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Cardboard Village to raise awareness for homelessness, poverty By jenna burger Staff Writer J.M.Burger@iup.edu
The National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH) along with the Indiana County Community Action Program (ICCAP) will sponsor the Cardboard Village event that will take place in the Oak Grove next week. The goal of the Cardboard Village event is to raise awareness. “It’s a poverty simulation to bring poverty and homeless awareness to
IUP, especially Indiana County,� said Julie McEvoy, assistant president of NRHH. The simulation will take place April 19 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. There will be cardboard boxes set up within the Oak Grove that student volunteers will inhabit during the span of the event. Flyers will also be handed out to passersby to explain what the students wish to accomplish with the simulation. Donations will be accepted during the event. All donations will go to ICCAP.
“ICCAP is an organization that helps people who have financial issues,� McEvoy said. “It is a very active group that helps out many residents within the Indiana community.� If any students wish to be involved with this event, they can contact McEvoy at pczp@iup.edu. Those wishing to be involved should get in contact as soon as possible. “All they have to do really to get involved is walk through it, experience it as they go to class,� McEvoy said.
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• At 12:40 a.m. Saturday, borough police responded to a report of a male trying to use a false ID to enter an establishment at 642 Philadelphia St. David Domenick, New Castle, was cited for misrepresentation of age, underage drinking and carrying a false ID.
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• At 1:39 a.m. Wednesday, borough police responded to a residence in the 00 block of South Second Street for a report of a male attempting to force his way into a residence. The female resident reported that she was raped by the male in a vehicle parked outside the residence. Corbett Cope, 28, Indiana, was arrested. Cope was charged with rape, sexual assault, unlawful restraint, simple assault and harassment.
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• Borough police reported that sometime between 7 and 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, someone drove through a lawn in the 500 block of Grant Street, causing damage to the lawn and a landscape fixture. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724-349-2121. • Sometime prior to 5 p.m. Saturday, someone damaged a light fixture at a business in the 500 block of Philadelphia Street. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police. • At 6:11 p.m. Thursday, April 7, a dog owned by Chad Wensel, Indiana, attacked another dog in the 100 block of South Ease Avenue. The dog reportedly ran out of its yard and bit another dog. Wensel was cited for harboring a dangerous dog.
SignIn’ performance to combine popular music, ASL By JOHN BODDINGTON Staff Writer J.M.Boddington@iup.edu
The IUP Sign Language Club will hold the annual SignIn’ performance Saturday and Sunday. Saturday’s performance begins at 7 p.m.; Sunday’s begins at 2 p.m. Performances will take place in Zink Auditorium. “SignIn’ began 25 years ago, when deaf education majors asked the newly arrived professor, Rich Nowell to help them to organize and present performances in American Sign Language,” said Sign Language Club President Murphy Bennett. “Dr. Nowell was assisted for several years by Cindy Rogers, a special education teacher and interpreter for deaf people.” The purpose of this event is to bring those with an interest in sign language together with the arts. The club also tries to generate more awareness of sign langage and the deaf community. Dr. Nancy Benham served as the faculty advisor for SignIn’ for six years; upon her departure from IUP,
Dr. Nowell took charge again. He is assisted by Dr. Wendy Sink, a firstyear professor of deaf education. Sink will become the group’s adviser as of fall 2011, after Nowell’s retirement. Tickets for the show are $5 with an I-Card, $7 without. Some of the students prefoming tomorrow and Sunday are as follows: Paige Douglass (junior, special education), Julia Ihrig (junior, deaf education), Erika Fine (junior, deaf education), Lindsey DePra (senior, deaf education and art education), Anne Fultz (junior, deaf education), Christy Passaratti (junior, special education) and Megan Gilespie (junior, deaf education). “The SignIn’ show is nothing like anything you have ever experienced before,” Bennett said. “We take songs of all different genres and use American Sign Language to interpret the lyrics so that individuals who may be deaf or hard of hearing can enjoy them as well. “However, this show is not only for those with a hearing loss. If you appreciate music and performance you will enjoy the show.”
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Criminology alumni discuss careers By john boddington Staff Writer J.M.Boddington@iup.edu
Six former IUP students returned to campus Wednesday to discuss their accomplishments and the role IUP played in those accomplishments. The panel was held in Sutton Hall. From 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., the panelists gave two presentations, sharing advice with current IUP students. Among those topics were some of the different jobs they have held, experiences they have had, and some of the benefits IUP has given them in the workforce. The panelists were Raymond Robinson, Brad Shultz, Bob Angie,
Jessica Morse and Mike Gardner. They come from a variety of occupations in the field of criminology. Robinson loves working with students and is currently working on obtaining his doctorate. “I like teaching children things and taking them places,” Robinson said. Shultz, a graduate of the police academy, has worked for the state police and worked on the Flight 93 incident. “I was able to learn from people in different fields at IUP, that’s one thing that helped me,” Shultz said. Angie is a District Attorney who started out as a psychology major before changing to law.
“I was able to learn how to learn from different people in different fields,” Angie said. Morse, a 2005 IUP graduate, is a corrections officer with the Indiana county prison. “I learned professionalism from IUP more than anything else,” Morse said. Gardner is a professor at Penn State Altoona and was a private investigator. “Use your time wisely. The fields out there are very competitive,” Gardner said. “IUP helped me with communication; communication is critical to any field, especially in criminal justice,” Robinson said.
Tax plans big on promises, short on details By kevin g. hall McClatchy Newspapers MCT
The deficit-reduction plans offered by President Barack Obama and his Republican nemesis don’t have much in common beyond this: Both envision huge savings by closing popular tax loopholes and bedrock deductions enjoyed by Americans and corporations, but neither one says what it would get rid of in the process. Obama’s speech Wednesday and the “Path to Prosperity” offered by House of Representatives Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., suggest that about $1 trillion in savings is to be had by closing tax loopholes and deductions. These changes would happen in order to bring the top tax rate down to around 25 percent for corporations and individuals. That’s great if they’re serious about it, and it’s a big “if.” They didn’t spell out what they’d scrap on these so-called tax expenditures, so to make good on their promise they’d have to anger the rich, the poor, charities, unions, real estate agents, builders and bankers — just to name a few of those affected. Although neither the president nor Ryan provided details about what popular tax breaks he’d end, they both gave a shout-out to the bipartisan deficit-reduction proposals that the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and the Bipartisan Policy Center offered late last year. Obama welcomed the chairmen of the commission to the White House on Thursday, saying before the meeting that it’s “important that we look at our tax code and find a way to work together.” The separate proposals from the commission and the center provide great detail, calling for scrapping the mortgage-interest deduction and
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the deduction from federal taxes for what homeowners pay in state and local property taxes. Deductions for charitable giving would change, and the so-called Cadillac health care plans offered by employers, which aren’t now treated as income, would lose their tax-break status. “Those four items [...] have extraordinarily active and powerful lobbies behind them, and just those four alone would be a huge bite to swallow, especially if you didn’t touch any of the other tax expenditures, many of which go to larger businesses or other activities we want to encourage” through the tax code, said Steve Bell, a senior director at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a research group whose members are former lawmakers and top staff. “That’s why the fight over eliminating these expenditures will be so nasty and bloody. You will see tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars spent on lobbying.” Bell should know. He was the staff director of the Senate Budget Committee during President Ronald Reagan’s tax overhaul in 1985 and was deeply involved in the Senate’s negotiations to carve out what’s now called the Gramm-RudmanHollings balanced budget act. That law imposed binding caps on federal spending, and the painful experience taught Bell how difficult it will be to undertake serious changes to the sacred cows that are embedded in the tax code. Since the Bipartisan Policy Center and the president’s fiscal commission aren’t constrained by politics, they offered real solutions to the nation’s twin problem of deficits and debt. The center would change the mortgageinterest deduction to a refundable credit, and homeowners with mortgages valued above $500,000 would get no government support in the tax code. Second homes wouldn’t qualify for the tax credit, an idea that won’t sit well with resort communities
on both coasts and in the mountain states. The president’s fiscal commission, similarly, would scrap the mortgageinterest deduction and replace it with a 12 percent nonrefundable tax credit. Needless to say, among those opposed to these ideas are real estate agents, mortgage bankers, homebuilders and the rich. Likewise, governors and mayors across the nation aren’t likely to support the end of federal tax deductions for state and local property taxes, and an end to deductibility for interest on state and municipal bonds. Reagan succeeded in ending deductibility of state sales taxes in 1985, but he failed in his attempt to scrap the deductibility of property taxes. The fiscal commission and the center called for ending this break, which supports real estate investment and development. Few changes would be as controversial as the call in the fiscal commission’s and center’s plans to scrap the 15 percent tax rate on capital gains and dividends, earnings that usually come from stock-market investments. Under both plans, capital gains and dividends would be taxed at the rate of ordinary income. If investors were in the 12 percent or 22 percent incometax rate, that’s the rate they’d be taxed for capital gains and dividends. If they were at the top rate, they’d be taxed at the top rate of 25 to 28 percent. An OMB spokesman, Kenneth Baer, said the administration’s proposed 2012 budget would reduce the maximum rate of itemized deductions for families with taxable income above $250,000, but other than that the White House wasn’t commenting on the specific large cuts the commission and center advocated. “Those bipartisan groups have done a real service by charting out some options for policymakers. It’s going to really help inform this debate [...] over how we get a fiscal plan together,” he said.
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By ida arici Senior Staff Writer I.D.Arici@iup.edu
This year, it seems that Indiana has been unusually cruel when it comes to the weather. One day it is 69 degrees and sunny, the next it is 32 degrees and snowing. Many people commented on the April 1 snowstorm, saying that it was a mean joke from Mother Nature. However, this is not the case; it is just the trend this year. “This year’s pattern was more of a La Niña pattern,” said Dr. Steve Hovan, Geoscience Chairman and professor. “This is when conditions in the Pacific Ocean tend to be warmer in the western part of the Pacific and colder in the eastern part. That usually results in us being a little bit colder and wetter than we normally are.” Changes in atmospheric and oceanic circulation, such as La Niña, El Niño, the North Pacific Oscillation and the North Atlantic Oscillation, affect global patterns. “Springtime is usually our stormiest season, mainly because of the class of really cold air that’s still up north and the fairly warm air that starts to come back from the south,” said Hovan. “When those two clash, a lot of weather develops. This is usually associated with the warm air being forced on top of the cold air,
Nick Fritz/The Penn The average precipitation will be 3.39 inches.
creating lots of storms.” However, weather trends predict that the weather will improve significantly by the end of April. The average precipitation will be 3.39 inches. Average high and low temperatures will be 62 degrees and 41 degrees, respectively, according to Hovan. Good free sources for weather-related information include AccuWeather.com, Weather.com and the Weather Underground (wunderground.com). “In addition, a really good one to use is the one from the National Weather Service,” said Hovan. “They have some interesting maps and data.”
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Thousands rally against higher education cuts By CARLA RIVERA AND LARRY GORDON
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Decrying what they called an assault on higher education, thousands of faculty and students at California State University campuses across the state rallied, marched and held teach-ins Wednesday to protest steep funding cuts and rising tuition. Dubbed the “Day of Class Action,” events were held on all 23 Cal State campuses, featuring speakers, workshops, gospel singers, guerrilla theater and, on one campus, a New Orleans-style “funeral” march. The protests were largely peaceful and there were no reports of disruptions, although student groups staged sit-ins in hallways outside the offices of presidents Jolene Koester at Cal State Northridge and James M. Rosser at Cal State L.A. No arrests were made, and students left the buildings by the end of the day. Peaceful sitins were also held at campuses in Pomona, San Francisco and the East Bay. With education funding at risk and higher tuition possible in many
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states, students and faculty at public universities elsewhere also held rallies and teach-ins Wednesday, including at Portland State in Oregon, Rutgers University in New Jersey and the University of Massachusetts’ Boston campus.
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The goal, organizers said, was to raise public awareness of the consequences of continued disinvestment in higher education and to give faculty and students a greater voice in policy decisions. Public colleges in California, including Cal State, the University of California and the community colleges, have been under particular pressure. Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed cutting $1.4 billion from the state’s higher education budget, potentially leading to enrollment cuts, tuition hikes and pared course offerings. The numbers could grow if a budget stalemate is not overcome. Cal State is set to lose $500 million in state funding, and annual tuition will increase by 10 percent in the fall. At Cal State Long Beach, several hundred students and faculty gathered in front of the student union, where they joined a local gospel choir to sing civil rights songs, including “We Shall Overcome.” Donald Bessom, a political science graduate student, energized the crowd with a message to Cal State administrators and state legislators. “The harder you hit us, the louder we get,” Bessom said, as the crowd cheered. Joe Sanders, a freshman music major at the campus, held a sign that read “Stop the Cuts! Everyone Deserves a Higher Education.” “These cuts are going to affect me for a long time,” said Sanders, 19. “Between the tuition, the costs of student housing and textbooks, I can barely afford to be here. And I’m especially worried about what’s going to happen next year and whether I’ll be able to get all my classes.”
Apple’s bold foray into the world of digital publishing could make it the online gatekeeper for newspaper and magazine content, just as it is for music. But for a plan ostensibly designed to help ailing print publishers sign up new readers and thrive in the digital jungle, the Cupertino, Calif., giant’s new subscription model has met with push-back from the industry, mixed reviews from analysts, and rants from bloggers calling the company everything from monopolist to Mafioso. “Apple envisions a world,” Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey told the BBC, “in which people don’t consume any kind of digital media without its help.” The recurring-payment model, which enables Apple to regularly bill a customer’s credit card through the course of a digital subscription, represents a chest-thumping move by the company. And if successful, it could help fatten its coffers significantly. Not only does Apple take a 30 percent cut for each newspaper or magazine subscriber it enlists through its iTunes store, but it also restricts publishers from selling content for less than they charge through their iPhone and iPad apps, assuring the price within Apple’s walled garden can never be beat. “If you sign up with them, your hands are tied,” said Ron Adner, associate professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. “Apple’s saying to subscribers, ‘You’ll never have reason to leave because your subscription will always be lowest here.’ But this puts the publishers in a world of pain, and because of that I think Apple’s reputation is taking a hit here.” Apple’s not saying much publicly. But its model represents a huge bet that by luring publishers with the prospect of new customers, Apple could position itself as the go-to digital newsstand, mirroring the way its 2001 iPod launch led to its dominance of online music sales. Analysts, however, point out a number of potential stumbling blocks. There are concerns about the plan among European antitrust authorities, which the American Antitrust Institute’s Bob Lande says could put “a target on the company.” Some observers even suggest that by playing hardball with publishers, Apple risks driving customers into the arms of competing tablet-makers. “I think this will ultimately hurt Apple,” said David Wertheimer, executive director of the Entertainment Technology Center at the University of Southern California. “They created all this hope and promise with the iPad as the future of digital-publishing incarnate. Now, they’ve knocked
it down with these restrictive rules, and I think that’s somewhat shortsighted.” Or maybe not. Media analyst Ken Doctor said that “Apple will become A gatekeeper, not THE gatekeeper,” because “core customers who already read a newspaper in print or online are more likely to digitally subscribe through the publisher’s site, while Apple will attract new and younger readers through its Apps Store.” With some analysts estimating 300 million more tablets will be sold by 2014, the bulk of them iPads, Doctor says, “if this plan works, it could be a very profitable new revenue stream for Apple _ you’ve got your hardware, your software, your digital music sales and now your publisher fees.” He said Apple’s new subscription revenue could reach “hundreds of millions of dollars a year.” Apple’s new model certainly has its enticements. It offers publishers instant exposure to legions of potential subscribers now loitering in the Apps Store. And it makes subscribing a snap, through iTunes and its 100 million active credit cards already on file. But it remains unclear what special arrangements, if any, Apple may be making with various print partners. A handful of publishers have taken the plunge, including Rupert Murdoch of News Corp., whose iPad-only digital newspaper The Daily launched around the same time Apple announced its new plan. Gregg Hano, vice president and group publisher of the Bonnier Technology Group, which owns Field & Stream, Popular Photography and other well-known titles, said its decision to offer one-year subscriptions to Popular Science for $14.95 through iTunes resulted in 8,000 new customers in the first three weeks. “We feel strongly that the subscription model is a step in the right direction,” Hano said. “We think this will be an exciting new business model for publishing, the first in a long series of ways for us to monetize our brands.” Yet many publishers fear Apple is putting itself between them and their new customers. Subscribers who sign up under the plan are given the option to share their name, email address and ZIP code with the publisher. But if publishers know nothing about those subscribers who declined to share that information, they’ll have no easy way of customizing content and ads to these shadow customers. “It’s really important to publishers to have access to the people buying their magazines and newspapers,” said Zeke Koch, an Adobe project manager who has worked closely with national publishers on their digital offerings. “That dramatically raises the value of the magazine to advertisers, because readers they know something about are much more valuable than readers they don’t know anything about.”
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Libyan rebels reject peace proposal By ned parker and borzou daragahi Los Angeles Times MCT
Libyan rebels delivered an emphatic no to an African Union proposal for an end to fighting in their country, insisting that Moammar Gadhafi must step down from power as part of any diplomatic solution. The opposition council’s announcement after closed-door talks with an African Union delegation in the rebelheld city of Benghazi quashed hopes for an early end to the nearly 2-monthold conflict between Gadhafi’s forces and opposition fighters in eastern Libya. South African President Jacob Zuma said late Sunday after meeting with Gadhafi in Tripoli, the capital, that Libya’s leader had endorsed the African Union’s roadmap for peace. The proposal includes a cease-fire, the establishment of safe corridors for the delivery of humanitarian aid, and a dialogue on reforming Libya’s political system, which Gadhafi has ruled for more than four decades. Zuma’s comments hinted at a possible diplomatic opening for ending Libya’s stalemate, but the head of the opposition’s political council Mustafa Abdul Jalil summarily dismissed the proposal after the closed-door talks with the African Union delegation. “The African Union initiative does not include the departure of Gadhafi and his sons from the Libyan political scene, therefore it is outdated,” Jalil said. “We will not negotiate on the blood of our martyrs. We will die with them or be victorious.” Jalil said the proposal had been around for more than a month. Rebels also complained that the initiative did not call for Gadhafi to withdraw his forces from besieged cities and did
not allow protests, the latter a key opposition demand. Gadhdafi lost control of eastern Libya in February when anti-government demonstrations, inspired by the ouster of the presidents of Egypt and Tunisia, sparked a full-fledged revolt against the autocratic leader. The eastern rebels were skeptical of the African Union even before the delegation arrived Monday morning. A crowd of more than 2,000 demonstrators greeted the party as it pulled up to the Tibesty Hotel, a dark pyramidshaped building in central Benghazi. Members of the crowd waving rebel flag shouted slogans against Gadhafi and made clear their distrust of the delegation, which included the heads of state of Mali, Mauritania and the republic of Congo, along with representatives from South Africa, Uganda and Algeria. Gadhafi has long wooed neighboring African states with public works projects and has also hired African fighters for his militias, which are now fighting the rebels. NATO also greeted news of Gadhafi’s openness to a cease-fire with suspicion. Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a Brussels news briefing Gadhafi’s forces had demonstrated that they “did not keep their promises,” Reuters news service reported. A key Western ally agreed with the rebels. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told French radio Monday that no deal to end the crisis in Libya could include a future political role for Gadhafi or his sons. “Gadhafi’s children, family cannot take part in the political future of Libya,” said Frattini. Italy maintains strong economic connections to Libya, its former colonial ward.
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Tourism cuts would hurt Pa. economy Editorial Centre Daily Times MCT
Maybe it’s Pennsylvania’s deep heritage as an agricultural and industrial state, but one of the key drivers of the commonwealth’s economy is often overlooked. Tourism is the state’s seventhlargest employer and generates $33 billion in sales statewide, including $516 million in Centre County, according to the most recent data from the state Tourism Office. The industry also contributes $3.4 billion in state and local tax revenue. So, it is somewhat puzzling that state spending on tourism promotion not only declined slowly during the Rendell administration, it would take a whopping 70 percent cut under Gov. Tom Corbett’s proposed 2011-12 budget. Tourists – whether out of state or Pennsylvanians traveling to instate venues – buy gas, eat in restaurants, shop and stay in hotels, to name only a few examples of where their dollars are spent. In addition to full-time employees, tourism is also a good source
of seasonal jobs for college and high school students – employment that is basically a must these days for any student from a middle- class family trying to afford higher education. All of this brings us to two major local developments in recent weeks – the opening of Penn State’s $10.2 million Nittany Lion Softball Park, and several key steps taken by the Centre Region Council of Governments toward three regional parks that have been on the drawing board for a decade. The 1,084-seat Penn State softball complex will be more than a beautiful new playpen for the Lions and their Big Ten foes; it will also attract state high school championships, state playoff games and major amateur tournaments. These events will bring players and fans who will shop, dine and travel around the area. Although not on as grand a scale, but probably of greater personal interest for most local residents, are the COG’s approval of a master site plan for the John Hess Softball Complex; the addition of a fourth softball field to the site plan for Oak Hall Regional Complex; and a
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first-phase development timeline for Whitehall Road Regional Park. While these parks are primarily intended for local use, do not underestimate the attraction of new fields and amenities for tournaments that are highly popular among girls and adult softball leagues. These teams travel long distances from within Pennsylvania and even out of state to compete in what are often weekend-long tournaments that include entry fees, and whose players and families require lodging, food, and, well, you get the idea. In all likelihood, the new Penn State complex and three regional parks will easily pay for themselves and contribute significantly to the local economy. But it’s also important to remember that tourism and recreational investments go beyond dollars and cents, particularly in the case of the three regional parks being developed. Yes, they should provide great personal enjoyment for many children and their families for a long time, as well as anybody who just enjoys watching a good ballgame. You can’t put a price tag on that.
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Remember Chandra Levy? How about Natalee Holloway? Nothing is more effective at triggering a media frenzy than the disappearance of an attractive young white woman. That’s what happened when Levy, a Washington intern, vanished in 2001 and Holloway disappeared in Aruba four years later. Sadly, things are different when the woman has accepted money for sex. Police have so far found the bodies of four young white women, all prostitutes, in scrubby dunes on the beaches of New York’s Long Island (five and possibly six more sets of remains are unidentified). The women had been missing for months or even years. None will ever be as famous as Levy or Holloway, who weren’t prostitutes. It’s hard to see what change in law might save someone from being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But some of the Gilgo Beach deaths might well have been averted if we could just get over the idea that laws against prostitution make the world a better place for women. Prostitution is distasteful to many people, of course, but that is no justification for laws against it, since on that basis Brussels sprouts and loud neckties might also be banned. The difference is that prostitution is supposedly harmful, and so the government bars people from trading sex for money. Yet the worst thing about prostitution is the risk of violence and abuse to which prostitutes are subjected by the very laws that drive the trade underground. In our eagerness to legislate virtue, we are endangering the lives of women. I suspect our laws in this arena have more to do with the desire to regulate sex than to protect anyone from violence. In many places, once upon a time, it was illegal to have sex with a member of a different race
or a person of the same sex. These laws are seen as absurd and intrusive nowadays, and where they linger, they mostly go unenforced. It’s time to extend this perspective to prostitution, which is not going away anytime soon no matter how many laws we adopt or how draconian the punishment. It is simply nobody else’s business if consenting adults decide to have sex, whatever their motivation. It’s been said that prostitution degrades women. But it’s even more degrading to suggest women need society to make such choices for them—or to force prostitution into the shadows, where women are excluded from the protection of the law and subject to exploitation. Many people take the illegality of prostitution for granted, but the United States (aside from Nevada) is one of the few Western nations that make it a crime. And selling sex for money is safer in a regulated setting, as reported by women in legal brothels — in Nevada, the Netherlands and Australia — that have screening, surveillance and alarm systems. “Sex workers can be victimized anywhere,” says Ronald Weitzer, a George Washington University sociologist who has studied the subject, “but in general they are less vulnerable where their work has been decriminalized and where they no longer operate in a clandestine manner.” In studying a legal brothel in Mexico, the anthropologist Patty Kelly, also of GWU, found that the women had rationally chosen an occupation offering pay and working conditions superior to the alternatives. The women also made their own hours, set their own prices, and decided what they would do and with whom. Sexually transmitted disease and violence were less prevalent than on the streets, and there were virtually no pimps. It’s too late for the women found in the dunes. But their deaths can inspire us to save others by decriminalizing what they did for money, no matter how much we may disapprove of it.
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Less violent schools Editorial The Philadelphia Inquirer MCT
Ask a general how to solve a problem and he’ll say send in the troops. Ask a police chief how to solve a problem and he’ll say send in the cops. Yes, that’s an oversimplification. But it adds perspective to Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey’s assertion that putting armed police in the schools is the best way to reduce the daily violence inside of them. Why Mayor Nutter also seems to accept that reasoning is not as easily explained. That having armed cops walk the halls isn’t the answer to school violence is confirmed by Ramsey himself, who said the officers would mostly act as mentors. That’s noble. But there are better suited persons than uniformed officers to make adolescents feel comfortable talking about why they are acting out. Ramsey, though, does put his fin-
ger on the root of this mess. As a recent Inquirer series of articles also pointed out, the School District has done a patently poor job of making the schools safe. Commissioner Ramsey and the mayor aren’t the only ones who doubt the district will ever be able to correct the situation. But the district does have programs that have reduced violence. The problem is those programs aren’t being used effectively, if at all, in all the schools where students and teachers fear for their lives. Instead of making schools look like prisons, look at what’s working in the schools successfully addressing violence and replicate it in those doing a poor job. If you treat students like inmates, you can expect them to act like it. Not to mention that adding firearms to any volatile situation is a recipe for a potential tragedy. That’s not to say there isn’t a need for a greater police presence at the most violent schools. Many of the worst incidents involving students occur outside the school buildings either before or
after classes. Perhaps the 78 officers now deployed outside some schools should be increased. Their deployment might even occur with little additional expense, if it’s only a matter of moving officers from a routinely quiet location to a school setting at specific times of each day. The statistics paint a disturbing picture of daily life inside Philadelphia’s public schools. But few of the incidents involved weapons or another situation where an armed officer was needed. In many cases, violence might be reduced by adding more security guards, monitors, aides, and even volunteers to be the eyes and ears in a school’s halls. Of course, the police must be responsive when they are needed quickly. More importantly, the School District must better utilize effective anti-violence programs that identify students who need help controlling their behavior. But those who can’t or won’t be helped must be removed so they don’t endanger children and teachers.
There’s a reason the Easter Bunny symbolizes spring. Bunnies are pretty prolific, and spring is supposed to be the season of rebirth and new life. But you’re a college student. So maybe you act like a bunny, but you don’t want to reproduce like one. That’s a pretty good life choice. Raising a child and being a full-time student is no easy feat, one that most people who have been in the situation wouldn’t wish on anyone. Beyond the prospect of a screaming and crying little byproduct of sexual activity, there are those STIs to worry about. Met someone at a bar and want to take him or her home? Well, that person might not actually be as attractive as you think right now, but if you’re dead-set on being bedfellows, you should definitely take precautions. Be cautious even if you know your partner. Some STIs don’t show signs, and they could be a silent, nasty leftovers from a previous partner. It’s not exactly the kind of present you want popping up in your Easter Basket. Everyone knows abstinence education is pretty ineffective amongst hormone-ridden high-schoolers. We wager it’s even less effective for college students, who kept the hormones and added alcohol. That being said, be safe out there. It sucks that we live in a country where people tell you to be safe about sex if you’re going to have it, then shame you while you’re buying condoms, but don’t let judging eyes keep you from making the purchase. That embarrassing five minutes and $10 expenditure could prevent astronomical costs for topical cream or diapers down the road. If you really can’t afford condoms or birth control, there are options out there. Sometimes one of the funniest things about college is walking through the Oak Grove and literally having condoms thrown at you. Make sure they come from a legitimate organization, and then use away. The programs that provide them for your use really do want you to use them. They wouldn’t have purchased them otherwise. There are lower-cost options for the pill out there too. Parting words of wisdom from The Penn: Wrap your tool.
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IUP NAACP to host MS/MG walk By keith vislay Staff Writer K.D.Vislay@iup.edu
The immune system fights to keep us healthy, however, for those afflicted with Myasthenia Gravis, also known as MG, and Multiple Sclerosis, also known as MS, the immune system is one of its worst enemies. These diseases are considered autoimmune, which means the immune system mistakes a natural part of the body for something foreign and dangerous. To fight against this cause, IUP’s NAACP chapter is hosting a walk to raise money and awareness for these two diseases. The walk will begin from the HUB at 11 a.m. April 30 and finish at Memorial Field House around 1 p.m. Tyvon Watson, the brother of IUP NAACP president Tiara Johnson will be at the finish line to thank the walkers for their support and tell them a little about how it is for him to live with MG. “I know, for my mother and me, it
“I know, for my mother and me, it was a difficult time to find out about my brother’s disease.� —Tiara Johnson
was a difficult time to find out about my brother’s disease,� said Johnson. “It was very difficult to see him so young going through the different side effects and symptoms. It means a lot to me to get people’s attention on these two non-curable diseases.� According to NationalMSSociety. org, whenever someone has MS, the immune system targets the central nervous system. Helpful immune cells then begin to erode the myelin sheath, which is the protective covering over nerve cells, and sometimes also damage the nerve cells themselves. Once these nerves are damaged, they are no longer able to properly transmit signals and may leave the person feeling anything from
numbness in their limbs to complete paralysis or blindness. According to Myasthenia.org, with MG, antibodies produced by the body’s immune system interfere with impulses fired by nerves, preventing muscle contraction. The muscles affected by this disease are the voluntary ones, most commonly the muscles around the eyes and the ones that control facial expressions and swallowing. The most notable signs of MG are weakness in the eye muscles and slurred speech due to nonreactive muscles. To register for the walk, stop by the NAACP office in the HUB and fill out a registration form. If people are registering with an organization/group of 10 people, the fee is $30, however, if people are signing up as an individual, the fee is only $5. T-shirts will be available to purchase at the price of $5. All proceeds will be split 50/50 and be donated to MG and MS foundations.
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out,� said field hockey head coach Gary Agard. There will be shoes, as well as apparel, for sale in a range of prices Back by popular demand is the and many known brands will also be available. field hockey sneaker sale. This sale will also This is the second feature a “buy one get sneaker sale for the field one free� deal. hockey team during the There will be a 2010-2011 school year. deal of “buy one The sneaker sale is get one free� if to work as a paying with fundraiser for the cash and team, helping to “buy one fund items that get one half the team needs, off� if paying such as Dreamstime with a credit clothing, trips, card. scholarships and The sale wil be any located in Memorial Field other related expenses. House in the auxiliary gym. “Last year there was a decent turn out, but this time we’re The sale will take place on Tuesday, expecting [an even] bigger turn April 19 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Senior Staff Writer I.J.Dillard@iup.edu
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Sorority plan to host event dedicated to eating disorder prevention By aleda johnson Contributing Writer A.K.Johnson2@iup,edu
Delta Phi Epsilon, an international sorority, will host A.N.A.D Week, also known as the organization of the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders week, from April 18-22 in support of patients suffering from Anorexia Nervosa and other disorders. According to A.N.A.D.org, it is a non-profit corporation that seeks to prevent and alleviate the problems of eating disorders, especially including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. Delta Phi Epsilon is an advocate nationwide for A.N.A.D. It helps to raise money every year for counseling and medical help for patients with these disorders. “We want to break out of the Greek community and get involved in the Indiana community too,” said Sara Rice (senior, Spanish/operations management), the IUP chapter’s vice president. She also hopes that not just students, but faculty and others from the community will come out to help make the events a success. A.N.A.D Week will include a body image workshop, a documentary, demonstrations of healthy exercises,
a community night at Cici’s Pizza, movie night and a candlelight vigil. Health AWAREness will host the body image workshop 7:30 p.m., April 18 in Ackerman Hall, room 110B. The workshop will include a PowerPoint presentation and a short documentary. After that, there will be a discussion on the organization and how to help those suffering from eating disorders. Additionally, there will be an open session of questions and answers. At 6:30 p.m., in the HUB Ohio Room, a documentary will be shown. The documentary will discuss the struggles of those who suffer from eating disorders. Next will be a 75-minute healthy workout session will begin, run by a ZUMBA instructor and IUP alumna, Michelle Gilboy, the international president for the sorority. The workout aims to show participants how healthy exercise should be done. Participants for the exercise session are asked to register in advance with the cost of $5 per person. They must also sign a liability waiver. Between 1-7 p.m., April 20, there will be a Cici’s Community Night held at the Cici’s Pizza, located in Regency Mall. Supporters are asked go to Cici’s during the specified time to help
raise money. While paying, diners should tell the server that they are supporting Delta Phi Epsilon and 10 percent of the proceeds will go to the organization. At 8 p.m. that night, the candlelight vigil will be held near the steps of Sutton Hall to remember those who have struggled with eating disorders. Guest speaker Nicole Schiebel will speak at the event about a personal experience with her aunt, who was tragically killed by a car while jogging. Her aunt had suffered from Anorexia Nervosa and would overexercise as a result. The eventful week will close out with a movie night at 8 p.m., April 21 in Pratt Auditorium, located in Pratt Hall. The movie “Shallow Hal” will be shown. According to The Internet Movie Database’s website, IMDb. com, the romance comedy is about a shallow man who falls in love with a 300-pound woman because of her “inner beauty.” During the events, the sorority will be selling bracelets bearing the A.N.A.D motto, which says, “Accept yourself, accept others,” for $2 each. She hopes that not just students, but faculty and others from the community will come out to help make the events a success.
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Brandon Oakes Famous for the sexual advice that she provides, Sue Johanson will return to IUP to give her last free show 6-7:30 p.m., April 18, in Fisher Auditorium.
Sue Johanson returns to IUP By Vaughn johnson and ticairra bazemore The Penn Staff the-penn@iup.edu
From a Canadian nurse to worldrenowned “sex-pert,” Sue Johanson has come a long way. She has traveled up and down roads, spoken on people’s television and radio waves, educating people about sex. That long road is supposed to come an end, for the United States anyway, 6-7:30 p.m., April 18 at IUP’s Fisher Auditorium as The Entertainment Network presents a free show as her last in the country. Johanson, whose career has spanned from the classroom to the television, is most known for hosting “Sunday Night Sex,” which was broadcasted on Canada’s Q107 and “Talk Sex with Sue Johanson,” which was at one time Oxygen’s most watched show in the United States. Despite this appearance being advertised as her last show in the United States, during a phone interview April 13, Johanson said she’s not so sure about it. “I’m trying to retire, but I’m not doing to well at it,” she said. “I keep getting beautiful invitations to do great shows and presentations in both Canada and the United States and I just can’t say no. It’s a female problem.” Johanson said that she simply loves what she does. She loves talking to students across North America and educating them about sex. “The only problem is particularly getting into the States,” Johanson said. “Customs don’t really appreciate me traveling to the United States because I’m Canadian. So that’s a bit of a problem.” “I’m not carving it in stone,” Johanson said about IUP being her last show in the U.S. Johanson grew up Kenora in northern Ontario. After she graduated from high school she decided to take up a career in nursing. She eventually established the Don Mills Collegiate
Birth Control Clinic, the first of its kind in North America. While working there she realized that kids were taking proper precautions in protecting themselves, but still did not know anything about sex. She saw that even her own children were not being educated about sex in their schools. Johanson took it upon herself to teach it to them. She went back to school at University of Toronto Institute of Human Relations and became a qualified counselor and sex educator. She gained notoriety for her vast knowledge of sex all over Canada and her sense of humor caught the attentions of radio and television stations in the U.S. “It’s a compliment,” Johanson said about the notoriety she gained. “It’s flattering. It is also shows a need for permission to talk about sex. There are lots of people who know a lot about sex, but they don’t [teach it] at schools and universities. They don’t have permission to talk about it from the powers that be whereas I’m older, I’m not sexy, I’m safe, […] and I have credibility.” Johanson performed at IUP two years ago at Fisher in front of a very large crowd of students and Indiana residents that were lined up in the Oak Grove an hour before the show. Johanson said that she told security to let the people in early as she enjoyed the excitement the people in attendance had for her. “Who cares,” Johanson said. “Let the kids socialize. Treat them like adults for goodness sakes.” “In the last five years, kids have changed a lot,” Johanson said. “About five years ago, I found an audience of kids were rowdy and it was hard to get them to settle down and now, today, it’s as if they are dead serious and they are going to take as much information as they can and they are polite.” As for when her career of touring is actually going to end, Johanson doesn’t know that quite yet. To her, talking to college students across the continent is easy, and very satisfying.
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Four six-figure trades that can be learned,achieved By BRANDON RITTEL MCT
Finding a job these days can be a full-time job in itself. Even after long days in front of the computer searching endless job postings, most of the interesting positions with good pay seem out of reach. The following careers are currently in high demand and have the potential to earn more than six-figures. Some may require additional training or certification, but the small investment of time can pay off big time in your pocketbook. 1. Radiation therapist Most people think getting a high-paying career in the medical field requires years of schooling and a massive amount of debt. While that’s one way to go, a career as a radiation therapist is much more accessible and can be quite lucrative. As the number of patients increases, due to aging Baby Boomers, doctors’ offices need trained individuals capable of operating high-tech equipment. Radiation therapists help locate tumors, administer treatment and monitor patient progress. This can be a rewarding career not just financially, but personally as well. 2. Financial advisor As times change, the reliability of a retirement fund isn’t what it used to be. Many Americans are trying to figure out how to plan for the future and be prepared for retirement on their own. This is where your six-figure job comes in. Obtaining a Certified Financial Planner certificate will help set you
apart from the crowd. While not required, it can be completed in two years or less and many courses are available online. This job also allows for the flexibility of working for a financial-planning firm or for yourself. Top earners make nearly $140,000 annually. 3. Medical equipment sales manager As a poor college student, I worked for just a weekend in door-to-door sales and quickly realized I wasn’t a salesman. For that special type who can always close a sale, the medical sales industry is a good place to start looking for jobs. Many states offer an eight-week training program that helps people with sales backgrounds prepare for a career in medical sales. As the population continues to age and medical technology advances, the demand for medical products is growing rapidly. Income potential can be as much or as little as you want, but top earners in medical sales make more than $137,000 per year. 4. Global supply chain manager Is that four-year degree from a university not pulling its weight? If you’ve already earned a degree but it’s taking you down a dead-end street, consider getting a two-year master’s degree in supply chain management. Supply chain managers make companies run smoothly behind the scenes. They assure employers take and deliver orders across the world in the most efficient way possible. Qualified supply chain managers are in short supply right now and top earners are making well over $130,000 every year.
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Style tips from unexpected sources By megan k. collins MCT
Dr. Seuss said, “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” That’s why, this week, I suggest you take style cues from a baby. One, in particular — my niece Maya. After spending the weekend in Washington, D.C., hanging out with my 11-month-old niece, I realized she had some style tips worth sharing. Yes, her parents dress her, and no, she doesn’t have a say in the matter, but it’s nonetheless my (totally unbiased) opinion that she’s a very stylish baby. Don’t worry, I’m not about to suggest you start sporting onesies and elasticized bows on your head, but I do think there are lessons to be learned about living a stylish life that babies seem to have mastered pretty early, while we could use a refresher course. And so, pearls of wisdom from a soon-to-be 1-year-old, below: Embrace color Saturday morning, I dressed my niece in a lime green top, pink leggings and yellow socks. Paging Punky Brewster? Maybe, but she worked it. Maya’s not afraid to rock color, and you shouldn’t be either. Start small – maybe a pink tie, or green socks that bring out your eyes. Yes, a wardrobe of neutrals is easy to match in the morning, but it can also
get a little dull. A good attitude is your most stylish accessory. I’m what you might call “terrible with children.” That is, until I met my niece. She doesn’t seem to mind that I make her formula wrong, or don’t know the words to any nursery rhymes. She still drinks the milk, and laughs at my rendition of Salt ‘n Pepa’s “Shoop” (hey, it rhymes!). She seems to know that’s all you can do sometimes. Whatever less-than-ideal situation you find yourself in, breaking down is not an attractive option. Yes, you could fall apart, or you could smile and go with it. I suggest the latter. Don’t be too cool to dance. My niece recently picked up this great new party trick where she shimmies her shoulders side to side when she hears a song she likes. Usually that song is “Wheels On The Bus” though I got her grooving to the Rolling Stones while babysitting Saturday night (c’mon Mom and Dad, expose the child to some non-nursery classics!). Personally, I can’t dance. At all. But I’m the first to get on the dance floor at a wedding, birthday or a friend’s living room when the latest Lady Gaga song comes on. And I have more fun for it. Be the guy that’s not too cool to dance. To anything. Ever.
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Try harder My niece is on the verge of walking. She’s gone from crawling, to kneeling, to standing while holding on to the coffee table. She hasn’t let go yet, but you can tell she’s ready to take her first step at any minute. What do you want? To get the promotion? The girl? The six-pack? Try harder. You won’t regret the extra effort when you finally take that first step. Eat (Live) healthy Saturday night I fed my niece a dinner of pureed spinach and carrots. After she went to bed, I ate an entire frozen pizza by myself and washed it down with a Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi. I also felt like crap the next day while she woke up with the sun, ready to play. Get more flies with honey My niece is a shameless flirt. With the grandma behind us in the grocery store checkout line, the man waiting next to us for our drinks at Starbucks. Everyone who comes in contact with her gets a coy smile, a tilted head, and that’s it, they’re hers. Why not be that guy? The guy that gets everywhere with flattery? I don’t want you to be insincere, but acting politely instead of like a jerk seems to be a good strategy to me.
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Toms Shoes founder keeps a lid on it By booth moore Los Angeles Times MCT
Toms Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie is one of my favorite Angelenos, if you can call him one, as he spends so much of his time traveling on shoe drops in South America and Africa and giving speeches about his One for One business model (for every pair of shoes sold, a pair is donated to someone in need). I caught up with him over tea at his Santa Monica, Calif., office recently, and even though I had to use my BlackBerry, I wanted to take a picture of his wonderfully wacky outfit. He was wearing a nubby Edun cardigan with pants he picked up at a market in Nepal and carrying his journal, purchased at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. He was also wearing Toms, of course, from the latest collection, inspired by the journals and images left by activist Dan Eldon, the young photographer who was killed in 1993 covering the war in Somalia. (The shoes have a fingerprint-print, which Mycoskie took from Eldon’s passport.) It’s appropriate that Mycoskie looks a little like a guru, because thousands of people from Seattle to Tampa and points between followed him Tuesday in spending a day without shoes to raise awareness for those who do not have a choice. AOL employees, including Arianna Huffington, went barefoot, and so did the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, Charlize Theron and Russian model Anna Vyalitsyna. It was quite a turnout, especially considering the brand isn’t yet 5 years old. Mycoskie recently commissioned studies to measure the effect of the million-plus pairs of shoes that Toms has donated worldwide. Not that he’s anywhere close to completing his goal of stamping out foot diseases that can spread from the ground to bare feet. To that end, on June 7, he’s announcing a new product that will
guide the next phase of growth for his business. But he’s keeping that product shrouded in mystery — literally hidden in a box, which he presented to an audience for the first time last month while giving the keynote speech at a South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. I tried to play 20 questions with him. Is it bigger than a breadbox? Will it sell at the same stores as Toms shoes? Is it a product in the fashion space? But he wouldn’t budge. He says his staff doesn’t even know what it is. He asked retailers to purchase the product sight unseen. “If they open the box and don’t think (the product) is a fit for them, they can send it back to us,” he said. “And I do believe it can be sold in 50 percent of our stores, and that it will open up new doors, and new places. Our first big retail account was actually a furniture store,” he pointed out. The plan for June 7 is to distribute 200 of the mystery boxes to influential people around the world, and to have them open the boxes simultaneously. (Which could be exciting, considering the folks with whom Mycoskie keeps company — such as Bill Clinton and Morgan Spurlock.) Until then, we’ll just have to keep guessing. From a fashion perspective, it’s incredible how many people are wearing Toms, which seem to be almost as popular as flip-flops. In June, the summer collection will land in stores, with a very cool-looking crochet style. And for fall, Toms has collaborated with the Row on a collection of shoes designed by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Mycoskie is also putting the finishing touches on his first book, titled “Start Something That Matters,” out Sept. 6. “It’s the No. 1 question I get asked: ‘I have an idea, how do I get it started?’ And I think I have some ideas to help people with that,” he said.
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New perfume scents welcome spring season By melissa magsaysay Los Angeles Times MCT
Southern California weather doesn’t change too drastically from winter to spring and there’s no specially branded latte being served at Starbucks to nudge us into the next season, but we can count on lighter fragrances to bring on the feeling of bright sunshine, blue skies and longer days. Spring’s newest fragrance releases are whisper soft but upbeat and bright with citrus, fruit, aquatic and floral notes — qualities many women look for when adding a new scent to their fragrance wardrobes. “Springtime always calls for a change of pace from the colder months, where people tend to prefer warmth, woods, spice and all things comforting,” says Adam Eastwood, co-founder of luckyscent.com, a website that sells hard-to-find fragrances from all over the world. “Every spring, without fail, people come looking for something fresh or floral or both. Here in Los Angeles, the pink jasmine that blooms in February and March seems to intoxicate us.” Ron Robinson, owner of Ron Robinson at Fred Segal and creator of the Apothia line of perfumes and candles, says women seek out bright citrus notes with leafy green accents as well as lighter floral notes, such as
peony, and softer blossoms, such as orange and plum. From a mermaid-inspired aquatic concoction to a spin on a Calvin Klein classic, here are the newest spring scents hitting stores this season. Jo Malone Tea Fragrance blends $55 for each 30 ml bottle at www. jomalone.com This limited-edition collection of tea-based scents gives the tradition of tea service a modern twist. Each of the four fragrances is based on blends of tea or tea accompaniments, such as the Sweet Milk scent that would work for someone who likes vanilla, chocolate, coconut or other creamy notes in perfume. There’s also a Sweet Lemon scent, which fortunately smells nothing like an aerosol can of Pledge. It’s light, a little sugary and smells like it has a hint of mint in it. The Fresh Mint Leaf scent is nice and airy but smells a little too similar to our favorite pack of gum, midchew. Not bad for fighting bad breath, but maybe a little too clean and minty for the skin. It could be nice layered with another one of the scents. As each formula is subtle, they lend themselves to being layered and mixed together, kind of like, well, tea. Malone has taken her famous Grapefruit scent and mixed in an herbaceous Assam black tea. The result
How to wear acid brights this spring By MELISSA MAGSAYSAY Los Angeles Times MCT
Vivid bursts of juicy color are popping up in clothes, accessories and makeup this spring. And although they are inspiring to see and indicative of warm, sunny days to come, such bold hues can be intimidating to wear. It’s easiest to start with brightcolored accessories, such as shoes or a bag. Wear them with basic neutrals such as a white or black top and jeans or a simple white dress so the accessory pops and becomes the focal point of the ensemble. Bright accessories are certainly fun. Kate Spade’s Scout bag comes in an eye-catching lemon yellow, as well as a watermelon pink for the daring. A pink stripe down the front of an orange Marc Jacobs bag is the right amount of flash for those who are more conservative when it comes to color. The Belle shoe by Sigerson Morrison is a fuchsia flat with a tan
cap-toe that’s a nice blend of bold and neutral. But what I think is a trickier aspect of this trend is how to wear brightly colored separates without looking or feeling like a clown. I was a bit perplexed myself until I was at a lunch recently and ran into fashion publicist Lauren Urband, who represents Kate Spade. She showed how bright colors worn together can look bold and beautiful. Urband was wearing a vivid purple sleeveless Kate Spade blouse with a pair of shocking-orange cropped pants from Jil Sander. She tempered the bold pieces with nude pointy-toe Valentino heels with little spikes on the shoe and a pair of tortoise-shell sunglasses from Norma Kamali. The combination of colors and neutrals was just right, and she certainly stood out in the crowd, but without looking over the top. So take a cue from this example and pair bright-colored separates. Just temper them with nude shoes and subtle or no accessories.
is a beautiful blend of smooth tea punctuated with bright notes of soft citrus. Musky Earl Grey tea is freshened up with cucumber, bergamot and vanilla. This is surprisingly sweet and smells pretty spot-on to a cup of Earl Grey with milk and sugar. Marc Jacobs Daisy Eau So Fresh $85 for 4.2 fl oz at www.daisymarcjacobs.com A warm-weather version of Marc Jacobs’ Daisy, this formula is packed with fruity overtones that scream for a stroll down Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade to duck into youthdriven stores like Forever 21 and Zara. The hardest-hitting floral note here is the violet, which comes through as sugary sweet and candy-like, along with top notes of red grapefruit and pear and base notes of musk, plum and cedar wood. G of the Sea $45 for 30 ml at Sephora This is the first stand-alone fragrance for the Gwen Stefani or “G” character in the collection of Harajuku Lovers perfumes. For the first time, the blond is not flanked by the other Harajuku girl characters that are also faces of the Harajuku Lovers perfumes, and her independence seems to work. G of the Sea is bright, light and fresh — and good for anyone who likes an aquatic scent sparkling
MCT Spring’s newest fragrance releases are whisper soft but upbeat and bright with citrus, fruit, aquatic and floral notes.
with tart apples. Water lily and berries accompany the tart apples as top notes, freesia and jasmine sit in the middle, and that base is made up of musk and amber. Eternity Summer $56 for 3.4 fl oz at www.calvinkleinfragrances.com There’s really no better name for
this scent than Summer. It’s creamy but light and smells like bronzed summer skin after a fresh coat of sunblock has been applied. The notes of cilantro and violet give this a slightly green quality without being too crisp or citrusy. There are also notes of gardenia and lotus lily in the middle, as well as creamy musk, mimosa and fig wood as the base.
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able to hold him off. This marked the second-straight year the Crimson Hawks have had the medalist in the invitational, with The Crimson Hawks were able Boyle joining last year’s winner Gavin to hold off a surging Concord team Smith. to win the IUP-Cecil Spadafora Derek Baker finished fourth in the Invitational Monday with Brad Boyle tournament with a 147, Leo Acklin winning the individual and Zack Kempa tied for contest and IUP taking 13th with a 150 and Sean home the team trophy. Sweithelm was 16th with Even though the a 151. Crimson Hawks took In the 19-team field, IUP a 17-shot lead into the and Concord were clearly final round, the Concord the two stand out schools Mountain Lions did not in the tournament. back down. Concord had Concord defeated four golfers that shot a third-place Clarion by Boyle 74 or better on the course 21 shots. The Mountain that was a par 71. IUP was Lions were the No.1-ranked able to hold them off and win their team in the Atlantic Region before second-straight IUP-Cecil Spadafora the Invitational one-ahead of the Invitational since Concord defeated Crimson Hawks. them in 2009. As the team moves into the Boyle’s tournament went just as NCAA Super Regionals, IUP hopes well as the team’s. Boyle began the it can have success over teams like final round with a seven-shot lead Concord. after shooting a 64 (-7) in the first The team heads to Hersey from round. May 2-4 for the big tournament. After a 74 in the final round, If IUP wins, the Hawks could see he was challenged by Concord’s action in the national tournament at Andres Reideborn, but Boyle was Muscle Shoals in mid-May.
The Crimson Hawks struggled to keep Slippery Rock from a late comeback, but managed to win 11-10 Tuesday night in an overtime thriller. The first half saw limited action, with the Hawks were up 5-1 at the break. The second half was a different story, as IUP’s momentum began to shift in favor of Slippery Rock, who outscored the Hawks, 9-4. “They came out for the second half really hard and fired up,” IUP Head Coach Mindy Richmond said. “They got the advantage because they were winning ball controls, so we weren’t able to possess the ball on attack as much as we did in the first half.” With a little more than five minutes left in the game, Alex Lodovici found the back of the net to put the Hawks up, 10-9. From there, all they had to do was hold the lead, and they were headed to victory. When most teams have the lead with under 10 seconds to play, it would be safe to say that they walk away victorious, but unfortunately for the Hawks that was not the case. With just eight seconds to play in
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regulation Slippery Rock’s Casey Quinn put the ball passed goalie Kaitlin Sterling for the tie and sent the game into overtime. “I felt bad for the girls,” Richmond said. “They played hard, and at this point they started getting anxious. Right before the overtime period started, I tried to calm them down. I told them they need to take a deep breath and compose themselves, we need to finish this game.” At the end of the first three minutes, the game was still at a gridlock. The teams switched sides for the second three minutes and, with 19 seconds left, Becca Vogt tallied in the go ahead goal. The celebration didn’t begin there, as Slippery Rock still had a chance to tie the game. As the final ticks went off the clock, the Hawks defense was able to prevent a duplicate of Slippery Rock tying the game at the end of regulation, coming away with the win. “It makes me really proud of the girls that they were able to step up and pull out a win,” Richmond said. “This team has been through a lot over the past couple years, and it’s taken us a long time to understand what it takes to finish a big game. Slippery Rock is always a close game, so it was a huge win for us.”
Despite getting the game-winning goal, Becca Vogt was more proud of the fact the Hawks won. “It was cool to get the winning goal,” Vogt said. “But it would have been just as cool if it were someone else. Getting the W is what’s important.” Vogt finished the game with four goals and also had three assists to her credit. Vogt wasn’t the only shining star of the game. Colleen Berlin was a big contributor, as she was able to find the net on three occasions. “It makes me feel really good about myself because I was able to contribute and help out my teammates,” Berlin said. Not only did Berlin have a lot to do with this game, but she has been putting up numbers and playing well all year. As a freshman, that is no easy thing to do. “As a freshman I impress myself,” Berlin said. “Being able to play with other players that I look up to makes me feel really good to contribute as such a young player.” IUP has a conference matchup against Kutztown 4 p.m. today at George P. Miller stadium, followed by a key PSAC game 1 p.m. Saturday against West Chester.
IUP athletes receive PSAC Top 10 Award secutive trips to the Sweet 16, includHynson is one of IUP’s all-time ing IUP’s first trip to the national title great swimmers, holding four school game in 2010. records and PSAC records in the 200 In the classroom, however, Rocco butterfly and 200 backstroke, among The PSAC announced the was already reccountless other PSAC Winter 2010-11 Top 10 ognized for his titles to go along with Award winners, and two accolades by being being named a six-time IUP student-athletes were the NCAA Elite 88 All-American. named to the list. award last year. In the classroom, IUP men’s basketball He posts a GPA Hynson has a perfect 4.0 player Joe Rocco and IUP of 3.96, majoring GPA while majoring in swimmer Jackie Hynson in biology-with speech pathology. were awarded the distinconly one B in She is also a member tion for their academic and during his colof the Cook Honors College Hynson athletic achievements. Rocco lege career. He at IUP. Rocco is a reserve guard will graduate in May The Top 10 award is selected for the IUP men’s basketball team and and will then attend medical school by the conference’s sports information has contributed to two-consecutive at either Penn State or University of directors. The award was first given in PSAC championships and two-con- Pittsburgh. the 1997-98 school year.
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Penguins blank Lightning, 3-0 By Alycia King Staff Writer A.L.King@iup.edu
One step on a long journey to a championship complete. The Penguins pulled out all of the stops in a 3-0 victory over their first-round opponent, the Tampa Bay Lightning. The game stayed close. No scores for the first two periods until Alex Kovalev tallied the first goal. The Pens continued on a roll 18 seconds later when Arron Asham scored. With Pittsburgh up 2-0 and half a period to go, the Lightning had to do something, but they came up short. Chris Kunitz ended it with 48 seconds left and his empty-net goal. Tampa was only three points behind the Pens in the standings, with 103. The last time the two teams met before the playoffs was March 31, a game that did not end in Pittsburgh’s favor. The Lightning went up 2-0 in the first period and the Pens didn’t score until the third. Though the 2-1 loss wasn’t bad, it came after a 5-2 loss to the Flyers. In the four games played this season against the Lightning, the Pens took two, Tampa took two. The 3-0 score of the first playoff game should not be a surprise if fans remember the 8-1 win Jan. 5. That doesn’t mean that the Pens will not have to work to win this series. The Lightning did beat the Pens twice this season. Watch for the Penguins to come out pumped and ready in Friday night’s game. They have achieved the first feat, the first game is done. As long as the team doesn’t think too much about what they have accomplished, they should win this series in five games. I know fans, they shutout the team in the first game, they should win the series in four games. I’m simply allowing for the slipup. The bad penalty, the badly timed hit. Speaking of hits, did anyone notice Matt Cooke wasn’t on the ice? If this isn’t an indication of what the team can do without him, I don’t know what other evidence there
By MIKE WILSON Staff Writer M.J.Wilson3@iup.edu
The IUP women’s tennis team made it four wins in a row Tuesday with a road victory over Atlantic regional opponent West Liberty (W. Va.). The win is also the fourth-consecutive that the Crimson Hawks have defeated their opponent by a 6-3 tally. Sophomore Kelly McBryan and freshman Ranvita Mahto starred in the outing, posting shutouts in both singles and doubles. McBryan took down West Liberty’s Moleigh Poling at No. 5 singles while Mahto defeated Kayla Saunders in the No. 4 spot In doubles, the duo teamed up to take down the same opponents, Poling
MCT Kris Letang (left) registered an assist in the 3-0 victory over Tampa Bay.
should be. Cooke may be a big part of the team, but it can win playoff games without him. And who’s to say that the fans miss his head hits. Sorry Cooke, but the elbows are a little overdone. Speaking of players of the ice, did anyone find it weird to be watching a Pittsburgh playoff game when No. 87 and No. 71 weren’t on the ice? I do not believe Sidney Crosby will return to the ice this season. If he does, he will have to adjust to the speed of the game again, and practice only does so much. He could be a detriment to the team. Crosby a detriment? That doesn’t
seem right. Think about it. He will be slower than he was when he was injured. He hasn’t been in a game since January. The team has chemistry without him and has learned to play without its superstar. Crosby’s return could affect the chemistry of the team because of the line switching and the knowledge that a superstar is back on the bench. After Friday’s game, the next time to catch Pittsburgh’s playoffs is 7:30 p.m. Monday, then 7 p.m. Wednesday. I think the Penguins can win this series in four games if they keep whatever mentality they had going into Wednesday night’s game.
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and Saunders, 8-0. The Hawks swept the Hilltoppers at doubles. IUP’s top team of Katie Eaton/Tabtip Louhabanjong prevailed 8-5 while the No. 3 team of Emilia Osborne/Alex Ballard recorded an 8-3 victory. All of IUP’s singles wins came from the lower half of the lineup. Ballard rounded out the singles wins for the Crimson Hawks at No. 6 singles, knocking off Sarah Howells, 6-0, 6-0. Slippery Rock University defeated Mercyhurst 5-4 on Monday. As long as IUP wins out in the division, the Crimson Hawks will host the Rock in the first round of the PSAC playoffs next Monday. IUP hits the road to go against Clarion 4 p.m. Friday to round out the regular season.
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Barry Bonds convicted of obstruction of justice, deadlocked on perjury counts By Howard Mintz San Jose Mercury News MCT
In the end, a San Francisco federal jury could not let home run king Barry Bonds walk. Divided on much of the government’s case against the former Giants superstar, the eight woman, four-man jury on Wednesday convicted Bonds of obstructing justice for false statements to a grand jury, but deadlocked on three perjury counts against him. And when the dust settled on the nearly four-week trial, Bonds was convicted not for denying the use of performance enhancing drugs, the storm that surrounds his baseball legacy, but instead for his evasive answer to a question about whether his personal trainer ever gave him anything that required the use of a syringe. In interviews after the dramatic verdict, the jurors, who spent more than three days in what they described as sometimes tearful, tense deliberations, said they found Bonds obstructed justice because he simply refused to respond directly to the syringe question. The jury came close to convicting him on one of the three perjury counts, deadlocking 11-1 on a charge related to whether he’d been injected by anyone other than a doctor. But they otherwise found too many holes in the prosecution’s witnesses and evidence to convict on the other charges. In fact, the jury was leaning toward acquitting Bonds on the two other perjury counts, one alleging he lied about never knowingly using steroids and the other about whether he lied to the grand jury about using human growth hormone. The jurors said there was insufficient proof that Bonds knew he was using those substances when he testified before the grand jury in December 2003 in the midst of the BALCO steroids probe and his pursuit of his sport’s home run records. But the jury firmly rejected the suggestion from Bonds’ attorneys that the government abused its power by spending so much time and money on its quest to convict Bonds. “Perjury is a big deal,” said one juror, Angela, who, like most of the six jurors who chose to speak publicly, declined to provide a last name. “It’s breaking the law. He went in and didn’t tell the whole truth. That’s a big deal.” As the jury’s verdict was read, Bonds was stoic. For the most part, he remained that way as he left the courthouse, although he flashed a smile to a group of schoolchildren who yelled out to him from a passing bus. Bonds’ lawyers instructed him to decline comment, given the legal uncertainty in the months ahead. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has not yet set a sentencing date for Bonds. Federal guidelines for his conviction call for a sentence of 15 to 21 months, but Bonds may not even face
that much time in prison, if any, based on Illston’s approach in sentencing others convicted of lying during the BALCO investigation. In a statement, U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag said prosecutors would review whether to retry on Bonds on the three deadlocked counts. She called the case “about upholding one of the most fundamental principles in our system of justice.” Defense lawyers, meanwhile, wasted little time attacking the conviction, moving to set aside the obstruction verdict because of what they call serious legal flaws in the obstruction count. As he answered a prosecutor’s question about whether trainer Greg Anderson gave him anything that “required a syringe,” Bonds had said, in part, “I was a celebrity child, not just in baseball by my own instincts.” Defense lawyers maintain the jury convicted Bonds for telling the grand jury he was a “celebrity child,” not for lying about steroids, injections or anything else related to performance enhancing drugs. But the jurors said they convicted Bonds for refusing to answer the question. As for larger questions about what the verdict meant for Bonds and the government’s case, the jury was a mixed bag, concerned about the slugger’s possible steroid use and honesty under oath, but equally troubled by the veracity of the prosecution’s witnesses. Explaining that jurors were in favor of acquitting Bonds on charges that he lied about knowingly using steroids or human growth hormone, jury members said there was not proof Bonds knew he was getting performance enhancing drugs from Anderson. “The evidence he did steroids might have been there,” said Nyiesha, a 28-yearold Brentwood woman. “There was just a piece of the puzzle missing. We just didn’t have enough to piece the puzzle together.” Nyiesha was the sole juror to vote against all three perjury counts. The verdict was the culmination of
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the largest doping scandal in sports history, which began in the fall of 2003 with a raid on BALCO, a nowdefunct Peninsula laboratory linked to supplying scores of elite athletes with performance enhancing drugs. Bonds, now 46, was always the biggest name tarnished by the scandal. The trial was an exploration of the truth, or falsity, of Bonds’ grand jury testimony. By the time the trial unfolded, Bonds’ defense team was conceding he may have used newfangled steroids from Anderson, but argued that he was unaware they were performance enhancing drugs. “I think it would have shed a lot of light on a lot of things,” said Jessica, another juror said of Anderson, who spent the trial in an East Bay prison rather than testify. “But, fact is, he wasn’t there.” Without Anderson’s testimony,
the government relied on a number of former members of Bonds’ inner circle to build their case. This included Kimberly Bell, his former mistress, and Steve Hoskins, Bonds’ former business associate, who also testified that Bonds told him of steroid use, and complained of a “sore butt” from steroid injections. Jurors for the most part agreed with the defense portrayal of Bell and Steve Hoskins, finding their credibility shaky. “As jurors, we felt the whole situation was very sad,” said Steve, a 60-year-old engineer from Antioch. “A lot of relationships were broken up in the Barry Bonds group. The jurors found the most credible prosecution witness to be Kathy Hoskins, Steve’s sister and Bonds’ former personal shopper. She provided critical testimony
for the government, telling the jury she saw Anderson inject Bonds in the stomach. Her testimony was important to both the obstruction charge and the perjury charge that resulted in the 11-1 conviction vote. Prosecutors also had evidence that Bonds failed a 2003 drug test administered by Major League Baseball, testing positive for the “clear,” a designer steroid furnished by BALCO, and a female fertility drug used by male athletes to mask the effects of steroids. Jurors said the test did not establish that Bonds knew what he was taking from Anderson. Prosecutors insisted that it strained credulity to buy Bonds’ story that a superstar athlete would be oblivious to the fact he was taking steroids, as he bulked up with Anderson, who was at the same time providing steroids to other baseball players.
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Issues facing college sports By Blair Kerkhoff McClatchy Newspapers MCT
NBA draft, then lockout The timing is unfortunate for underclassmen who want to enter the NBA draft, which takes place on June 23. One week later is the deadline for the NBA and the players’ union to reach a new collective-bargaining agreement or risk a lockout. Union executive director Billy Hunter said a lockout is likely, so underclassmen have more to consider. Underclassmen have until April 24 to declare for the draft. The withdrawal deadline is May 8. Already, Ohio State All-America freshman Jared Sullinger said he’s returning. Others, such as Kansas twins Marcus and Markieff Morris and superstar Kemba Walker of national champion UConn, have announced their departures. What’s a prospect to do? Drafted players can’t get paid by the teams. They can, and probably would, get paid by their agent. Big decisions loom for such players as Texas freshman Tristan Thompson and Colorado sophomore Alec Burks, who told a Boulder, Colo., reporter last week that he already had his fall semester classes picked out. Look for the prospect of the lockout to not scare off too many underclassmen. They’ll get paid, one way or another. Ed O’Bannon lawsuit During the Final Four, Butler forward Matt Howard was asked about college athletes getting paid, and the NCAA must have loved his answer. “Forty thousand a year, that’s a pretty good salary if you think about it that
way,� Howard said. That’s about the price of a Butler athletic scholarship. But what about compensation for Howard or any other athlete after college if the school or NCAA uses his likeness in a video game? Howard will get nothing, and that question is at the heart of a lawsuit filed by former UCLA star Ed O’Bannon and at least two dozen other former athletes, including Oscar Robertson, against the NCAA and EA Sports. The opening arguments are at least a year away, but the topic picked up steam at the Final Four, a month after a U.S. District Judge allowed the suit to proceed. The NCAA has denied there is any merit in the lawsuit, but the NCAA has lost big before. In 1999, the courts forced the NCAA to pay $54 million to restricted-earnings coaches. The NCAA takes in $771 million annually in television rights fees, and NCAA president Mark Emmert said it’s time to explore ways to better fund athletes — short of compensating them for the likeness. He recently told USA Today that increasing the value of a scholarship to cover expenses like travel and laundry is on the table. As for the O’Bannon lawsuit, Emmert said: “I’m not going to comment on any specific cases.� But this could be a gamechanger. Plaintiff attorneys say the process will result in payment to thousands of athletes. But all kinds of questions would arise. Who gets paid and who doesn’t? How much and who determines the value? This is a fascinating lawsuit in which the essence of college sports — a scholarship being the only form of compensation — on trial.
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Challenges in love continue today. Lay low. Learn from your mistakes. You couldn’t be where you are without them. Continue putting the pedal to the medal in your work. It’s time to reduce the height of the inbox pile.
You may have to travel to get what you want, but go peacefully and take care of yourself. Tomorrow promises to be busy and exciting.
All you need is love. You’re very attractive now. Find the love, even in mundane practices like filing taxes. Check for changes before proceeding. Take your time and get it right.
An uncomfortable moment leaves you wanting to hide out in your cave. It’s a good time to germinate seeds in the dark. Take time to make your cave cozy.
Pay down debt and put money into savings, if you can. Make sure to acknowledge everyone who contributed at work. Curl up with a good book or movie after the chores are done.
Do without one thing to gain another. Romantic persuasion works for you now. An argument may seem tantalizing, but it’s better to be charming than charmed.
Work together with your community and friends. Pay attention to details and stay focused. Keep breathing. You’ll be surprised at how much you can save without effort.
You’re in tune with a distant loved one. Be charming to one who’s being argumentative. The secret is in the pudding. Cook some and share its magic with others.
Extreme attention to finances could create disappointment in love. Make sure to pay attention to your relationships. News of big change arrives now.
As you give, let others contribute to you. Find acceptance for yourself and those around you. We don’t have so much time as to spend it on small complaints.
Pay a bill before buying treats. Romance may be difficult today. Be patient. Wait for clear instructions, when others know what they want. It works out.
Challenges in your relationships are only temporary. Postpone fantasies and stick to practical plans. List what you need to learn. Withhold judgment.
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