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Unemployed face new hurdle STUDENT By TONY PUGH McClatchy Newspapers MCT
As if finding work weren’t hard enough already, a federal agency warns that some employers are excluding jobless workers from consideration for openings. The practice has surfaced in electronic and print postings with language such as “unemployed applicants will not be considered” or “must be currently employed.” Some ads use time thresholds to exclude applicants who’ve been unemployed longer than six months or a year. Evidence of the practice has been mostly anecdotal, and information about how widespread it may be is sketchy. But with unemployment at 9 percent and millions of people struggling to find jobs, the practice has caught the attention of regulators, lawmakers and advocates for the unemployed. “At a moment when we all should be doing whatever we can to open up job opportunities to the unemployed, it is profoundly disturbing that the trend of deliberately excluding the jobless from work opportunities is on the rise,” said Christine Owens, the executive director of the National Employment Law Project. Members of Congress contacted the Department of Labor and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last year to see whether the practice violates federal employment laws against discrimination. While the unemployed aren’t a protected class under civil rights laws, the practice could be legally problematic if it has a disparate or discriminatory effect on groups of job seekers who
are subject to civil rights protections. In a public meeting Wednesday at EEOC headquarters, several witnesses testified that excluding the unemployed from job openings could disproportionately affect AfricanAmericans, Hispanics, people with disabilities and older workers — all federally protected groups whose jobless rates are well above the U.S. average. Blacks and Hispanics are particularly vulnerable, said William Spriggs, the Labor Department’s assistant secretary for policy, because they represent a large share of unemployed workers and a smaller portion of those with jobs. “When employers exclude the unemployed from the applicant pool, they are more likely to be excluding Latinos and African-Americans,” Spriggs testified. Most seem to agree that the overwhelming majority of job postings don’t contain such language. James Urban, a partner at Jones Day law firm in Pittsburgh who counsels large employers, testified that he’s never dealt with an employer who wouldn’t hire the jobless. Listings that exclude unemployed applicants would violate terms-ofuse policies against discrimination at Monster.com, which posts hundreds of thousands of job openings. Spriggs said the problem might still occur behind closed doors, without the explicit language. That’s because employers are looking for ways to cut through large numbers of applications quickly. On average, there are nine job applicants for every two openings, he said. Others suggested the practice reflects a bias that workers who were laid off aren’t the most talented.
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• Geraldine Calvert, 53, Indiana, was arrested at 2:13 a.m. Saturday by borough police after she ran out in front of a police cruiser in the 600 block of Philadelphia Street. She was cited for public drunkenness and later released to a sober adult. • At 2:01 a.m. Sunday, Julie Warren, 19, Reading, was cited by borough police for underage drinking after she was identified as a passenger inside a vehicle during a traffic stop in the 900 block of Philadelphia Street. • Loren M. Johnson, 21, Cranberry, was cited by borough police for public drunkenness after she was found lying highly intoxicated on the sidewalk in the 00 block of South Sixth Street at 12:33 a.m. Wednesday. • At 2:35 a.m. Wednesday, borough police observed Ashley Lowry, 21, Pittsburgh, walking in backyards in the 900 block of Church Street. Police stopped her in the 100 block of South Clymer Avenue and found her to be highly intoxicated. She was cited for public drunkenness and released on scene to a sober adult. • At 2:01 a.m. Sunday, borough police stopped Cynthia N. Okumu for a traffic offense. She was found to be intoxicated and underage. When police attempted to place her under arrest, she resisted and tried to assault the officers. Okumu was arrested for DUI, aggravated assault, resisting arrest and underage drinking. • Ahmed Mohammed Alaqeel, Saudi Arabia, was observed by borough police to be highly intoxicated and fall onto his face while walking in the 700 block of Water Street at 1:38 a.m. Saturday. He was cited for public drunkenness and released to a sober adult. • At 12:41 a.m. Saturday, borough police were called to 493 S. Fifth St. for a report of an unresponsive intoxicated male. Police found Tyler Moser, 19, Beaver Falls, intoxicated and not speaking. Moser was transported to Indiana Regional Medical Center for treatment. He and Jacob Menges, 19, Red Lion, were both cited for underage drinking.
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• Borough police report that sometime between 7:45 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday, someone vandalized a vehicle in a parking lot behind the S&T Training Technical Center at 355 N. Fifth Street. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724-349-2121. • Sometime between 10 p.m. Saturday and 7 a.m. Sunday, someone damaged a vehicle parked in the rear lot of a residence in the 300 block of South Sixth Street, according to borough police. Someone smashed the rear window and dented the trunk lid, possibly with a hammer and bricks. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.
Drug Violations
• At 1:08 a.m. Saturday, borough police responded to a loud party at apartment 122 at 1300 Oakland Ave. There, Ishanteria McBride, 18, Philadelphia, was found to have marijuana in her possession. She was taken into custody and later charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Clarification
• Organization of Women Looking for Sisterhood and Chi Upsilon Sigma (O.W.L.S. in CUS) brought Icla da Silva Foundation to IUP for bone marrow drive that happened Monday through Wednesday.
Correction
• The PSAC women’s basketball tournament will take place at the site of the top seed in the PSAC East. Misinformation appeared in Tuesday’s issue.
Google releases subscription service By DAN GALLAGHER MarketWatch MCT
Google Inc. announced a new subscription service Wednesday that is designed to allow publishers to better control digital content across both websites and mobile apps. The news comes a day after a similar move by Apple Inc., which announced a subscription service for its mobile devices.
That plan has drawn the ire of some publishers and other companies because of some limitations imposed by Apple and the 30 percent revenue cut the company takes of content sold over apps on its devices. Under the Google plan, publishers will maintain control of their relationships with subscribers and will be able to offer different sorts of deals to subscribers through different channels.
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Additional fees proposed to Council of Trustees, approval pending By MEGAN GUZA Managing Editor M.S.Guza@iup.edu
Students might be seeing new or increased fees when they get their billing statements for next semester. In a proposal presented to the IUP Council of Trustees Dec. 16, plans were laid for eight new fees and for increases to be made to 20 existing fees, including the cost of on-campus residence halls, meal plans and the wellness fee. The proposal shows the cost of IUP-owned housing – which includes residence halls and University Towers – would increase 8 percent. A double-occupancy room would increase to $2,230 from $2,065. Triple occupancy would increase to $1,498, up from$1,387; single-occupancy rooms would rise from $2,934 to $3,169. University Towers would also face the same 8 percent increase, as well as IUP camps and conference housing. The suites are not included in these increases. Housing on the Punxsutawney campus would face a 2 percent increase. “Residential Revival has significantly reduced the number of beds directly owned by IUP,” according to the proposal. “The fund balance will be used for repairs and as needed to support university owned buildings in the future.” A 5 percent increase would be applied to meal plans, including off-campus, on-campus and summer session plans. Plan B/F – 14 meals a week and $200 flex – would now cost $1,082, up from $1,030. Nineteen meals a week and $150 flex would cost $1,295 as opposed to $1,240. The plan reserved for off campus and apartments only – 75 meals a semester and $15 flex – would rise
to $778, up from $748. Students could also see a rise in the wellness fee. Full-time students would be assessed $160 as opposed to $155, and part-time students would pay $40, up from $35. The Installment Payment fee would also increase. Students opting to pay the bursar via monthly installment payment plan would now pay $40 a semester rather than $30. Other individual fee increases include the nursing laboratory fee, to $50 from $25; the National Student Exchange Program fee, to $250 from $150; and the Theater Practicum in Production fee, up to $125 from $25 – an increase of 400 percent. The proposal also included several new fees, including a Student Service fee. While the proposal doesn’t state how much each would be assessed, it does say that the fee would be used to “mitigate further reduction in programming and services supporting the out-of-the-classroom
experiences for both undergraduate and graduate students.” The fee would generate approximately $2.36 million. There would also be a new Disney Experience fee of $750 assessed to those participating in the Disney internship program. A portion of the fees would go toward the program, with the other funding being put toward internship opportunities with The Washington Center, Service Learning, Alternative Spring Break and others. A $40 biology lab fee has also been proposed, though it’s not clear whether this would apply to all students or biology majors only. Other fees slated to increase include the bad check charge, late payment fee, the culinary arts program fee, the culinary arts transportation fee, and the application fee for undergraduate, graduate and culinary arts admissions. The Council of Trustees will be asked to approve the proposed fees at its March meeting.
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Spring non-credit classes offer opportunities for expanded learning By megan Guza Managing Editor M.S.Guza@iup.edu
Students and community members wishing to indulge an interest or take up a new one can do so through IUP’s Community University Studies Noncredit Program. The program offers a variety of classes, including Italian, Spanish, basket weaving and pottery making. “It’s a program that’s been here for a very long time,” said Stephen Anspacher, executive director of the Oiffice of Distance Learning and Continuing Education. Anyone can apply for the classes, be it students or community members. Those interested are enrolled through the academic system, not through URSA or the admissions office. The classes have fees and are taught mainly by faculty from the community, though some are taught by IUP faculty members. Classes are generally held on campus, though some – like fly fishing for beginners – are held out in the field, Anspacher said. The start dates for classes vary, as do meeting dates, times and the number of class sessions. The classes are not graded and don’t affect students’ transcripts or GPAs. “It gives people the opportunity to stay engaged in an are in which they’re
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interested in,” Anspacher said, “or to get involved in an area they don’t know much about.” He said these types of classes were popular in the 1950s, but due to university budgets becoming smaller and smaller, they’ve been going away. “They’re still around, but they’re really a shadow of their former selves,” he said. Noncredit classes are offered in both fall and spring, and booklets containing class listings are typically mailed to about 7,000 community members at the beginning of the semester. Anspacher said the program has a devoted following amongst community members.
“We were late in mailing them out this semester,” he said, “and we got emails and phone calls and letters from people wanting to know where the books were. “It’s an important part of the university’s presence within the community here. I think it’s an important part of keeping with the mission of the university being a shared partnership with the community.” Other classes available include creative card making, Middle Eastern dance, wines of Australia, how to knit and American Sign Language. For a full list of classes or for more information, students should contact the Office of Distance Education and Continuing Education.
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Eco-friendly LED bulbs found to contain lead, arsenic By PAT BRENNAN
“I wouldn’t worry about an immediate release of vapor. But still, [...] if not cleaned up The LED bulbs sold as safe and properly they could constitute eco-friendly can contain high levels an eventual danger.” The Orange County Register MCT
of lead, arsenic and other hazardous substances, a new UC Irvine study shows — the same bulbs widely used in headlights, traffic lights, even holiday lights. The toxic material could increase the risk of cancer, kidney disease and other illnesses, although the risks are more long-term than immediate; a single exposure to a broken bulb is unlikely to cause illness. “I wouldn’t worry about an immediate release of vapor,” said UC Irvine public health and social ecology professor Oladele Ogunseitan, principal investigator and an author of the study. “But still, when these residues hang around the house, if not cleaned up properly they could constitute an eventual danger.” The lights should be treated as hazardous materials, and should not be disposed of in regular landfill trash, he said, because of the risk of leaching into soil and groundwater. High intensity, red bulbs contained the most arsenic, while low-intensity red lights harbored as much as eight times the amount of lead permitted by state law, the study showed. White bulbs had low amounts of lead but higher amounts of nickel, also a potentially hazardous substance. Ogunseitan and a team of scientists from UCI and UC Davis crushed bulbs of different colors and intensity, simulating acid rain in landfill conditions to produce a “worst case scenario.” Then they made precision measurements of toxic material in the resulting liquid. Although immediate risk from a broken bulb is low, Ogunseitan
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Some lawmakers move to cut their own pay By rob hotakainen McClatchy Newspapers MCT
Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state says it’s time to end the practice of giving automatic pay raises to members of Congress, who currently earn a minimum of $174,000 a year. Some members say it’s time for a pay cut: Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., backs a 5 percent reduction, while Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., says it should be a 10 percent cut. Republican Rep. Scott Rigell of Virginia has taken matters into his own hands, declining the federal government’s health care coverage and returning 15 percent of his salary. With the economy still reeling in much of the nation, members of Congress are eager to show that they’re in touch with the economic pain of their constituents. That’s not necessarily an easy thing to do: Nearly half of them are millionaires. But so far, at least seven pay-related bills have been introduced in the new Congress, and at least 55 members are pushing the legislation. “At a time when so many American families are struggling, the last thing Congress should be doing is giving ourselves raises — we need to continue our focus on putting workers back on the job,� said Murray, who’s voted for congressional pay freezes before. Congress decided to make its pay
raises automatic in 1989, giving legislators a way to avoid tough votes that could hurt them when they run for re-election. Since then, congressional salaries have nearly doubled, though Congress blocked raises for itself in 2010 and 2011. The bills to repeal automatic pay raises are the most popular this year, attracting 29 co-sponsors. They’re sponsored by Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah and Republican Rep. Todd Platts of Pennsylvania. “In this economy, Americans across the country are out of work, and those who are working are certainly not receiving annual raises,� McCaskill said when she introduced the bill late last month. “There’s no reason Congress should be getting a pay raise each year.� Matheson called the automatic raises a “stealth system (that) allows us to get a salary increase without lifting a finger.� Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, another co-sponsor, said that if members of Congress think they deserve a raise, “they should have the guts to vote publicly for it.� Coffman said his bill to reduce congressional pay by 10 percent would save the federal government more than $5.5 billion. The bill to reduce pay by 5 percent was introduced by Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona only two days before she was
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shot in Tucson last month. Rigell isn’t waiting for Congress to act. Last week, he wrote a letter to House officials asking not to receive benefits given to all members, including health insurance, dental and vision insurance, long-term care insurance, life insurance and retirement benefits. Rigell was told that he couldn’t unilaterally reduce his salary. So he set up a plan that will allow him to return 15 percent of his salary to the U.S. Treasury via payroll deduction. Another bill in the House, introduced by Florida Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan, would prevent members from getting any pay raise until the federal budget is balanced. Buchanan noted that the current share of the national debt is now $44,866 for every man, woman and child in the country. “Every family in America has to live within its means. Why should the federal government be any different?� asked Buchanan, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee. “Until Congress gets spending under control, it doesn’t deserve a salary hike.� In 1789, members of Congress were paid $6 a day. Their pay rose from $75,100 a year in 1985 to $162,100 in 2005, before hitting its current level of $174,000 in 2009. Leadership positions pay more. This year, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio will receive $223,500, while the majority and minority leaders will earn $193,400.
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No repeal of Kansas tuition law Editorial The Wichita Eagle (Kan.) MCT
Another legislative session means another mean-spirited attempt to repeal the 2004 Kansas law allowing certain children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at state universities, community colleges and technical colleges. This time the effort has a stronger and more conservative House GOP majority to push it forward, and perhaps a supportive governor as well. But the Legislature should leave the law and its beneficiaries alone. The House Federal and State Affairs Committee advanced the repeal last week, with the majority apparently buying testimony that the law hurts students, encourages illegal immigration and violates federal law. Such arguments are flawed. The law hurts no one, because it isn’t a giveaway -- the students still have to pay tuition, at rates that keep rising every year. To be eligible,
students have attended a Kansas high school for at least three years and earned a diploma or equivalency -- unlike the out-of-staters and foreigners usually cited as the law’s primary victims. Eligible students also have to say they intend to become citizens. And though Secretary of State Kris Kobach testified to the committee that such students can’t legally stay and work in Kansas, they can and do. Two 24-year-old women testified to lawmakers about having come to the United States as 14-year-olds, attended and graduated from Kansas Board of Regents universities, and met and married U.S. citizens, putting them on the path to citizenship. One works as a medical assistant; the other owns a home-based design business. As for whether the law encourages illegal immigration: How much motivation is there in knowing one day you’ll have the chance to pay full in-state tuition for your children, with no access to financial aid? As for the argument by Kobach and others that the state law vio-
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lates federal law: Federal immigration law and enforcement are a disaster, thanks to a succession of Congresses and presidents. With the U.S. Supreme Court having said that public schools must educate the children of undocumented immigrants, Kansas’ law simply offered a more affordable way for such kids to follow their graduating classmates into the state’s higher education system. Besides, the 10 such state laws so far have stood up to court challenges by Kobach and others. The pragmatic law acknowledges that this population is here in Kansas and its K-12 schools, and handles students after that in a way that serves the state’s work force and economy. As a U.S. senator, Brownback once favored and even co-sponsored the similar federal-level DREAM Act (though his support waned, and he hasn’t stated a position on the proposed state repeal). Surely state lawmakers have better things to do than pick on kids who are in Kansas through no fault of their own and just want to continue their education.
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Iran sees threat, promise in Egypt uprising By frida ghitis The Miami Herald MCT
When Arab leaders looked at the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, they saw the flames of revolution lapping at their own heels. To protect themselves, they rushed to make preemptive concessions, handing out cash, rolling back subsidy cuts, and promising new elections. Iranian leaders, on the other hand, chose to respond in precisely the opposite way. Instead of granting the people what they might demand, the government chose to protect itself by killing even more of its opponents, according to figures from humanrights organizations. Iran’s reaction to the Arab Revolt of 2011 puts the regime’s fears, along with its objectives, in sharp relief. On the surface, the government has expressed strong support for the protesters in Egypt. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the uprising an “Islamic awakening.” That is clearly what Tehran would like to see emerge from the tumult in Arab streets. After all, the secular Arab regimes under pressure from their people have generally opposed Iran’s Islamist revolutionary ideology and its military expansion. The ferment of revolution could open the door to the kind of change that brought religious authorities to power in Tehran three decades ago. In spite of its stated support for the protesters, however, Iranian authorities quickly suppressed efforts by prodemocracy activists in their own country to stage demonstration in support of the anti-Mubarak demonstrators in Egypt. Tehran blocked opposition websites and placed an opposition leader under house arrest. It also accelerated the pace of executions. The whole world was watching Egypt, so Iran took advantage of the moment. Among those killed by the regime in recent days was Zahra Bahrami, a 45-year-old Dutch-Iranian woman arrested during anti-government protests in 2009. The government accused her of drug smuggling, and secretly hanged her on Jan. 29. Instead of returning her body to relatives, authorities took away her remains and buried her without allowing the family to attend. The Dutch, livid, labeled the Iranian regime “bar-
baric” and recalled their ambassador from Tehran. The Islamic Republic wants to frighten its own people to keep Iranians from joining in the Middle East’s wave of popular uprisings against anti-democratic regimes. At the same time, the regime wants to see the turmoil in Arab capitals become a prelude to the expansion of Tehran’s version of revolution. Iran does not report how many people it executes, but unofficial tallies by news organizations and human rights activists shows the Islamic Republic executed at least 66 people in January alone. Estimates point to some 250 executions in 2010. Iran now leads the world in the number of executions per capita. In the last few weeks the government has intensified repressive actions aiming to crush any attempt to reignite the massive prodemocracy protests that erupted after the recent stolen election. Iranian authorities have tried to brand the pro-democracy movements shaking Arab dictatorships, claiming they represent a continuation of the revolution that brought Islamists to power in Iran 32 years ago. But the regime’s increased repression occurring simultaneously with the demonstrations in Tahrir Square shows that Iranian leaders know the revolt, at least until now, is more a protest against dictatorship than a move away from secularism. The Arab revolution may or may not produce secular democracies, but the protestors are fighting against government abuse. The demonstrators have more in common with Iranian protestors who were brutally repressed by the regime in 2009 than they do with the ideologues that created the Islamic Republic and lead it today. From the moment the followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took power in Iran in 1979 they vowed to spread their revolution across the Muslim world. Popular uprisings against secular Arab governments, which have long despised the Iranian regime, give Tehran hope that the ground will be fertile for more Islamic revolution. So far, however, the young prodemocracy activists in the Arab world find more inspiration in the Iranian protests of 2009 than in the revolution of 1979.
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Like Mickey Mouse? There’s a fee for that We’re often warned to be wary of hidden fees. While the proposed new fees might not exactly be hidden, they’re sure to cause some sticker shock for students. As Congress and the President battle over budgets and taxes, so do we raise our voices about the levying of new or increased fees that are hitting a lot closer to home – and aren’t being debated late into the night on C-SPAN. Paying tuition is already a huge expenditure, and based on your major, you may have to pay even more – in some ways, this is fair: programs that require increased costs for specific courses, activities or materials shouldn’t be passed along to those who aren’t permitted to participate. But at the same time, it seems discouraging for some students to have to shell out even more money simply because they’re in a certain major – especially if that fee increases 400 percent in one fell swoop. Times are tough everywhere, and the university has budget demands to meet. But their students, who must pay, pay and pay to attend school are also feeling the effects of the economic crunch, meaning they have less cash to hand over for ever-rising costs. The Disney Experience fee seems particularly interesting. The name and description seems to imply that it would only apply to students participating in the Disney program, not students participating in other activities or internship programs. If students opting for Disney internships the only students paying the fee, then is it fair to use part of that revenue to fund other programs in which the student may not be participating, like The Washington Center Internships, or Alternative Spring Break? Why not associate separate fees with participation in the other two programs, or rename the fee, if it does in fact apply to a broader spectrum of students? Clarification is important, especially when it’s still a proposed fee. One thing might be for certain, even if the fees aren’t: seniors are probably happy to get out before a new wave of increases hits, while returning students can only wait for their new bills.
Editorial Policy Arbitrator upholds medic’s poor service Editorial Pittsburgh Post-Gazette MCT
Listen to the words of Pittsburgh paramedic Josie Dimon, recorded as she disparaged a Hazelwood man who died after repeated calls for medical assistance failed to get him the attention he needed during last year’s blizzard: “He ain’t [expletive] comin’ down, and I ain’t waitin’ all day for him. I mean, what the [expletive], this ain’t no cab service.” Ms. Dimon was in an ambulance just blocks away from Curtis Mitchell’s home, but he couldn’t trudge through the snow to reach her and she didn’t walk over to see what so troubled the 50-year-old that he and his girlfriend called for help 10 times in 30 hours.
The city fired her, and nothing in the public record suggests that wasn’t appropriate, yet an arbitrator this week disagreed. Attorney James Duff, selected jointly by the city and the Fraternal Association of Professional Paramedics, overturned the firing, ordered Ms. Dimon’s reinstatement and said she should receive no more than the three-day suspensions that were imposed on other employees involved. Her union argued that dispatchers and supervisors at the city’s operations center were the ones with information about the numerous calls from the Mitchell home and failed to properly advise medics in the field. Further, the union said Ms. Dimon was a scapegoat for a failure that rested with the mayor and his administration. Responsibility does begin at the
top, but that’s not where it ends. Employees at the bottom must be accountable for their actions, too. In the storm’s aftermath, city Public Safety Director Michael Huss instituted new procedures that are intended to make sure no medical calls go unheeded, and the city has developed a comprehensive snow emergency plan. But what kind of training could the city have provided to remedy the sort of behavior evidenced by Ms. Dimon’s comments? Compassion 101? The union arbitration process undercut the city’s ability to appropriately discipline an employee, and it’s not the first time that’s happened. If an employee who talks about a resident in need the way Ms. Dimon did deserves to keep her job, something is very wrong.
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Student organization promotes mental illness awareness through sale By kayla king-scott Staff Writer K.S.King-Scott@iup.edu
According to ActiveMinds. org, it is the nation’s only dedicated organization to utilizing the student voice to change the conversation about mental health on college campuses. On Feb. 21, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., come help support Active Minds, IUP’s student organization dedicated to helping students with mental illness, host their only fundraiser of the year in the Suites on Maple East, room G60. Active Minds works with student leaders on college campuses across the United States to promote awareness about mental health, identify symptoms of mental illness and direct students to available resources on campus and in the community. Active Minds was founded in 2001 by Alison Malmon who, at the time, was a junior at the University of Pennsylvania after the suicide of her
22-year-old brother Brian, who suffered from depression. According to Jillian Zeitvogel, copresident of the organization,
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This idea came about from eating disorders awareness. Even though soup and pottery is a direct form of promoting awareness, it also gives students an idea of healthy and mindful eating. “This event [is meant to be] fun and educational,” Zeitvogel said. “[Our] job isn’t to judge. [We] hope to teach students that they shouldn’t be ashamed and should seek help instead.” So far people have shown their support by donating all of the pottery. Zeitvogel hopes to gain more support from the IUP community. “This is the only fundraiser sponsored by Active Minds every year, and the money goes straight back to educating the community,” Zeitvogel said. Membership is open to all students and faculty members and more information can be found in the Counseling Center. For more information, contact Zeitvogel at 724-357-2621
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Becca Harmon/The Penn Betty Chan, the artist of the exhibit titled “Waking Dreams” located at Indiana Regional Medical Center, stands next to one of her paintings.
Artist displays paintings, contests violence “A lot of people think [that] Staff Writer art is irrelevant. Art A.E.Pearson@iup.edu connects us to nature [and] to A six-month art exhibit at Indiana our fellow man” By amanda pearson
Regional Medical Center awakens onlooker’s thoughts with creativity. “Waking Dreams,” an array of oil paintings of nostalgic landscapes and portraits, adorn the walls of the Indiana Ambulatory Surgical Center during regular business hours. “I’ve been painting all my life,” said Betty Chan, artist of the exhibit. “I’m self-taught, but [I] took some classes at IUP.” The Indiana Art Association, established in 1941, selected 17 of Chan’s best paintings. Her work can be purchased by appointment at Blue Ridge Art Studio, located at 1191 School St. “A lot of people think [that] art is irrelevant,” Chan said. “Art connects us to nature [and]
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to our fellow man.” Chan’s scenic paintings, such as “Going to the Mines,” portrays a picture of her father leaving for work and her mother saying goodbye to her husband. The creativity of her paintings helped her gain several awards from IUP. “The essence of mental health is creativity,” Chan said. “If people would spend more time with art, they would not be so involved with violence.” Starting in April, Chan’s display of “Waking Dreams” will also be displayed at University Museum.
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The mobile phone is the new PC, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said at Mobile World Congress. Schmidt gave a keynote speech Tuesday at the conference, which is chock full of Android device makers, wireless carriers selling scads of the phones and developers building apps for Android. Google’s mobile operating platform Android is now seeing 300,000 activations a day, Schmidt said. More than 100 phones and tablets models are now available running Android OS. The operating system competes with Apple’s iPhone and iPad (and their iOS) and Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. “Smartphones surpassed PC sales last week. By the way, PCs are not catching up. Smartphones are the future of games, productivity, apps, everything we think about,” he said. “You have the phone, the new PC, if you will.” The company plans to deliver new versions of Android every six months for mobile phones and tablets, and Chrome OS will be focused on netbooks and PCs. Google also showed a demo of a new Android tablet applica-
tion that makes movies out of photos, similar to Windows Live Movie Maker. As he has said before, Schmidt said he considers Microsoft to be Google’s largest rival. “Today our main competitor is Microsoft. Microsoft has a product called Bing.
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about making Android its smartphone platform, but decided to go with Windows Phone 7 instead. An audience member asked about fragmentation in the Android app marketplace and how some apps do not work across all devices. Schmidt said the company has an anti-fragmentation clause in its agreement with carriers. In the future, Schmidt said he believes all applications will be built with the new Web standard HTML5, whether the apps are for the PC or mobile phone. He also expects mobile payments to become standardized this year, as Europe irons out issues around NFC technology, which allows for the transfer of payment information on mobile phones. NFC here stands for near field communication, not the National Football Conference that the Seahawks play in. He called mobile payments a “mega-scale opportunity in front of us.” In what may or may not have been a veiled insult of Apple and its high-priced products, Schmidt said, “What’s most important about this future is it is a future for the masses, not the elites.”
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The LED bulbs sold as safe and eco-friendly can contain high levels of lead, arsenic and other hazardous substances, a new UC Irvine study shows — the same bulbs widely used in headlights, traffic lights, even holiday lights. The toxic material could increase the risk of cancer, kidney disease and other illnesses, although the risks are more long-term than immediate; a single exposure to a broken bulb is unlikely to cause illness. “I wouldn’t worry about an immediate release of vapor,” said UC Irvine public health and social ecology professor Oladele Ogunseitan, principal investigator and an author of the study. “But still, when these residues hang around the house, if not cleaned up properly they could constitute an eventual danger.” The lights should be treated as
hazardous materials, and should not be disposed of in regular landfill trash, he said, because of the risk of leaching into soil and groundwater. High intensity, red bulbs contained the most arsenic, while lowintensity red lights harbored as much as eight times the amount of lead permitted by state law, the study showed. White bulbs had low amounts of lead but higher amounts of nickel, also a potentially hazardous substance. Ogunseitan and a team of scientists from UCI and UC Davis crushed bulbs of different colors and intensity, simulating acid rain in landfill conditions to produce a “worst case scenario.” Then they made precision measurements of toxic material in the resulting liquid. Ogunseitan and his team recently published their findings in the science journal, Environmental Science and Technology, and plan to publish further findings on larger LED bulbs such as those used in street lights.
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First half slump too much for IUP to overcome against Edinboro go on a 9-2 run and put the lead in double digits. Edinboro Head Coach Stan Swank said after the game that starting strong was a big factor after Offense was not on the menu for not doing so well against IUP Jan. 26. “That had a huge effect because the Crimson Hawks during their 61-50 loss to Edinboro Wednesday night at we had such a bad start, and that was one of the things we wanted to key Memorial Field House. Saying the Hawks struggled on on was having a good first half and starting out well, and our kids came offense is an understatement. “You put an unbelievable amount through and did that,” Swank said. While the Fighting Scots finally of stress on your defense when you can only muster 50 points at home,” began to hit shots from the field, IUP never got in any rhythm and shot 2 of IUP Head Coach Jeff Dow said. IUP hit its first field goal at the 28 from the field in the first half. The 13:52 mark in the first half after a Hawks did hit 12 of 14 free throws, layup by guard Eryn Withers that gave which helped them keep the deficit to 15 at halftime, 31-16. it a 6-3 lead. “When you’re going to have your IUP then went on a drought of epic proportions, going almost 12 min- struggles on offense, a couple of utes without a field goal. IUP’s saving things need to happen: you need to be grace was its free throw shooting, as unbelievably good on defense, and we the officials called a lot of fouls both allowed them to shoot 42 percent in the first half,” Dow said. ways. In the second half, IUP improved on Neither IUP nor Edinboro got off to hot starts with both teams combining its abysmal shooting of the first half, for 16 total points with a little over 10 but still shot a marginal 40 percent from the field. minutes in the half. Despite outscoring the Fighting Edinboro, however, finally found its rhythm and started to slowly but Scots 34-30 in the second half, IUP surely pull away from the Crimson had already dug itself in too deep of a hole to climb out of and saw its sixHawks. IUP Penn - held x3_Layout 1/14/2011 3:30 game PM Page 1 win streak snap. Edinboro a 13-102lead with 7:54 Edinboro clearly made adjustments left in the first half and proceeded to
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since its first meeting with IUP, which resulted in an IUP victory. Swank, known for playing a fullcourt press for the entire game, rarely dialed it up Wednesday night. He saw how much success IUP had before and opted to force IUP to beat his team in the half court, where it had a lot of trouble. “I think that was probably as much as anything else out of respect for us and how well we pass the ball and handle ball,” Dow said. IUP did, however, get a lot of opportunities close to the basket, but did not capitalize on many of them. IUP missed 11 layups during the game. IUP also missed all 10 of its attempts from 3-point range, six of which came from Withers. Withers finished the game with five points on 2 of 14 shooting. Withers has struggled as of late in what can officially be categorized as slump. Since scoring 14 against Edinboro Jan. 26, she has averaged only 7.7 points per game in the last four games, down from her average of 12.8, and has scored five in each of the last three. Dow thinks one way to get her out of the slump is for her to drive the lane more and draw fouls, something Dow said she did a lot last season. IUP was also dominated in the rebounding category 51-36. Edinboro grabbed 20 offensive rebounds, which led to 23 second-chance points. The balanced scoring IUP has showcased all season was non-apparent Wednesday, as the Hawks only
mustered two in double figures in forwards Sarah Pastorek (18) and Brianna Johnson (14). Guards Katelyn Marshall, Lacy Claar and Withers combined for 15 points on 5 of 27 shooting. Edinboro did have balanced scoring, posting four in double figures with the team’s leading scorer Kiara Brown leading the way with 14. Behind her were three players with 10 apiece, including reserve guard Kerry Connelly, who helped Edinboro’s bench outscored IUP’s 19-3. Connelly also helped close out the game, hitting 8 of 10 free throws. The loss for IUP (16-6, 8-2) drops it into second place in the PSAC West. Edinboro (20-3, 10-1) took sole possession of first in the division and clinched its first 20-win season since 2005-06. Edinboro also took down the Crimson Hawks for the first time in 11 meetings between the schools. The Scots will more than likely maintain their No. 1 position in the Atlantic Regional rankings, but IUP will have to keep its fingers crossed about its No. 6 spot. Not a whole lot went right for the Crimson Hawks Wednesday besides Dow getting the nice crowd he wanted for the game, but even that could not solve the Crimson Hawks’ shooting problems. “The crowd did everything they could,” Dow said. “I feel like we took the crowd out of it in the first half with our shooting alone. They tried everything they could to extract as much
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Ashton Smith’s game-winning shot with 16 seconds remaining helped the Crimson Hawks defeat Edinboro, 74-73. Smith was already having a great night before the game-winner. In the first half, he had 19 of his 28 points. Those 19 points were half of the Hawks points. “That’s something we needed to have success with moving forward, and we needed to get confidence with that,� IUP Head Coach Joe Lombardi said. “And a guy like Ashton needed to have a shot like that and make a shot like that, and that creates confidence for the next situation we’ll face, which will be there at some point in the playoffs.� Smith was joined in double-figures by Darryl Webb, who came close to a double-double with 13 points and nine rebounds. Webb bounced back from a slow first half start. In the first half he had five points, but came out strong in the second with eight points and was bigger influence on the inside. Willie Estrella had a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds. They
were joined by Julian Sanders, who came off the bench with 12 points. Even though the Hawks prevailed, it was Edinboro (12-13, 4-7) that came out strong to start the game. It was able to push the ball into the paint, where they were it was having success early. Edinboro had 18 of its 40 first half points from the paint. That was better than the Hawks, who had 12 points from the paint. With 3:16 left in the first half, the Hawks were down, 37-26. After that the Hawks went on 12-3 run to finish off the first half. Smith had nine of the 12 points. He had two jumpers, a 3-pointer and two free throws. That run by the Hawks had them down two going into the second half. In the second half neither team could pull away from the other. The highest lead for either team was three points. There were 15 lead changes in second half alone. Edinboro was continuing to go to the paint was some success. They had three players in double figures. Bryan Theriot had a teamhigh 16 points, Clint Nicholson had 15 points and Chris Klimchock had 11 points. It was Klimchock who scored the last basket for Edinboro with 1:47
left in the game when he had a layup. However, Klimchock fouled Smith with 1:17 left, sending Smith to the free-throw line. That was also Klimchock’s fifth personal foul, which meant he was done for the rest of the game. Smith hit the first free-throw, but missed the second. Webb was able to pull down the offensive board and the Hawks had the chance to take the lead. However, Stewart missed a 3-pointer and it was rebounded by Edinboro. With the crowd behind them screaming “defense, defense� the Hawks forced a turnover that gave them a chance to take the lead. After a timeout with 26 seconds left, the Hawks inbounded the ball. Smith took the ball above the threepoint line, and then, after a screen by one of his teammates, he was able to separate himself long enough to get a shot off that went in with 16 seconds left.
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As you encounter walls along your way, you may want to throw your hat over them. You may lose your hat. Nevertheless, the pursuit is worth the risk.
Possibilities for investment come your way. Be careful to distinguish between real opportunities and those that would lean on you more than necessary.
You feel revitalized, in the mood to jump fences and surpass obstacles. Today is your day, and others know it. Smile, and dive into the race. Go for the medal.
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