angelo Armenti in 2005. To his surprise, room 208 in Old Main became his o ce as executive director of special initiatives.

Where he once sat as a child, he was now sitting as an adult. However, this time, he was working for the president.

Buchanan worked in the o ce of continuous improvement at Cal U for six years as the direc-tor of Special Initiatives. While in that position, he headed the Smithsonian Museum project at the university, which brought a variety of exhibits to Cal U. Bu-chanan said the project brought 28,000 people a year.

During his time at the uni-versity, he also taught Upward Bound classes in the summers to high school students from low-income families and students from families in which neither parent holds a bachelor’s de-gree. Buchanan taught cultural classes, such as Islamic art, to tie into his Smithsonian exhibit work.

After leaving the position in 2012, he was brought into his current position as borough manager of California, Pa. in January 2014.

“I was hired at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 9 and came into work at 4:30 a.m. the very next day,” said Buchanan. He had to arrive early to assess a trash-collecting

situation. Prior to him being hired, there

was no borough manager. It was not until April 8, 2010 that the borough manager position was even approved by council. Buchanan said he was both sur-prised and pleased to be hired as borough manager.

Buchanan calls California a rich tapestry of diversity. He sees California as being in a state of renaissance right now and is looking forward to moving ahead with the master plan he created with Fiolini Architects for the borough.

The master plan includes a range of new additions to the town of California. A large metal sign, resembling the Hollywood sign in L.A., that will read “Cali-fornia, Pennsylvania,” a ‘front door’ to the town will be added with a brick welcome sign on the Third Street exit and brick pil-lars when on enter on Mechanic Street, a hotel site on Third and Wood Streets, Old Hollywood Theatre site on Third Street, a new municipal building on Third Street and a grocery store site on Fourth and Wood Streets.

Buchanan said he hopes to work with Craig Butzine, Cal U’s vice president of marketing and university relations, to im-prove the relationship with the university and town with the new master plan.

Recently, he has teamed up the Acacia fraternity at Cal U for their ‘Operation Snow ake’ event this winter in his e orts to

help his community members. Being the fraternity’s neigh-

bor, he saw the men always reaching out to their commu-nity members. After having his driveway shoveled by the fraternity members without his asking, Buchanan knew he needed to reach back.

“I wanted to create a sense of community,” Buchanan said.

Operation Snow ake is an ef-fort to clear snow and ice from the sidewalks and driveways of community members during the snowiest time of year. The brothers of Acacia began the program earlier this semester and Buchanan helped get them get their idea out to the public.

“He helped us out by getting the word out to the commu-nity,” Acacia President Jesse McQuillan said. “Since he is borough manager, he knew a lot of people and was able to put us in contact with the mayor as well as other town o cials.”

In addition to borough man-ager, Buchanan has been a vol-unteer reman for Station 23 in California, Pa. for a year. He also organizes community projects for the station – he recently or-ganized this year’s iteration of their yearly sh fry.

“It is both an honor and a pleasure,” Buchanan said.

In his small but quaint o ce at the borough building, Buchanan keeps a Station 23 ball cap on his desk along with a sea of grant and tax credit proposals he is writing for the borough.

In his spare time, Buchanan is also active in the Wounded War-rior Project in Washington, D.C.

Proudly he shows a photo of Elmo and himself at the United States capital on his computer screen from a visit to D.C. Bu-chanan travels to the district a few times a year to give private tours to wounded warriors at the capital.

Aside from that, Buchanan also enjoys traveling and does so as often as he can. He even had the opportunity to travel to Ireland and visit his whole family – Buchanan has a strong Scottish and Irish heritage.

Buchanan is active in a Florida tiger rescue league as well and has been for seven year. The league helps save exotic animals from canned hunts.

Though Buchanan puts his ef-forts in di erent places around the country, his heart is here in California. While he has only taken his position as borough manager a few short months ago, borough residents already see his dedication and passion.

Joy Helsel, the director of Greek Life for Cal U and a resi-dent of California

borough, has known Buchan-an for years.

“I have known Tim for a very long time and what I know about Tim is that he is very pas-sionate about what he gets in-volved with,” Helsel said. “I’m sure that he will do great things for the borough of California.”

History professor Madden’s trials worth the challenge_______________________BY RAQUEL ROSSfor the Cal Times

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When Chelsea Selby, junior, walked into Professor Sean Madden’s class her freshman year, she could not have imag-ined what would take place within that 50 minutes.

“I got to my last class, which was World History. I wasn’t even seated and before I knew it, Madden had something deroga-tive to say to me. ‘He asked me why I looked the way I did, like something ran me over.’ ‘I am tired,’ I replied. His response, ‘I think it is more than tired, more like you just died walking into this class.’ I knew right then that I was in for a long, but good semester. Madden is not afraid to say what comes to mind. Yes, he comes off extremely scary at first, but if it were not for how strong his personality is, it would make him like the rest of Cal U’s professors. I like to think of him as a tough guy,” Selby said.

Madden has been a profes-sor at California University of Pennsylvania since 1989. Mad-den teaches a number of history courses including U.S. History, History of American Sport, His-tory of the Cold War, History of

the U.S. Constitution and World History. Born into a vigorous Navy family in Oakland, Calif., Madden has gotten his per-sonality from his family. The tough love his family dispersed towards Madden at home, as a child, is the same strategy he uses today for teaching as a professor. With an educational background comprising of bach-elor’s in history and Spanish at Xavier University, master’s in history at University of Notre Dame and Ph.D. in history from Carnegie Mellon University – his education still continues as a professor.

“I have always liked the story of history. As a student, I found myself taking more history classes, which ultimately led me to where I am now. As a profes-sor at Cal U, the best part of this discipline is that I am constantly learning new stories and new knowledge,” said Madden.

Madden has served as depart-ment chairperson, academic dean, provost, chief academic o cer at Cal U and is currently the director of International Studies.

In class, Madden will take risks with his students. His teaching strategies are aggres-sive and forceful to achieve the respect of students.

“I do run the risk of losing students in my classes, only to gain respect of them individu-ally. I cannot make everyone like me,” Madden said.

Kate Sickels explains her thoughts on Madden and still likes him as a professor even if his style is a bit unorthodox from other professors.

“He is brutal in an aggres-sive way, but because of that, he stands out from any other professor I had in past or cur-rently have now. During class he gives his students including me, a hard time, but he does this in jokingly ways. You really can-not take what he says to heart. Overall, I have learned so much from him and he is a brilliant professor,” Kate Sickels, junior, said.

Madden takes teaching to a new level of understanding for students.

“I am always changing my teaching strategies from class to class,” he said. “It also weighs heavily on the type of students I have in my classes. I must have my material relate to them in interesting ways and most im-portantly, I have to relate myself to students individually.”

Although several individuals have commented on Madden’s uniqueness in the classroom,

Madden does not think he is that di erent.

“I don’t think I am di erent from other professors. I am given the same ‘playing eld’ as them. I do, although, let my students unknowingly develop that ‘ eld’ into something amaz-ing for my classes, which helps me,” Madden said.

When it comes to the class-room, Madden will not take no for an answer. He will pick out students and pressure them by having them answer a question. If that student does not have the answer, he will continue to push them along.

While observing a class of Madden’s, he would call on students to answer questions. A student would then answer with ‘I don’t know.’ Madden would insist he or she does know the answer and continue to force it upon him or her by helping to discuss possible answers that could develop into the correct response.

“The students are fighting against the answer - thinking it is easiest to say they do not know it. They know the answer; they just do not want to believe they know it. By doing this, I am winning the con dence of students and with that I win respect with my aggression to

keep pushing,” he said. Clarissa Confer talks more

about this in her comment about Madden.

“He cares so much about the success of students. Even after years here, he continues to be ex-cited about the possibilities and accomplishments of students,” Clarissa Confer, professor of history at Cal U.

Madden will not give up on his students, therefore, any stu-dent he encounters. He makes promises to students.

“I make a promise to my students that I will continue to ght for them only if they believe in themselves rst. It is more motivation for everyone to succeed. Along with that, I believe 60 percent of being a professor is hard work, while 40 percent is pure passion for what I love to do – teach students that want to be educated. Nothing is more priceless than that,” Mad-den said.

“The students here are like no other,” Madden said. “They blow me away and it makes me believe more in myself. So many of these students go on to do amazing things and they remember me along the way.”

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Spring break-up_______________________BY TAYLOR BROWN contributing editor

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Leave judging in the past _______________________BY LINDSEY LEONARDfor the Cal Times

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sponse to “Leaving class in the past” by Mitchell Kumpf that ran in the Feb. 28 issue of The Cal Times.

No one should be judged for what they decided to put on in the morning, or by their clothing likes and dislikes.

And when did putting on make-up define looking pre-sentable? What Mitch Kumpf, a student at Cal U and writer of “Leaving class in the past” really wants to know is, what hap-pened to people’s self-image?

I agree, there are appropriate clothing items to wear in public. But last time I checked college is our last step before entering into the “real world” so I be-lieve I have a right to be able to wear yoga pants and not put on make-up and still be considered a decent human being.

Seven out of the nine Cal U male students I asked about pre-ferring girls to wear make-up, agreed that they would rather girls look more natural than done up to attend class.

Class was not left in the past but dressing classy is also not a must to attend your daily col-lege routine. Fedoras are still “in,” snapbacks went out with the song’s written about them and baggy pants? I’m pretty sure everyone in today’s genera-tion has discovered a belt. How-ever, ties and chains never age and graphic tees have become a way of expressing values, morals and standards. Maybe ‘you are’ missing something, Mitch. Like how being a decent human being isn’t de ned by the way you dress. I am sure Sinatra, Monroe, Dino and Hep-burn would all agree with me, “golden age,” or not.

“Con dence is more impor-tant than what my clothes look like. Fashions evolve, maybe mindsets should as well,” said

Lea Daltirus, a student at Cal U majoring in Liberal Studies.

Daltirus also said that along with clothes, wearing make-up is something for special occa-sions, and doesn’t believe any-one needs to wear it.

“Sure there is a time and place for everything but I think Col-lege is a ‘grey area,’” Daltirus said.

The average student shops at Forever 21, Victoria’s Secret, Marshalls, TJ Maxx, H&M or American Eagle and yes, maybe even Champs. This isn’t the time in our lives when we are supposed to wake up, put on a suit and shine our shoes before stepping outside. And let’s face it, 5 cents for a movie is never coming back. If that were the case we students would have more money to purchase “Mitch approved clothes.” Maybe what was described as “the good ole’ days” are now called “throw-back Thursdays” but I will agree with Mitch on one thing, no one could ever forget a classic like Doc Brown.

It is a new era, where creat-ing music with a machine is also considered an art, just like learning how to play the guitar, producing a beat is chal-lenging and takes practice. But if there is a time and a place when judging was “not cool” it would be now; college days. We all learned no one likes a bully. Freedom to stay up late with your friends or studying, wearing sweatpants for your long day of classes, spending your work study paycheck on a fun night out rather than on an expensive suit is A-OK. Sure, College is also a time to prepare yourself for the future. Like maybe asking for a business suit for Christmas or preparing an out t for a presentation. The days of sharp suits and polished shoes aren’t gone, there is just a time and place for them and when not wearing them, one should not be concerned about their humanity being judged.

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All of my friends started counting down the days until spring break before they even took their rst quiz, read their

rst chapter or failed their rst test. I, on the other hand, didn’t think about a week-long vaca-tion until it was so in my face that it was impossible to ignore.

Non-stop for an entire week prior to break, I listened to all of my friends talk about their plans (which I didn’t have), my professors talk about how it wasn’t here yet and that we should keep working (which I didn’t really want break to be here at all anyway) and my mom talk about how excited she is that I would be coming home for a few days (even though I

come home every weekend). I am fully-aware that I may

be the only person on this en-tire campus to feel this way, but I don’t like spring break. At all. And no, I’m not crazy. I’m practial. Spring break is nice, yes. Having a few days o from reading and deadlines and assignments is great. Hav-ing time to catch up on your homework and essays can be a relief to students who have a heavy workload, but for most students catching up on more work and more reading is not what’s on their mind when their last class lets out.

For most students, it’s about having a good time. Vacations, beaches, parties, clubs, late nights and even later morn-ings. Students who repeat this behavior for seven days only to wake up Sunday morning to realize that they have three

assignments due the next day, that they “forgot about.”

Not only does Spring Break leave students who neglect their work during break to play catch-up for a few weeks after returning, but it disprupts other routines that students may have.

Spring Break is not kind to my sleeping schedule and isn’t very friendly to my bank ac-count either.

As a student, by this point in the semester, I have my own routine. I know which days I do my homework for certain classes, I know which nights that I can go out and which mornings I can manage to sleep in for an extra few minutes with-out being too late.

Every second that I am not in class (or the newspaper o ce), I spend my evenings working throughout the entire semester. I work to pay bills, to make sure that my car has gas. I do not work to blow my entire savings accound on a seven day party,

that will just cause me more frustrarion when I get home. I don’t thin k that a week of fun is worth the stress of coming home to the list of priorities that I have let pile up while I was working on my tan.

I understand why students look forward to it, but for me

it’s just an unnessary vacation that causes me more stress than it’s worth. I will continue to save my vacations for the summer months, when my acedemic responsabilities will not be there waiting for me when I get o of the plane. I am forever breaking up with Spring Break.

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U BY MICHELLE COOPER

Hello everyone! We hope you had a wonderful and relaxing spring break! We hope you’re ready for the rest of this semester as we jump right back into business for the home stretch.

First, if you are looking to become a member of the eBoard for next year, nominations are being held at the general body meeting on April 3. In order to vote and to be nominated, you must have attended 75% of the general body meetings. Meetings are

every Thursday at 5:15 p.m. in Carter Hall Multipurpose Room. The actual elections will be held at the April 10 meeting. If you

want to make a change in how things are run in the BSU, this is your chance.

Our annual talent show will be on April 24 in the performance center. We will have sign-ups and auditions on Sunday, March 30 in the multipurpose room from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Come out and show us what you got!

California University of Pennsylvania’s student chapter of The Wildlife Society will host its 17th annual Outdoor Bash and Wild Game Dinner on March 29 at 6 p.m. at the Richeyville Fire Hall in Richeyville, Pa. Doors open at 5 p.m.

In cooperation with the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the National Wild Turkey Federation, the chapter will o er a variety of game dishes, such as deer, elk, bear, pheasant, rabbit, wild turkey, duck and goose, alligator steelhead and more.

Side dishes, desserts and drinks are also on the menu. Ra e and door prizes will be awarded throughout the evening.

Ticket price is $15 in advance or $20 at the door.This fundraiser allows member of the Cal U chapter of the Wild-

life Society to participate in hands-on workshops and attend confer-ences, including the National Wildlife Society Conference, where members are able to network with wildlife biology professionals.

To purchase tickets, email club adviser Dr. Carol Bocetti at bo-cetti@calu.edu, club president Kaitlyn Kelly at kel1045@calu.edu, or any Cal U student member of The Wildlife Society.

The Wildlife Society — a professional community of scientists, managers, educators, technicians, planners and others who work to study, manage and conserve wildlife and habitats worldwide — is celebrating its 77th anniversary this year.

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Photo: sports informationSenior Natalie Wideman was a main contributor to the Vulcans success at the Salem Invitational two weeks ago. In six games during the trip, Wideman hit .368 with two home runs and six RBI.

_______________________BY JOSE NEGRON sports editor

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With most of California University of Pennsylvania not functioning during spring break, the Cal U baseball team was still in session. Over the break, the Vulcans went 7-2, including a four-game sweep of Lake Erie. The series with Lake Erie began the day after classes went into break and behind a complete game shutout from sophomore Mick Fennell, the Vulcans started off the nine-game break series with a 1-0 victory. The Vulcans needed just one run and they got it in the rst inning by using three straight singles, the third com-ing off the bat of sophomore David Marcus to score senior Derrik Zeroski who kick-started the inning. It was all Fennell from there as he allowed just three hits, striking out ve and issuing no walks.

In game two, the teams were locked in a scoreless tie until the Vulcans exploded for eight runs in the fth inning and cruised to their rst two-game double-header sweep of the season by a score of 8-1. Sophomore Jack Dennis grabbed his first vic-tory of the season by tossing a strong six innings of one run

ball to sti e Lake Erie all game. In that huge fifth inning, the Vulcans used four hits, three walks, and two hit by pitches to score eight unanswered runs to put the game out of reach. Fennell, who was playing third base in the second game, opened the attack with a leado triple and came around to score on a sacri ce y. The Vulcans went on to score the other seven runs with two outs starting with a bases-clearing three run double by sophomore shortstop Matt Peters and junior Justin Taylor each hitting two run singles to push the score to 8-0. The storm scored their lone run on a bases loaded walk. Fennell nished the game going 3-3 with the two RBIs and Marcus extended his hitting streak to 11 games.

The Storm and the Vulcans squared o again the next day with another pair of games that the Vulcans won to complete the weekend four game sweep. In the rst game Fennell was at it again, leading the o ense with two hits and a RBI along with junior Blake Henderson and senior Giovanni Morales each posting the same batting line for the game. The Vulcans again pounced on Lake Erie early scor-ing three runs in the bottom of the second inning using small ball. In the fth, Fennell posted his lone RBI to make it 4-0 before Lake Erie senior Zack DeCamp

ripped a solo two-out home run the next inning. Justin Taylor pitched his second complete game of the season allowing just one run on ve hits with ve strikeouts.

In game two, it seemed the Vulcans were destined for their first loss of the season to the Storm down 2-0 and with three outs remaining in the bottom of the seventh. The Vulcans loaded the bases with one out and tied the game on a throwing error. With runners on the corners, the Vulcans completed the come-back after Zeroski beat out an in eld single when his hit de-

ected o the Lake Erie pitcher and took a wild bounce to the Storm shortstop allowing pinch runner Andre Jones to score the winning run. Junior pitcher GJ Senchak went the distance and picked up the win thanks to the Vulcans rally.

Last Wednesday, the Vulcans welcomed Notre Dame (Ohio) to CONSOL Energy Park for a nine-inning game and sent the Falcons home with a 4-1 loss. The game was locked at 1-1 until the bottom of the sixth, when Marcus plated Zeroski who started the inning with a single, on a sacri ce y which in turn would be the game win-ning run. The Vulcans would tack on two insurance runs in the seventh and eighth innings o RBI doubles by Morales and

Peters. The story of the game was the outstanding pitching of sophomore Cory Craig. Craig, in his rst start of the season, nearly went the distance, go-ing 8.1 innings scattering eight hits, allowing just one run and striking out ve with no walks. In the ninth, the Falcons threat-ened having runners on rst and third and knocked Craig out of the game. Redshirt freshman Alex Ziegler entered the game and successfully forced a game-ending double play to preserve the win for Craig.

The Vulcans concluded the break with a home and home series with the Gannon Golden Knights. Last Friday, the Vul-cans traveled to Erie to begin the four game series and split with the Golden Knights losing 3-2 in the rst game and bounced back with a 2-0 victory in game two behind a complete game shutout by sophomore Jack Dennis.

In game one, a back and forth affair ended when Gannon scored the go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth on a throwing error after tying the game two batters earlier. Fen-nell started the game and was saddled with his first loss of the season, but still maintains a 1.13 ERA, which is second in the PSAC.

In game two, Dennis turned in a masterful performance going the full seven innings allowing just four hits while striking out three and issuing no walks. The Vulcans used small ball to get both runs o a sacri ce y in the third and a elder’s choice an inning later. The Golden knights nearly ended the shutout in

the bottom half of the fourth before senior Chuck Gasti red a bullet to gun down a runner attempting the score from rst on a two-out double.

The next day the two teams faced off for another pair of games in Washington and once again split the doubleheader. It was déjà vu like the day before in Erie as Gannon won the rst game this time by a score of 4-2. The Golden Knights jumped out to an early 4-0 lead and main-tained it until Peters ripped a RBI triple in the sixth inning to break the shutout and Marcus followed with a RBI single of his own to cut the lead in half at 4-2. The Vulcans nearly pulled o another comeback as they put runners on second and third with two outs but Peters lined out to center to end the game.

In game two, the Vulcans as they did the day before struck back and earned the double-header split with a dominating 6-1 win. Cal U used a balanced attack with Marcus leading the way again with a RBI single in the rst to kick o the scor-ing and followed with his rst career home run at Cal U, a towering two run shot over the center eld fence that made it 4-0 in the third. From there, the Vul-cans were on cruise control as they added two more runs and saw Senchak toss a complete game by just allowing one run to earn his third win of the season.

This weekend the Vulcans will host Slippery Rock in Washing-ton Pa., today and then travel up to Slippery Rock tomorrow for another home and home series, both being doubleheaders.

vania for Spring Break, the Cal U women’s softball team departed campus to get back to work, participating in the Salem Invitational two weeks ago in Salem, Va.

The Vulcans opened up the in-vitational with an opening game

against Charleston (W. Va.). Cal U opened up the scoring and took an early lead o of a second inning home run o the bat of senior Natalie Wideman. The Vulcans would extend their lead to 3-0 an inning later on a two-run home run o the bat of sophomore Lindsay Reico . The Vulcans held a 3-1 lead head-ing into the seventh inning, but Charleston was able to muster up ve unanswered runs in the bottom half of the seventh to take a 6-3 lead and would even-tually win by that same score.

Coming off of the loss, Cal U looked to bounce back later that day as they took on Walsh University. The Vulcans got the opening run in the third inning as freshman Kaity Finley scored on an error by the Walsh pitcher. They added on to the lead just an inning later, as Reico blast-ed her second home run of the day. The Vulcans were able to add two more insurance runs on a sacri ce y by junior Breanna Morris and an RBI single from Wideman. Four runs is all that Cal U would need, as freshman Kaity Davis would throw the complete game shutout in a 4-0 Vulcans win.

A day later, Cal U was right back at it against the University of Virginia-Wise Cavaliers. The Vulcans were dominated, as the Cavaliers took a 7-0 lead going into the bottom of the sixth inning. With her team down,

Wideman came up clutch once again, hitting her second home run in two days over the fence to get the Vulcans on the board. Though the e ort was there, Cal U wasn’t able to complete the comeback and would fall, 7-2.

Like the day before, the Vul-cans looked to bounce back after a loss, this time going up against West Virginia State Uni-versity. Cal U was able to get on the board early in the opening frame, as both Wideman and Morris came around to score on a two-run double o the bat of Reico . Despite allowing a home run in the third inning of the contest, sophomore Alex Sagl pitched a complete game and led the Vulcans to a 2-1 victory.

Cal U, holding a 2-2 record at that point in the invitational, opened up the last day of play with a game against the Le Moyne College Dolphins. Both teams found themselves in a pitching duel with both teams going scoreless throughout the

rst ve innings. After holding Le Moyne in the top half of the sixth inning, the Vulcans were able to score a run in the bottom half of the sixth on a RBI bunt single from Wideman. The one run was all the Vulcans would need, as Sagl once again threw a complete game for the second day in a row and lead her team to a 1-0 win.

The Vulcans played their nal

game of the invitational just a couple of hours later against Concord University. Despite allowing a run to the Mountain Lions in the opening frame, Cal U picked up two runs in the second inning o of a RBI double by freshman Megan Jahoda and a sacrifice fly by junior Shelby Heyd. Kaity Davis once again took care of the rest as she would shutout Concord the rest of the game en route to a 2-1 Vulcans win.

Despite not scoring more than four runs on o ense the entire weekend, the Vulcans were able to compile a 4-2 record at the Sa-lem Invitational and were able to outscore their opponents 9-2 in their four victories.

Due to inclement weather and harsh eld conditions, the Vul-cans Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference season debut was put on hold, as their games last weekend against Seton Hill and IUP were both postponed. The Vulcans will return to action and play their rst PSAC opponent this afternoon at Lilley Field, as they take on Clarion University in a double header starting at 2:30 p.m.

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Athlete Spotlight: Mick FennellClass Rank: Sophomore Age: 19Major: sports management

Hometown: Butler, Pa. High School: Butler Senior High School

Before beginning his collegiate baseball career at California University of Pennsylvania, Sophomore pitcher Mick Fennell was a three time letterwinner while playing for Butler High School. Fennell was named to the all-section team as a pitcher and a hitter both his junior and senior seasons. Fennell holds the Butler High School team record for longest hit streak, collecting a hit in 27 straight games from his sophomore season into his junior season. As a senior, Fennell led the team and the section with a .464 batting average. In his freshman season with the Vulcans,

season with a .322 batting average, 21 RBI, and four triples. He made 11 appearances on the mound last season with nine starts and went an even 5-5 with a 2.64 ERA. Thus far this season, Fennell has been lights out on the mound. In four appearances this season, he has racked up 14 strikeouts in only 24 innings and has compiled a 1.13 ERA. After throwing a complete game shutout thru nine innings against Clarion on March 9, Fennell followed it up with yet another complete game shutout through seven innings against Lake Erie on March 15. For his efforts in helping the vulcans capture a four game sweep of Lake Erie, Fennell was named PSAC West Pitcher of the Week on March 17.

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