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Weekly newsletter replaces campus digest By KAT OLDREY News Editor K.E.Oldrey@iup.edu
The familiar campus digest was absent from student inboxes Monday morning. In its place was The Beak, a new weekly newsletter. The Beak will provide students with links to information about events and opportunities. Students can skim through headings and click for more information about events that interest them and ignore the events that do not. “It’s not a replacement of Campus Events,” said executive director of the Center for Student Success Richard DiStanislao. “It’s a different presentation of it.” Students will receive the newsletter on Monday mornings, rather than every weekday. Student focus groups discussed and decided the kind of information they would like to see in a new newsletter, the way they would like to see it presented and the day and time when they would prefer to receive it. “The end of the week seemed like old news,” said DiStanislao. “Monday
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Address and panel question race in modern America By ida arici Senior Staff Writer I.D.Arici@iup.edu
The keynote address and panel presentation, the final event of the 21st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Program, revolved around the topic of race in modern America. Free and open to the public, “What Would King say: is America Really Post-Racial?� was held 7 p.m. Thursday in Fisher Auditorium. It featured Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, a hip-hop generation specialist and previous political contributor for Fox News Channel; Joan Morgan, an award-winning journalist, author and cultural critic; Ilana “Invincible� Weaver, a Detroit-based hiphop artist, activist and founder of EMERGENCE Media; and Lisa Fager Bediako, an expert in social marketing and president and co-founder of Industry Ears. Bakari Kitwana, founder and organizer of the presentation, moderated the panel discussion. Kitwana is the co-founder of the first National Hip-Hop Political Convention and author of “Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture.� After brief introductions, the panel jumped right into discussion. “I don’t want to live in a world that’s post-racial,� said Hill. “I want to live in one that’s post-racist. I want to live in a world where being black isn’t a social demerit.� Similarly, Morgan felt the term “post-racial� made no sense. “I don’t see the utility in the term [post-racial],� Morgan said. “I think that Dr. King was very much against injustice. When I think of Dr. King, I think ‘What would Dr. King say about 2011 America?’ I think Dr. King would have seen that we live in a culturally diverse world and would have tried to get us to sit down and get to know one another.� As a follow-up, Kitwana asked Morgan to share her opinion of the
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notion that America is indebted to African Americans. “When we think in terms of ‘America owes us,’ it puts us in a position that makes it difficult to combat because America will just say, ‘No we don’t.’ And I don’t think that Dr. King was necessarily saying ‘You owe black people,’ but that America has failed to deliver on its promise of the Constitution.� “People want easy answers and half-baked solutions,� said Bediako. “They always want to know who is going to motivate us. Motivate yourself. You do not have to wait to be led. What are you going to do?� In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, Bediako is essentially asking people
to be the change they want to see in the world. “A lot of King’s later writing is about building a beloved community,� Invincible said. “That means that you have to be in an intimate relationship with other people in your community and transform ourselves through hands-on, direct action projects.� From post-racial, to racism, to community projects, the panelists presented information stating that America has come a long way, but still has more to do. They honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memory by advocating nonviolent means of change and doing your part to make society better.
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Internet service shut down in Egypt during unrest By nathan olivarez-giles Los Angeles Times MCT
The Internet was shut down in Egypt Friday, cutting off a key communication tool that government opponents were using to organize their street protests this week. The Egyptian government cut off all online services between midnight and 12:30 a.m. Egyptian time, said James Cowie, co-founder and chief technology officer of Renesys, an IT company in New Hampshire that helps Internet service providers monitor the security of Web networks and infrastructure. “It’s something I’ve never seen,� Cowie said. “Over a period a period of about 20 minutes, it’s as if each of the primary service providers started pulling the routes that lead to them. It wasn’t like a simultaneous withdrawal.
“Nobody flipped an off switch or hit a big red button. It was one by one until they were all gone.� The situation in Egypt differs from what took place during the recent successful revolt in Tunisia where specific services and websites were blocked, or in Iran during its political unrest last year, where the Internet was slowed to an almost unusable speed but not entirely shut down, Cowie said. “Egypt is a modern country, the government doesn’t own the Internet,� he said. “There are private companies of varying sizes that own and operate their own infrastructure. But it seems that they got a call and so they turned it off.� The Internet blackout was Egypt’s latest move in halting online communications amid the unrest. Tuesday, social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube were made largely
unavailable in Cairo, and Thursday the government blocked Internet service on BlackBerry smart phones. “The Egyptian government, they’re hoping that these communication methods are a lifeline for the protests and activists and they’re hoping that cutting off access will help lead to stopping the demonstrations,� said Charles Hirschkind, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Cowie said it would be difficult for an Internet provider in Egypt to resist a government directive to cut off service. “The fact is, if the government calls up and makes a request within its legal rights and you’re an important company that has to do business and has shareholders and hopes to do business in that country in the future, you simply have to follow the law,� he said.
Federal agencies set new clean car standards By tiffany hsu Los Angeles Times MCT
The federal Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation will coordinate with the California Air Resources Board when they simultaneously release proposed rules for vehicle fuel economy and carbon emissions Sept. 1. California has long been an early adopter of similar guidelines and is known for regulations that are often the strictest in the country. By agreeing to reschedule its announcement from the original March date, the state could be hoping to influence how the federal standards are developed, industry experts suggested. “The vehicle manufacturers would certainly prefer a single national standard,� said John Boesel, chief executive of Calstart, a
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clean-transportation technology trade group based in Pasadena. “The California policymakers, if they agree to a single standard, would want to ensure it’s demanding enough to address the state’s very serious air pollution challenges.� A suggestion floated this fall from the Obama administration that new cars be required to reach 62 miles per gallon by 2025 met with backlash from the auto industry.
The EPA and the DOT had originally aimed for Sept. 30 to release their proposals, which will affect cars and light trucks in the 2017 to 2025 model years. The federal agencies say that the current standards for the 2012 to 2016 model years, adopted in April, will eventually save 1.8 billion barrels of oil and avert 960 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. A final set of rules will be approved by 2012. Automakers cheered the partnership between the agencies while urging them not to rush into any decisions about miles-per-gallon and emissions targets. “The current process is still in the early stages, with much analysis needed on critical issues such as the costs of advanced vehicle technologies and potential impacts on vehicle safety and jobs,� said Gloria Berquist, vice president of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers in a statement.
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Insurance companies use social media to detect fraud By shan li Los Angeles Times MCT
Now there’s another reason to be careful about what you post on Facebook: Your insurance company may be watching. Nathalie Blanchard found out the hard way. Struggling with depression, the 30-year-old from Quebec, Canada, took a medical leave in early 2008 from her job as an IBM technician. Soon after, she began receiving monthly disability benefits from her insurer, Manulife Financial Corp. A year later and without warning, the payments stopped. A representative of the Toronto insurance company told Blanchard that Manulife used photos of her on Facebook — showing her frolicking at a beach and hanging out at a pub — to determine she was depression-free and able to work, said Tom Lavin, Blanchard’s attorney. “They just assumed from the pictures that she was a fraud,” Lavin said, “without investigating further before terminating Nathalie’s benefits.” Blanchard sued Manulife, accusing Manulife of failing to talk to her doctor and neglecting to inform her before cutting off payments. The case is scheduled for trial next January.
“The whole thing is just symptomatic of technology running ahead of the people who are using it. [...] Society has not come to terms with how to manage social networking.” — Tom Lavin, lawyer in social mediarelated insurance case Manulife, citing ongoing legal proceedings, declined to comment on the case but said in a statement: “We would not deny or terminate a valid claim solely based on information published on websites such as Facebook.” Social-networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace have become the go-to places where employers, college admissions officers and divorce lawyers can do background checks. Armed with the information, police have caught fugitives, lawyers have discredited witnesses and companies have discovered perfect-on-paper applicants engaged in illegal or simply embarrassing behavior. And now insurance companies are utilizing the free, easily accessible websites. Such sites have become the latest tools in detecting fraud, which the industry says costs the U.S. as much as $80 billion a year and accounts for
3 percent to 10 percent of total annual healthcare spending. Investigators who once followed people with cameras now sit behind desks “mining databases and searching Facebook,” said Frank Scapili, spokesman for the National Insurance Crime Bureau, a nonprofit that investigates suspicious claims for insurance partners such as Allstate and State Farm. “They look out for things that don’t add up,” he said, “like someone who claimed they hurt their back too badly to work and then bragged on Facebook about running a marathon.” Social-networking sites have become such “standard tools” that Peter Foley, vice president of claims at American Insurance Association, said that investigators could be considered negligent if they didn’t conduct at least “a quick scan of social media to check for contradictions.” But the evidence gathered on these sites, Foley and other insurance experts caution, should be used only as a launch pad for further investigations and never as final proof of fraud. More ambitious insurance companies are even exploring the possibility of using online data to help underwrite policies. Celent, the insurance consulting arm of financial and insurance brokerage firm Marsh & McLennan
Cos. recently published a study titled “Leveraging Social Networks: An In-Depth View for Insurers” and suggested that social-networking data could be used to help price policies. Mike Fitzgerald, a Celent senior analyst, said life insurance companies could find social media especially valuable for comparing what people will admit about lifestyle choices and medical histories in applications, and what they reveal online. That could range from “liking” a cancer support group online to signs of high-risk behavior. “If someone claims they don’t go sky diving often, but it clearly indicates on their online profile that they do it every weekend they can get away,” Fitzgerald said, “that would raise a red flag for insurers.” Social media is “part of a new and emerging risk to the insurance sector” that could affect pricing and rating of policies in the future, said Gary Pickering, sales and marketing director for British insurer Legal & General Group PLC. But many insurance lawyers decry such practices and warn of a future when insurance companies could monitor online profiles for reasons to raise premiums or deny claims. “The situation is coming up more and more in court where lawyers for insurance companies lay traps for the insured based on pictures or postings on Facebook or Twitter,” said
Vedica Puri, a partner at Pillsbury & Levinson, a San Francisco law firm that specializes in insurance. “Photos can be years old. People joke or write things in jest, but insurance companies use everything. Even if it’s not true, it can be very damning,” she said. Lawyer John Beals of Piering Law Firm in Sacramento, Calif., requires all his clients to either shut down or tighten privacy settings on their social media profiles as a precaution, he said. Insurance companies will “bring up anything — photos of you drinking to prove that you have bad character,” he said. “Even if it’s unrelated, just the impression that you are doing something wrong can sink a case.” Lawyers and industry experts said that one of the dangers for consumers is people’s desire to present themselves in the best light, even if it hurts an insurance claim. Or as Lavin puts it: “No one puts pictures of themselves crying in a dark room, even if that’s what they’re doing 18 hours a day.” “The whole thing is just symptomatic of technology running ahead of the people who are using it,” he said. “It’s kind of like the early years of flight, when planes are crashing all over the place. Society has not come to terms with how to manage social networking.”
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Big breaks for Big Oil Editorial Los Angeles Times MCT
Analysts are expecting a bonanza when Exxon Mobil Corp. announces its fourth-quarter earnings on Monday; the company’s stock has jumped by nearly 20 percent during the last year, and in the first three quarters of 2010, its profit was $21.2 billion — not a bad haul during a worldwide recession. Other oil companies have had similar success, thanks to growing demand in India and China. Yet U.S. taxpayers subsidize this industry to the tune of $4 billion a year. This kind of largesse toward a hugely profitable business seems bizarre, especially at a time when the federal deficit is reaching alarming proportions, yet efforts to end the tax deductions and credits for companies that don’t need them have gone nowhere. That isn’t stopping President Obama from trying.
In his State of the Union address, he proposed an uptick in federal spending on clean-energy research and development, to be paid for by ending subsidies for oil companies. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but they’re doing just fine on their own. So instead of subsidizing yesterday’s energy, let’s invest in tomorrow’s,” Obama said. He is of course right, but that won’t stop Republicans and oil-state Democrats from thwarting his plans. Obama has been trying since his first year in office to cut oil subsidies, calling in his last budget request for the elimination of $36.5 billion in industry tax breaks over the course of a decade. Congress turned him down. The oil industry and its backers claim that ending these breaks, such as a domestic manufacturing tax deduction and deductions for certain “intangible” drilling expenses, would cause oil and gas prices to rise and cost American jobs. Independent analyses suggest that isn’t true. A 2007 report by the
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Joint Economic Committee, which advises Congress on economic matters, found that ending the manufacturing deduction would have a negligible effect on consumer prices. That’s because when crude is fetching high prices, as it has for many years and will for many more, companies have ample incentive to drill even without a subsidy — so eliminating it wouldn’t cause the kind of supply shortages that push up prices at the pump. Subsidies also have a minimal effect on drilling decisions, including whether companies drill in the United States or abroad, so they don’t preserve jobs for American workers. Obama couldn’t persuade Congress to end oil subsidies when it was controlled by Democrats, so it’s even less likely he’ll succeed now that the House is controlled by Republicans. It’s still the right thing to do — and if Obama can make more Americans aware of their government’s generosity to oil giants, he can boost his chances.
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A couple of weeks ago, the human rights group Freedom House rated the Middle East, with its host of despotic regimes, the most repressed region of the planet. But that was a couple of weeks ago. At the moment, opposition to dictators is spreading fast and putting authoritarian governments in peril. The trend began in Tunisia, where mass protests forced the resignation and exile of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had ruled for 23 years since taking power in a coup d’etat. The “Jasmine Revolution” marked the first time that a popular movement had toppled the government of an Arab country. The Tunisian example was noted by its neighbors, and soon, throngs of Egyptians were taking to the streets demanding an end to the reign of President Hosni Mubarak, who has had a lock on power since 1981. Before long, crowds carried out the largest protests Yemen had witnessed in years. Unrest has erupted in Algeria. Demonstrators marched Friday in Jordan. No telling who’s next. The successful uprising in Tunisia was important enough that President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address to declare, “The United States of America stands with the people of Tunisia, and supports the democratic aspirations of all people.” There is no doubt, of course, that Americans favor the spread of democracy. But in many Arab countries, that preference sometimes comes into conflict with other goals, such as protecting our security interests. Egypt was the first Arab government to sign a peace accord with Israel, and Mubarak has been a helpful ally of Washington. Jordan supported the war against Saddam Hussein and has been a moderate force in Arab-Israeli matters. So the Obama administration has to exercise caution in what it says and does about opposition to
governments that have often been key partners on grave issues. Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chose her words carefully in urging reform and restraint by the Mubarak regime, while calling on protesters to “refrain from violence.” So far, then, the administration hasn’t thrown its wholehearted support to the opposition. That course is unsatisfying, but it is sensible, for two obvious reasons. The first is that the collapse of dictatorships may not lead to progress. A lot of Americans rooted for the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979 – which brought to power a radical Islamist regime. More recently, the Bush administration pressed for Palestinian elections, only to see victory go to the terrorist Hamas party. Another reason for caution is that even if the U.S. wants to help opposition movements, it can do them as much harm as good. The Obama administration earned criticism for not strongly endorsing the anti-government forces in Iran’s failed “Green Revolution.” But the president saw that in a country where Washington once backed a coup, an American blessing might backfire. Elsewhere as well, close identification with the U.S. can be a stain. In the long run, everyone agrees, the spread of democracy in the Middle East would be a generally positive thing for both the people of the region and for U.S. interests. But in the short run, toppling autocrats is a chancy business. It can lead to democracy and respect for human rights. Or it can produce chaos, extremism and regional instability. So the Obama administration should approach developments like these with humility and restraint, based on our limited ability to understand and shape events in these alien places. The United States has been criticized by one Malaysian parliamentarian for its policy of “selective ambivalence” toward anti-government movements in the Middle East. But in a region so fraught with danger and uncertainty, a measure of ambivalence – and restraint – is wise.
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Extreme Makeover: Campus-Events Edition Campus-Events has not gotten a facelift. Instead, it’s like the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” crew took up residence at the Center for Student Success. The new method of informing students about campus events was a while in the making. But going from a daily e-mail to a weekly one might cause the student population to change the way they plan their activities. Before, with the daily digest, a student might read about an event happening that evening on the day he or she receives the e-mail and spontaneously decide to go. If students only get one e-mail per week, and aren’t in the habit of checking e-mails with planner in hand, they might forget about an event happening on Thursday night if they read about it on Monday. But this seems to be the only downside. However, administrators didn’t take on this change lightly. The fact that they sought student feedback and used focus groups shows that our preferences were factored in, and The Beak reflects what we want. The inaugural edition even asked for student feedback, allowing more student voices to be heard. The digest e-mails were clunky and could be boring to read through in a long, laundry-list format. Lots of people would often delete it without even reading it, or let weeks of daily e-mails stack up in their inboxes. But the new format – color-coded and linked – seems to both streamline the content presented, while actually offering more information than CampusEvents ever did. Cross-promoting services and the university’s social media sites is much more modern than anything Campus-Events ever had to offer. Combining the information from many important websites will be helpful for students who may be unsure of where to look for certain information like jobs and scholarships. The digest also recognizes “Student Stars.” It’s important to recognize students for their successes, and the new format handles such positive highlights. The endeavor will truly be a success if the new format convinces a greater number of students to pay attention to campus events and relevant notices instead of ignoring the information and clicking delete.
Editorial Policy Drilling waste OK for area landfills By Jim Hook Public Opinion, Chambersburg, Pa. MCT
Two local landfills have state approval to accept drill cuttings from the Marcellus Shale gas rush. The Cumberland County Landfill has received more than 17,000 tons of cuttings in two months with approval from the state Department Environmental Protection, according to DEP spokesman John Repetz. “This approval is for drill cuttings only, much like drill cuttings from any other oil or gas well drilled in Pennsylvania,” Repetz said. “This authorization does not cover liquid waste or fracking wastewater.” DEP also has approved the application of IESI Blue Ridge Landfill to take drill cuttings, but the landfill in Greene Township has yet to
accept any cuttings, Repetz said. Mountain View Landfill, located farther south between Greencastle and Mercersburg, has not filed for approval. DEP on Nov. 23 issued permission for Cumberland County Landfill to accept the cuttings. By Tuesday the landfill had accepted 17,141 tons – just 709 tons since Jan. 4. The landfill is in Hopewell and North Newton townships. The material removed from a borehole contains shale, bits of metal, mud and lubricants. It typically looks like soil and can be mixed with sawdust for greater consistency, Repetz said. Drill cuttings from Marcellus Shale have low levels of naturally occurring radioactivity, according to an analysis for Chemung County Landfill in New York. Residents for the Protection of
Lowman and Chemung have questioned whether the drill cuttings can be landfilled lawfully, according to the citizens’ attorney Gary Abraham of Allegany, N.Y. The cuttings had a radioactivity at least 25 times that of background, largely from radium226. The Chemung landfill accepted the cuttings in the fall of 2009 and less than six months later the fracking waste from wells in Pennsylvania. In fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, a proprietary mix of chemicals and water is injected into a well to extract the natural gas. The waste fracking liquid contains some toxic chemicals. In December, New York legislators halted fracking in their state. Pennsylvania “landfills have radiation monitors in place,” Repetz said, “and are lined to collect any material leaching from the cuttings.”
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Foreign film, music series helps expand international education By imani dillard Senior Staff Writer I.J.Dillard@iup.edu
The Foreign Film and Music Series kicked off Sunday, presented by the Office of International Education. The first film of the series was “Afghan Star,” a documentary about pop culture returning to Afghanistan after 30 years of Taliban rule. The film follows several young people who turn to a new show, “Afghan Star” – a pop idol-style TV series, to showcase their talents with hope to make their dreams come true. Many contestants are faced with great opposition and fear the religious elite who think music is sacrilege. The film takes place over three months, following contestants from the regional auditions to the finals in Kabul. The next film, showing Feb. 13, is “A Town Called Panic.” This is an animated Belgian film in French. The characters resemble toy figures. The film is based on an animated cult TV series of the same name. It features characters like Cowboy, Indian and Horse, who never fail to attract weird events and other shenanigans. Cowboy and Indian plan to give Horse a homemade barbeque, but the
plan backfires, leading the trio on an outlandish stream of events. Music before the film will feature Kate Duncan on vocals, and Terry Barnett on guitar. “Tulpan,” a film from Kazakhstan follows Asa, a sailor recently discharged from the Russian Navy. He comes to Hunger Steppe where his sister, Samal, and her family live. Asa wants to become a herdsman and own his own ranch, but must first find a wife so that he can become established and socially grounded. The only woman who is eligible to be married within in a hundred miles is Tulpan. The musical guest is Kittiphong “Mu” Praphan on vocals and guitar. The South Korean film, “Treeless Mountain,” will be shown on March 13. The film is about two sisters, Jin and Bin, and their life after their mother dumps them on extended family. First, it is an alcoholic aunt who is never sober enough to cook for the girls. Then they are moved to their grandparents farm with a warm reception from their grandmother but not their grandfather, who sees them as burdensome. Jin and Bin have faith throughout the movie that their mother will return for them; however, this seems unlikely. The musical guest for the
evening will be Andrew Shingledecker on vocals and piano. On March 27, the Chilean film “The Maid” will be shown. The story is about Raquel, a woman who has been a maid for the Valdes family for 23 years. She’s considered more than a simple servant but less than actual family. Raquel starts to suffer dizzy spells from cleaning chemicals, and the Valdes family decides to hire additional maids to assist her. Raquel is very territorial and resents the additional help, so she tries to drive each maid away in order to keep a grasp on her position. The musical guest that evening will be Terry Barnett on guitar and vocals. The final film of the series is “Unmistaken Child,” a Tibetan documentary that follows a Tibetan Buddhist monk, Tenzin Zopa’s, search for the reincarnation of his beloved teacher, lama Geshe Lama Konchog. Tenzin is a humble monk and questions his ability to find and recognize the reincarnation of his master. All of the showings will take place in McVitty Auditorium in Sprowls Hall at 5:30 p.m. and again at 8 p.m. For more information contact the Office of International Education in Delaney Hall B-25, by phone at 724-357-2295, or online at www.iup. edu/international.
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Sam Ritzer/The Penn The Winter Apparel Drive, hosted by the Center for Student Success, plans to collect donations to be sent to the Salvation Army.
Clothing drive assists needy in difficult times By kristen gilmartin Staff Writer K.R.Gilmartin@iup.edu
The Center for Student Success will accept donations for the Winter Apparel Drive February 2nd. It will collect donations by the HUB Fitness Center between 1:30 and 3:30 p.m., and between 4:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. The donations, which must be new or gently-worn apparel, will be sent to the Salvation Army. The peer mentors have divided into various groups, including a group dedicated to community service. This is the first time the office has held a drive like this, and decided to carry out the Winter Apparel Drive after noting a need for such donations throughout the community. According to The Salvation Army’s website, the charity group has been assisting communities for more than 130 years. Each donation makes a difference and will be given to someone in need. The Salvation Army has also announced that, recently,
“[The Center for Student Success] have other drives in the works. Along with actual service events, like creating a work group for Into the Streets” — Heather Wagner, peer mentor donations are becoming more and more necessary. With the economic recession constantly forcing families to struggle to make ends meet, more people are turning to charitable places like The Salvation Army for help. The Winter Apparel Drive is only one of many projects the Center for Student Success will be doing during the semester. “We have other drives in the works,” peer mentor Heather Wagner said, “Along with actual service events, like creating a work group for Into the Streets.” Students who are interested in getting involved with the drive are strongly encouraged to contact Heather Wagner, zkzn@iup.edu, for additional information and to be added to the mailing list.
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Credit the ailing economy, do-ityourself TV shows or pop culture hits such as “Project Runway,” but interest in sewing in some circles is bursting at the seams. Nationally, sewing machine sales are on the rise. Even though sewing is not being taught at most high schools, school-age kids are catching on to the joys of making garments and accessories. You could see the trend come to life on a recent Saturday in south Charlotte, Wendy Orenstein-Berglass was leading a party for 7-year-old Hannah Higbea in the purple-walled, pop-music-playing studio of Sew Fun!, a sewing birthday party business for girls. She hosts about 30 parties a week in addition to offering classes for kids and adults, Girl Scout troops and YMCA programs, as well as camps during the holidays and summer vacations. “I was always upset that they stopped teaching sewing in school,” Orenstein-Berglass said. “I want these children to learn this art.” Mom Angela Higbea said she’s excited her daughter is interested in sewing and wishes she had the skills to create things from needle and thread. “I’d love to be able to make clothes for my kids.” In Durham at 7-year-old Sew Crafty, owner Toni Mason gives private beginner sewing lessons to girls starting around 8 years old, teens and plenty of adults. “It’s about 50-50 adults,” Mason said. “We have a lot of young women in their 20s and 30s who don’t know how to sew, creative types who maybe tried knitting and like working with their hands.”
Industry experts say women between ages 35 and 45 make up the “sewing gap” _ a population of people for whom sewing never really caught on. Blame the affordability of stylish clothing, sewing’s perceived “uncool factor” in decades past or all of the distractions of modern life, but many in this generation can’t craft a semicomplicated Halloween costume or hem pants. “It was an aging population until a couple of years ago, but now young people are getting really interested in sewing,” said Kristine Saracelli, owner of Sew Unique Sewing Centers in Raleigh and Cary. “People in their teens and 20s are really enjoying the creativity aspects of it,” Saracelli said. The stores recently cleared out apparel and bridal fabrics, she said, because most customers were coming in seeking fabric for quilts or other crafty projects such as tote bags. Austin, Texas-based sewing instructor and former DIY Network host Tina Sparkles has given lots of thought to sewing’s rebirth. Last fall, she released her book “Little Green Dresses,” which contains 50 original patterns for repurposed dresses, tops, skirts and other apparel. “It might just have something to do with our culture now, where there’s all sorts of instant gratification where if you want something you buy it instantly online or in the store, but you don’t know where it came from,” Sparkles said. “So there’s something really exciting about making something yourself and using your own hands. It’s more rewarding to make something yourself. ... It’s kind of like therapy in a way. It’s kind of meditative and gives back way more than just buying things.”
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The friendly folks at the IRS recently revealed its first smartphone app, a program called IRS2Go, which lets taxpayers check on the status of their tax refunds and look up tax information. The app is free and comes in both iOS and Android versions. Taxpayers can check on their refunds by tapping in their social security number, then filing status used on their tax return and then entering the amount of the refund they’re expecting. The IRS says that e-filers can use the app to check refunds within about 72 hours after getting an e-mail confirming the IRS received their tax return. Those filing on paper will need to wait three to four weeks before they can check their status through the app. The app also helps connect users to the agency by providing a quick way to directly dial the IRS as well as pointing to the IRS newsfeed on Twitter: @IRSnews. IRS2Go also lets users submit their e-mail address to automatically get daily tax tips, which the agency describes as “simple, straightforward tips and reminders to help with tax planning and preparation.” These tips are blasted out daily during the tax filing season and periodically during the rest of the year. “This new smart phone app reflects
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‘Kinect Joy Ride’ recognizes massive shortcomings By billy o’ keefe McClatchy-Tribune MCT
Everything that’s wonderful and broken about Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral can be found within the confines of “Kinect Joy Ride,” and often within the span of a single event. As the name and presentation imply, “Ride” is a deeply casual racing game. The tracks are delightfully cartoony, the cars look like toy replicas instead of actual cars, and your Xbox Live avatar fits right into the visual theme as your driver.
But nothing in that exterior can illustrate just how casually “Ride” plays. There are, for instance, no crash physics, because you cannot crash no matter how poorly you drive. You also cannot brake or accelerate, because the game elects to handle that for you. The inability to brake and accelerate isn’t a case of “Ride” safeguarding players from their own inability to drive safely, but instead an unspoken admission that the Kinect simply isn’t savvy enough to handle a full-featured racing game without a controller’s help. “Ride” elects not to use a
controller, so there’s no way for players to subtly control their speed in a way the game can recognize with any satisfactory reliability. Still, give “Ride” points for trying to put together the best racing game it can for a device that shouldn’t have one at all. Because while it didn’t succeed at that task, it turns out a unique and bizarrely fun game en route to falling short. “Ride’s” event types run the arcade racing gamut, offering standard and sprint races along with a stunt ramp, trick competitions and a quirky event in which the goal is to smash into as much stuff as possible.
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Hawks escape defeat with 75-74 victory for IUP, topping a quality team on By Vaughn Johnson its home floor. Editor In Chief “A win like that, regardless of who V.M.Johnson@iup.edu the opponent is […] can only help you IUP has won in many different down he line,” IUP Head Coach Jeff ways during this season, and against Dow said during an interview in his Mercyhurst Saturday, it won in a fash- office Monday. “You know what it ion new to the team this season: com- feels like now to have to come from behind and win and have to do it on ing from behind late in the game. Down 72-69 with a 1:14 left in the the road no less.” It was even bigger because it came game, the Crimson Hawks rose to the without leading scorer Eryn occasion and made a comeWithers. back to narrowly escape the Withers was indeed Mercyhurst Athletic Center suspended by the PSAC with a 75-74 victory to because of her involvement remain tied for first place in in an altercation in the latthe PSAC West with Cal U ter stages of the victory and Edinboro. over Edinboro. Withers was IUP was helped in its late ejected and as per PSAC comeback first by a Sarah rules- if a player is ejected, Pastorek who hit a layup Pastorek he/she is automatically susto bring the deficit to withpended for the next game. in one. With 23 seconds left, Dow maintains that Withers was guard Lacy Claar hit two clutch free throws to give IUP its first lead since merely playing peacemaker, but after the 10:51 mark of the second half at the PSAC commissioner, Steve Murray, reviewed the footage, he upheld the 73-72. Thirteen seconds later, freshman ruling of the officials and the ruling on guard Alex Vega came up big for the Withers, which left IUP shorthanded Crimson Hawks and drained two free for the game against Mercyhurst. Dow attempted to motivate his throws of her own to seal the win. Another new way IUP won was by team before the game by using an not playing the best defense against NFL reference. He talked to the team the Lakers. IUP allowed Merychurst to about the Green Bay Packers and the shoot nearly 61 percent from the field. number of players that the team had Dow believes the different ways on injured reserve. “All they did is made it to the Super of winning are a good sign for IUP, but would much rather win by playing Bowl,” Dow said. Dow has stressed how much he good defense. “I don’t want to get in the habit does not want his team to become of just outscoring people,” Dow said. overly reliant on one player and that “That’s not how we want to play nec- actually came to pass Saturday. Without its leading scorer, IUP still essarily, but it is good to see that scored 75 points and posted four playwhen necessary we can score.” The win for IUP (13-5, 5-1) was its ers in double figures. Claar led the way for IUP with 20 third in a row and its 11th in 12 games, with the only loss coming to Cal U dur- points and committed only three turnovers in playing all 40 minutes. ing that stretch. Behind Claar in scoring was Brianna The victory was big on many levels
Johnson (19), Pastorek (17) and guard Arika Ullman (11). Not being overly reliant one player also allows for balance on the offensive end and has IUP has plenty of it. The total points on the season show that. Through IUP’s first 18 games, Withers and Claar are tied for a total of 224 points and Pastorek comes in a close second with 222. IUP has six players that have scored more than 100 points on the season. “It makes you tougher to guard when you can impact the game in different ways instead of being overly reliant on any one player,” Dow said. Although Dow said that he does not want the game plan revolve around one player, he does rely on Claar to do the heavy lifting for the Crimson Hawks. Claar played all 40 minutes for the second straight game and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. “That’s how important she is,” Dow said of Claar. “As long as she is out of foul trouble and she’s playing well, there’s really no reason to take her out. She’s in good shape and we’ve got media timeouts every four minutes so she’s getting rest at everyone one of those media timeouts plus the other additional timeouts that both teams should call.” Last year, Claar struggled running the IUP offense. She averaged 3.4 turnovers per game. This season, she has cut that down to only 2.5 per game while playing more minutes. IUP now enters the third leg of its four-game road trip with a trip to Lock Haven (9-8, 2-4) 6 p.m. Wednesday at LHU’s Thomas Fieldhouse. The last time IUP played the Bald Eagles was Feb. 15 when the Eagles lost to the the Crimson Hawks, 74-62. The leading scorers for LHU are Kristen Kudrick (11.6 per game) and Emily Daugherty (11.5 per game).
IUP suffers fifth loss of season against Mercyhurst That was when Mercyhurst made its run. It went on 19-5 run to close out the game. During the run, the Lakers went to the line 11 times and The Crimson Hawks suffered their made eight baskets. Subsequently, the Hawks were fifth loss of the season Saturday missing shots that could have iced against Mercyhurst, 64-61. The loss put the Hawks two the game away. What really hurt the Hawks games behind Mercyhurst, was the lack of scoring. and it was the inability of Other than Estrella, they the Hawks to close out the only had one other person game that cost them. In in double-figures. Julian the last 2:48, the Hawks Sanders had 14 points, were held to only one including four 3-pointers. point and lost the eight Darryl Webb, who came point lead they had. close to breaking the In the first half, the school’s scoring record, Hawks started out strong had only seven points on and went on a 10-3 run to Estrella three of 11 shooting. go up, 16-8. Willi Estrella had The Lakers were led by four points during that run. Those four points were part of the 16 Luis Leao, who had 18 points. He came close to a double-double with that Estrella scored in the game. However, after that run by the nine rebounds. The Lakers also had help from Hawks, Mercyhurst went on a minirun to close out the first half when Shelton Jackson, who scored 14 they scored seven points and cut the points. Mercyhurst also shot the ball very Hawks’ lead to 26-24. In the second half it looked like well in the second half; it was 12-25 the Hawks were going to start to shooting. The Hawks continue on their road pull away. The biggest lead of the game was when the Hawks were trip Wednesday night when they up 11 at 56-45 after Scooter Renkin play Lock Haven. The Hawks finish the road trip hit a jumper with 5:38 left to go in against Gannon Saturday. the game.
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IUP downs Dragons, 5-1 By Zach Graham Staff Writer Z.Gaham@iup.edu
The IUP Crimson Hawks came up on the winning side Friday at S&T Bank Arena in a non-conference game, beating the Drexel Dragons, 5-1. The two teams committed early to a high-energy, physical match-up, with long periods of play and few stops in the action. The Hawks were forced to kill a Drexel power play early when Chase Keibler was sent for checking from behind. Thanks to a solid defensive effort and saves by goaltender Ryan Lord, the Hawks did not allow the Dragons to take advantage. Shortly after the penalty expired, Keibler was sent back to the box, this time along with a Dragon for roughing, producing a 4-on-4 situation. Phil Trombetta took advantage of the extra ice, scoring unassisted on a breakaway to give the Hawks a 1-0 lead. Drexel answered almost immediately when Zach Buckland tied the game at 1. The start of the second period looked much like the first, with the teams trading offensive chances in an entertaining back and forth swing. The Hawks eventually broke the tie with 7:04 left in the period when Casey Stern was credited with a goal
that a Drexel player put in his own net, giving the Hawks a 2-1 lead. From there, the Hawks remained on top. With 2:35 to play in the second, Andrew Ong fired a slap shot from the middle of the circle over the shoulder of Dragons goaltender Marteen Naeff on an assist from Seth Feldman to increase the Hawks lead, 3-1. With under two minutes to play in the same period, Bryan Campbell was charged with high-sticking, giving the Dragons a power play opportunity. Lord came up big in the net for the Hawks, making several saves on shots from close range. The third period started like the first two, with the teams going back and forth and few stoppages in play early on. The Hawks had a chance with less than 14 minutes to play when a flying puck landed in front of JeffJoe Regula who was ahead of everybody else. Regula fired a shot that was padsaved by Naeff. With 4:12 left, Trombetta scored his second of the night to make it 4-1. Stern added his second on a backhand shot from Chris Ondek and Bryan Campbell with 2:36 left. The Hawks have four games left in the season, including three against CHMA opponents. In a crucial match-up for the conference lead, they will host West Virginia at 8 p.m. Friday. Saturday, the Hawks will visit Robert Morris at 3:30 p.m.
MCT The Super Bowl attendance record was set in 1980 with 103,985 people.
Record-setting Super Bowl By Andrea AHles McClatchy Newspapers MCT
Cowboys Stadium is almost ready for company, and it’s a good thing, because a record 105,000 visitors are expected Feb. 6 when four years of planning culminates with the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XLV. The NFL confirmed Thursday what has been apparent since the announcement that fans in a Plaza Party area outside Cowboys Stadium would be included in the attendance: North Texas’ first Super Bowl will be a record-setter. The Super Bowl attendance record was set in 1980, when 103,985 packed the Rose Bowl.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the projected 105,000 figure includes about 95,000 tickets for fans in the stands, roughly 5,000 in the Plaza Party area outside and another 5,000 staff and media members. Bill McConnell, the NFL’s director of event operations, said about 500 standing-room tickets will also be sold, allowing fans to watch the game from the platforms off the end zone stairwells. The Dallas Cowboys made their allotment of Plaza Party tickets available to season-ticket holders, who were required to buy four, at $200 each. Some of the new seats have an obstructed view of the field or of the massive video board that hangs above midfield.
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Team Lidstrom wins NHL All-Star game By Sam Carchidi The Philadelphia Inquirer MCT
With a loud, mostly red-clad crowd watching, defense was a rumor as Team Lidstrom, co-coached by the Flyers’ Peter Laviolette, overcame an early four-goal deficit and outlasted Team Staal, 11-10. Chicago’s Patrick Sharp, who was not on this season’s All-Star ballot, was the MVP despite playing on the losing side. Sharp had a goal and two assists and played on a line with Giroux and St. Louis’ David Backes (three assists). “We had some pretty good chemistry going,” Giroux said. Briere said it took him a couple of shifts to adapt to a game that had no contact. The dizzying first period ended tied at 4. Team Staal scored the first four goals in a 4:51 span, including one by Giroux, before Team Lidstrom netted the next four goals in 5:40. Giroux, making his first All-Star appearance, had made it 4-0 as he lifted a one-handed backhander past Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. Sharp set up the goal. With the score tied at 6, Briere gave Team Lidstrom its first lead. Sent in alone on a pass from Vancouver’s Henrik Sedin, Briere lifted the puck high and inside the right corner to put
MCT The combined 21 goals tied for fourth-most in NHL All-Star history.
his team ahead, 7-6, with 4:29 left in the second period. “He held onto the puck, cut to the middle and I used my speed going wide,” Briere said. “That’s what happens when you play in this kind of game. You know there’s always a chance the puck is going to come back to you at some point. You just try to get open, and that’s what I did.” Midway through the third period,
Briere converted another Sedin pass to make it 8-8. Chicago’s Jonathan Toews (three points) scored 48 seconds later to give Team Lidstrom the lead for good at 9-8. Defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom of Detroit and Shea Weber of Nashville were paired together for the winners, who were also aided by Dallas’ Loui Eriksson and Minnesota’s Martin Havlat.
Top-ranked Duke loses to St. John’s By Ken Tysiac McClatchy Newspapers MCT
Senior forward Kyle Singler paused and thought for a moment when asked what coach Mike Krzyzewski said to Duke’s players Sunday afternoon after a humbling, 93-78 loss to St. John’s at Madison Square Garden. Krzyzewski’s signature trait in 31 seasons as Duke’s coach has been his ability to take McDonald’s AllAmericans and get them to play harder than the guys on opposing rosters who felt snubbed in the recruiting process. That didn’t happen Sunday as St. John’s played “beautifully,” according to Krzyzewski, and No. 3-ranked Duke lacked the intensity that has been its trademark. After the game, Singler said, Krzyzewski didn’t have much to say to the team. The silence might have been more telling than anything that could have come out of Krzyzewski’s mouth. “This is a tough loss,” Singler said. “It’s a horrible loss.” St. John’s spread out Duke’s defense and burned the Blue Devils with drives and backdoor cuts. Krzyzewski tried man-to-man, zone, full-court pres-
sure and a variety of lineup combinations big and small. He even removed senior team leaders Singler and Nolan Smith at the same time for about 90 seconds early in the game. But almost nothing worked. Krzyzewski said X’s and O’s had little impact on the result of the game because Duke just didn’t play hard enough. Nolan Smith scored 32 points, one short of a career high, and Singler added 20, but it wasn’t nearly enough. “I just thought we were not ready to compete,” Krzyzewski said. “We had blank expressions on our faces. Guys weren’t talking. And that’s my responsibility. That’s our program. Our program didn’t do well here today. And that’s all of our responsibilities.” The Red Storm’s players fed off the crowd. Guard Dwight Hardy scored 26 points and handed out six assists, and forward Justin Brownlee added 20 points, nine rebounds and six assists as St. John’s led by as many as 25 points and shot 58.2 percent from the field. Even Duke’s poor 3-point shooting wasn’t the cause for concern. Krzyzewski wants his team to defend so skillfully that it can survive a poor shooting performance.
MCT Justin Brownlee was the player of the game for St. John’s, picking up 20 points, nine rebounds and six assists.
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Intuition leads to a new career path or helps you promote your work to new clients. Use your common sense and your words. Love appears in adventurous ways.
Spend some time planning your next career move. Focus your energy. Be open to changes. Let your love shine, for yourself and for others.
You feel right at home, and at home you feel right. Surround yourself with family. Save up for a rainy day and repurpose the stuff you already have.
If you’ve been withholding communicating something, now is the time to open up. It’s a good time to stay home, close to family. Bask in the relief.
You’re searching for something today. It’s a good time to search further than you normally would. If the mountain doesn’t come to you, go to the mountain.
New ideas are coming into the picture. Capture them. Words come easily, but you can also make music, take photos or draw. Take free form notes.
It’s a good day to apply your hard-won knowledge to new ventures. Others depend on you even if they sound critical. Take it all with a grain of salt.
On a day like today in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln approved what would become the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. Where have you been a slave to your past? Let go.
Start slow to pick up steam later. Opportunities open up in new directions. The economic outlook today looks good, and you get a lot done.
It’s a good time to work backstage. You’ll get plenty of limelight in the following days. Enjoy your privacy while you can, and prepare for the show.
You find yourself at a loss for words. It’s a good time to relax and just do some planning. Count on your team. Then get into action.
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Understanding your partner takes precedence today. You may not draw any conclusions, but just being willing to really listen makes a difference.
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IUP Student Conduct Summary Fall 2010
4 Expulsions 10 Suspensions 114 Stayed Suspension
56.57% of charges were alcohol-related
(suspension is the next step)
289 Disciplinary Probation
13.45% of charges were drug-related
(student status is jeopardized)
About 3.26% of charges involved physical violence About 6.22% involved disorderly conduct
Some key sanctions were:
335 Letters to Parents/Guardians 292 Alcohol Workshops
Students are encouraged to know university policy and make wise decisions. For more information about the Office of Student Conduct or to view The Source: A Student Policy Guide, visit www.iup.edu/studentconduct www.thepenn.org • Tuesday, February 1, 2011 • Page 19
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