By Sarah BellExecutive Editor

Waynesburg BoroughPolice and the Waynes-burg University Depart-ment of Public Safety areinvestigating several inci-dents of a motorist propo-sitioning and exposinghimself to young women.

Accord-ing to MikeHumiston,director ofPublic Safe-ty, therehave report-edly beenthree inci-dents in thearea and,althoughnone ofthem wereon campus,two werefairly closeand involved WaynesburgUniversity students.

“Stuff like this doesdrive me crazy,” Humis-ton said. “This person ispretty brazen. Hopefullywe can get this get stoppedbefore it gets to the nextlevel.”

The Department ofPublic Safety has notifiedthe residence life staff toadvice their co-eds aboutthese incidents, with thehopes that encouragingstudents to travel ingroups or be aware of theirsurroundings will preventfurther incidents.

“What worries me, notonly from a Department ofPublic Safety standpoint,

but from a father stand-point, is seeing studentswalking through the parklate at night. They need tobe more aware of their sur-roundings,” said Humis-ton. “Don’t take advan-tage that it’s Waynesburgand nothing ever happenshere; it happens every-where. I don’t want one of

our peopleto be a vic-tim.”

Accord-ing topolicereports, thevictimswereinconsis-tent intheirdescrip-tions of thevehiclethat theman was

driving; however, hisphysical description werethe same from each wit-ness.

The women, who areall in their early 20s,described the man aswhite, with short darkblond or light brown hairand a thin build.

Humiston added to thedescription, saying thatthe man is around 25 to 30years old.

The victims told policethe man pulled up to themwhile they were walkingdown the street, openedhis car door, offered to paythem for explicit acts andexposed himself to them.

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Freshmen Maura Bobby, Lauren Blair, Heather Davis and Sarah Scipio celebrate the arrival of warm weather bythrowing Frisbee on the lawn of Miller Hall Tuesday evening.

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By Sarah BellExecutive Editor

They expected toarrive in Canada.

Instead, they foundthemselves in the Unit-ed States Customs Bor-der Protection building.

When 22 students andtrip leaders Luke Payson,resident director, and hiswife Michelle piled intotwo vans early Sunday,no one expected the jour-ney to Niagara Fallswould quickly becomethe stuff televisionshows are made of.

When the two vansarrived at the UnitedStates-Canada borderright on time, what thetrip leaders did not know

was that Pedro Torrez,freshman foreignexchange student fromGuatemala, did not havethe specific visa neededto get into Canada.

“An adventure”Although none of the

students blamed Torrez,being turned away byCanada caused a setbackfor half of the studentswho attended the trip.While they weredetained, the other halfof the group got to con-tinue onto the Falls.

Dana Holzpfel, a soph-omore early childhoodeducation major, did notmind having to take adetour through U.S. cus-toms.

“This is more fun

than I think going to seethe water,” she said.“This is such an adven-ture.”

Other students sharedsimilar feelings aboutthe change of plans, say-ing that they now hadthe opportunity to see“the back streets of Buf-falo, New York” and jok-ing that the trip becametheir “mission trip to thefalls.”

After the van theywere traveling in wassearched, a securityguard gave the studentsand the Paysons permis-sion to travel back intothe states, screaming“good luck” as the trav-

Crossing the border: Niagara Falls trip takes unexpected turn

WU warned ofman who exposedhimself to students

By Nika Anschuetz Staff Writer

“We were told underall circumstances that wewere made equal,” saidSupreme Court JusticeClarence Thomas.

“They held us to thatstandard.”

Justice ClarenceThomas spoke on variousethical, social and politi-cal issues to a group ofover a thousand people atthe Duquesne School of

Law. Waynesburg Universi-

ty Stover Scholars wereamong the group oflawyers, judges, studentsand faculty invited to lis-ten to Justice Thomas onTues., April 9.

The afternoon beganwith a video giving inti-mate details of JusticeThomas’s life.

Clarence Thomas wasborn into humble begin-nings in Pin Point, Geor-gia, in 1948.

His mother sent andhis brother and him tolive with her father andstepmother at a youngage.

Thomas talked aboutthe difficulties he hadgrowing up as an African-American in the 50s.

He said he was oftenlooked down uponbecause of his color, butthat didn’t stop him frombeing proud of his her-itage.

Justice Thomas said he

believes that there is aparticular narrative paint-ed about the south.

Despite the povertythat plagued his town anddespite his circum-stances, he loved his fam-ily, church and neighbor-hood.

Much of Thomas’s lec-ture focused on the cul-ture change in the northand the south.

He compared it to

Stover Scholars learn about ethics, politicsSUPREME COURT JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS SPEAKS

“Don’t takeadvantage that it’sWaynesburg andnothing ever happenshere; it happenseverywhere.”

Mike HumistonDirector of Public Safety

Photo by Katherine Mansfield

Mindy Hooven, a freshman nursing major, takes photographs of Niagara Falls dur-ing a day trip to the national landmark Sunday.

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Speaker encourages audience to ‘obey the call-CHAPEL

By Rob LongoEditorial Assistant

“This is the day theLord has made. Let usrejoice and be glad in it.”

These words, uttered byInterim Director of Chris-tian Life Reverend DonaldWilson, kicked off chapelthis past Tuesday.

Following the introduc-tion by Wilson, a hymn ofpraise from the book ofPsalms, titled “FairestLord Jesus,” was sung.

After the hymn ofpraise, university chaplainTom Ribar addressed theaudience for the day’s les-son, which came from thefirst chapter of the Book ofPsalms in the Old Testa-ment. The passage talked

about wisdom and thosewho seek it.

The Lamplighters Con-cert Choir then took cen-ter stage, leading the con-gregation in song as theysang, “Let the Song GoRound the Earth,” andaccompanied by JannaKisner on piano. Wilsonthen once again took tothe podium and conduct-ed a morning prayer, fol-lowed by the day’s lesson;be nice to everyone, evenif you don’t like him orher.

“We all meet those peo-ple we just don’t like,”Wilson said. “For whatev-er reason, we just don’tcare for them.”

Wilson based his lessonoff of a story that he sum-

marized from the ninthchapter in the Acts of theApostles. The story talksabout how Saul of Tarsusthreatened people whopreached the Word of God.On his way to Damascus,God comes to Saul andtells him to find Ananias.When the Lord tells this toAnanias, he is reluctant todo so, because of what hehas heard about Saul. TheLord insists that this is theway He would like to pro-claim His name to theGentiles. Soon, Saulbegins proclaiming theWord of God after beingbaptized by Ananias.

“Saul is that instru-ment of God that changedthe complexion of theChurch of Jesus Christ,”

said Wilson.Wilson also posed a

question to the audience.“Ask yourself; ‘what

would happen if I obey thecalling of the Lord?’”

Wilson then talkedabout how we may ignoreGod at times, but we havemore than enoughchances to make it up.

“We may argue with[God], but He is so patientwith us,” Wilson said.

After Wilson was donespeaking, he led a briefprayer. After the prayer,another hymn, “He isLord,” was sung.

Following the hymnwas the benediction givenby Wilson, followed byone final song, “WhereThere is Freedom.”

Jennifer Schouppe,freshman communicationmajor, was one of the vic-tims.

According to Schouppe,the experience was eyeopening for her.

“I honestly thought thiscampus was so safe that Iwould walk around bymyself all the time. Butnow, since this situation,I’m way more cautiousabout my surroundings,”Schouppe said.

Schouppe said that sheencountered the manaround 5:15 p.m. March17 on Berryhill Alley –near the maintenanceparking lot.

Schouppe was the thirdvictim who reported anincident in March.

The first incidentoccurred around 1 p.m.March 6 on South MorrisStreet.

The second happenedless than an hour later onthe same day on FirstAvenue.

Humiston said that theDepartment of PublicSafety is working in con-junction with WaynesburgBorough Police with the

hopes that they piecetogether a clearer physicaldescription of the man orhis vehicle.

Humiston hopes thecollaboration results inthe arrest of the manresponsible for the inci-dents.

“I would just really likeour students to be some-times a little more andsometimes a lot moreobservant to the thingsgoing on around them,”Humiston said.

However, Humistonadded that the Waynes-burg students involvedreacted appropriately tothe situation. The stu-dents walked away from

the man and ignored him,Humiston said.

“Getting into a con-frontation with an individ-ual like this is not the wayto handle it,” he said.

Humiston was hopefulthat the man had beenidentified when a similarincident occurred inCarmichaels; however,the man in question wasquickly ruled out, as hedid not meet any of thephysical descriptions ofthe witnesses.

Anyone with additionalinformation or who mayhave encountered the sus-pect is asked to call bor-ough police at 724-627-8113.

Studentswarned

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speaking three differentforms of English.

After Thomas receivedhis education, he neverwanted to appear asthough he were talkingdown to the leaders in hiscommunity.

Ken Gromley, the mod-erator and dean atDuquesne UniversitySchool of Law, comparedThomas’s three dialectsto Pittsburghese.

When Thomas said, “Inoticed that, but I wasn’tgoing to say anything,”the crowd erupted intolaughter.

After high school,Thomas attended HolyCross College, Concep-tion Seminary and YaleLaw School.

He did not receive a jobright out of law school,but he did come acrossJohn Danforth andworked under him inMissouri.

Thomas worked forReagan as the chair of theEqual EmploymentOpportunity Commis-sion and, in 1991, GeorgeH.W Bush appointed himto the Supreme Court.

Justice Thomas wasthe successor to JusticeThurgood Marshall, thefirst African-Americanappointed to the SupremeCourt.

Although they did notagree on many issues, Jus-tice Marshall offered thisadvice to Justice Thomas.

“I had to do in my timewhat I had to do, and youhave to do in your timewhat you have to do.”

Thomas’s speech res-onated with the audience,especially with youngStover Scholars.

“I thoroughly enjoyedlistening to such a promi-nent figure from suchsmall beginnings,” saidjunior secondary historyeducation major Dan Buz-zard.

“Coming from veryhumble beginningsmyself, I could relate to alot of the hard work thatwas the foundation for hischildhood. That samehard-working mentality,which his grandpapreached, has got him towhere he is today. It wasvery inspiring.”

Thomas developed astrong faith in God at ayoung age.

His original dream wasto become a Catholicpriest.

“I remember sisterMary Delarosa asked us‘Why are you here?’,”recalled Thomas. Hisanswer? “God made us toknow love and serve himin this life.”

His strong faith has

carried through to hiswork as a Supreme Courtjustice.

He did not want to bestereotyped into thinkingor believing a certain waybecause he is an African-American.

“I never called myselfconservative,” saidThomas.

“In the 1980s theycalled us black conserva-tives as if it were somevial thing.”

Justice Thomasexpressed the importanceof having his own opin-ion.

He is not one for poli-tics. He simply does hisjob.

“I really enjoyed howhe didn’t want to be put ina box: he kept going backto the idea of being toldwhat to think,” said fresh-man computer sciencemajor Matt Kenney.

When speaking of theother justices, Thomaswas very diplomatic.

He doesn’t believe thathis opinion is the gospeltruth.

He respects and valuesthe opinions of others. Inthe media, he is oftenreferred to as the silentjustice.

During oral argumentshe isn’t one for talking.

“The thing I liked mostabout him was how herespectfully dissents,”said sophomore second-ary English educationmajor Gina Robinson.

“He admits that hedoesn’t know the gospeltruth; he just merely hasan opinion”

Not only did he talkabout life and lessonslearned, but JusticeThomas also answeredsome of the hard ques-tions as well.

“I’ve never run frombullies,” said Thomas,when asked about theAnita Hill controversy.

“You’re supposed tostand your ground. Thankgoodness the people inthe country are betterthan the people whothink they’re better thaneveryone else.”

He spoke very fervent-ly about things that brokehis heart.

The breakdown of theblack family is somethinghe is concerned about. Hementioned that, when hewas growing up, at theend of the day at least youhad family.

“When that is gone,what are you left with?”asked Thomas.

After a long and fulfill-ing lecture, Thomas leftthe crowd with one finalremark.

“I want to talk to thestudents,” he said.

“Sometimes whenyou get a degree youdon’t know what you’regoing to accomplish. Wedo well in order to dogood.”

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The third annual PublicRelations Week will takeplace next week on Way-nesburg University’s cam-pus.

“It is a celebration of thestudy of PR,” said RichardKrause, chair of theDepartment of Communi-cation.

The week’s schedule isfilled with events that areof interest to studentsstudying public relations.

“PR Week is reallyenjoyable – it really feelslike you’re a family withall the PR students,” saidMolly Winters, presidentof Waynesburg’s PRSSAchapter.

Krause agreed that PRWeek presents studentswith unique opportunities.

“This is a good way tostrengthen our internalchapter of PR,” he said.

All public relationsmajors are involved in theplanning of PR week,including students in the

Intro to Public Relationsclass.

“It is a week to get awayfrom the textbook styleand apply it to real life, andit is also a big networkingevent,” said Abby Pitti-naro, vice president ofPRSSA said.

Krause was proud ofhow his students handledthe planning and execu-tion of the week.

“The students havebeen very ambitious andhave been hard workingputting on this event,”said Krause. “It’s amazingwe have been such a majorprogram in PR. They havecreated an event that willbe very successful for yearsto come.”

On Monday, the themeof the events is profession-al development and educa-tion.

An Young ProfessionalsAlumni panel and recep-tion is the main event ofthe week, Krause said.

“The alumni panel’sgreat because what itshows our current stu-

dents is that kids wholeave our program go outand get jobs in public rela-tions,” he said.

An executive vice presi-dent of Corporate Com-munications and ExternalAffairs for L’Oreal USAwill speak alongside thecommittee chair and stu-dent liaison for PublicRelations Society of Amer-ica - Pittsburgh duringMonday’s festivities.

“PR Week is a very sig-nificant event for us, andwe look at this, basically,as a weeklong celebrationof the study of public rela-tion,” Krause said.

On Tuesday, the eventswill focus on public rela-tions industries.

The speakers on Tues-day include the campaignmarketing manager forUPMC Health Plan, thedirector of public relationsand social media at Gates-man + Dave, the directorof External Affairs and thecoordinator of ExternalAffairs at Cabot Oil andGas Corporation.

“We have a lot of peopleparticipating to make thisa really good event, and itis,” Krause said.

“It was a very goodevent last year, and I thinkit has the potential to beeven stronger this year.”

Wednesday will focuson internal communica-tions and employee rela-tions.

The day will focus moreon Waynesburg Universitypublic relations profession-als and students.

It kicks off with a break-fast with the public rela-tions professionals oncampus.

In addition, the PRSSAinduction and internshippresentations for seniorstudents in the major willtake place that day.

According to Krause,this event is considered aunique event among chap-ters of PRSSA.

“We have also found inprevious years that our PRWeek is more involved

Week celebrates study of public relations

By Northe Campbell-EscalanteStaff Writer

As a senior psychologymajor, Brooke Andersonspends most of her timehelping others, but now,she will step in the spotlight to perform in WU’sGot Talent in the GPAC at8 p.m.

“Because I haven’t doneanything all year and since

I’m a senior, I wanted to dosomething and show offmy talent,” said Anderson.

On April 11, StudentSenate is hosting the annu-al event.

“It’s basically like a tal-ent show,” said Pat Bristor,associate Dean of Students.“It’s a spinoff of AmericasGot Talent, the show ontelevision. This year, Stu-dent Senate is doing it aspart of Spring Week.”

year it’s an actual con-test.”

The winner of the talentcompetition will receive acash prize. The winner willbe selected by the audi-ence.

There are 17 acts inplace - the winner willreceive $200.

Like previous talentcontests at WaynesburgUniversity, at the end ofthe competition students

will be able to vote for thewinner.

“Students will vote forwho they want to win bycircling your favorite act onthe program sheet,” saidPetrone.

Anderson feels asthough the show this is agreat way for students toget involved and perform.

“People can share theirtalents and have fun doingit,” said Anderson.

WU’s Got Talent gives students new opportunity

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By Sarah BellExecutive Editor

Waynesburg Universitystudents faced the sting ofnumerous challenges dur-ing Sting’s Gauntlet onApril 5.

The Student ActivitiesBoard hoped that studentswould compete for thefun of a challenge. Withthe exception of the win-ners, none of the partici-pants received a prize;however, the first 30 stu-dents to arrive received afree T-Shirt.

Shawn Wharrey, Stu-dent Senate president,was one of the competi-tors in the event.

“I would say manywould agree with me insaying the hardest part ofthe course was having togo up the hill behindThayer,” Wharrey said.

“It was one of the lastchallenges, so by the timeyou got there you werealready tired and then hadto climb the hill throughthe woods.”

Wharrey said thecourse provided more of achallenge than typicalraces do at the university– but that was part of thefun of the event.

“I liked going through

the mud crawl, mainlybecause it was a mudcrawl,” Wharrey saidlaughing.

“When I finished, Ilooked at everyone elseand they were muddy ontheir arms and legs, butnot their shirt. ApparentlyI was one of the only oneswho just plopped rightinto the mud.”

Luke Payson, ResidentDirector and AssistantCoach for the track teamat Waynesburg, helpedcreate and design thecourse along with SteveSnow, a junior criminaljustice major.

“Our hope was to cre-ate an event that gave stu-dents the feel of a Tough-Mudder type run, while at

the same time being funand not as challenging,”Payson said.

“It would be great ifstudents who ran the racegot interested in obstacleraces, rather than at othervenues. The hope is thatSting’s Gauntlet willbecome a yearly eventthat builds in tradition.We are exited about the

success of the first timedoing this and will takewhat we learned this yearand apply to next year tomake Sting’s Gauntleteven better.”

Andrew Manke, BeckyHotek and Tiffany Oniferwon the challenge; eachwinner received $100,Wharrey said.

To win, they simply

had to be the first maleand female competitor tocross the finish line;Hotek and Onifer tied.

“The unique part ofSting’s Gauntlet is that itis different from any otherraces that SAB does,”Payson said. “Sting’sGauntlet is more chal-lenging than a normal runor race and that is itsappeal. Sting’s Gauntletwas created due to thegrowing popularity ofchallenge runs.”

The events participantsincluded 36 students andtwo faculty members.

According to Wharrey,the event, which wasnamed after the Waynes-burg mascot, wasextremely worthwhile.

“It was a great form ofexercise for the day. It def-initely beat going to thegym by providing a vari-ety of tasks that were notonly physically challeng-ing but fun as well,”Wharrey said.

“It was great fun to par-ticipate. I signed up withmy friends and we weredoing it just for the fun wewere not trying to win. Itwas actually quite chal-lenging too.”

Participants hope to create a ‘tradition’ with Sting’s Gauntlet

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Senior chemistry major Corey Rearick faces the mud crawl challenge as a part of Sting’s Gauntlet on April 5. The36 students and two faculty members who participated faced a number of obstacles during the event.

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By Nick FarrellAssistant Sports Editor

When Chris and KelleyHardie, both assistantdeans of Student Services,were engaged, they decid-ed that they wanted tocommit their marriage toa purpose that wouldserve their community.

“Cancer has touched usin so many ways withfamily and friends,” saidKelley Hardie. “We’ve lostmany amazing peoplebecause of the disease, andin some way, we wantedto find a cure and make adifference.”

The Hardies haveexpressed their devotionto the American CancerSociety by organizing aMini-Relay for Life atWaynesburg Universityfor the last six years. Thisyear’s Mini-Relay isscheduled for Sunday.

With the event justdays away, news fromStanford Universityshows just how successfulsome cancer research is.Science Magazine report-ed last week that a newtreatment passed a seriesof monitored tests on labmice.

For a decade, biologistsat the Stanford UniversitySchool of Medicine havebeen studying how a pro-tein called CD47 maskscancer cells from thebody’s immune system.Scientists monitored thegrowth of human tumorson the feet of mice andfound that when a CD47-blocking antibody wasgiven to the rodents, thesize of the tumor clearlydecreased.

Additionally, five mice

with transplanted breastcancer tumors were treat-ed with the same anti-body. In each case, theanti-CD47 treatmenteliminated all signs ofcancer cells in the ani-mals.

“To understand a dis-ease like cancer is verytedious, and to know thatpossible cures are current-ly being researched is veryexciting,” said MariettaWright, assistant professorof biology. “While thework at Stanford is pre-liminary, with the use ofmice models, it seemsvery promising.”

According to the samereport, human safety testsmay be conducted in thenear future. Hardie isexcited that there aresome positives surround-ing cancer research as thecampus communitymakes its final prepara-tions for the Mini-Relay.

“Chris always says thatthere will be a cure duringhis lifetime, and I trulybelieve that,” said KelleyHardie. “With the medicalscience that we have, withthe truly gifted people inthis world, I really feelthat God will bless uswith a cure one day.”

What that cure will bestill remains uncertain,but Wright is also hopefulthat the work put forth atStanford will make a dif-ference in many lives.

“I’ve taught and readabout cancer research forabout 12 years, and origi-nally, it was thought thatcancer would be cured bynow: However, cancer ismore complex depending

Mini-Relay for Liferaises awareness,support on campus

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than what a lot of otherPRSSA chapters do,”Krause said.

“A lot of them will havea PR day, for example,where they do some pro-gramming, but there aren’ta lot of schools that areactually developing aweeklong series of activi-ties.”

The events wrap up onThursday, with a series of

University Relations-themed events.

George Cicci, director ofIntegrated Marketing, andPam Cunningham, aninstructor in the Depart-ment of Communication,will speak to public rela-tions students.

The final event of PR

Week is a movie night fea-turing “Wag the Dog.”

“I’m very proud of whatthe students have beenable to achieve with this,”Krause said.

“It’ll be a busy week.It’ll be an exciting week,but we’re poised and readyto offer a great program.”

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elers opened the doorand climbed back in thevan.

Torrez himself did notsay much about the situ-ation, except that he feltboth the Canadian andUnited States bordercontrols handled the sit-uation in a “sucky”manner.

Oh, CanadaBack in Canada, the

remaining 12 studentswere enjoying the sitesat Niagara Falls.

Although the groupfelt bad that their class-mates in the other vanmight have a long waitto get back into Canada,they were excited to beat Falls.

“Honestly, we werehoping that the othervan wasn’t going to haveto wait very long, but wewere happy that we wereallowed to go ahead,”said Shawn Wharrey,senior marine biologymajor. “Our group wasvery excited that we alsodidn’t have to wait.”

While the other stu-dents were traveling

through America, thestudents at the Fallswent exploring. The sawthe Falls, rode the Ferriswheel outside of the parkand explored the town.

“The trip to NiagaraFalls was fantastic,”Wharrey said. “I havenever been there beforeand it was one of theplaces on my list to gobefore I die, so I canmark that one off. Thefalls were beautiful andit was such a great day tobe outside.”

The students in Whar-rey’s van were able tomake a second stop atthe Falls before they metwith the other group ofstudents and left for theday.

Roaring waterOne of the students in

the first van had a friendliving in Buffalo.

For Torrez, it was afortunate coincidence.Payson and the otherstudents dropped him offat the house in Buffaloand went on their way.Though they felt guiltyabout leaving Torrezbehind, they were eagerto get to the Falls andmake the most of theirtrip.

The students in thegroup did not make it toNiagara Falls until 2:30

p.m. On their journeyback to Canada, they gotlost several times andwere beginning tobecome discouraged.However, according tostudents, the trip wasextremely worthwhile.The national landmarkamazed Mindy Hooven,a freshman nursingmajor.

“I always just reallywanted to travel and seedifferent landmarks.Coming here, I’m justawestruck,” saidHooven. “I can’t believethis is a part of nature.It’s such an amazingthing.”

Although she and herpeers only had two hoursto take in the historicsite, Hooven made themost out of the trip andwished other Waynes-burg students wouldhave been able to havethe same experience shehad Sunday.

“I wish they couldhear this right now, too –hear the roar,” she said.“That’s pretty cool.”

ReunitedAt 5 p.m. the students

met back in a parking lotjust outside of NiagaraFalls; with the exceptionof Torrez, everyone wasreunited.

Going back over the

border of the UnitedStates was one of themost interesting experi-ences for students – espe-cially for those that hadnot already traveled backinto the states that day.

“I thought goingthrough the border wasinteresting,” Wharreysaid.

“I have never crosseda border via car before,only by plane. It wasfunny to me because Ionly knew about half thepeople in my van andthey asked me, since Iwas the driver, how weall knew each other,where we were from,what we were doing,how long we would bethere. It also took somuch longer to get backto the U.S. than it did toget into Canada.”

The first van met Tor-rez right as it crossedinto the United States.He was beaming, holdinga T-Shirt that he boughtat a local gift shop.

He spent his dayexploring the U.S. side ofNiagara Falls. Althoughit was not how hethought his day wouldgo, he too was pleasedwith the trip.

“It wasn’t less than Iexpected,” he said. “Itwas good.”

Photo by Katherine Mansfield

Students could hear the roar of the falls before they could see the historic landmark. A group of 22 students andtwo trip leaders traveled to Niagara Falls as part of a Student Activities Board event Sunday.

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Payson agreed thatSting’s Gauntlet was agreat experience for every-one involved.

“My favorite part ofthis event was seeing howthe students had so muchfun doing the race andhow proud they werewhen they completed it,”Payson said. “One of thekeys to making a greatobstacle course is to makethe events hard enough topush the participants,while at the same timekeeping the race manage-able [enough for] partici-

pants to complete it.”For Payson, it was nice

to see his vision of the dif-ferent events become areality.

“It was rewarding tosee student doing chal-lenges that I created,” hesaid. “A lot of the eventswere just in theory eventsthat sounded like a goodidea, but it is always moreimportant to see how thestudents respond to thechallenges. But in large,all the challenges werewell received and welearned important lessonsto make the events evenbetter for next year.”

Student Senate repre-sentatives and SAB mem-bers facilitated the eventsand helped to make theday even more successful,

Payson said.“I am very pleased with

the turn out to Sting’sGauntlet, as this was theinaugural race,” Paysonsaid.

“Sting’s Gauntlet will

be back next spring andhopefully gets event moreparticipation. It was alsogreat to see the studentswho came to support theevent and cheer on theirfriends.”

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on its location,” saidWright. “Therefore, cer-tain types of cancer mayrequire different treat-ments. [If] the research atStanford finds that allhuman cancer has thesame common trait, ittruly could be a ‘cure-all.’”

For now, though Hardieis focused on her involve-ment with the Mini-Relay, which she believesis an opportunity for stu-dents to both support sur-vivors and to learn howcancer affects both thepatient and his or her fam-ily.

“The purpose of form-ing the Mini-Relay for Lifesix years ago was to havestudent involvement,because the Relay for Lifewhich occurs in town-which is the 24-hourRelay- always happensduring summer break,”said Hardie.

“So this was a way toinvolve our students inthe Waynesburg [Borough]Relay for Life by providingour own Mini-Relay forLife here on campus.”

To Hardie’s surprise,

students immediatelyembraced the event andhave continued toenhance it year after year.

The number of teamsthat participate in theMini-Relay has increasedeach year; this year, 32teams are participatingwith the hopes of raising$24,000 for cancerresearch, according toHardie.

“The ultimate goal isnot just for that day, butcontinuing to make a dif-ference throughout theentire year,” said Hardie.

“That’s why we startearly in the year and that’swhy we end with thisevent: because it’s not justa one day event. It’s a serv-ice that we can providenonstop throughout theyear.”

The Mini-Relay for Lifebegins at 9 a.m. Sundaywith events continuingthroughout the day.

Hardie encourages allstudents, especially thosewho have never partici-pated in the Relay for Life,to come to Johnson Com-mons and participate ingames, raffles and theother planned activities.

“I’ve had studentscome up to me after theirfirst Relay and say that itwas a life-changing experi-ence,” said Hardie.

Relay raisesawareness

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By Adam MosesStaff Writer

“I cannot wait to set footon campus and makemy  Alma  Mater proud,”said Andrew Palko, a Way-nesburg University alum-nus who will be replacingPatrick Violette, the cur-rent head athletic trainer,this summer.

Palko graduated fromWaynesburg University in2005 with a bachelors ofscience in athletic training.

“He will definitely be apositive influence on theprogram because he bringsnew life. He has gone outand worked in other placesand he can provide us withmore connections andideas. He is a fresh face,”said sophomore athletictraining major HaydenGiuliani. “I don’t think hewill have any negativitywith him. His attitude anddisposition seems verygood about the whole situ-ation, and he wants to be apart of everything.”

While at Waynesburg,Palko played offensive linefor the football team andwas a member of the 2003conference championshipteam. Palko is experiencedin the realm of athletictraining. He accepted agraduate assistantship atOhio University immedi-ately after graduating fromWaynesburg.

Upon graduation fromOhio University, he took aposition at UPMC SportsMedicine in Pittsburgh. In2008, he accepted a posi-tion at Ashland Universityin Ohio. During his timethere he met his futurewife, and they eventuallymoved to Greensboro Col-lege in Greensboro, N.C.

“I think that he will def-initely influence the pro-gram in a positive waybecause he is a Waynesburg

graduate, so he wentthrough the program whenit was this advanced,” saidfreshman athletic trainingmajor Kourtney Skinner.“I know that he is going todo whatever he can tomake sure that we get themost out of workingthrough this program, to beas best as we can be.”

Unfortunately, sportsinjuries so happen. Whenthey do, athletes at WU arecared for by the well-trained athletic trainingstaff, and students are givenreal-world experience intheir field. With the addi-tion of Palko, the athletictraining program willbecome even moreinvolved.

“My staff and I willensure that our numberone priority is to ensure thehealth and safety of all ourstudent athletes,” saidPalko.

With recent changes inthe Waynesburg faculty,some may question Palko’sability to bring solidity to achanging system.

“I think that he has goodintentions for the programand he will be leading thefuture students in the rightdirection,” said senior ath-letic training major Bran-don Karabinos. “He’s ayounger guy, so if he couldbring some stability to theprogram and continue toeducate the students ontobright futures, I think hewill be pretty successful.”

Palko is excited to jointhe Waynesburg athletictraining staff and has bigplans for the athletes hewill be in charge of.

“Although I will beoverseeing all aspects ofthe athletic training room, Iwill be responsible forensuring that the footballteam is healthy to bringhome another conferencechampionship,” said Palko.

Waynesburg alumnusjoins university faculty

By Katherine MansfieldCopy Editor

Wade’s Body Shopwas the topic of heateddiscussion at the Way-nesburg Borough Coun-cil meeting Monday.

Wade’s, situatedalong Maiden Street, isinfamous for the heavytraffic it attracts to itsresidential location.

“He gets so muchbusiness. If [a car is]insured, it becomes partof the scenery,” saidcouncil presidentCharles Berryhill. “Youcan’t drive there.”

Driving down the

road is only half the bat-tle.

“You can’t even walkdown Maiden Street -there’s cars on bothsides,” said Dar Fitch,representative of wardthree.

Maiden Street andnearby Cherry Streetand Findley Alley lotare crowded with localand non-local cars andsemi trucks that flockto Wade’s for inspec-tions and other autobody work, said councilmembers. Residents

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Hammer heads

Cache Me if You Can returns to Greene County for second year

Historical Societyprepares museum foropening day April 27

By Eric BostEditorial Assistant

Blacksmiths youngand old will be showingoff a variety of their cre-ations next weekend atthe 25th annual Ham-mer-In festival.

The festival will behosted by the Appalachi-an Blacksmiths Associa-tion and the PittsburghArea Artist-BlacksmithsAssociation on Sat.,April 20.

Multiple black-smithing demonstra-tions will be conductedby Ed Appleby, TerryViviani and Wayne Kellyfrom the Fort AllenAntique Farm Equip-ment Association and byTim Schiffbauer, presi-dent of AppalachianBlacksmiths Associa-tion.

Chris Holt, PittsburghArea Artist-BlacksmithAssociation secretaryand editor, said that thedemonstrations willmainly focus on gettingready for the summer.

“Wayne Kelly will bedemonstrating how to

make a camp grill andutensils for camping,and Terry Viviani will bedemonstrating a steakchurner. These will begreat with Bar-B-Queseason coming up,” saidHolt.

“Ed Appleby will beturning out some uniqueitems. He will have avariety of hooks andthings to bid on as well.”

After the demonstra-tions, an auction will beheld at 1 p.m. Black-smiths of all ages will beselling their own hand-made creations. All pro-ceeds benefit the black-smith organizations andcontinued restoration ofthe foundry andmachine shop.

Holt said that the agerange of blacksmithsthat will have handmadeironworks auctioned offis anywhere between 17to mid-90s.

She said that involv-ing the younger genera-tions of Rices Landing isan important part of pre-serving the black-smithing culture thatthe area is known for.

“Young smiths canuse traditional tech-niques that are age-old,”said Holt.

“Using those tech-niques and skills canmake wonderful con-temporary pieces thatare great for homes andbusinesses, like railingsand fences.”

The festival will beheld at the W.A. Young& Sons Foundry andMachine Shop in RicesLanding, Pa. While thedemonstrations are pre-formed, multiple toursof the building will beavailable for attendees aswell.

“It truly is a step backin time,” said Holt.“Things are left therejust as they were the daythey shut down.”

Greene County’s coaldistribution and black-smithing history lives onin the century old build-ing, as most of the origi-nal machinery is stillthere.

Although the foundryclosed down in 1969, itplays host to the Ham-mer-In and has since

been brought back to lifeafter restorations beganin 2012.

“The equipment isline-shaft driven, whichis unique to see for any-body that’s interested inold machinery,” saidHolt.

One example of theuniqueness in the build-ing’s technology iswhere a gas light hangsnext to an electric light,showing the transferfrom gas to electricity.

Holt said that withthe restoration of thefoundry, Rices Landingand the rest of GreeneCounty is able to comein and see a great part ofthe county’s coal andsteel history.

“It’s sort of like seeinga museum of long agojust as it was. Our black-smiths go and do demon-strations there and it’slike stepping back intime,” said Holt.

“If you closed youreyes and opened them,you can imagine yourselfback in the 30s or 40s,the way things used tobe done.”

By Kyle EdwardsSenior Editor

Greene County His-torical Society gettingready for opening day

The Greene CountyHistorical Society muse-um is getting ready toofficially open for theseason. According toMuseum AdministratorEben Williams, openingday for the museum isApril 27.

“On that day, we’ll beholding a pancake break-fast from 8 a.m. untilnoon. It will be all youcan eat pancakes: $6 foradults and $3 for chil-dren 12 and under,” hesaid. “In addition to theregular buttermilk pan-

cakes, we’ll also havebuckwheat cakes, corncakes and plenty of local-ly-made sausage.”

The all you can eatpancakes won’t be theonly big event going on,Williams said.

“In lieu of a speakerthis year, the local reen-acting troop, the 140Pennsylvania Volun-teers, Company A, willbe holding a living histo-ry reenactment through-out the day,” he said. “Inaddition, we’ll also holdour membership meet-ing at 1 p.m., where weapprove new boardmembers and talk aboutsome of the plans and

By Kyle EdwardsSenior Editor

Geocaching is an out-door recreational activi-ty, first played in May2000, in which the par-ticipants use a GlobalPositioning Systemreceiver or mobile deviceand other navigationaltechniques to hide andseek containers, called“geocaches” or“caches,” anywhere inthe world.

For the second year,Greene County hasadopted a version of thisworld-wide game in theform of its Cache Me ifYou Can event.

According to AprilMorris, recreation asso-ciate for the GreeneCounty Department ofRecreation, the GreeneCounty version of thisgame was implemented

as a way to get people toexplore the county.

“A few of us in theoffice actually do thegeocaching so wethought it would be agood way to get peopleto come to the differentareas that we have in the

county,” she said.Morris explained that

last year’s event requiredparticipants to snap aphoto of themselvesonce they found thecache, but this year’sevent will be run a littledifferently.

“Using the brochure,which has the coordi-nates [of the caches] onit, or you can go on geo-caching.com - five ofthose sites are listed onthere - you use your GPSor cell phone to findthose coordinates. Once

you find the coordinatesyou’ll find a little con-tainer,” Morris said.“Some of them have justa log - a piece of paper -that you can write downyour date and time. Theway we’re doing it thisyear, when you find the

location, they have apasscode and onceyou’ve found all eight,you have to email thelist to the Dept. ofRecreation.”

Another difference inthis year’s game is howthe winners are select-ed, Morris said.

“Everybody that’sturning in an entry isgetting a t-shirt. Thefirst ten are getting aone day pass to AlphaAquatic; after that,everybody will get a t-shirt,” she said. “Last

year, we set it up a littledifferent just to see howit went. Instead of writ-ing down a passcode,they had to take a pic-ture. We didn’t have a lotof people participate,though, so we had tochange it up a bit.”

Morris said that the

Photos courtesy of Greene County Department of Recreation

Cache Me if You Can is Greene County’s version of geocaching - a treasure hunting game in which participants usea GPS to locate small “caches” at certain coordinates. Some of last year’s participants are pictured here.

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Two local blacksmiths show off their craft at last year’s Hammer-in festival. The festival is held each year by theAppalachian Blacksmiths Association and the Pittsburgh Area Artist-Blacksmiths Association.

25th annual Hammer-In festival to be held at W.A. Youngand Sons Foundry and Machine Shop in Rices Landing

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versity they are told about all of the events andtrips that are available. This holds true as everyweek students receive emails and can find eventson the Waynesburg University website or the toi-let paper.

The student activities board does a great job ofplanning events and also promoting them. Theyeven reach out to the point of promoting withfliers in the bathrooms and all around campus.There are coffee houses and bingo nights alongwith performances by several music artists oncampus every week.

There was recently one to Niagara Falls. Letsbe serious, how often do you get the opportunityto go to Niagara Falls? There are also trips toPenguins and Pirates games, as long as there isnot a lockout at that time in the National Hock-ey League. The SAB does a great job at giving stu-dents things to take their minds off of school fora little while. Students may not realize it butthese small events and trips can make a big dif-ference in the campus life.

Go exploring!

Nearly 150 years afterAbraham Lincolndeclared the Emancipa-tion Proclamation,racism still exists.

In recent weeks, asmall, 400-student highschool in southern Geor-gia has gained nationalattention. For as long aspeople in the small com-munity of Wilcox Coun-ty High School canremember, studentsattended two separateproms. Caucasian stu-dents attended one prom,while African-Americanstudents attended a sepa-rate one.

However, StephanieSinnot, Mareshia Rucker,Quanesha Wallace andKeela Bloodworth arelooking to change that.The quartet of girls havebeen lifelong friends andhave done essentiallyeverything together. Astheir senior year windsdown, the girls wanted toaccomplish one morefeat together: and that isto all attend the sameprom.

In the year of 2013,some people may wonderhow this is still possible.Technically, the school isnot breaking any civilrights laws, because itdoes not fund the proms.Instead, parents and stu-dents are responsible for

raising the proper fundsand planning the events.Additionally, the promsare not on the school’scalendar of events nor onthe “School News” sec-tion of its website.

Basically, it’s like allparties involved ignoredit. It’s looked on as a tra-dition. It’s wrong. Thegroup of girls has pro-posed a simple solutionan integrated prom tosolve the problem of seg-regated proms.

The group of girls hashung signs all over theschool promoting theintegrated prom, and hasset a goal of selling 100tickets to the event. Sofar, the girls have sold 50tickets. As expected, thegirls are facing some non-compliance. The signshave been ripped down,and the feel around townis that some students andparents don’t agree withthe idea. However, noneof the students or parentsthat allegedly oppose theprom have done so pub-licly.

This past Tuesday,country star Brad Paisley

released his new albumtitled “Wheelhouse.”Paisley collaborated withrapper LL Cool J on asong called “AccidentalRacist.” The song talksabout how Paisley wearsa shirt that has a Confed-erate flag on it because heis a fan of LynyrdSkynyrd and not a racist.

For those who do notknow, Skynyrd’s long-time stage backdrop wasan oversized Confederateflag. Paisley sings in thesong that he is proud tobe from the South (whichI don’t really understand,because Paisley is origi-nally from West Virginia).At any rate, later on inthe song LL Cool J claimsthat he is misunderstoodbecause of the way hedresses. To follow upPaisley’s apology, Cool Japologized for not beingthere “when Sherman’sMarch turned the southinto firewood.”

When the album wasreleased, Paisley drewsome pretty rash criti-cism for the song, withmany media outlets say-ing that the song mayhave been one of theworst songs of all-time.

Personally, I enjoy thesong. But hey, maybethat’s why I’m writingthis column and not writ-ing for Rolling Stone.

Whether the song isgood or not, the point isbeing overlooked. Paisleyraises a very valuablequestion. Is the linebetween cultural pride,racism and ignoranceblurred? Are grudges stillheld generations later,despite people having nodirect correlationbetween the events thatled to the racial tensionsthat exist today?

The best question maybe, when will this stop?

Will racism and segre-gation ever die out in thiscountry? With the excep-tion of religious anxietiesoverseas, many differentraces live peacefully side-by-side. I understandthose countries are not“melting pots” like theUnited States, but that’sno excuse. There arethousands of examples ofracism and segregationalive in America today.These are just two of themost prime examples.

Towards the end of thesong “AccidentalRacism,” LL Cool J has aline that really struckme. The line goes: “Therelationship between theMason-Dixon needssome fixing.” Personally,I think a whole lot morethan the relationshipbetween the Mason-Dixon needs fixing.

Segregation still a problem in America

Several former gov-ernment administra-tion officials havegone on the recordcriticizing PresidentBarack Obama regard-ing the very “hush,hush” nature of theU.S. drone program.

“The administra-tion is hurting itselfby a lack of trans-parency,” said HaroldHongju Koh, formertop lawyer of theState Departmentduring a meeting ofthe American Societyof International Law.

“I’m not sure why aspeech would not begiven by the secretaryof state on this sub-ject, or by the presi-dent itself.”

If you’re confused,he’s referring toObama’s refusal torelease to Congressthe rules and regula-tions governing theUnited States droneprogram - a program

that has conductednearly 400 unmanneddrone strikes andkilled at least threeAmericans in the pastfour years.

“Our governmentfinds itself in a lose-lose proposition: itfails to officially con-firm many of itscounterterrorism suc-cess, and fails to offi-cially confirm, denyor clarify unsubstanti-ated reports of civil-ian casualties,” saidJeh Johnson, formergeneral counsel of theDefense Department.

In refusing torelease this informa-tion, Koh said thatthe President is ignor-ing the system ofchecks and balances

that has governed ourcountry from its earli-est days.

“In keeping thisinformation from theAmerican people, heis undermining thenation’s ability to be aleader on the worldstage and is acting inopposition to thedemocratic principleswe hold most impor-tant,” Koh said.

I am inclined toagree.

In his State of theUnion address,Obama promised thenation that hisadministration wouldbe “more transparentregarding our droneprogram.”

So far, that promisehas been an emptyone.

Since the State ofthe Union, only oneU.S. drone attack hasbeen reported.

That was in Pak-istan - nearly a month

ago. Several lawmakers

have called for newlegislation to increaseoversight of executivepower to choose tar-get lists and launchstrikes, including anew secret court sim-ilar to the one thatapproves surveillancewarrants against sus-pected spies.

Again. I’m inclinedto agree.

Pretty much every-thing else related togovernment in thiscountry has to gothrough a series ofchecks and balances,why not the droneprogram?

Why should thePresident be exemptfrom this system ofchecks and balances?

I’ll tell you: heshouldn’t.

All we’re want issome clarification.

Is that too much toask?

Obama not transparent enough about drones

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The month of Aprilmeans a few things forthe state of Pennsylva-nia: April showers, thepromise of May flowersand of course, PSSA test-ing.

I’m sure most of youare familiar with theweek-long PennsylvaniaSystem of School Assess-ment exams, whichmost of us painstakinglycompleted way backwhen in grades 3 through8 and 11.

I’ve always seen someserious flaws with stan-dardized testing (and notjust because I was kind ofa slacker in high school).And it seems as thoughmore and more peopleare agreeing with me.

Recently, the Associ-ated Press shed somelight on parents in thePittsburgh area choosingfor their children to “optout” of the PSSA exams.

Before you make anyassumptions, it’s notbecause they’re unedu-cated; two in particularare both professors, oneat the University of Pitts-burgh and the other atCarnegie Mellon.

Personally, I nevereven knew opting outwas an option and itdoesn’t seem as thoughmany other Pennsylvani-ans do either. Accordingto the state EducationDepartment, only 260out of approximately932,000 students thattake the PSSAs wereexcused from the mathand reading portions of

the exam, and even feweropted out of the scienceportion.

However, times maybe changing. Don’t getme wrong, I think it’simportant to keep trackof students’ progress andmake sure they’re per-forming to the best oftheir capabilities.

The premise of thegood ol’ No Child LeftBehind law makes sensein theory; no parentwants their child to fallbehind in school, andstandardized testing likethe PSSAs provides anextra report card for stu-dents and teachers aswell. In accordance withthe law, the annualexams determine aschool’s AYP, or “ade-quate yearly progress.” Ifa school fails to makeAYP, they receive someserious helicopter par-enting from the govern-ment, and if they becomea repeat offender, theycould be shut down com-pletely.

Every student who hastaken the PSSAs hasbeen threatened withthis. Students don’t faceany punishment if theydo poorly on the exams;it’s almost as if their per-formance dictates thefate of their favoriteteachers’ jobs, which

puts them under anunnecessary amount ofstress.

Although No ChildLeft Behind hopes to seeall students performingat their grade level by2014, approximately 70percent are performing ator above their grade lev-els. Seems like a longshot, right? And that’sexactly why Pennsylva-nia has applied for awaiver from the law.

This would complete-ly eliminate the AYPbench marker loomingover schools’ heads.

But if schools don’thave to worry aboutmeeting these standards,then what’s the purposeof the PSSAs anyway?Would anyone reallytake them seriously?

This is a big issue withthe tests already.

Although many stu-dents are stressing overthe PSSAs, there are justas many that are doingthe exact opposite.

In my own experience,very few students tookthe testing seriously bythe time they reachedhigh school.

One kid I graduatedwith drew a hand turkeyon every one of his read-ing comprehensionessays. (Take that,NCLB!) Needless to say,this wasn’t an accurateevaluation of his level ofintelligence.

(Or maybe it was.)I honestly think stu-

dents should be evaluat-ed by their performance

on their report cards andin the classroom at theirown pace; not overloadedwith information to keepup with state standards.Progress is important.

If a child goes from astraight D student tomaking Cs, that’s a stepin the right direction.

And has anyone everconsidered that schoolsare putting too muchemphasis on the wrongthings? I rememberPSSA time back when Iwas in school; our cur-riculum was completelydictated by what wewould be on our exams,and we had hours of testprep homework.

Yes, I’m fully awarethat the mitochondriaare the powerhouse ofthe cell, and I can calcu-late the radius of a circlepretty well. But at thispoint, I’m really wishingI would’ve been offeredsome more practicalcourses in high school.

I’m about to graduate,and I know almost asmuch about bills, taxes,loans and how to do myown laundry as I did inmiddle school – which isnext to nothing.

Even The Pennsylva-nia State EducationAssociation, the state’slargest teachers’ union,has acknowledged the“overuse or potentialmisuse of standardizedtesting results.”

So maybe it’s time toreevaluate what is reallyimportant in education.

Change is good.

Fight back against digital distractionsWe all understand

that electronic deviceshave changed our lives.The impact they haveon the way we live hasto rank right up therewith the mastery of fireand discovery of thewheel.

At a conference inCalifornia last month, Istumbled on a conse-quence of that electronicinvasion that I had noidea even existed: e-nups.

What, you've neverheard of e-nups? You'veheard of prenups, but e-nups are agreementscouples make before orduring a marriage orrelationship to regulatecircumstances in whichthey will use cellphones, iPads, laptops,etc.

The need for an e-nuparises out of a couple's

search for a strong inter-personal relationshipand a life of sharedmeaning, all in the faceof the heaviest and mostinventive assault oncerebral machinery andsensory engagement inthe 10,000 years sincehumans started living incommunities.

You've seen peopletext while driving.You've seen people steala look at a cell phone atthe movies, at a party, orwhile in an airplanewhen all devices aresupposed to be shutdown. The three womenwith whom I spoke saidthese e-nuptial agree-ments establish a mutu-ally agreed upon set ofrules about when andwhere they would useelectronic instruments,so that moments ofcloseness with each

other and quality inter-actions with their chil-dren were not mindless-ly squeezed out by thedigital blizzard.

A couple gave me per-mission to share somepassages from the agree-ment they have beenworking on. One sec-tion refers to situationswhen permission of oth-ers present is requiredbefore using a laptop orcell phone. The draft isparticular about restric-tions that will apply, andjoint consultationrequired, when theirdaughter is with them.But other parts of thedocument propose flatrestrictions on whenelectronic instrumentscan be used:

"We will not engagewith our phones or workon our laptops at all inthe following circum-

stances: During meals togeth-

er, when spending inten-tional time together,when our daughter ispresent. during movies,plays, etc., in social situ-ations (i.e., with a groupof friends), in a confinedspace with others, evenif it's "default time" (i.e.,car, public transporta-tion, elevator, etc.)"

The agreements thesecouples are working on,and the commitmentsthey entail, seek toreclaim from the digitalonslaught a measure ofdirect, engaged commu-nication and qualitytime in their lives aspartners, parents andfriends.

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The walkers aren’tcoming!

Rick and his ‘family’of survivors will have abreak from terror, painand death until October.This weekend was thefirst Sunday that waszombie free for a coupleof months.

Yes people, the thirdseason of The WalkingDead is over. I know,your Sunday eveningsfeel empty without theshow.

No doubt, the showhas become a hit sensa-tion. I myself haverecently become a fan[only because of thecharacter Darryl Dixon].

The theme of theshow really hasn’tchanged from the firstepisode; try to run fromthe inevitable end ofdeath, and try to create abetter world while one isstill here.

Many shows have thistheme, such as Revolu-tion and Once Upon ATime.

But what makes TheWalking Dead differentis the antagonist or evilof the show can also be acharacter you deeplycare about such asSophia or Merle, becausethe evil is in the form ofa virus and is conta-gious.

Like I said earlier, Iam a dedicated fan of theshow, at least until theykill off Darryl, but I haveto admit, there are a lotof idiotic problems thattake place within theshow.

Don’t worry, I am notabout to go on and onabout the whole idea ofthe virus and how its notprobable, it’s a show, notreality.

I want to share a cou-ple of things that I havediscovered while watch-ing that are kind offunny. First, the apoca-lypse apparently tookplace in 2010, yet theydrive a 2013 Hyundaithat has stayed in perfectcondition.

Everywhere the groupgoes, the grass is cut.There are plenty ofplaces that the producerscould have shot thatcould have been moredeserted and run down.

Remember the pris-oner they found in thecafeteria of the prisonthat thought Carol was alesbian?

How did he have aperfectly trimmed mus-tache if he had beenlocked in the cafeteriafor months?

In the beginning ofthe first season, Rickgets trapped in a hugetank that is surroundedby zombies and almostdies but he never thinksto start the huge tank!

No matter wheresomeone is bitten by azombie, whether it isthe arm, neck or leg,they always limp.

When they first enterthe prison, Rick is seenwalking around theprison multiple timesapparently to check andsee if there were anyholes in the fence andfinds nothing, yet a cou-ple episodes later, agroup of four people finda huge gaping holewhere a whole wall ofthe prison wasdestroyed.

From the first seasonto the third season thezombies have changed alot - it is obvious thatthe show has more thanenough money to createand hire these people aszombies - but the aspectof the growling, blood-covered, slow-walkingcreatures hasn’t exceptfor one episode.

In the scene whereRick is running towardsthe tank in the first sea-son, there is a zombiedrinking a bottle ofwater.

The actors who por-tray the characters with-in the show do a decentjob, and the theme anddrama of the show keepsmany others and myselfcoming back for more.But come on, producersand writers, get your acttogether!

This is a great conceptfor a show and you havefans already! Just pleasespend more time on thesmall details, they makeall the difference.

Once again, thesesmall errors are notgoing to stop me fromwatching the show, butevery time somethingdoesn’t make sense or adeteriorating zombie istaking a quick swig ofwater to rehydrate, I geta little cringe and thinkwhy?

The Walking Deadwill make its return inOctober with a lot ofnew members of thegroup, and the Governorstill on the loose.

I’m sure we are in fora very dramatic season.

This Week in HistoryBy Rob LongoEditorial Assistant

April 8, 1897

On this day in history, the Ath-letic Association of WaynesburgCollege is organized. The organi-zation helped established anintercollegiate athletic associa-tion for western Pennsylvaniaschools. Some other schools thatjoined the association wereAllegheny, Geneva, Grove City,Thiel, Washington & Jeffersonand Westminster.

April 10, 1918

Despite the war effort, stu-dents still attending WaynesburgCollege are encouraged to playintramural sports. Even thoughfunding for varsity sports such asbaseball were cut, students stillkept an interest in intramuralsports. Three baseball gamesbetween two men’s teams, threebaseball games between twowomen’s teams and a tennis tour-nament were held.

April 13, 1928

After a hiatus of several years,Waynesburg College re-estab-lished two debate teams. Amonth later, the two teams metfor a debate, with the Union Soci-ety defeating the Philo Societydebate team. Later on in the year,the two teams traveled across theregion to face debate teams fromother schools.

Information courtesy of theWaynesburg College Story

Details make thedifference for TV’s‘The Walking Dead’

AMANDAWISHNER

Columnist

CHELSEADICKS

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Drunk arrested

State police said that at7:30 p.m. April 2, CherylMyers, 43, of Waynes-burg was found underthe influence of alcoholand causing a distur-bance by yelling, argu-ing and cursing at Mt.View Gardens inFranklin Twp.

Mischief reported

At 6:25 p.m. April 3,Robert Ronald JohnWarholak, 75, ofMcClellandtown stuck

the vehicle of Roger LeeNoce II of Crucible witha cane, causing a dent tothe passenger side door,state police said.

A criminal mischiefcharge was filed againstWarholak.

Theft reported

Southwest RegionalPolice said that at 1:30p.m. March 29, AndrewNovak, 26, of Bobtownwas charged with retailtheft following an inci-dent at the Mount Mor-ris truck stop in Perry

Twp.

Crash reported

State police said that at7:30 p.m. April 3, a vehi-cle driven by James W.Whoolery, 34, of Way-nesburg veered off thewest side of the road andstruck a tree as it wastraveling south on N.Porter Street.

Burglary reported

Sometime betweenApril 3 and April 5,someone forced open a

door to the GarrardsFort Rd. residence ofMike Gaston inFranklin Twp. and stoleseveral items frominside, state police said.

According to police,this will be the secondburglary in this area intwo days, and investiga-tion continues.

Anyone with infor-mation should contactPennsylvania StatePolice in Waynesburg at724-627-6151.

Charges filed

Southwest RegionalPolice said that at 1:21p.m. Feb. 13, GeorgeAlan Rickard, 41, of Mt.Morris was arrested fordriving under the influ-ence, one count of flee-ing and eluding and onecount each of publicdrunkenness, carelessdriving, limitations onbacking and a stop signviolation. Police saidRickard fled after policeattempted to stop himfor the stop sign viola-tion, and charges have

been filed before Magis-terial District JudgeGlenn Bates.

Burglary reported

State police said thatsometime between 6:30p.m. and 11 p.m. April 4,someone broke into theZimmer Lane residenceof Les Shultz in FranklinTwp. Nothing wasreported missing, policesaid. Anyone with infor-mation should contactPennsylvania StatePolice in Waynesburg at724-627-6151.

Department of Recre-ation. attempted to stickwith the guidelines ofgeocaching as listed ongeocaching.com.

“If you just want to dothe five locations thatare listed on the site,

that’s fine, but there arealso three other loca-tions. We’re trying tokeep along with theirguidelines as far as thatgoes, but we also wantpeople to see our loca-tions as well,” she said.“When people postonline that they foundone of our locations, Isend them an email let-ting them know aboutour game.”

Cache Me if You Can

has drawn treasurehunters from far andwide, Morris said.

“The most recent sub-mission we’ve receivedis from a gentlemanfrom St. Clairsville,Ohio,” she said. “Hefound all eight locations.I believe that one of theladies online who wasparticipating was fromVirginia. She didn’t doall eight, but she didsome of them.”

Last year’s game onlysaw a total of six partici-pants.

This year’s total so faris five and has theDepartment of Recre-ation. hopeful that thisyear’s game will be morepopular, Morris said.

“We’ll be taking sub-missions until Dec. 1,2013. We’ll probably doanother one after that,but probably not untilnext year,” she said.

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events we have in mindfor the coming year.”

All of these events areopen to the public,including the meeting,as a way for the museumto generate interest andsolicit new members,Williams said.

Once the museum isofficially open, Williamssaid, there are a few newexhibits and events instore for the summermonths.

“Some of the newexhibits we’ll be havingthis year are an agricul-tural exhibit starting thissummer and a spotlighton the preservation offood - canning jars andstuff like that,” Williamssaid. “We’ll also be hold-

ing a Governor MartinDay on Sept. 20, wherewe will open our newexhibit relating to theonly Pennsylvania gov-ernor ever to come fromGreene County, GeorgeMartin.”

According tohistory.com, Martin waselected governor ofPennsylvania in 1943and held the office untilJanuary of 1959. Heserved as president of theCouncil of State Govern-ments in 1946 and waselected as a Republicanto the United States Sen-ate in the same year.Martin was re-elected tothe senate in 1952. Dur-ing the Eighty-thirdCongress from 1953 to1955, when the Republi-cans were in the majori-ty, he was chairman ofthe Committee on Pub-lic Works. Martin didnot seek re-nominationto a third term in 1958,

and died in Washington,Pennsylvania in 1967.He is buried at GreeneMount Cemetery inWaynesburg. Williamsexplained that the exhib-it will be a spotlight onGovernor Martin andthe museum’s collectionrelated to him. Otherprojects that the muse-um is working oninclude the finishing ofthe engine house andmaintenance work onthe log cabin, both ofwhich are located on themuseum grounds.

“We’ve been workingon the engine housesince the middle of lastsummer. We’re current-ly on the last phase ofthe project, whichinvolves putting in floor-ing and installing theoverhead doors. We hopeto finish up that projectby the end of this sum-mer,” Williams said.“For the log cabin,

they’re actually puttingon the roof this week,and the next steps willbe to work on the chim-ney and the chinking in-between the logs.”

Williams went on tostate that the HistoricalSociety is also making alot of progress on theirlibrary project.

“Basically what we’redoing is going throughand organizing our col-lection and cataloguingall of our books,” he said.“This makes everythinga lot neater and easier foreveryone to browse.”

Williams said that themuseum is always look-ing for volunteersthroughout the season.

If you are interested involunteering or donatingto the Greene CountyHistorical Society, visittheir website atwww.greenecountyhis-tory.com or call themuseum at 724-852-6207.

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have begun complain-ing about the trucksthat sit idly running forextended periods oftime near Wade’s andthe cars that park alongboth sides of the street.“It’s a legacy zoningproblem,” said MarkFischer, of ward three.“We as a council oughtto send [Wade’s ownerJim Mason] a letter for-mally about this.”

The borough councilpassed a motioned todraft a letter to Mason,which will be signed byBerryhill.

Parking aside, thecouncil approved adver-tising for bids for sum-mer paving projects.The paving projects will

include the re-pave-ment of Cherry,Church, High, Libertyand Race streets.

“We’d advertise April12 and 13 for the bid,”said borough managerBruce Wermlinger.“We’re looking foraround $150,000 to$200,00, so it’s prettysubstantial.”

In other action,Wermlinger announcedthat Trails to School isnearly ready to go tobid. Trails to School - aprojected 23-mile trailalong Waynesburg’screeks that will provideuniversity studentskayaks for fall, springand summer use - willcost over $400,000,Wermlinger said.

At the next meeting,the council will reviewapplications for boroughmanager, a positionWermlinger will leavethis summer.

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By Nadine LeishmanStaff Writer

The men’s and women’s track teams both competed at theBethany Invitational at Bethany College on Saturday. Inaddition, select members of the women’s team alsocompeted in the John Homon Open at the Univer-sity of Mount Union.

At both meets, team scores were not calculat-ed.

“We did fantastic this past weekend,” saidhead coach Jason Falvo. “I was very pleasedwith how the teams performed.”

Junior Megan Sowers had a goodshowing at both meets on Saturday.Sowers placed first at the JohnHomon Open with a toss of 37.27meters in the javelin while takingsecond in the javelin at Bethany.

“It was actually pretty fun tocompete in two meets on the sameday,” said Sowers. “I got to see different levels of competi-tion, although the weather conditions were completely dif-ferent for each meet - I had to adjust to that - but overall,it was a good experience that I needed.”

Holding the Waynesburg All-American thrower tosecond at the Bethany Invitational was Division II All-American Mallory Sanner from Seton Hill University.Sanner’s throw of 43.91 meters bested Sowers throw of39.21 meters.

“It was pretty cool, I threw against her last year aswell,” said Sowers. “She has so much natural ability thatI wish I had to throw the javelin.”

At the John Homon Open, the Jackets produced twoother good showings. Sophomore Ashley Cole and seniorRhea Huwe both competed in the heptathlon, an event that Waynes-burg runners don’t typically compete in.

Cole placed fifth in the heptathlon while Huwe placed seventh.In the Bethany Invitational, freshmen Megan Ferrick got a win for

the Jackets in the 10,000 meters race. Ferrick broke the tape with atime of 42:02.66.

“At first I was freaking out because I usually come out fast in otherraces, but I knew that I couldn’t do in this race,” said Ferrick. “Theother distance runners that have ran a 10K before helped me under-

stand that it wasn’t going to be as bad as I thought.”Added Falvo, “I was very pleased with our jumpers and

our distance team. They did well as a whole.”The Jacket men put on a strong display at Bethany, led

by their standout sophomore hurdler.Byrum Louco won the 400-meter hurdles bybreaking the tape with a time of 55.06 seconds.

Louco also placed fourth in the 100-meterdash with a time of 11.32 seconds.

For the distance team, sophomoreBrandon Dugan ended up placing sec-

ond in the 1,500-meter race with atime of 4:15.52.

“It’s easily one of myfavorite races to run,” said

Dugan. “I’ve always likedthe mile throughout

high school andits nice being

able to run arace that’s100 meters

shorter.”In the 5,000-

meter race, two Jackets justnarrowly missed the top of the podium. Sopho-more John Allison placed second with a time of16:19.57 and was followed by third-place finish-er and junior Jonathon Blatt who finished with

a time of 16:49.21.After a week where both teams

were ranked in the top-15 of the dualmeet rankings on D3Rankings.us,

Falvo is seeing the rewards of theintense workouts he puts his athletesthrough.

“It’s just a tribute to how hardare athletes and coaches work,”said Falvo. “I am happy forthem.”

Both teams will be back inaction when they travel toWestminster College on April13 for the Westminster Invita-tional.

Men’s tennis loses first PAC match of the season

After rising the ranks of the country’selite, track & field excels over weekend

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By Kyle OlandSports Editor

While the women’slacrosse program has hadits share of ups and downsduring its time as a varsitysport at Waynesburg Uni-versity, the program has achance to set the all-timesingle season wins mark.

With a record of 2-4, theYellow Jackets need justone more win to make his-tory. Under the directionof first-year head coachMaria Shepas, Waynes-burg looks to be heading inthe right direction.

“With a new coachingstaff this year and a teamthat is giving it our all, onemore win is definitelywithin our reach,” saidjunior captain MorganDesmond.

The Yellow Jacketlacrosse program hastwice won two games in aseason, most recently lastyear. The Jackets havethree games remainingduring the regular seasonplus, the unofficial Presi-dents’ Athletic Confer-ence Championship Tour-nament from April 26-27.

The prospects of rewrit-ing the recordbook anchanging the perception ofthe women’s lacrosse pro-gram on Waynesburg’scampus has Desmond andsenior captain MandyOrmsby excited about thefuture.

“Our team is hoping tobreak the record with hardwork and playing inunity,” said Ormsby. “Asa captain I am proud of ourteam and looking forwardto the rest of the season.”

On Saturday, the Jack-ets play their final homegame of the season whenthey take on MountUnion at 1 p.m.

By Carson FoxStaff Writer

After the end of throw-er Carly Schubert’s juniorseason, she was a two-time Presidents’ AthleticConference Champion inthe shot put, finished asan honorable mention inthe discus and was one of

the clear leaders of theYellow Jacket women’sfield team.

But after a decision toforgo last season, she’snow back to in top-formas the PAC Champi-onships approach at theend of the month.

It was a combination ofminor volleyball injuries,

student-teaching, classes,graduation and otherthings that caused Schu-bert to take a year off fromthrowing for the YellowJackets. With a hecticspring ahead, Schubertand her coaches made thefinal decision that shewould not compete. Butafter seeing a second place

finish by the Jackets at thePAC Championships lastseason, where they scoredthe most points ever for aWaynesburg team at theevent, Schubert made thedecision to come backthis year.

“That’s why I’m outthere doing what I’mdoing now,” said Schubert

regarding last season’s sec-ond-place finish. “I reallywant that champi-onship.”

Schubert admits she isstill wearing off some ofthe rust and is working onher craft at practice aftermissing out on both the

Schubert returning to championship form

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By Nick FarrellAssistant Sports Editor

After rattling off threewins to begin Presidents’Athletic Conference playand witnessing its captainmake history on Saturday,the men’s tennis teamwas silenced by the bestsquad in the conferenceTuesday. The Saint Vin-cent Bearcats (8-3, 6-0PAC) travelled to Waynes-burg and recorded a 9-0shellacking of the YellowJackets (6-4, 3-1 PAC).

In their first PAC loss

of the season, the YellowJackets were unable towin a single set, and forthe second time in aweek, Waynesburg wasshutout on its homecourt.

In the midst of a hecticschedule where the Jack-ets will face three oppo-nents in the next fivedays, head coach RonChristman hopes that histeam will shake off thistough loss and move on asleague play continues.

“We just have to lickour wounds and come outagain [Thursday],” saidChristman. “That’s all wecan do.”

Waynesburg’s bestchance to earn a point inthe match came in thesecond doubles competi-tion. Senior Jon Andersonand sophomore Philip Lit-tlejohn battled in a closematch with Saint Vincentsophomores Tony Costan-tino and Chris Andrejcik.The eight-game doublesmatch was deadlocked at7-7 before the wheelscame off for Waynesburg’standem.

“When it was tied 7-7,we lost 40-love, and thatwas kind of it,” said Lit-tlejohn.

Costantino and Andrej-cik cruised in the finalgame to take the victory.The duo from Saint Vin-cent ultimately won thematch’s final eight points.

Each Jacket was defeat-ed in straight sets in sin-gles play, and only threeplayers were able to winmultiple games.

In between 9-0 lossesto Marietta and Saint Vin-cent, the Jackets strungtogether three victoriesand moved up to secondplace in the league stand-ings. Last week, Waynes-burg defeated Bethany,Washington & Jeffersonand Westminster in teamplay by scores of 5-4, 5-4 Photo by Madison DuBrock

Jon Anderson returns a serve during Saturday’s matchwhere he broke the career singles wins record.

Anderson setscareer winsrecord Saturday

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Moving up in the polls

Photo by Kimber Blair

LaVance Turnage Jr.takes flight duringthe long jump.

Laxnearinghistory

There is no better timeto be an athlete, coach orteam in the Presidents’Athletic Conference, saysJoe Onderko, the commis-sioner of the PAC.

On Tuesday, I had theopportunity to sit downwith Onderko and pickthe commissioner’s brainon the state of the confer-ence in which Waynes-burg’s athletic teams com-pete.

After talking withOnderko, I would agreewith his sentiments thatthe PAC is headed in theright direction.

Onderko, the formersports information direc-tor at Westminster Col-lege, was appointed as thefirst commissioner of thePAC in 2006. Since then,the PAC has gone througha number of drasticchanges.

The most notable ofOnderko’s accomplish-ments is the expansion ofthe PAC during histenure. Before leaving hispost at Westminster, thePAC only had six mem-bers, but Onderko helpedorchestrate the additionsof Thomas More, SaintVincent, Geneva andChatham from 2005-2007.

The addition of thoseschools gave the PAC anautomatic bid in NCAAtournaments. The NCAAmandates that for an ath-letic conference to receivean automatic bid, theymust have seven full timemembers. Prior to theaddition of those fourschools, a PAC sportsteam could end the regu-lar season with a record

meriting postseason con-sideration, but due to thelack of an automatic bid,many teams missed outon NCAA tournaments.

In 2014, two moreschools will enter thePAC, as Case WesternReserve University andCarnegie Mellon Univer-sity are set to join thePAC’s football schedule.In talking with Onderko, Icould see the giddiness inhis eyes when he spokeabout the future of thePAC with two more pres-tigious schools becomingaffiliate members.

Furthermore, with thehelp of Onderko, the PAChas increased the numberof sports played in theconference. Most recent-ly, lacrosse was voted tobecome an official PACsport starting in 2014.Onderko mentioned tome that there have beenpreliminary talks aboutadding indoor track to theconference.

During a time whenmany Division III athleticconferences are seeingcutbacks in sports, thePAC is experiencing theopposite.

Under Onderko, thePAC has expanded itsreach throughout theregion because of the PACSports Network this pastseason. This past winterthe PAC Sports Networkmade a name for itself

during basketball game,broadcasting a weeklygame and giving viewersfrom all over the countryexcellent coverage of PACbasketball.

Onderko said that theconference wants thePAC Sports Network tocover football games dur-ing the next few years andhe is excited about theprospects of more region-al and national exposurefor the PAC.

In a time where mediacoverage for Division IIIsporting events is a com-petitive as it’s ever been,Onderko’s proactivestrategies are leading thePAC to the forefront ofDivision III athletics.

Recently, Onderko saidthe he has had talks withthe president of eachschool in the conferenceabout broadcasting aweekly PAC footballgame on cable television.Should this happen in thenear future, not only willthe conference’s schoolsbenefit from an athleticstandpoint, but from ageneral recruiting stand-point. In a time wherehigher education is experi-encing lower enrollmentnumbers, the PAC couldhave a positive impact oneach of its schools.

After talking withOnderko, I realized thecommissioner under-stands the role that thePAC plays in the financialadvancement of its mem-ber schools. For allOnderko has done for thePAC during his tenure, itexcites me to think ofwhere the league will befive years from now.

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PAC in good hands

By Mark WhickerThe Orange CountyRegister

Don't bother creating abobblehead doll forLouisville's Luke Han-cock. He can handle thatpart himself.

The languid, free-spirit-ed shooting star of theFinal Four made perhapsthe most influential playof Monday night's NCAAchampionship gamewhen he head-fakedMichigan's MitchMcGary into the air anddrew his fourth foul with9:11 left.

The Cardinals led bythree when Hancockmade one of two freethrows. They ruled thelane after McGary left anddowned the Wolverines,

82-76, for their firstNCAA crown since 1986.

Coach Rick Pitino,named to the BasketballHall of Fame earlier Mon-day, became the firstcoach to win titles at twoschools. His Kentuckyteam won in 1996.

Hancock tied his careerhigh with 22 points andhit all five three-pointershe tried. He stacked thatatop his Saturday's per-formance against WichitaState, when he scored 20.

For the weekend Han-cock had no turnovers in61 minutes, shot 11 for15, and got to the foul line17 times, and thus wasnamed the Most Out-standing Player.

"You don't practicejumping into somebody,especially as big as

McGary is," Hancocksaid. "What bothered mewas that I didn't hit bothfree throws."

The inside game wasalready favoringLouisville before McGarywent to the bench. Afterthat, the Cardinals wenton a 15-8 run that putLouisville up by 10 with3:20 remaining.

Chane Behanan had 12rebounds for Louisville."He told me he was goingto get all of them," saidpoint guard Peyton Siva,"but at the end I think hewas missing some layupsto pad his stats."

In the second half,Louisville outreboundedMichigan 20-10 and took35 field-goal attempts to

Louisville crowned champs

Hancock’s sweet stroke lifts Cardinals to NCAA titlePhoto by Travis Heying, Wichita Eagle

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By Kyle OlandSports Editor

Saturday’s doublehead-er against Saint Vincenton Saturday was one ofthose days Waynesburg’shead baseball coach MikeHumiston will want toforget.

After dropping a 7-4decision to the BearcatsFriday afternoon, the Yel-low Jackets returned tothe diamond for a week-end twin bill, looking toavenge the previous day’sloss. Unfortunately forHumiston and his players,the Jackets left the fieldSaturday afternoon with apair of losses.

In game one, the Jack-ets fell 5-2. Then in thesecond game, theBearcats’ offense explod-ed, leading Saint Vincentto a 13-2 win. With thetwo losses, Waynesburg’s

record dropped to 9-11, 2-6 in Presidents’ AthleticConference play. The sea-son sweep of the YellowJackets improved the vis-iting Bearcats’ record to10-7, 7-1 in PAC action.

“It wasn’t a good seriesat all,” said Humiston.“There were not a wholelot of positives in thewhole series and nobodylikes getting swept, espe-cially to an average teamlike Saint Vincent.”

Sophomore J. JayPaskert toed the rubberfor the Jackets in gameone, cruising through thefirst two innings beforethe game began to getaway from him in thethird.

In the top of the third,Paskert’s defense let himdown when senior secondbaseman David House-man committed a fielding

error that allowed theBearcats’ leadoff hitter toreach first. Following apassed ball by freshmancatcher Derrick Zavatsky,which allowed Bearcats’senior outfielder GaryGerhardt to advance tosecond, Saint Vincentstrung together a series ofhits, plating three runs.

Paskert’s struggles con-tinued in the fourth whenhe gave up two more runs,which increased the visi-tor’s lead to 5-0.

The five-run deficitproved to be too much forWaynesburg, as it couldonly muster two runs therest of the way; the firstcourtesy of a ZavatskyRBI double which platedsenior third baseman TimChilcote, the other byway of a Houseman singlethat scored Zavatsky.

Paskert finished outthe rest of the game, post-ing zeros on the score-board the last threeinnings. The sophomorefinished with a line ofseven innings pitched,five runs allowed, threeearned and four strike-

outs. The loss dropped thepitcher’s season record to3-3.

The Jackets’ fate mighthave been different hadthe defense played betterbehind Paskert.

“Our guys have to getback to believing in them-selves and each other,”said Humiston. “If theycan’t do that, then we arein a lot more trouble thanwe are in right now.”

In game two, seniorAnthony Longo startedfor Humiston, but raninto a narrow strike zoneby home plate umpire LouKammerer.

Longo struggled in thefirst inning when heallowed two runs, butseemed to find his com-fort zone in the secondand third, posting a zeroin the box score.

His success didn’t lastlong, though, as theBearcats got consecutivehits to lead off the fourth.With runners on secondand third and one out,Longo gave up three-

By Eric BostSports EditorialAssistant

Records were broken this past weekend as twoWaynesburg athletes put together standout perform-ances, earning them Athlete of the Week honors.

Senior men’s tennis player Jon Anderson contin-ued his fantastic collegiate career when he becamethe all-time singles wins leader at Waynesburg Uni-versity after defeating Westminster’s Brad Thomas in6-3, 6-2 on Saturday. His 32 singles victories brokeex-teammate Emile Khoury’s 31, set in 2011.

Anderson celebrated his new record with friendsand family as Waynesburg’s tennis team held it’s sen-ior day. The singles win against the Titans was histhird of the week. He and partner Phillip Littlejohnwent 2-2 over four doubles matches week.

Junior women’s track and field athlete MeganSowers impressed this weekend as she led the Jacketwomen by competing in javelin at both the BethanyInvitational and the John Homon Open hosted by theUniversity at Mount Union.

Sowers took first at Mount Union with an impres-sive toss of 37.27 meters (122-3). She later added asecond place effort at the Bethany Invitational with adistance of 39.21 meters (128-8). Sowers performedthe best among Division III athletes, as she only fin-ished behind Mallory Sanner, a Division II All-Amer-ican from Seton Hill.

Editor’s Note

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Jackets sweptby BearcatsSaturday

Sowers

Baseball in the midst of 5-game slide

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By John Lydic Staff Writer

The women’s golf teamhad not competed as ateam since the spring of2008. That changed Satur-day when they traveled toThiel for the team’s firstinvitational in five years.

Although Waynesburgfinished fifth out of fiveteams, the Yellow Jacketswere excited to competetogether as team.

“It was a completelydifferent experience,” saidjunior Madison Presto. “Itwas awesome feeling toplay as a team again.”

The Jackets followed

up their historic momentwhen they hit the linkson Monday at Westmin-ster to play in the MaryCleland Eckles Invitation-al. The women finishedlast as a team, but gainedvaluable experience.

The team leader for theJackets was Presto, whoshot a 95. That scoreallowed her to tie for sev-enth in the tournament.

“It gave me mixedemotions,” said Presto. “Iwas satisfied with the firstouting, but could havedone better.”

Freshman MichelleHopkins finished secondon the team, shooting a117.

Freshman HeatherDavis, who is also a mem-ber of the women’s bas-ketball team, scored a 128on the day, followed byKelly Mehal with a 135.

“It felt really good play-ing today, especiallybecause the weather wasvery nice,” said Davis. “Itwas a little bit windy, butit was nice enough to playin.”

Davis and Hopkinseach improved theirscores by over 10 strokesfrom the match on Satur-day. Another basketballplayer tried her hand atgolf, as junior ElaineHasek shot a 138.

“I am a new to thegame, so I work on stay-ing consistent for 18holes,” said Hasek.

The development ofthe young golfers is due inpart to the veteran leader-ship of the team.

“I just tell them to havefun and don’t stress out,”said Presto. “We just needto practice and don’t gettoo hard on ourselves. Just

have fun.”Each member has

enjoyed each other’s com-pany, and each golferbelieves the team comingtogether.

“I think this squad isall so easy to get alongwith and we bring ener-gy,” said Davis. “Also, weall are trying to improve.”

Now that the team hasgotten some matchesunder its belt, it is lookingto improve and playtoward its goals.

“At the end of the sea-son, our goal would be toperform our best andcompete at [the Presi-dents’ Athletic Confer-ence Tournament],” saidHasek.

The Jackets visitLatrobe, Pa. today for amatch against Saint Vin-cent that begins at 11:30a.m.

Women’s golf competes as a team for first time in five years

Photo by Dave Miller, ADM Photography

Junior Madison Presto placed seventh at the MaryClelland Eckles Invitational on Tuesday.

Madison Prestopaces team withtop-10 finish

Michigan's 20."Mitch is a difference-

maker for us when he's inthere," said Michigancoach John Beilein. "Theygot a couple of key put-backs after that, althoughMitch was in there for oneof them."

Hancock actuallychanged the game in thefirst half when SpikeAlbrecht was runningrings around the Cardi-nals. Albrecht scored 17first-half points, after hehad scored only 61 com-ing into the Final Four.

But Hancock strafedthe Wolverines with fourthree-pointers in the halfand brought Louisville towithin 38-37 at the break,after Michigan had led 33-21 with 3:21 left. The Car-dinals slowly turned uptheir defense and woundup scoring 11 points offMichigan's 12 turnovers.

Siva, Louisville's All-America point man,poured in 14 second-halfpoints and settled downthe offense in the wake ofa 3-for-16 night by fellowguard Russ Smith.

With 2:07 left, Michi-gan was down four, andTrey Burke chased Sivadown on a fast break.Burke, the national playerof the year whose first-halffoul trouble opened thedoor for Albrecht,appeared to block the shotcleanly but was called forhis fourth foul.

When Michigan neededto foul at the end, Burkecouldn't do so because hewould foul out. TheWolverines also hadn'tfouled enough to putLouisville on the lineuntil 29 secondsremained, and Hancock'sfree throws made it a non-negotiable six-point lead.

At the end Pitino saidhe would make good on apromise to get a tattoo ifLouisville won. His teamalready left a hard mark toerase.

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and 6-3 respectively.“We had an unusual

situation in that it wasn’tjust one person carryingeverything, said Christ-man. “Different peoplestepped up at differenttimes.”

In Saturday’s SeniorDay match against West-minster, Anderson picked

up his 32nd career singleswin. With that victory,the team captain passedEmile Khoury’s previousrecord of 31 wins that wasset in 2011.

Anderson attributedhis success at Waynesburgto his knowledge of thegame and his mentaltoughness.

“Everyone I’ve everplayed against, I am men-tally stronger than,” saidAnderson.

The senior alsothanked God and his

mother for helping himachieve this milestone.

Christman was happyto see that Anderson wasable to accomplish thisfeat during a Waynesburgwin.

“The fact that it cameduring a win, that’s whatmakes it special, and histwo points were criticalpoints for us,” said Christ-man.

Last Thursday, theJackets visited W&J forone of their most excitingmatches of the season.

Christman ultimatelycredited Waynesburg’s 5-4victory to the play offreshman Zack Grahamand senior Corey Rearick.The duo won their thirddoubles match by a con-vincing 8-1 margin.

“Of the three doublesteams, they are the leastlikely to win, but theystepped up,” said Christ-man.

The are in action todayas they travel to facedefending PAC champGrove City at 4 p.m.

Jackets suffer loss

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In the April 4 issue of theYellow Jacket, a story was pub-lished about the legacy of JohnWiley, the former head coachof the Waynesburg footballteam.

In that article, it was statedthat Wiley holds the record forcareer winning percentage.

The Waynesburg footballrecord book says that CarlDePasqua holds a career recordof 19-1 (.950).

While DePasqua’s careerwinning percentage of .950 isgreater than the .710 of Wiley,DePasqua does not meet theminimum games requirementof the Waynesburg UniversityOffice of Sports Information.

According to those stan-dards, a minimum of four yearsis required for a coach to beranked in the career win per-centage category.

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straight RBI singles. After the third single,

Humiston came out tothe mound to remove hissenior from the game.Unhappy with the strikezone of Kammerer, Longomade a comment to theumpire which resulted inhis ejection from thegame.

“I would never blame agame on an umpire; it’ssomething we talkedabout afterwards,” saidHumiston. “Every umpirehas his strike zone andyou have to adjust. Now,in my opinion, there weresome balls called that Ithought were strikes.”

Waynesburg had anopportunity to tie thegame at 2-2 in the secondinning, but a costly playkept the Jackets fromgaining momentum overSaint Vincent.

With runners at first

and third with two outsand the score at 2-1 in thebottom of the second, sen-ior shortstop Kyle Sasalastepped to the plate with achance to tie the game.However, Humiston puton a hit-and-run, and aftera high fastball, Housemanwas thrown out at second,

ending the Waynesburgthreat.

“It was probably a stu-pid call on my part,” saidHumiston. “My thinkingwas that if [Houseman]does get thrown out, wehave Kyle, one of our bet-ter hitters, leading off thenext inning. At that point,

we were only down 2-1and I thought for sure wewould rally and scoremore than one run.”

While the Jackets arecurrently mired in a five-game losing streak, theyhave a chance to get backon track Friday when theyvisit Geneva College.

Photo by Greg Reinhart

Sophomore J. Jay Paskert delivers a pitch during game one of Waynesburg’s double-header against Saint Vincent on Saturday. The hurler gave up three earned runs.

Baseballswept

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indoor season and theteam’s trip to South Car-olina. Even with the year-plus absence, Schubertplaced fourth in the discusevent and sixth in theshot put at the AmyAdams Invitational atMuskingum Universityon March 23.

“I missed it so much,”said Schubert. “Afterdoing the same old, sameold at practice for so long,being back out there onthe field was great.”

Now that she is back toher junior year form, sheand the Waynesburgwomen’s field team arereaping the benefits.

At the Carnegie MellonMini-Invite on March 30,Schubert won the shotput event with a heave of 11.45 meters and she won the discus event with a throw of 36.76 meters.

In the discus, sheeclipsed her competitionby more than threemeters on her best tossand joined teammateRebecca Rapp, who fin-ished second, on the podi-um.

With Schubert, Rappand junior javelin throwerMegan Sowers on thefield, Schubert believesthe women’s team has astrong chance to win aPAC title this year.

“We’re going to be aforce to be reckonedwith,” said Schubert. “It’sgoing to be very interest-ing this time around atthe PAC Championships,it’ll be a showdown.”

On top of her accoladesearlier in her career as aYellow Jacket, she wasnamed last week’s Way-

nesburg University Ath-lete of the Week and waslauded as the top women’sfield athlete by the PAC.

With her redshirt sen-ior season coming to aclose, Schubert has a fewfinals goals that need to becompleted for the YellowJackets.

“I don’t just want towin the PAC Champi-onship just because it’smy senior season,” saidSchubert. “I want this toprove all of the time andwork my teammates andmy coaches put in to thisteam.”

Schubert and her team-mates return to actionthis Saturday when theytravel to conference foeWestminster College tocompete in the Westmin-ster Invitational.

Schubertreturns

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Photo by Kimber Blair

Carly Schubert follows through on a throw during a recent meet. The senior missedall of last season, but has returned this year and looks to compete for a PAC title.

By Eric BostSports Editorial Assistant

The Waynesburg soft-ball team took a breakfrom conference playMonday when it took onthe Frostburg State Bob-cats.

The Yellow Jackets (8-12) had a chance to breaktheir six-game losingstreak against their non-conference opponent;however, Frostburg State(19-6) simply over-matched Waynesburg asthe Jackets’ losing streakcontinued, losing bothgames of the doublehead-er 5-1 and 18-3.

“In the first game, acouple mental errors ledto them scoring four runsin the second inning,”said head coach Lou Gia-chetti. “The second gamewas one of those gameswhere no matter whatyou do, they just keep hit-ting the ball. You’ll havedays like that every onceand awhile, and unfortu-

nately we had one yester-day.”

Even in losing efforts,Waynesburg had playedtough through its recentsix-game slide, losing fiveof those six games by nomore than three runs.

“If you look at our totalruns scored, we win

innings one throughfour,” said Giachetti. “Welose innings five and six. Idon’t know if we’re losingfocus, but we’re losinglate in games.”

Waynesburg’s up anddown offense struggledagain, only scoring fourruns combined in the dou-

bleheader. The Jacketsmissed two of their besthitters in All-PAC left-fielder Jasmine Blackwelland second basemanMadison Presto, alongwith starting centerfielderShelby Tabrosky.

All three playersmissed the games due tovarious reasons.

“They’re all leaders,”said Giachetti. “Whenev-er you take out playersthat are great hitters andfielders, it’s going to affectthe team.”

Both Blackwell andPresto have started everygame they have played inthis season. Blackwellleads the Jackets with a.413 batting average thisseason, while Prestoboasts an impressive .317

average, third on theteam.

Waynesburg couldhave used two of theirbest hitters, as it onlyrecorded 12 hits in a com-bined 13 innings played.Giachetti tried to utilizethe younger players hehad at his disposal, butnone were able to add anypop to the offense.

“I told them from dayone that I want a teamthat’s interchangeable,”said Giachetti. “It doesn’tmatter who we put out onthe field, they need to dotheir job.”

Frostburg State’s pitch-ing controlled the Jacketsin the first game. MaryAnn Moore pitched allseven innings for the Bob-cats, only allowing onerun on three hits whilerecording 11 strikeouts.

Third baseman AshleyClark provided the onlybright spot for Waynes-burg in the first game, get-ting two of the teamsthree hits and giving theteam its only run.

Frostburg State’s batscame alive in the secondgame, as the Bobcats sim-ply overpowered the Jack-ets in every aspect of thegame. Waynesburg waswithout starting pitcherCarrie Maier, allowingother pitchers on the ros-ter to gain more experi-ence on the mound. Gia-chetti said that Maier wasout nursing a thumbinjury.

“We’re trying to makesure she [Maier] doesn’tthrow too much,” saidGiachetti.

The head coach triedfive pitchers in the secondgame, but none of themcould cool down the hotbats of Frostburg State.Four Bobcat batters had atleast three hits, and thetop-six batters in the line-up recorded at least twoRBI’s.

The Jackets look toturn their season aroundSaturday when they hostGrove City. The firstgame of the doubleheaderis scheduled for 1 p.m.

Yellow Jackets unable to overcome Frostburg state

Photo by Dave Miller, ADM Photography

Sophomore Ashley Clark was one of the lone brightspots for Waynesburg, collecting four hits on Monday.

Christian singer Ortegadraws many to chapel

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Spring week full of events

Waynesburg University Players give their last ‘hoo-rah’ in their performance of Anything Goes

Photos by James Little

(Above) and (Below) show the Waynesburg University Player’s in their full costumes performing and dancing the musical, ‘Anything Goes’ on the huge set designed as thefront of a boat. This was the last performance for the players this year.

By Olivia LatimerEditorial Assistant

There was an elephantin the room.

That room was theGoodwin Performing ArtsCenter at WaynesburgUniversity, and the ele-phant was the enormouscruise ship that dominat-ed the stage. The cruiseship was all ready to setsail with the WaynesburgUniversity Players’ pro-duction of Cole porter’s

‘Anything Goes.’‘Anything Goes’ was

originally written by ColePorter in 1934. It’s a tale ofromantic hijinks on acruise ships, according toEdward Powers, directorof Theater Activities.

“There are three plotswoven together,” Powerssaid. “Billy Crocker stowsaway on the SS Americanbecause the girl he loves issailing to England tomarry a British aristocrat.While on board, he

becomes involved with afamous nightclub singer,Reno Sweeney, and ineptgangster, Moonface Mar-tin, and he has to stay outof sight of his boss, Mr.Whitney, who is also onboard.”

Students and commu-nity members sat in theseats of the GPAC in eageranticipation for the showto begin. The atmospherewas buzzing and alive

Boston group brings‘Acapella craze’ to WU

Final Coffeehousehosts ArmstrongBy Haley DaughtonStaff Writer

The end of the semesteris right around the corner,and Waynesburg is wrap-ping up the year with onefinal coffeehouse.

On April 16, KyshonaArmstrong will be per-forming in the Beehive at8 p.m.

According towww.Kyshona.com, theSouth Carolina native “isa music therapist gonerogue.”

According to the site,Armstrong mixes her loveof storytelling with herunique musical sounds totake her audience on amusical journey.

“I honestly enjoytelling stories about peo-ple that I’ve met withinthe many chapters of mylife through music,” saidArmstrong. “I feel thatsharing their testimoniesplus my own can offerencouragement and vali-dations to those that aresitting in the audience.”

Kyshona has never per-formed at WaynesburgUniversity.

The Students Activities

Board selected her as oneof this year’s coffeehouseacts.

The SAB heard Arm-strong when membersattended the NationalAssociation of CampusActivities conference forthe first time in the springof 2012.

SAB was finally able tocontact her and invite herto perform at WaynesburgUniversity this spring.

“They saw a perform-ance of mine at the con-ference and felt that therewas something in mymusic that they wanted toshare with the students atWaynesburg University,”said Armstrong.

The SAB felt she wasperfect a perfect fit forWU’s coffeehouse series.

“We saw her for thefirst time in the spring lastyear and fell in love withher,” said SAB presidentDiana Beam. “To me, shehas a different kind ofsinging voice and rhythm,and I think everyone willenjoy her.”

Kyshona Armstrongwill be the last performer

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By Katherine MansfieldCopy Editor

The buzz of conversa-tion dimmed with thelights and a song recordingfilled Robert’s Chapelwith prayerful music.

The music ended. Amoment of silence lastedan eternity.

And then, Tom Ribarintroduced FernandoOrtega to the stage.

“It is a privilege to havehim here to grace Robert’sChapel and to play for us,”said Ribar, universitychaplain.

And what an experi-ence the evening was forthe hundreds who turnedout to hear Ortega, ateacher-turned-two-timeDove award winner, singold hymns and self-writ-ten hits.

The celebrity Christiansinger began the nightwith the song “Glory Be.”

“It’s so nice to seeeveryone,” said Ortega,when the song ended. “It’sa beautiful room to playin. This piano is awesome

to playon.”

And theeveningcontinuedin thatfashion:before

each song,Ortega sent the audienceinto gales of laughter athis self-deprecating storiesor tugged at heartstringswith a song’s backstory.

“I liked whenever hesort of broke up hissinging with personal sto-ries, because it felt like heconnected us to who hewas,” said Jen Brown,freshman internationalmissions major.

One story Ortega toldwas the tale of his friendMildred Madalyn John-son, a “frail old lady” of 70years who was always,always on the go.

“She sang in the churchchoir,” recalled Ortega.“By the time Thursdaycame around, she was sotired she’d sleep through

By Abby WernertStaff Writer

The acapella craze hascome to Waynesburg.

This past Monday, theacapella group Overboardvisited the campus to per-form a mix of rearrangedclassic and alternativerock songs.

“We’re here to put on arock show,” said NickGirard, the creator of thegroup. “A rock showthat’s all singing.”

Overboard, which origi-nated in Boston, Mass.was founded by Girard in2006 as a way to performand work with music aftercollege.

Originally an all-maleseptet, the group now con-tains five members,including Johanna Vinson,the first female to joinOverboard last spring.

Caleb Whelden hadbeen singing with Girardfor two years before hejoined the group threeyears ago, while Girardmet Donovan Davisthrough another group.

Eric Morrissey joinedthe group after Girard methim through connectionson NBC’s “The Sing Off.”

All of the membershave both past and presentexperiences with otheracapella groups.

They have travelled allover the world, sung infestivals and even partici-pated on television showslike “The Sing Off,”which was cancelled afterthree seasons only to laterbe brought back for afourth season.The mem-bers of Overboard con-tributed to NBC bringingback “The Sing Off.”

They noted the popu-larity of shows such as“Glee” or the movie“Pitch Perfect.” Morrisseysaid that the movie alsohad a positive culturaleffect on the acapellagenre.

“It hugely helped makeit aware it was a thing,”Vinson said.

However, despite therecent love of all things

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All aboard for ‘Anything Goes’

See ORTEGA on D2

Ortega

choir practice. When Sun-day came around, she did-n’t know any of thewords. She’d bounce inthe choir on Sunday.”

The audience laughedat Ortega’s impression ofJohnson’s silver head bob-bing to the beat of ahymn.

The mood changedwhen Ortega explainedthat the song, appropriate-ly titled “Mildred Mada-lyn Johnson,” was writtenafter the singer happenedupon a letter from his old

friend, who had died fromAlzheimer’s some yearsbefore. The song captivat-ed the audience and drewloud applause at its end.

Ortega also invited theaudience to sing hymns

with him. The eveningended with the hymn“Give Me Jesus,” whichelicited a standing ovationfrom the crowd.

Ortega returned to thestage for an encore; he per-

formed “Jesus, King ofAngels.”

“You’ve been a terrificaudience tonight,” saidOrtega as he took a bow.“I appreciate everyonecoming out.”

acapella, many of the stu-dents who attended theevent have never seen anacapella group performbefore.

“It was very unique,”said sophomore business

management majorGeorge Malerbo. “I’venever seen anything likeit before in person. Anacapella group singingcontemporary rock songs.That was very, very inter-esting and amazing.”

The group agreed thatthey found performing tobe rewarding, and that itwas fun to be able to meetpeople and bring theminto it.

Whelden mentionedthe thrill of getting theaudience to respond bybringing your best whileperforming.

“You’re creating some-thing every time you’reon stage,” Morrissey said.

In the near future,Girard said the groupwould be performing withfeatured guests for a sym-phony.

The group also wishes

to expand into the inter-national market as well,with an upcoming tour ofSouth Korea.

Mostly though, theysee themselves as havinga ton of fun performing inthe future.

For more informationon Overboard, checkthem out on their web-site, www.overboardvo-cals.com, or follow themon Facebook and Twitter.

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Univeristy studentsto serve in PittsburghBy Chelsea DicksArts & Life Editor

A class of WaynesburgUniversity students willbe taking a weekend tripto Pittsburgh to assist ThePittsburgh Project duringthe month of April.

Dave Calvario teachesthe service learning classthat includes the manda-tory trip to Pittsburgh.

“I chose this class inparticular because I hearawesome things aboutThe Pittsburgh Projectand about Dave,” saidsophomore psychologymajor Natalie Abraham.

The trip will allow stu-dents to do communityservice for the Pittsburgharea.

The work will includepainting, repairing dry-wall and many otherphysical labor jobs.ThePittsburgh Project wascreated to help the lowerclass of Pittsburgh.

“This is what the Lordsays: ‘Once again men andwomen of ripe old age willsit in the streets ofJerusalem, each of themwith their cane in handbecause of their age. Thecity streets will be filledwith boys and girls play-ing there’,” according toZechariah 8:4-5.

The Pittsburgh Projecthas made this passagefrom the Bible its missionstatement. The goal is tofurther God’s calling tohelp the men and womenon the streets of Pitts-burgh.

“The Pittsburgh Projectis a Christian communitydevelopment organiza-tion,” said Calvario.“That means they care forthe whole person, not justdoing repairs to theirhome.”

Along with the work,the students will also leaddiscussions and Bible

studies and will partici-pate in worship with othermembers of The Pitts-burgh Project.

“Their mission is touphold the dignity of vul-nerable homeowners,”said Abraham. “While fix-ing their homes is reallyimportant to the staff atTPP, they are also lookingto bring homeowners toJesus by forming relation-ships with them.”

The class of 18 studentswill get to experiencesome of Pittsburgh’s mostdilapidated areas, and seethe faces of the peoplewho live within theseareas and hear their sto-ries.

The service learningclass experienced a work-day in February to givethem an idea of what theywould see over the week-end.

Abraham’s eyes wereopened during this work-day from a woman by thename of Blanche San-taguido.

“It was really an eye-opening experience to seethat someone who livesonly fifteen minutes awayfrom my home inMunhall could be livingsuch a completely differ-ent life,” said Abraham.“The day really made mecount my blessings andget my attitude in check.”

Abraham believes thatthis time around, the tripwill be more of a faith-based experience.

“Now that I knowwhat to expect, I think Iwill be more comfortableand willing to put conver-sation and relationshipbuilding ahead of hurryingto get the job done,” saidAbraham. “Showing peo-ple that Jesus lives insideof me is much moreimportant in the grandscheme of things than fix-ing some dry wall.”

with the theatre magicthat would soon fill theroom.Tons of hard prepa-ration by the WaynesburgUniversity Players wentinto their production of‘Anything Goes.’ The castwas just as eager to per-form, as the audience wasto watch. The shows tookplace each night at 7:30p.m. from April 3-6 in theGPAC.

“We put in countlesshours to learn and memo-rize our lines, blocking,songs and choreography,”said Tiffany Franck, juniorsociology major whoplays Hope Harcourt inthe production.

“Costumes are pickedout for every character,the set designed, built andpainted, the lighting isdesigned and pro-grammed, the music isarranged, make-up andhairstyles are researchedfor the time period, andthen everything is puttogether to create the finalproduction.”

The cast was excited toexpress themselves onstage and to show theaudiences where their

hard work had beenfocused for the last severalmonths.

“The most enjoyablemoment for me comeswhen everything is all puttogether and we finallyget to share all of our hardwork with the audience,”said Shawn Wharrey, sen-ior biology major whoplays Billy Crocker in theproduction. “As weapproach opening night,the cast is just itching foran audience. Theatre isn’ttheatre without an audi-ence.”

A favorite part of the-atre for many of the castmembers is being able totake on a new personality.

“My favorite aspect ofbeing in the theatre isbeing able to be someonethat I am not,” said Whar-rey. “Through each show Iperform in I get to besomeone different.”

Franck agreed.“I know it’s my job to

create magic and trans-port an audience to awhole new reality,” shesaid. “I am no longerTiffany Franck, but Ibecome a new person whohas new ideas, thoughtsand emotions. It is reallyquite the thrill.”

Chelsea Ritter, juniorhistory major who playedReno Sweeney in the

show, also loves the thrillof being on stage, and con-siders acting an honor.

“Any time I’m onstageis a chance to bring some-one to life,” Ritter said.“To have the honor tobreathe into a characterlike Reno challenged meas an actress and, as withany challenge, gave meone of the best rewards ofmy theater life.”

‘Anything Goes’ was adramatic change of paceand whimsical transitionfor the WU Players fromtheir last musical produc-tion.

“2012’s musical ‘Intothe Woods’ had a veryserious message and was asmall cast,” said Powers.“‘Anything Goes’ has alarge cast with a chorusand is nothing but fun. Itwas a nice change ofpace.”

The cast and crew ofAnything Goes weredelighted to see the waythat the audience reactedto the show.

“The greatest praise fora comedy performer islaughter and our audi-ences must have adoredus because there were bel-lows and chuckles anduproarious outburstsevery night,” said Ritter.“It was fantastic.”

Powers said he was

pleased by the audiences’responsiveness. He washappy that ‘AnythingGoes’ was well received.

“It’s an amazing feelingto hear the applause aftera song or laughter during ahumorous scene,” saidFranck.

“It’s a rewarding feelingbecause you know thatevery minute you spentworking on the show,whether it was on stage orbehind the scenes, waswell worth it.”

Be sure not to missanother one of the produc-tions put on by the WUPlayers.

“And we want all tounderstand that theatre ishere for all of us. Pleasesupport our Theatre pro-ductions,” said Powers.

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for the coffeehouse seriesthis semester. She hopesto wow the audience withher amazing drummerand new songs.

“We will try andremember to pack the t-shirt guns, confetti andthe disco ball,” jokedArmstrong.

Aside from the confetti,this last coffeehouse willbe no different than therest: there will still be alimited number of freecoffee mugs to claim atthe show’s end.

As the 2012-2013 cof-feehouse series comes toan end, the SAB is tryingto come up with differentcampus events to hostnext year.

“We are encouragingstudents to follow us onour twitter page,@WU_SAB,” said Beam.

To come up with moreideas, SAB is selecting ran-dom students to fill outsurveys about the eventsthat were held this year tofind ways to improve orhost more activities.

“Hopefully we will beable to bring new [fun tocampus],” said Beam.

For now, though, attendthis final, fun coffeehouseand get the last coffee mugof this year.

Performersplan to wow

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Photo by Abby Wernert

The group Overboard is seen above performing one of their songs with no back up music, only their voices areused within their performances.

Ortega packschapel

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Photo by Katherine Mansfield

Ortega sings and plays for a large crowd of both students and community members.

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