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Set in 1776, this period drama recounts the
story of Abe Woodhull, an American cabbage
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National Geographic cameras capture
unseen aspects of magnificent Yellowstone America’s oldest national park and among the
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Eva
2011
Hired to develop a robot child, programmer
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Lana, is Alex’s former lover. While Alex’s
relationship with Eva deepens, his old
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SERIES
Task Force discusses suicide prevention
By BRIAN DAVIS
Staff Writer
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Suicide is a tragedy that impacts everyone and is 100 percent preventable,
representatives from the Suicide Task
Force of Indiana County said.
“To prevent suicide, however, requires all of us,” Dr. Ralph May, cochair of the task force, said. “To learn
about it, to become aware of it, the
warning signs and treatment, can always
make a difference.”
May, chief clinical officer of the
Community Guidance Center; Jerry
Overman, the Indiana County coroner; Dr. David Myers, psychologist at
the IUP Counseling Center; and Craig
Faish of the Open Door Crisis Intervention Hotline spoke to a overflowing
crowd of IUP students in the Hadley
Union Building Ohio Room Monday
during a Six O’Clock Series program
titled “The Impact of Suicide.”
“Any death diminishes all of us,”
May said.
“All of us are involved with one another and are connected with one another. There is never a good suicide.”
May said suicide takes the lives of
approximately 39,000 people every year
in the United States, and, within that
group, about 4,600 are about the age of
18. Worldwide, May said, suicide claims
the lives of about 880,000 people a year.
“We think that’s a massive underestimate, because, in many countries, suicide is so frowned upon, there’s so much
of a stigma, so much prejudice, that no
one reports it,” May said. “It becomes
an accidental death, or it doesn’t even
get reported at all.”
Overman, who is also a co-chair of
the task force, talked about the suicide
statistics for Indiana County. So far this
year, Overman said, there have been
four suicides in the county; all of them
were male and died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds.
“It is important to realize that each
of those numbers is a person,” May said.
May told the crowd that suicide is
the third leading cause of death of college age students in the United States.
Myers said, of the 800 students the
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(From left) Dr. Ralph May from the Suicide Task Force of Indiana, Indiana County
coroner Jerry Overman, Craig Faish and Dr. David Myers from the IUP Center for
Health and Well-Being took their turn talking to the packed audience about the
different aspects of suicide Monday in the Hadley Union Building Ohio Room.
Counseling Center sees a year, about 40
percent of them have suicidal thoughts.
The panel talked about the warning
signs to look for in someone who is considering committing suicide.
“The three big feelings that we look
for are hopeless, helpless and worthless,”
Faish said. “Very rarely do we come
out and flat out say that they are killing themselves or that they’re thinking
of suicide.”
When those warning signs do appear, Faish said the best course of action
is to listen to the person and reach out
to get them the help they need.
“Suicide is not a sudden dramatic
act,” May said. “It is never something
that just happens. It is a product of an
erosion of person, a wearing down of
the person.”
The panel discussed how the stigma
surrounding mental illness and depression make treating the diseases and preventing suicide extraordinarily difficult.
“Depression is a flaw of chemistry,
not a flaw of character,” Faish said. “If
someone is anxious or depressed, it’s not
because they are a bad person or because
they are weak, it’s because they have an
illness. Nobody gets yelled at or blamed
for having heart disease or having high
blood pressure.
“The brain is an organ of the body,
too,” Faish said.
“Just like the heart, pancreas, liver,
just like any of those can get sick, so can
the brain.”
Before the end of the program, May
reminded the audience about the suicide
prevention resources available in the
county, which includes the task force,
the Community Guidance Center, the
Open Door Crisis Intervention Hotline
and the IUP Counseling Center.
“There are probably people in this
audience tonight that are seriously
thinking about killing themselves,” May
said. “We want you to come talk to us.”
March 31, 2015
Gamers discuss Final Fantasy VII
By DANIEL KIRBY
Contributing Writer
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A Critical Play Series in the Digital
Humanities Center in Leonard Hall
Room 204 gives students the opportunity to discuss their favorite games in
depth.
At the most recent meeting, students
Cody Dunmire (senior, English) and
Eliza Albert-Baird (graduate, English)
discussed how Final Fantasy VII and
games of its kind should be thought of
as literary works instead of just games.
Both students are taking the approach of looking at the game as a book
or text and how they relate to certain
literary works and theories.
The presentation began with watching one of the Final Fantasy’s first advertisements for the game back in 1997.
After watching the trailer, AlbertBaird began to discuss how some characters had deeper meaning to them and
the psychoanalysis of certain important
characters within the game.
She dove deeper into this by showing
how the game can be related to the Oedipal Complex throughout the gameplay and how on-screen memories affect
the preconceived notions of one of the
mostly highly regarded games.
Characters like Cloud, Aerith and
Sephiroth can be looked at as having
much deeper meanings than just those
of a fictional video game.
Dunmire took a slightly different
approach. Drawing on the works of
writers like Melville, Hawthorne and
other Romantic writers, he compared
certain elements of aspects and themes
to some of their works. The presentation
featured ideas of how character development is a key feature to the gameplay
of a game and how it can help relate
characters to different parts and eras of
English literature. The idea behind this
is how old ideas from previous novels
and games are re-imaged for a modern
age and new gameplay.
Dunmire also related key parts of the
game to books like “Moby Dick,” with
the idea that FFVII is a basic story of
chase and the need to prove one’s self,
just like Captain Ahab did in the classic novel.
Focusing on the romantic period,
Final Fantasy VII is shown to be a
somewhat futuristic society that has
lost touch with nature and is on a crash
course for destruction.
The game expands into three discs
and is packed with hours of gameplay
to explore the world of FFVII while being able to use nine different playable
characters.
Its story begins many years before
the game does. Shinra, the world’s biggest electric company, has come up with
plans to expand its enterprise.
With the recent discovery of mako,
an energy source within Final Fantasy
VII, Shinra creates reactors to extract
the energy and in the process is slowly
killing the earth.
It is up to players to stop Shinra before it is too late.
The next Critical Play Series presentation will be held April 15 from 5:30
p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Leonard Hall in
Room 204.
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(Left) Eliza Albert-Baird (graduate, English) and (right) Cody Dunmire (senior,
English) spoke to a group of students about the psychoanalytic aspects and parallels to classic literature of the classic video game Final Fantasy VII Wednesday.
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March 31, 2015
POLICE BLOTTER
ALCOHOL VIOLATIONS
• Tyler Hagar, 21, of Willow Grove, was taken into custody and charged with public drunkenness at 11:58 p.m. March 21 in the 600 block of Washington Street,
according to Indiana Borough Police.
• Roman Viecelli, 19, of Herminie, was arrested for public drunkenness, underage
drinking and public urination at 8:16 p.m. March 21 in the 700 block of Nixon
Avenue, according to borough police. Viecelli was lodged at the Indiana County
Jail, police said.
• Casey Riccio, 23, of Indiana, was arrested for public drunkenness at 11:43 p.m.
March 21 in the 500 block of Water Street, according to borough police. Riccio was
lodged at the county jail, police said.
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THEFT
• Dakota Scott Long, 19, of Friedens, was cited for retail theft and underage drinking at 3:09 a.m. March 22 at Sheetz, 380 Philadelphia St., according to borough
police.
• Jordan Menk, 18, of Lebanon, was taken into custody and charged with retail
theft and underage drinking at 11:02 p.m. March 21 at Sheetz, 768 Wayne Ave.,
according to borough police.
• Taylor Allison, 20, of Mount Pleasant, was charged with retail theft and underage
drinking at 12:57 a.m. March 22 at Sheetz, 768 Wayne Ave., according to borough
police.
• Eric Imboden, 20, of Emporium, was arrested for retail theft at 11:27 p.m. March
21 at Sheetz, 380 Philadelphia St., according to borough police. Imboden was cited
for retail theft and underage drinking, police said.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF
• Derryn Selfridge, 20, of Butler, was arrested and transported to the Indiana Borough Police Station after police responded to call of Selfridge attempting to enter
an apartment at 6:07 a.m. March 21 in the 400 block of South 13th Street, according to borough police. He was cited for public drunkenness, disorderly conduct and
underage drinking and transported to the county jail, police said. It was later found
that Selfridge damaged the door to the apartment, and he was additionally charged
for criminal mischief, the report said.
ASSAULT
• Borough police observed Jamair Henderson, 23, of Braddock, fighting with a
security guard and took Henderson into custody at 1:27 a.m. March 22 at Sheetz,
768 Wayne Ave., according to borough police. Police said they learned that Henderson had been refused entry into Sheetz but still attempted to enter the store.
Henderson reportedly bit an employee while the Sheetz security guard was removing him from the store. Henderson was charged with simple assault, disorderly
conduct, trespass and harassment, the report said.
DRUG VIOLATIONS
• Stephen McCormick, 19, of Bradford, was taken into custody after refusing to
leave Sheetz’s property, 768 Wayne Ave., at 9:38 p.m. March 21, according to
borough police. McCormick was found to be in possession of marijuana when
taken into custody, police said. McCormick was charged with possession of a small
amount of marijuana, trespass, underage drinking and disorderly conduct, the report said.
• William Jackson, 19, of Sewickley, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia at 9:34 p.m. March 21 in Wallwork Hall, according to the Indiana University
of Pennsylvania Police Department.
• Jordan Brown, 18, of Chambersburg, was charged with possession of a small
amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, and Takhi Turner, 18,
of Harrisburg, was charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana at
8:13 p.m. March 22 on the third floor of Stephenson Hall, according to university
police.
•Elizabeth Evans, 19, of Erie, was charged with underage drinking and possession
of drug paraphernalia, and Kayleigh Serafin, 19, of Oil City, was charged with underage drinking at 9:32 p.m. March 21 at Wallwork Hall, according to university
police.
PUBLIC URINATION
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James Tarmin (senior, communications media) entertained an audience at The Artists Hand Gallery on Philadelphia Street
Saturday. The performance was part of The Audio Graphics Show put together by communications media professor
Thaddeaus Dachille and Anthony Messiano (senior, communications media). The performance mixed original audio created
by Tarmin and a graphics show that played behind him as he performed.
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• Malika King, 19, of Pittsburgh, was cited for public urination at 1:34 a.m. March
22 when police observed King urinating on the west side of Reschini House, according to university police.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
• Alexander Falcone, 21, of Exton, was taken into custody and cited for harassment
and disorderly conduct at 11:28 p.m. March 20 at Sheetz, 768 Wayne Ave., after
Falcone was found arguing with the Sheetz security guards and pushed one of the
guards, according to borough police.
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Feminist
Friday
Speech pathology major wins Dean’s Award for Excellence
By STEPHANIE BACHMAN
Feminist Friday discusses conclusion
of Women’s History Month
The discussion continued from textbooks
to books students have to read for
Staff Writer
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Many of the books read today, such
The end of March and, therefore, as “Brave New World” and “Grapes of
the end of Women’s History Month is Wrath,” were also on the recommended
upon us.
reading list more than 30 years ago.
At the Feminist Friday meeting FriMany books are kept on the national
day, students were abuzz conversing recommended reading list because of
about how they felt the month went, as the stories they tell.
well as how society can strive for equalStudents were surprised to see just
ity throughout the entire year.
how little this list has changed to reflect
In the United States, Women’s Histo- the social climate in the U.S. as years
ry Month was espass.
tablished in 1987.
Alicia Drew,
Before this, Interthe leader of the
national Women’s
Feminist Friday
Day was first celdiscussions, sugebrated in 1911
gested that stuand was extended
dents check their
to last a week by
social media to
the school district
see where women’s
of Sonoma, Calif.,
rights truly stand
in 1978.
on campus. Drew
In 1980, Presicontinued saying
dent Jimmy Cartthat the social clier issued a proclamate on campus is
mation declaring
exactly why womthat the week of
en need a national
March 8 was to be
history month.
National Women’s
Michael MarHistory
Week.
quez (graduate,
The
National
clinical psycholWomen’s
Hisogy) agreed.
tory Project cam“Until we no
paigned to have
longer see this disthe entire month
parity in classes,”
of March dedi- he said, “we do
(graduate, clinical psychology)
cated to women’s
need
Women’s
history, which led
History Month.”
to the Women’s
Drew was also
History Month
excited to ancelebrated today.
nounce the Take Back the Night initiaIn a conference room in the Suites of tive that was cosponsored by the CreatMaple East, students from across cam- ing Higher Standards Group at Indiana
pus discussed solutions to the modern University of Pennsylvania. Groups and
problems of sexism and inequality be- organizations are encouraged to create
tween genders.
a short video announcing their support
There were a few topics that garnered of Take Back the Night as well as invite
the most attention, one of these being another organization or group to attend
rewriting textbooks. These rewritten the event.
textbooks would offer equal representaAny group interested in doing this
tion of all genders, creeds and nation- should post their short video to social
alities. A suggestion by Meghan Olbrys media with the hashtag #IUPTBTN,
(graduate, student affairs in higher edu- which stands for “IUP Take Back the
cation) was that these new curriculums Night.” Take Back the Night is schedshould be “integrated slowly but surely.” uled for Wednesday, April 15.
By MARGARET BURRIS
“Until we no
longer see
this disparity
in classes,
we do need
Women’s
History
Month.”
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Emily Romberger (senior, speech pathology) spent the past year conducting
research related to her project that won
her the Dean’s Award for Excellence in
last year’s Undergraduate Scholars’ Forum.
Romberger was one of the 2014
award recipients and the only winner
from the College of Education and Educational Technology. The 10th annual
forum will be held April 7 in the Hadley
Union Building.
Her project was titled “Impacts on
Health and Hearing from Hydraulic
Fracking,” and it involved determining
if the consistent and loud noises associated with hydraulic fracking for natural gas can cause hearing loss or other
health issues.
Romberger tested this by going to
nearby Finelyville and recording sound
levels in different high-population areas
of the borough.
In addition to this, she had residents
fill out surveys to get their feedback on
living near the fracking site.
Although the sound levels were not
high enough to cause hearing loss, the
research and surveys did find some valuable data.
Negative impacts reported included
annoyance, mental-health concerns,
stress, sleep disturbance and overall
changes in health that required medical
consultations.
Romberger explained how her interest in the subject arose.
“As an audiology student here, I have
been interested in hearing and the ear
for a while now, but fracking was never
an interest of mine,” Romberger said.
“In 2013, my audiology professor, Dr.
Richburg, was asked to present at a public health conference in Pittsburgh. Our
Audiology Student Association was also
invited to go along.
“While we were at the conference,
it occurred to us that there was nothing out there that dealt with hearing loss
and fracking. … That is when this project got started.”
The Forum provides students with
an opportunity to conduct, present and
be recognized for their research before
they graduate.
It is also an opportunity that helps
students who are applying for jobs or
graduate school stand out from the
competition.
“It was an honor to receive the
Dean’s Award for Excellence at last
year’s Undergraduate Scholars’ Forum,”
Romberger said. “I had never expected
to win [it] last year. I was just excited
to share with people what I had been
working on.
“Having the opportunity to conduct
research has given me a head start in the
research world. I have had interviews for
graduate schools, and they seemed very
interested that I had already done some
research.”
Romberger offered advice for current
students who are interested in or already
involved in research.
“I think as long as you believe in
what you are doing and are excited
about it, people recognize that and are
more interested in your work,” she said.
Romberger recently presented her
findings at the Undergraduate Research
at the Capital in Harrisburg, and she is
now getting ready to graduate in May.
She plans to continue on to graduate
school in order to get a doctoral degree
in audiology.
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March 31, 2015
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A closer look at SGA presidential
Center for Community Growth shows
film about America’s environmental impact candidates as polls open
By STEPHANIE BACHMAN
Staff Writer
[email protected]
The Center for Community Growth
showed “The Power of One Voice” at
the Indiana Theater Friday as the latest
movie in their 2015 film series.
The Center for Community Growth
shows inspiring and powerful documentaries on the last Friday of most months
of the year. The latest film focused on
the life of hometown humanitarian Rachel Carson.
It has been 50 years since Carson
published her book “Silent Spring,”
which awoke the conscious of America
to its environmental impact and the demand for change.
The documentary reflected on all
that has happened since the publication
while also reminding the audience of
how Carson’s work is still relevant today
and how climate change is still a very
real issue.
The impact Carson’s work has had
include banning pesticides such as
DDT, leading to the formation of the
Environmental Protection Agency.
The executive producer of the film,
Dr. Patricia DeMarco of Chatham University, explained why she made the
film.
“I felt her work was a lot broader
than pesticides,” DeMarco said. “She
reminds us how everything on Earth
is interconnected for our life. Fresh air,
clean water, fertile ground and biodiversity of species are all life support systems
and things we cannot live without. They
need to be protected. That message
needs to be restated, and [Carson’s] message is still relevant to our time today,”
DeMarco said.
DeMarco was also present after the
film for a discussion and a Q&A session. She mentioned reducing the toxic
burden various chemicals have on the
land and consumers using their buying
power to demand to know what is in
products.
During the Q&A session, audience
members asked questions about a wide
variety of topics, such as GMOs and restarting the discussion about population
growth.
For the former, DeMarco compared
controlled and uncontrolled GMOs.
She said uncontrolled GMOs are dangerous and should be limited. For the
latter, DeMarco talked about communities being more responsible as consumers and educating and empowering
women.
DeMarco talked to the audience
about the need to stop burning fossil fuels and being careful about how we use
renewable resources.
“We are destroying an atmosphere
that took millions of years to form in
decades,” DeMarco said.
She also urged people to take action,
saying the environmental fight is far
from over.
DeMarco said everyone has several
opportunities to make small changes in
their daily lives that can have a big impact, such as not accepting plastic bags
or reusing materials as something else
before you even put them in a recycling
bin.
Jennifer Zhang (junior, psychology
and sociology) described her thoughts
on the event and how easy it is to reduce one’s carbon footprint on a daily
basis by giving some examples from her
own life.
“I actually enjoyed it,” Zhang said. “I
think it brings attention back to what
a lot of people forget in everyday life.
I use bio-degradable doggie food bags.
If you think about it, you can make a
garden in a really sunny windowsill to
grow your own herbs. When I move off
campus next year, I will even make my
own compost bin.”
By PETE SIRIANNI
Managing Editor
[email protected]
Three students are vying for the presidency of the Student Government Association. Elections for the top post run
from Tuesday until Thursday, and links
to the ballots will be sent through Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Imail
system.
Each candidate has several plans for
SGA and the university if elected.
• How do you plan on bridging the
gap between SGA and other IUP students?
Vincent Lopez (sophomore, English
and political science): “One of the biggest focuses is going to be working with
clubs and other organizations on campus.”
Alex Kavounas (sophomore, marketing): “If we really improve attendance,
more people will find out about SGA:
what we do, how we do it and why we
do it.”
Hanna Beightley (junior, natural sciences): “Some students do not know
that there is a student government at
IUP or what being a senator entails,
and I think that using CrimsonConnect
can help move SGA involvement in the
right direction.”
• What changes do you want to see
in SGA?
Lopez: “…more involvement from
the senators, and have the senators actually representing something of value or a
voice of a student on campus.”
Kavounas: “I would like to get some
of IUP’s facilities open on a later basis.
Things like the library, dining halls.
Sometimes you need facilities when
they’re least convenient.”
Beightley: “I think having a representative from different majors, ethnicities, religions and communities in SGA
can help us accurately and efficiently
represent the needs of all students, not
just a small subset of the student body.”
• If you are elected president, what
immediate changes do you want to see?
Lopez: “I want to be able to open up
a town hall immediately to bring students in and hear their issues and what
they want to see changed.”
Kavounas: “I really want to implement a philanthropy aspect to student
government.”
Beightley: “We can [improve meeting attendance] by having more SGA
sponsored events that bring the students
of IUP together and also by being more
involved in other events on campus.”
Stanford University reports
allegations of students cheating
By TRACY SEIPEL
San Jose Mercury News
TNS
STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford University is investigating allegations of
academic cheating by students during
the recent winter quarter, according to
University Provost John Etchemendy.
A letter Etchemendy sent to faculty
and teaching staff last week pointed to
“an unusually high number of troubling allegations of academic dishonesty” reported to the school’s Office of
Community Standards at the end of the
quarter.
Winter-quarter classes started Jan. 5
and ended March 13; finals were held
March 16-20.
In the one-page letter to his colleagues, Etchemendy said that “among
a smattering of concerns from a number
of winter courses,” one faculty member
reported allegations that may involve
as many as 20 percent of the students
enrolled in one of Stanford’s large introductory courses.
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Etchemendy said that all students
entering the university are informed of
the school’s honor code and agree to
abide by it.
“But with the ease of technology and
widespread sharing that is now part of
a collaborative culture,” he wrote, “students need to recognize and be reminded that it is dishonest to appropriate the
work of others.”
The allegations follow incidents of
academic cheating at other top-ranked
U.S. colleges.
Last fall, up to 64 Dartmouth College students – including some athletes
– faced suspension or other disciplinary
action for cheating in an ethics class.
At the same time, University of
North Carolina employees were found
to have participated in an 18-year cheating scandal to help 3,100 students make
good grades with little work.
In 2012, Harvard University investigated 125 students in what it called “the
most widespread cheating scandal” in
campus history.
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Governors seek higher education cuts
By ELAINE S. POVICH
Stateline.org
TNS
WASHINGTON – Governors in
nearly a half-dozen states want to cut
state spending on colleges and universities to help close budget shortfalls, often
sparking vehement opposition among
state lawmakers of both parties.
Republican governors in Arizona,
Kansas, Louisiana and Wisconsin and
Connecticut’s Democratic governor
have proposed higher education cuts
for the coming fiscal year. Higher education spending traditionally is a juicy
target for budget cutters because schools
can make up the lost revenue by raising
tuition.
But students and their families already are being squeezed by steadily
rising college costs. In fiscal year 2013,
schools got about 47 percent of their
revenue from tuition, up from about 24
percent in fiscal year 1988, according to
the State Higher Education Executive
Officers Association. Democratic Gov.
Dannel Malloy of Connecticut has suggested a tuition hike to compensate for
the cuts, but the Republican governors
are urging the schools in their states to
find the necessary savings by trimming
bureaucracy and consolidating campuses.
University officials argue that past
budget cuts have pushed them to the
breaking point, forcing them, for example, to rely heavily on adjunct professors and teaching assistants instead of
full professors. During the recession, 48
states cut higher education spending.
Alaska and North Dakota didn’t.
They are the only two states spending
as much or more on higher education
than they did before the recession, when
the numbers are adjusted for inflation,
according to the Center on Budget and
Policy Priorities (CBPP), a Washington,
D.C.-based research group.
Some critics have urged the Republican governors to roll back recent
tax cuts to spare the colleges and universities. But so far the governors have
balked, arguing that lower taxes have
helped working families and attracted
businesses.
Nowhere is the controversy greater
than in Louisiana, which has a complicated higher education system and a
Republican governor who is considering
running for president.
Gov. Bobby Jindal proposed a budget that would reduce higher education spending by $141 million in fiscal
2016. In recent weeks, he has proposed
offsetting some of the cuts by getting rid
of some refundable business tax credits,
which have a total value of $526 million. But the business community is
strongly opposing that idea.
That leaves the Republican-dominated legislature in a bind, forcing members to choose between education and
low taxes, two priorities they generally
support.
State Sen. Conrad Appel, a Republican, said in an interview that if the
higher education cuts Jindal proposed
all go into effect, “it would be really
serious” and a big blow to colleges and
universities.
He said he wants to scale back the
proposed cuts, but wasn’t prepared to
say exactly how.
“If we vote to replenish, some of the
cuts will be mitigated to some extent,”
he said. But, he noted that the Louisiana
public university system has “structural
inefficiencies” that will mean more budget cuts in the future.
He said he told college administrators last week that they should take
steps to cut their budgets, whether that
means consolidation of campuses or
other methods.
“What I don’t recommend is for
higher education to ignore the opportunity to fix the problem,” he said. “Either
they are going to fix it or we are going
to fix it for them and they won’t like it.”
Robert Scott, president of the Public
Affairs Research Council of Louisiana,
said that since Jindal became governor
in 2008, the number of full-time employees at state colleges and universities
has decreased 23 percent due to budget
cuts, and that schools have been raising tuition along the way. But now, he
said, “they are about to price themselves
out of the market.” He said the flagship school, Louisiana State University,
“still has some headroom” to continue
tuition increases, but most of the small
schools in the state system don’t have
that luxury.
John Griswold, a fine arts professor
at McNeese State University in Lake
Charles, said his state is a test case for
cuts to higher education.
“The conditions in Louisiana were
perfect for testing an assault on statefunded higher education,” Griswold
said. He noted the state has a conservative governor, legislative rules that preclude cuts in most spending except for
higher education and health care and an
economic downturn prompted by the
drop in oil prices.
“Similar conditions exist in other
states, so conservative politicians elsewhere can also demand deep cuts to
higher ed, based on populist appeals to
‘good business’ and an end to ‘welfare
mentality,’” he said.
Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott
Walker, a potential presidential candidate who has cut state income and
property taxes by $541 million during
his tenure, has proposed cutting $300
million from the University of Wisconsin system.
According to Walker, that amounts
to a 2.5 percent cut, but other analysts
have put the figure as high as 13 percent.
The fact-checking service PolitiFact
split the difference, assessing the reduction at about 6 percent. The cut would
be exacerbated by the fact that there is a
tuition freeze in place.
“Through flexibility and empowering current leaders from across the system, (University of Wisconsin) System
and campus leadership will have the
tools necessary to deliver a high-quality
education in a strategic manner while
saving taxpayers $150 million a year,”
Walker’s spokeswoman, Laurel Patrick,
said.
Meanwhile, two Republican state
lawmakers have called for changes in
the governor’s budget that would lessen
the cut, including raising out-of-state
tuition and requiring the university to
spend down reserve funds.
“We will work toward a smaller,
more manageable cut instead of the
$300 million cut proposed in the governor’s budget,” the two, Reps. Dean
Knudson and John Nygren, said in a
press release last week.
In Illinois, Republican Gov. Bruce
Rauner recommended a reduction of
nearly 6 percent in direct spending on
state colleges and universities. Despite
the cut, Rauner argues that “this budget
proposal continues to offer state support
to our public universities” through contributions to the universities’ retirement
system and insurance benefits for university employees.
But Rauner faces strong opposition
from the Democratic-controlled legislature and from the state’s universities.
Senate President John Cullerton said
on his Facebook page that the governor’s budget cuts will “undermine access
to health services, child care, afford-
able college and retirement security for
working- and middle-class families” and
vowed that the legislature will amend
it. While Rauner has proposed cuts in
a range of areas, the education chunk is
drawing the most attention.
In Arizona, the Republican-led legislature went further than Republican
Gov. Doug Ducey in cutting higher education, agreeing to a $99-million cut,
down from an earlier legislative proposal of $104 million. Ducey had proposed
a $75-million reduction as a way to pay
for business tax cuts.
Universities and proponents of
higher education fought the governor’s
cuts so doggedly that they prompted a
backlash in the legislature, which upped
them.
Arizona State University President Michael Crow called the action
a “drastic remedy to the state’s budget
troubles” and one that will come back
to haunt the state when it has fewer college graduates contributing to the state’s
economy.
In Connecticut, Democratic Gov.
Dannel Malloy proposed cutting $10.6
million from the University of Connecticut system and an additional $20.6
million from the state’s regional universities.
Malloy has expressed support for
tuition hikes, after several years of urging that tuition merely keep pace with
inflation.
In Kansas, Republican Gov. Sam
Brownback since 2011 has pushed
through a 25-percent reduction in the
state’s top income tax rate, lowered sales
taxes and eliminated a tax on smallbusiness income.
As a result, state revenue has declined
by $685 million. Brownback now is
looking to make cuts in education and
elsewhere in an effort to balance the
books.
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March 31, 2015
News
Students’ art to be
diplayed at Art Works
By RUTH RICE
The Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown
TNS
University art students are showing
what they’ve created.
The IUP Spring Juried Exhibition
and DDD: Three Dimensional Form
Studies will be on display through May
2 at the Art Works building of Bottle
Works, 413 Third Ave., in the Cambria
City section of Johnstown.
The 2015 installment of the IUP
Spring Juried Exhibition highlights the
work from graduate and undergraduate
students of Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Juror Adam Welch said the show
boasts a contemporary display of the
artistic voices being trained in studio
discipline at IUP.
Welch holds a master’s degree from
IUP and a bachelor’s from SUNY Stony
Brook University and is an artist, musician and curator who has exhibited regionally and internationally.
He is the recipient of the 2009 Individual Artists Fellowship in Installation/
Sculpture from Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts and was awarded the 2008
Emerging Artist of the Year award by
the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
DDD: Three Dimensional Form
Studies also is a selection of students’
work from IUP.
Three-dimensional design is an intense and rapidly changing course of
study for incoming freshman in which
they develop skills essential to success
in the art department, as well as techniques which can be used in other fields
of study.
“Viewers will be treated to things
they understand, like dinosaurs, animals, architecture and chairs – but
presented in inventive ways and made
of very basic materials,” said Steve Loar,
associate professor in the IUP art department.
“The dinosaurs were light-hearted
abstractions that used recycled plastic
as an art-making material. The birds
and architecture were relatively early
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in the semester and established skills in
abstracting shapes, but keeping them
understandable. The chairs were the
very difficult problem of taking a type
of chair and combining it with an art
style. Not to mimic chairs that had actually been made back then, but to create a chair that actually looks like the
art style.”
Loar explained that as a course, 3-D
design is concerned with establishing
skills, not just in building objects, but
with the very salable skills of conceiving
new ways of looking at objects and then
using humble materials to make them
look interesting.
“Those who complete this course
take with them perseverance, problem
solving abilities, brainstorming skills,
conceptual insights, knowledge of materials and the ability to get to the answer
in ways others would never consider,”
Loar said.
“This exhibition is the result of my
teaching and two undergraduate teaching assistants who are considering college teaching as a profession.
“The students were mostly firstsemester freshmen in studio art or art
education. Each project was a series of
one-week modules that assumed they
knew nothing about the topic or the
material.”
Form, light and shadow are integral
layers of the course, and students are
asked to explore these ideas through inventive use of material.
“My teaching provides structure and
guidelines, builds personal confidence
and a willingness to take risks and allows each student the freedom to try
their way of finding a solution,” Loar
said.
“We applaud success, and we applaud smart failures. We get students to
think and explore and to make things
they didn’t imagine possible.”
A Curator Talk to coincide with both
exhibits will be given by Welch at 4 p.m.
April 18. The cost is $10 per person or
$7 for students and includes light refreshments and hors d’oeuvres.
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Opinion
Cartoon by Brandon McDonald
Presidential politics on a Mountain
State stage?
By CHARLESTON DAILY
MAIL
MCT
The following editorial appeared
in the Charleston Daily Mail Sunday,
March 29:
The last time there was a presidential
debate in West Virginia, it was during
the 1960 Democratic primary battle
between John F. Kennedy and Hubert
Humphrey.
Topics included Cuban sugar quotas, anti-segregation sit-ins in the south,
and whether “Red China” should be
admitted to the U.N.
Fifty-five years later, state and local
leaders want to bring a presidential debate to West Virginia again.
A coalition of groups represented
by the West Virginia Commission of
Presidential Debates has submitted a
200-page application to host one of the
three 2016 presidential debates.
“We deserve to be put on a national
stage in this way. It’s a great opportunity
to showcase all of the wonderful things
Opinion
West Virginia has to offer,” said LeAnn
Cain, a spokeswoman for Charleston’s
Clay Center, where the proposed event
would take place.
Presidential debates aren’t always in
held large cities, or swing states.
Since 2000, there have been debates
in Oxford, Miss., and Winston-Salem,
N.C.
There were two in Hempstead, N.Y.
And tiny Danville, Ky., hosted vicepresidential debates in 2000 and 2012.
The Clay Center has the appropriate space and technological specifications to host a debate, and Charleston
has enough hotel rooms and security
resources.
And what better place than West
Virginia to ask candidates about some
of the most pressing domestic issues
facing the country?
Health care, poverty, energy, the environment – all are national topics with
particular relevance to citizens living in
Appalachia.
It would be an opportunity for West
Virginia to represent a part of the coun-
try that is often overlooked.
Perhaps the biggest hurdle is that a
debate here in Charleston wouldn’t be
held on a college campus, as most recent ones have been.
The national Commission on Presidential Debates – the panel that selects
locations – seems to favor sites associated with schools.
But that’s at least partially addressed
by the participation of both West Virginia University and West Virginia
State University, which would be cosponsors.
“Living here in Charleston, I would
watch these debates... and I said – why
not West Virginia?” said Mike Stuart,
a former state Republican Party chairman who spearheaded the proposal.
A presidential debate here could
be worth several million dollars to the
state and local economy.
More importantly, it would be a
learning opportunity for West Virginians, and a chance for the country to
learn more about us.
March 31, 2015
Penn EDITORIAL
School spirit is alive
How many times have you heard that IUP lacks school spirit, particularly for
its athletics?
Though the university boasts many successful sports programs, the recent
consensus seems to have been that students just don’t support their teams as much
as they should.
The reasons behind the alleged lack of allegiance have varied, but the grumblings have been prominent.
That belief might have been nixed – or at least temporarily so – after Saturday’s
Division II men’s basketball national championship, in which the Crimson Hawks
played after logging the second-most wins in team history.
IUP wasn’t able to bring home its first-ever national title, thanks to a dominant
outing by Florida Southern College in the nationally broadcast contest.
But IUP did come home with unconditional support from a dedicated herd
of fans who made the trek from Indiana, Pa., to Evansville, Ind., just to see the
Crimson Hawks in action.
The team may very well have captured the attention of the campus over the
weekend because of its title run, but perhaps more importantly, it also attracted a
flock of students, faculty and alumni to relocate states Saturday.
Some embarked on a nearly 20-hour bus trip to and from the Ford Center,
while others made their own travel arrangements to see IUP’s first national championship appearance since 2010.
If that doesn’t represent a semblance of dedication to school athletics, then what
does?
Sure, there weren’t always as many fans at the games that led up to IUP’s season
finale in Indiana.
But the sea of Crimson Hawks fanatics – led by their beloved mascot, Norm,
and complete with a waving IUP flag – were in full effect Saturday.
It remains to be seen whether or not such an impassioned fan base will make
itself known for the countless other IUP sports.
But at least the Crimson Hawks can take pride in the fact that they do, in fact,
have fans that care.
If Saturday’s turnout was any indication, at least that much is clear.
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Wet Ink
THE PENN
Wet Ink Editor: Rachel Clippinger – [email protected]
Lead Wet Ink Writer: Andrew Milliken – [email protected]
An Evening of Dance and
Percussion featured both student
and alumni musical collaboration
By HAYLEY MORGANS
Contributing Writer
[email protected]
For only one performance every
two years, Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Dance Theater and Percussion Ensemble join forces to present
An Evening of Dance and Percussion
under the co-direction of Holly BodaSutton and Dr. Michael Kingan.
This year’s performance was held
Saturday in Fisher Auditorium and was
the collaborative product of many artists, both part of and outside of the IUP
community.
In addition to the Dance Theater and Percussion Ensemble, the
evening featured work of both student and IUP alumni musical
arrangers, current IUP faculty, members
of the IUP Chorale, IUP’s Hawkapella
Choir, guest student dancers, guest military veterans and a long list of production staff and crew members working
behind-the-scenes.
A guest choreographer was invited
to contribute to the program. Toneta
Akers-Toler, choreographer and master
teacher of Theatre West Virginia, choreographed “Josie,” the second number
of the show.
Boda-Sutton, IUP Dance Theater
director and co-director of the event,
explained that preparation for an event
involving so many people requires a lot
of time and coordination.
“It takes two years to put everything
together,” she said. “We start planning
casting in September, and rehearsals
start usually the first of November.”
The earlier preparation for the event
includes finding and choosing repertoire, any guest artists and general planning.
Preparation is therefore one of the
main reasons why the event is held every
other year rather than annually, BodaSutton said.
“The scheduling is really the biggest
[challenge] – coordinating schedules
when dealing with your guest artists’
availability and then the availability of
the other groups and people involved,”
Boda-Sutton said.
The IUP Dance Theater rehearses
several hours per night, four days per
week for the entirety of the academic
year except when classes are not in session for breaks.
The IUP Percussion Ensemble and
others involved also spend hours of rehearsal independently and then come
together for full rehearsals.
Though preparation for the event is
a commitment, it is worth the time and
effort, students involved explained.
“The whole collaboration is just awesome,” percussionist Denver Juliano
(graudate, percussion performance)
said. “Not a lot of departments work
with other departments like we do.”
Juliano said that his favorite piece
of the show is “Shofukan,” the closing
number of the show.
“One of our students arranged it for
Percussion Ensemble,” Juliano said.
Danielle Stoffer (senior, music),
another student performer, said she is
eager to be involved in this year’s pro-
duction after being part of the 2013
production.
“I was very excited,” Stoffer said.
“From my first experience, it was a lot
of fun, so I couldn’t wait.”
In
this
event,
percussionists
did
not
only
provide
musical accompaniment for the dancers, but also danced on stage with them
during certain songs.
“I also did dance for 10 years, so I
was excited,” Stoffer said. “Getting back
on the floor was awesome.”
The collaborative effort also fostered
a culture of teamwork for both performers and production staff involved.
“It’s exciting to be a part of something for a bigger cause, and to be working with people who love what they do,”
said Charis Franco (sophomore, dance
arts), assistant wardrobe manager.
“It’s fun being able to interact with
the dancers, getting to know them,”
Stoffer said.
Since An Evening of Dance and Percussion originated 16 years ago, it has
given participants the opportunity to
explore new ideas, cultures and styles.
“We wanted to play with the possibilities,” Boda-Sutton said.
The well-anticipated event brings in
returning audience members as well as
first-time attendees each production.
Jody Michalik of Pittsburgh, mother of
one of the dancers, had never attended
the event before Saturday night’s performance.
“[Boda-Sutton] is great,” she said.
“[The show] was even better than we
expected.”
(Photo courtesy of Katlynn Resides/ The Penn)
Alexis Evangelista (freshman, business marketing) showed off her jacket and floral
hoodie combo from H&M and PacSun, respectively, in the Oak Grove Monday.
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March 31, 2015
(Photo courtesy of Daniel Kirby/ The Penn)
Cody Dunmire (senior, English) staying warm in an argyle sweater from Old Navy.
Wet Ink
March 31, 2015
Wet Ink
Crimson
Hoax
This is a satirical news column.
Local salesman
passes away despite
raging success
By ANDREW MILLIKEN
Lead Wet Ink Writer
[email protected]
Gerald Earl Xavier, known to his
friends simply as “GEX,” passed away
silently Thursday night.
GEX worked as a salesman in the
area, peddling a limited variety of
goods, most notably an extremely accessible selection of beers, both craft and
domestic.
GEX, who was known for his somewhat boisterous behavior and constant
abundance of food and drink, ironically
wasted away at the end, with fewer and
fewer options available in the days leading up to his passing.
“He used to be so full,” said a friend
of GEX, who asked to remain nameless
for privacy reasons. “Towards the end,
he just got emptier and emptier until
there was nothing left.”
While GEX had an intensely positive
impact on his community, he was not
without faults or rivals.
Sean Harris Evan Eric Thomas
Zabbo was a longtime rival salesman of GEX and continues to
operate right across the street from
where the dearly departed Xavier used
to call home.
Zabbo, while reluctant to speak on
the matter, did eventually express respect for his sales colleague.
“He burned bright and quick, that
GEX,” said Zabbo. “I’ve been selling
trademarked snacks and limited gro-
ceries in the area for decades and never
saw serious competition until that GEX
moved in across the street.”
GEX achieved a remarkable notoriety in his three years of life, touching the
lives of countless residents and students
in his area.
“Most
three-year-olds,
they
don’t get to do what GEX did,”
said
Lillie
Gynn
Borencic,
Xavier’s manager and colleague from his
humble beginnings. “Most three-yearolds are just getting the hang of walking
and talking. GEX was really something
special.”
GEX is survived by his son, another
remarkable achievement for the tender
age of three, Larking Pot.
“Even when we knew the end was
near for Dad, we just kept that traffic
flowing,” Pot said.
When asked why he and his father
didn’t share surnames, Pot responded:
“What kind of question is that?”
Though frail in his last days, GEX
kept his trademark ornery personality until the very end, even closing up
shop for 12 hours to avoid customers he
thought were “going to be acting downright silly last weekend,” according to
Pot.
We’ll all miss GEX’s stable, if limited
and somewhat overpriced, selection of
goods.
Some say the talented salesman’s panache and zing are still visible where he
used to conduct business, even though
his lights have finally gone out.
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Death Grips release new freestreaming album ‘Jenny Death’
By ANDREW MILLIKEN
Lead Wet Ink Writer
[email protected]
Sacramento-based,
experimental
hip-hop trio Death Grips are back with
the leak and subsequent free streaming of the long-awaited album “Jenny
Death.”
Since they released their second studio album, “No Love
Deep Web,” for free, a move that
caused their departure from Epic Records, via their website in 2012, Death
Grips have been up to various shenanigans, musical and otherwise.
The noisy trio have been busy
dodging live performances, leading fans on Internet-wild-goose
chases and even proclaiming that
“we are at our best and now Death Grips
is over. We have officially stopped,” in a
2014 note scrawled on a napkin.
This premature breakup helped
create the cyberspace buzz around
“Jenny Death,” the second half of
the group’s double album, “The
Powers That B,” with fans smothering the web with the now
meme-worthy
phrase
“JENNY
DEATH WHEN.”
Jenny Death now, for better or for
worse.
The album is a frenzied, heavy examination of familiar Death Grips themes
like paranoia, sex, drug use and the
emotional effects of the digital age.
The album kicks into overdrive right away with “I Break
Mirrors with my Face in the
United States,” a manic, relentless roller-coaster ride into insanity.
“I don’t care about real life,” vocalist
MC Ride (Stefan Burnett) bellows over
and over again against the track’s incessant, glitchy production and drummer
Zach Hill’s intense blast beats.
The insanity of “I Break Mirrors with my face...” eventually melts
away into an obnoxious vocal sample that rises in pitch to inhuman
levels before becoming the beat to “Inanimate Sensation,” a loud, brutal take
on social media.
Death Grips continue their trip
down the rabbit hole of their own
minds with “Turned Off,” the album’s
obligatory track about explicit, violent
sex.
Just about every Death Grips album
boasts a track like this, an apparent fixation for MC Ride.
The production on “Jenny Death”
is almost the polar opposite of the
first disc of “The Powers that B,” titled
“N****s on the Moon.”
The album’s first half saw Death
Grips slinking into an esoteric dungeon,
making nearly beat-less music with
dense, cryptic lyrics and frequent time
changes.
All of “Jenny Death,” however, sees
Death Grips blending the stripped
down, blown-out sound of “No Love
Deep Web” with the hard-rock influences that permeated their debut mixtape, “Exmilitary.”
“On GP,” a previously-released single, opens with a brooding guitar solo
before the track launches into its noisetinged beat, similar to “Beware,” the
opening track from “Exmilitary.”
As usual, Death Grips has taken to
dismantling 2015’s musical culture by
creating a grotesque caricature of the
quintessential rock star.
MC Ride’s character, at the core, is a
man driven by lust and human impulses
who simply does what he wants. Is this
so different from a figure like Kanye
West?
Just days after they leaked “Jenny
Death,” Death Grips announced a
North American tour, canceling their
own breakup.
What these three will be up to next is
anyone’s guess.
“Jenny Death” is available for free,
instant listening on Youtube.
Rock bands perform at SXSW for the
Austin Music Awards
(TNS)
Above: Charlie Sexton, Steven Van Zandt and Scrappy Jud Newcomb perform
in a tribute to Ian McLagan at the Austin Music Awards at SXSW Wednesday,
March 18.
Right: Britt Daniel of Spoon performs at SXSW Thursday.
Sports
THE PENN
Sports Editor: Cody Benjamin – [email protected]
Lead Sports Writer: Michael Kiwak – [email protected]
An Evansville ending: IUP falls in title game
Crimson Hawks fall victim to Florida Southern in season-ending 77-62 national championship defeat
By CODY BENJAMIN
Sports Editor
[email protected]
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Three players had double-digit scoring totals for
Indiana University of Pennsylvania in
the team’s second-ever national championship bid Saturday, but the Crimson
Hawks season ended with a 77-62 loss
at the hands of Florida Southern College in Evansville’s Ford Center.
IUP (31-7) was headlined by scoring leaders Devante
Chance
(senior,
communications
media), Shawn Dyer
(graduate, criminology) and Daddy
Ugbede
(junior,
communications
media), but it couldn’t muster enough
production to counter Florida Southern
(36-1), which opened on a 9-2 run and
led by as many as 17 points in the title
game.
The Crimson Hawks, who finished
with the second-most wins in school
history and made their first NCAA Division II National Championship appearance since 2010, connected on 31.1
percent of their shots. Conversely, the
Moccasins had a 50.9-percent mark and
hit 13 of 25 shots from beyond the arc.
Thanks to a 3-pointer by Dyer to
iup basketball
by the numbers
2014 - 2015
RECORD
31-7
Atlantic Region
Champions
leaders
PPG: Devante Chance (16.5)
REBOUNDS: Shawn Dyer (207)
ASSISTS: Devante Chance (217)
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start the second half, IUP pulled within six points and had opportunities to
close the scoreboard gap. A pair of alleyoop dunks by Tevin Hanner (junior,
sociology) also helped the Crimson
Hawks claw back into connection, but
ultimately, Florida Southern’s efficiency
was too much to overcome.
IUP converted on all but three of 19
free-throw opportunities in the nationally broadcast final, but it was also outdone by Florida Southern when it came
to capitalizing on turnovers.
The Crimson Hawks had 12 turnovers as opposed to the Moccasins’ 10,
but they also connected on nearly 20
percent less of their shots from the floor.
Leading Florida Southern’s offensive
attack was Elite Eight Tournament Most
Outstanding Player honoree Kevin Capers, who netted as many points (24) as
he did minutes off the bench. The Moccasins guard also had a game-high five
3-pointers.
The 2014-15 season, however, wasn’t
without success for IUP, which saw
Chance, Dyer, Alec Boyer (senior, business management) and forward Jeremy
Jeffers (senior, communications media)
play their final game as Crimson Hawks.
“My focus as I sit up here with these
young men, it’s not on tonight’s loss
but on the effort and commitment they
gave to the program all year,” said head
coach Joe Lombardi, who’s led IUP to
seven straight NCAA tournament appearances. “They gave in to the process,
they gave love and commitment to each
other … I’m proud of these guys, and I
couldn’t have expected any more.”
Advancing past its fourth all-time
Final Four contest in a 72-68 win over
Tarleton State University Thursday, the
Crimson Hawks reached the D-II finale
ranked No. 25 in the nation.
Along the way, both Chance and
Brandon Norfleet (junior, communications media) eclipsed 1,000-point totals
for their career and helped IUP capture
a regional title for the second time in six
seasons under Lombardi.
Florida Southern celebrates after defeating IUP in Saturday’s national championship in Indiana.
Chance, who finished an All-American IUP career as the school’s all-time
leader in assists and games played, had
17 points and eight rebounds in his
championship debut. As the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference West
Athlete of the Year and NABC AllAmerican selection, he secured a topfive all-time points record with 1,280
since 2011-12.
In his final season with IUP, Chance
averaged 38 minutes per game and led
the team in points, steals and assists. A
co-captain and all-region selection, his
assists total ranked fifth in the nation
this season.
A year after playing in the D-II national championship with West Liberty University, Dyer had 16 points and
eight rebounds for IUP against Florida
Southern.
Dyer, the Atlantic Region Tournament Outstanding Player, brought
postseason experience to the Crimson
Hawks locker room, having won three
consecutive regional titles prior to his
arrival at IUP. His yearly totals (14.2
points per game, 207 rebounds) rep-
March 31, 2015
resent the prominent role he played
alongside Chance this season.
Jeffers, meanwhile, hit his 60th
3-pointer of the season Saturday, finishing with career-high totals in nearly every statistical category, including points
(309) and field-goal percentage (44.5).
Before their Final Four victory over
Tarleton, the Crimson Hawks slipped
past Azusa Pacific University in a 69-65
Elite Eight win that saw five different
players hit double-digit scoring marks.
To cap off their run in the Atlantic
Region Championships, a precursor to
the NCAA tournament, the Crimson
Hawks thwarted Dyers’ old team, West
Liberty, from ending their season for a
third consecutive year.
Other notes from Evansville:
The atmosphere at Ford Center was,
almost literally, as fiery as the Crimson
Hawks’ season, which ended on a stinging note, but also stands as one of the
most productive in school history. IUP
came into the finale with 11 wins in its
last 12 games and got a big-stage spotlight with national coverage and flameshooting pre-game introductions remi-
(Cody Benjamin/ The Penn)
niscent of an NBA video game.
***
Hats off to Chance, who appeared
as devastated as anyone to leave the
court without a victory. Lombardi said
as much after the game, but if anyone
represented IUP basketball with just as
much – if not more – humility than success, it was No. 3.
***
Otherworldly early-game 3-point
success of Florida Southern seemed
to render IUP helpless at times, but it
goes without saying that the Crimson
Hawks’ title bid was just a fraction of
the journey that was the team’s 2014-15
season. One representation: Fans’ willingness to endure a 20-hour roundtrip
to support the team.
***
It’s hard not to wonder what IUP
will look like in 2015-16 after the loss of
not only a title game but also three core
players. But Lombardi and the team
were confident against Florida Southern
throughout Saturday’s bout.
There’s little reason to believe they
won’t be next season.
Sports
March 31, 2015
Sports
NOTES, PREDICTIONS
AND OPINIONS ON THE
WORLD OF SPORTS
IUP’s road to championship
defined by overcoming odds
By MICHAEL KIWAK
Lead Sports Writer
[email protected]
The Indiana University of Pennsylvania men’s basketball team’s magical
run to the NCAA Division II National
Championship Game involved overcoming the odds more than once.
Entering the NCAA Division II
Men’s
Basketball
Atlantic Regional
Championships,
the 26-6 Crimson
Hawks were coming off the heels
of a crushing, lastsecond 69-66 loss
to Gannon University in the March 8
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
Championship game.
Having won six conference tournaments since 2000, the loss against the
Golden Knights was IUP’s first championship defeat since 1996.
Despite falling short, 25th-ranked
IUP entered the NCAA championships as the No. 3 seed in the region.
The team kicked off the tournament in
impressive fashion by laying out Glenville State College 73-53 on March 14.
However, IUP faced stiffer competition a day later from a familiar enemy.
For the third time this season, the
Crimson Hawks squared off against
Slippery Rock University in a contest
that went back and forth.
The team dug itself out of an early
12-point deficit to outshoot The Rock
55 percent to 39 percent in the second
half, pulling off a 73-65 victory.
Following that PSAC slugfest, IUP
met last year’s national runner-up, No.
1-seeded West Liberty University on
March 17. West Liberty came away
with the upper hand last season when it
defeated them 86-85 in triple overtime.
IUP managed to administer a little
payback, defeating the Hilltoppers 7774, thanks to a Brandon Norfleet (junior, communications media) 3-pointer with 7.4 seconds remaining. The
victory guaranteed IUP its sixth-ever
trip to the Elite Eight.
The Crimson Hawks’ challenges
only grew from there, however, as they
were tasked with taking on another No.
1 seed in the form of Azusa Pacific University on March 25.
IUP held a lead for a majority of the
contest, but the Cougars continued to
claw their way back and kept things
close. With 11 seconds remaining, AllAmerican guard Troy Leaf sunk a long
3-pointer to reduce IUP’s lead to one.
Senior point guard Devante Chance
(communications media) showed up in
clutch time, though, as he nailed a pair
of free throws to boost the lead back to
three with less than 10 seconds to play.
APU was unable to hit a gametying shot, and IUP continued past
another obstacle on its journey toward
the National Championship.
In the Final Four, IUP locked horns
with Tarleton State University, yet another No. 1 seed.
Could the Crimson Hawks pull
off the improbable and defeat a third
consecutive No. 1 seed? For a while, it
looked as though they wouldn’t.
Down double digits with 10:04 left
to play, IUP surged to a 12-0 run to
take the lead, 51-49. IUP didn’t trail
again and won, 72-68.
With that victory, the Crimson
Hawks accomplished something only
one other team has done before in the
history of the program: make the national title game.
A run defined by defying the
odds would have to do just that once
more. 35-1 Florida Southern, the No.
1-ranked team in Div. II and a No. 1
seed, was the fifth highest-scoring team
in the country, averaging nearly 90
points per game.
IUP swapped blows with this juggernaut Saturday but in the end could
not muster the magic needed for another miracle, losing 77-62.
Despite the loss, the story of the
2015 Crimson Hawks, filled with
hard-fought battles and improbable
victories, will not be forgotten anytime
soon.
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Crimson Hawks win second straight
game in 14-12 bout with Millersville
By CHRIS HAYES
Staff Writer
[email protected]
In a back-and-forth contest, the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania lacrosse team pulled out another victory
Friday at Miller Stadium, defeating
Millersville University 14-12.
With the win, the Crimson Hawks
boosted their Pennsylvania State Athletic
Conference
record
to
2-1 and
LACROSSE
their overall mark
to 4-4.
It seemed as
though the contest
might turn into
a rout when IUP
jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead early in
the first half.
Kim Hooven (sophomore, elementary and special education) got the first
goal of the game just 30 seconds after
the opening draw.
However, Millersville wouldn’t go
down easily.
The Marauders controlled play the
rest of the half, and the two teams went
into the break all knotted up at five
goals each.
IUP came out firing in the second
half, outscoring Millersville 9-2 during
a stretch to take a 14-7 lead.
Once again, the Marauders came
roaring back.
But the team’s run was ultimately
too late to hinder IUP’s homestand victory.
Bailey McLeish (freshman, communications) and Brittney Palardy (junior, exercise science) led the scoring
onslaught for IUP, tallying three goals
each.
Hooven, Sara Harshman (freshman,
early childhood education) and Carissa
Smith (sophomore, sports administration) all tacked on two goals in the effort.
Meanwhile, in the net, Angela Lontoc (freshman, natural science) saved
11 shots and logged 48 minutes of action in the team’s second consecutive
win.
IUP looks to continue its winning
ways Tuesday, as they host Edinboro
University at 4 p.m.
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Sports
15
IUP garners top 10 finish at first invitational
By JED JOHNSON
Staff Writer
[email protected]
Jarka Petercakova readies herself during IUP’s win.
(Nick Dampman/ The Penn)
IUP tennis captures
third straight victory
By JED JOHNSON
Staff Writer
[email protected]
The 32nd-ranked Indiana University of Pennsylvania women’s tennis
squad has just come off a two-game
stint against Walsh University in Ohio
and Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference rival Slippery Rock University.
IUP, with a record of 9-3, was able
to defeat the 10-15 Walsh squad by a
final score of 6-3
in Canton, Ohio,
TENNIS
Friday and topped
Slippery Rock 9-0
Sunday in Indiana.
Slippery Rock falls
to 5-6 on the season.
IUP was 4-2 in singles competition against Walsh Friday, with Jarka
Petercakova (sophomore, human development and environmental studies),
Sophie Butland (sophomore, kinesiology health & sport science), Luise Von
Agris (freshman, management) and
Rachel Wood (sophomore, criminology) coming away with wins.
Doubles play also had IUP firing
on all cylinders, as the teams of Tanya
Timko (senior, psychology) and Petercakova, as well as Alanna McFail (ju-
nior, biology) were able to come up
with wins against Walsh.
Against Slippery Rock, all nine
matches on the day went to IUP.
Raquel Gonzalez (sophomore, management), Timko, Petercakova, Butland, Von Agris and Wood all came
with wins.
Only Timko’s match against Carla
Moracho wound up going to a third
set, as IUP seemed to make quick work
holding Slippery Rock to two wins per
set in all but one match, not counting
Timko’s.
Doubles play against The Rock also
turned out to be a sweep, as the duo
of Butland and McFail held Slippery
Rock’s Stephanie Fortier and Kylee
Woodman scoreless.
The teams of Von Agris and Wood,
as well as Timko and Petercakova, won
their matches by totals of 8-3 and 8-2.
IUP’s next match is against Mercyhurst in Erie, but that will occur prior
to publishing.
They will also travel to Detroit Friday to play Wayne State and Grand
Valley State universities, both from
Michigan. Friday’s match against
Wayne State will be at noon, and
Grand Valley State University will play
IUP at 11 a.m. Saturday.
The outdoor track and field season
began for Indiana University of Pennsylvania Saturday, and both Crimson
Hawks teams garnered top-10 placement at the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational, hosted at the University of Cincinnati’s Gettler Stadium.
IUP’s men’s and women’s programs
both cracked the
top 10, with the
TRACK & FIELD
men placing sixth
out of 15 teams and
the women placing ninth out of 16
teams.
Buffalo
headlined the men’s events, scoring 209
points and taking first place by 60.5
points over Cincinnati. IUP scored 39
points, finishing 170 points back of
Buffalo.
Cincinnati came out on top in the
women’s portion with a total of 183.5
points. IUP finished with a total of 37
points.
The field events, as is normally the
case with IUP’s men’s and women’s programs, tended to garner more points
for the two squads than did the track
events.
Key contributors for the men’s program include Charles Wilson-Adams
(freshman, exercise science), who
placed second in the high jump and
sixth in the long jump, garnering a total of 11 points, and Jeremy Claypoole
(junior, kinesiology health & sport science), who came home fourth in the
high jump and seventh in the long
jump, bringing him to a total of seven
points.
Other athletes who scored points
for IUP were Ricky Fayad (freshman,
college of health and human services),
Troy Zangaro (senior, marketing), Tim
Lynch (senior, criminology) and Demetrius Timmons (freshman, computer
science).
Lynch placed sixth in the 3000-meter steeplechase, Fayad placed sixth in
the 110-meter hurdle event, Zangaro
placed fifth in the 400-meter dash and
Timmons placed fourth in the longjump event.
IUP’s mens squad also placed their
A and B squad fourth and sixth.
Eight athletes placed in the women’s
program, led by Kristen Knass (freshman, education) and her third-place
showing in the triple jump, bringing
her to a total of six points.
Brooke Smay (freshman, safety sciences) was not far behind, placing
fourth in the same event.
Jada Wilson (freshman, management), Catelyn Hittie (freshman, history), Carly Petney (freshman, criminology), Kathryn Semuskie (freshman,
professional studies in education), Elizabeth Coppella (freshman, kinesiology
health & sport science) and Kiah Walton (freshman, human development
and environmental studies) also scored
points for IUP.
Wilson placed fourth in the
400-meter hurdle event, Hittie placed
sixth in the 100-meter hurdle event,
Petney placed sixth in the 100-meter
dash, Semuskie placed fifth in the highjump event, Coppella placed sixth in
the pole-vault event and Walton placed
eighth in the long-jump event.
IUP’s next meet will be at 9:30
a.m. April 4 at Millersville University’s
Biemesderfer Stadium.
This meet, the Millersville Metrics,
is a prestigious event 33 years running.
This event will be a chance for IUP to
make strides toward postseason-qualifying marks.