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Nurse Profs Needed

TRACK TEAM RUNS OFF WITH MACS

By Shawn Kellmer, Web Editor A nursing faculty shortage is impacting nursing programs at MU and across the nation.

Nationally, there are of 1,181 faculty vacancies among 662 nursing schools with baccalaureate and/or graduate programs according to a Special Survey on Vacant Faculty Positions released by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Dr. Cynthia Mailloux, head of the nursing department, said that there is “absolutely” a nursing faculty shortage at MU. She has unsuccessfully tried to fill positions in recent years and is actively searching for faculty.

“I’m running an ad right now looking for Ph.D or D.N.P faculty.

I’ve run ads over the last two years and the candidates that come in usually will consist of ten candidates with Master’s, some even with Bachelor’s and usually, in that pool, there’s one candidate that will have a Ph.D.,” said Mailloux.

A Doctor of Nursing Practice is a new clinical doctoral degree in nursing, which MU is adding this fall.. It is similar to doctor of physical therapy, and it requires only half the credits, 34, of a Ph.D. said Mailloux.

There will be one class in the fall and spring, and the program will be fully operational in 2014/15 academic year.

The nursing department only has one D.N.P. on staff. Mailloux said the current advertisement for nursing faculty is intended to remedy this situation.

Mailloux said nursing faculty are so hard to get, she has received several job offers from schools looking for department chairs and administrators, but she doesn’t plan on leaving.

“I’m from the area. I was at Penn State Worthington for 14 years before I came here,” said Mailloux.

“This is my home, and so I’m kind of locally bound at this point. I enjoy working here. It’s a great campus. It’s a great group that I work with. It’s a great program.

Great pass rate right now.”

The nursing board pass rate is 98.3 percent, she said.

MU admits between 30 and 40 first year students into the nursing program during an average every year. This year, the school admitted a record 48 first years, surpassing a high of 47 students two years ago.

“The faculty shortage has really increased the amount of students not being accepted into nursing programs,” said Mailloux. “If you don’t have the faculty to teach the courses you can’t take in enough students to put on another section. We have competition in our clinical areas, and if you can’t get clinical faculty with the preparation they need then you can’t run those clinical groups, so you can’t accept the numbers that are applying to get in.”

According to the AACN, schools need to create an additional 103 faculty positions just to meet student demand.

Mailloux points to salary as part of the problem.

“Our competition is the master prepared M.P.s, which are many in our faculty, not only teaching in the Master’s program, but teaching in the undergraduate. In practice, they would get $80,000, $90,000 and the educational salaries don’t compare to that,” said Mailloux.

Students entering the program need to have an SAT score of 960 or higher. If they do not, they must take the PAX-RN examination, which is a standardized entrance exam. Transfer students

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Senior Steph Grow takes the baton and powers ahead along with Amy Viti, Bridget Comiskey and Jill Dunn to win the 4x200 relay with a time of 4:06.05. They were one of two relay teams to bring back wins from the MAC Indoor Championships,Feb. 23 at Lehigh University. More photos from the event can be found on page 4 or on highlandernews.net.

MEN TAKE OFFICE

By Catie Becker, Reporter

Four of five officers of the class of 2016 are men, a rarity in the history of elected student officials.

Adding to the novelty is that all are players on the university’s new football team.

Recently elected are Michael Pheasant, president; Corey Wall, vice president; Tanner Bulkley, secretary; Matthew Horoski, treasurer; and Amy Koch, activities coordinator. Each student is already involved in campus activities, but they said they want a position that enables them to speak up on behalf of their peers.

On a campus of 65 percent women and 35 percent men, leadership positions have often been held by women. In other classes, only two men hold positions. Both are members of the class of 2013.

Vice President of Student Affairs Sister Jean Messaros said she is impressed that so many men are interested in student leadership “In my experience here, we’ve had more male presidents,” said Messaros who has been a member of the MU community since 1990.

“I’m pleased with the fact that they are athletes, and I don’t want to single them out because they are football, but that is really very impressive.”

Because this group is such a rarity Messaros finds it interesting and said she is “pleased” and thinks it is “ great that we have men who want to be a part of it.”

Pheasant, a biology major, is a rising leader on campus. He said his role as president of the class of 2016 is no small job.

“I see it as a way to have a positive impact on our experience as a class here at Misericordia,” said Pheasant.

All five newly elected officers said their goal to make changes.

Horoski wants to “serve others, give back to a university that has given me so much already.”

Those words will be well received by adviser, Community Outreach Coordinator Kristen Samuels, who focuses on service both on and off campus.

“I’m hoping to make this class one that is known for their good deeds and commitment to the charisms set forth by the Sisters of Mercy,” said Samuels.

She looks forward to working with the new officers despite her initial shock when she learned there would only be one girl in the group.

“I shouldn’t be so quick to judge.

I’m genuinely looking forward to working with them and teaching myself a lesson,” she said.

One attribute this group does not lack is enthusiasm. With the five officers already collectively involved in more than 10 organizations that range from athletic to academic, these officers promise to make the class of 2016 productive.

“I also wanted to be involved more in the things that are happening around campus, and help solve problems that may arise over the next four years,” said Bulkley.

The officers face communication and participation challenges. They say communication with each other will be a learning process, and then they will reach out to their classmates to get them involved in campus activities.

This is where Koch looks to shine.

“I wanted to run for activities coordinator because the descrip-

tion of the job described what I was passionate about: planning events,” said Koch.

She is already a member of the biology club, physical therapy club, honors program, chamber singers, and spring musical. This makes her no stranger to a busy schedule.

Samuels said it is vital for the new officers to be passionate and unafraid to speak up and, based on their desire to help their peers.

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Class Officers

2013 Pres.: Victoria Flormann VP.: Victoria Romano Vice-Pres.: Dale Lehman Treasurer: Anthony Powell 2014 Pres.: Breanna Phillips VP.: Christina Tucci Secretary: Ashley Zimmerman Treasurer: Alyssa Leonard Activities Coordinator: Emily Barnable 2015 Pres.: Melanie Harria VP.: Ashley Cocuzza Secretary: Johnna Miller Treasurer: Courtney Sult 2016 Pres: Michael Pheasant VP.: Corey Wall Secretary: Tanner Bulkley Treasurer: Matthew Horoski Activities Coordinator: Amy Koch

MacDowell Looks Back Before Departure

By Arthur Dowell, Web Master Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three part series to celebrate the accomplishments of President MacDowell’s 15 years here. He will leave with the class of 2013.

As President Michael A. MacDowell counts down the months to retirement, his accomplishments during his 15-year tenure may easily be a taken-for-granted part of the background of everyday college life.

But they are significant, likely greater than the campus community dreamed or imagined when he walked onto campus. MacDowell said that when he took the job, he saw a lot of potential in both the school and the people, and it was his job to meet it.

“It was discouraging to see people not knowing how good they really were,” says MacDowell.

“I saw a lot of upside to the school and wanted to focus on moving the school ahead.”

MacDowell has done just that, and he led the school to unprecedented growth while following the charisms of mercy, service, justice, and hospitality, which the school was built upon.

One of his largest, although unseen, accomplishments is tremendous growth of the annual fund. By increasing the fund from $337,000 in 1998 to $1,115,000 today, he has more than tripled the money the school raises each year. Student enrollment also sharply increased. There were 189 newly admitted first year students during his first semester as president. In 2012, the class counted 511.

Far more students now live on campus. Only 450 of the 1086

Viewfinder: Tunes @ Noon Look for photos of raggae group Ewabo jamming out in the John and Mary Metz Dining Hall.

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students lived in dorms during his first year. MacDowell had a plan to get people to take notice of the opportunities they had for residential living, and the school supplemented room and board to entice them to live on campus.

MacDowell said many of his responsibilities were new to him, and he excelled as quickly as a high school Valedictorian in English 115.

“I wasn’t involved as much in the aspects of student admission, marketing, board relations until I became president,” says MacDowell. “The whole experience was eye opening for me.”

The results of his experience are literally eye-catching. Two of MacDowell’s most noteworthy additions are the three-story Mary Kintz Bevevino Library and the renovation of the Munson Center, which today holds the television studio and communications department media labs.

Two-thirds of the funds for both projects were raised by June 1998, and MacDowell and staff were able to raise the final third needed for completion in 1999.

The facelift helped attract people of different majors.

MacDowell said he knew the school had a reputation for the health and medical fields including physical therapy, occupational therapy, nursing, and medical imaging, so he grew them by adding both speech language pathology and physicians assistant majors to the curriculum.

Not all his changes were academic or residential - he picked up the pace of the sports program, by adding both men’s and women’s lacrosse programs in his fifth year

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President Michael A. MacDowell poses for a photo at his desk inside his Mercy Hall office. at the school.

“I was used to seeing a lot of kids having a stick in their hands from my days in New York,” he says. “I looked at it as a way to branch out our athletics department and get interest from those from great distances who played lacrosse.”

But for that to happen, the school had to first purchase 24 acres of land and create an all-purpose field for both fall and spring

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sports. MacDowell said the school had a grass field for both soccer teams and he knew it would be difficult to keep it in good condition for both seasons.

In 2002, the school constructed Manglesdorf field and today it hosts football, soccer, lacrosse, track and field and field hockey.

MacDowell had three main goals of boosting admission rates, fundraising, and increasing the visibil-

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ity of Misericordia. He did all that early in his tenure. Giving credit where it is due, MacDowell said a lot of the credit goes to his wife and first lady Tina MacDowell.

“It’s a 24 hour, seven days a week job, and I wouldn’t have been able to accomplish half of what I’ve done without Tina.”

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Absorbing a natural glow

By Christa Porasky, Reporter Tanning has become a popular hobby among students during the spring season.

Some students say it helps them prepare for spring break trips or to give their skin a “natural” glow. A popular salon is Premier Tanning in Dallas.

First year Lisa Kinter goes to Premier because it is close to school and she receives discounted flyers in her mailbox. She said college students are a group tanning salons target.

Kassie Williams, first-year physicians assistant major, chooses not to tan due to her fair skin.

“I’m naturally white and every time I try I just get burned, and it just hurts my skin. I would if I could because everyone likes the tan look now, but I’d rather do it in the sun.”

Williams thinks college-age students are a target demographic for tanning, particularly because it’s the age when people don’t see the effects of the sun’s rays.

Premier takes steps to ensure customers are informed and staff encourages tanners to take all safety measures before choosing to tan. Every first time tanner is required to fill out a form that details medications and skin tone.

Donna Kornak, a Premier employee, explains that the information helps them to match treatments with the individual.

“We see whether or not you’ve tanned before, what your skin type is so we know how long to put you in for exposure time, and what type of lotion to match you up with, so that’s important.”

Kornak said she sees all types of people walking through the door,

ranging from late teens and early 20s to middle-aged people.

March is one of the salon’s busiest seasons, due to spring break and proms quickly approaching, and it lasts until the end of July.

She said it is important for tanners to wear the protection, such as goggles and sunscreen.

“You could definitely damage your eyes after repeated UV exposure. Just like being outside, you should wear your sunglasses.”

Premier Tanning sells goggles that reflect the rays that the bed produces. Many people only use a towel to protect their eyes, but that doesn’t provide protection.

“It’s also important to wear lotion, to replace the moisture that tanning will pull out of your skin. There are so many different lotions here that have great vitamins. Plus you will get a nicer tan, quicker, faster, and last longer.”

Safety is the number one factor when it comes to tanning, according to Kornak.

“I think anything in moderation is okay. You don’t want to abuse tanning. You could eat a lot of bad food, and damage your body the same way.”

She advises everyone to research tanning and its effects.

“You should definitely read up on it, and know what you are getting yourself into. UVA and UVB exposure can be absorbed outdoors as well, so the same protection you take outside, should be taken inside.”

Controlling exposure time is also important. Kornak suggests that clients avoid tanning every day for full the exposure time.

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Members of the reggae and tropical musical group Ewabo from Maryland played in the John and Mary Metz Dining Hall on Feb. 27 during Tunes @ Noon.

Clockwise, Roger Greenidge creates the beat with his silver drum.

Timmy Hamm goes with the flow and pats his bongo-type drums.

Frank Javois sings the melody and creates peace on the keyboard in the busy cafeteria.

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FLORMANN’S FREAKY FRIDAY

By Jimmy Fisher, Reporter

Move over MacDowell.

Junior Allie Flormann served as President for a Day after winning a United Way donation raffle during the fall semester.

Flormann took over President Michael MacDowell’s duties on Feb. 15. Her schedule began at 8:15 a.m. and concluded at 4:30 p.m. and included meetings, conferences and luncheons with members of the staff, including Peter Calkins, Carol Fahnestock, Jim Roberts, Sue Helwig, and Steve Filipiak.

Flormann said she really did not

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be the most difficult piece.”

Flormann said she got a rare behind-the-scenes look at how campus decisions are made.

“Putting every individual meeting together, to get to see the big picture, was really the most exciting piece,” said Flormann.

“At the end of the day, I really got to understand that yes, you have a lot of meetings and you have to get a lot accomplished, but once you do get that accomplished you get the finished picture, and that was really cool.”

She said students only see

do that, or why they increase our tuition by 11%, but it’s because of this reason, and this reason and this reason. To sit down and understand that as a student, it makes me more accepting, if you will, of why they’re doing what they’re doing because I know the reasoning behind it.”

President for a Day took a fiveyear hiatus prior to this year and MacDowell said he is excited to have it back this year. “[President for a Day] not only says that we care about the United Way, but it also gives the student

The Mary Kintz Bevevino Library is transitioning into a technological world.

Staff members are working to transfer all of the library’s academic journals to databases on the Internet.

The journals are retrievable through the library website on e-MU “The students coming into the university today want their information available to them in a very different way than the traditional go-to-the-library-and-get-whatyou-need,” said library serials specialist Mark Stull.

The change will make it easier for students to find the information they need, Stull said.

“This change is all for the students,” Stull said. “The transfer of the journals is for the sole purpose of having information available anywhere, at any time.”

Once all of the journals are on the databases, they will be available 24/7 on any device.

There are nearly 50,000 journals available to students and faculty in the library, and only about 700 are available in print format, according to Stull.

“Just about 100 percent of what we do academic journal wise now is all electronic,” Stull said The library reduced print items to only newspapers and maga-

zines, such as Time Magazine, which students and faculty read each day, according to Stull.

“I think that transferring all the journals to the Internet will be very helpful for all the students”, Freshman speech major Courney Cecco said. “I think it’s a good idea for the library to stay updated with the ever changing world of technology.”

Stull said faculty often request journals that are not currently on any database, and he said the library will continue to put journals on the database as they are needed.

Academic journals in print format are displayed on the second floor of the library, but staff members say they hope to replace the display shelves with new study cubicles.

“The plan for the new cubicles isn’t for sure going to happen yet,” Stull said.

The plan is to construct four 10-by-10 foot cubicles to serve as study rooms to enable students to work privately and efficiently.

And they will likely do more than schoolwork there, Stull said, because the library isn’t used for taking out books and resources as much as it once was. It’s much more likely to serve as a quiet place for students to study and do their homework.

Left, bookshelves that acedemic journals used to occupy sit empty as the libary staff works to digitialize the library. Once the digitilization is complete the space will be remodeled into glass student study areas on the second floor.

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Misericordia University student Alexandra Flormann, left, a junior nursing major, talks to Pat Finan-Castellano, a member of the Misericordia University Board of Trustees, about their roles and responsibilities. get many, if any, breaks throughout the day.

“I really didn’t get a chance to have a break for myself,” said Flormann “It was challenging to balance because you have this meeting till here, and then that meeting till here, and you’re like ‘Okay can I wrap this up. I gotta go to the next meeting?’ So time management wise, that seems to

final decisions, but don’t see the process behind why and how these decisions are made and how they will benefit students.

“I certainly thought it was a lot of fun to get to know the background story of the University,” said Flormann. “As students we really only do see the finished picture. We don’t see the reasoning behind why they do this, why they

First year Courtney Cecco uses the library primarily for studying.

“The only reason I’ve ever gone to the library is to study and get my homework done,” Cecco said. “I only used the journals and resources that the library had available online because they were easy to access.”

The staff hopes to have the cubicles in place some time this year, but the plan is still uncertain.

Staffers have grander plans, too.

“The computer lab on the second floor, we would like to make just a stand-alone lab,” Stull said.

The library also increased its the number of iPads to 10. Students can sign them out for up to seven days when they show their student I.D. “We are hoping to just keep increasing the number of iPads we have because the students seem to love the option of signing them out,” Stull said.

The staff noticed that many students were not aware of the iPads being available in the library.

“I honestly had no idea you could sign out an iPad from the library,” Cecco said.

The library staff wants to spread the word on its updates and exactly what they have available for students across campus.

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a chance to learn and we too learn from the student,” he said.

MacDowell stated that the purpose of President for a Day is the student getting the staff’s perspective on how things operate. Likewise, staff get a chance to hear the concerns of a student.

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Wedding bells ringing early

By Gia Mazur, Reporter

Kaitlyn Faccipionti went on a trip to New York City with her boyfriend Mike Simon during spring break of her sophomore year of college. During their visit to the Big Apple, her boyfriend wanted to take her on one of the famous horse and carriage rides through the city’s lush Central Park, the carriage rides you see on TV and in movies where the couple takes a romantic tour of the park in a white carriage with red velvet interior, drawn by a white and brown spotted horse.

However, Kaitlyn refused, saying the ride was “such a waste of money.”

Frustrated, Mike took her for a walk around the park and the two stopped at a secluded area. There bended knee, Simon produced a ring that the two had ogled during a vacation in Lancaster the year before. Kaitlyn said this moment was perfect – it was everything she had been dreaming about since she had started seeing him.

Or at least since the moment she bought her wedding dress, two months earlier.

“I started planning [the wedding] before we were engaged. I actually bought the dress before we were actually engaged,” the recently wed Mrs. Simon said.

Simon had begun planning her nuptials at age 20 and was married before she turned 22. She is

a part of a small group of young women planning their weddings before they can legally sip champagne.

According to Dr. Bella DePaulo, a psychology professor at University

age of first marriage has steadily risen since 1950, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Still, 27.9 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 24 were married in 2009, according to the U.S. Census

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Meghan Martin, jewerly designer for Bridal Trinkets in Dallas, Pa. organizes the cases inside the store on March 6. of California, Santa Barbara and an expert on singles and marriage, young women who marry in their early 20’s are no longer the norm like they used to be. For a woman, the median age for a first marriage was 25.9 years old in 2009. The

Bureau.

Simon said she was “wedding obsessed” to begin with, and she spoke about her Netflix account filled to the brim with bridal shows like “My Fair Wedding.” She had been eying up the dress – a

floor-length stunner with white tulle overlay and lace cap sleeves, little iridescent beading in artful clusters in the shape of tiny flowers, and white buttons trailing all the way down the back – since she was 17 and shopping for prom dresses.

Dr. Depaulo refers to the boom of reality shows about weddings and wedding planners as “matrimania” – the over-the-top hyping of marriage and coupling and weddings.

“It is fine to value marrying if that’s what you choose to do, and it is also fine to be excited about your wedding, but those attitudes can be taken too far if they crowd out our valuing of other important people and pursuits in our lives,” said Dr. DePaulo.

Chelsea Mixon, 22, said she never planned to get engaged while still in college, but her fiancé decided it was best to pop the question during April of her senior year so they could share their engagement with the most important people in their lives – friends and family.

Mixon met her fiancé Greg Vossler while on the swim team at MU and the two dated throughout college. This past Easter, while spending the holiday with Mixon’s family, Vossler asked Mixon’s father for permission to marry her.

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By Peter Falvey, Reporter

Students in business classes dress up for the occasion.

Every day.

Many business professors require students dress professionally for class so they can become acclimated to dressing appropriately in the workplace.

Business professor John Kachurick makes his students abide by a dress code, which calls for business casual attire.

If students are presenting in class, they are required to sartorially step it up.

“I have a belief that way you practice is the way you play the game, and so they are going to be business people, and in business the way you dress matters,” said Kachurick.

Junior physical therapy major Corey Reviello dresses in khakis and a button-down shirt for his human resources management class with Kachurick. His roommate, junior sports management major Joe Winter, usually dresses in a polo and khakis.

“I didn’t find it to be an issue when the dress code was laid out for us. I just had to remember to bring back some dressier clothes from home,” said Reviello.

Kachurick believes students get in a habit of dressing a certain way and he wants to ensure that it is in a way that a working professional should dress.

“If you dress in jeans or very

sloppy, that becomes a habit for you. So when you do go to finally get a job, you’ll have a tendency to dress a little more sloppy than if you had practiced this over the years that you were in school,” said Kachurick.

Kachurick understands that the times

to dress while I was coming to class really helped me get through that interview,’” said Kachurick.

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have changed over the twentyeight years that he had been teaching, and students dressed less formally. But sometimes casual duds go too far.

“When students started showing up to classes in pajamas, I knew it was time to put in a dress code,” said Kachurick.

Kachurick knows that some students might find it unnecessary, but also knows the importance of a respectful personal presentation.

Reviello said he

doesn’t mind spiffing up a little. “I know I am going to have to dress up for my job when I graduate, so dressing up for one night a week isn’t all that bad.”

Kachurick believes all classes should have dress codes to help acclimate students to the nicer clothes they will soon be required to wear.

“We are not only trying to educate you intellectually; we are also trying to get you to fit into society.

If you get a job and you have a college education, they way you dress does matter. First impressions are extremely important. If you give a bad first impression, it is hard to overcome it,” said Kachurick.

Reviello admits that he also dresses up for his other classes.

“I do enjoy the change that I have to dress nice for Kachurick’s class. It gives me a time to dress up during the week when I normally wouldn’t. The hardest part was actually remembering to bring the clothes from home.”

Kachurick thinks that the dress code helps prepare students for the professional interview process.

“They are used to wearing suits, so they are not bouncing all over the place when they are being interviewed,” said Kachurick.

Kachurick said students have thanked him for helping them get prepared for interviews and the job world “My idea that if you go for an interview and a man has never worn a tie or a woman has never worn high heels, they tend to fidget.

They are just uncomfortable for their interview. They say, ‘Having

there,” said Zechman.

Zechman and other members of the class of 2014 nursing department thought this would be the perfect fundraiser and a way for their class to be remembered after graduation.

“Ashley and I thought it would be a good idea to raise money through our nursing class for him by fundraising and sending it over there so that we could be a part of helping the kids get their surgeries,” Zechman said.

Gelso is proud of how quickly Zechman took to the project.

“Kayla was amazing and she wanted to help out, too,” Gelso said. “She just really took the ball and she’s running with it. I’m really proud of her.”

Hodes pays for the surgeries and medications out of his own pocket, and he has adopted more than 10 children so he could care for them under his health insurance. But he needs the support of others.

The donations are placed through the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in New York, for which Hodes is the medical director.

Gelso said they do not have a

fundraising goal, but they hope to make an impact by encouraging the campus community to support their project.

“Whatever monetary donations that we collect will go directly to Dr. Hodes in Ethiopia,” she said.

“We opened up a bank account and we are just going to see what happens. So, I don’t know. Finances are tight for everyone.”

Zechman said support from the nursing class is crucial. “Every little bit counts.”

The nursing class of 2014 is not the only group looking to help.

According to Hodes’ website, people are donating in honor of weddings, birthdays and family events.

The website also gives examples of how much money is needed for certain procedures so that donors will know exactly where the money is going.

For Rosa’s spine and heart surgery, for example, the cost is $25,500, according to Hodes’ website.

Gelso wants students, faculty and staff to know how important Hodes’ mission is.

“I think that the mission of Dr. Hodes is completely in alignment

of the mission of Misericordia and of our charisms of mercy, service, justice and hospitality,” Gelso said.

“If we could do something related to nursing that is in alignment with our course objectives and in alignment with Misericordia that would be great. Having a sense of the bigger picture is important, you know, pay it forward outside of Dallas Pennsylvania.”

Zechman, Allen and other nursing students are holding a bake sale on March 13 in the Banks Student Life Center. All proceeds will benefit Hodes’ project. The students are also reaching out to faculty, staff and students in other departments.

“We’re posting flyers so that anyone that wants to pitch in a dollar or two can contact me or Ashley,” Zechman said. “And also, a couple kids are asking their church to do a fundraiser for it. And Ashley’s mom and my mom are bringing the project to the schools they work at so that anyone there could pitch in.”

For more information about Hodes go to rickhodes.org. To donate through the nursing class, contact Zechman, Allen or Gelso.

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Senior Bryce Houdeshel walks out of his business class in Insalaco Hall wearing approperate dress.

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What is business attire?

CAPS CORNER The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses Myths about grief: · Time heals all wounds · Replace the loss · Grieve alone · Be strong for others · Bury your feelings Your feelings are normal and natural. The problem is that we have been socialized to believe that these feelings are abnormal and unnatural.

Whether your loss is from: · Death · Divorce or end of a relationship · Loss of trust · Loss of safety · Loss of health THIS 10 SESSION PROGRAM will start in FEBRUARY for MU STUDENTS The program will run WEEKLY for 1-1/2 TO 2 HOURS per session IN THE CAPS CENTER (McGowan Hall lower level).

People say you have to let go and move on in your life, but they don’t tell you what you need to do to accomplish that. The Grief Recovery Method* not only makes that possible, but provides partnerships and guidance to ensure that it happens.

If you have questions or are interested in being part of this group please contact: Courtney Burgess-Michak, MS, NCC Professional Counselor & Certified Grief Recovery Specialist* (570) 674-6318 or email cburgess@misericordia.edu

Student on the Street Lent is in full swing and we were wondering what students gave up for the season. If you have a question you would like us to ask email us at Highland@misericordia.edu.

Informal dress also called international business atire is a dress code typified by a suit and necktie.

On a scale formality, informal attire is more formal than casual but less formal than semi-formal.

Typical pieces for a man include khakis or slacks, an oxford or polo with a blazer.

“I gave up Pinterest and Twitter, instead I post something inspirational on Facebook,” sophomore business major Deanna Darling.

“I’m going without bagels and chocolate,” sophomore psychology and physical therapy major Jess Anderson.

“I gave up donuts for Lent,” first year nursing major Jessica Neare said.

“I gave up staying up very late,” senior English major Shaun O’Brien.

“I gave up soda for Lent,” junior speech pathology major Erica Hannon.

“I gave up sweets for Lent,” junior nursing major Gabrielle Pollina.

Typical pieces for a woman include a skirt or pants set with a blouse and closed toe heels.

Colors are generally muted.

For more information visit the Insalaco Center for Career Development.

Students touched by Hodes’ soul

By Ellen Hoffman, Editor-in-Chief

Rosa, a 7-year-old second grade student loves playing hide-andseek with her friends. Her favorite subjects in school are English and math. She is ranked 6 out of 80 students in her class and has dreams of becoming a doctor.

While those facts make Rosa like any other second grader, what sets her apart is that she lives in a mud house with her mother in Gondar, a city in Ethiopia. She has a twisted spine and a hole in her heart. She is looking for support from Rick Hodes, an American doctor who has lived and worked in Ethiopia for 20 years. This is the story in “This is a Soul,” a heart wrenching book that nursing professor Kathy Gelso used as a First Year Experience class she taught two years ago and as part of a presentation for junior nursing majors.

Junior nursing majors Kayla Zechman and Ashley Allen heard Hodes’ heard the story, read the book, and felt compelled to help.

“After reading the book [Hodes] is just inspiring because he uses all his money to help these kids and these kids would walk miles on miles on miles to his clinic because he is one of the only doctors

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By Josh Horton, Reporter

The track and field team is working to stay healthy and train for meets on a track that is 21 meters short of a regulation size.

The short track inside Anderson Sports and Health Center doesn’t look very different from regulation size, but track and field graduate assistant Frankie Redmond said it has an impact on athletes, particularly sprinters who have to negotiate a shorter distance to turns. The less time an athlete has to turn, the harder it is on the body, he said.

“The biggest thing is we have to keep our athletes healthy,” Redmond said. “We have to be sure and check if we have any athletes that are a little hurt from the turns.”

Due to the small size of the track, MU is unable to host indoor events. The closest school to host an indoor meet is East Stroudsburg University, one of few regonal schools to have a regulation-size track. The Cougars have also traveled to meets at Ursinus College, Susquehanna University, Bucknell University, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, and the New York City Armory.

The ESU Warriors take full advantage of it. East Stroudsburg head track and field coach Joe

Koch feels the track gives his runners a training advantage.

“There’s no question it gives us an advantage,” Koch said over the phone. “Our distance runners run outdoors for the most part, but it definitely helps our sprinters, especially the hurdlers.”

The advantage is that runners can take their turns as they would on any other regulation-size track.

“It definitely helps keep our athletes healthy,” Koch said. “If we had a shorter track it would be hard on them, especially in and out of turns. Plus, the straightaways are longer.”

Another plus to a regulationsize track is that the intervals are already set, and with a smaller track, the team has to measure out intervals for its workouts.

“The negatives are it’s hard to really judge your pace while doing workouts,” Redmond said. “You have to measure out exactly where each interval will end and that can get tricky, because again you have to worry about the athletes coming out of turns.”

Redmond said the team is still able to get quality workouts and remain attractive to potential students.

“Again, I don’t feel a facility is always the one thing that attracts

athletes. Every single one of our athletes is able to get a quality workout in and at the end of the week say they are ready to go for the next meet.”

Redmond, a former MU track standout, admits the East Stroudsburg meet was one he looked forward to, both as a coach and former athlete.

“ESU has a pretty nice facility for indoor track and field,” Redmond said. “As a past athlete and present coach I really do enjoy going to the facility in hopes of some good times from our athletes.”

Koch doesn’t expect the landscape for indoor track and field facilities to improve any time soon due to the high cost to build a regulation-size indoor track and field facility.

“It’s definitely a cost issue,” Koch said. “Our indoor facility isn’t new and to be honest, it will be ready for an upgrade pretty soon.

However, I think it will be a while until it happens. It is very, very expensive to build and maintain these types of facilities.”

The track and field team has the opportunity to host an outdoor event April 20 for the Narkiewicz Invitational.

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victory.

First year Hilari Norris earned the “Rookie of the Year” title after placing first in the 60 meter hurdles and fifth in the 200 meter dash.

Junior Ashlee Ward added a first place finish in the high jump with teammates Anna Nole and Lindsey Stitzer placing fourth and seventh, respectively.

“Everyone is different when it comes to the meets so everyone had different ways of preparing, but everyone was motivated when it came down to MAC’s,” said sophomore Nole.

Nole was thrilled by the second place finish in MACs and she looks forward to more competitions with her team.

“Placing second out of 12 teams is an amazing feeling!” said Nole.

“The team really pulled together

and we had a great turnout.”

She said the team overcame obstacles throughout the season.

“Leaving the indoor season with a 2nd place finish is really going to help with our outdoor season,” Nole said. “I think everyone on the team is starting to realize how good we are.”

Shortly after the second place win at MACs, the women broke four more school records at the ECAC’s at the New Balance Armory in New York City March 2.

Ward finished third in the high jump, breaking a school record.

She also earned All-ECAC for her accomplishments.

Senior Marina Orrson also added an MU record with a 5:02 minute mile. She finished fifth in the ECAC competition.

Senior Steph Grow and Norris added new school records in the

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Upper, East Stroudsburg University’s indoor track meets regulation size and is the only school in the area able to host meets. Lower, the track inside the Anderson Sports and Health Center is short by 21 meters.

Lady Cougars improve at MACs

By Lindsay Usarzewicz, Reporter

The women’s track and field team is sprinting to the finish line - and breaking records.

The women came home with broken records and numerous awards after the Mid Atlantic Conference Championships and the Eastern Collegiate Atlantic Conference Championships.

The Cougar’s made history by placing second in MACs sponsored

by DeSales University and held at Lehigh University Feb. 23.

The team placed second out of 10 teams, earning 104 points throughout the day’s events.

During the 2012 season the women placed third and Head Coach Chris Wadas says he is proud of their achievements.

“I’m very happy,” he said.

With a resting period before MACs the women had ample time to ready their legs and prepare for

high jump and hurdles, respectively.

One thing about track is that it never ends, says Wadas. He knows his team is prepared and ready for upcoming meets and the upcoming spring outdoor season.

“It’s going to be good for the kids,” Wadas said. “ When you’re that close and no one has ever been there before we hope that the kids get a little more excited about it.”

Nole says the team is confident after a great outcome in the winter season.

“The team is going to continue to train hard and hope for the best all season. I’m excited to see what happens,” said Nole.

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From left, medalists from the women’s track team pose with their awards.

First year Nicole Schwartz takes a throw.

First year Hilari Norris rounds the bend in her relay race during the MAC Championships at Lehigh University on Feb. 23.

Senior Marina Orrson accepts her award for winning third place in the mile.

Wedding bells ringing continued Continued from page 3 During her family’s traditional Easter egg hunt, Vossler got down on one knee and pulled out a little white box with a ring inside.

Mixon and Vossler are enrolled in pre-Cana classes, which are required pre-martial classes couples must enroll in before receiving the sacrament of marriage in the Catholic Church. Mixon feels the classes give her an opportunity to take a closer look at her relationship, and they can teach valuable things about married life.

In an article about pre-marital education classes, The Washington Post reported that these types of classes could be beneficial to newlyweds to help them to know what to expect from marriage and how to increase the chances that theirs will last.

The Washington Post also reported a study of married Army couples that took these pre-marriage classes that found that 2.03 percent were divorced after one year compared to the 6.2 percent who did not take classes and divorced in the same period.

Mixon uses words like “gentle-

man,” and “best friend” to describe Vossler. She said she knows he is the person she wants to spend the rest of her life with.

“It just completely feels so right. Some people have made comments about us being young, but they don’t understand how completely head over heels we are for one another,” she said.

Some young women strongly feel they are mature enough to be married. Simon said that she always felt like an adult. She said she was “born 30” and growing up in a lake community consisting of mostly summer homes, Simon never had many children to play with. She had moved out of her parent’s home at 18 and she, and her husband, were both financially independent before they were married. She said her parents were supportive, coming from “old world Italy,” and her father would have been happy to see her “get married out of high school and have a bunch of babies.”

Women sometimes will get married young due to because their boyfriends or fiancés are

entering the armed forces. Laura Lohmann Belles, 20, married her husband Todd Belles month ago, just before his deployment with the Army. Belles said she “would have been okay with going to the courthouse” to get married, but she and her husband opted for a small ceremony in her front yard on a lake in Sweet Valley, Pa. She wore a short white dress from David’s Bridal and the groom wore a suit he had purchased for job interviews. Belles said she decided to get married, while enrolled full-time at Bloomsburg University, so she could make decisions if anything were to happen to Todd while he was in the line of duty.

Belles said this is the reason why Todd says he married her.

“He said, ‘No one has ever taken care of me they way you do.’ It made me feel good because this is how it should be,” she said. “I think you should always be there for that person and you should equally take care of each other.”

While Todd is away, Belles takes care of the bills, searches for an apartment, furnishes said apart-

ment and plans their “big wedding” for their entire family when he comes home next year. Belles said she has always been independent – she is an only child and her father passed away when she was five-years-old.

“I’m just used to the whole ‘being alone all the time.’ So, it doesn’t really bother me,” she said.

“But when he comes back, it’s my rules.”

Jill Ballman, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at The Marriage Resource Center in Scranton, believes that it’s good for a husband or wife to feel like their partner takes care of them, but compares such a relationship to friendship – a two-way street.

“Problems arise when one takes on the “parent role” and the other takes on the “dependent child” role,” said Ballman. “This is not an equal partnership of two people both taking care of each other.”

And that 50/50 give-and-take takes time for everyone, regardless of age, to master.

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Freaky friday continued

Continued from page 2 President, MacDowell usually takes over as a role of the student, but Flormann’s student schedule prevented him from doing so, as he did years ago.

“I went to several classes for Nick Wadas, a graduate here a few years ago,” said MacDowell.

“He was an occupational therapy major, so I went to several of his classes. It was fascinating and I was learning a great deal about spinal cord injuries and how to recover more than I probably ever want to know.”

Sometimes a day in the life of the president is not about meetings and conferences, MacDowell said. He recalled a time when there was an early morning fire in Gildea Hall and the student president for the day had to handle the situation.

“We had a fire in Gildea Hall at about 5:30 in the morning,” said MacDowell. “The student was in charge of the institution and worked with the safety office to get everyone out and we opened the dining hall early and everyone came over for breakfast. It was quite an event. Everything worked

as it should with the fire doors and the RAs doing what they should, but that was what the student faced first thing in the morning.”

With the upcoming retirement of MacDowell at the conclusion of the semester, it is still uncertain whether president-elect Thomas Botzman will wish to continue the tradition.

“What I’m most proud about to come full circle is the fact that this institution gives so much to the United Way,” said MacDowell.

“I think being President for a Day adds a little spice to it, and I think the students might consider ‘Oh, I might have a chance to win this’ and put in maybe ten bucks to the United Way. It’s a good cause.”

President for a Day is an award the university gives to a student who contributes to the United Way. The university donates money to the United Way on a yearly basis, donating close to $23,000 last year.

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WHAT THE &*@!: FCC takes on televised cursing

By Peter Falvey, Reporter

The Federal Communications Commission has taken steps to ensure that all forms of communications are safe and open for consumers.

Immediately after the Superbowl ended, Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco could be heard saying “This is f****** awesome!” The CBS broadcast wasn’t quick enough to catch the curse on the live broadcast before it switched to a time delay for the post game show.

A large pool of offended viewers sent their complaints to the FCC and CBS. The Parents Television Council urged the FCC to take action. Tim Winter, council president, understood Flacco cursing but thinks CBS needed to be prepared.

“Joe Flacco’s use of the f-word, while understandable, does not absolve CBS of its legal obligation to prevent profane language from being broadcast — especially during something as uniquely pervasive as the Super Bowl,” he said in a press release from the Parents Television Council.

CBS is not a stranger to FCC mis-steps. CBS has been in legal entanglements with the FCC since 2004 when Janet Jackson’s experienced the famous “wardrobe malfunction” during the Super Bowl half-time show. While CBS received fines, a court overturned a previous ruling because it found the FCC changed its rules without

warning, and it had excused past language so grossly offensive “I don’t personally worry about backwards, said Thackara. In order instances of similar violations. to members of the public who the FCC at any point in any broad- to file a complaint a person needs The FCC regulates to report it to the radio and non-cable FCC with the exact television content. date and time and The FCC prohibits call letters. Then, obscene broadcasts at the FCC needs to all times. Broadcasts rule whether the that it determines violator broke the “indecent’ have air regulations willfully time restrictions. and knowingly.

The FCC has defined “Locally speaking, broadcast indecency for TV and radio as “language or matevery rarely does rial that, in context, a fine ever come depicts or describes, down. Its only when in terms patently Janet Jackson’s offensive as measured ‘Nipple-Gate’ hapby contemporary pens that they really community standards start to worry about for the broadcast it and pay attenmedium, sexual or tion,” said Thackera. excretory organs or The FCC is also activities.” governs Internet Courts ruled that content, but in a indecent material different capacity. falls under the First It ensures that the MARY BOVE/THE HIGHLANDER Amendment and cannot Internet is more open be banned, but accord- Junior Danny Price poses for a photo illustration. and free. It also tries ing to FCC guidelines, to keep children safe it must not be aired when there is actually hear it as to amount to a cast that I have ever done, except online by providing information a reasonable risk a child would be nuisance.” when I have cursed accidentally, to parents about online safety. exposed to it. Obscene broadcasts Broadcasters that violate any of and that has happened. That’s The FCC has quality tested can be aired between 10 p.m. and the rules are subject to fines and when you walk into the boss’ and Internet service providers and 6 a.m. may have their licenses revoked. say, ‘Listen, this happened. I’m an broadband speeds. In its third Like indecency, profane speech Dave Thackara, communications idiot. I’m sorry and it will never “Measuring Broadband America,” is prohibited on broadcast radio department media manager and happen again.’ And I haven’t heard released Feb. 15., it found that Inand television between the hours morning show co-host at Rock anything about it since,” said ternet service providers are doing of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. “Profane” 107, admitted that he has dropped Thackara. a good job of providing custombroadcasts are those “including the “king of all curses.”

The FCC reporting process is ers with advertised web speeds.

Employers scour social media

A Sept. 2012 test found that, on average, ISP’s deliver 97 percent of advertised download speeds during peak hours.

“Faster broadband has brought untold benefits to millions of Americans – from distance learning to distance healthcare,” FCC chairman Julius Genachowski said in a statement.

But providers may not be doing so well during weather emergencies. The FCC held the first of several planned hearings on Feb. 5 to review what went wrong with communications during Superstorm Sandy. According to an FCC report, 25 percent of cellular sites and cable service were knocked out in the 10 states.

“The inability to communicate with family and emergency personnel during a disaster is simply unacceptable,” Genachowski said.

Commissioner Robert McDowell was not able to attend the hearing, but he said he understood its importance.

“As we all know, when disasters occur, mobile and wired communications technologies become literal lifelines; but they also create challenges,” said Commissioner McDowell in a statement.

“Therefore, in order to plan for future emergencies, I welcome the opportunity to learn more about what went wrong and what went right.”

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By Gabriella Lengyel, Social Media Manager

Social media networks are becoming an efficient way for students to find job opportunities.

“Sometimes you might not realize it at the time, but some of the folks you meet from networking opportunities might be able to help you out down the road,” Web Content Coordinator Steve Filipiak said.

Social networks allows job seekers to make connections with others who share their field and enable them to form relationships that could lead to potential job opportunities.

Businesses have made it a priority to search applicants on the web as social media has evolved to become a part of everyday human communication.

LinkedIn, for example, is touted as the most popular network for professional use. Workers used it to build professional online profiles that can help boost opportunities, according to Filipiak.

“Older generations just getting into social media don’t really get ramifications where college students today understand and get how important it is for future employers to keep profiles clean,” Electronic Communications Coordinator Lauren Smith said.

The Insalaco Center for Career Development (ICCD) is proactively helping students professional online presences.

The Guaranteed Placement Program (GPP) holds workshops to help with job searching, assembling resumes and preparing for interviews, but while the Guaranteed Placement program, a popular option for students who hope to land a job after graduation, doesn’t offer an entire workshop on social profiles elements are

highlighted in other workshops and during one-to-one sessions.

“Using social media could be a very positive thing if done the right way,” said ICCD Director Bernie Rushmer.

Smith, Filipiak and Rushmer all recommend Google personal social media accounts and names used online as well.

“It’s always good to see what others are going to see when searching for your name,” Smith said.

“I actually Googled myself once and my name came up in a blog and I didn’t even know it. Somebody else had been writing a blog about Misericordia,” Rushmer said. “Fortunately, it was positive, but it was out there for anyone who looked up my name and could access that information.”

Rushmer always recommends preparation for response if something comes up when Google searched by the recruiter.

“Good strategy is to follow up with evidence that you’ve grown professional and personally,” Rushmer said.

Google offers a lot of options for helping protect and promote social profiles in a positive light.

Google Alerts helps find information connected to social network accounts.

“Google Alerts tells you whenever there is a mention of your name somewhere on the web and what content associated with you is being put out there,” Filipiak said. “It’s useful and good to be aware of.”

Most content found on the web is never fully deleted or removed.

“Watch what you post, once it is out there, it is out there, exposed to someone and it could come

back and affect you,” Smith said.

A proactive way of keeping online profiles professional is to clean them up.

Recently a free website has come to surface, called SimpleWash, formerly known as FaceWash. It is a service used to clean up Facebook and Twitter accounts.

On Facebook the program looks for inappropriate keywords, in wall posts, tagged photos, liked links, liked photos, status updates, and liked pages. On Twitter it files through feed, hashtags and posted links.

“Manage security settings because not only do you need to be concerned with the content you put on, but what other people associate you with,” Smith said.

Smith has her tagged photos setting to others needing her approval before her name is posted with that photo.

Along with photos, Smith and Filipiak recommend within personal profile to watch content in photos.

“Any photos associated with alcoholics products or consumption, you are better off deleting them or untagging yourself,” Smith said.

Language is also key part of communication.

“Avoid using explicit language.

Think of it as if posting something, and not mind an employer seeing, especially on something like a blog,” Rushmer said.

Don’t complain about bad experiences with past employers or another company.

“Every experience you have had, good or bad is going to give you things you will be able to build on and learn from,” Filipiak said.

Other companies will associate negative behavior with the con-

tent present on the profile page, and could result in job seekers missing out in job opportunities or internships.

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Profile Cleanup Google yourself Create a LinkedIn account Sign up for Google Alerts Keep it professional Report/flag negative content your associated with Watch use of explicit language and photo content Manage/adjust security settings Don’t complain about bad job experiences Notify friends job searching

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From top, first year students Julie Paporello and Shannon McBride pose for a picture during dinner in the John and Mary Mets Dining Hall to share through the social network Snapchat.

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By Courtney Garloff, Reporter

Students will showcase their artistic talent at the Student Art Exhibition in the Pauly Friedman Art Gallery March 13 through 23.

Fine arts professors selected pieces of their students’ collections of artwork that they feel showed exceptional ability.

“The works are selected by the individual instructors,” said ceramics instructor Howard Sensbach.

Instructors use their own professional judgment to select artwork for the showcase.

“I would kind of go through and if there’s a piece I see is good enough to go in the show I just pull it to the side,” said Sensbach.

Sensbach has been helping to organize the exhibition since its start last year, and he hopes to continue showing students’ work to the community.

All pieces are the work of students taking studio art classes from last spring through this semester. They include works from painting, drawing and ceramics classes.

“This semester we’re hoping to include jewelry and printmaking,” said Sensbach.

Printmaking and jewelry classes were a new addition to the course catalog for the start of the 2013 spring semester.

Unlike past exhibitions in the Pauly Friedman Art Gallery, like the Norman Rockwell’s 323 Saturday Evening Post Covers, the Student Art Exhibition has no theme and limits of medium.

The exhibit is a mix of media from paint to prints. It also has a mix of themes, such as self-portraits. It is based on assignments students completed in class.

“I guess the theme would be

whatever the creativity of Misericordia students and showcasing those talents,” said Sensbach.

Exhibiting artist and senior communications major Matt Wielgopolski is one of three students graduating this May with a fine arts minor. He wants to go into graphic design upon graduation and feels his fine art minor will give him an edge over other students.

“I feel it really helped me hone my skills,” said Wielgpolski.

Wielgopolski will have printmaking and sculpture in the exhibit.

“It’s an honor for people to see your work. It gets you out there,” he said.

Posted explanations of each piece of artwork is an addition to this year’s exhibit. Pieces that the instructors feel need more explanation will feature placards to explain the origin of the piece, whether it was a result of a strict assignment or the result of the artists’ creativity when they were able to create their own assignments.

Sensbach said viewers need background information to fully understand the pieces, particularly because students created all of the works during class time. “The feedback I got was that people wanted to know that information,” said Sensbach.

Instructors used the same process galleries throughout the world use to organize exhibits and select artwork.

They consider how the art will look in the given room and try not to overfill the space. “It’s not arranged per class; it’s arranged like a normal art show. How does the work flow through the room?”

Organizers were arrange artwork

For one act only

By Jevin Fluegel, Reporter

Campus thespians are putting on one-act plays March 17 and 18 in the Lemmond Theater.

Performers from the MU Players and others will act scenes from both comedic and dramatic plays.

This is the third year for the oneact productions.

ALP Coordinator Scott Woolnough is a directors and the only one to select a drama. His act depicts a scene from The Veldt by Ray Bradbury.

“I chose that play mainly because the other directors chose very comedic pieces and Veldt is anything but comedy,” he said. “It is very, very dark, very sinister.”

Woolnough said the topic is timely because it “reflects the general uneasiness that we have in America right now with the generation gap.”

He finds that the “2010 decade” shows young people growing up, and he said Bradbury saw this generation gap coming when he wrote The Veldt many years ago.

Woolnough hopes to communicate this vision in his play.

While most plays run 45 minutes in length, he hopes to cap his production at 20 minutes.

Students are also involved in the productions. Sophomore mathematics and philosophy major Melvin Jay Busi is no stranger to the stage. Although he has not performed in a one-act play before, he has been in full productions on the Lemmond stage.

“I inspire to be a professor and so having that sort of public speaking ability is something that is very important to me and theater to practice that,” he said.

Busi is working with Student Activities Coordinator Patrick McKamy as his director and fellow

students Alexandria Smith and Katie O’Hearn.

“It’s really a lot of fun. It’s not as a time demanding as the full production,” he said. “Its something I can look forward to each day.”

He finds one-acts easier for arranging a rehearsal schedule because rather than meeting with an entire cast, he is working around the schedules of two or three people.

“Because the scenes are so small, we can afford to just take a look at the entire work as a single piece and then go back and do the smaller little things over again.”

Busi said the format allows audience members to join in the action and get closer to the performers, and he said he is drawn to that closeness.

“I think it’s a lot more endearing, because there is not the sense of you know of us and them,” he said.

“We’re all together and sharing the in the experience.”

Busi said he enjoys his part because he is so similar to his character, Jonathon.

“It seems so far that the characters that are given to me are close to my personality. Well with the audition process usually the director sees what the auditioning person is doing well and has a strength in doing. My character is kind of laid back, sarcastic.”

Busi encourages everyone to come out and give the one-acts a try.

Woolnough said admission is free.

“Where else can you see theater for free? It’s definitely something worthwhile to come see.”

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Senior Katie O’Hearn recites her lines on the stage in Lemmond.

around the Pauly Friedman Art Gallery in a way that is most aesthetically pleasing to the viewer.

A “Meet the Artists” opening reception will be held March 16 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. by the fine arts department.

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Above are select pieces from the Student Art Exhibition including junior Matt Wielgopolski’s selfportrait and sclupture made of toothpicks.

A lack of money and interest ly, I like to listen to music because explained. “So they were going to in live musical entertainment is I like to hear the stories behind it. supply the artists for Tunes [at behind the dearth of on-campus I think it’s very cool.”

Noon] and then they wanted them performances, officials said.

Brodmerkel said arranging to play in the Cougar’s Den at The latest performance was performances is challenging benight in hopes that people would Andrew Marks on Feb. 20. cause they must be planned far in want to go to the local establish“People don’t go to hear music,” advance and the cost is steep. ments and see these bands. No said Student Activities Director “The money that we spend on one ever followed through. So that Darcy Brodmerkel. “A very small these guys to come in and do a set was on hold since the beginning of handful of people go to see music. is a lot different than what you the fall semester,” she said.

So we pay a lot of money to have may think that they’re paying at a First year English major Julia these performers come in, and our local bar. It’s always going to be a Whitesell is still hopeful that more history has said that sometimes lot higher. So, any halfway decent musicians will perform. we have two to three people sitting in there for the performers. I feel bad. And I think those two or three will stay just out of feeling bad for that person.”

Brodmerkel said students seem to be interested in connecting with peers and enjoying other types of entertainment.

“We spend a lot of money to have more entertainment in the Den. So, the people that usually go enjoy what’s there – the mentalist and things like that. But ALEXANDRIA SMITH /THE HIGHLANDER it’s lots of times getting people out who say, ‘Oh, I Musician Andrew Marks plays a set in the Cougars Den on Feb. 20. didn’t know about it,’ or, you know ‘I sat in my room and musician is going to come in and Whitesell also believes that watched Netflix,’” she said. do an hour set for, you know, music might even offer a sense of First year psychology/physical $1500, $1800,” said Brodmerkel. unity among people on campus. therapy major Shannon Morgano Another roadblock is coordina“That’s what I love about music. said musical performances offer a tion with other campus organizaIt’s so universal that you go to a passive type of activity that may tions planning their own events, concert and there’s a big group not attract everyone. particularly Cougar Radio. of people and you’re all there “I think it’s because, with the “They were supposed to do some- together experiencing the same mentalists, and the comedians, it’s thing this year with it and they thing and you’re having this big, very interactive and music is not asked me if I would allow them to shared experience. That’s what I always very interactive with the move forward with their program, like most about music – it brings audience, so people don’t really which I did, and they haven’t people together,” said Whitesell. feel connected to it. But personalfollowed through,” Brodmerkl Smitha10@misericordia.edu

MU Exposure: SLP prof publishes second book Kathleen Scaler Scott, Ph.D., C.C.C.-S.L.P., assistant professor of speech-language pathology recently had her second book published on the communication disorder known as cluttering.

Cluttering is a communication disorder that affects a person’s ability to speak in a clear, concise and fluent manner. Cluttered speech typically sounds overly rapid, or contains rapid bursts, together with poorly articulated or jerky speech. Scaler Scott’s latest book is designed to help speech-language pathologists address the needs of their clients with cluttering.

It is intended for school-age children, adolescents and adults who have been diagnosed with cluttering. “Managing Cluttering: A Comprehensive Guidebook of Activities’’ with CD-ROM can be ordered online through Pro-Ed Inc., at www.pro-edinc. com.

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Continued from page 1 need to have a 3.0 G.P.A. Direct of Admissions Glenn Bozinski believes high quality faculty is the reason for the nursing department’s success, and that makes it easier to get students to come to MU for a nursing degree.

“The one thing we’re doing now, at a very high level, is turning out nurses who are qualified. Our board rate on the nursing exam last year was over 98 percent pass rate on the first try. That’s phenomenal and it speaks to a lot of the students we are bringing into the program,” said Bozinski.

“By and large we have a very good

program. Your program is only as good as your faculty.”

Junior nursing major Marissa Ewing said that the small school atmosphere made her choose MU. “It’s a small school. They want you to succeed and they’re here to help you,” said Ewing.

Tamara Bradley, also a junior nursing student, didn’t want to get lost among students.

“Being able to go one-on-one with a professor and they know your name, I love that,” said Bradley. “In a big school, the professor just knows you as a number. You put in your student ID number

and that’s it. I just love the fact that we can get help from our professors. They know us by name and they’re willing to help.”

Bozinski added that Passan Hall is also a draw for new nursing students.

“Facilities impress traditional students and their families, and for working nurses to see those facilities and know that we have first-rate facilities also impresses them,” said Bozinski. “Having a facility that is sate-of-the-art is always going to play well with a perspective student because they look at it as a learning atmosphere

that has great technology along with great faculty.”

Passan Hall impressed Bradley.

“I remember sitting at home and saying to my dad, before I chose Misericordia, ‘Oh they sent me an email with a picture of the new health science building, I think I want to go there,’” said Bradley.

“I remember thinking, ‘Oh, that looks really nice.’ I do remember that, getting that email, and it kind of drew me in.” kellmers@misericordia.edu