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Tibetan Buddhist lama to hold public talk, workshops “Through confusion and clinging, you create your own suffering.”
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Lama Kathy Wesley, Resident Teacher at Ohio’s Karma Thegsum Choling Tibetan Buddhist Center, will visit Indiana this weekend to share her wisdom and a chance for learning. Wesley will present her talk “Building Peace, One Life at a Time” on Friday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. The talk will be held at the First Unitarian Universalist Church and will be preceded by a vegetarian potluck dinner beginning at 5:45 p.m. Wesley will present three sessions of the workshop “Meditations on Compassion” on Saturday, Feb. 26 and Sunday, Feb. 27. The sessions will take place in the HUB’s Monongahela Room from 10 a.m-noon both days, and 2:30-4:30 p.m. Saturday. “Meditations on Compassion” is based on “Seven Points of Mind Training,” a Tibetan Buddhist text. The workshop is co-sponsored by Friends of Himalayan Buddhism. Friday’s event is free, though donations will be accepted. The workshop
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— Lama Kathy Wesley, Resident Teacher at Karma Thegsum Choling Tibetan Buddhist Center costs $10 for a single session and $25 for all three; students pay $5 for one session and $10 for three. Wesley came to Buddhism as a young adult. As a college senior, she took a yoga class to help deal with stress and discovered meditation. After graduating college, she continued to practice yoga and meditation until she met Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, a Tibetan monk. “He is the perfect example of everything I’d like to be,” Wesley said. “He’s kind, wise and gentle, […] an amazing individual.” Wesley became his student, and continued self-directed independent study. “It was a combination of learning from him, lectures at his dharma center and reading books,” Wesley said. “Meditation was also
Contributed Photo Kathy Wesley discovered Buddhism through yoga and meditation.
a teacher for me.” Meditation is one of the basic tenets of the Buddhist faith. “Meditation is not relaxing or sleeping,” Wesley said. “[It is] the cultivation of relaxed attention through following a specific technique.” The meditator chooses an object of meditation to consider, and focuses
on it. When his or her mind starts to wander, he or she must bring it back to the object. The object can be as simple as one’s breathing. “It’s like what a person naturally does when they sit by a river and watch leaves and twigs float by,” Wesley said. “They’re relaxed, but they’re also attentive.” Wesley advises people interested in meditation or Buddhism to seek out other, knowledgeable people. “If people are interested in meditation, the best place to learn is from another meditator,” she said. “Books are useful and inspiring, but a book cannot tell you if your posture is correct or help you if you’re having problems.” For more information, Wesley recommended “Meditation in Action,” by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and “Dharma Paths,” by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche. Wesley is a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. In addition to practicing her own prayers and meditations, she helps those who call or write to her with problems they have in their practices. She teaches several times
a week at dharma centers and often travels, giving talks and workshops. “I’m like any other minister,” she said. All branches of Buddhism derive from the historical Buddha; when he died 2,600 years ago they split into what Wesley described as northern and southern branches. The northern branch is more monastic, practiced by monks and nuns, while the southern branch is practiced by monks, nuns and laypeople. “What I think is that, if you look at the world, you see a lot of suffering,” Wesley said. “You feel suffering, you see others experiencing [it]. Seeing this suffering, you might feel depressed, but if you think about it more deeply, you might want to help relieve the suffering of others through compassionate action.” Wesley acknowledged that some suffering is self-generated. “Through confusion and clinging, you create your own suffering,” she said. “If you are able to tame your mind through meditation, you will be able to relieve your suffering.”
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• University police arrested Peter B. Kissel, 19, Lancaster at 1:22 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 13, after he was found waling in an intoxicated state. He was taken to Indiana Regional Medical Center for treatment and placed in the Indiana County Jail on a temporary detainer. • Nicole Richard, 18, Aliquippa, was cited by university police for underage drinking after an incident that occurred inside Wallwork Hall. • Emily M. Zeltner, 18, Horsham, was cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness after she was found by university police staggering and stumbling in the 1100 block of Maple Street. She was treated at Indiana Regional Medical Center and placed in the Indiana County Jail on a temporary detainer.
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• University police reported that sometime between 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11, and 8:56 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, someone damaged a light in the third-floor restroom of the Suites on Pratt. Damage was done to the plastic covering of the light and one of the bulbs was broken. The metal housing of the light fixture was also damaged. Anyone with information is asked to contact university police at 724-357-2141.
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• Justin E. Petrovich, 18, Sewickley, was cited for disorderly conduct at 1:45 a.m. Wednesday after an incident that happened in the Stephenson Hall courtyard area.
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• At 11:20 p.m. Thursday, Aaron J. Smith, 19, Philadelphia; Derek L. Kelley, 21, Pittsburgh; and Jasmine Clowden, 19, Philadelphia, were cited for harassment by university police.
IUP faculty member dies suddenly By VAUGHN JOHNSON Editor-in-Chief V.M.Johnson@iup.edu
IUP faculty member Natalie George died suddenly at Indiana Regional Medical Center Feb. 18. According to press release sent out by Interim President David Werner, George, 50, was a temporary faculty member in the Nursing and Allied Health Professions department. She earned her master’s degree from the nursing department in
2009 and was doctoral candidate in the Curriculum and Instruction program. She is survived by her husband Tim and their three children: Christa, Becca and Timothy, who is in the athletic training program at IUP. Services will begin today from 1-4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. where friends will be received at Robinson-Lytle Inc. in Indiana. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Hope Lutheran Church.
Summer employment and internship fair to offer job experience opportunities By IDA ARICI Senior Staff Writer I.D.Arici@iup.edu
Employers such as the Animal Rescue League Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, Cedar Point and Enterprise Rent-a-Car are attending the IUP Summer 2011 Employment and Internship Fair. The fair, hosted by the Career Development Center, will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, in the HUB Atrium and Ohio Room. “This year’s event is larger than last year’s,” said Mark Anthony, the Career Development Center Director. “I also believe that a larger number of employers are seeking interns.” There are employers suited for every year and major at IUP. From becoming a summer camp counselor to taking part in the Criminology Department’s criminal justice training program, students are able to speak with a variety of employers and are given a variety of opportunities. “The Summer Employment and Internship Fair is designed to give students the opportunity to meet with employers who are hiring for summer, part-time, temporary, and internship positions,” according to the Career Development Center’s website. Some employers include Bear Creek Camp, the Girl Scouts of Western Pennsylvania, rue21 and the Regional Internship Center of Western PA. “The employers who attend the Summer Job & Internship Fair are employers who have visited IUP in the past and have hired students for summer jobs or internships,” said Anthony. “Or [employers] who have contacted us because
Executives resign as Chinese e-commerce site finds internal fraud By DAVID PIERSON Los Angeles Times MCT
Alibaba.com, China’s largest e-commerce website, announced the resignation of two of its most senior leaders Monday after an internal investigation found more than 2,000 fraudulent virtual storefronts had been set up with the help of company salespeople. In a statement, Alibaba.com said Chief Executive David Wei and Chief Operating Officer Elvis Lee were not involved in the scams but wanted to
shoulder responsibility for the “systemic breakdown” in Alibaba.com’s “culture of integrity.” Wei is being replaced by Jonathan Lu, chief executive of sister company Taobao.com, a hugely popular shopping website. Alibaba.com is the flagship site of Alibaba Group, a multibillion-dollar Internet empire headed by one of China’s most charismatic business figures, Jack Ma. In addition to Taobao, the company owns Yahoo’s China operations and Alipay.com, an online payment service. Founded in 1999, Alibaba.com has become one of the world’s largest
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business-to-business platforms in the world, linking sellers of Chinese manufactured goods to millions of wholesalers overseas. Yahoo owns about 40 percent of the company. Alibaba.com said it began noticing a surge in fraud claims in late 2009 and launched a probe. It found that about 100 of the company’s 5,000 salespeople helped swindlers evade steps to authenticate their businesses so they could pretend to sell electronic goods at attractive terms and prices. Alibaba.com said it had shut down those storefronts but that the investigation was continuing.
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they are interested in doing so.” The Career Development Center encourages students to dress neat, but casual. In other words, students should dress to impress. Students attending the fair should show up with an updated résumé and a general idea of the type of job or internship they are looking for. “Commit to a specific type of job such as customer service support, clerical assistant, accounting clerk or
welder,” said the Career Development website. “If you do not want to be specific, offer your experience.” Students are also encouraged to practice what they will say and be prepared to discuss anything. Be ready to field a variety of questions, not just the basic ones. Employers may ask about a student’s skills, experience or special training. They may even ask why a student left his or her previous job.
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Proposals accepted for Symposium on Gender and Sexuality By kat oldrey News Editor K.E.Oldrey@iup.edu
Proposals are due on March 1 for students hoping to participate in the Second Annual Symposium on Gender and Sexuality. The symposium will take place April 13 in the HUB. It is a multi-disciplinary event. Students, faculty and staff are invited to submit proposals for research projects, formal papers, posters, works of art, performance art, discussion panels, and workshops. This year’s keynote speaker is sociology professor Dr. Betsy Crane. According to the symposium’s website, proposals pertaining to a wide range of gender-related topics will be accepted, including gender studies, gender and sexuality advocacy, sex and gender in the contexts of politics,
literature and the workplace, feminist theory and others. Proposals must be 250 words or fewer and describe the submission, its contents, and its significance. Students must send their proposals to iupgenderandsexuality@gmail. com. Successful applicants will be alerted of their acceptance by March 8. There will be a $5 suggested donation for undergraduate participants, but no registration fee. The registration fee is $5 for graduate students and $10 for faculty and staff. Co-sponsors of the Gender and Sexuality Symposium include the GLBT Commission, the psychology, business, history and sociology departments, the women’s studies program, the graduate program in literature and criticism and the graduate program in composition and TESOL.
New Jersey wind project moves forward By sandy bauers The Philadelphia Inquirer MCT
New Jersey fishermen continue to charge ahead with their wind project. The state Board of Public Utilities recently adopted rules for renewable energy certificates, which are an important part of the financing for any project. Once a price for the certificates is established, then the developer of a wind project can better estimate the financing needed. All but immediately afterward, Fishermen’s Energy of New Jersey filed a petition seeking approval for renewable energy certificates for its project, which would be located in state waters off of Atlantic City. The company says its wind farm “is on schedule to be the first gridconnected offshore wind project in the United States.” How so? For all those watching the Cape Wind project proceed off of Cape
Cod, it may seem unlikely. But when Fishermen’s Energy first came forward, big-name, well-connected energy companies were presenting plans, and more than a few eyebrows were raised when fishermen submitted a plan as well. They said that they wanted to expand their harvest from the ocean. They wanted not just fish, but wind. Like others, they also are developing plans for an offshore project in federal waters, which is farther offshore. Meanwhile, they have zigged where others zagged and also are proposing a project for state waters. The idea is there would be fewer regulatory hoops to jump through, which would take less time overall. To be located about 2.8 miles east of Atlantic City, the Fishermen’s farm would be a mere six turbines with a capacity of 25 megawatts. But if these fishermen pull off their plan, it just might be the first after all.
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Party lines solidify over federal budget cuts By lisa mascaro Tribune Washington Bureau MCT
Battle lines over steep federal spending reductions hardened Sunday even as congressional leaders maintained that both Democrats and Republicans want to avoid a political impasse that could lead to a government shutdown within weeks. Lawmakers fanned out to their home states after the Republicanled House approved more than $60 billion in reductions for fiscal year 2011, the deepest spending cuts in generations. Virtually no domestic program would be spared. Democrats have rejected the legislation as too severe, warning that as many as 800,000 jobs could be lost by making such reductions in the remaining seven months of the fiscal year, harming the nation’s fragile economic recovery. Instead, they propose a spending freeze, which Republicans reject. With political leaders deadlocked, each side is trying to position the other for blame in the event the stalemate cannot be broken. After the predawn budget vote Saturday in the House, lawmakers left Washington for a weeklong recess. When they return, they’ll have only a
few days to resolve the issue before the current funding mechanism expires March 4. “We know we need to cut spending,” said Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., a Senate Democratic leader, on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Now, the question is: How much further should we go? You can’t reach a budget balance with 15 million Americans out of work.” Rep. Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., the chairman of the House Budget Committee, acknowledged the package engineered by the conservative flank in the House would not be approved by the Democraticcontrolled Senate. “We will have to negotiate,” Ryan said. “Look, we’re not looking for a government shutdown but, at the same time, we’re also not looking at rubber-stamping these really high, elevated spending levels” enacted two years ago. The showdown is only the beginning of a long spring of budget battles at a time when the nation’s $1.5 trillion deficit has sharply focused voter interest. President Barack Obama prefers to freeze spending for the next five years and begin discussions on adjusting corporate tax policies to bring in revenue. But Obama’s proposed 2012 budget was widely criticized by veteran budget hawks, including members
“We know we need to cut spending. Now, the question is: How much further should we go? You can’t reach a budget balance with 15 million Americans out of work.” —Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., Senate Democratic leader of his bipartisan fiscal commission, for excluding reforms of the big-ticket mandatory spending programs. Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, they insist, must be part of a debate. Such topics are political hot buttons, and neither party has been interested in taking the lead on the entitlement reform debate. House GOP leaders initially sent mixed messages before announcing last week that their budget proposal due out this spring would address entitlements. Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., the majority leader, urged the president to join the effort, lest Republicans be politically exposed on an issue the public has been wary to embrace. “We are leading and will address our challenges head on, but one party in a divided government can’t do it alone,” Cantor wrote in a Politico op-ed Sunday. During the week in their home
districts, many lawmakers are bracing for constituent reactions to the Republican-passed budget package. Although conservative “tea party” groups who fueled the GOP’s ascent may not see the cuts as deep enough, advocacy organizations characterized the reductions as draconian attacks on long-running government programs — from water pollution monitoring to food aid for poor women and children. The Service Employees International Union said 5 million meals now being delivered to elderly shut-ins would be eliminated. Yet as Congress is being asked to again raise the federal debt limit, in a vote that could come in a matter of months, even Democrats acknowledged that their proposal to freeze current accounts would likely be inadequate in the current political climate. Many Democrats would like to see compromise extended to the other side of the government ledger by reining in tax breaks for wealthy Americans and corporations, including the oil industry, as part of any deal that cuts spending. Crafting such a compromise remains a heavy lift in Washington. Republican leaders have said even a stopgap measure to avoid a shutdown must include reductions.
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Tens of thousands march for peaceful reforms in Morocco By borzou daragahi Los Angeles Times MCT
In what is being called an unprecedented show of political unity and strength, tens of thousands of protesters from various political strains marched peacefully in cities and towns across Morocco on Sunday demanding rapid political reform. The rallies, marchers said, were aimed at gaining democratic rights in a nation that has long been a hereditary monarchy and at times as oppressive as its autocratic North African neighbors. “We no longer want to be subjects,” said Abdelilah Benabdeslam, a leader of the Moroccan Organization for Human Rights. “We want to be citizens.” Even state television, derided by one former associate as similar to North Korea’s in its restrictions, reported on the protests, though it also gave equal coverage to tiny bands of pro-government demonstrators praising King Mohammad VI. The protests closely followed the successful uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt and amid calls for change in other authoritarian states across the Middle East and North Africa. Demonstrations broke out in Rabat, the capital, as well as the business hub of Casablanca, the cities of Marrakech, Tangiers, Fez, Agadir and smaller towns and villages, according to activists and photographs and video posted to social media websites. Human rights groups, various leftist and Islamist factions, trade unionists and advocates for the rights of those speaking the Berber language took part in the rallies. But they were led by the same
MCT The protest was organized via social media by a group called “the Feb. 20th Youth.”
type of youthful tech-savvy activists who helped spark the toppling of longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Calling themselves the Feb. 20th Youth, they began using online social media less than a month ago to urge people to take to the streets. In Rabat, they could easily be spotted in the rally, urging fellow protesters to remain orderly. They said they weren’t worried about the possibility of the kind of violence that has shaken Bahrain or nearby Libya, where security forces have opened fire on peaceful protesters. “The big risk is staying at home and doing nothing against the dictatorship,” said Montasser Drissi, a
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19-year-old student who was one of the rally organizers. “The government doesn’t really represent the people,” said Myriam Harnafi, a 15-year-old holding a Tunisian flag who attended the protest with her mother and father. “I see myself in the young people,” said Naima Boulal, a 54-year-old longtime trade unionist at the rally. “We have dreamed of this day for a long
time. With this Facebook generation, I feel hope.” Almost all protesters interviewed said they wanted profound political change but not a revolution. “The people want a new constitution,” they chanted, waving banners and holding Egyptian and Tunisian flags. “This is a new Morocco.” The main rally in Rabat drew a massive tide of protesters that flooded the main streets and wound up before parliament. Unlike in Yemen, Bahrain and Libya, official permission was granted for the rally. No riot police were present, and the few uniformed security forces hung back, directed traffic or chatted amicably with demonstrators. As the protest ended, a group of plainclothes security officials pounced on a protester who was banging storefronts. There were also reports of injuries in small confrontations between security forces and protesters in other cities. The North African nation of 32 million is a major U.S. ally in the fight against al-Qaida as well as an economic partner of the West, especially France, which has invested heavily in its former colony. A free trade agreement with the U.S. took effect in 2006. Under the rule of Mohammad VI, who ascended the throne in 1999, Morocco expanded political freedoms and even began examining the allegations of torture and disappearances during the previous era. But
critics and watchdog groups contend that it has regressed on human rights and press freedoms in recent years. Many also complain of corruption at the highest levels of government, uneven economic development and persistent illiteracy among the poor. The protests took place even though leaders of some established Islamic and socialist political parties, who have been in and out of the opposition over the last decade, called on their supporters not to take part. A whisper campaign painted the rallies as pursuing an anti-monarchy agenda, a taboo in Morocco. A cold drizzle fell as several hundred protesters began to gather at the rick walls of the Bab El-Had gate next to Rabat’s ancient Medina. Cell phone and text-messaging services became spotty. Many voiced frustration, disappointed by the low numbers that showed up early. But as noon approached and the crowd swelled, protesters were heartened. As they began to march toward the parliament, the sun broke through the clouds to reveal a massive gathering. Some even defied their political organizations to take part. “Morocco deserves better institutions,” said Mustapha Ramid, who resigned from his post as a leader of the mainstream Justice and Development Party after it refused to endorse the rally. “I hope the king will greatly reform the country in order to satisfy the demands of the Moroccan people.”
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After the revolution in Egypt, it has become a truism that the Internet can foster dissent and political freedom. But in a thoughtful speech this week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton put that observation in perspective and committed the United States anew to promoting the online exchange of ideas in other countries. Clinton’s speech was vague in places, and there is a tension between her emphasis on the importance of protecting the privacy of everything from business documents to journalists’ notes and efforts by the U.S. government to combat online security threats. Overall, however, it was an impressive attempt to advance an international conversation about how best to bring a commitment to democracy worldwide into an age in which the Internet is “town square,
classroom, marketplace, coffeehouse and nightclub.” Clinton called for an uncensored Internet, and she criticized countries — including Egypt during the events of the last few weeks — that suppress online communication. But rather than grounding her case for an uncensored Internet only in traditional notions of free expression, Clinton also argued that Web freedom would encourage economic growth. “Freedom of thought and the level playing field made possible by the rule of law are part of what fuels innovation economies,” she said. In case authoritarian regimes are unpersuaded, Clinton noted that the United States has launched Twitter feeds in Arabic and Farsi and “continues to help people in oppressive Internet environments get around filters, stay one step ahead of the censors, the hackers and the thugs who beat them up or imprison them for what they say online.” (Those efforts are worthy, but the Twitter
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feeds are likely to be viewed in many countries as an exercise in propaganda rather than an attempt to promote Internet freedom.) In her address, Clinton celebrated the idea of confidentiality, saying it was necessary for the conduct of business and journalism as well as diplomatic communications. But she made it clear that in some instances confidentiality must yield to other values. Indeed, the administration in which she serves has placed law enforcement above protecting the privacy of some online communications. That contradiction makes it easy for other nations to accuse the United States of hypocrisy. But it doesn’t undermine Clinton’s primary point that the Internet shouldn’t be censored. It’s an important message. Clinton said the costs of blocking the Internet are “unsustainable in the long run.” But in the short run, even after the revolution in Egypt, plenty of autocrats will turn the “off” switch.
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When Melissa Durkee was in her senior year at Westmont College, her grades were outstanding, she was fielding offers from top law schools — and she was stricken by fear. “I was terrified that I’d be found out as someone dating a woman and that I’d be expelled,” said Durkee, who went on to Yale Law School and a New York law firm. Durkee is one of 31 gay and lesbian Westmont alumni who earlier this month roiled the Christian college in Montecito, Calif., with an open letter in the college newspaper that spoke of the “doubt, loneliness and fear” they felt on a campus where homosexuality is taboo. More than 100 fellow alumni signed on in support, and last week, 50 of Westmont’s 92 faculty members responded to them in a sympathetic letter seeking “forgiveness for ways we might have added to your pain.” While LGBT — an umbrella term for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender — is a commonplace designation at schools across the United States, many Christian colleges have struggled with just how much to condone homosexuality, which is seen by some of their religious leaders as scripturally prohibited. At the leafy campus near Santa Barbara, there are no gay-pride events or clubs in which gay students can socialize openly. The small, nondenominational school requires incoming students to sign a campus code that forbids “occult practices, sexual relations outside of marriage, homosexual practice, drunkenness, theft, profanity and dishonesty.” Such restrictions would generate loud protests at mainstream schools, but at Westmont, even now there’s barely a raised voice. Instead, parties on all sides are issuing declarations of love and respect, with calls for a campus-wide dialogue. “We’re hoping to do a better job of talking to and loving each other and holding true to our scriptural principles,” said Jane Higa, the school’s vice president for student life. But nobody believes that the school’s Campus Life Statement will
change anytime soon. “All the students have signed it and they know where the college stands,” Higa said. For Durkee, who graduated in 2000, the ban was chilling. “It was hard to tell what that meant,” she said. “Is ‘homosexual practice’ holding hands? A stray look or touch? Dating?” Administrators say the ban is not on being gay but on the “practice” — just as there’s a ban on sex between unmarried straight students. In Higa’s 22 years at Westmont, she said, the school has not expelled anyone for being gay. A straight, unmarried couple left, she said, after they refused to live apart: “They understood what they had agreed to and they dropped out.” But for all the compassion being expressed now, Nathan Welty, who graduated in 2008, feared that he would be shunned if he even suggested that he was gay. “My goal was to suppress everything in me that was telling me I was gay — to just completely ignore and suppress it,” said Welty, who is pursuing both a doctorate and a medical degree at the University of Minnesota. At Westmont, administrators and student leaders say they have been quietly talking for some time about how to make the college less isolating for gay students. The subject became much more public last November, when the Horizon, Westmont’s student newspaper, published a letter from Artie Van Why, a gay man who wrote of his silent struggles at a Christian school in Kentucky. Asked about the response to his letter at Westmont, he said, “I’m very surprised. I’m overwhelmed.” Jane Highstreet, president of Westmont’s student government, is hopeful. She said students are starting to feel more able to raise the topic. One of her friends came out on Facebook — first telling administrators and then asking how she might help in any campus-wide programs. In March, Highstreet said, students will be addressed by a psychologist from a Christian university who has written extensively on gay issues. “There’s a hunger for this conversation to happen,” she said.
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Midterms: Not the time to quit We are rapidly approaching the midpoint of the semester and spring break is just around the corner. It’s time to break out those syllabi and check the dates for any midterm exams and projects. If you haven’t knuckled under and cracked the books yet, it’s time to start doing so. A few mediocre-to-bad grades at the beginning of the semester usually are not a huge issue – you’re still getting used to the expectations and workload of new professors. But if bad grades continue, especially past midterm, often the time when work picks up and becomes worth more points or is weighted more heavily, it can spell impending disaster for your final grade. Conversely, if you rock your midterms, you show your professors that you have a grip on the material and are taking work seriously. If you’re teetering on the edge of bad grades, take initiative now and see your professors. But don’t just walk into office hours blindly asking for extra credit or bemoaning your grades. Go over your work, make note of what you’ve been messing up and schedule an appointment. When you meet, you’re prepared to discuss the issues you’ve been having and to come up with a plan for improvement. Oftentimes if you show a professor that you are taking responsibility for your coursework, they’ll be more willing to help you than if you come in with excuses for poor performance, seeking some bonus points to boost your grade. People tend to worry about stress during finals, but it can be a big issue at midterm, too. Though there may still be weeks left in the semester, there is still a great amount of work piling up on a deadline before we leave town for a short break. When you’re done hitting the books, writing papers and filling in bubble sheets, take some time for yourself. The weather should be getting better soon, though today’s snow doesn’t much indicate it. Sun or snow, take a little bit of time for yourself, away from computer screens, cell phones and required reading. Just make sure you’re not skipping classes to do it.
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Safety should be a priority I am writing in response to the article you published in The Penn on February 11, 2011. The article was your cover story, “Weather advisory team explains class cancelation process.” After reading your article I, as a parent, have many questions. Both of my daughters are IUP students. One of them commutes from home, while the other is living in off-campus housing. I personally called IUP the morning of the recent ice storm; but my call was not answered by anyone at that time. I was greatly concerned about the travel conditions that my daughter would have to endure to get to her classes. I can assure that the side-
walks, parking lots, and roads around the IUP campus that morning were not adequately maintained. Out of my office window on Grant Street, I witnessed two IUP students slipping and falling. My daughter had contacted her professor via e-mail stating that the conditions for driving were unsafe. Her professor’s only response was “remember you do have an exam.” There have been other occasions when her classes have been cancelled for reasons unrelated to the weather. I don’t understand how a professor can cancel classes which we have already paid for without much justification, but yet when
weather conditions threaten the health and safety of students, faculty, and staff, no significant precautions are exercised. In the article, Mr. Geletka stated: “Parents and students pay tuition to this institution for an education and we have an obligation to deliver that educational product.” As a parent, I want my child to have the best education possible, but not at the risk of harming herself or anyone else when traveling to the campus. Debbie Fulmer Arcadia, Pa deb.fulmer@yahoo.com
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r Life & Style q “The play shows a symbol of womanhood and coming into one’s own.” — Rachel Snyder, co-director of ‘The Vagina Monlogues’
Vagina Monologues to tell stories from woman’s perspective By kayla king-scott Staff Writer K.S.King-Scott@iup.edu
With titles such as “Hair,” “My Angry Vagina,” and “The Little Coochie Snoocher That Could,” “The Vagina Monologues” doesn’t leave anything to the imagination. Playwright Eve Ensler wrote the monologues after conducting interviews with women about sexuality, relationships and violence against women, among other things. Students Advocating Gender Equality (SAGE) will present its annual performance of “The Vagina Monologues” 7 p.m. Feb. 25 and 26, and at 3 p.m. Sunday Feb. 27 in Pratt Auditorium. “The mission of SAGE is to promote an egalitarian way of life and to
raise awareness about gender inequity in our society,” according the IUP website. “The Vagina Monologues” is presented in conjunction with V-Day, a movement started with the objectives of ending violence against women and promoting female empowerment. “The play shows a symbol of womanhood and coming into one’s own,” said Rachel Snyder (senior, psychology) co-director of the monologues and President of SAGE. “It talks about the ‘unspeakable’: birth, pubic hair, OB/GYN visits, sex and periods, which then prompts an enthused discussion afterward between men and women alike. “This play isn’t just for women, it’s supposed to help women speak about what we as women usually keep to ourselves and help men understand us from a different
viewpoint,” said Snyder. “There will be a good turnout this year,” said Brittany Issac (senior, criminology). “There’s a great cast who are ready to give students a great performance.” The Vagina Monologues is SAGE’s main event and fundraiser each year. Admission to “The Vagina Monologues is $5 at the door. The group also hand-makes chocolate vagina lollipops in several flavors including dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate and peanut butter for $1. T-shirts will be sold for $12. The organization will be selling these items around campus during the week preceding the event, but students will also be able to find them at the performances. Proceeds will benefit The Alice Paul Foundation and girls and women of Haiti.
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The origins of Black History Month in detail By ida arici Senior Staff Writer I.D.Arici@iup.edu
Before there was a Black (AfricanAmerican) History Month, there was a Negro History Week. It began with the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), established in 1915 by historian, Dr. Carter G. Woodson. This association promoted the study of the black race. In 1924, Woodson, along with fellow members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., sponsored Negro History and Literature Week. This was later renamed Negro History Week. Negro History Week was first celebrated on Feb. 12, 1926. It was observed the second week of February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics website, to encompass the birthdays of Fredrick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, both of whom helped advance the status of African-Americans. Woodson also chose February for its other historically significant attributes such as the birthday of W.E.B. DuBois and the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). “We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history,” said Woodson on the founding of Negro History Week (taken from the NAACP website). “What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.” Woodson believed that black history was too important to be crammed
into a limited period. He spoke of a change from Negro History Week to Negro History Year, according to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH, formerly ASNLH) website, ASALH.org. “As early as 1940s, blacks in West Virginia, a state where Woodson often spoke, began to celebrate February as Negro History Month,” said the ASALH website. In 1976, Negro History Week shifted to become the nationally recognized celebration of Black (AfricanAmerican) History Month, with the aid of ASALH. This change, 50 years after the emergence of Negro History Week, coincided with the bicentennial of America. Since then, every American president has issued proclamations endorsing the association’s annual theme. “During National African American History Month, we recognize the extraordinary achievements of African Americans and their essential role in shaping the story of America,” President Obama said in his proclamation on Feb. 1, 2011. “In honor of their courage and contributions, let us resolve to carry forward together the promise of America for our children.”
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Coen brothers relish ‘tough stylistic choices’
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Joel and Ethan Coen have written, directed and produced some of the smartest and most iconic movies of the modern era, from cult comedies such as “Raising Arizona� and “The Big Lebowski� to Oscar-winning crime thrillers such as “Fargo� and “No Country for Old Men.� Now the Coens have the biggest hit of their careers with “True Grit,� a Western remake that is nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including three for the brothers’ disparate duties. We recently spoke by phone with Joel (the taller and older one who is married to actress Frances McDormand) and Ethan (a poet and short-story writer) about the craft of turning words into movies. Q: Until “O Brother, Where Art Thou,� which you cheekily co-credited to the Greek poet Homer, all of your scripts were original ideas. But then you adapted an existing story for “Intolerable Cruelty,� and “The Ladykillers� was a remake of a classic British comedy, and you won a slew of Academy Awards for “No Country for Old Men,� which was based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy. Now you’ve done “True Grit,� which is a remake of a John Wayne Western that was based on a Charles Portis novel. Why did you choose that project? Joel Coen: We had both read the novel many years ago, when we were in college, as well as several other novels by Charles Portis. Then, a few years ago, we reread it and were really taken by the humor and by the voice of this 14-year-old girl who narrates it. We thought, “This is something we haven’t seen before.� Of course, we had seen the original movie with John Wayne when we were kids, but that seemed so distant in our memory, while the novel seemed so fresh. It’s a very lean revenge story,
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with three characters pursuing some interesting bad guys. The lines are very clean. Q: Every character in “True Grit� is a kind of horse trader, from the bounty hunters to the frontier dentist to the lady who runs the boarding house and charges Mattie a nickel for a sack to carry her dead father’s gun. There’s even an actual horse trader who gets outwitted by Mattie. Is that a theme that you developed in the script? Ethan Coen: It’s even stronger in the book. On almost every page, Mattie talks about the price of provisions or how she negotiated a deal. Everybody is pursuing their own interests. The agendas of Marshal Cogburn and Mattie and the Texas Ranger LaBoeuf are close but not identical. So there’s an interesting friction between the three of them.
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IUP loses opening match lost the No. 1 singles match to Marin-Salcedo, 6-3, 6-3, while sophomore Katie Eaton dropped the second singles to St. Bonaventure’s Maria Barousse, 6-2, 6-2. Emilia Osborne forced an extra game in the second set, but still fell short to Amanda Pallikunnel, 6-3, 7-5, while McBryan lost the fifth singles match to Pavlovic, 6-1, 6-4. Mahto was the only Crimson Hawk singles player to last three sets by winning her first. However St. Bonaventure’s Kvas dominated the final two sets and won the match, 4-6, 6-1, 6-0. IUP Head Coach Larry Peterson felt his team showed good signs in their first competitive match since October. “They handled it very well,� Peterson said. “With a match like this we’re just trying to get better and are trying to prepare ourselves for the matches that will matter later down the road.� The Crimson Hawks (4-2) return to action 1 p.m. Saturday, as they travel to Morgantown, WV, to take on West Virginia Wesleyan.
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Despite the effort by sophomore Alex Ballard, the Crimson Hawks women’s tennis team fell short to St. Bonaventure in Olean, N.Y. Friday for its first match of the spring season. Ballard won the lone singles match for IUP and joined with Emilia Osborne for one of two Crimson Hawk doubles victories on the day in a 5-2 loss to the Bonnies. The straight-set singles victory was over St. Bonaventure’s Riley Archer, 6-0, 6-4. Archer was also on the losing end with Kathryn Kvas in Osborne/ Ballard’s 9-7 doubles victory. IUP’s Kelly McBryan and Ranvita Mahto teamed up for an 8-4 doubles victory over St. Bonaventure’s Manuela Marin-Salcedo and Andrea Pavlovic. The Crimson Hawks’ top singles players got off to a slow start in the spring season opener as all but one loss was in straight sets. IUP freshman Tabtip Louhabanjong
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Hawks drop road game to Clarion, 63-60 By Vaughn Johnson Editor In Chief V.M.Johnson@iup.edu
Before Saturday afternoon, IUP (16-7, 8-3) had beaten every team it was supposed to beat. It didn’t have any bad losses on its record and had at least two quality wins in conference play. It is a different story after IUP’s 63-60 loss to sixth-place Clarion (7-17, 4-8) at Clarion’s Tippin Gym. Not even a week ago, IUP was battling Edinboro for first place in the PSAC West. After two straight losses including Saturday’s, IUP has dropped all the way to third. With Edinboro (21-3, 11-1) clinching the top spot, the highest the Crimson Hawks can go now is second and will have to hope for Cal U (18-6, 9-3) to lose at least two of its next three games. Cal U’s next three games come against Lock Haven (11-11, 4-7), Gannon (11-13, 3-9) and Clarion three out of the four teams at the bottom of the division. IUP has already clinched a spot in the PSAC tournament as all four spots are set with Mercyhurst (15-12, 7-5) currently holding the last spot. As for Saturday, IUP struggled again shooting from the field. The Crimson Hawks shot 30 percent in the first half and shot an even worse 28 percent in the second, totaling 29 percent for the game. The Hawks shot better from 3-point land than they did against Edinboro, but still shot a mere 19 percent from beyond the arc. IUP’s defense struggled in the first half allowing the Golden Eagles to shoot 50 percent from the field and 58 percent from beyond the arc. The defense cut those percentages in half during the second stanza and forced 21 turnovers while only committing 16. But it was a poor offensive showing that plagued the Hawks for the second game in a row. The one player in particular that has struggled is guard Eryn Withers.
Samantha Ritzer/The Penn Eryn Withers (22) scored six points, shooting one for nine during the loss to Clarion.
She scored only six points Saturday on 1 of 9 shooting and missed all six of her attempts from beyond the arc. Withers averages 12 points per game on the season, but in the last five games, she is only averaging 8.4. In the last three games, she has scored 16 points combined. Two of those outings have resulted in IUP losses. Despite struggling to 60 points, IUP did post three in double figures. Guards Katelyn Marshall and Lacy Claar rebounded from porous performances against Edinboro with 14 and 13, respectively. Forward Sarah Pastorek posted a double double with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Clarion’s team, boasting 10 freshmen, seem to have done some growing up since its 72-46 loss to IUP Jan. 22. Leading Clarion Saturday was its top scorer, guard Emma Fickel, who paced the Golden Eagles with 18 points all from 3-point range. The Eagles posted two more in double figures with Courtney Healy scoring 11 and McKenzie Clark contributing 10. Clark also grabbed 10 rebounds.
IUP will return home to Memorial Field House 5:30 p.m. Wednesday for the second game in three days against Lock Haven. A loss for IUP during any of its three games the rest of the way will not only force it to settle for third place, but could also put them in danger of dropping to fourth in the division. The Bald Eagles are not the pushovers they have been traditionally. They have scrapped their way to a .500 record so far this season and could be in contention for a spot in the conference tournament next season. LHU has three players that average double figures. Kristen Kudrick leads the Bald Ealges averaging 11.3 per game. Behind Kudrick are Emily Daugherty (10.8) and Peaches Nesmith (10.6).
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IUP needs team effort to beat Clarion, 87-80
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It took all five starters to score in double-figures for the Crimson Hawks to come out with the victory against Clarion Saturday by the score of 87-80. The starters combined for 80 of the team’s 87 points. Macel Souberbielle had the only seven points off the bench for the Hawks. Darryl Webb and Kevin Stewart tied for the team-high with 17 points each. Webb had another double-double with 12 rebounds. Willie Estrella had 16 points. Julian Sanders and Ashton Smith each scored 15 points. Webb’s double-double was the 50th of his career and his 12th this season. He also added three blocks to his school record. Unlike the Crimson Hawks, the Golden Eagles (15-9, 5-7 PSAC West) were led by two players. Lloyd Harrison had a game-high 27 points, and Jamar Harrison had 24 points. It was back and forth throughout the first half until, with 2:04 left in the first half and the Golden Eagles down 33-29, they went on a 13-0 run. The run continued into the second half until Julian Sanders hit a 3-pointer to make the score 42-36. The 3-pointer by Sanders sparked a 17-4 run for the Crimson Hawks. During the run, Estrella had six points. After the run by the Hawks, it was time for the Golden Eagles to push back. After two free-throws by Smith that put the Hawks in front, 56-53, with 12:57 left, the Golden Eagles went on an 18-8 run to recapture the lead. During the 18-8 run, Harrison had 10 of the 18 points for the Golden Eagles. With the Crimson Hawks trailing
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Dave Gershgorn/The Penn Ashton Smith was named PSAC West player of the week after scoring 28 points against Edinboro and 15 against Clarion.
71-64 with 5:28 left, the Hawks went on a 12-2 run to take back the lead. Webb scored six of the 12 points during that time. With the Hawks down 77-76 with 1:38 left in the game Smith hit a 3-pointer that put the Hawks ahead. However, Paul McQueen of Clarion responded with his own 3-pointer with 43 seconds left to put the Golden Eagles back in front 80-79. Then, with 26 seconds left, it all started to unravel for the Golden Eagles. After Quintus Teer picked up a technical foul that sent the Hawks to the free-throw line. Webb hit both free throws to give the Hawks the lead, 81-80. In the last 26 seconds, the Hawks
went to the free-throw line 10 times and made eight of them. Webb made all four of his free throws. Stewart made three out of four, and Smith was one for two from the free-throw line to seal the victory. It was the first time in three games that the Hawks were able to defeat Clarion. It was also revenge for a home a loss on Jan. 22, when the Hawks went down, 73-68, to the Golden Eagles. With the victory, the Hawks (18-5, 9-2 PSAC West) will now have three games in six days. They will host Lock Haven 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. They will finish the regular season with a home game against Mercyhurst Saturday.
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Bayne becomes youngest driver to win Daytona 500 By Zach McCann The Orlando Sentinel MCT
NASCAR tweaked its rules all week in an effort to slow down speeds and discourage tandem bump-drafting, even making changes less than 24 hours before Sunday’s Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. The “lovebug� style of racing was still prevalent on Sunday, though, and it made for an upand-down, ugly, caution-ridden race. The racing style didn’t make all of the drivers happy, and it wasn’t always the prettiest to watch. A 20-year-old making his second career start, Trevor Bayne, dominated the headlines by becoming the youngest driver to ever win the Daytona 500. David Gilliland teamed up with Carl Edwards to push through the pack after the green-white checker finish, crossing the finish line third. Bobby Labonte raced toward the front of the pack throughout the entire afternoon and placed fourth, his best Sprint Cup finish since 2006. Regan Smith, 27, took seventh place, the best Sprint Cup result of his career. Meanwhile, NASCAR stars Kevin Harvick, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Burton, Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth didn’t finish the race. “It’s a credit to NASCAR and their new rules with the
new cars, trying to get the rules closer, to let teams like us, Front Row Motorsports, to have a chance to come out here and be competitive on a track like this,� said Gilliland, whose third-place finish is the second top-three placing of his career. As drivers looked for a drafting partner, many of the big names paired up with relative nobodies. It seemed that on Sunday a driver’s success had as much to do with his own speed as it did with his buddy’s speed. “It’s really close,� Marcos Ambrose said of the racing style. “Everybody is trying to find partners to work with and pull away. I think everyone is just trying to work out how to do it.� As everyone figured it out, guys like Bayne and Gilliland and Smith took advantage of the disorder. It made for an unpredictable, exciting Daytona 500. “We really do have the most competitive racing that I’ve ever been a part of, the closest battles,� Edwards said. “We have races like we had today with a new winner, up-and-coming guy in the sport.� And we haven’t even mentioned Brian Keselowski, the 29-year-old rookie who qualified for the Daytona 500 with a self-owned car and a pit crew consisting of himself and his father. Keselowski finished fifth because of a push from his brother, Brad Keselowski.
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