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University ranked among 'Best Places to Work' in Pittsburgh areaBy KIMMI BASTON

Executive Editor

Each year, the Pittsburgh Business Times releases its list of the Best Places to Work in Western Pennsylvania. This summer, Waynesburg University was named a fi-nalist in the category of 150 or more employees.

The Times, a weekly

publication for and about businesses in the greater Pittsburgh area, receives an-nual nominations for busi-nesses eligible to make the list. Then, employees at each business are surveyed to dis-cover their feelings and reac-tions about their employer.

According to Waynesburg University President Douglas Lee, the survey must result in

a minimum number of em-ployee responses, and a cer-tain percentage of employees must also have responded favorably.

Heidi Szuminsky, vice president for Institutional Advancement and University Relations at the university, coordinated communication with the Times to complete the survey, and as a longtime

employee, she is honored by the results.

“I have a lways been proud to say that I work for Waynesburg University, so it is no surprise to me that Waynesburg University is now considered one of the very best places to work in this region,” said Szumin-sky. “Being named a finalist by the Pittsburgh Business

Times is an honor and one that was only made possible by the many faculty and staff members who completed this ranking agency’s em-ployee engagement survey. I am grateful to be an employ-ee of Waynesburg University and I am so glad that the uni-versity has received this very prestigious recognition.”

After the survey process at

Waynesburg University, the Times named the institution as one of the Best Places to Work, which Lee feels illus-trates the nature of the uni-versity’s environment.

“I’m just very honored and humbled and proud to be the president of this amaz-ing place,” said Lee. “We have

Research funding now available for undergraduates

Campus wireless, infrastructure, phone system overhauled

By MITCHELL KENDRAManaging Editor

“I think we do have a lot of students who do great work and we just need to support them in getting the word out that they are doing the great work,” said Dr. Jacquelyn Core, Vice President for Aca-demic Affairs and Provost on the purpose of the new stu-dent research funding.

The 2015-2016 school year started out as every other year at WU does: students move in, classes begin and the students start to get accustomed to their schedule they will have for the rest of the semester.

However, this academic school year brought a new opportunity that is available to all undergraduate students.

By TYLER WOLFEPhotography Editor

O v e r t h e s u m m e r, Waynesburg University underwent a major techni-cal infrastructure overhaul, overseen by Information Technology Services (ITS).

The majority of the up-grades have only impacted faculty and staff of the university so far, but stu-

dents will see more changes throughout the 2015-2016 school year.

During the summer, five academic buildings – Miller, Hanna, Stover, Eberly Li-brary and Buhl – received a new computer-based phone system.

“The five buildings had a complete overhaul of the

Admissions aims for consistency in future incoming classes

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This year's incoming freshmen, the Class of 2019, attentively prepare for New Student Orientation weekend which took place Aug. 20-23.

Changes in upper administration revealedBy JOHN LYDIC

Staff Writer

With the beginning of the 2015-16 academic year, new hires and promotions were a part of the summer tasks. Waynesburg University hired three new vice presidents and did not have to look very far to fill the positions.

Three Waynesburg em-ployees were promoted from within the university – William Dumire to vice president for Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer; James Tinnemeyer to vice president for Faith and Mis-sion and University Chap-lain; and Heidi Szuminsky to vice president for Insti-tutional Advancement and University Relations.

The three were promoted to their new positions based on their previous work with-in the university, according to Waynesburg University President Doug Lee.

“Typically the president determines promotions, but I always seek input from a number of different sources in considering that,” said Lee.

Szuminsky impressed Lee early on while he was work-ing with her before he be-came president.

“In those areas we have historically had a vice presi-dent of Institutional Ad-vancement, and [Szuminsky]

has served in Institutional Advancement in a number of different roles and worked closely with me when I was executive vice president of Institutional Advancement,

and I’m just so impressed with her work … I am im-pressed with her work with the board of trustees as well,” said Lee.

“Therefore, that promo-

tion, and giving her new re-sponsibilities with University Relations, too, it made sense that her position should have that type of status in order for her to be effective. In order for the university to be effective, we need a vice president in that role. She’s received such great reviews from a number of different people.”

Szuminsky is ready for the new role and is looking forward to the added oppor-tunities it brings.

“I am honored and excited to have this new role at the university,” said Szuminsky.

“This position enables me to lead a team to work to-gether to further the mission of Waynesburg University.”

Waynesburg has been a place of growth and com-mitment for Szuminsky, and she is ready for the chance to continue work at the uni-versity.

“Working for Waynes-burg University for the past ten years has been wonder-ful. Not only have I learned something new every day, but it has allowed me to put my academic and leadership skills into practice,” said Szu-minsky.

“It has also been incredibly fun. It is my pleasure to work with the incredible donors, alumni and members of the

By BRENDAN KEANYOp/Ed Editor

Freshman enrollment for Waynesburg University con-tinues to resemble a wave.Fol-lowing a fairly sharp decline in enrollment between 2013 and 2014, the 2015 class sits back over the wave as the uni-versity has welcomed 395 new faces to campus.

New Director of Admis-sions Jacqueline Palko sees the jump in enrollment as an encouraging sign for the university.

“We definitely had an in-crease in students, which is good,” said Palko. “I believe that having students in a class between 395 and 400 is a good number, so I think we did a good job this year.”

The increase of students from last year’s 369-student class may not seem like a ton of growing, but for a campus as small as Waynesburg, the jump turns out to be a 7 per-

cent increase in enrollment.Palko could not place a

finger on anything in partic-ular that would explain the increase, but she is pleased with the efforts of the campus

recruiters and workers in the admissions office.

“I wish I could say it was one thing, but unfortunately I don’t have anything that I could specifically pinpoint,”

said Palko. “The admissions counselors and the admis-sions staff do a wonderful job of communication with the students through phone calls, emails and stuff like that

in order to cultivate relation-ships. I think their efforts re-ally paid off this year.”

Palko would like to see consistency in the class sizes, and for the most part, the past four years of enrollment have been pretty consistent except for one outlier in the fall of

2013 – in which 454 students were admitted.

The 2012 class possessed 396 students, while the grad-uating class of 2015 saw 382 students leave campus.

Huge classes, such as in

Szuminksy

Dumire

Tinnemeyer

“I am honored and excited to have this new role at the university.”

HEIDI SZUMINSKYVice President for Institutional

Advancement & University Relations

“At the end of the day... ITS are a big part of the success of the university, and we are determined to make sure everone is satisfied.”

BILL DUMIREVice President for Information

Technology Services

“I'm here to help the institution as we try to stay focused on Christ. He's the one to hold us together here.”

REV. JIM TINNEMEYERVice President for Faith

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Campus welcomes Catholic priest, traditionsBy CHELSEY WITHERS

Editorial Assistant

Waynesburg University is known for its Christian faith with a Presbyterian out-look. Recently, the univer-sity, along with other higher education institutions close by, decided to work with the Diocese of Pittsburgh and appointed a Catholic priest to work with students.

“I went to Waynesburg as a freshman, said Father Mike Zavage. “I was major-ing in pre-med. It was dur-ing my first finals week when something changed. I had a dream one night and I was able to save this lady once, but then she came back in [to the dream]. A priest came in without acknowledging me and went to the lady, blessed her, and she passed with such peace. This then made me think: do I want to save their body or their soul?”

Zavage finished out his freshman year at Waynes-burg during the 2002-2003 school year, but then went on to Duquesne University to become a priest.

After working first in a parish and then with Cali-fornia University of Pennsyl-vania, he realized the church was missing a crucial thing: college students.

“I got this crazy idea that one priest would leave a parish and work with col-lege students and bring the church to them,” explained Zavage. “I proposed the idea to Bishop Zubik and he agreed, so here I am.”

On July 13, Zavage started his assignment as a regional campus ministry priest for Waynesburg University, Washington and Jefferson College and California Uni-versity of Pennsylvania. This is the first time since 1991 that a priest will be doing so. In 1991, each university had its own chaplain. Now Zav-age wants to get things back to the way they were – but in

his own way. The young and uplifting

priest has bright and new ideas for the campuses. He will be taking a group of stu-dents to Washington D.C. to see the Pope, plans on hav-ing a retreat weekend for stu-dents in October and, most importantly, he will be get-ting the Catholic students at Waynesburg more involved.

“I will be at Waynesburg every Tuesday because I want to be here for chapel time and a lot is going on within the college,” said Zavage.

From 5-6 p.m. every Tuesday, students will have the opportunity to have con-fession in the Chapel. After

Confession, Zavage will hold a weekly mass.

Tuesday isn’t the only day he will find be on campus, though; he will also be bring-ing back an 11:15 a.m. mass every Sunday and calling it the college mass. He will be working with the Newman Club and getting a student band and having students do the readings and also carry-ing up the gifts.

“Father Mike has a lot of activities planned for the Newman Club,” said junior club member Alex Siel-ski. “We are hoping he will help us get more involved with things for us to do as a group.”

Nicole Drew, Yellow Jacket

The Pittsburgh Dicoese assigned Father MIke Zavage to serve the Waynesburg, Washington and Jefferson and California University campuses.

All freshman attended one of the first Chapel services of the school year on Tuesday, Sept. 1 with their Fiat Lux classes. The shared Chapel experience was intended to encompass the university's faith mission and allow new students to reflect on how to incorporate Christ into their college lives.

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High Impact team to develop service tracking system

Bosch to create partnership with universityBy REBECCA BURCHAM

Copy Editor

Earlier this year, Waynes-burg University student Jerry Lawman took full advantage of the opportunity of a life-time. In doing so, he also paved the way for future in-ternational business students to participate in the Bosch International Internship in Germany.

This unique opportunity to intern in the Controlling Department of one of Bosch’s Automotive Division Busi-ness Units was initially pre-sented due to a prior working relationship created through Mary Cummings, vice presi-dent of Student Services.

Before Cummings came to Waynesburg University, she worked for Carnegie Mellon University – specifically in the Carnegie Bosch Institute.

“[The partnership be-tween Carnegie and Bosch] is an institute that works on leadership training for inter-national business executives,” said Cummings.

Cummings was actively involved with a leadership

training program called Global Leadership that took place during the summer.

“It brought in internation-al business executives from around the world to Pitts-burgh for about 30 days,” said Cummings. “Part of those programs was that those [rising] executives were put in teams and worked with what’s called a project part-ner.”

Project partners, as stated by Cummings, were the live organizations that the execu-tives would team up with in order to apply their learnings to actual businesses.

Upon leaving Carnegie Mellon, Cummings main-tained positive working re-lationships there. When she arrived in Waynesburg, the university was invited to be-come one of the project part-ners for Carnegie’s Global Leadership program in 2013.

“During that time that we were project partners, we had five international executives come to Waynesburg Univer-sity,” said Cummings. “The challenge that we proposed to them at the time was

how to help us provide the right opportunities to our students, to help [them] un-derstand and appreciate mul-ticulturalism and diversity.”

During this time, one of the visiting executives – from the controlling department of Bosch, an engineering and electronics company based in Germany – agreed to trial a Waynesburg University as an intern in his organization.

According to Cummings, the university sifted through a handful of international business majors on campus – searching specifically for a qualified student who could go into an unstructured en-vironment without much oversight – and selected then-junior Lawman to take the six-month internship running from the beginning of the Spring 2015 semester through August.

The process of acquiring visas, residency and work permits was a new experi-ence, but certainly not the most difficult thing to com-plete for Lawman.

Lawman, now a senior international business ma-

jor and the first American intern to work in the con-troller’s office of an automo-bile business unit for Bosch, worked in long-term strate-gic controlling to keep the company on track. He said he had to learn a lot, mainly the German language for his programs, but the work he did – often number-based reports – was easy enough.

“It wasn’t that difficult to do my work because I was mostly working with num-bers, with Excel a lot,” said Lawman. “Every month I had certain tasks I had to do, like at the beginning of the month I would do reports for machinery and equipment.”

Some of his other tasks in-cluded weekly meetings with his supervisor, analysis re-ports, a month-long project relating to monthly material number comparisons, help-ing with presentations that were prepared and given in English and even test-driving a few electric cars.

There were periodic checkpoints with the man-

By JACOB MEYERSports Editor

The Waynesburg Univer-sity High-Impact team met this summer for a planning session to discuss how to continue the progress the team built last year.

“It’s an initiative that’s come through the Bonner Foundation and some other organizations to have service have a stronger academic component,” said Adrienne Tharp, coordinator of the Bonner Scholar Program. “There’s more depth to the service that students are do-ing in their communities, and relates [service] more to their academic course work.”

The most important point of discussion this summer, according to Assistant Dean of Student Services Kelley Hardie, was updating the new service tracking system.

The system will simply be a different way of tracking all of the service done by stu-dents, faculty and staff.

“Right now we’re thinking about housing it on the ser-vice tab, but in the future it may be located somewhere else,” said Hardie. “Only

faculty, staff and students have access to the service tab, and I think in the future we would ideally like our community partners, who we form a deep relationship with, to have access to that as well.”

The High-Impact team has yet to decide on an option for the new service tracking sys-tem, but Hardie said they are exploring options.

“That’s a very extensive and expensive project, so we’re looking into different grants and ways to really de-velop that,” said Hardie. “Be-fore we launch that, we need to look at what the proce-dure going to look like, who is going to own this, who is going to be responsible for it. So it’s a work in progress right now.”

Hardie said the Center of Service Leadership has a general account of all stu-dents, faculty and staff who participate in service proj-ects and service trips, but she and Tharp do not have an account of projects that occur outside of their office.

According to Hardie, ath-

Research: Students encouraged to present work to the public

First year freshmen through fourth year seniors are able to apply to be funded to present research or presentations at conferences. The Academic Affairs program on campus has created a fund that was specifically created for stu-dents who want the opportu-nity to present at conferences that pertain to their major.

“It can be difficult as a college student to have the money to be able to make a decision that you’re going to go and present your research or that you’re going to go and give a presentation, so hope-fully this helps by removing obstacles to getting the word out about the good things that our students are already do-ing,” said Dr. Core. “I don’t think this is necessarily about encouraging our students to do great things, I think our students are already doing great things, this is about giv-ing the students an opportu-nity to show the world they are doing great things.”

Students apply to be fund-ed with their idea and their requested funding amount; then, the applications are re-viewed by a panel – the panel is not set in stone, but is cre-ated within a group of faculty and administration who are available on the certain day within the busy academic year calendar – and then the funding amount will be de-cided.

Dr. Core said that there is currently $2,000 in the fund for the academic school year, an amount that can vary from student to student.

“A student can request any level of funding up to their full expenses, but it doesn’t mean that they’ll be fully funded because the idea is to fund as many people as pos-sible,” said Dr. Core. “So it is possible that some people will only get partial funding or wouldn’t get funded de-pending on how many people apply and for what purpose the student is seeking the re-search funding.”

If a student is granted the approval to present at a re-gional or national conference, the experience gained from both the academic research and the presentation can be key elements added to the student’s resume.

Dr. Core believes that al-though WU has a strong ac-ademic system, the research

fund could help students be distinctive in the job applica-tion process after graduation.

“I think this is the type of thing that positions students well to either get into gradu-ate or professional school, or it positions them to be able to differentiate themselves from other applicants in the job market,” said Dr. Core. “If you have an academic pre-sentation at a conference or you’ve done research that has been either published or pre-sented, that’s a way to differ-entiate yourself. We, as a uni-versity, are always looking for ways for students to be able to differentiate themselves and ways for Waynesburg University students to stand out in the crowd. And so our hope is that this funding will allow people the means to be able to do what they need to do to stand out in the crowd.”

This is one of the reasons that students come to WU: the small classes that will make WU graduates more marketable as they have a better learning experience than larger schools where the students would be one in a crowd of several thousand.

Dr. Core said that since she has been on campus – now two and a half years – stu-dents have approached her and asked for funding to-wards presenting at confer-ences, but since there was no “dedicated body of funding” that was specified for such cause, different departments and Academic Affairs have both tried to help the students with funding.

“The other thing that might be useful for students to know is that just because you receive funding one time, doesn’t mean that you can’t receive funding again,” said Dr. Core. “So if you were go-ing to present at a conference when you were a sophomore and then you had another opportunity to present at a conference when you were a junior, you could apply to the fund again. I think it’s impor-tant that people know it’s not a one shot deal.”

While this opportunity is currently only available to undergraduate students, Dr. Core and the Academic Affairs program would like to eventually be able to give this opportunity to graduates students.Any student look-ing to apply can go online to the Waynesburg MyConnect page for the application.

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University chaplain takes on new role as vice president

By TIM NERALEditorial Assistant

The Rev. James Tinnemey-er, who became the chaplain at Waynesburg University last year, was recently named the Vice President of Faith and Mission.

“I’ll work with the presi-dents and other vice presi-dents so we all keep on the mission of the school,” said Tinnemeyer. “In that, I’m here to help the institution as we try to stay focused on Christ. He’s the one to hold us together here.”

Tinnemeyer felt blessed to be given a chance to lead Waynesburg so quickly.

“I was extremely honored to be asked to help with that,” said Tinnemeyer.

However, Tinnemeyer’s journey to Waynesburg hasn’t been straightforward.

“When I was young, I had a vague sense of being drawn to the ministry,” said Tinne-meyer. “I didn’t think that was what I was going to do with my life. There’s no way I could stand up front and deliver an eloquent speech.”

Instead, he became a law-yer and practiced for a little over four years. Then, God led him to take a more prom-inent role in the church.

“I think wherever you are in life, you might think it’s too late, but I think it’s all good, and God takes you where you’re supposed to be,” said Tinnemeyer. “I’m not sure it’s ever too late, that if God’s calling you to make a change, it can happen.”

After switching profes-sions, he was invited to come

to Waynesburg; he knew it was where he belonged and that his experience could be valuable to students.

“The church I was at had a very active college minis-try,” said Tinnemeyer. “We had a lot of college students that were there, so I had the blessing of being able to work with a wide range of parish-ioners. When the opportu-nity came to come here, it was an opportunity. You’re at an exciting point of your life where you’re like, ‘Who am I? What am I gonna do?’ It’s really gratifying to learn together, to hear what you’ve figured out. It’s great to min-ister to people like that.”

Tinnemeyer says one of the things he loves about ministry is watching other people’s lives and seeing them grow into the people they become.

“I obviously loved people and I loved seeing what God does in the lives of all of us, and as a pastor, that’s a great honor to be a part of their lives because of God, because sometimes that’s the only way you get to be a part of it.”

Another thing Tinnemey-er is proud of is that he’s been able to make such an impact in his short time here.

“I really wanted to get to know the place and the peo-ple,” said Tinnemeyer. “In a year, I found it’s a great place with wonderful, wonderful people. The people and the relationships are of the most importance.”

Waynesburg University is a community built on faith and family. Tinnemeyer should fit right in.

Crosby lecturer presents curruiculum based on employabilityBy JOHN LYDIC

Staff Writer

Waynesburg University continued its tradition of hosting the Crosby Lecture Series on Wednesday, Sept. 2, in Alumni Hall with a guest that had a long travel plan to speak with students and faculty about teaching curriculum in his emphasis of work.

Phillip Anderson, program director with the Depart-ment of Computer Science and Digital Technologies at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom, spoke to those in attendance about the curriculum that he de-veloped and the real world employability that goes along with his teaching. Anderson shared that teaching as an academic is not just about providing information, but also about creating employ-ability within a student.

“In the real world, the skills that we teach and the way that we teach should help you when you go out to get a job,” said Anderson.

When he developed the Department of Technolo-gies, he went to students be-

cause he wanted to develop a program that was student-based and would allow them to have the most success in the job market.

Anderson also said creat-ing this program in 2007 at Northumbria allowed him to take interests he had, like so many other academics, and give back to the students.

“As a career it is what I always wanted to do, and to teach what I’m interested in

is just an ideal opportunity and an excellent experience,” said Anderson. “I’m teach-ing something I love and something I’m interested in. It makes it easier for me. Hopefully it comes across naturally to the students.”

Anderson said when teaching curriculum at Nor-thumbria, he and his staff search for ways to ‘emphasize industry standards’ in order to give world relevance to the

students. As he spoke, the message

to the audience was that the program he developed and continues to revise is one that he passionately wants to use as a stepping stone for students getting into the job market. He also said that is the way all curriculums should be.

And e rs on s a i d t hat through his program he has had students return to him,

and he shared that his philosophy

of teaching has allowed them to find success in the mar-ketplace.

“It’s getting the students and being open to the stu-dents, and this is why we are going to teach it,” said An-derson. “It’s getting the stu-dents who graduated two or three years ago saying ‘yes, I hated databases, but stick with it because now I have

to deal with this and this.’”Junior sports management

major Joe Malta thought the message delivered by Ander-son was one of true passion and dedication to his field.

“It was very informative and interesting to hear about his journey,” said Malta. “You could tell that he wants his students to succeed and he brings that excitement to his work.”

As he concluded, An-derson said that the way he teaches – and how many pro-fessors and academics teach – will continue to evolve and develop because of the changing technology that has been brought to the world.

“It will be done with technology, and what will drive it is technology,” said Anderson. “When we first developed the program we were teaching students about examining work stations and now we’re looking at GPSs systems, mobile devices and smart watches. Technology will drive the subjects and certainly drive what you’ll have to teach and what the students will have to learn.”

The Crosby Lecture Series will continue in the spring.

Michelle Keith, Yellow Jacket

Dr. Jamie Jacobs, Dean for Institutional Effectiveness and Planning, presents Crosby Lecturer Phillip Anderson with a commemorative plaque after his guest appearance at Waynesburg University.

Bonners and freshmen team for serviceBy RJ LEISIE

Sports Convergence Editor

Waynesburg University’s mission statement, “Faith, Learning and Serving,” has been put to the test during past years.

For the past two years, there has been a new addi-tion to freshmen orientation weekend. Besides the dance in the Beehive and ice break-ers in the Rudy Marisa Field-house, the incoming classes were asked to wake up on their first Saturday morning on campus and serve.

“The service project runs through the Bonner High Impact,” said Kelley Hardie, assistant dean of Student Ser-vices. “It’s to get the freshmen engaged in service and give them a taste of what it is like.”

The program started last year as the freshmen helped with the clean up of Ryerson Station State Park.

This year’s incoming class aided the PA State Game Lands at Section 223, which is 15 miles southeast of Waynesburg. The students were separated into their Fiat Lux classes with the help of Bonner scholars.

“They cleaned up cem-eteries in the area that have not been maintained,” said Hardie. “Some also hung up blue bird boxes at the differ-ent sites.”

With two weeks of classes gone by, some freshmen might have not thought about the idea of doing a service project again. How-ever, there have been the few that have.

Hardie mentioned that she has received an esti-mate of 20 emails regard-ing future service from the new Waynesburg students.

Some have been about local opportunities, while others have been about domestic and international trips.

“Its definitely great to see that people are interested in serving,” said Hardie. “I hope that number only con-tinues to grow in the coming

weeks.”As the academic year rolls

along, the details for next year’s service project are get-ting smoothed out.

Hardie mentioned that no location has been deter-mined yet, but they are try-ing to stay within Greene

County.Hardie gave praise the en-

tire time to those involved.“I just want to thank the

Bonner program and the Fiat Lux leaders,” said Hardie. “The Bonner students took ownership and kept the proj-ect intact.”

Lindsay Orzechowski, Yellow Jacket

During New Student Orientation, Bonner students led freshmen in the second annual freshmen service project. This year, the group worked to revitalize overgrown historic cemetaries by clearing debris, uprighting tombstones and painting fences.

Promotions: President Lee praises past work

local community who help to make Waynesburg Uni-versity the great place it is.”

As Dumire steps into his position, he is pleased with the opportunity to continue his work with the entire cam-pus.

“I love interacting with faulty, staff and students and being able to help everyone,” said Dumire. “At the end of the day, we realize that [In-formation Technology Ser-vices] are a big part of the success of the university and are determined to make sure everyone is satisfied now that so much relies on a stable IT infrastructure.”

Lee has enjoyed what Dumire has brought since

joining the IT department because he has created a re-lationship of always keeping Lee informed about technol-ogy changes.

“For a long time, there had been a conversation about a cabinet-level IT person, and when Dumire started here, he has always reported directly to me in his role as executive director,” said Lee. “Again, IT is such a critical component of a modern-day campus community; it’s essential that they can have the resources they need and also that they have the ac-cess they need but also the accountability. Moving him into that role is something that was sort of a natural pro-gression.”

When analyzing the po-sition of Tinnemeyer, Lee

found that Tinnemeyer’s long history of managing mission work and worship leadership advanced him to this promotion.

“It sort of helps to define the role of chaplain by having him serve as vice president of Faith and Mission,” said Lee. “With his experience in managing, particularly at the Shadyside Presbyterian Church as the chief of staff there, for him to be in that position also sort of illus-trates the significance of it but also that faith is a core component at the university here, and, therefore, it is part of the larger discussions with the other vice presidents. To have that position at the table I think builds a healthier uni-versity culture and campus.”

Tinnemeyer also believes

his new role will help to achieve the Christ-centered goals of the university.

"“I’ll work with the presi-dents and other vice presi-dents so we all keep on the mission of the school,” said Tinnemeyer. “In that, I’m here to help the institution as we try to stay focused on Christ. He’s the one to hold us together here.”

Also joining the team this year is Dr. Shari Payne, who will be Vice President of En-rollment starting in October.

Szuminsky, Dumire and Tinnemeyer began their po-sitions in the summer and look forward to continu-ing throughout the 2015-16 school year.

New students work to clear, repair Greene County Game Lands

Kimmi Baston, Tyler Wolfe and Tim Neral contributed to this

article.

Bonner: CSL seeks to improve organization of service initiatives

letic teams, clubs and other organizations engage in a number of different service projects on and off campus, but they are not being re-corded anywhere.

With the new system, the Center of Service Leadership will be able to have a more accurate number of service hours the campus does as a whole.

“Right now we estimate our students, faculty and staff do around 50,000 hours of community service per

academic year,” said Hardie. “But I’m sure that number is much higher, but that num-ber is generated through our office based upon the figures that we have here.”

Waynesburg University joined the High-Impact Initiative last March, mak-ing last year its first year as a High-Impact institution.

“When you leave here, you’re going to look for a job,” said Tharp.

“So I think a lot of what we’re doing [with High-Im-pact] is going to give students a lot more of a real world ex-perience.”

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Bosch: Student pioneers internship

agement supervising Law-man’s internship, according to Cummings, and as Law-man’s experience with Bosch ended, the initial reaction to the pilot internship was posi-tive.

“I traveled to Germany and was able to meet with Jerry first to hear his feedback on how the full internship went,” said Cummings. “The next day, I met with three differ-ent executives from Bosch in different meetings to hear their assessment of how it went, and most importantly to end with them saying that it was an excellent opportu-nity for not only Jerry, but for Bosch as well, and that they would like to continue hav-ing internships with Waynes-burg University.”

Although Lawman’s in-ternship was awarded via hand-selection due to be-ing the first internship of its kind, Cummings hopes that the internship will expand to a typical application process.

After seeing the initial success, Cummings believes

the opportunity holds many benefits for qualified inter-national business students at Waynesburg.

“It offers the opportunity to go and work in a differ-ent culture,” said Cummings. “Bosch is a very good com-pany that I think is very aligned to what our mission is.”

Cummings added that while there is no specific faith aspect at Bosch, it is a private business that rolls a large percentage of its profits into a philanthropic branch that supports community and civic engagement –

something that matches the service aspect of Waynesburg University.

L awman stated that Waynesburg has prepared him for the opportunity well, but he also learned a lot of relevant and applicable in-formation through working at Bosch – which he called the best experience of his life.

“He told me it was trans-formational,” said Cum-mings. “It was life-changing for him, and he did a fabu-lous job of paving the way for future interns to be able to have the same opportunity, so we’re very proud of him.”

Photo courtesy of Jerry Lawman

As a junior business major, Jerry Lawman became the first Waynesburg intern at Bosch.

Ranked: WU honored as outstanding employer

such committed faculty and staff, and when I say com-mitted, they are committed to the mission. It doesn’t just stop at the faculty and staff, but it goes out into the stu-dents as well.”

Lee referred to the Senior Gift from the university’s Class of 2015, which in-volved the presentation of a check to the university dedi-cated for the restoration and display of the Hanna Bell. He appreciates that the students who donated to and prepared the gift were so dedicated to the history and mission of the university.

“[The gift] was a piece of our past, and that connec-tion with the mission was so neat,” said Lee.

The ranking, which Lee feels underlines this dedi-cation to mission and com-munity, was announced to the faculty and staff at their convocation in August. The news has not, however, been spread beyond the campus, and Lee looks forward to sharing it with people who visit the university and in-teract with the campus com-munity.

“It just gives me another opportunity to be able to talk about the amazing things happening at Waynesburg with folks that visit and folks that I meet,” said Lee. “When I can talk to them about all these things that we’re achieving and accom-

plishing, their typical reac-tion if they haven’t heard of us before is, ‘Wow, why haven’t I heard of Waynes-burg?’ If they’ve heard of us, they say, ‘That’s really amaz-ing, I know you’ve been do-ing great things.’ So, it’s a re-inforcement of where we’re headed as an institution.”

This reinforcement also applies to the recent accredi-tation process that took place at the university. The Mid-dle States Commission on Higher Education formally accredited Waynesburg Uni-versity last year, and Lee said both they and the Times re-vealed that faculty and staff are pleased with the universi-ty as a working environment.

“This was reinforcement to me that Middle States sees it, and this is what was presented to the Pittsburgh Business Times, so obvi-ously it’s a good indicator,” said Lee.

Lee believes the ranking serves as part of continued recognition of the valued and valuable employees at Waynesburg University.

“We are excited to be rec-ognized by the Pittsburgh Business Times as [one of] the Best Places to Work,” said Lee. “This recognition is a reflection of the type of faculty and staff at Waynes-burg University and also the type of students that are here. It’s truly a joy and privilege to serve.”

Tech: myConnect and campus network transformed over summer

infrastructure to a state of the art network system,” said William Dumire, vice presi-dent for Information Tech-nology Services and Chief Information Officer.

All of the remaining aca-demic buildings, including the dorms, are scheduled to be completed and opera-tional by August 2016.

The new phone system will provide new services including conference calls and voicemail sent to profes-sors’ emails.

Along with the new phone system, the univer-sity has changed their phone provider from Windstream to Comcast.

“Given the old age of the equipment we were remov-ing, we have had little to no issue transitioning to the new equipment and ser-vices,” said Dumire.

“And the faculty and staff are very excited to jump into learning how the the new system works.”

In addition, there are also new Wi-Fi hotspots being installed across campus.

“By August 2016, the new campus Wi-Fi will be active, providing a blanket of Wi-Fi over the campus consist-ing of over 80 wireless ac-cess points in all academic buildings and dorms,” said Dumire.

Over the summer, ITS also upgraded myConnect and some of the services students and professors use through myConnect.

“MyConnect was trans-ferred to a new, more secure cloud server in addition to Blackboard being updated to the latest version,” said Dumire.

“With more teachers us-ing Blackboard and the ma-jor update, there are new and exciting features that will be released shortly for students and faculty,” said Dumire.

In the coming weeks, an additional Blackboard service called Blackboard Learn Mobile will become available for Waynesburg

University students. “Blackboard Learn Mo-

bile is an app you can down-load on your phone that you can use to view your grades and view assignments.”

Blackboard Learn Mobile will be a free app available for iPhones and Androids.

Students also can down-load Microsoft Office 365 Education for free though their school email under the notifications button on Outlook 365.

Office 365 Education in-cludes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote and cloud storage space for easy access to all of a student’s docu-ments across any computer.

If students or faculty have any questions about the services provided by ITS or need help connect-ing to the campus Wi-Fi, the ITS Helpdesk is located in Wiley Amory and is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mon-day though Friday. They can also be contacted by phone at 724-852-3413 or via email at helpdesk@waynesburg.edu.

RemembeRing 9/11: students and faculty Reflect on wheRe they weRe 14 yeaRs ago

James Tanda, Instructor of Criminal Justice, ATF Special Agent in Washington, D.C. during 9/11

“I was working as a program manager developing an advanced investigative techniques course during my two-year assignment. When the planes hit the World Trade Center, I was getting ready to fly to Africa. The first thing I felt was shock because we knew it was a terrorist attack. We were watching it on the television and we realized it hit the Pentagon, which was not far from where we were. As an explosives specialist, I was assigned to go assist other agents and bomb techs in searching the White House and the Executive Office building before President Bush could return from Florida. Some of our agents were dispatched to the Pentagon while I was sent to the White House, then the Executive Office. The feeling was shock and terror, but more anger than anything.”

April Cho, South Korean exchange student

“My mother was very upset saying that the World Trade Center in the United States was attacked. Many people cried and were very upset and surprised. I learned about the significance in school as I got older. I understand why America’s so strict at airports now. It showed that nowhere is truly safe. Even such a beautiful country can have bad things happen to it.”

“My mom woke up my sisters and I at 6 in the morning like a normal school day when my triplet sister, Lauren, leans over to my mom and said she had a scary dream. She said to my mom, “We were being attacked by two foreign people with knives. I was really scared!” My mom continued to ask her questions and said everything was going to be fine. Little did we know that day that two planes would be taken over and flown into the Twin Towers. Once that happened, my mom picked us up from school once the school day had finished.”

Lindsay Orzechowski, junior digital design major, attending Kindergarten on 9/11

“All I remember was, my daughter called be and told me about what had happened before people at the college started hearing about it. There was just an eerie feeling thoughout the rest of the day, with mixed emotions. It almost seemed like it wasn’t real until we started to see pictures later on that day.”

Norma Harper, secretary

Freshmen: Increased enrollment moves campus toward goal

2013, encourage Palko – but she does not necessarily want to see the university increase its overall population.

“I wouldn’t say that we are trying to get bigger, I think we would like to stay the same size to allow us to maintain our close-knit community,” said Palko.

However, one of the prob-lems that a small campus like Waynesburg faces is the limited housing. The previ-ous director of housing, Chris Hardie, said that the univer-sity had some difficulty secur-ing enough room for females, especially since on-campus houses were decreased.

“Because of the age of some of those houses, we had to

make a move last year,” said Hardie. “It was a decision we had made pretty early to remove some of the houses.”

However, the houses were in fact needed to support the overflow of on-campus resi-dents.

“We did end up, pretty much at the end of the sum-mer, bringing in two more houses online which I think accommodated 14 women,” said Hardie. “And it was only on the female side. We still have plenty of room for the men. At one point, I think we were 20 spots over on the women’s side of things.”

Palko again reiterated her pleased attitude with the re-sults of the class.

“Our staff works really hard,” she said. “We had a great year.”

John Lydic contributed to this article.

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By ANTHONY CONNManaging Editor

In today’s society it is rather common for a musician to travel to unknown places to do what they love and play music.

It is also popular now more than ever for teens to go on mission trips abroad. In less than a week, Johnny Hoge of Waynesburg will have the opportunity to do both.

On September 13th, Hoge will travel to Alesund, Norway to study abroad for nine months, playing music while also doing missions work.

For Hoge, the journey started three months ago, when a friend introduced him to the opportunity. Since then he has been packing and preparing for his first trip outside of the United States. Now ready with a visa and a passport, Hoge just has to count down the days left.

“It’s really practical,” Hoge said about the experience. “It takes a lot of what you’ve learned and you actually use it. That’s why I want to do that.”

During the first seven months,

he will attend a Christian school in Norway called Youth With A Mission (YWAM). He hopes to learn more about the production side of music and what happens in the studio. His last two months will consist of missionary work, and Hoge says he is uncertain where he may go, but he is excited for the opportunity.

“Missions work is really on my heart,” Hoge said.

Music and missions work are not new to Hoge, who is very involved with his local church.

He has been playing music for five years, including playing guitar for the worship team Awaken at Life Church in Washington.

In addition to being a part of his church’s worship team, Hoge has gone on local mission trips with Life Church, painting houses and doing foundational work in Washington.

“I think sometimes we do get into a bit of a box where we don’t know where we can operate or what we can do, but there’s so many avenues, whether it’s missions, food drives or small stuff where you can

help people,” Hoge said.Hoge looks forward to the op-

portunity to help others while get-

ting a music education at YWAM. “I wanted a school where I could

go and learn, but I also wanted

something that really got me to be a part of the community,” said Hoge.

Although this will be Hoge’s first time out of the country, he doesn’t see it as a reason to be nervous.

“I’ve prayed a lot about it,” said Hoge, “and I just feel a lot of peace about it.”

Despite given only a three-month notice, Hoge said his par-ents are fully behind his decision to travel abroad.

“They want me to pursue my dreams. I really can’t wait to go and just help people. If I can help just one person, it makes me feel better.”

To help raise money for his trip, Hoge has set up a gofundme page.

He hopes to raise $12,000 for tuition and additional expenses. To donate, go to www.gofundme.com/ywamjohhnyhoge.

Hoge will embark on his journey September 13th and plans to return on May 30th.

“It’s not like I’m just going for music,” Hoge said. “I’m actually go-ing to be able to help people. And music is a part of it and that’s just amazing to me.”'

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By ANNIE MCGLAUGHLINMultimedia Manager

Students are back in Waynesburg and that means many of the local businesses are back at the top of their game.

With just a short walk to places such as Don Patron’s, The Locker Room, and Fam-ily Dollar, businesses are al-ready seeing a high increase in sales.

“A lot of students don’t have a car on campus," said Rachel Red-Horse, a senior early education/special ed-ucation major, “It’s nice to have a variety of local stores and restaurants to go to with a walk down High Street.”

Convenience, low price and quality are key for any college student that is on a tight budget.

Junior cr iminal jus-tice major, Jessica Rains said.“Family Dollar is a con-venient walk from campus

and it has all the necessities that I can afford on a college kid’s budget.”

Family Dollar Assistant Manager, Karrie McCel-lan stated that business is “booming” now with stu-dents back in town.

“Electronics, power cords, cell phone chargers and bat-teries are the most popular items here,” said McCellan. “Students hardly ever buy food here.”

The Locker Room is an-other prime example of a local business tailoring to the students want for the best price, variety and con-venience.

Students want to repre-sent their school but not with a hefty price tag.

“The Locker Room has better prices, selection and individuality compared to the school bookstore,” said Justin Willcow, a freshman exercise science major.

Another business seeing

a spike in sales is the food chain Domino’s Pizza.

“There are times college kids order up until closing time,” said Domino’s em-ployee Craig Tuggle.

“We are definitely busier now that school’s in session.”

Tuggle also stated they give coupons to students because the business is so busy during the school year.

“We take the busy busi-ness as it comes to us, we are just rolling with the punch-es” said Tuggle.

Business in Waynesburg have to be creative during the summer to ensure good business.

5 Kidz Kandy offered spe-cials throughout the summer months to stay a well-known name in town. Owner Pansy McConnel said 5 Kidz Kan-dy introduced promotions

Promised restaurant yet to be seen in Waynesburg

Greene County man to study music and ministry in Europe

Photo Courtesy of Johnny Hoge

Johnny Hoge of Waynesburg plays music in his church's worship band. He has helped lead worship for five years.

From Waynesburg to Norway, local man follows heart

Anthony Conn, The Yellow Jacket

Several farmers from the Waynesburg area sell their goods every Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Church Street, beside the Greene County Courthouse. The farmers market will continue until October 14.

By ANTHONY CONNManaging Editor

If there was any indica-tion that this summer was a difficult season for farmers, it may have been the expres-sion on Homer Harden’s face – but certainly not the qual-ity of his produce for sale.

“It was the worst I’ve ever seen,” said Harden. “It’s gon-na hurt.”

That is saying a lot, con-sidering Harden’s history as a farmer. Growing up on a dairy farm in Washington County and now sharing memories on that farm with his grandchildren, Harden has embraced the life of a farmer.

“I’ve been in this all my life,” said Harden. “I just like being a farmer.”

Many farmers like Harden have been selling their goods at the Waynesburg Farmers Market every Wednesday since May 13 and will con-tinue to do so until Octo-ber 14. While these farmers enjoy the time spent at the market, they all agree this season was difficult.

“ It ’s b e e n a t o u g h one,” said Kay Collins of Graysville. “When you have

poor weather, everything you get is a blessing.”

Collins began her in-

volvement with the farm-ers market by distributing plants for West Greene High

School’s Future Farmers of America group. Now, she sells a variety of homegrown

vegetables. Collins connects this

year’s decline in crops to a terrible drought during the summer months. She said the lack of irrigation cre-ates a chain of unfortunate events on the farm.

Many farmers have taken a loss in hay because of the lack of rain. Instead of two cuts, Collins says many are only able to grow one. What does survive must be treated with nutrients to ensure its quality matches the usual crop. Even so, the pastures that hold cattle are also dry-ing out, leading to a food shortage for livestock.

For Harden, he hopes this drought will be the last to cause a problem. He plans to build an irrigation system to ensure that his plants will not be affected by any lack of rain in the future seasons. Harden says he has been working on this irrigation system for a while, and it should only take two to three weeks to build.

By SHON MEADEManaging Editor

Up o n r e t u r n i n g t o Waynesburg for the fall se-mester of 2015, Students were expecting to have a new neighborhood bar and grill finishing up construction. However, that wasn’t the case. The much-anticipated Applebee’s Restaurant is still coming; it is just a matter of time before it arrives.

News first broke about this proposed construction back in March with plans for the construction to be underway by May. The original inten-tions were to have it done by the fall. It was mentioned that the location for the busi-ness would be next to the lat-est addition to the town, the Taco Bell in Greene Plaza.

Applebee’s will now be alongside the few other sit down restaurants in Waynes-burg, such as Golden Wok and Bob Evan’s, for residents and students to eat at.

Applebee’s is notable for their cheap prices and great

food. A popular restaurant among families and col-lege students would make a great addition to the town of Waynesburg.

According to Robbie Ma-

tesic, the Director of Eco-nomic Development for Greene County, “they sub-mitted plans for the permits but they needed to shift the building around.” This re-sulted in the additional time that it is taking to get the res-taurant built. Other concerns that still need addressed is the parking for the restaurant among other things.

This past Wednesday, Sept 2, however, the environmen-tal permit was approved for the building of the site by the

county. They still need a few more permissions until they can officially start the con-struction.

For senior electronic me-dia major Nika Anschuetz, an Applebee's in Waynesburg would be a welcome sight.

"It's a well-known chain and it has potential to do well with all of the college stu-dents here in Waynesburg," said Anschuetz.

Another beneficial aspect of the Applebee’s coming to Waynesburg would be the possible jobs for college stu-dents and residents that it has to provide.

"It'll be a huge boost for the local economy” said Ian Bish, a sophomore nursing major and Waynesburg lo-cal, "along with adding an-other sit down restaurant to the town for friends to hang out at."

While it does not seem apparent now, Applebee's is coming to Waynesburg in the future and many are working hard to ensure its arrival.

What happened to Applebee's? Returning students boost local economy during fall semester

FRUITS OF LOCAL LABOR

See BUSINESS on B4

See FARMERS on B4

Local businesses benefit from college students

Local farmers continue to persevere through summer 'drought'

“They submitted plans for the permits but they needed to shift the building around.”

ROBBIE MATESICDirector of Economic Development

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Expanding FaithCatholic priest added to aid students

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Waynesburg University – a tradition of faith since 1849. Those words, much like ‘Fiat Lux,’ have been ingrained

in our minds as students at Waynesburg. During orientation, students are taught about the pil-

lars of faith, learning and service. Faith has always been an integral part of Waynesburg University. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church founded the university.

As time has progressed, students have entered Waynes-burg coming from different denominations of faith.

Over 50 percent of students at Waynesburg identify as Roman Catholic. For a while, students complained about the lack of faith opportunities available to Catholic stu-dents. Starting this year, Waynesburg is offering a variety of Catholic services.

By adding these services, Waynesburg is aiding its Catho-lic students by providing them an opportunity to strengthen their faith.

As an institution of faith, we should be proud that Waynesburg is offering Catholic services.

We are living up to the university’s mission by provid-ing students of all Christ-centered faiths an opportunity to worship.

To those that identify as Catholic: go to these services. They were created to fulfill a need in our community. Let’s take advantage of the opportunities that Waynesburg has given us to enhance our faith. Catholic services are held every Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Roberts Chapel.

For students arriving on campus, a new academic year always signals a fresh start and a chance at different op-portunities. For those in the Waynesburg, the end of Au-gust and start of September signals a return to a regular rhythm of life.

But what is similar for both students and locals alike is that though there is a return to normalcy, that does not mean one shouldn’t take advantage of their free time and not get involved in the community and opportunities around them. On campus, while this applies mostly for freshmen, all students should actively look to see what extracurricular activities are available in their major or at least related to a passion or interest they possess.

Just about every single department has a group one can join, and there are some organizations and activities on campus that are not attached to any specific field of study – and those groups are just as important and just as involved on campus.

Just a glance in the newspaper, a quick talk to a friend, or even on a simple drive noticing a sign on the side of the road, it is hard to avoid the fact volunteers and members are needed.

Whether a campus group or community organization, getting involved is not only beneficial for one’s career goals to get experience, but its also beneficial for a greater cause than one’s self in helping those around you to make cam-pus, or community, a better place for all.

Tomorrow marks the 14th anniversary of perhaps the most infamous day in mod-ern American history.

The terrorist attacks, which occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, certainly are one of my earliest childhood memories. I graduated high school in 2013, so doing the math, I was in first grade when the attack took place.

I remember the teachers’ faces, the students’ confu-sion, and also that we were not allowed to go outside through the duration of the day – as if that was a measure that would keep us safe.

I now realize that I don’t remember much from the days following the attack, only the eventful morning of and my father picking me up from school in the afternoon. In fact, as a 5-year-old child, I don’t remember having any sort of emotional reac-tion because I couldn’t really

comprehend the gravity of what had transpired that day.

I was on the cusp of hav-ing no memory at all, but I am certainly glad that I have bits and pieces to reflect on.

However, as the years progress, for those even younger than myself there are no personal memories to look back upon, making the entire event incomprehen-sible; perhaps just another tragedy with a set of statistics attached to it.

Let’s look to another dark day in American history for a comparison.

The date was Dec. 7, 1941, and the Japanese es-sentially forced the United States into World War II by attacking Pearl Harbor. Dur-ing the Pearl Harbor attack, more than 2,500 people were killed and over 1,000 more were injured. This compares closely with the 9/11 at-tacks in which 2,977 people were killed while over 6,000 people were treated in area hospitals.

Although I realize Pearl Harbor was a horrendous day in the nation I love, I

possess no emotional or personal attachment to the event. I read about Pearl Harbor in a textbook and thought, “Wow. That’s a lot of people.” But the problem is that to myself and many oth-ers, Pearl Harbor is simply a statistic – just a number – as neither we, nor our parents, have memories of that day.

On the other hand, 9/11 is quite real to me. I was alive, I remember and I have a per-sonal story that I can tell my children and their children.

The point of all this is that we need to keep the story of 9/11 personal and emotional, even for those who can’t re-member or were not alive to experience the day.

After talking with some people who visited the 9/11 Museum and doing some re-search about the memorial, I appreciate the steps being taken to ensure that every single life that perished is remembered.

In the museum, every vic-tim has a portrait, and there is a section where audio clips continuously play of fam-ily members reading their

loved one’s name along with a memory or short blurb about the person that they knew so well.

Furthermore, the artifacts gathered from the wreckage hold a ton of weight and power as they add a physi-cal and intensely personal aspect that many past trag-edies of the past did not have. A perfect example of this is a watch that was recovered from Ground Zero, which came from one of the airline passengers – a watch that had stopped at the exact time that his plane hit the tower.

These kinds of powerful tools can connect people to the event -- perhaps even more than they wanted or could even imagine.

However, it is not solely the responsibility of the 9/11 Museum and memorial to connect people to the tragic day. As people who expe-rienced the fear, confusion and mass chaos for an entire week, we must relay that per-sonal and emotional side of the story so that 9/11/01 does not simply become another statistic.

9/11: remembering for those who can'tBRENDAN

KEANYColumnist

Changes necessary for service project

As part of freshman ori-entation for the past two years, Waynesburg has sent out virtually the entire freshman class, as well as orientation leaders, Bonner Scholars, faculty and staff, to take part in a large-scale service project.

Two years ago, approxi-mately 500 volunteers from Waynesburg served at Ryer-son Station State Park. This year – on Saturday, Aug. 22 – about 475 volunteers served at the Pennsylvania State Game Lands.

This service project is a good thing; it attempts to give the freshman class a taste of what Waynesburg University is about by showing them, instead of telling them, that service is an important component of the mission.

But it’s not as good as it

should be.It’s impossible to send

475-500 people out on a large-scale service project and have it be successful.

Obviously, this is only the second year embarking on this project, and – as a per-son who took part in it the past two years – this past year’s project was signifi-cantly more successful than two years ago.

Two years ago, there was not nearly enough work for 500 people to work for three hours. Some groups spent more time doing nothing than actually working, and the trip was cut short.

This year – at least to my knowledge – most of the groups had enough work to do, but many of the tools necessary to get all the work done were absent.

If the goal of this service trip is to make the freshman students’ first service trip as a part of Waynesburg a positive one – one that en-courages them to serve as a student – then this is not a

good enough trip. Your time on a service

trip should not be spent not serving because you’re waiting for everyone to get organized, waiting for tools or waiting for something to actually do.

Waynesburg is not a place that is absent of or-ganizations in need of ser-vice. There are dozens of sites locally that would be more than willing to have students volunteer.

The university should separate the 475 students into about 20 groups and disperse them to 20 differ-ent service sites in the area. If there aren’t enough sites in the area – which there will be more than enough of – the university could stretch sites into the Pitts-burgh area as well.

This service project does not truly help the commu-nity as much as 475-500 people volunteering should.

The projects of the past two years have helped Ry-erson and the State Game

Lands, but those projects did not help the commu-nity as much as dispersing the students out to 20 dif-ferent sites.

I understand 475 people doing a large-scale service project at the same place is great PR and makes the university look great.

The picture that the university can post of 475-500 people, and the whole freshman class, doing a large-scale service project is an important aspect of this.

But instead, each group could take several smaller photos and make a collage of them all.

Or they could gather all 475 students together at a good location in town or on campus.

Fixing the service project in this way would show the university in a good light, make the students’ first service trip more enjoy-able and actually benefit the community more than the projects of the past two years.

JACOBMEYER

Columnist

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Waynesburg University, Melaney Chrash, and her nursing students, who have given many health presen-tations at the Carmichaels Activity Center.

The last presentation, outlining the care and treatment for diabetics was tremendously helpful to the senior citizens that attend the center.

The students are very knowledgeable with kind and caring explanations when answering ques-tions from the Seniors. We thank them for the many programs and screenings they have performed for us

and hope they continue to do so.

Many attended the last program on March 30, be-ing the screening and in-formation for diabetes. We look forward to the future programs presented by the students.

Our coordinator at the center, Bridget Dennison, was also very pleased with the presentation.

Joyce and Richard Krause Sr.

Editor's Note: Joyce and Richard Krause Sr. are the parents of Richard Krause Jr., who serves as a co-advisor to the Yellow Jacket.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Editor's Note:The follow-ing is an interview with Beth Merry, instructor of communication at the university, as part of a series of weekly conver-sations with members of the campus community about living out voca-tional faith.

By SAMANTHA PEERFor the Yellow Jacket

Q. When did you first come to Waynesburg and

what led you here? A. I believe that I first

came here in 1998. I actually applied for a job posted for a teaching position in the graduate program. I went through a series of interviews and had to teach a class as a part of the interview pro-cess and was hired to teach in the graduate school. This was when Waynesburg’s graduate programs were just beginning. I taught one or

Local couple appreciates Department of Nursing diabetes presentations

Walking By Faith: Beth Merry

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Cheat Sheet: Kentucky clerk Kim Davis released from jail

In the news: Ten headlines you need to know this week1.Ukrainians say they face torture

In the midst of ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia, NBC News has reported that some Ukrai-nian detainees in Russia are going too far. One Ukrainian man, Yuri Yatsenko, was on a business trip said that he “de-liberately smashed his head on a toilet before the men he believes were Russian secret service operatives entered his interrogation room and beat him” because then “I at least had something to show the medics.” He reported that the Russian secret service is very careful to not leave external marks on their prisoners for fear that possible leaked im-ages would be highly nega-tive.

The courts have also shown to be very biased because of the judges deciding cases and the legal framework Russia has set up. In fact, “Russian courts side with the persecu-tion in 99 percent of cases, according to official statis-tics — more than during the rule of brutal Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.”. Russian critics note that most of the Ukrai-nians in Russian custody are there on overblown charges but that Russia is hesitant to lessen charges once they are brought up.

-NBC News,Sept, 6

2. Pope Francis says priests should forgive abortions

On the heels of a trip to the United States, Pope Francis came out and said that priests will soon be au-thorized to forgive the “sin of abortion” starting in De-cember. The announcement is specifically timed how-ever to coincide with the Year of Mercy, a centuries-old Catholic practice during

which believers may receive special indulgences for their sins. The Mercy Year begins in early December and will last until around Thanksgiv-ing Day in 2016.

Currently, according to Catholic theology, anyone who receives or gives an abortion incurs automatic excommunication from the church.

-CNN News,Sept, 1

3. 9/11 service plannedS o u t h S t r a b a n e

Township police and fire departments will be hosting their annual 9/11 remem-brance service starting at 8:45am on Friday. The event will be held in the parking lot of the Washington Mall at the September 11th memo-rial. Police Chief Don Zof-chak said that the service is still important to keep going even more than a decade af-ter the attacks.

“We feel a responsibility to keeping the memory alive and to remind people to re-main vigilant so it doesn’t happen again,” Zofchak said. “I think the moment the first tower was hit is one of those moments that you know ex-actly where you were when it happened.”

The event’s speaker will be Roger Waters, a now retired state police captain from Washington who was in charge of Troop B on the fateful day.

-Observer Reporter,Sept, 3

4.‘50’s Fest, Car Cruise returns to Waynesburg

Its time once again for the now 14th annual ‘50’s Fest and Car Cruise to occur in downtown Waynesburg. On Saturday starting at 10am until 4pm, classic cars will line High Street as residents

and tourists alike come to see classic vehicles, clothes and listen to retro music from the time period.

Doug Wilson, DJ and on-air personality at WANB as well as the faculty advisor for WCYJ-FM at Waynesburg University, is one of the main event organizers.

There will be contests, prizes, giveaways, and raffles while many shops will also be featuring special sales during the event.

-Herald Standard,Sept, 8

5. Waynesburg works with Bosch

Waynesburg University and German engineering and electronics company Bosch have come together to allow Waynesburg students a chance for a reserved intern-ship position.

Two international business students will have the oppor-tunity to go to Germany for a six-month internship with Bosch in one of their Auto-motive Division Business Units. Waynesburg Universi-ty student Jerry Lawman was the first Bosch intern from Waynesburg University and said that the internship was a great hands-on experience seeing how important con-trolling is for international business.

Likewise, a senior vice president at Bosch said that he very much enjoyed having Jerry working for Bosch.

-Waynesburg.edu,Sept, 4

6. US Warns Russia against additional aid to Assad

Reports that Russia may be preparing to give additional military and arms support to Syria prompted a warning from U.S. officials to think

twice. The State Department issued a statement express-ing concern over rumors that there is an “imminent enhanced Russian military build-up in Syria”. Secretary of State John Kerry contacted the Russian Foreign Minis-ter to express his concerns. Kerry apparently told the Russian Foreign Misinister, Sergey Lavrov, that he was concerned that Russian ac-tions “could further escalate the conflict, lead to greater loss of innocent life, increase refugee flows and risk con-frontation” with the anti-Islamic State forces led by the United States that is cur-rently conducting airstrikes in Syria.

-Fox News,Sept, 6

7. Thousands of refugees arrive in Germany

Germany is facing quite an issue with a wave of refugees and migrants coming from Austria. The problem stems from the large number of refugees who have fled Syria to head towards Europe to avoid the civil war.

Many refugees came from Syria and wound up in Hungary where they were stranded against their will for several days, waiting for the European Union to figure out what to do. Some of these refugees walked from Buda-pest in Hungary to Vienna, Austria and then from there, to Germany.

The European Union is di-vided on what they should do to deal with the volume of refugees entering the Eu-rozone. Germany specifi-cally though has said it ex-pects 800,000 refugees and migrants in 2015 and was greatly hoping other Euro-pean countries could open their doors to the Syrians coming in.

-NBC News,Sept, 7

8. GOP makes last stand before Iran deal

Congress will shortly reconvene after its August recess but among many important topics including trying to pass a budget, the President’s nuclear deal with Iran will be up for a vote.

While it currently appears there will be just enough votes to pass the deal, many Republicans are making a last ditch effort to stop the deal in its tracks.

Pennsylvania Republican Senator Pat Toomey said ap-proving the deal would give “hundreds of billions of dol-lars to the world’s largest and worst state sponsor of terror-ism and ultimately pav[e] the way for this outlaw regime to obtain nuclear weapons”. Toomey also said that the deal would “make military conflict more likely, not less” and that “the deal jeopardizes American security in a fun-damental way. Like all of the radical Islamic terror move-ments, if Iran is able to inflict harm on Americans, it will do so.”

-CBS News,Sept, 5

9. Donald Trump signs the Republican pledge

GOP Presidential front-runner Donald Trump was always seen as a wild card in the presidential race by many experts, but most did not think he would be in the position he would be in at present time, leading the field polling between 25-30% support.

Most concern among Re-publicans then shifted from Donald Trump being just annoying bump in the road to 2016, to the possibility that if he does not get the

nomination, he would run a third-party bid against the Republican and Democratic nominees – which would in all likelihood help the Demo-crats and hurt the Republi-cans.

However, Donald Trump has now signed a docu-ment that circulated among all Republican presidential candidates stating that he or she will support whomever the Republican candidate for president is and that he or she will not run a third party bid.

Though Trump received the most media coverage for signing the pledge, all 17 Republican candidates have also signed the non-legally binding pledge.

-CBS News,Sept, 3

10. Rival Farmers’ Alma-nacs predict cold winter

The two competing alma-nacs, the Old Farmer’s Al-manac and the Farmers’ Al-manac, both though agree: Pittsburgh is in for a doozy.

Both almanacs call for the first decent sized snowfall to come in mid-December but where they differ is when the winter will come to an end.

Old Farmer’s Almanac is calling for below average temperatures from Decem-ber through April while the Farmers’ Almanac is seeing the temperatures on the upswing by the time spring makes its mark on the cal-endar saying that “it does look by the time you get into April that we’re talk-ing about thunderstorms and talking about warmer weather.

-Post-Gazette,Sept, 6

Information compiled by Ryan Schwertfeger

For the Yellow Jacket

BY MITCH KENDRAManaging Editor

On Sept. 3, Kentucky clerk Kim Davis –from Rowan County – was ar-rested after refusing to issue marriage licenses to couples of the same sex. After deny-ing William Smith Jr. and James Yates their marriage license, Davis was taken to jail because she did not fol-low the Supreme Court’s rul-ing on same-sex marriage, which was legalized in June.

Davis said that she de-clined to handout the mar-riage license to the couple because she believed that “Issuing the licenses would violate her Christian convic-tions against same-sex mar-riage,” said CNN.

NBC News said that Da-vis felt she was “following ‘God’s word’” and therefore had to deny the marriage li-cense.Davis’ arrest sparked protests both for and against Davis’s views of same-sex marriage. Anti-gay pro-testers showed up to Judge David Bunning’s house to protest in support of Davis and her position.

Davis’s actions against same-sex marriage can have a significant impact, as the legalization was only passed in June and this happened within half a year of the legalization. With the dif-

ferent views on the sides of same-sex marriage, Davis’s actions might be the first of many other events to oc-cur within the first year of the legalization of same-sex marriage.

The New York Times re-ported that Davis initially “rejected a proposal to al-low her deputies to process same-sex marriage licenses that could have prompted her release.”

However, the CNN article that was posted a day later said that “five of her depu-ties agreed Thursday to issue marriage licenses in her ab-sence” and without her ap-proval, therefore any couple

interested in obtaining their marriage license could pick it up on Friday.

Those looking for another opportunity to obtain their marriage license then re-turned to Davis’s office.

According to CNN, “Smith and Yates then be-came the first same-sex couple to receive a marriage license in Rowan County, Kentucky.”

On Sept. 8, Davis was re-leased because her office had been granting the marriage licenses, as required, to all appropriate couples, as five of her deputies were issuing licenses, as the New York Times reported.

The article also stated that Davis and her lawyer “would not say whether she would continue to defy court or-ders and try to block the licenses.” MSNBC reported that Davis “shall not inter-fere in any way, directly or indirectly, with the efforts of her deputy clerks to issue marriage licenses to all le-gally eligible couples” and if Judge Bunning finds that she has, she could find herself in jail again very soon.

– MSNBC, Sept. 8; ABC News, Sept. 7; The New York Times, Sept. 8; NBC News, Sept. 8; The New York Times, Sept. 3

Courtesy of MCT Campus

William Smith Jr., left, and James Yates face the crowd of media after successfully obtaining a marriage license from Deputy Clerk Brian Mason at the Rowan County clerk's office in the County Courthouse in Morehead, Ky., on Friday, Sept. 4.

Faith: Merry reflects on life's spiritually affirming moments

Editor's Note: The fol-lowing is a synopsisof a recent topic trending in world or national news.

two courses for the gradu-ate program and received a call from Waynesburg’s un-dergraduate program asking me if I would be willing to teach three courses between the English and communica-tion program. This would be a far longer commute since the graduate branch was very close to where I was living, but I liked the idea of teach-ing at a Christian college, so I decided to make the com-mute. Before I began teach-ing here, I had taught at many other colleges including Penn State, W&J, Chatham and

Robert Morris, but teaching at Waynesburg has been my favorite experience thus far.

Q. How do you demon-strate your faith in your position?

A. I try to live my faith. This can be difficult when it comes to grading because students often get upset if you give them a bad grade and question your charity as a Christian. I try to get students to think about their own faith. That is something I think is very important at a Christian college: to get students to think about how they’re going to live their faith and act it out once they

leave the cocoon of Waynes-burg.

Q. Have any moments in interacting with faculty or staff touched you spiritually or affirmed your faith?

A. Many moments have touched me. I think some of the most touching moments have been on Service Learn-ing trips. I have taken sev-eral groups of Waynesburg students to Malawi, Africa. In one trip, we were in a very small African hut, vis-iting a disabled, bed-ridden man. The students found out that his favorite song was “Amazing Grace” and sang it for him. The acoustics in

the room were beautiful; everyone was crying. If that doesn’t touch your heart, I don’t know what would. It was just a beautiful moment of caring and Christian love.

When we were in Bonaire this past year on a Service Learning trip, one of the mis-sionaries took us out stargaz-ing with his huge telescopes. One of our Communication department seniors took a turn looking into the tele-scope at the moon and said, “Oh my God Almighty!” When you looked through the telescope, it looked like you were just a few feet away from the moon.

In that moment, he real-

ized that it wasn’t just the stars and the moon that he was gazing at, it was God’s handy work. It was great to witness someone having a breakthrough like that in their faith journey.

There have been tons of moments in the classroom as well. I try to pray with my students several times throughout the semester, and one day before I started class, one of my students raised her hand and asked if we could please pray for her friend. I agreed, and that was another moment that I thought, “This is what a Christian college should be like.”

Q. What do you find yourself needing to be re-minded of?

A. I need to be reminded that Jesus loves everyone, died for everyone and that all of us are sinners and fall short of the glory of God. We need help along the way. I think we all need to show that love everyday in every action. That is hard, but it is something I try to remind myself of.

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

A. Yes, I do. There are al-ways moments, but I really love teaching at a university that is Christ-centered.

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By TIM NERALEditorial Assistant

The 10th annual art and music festival known as the Art Blast on the Mon this past weekend served as a venue for artists of near and far and from various back-grounds to demonstrate their craft.

Dana Bell’s journey of self-exploration over the last 10 months has involved travel-ing to 17 different states as well as Mexico and Canada. During these trips, Bell has practiced her passion of pho-tography at national parks and urban and rural land-scapes.

From cards, matted prints and pillows to jewelry, old dominos, scrabble tiles and poker chips, Bell has found a way to reuse and rediscover both beauty in nature and in urban domains.

“You can take a place with you, a moment with you,” said Bell.

Bell searches for the simple beauty, acknowledging, “This butterfly could have been taken anywhere.”

It’s only Bell’s first year at the Art Blast on the Mon, having only recently found her craft, but Becky Keck has been a potter for 15 years and a teaching artist for the last five.

“ W e ’ r e not neces-sarily here to sell our work but to interact,” said Keck. “It brings people to an area people would regu-larly come to. There’s quality art, quality music.”

Keck is the chairman of the Monon Center, a non-profit museum and culture mainstay in Greensboro. Thanks to a grant from the Claude Worthington Ben-edum Foundation and sup-port from the Greene County commissioner’s foundation, the Monon Center can teach rural training artists and continue outreach in Greene County schools.

Bell is set to be one of those teachers. One of the Monon Center’s ongoing projects has been a traveling community

mosaic. Started at the Three R i v e r s A r t Festival, indi-viduals from all over south-western Penn-sylvania have been given the

opportunity to add their own distinct piece, demonstrating what this region of Pennsyl-vania can accomplish when striving to a larger goal.

“The art blast is for all the area, for all sorts of art, for the history of the town, the stone area and the rock and glass,” said Gordon Keck, treasurer of the Monon Center.

“It’s a celebration of history and its integration moving forward.”

The 12-board mosaic fea-tures pieces from the coun-ties of Allegheny, Washing-

ton, Fayette and Greene. “It’s nature. Earth, wind,

fire and water,” said Keck. “Nature all in itself.”

Music per formances ranged from polkas and jazz to light rock, but the most persistent sound of the fes-tivities was the sound of con-versation and laughter.

Many children were at the event enjoying finger and face painting, as well as pot-tery and arts and crafts. For parents, there were hand-crafted pieces of art in many

forms, from small pieces of furniture to seasonal deco-rations.

Fine wines and delicacies from pulled pork sandwiches to hamburgers were on dis-play as well as artwork from surrounding elementary schools that has become a common tradition at Arts on the Mon festivals.

Thanks to grants and com-munity engagement, the his-tory and arts of small com-munities like Greensboro will continue to thrive.

Like Harden, Collins be-lieves the toil in the soil is worth it.

“People appreciate getting home-grown vegetables,” said Collins.

To Harden and Collins, providing quality food at the Waynesburg Farmers Market is a worthy cause regardless of the season. The market is not limited to just fruits and vegetables, however.

Heather Gapen of Willow Tree Farms Baked Goods has been selling homemade des-serts at the market for four years. Based out of Greens-boro, Willow Tree Farms sells their baked goods from May until October at the farmer’s market, as well as during holi-days.

Gapen says her sales are down twenty percent this year. She continues to sell at the farmers market due to its proximity to Waynesburg University.

“You would think being this close to the college, I would have a lot of college students here buying treats

from us,” said Gapen. With classes recently start-

ing for Waynesburg Univer-sity students, perhaps news of the town’s weekly farmers market will spread to the 1400 undergraduates and bring the vendors more business.

“You cannot get fresh pro-duce like this in the grocery store,” said Julia Richmond, a farmers market manager. “What you get is as fresh as you’re going to get.”

Richmond has been man-aging this market for over a year and said one of the most rewarding parts of her job is working with the vendors. “You get to know the people and appreciate what they do,” said Richmond.

Despite the recent drought and drop in sales, these ven-dors continue to do what they enjoy. They are eager to share the fruits of their labor with the people of Waynesburg.

The Waynesburg Farmers Market will continue to op-erate until October 14 every Wednesday from 10 a.m. un-til 2 p.m. on Church Street, beside the courthouse.

every month, as well as Fa-ther's Day, Mother's Day and Rain Day.

McConnell said she esti-mates that during the fall, winter and spring months, college students make up some 50 percent of the busi-ness her store receives.

Moving back into their busy months, it's prime time for local businesses.

Some stores, such as Hibbett Sports, are seeing an increase in business im-mediately.

Many students playing fall sports have been visiting the store for their sporting needs.

A major perk for students is that it is a shorter drive than going to Morgantown or Washington for a last minute sports item needed for a practice or game.

“I really liked the variety of football related items they had,” said Ean Lee, a fresh-man sports management major.

So far, with students being back on campus, most busi-nesses in the community are happy to see revenues on the upswing.

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Business: Students bring spike in local revenue

Continued from B1

By ADAM TAPPAROFor the Yellow Jacket

“We want to do anything that we can to minister to the students on campus.” Pastor Scott Chambers of the First Christian Church said this about the upcom-ing events in his church. No matter what your denomina-tion, there are churches all over Waynesburg that you can attend. Many of these churches have been oper-ating for a while and have planned events for the in-coming students.

Whether you want to join a church, get involved with their worship team or work an internship with them, there are plenty to choose from and plenty of opportu-nities to get involved. One of these churches is the afore-mentioned First Christian Church. In the coming se-mester, First Christian plans on hosting a block party af-ter one of the football games. In November, there will be a chili cook-off. “If noth-ing else,”Pastor Chambers said, “students get free chili out of the deal. Students in-terested in service will find opportunities to work with music and younger kids. There is also a bible study held on Wednesday nights

that is open to anyone. An-other church that students have the opportunity to get involved with is the First United Methodist Church. Located at 112 North Rich-hilll Street, the First United Methodist church is prob-ably best known by students as the church that hosts the Sunday Dinners which are run by Dr. Richard and Dr. Kathryn Waddel.

These dinners are held on the last Sunday of every month.

“Some students come to the service and some just come to the dinner after-ward and that’s fine” said Pastor Gary Grau. Another event hosted by First United Methodist is the Inside out

Café. The Café is a service devoted to the local commu-nity but is open to anyone. The café is held Monday and Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. There are also intern-ships and three different Sun-day schools available to BMS majors and students that are simply interested in working with the church. The worship at First United Methodist is what PastorGrau calls “syn-ergistic” which is a combi-nation of traditional and contemporary music. For

students looking for a Pres-byterian church, First Pres-byterian church of Waynes-burg is located at 169 W. College Street. Bill Sukolsky has been the pastor of First Presbyterian for ten years and has many programs that students can get involved with. There are practicum and internship opportunities for BMSmajors and Bonners as well as two services on Sunday mornings; the Sun-day morning Grow and then the more traditional service.

There are also opportunities as with the other churches for students to get involved with the children and youth ministries.

However, this is less ca-sual than some of the other churches and an application process is required. There are currently students involved in participating in and lead-ing the worship services at First Presbyterian and ample opportunities for new stu-dents to join. An event that is coming up is the Fall Fes-tival which will be held on Sunday, September 13 from 4 to 6p.m. The church has also announced the installation of a new sound system and plans to host several concerts in the fall.

Jenny Schouppe, The Yellow Jacket

First Presbyterian Church of Waynesburg welcomes this semester's Waynesburg University students.

Tim Neral, The Yellow Jacket

Local painters, sculpters and drawers showed off their talents on Saturday, Sept. 5 in Greensboro, Pennsylvania.(top) A woman sits as a sculpter creates a model of her face.(left) Homemade paintings and pottery on display(bottom) Complex drawings made upon request

Regional artists gather at annual community arts, music fest

Local churches welcome, engage returning students

“We want to do anything that we can to minister to the students on campus.”

SCOTT CHAMBERSFirst Christian Church

“You can take a place with you, a moment with you.”

DANA BELLArtist

Art Blast on the Mon celebration diplays talent

Waynesburg churches offer activities for WU students

Farmers: Market provides community, business for farmers

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Defense forces five turnovers in season-opening win

By KYLE DAWSONAssistant Sports Editor

For a team with a lot of questions entering the 2015 season, the Waynesburg University football team an-swered many of those in a 35-10 opening week victory Saturday.

One of the biggest ques-tions was how the Jackets were going to replace de-fensive playmakers in Mike Lopuchovsky, who recorded a team-high 75 tackles and intercepted five passes last season, Josh Tolliver, J.T. Thompson, Kyle Richey and Mitch Vacek, who all had above average numbers de-fensively in 2014, that saw the Jackets defense play well in many situations.

Enter some returners, namely juniors Josh Mun-dell and Roomel Reese, as well as some new starters on the defensive side of the ball such as sophomore quarter-back turned safety, Christian Breisinger, junior defensive end Aniellio DeStefano and sophomore anchor James Roundtree.

After two drives for both teams ended in punts, Musk-ingum’s quarterback Cody Williams took a keeper up

the middle of the field and got hit hard by junior safety Roomel Reese, losing pos-session of the ball, and that is when junior linebacker Tristan Sandrosky pounced on it at the Muskies’ 26-yard line.

“The turnovers were huge,” said Waynesburg head coach

Rick Shepas. “We’re used to being a high-yield turnover team. We haven’t gotten as many over the last couple years and we got some today, which were key.”

The fumble was the first of five takeaways by the Waynesburg defense on the day, and on the very next

play, freshman quarterback Jake Dougherty connected with junior wide receiver Tim Cooper for 26 yards and the first touchdown of the game.

It was also the first colle-giate touchdown pass for the newly christened Waynes-burg quarterback. It was a

quick drive set up by a short field given to the offense by the defense with the turn-over.

“Our defense, they are awesome,” said Dougherty. “A short field just makes it so much easier and makes

ANDY STANKO

Staff Writer

On the final week of the 2014 regular season, the Waynesburg football team defeated Washington & Jef-ferson for only the fourth time in program history, making the season a suc-cess despite not claiming a Presidents’ Athletic Confer-ence title.

With the win, the Waynes-burg senior class of 2014 claimed its place as one of the finest in school history, but the game also marked the slamming of the window

of opportunity for Waynes-burg to claim a PAC crown.

Just one look at the 2014 All-PAC teams is enough to know that Waynesburg is in for a 2015 campaign filled with plenty of new faces in important places, especially on the offensive side of the ball.

Waynesburg led the PAC with five, first-team honor-ees on the offensive side of the ball. The Yellow Jackets must replace a first-team quarterback, wide receiver, tight end and offensive line-man.

Virtually the rest of the skill position contributors for Waynesburg appeared in the second-team and honor-

able mentions. When head coach Rick

Shepas called for a forma-tion with wide receivers Ber-nie Thompson and Andrew English, tight end Zac Capan and running backs Willie Leavell and Jake Forsythe, he had the luxury of five All-PAC skill position players at the disposal for two-time All-PAC first-team quarter-back Cater Hill.

Only fifth-year senior Leavell remains from that group as an explosive re-turner, rushing and receiv-ing threat.

Forsythe’s offensive pro-duction—237 carries and almost 1,159 yards—will have to go somewhere else

in 2015. Thompson, English and

Capan’s production—total-ing 150 catches for 1,822 yards and 26 touchdowns—is also missing from the 2015 roster.

Defensively, Waynesburg bid farewell to J.T. Thomp-son and Mike Lopuchovsky, both of whom were named second-team all-conference for 2014.

Linebackers Kyle Richey and John Sikora, along with defensive end Josh Tolliver were recognized as honor-able mentions on the All-Conference teams, leaving just cornerback Josh Mun-dell and defensive lineman Zach Machuga as the only

returning All-PAC perform-ers to the defense.

Despite beginning the season as a question mark without standouts Brian Gary and Brandon Fedorka, the defense proved itself throughout the season and especially in the final two games of the regular season.

The unit held Thomas More and W&J to a com-bined 42 points. Thomas More and W&J were the top-two scoring offenses in the PAC, each averaging over 40 points per game.

After stability at the quar-terback position for the past two-plus years, Waynesburg

By MITCHELL KENDRAManaging Editor

Over the weekend, sopho-more Julie Gerber took first place as the Waynesburg Uni-versity women’s cross-country team competed at Westmin-ster College’s Fisher Invita-tional.

This is the second time that Gerber has finished first at this meet in as many years: last year as a freshman and this year as a sophomore.

Although the meet was held on Friday evening, the runners were still affected by the heat. Gerber knows that although her time this year was close to her time last year – 22:59 this year compared to 22:46 last year – the heat did slow her down a bit this year. However, she is glad that her teammates put themselves in positions to do well in the sizzling tem-perature.

“I think that even though it was really hot, the whole team did really well with preparing for the heat,” said Gerber. “It seemed like everyone was very well hydrated and they were eating well, and I think overall as a team we performed really well.”

The women were able to prepare for this heat dur-

ing their summer away from school, as the team had specif-ic workouts to do throughout the summer.

“I think that the best way to prepare them mentally is to talk to them early in the week,” said head coach Chris Hardie. “We knew that it was going to

be 90 degrees pretty much that entire week so every day at practice we talked about stay-ing hydrated and how impor-tant not just 24 hours before a race but 72 hours before a race is. You have to stay hydrated and balance your electrolytes and eat well.”

Sophomore Angie Mar-chetti has an interesting way of dealing with the heat.

“For me, running cross country is always being one step closer to the finish line: for the heat it becomes ‘Run faster, and you’ll be done soon-er’,” said Marchetti.

The team did just that as Gerber and Marchetti’s fellow classmate Elinore Loch fin-ished second, while freshman Teghan Simonton finished third.

Hardie has been glad to see the women reach their times and start the year off well, but he knows that in order to keep that regional ranking the team must keep progressing from week to week.

Gerber said that the team felt they put in a day of hard work at the Fisher Invitational.

“It was definitely a good feeling and it showed that as much as we had been working, that it is finally paying off,” said Gerber on the Jackets finish-ing in first, second and third. “We were together basically throughout the first two miles of the race and it was really cool to just be able to work to-gether as teammates and push one another. I just think that it really shows how strong we are as a team and how well we can

work together to accomplish what we are going out to do.”

Marchetti said the team chemistry is incredible as to how closely everyone gets along. She believes that it is the team chemistry that pushes each and every one out on the courses to do their best.

“During practices, we run together and so then during races [we think to ourselves] ‘If she can do it during prac-tice and if I can do it during practice with her, well then I can stay with her [during the race]’ and ‘If she’s not giving up, why should I give up?’ and so we just keep pushing each other along the way,” said Mar-chetti. “That’s obviously good and helpful for future races, and it forms our tight packs, too, because we are always running together.”

Hardie said this year, like the last couple of years, the team has had each other’s backs.

“I think if you ask around in our conference the one thing that has set Waynesburg apart –men and women – has been the ability to really rise to the level at the big meet,” said Har-die. “We may not have won it over the last couple of years but we really have had runners step up and do some really su-

perb things. And I think that it really does come from how they support their teammates on the big race day. They have really been more about team and pushing each other and sure there is individual glory there but there’s also a team goal that have been working towards.”

The rest of the scoring for the Jackets within the first two meets have been from the run-ning group that all have rela-tively close times: seniors Ol-ivia Latimer and Jen Brown, sophomores Cameron Wade and Kerianne Hensel and junior twin sisters Katie and Emily Latimer are a few of the women.

Emily Latimer, who was in-jured last year, has picked up where she left off her fresh-man year, being within the top Jacket spots in order to help the team. Marchetti has been “impressed” by how well Emily Latimer has come back from her injury last year to al-ready be within the top couple of scoring spots for the team.

Going back to Sept. 2, the team received its first pre-season regional ranking from the United States Track and

By ANDY STANKOStaff Writer

For the first time in just over three calendar years, the Waynesburg University foot-ball team took the field for its first offensive series without quarterback Carter Hill. For freshman quarterback Jake Dougherty, Saturday’s 35-10 vic-tory over Musking-um served as an in-t r o d u c -tion to the Wa y n e s -burg faith-ful and a strong first impression.

Dougherty connected on 16 of his 26 pass attempts for 182 yards, two touchdowns and an interception in his col-legiate debut.

“Especially for being young I thought he was very poised and patient,” said Hill, now a student assistant for the team. “He executed and he played within himself. A lot of times young guys go out there and try to do everything them-selves.”

Hill started 28 consecutive games for the Yellow Jackets and owns numerous game, season and career passing re-cords for the program. Two first-team All-Presidents’ Athletic Conference awards sit upon his mantle.

Head coach Rick Shepas believes he’s found the man for the job in Dougherty, and week one further confirmed his belief in the young quar-terback.

“[Dougherty responded] just like I thought he would,” said Shepas. “He has four years of starts under his belt. He has the same pedigree as Carter Hill, although they have dif-ferent personalities.”

Dougherty took his first shot down the field on the Jacket’s third possession of the game. The Yellow Jackets started on the Muskingum 26-yard line following a takeaway,

Youth plays key role in win

Football team’s window to make history has closed

Women’s XC wins Fisher Invitational, takes top three spots

Dave Miller, ADM Photography

Junior defensive back Josh Mundell, shown here in a game last year against Geneva, had an interception—one of five turnovers the Jacket defense caused—in Waynesburg's 35-10 win over Muskingum.

Dougherty

Dave Floyd, ADM Photography

Julie Gerber finished first in the Fisher Invitation. Right behind were two of her teammates, as the top three finishers were all Jackets.

Lawman's three TDs help lift Jackets over Muskingum

C O M M E N T A R Y

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See DEFENSE on C4

See FOOTBALL on C4See STANKO on C2

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STANDINGS Conf. OverallThiel 0-0 1-0Thomas More 0-0 1-0Wash & Jeff 0-0 1-0Waynesburg 0-0 1-0Westminster 0-0 1-0Bethany 0-0 0-1Carnegie Mellon 0-0 0-1Case Western Reserve 0-0 0-1Geneva 0-0 0-1Grove City 0-0 0-1Saint Vincent 0-0 0-1

Saturday’s Box ScoreWAYNESBURG 35, MUSKINGUM 10Waynesburg 7 7 14 7 35 Muskingum 0 10 0 0 10

SCORE RECAPFirst Quarter: WAY - Cooper 26 yd pass from Dougherty (Lewis kick), 5:40Second Quarter: WAY - Barnes 30 yd pass from Dougherty (Lewis kick), 14:02; MUS - Williams 8 yd run (Dent kick), 6:27; MUS - Dent 28 yd field goal, 1:16Third Quarter: WAY - Lawman 10 yd run (Lewis kick), 9:13; WAY - Lawman 3 yd run (Lewis kick), 3:30Fourth Quarter: WAY - Lawman 5 yd run (Lewis kick), 14:55

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSWaynesburg passing

COM ATT YDS TDDougherty................. 16 26 182 2

Waynesburg rushingATT YDS TD

Lawman................................ 16 113 3

Waynesburg receivingREC YDS TD

Cooper.................................. 6 72 1

Muskingum passingCOM ATT YDS TD

Williams.................... 10 21 127 0

Muskingum rushingATT YDS TD

Willams.................................. 10 57 1

Muskingum receivingREC YDS TD

Jones...................................... 4 86 0

RECENT RESULTSSaturday, September 5Mount Union 47, Bethany 0; Washington 45, Carnegie Mellon 24; Chciago 31, Case Western 30; Frostburg State 52, Geneva 21; Juniata 26, Grove City 13; John Carroll 26, Saint Vincent 3; Thiel 37, Allegheny 21; Thomas More 48, Fischer 0; Wash & Jeff 56, Wooster 10; Waynesburg 35, Muskingum 10; Westminster 17, Hiram 9

UPCOMING GAMESSaturday, September 12Waynesburg at Saint Vincent - 1 p.m.; Hanover at Thomas More - 1 p.m.; Thiel at Bethany - 7 p.m.; Geneva at Grove City - 7 p.m.; Westminster at Wash & Jeff - 7 p.m.

PAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEKOffensive: Tyler Vogelpohl, Senior WR, Thomas MoreDefensive: Ryan Torrance, Junior LB, Wash & JeffSpecial Teams: Daniel Lis, Senior WR, Wash & Jeff

Chatham 0-0 2-0Geneva 0-0 2-0Waynesburg 0-0 2-0Westminster 0-0 2-0Grove City 0-0 2-0-1Thomas More 0-0 1-0-1W&J 0-0 1-0-1Bethany 0-0 1-1Saint Vincent 0-0 1-2Thiel 0-0 0-2

Saturday’s Box ScoreWAYNESBURG 1, ALFRED 0Waynesburg 0 0 0 1 1La Roche 0 0 0 0 0

SCORE RECAPOvertime: WAY - Goal by Nikki Davis, 100:32

RECENT RESULTSFriday, September 4: Grove City 3, Franciscan 1; Waynesburg 1, Alfred 0 (OT); Westminster 3, Marietta 0

Saturday, September 5: La Roche 7, Bethany 1; Chatham 11, Penn State Greater Allegheny 0; Geneva 4, Carlow 2; Grove City 6, Marietta 0; Wilmington 2, Saint Vincent 1; Juniata 5, Thiel 0; Waynesburg 1, Alfred 0 (2OT); Westminster 1, Franciscan 0

Sunday, September 6: Saint Vincent 8, Defiance 1; Thomas More 0, Case Western 0 (2OT); Wash & Jeff 4, Pitt-Greensburg 0

UPCOMING GAMESFriday, September 11: Grove City at Oswego State - 1 p.m.; Saint Vincent at La Roche - 4 p.m.; Wash & Jeff at Franciscan - 5 p.m.; Waynesburg at Oberlein - 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, September 12: Geneva at Marietta - 1 p.m.; Grove City at Fredonia State - 1 p.m.; Thomas More at Spalding - 1 p.m.; Bethany at Defiance - 2 p.m.; Hilbert at Chatham - 2 p.m.; Thiel at Pitt-Greensburg - 2 p.m.

Sunday, September 13: Aurora at Thomas More - 1 p.m.; Saint Vincent at Wooster - 2 p.m.; Westminster at Penn College - 2 p.m.

PAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEKOffensive: Julie Bruening, Freshman F, ChathamDeffensive: Ciara Scott, Senior GK, Waynesburg

STANDINGS Conf. OverallThomas More 0-0 2-0Geneva 0-0 2-0-1Westminster 0-0 1-0-1Grove City 0-0 2-1W&J 0-0 1-1Thiel 0-0 0-2Bethany 0-0 0-3Saint Vincent 0-0 0-3Waynesburg 0-0 0-4

Tuesday’s Box ScoreLA ROCHE 3, WAYNESBURG 0La Roche 1 2 3Waynesburg 0 0 0

SCORE RECAPFirst Half: LAR - Goal by Cole Quinio, 26:53Second Half: LAR - Goal by Elliot Dick, 49:14; LAR - Goal by Elliot Dick (assist by Dylan Weyand), 68:26

RECENT RESULTSFriday, September 4: Keystone 3, Bethany 0; Geneva 2, Marietta 1; Methodist 3, Grove City 2; Franciscan 8, Thiel 3; Wash & Jeff 2, Mount Aloysius 1; Alfred 2, Waynesburg 1Saturday, September 5: Brockport 3, Bethany 0; Geneva 1, Methodist 1 (2OT); Grove City 3, Marietta 0; Wooster 4, Saint Vincent 1; Penn State Altoona 4, Thiel 1; Alfred 5, Waynesburg 0; Westminster 4, Franciscan 1

UPCOMING GAMESFriday, September 11: Thiel at Ohio Northern - 7:30 p.m.; Waynesburg at Oberlein - 7:30 p.m.Saturday, September 12: Saint Vincent at La Roche - 1 p.m.; Geneva at Lycoming - 2 p.m.; Wash & Jeff at Mount Union - 3 p.m.; Thiel at Defiance - 5 p.m.; Westminster at Alfred - 5 p.m.Sunday, September 13: Westminster at Penn College - 12 p.m.; Pitt-Greensburg at Bethany - 1 p.m.; Hood at Saint Vincent - 2 p.m.; Denison at Thomas More - 3:30 p.m.

PAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEKOffensive: Austin Juniet, Senior F, Thomas MoreDeffensive: Ben Weaver, Senior GK, Grove City

STANDINGS Conf. OverallGeneva 0-0 4-1Bethany 0-0 3-1W&J 0-0 2-2Saint Vincent 0-0 2-4Thomas More 0-0 1-3Grove City 0-0 1-4Thiel 0-0 0-4Chatham 0-0 0-5Waynesburg 0-0 0-5Westminster 0-0 0-5

Saturday’s Box ScoreFRANCISCAN 3, WAYNESBURG 0Franciscan 25 25 25 Waynesburg 4 12 20

RECENT RESULTSFriday, September 4: Bethany 3, Denison 0; Ohio Wesleyan 3, Bethany 2; Baldwin Wallace 3, Chatham 0; La Roche 3, Chatham 0; Geneva 3, Neumann 0; Geneva 3, York 0; Mount Union 3, Grove City 0; Ohio Wesleyan 3, Grove City 0; Allegheny 3, Saint Vincent 1; Saint Vinent 3, Carlow 0; Marietta 3, Thiel 2; Emory 3, Thomas More 0; Thomas More 3, John Carroll 1; Baldwin Wallace 3, Wash 7 Jeff 0; Wash & Jeff 3, Oberlein 0; Allegheny 3, Waynesburg 0; Carlow 3, Waynesburg 0; Denison 3, Westminster 1; Trine 3, Westminster 1Saturday, September 5: Bethany 3, Mount Union 0; Bethany 3, Trine 0; Alfred 3, Chatham 0; Wash & Jeff 3, Chatham 0; Geneva 3, Gettysburg 0; Geneva 3, Mount St. Mary 0; Denison 3, Grove City 0; Grove City 3, Trine 0; Franciscan 3, Saint Vincent 2; Muskingum 3, Saint Vin-cent 2; Centre 3, Thiel 0; Union 3, Thomas More 0; Calvin 3, Thomas More 0; Pacific Lutheran 3, Thomas More 1; La Roche 3, Wash & Jeff 1; Franciscan 3, Waynesburg 0; Wooster 3, Waynesburg 1; Mount Union 3, Westmin-ster 0; Ohio Wesleyan 3, Westminster 0

UPCOMING GAMESFriday, September 11: La Roche at Waynesburg - 3 p.m.; Bethany at Penn State Behrend - 3:30 p.m.; Geneva at D’Youville - 3:30 p.m.; Bethany at Defiance - 5:30 p.m.; Geneva at Frostburg State - 5:30 p.m.; Thiel at Carnegie Mellon - 5:30 p.m.; Westminster at Baldwin Wallace - 5:30 p.m.; Marietta at Waynesburg - 7 p.m.; Thiel at Case Western - 7:30 p.m.; Westminster at Hiram - 7:30 p.m.Saturday, September 12: Thiel at Hiram - 10 a.m.; Westminster at Case Western - 10 a.m.; Bethany at Frost-burg State - 10:30 a.m.; Thomas More at Chatham - 12 p.m.; Thiel at Baldwin Wallace - 12 p.m.; Westminster at Carnegie Mellon - 12 p.m.; Bethany at D’Youville - 12:30 p.m.; Geneva at Defiance - 12:30 p.m.; Thomas More at Grove City - 2 p.m.; Geneva at Penn State Behrend - 2:30 p.m.; Grove City at Chatham - 4 p.m.Sunday, September 13: Thomas More at Saint Vincent - 1 p.m.; Frostburg state at Wash & Jeff - 2 p.m.

PAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEKDakota McKenzie, Junior Outside Hitter, Bethany

MENRECENT RESULTSTeam

Saturday, September 5DOUG WATTS DISTANCE GALA5. Bethany, 140 pts.; 7. Thiel, 211 pts.

Individual

DOUG WATT DISTANCE GALA: 1. Elliot Mar-tynkiewitz, Edinboro, 25:10.2; 2. Corey Wefing, Edinboro, 25:25.8; 3. Alex Hampel, Indiana, 25:38.3; 17. Jordan Castro, Bethany, 26:48.7

UPCOMING EVENTSFriday, September 11: Grove City at Hary Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational - 4:45 p.m.

Saturday, September 12: Waynesburg at Bethany Invitational - 10:30 a.m.; Bethany at Bethany Invitational - 10:30 a.m.; Thiel at Bethany Invitational - 10:30 a.m.; Wash & Jeff at Bethany Invi-tational - 10:30 a.m.; Geneva at Penn State Behrend Invitational - 11 a.m.

WOMENRECENT RESULTSTeam

Friday, September 4FISCHER INVITATIONAL1. Waynesburg, 35 pts.; 4. Westminster, 125 pts.; 6. Geneva, 157 pts.; 8. Wash & Jeff, 183 pts.; 9. Chatham, 207 pts.

Saturday, September 5DOUG WATTS DISTANCE GALA6. Bethany, 163 pts.; 7. Thiel, 182 pts.

Individual

FISCHER INVITATIONAL: 1. Julie Gerber, Waynes-burg, 22:59.8; 2. Elinore Loch, Waynesburg, 23:07.0; 3. Teghan Simonton, Waynesburg, 23:40.2

DOUG WATTS DISTANCE GALA: 1. Ida Narbuvoll, Edinboro, 17:14.7; 2. Leah Anne Wirfel, Slippery Rock, 17:18.4; 3. Emma Sullivan, Edinboro, 18:24.0; 30. Michaela Ross, Bethany, 20:43.2

UPCOMING EVENTSFriday, September 11: Grove City at Harry Groves Spiked Shoe Invitational - 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, September 12: Thiel at Bethany Invitational - 10:30 a.m.; Wash & Jeff at Bethany Invitational - 10:30 a.m.; Waynesburg at Bethany Invitational - 10:30 a.m.; Bethany at Bethany Invitational -10:30 a.m.; Geneva at Penn State Behrend - 12 p.m.; Saint Vincent at Delaware Invitational - 10 a.m.

PAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEKMen’s: Jordan Castro, Freshman, BethanyWomen’s: Julie Gerber, Sophomore, Waynesburg

PRESIDENTS’ ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ROUNDUP

Jerry Lawman, FootballJulie Gerber, Women’s Cross Country

CROSS COUNTRYMEN’S SOCCER WOMEN’S SOCCER VOLLEYBALLFOOTBALL

WAYNESBURGATHLETES OF THE WEEK

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PAC FOOTBALL LEADERSPASSING YARDS: Cuda, 339, CWR; Gebhardt, 332, TMC; Hearon, 286, CMU

RUSHING YARDS: Benger, 204, CMU; Daly, 115, THI; Lawman, 113, WAY

TACKLES: Quinlan, 13, GEN; Torrance, 11, W&J; Quinn, 11, WES

SACKS: Ravida, 2.5, THI; Shane, 2.0, THI; Armstrong, 1.5, WES

INTERCEPTIONS: Lammers, 1, TMC; Hogue, 1, GEN; Charles, 1, SVC

PAC M. SOCCER LEADERSPOINTS: Juniet, 8, TMC; Walker, 6, THI; Gurgiolio, 4, WES

GOALS: Juniet, 3, TMC; Walker, 2, THI; Gurgiolo, 2, WES

ASSISTS: Curry, 3, GRO; Juniet, 2, TMC; Oliver, 2, THI

PAC VOLLEYBALL LEADERSKILLS: Hughes, 55, GEN; Howell, 51, TMC; McKenzie, 46, BET

ASSISTS: Fessler, 126, TMC; Ayers, 103, WAY; Lauber, 93, BET

BLOCKS: Yoho, 17, WES; Muhammad, 16, BET; McKenzie, 13, BET

DIGS: George, 120, SVC; Baer, 86, THI; Parker, 78, BET

PAC W. SOCCER LEADERSPOINTS: Bruening, 18, CHA; Toohey, 10, W&J; Politis, 10, CHA

GOALS: Bruening, 7, CHA; Toohey, 5, W&J; Orihel, 4, GEN

ASSISTS: Politis, 6, CHA; Bruening, 4, CHA; Benjamin, 2, CHA

By TYLER GODWINFor the Yellow Jacket

The women’s tennis team is off to a slow start this season after dropping each of its first three matches to Saint Vincent, the Uni-versity of Pittsburgh at Greensburg and Penn State Altoona.

Despite the 0-3 start, head coach Ron Christman has seen a lot of positives from his team despite some difficult circumstances.

Head coach Ron Christ-man believes the team is not as deep as it has been in the past, which makes it much more difficult for the team to perform at its best level when injury strikes. So far this year, there have already been some minor injuries, among other circumstanc-es, that have caused key players to miss important matches.

From these first three matches, Christman has been able to take good notes on players who were asked to take on a bigger role than they had previously.

“[It is] helpful for the younger people on the team to get opportunities,” Christman said.

Christman said he has been able to take note on what each player individu-ally needs to work on to get better and other general

things that will help to bet-ter the team.

He said he believes once everyone is healthy and re-turns to the team, the team will start to live up to his

expectations.Seniors Rachel Klemash,

Rachel Wilson and Emily McDonold are three expe-rienced players looking to lead the younger players

succeed along the way. With their personal experience and talent on the court, they are just three of many hoping for a bounce-back from this slow start.

Also looking to have a big impact on the team is fresh-man Aubree Brown.

“As a freshman, Aubree has already established her-self on the team as a leader,”

said Christman. Health is a major factor

in getting the team back on track for the rest of the season. Brown and Klemash are two impact players who have already missed some time due to injury. Once ev-eryone is healthy, the team should improve because players will not have to play out of position.

Christman believes that as long as his team focuses on what they need to work on in practice, the results will start to improve. Prac-tice will be essential to success in the upcoming weeks as the team looks to improve upon its record.

Despite the lack of depth on the team this year, Christman is confident that this team will be extremely competitive when healthy.

As the season progresses, Christman believes that it is essential that players lower in the lineup step up.

The team has to work with what they have to achieve success and Christ-man believes in the group he has.

Once the injur y bug starts to dissipate, the team should perform at a much higher level.

The women’s tennis team will travel to Thiel College Saturday, Sept. 12 at noon to open its Presidents’ Ath-letic Conference season.

Women's season plagued by lack of depth, injuries

Jenny Schouppe, Yellow Jacket

Senior Rachel Wilson is one of six seniors on the women's tennis team. Fellow senior Rachel Klemash teamed up with freshman Aubree Brown to win first doubles, the only win for the Jackets in their home opener.

enters 2015 with just one player with a pass attempt as a member of the Jackets, and that’s Leavell. Hill’s backup Dave O’Brien also gradu-ated, leaving a hole behind center.

Waynesburg entered 2014 with an offense virtu-ally intact from the previ-ous season with a senior quarterback at the helm, surrounded by experienced offensive weapons. W&J, Bethany, Westminster, Thiel and Geneva all broke in new

field generals in 2014, while Saint Vincent had two se-nior quarterbacks learning a completely different offen-sive system under a brand new coaching staff.

Now what had been the Jackets’ greatest strength, experience on the offensive side of the ball, has trans-formed into their biggest question mark.

When Jake Dougherty took his first snap Saturday against Muskingum, it be-gan a new era of Waynesburg football, an era that unfortu-nately coincides with a fur-ther along Pete Coughlin era

for W&J. Week one was start number 15 for Ryan Radke in Thiel. Aaron Channing from Geneva and Paul Co-lumbo from Westminster go from rookie quarterbacks to second-year starters. Brian Vales does not return to Bethany who will have to go through the process all over again with a defense and skill position players who seemed poised to chase a PAC title with progression from Vales.

Despite the obvious ex-perience gap and continu-ity advantage Waynesburg’s offense held over virtually every opponent, the Jackets

barely eked out wins over first-year starters Chan-ning, Radke, Columbo and Coughlin.

Waynesburg does not have the game-tested youth other teams may have to roll out in 2015 because 2014 was a year to chase the PAC championship with experi-enced leaders on both sides of the ball.

The team showed it cer-tainly had the propensity to compete with anyone in the conference by handing a nationally ranked and un-beaten W&J team its lone loss of the regular season.

Waynesburg escaped with road victories over West-minster and Thiel, but both teams return a bulk of talent and seem poised to progress to more success in the com-ing seasons.

It was a perfect storm for Waynesburg to make some noise in 2014, and the Jack-ets validated the season by defeating W&J.

In that game, though, it took signature performanc-es by no less than eight Yel-low Jacket seniors to best the Presidents in last year’s contest.

The landscape of the PAC

has changed with contenders brewing in St. Vincent and Westminster and established powers of Thomas More and W&J reloading as they al-ways do.

The Yellow Jackets team that took the field on Satur-day is a completely new con-tingent than the experienced and accomplished group that left Waynesburg as members of the class of 2014.

It is important to temper championship expectations because of the likely grow-ing pains that come with in-experience and youth. The window has closed.

Stanko: Too many key players graduated for WU to sustain success Continued from C1

September 10, 2015 Page C3

Volleyball experiencing early-season woesWomen’s soccer 2-0 in New York tournament

Women’s XC voted 10th best team in region

By ZACHARY ZEIGLERFor the Yellow Jacket

Trying to bounce back from a loss to Frostburg State in the season opener, the Waynesburg University volleyball team competed in the Saint Vincent Bearcat Challenge over the week-end. It was a two-day event at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, which the women would have to play four games over a two-day stretch.

“I think we were pre-pared physically,” said head coach Stephanie Benkows-ki. “Mentally its a little bit harder, depending on how the games go. It’s especially a challenge with younger players seeing the court for the first time.”

With more of younger players on this year’s team, the Yellow Jackets would have to power through the tournament and work to mesh together.

“I was curious to see how everything was going to go,” said Benkowski. “We prac-ticed our passing the couple days before we went there and it was not too bad.”

The first challenge for the Jackets was on Friday when they took on Allegheny Col-lege in the first match of the day. The contest only lasted three sets, with the ladies getting swept in the contest.

Allegheny was able to take the first two sets with ease, but the Jackets were able to keep it close in the third set, but they lost it by a narrow margin, 25-23.

“We played really well against Allegheny,” said coach Benkowski. “We have a lot of new faces that are

playing, so for them they are still trying to work out those nerves. We played re-ally well against the better of the two teams.”

Next up for the Jackets were the Carlow University Celtics.

This contest was not any better for the Jackets as they were downed easily by the Celtics three sets to noth-ing.

On Saturday, Waynes-burg had two more contests when they would take on the College of Wooster and Franciscan University.

“They got to see both teams play on Friday,” said Benkowski. “So they knew what they were getting into. They were really impressed

with Wooster, so I was con-cerned. My philosophy to them was that you have nothing to lose and noth-ing to prove at this point.”

The Yellow Jackets were able to take one set from Wooster, but ended up los-ing the match three sets to one. Freshman setter Sydni Ayers, who put up a double-double on the day, put up a great performance, accord-ing to Benkowski.

“She’s a very cool, calm and collected person,” said Benkowski. “Her attitude, her drive, she works hard. I think she is going to be a great leader for us. Having a double-double as a fresh-man setter normally never happens.”

The final contest was against Franciscan Uni-versity, and they didn’t fair much better against them. They lost the match in straight sets. It rounded out the event with the Jackets dropping all 4 contests and going to 0-4 on the season.

“I see a huge potential in us,” said Benkowski. “It’s early on in the season, and I just think they need to be-lieve in themselves because we have all of the skill at this time its just putting it together.”

The women’s volleyball team returns to action when it hosts the Red Hawks of La Roche College on Friday. Start time is scheduled for 3 p.m.

By CHELSEY WITHERSEditorial Assistant

The phrase “hard work pays off ” has been embed-ded into athlete’s heads for decades. That phrase de-fines the Waynesburg Uni-versity athletic department from the 2014-15 academic school year. Records were broken, first time appear-ances were made and for the first time ever the Presi-dents’ Athletic Conference Men’s Trophy was awarded to Waynesburg.

“The unique thing about this is nobody won a con-ference championship,” said head men’s basketball coach Mark Christner.

Since Waynesburg was unable to claim a conference title, it was the consistency of all the sports that helped Waynesburg achieve the award. The men’s basketball and outdoor track and field teams led the rankings for

the Jackets, by both finish-ing second.

“Our motivation during the year was always the op-portunity to compete for a conference championship,” said basketball graduate as-sistant coach Jacob Fleegle, who was a major part of the 2014-15 Jackets’ squad that appeared in the PAC Title game for the first time since 2006. “That has been our main motivation since we started our playing careers here. It was great that we could play a part in winning the award for the athletic de-partment as a whole.”

The competiveness from the two, second-place teams got Waynesburg in the rank-ings, but it was the amount of third place teams that ultimately won the award. Waynesburg was able to claim five third-place efforts, which were by baseball, men’s tennis, wrestling, foot-ball and men’s cross country.

Men’s soccer tied for third place with Westminster.

It wasn’t unt i l 1991 Waynesburg University became a part of the PAC, and this is the first time in history for either the men or women the prestigious award was given to Waynes-burg.

After leading the Jackets on the football field, former starting quarterback Carter Hill is now back this season to help coach as a student assistant. Switching from player to coach, Hill can see how the award has effected the athletic department.

“I think the positive ef-fects were mostly recruiting and confidence,” said Hill. “Recruits see awards and they want to play for coaches and players that succeed in all areas of the program. The confidence it gives the re-turning players is beneficial because they have some-thing to look forward to as

they compete this season.”The fall seasons are all un-

derway for the Jackets, and two teams began undefeated and seek to keep it that way this weekend. The women’s soccer team has started off their season 2-0 and football was able to defeat Musking-um last weekend to start off their season 1-0. The wom-en’s cross country team was also able to capture a first place finish last weekend.

Last year the women fin-ished seventh in the rank-ings for the Women’s Tro-phy, with Grove City College taking the honors of first place.

“This award will help to motivate the entire pro-gram,” said athletic director Larry Marshall. “Because the men athletes will want to keep the trophy and the women athletes will want to win the women’s trophy to challenge the men’s pro-gram.”

All-PAC 2014-15 trophy awarded to men’s athletics

Field and Cross Country Coaches Association at the number 10 spot when the rankings were released. The Jackets earned this preseason ranking after a successful 2014 season where the wom-en finished in the 12 spot out of the 52 teams competing in the region.

“It’s definitely a cool honor that we are being noticed now, obviously because our hard work, but I want to keep up to what they expect from us if not better than that because we have the talent and the potential to do so,” said Mar-chetti of how the preseason ranking has sparked a fuse within the women to finish the season with a bang.

Fortunately for the Jackets, there are a lot of the scorers from last year’s team who re-turned to this year’s team as there were only a few losses from the graduating class of 2015.

Hardie said his lone senior this year has done well so far.

“I think it’s important that Jen Brown cut two minutes off from last year to this year

already, that’s going to be huge if she can continue that type of progression,” said Hardie. “I think that’s something that is worthy to note, that’s a pretty big [personal record] within one year, especially in a senior year where you have 15 to 20 collegiate races under your belt, that’s really tough to do.”

Gerber said with the com-bination of teammates push-ing one another and the pre-season regional ranking that including the Jackets, the team has raised its expecta-tions being individually and ending as a team.

“I think knowing that we are getting that kind of recog-nition is definitely motivating and definitely makes us work more towards our goal know-ing that we have these expec-tations,” said Gerber. “And it really just helps us push our-selves in that last mile [of a race] or even at practices if we are doing one more 800-pre-peat we’re always focusing on that goal of where we are ranked and how we want to place regionally.”

The women will travel to Bethany for an invitational Saturday, Sept. 12 for a 10:30 am start.

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The first edition of athletes of week for the 2015-16 year features two prominent play-ers in their respective sports. Senior run-ning back Jerry Law-man and sophomore cross country runner Julie Gerber earned the spotlight.

Lawman was a vital part of a 35-10 victory this week-end for the Yellow Jackets at Muskingum University. He crossed the goal line three times in the second half while totaling up a career-high 113 rushing yards. The Poland, Ohio native also grabbed two receptions for 12 yards to finish the day off.

Gerber picked up right where she had left off last season by defending her title at the Fisher Invitational Friday at Westminster College. She led a trio of Yel-low Jackets to the podium as Waynesburg swept the top three places. The Uniontown, Pennsylvania native was the core of the Yellow Jackets’ effort as they took the team title.

The women’s cross-country team will return to ac-tion Saturday as they journey to Bethany, W. Va. for the Bethany College Invitational. The meet is scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m.

Meanwhile, the football team will take the gridiron on Saturday as well as they make the trip to Saint Vin-cent to take on the Bearcats. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m.

GerberLawman

By BRENDAN KEANYOp-Ed Editor

W h e n i t c o m e s t o Waynesburg women’s cross country, expectations have never been higher than where they currently stand.

When the Mideast Region preseason coaches poll came out, head coach of the cross-country team, Chris Hardie, acknowledged the number 10 ranking in the region is the highest position by the program in the modern era.

Perhaps even more shock-ing than the actual ranking is the age of the core runners on the team.

To Hardie, this point is the most critical of all head-ing into the season.

“I see a young group that still has a lot of races in front of them,” said Hardie. “His-torically, as I have followed this ranking, it has been se-nior-laden teams that have been at the top because they have progressed.”

It is odd, considering the top four runners that crossed the finish line for Waynesburg at the Fisher

Invitational at Westmin-ster were either freshmen or sophomores. These four runners, headed by sopho-more standout Julie Gerber, still have at least three more years of racing together; in-cluding this season that has barely began. To compete with Julie is sophomore Eli-nore Loch, freshmen Teghan Simonton and sophomore Angie Marchetti.

At Westminster, a race in which the Waynesburg women dominated by plac-ing three finishers in the top three spots, Hardie thinks the team showed just a glimpse of what they pos-sess, at least from a talent perspective.

However, everything is not happy times for Hardie. He possesses some concerns about the team moving for-ward; the first of which be-ing the lack of elite depth.

“I wish we had a top five working together,” said Har-die. “That’s when you start making the regional list and making nationals. It’s when your top five are training every day together.”

The reason why having a solid top five is so vital is due to the fact that a team’s top five runners count for points. Therefore, without depth at least five runners deep, it becomes extremely difficult to defeat teams that may possess seven or even 10 runners with exceptional talent.

“We’re three deep right now, and Angie’s [Marchet-ti] hanging on a little bit,” said Hardie. “So that’s why I say there’s some work to do. They have to close the gap between packs within the team.”

However, the lack of depth is not the only area of concern for Hardie. The coach is fairly indifferent to the mindset he is seeing and witnessing from the woman.

“If you polled the team right now, most women would say they expect to come in second place at PAC’s [Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championship meet],” said Hardie. “Older teams in the past came into the season with this idea that they were going to

knock Grove City off.”The coach went on fur-

ther to explain his notion that the team is perhaps settling for a comfortable second-place finish as op-posed to trying to go for it all.

“I think that it’s settling, slightly,” said Hardie. “One thing that does worry me about the mindset of this team is that they have kind of conceded to a second-place showing. Twenty of 22 women on this team say that we’re going to take sec-ond place.”

Nevertheless, behind Hardie’s tough assessment of where the team is at cur-rently, he believes the team can back up their regional ranking of 10th overall.

“We have a lot of work to do,” said Hardie. “But we can do it.”

The Jacket women will return to competition on Saturday, Sept. 12, when they travel to Bethany, West Virginia for the Bethany College Invitational. The meet is slated to start at 10:30 a.m.

By RJ LEISIE and JOE MALTAFor the Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg Univer-sity women’s soccer team is off to a 2-0 start to the 2015 season.

The Jackets started the sea-son at the Alfred University tournament in Alfred, New York. The women’s team faced off against Alfred State College on Friday followed by Alfred University on Sat-urday on Sept. 4 and 5, re-spectively.

Despite the Jackets out shooting Alfred State Friday, the Jackets could not seem to finish. Then, freshman mid-fielder Natalie Fortna made her first collegiate game a memorable.

Fortna was able to get the ball past the goalkeeper off a cross from sophomore for-ward Nikki Davis in the 95th minute of the game, earning the Jackets their first win.

“I barely kicked the ball, then it got past the goalie and as slow as a turtle, it rolls into the goal,” said Fortna. “My first thought was that it did not go in. My second thought was to just turn around I was so excited we won, so I just through my hands up and screamed as everyone ran towards me.”

The Jackets continued the trend on Saturday in over-time, as the match went to

double overtime. “During the game and

overtime I was thinking I have to put this in, we are not leaving here with a tie,” said Davis.

It wasn’t until the 100th minute of the game that Da-vis was able to find the back of the net to secure the win.

“Since this was our first time playing with each other and we had a bunch of new people working together, I was anxious to see how well we flowed and worked,” said Davis. “So going into the weekend we all were ner-vous, yet excited to see what we could accomplish.”

After the accomplishments made this weekend, the team now looks to see what they can do as the Presidents’ Athletic Conference season approaches.

This is the same start the women’s team had last year, but where the young team looks to approve is its over-all record. Last season they finished 8-9-3 last season.

To help with that return-ing senior Karleigh Murphey, who led all scorers last year, is looking for even better results this year and will be another important leader on the team.

The Jackets will return to the pitch Friday as they travel to Oberlin to play them at 7:30 p.m.

Michelle Keith, Yellow Jacket

Sophomore middle hitter Bekah Matta, shown here in the Sept. 1 match against Frostburg State, is one of several underclassmen to see playing time.

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me, and our offense, more comfortable.”

With Dougherty under center, it was the first time since the middle of the 2012 season the Jackets had someone other than Carter Hill starting at quar-terback for the Jackets.

D o u g h e r t y f i n i s h e d t h e d ay w i t h 1 6 completions for 182 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. The man he took the reins from, Hill-now a student assistant coach for the Jackets-spoke highly of Waynesburg’s new signal-caller’s performance.

“For being young, I thought he was poised and patient,” said Hill.

“He didn’t force the ball at all until that last play and that last play he didn’t even forced it, the receiver was open he just sailed it a bit and it got intercepted. He executed and played within himself rather than doing what young guys do a lot of times and that’s going out there and trying to do everything themselves.”

“He [Dougherty] re-sponded just like I thought he would,” said Shepas.

“He did a lot of good things out on the field. He made some checks, made some good run checks, and he sees it. He has a feel for it.”

Quarterback and defense

weren’t the only two question marks going into the season that were answered Saturday.

The Jackets were also look-ing to replace now graduated tailback Jake Forsythe as well as their top three receivers by receptions from 2014: re-ceivers Andrew English and

Bernie Thompson, and tight end Zac Capan.

Senior Jerry Law-man recorded more than 100 yards of rushing to help be-gin to replace For-sythe's offesnive production and also scored three second-half touchdowns.

“ J e r r y r e a l l y stepped up,” said senior line-backer and captain Aaron Palmer. “Jerry ran the ball amazing, which I expected. He’s finally healthy.”

Cooper and junior Kevin

Barnes Jr. will be tasked with filling the void left by English and Thompson.

They responded well in the win, combining for 148 yards and 10 receptions. Both scored a touchdown.

Barnes caught his on a fourth-and-20 play from the Muskies’ 30-yard line, but made it interesting, jug-

gling the ball before gaining possession and getting his foot down in the back of the endzone.

The win also marked a milestone for Shepas, as it was his 65th win as the head coach at Waynesburg, tying him with Waynesburg Col-lege coaching legend Frank Wolf for the all-time coach-ing wins record at Waynes-burg. Wolf, during his tenure at Waynesburg College, went 65-63.

With Saturday’s win, Shepas is now 65-40 as the head football coach.

“Coach Wolf is a very re-spected man on our campus,” said Shepas. “It is an honor to be considered on his level. But I’ve always thought of it as a players’ award and a sign of consistency with our coaching staff. So I’m thank-ful for the players and the coaches.”

Shepas will look to be-come Waynesburg’s all-time winningest coach, but more importantly for him, get another win when the Jackets travel to Latrobe to play the upstart Saint Vin-cent Bearcats in a game that counts on the schedule, but will not count as a Presidents’ Athletic Conference contest because of Case Western and Carnegie Mellon coming in last year as football affiliates to the conference.

Kickoff for Saturday’s game is slated for 1 p.m and you can listen in live on WCYJ-FM.

An audio link is available on www.waynesburgsports.com.

Defense: Question marks answered in win Football: New faces step up in opener

and Dougherty found junior wide receiver Tim Cooper for the first scoring play of the season.

“He has playmakers around him, which makes it easier on him,” said Hill. “He makes the reads, and it’s easy to turn a kid like that loose and let him play the game he wants to.”

D o u g h e r t y also connected with junior wide receiver Kevin Barnes for a 30-yard touch-down on a fourth down early in the second quarter.

“I saw the safety was shad-ed over to the right and had Kevin up the middle,” said Dougherty. “I know Kevin is one of the best receivers in the league, and I took a shot to him.”

Despite jumping out to a quick two-possession lead, the Jackets held just a four-point advantage at the half, but Waynesburg cashed in with three scoring drives in its first four possessions of the second half.

“My goals are to keep the offense on the field and move the ball,” said Dough-erty. “I think we did a good job of that today.”

Three second-half Jerry Lawman touchdown runs turned the game into a lop-sided contest in the fourth quarter, and the Jackets

were in position to extend the lead even further when Dougherty made his first major error of his career.

Instead of finding Barnes for a third passing touch-down on the day, the ball floated over his open re-ceiver right into the hands of

the defensive back in the area.

“We had a play cal led where we had Kevin [Barnes] going to the back of the end zone and running a post,” said Dougherty. “When I went to throw it, it came out of my hand weird and sailed. It was one of

those plays that didn’t work out, but it’s something that we’re going to watch on film and work on it in practice.”

Other minor miscues on an otherwise successful de-but for Dougherty included two errant shotgun snaps over the head of Dougherty and some pre-snap deci-sions leading to short pos-sessions.

Dougherty and the offen-sive were beneficiaries of five turnovers forced by the Yel-low Jacket defense and came away with touchdowns on four scoring drives starting inside Muskingum territory.

“I trust them 100 per-cent, and when the defense does well it makes it easy on offense,” said Dougherty. “Especially with me being young and not having much experience, a short field just makes it so much easier and makes me more comfort-

able”Waynesburg did not ex-

perience major departures just offensively. Senior lead-ers from 2014 graduated, leaving vacancies on the defensive line, at linebacker and both safeties positions.

A strong opening state-ment on the defensive side of the ball came from soph-omore quarterback turned safety Christian Breisinger.

“Christian’s transition from quarterback to safety was great because he has the mind of a quarterback,” said senior linebacker Aar-on Palmer. “He can read offenses, and the pick was phenomenal.”

Breisinger broke in front of a Muskingum receiver on a third-down pass to snare the first interception of the season for defensive coordi-nator Scott Venick’s defense.

“We ran a blitz package on defense where I come down and read the quarter-back’s eyes,” said Breisinger. “He’s looking right, and then he reads left and I break on the ball and just pick it.”

Breisinger and junior safety Roomel Reese are tasked with replacing sec-ond team All-PAC safety Mike Lopuchovsky and graduated safety Mitch Va-cek.

“Coach Venick came out and said, ‘Don’t be those guys, be yourself, play who you are and do your job,’” said Breisinger. “Waynes-burg is all about playing fast and playing hard and going after the ball, and that’s what we did.”

By TIM KAISERFor the Yellow Jacket

Tuesday night at John F. Wiley Stadium featured a home game for the Waynes-burg men’s soccer team as they played host to the La Roche College Red Hawks.

The Jackets (0-4) were un-able to put across a goal as the Red Hawks (1-1) came away with a 3-0 victory. The Red Hawks struck first with a goal on a free kick during the 26th minute. A favorable bounce for the Red Hawks helped as senior goalkeeper Nathan Ribar was unable to corral the free kick.

Being a young team like the Jackets are, surrendering the first goal can be hard to come back from.

“That’s where our inexpe-rience hurts us,” said head coach Brad Heethuis. “We

have to be able to keep our heads up and keep playing.”

Speaking of the Jackets’ youth, six freshmen started the second half during Tues-day night’s contest.

“There is definitely a learning curve to playing college soccer, guys need to get caught up to speed, but I think they have done well,” said Heethuis.

The Red Hawks scored an-other goal during the 49th minute of the contest. This one was off a Jacket miscue, which led to an easy goal for the Red Hawks. Another goal on a nice finish to the far post put the game away as the score ended 3-0 in favor of La Roche.

“We’re a young team so we’re going to have to live and learn,” said junior cap-tain Josh Hennigh. “Last year we knew each other bet-

ter; we knew when to step and how to step, but this was definitely better than game

one.”Improving will be key for

the Jackets moving forward.

“We have a lot of new tal-ent stepping up, and once we mesh together as a team

we can win a lot of matches this year,” said senior Con-nor Walsh.

Tuesday’s game was com-petitive until the Red Hawks’ second goal. The Jackets came out with a lot of en-ergy in the second half, but once the miscue that led to the goal happened, it seemed the contest was in hand for the Red Hawks.

Being able to respond af-ter giving up early goals is one thing the Jackets will look to improve on going forward.

Although the score ended in a shutout, the Jackets put forth more opportunities on goal during the second half.

The Jackets will look to continue their search for their first win as they take on Oberlin College Friday. The match is slated to begin at 7:30 p.m.

Michelle Keith, Yellow Jacket

Freshman midfielder Sam Almeter is one of many young players to be receiving playing time by head coach Brad Heethuis.

Struggles continue for winless men's soccer team

Week two football preview: Saint VincentBy JACOB MEYER

Sports Editor

Waynesburg travels to Latrobe, Pennsylvania Satur-day to take on the Bearcats from Saint Vincent College.

Despite both teams being in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference, this matchup will not count as a PAC game due to the expansion of the conference in football last season.

The Jackets won last week 35-10, as the defense caused five turnovers, senior run-ning back Jerry Lawman rushed for three touchdowns and freshman quarterback Jake Dougherty won his first start as the Yellow Jacket sig-nal caller while throwing two touchdowns.

Saint Vincent faced off against a tough opponent to start their season, as they lost to John Carroll University 26-3 last week.

New Field Generals

Jake Dougherty impressed in his Waynesburg debut against Muskingum…but it was Muskingum. While the Bearcats surely are not in the upper echelon of teams Waynesburg will face this

season by any means, they are an up-and-coming team.

Dougherty can’t expect his defense to give him five turnovers in every game, so his progression as a young quarterback is something to look for Saturday.

“I think Dougherty played a very sound game and got comfortable,” head coach Rick Shepas said. “He threw some catchable balls, pro-tected the football well un-til the end when we got a little aggressive. And with all teachable moments I think that will help him play better this week. We’re just learn-ing about ourselves too, so we want to put him in some comfortable looks.”

The Bearcats have a new quarterback this year in se-nior Evan Shimensky, who is playing for his third college football team.

Shimensky began his colle-giate career as a quarterback at Division I Kent State. He was redshirted as a fresh-man, transitioned to wide receiver the next season and appeared in eight games the next year—2013—for Kent State, but did not haul in a single reception.

He then transferred to Mount Union and again did

not find any significant play-ing time.

As the starting quarterback for the Bearcats, Shimensky completed only 13 of 29 pass-ing attempts for no touch-downs and no interceptions and was sacked six times.

Shimensky led Saint Vin-cent in rushing attempts in the contest with 16.

Shepas believes facing a dual-threat quarterback will prepare his defense for future matchups this season.

“You have to account for him,” Shepas said. “Lucky for us, we’ve had to account in

our last three or four games going back to last year, from Thomas More to W&J to Muskingum yesterday, for the quarterback in the running game. Thiel’s quarterback is a runner, too, and a lot of teams use their quarterbacks to run, so we have to account for him in the run game and play a little more soundly and fundamental football on the outside.”

Stopping Shavonta

When Waynesburg met up with Saint Vincent last sea-

son, then-sophomore Sha-vonta Craft’s performance almost came out of nowhere.

He rushed for 90 yards on 22 attempts and two touch-downs in the Bearcat loss. Craft went on to have an impressive 2014 season, be-ing lauded All-PAC second team honors, as he ran for 813 yards on 195 carries with nine touchdowns. This time around, the Jackets won’t be surprised with Craft.

“We just have to tackle better,” Shepas said. “He was an unknown last year, so he wasn’t really on the radar screen. This year, he will be."

Where’s Willie?

Despite the rout over Muskingum last Saturday, the absence of senior run-ning back, wide receiver and returner Willie Leavell is a question.

Leavell was an All-PAC first-team selection last sea-son, while totaling 7 touch-downs, nearly 300 rushing yards, 350 receiving yards and being the team’s kickoff returner.

With the departure of run-ning back Jake Forsythe and wide receivers Andrew Eng-lish and Bernie Thompson,

the assumption was Willie would have to fill in for some of those touches. On Satur-day, though, Willie saw the ball only two times on of-fense—both receptions—for a total of negative two yards.

“That’s going to be a focal point of the offensive,” Shepas said. “We need to get Willie more involved in the offense for sure.”

Win Number 66

With a win Saturday over the Bearcats, Shepas would pass Frank Wolf for the all-time coaching wins record at Waynesburg. Wolf accu-mulated a 65-63 record as the Yellow Jackets head football coach, while Shepas currently owns a 65-40 record.

“Coach Wolf is a very re-spected man on our campus,” said Shepas. “It is an honor to be considered on his level. But I’ve always thought of it as a players’ award and a sign of consistency with our coaching staff. So I’m thank-ful for the players and the coaches.”

The Yellow Jackets will look to put Shepas in the re-cord books Saturday when they travel to Saint Vincent to take on the Bearcats at 1 p.m.

Breisinger

Barnes Jr.

“Jerry ran the ball amazing, which I expected. He's finally healthy.”

AARON PALMERSenior linebacker

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By RYAN SCHWERTFEGER News Digest Editor

Waynesburg University President Douglas Lee has noted several times over the past few years his back-ground and history with the Boy Scouts of America and how he is a proud Eagle Scout. He continues to point Waynesburg in the direction of the Boy Scouts as the uni-versity has hosted or been involved with several scout-ing activities in the past few months.

Since being announced as the university president, Lee established a Venture Crew on campus in the summer of 2013. Venture Crew is a youth development program of the Boy Scouts for young men and women alike, aged

13-21, who want to be in-volved in scouting related activities, with the addition of a larger leadership role. Since being founded, the campus Venture Crew – along with its faculty advi-sor, Provost Jacquelyn Core – have slowly started to ramp up the amount of activities. Also, there are more involve-ment opportunities for not only Crew members, but also for other interested students on campus and Boy Scouts in the surrounding areas.

In July, Waynesburg Uni-versity held a STEM Camp, helping Boy Scouts achieve their merit badges in science, technology, engineering and math-related fields. While new to the overall world of scouting, Waynesburg University Academic Event

Planner Abby Pittinaro said that while helping to plan scouting related activities are not always easy, it is always very rewarding.

“Being involved with planning these Boy Scout events is definitely a learn-ing experience for me, and there is an extreme learning curve when I was trying to familiarize myself with all of the terms and rules asso-ciated with scouting,” said Pittinaro.

Pittinaro also noted that what makes STEM Camp and other university-hosted scouting events like Merit Badge University so unique and has motivated other scouts to come to Waynes-burg scouting events is the fact that professors and stu-dents with majors in those

fields are the ones teaching and leading the merit badge experiences.

“We are finding again and again that both scouts and parents think that it is im-pressive to have people who are not only knowledgeable, but also experienced – some even with a Ph.D. in their field – to be the ones teach-ing these merit badge class-es,” Pittinaro said. “That’s above and beyond what is to be expected.”

For students and even some faculty members at Waynesburg University, there were two excursion op-portunities over the summer. According to Venture Crew President Taylor Garrett, a junior secondary mathemat-

WU continues to venture into Scouting

By LINDSAY ORZECHOWSKIStaff Writer

Waynesburg University once again welcomed new students for the 2015-2016 academic year.

For the second year in a row, the university empha-sized its three core values -- faith, learning and serving -- to acclimate new students to the campus environment.

Pat Bristor, associate dean of students, said the program is good based on how the weekend incorporates the three core values into each day. Bristor said it allows for families, students and faculty to get to know each other and for students to get to meet their department heads and finalize their schedules.

Bristor summarized the day-to-day events and em-phasized the importance of the service project that was reincorporated into the freshman orientation week-end two years ago. “This gives them a taste of who we are as we talk about [how]

faith, learning and serving equals lives of purpose to the glory of God,” said Bristor.

Mary Cummings, vice president for Student Ser-vices and Enrollment, said she agrees with the freshmen orientation program being a

great one. Cummings personally

participated in the service project this year, working on the cemeteries at the state game lands.

“I find it very rewarding to serve alongside students

and to learn and to grow with them, having those shared moments with students where we are discovering a grave and wondering what it was like for that person,” said Cummings.

The entire freshman class

of 2019 had the opportunity to help clear these cemeter-ies alongside Bonner schol-ars, orientation leaders and faculty.

The weekend was packed full of events, ceremonies, games and some down time

that the students got to have for their first weekend on campus.

“I think it is beneficial, es-pecially since that first week-end was mainly all freshman, so you know they are all in the same boat as you,” said Megan Cook, freshman com-munication major. “There were a lot of rules they went over and fun get-to-know-you activities.”

Freshmen orientation isn’t just about faith, learning and serving; it is also to help guide young adults into their new lives and atmosphere of becoming college students while teaching them the roots of Waynesburg Uni-versity, according to Bristor.

As a reminder to freshmen students, evaluation forms need to be filled out and sent in.

Anyone who fills one out automatically gets entered into a drawing for a big prize. In addition, Orientation Leader Applications will be posted during January and February.

Jenny Schouppe,Yellow Jacket

The Class of 2019 gather in the Rudy Marisa Field House prior to going out into the community to serve.

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Photo Courtesy of John Shipes

Members of Venture Crew 1849 at Philmont Training Center for Woodbadge. From left to right: Professor of Mathematics James Bush, Provost Jacquelyn Core, Admissions Recruiter Kyle Di Giandomenico, Academic Event Planner Abby Pittinaro, Shon Meade, Zach Medovic and Assistant Professor of History Karen Younger

Service fair helps students give back to local community

By AUTUMN FOUSTFor the Yellow Jacket

The biannual service fair at Waynesburg helps to gen-erate interest in service for students.

Waynesburg teaches learn-ing and growing through service by giving back to the community and people worldwide. Service allows us to provide to others as Jesus taught us to.

On Thursday, Sept. 3, the service fair enabled eager freshmen and Bonner schol-ars to search for an organiza-tion they could work for. The service fair is almost neces-sary for new Bonner students that are unfamiliar with the area.

Organizations who ap-peared at the service fair seeking to grab students at-tention included Second Sam Nine, 21st Century, Eva K. Bowlby Public Library, First Baptist Church, Open Door, Asera Care Hospice, Community Foundation of Greene County, Greater Waynesburg Christian Out-reach, Greene County Habi-tat for Humanity, Ronald McDonald House, Salva-tion Army and Young Life. These organizations created an astounding amount of attention amongst students as they were provided with many opportunit ies to choose from.

Second Sam Nine pro-vides care from anyone 18 or older with a disability. It is a Christ-centered organization that provides care, activities, life skills, exercises, prayers, and community outings. Second Sam Nine was just

one of the many service areas students were able to visit at the fair.

Becca Shindelar, senior human services major, leads a local youth group at the WWJD church in Waynes-burg. West Sides Youth is an after school program that of-fers tutoring and provides a fun and safe environment for students of Waynesburg to be involved in. Shindelar states that with all of the children, they may open a second lo-cation for the youth group. West Sides Youth focuses on aiding children in the long-term and building fantastic relationships and bonds that last a lifetime.

The Community Foun-dation of Greene County (CFGC) provides students with public relations, event management and video pro-duction opportunities. Some of these opportunities in-clude writing press releases, news articles and assisting with newsletters, brochures and other outreach materials.

Event management assists in organizing events and scheduling activities; video production and editing in-cludes videotaping and DVD sessions. CFGC offer many activities that may capture the attention of a commu-nication or marketing major.

The 2015 Service Fair was deemed a success, as many organizations introduced themselves to anticipating students while they bustled around with numerous fly-ers in hand. Service fairs are a great opportunity to introduce all of the ways to become involved in a com-munity.

Venturers learn skills while at Philmont to become better leaders

University to travel to Pittsburgh for 'The Jersey Boys' showBy MICHAEL MERTENFor the Yellow Jacket

On Sept. 22, interested undergraduate students can sign up to experience some Broadway-quality culture right here in Pittsburgh. The Waynesburg Student Activi-ties Board is sponsoring a trip to see the Tony Award-winning musical, Jersey Boys.

Jersey Boys tells the story of The Four Seasons, a rock group from the 1960s and

1970s that originated in New Jersey.

“It’s a different kind of mu-sical, given the fact that the main characters, The Four Seasons, are telling the story of their rise to fame from their individual points of view,” said Edward Powers, associate professor of the-atre and director of drama. “It’s less about the plot and storytelling than about the music and personalities of these four guys.”

The show is coming to

Pittsburgh as part of the Broadway Across America program, which partners with Broadway producers to put their shows on tour in cities across the United States.

Jersey Boys is just one of many shows that will be

coming through Pittsburgh on their way out west.

The Four Seasons are one of the best-selling musical groups of all time and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Famous for songs such as “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t

Cry” and “Walk Like a Man,” The Four Seasons toured the country and eventually sold over 100 million records.

Compared to prices some-one would normally pay on Broadway, the Student Ac-tivities Board is bringing the students at Waynesburg a greatly reduced ticket price.

“The Student Activities Board feels it is important to offer a variety of differ-ent activities, including the arts,” said Pat Bristor, associ-ate dean of students. “It also

gives students an opportu-nity to get off campus and see a show.”

The trip costs $35 and in-cludes the show ticket, trans-portation and dinner at Olive Garden.

“It should be a unique experience. It’s a little more earthy, a little more adult,” said Powers. “We go to the theatre to be entertained, but also to learn more about how to be human and, per-haps, what it is to be a better person.”

Freshmen orientation weekend puts 'Fiat Lux' into action

“It should be a unique experience. It's a little more earthy, a little more adult.”

EDWARD POWERSAssociate Professor of Theatre and Director of Drama

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ics education major, a trip to Summit Bechtel Reserve in south-central West Virginia and another to Philmont Scout Ranch in northern New Mexico occurred over the summer months.

“Summit Bechtel and Philmont provided a week-long training course with other scout leaders across the country to help plan and de-velop their own groups and troops back home,” said Gar-rett. “In the last two years, 15 people from Waynesburg have gone on these farther distance trips, and the infor-mation and experiences they have brought back have been invaluable.”

Those that went to Sum-mit Bechtel Reserve focused on active participation and high-energy activities, in-cluding BMX, skateboard-ing, zip lining and shooting. Those that went to Philmont Scout Ranch spent time on general Boy Scout training and leadership development.

Shon Meade, sophomore electronic media major and a lifelong scouter, was one of eight people who went on

the recent trip to Philmont. “I was greatly appreciative

of how Waynesburg Univer-sity provided us the oppor-tunity to go to Philmont for Wood Badge Training,” said Meade.

Wood Badge is the high-est level of Boy Scout adult leadership training available, and Philmont is the loca-tion of the national training course. Meade was one of 48 total participants across the country involved in the week-long course.

“It was great to see oth-ers with the same passion for scouting as I do, and it shows that the work we do really does make a difference for the youth of America,” said Meade.

Upon completing the Wood Badge training, at-tendees must also complete five “ticket items,” or mini projects, to give back to scouting while helping to continue to grow the scout-ing program. They have up to 18 months to finish them.

One of these ticket items will be completed when the university hosts another Merit Badge University, cur-rently scheduled for October 31.

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By ANNIE MCGLAUGHLINFor the Yellow Jacket

Another season of intra-mural sports is almost un-derway for interested stu-dents.

Being involved in this program can lead to ben-efits inside and outside the classroom.

Many students enjoy in-tramural sports because it is a great way to be involved and stay active throughout school without the time commitment of a varsity sports team.

“Intramurals is a great way to spend free time with friends and be active without the pressure of actually being on a school team,” said Ma-rissa Coday, a senior crimi-nal justice major.

Intramurals can give stu-dents a way to interact with other students in a competi-tive environment and release stress.

“Intramural sports are a good way to get to know some of the people on cam-

pus,” said junior pre-medical major Amanda Schneider. “It gives you something to do when you’re sick of looking at textbooks.”

These co-ed sport pro-grams offer the chance to find common ground with students around campus.

“I really enjoyed intramu-ral softball because you have students from all different majors and class years that actually have the chance to know each other and play a sport everyone enjoys,” said senior forensic science major Catelynn Pagone. “It’s also a great way to have fun and relax during hard weeks of classes.”

Sports offered include vol-leyball, soccer, softball, bas-ketball and others based on the season and semester.

Students interested in par-ticipating in intramural pro-grams should contact Coach Stephanie Benkowski or Dr. L. Randy Pettit for more in-formation.

Fliers are also on myCon-nect and around campus.

Campus to offer sports without the time commitment

Zumba: A dance party with a purpose

By EMILY HACKMANMultimedia Team

As the lyrics of “Uma Thurman” by Fall Out Boy drift out of the old gym and into the lobby of the Marisa Fieldhouse, the sound of dancing feet can be heard hitting the f loor while laughter fills the air.

Zumba, the dance alterna-tive to traditional exercise, has returned for the 2015 Fall semester at Waynesburg University.

“For the past five years, Zumba has been a regular program at Waynesburg University,” said Jennifer Shiring, director of Student Health Services. “It is like a dance party and is a great way to stay active in the winter.”

Zumba has been growing in popularity since 2010 with its combination of low and high intensity dance moves, according to Exam-iner.com.

Bonnie Strang, a senior creative writing major, will be the instructor of the Zumba classes that are held on campus.

“Zumba is an awesome exercise routine to help with anxiety or depression

because it varies the move-ments so much that endor-phins “kick in” much more quickly than running on a treadmill,” said Strang.

“It’s also great for anyone looking for a whole body workout because of the dif-ferent techniques used to appeal to target areas of the body.”

Strang has had her Zumba certification for two years and is excited to be teach-ing the weekly classes.

“I’m very happy to have this opportunity,” said Strang. “I’m excited to dance with everyone.”

Strang, a former resident assistant, has taught lessons to her residents before, but this will be her first time teaching on a larger scale.

Some of music that will be played in the Zumba classes has been provided by Zum-ba; the other dance tunes will range from current hits to old hip-hop songs to cre-ate a nice mix for everyone.

Zumba classes start Mon-day, Sept. 14, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. and will run ev-ery Monday until Nov. 30. Admission is free to all stu-dents. Be sure to wear ap-propriate clothing.

By MITCHELL ROSSFor the Yellow Jacket

Young Life’s vision: “Ev-ery adolescent will have the opportunity to meet Jesus Christ and follow Him.” Young Life leaders on Waynesburg University’s campus are striving to do exactly that.

According to younglife.org, Young Life is an out-reach program that goes into local high schools and middle schools to build re-lationships with kids.

These relationships even-tually turn into outlets to share the Gospel.

Young Life is a program that is thriving on many campuses across the coun-try and Waynesburg Univer-sity is one of those schools. However, it was not always that way.

When Junior Early Child-hood Education Major Cul-lin Piatt came to Waynes-burg, he noted the Young Life program was almost completely dead. In Piatt’s freshman year, the average attendance of a Young Life event was two people. Now,

the average is around 20. Piatt believes that is the

radical impact this outreach is capable of having. He knows on a personal level how meaningful Young Life can be as he came to know Jesus through the ministry of Young Life.

“I started going as an 8th grader. I was that kid who would not get anywhere near a church,” Piatt said. “Young Life opened up the Gospel up to me in a way I was not even looking for,

and it was pretty cool.” Senior nursing major

Jessie Kiner is another in-dividual who is no stranger to Young Life. She has been involved with Young Life since her freshman year. She also spent the summer as backpack guide at Young Life’s Wilderness Ranch in Colorado.

“I love Young Life because it is the closest thing to the actual ministry of Jesus Christ that I have ever seen,” said Kiner. “It goes to where

people are. We love [people] even if they don’t want a re-lationship, and in that earn the right to tell them about Jesus.”

Although some, like Pi-att and Kiner, have been involved for years, the op-portunity to be involved also extends to those who never expected it.

There are many examples of students who came into Waynesburg not even aware of what Young Life was and now are leading the charge

of reaching the Greene County community with God’s Word.

Josh Hausler, Junior Criminal Justice Major, was an individual who become involved with Young Life as a result of his friendship with the current leaders. His passion for Young Life grew from a common goal he had with his friends to make a difference in the local area.

“My friends showed me what it was all about and I got interested in it from what they were doing,” Hausler said. “I love having the op-portunity to be goofy and show the Lord to people, especially high schoolers.”

Junior Media Ministries Major Matt McDermott joined Young Life because of what he saw Young Life do-ing in public high schools. “When I was in high school, I was not reached by the Gospel. I wondered how different my life would be if there would have been Young Life in my school,” McDermott said. “Not just Young Life, but anyone try-ing to build a relationship and show me this new way

of living.”Young Life is now seek-

ing to increase its outreach to the campus as a whole.

“We are getting anyone who is interested in learn-ing about Young Life, grab-bing these people and just being in fellowship with them,” McDermott said. “We have been talking about this Christian community and this is going to be a good way to bring this type of fellow-ship on campus.”

McDermott added it is a great way to apply the Young Life model to the Waynes-burg University campus.

“It is a community of people who will love you and point you towards Je-sus,” said Kiner.

Young Life members have to “earn the right to be heard” by the high school students they reach, now they are striving to earn the right to be heard by every-one on campus.

Anyone interested in be-coming involved with Young Life or who wants to see what it is all about can head to the BeeHive on Sunday, Sept. 13 at 5:30 p.m.

Young Life brings a 'new way of living' to the WU campus

Kyla Wolper, Yellow Jacket

Students who come out for Young Life every Sunday in the Beehive will partake in various activities that include worship, games and all around fun with friends.

Popular fitnessactivity returns to campus

Venturing: Summit Bechtel Reserve filled with high adventure

Zumba classes start Monday, Sept. 14 from 7:30-8:30 p.m. in the Old Gym.

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WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLEACROSS1 Light fog5 “No ifs, __ ...”9 Italian city known for a shroud14 __’acte15 Come in last16 Have __ in the hole17 Make laugh in a big way18 *Pickled peppers picker20 Deodorant choice22 Raised one’s glass to23 Play lightly, as a guitar24 Greek X’s25 Walked stealthily28 Bandleader Artie32 TV network with an eye logo35 Reclined36 1970s New York mayor Abe37 *Miss Manners’ concern41 Classroom as-sistants42 In unison, in music43 Paranormal ability, for short44 MD’s “pronto”45 Very, very old48 Mailbox open-ing49 Energy53 Proud member of a select group57 Breathe59 *Clog-clearing company61 Some old radios62 Love to pieces63 Grandkid

spoiler, often64 Cookie grain65 Clearing-in-the-woods shelters66 Breaks off67 Water slide user’s cry

DOWN1 Flat-topped lands2 Coastline recess3 Fab Four drummer Ringo4 *Compete, as for a role5 Purina dog food brand6 Christmas carol7 Annual reason to reset clocks: Abbr.

8 Do a slow burn9 Spanish appetizers10 Les États-__11 Hanging on every word12 Slurpee alternative13 “The Big Bang Theory” type19 __ rage: PED user’s ag-gression21 Expresses happiness24 Address book entry26 Golf goal27 Even score28 Understand29 Detest30 Pts. and qts., for two31 Cry one’s eyes out

32 Tax pros33 London native, infor-mally34 Fizz in a gin fizz36 __ Aires38 Shelter adoptee39 Dictator Amin40 Canadian prov. border-ing Vt.45 “Just want to add ...”46 Nary a soul

47 *Typewriter area, let-terwise, for the answers to starred clues48 Stable studs50 Biblical prophet51 Chatter endlessly52 “Steppenwolf ” author Hermann53 Part of Q.E.D.54 Miner’s bonanza55 “Bring __!”: “Let’s fight!”

56 Civil suit cause57 Tear violently58 Gay Nineties and Roar-ing Twenties60 Almond-colored

By TIM NERALEditorial Assistant

It’s hard to forget the origi-nal Fantastic Four in 2005. Corny, cliche-ridden and foreshadowing all up and down the film strip, Fantas-tic Four had no suspense, drama or original conflict. The character development was minute, the acting piti-ful and the direction elemen-tary. It executed the careers of many of the actors that took part in the production, Chris Evans being the lone escapee. It earned a sequel because of its box office heist, but audiences would not be fooled twice.

That trash was taken to the curb, the Fantastic Four franchise was laid to rest and everyone, to my knowledge, was okay with that.

After the grand success of most of the latest super-hero ventures, 20th Century Fox decided to bring the old toy out of the box, clean it up and parade it in front of audiences in the hope that a spark might be ignited.

I waited for the hammer to come down, and it has come down hard.

This year’s Fantastic Four has fallen to a microscopic eight percent on Rotten To-matoes. That is the worst

score a superhero film has ever gotten on Rotten To-matoes, surpassing Elektra’s 10 percent.

It also dropped 78.7 per-cent in box-office earnings in one week. That’s believed to be the largest drop for a comic book film from a Fri-day to Friday ever.

With stats like that, this film is making history.

Fantastic Four manages to

be worse than its predecessor in every way. With a better cast in Miles Teller as Mr. Fantastic, and a director and company that should have learned from past mistakes, they faltered at every chance of improvement: story, char-acters, acting, direction, vi-suals, even soundtrack. How did all of this happen?

For one, director Josh Trank threw his own film

under the bus the day it was released and tried blaming Fox for the disaster he di-rected.

There have also been numerous reports of be-hind-the-scenes gossip and conflicts that should have hinted at the tornado this film would cause. I’ve read reports of Trank nearly drop-ping gloves with Teller and being excessively hard to work with.

Trank, probably because he was too busy making everyone’s lives miserable, avoids his characters like the plague.

No significant time is spent with any of our quar-tet or with our villain, Dr. Doom. Trank is so obsessed with plot that he ignores the focal point of the movie: the Fantastic Four. The only true commodity was left on the shelf.

However, the real nail in the coffin was when, right af-ter our heroes got their pow-ers, a black screen popped up with the phrase, “one year later.”

The best part of a super-hero movie is watching them get their powers and learn how to use them. Trank skips all of that with a mere three words. One word in all caps would have sufficed: disap-

pointment.Yet, there’s still more to

talk about, like the fact that every character in the 2005 version is written better and acted better than they are here. Chris Evans made a better Human Torch, words I never thought anyone for ten generations of my family would ever type; yet, here I am typing them.

There are so many rea-sons why this film is so bad that I can’t believe Fox ever released it. I think a post-ponement was in order, and I think we all would have waited a few extra months if it meant we got a finished product even twice as good as this. I mean, did you look at this, Fox? It’s egregious!

There are so many mortal wounds in this brainchild that it’s hard to mention them all, but one of the more prominent ones is how bor-ing this film is.

At a 100-minute run time, Fantastic Four is already ridiculously short for a su-perhero flick, but when you watch it, it feels like you were in the theater for an hour—if that.

Nothing happens in this film. There are two action sequences the whole movie and only one of them holds any tension.

Its reliance on a plot held together by paperclips is mind-numbing and makes you feel comatose. The script has clearly been rewritten so many times (which it has been, Google it) that it’s di-rectionless with no theme clearly standing front and center except for “The Gov-ernment is Evil.”

Thanks, The Incred-ible Hulk, for donating the theme to the “20th Century FOX can’t-make-a-story-line fund.” All donations are ap-preciated.

The lone highlight for this escapade is that the ac-tors hold some talent (if no material) in their hands, and Dr. Doom is made into a fairly intimidating villain, even if we spend almost no time with him, meaning yet another underdeveloped villain in a superhero flick. Still, the potential was at least there that he could have been something more. I see little to no undiscovered potential anywhere else.

In closing, there’s no rea-son to watch this.

Not the worst superhero film I’ve seen somehow, but very close, the Fantastic Four should go back to being dor-mant and think about staying that way for a lot longer this time around.

W O R D S O F W I S T I M

FILM REVIEW: 'FANTASTIC FOUR' DOESN'T LIVE UP TO COMIC BOOK STANDARDS

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Surviving Freshman Year

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By Kimmi Baston

As a freshman at a college or university, everything is new - a new room, new people, new classes and teachers, new buildings and scenery. There’s a lot to keep track of, and sometimes the most basic and essential tools for success get lost in the rush to remember so much new information. Many upperclassmen at Waynesburg University wish they’d been told about specific tools and resources much earlier in their college career.

How To…Receive your school emails through your iPhone mail app:

1. Go to the Settings app and choose Mail, Contacts, Calendars.2. Select Add Account. Then choose Exchange.3. Enter your Waynesburg email address and your Office 365

password (which is the same as your myConnect password).4. Hit Next. If prompted, set up a numerical passcode.

>> Alternatively, download the Outlook Web App (OWA) from the iPhone App Store to access your school email.

Stay updated on campus events:

• Check the myConnect bulletin board often! You can sign up for lots of Student Activities Board events using links from there.

• Check the Toilet Paper, hung in every bathroom stall. Almost every major event is listed a week ahead of time.

• Use Twitter! Follow accounts like @WU_SAB, @WaynesburgU and @WaynesburgNews to get immediate updates on campus news and events.

Schedule for next semester:

1. Ask your advisor or the Registrar for a tracking sheet that lists every class needed for your major. Use it to begin creating a plan for when you need to take certain courses – be sure to check when they are offered.

2. Meet with their advisor during the week designated for your class year. When you go to the meeting, have a tentative schedule of courses laid out so your advisor can give you feedback and help you adjust. Make sure they approve your schedule on Self-Service.

3. Check the course catalog for the date (always a Thursday) you schedule on. Be ready at 11 a.m. – have all of your de-sired courses in your Self-Service cart (find courses by doing a Section Search on Self-Service.

4. When it’s time to schedule, go the Register Tab on Self-Ser-vice, then choose Traditional Courses > 2016 Spring. Review your schedule and then continue to hit the Next button until a success message appears. Congratulations! You’ve scheduled for next semester.

If all else fails, remember that the Waynesburg campus community is a family. Any time you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask any student, faculty or staff member.

Good luck!

Where do I go for…

Counseling?

• The Counseling Center is on the third floor of Stover Campus Center – take a right at the top of the stairs. They offer personal, academic and career counseling.

Class/registration information?

• The Office of the Registrar is on the first floor of Miller Hall. If you enter from the door closest to Hanna Hall, the Registrar will be past the staircase on your right. Here, you can make adjustments to your schedule and get most regis-tration questions answered.

Questions about Residence Life or campus activities?

• Student Services is located on the third floor of Stover Campus Center – take a sharp left at the top of the stairs. In Student Services, you can address issues with your ID or keys, sign up for campus events, talk to the dean or find a Resident Director.

Questions about jobs, internships or resumes?

• Career Services Center is on the third floor of Stover Campus Center – take a sharp left at the top of the stairs; the Center will be on your right near the bathrooms. The experts there can assess your resume and help you find job and internship opportunities.

Tutoring?

• The Knox Learning Center is on the first floor of Eberly Library. Talk to Pam Abbe, who will help you find a tutor for your subject. Don’t hesitate – dozens of students at Waynes-burg utilize the tutoring center every day to be at their best.

Maintenance requests, IT requests, and parking pass applications?

• The myConnect home page is the best source for a lot of information and forms. Maintenance requests are under the Residence Life tabs, and many other links can be found along the left-hand side of the page.

The Nurse and IT Offices? • Both are in the Wiley Armory at the bottom of Washington

Street (the street that runs through the center of campus) and across from the Fitness Center. Head downstairs for the Nurse and upstairs for IT.

Service opportunities?• The Center for Service Leadership is on the first floor of

Stover Campus Center. The staff there is always happy to connect you with a service opportunity that fits your needs and your passions.

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