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Police blotter Alcohol Violations

• At 1:21 a.m. Sunday, Kyle Destefano, Indiana, was observed by borough police trying to break a sign post from the ground in the 00 block of North Fourth Street. He was found to be intoxicated and was cited for underage drinking and released from the scene.

• Jalisa E. Cohen, 22, Philadelphia, was cited by borough police after she was found vomiting on the roadway in the 00 block of South Sixth Street. She was found to be intoxicated and cited for public drunkenness.

Disorderly Conduct

• At 2:18 a.m. Wednesday, Ashley Jordan, Johnstown, was cited after she had words with a female and then attacked her. Jordan’s two friends attempted to stop Jordan, and they were struck as well. She was taken into custody and charged with disorderly conduct.

• At 9:23 p.m. Friday, university police observed Michael E. Grissom, 31, walking in the main concourse of the KCAC with his genitalia exposed. Grissom was found to be highly intoxicated. He also became verbally combative and used obscene language around young children. He was transported to Indiana Regional Medical Center where he threatened to kill police. He was lodged in the Indiana County Jail and charged with open lewdness, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.

Drug Violations

• At 9:52 p.m. Sunday, April 17, borough police stopped a vehicle driven by Anthony Brown, Pittsburgh, in the 800 block of Philadelphia Street. During the stop, Brown was found to be in possession of a large amount of marijuana.

He was arrested and cited for possession with intent to deliver, possession of a small amount of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Harassment

• William Ferguson, Creekside, was charged by borough police with criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, harassment, stalking and terroristic threats. Ferguson reportedly followed another male through Indiana, punched his car and threatened to do him bodily harm.

• At 8:23 p.m. Friday, university police responded to a fight on the south sidewalk of the KCAC. Daniel N. Ackley, 25, Warren, was found to have assaulted a physically handicapped male while waiting in line to attend a concert.

Ackley was found to be intoxicated and transported to Indiana Regional Medical Center. Joshua T. Bogardus, 25, Warren, was found to have engaged in menacing behavior following the altercation. He was cited and released from the scene.

Hit and Run

• Borough police reported that sometime between 9 p.m. Sunday, April 17 and 8 a.m. Monday, April 18, someone hit a car in the 00 block of North Seventh Street. Police are looking for a Hyundai Santa Fe manufactured between 2001 and 2004 with damage to the diver side taillight. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

• Borough police are attempted to locate an older model black Chevrolet or GMC regular cab pickup truck that struck a vehicle parked in the 300 block of Douglas Avenue at 5 p.m. Monday, April 18. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

Public Urination

• Mary Ellen Hall, 23, Indiana, was cited for public urination after borough police found her urinating on the front lawn of Benjamin’s Restaurant near Philadelphia Street.

Theft

• Borough police reported that sometime between Monday, April 18, and Tuesday, April 19, someone removed a stop sign and pole from the 1000 block of School Street at the intersection of South 11th Street. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

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Commencement ceremony to be held in KCAC

By KAT OLDREY News Editor K.E.Oldrey@iup.edu

For the first time, the May 2011 commencement ceremony will be held in the Kovalchick Complex.

The ceremony will take place May 7, beginning at 11 a.m.

Tickets are required for attendees; each graduating student participating in the commencement ceremony could have requested up to three tickets. Attendees without tickets can watch elsewhere; according to the commencement website, a live feed will be viewable in Eberly Auditorium, Fisher Auditorium and the Kovalchick Complex’s Toretti Auditorium.

According to a news release, 2,124 students are expected to participate, almost 200 more students than last year. The number of students who have been approved for May graduation is 1,666; the other nearly 500 participants completed their degrees December of 2010 or will complete them in August.

Participation in the commencement ceremony is not required; graduating students can also participate in their departmental ceremonies. A full schedule of departmental graduations, including times, dates and locations is available through the IUP website.

According to the Registrar’s website, friends and family of graduating seniors unable to attend the ceremony can watch a live, free webcast. The webcast will be available through www.pennatlantic.com; it will only be available May 7.

Undergraduate students hoping to graduate should have begun the application process during

the fall semester; the deadline for graduate students applying for graduation was March 1. Participating students should have submitted an RSVP through URSA in order to make sure their name will be called.

Parking, never simple, is likely to become more complicated with the influx of relatives and friends attending the commencement ceremony compete for space with students trying to move out for the summer.

According to the commencement website, the KCAC parking lot can accommodate 250 vehicles, and shuttle buses will be available to bring attendees who parked in lots other than the KCAC. This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Karlin Toner. Toner graduated from the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in 1983. After graduating from IUP with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics and a computer science minor, she received a M.S. and doctorate in

aerospace engineering from the University of Florida. Toner has spent more than 20 years working for NASA and is now a Senior Staff Advisor in the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The student speaker is Natalie Mae Schaefer, a Pittsburgh native who majored in journalism and anthropology. Schaefer will give a presentation called “Follow the Yellow Brick Road.”

In previous years, the commencement ceremony was held in Miller Stadium, which can accommodate 6,000 people. The KCAC’s Ed Fry Arena accommodates 5,000 people, and can host an additional 1,500 in the other areas.

“I feel excited and anxious to be the first to graduate in [the] KCAC,” said Kareem Abdullah (senior, accounting). “All I want to do is walk down that aisle and finish what I started. I’m very ecstatic that IUP made this building because I once thought I was going to graduate outside.”

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Library hours extended By imani dillard Senior Staff Writer I.J.Dillard@iup.edu

With finals week quickly approaching, many students will be spending a lot of time finishing projects and studying for final exams.

To aid students in their studies, the Stapleton library has extended its hours specifically for finals week.

These hours will go into effect starting today.

The library will be open until 10 p.m. today and Saturday. Sunday, the library will be open from 1 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Thursday library hours are 7:45 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday, May 6, the library will jump back to normal Friday hours:

7:45 a.m. to 7 p.m.

“There are a lot more students than usual, and it gets busier everyday,” said Judy Bouton, Manager of the Circulation Department.

These library hours are a dream come true for some students.

“I’m definitely taking advantage, because I practically live here anyway,” said Matt Agona (senior, international business). “The library should always be open until 2 a.m.”

“Extended hours are necessary,” said Dontez Burnett (junior, hospitality management). “A lot of us wait until evening to rush and do work. The more availability the library has, the better for the students.”

Plagiarism: more than copy-paste By john boddington Staff Writer J.M.Boddington@iup.edu

Plagiarism, regardless of its form or how it is obtained, is a type of theft.

It still proves to be a problem among universities, public schools, and private institutions worldwide.

Some think plagiarism saves time and research; however, with today’s technology, plagiarism seems to be more trouble than merely drafting your own written piece.

Considering this an important issue, the IUP community is working to stop this action.

“Students need to understand the seriousness of plagiarism; I do not dismiss my students’ explanations, sometimes it can be a simple misunderstanding,” history professor Xi Wang said.

Websites like Turnitin and Moodle can make getting away with plagiarism harder, if not stop it all together. For Turnitin, sentences are highlighted in various colors throughout one’s paper, allowing educators to determine if something is original.

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Anyone found guilty of plagiarism is in violation of IUP’s academic integrity policy and can face severe consequences.

The Cook Honors College website expands on the definition of plagiarism: “Most instances of plagiarism are not the blatant downloading of a “College Sucks” borrowed term paper from the Internet but are unintentional misuses of source materials; further, most entering students know that using someone else’s words without quotation marks and citation is plagiarism. But be advised that it is also wrong to paraphrase someone else’s ideas without appropriate citation.”

If students are unsure as to their citations, or the reliability of their sources, they should ask their professor(s); in the long run, retyping a sentence, paragraph, or even a page is better than facing plagiarism charges.

“Plagiarism is not just about copying writers’ work,” Wang said. “It is a habit that could stick with you for life and affect other aspects of one’s life.”

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Students invited to Pancakes at Midnight By scott frechione Staff Writer S.K.Frechione@iup.edu

“Study hard and come hungry,” said Bob Mrozowski, office and business manager at St. Thomas Moore University Parish, the place where free pancakes will be served at midnight for students the Tuesday and Wednesday of finals week.

Mrozowski, who said that this event has been held at the parrish for almost 30 years, expects about 1,500 to 1,600 people over the two- day event. He said that they always get more students in the spring time because of the warm weather.

The Newman Center at St. Thomas Moore University Parrish is located on Oakland Avenue across from the parking garage and next to Taco Bell. The event usually lasts about an hour to an hour and

MCT The event typically lasts between an hour and an hour and a half.

a half, but it really depends on if students keep coming.

“We’re usually out of here by around 2:30,” said Mrozowski.

Adam Littlejohn (senior, criminology) who attended the event last year said he plans to attend it again this year. “Yeah, sometimes you have to wait for a real long time, but you

can’t beat free pancakes,” Littlejohn said.

Brad Gaiser (senior, criminology) who plans on studying at the library all night plans to head over for pancakes for a break.

“Free pancakes are awesome, especially if you’re up studying all night.”

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Student body president forced to resign after college finds he’s not enrolled in classes By heather somerville McClatchy Newspapers MCT

Ambition is not a quality Daniel Gai lacks.

He’s facing his 34th birthday, but still plans to get two college degrees, start a law practice, open a nonprofit organization and even run for mayor of Fresno.

His energy and seemingly boundless enthusiasm is, according to friends and colleagues, what made him a dynamic leader at Fresno City College and something of a revolutionary in the college’s student government. Those same qualities also caused him to become so wrapped up in his duties as student body president that he dropped all his classes.

Gai (pronounced “guy”) resigned as president April 4 after school officials discovered he was no longer an enrolled student. He said he dropped his classes on March 8 to dedicate more time to student government, but quickly discovered he made a mistake: Student officers must be enrolled in at least six units of class-

es. So Gai effectively kicked himself out of the presidency that he won last year.

“I can’t even articulate how disappointed I am with myself,” he said. “I should have stayed in school.”

Gai admits he didn’t consult with his advisers or student senators before dropping his courses, knowing they would try to talk him out of it. He thought he could just keep practicing student politics, without the distraction of classes.

“It’s reasonable to expect that anyone who represents you at City College should be enrolled,” said Christopher Villa, vice president of student services.

In his first month without classes, Gai organized the March for Community Unity, a protest against state budget cuts. But then administrators discovered Gai wasn’t enrolled.

James Miser, a City College student who helped Gai organize the March 14 protest, called him “a central agent of force” for change whose departure has “hurt, but the campus has not completely fallen apart.”

Villa said the college intends to perform more status checks of student officers.

Under Gai’s leadership, the student government made some waves.

He credits his mature age — he’s 16 years senior to many student officers — and his business experience for his success in transforming the student government into a legislative body with clout. Gai runs a family trucking company in Selma, Calif.

Gai said he will finish classes at City College this summer before transferring to Fresno State in the fall for his bachelor’s in business.

Does he have any plans to get involved in student government again?

Not until he finishes his degree, Gai said: “I get way too wrapped up in it.”

The drama is sponsored by IUP’s Frederick Douglass Institute.

Students present discrimination drama By john boddington Staff Writer J.M.Boddington@iup.edu

Hoping to rid the world of discrimination, several IUP students have created a drama in which their own personal experiences on campus show discrimination at its worst.

“This performance was created by IUP students and is based on their observations and experiences of discrimination on campus,” said Rachel Smith, co-creator of “How Dirty Are You?” “It is part of a research study I am doing for my Masters Thesis in sociology. My research is on the effectiveness of involvement in a theatrical production on impacting participants’ beliefs and behaviors in regards to a

social issue.”

The drama opened last night at 6 p.m., and will make a second presentation tonight at 6 p.m. Admission is free, and the performance is held in the picnic area between Eberly and Stephenson. In case of rain, the new location will be in Ruddock Hall MPR, G-12.

Sponsoring the event is IUP’s Frederick Douglass Institute.

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Armadillos pass leprosy to humans, study finds

By ERYN BROWN Los Angeles Times MCT

They’re cute. They’re often roadkill. Some gourmands say they’re tasty, whether baked or barbecued.

Now Louisiana researchers have learned something else about ninebanded armadillos.

“A preponderance of evidence shows that people get leprosy from these animals,” said Richard W. Truman, director of microbiology at the National Hansen’s Disease Program in Baton Rouge and lead author of a paper detailing the discovery in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Until now, scientists believed that leprosy was passed only from human to human. Every year, about 100 to 150 people in the United States are diagnosed with the malady, which is also known as Hansen’s disease.

Though many have traveled to countries where the disease is relatively common, as many as one-third don’t know where they picked it up.

Most of those cases are in Texas and Louisiana, where leprosy-infected armadillos live too.

Now, Truman said, “we’re able to provide a link.”

Leprosy is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, a cousin of the microbe that causes tuberculosis. People with leprosy develop skin lesions; severe cases can cause nerve damage or disfigurement in the limbs.

Over the years, M. leprae has proven hard to study, its migration around the globe hard to plot, for a variety of reasons. The bacterium can’t be grown in a lab dish. Leprosy has a years-long incubation period and propagates slowly. It is hard to contract — only 5 percent of humans are susceptible, and even they usually need to have close and repeated contact with M. leprae to develop an infection.

In the past, people with leprosy were confined to leper colonies. Today, it is treatable with a combination of three antibiotics, said Dr. James Krahenbuhl, director of the National Hansen’s Disease Program. About 3,600 people in the United States have the disease, he added, and they aren’t expected to die from it.

For years scientists had known that other than humans, armadillos

are the only known natural hosts for M. leprae in the world. Some armadillos die from the disease, and in some parts of the South, more than 20 percent of armadillos have the infection.

Using sophisticated genetic analysis, Truman and his team collected samples from 50 patients with leprosy and 33 wild armadillos in the U.S., then used two types of analysis to look at sites in the M. leprae genome that are known to vary between the mammals.

One analysis, known as “SNP typing,” examines single changes in the string of chemical letters that make up DNA. The team found seven different SNP patterns in their samples, but one — called 3I — was abundant, turning up in all of the armadillos and in 26 of the 29 patients with no history of foreign residence.

“It doesn’t mean people need to run away from armadillos the way they do a rattlesnake, but people need to be careful,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, which helped fund the research.

Japanese plant workers to receive long-term checkups The Yomiuri Shimbun MCT

The government plans to create a database to monitor the long-term health of workers at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, it was learned Saturday.

According to government sources, the aim of the database is to study whether workers have been subject to radiation exposure, and the effects of such exposure, if any, over a period of more than 30 years.

Expenses for the follow-up program will be incorporated into the second supplementary budget for fiscal 2011, they said.

After the quake and tsunami triggered the March 11 crisis at the Fukushima plant, the government took the emergency measure of raising the maximum permissible level of radiation exposure for workers at nuclear-related workplaces from 100 millisieverts per year before the disaster, to 250 millisieverts.

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Registration with the health checkup program will not be mandatory but left up to each worker to decide, according to the sources.

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Syria cracks down on protesters; U.S. may impose sanctions By paul richter and borzou daragahi Los Angeles Times MCT

With tanks now patrolling the streets of a restive Syrian city, the Obama administration is preparing to take its first concrete steps against President Bashar Assad and his top lieutenants _ the imposition of sanctions for an increasingly bloody crackdown on demonstrators.

The regime in Damascus escalated the violence Monday, ordering army tanks and troops into action against protesters in the southern city of Daraa. The move follows a tumultuous weekend in which Syrian security forces gunned down an estimated 120 pro-democracy protesters. More than 200 people have died since the uprising erupted five weeks ago.

Obama administration officials said they are readying orders that would freeze U.S. assets of senior Syrian officials and deny them permission to travel in the United States.

U.S. sanctions are unlikely to produce a dramatic impact because Syrian officials apparently own few U.S. assets. But the move signaled a notable shift by the Obama administration, which has worked hard to build better relations with Damascus, a regime it considers a strategic key for security in the Middle East.

European officials said they also are considering steps against Assad’s regime. Syrian officials maintain far

larger investments in Europe than in the U.S., so economic sanctions or travel bans there would have a more direct impact.

The Obama administration hopes U.S. sanctions will help build pressure on its European allies, especially France and Britain, to follow suit.

Officials in Washington have consulted closely with counterparts in London and Paris on how best to persuade Assad to show restraint.

Moves by British and French officials against Syria could be particularly important. France, the former colonial power, retains strong cultural and economic relations with Damascus.

Assad lived a number of years in Britian and may have financial assets stored there.

David Schenker, a former Middle East adviser at the Pentagon, said steps to isolate Syria, especially by European countries, would sting.

Even though he took over from his father a decade ago and has maintained Syria’s authoritarian system, Assad has cherished the idea that he retains “an international legitimacy and acceptability,” said Schenker, now an analyst with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a nonpartisan think tank.

In Syria, heavy-caliber gunfire crackled at dawn Monday as tanks rolled into Daraa, the flashpoint of the uprising. Amateur videos posted online appeared to show bodies in the streets as protesters came under

fire from the tanks’ gunners and snipers on nearby roofs.

One report by activists said more than 25 people were killed “but no one could get close to them because of the brutal shooting.” The activists said that a military force of between 4,000 and 5,000 men marched into Daraa along with up to a dozen tanks.

Several military officers in Daraa province told the Los Angeles Times that they had orders to shoot any protester, adding that many soldiers were afraid to resist and that failing to carry out orders was tantamount to a death sentence.

“We have orders to open fire,” said one of the officers, speaking on condition of anonymity due to concerns for his safety. “We are afraid to carry them out because there will be more killing. But if we don’t, someone will kill us.”

Syrian activists in touch with witnesses in Daraa reported that at least five military officers, including two with the rank of captain, and nine soldiers refused to carry out orders.

In one video posted online, protesters are seen throwing a rock at an oncoming tank and milling around near it, as if they were daring soldiers to open fire on them.

It was impossible to confirm reports from Daraa since the city. Most foreign journalists have been barred from the country.

A U.S. official said targeted sanctions probably would be imposed in the next several weeks.

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Apple promises to end storage of users’ location data By troy wolverton San Jose Mercury News MCT

Apple said Wednesday that it will provide a software fix for the iPhone’s hidden location tracking file that a pair of researchers brought to light last week.

The tracking file has useful and legitimate purposes, Apple said in a list of questions and answers about the file posted on its website. But the fact that the file stores up to a year’s worth of data and continues to record data even when iPhone users turn off its location service is due to software “bugs,” Apple said.

“We don’t think the iPhone needs to store more than seven days of this data” when users opt into the service, Apple said.

The company said it would fix the issues in an upcoming free release of the iOS software that underlies the iPhone and Apple’s other mobile devices. The company said it also will cease backing up the data to users’ computers.

Brought to light by two researchers at the Where 2.0 conference last

Wednesday, the tracking file stores the locations of nearby cell phone towers and Wi-Fi hotspots. The iPhone uses the data to help approximate its location quickly for mapping and other applications that require location data, Apple said. The tracking file also helps the iPhone lock onto GPS satellites much more quickly than it would be able to do without it, the company said.

Apple is not tracking individual iPhones, the company insisted. The location tracking file doesn’t have the exact coordinates of iPhones and often includes the location data of cell phone towers hundreds of miles away from the location of a particular iPhone.

Any location data collected from iPhones is collected anonymously for use in targeted location-based advertisements or as part of a database of traffic conditions that Apple is developing, the company said.

“Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so,” the company said.

But the location file can give provide important details about

where iPhone users have been and frequent, say the researchers who brought the location file to light and forensics researchers who comb digital devices for hidden data.

The data stored in the tracking file generally includes cell phone towers and Wi-Fi hotspots with which individual iPhones have interacted and the exact times when the iPhone connected to those transmitters.

In fact, forensic researchers have known for about a year that iPhones keep a log of these transmitter locations and have been using that data in criminal and other legal cases. And, according to researchers, the file is found on all Apple devices running iOS 4, including not just iPhones, but iPads and iPod touches.

In its statement Wednesday, Apple only mentioned that the file was on the iPhone.

The file is hidden on iOS devices, but can be accessed with software developed for forensics researchers.

A copy of it also can be found on computers with which iOS devices are synced.

“We are not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers.”

—Barack Obama, President of the United States

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Obama’s detailed birth certificate released By robert schroeder MarketWatch MCT

Saying the country does not have time for “silliness,” President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged focusing on issues including high gas prices and the economy after the White House released his longform birth certificate.

Obama has been dogged by criticism from Donald Trump and others about his place of birth. The certificate released shows that Obama was born in a Hawaii hospital at 7:24 p.m. on August 4, 1961 — making him eligible for the U.S. presidency.

Speaking in the White House briefing room, Obama said he released the document to stop the distraction that the issue of his birthplace was having on policy matters including the budget.

“We are not going to be able to solve our problems if we get distracted by sideshows and carnival barkers,” Obama said, without mentioning names.

“I’ve got better stuff to do,” he said.

Trump, a potential Republican candidate for president, has been questioning Obama’s birthplace repeatedly in recent weeks. The business mogul tied former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for second place in a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll of Republican primary voters.

Obama said the country can’t solve its big problems if it’s distracted by issues like his birth certificate.

“There are a lot of folks out there who are still looking for work.

Everybody is still suffering under high gas prices. We’re going to have to make a series of very difficult decisions about how we invest in our future, but also get a hold of our deficit and our debt,” he said.

Some Republicans agreed with Obama that the issue is a distraction.

“What President Obama should really be releasing is a jobs plan,” said Mitt Romney, another possible GOP contender.

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Gender neutral housing grows; more colleges offer students an option By karen sudol The Record (Hackensack N.J.) MCT

Freshman Mark Rivera’s roommate experience at William Paterson University wasn’t exactly what he had envisioned.

After informing his roommate before school began that he was gay and sensing an air of tolerance, the student barely spoke to him during the first days and eventually switched rooms. He explained to Rivera by text that he was more homophobic than he realized.

“For the rest of the semester, I lived alone and still live alone,” said 19-year-old Rivera, of Paterson, N.J. “No one should be robbed of the full college experience. It starts with a roommate.”

It’s a core reason why Rivera, vice president of Chosen: The Gay-Straight Alliance, said he and others are encouraging the university to join a growing number of colleges that allow students to choose roommates of the opposite sex to live with — identified as gender neutral housing.

The college’s Residence Life office is researching the option and plans to speak to campus student groups, said Joseph Caffarelli, director of Residence Life. It currently requires same-sex room assignments.

“It would be a university decision once we get all of the information and look at what students think,” he said.

Six years ago, only a handful of col-

MCT Ramapo senior Ali Melillo shares a room with three roommates, one girl and two boys.

leges in the country offered the housing, said Jeffrey Chang, co-founder of the National Student Genderblind Campaign, an organization that promotes LGBT-affirmative policies regarding campus housing.

Eight schools have implemented the change just since October, he said. Rutgers University became the

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60th school and largest university in the nation to have the policy when it approved the option in March, said Chang, a Rutgers law student.

Discussions were partially born out of transgender students not always feeling comfortable rooming with someone of the same sex. As a result, many colleges provided lim-

ited options for transgender students such as placing them in single rooms, Chang said.

“Making the decision not to offer it tells transgender students that they have to be in a system that doesn’t work for them,” said Jenny Kurtz, director of the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities at Rutgers.

The trend gained additional momentum after last September’s suicide of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi, Chang said. Clementi, of Ridgewood, N.J., jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his college roommate allegedly streamed an intimate gay encounter to Internet viewers via a Web camera.

“In the aftermath of the Clementi tragedy, members of the university’s LGBTQ community told the administration that gender neutral housing would help create an even more inclusive environment,” according to a university statement. “Since then, the university has been exploring this in greater detail.”

Rutgers will offer the housing this fall at New Gibbons on the Douglass Campus and Demarest Hall and suites in Rockoff Hall both on the College Avenue Campus in New Brunswick, Kurtz said. Gender neutral housing will take place in designated units on the Newark campus as well.

Rutgers students had been pushing for the option for the past five years, said Chang.

Students entering their sophomore, junior or senior years are eligible and don’t have to reveal their sexual orientation or the reasons for their roommate requests, Kurtz said.

Heterosexual students can also apply.

A pilot program called Rainbow Perspectives and designed for 40

students interested in attending programs and discussions on LGBT issues, will also be unveiled at New Gibbons for the upcoming semester.

While some colleges like Fairleigh Dickinson University’s College at Florham are informally discussing the idea, others began offering the option years ago.

Gender neutral housing has existed at Montclair State University at the Hawk Crossings and The Village apartment complexes since 2004, said Amie MacMath, program assistant of the school’s LGBT Center.

But the school also launched a housing option in 2010 within Hawk Crossings that requires students to take a class within the LGBT minor and perform community projects related to or advocate for LGBT related issues.

“Students need to feel comfortable and supported on campus in order to be successful in other areas,” MacMath said.

Ramapo College of New Jersey also launched a pilot program in fall 2009 at the urging of Kat McGee, assistant director of student development and coordinator of the Women’s Center.

“Students get to live in housing where they have a safe, welcome environment to call home, especially the students who identify as LGBT,” she said.

Some 90 percent of the undergrads who participated in the program the first year at Laurel Hall said they were extremely satisfied with it, she said. It has expanded this year to The Village apartments and The Overlook dorms with 64 students.

Corey Chichizola, a Ramapo junior from Paramus, N.J., participated in the pilot program his sophomore year and again this year at Laurel Hall.

“I wanted to be guaranteed that the people I was sharing a living environment with would share the same views,” he said. “But I think it should be a non-issue. We’re living on our own and making decisions on our own each day. Being able to choose who you’re living with shouldn’t matter.”

His roommate last year, 21-yearold Ali Melillo, said there is a sense of comfortableness living with others who identify as LGBT. “There are no judgments I have to worry about,” said Melillo, a senior from Vineland, Cumberland County. “I take it for granted that I’m so lucky. I haven’t had to worry for two years.”

Rivera, the William Paterson freshman, said he’s hopeful discussions at the university will result in students having a choice of whom to live with regardless of sex.

“I think my personal experience allowed me to realize that discrimination really occurs,” he said. “To allow me to live with a friend of mine who happens to be a female would allow me to avoid the situation of having to deal with a guy who’s homophobic.”

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Regulation of the Interior Businesses typically resist government regulation, but in March Florida’s interior designers begged the state House of Representatives to continue controlling them, with a theatrically ham-handed lobbying campaign challenging a deregulation bill. Designers righteously insisted that only “licensed professionals” (with a minimum six years of college and experience) could prevent the nausea Floridians would suffer from inappropriate color schemes (affecting the “autonomic nervous system” and salivary glands).

Also, poorly designed prison interiors could be turned into weapons by inmates. Furthermore, deregulation would contribute to “88,000 deaths” a year from flammable materials that would suddenly inundate the market in the absence of licensing. Said one designer, addressing House committee members, “You (here in this chamber) don’t even have correct seating.” (If deregulation is successful, competition will increase, and lower fees are expected.)

Cultural Diversity — The longstanding springtime culinary tradition of urine-soaked eggs endures, in Dongyang, China, according to a March CNN dispatch.

Prepubescent boys contribute their urine (apparently without inhibition) by filling containers at schools, and the eggs are boiled according to recipe and sold for the equivalent of about 23 cents each. Many residents consider the tradition gross, but for devotees, it represents, as one said, “the (joyous) smell of spring.”

— The port town of Kumai, Borneo, consists of low-rise shops and houses serving a population of 20,000 but also many tall, windowless box buildings perforated with small holes.

The structures are actually birdhouses, for the town’s chief industry is harvesting the nests of the hummingbird-like swiftlet, constructed of its own saliva, which, properly processed, yields a sweet-tasting paste with alleged medicinal qualities and highly revered throughout Asia, according to a January BBC News report.

— In January, while the Texas

Legislature debated budget cuts that would almost certainly cost Allen High School (just north of Dallas) at least $18 million and require layoffs of teachers and other school personnel, construction was continuing on the school’s new $60 million football stadium. Noted a New York Times report on the stadium (which 63 percent of voters approved in a 2009 bond referendum), “(O)nly football supersedes faith and family (among Texans).”

Latest Religous Messages — Former stripper Crystal Deans, who said she learned the trade at age 18 but later retired and turned to God for help through a rough patch of her life, now offers free pole-dancing classes in Spring, Texas, near Houston, expressly for Christian women. Her gyrations may be the same as when she was working, she said, but now everyone is clothed, and she dances only to “Christian music.”

— Youth pastor Brent Girouex, 31, was urged to confess by his minister in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in February to an apparently lengthy series of sex-

ual experiences with boys and young men, which he initiated by suggesting that ejaculating would help the victims gain “sexual purity” by (as he explained to detectives) “getting rid of the evil thoughts in their mind.”

Eight victims reported multiple purification sessions, with one estimating as many as 100.

Questionable Judgments — For Career Day in April at Shady Grove Elementary School in Henrico, Va., kids heard a local plastic surgeon describe his specialty, but not until afterward did parents learn that the surgeon had brought along as props saline breast implants (which he passed around for the kids to handle).

Many parents were outraged, and even one calmer parent commented, “Career Day sure isn’t what it once was.”

— The End Is Near, But How Near?

In March in Owensboro, Ky., James Birkhead, 52, was sentenced to 5 1/2 months in jail for making survivalist bombs to protect his family after he became alarmed by the movie “2012,” which portrays the chaos expected

next year when the world ends (as supposedly foretold by the Mayan calendar). By contrast, Edwin Ramos of Vineland, N.J., is busy traveling the East Coast in his RV trying to warn people that the end will not be in 2012 but actually this month — May 21, 2011. (The discrepancy would not exist if there had been a biblical year “0” after B.C. and before A.D.) Ramos’ father apparently does not share his son’s view because he accepted ownership of Ramos’ successful construction business as Ramos concluded that it had no future.

— Marie Stopes International is a prominent London charity that robustly promotes a woman’s right to choose abortion, but a whimsical public service campaign in January has created unusually savage criticism. The organization partnered with the British comedy music band The Midnight Beast to produce a video suggesting anal sex as a contraceptive of choice. Among the lyrics of one song, “One up the bum, and it’s no harm done/One up the bum, and you won’t be a mum.”

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SETI Institute to shut down alien-seeking radio dishes By lisa m. krieger San Jose Mercury News MCT

If E.T. phones Earth, he’ll get a “disconnect� signal.

Lacking the money to pay its operating expenses, the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., has pulled the plug on the renowned Allen Telescope Array, a field of radio dishes that scan the skies for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations.

In a letter last Friday to donors, SETI Institute CEO Tom Pierson said that last week the array was put into “hibernation,� safe but nonfunctioning, because of inadequate government support.

The timing couldn’t be worse, SETI scientists say. After millenniums of musings, this spring astronomers announced that 1,235 new possible planets had been observed by Kepler, a telescope on a space satellite. They predict that dozens of these planets will be Earth-sized — and some will be in the “habitable zone,� where the temperatures are just right for liquid water, a prerequisite of life as we know it. “There is a huge irony,� said SETI Director Jill Tarter, “that a time when we discover so many planets to look at, we don’t have the operating funds to listen.�

SETI senior astronomer Seth Shostak compared the project’s suspension to “the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria being put into dry dock. ... This is about exploration, and we want to keep the thing operational.

It’s no good to have it sit idle. “We have the radio antennae up, but we can’t run them without oper-

ating funds,� he added. “Honestly, if everybody contributed just 3 extra cents on their 1040 tax forms, we could find out if we have cosmic company.�

The SETI Institute’s mission is to explore the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe.

This is a profound search, it believes, because it explains our place among the stars.

The program, located on U.S. Forest Service land near Mount Lassen, uses telescopes to listen for anything out of the ordinary — a numerical sequence of “beeps,� say, or crackly dialogue from an alien version of a disembodied “Charlie� talking to his “Angels.� The entire program was set up to prove what once seemed unthinkable: In the universe, we are not alone.

But funding for SETI has long been a headache for E.T.-seekers.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration bankrolled some early projects, but in 1994, Sen. Richard Bryan of Nevada convinced Congress that it wasn’t worth the cost, calling it the “Great Martian Chase� and complaining that not a single flying saucer had applied for FAA approval.

However, successful private funding came from donors such as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, allowing SETI to raise $50 million to build the 42 dishes.

Plans called for construction of 350 individual radio antennas, all working in concert. But what’s lacking now is funding to support the day-to-day costs of running the dishes.

This is the responsibility of the University of California, Berkeley’s

Radio Astronomy Laboratory, but one of the university’s major funders, the National Science Foundation, supplied only one-tenth its previous support. Meanwhile, the state of California has also cut funding.

About $5 million is needed over the next two years, according to Tarter. She hopes the U.S. Air Force will help, because the array can be used to track satellite-threatening debris in space. But budgets are tight there as well.

The Allen array is not the only radio telescope facility that can be used for SETI searches. But it is the best; elsewhere, scientists have to borrow time on other telescopes.

Meanwhile, other SETI projects will continue, such as the “setiQuest Explorer� (www.setiquest.org), an application that allows citizen scientist volunteers to look for patterns from existing data that might have been missed by existing algorithms. Through a new partnership with “Galaxy Zoo� (www.galaxyzoo. org), this project runs in real time, so discoveries can be followed up on immediately.

San Francisco Bay Area astronomers mourned the hiatus of the SETI program and expressed concern about the future.

Rob Hawley of the Peninsula Astronomical Society called it “unfortunate. The Allen scope was a wonderful experiment. “... Hubble gets all the press, but there are lots of limitations.�

Amateur astronomer Sarah Wiehe of Palo Alto said, “Just knowing SETI is there was significant for us. This is a setback. “If we miss a distant signal,� she added, “it would be a terrible loss.�

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Students stage sit-in to protest budget cuts By rigoberto hernandez Orange County Register MCT

A group of Cal State University Fullerton and Dominguez Hills students and faculty members conducted a sit-in Monday night at the Fullerton campus’ administration building to protest cuts to the university system’s budget.

The sit-in was started by 20 Fullerton students in Langsdorf Hall after a meeting with university President Milton Gordon, during which he was asked to sign the “Declaration to Defend Education� or write a joint statement.

After moving up from the second floor for a sit-in demonstration, a group of Cal State University Fullerton and Dominguez Hills students settle in on the eighth floor of Langsdorf Hall after they conducted a sit-in Monday night at the Fullerton campus’ administration building to protest cuts to the university system’s budget.

Instead, Gordon wrote his own statement supporting education.

He declined to sign the declaration because he did not accept some of the wording about faculty contracts, said student Chirag Bhakta, 23.

After Gordon wrote his statement, the students decided to stage a sit-

in at his ninth-floor office, Bhakta said. ‘�We are going to wait for Gordon to come back to the table and work with us,� Bhakta said. “We are going to stay here as long as it takes.�

The students were asked to leave after office hours. They remained on the second floor.

As of 3 a.m. There were about 35 students on the second floor of the building. Some were studying while others are hanging out, Bhakta said.

The building doors are open and people have come and gone, he added.

A university police official said students could stay in the building as long they don’t cause a disruption or vandalize property.

Police officers check on the students every hour, Bhakta said.

Bhakta said they want to stage their demonstration without disrupting classes or office hours. ‘�We are not planning on breaking the rules,� Bhakta said. ‘�We are not going to stay away from peace and civility.�

Bhakta said the student groups inside the building, We! Alternative Voices for an Alternative Future and Students for Quality Education, went back to Gordon’s office again at 9 a.m.

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Roommate of Rutgers suicide charged with bias crime By george anastasia The Philadelphia Inquirer MCT

A former Rutgers University student was indicted Wednesday on charges of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy for secretly recording and webcam-streaming his roommates having a sexual encounter with another man.

The incident attracted national attention and became a cause celebre in gay rights circles and beyond after the roommate, Tyler Clementi, 18, committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge days after the secret taping.

Dharun Ravi, 19, of Plainsboro, N.J., was charged in a 15-count indictment handed up by a Middlesex County grand jury and could be sentenced to five to 10 years in jail if convicted of the most serious bias-crime offenses.

Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan said the grand jury found that the taping on Sept. 19 and a second attempted taping on Sept. 21 were “intended to intimidate� Clementi because he was gay.

In a statement issued after the indictment was announced, Clementi’s family said the charges were “important for our criminal justice system to establish clear accountability under the law. [...] We are eager to have the process move forward for justice in this case and to reinforce the standards of acceptable conduct in our society.�

Jane and Joseph Clementi have declined numerous requests for interviews, but have said through their lawyer that they hope to establish a foundation in their son’s name aimed at raising awareness about bullying, privacy rights and the Internet.

In the aftermath of Tyler Clementi’s suicide, the incident became the focal point for national discussions about gay-bashing, cyber-bullying, intimidation and privacy rights in the age of social networking.

Clementi, described as a promising violinist, was a freshman at Rutgers, as was Ravi. The alleged tapings occurred shortly after the start of the new school year in a dorm room he shared with Ravi on the college’s

Piscataway campus.

Ravi, according to authorities, hid a camera in the room and sent a webcam stream out while Clementi had a sexual encounter with another man.

Authorities alleged that Ravi was in the room of another freshman, Molly Wei, and that they used her laptop to complete the transmission.

Wei, 19, was arrested with Ravi on invasion of privacy charges, but the case against her has not been submitted to a grand jury, according to a statement released by the Prosecutor’s Office Wednesday.

Her lawyer has argued that she did nothing wrong or improper.

Both Ravi and Wei, of Princeton, N.J., withdrew from Rutgers after the incident. Lawyers for the two former students could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Ravi has been free on $25,000 bail since his arrest in October.

The grand jury indictment charged him with invasion of privacy, bias intimidation and attempted invasion of privacy.

He was also charged with attempting to hinder the investigation and prosecution by changing and erasing Twitter messages and other transmissions.

Specific details about what was recorded during the taping have never been made public.

In an interview with the Newark Star-Ledger in November, lawyers for Ravi and Wei said the webcam stream had not shown Clementi and the other man having sex.

But the indictment, in the invasion of privacy charge, alleges that Ravi “disclosed a photograph, film, videotape, recording or other reproduction of the image of (Clementi and the man he was meeting with) whose intimidate parts were exposed or who were engaged in an act of sexual penetration or sexual contact without� their consent.

Clementi was identified in the indictment by his initials, T.C. The individual he was with was identified only as M.B. The indictment also alleged that Ravi made the tape “with the purpose to intimidate� Clementi and the other man because of their “sexual orientation.�

Social networking ‘success’ doesn’t extend offline By shari roan Los Angeles Times MCT

Social networking has been described as the contemporary way that people interact. While that may be true, an individual’s social success in the virtual world doesn’t appear to carry over into the real world, according to a new study.

Previous studies on how the Internet affects relationships have produced mixed findings.

Some research shows that lots of social networking activity has a negative effect on social life while others suggest it enhances one’s

social circle. The new study, led by Thomas V. Pollet of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, examined 117 people age 18 to 63. They filled out an extensive questionnaire about the time they spend on instant messaging and social network sites, the number of relationships they had overall and the closeness of those relationships.

The researchers found that spending a lot of time online was not linked to having a larger number of “offline� friends. Moreover, the relationships of people who socialized online weren’t any closer or stronger than people who didn’t socialize online.

The average age of the study participants was 28, and it could be that age influences the effect of social media, the authors said.

For example, teenagers who are prone to shyness may find their number of friends offline rises when they spend more time online. But for adults, social media may have little effect in real-life relationships. “These media may be less effective at building and maintaining emotionally intense relationships than other types of communication,� the authors wrote. The study was published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.

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Those snoopy iPhones Editorial Los Angeles Times MCT

The most talked-about feature of Apple’s iPhones and iPads these days isn’t a clever new software application. It’s a hidden digital record on every device of the locations where it has been used — a numerical travelogue that effectively traces its owner’s movements by noting the times and places it has been used.

The “consolidated.db” file has been discussed by security researchers for months, but it didn’t receive widespread attention until the O’Reilly Radar technology blog published an expose April 20. Within a day, two members of Congress had dashed off letters to Apple demanding more information, including an explanation of why the data were being collected and stored in unencrypted form. And now several European countries are launching their own investigations.

Apple has remained mum, as it often does when its motives are questioned. But the issue here isn’t what the company might do with the file. Alex Levinson, a computer forensics researcher who uncovered the file last year, says he’s seen

no evidence that Apple or application developers can extract it from iPhones or iPads. The only exception, Levinson believes, would be if the user hacked the device to install apps not approved by Apple. “Jailbreaking” an iPhone or iPad undermines its built-in protections, raising the chance of a malicious app copying data from consolidated.db and transmitting it to someone else.

The data can be examined, however, by anyone who takes physical possession of the device — a jealous lover, a thief, an attorney with a subpoena. The O’Reilly researchers greatly simplified the task by creating a program that culls the latitude and longitude information, then displays it on a map.

As privacy threats go, this one seems pretty mild. The data don’t show the precise locations where the device was used; instead, they compile the GPS coordinates of the cellphone towers and Wi-Fi access points the phone has been connected to. Unless you frequent the local red light district or lie to your spouse about the “errands” you run, there’s not much in consolidated.db to get worked up about.

Granted, the data may be useful to the police, who have already started poring over suspects’ phones for clues. But for law-abiding citizens,

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consolidated.db is likely to be less revealing than the text messages and emails stored on their devices.

And although there doesn’t seem to be a way for users to stop the location data from being logged, it’s easy enough for them to program the device to scramble the information whenever it’s removed to prevent it from being read by anyone else.

The critical distinction here is between what a device reveals about itself in real time and what records may be kept of those activities.

Smartphones routinely check their current location and share that information with websites and mobilephone networks in order to deliver all sorts of useful services, from route and traffic information to coupons and restaurant recommendations.

It’s harder to imagine, however, why a device needs to know where you were yesterday or a month ago — or why it needs to know the precise time you were there.

Apple could quiet the rumblings by confirming that it’s not surreptitiously tracking its customers and that app developers aren’t doing so either. It would also help if the company allowed users to erase the location information periodically, just as they can delete their Web browsing histories and other stored information.

Is everybody really happy?

By Frida Ghitis The Miami Herald MCT

How happy are you? How happy is the country? This very important question has gradually gained attention over the years, occupying the attention not only of psychologists and New Age gurus, but of economists, political scientists and government leaders.

The field of happiness studies is booming with researchers hard at work taking our emotional temperature, figuring out how we feel and trying to understand why.

The most recent results of Gallup’s regular survey on well-being around the world shine a light on the mysterious phenomenon of national happiness.

Gallup conducted interviews with people in 124 different countries, asking them to rank their lives on a scale from 1 to 10. Those with scores of 7 or higher were classified as “thriving,” in contrast to the less-happy categories “struggling” and, the worst one, “suffering.”

The sad news is that an average of only 21 percent across the 124 countries qualified as thriving. This is not a very happy planet.

Majorities reported thriving in only 19 countries. The happiest country, with 79 percent thriving, is the usually dark and cold Denmark. The least happy, with just 1 percent thriving, is perennially sunny Chad in Africa.

Most countries where most people thrive were, not surprisingly, rich nations. But not all.

The United States came in at No. 12, with 59 percent thriving. That’s more than most, but worse than other countries with more poverty and unemployment, and with much less wealth than America, whose people are among the world’s most affluent.

It’s not surprising that rich countries such as Sweden, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands made the list. But it is stunning what a high number of Latin American countries ranked among the Happy 19, despite high rates of poverty, crime and joblessness. Among the Latin American nations with happy majorities, in per-

centages, are Venezuela (64), Panama (61), Costa Rica (58), Brazil (57) and Mexico (52.)

If you think peace, security and a predictable future bring happiness, you wouldn’t have expected Israel to land in seventh place, ahead of the United States, with 63 percent thriving.

And if you see democracy as key to happiness, you’d be surprised to find the resolutely nondemocratic United Arab Emirates and Qatar at No. 16 and 19, respectively. The emirates don’t allow their people the vote, but they are extremely wealthy and the government takes good care of the population.

Asian countries with booming economies and millions of people rushing out of poverty into prosperity don’t have a lot of happiness to show for their success. Only 12 percent reported thriving in China.

Social scientists agree that money does help bring happiness, up to a point. Once people reach a certain level of affluence, additional wealth does little to improve well-being.

Many factors play a role, including cultural attitudes. Perhaps that explains why happiness defies poverty in parts of Latin America, and wealth cannot defeat pessimism in parts of Eastern Europe. But research also shows that happiness can be enhanced by education, good healthcare, strong relationships and political empowerment. Religious individuals are often happier, but the happiest nations tend to be secular.

Until recently, most governments and politicians had not concerned themselves much with their people’s happiness, a rather vague notion, preferring instead to focus on economic growth and measurable concepts such as the Gross Domestic Product — or GDP. That, however, is very slowly changing.

It was America that gave the world the revolutionary concept that “the pursuit of happiness” is one of the most fundamental of all human rights.

And yet, which American politician would be brave enough to dare call for a government to ask the entire nation, How happy are we? And, even more daring, Should the government aim to make people happy?

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What not to do, part II: Return of the Procrastinator Finals season is here again, and we at The Penn would like to present further examples of things you shouldn’t be doing when you should be studying.

Paint your toenails. Paint your sleeping roommate’s toenails. Take photos of blossoming trees and chain-link fences and write introspective blog posts about them. Plan your graduation party. Plan your wedding. Plan your funeral.

Make a cup of coffee. Do free online crossword puzzles. Complete the Pokedex on every Pokemon game you own. Browse for shoes online. Post passiveaggressive messages on your Facebook. Post passive-aggressive messages on your Twitter. Post passive-aggressive messages on your forehead. Learn to write with a quill pen. Watch every season of Days of Our Lives. Dye your hair black in preemptive mourning for your GPA. Write the next Great American Novel. Pack. Have a dance party devoted to boy bands of the 90s. Sunbathe.

Make a paper crane. Make a flock of paper cranes. Polish your shoes. Make a piñata. Make a piñata as an excuse to hit your friends with a baseball bat.

Combine every flavor of ramen. Catalog your music library. Make another cup of coffee. Send care packages to your friends at other schools. Send care packages to your friends at other schools with nail files baked into cupcakes. Take up midnight karaoke. Make a papier-mache model of the Titanic. Cry. Build a shrine. Go to the movies. Read xkcd archives. Read A Softer World archives.

Read “My Life Is Average” archives and wish your life were that average. Take up trolling. Make another cup of coffee. Hibernate. Tame a squirrel. Become a ninja. Become a pirate. Become a zombie. Get a massage. Buy a bonsai tree.

Have a picnic. Repaint your dorm room. Reproduce the Mona Lisa with carpet lint. Look up the symptoms for an ulcer. Make another cup of coffee. Update your resume. Stargaze. Clean your bathroom. Shave your head. Write a libretto.

Stage a song and dance number. Make a scavenger hunt for your roommate.

Make a scavenger hunt for your roommate with his or her notes. Make another cup of coffee.

Attack the law, not the lawyer Editorial Los Angeles Times MCT

The Human Rights Campaign has been a powerful force for the rights of gays and lesbians, but the organization has stumbled in objecting to the hiring of a former solicitor general to defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. The tradition of lawyers defending unpopular or controversial clients is an honorable one.

DOMA, which defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman and permits states to refuse to honor same-sex marriages performed in other states, is wrongheaded, and we welcomed President Obama’s decision not to defend it.

But that doesn’t mean the House of Representatives, which took over defense of the law from the administration, shouldn’t retain the ablest counsel available. Former Solicitor Gen. Paul D. Clement, a renowned

Supreme Court litigator, qualifies.

That is too much for the Human Rights Campaign, which assailed the decision by Clement’s law firm to take the case as “a shameful stain on the firm’s reputation.” Joe Solmonese, the organization’s president, said the firm was “aiding and abetting an effort to score cheap political points on the backs of same-sex couples.”

It’s perhaps understandable that leaders of an advocacy group like the Human Rights Campaign would be outraged at the idea of anyone defending a law that they so strongly believe is discriminatory. But the suggestion that it’s shameful for Clement or his firm to do so misunderstands the adversarial process.

For one thing, with sharp-witted counsel on both sides making the strongest possible arguments, it is more likely that justice will be done.

For another, a lawyer who defends an individual or a law, no matter how unpopular or distasteful, helps ensure that the outcome is viewed as fair. If DOMA is struck down, the fact that it was defended effectively will

make the victory for its opponents more credible.

The relationships between lawyers and clients in political cases don’t follow a single model. Often, as with the legendary left-wing lawyer William Kunstler, there is an ideological affinity between lawyer and client. Theodore B. Olson, a predecessor of Clement’s as solicitor general, has led the challenge to Proposition 8 and is personally in favor of samesex marriage. But other lawyers regularly argue positions with which they disagree and represent clients they hold in contempt.

In criticizing Clement’s law firm for agreeing to defend DOMA, the Human Rights Campaign contrasted that decision with the firm’s admirable record in promoting equality for gay and lesbian employees. But there is no contradiction — unless one believes that DOMA doesn’t deserve a defense. We hope Clement loses, but we don’t begrudge him the assignment. Even a lawyer of his skills will find it hard to defend a discriminatory law like DOMA.

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Energy drinks show more harm than help to consumers

Importance of sleep increase during finals week By imani dillard

By corrie whitmer

Senior Staff Writer I.J.Dillard@iup.edu

Contributing Writer C.E.Whitmer@iup.edu

Finals week requires students to study hard, work harder and often consume cup after cup of coffee.

However, when coffee doesn’t work, another energy boost is considered. Since coffee tends to get a bad rap due to its caffeine content, are energy drinks any healthier?

Popular energy drinks, such as Monster, Rock Star, Red Bull and the new favorite, 5-Hour Energy Shots, may not be as helpful as many think.

According to the University of California’s Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources website, the amount of caffeine in an energy drink can range between 72 to 150 milligrams (mg) per serving, with most drinks containing two or more servings of caffeine.

The website also recommends limiting caffeine consumption to about 300-400 mg a day.

Exceeding the limit can result in dangerous side effects, such as

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irritability, stomachaches, sleeping difficulties, as well as more serious effects like heart palpitations and decrease in bone density.

According to PubMed.gov, the U.S. Library of Medicine’s website, a 2007 research study of 496 college students discovered that 29 percent experienced a “crash� after using energy drinks, while 22 percent suffered from headaches and 19 percent experienced heart palpitations.

Other substances in energy drinks, such as glucuronlactone, which is used mostly in Red Bull and Monster, have not been proven to be safe at the levels in which they are found in many energy drinks.

For more information about energy drinks and their effects, visit the Health and Well-Being center, located in Suites on Maple East, or contact Health AWAREness at 724-357-4799.

Finals week has arrived. Studying and finishing projects become the main priority on students’ minds, while sleep becomes less important.

Many students will take time to cram and prepare for finals, and many won’t make sleep their number-one priority, as it should usually be.

According to SleepFoundation. org, although sleep experts generally recommend an average of 7-9 hours per night, some people can get along with less while others need as much as ten hours to feel alert the next day.

According to SleepHealth.com, Lawrence Epstein, Medical Director of Sleep HealthCenters and author of The Harvard Medical School Guide to a Good Night’s Sleep, suggests that sleeping is as important to health and well-being as diet and exercise.

Dr. Epstein also said, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine’s website, that after two weeks of sleeping six hours or less a night, students feel as bad and perform as poorly as someone who has gone without sleep for 48 hours.

Fortunately, there are tips that students can follow in order to improve their sleeping habits.

Going to bed early – the main option – should encourage students to invest in the suggested amount of hours.

Secondly, try not to study, read or watch television while in bed in order to increase the focus and decrease the laziness.

Last but not least, limit naps.

Naps should be brief and should not exceed more than an hour or past 3 p.m. For more information about sleep, visit the American Academy of Sleep Medicine’s website at aasmnet.org.

Also, visit the Center of Health and Well-Being, located in Suites on Maple East.

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Fourth Annual IUP Awards Show presents updated awards

By VAUGHN JOHNSON Editor in Chief V.M.Johnson@iup.edu

The fourth annual IUP Awards Show 7 p.m. Saturday in the HUB Ohio Room, will have performances, an after-party, and more importantly, more awards.

In fact, the show will have about 32 awards for this year’s installment.

A wide range of categories includes “Favorite Greek Organization,” “Flyest Male and Female,” and also awards for best dressed, according to the head of the event’s organizing committee Donte Stratton (senior, political science, pre-law) The show usually includes awards that are voted on, presented by and given to students.

The show also features performances from students in a number of different areas as well as performances where students assume the roles of different celebrities.

All in all, Stratton believes the show brings a different flavor to IUP. “Basically, what we’re trying to do is give everybody a chance to showcase their talents, whether it’s dancing, singing, poetry, whatever you can do,” Stratton said.

The show will follow much of the same format it has in the past, but this year will provide a new venue.

In past years, the event always took place at the Indiana Theater at 637 Philadelphia Street, but the building has recently shut down, which forced the organizers to make a sudden change.

Despite being ousted of its usual

confines, Stratton believes the HUB Ohio Room will have positive effect on the show overall.

“I kind of think us being in the [HUB] Ohio Room this year is better because it gives us a different venue,” Stratton said. “I think being in the Ohio Room gives a whole different feel and to me it’s more professional.”

In past years, the show garnered a good amount of attendance from the IUP students and Stratton expects the same this time around.

He also expects for the Ohio Room to be full of energy from the crowd and the performers, which will mean to him, that the show was a success.

The fact that there is even going to be a show is a small measure of success.

According to Stratton, the organizers were not sure whether there was even going to be a show at the beginning of the semester.

Because of that, the organizing for the event got off to a late start, which made the process more difficult than in past years.

“It was hard to find places to have practice and auditions and stuff like that,” Stratton said.

“Of course, it’s about to be finals so a lot of people are doing work so it’s hard to try [to get] a convenient time for everybody.”

The hard work apparently paid off as the show has “six or seven solid acts” for the show.

Admission into the show cost $8, but there is a combo ticket for the show and the after-party at the Chevy Chase Center at 640 N. Fifth Ave. for $10.

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10 study tips help students to successfully prepare for finals By ticairra bazemore and kayla king-scott Penn Staff The-Penn@iup.edu

The school year is quickly coming to a close. Finals week is approaching and stress from the increasing workload tends to take over students’ minds.

Some students are able to work well under the pressure, while others crack.

According to IUP’s Advising and Testing Center, there are 10 study tips to help students prepare for finals and to make cram sessions less hectic.

1. Spend time studying what you don’t know.

It is more time-efficient to go over the areas where a student needs help.

By working on these aspects, a student can be more at ease when reviewing the things they already have knowledge of.

2. Get a head start on studying. Don’t procrastinate.

“I tell my students to study early,” said Lisa Newell, professor in the Psychology department.

“I study early and use flashcards,” said Brittany Paris (freshman, prepharmacy).

3. Read and repeat.

Repetition is a good way to mem-

“Take a break every hour and do something physical or an activity that uses some other part of your brain, such as playing an instrument, taking a walk or cooking something.”

—Dr. Laurel Johnson-Black, professor in the English department

orize notes because it will “train” the mind to remember the information, making it easier for students to recall during an exam.

4. Take a break.

Studying too hard can cause someone to overload, which can make studying almost useless.

By taking frequent breaks, this can allow students to step away from the material and regroup before attempting to work again.

“Take a break every hour and do something physical or an activity that uses some other part of your brain, such as playing an instrument, taking a walk or cooking something, “ said Laurel Johnson-Black, a professor in the English department.

5. Remember to rest.

No one can perform well while tired. Getting rest at night, preferably between 7-8 hours, allows stu-

dents to become more alert and awake during finals.

“Sleep-starved brains can’t find the materials you thought you’d stuffed in there,” said Johnson-Black. “Study and then sleep [to] let the brain work while you [rest].”

6. Know what works for you.

Discovering what tactics help students to study best and then applying it to the study process can help dramatically. Creating mnemonic mechanisms and reading aloud are examples.

“Study the same material different ways, read other materials and then talk them through with someone without looking at the notes,” said Black.

7. Know when to study.

By creating a reasonable study schedule, a student will be able to properly manage time and learn all of the material. However, stay realistic and try not to cram a semester into a few hours.

8. Know what you are studying.

Know what kind of test is being taken – is it cumulative? Will it focus only on material from the last portion of the course?

What key concepts has the professor stressed? If the professor is testing on mostly vocabulary, it is smart to learn the definitions.

Knowing what is being tested will help

MCT Finals week can be one of the very important times in a student’s life when studying is crucial. Following these 10 study tips can help students’ study habits become more effective.

to properly prepare.

9. Eat right.

Never skip breakfast on the morning of an exam.

Eating a full meal will help a student to focus more effectively, instead of focusing on the growl of an empty stomach.

“Drink some coffee before finals, but not too much,” said Black. “Eating

fish is [also] a good idea because it facilitates recall of information.”

10. Take notes and study them.

Copying notes during a class should definitely assist a student who is taking an exam because it clearly gives all of the information that they need.

Reviewing past information in the student’s own words is the best way to remember the information.

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MCT All those fancy chemicals and potions that you covet for their anti-aging, moisturizing, skin brightening, pore-cleansing,acne-fighting properties don’t respond well to neglect, excessive heat or contamination.

Vanity supplies do expire, encourage anti-stockpile By debra d. bass St. Louis Post-Dispatch MCT

Fueled by warm weather, it’s easier to embark on spring cleaning in earnest.

Even people who don’t consider themselves hoarders can usually find extraneous dusty products lurking underneath counters, hiding in plain sight amid a glut of products, huddled in medicine cabinets and cluttering countertops.

Bathrooms should really be spartan spaces, not just because it’s aesthetically pleasing and hygienic, but because it will make it easier not to waste money and abuse beauty products.

Almost everything consumable has an expiration date. If you’re hoarding things for years at a time, using them sporadically, switching between comparable products and storing items in the shower, you’re probably spending money on products that are essentially ineffective by the time you use them.

So here’s where we start. Grab a box, bin, bag, tray and take everything out of the cabinets. Yes, everything means everything.

Now get your handy vacuum with the crevice attachments, and vacuum out the debris and dust bunnies from inside medicine cabinets and drawers, under counters and along the floor, in corners and along the floor crease.

If you’re in need of a proper vacuum, we are big fans of the Eureka AirSpeed Gold ($129.99) at Lowe’s, Best Buy, Kmart, Kohl’s and Sears.

It has a modest price and has been tested to capture debris as well or better than Dyson vacuums.

First, organize your supplies into piles. Put all the shampoos together, conditioners, lotions, soaps, toothpaste, deodorant, etc.

Now, let the weeding begin.

Time flies when you’re on a shelf, so if you can’t remember purchasing something and you haven’t used it regularly, it’s probably expired by now.

Believe it, two years flies by in a flash. If you really can’t bear to part with something, think back to sometime when you used it ... was it for Christmas? Was it last spring? Was it a bar mitzvah two years ago? Did you have those silly bangs that you’re glad have now grown out?

OK, once you’re convinced you can part with something, you should aim to have only one type of product open at a time.

That means one shampoo at a time.

Some people use hair masks once a week or so and that’s fine, but you don’t need to alternate between multiple shampoos and conditioners.

Use one and use it up, then move on to the next one. It seems basic, but it’s common sense that often gets ignored when we see a shiny new package that claims to have some miracle formulation. We buy it and quickly forget about the other product or we place them side by side and alternate after we realize the new product isn’t quite so miraculous.

If you have high-maintenance hair, decide on one hot oil treatment, one hair mask or what-have-you, but you don’t need a half dozen. You can stock ONE backup product. Not two, not three. ONE. Now use your first product until it’s finished and then move on to the backup.

If you are stocking up on shampoo, face cleansers, toothpaste, soap and lotion, just stop it.

The world is not in danger of some nutty apocalypse where you won’t be able to run to the drugstore to buy one of those items on sale in the off chance that you run out.

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Computers take place of cookbooks, magazines By jim buchta Star Tribune MCT

It all started with a move.

Not a downsizing, but an upsizing to a place with more storage and a bigger kitchen.

But when I opened the cabinet where I store my cookbooks, magazines and thousands of recipes that I’ve been saving for the past couple of decades, I was horrified. Had I become a hoarder?

I started pulling them out and making giveaway piles, but it wasn’t long before the stacks were so tall that the dog couldn’t find his way to the door.

That was the moment I decided to pare down my cookbooks and shift my recipe collection from the sagging shelves of a big front hall cabinet to a thumbprint-size digital folder on the desktop of my 13-inch laptop, where I quickly discovered that I am not a pioneer in this endeavor.

The Internet is full of discussions, apps and suggestions on how to create a digital recipe box. With tablets, iPads and other devices becoming ever more portable, it’s a process that I haven’t yet come to regret.

The giveaway pile grew and so did

the stack of recipes set for scanning.

I had already started to copy recipes that I found on the Internet into a folder on my desktop computer, and I made a commitment to continue the digital collection.

The decision required some mental gymnastics. A laptop is no substitute for the batter-stained pages of a favorite food magazine — especially for someone obsessed with food.

I had started collecting recipes when I was a kid. My grandmother was a chef and a caterer. My folks saw prepared foods as a luxury we didn’t need or want.

And my mom kept adding to a big box of recipes and newspaper clippings, which I took refuge in when I was bored and while other kids were building forts. I built forts, too, but mine always had a kitchen.

So back to the purging. There’s another reason why — like so many other kindred, hoarding souls I’ve met on the Internet — I have crossed to the dark side.

More families than ever travel, but don’t have room in the SUV to haul around their kids and the cookbooks as they go from house to house.

So it was a no-brainer to keep my recipes in something I never leave home without: my laptop, which

gets backed up regularly, has seemingly infinite storage space (unlike even my new and bigger kitchen) and is always at my side.

That’s not to say it was easy to say goodbye to the stacks of Saveur, Cooking Light and Bon Appetit magazines piled up in my front hall.

Even though I cross-checked the printed magazines with the websites to make sure that the content really is available online, those glossy covers reminded me of a mouthwatering meal I’d made, or wanted to make.

Or of a place I wanted to go.

Or of a brainless afternoon lying in a bathtub and dreaming about my next meal.

And so, after flirting for a moment about the illogical prospect of just mailing my castoffs to similarminded friends, out they went, six or seven big plastic bins of books, recipes and clippings, to Half-Price Books, where I got a few coins for each magazine, just enough to fund a few treats from Caribou.

Was it the right decision? Time will tell.

For now, I’m still packing for my move and am relieved that the cookbooks I haven’t used for years and the recipes that I could never find won’t be among the things I have to schlep.

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12 eco-friendly, frugal basics to experience By tricia howley MCT

Is it possible we’ve discovered too many ways to “Go Green?” It’s become so trendy, sometimes it seems only wealthy people can save the planet.

I’m glad forward-thinking billionaires have promoted it, but now every business from corner store to megacorporation is selling the concept.

Despite all appearances, however, you don’t need to spend a lot of green to be green.

In fact, good old-fashioned frugality was always eco-friendly.

Take a look at these 12 basic things you can make yourself. These are simple “recipes” and formulas, and all of them will save both the environment and your bank account.

1. Dishwasher Soap Mix together 1 cup washing soda, 1 cup Borax, { cup salt and { cup citric acid. Store tightly covered in a jar. Use one tablespoon per load. Add a splash of vinegar to the rinse dispenser for best results.

2. Pancake Syrup I love maple syrup but it’s too expensive to let the kids use it every other day. Besides, I want something without the high fructose corn syrup.

Combine 1 cup hot water, 2 cups sugar and { teaspoon maple flavoring. Bring to a boil and heat until thickened.

3. Lawn Spray Mix 1 cup baby shampoo, 1 cup ammonia, 1 can of beer and { cup corn syrup in a 20-gallon hose-end sprayer.

Top off with warm water and soak your grass with this lawn spray once a month. It’ll be green and healthy.

4. Compost This one may seem obvious, and it is, but I think there are still many people out there who don’t know that making compost is easy. Really, it’s easy!

To get started, check out CompostGuide.com or Plow & Hearth magazine.

5. Compost Bin When I first tried composting, I was really put off by all the expensive composters I found online.

The point of this exercise is to save money! Here’s a great solution that won’t break the bank: http://simplemom.net/how-to-make-a-compostbin/.

6. Plant Fertilizer If you’re still completely put off by composting, it’s OK. Rotting things can be scary. Have some leftover coffee grounds?

Just throw them directly onto the dirt around your favorite plants. Grind

egg shells and do the same. Pour leftover green tea on them. Kids have fish?

Dump the old fish tank water. Every once in a while, take a pronged garden tool out there and scrape around to mix things up. Your plants will love you.

7. Weed Killer Vinegar is a great weed killer. Fill a spray bottle with vinegar and spray it on anything you can’t get out by the roots. It’s one of the few things that will work against such noxious weeds as Canadian Thistle. All vinegars are diluted, so try and buy the highest concentration you can find at the supermarket.

8. Laundry Soap A basic recipe that costs $0.03 per load and uses washing soda, Borax and grated bar soap can be found at Crafting A Green World (http://craftingagreenworld.com/2011/01/30/ how-to-make-your-own-eco-friendly-laundry-soap-for-three-cents-aload/). There are variations on the basic formula for protecting sensitive skin and for stain removal.

9. Make Dinner Cooking anything at home saves you gas and is cheaper and healthier.

Cooking magazines and websites can help or hurt. Don’t think you’ve got to serve the gourmet meal every night.

Make things you like and look for recipes with few ingredients. If you have kids, get them involved. They’ll eat better and complain less.

10. Glass Cleaner This is a classic eco-friendly and frugal recipe. Mix 2 { cups of water, { cup rubbing alcohol and 1 tablespoon white vinegar in a spray bottle. Use newspaper to wipe the windows. I know it seems counter-intuitive, but newsprint has no lint, which is why it works so well.

11. Furniture Polish Combine the juice from 5 lemons with 1 cup of olive oil and pour into a spray bottle.

Shake well before each use. Spray the polish on a clean cloth and wipe down your wood furniture to give it a shine.

12. Wrapping Paper If you have a newspaper printing press near you, go down there and ask for a “remainder” roll of newsprint.

There’s usually a lot of paper still on it, since the machines can’t operate properly once the roll gets below a certain diameter.

Wrap gifts with this paper and get the kids to decorate with drawings.

Or stamp it and add matching ribbon.

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MCT Senior health educator Andy Wentling presents “Life Begins,” at the Robert Crown Centers for Health Education. He shows the relative size of the expansion of a uterus holding a fetus.

Sex education hits road By vikki ortiz healy Chicago Tribune MCT

Jackie Gill stood confidently at the front of the classroom, her Power Point presentation cued and ready to go with slides of hormones, sperm and fallopian tubes.

Confronting nervous students is nothing new for Gill of the Robert Crown Center for Health Education.

The non-profit organization has offered its “Life Begins” and similar presentations to more than five million children since it began specializing in puberty and sex education in 1958. Many remember the field trip as a rite of passage.

But in an era of cash-strapped school districts, administrators are often unwilling to give up precious class time or funds to bus students to the iconic building in Hinsdale, or to other campuses in Lawndale and Aurora, Ill. To stay afloat, Robert Crown educators have had to get creative about how they deliver their lessons, packing up plastic uteruses and portable egg and sperm displays as they take their “birds and the bees” program on the road.

“The idea that we can just change (schools’) priorities — that’s not going to happen,” said Kathleen Burke, chief executive officer for the center. “We’ll do what it takes to make sure the kids get the best information to make good decisions as they grow.”

Since 2005, attendance at the

Hinsdale facility, its two satellites and at schools has declined by about 10,000 students a year, following a national trend, officials said.

Over the same period, the number of independent health education centers in the country — those not affiliated with museums, hospitals or other larger institutions — has dropped from about 30 to 15, said David Midland, former executive director of the National Association of Health Education.

The closings have left public school administrators in many states on their own as they try to meet broad guidelines on teaching students about sex, health and human growth. For decades, school administrators have leaned on the independent health education centers to supplement — or even meet — those guidelines.

“It’s nice to have a professional with all the technology that they have,” said Jeff Spitzer, a health and physical education teacher at Whittier Elementary School in Northlake, Ill. Several factors have helped exacerbate the struggles many of the independent centers are experiencing, say experts like Midland.

For one thing, the Internet and easier access to technology have made their museum-like science exhibits — many of which date to the mid 1970s — less novel to today’s students.

Parents also have become more involved in their children’s lives and more likely to initiate “facts of life” conversations themselves, Midland said.

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Voice mail is slowly growing old, useless By steve schmandeke Chicago Tribune MCT

Are voice mails obsolete? Does anyone even listen to them anymore?

With so many easier ways to communicate, leaving a voice mail may be like putting a message in a bottle.

Someone might pick it up — eventually.

Ask any young person. A few days ago at the Trader Joe’s grocery in Center City Philadelphia, Surekha Sydney, 27, estimated that she received one voice mail for every 10 or 15 text messages.

“The only people that leave me voice mails are strangers and my parents,” she said.

A couple of aisles over, Joe Cotsas, a sophomore at Drexel University, said he tells everyone he knows not to leave him voice mails.

If he didn’t have to worry about employers calling, he said, he probably wouldn’t have bothered to record a personal greeting.

His classmate Justin Deckert concurred. “I think voice mails are actually kind of a hassle,” he said.

The Pew Internet and American Life Project last fall reported that teens were texting five times more often per day than adults.

And Nielsen Co. said teens send an average of six texts every hour they’re awake. Texting overall jumped 31 percent in 2010, according to CTIA — The Wireless Association. This may be why an informal survey of 57 people by The Inquirer found a clear generation gap when it comes to voice mail.

More than half of the 35 respondents younger than 35 said they were in no rush to check their voice mail, listening to it only every few hours or days.

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MCT Surekha Sidney, 27, shops at Trader Joe’s at Center City in Philadelphia. Sidney said she receives one voice mail for every 10 to 15 texts.

Seventy-six percent of those younger than 35 said they favored texts or e-mails, while those older than 55 said they preferred phone calls and voice mail.

“I hate checking voice mails,” said one young participant. “Once I accidentally got fired because I missed a voice mail from my boss telling me to come in — got it a week later.”

Checking voice mails often requires a separate phone call, which can be a deterrent.

Why waste phone plan minutes if you can just return the missed call?

IPhones solve the problem by archiving messages so that they can be played back with one touch, but many young people still don’t see the point.

Verizon Wireless spokesman Bob Varettoni said his company does not disclose statistics regarding voice-mail

usage but noted that text usage had skyrocketed over the last few years, from 9.6 billion texts sent or received

by Verizon Wireless customers in the United States during the first quarter of 2006 to 180 billion texts sent in the fourth quarter of 2010.

Parents text now, too, if only to keep in touch with their children.

At 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, Connie Keares, 49, said she had learned to text so she could reach her 17-year-old son, Peter, who sat beside her smiling guiltily.

“If she leaves me a voice mail, sometimes I won’t check it for another few days,” he admitted.

Texting may be efficient, but it doesn’t account for nuance. Keares, for example, often is told that her text messages come across as “really blunt” or “rude” because of their terseness.

Sluggish new house sales a couple of years ago prompted Consort Homes LLC officials to think green.

That’s green, as in more energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

But it helped lead to more green, as in dollars, last year in the company’s coffers.

Chesterfield, Mo.-based Consort’s new house sales grew dramatically last year over 2009, despite the recession.

“We had a really good 2010,” said Ed Petras, Consort’s sales and marketing director. “Our sales were up 122 percent over 2009.”

He credited much of the improvement to pent-up demand, but also to a commitment made early in 2009 by company officials to build only houses from that point forward that meet the green standards set by the Home Builders Association of St. Louis and Eastern Missouri.

Those standards go beyond basic required building codes by outlining practices for the design, construction and certification of green residential buildings. The standards require specific energy cost savings over houses that are built only to meet basic building codes.

“Consort is the biggest user of our program so far,” said Steve Loos, senior staff vice president of the Home Builders Association of St. Louis. “They are the only production builder that we are aware of that is using these standards with every new home they build.”

Loos said engineers with Laclede Gas Co. went to the new houses and verified that they were built to the association’s green standards.

Consort offers new houses priced from the $140,000s and up, ranging in size from about 1,200 square feet to slightly more than 3,200 square feet.

Even the smallest houses now built by Consort have green features that include: • Energy Star-rated Low-E windows with argon gas, or equivalent windows. The windows are designed to keep more heat inside during the winter and outside during the summer.

• A sealing package that covers all gaps in the duct work and insulates all parts of the houses, including basements.

• Energy Star-rated bathroom fans and dishwashers.

“We think this is important,” said Ken Stricker, Consort’s president.

“We have buyers who are shocked at how much lower their energy bills are than at their former houses.”

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Best printers for home office to get job done CNET.com MCT

If you run a busy office out of your home, you need a workhorse printer that can keep up with your output and produce letters, presentations and spreadsheets that meet your professional needs. There are several types of printing technologies to choose from, but a general rule is inkjet printers are a must for colorintensive graphical documents, and laser printers are a better choice for producing quick text pages.

HP LaserJet Pro M1212nf MFP CNET rating: 3.5 stars out of 5 (Very Good) The good: The HP LaserJet Pro M1212nf is a compact mono laser MFP that boasts a cheap price, a compact design, dead-simple installation and quick print speeds.

The bad: To hit its low price, the HP LaserJet Pro M1212nf leaves off a few features, including autoduplexing, Wi-Fi and a full-size paper tray.

The cost: $134.78 to $249 The bottom line: The HP LaserJet Pro M1212nf is the company’s cheapest monochrome multifunction laser printer. For the money, it earns our recommendation for its Smart Install feature and excellent value.

Brother HL-2270DW CNET rating: 3.5 stars out of 5 (Very Good) The good: The Brother HL-2270DW lives up to Brother’s reputation for reliable, easy-to-use, wireless monochrome laser printers.

The bad: The printer struggles to provide visually acceptable graphic documents.

The cost: $114.99 to $158.99 The bottom line: With improvements to its output speed, the Brother HL-2270DW improves on its legacy model and provides small businesses with an efficient output device for high-volume black-andwhite prints.

Dell 1350cnw Color Laser Printer CNET rating: 3.5 stars out of 5 (Very Good) The good: Economical LED engine; wireless connectivity; easy installation; prints high-quality color documents; supports manual duplexing.

The bad: Slow print speeds.

The cost: $202.99 to $234.77 The bottom line: If you print a high volume of monochrome and color documents, the Dell 1350cnw color laser printer delivers strong results with a variety of wired and wireless networking options. As long as you’re patient with its sluggish out-

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BlackBerry enters tablet market with Playbook By mark w. smith Detroit Free Press MCT

BlackBerry, with its diminishing legions of devoted fans, is stepping delicately into the tablet market.

The stakes are high for Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry, which has seen its market-leading mobile-phone presence overtaken by the Android and Apple platforms.

Unfortunately for BlackBerry, we live in iPad’s world — a world where a successful tablet computer is crucial to the health of an overall mobile software platform.

Enter the BlackBerry PlayBook: a beautifully compact and vibrant tablet computer that runs on RIM’s entirely new tablet operating system.

The PlayBook is available now and comes in 16-, 32- and 64GB versions priced at $499, $599 and $699 — the same price points as the WiFi iPads.

There are some crucial programs missing from the PlayBook at launch, though.

There are no apps to browse e-mail, calendar or contacts (yes, you read that correctly). For each of those features, the PlayBook pulls wirelessly from a user’s BlackBerry smartphone through a syncing program called Bridge.

All of that protected data stays on the BlackBerry as the PlayBook functions as a larger window into the phone’s e-mail and other programs.

For BlackBerry users, it’s a slick solution that offers all the traditional heightened security settings of the RIM platform.

Once the phone is disconnected from the tablet, all those apps go dark and the tablet is left without

access to e-mail.

For users without a BlackBerry smartphone, the omission of a basic e-mail app is a monster-sized deterrent. RIM says that feature will come this summer through a software upgrade.

The PlayBook can connect to the Internet using WiFi, but also through a BlackBerry smartphone’s existing wireless data connection.

This means you don’t need a separate contract with a separate carrier to browse the Web over a 3G network.

HOW DO I TURN THIS ON? The PlayBook is much smaller than its chief competitors — the dominant Apple iPad and Android-based tablets like the Motorola Xoom and G-Slate from LG. It’s a great size, though, that opens up a whole new level of portability.

RIM’s tablet weighs less than a pound and has a great 7-inch widescreen LCD display that makes it a handy personal video player. It has a super comfortable hardened rubber back interrupted only by the tablet’s 5-megapixel rearfacing camera.

The PlayBook also has a 3-megapixel front-facing camera, but lacks a program for video chatting. Expect that sometime this year.

The quality of the cameras is OK. Both perform somewhat poorly in low light. The biggest weakness in the PlayBook’s hardware, inexplicably, is the power button.

It is head-scratchingly difficult to turn on the PlayBook using its tiny, depressed power button.

But once the tablet is turned on, a simple swipe on the touchscreen will wake it back up for each use.

Online learning for high schoolers inspire praise, suspicion

By JOHN KEILMAN Chicago Tribune MCT

Miriam Kotacka doesn’t want to wait for her future.

She’s only 16, yet she’s due to graduate from Aurora’s Metea Valley High School in a few weeks so she can begin training full time as a ballet dancer.

She has been able to speed her education by taking a semester’s worth of classes on her Mac laptop.

She has studied the stars, the human body and other subjects in virtual classrooms where teachers were present only through instant messaging, email or occasional video links.

“I really liked the experience,” she said after wrapping up a semester of world literature two weeks ahead of schedule. “It helps to teach you those deadlines. If you’re going to take an online class, you need to pretty much pay attention. You can’t relax. It’s not a blowoff class.”

Kotacka is in the vanguard of a movement that some believe will transform K-12 learning.

Online classes, already a staple at the college level, are popping up with increasing frequency in Chicago-area high schools — and even middle schools — promising to help high-fliers and stragglers alike get the most from their education.

“You can personalize for each student and have incredible rigor,” said Michael Horn of the Innosight

Institute, a California-based think tank. “It’s a data-rich environment.

You can constantly see what does and doesn’t work.”

But not everyone has joined the bandwagon.

Critics say the trend is more about saving money than improving education, and that the effectiveness of online courses remains unproven.

“We have yet to see a vendor who has made the case that students who lack the motivation to do homework, to engage in class, to manage their time efficiently [...] will be more successful in online learning,” said Samantha Dolen of Palatine, Ill.-based District 211, where only two of 13,000 students take Internet classes.

Still, some observers believe the trend is likely to accelerate.

They say revenue-starved schools will find the economics irresistible and will be intrigued by the potential for better results.

Laura Kurtyak has taught an online health class for four years and said the distance ironically creates a stronger bond between student and teacher.

“Students who maybe would sit back in class and not discuss and not share are all of a sudden more apt to do it,” she said. “Maybe they can put a little more thought into what they want to share.”

The lack of face-to-face contact, though, also makes it a challenge to police cheating.

The Indian Prairie, Ill., district

MCT Brandon Liebmann, 18, a senior at Nequa Valley High School, looks over a lesson for an online consumer economics class he is taking so he can leave school early for a part-time job.

generally requires online students to take their final exams in classrooms, where they are monitored by teachers, but other assignments are harder to supervise.

“We have caught some students who basically plagiarized each other,” said Joe Moreau, who teaches consumer economics. “I have to say, though, sometimes you don’t know who’s doing the work. Is it Mom or Dad, or the student?”

The district tracks the achievement of its online students, and some of its findings might be surprising.

For example, the 50 middle school students who took the summer math class last year — cramming a year’s worth of learning into six weeks — did about as well in their subsequent math course as those who had taken two semesters to cover the material.

Horn, of the Innosight Institute, predicted that half of all high school classes will be delivered online within eight years, driven by shrinking school budgets and a thirst for innovation.

Text-based courses — “worksheets on a computer,” as some deride them — could give way to more exotic

hybrids, such as an American history video game developed by Florida educators.

But as the classes become more commonplace, scrutiny likely will increase too.

Gene Glass, senior researcher at the National Education Policy Center, said research has so far failed to prove that online instruction is superior to face-to-face education.

Jeff Hunt, who runs Indian Prairie’s online program, said such critiques are a caution to those who want to expand Internet-based learning.

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Target gives shoppers fashionable deals By victor godinez The Dallas Morning News MCT

One of the biggest color stories of the season is blue and white.

It’s showing up everywhere — household goods, bedding, upholstery, clothing and fashion accessories.

One of my favorites is the darling blue and white floral dishes from Target Home.

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New kitchen gadgets promote savvy organization By niesha lofing McClatchy Newspaper MCT

There are kitchen tools. And then there are these kitchen tools.

You will find yourself turning to these gadgets repeatedly, even making excuses to use them. As a gift, each would be memorable.

Some are the latest; some, the greatest. All are impressive.

STEM GEM BY CHEF’N — What: This tool removes the stem and cottony hull from fresh strawberries.

— How it works: Push the button to open the stainless steel claw, insert it into the strawberry, twist and pull. It also works for coring tomatoes.

— Appetizing or half-baked? This handy little gadget makes prepping strawberries actually fun and far easier (and safer) than trying to dig out the hull with a knife. California’s strawberry crop may be valued at about $2.1 billion, but this cute little tool is priceless.

— Serving specifics: The Stem Gem can be found for $7.95 at WilliamsSonoma and through Amazon. The company website also lists these stores as carrying Chef’n products: Emigh Ace Hardware and Bed, Bath & Beyond.

— Whisk rating: 3 stars (out of four) IWAVECUBE BY ICUBED INTERNATIONAL — What: A 12-pound portable microwave that takes up less than 1 cubic foot of space.

— How it works: The 600-watt

iWavecube can heat a cup of tea or pop popcorn. The microwave has a clock function and simple controls, including several preset cook times.

Phil Davis, CEO of iCubed International, came up with the idea back in 2004, when he was looking for a way to get a hot towel treatment for his morning shave. The easiest thing would be to have a microwave in the bathroom, but with counter space at a premium, it just wasn’t feasible.

Davis has heard from customers who use the iWavecube at work, school, while traveling in RVs and from several who have given the microwave to aging parents.

“This is so exciting for me because it’s something I kinda figured would resonate, but it’s resonated in ways I couldn’t have imagined,” he said.

— Appetizing or half-baked? I couldn’t get the iWavecube out of the office without answering a handful of questions from interested colleagues.

And the mini microwave didn’t disappoint. Not only was it easily portable and took up little space on the counter, but it was so quiet while it heated up food that I thought I had failed to turn it on. It’s like the hybrid car of microwave ovens.

The popcorn setting appears to run longer than necessary – there were still 48 seconds on the clock when the popcorn was done – but this wasn’t enough to cause me to disregard the iWavecube’s other noble qualities.

This would be a great appliance for small kitchens, dorm rooms and offices.

— Serving specifics: The iWavecube comes in black, silver and white and is sold for $99 at www.iwavecube.com.

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High-tech spring cleaning helps declutter electronic devices

By MARK W. SMITH Detroit Free Press MCT

Spring is very much here. And your tech devices can probably use a good spring cleaning.

Keeping your home computer clean can keep it running faster and even put years on its life. And with the addition of some free programs, you can keep your digital life clutter-free year round.

With help from Carlo Tuzzolino, service department manager at Computer Direct in Madison Heights,

Mich., here are some of the best ways to keep your tech happy and healthy.

CLEANING 101 Tuzzolino says he sees dirty computers every day, brought to their digital knees by dust built up inside and unnecessary programs that can surreptitiously siphon valuable processing power.

The best ammo against dust and other debris inside a computer is a can of compressed air.

“Eventually if you get enough dust, it’ll start to conduct electricity,” which causes to computer to run less effi-

ciently, Tuzzolino says.

If any of the cleaning requires exposing the inside of your computer, Tuzzolino recommends using an antistatic wristband (available at any computer store and online) that will prevent static electricity from damaging the computer’s circuitry.

To clean a smudgy screen, he recommends using an everyday glass cleaner like Windex.

The key, though, is to spray the liquid on a paper towel first to make sure there isn’t too much on your technology.

“If you get any of that liq-

uid to drip inside, it can do some damage,” Tuzzolino says.

GIVE IT A BOOST As computer programs are installed over time, many machines can begin to get bogged down with unnecessary programs that run all the time.

Besides an antivirus program, there is often little or no reason to have a computer program running in the background, Tuzzolino says. To unclog the build-up, check your system preferences (Mac) or control panel (PC).

Delete any start-up items that aren’t completely necessary.

Free programs like Malwarebytes or Cleaner also can track unneeded and malicious software and keep a computer from getting bogged down by it.

And as a computer hits the 3- or 4-year-old mark, it can become decidedly slower. But that’s not a reason to buy a brand-new machine, Tuzzolino says.

Often, the addition of more memory can speed up the machine inexpensively.

Doing so will give your computer a needed boost to perform well as programs have grown more taxing.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

Genevieve Gorder has seen a lot of bad design in her time. The host of “Dear Genevieve” on HGTV and one of the original designers on “Trading Spaces,” Gorder is often asked to fix problem rooms and spaces gone awry. She’s a fan of seasonality, so we asked for her spring makeover do’s and don’ts. Say no to:

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MATCHING People think that design is matching things. Again, like the beige on beige on beige. So you have this red pattern, and I get the same pattern, and I put it on my sofa, and I put it on my sink, and I put it on my garbage can, and it all looks like Holly Hobby. Matching is not design. Design is complementing — combining other colors, in other patterns. It’s a balance of opposites.

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BEIGE People gravitate toward beige, thinking that it’s safe. They are fearful of making a mistake. They add more and more layers of beige. We tend to stay, tonally, in the neutral, thinking that we’re not going to make a mistake, and we totally “mud out” our houses. We don’t see anything because it’s all one color.

TILE People are afraid to bring wood floors into their kitchen or their baths.

They’re afraid of water so they do really bad tile jobs, like right off the home improvement store shelf, when there are so many different materials for flooring. Wood is one of them we’ve used for hundreds of years and is still in lots of homes today.

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Hawks going for first-ever PSAC championship

By Kyle Predmore Sports Editor K.R.Predmore@iup.edu

The softball team has transferred its success in the regular season over to the playoffs in an attempt to make school history by winning the PSAC championship for the first time.

The Crimson Hawks will play against West Chester and host team Kutztown in the PSAC championship round.

IUP will kick off the round against Kutztown at 1 or 3 p.m. Friday.

“It’s been an incredible journey.

We knew coming in, especially coming off of the success from last year, that we had the chance to do some special things this year,” IUP Head Coach Bill Graham said.

Graham is in his second year as a head coach of the program.

During his first year, the team had the most victories that the program has ever seen, finishing 38-12 overall and 11-3 in the conference.

The team got a taste of the NCAA tournament last year, but was defeated by Bloomsburg.

This year, the team is 30-6 overall, 10-4 in the conference, and is looking at making its second-straight NCAA tournament appearance.

But getting to this point did not come without its share of obstacles.

“The funny part about the season is that we had four starters miss significant time due to injury,” Graham said. “But we had our other kids step in and fill their spots, and we really didn’t miss a beat.”

“Our whole lineup is producing and has the capability to produce. That makes it easier for me as well. It’s exciting to watch,” he added. “It’s exciting to watch them play at their full potential right now, which I think is where we’re finally at dealing with weather, injuries, class schedules; it’s not easy to do. And right now, we are.”

With the depth of the team, the Hawks managed to stay on top of the rankings, being going as high as ninth during the regular season.

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But even after the PSAC semifinals, where the Hawks defeated Mercyhurst 11-0 and outscored Shippensburg in the two games they played 11-1, Graham is not satisfied with where the team is at right now.

“I don’t think we’re satisfied,” Graham said. “Last year the girls got a taste of the NCAA’s, and it really stuck with them. And once you get the taste, you want to keep it going.

You never want to give that up. One of the motivating factors this year was the girls wanting to get back to regionals.”

“We knew we wanted another chance to get over the hump, and that would be us moving on in the NCAAs,” he added. “Conference championship is their goal. My goals are always to get to the conference tournament, and once you get there, to win the conference championship.”

The Hawks were in Shippensburg for the PSAC semifinals and will be traveling to Kutztown for the championship round.

The team is 15-1 at neutral locations and 7-3 on the road.

Playing away from home is not an issue that the team is concerned about.

“It really doesn’t matter where we play,” Graham Said. “Sixty feet between bases, 43 feet to home plate, that doesn’t change. Staying in a hotel is a little different, eating your meals might be a little different, but the game is the same.”

The possibility of getting the PSAC championship and to make another NCAA tournament has gotten the softball team on the map.

“The more we do on the field,” Graham said, “the easier it is to get out and promote your program and bring in kids on campus show it off a little bit. We have a great facility on field. It’s one of the best fields in the conference. And if we have the chance to win the conference tournament, and then to go on to host a regional, it just brings even more attention to our school, and all of that attention is obviously good for us and helps to build.”

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“I’d rather have the team be as successful as it can rather than me be successful.”

— Erin Holloway, IUP softball pitcher

Dominant Erin Holloway continues her dominant career into the PSAC conference championship.

By Kyle Predmore Sports Editor K.R.Predmore@iup.edu

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The IUP softball team proved to be a force that most teams don’t want to mess with.

The team as outscored its opponents by a total of 235-78. Not only has the team found success with hitting and scoring runs, but pitching has also been something that’s kept IUP high in the rankings throughout the season.

Erin Holloway, 19-3, has been a huge factor in the team’s success.

She is one of four pitchers in PSAC history to strike out more than 900 batters in a career with 928, which places her third in PSAC history.

Last season, she set a school record for single-season strikeouts with 325.

However, with the success that Holloway has, she always puts the team’s interests ahead of hers.

“I’ve been so focused on this year,” Holloway said during an interview Wednesday, “and doing the best we can this year. The past, what has happened so far, isn’t important to me. I’d rather have the team be as successful as it can rather than me be successful.”

Holloway is currently in her fifth year at IUP. During those five years, she has experienced a lot of changes.

Since 2007, the team has seen three different head coaches. She has also seen the team at its worst and its best.

Between 2007 and 2009, the Hawks’ best record was 20-27. In 2010, Bill Graham began his first year as the head coach, and the team put up a record 38-win season.

“The camaraderie between the coaches and the players, everything just seemed to click,” Holloway said. “Everything in the offseason, all the extra work that they put in, that we put in, it all just seemed to click together.”

“I knew the talent was here,” she added. “It obviously takes a while to get everyone on the same page. So I knew if we were able to get it all together, we had a really good chance at doing well. Last year, getting to the regional, we all got a taste of what it really felt like to be very successful.”

The Hawks are currently in the championship round of the PSAC tournament and are looking forward

to making the NCAA tournament for the second year in a row.

But even though the Hawks have made the NCAA tournament several times in the program’s history, they have never won a conference title. The possibility of that, and another appearance in the NCAA tournament, is a huge boost to getting the program back on the map and helping it stay there.

“I think it would make a huge impact on the program,” Holloway said. “It would prove to the girls that hard work pays off and working hard, working together. Even after this year, the talent coming in is just as strong as the talent that we have now. As long as everyone keeps working together, and working hard, every year there’s a chance to get to where we’ve been.”

To continue the success from last year, the softball team has managed to put together two seasons in a row with 30 or more wins. At 30-16, this is the fourth time in the history of the program that the 30-win benchmark was hit.

“It’s definitely an impressive number, especially when we play two games,” Holloway said. “Who says we’re going to come away with two wins every game? Just the work that we’ve put in, it’s a great feeling. Knowing that the hard work we’ve put in during the offseason and during the season has really paid off.”

In her most recent performance against Shippensburg, Holloway threw eight strikeouts in a 3-1 victory. Even with her success on the mound and the team’s five-game win streak, there will be times the team finds it problematic to keep the opponents batters from scoring.

“We’re going to make mistakes,” Holloway said. “I’m going to give up home runs. It happens. It’s part of the game. It’s easy to stay relaxed just knowing the team is behind me, like ‘OK, we make up for whatever happens.’

“If we give up one run, ok we’ll score two. We’re very capable of scoring many runs. It’s easy when you know your team is giving as much effort as you are, and you don’t have to worry about it.”

While the batters have to deal with the pressure of getting hits, Holloway deals with the pressure of everyone looking at her while she’s on the mound.

“You have to stay focused the whole way through,” she said. “You have to try to stay in the zone and not worry about anything else.”

Focus isn’t the only issue; it is also important that Holloway stays healthy. In her career, she has pitched a total of 95 complete games to include 21 games this year.

Her arm strength is very important as the team goes deeper into the playoffs.

“I feel great. I feel ready to go,” Holloway said. Kelly [King] pitched great this year, she’s eaten up a lot of innings, which has also helped me, so she’s helped the team, and its helping both of us, and now even if I do get tired, she’s there. She’ll step right in and do just as well.”

HOLLOWAY BY THE NUMBERS 928

325

95

70

29

Career strikeouts, ranking her third in PSAC history.

She has 171 Ks this season in 142 1-3 innings.

Holloway’s single-season high for strikeouts, achieved last season. It stands as the IUP season record.

Career complete games.

She has gone the distance in every one of her 21 starts this season.

Career victories, including an IUP single-season record 28 in 2010.

Career shutouts. She holds the single-season IUP record for shutouts with 10 last season.

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Crimson Hawks looking to make an impact

By Christopher Galiszewski Staff Writer C.M.Galiszewski@iup.edu

Though they did not make the postseason, members of IUP lacrosse have nothing to hang their heads about.

The season brought a lot of success as the Hawks found themselves with their first-ever 2-0 conference start as they also finished the season with 11 wins, making it the first time in the program’s history that the team reached double-digits in the win column. It is also the first winning season for third-year Head Coach Mindy Richmond.

“I’ve set goals for myself as a coach as well as for this team,” Richmond said. “I would like for us to be in the top 10, and I know it doesn’t happen overnight or even over the course of a year, but I know we are close to that point, and this year just shows the progression to that point.”

The Crimson Hawks certainly have progressed over the past few years since Richmond has taken the helm.

When she came to the program, the Hawks were coming off of a 2-14 season. In her first year as a head

coach, Richmond lead the team to an 8-9 mark, which was the most wins since 2001, tying the school record in wins, which was previously owned by the 2001 team.

The following year, the Hawks fell off the mark a bit, finishing with a 6-10 record.

Third time is a charm for the Hawks and Richmond, as they were able to right the ship and get on the winning side.

Prior to becoming IUP’s head coach, Richmond spent some time at rival Gannon, where she was a player and an assistant coach. She doesn’t hesitate to give credit to the time she spent at Gannon.

“That is what I experienced and played under,” Richmond said. “It sets the tone for what a program needs to be like in order to be successful. I played that way, and I realized through coaching what it takes from a coach’s side.

“Coming from a top-10 program myself, and my assistant coming from a top-10 program as well, we knew what it would take to get our team up to that competition level, so we really pushed the girls, and

obviously it showed on the field and we were able to be as successful as we hoped for.”

Indeed it did show on-field, not only from a team effort, but also individually. There were some bright spots for the Hawks. Junior Becca Vogt finished the year with a school-record 89 points, which was also good enough for fourth in Division II. Vogt should also find out next week if she has been named all-conference for the second year in a row.

Not far behind Vogt as a team leader was Sophomore Alexa Lodovici, who had a stellar year of her own with 42 goals and 30 assists.

A few freshmen were big parts of the Hawks’ success this year too.

Colleen Berlin and Taylor Norwood proved that they could bring a lot of good things to the program in years to come.

Fortunately for the Hawks, they will be returning all but one player from this year’s team. They are expecting big things.

“I’m looking forward to having a better season next year and we’re expecting more out of them,” Richmond said.

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“If we can handle the pressure of playing in a regional championship, then we’re going to have some After its first-ever PSAC cham- chances,” said Peterson.

The Crimson Hawks defeated pionship appearance, the IUP Slippery Rock and West women’s tennis team will Virginia State consecuplay in its second-consectively April 7 and 8 both utive NCAA tournament. by a 6-3 margin. They also The Crimson Hawks toppled the Rock again in (19-6) earned the No. the PSAC quarterfinals, 2 seed in the Atlantic 5-3.

Region and will meet the Regardless of how it No. 7 Winston-Salem ends, the Crimson Hawks State Rams in Slippery have had a very successRock Sunday. ful season, reaching the IUP is coming off a 5-0 Eaton 19-win plateau and the PSAC loss to Cal U in the PSAC championship for the first championship last Friday, while Winston-Salem championed time in school history.

“It’s a great achievement for the the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) this season, win- girls, they’ve had a great season and worked hard and they’ve earned it,” ning 27 of 28 matches.

“We played the CIAA champion Peterson said. “They’re going to look back on it a decade from last year and beat them now and be very proud of 5-0,” said IUP Head the things they’ve accomCoach Larry Peterson. plished.”

“We haven’t played any The Crimson Hawks common opponents have no seniors or juniors this season but, looking on the team and will return at their schedule, if we all of their players for next come out and play up to season.

Sophomores our ability, we’re going to Eaton, Emilia Osborne, have a good opportunity LouhabaNjong Kelly McBryan and Alex to advance.”

Ballard will enter their third Peterson’s players aren’t focusing on their opponent’s record year on the courts next year, while either; instead, they’re more con- freshmen Tabtip Louhabanjong, Ranvita Mahto and Miller Barmasse cerned about playing their game.

“Instead of getting ahead of our- will begin their second.

There will be additions to the selves, we need to just get the job IUP roster next season done and move on to the as incoming freshman next stage,” said sophoTanya Timko (Houston, more Katie Eaton.

Pa.) will be expected to The winner of the IUP/ contribute in the Winston-Salem match will top half of the meet the winner of No. 3 ineup. Also joining the Slippery Rock and No. 6 Hawks for their first West Virginia State. season will be Abby Though IUP is the No. 2 McCormick (Bethel Park) seed, Slippery Rock is the Osborne and Erika Mercado (Mexico host school for the bottom City), an academic sophohalf of the regional tournamore next year who was ineligible for ment.

Top-seeded Cal is hosting the play this season.

For the Crimson Hawks, it’s a other half of the regional, matching up with No. 8 West Liberty in the positive outlook for next season, summed up best by Eaton. first round.

“We think that we can expand The winner of that match will play the winner of No. 4 Mercyhurst and on this season next year,” she said.

“We’ve set ourselves new goals to No. 5 Charleston.

The two teams that come out of go ahead with since we’ve achieved the region will go to the Sweet 16 in all the goals that we wanted.”

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Bolts defeat Pens in seventh game, 1-0

By Alycia King Staff Writer A.L.King@iup.edu

There’s a moment when you know you’ve lost. While the production of “Spring Awakening” was going on, the Penguins were playing in Pittsburgh and losing. For many fans, they knew it was over before the final horn sounded.

A valiant fight for sure, just too late. The turning point in the series was the 8-2 win by the Lightning.

The Pens just couldn’t recover, though they did try.

Say what you may about Sidney Crosby not being in the lineup – the team made it that far without a problem, so what happened?

Maybe the lack of production on the power play? The Pens had five chances in Game 7.

No excuses guys, you were on the power play during the final minutes of the game. In fact, they had a 6-4 advantage because Marc-Andre Fleury sat on the bench.

Maybe the defense didn’t hold up on its end. Maybe Fleury wasn’t as good as he was before. There is no

one player to blame. Pittsburgh is a team. They played as a team to make the playoffs, and then lost as team in the playoffs.

Tampa Bay’s goalie gave his team the best opportunity to win. He knew that if he let in a goal, his team could lose. He made some amazing saves during the series. Give credit to the Lightning, they deserved that series because of their play.

So, in a season where Pittsburgh lost its top players: Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Jordan Staal, they got to the playoffs despite all the injuries.

Smile fans. Your team achieved more than anyone thought they would.

They almost won the first series, and then Tampa came to play.

In the end the Lightning and its top guns were too much for the Penguins to handle.

Now the offseason begins with contract signings and questions about salaries. So, with a 1-0 score, we close out Consol Energy Center’s first season.

The Penguins will be back next year with some new faces, and some faces missing. But one thing is for sure: they’ll be ready to play.

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Charity basketball scheduled for Saturday

By Vaughn Johnson Editor In Chief V.M.Johnson@iup.edu

A charity three-on-three basketball tournament is scheduled to take place from 10 a.m-2 p.m. Saturday at the Memorial Field House.

IUP football player Mark Jackson, among others on the team, organized the tournament, which will host participants from both the IUP football and men’s basketball teams.

Registration for the tournament is $10 per person. Teams may have no less than three and no more than five players on one team.

A special rule is in place for IUP basketball players, as there is no more than one member of the program allowed on a team, in the

interest of keeping the teams balanced and fair.

All of the proceeds except the winners’ earnings will go to the Make-AWish Foundation.

According to Jackson, the winner’s purse has yet to be determined, as it is based on the number of teams that participate.

“We just want to give the IUP students something to do and to make as much money as possible for the Make-A-Wish Foundation,” Jackson said.

Jackson also said the fundraiser could be the first of many for the football team in the near future.

For those who are interested in registering or donating, contact Jackson’s teammate, offensive lineman Byron Dovales at cfsq@iup.edu.

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Violations, investigations littered NCAA season

By Chris Dufresne Los Angeles Times MCT

Is it a crisis, or just Bowl Championship Series business as unusual?

January’s national title game featured teams currently under NCAA investigation and was staged by a bowl, the Fiesta, beset by alleged financial improprieties.

Auburn (Cam Newton recruitment probe ongoing) and Oregon (recruiting service payments called into question) got to the title game through a complex rankings system that, because of a computer operator’s error, had two teams in the wrong order.

USC, saddled with a two-year bowl ban for major violations, can expect to be stripped of its 2004 BCS title moments after the NCAA renders a verdict on the Trojans’ appeal.

Utah’s attorney general, perhaps thinking something’s ripe for the picking, last week announced plans to sue the BCS for being an illegal monopoly.

And 11 BCS conference commissioners met Wednesday to discuss these and other issues at a fancy hotel, a few blocks from the site of the Sugar Bowl.

Ohio State, the defending Sugar Bowl champion, has an Aug. 12 meeting with the NCAA to respond to a 13-page indictment accusing Coach Jim Tressel of “potentially major violations” including withholding information and lying.

It looks bad [...] it sounds serious [...] what a field day for BCS bashers.

Wait ... what’s this?

“The system is as strong as ever,” BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock said Wednesday.

Larry Scott, second-year commissioner of the soon-to-be Pac 12, agreed.

“I think the BCS system and college football is extremely healthy,” Scott said.

And although all bowls were stained

by the Fiesta Bowl scandal that led to the ouster of CEO John Junker, Rose Bowl chief executive Scott McKibben was unequivocal in saying: “I don’t think college football has ever been in better shape than it is today.”

The crazy part is everyone is right.

College football is a mess and in “great” shape. It’s the paradox of a BCS system that has been fabulously flawed since 1998.

Bad news has piled up at the same time networks line up to do business.

The Big Ten Network, driven by football, is a cash cow that delivered $20 million per school last year.

The Pac-12, led by Scott, is on the precipice of getting a huge network deal, perhaps as much as $220 million.

“That’s coming from renowned experts I’ve never met,” Scott quipped after Wednesday’s meetings.

Even the Big 12, which appeared close to extinction last spring when the Pac-10 attempted to raid the league of six schools and form the Pac-16, is back on solid footing. The league signed network deals that will total about $130 million annually.

Member school Texas, in conjunction with ESPN, is starting its own network in a deal worth $300 million over 20 years.

BCS officials are concerned about the disturbing issues but are far from pulling the plug.

“Putting the political grandstanding aside,” Scott said in reference to the latest legal threat from Utah, “there are issues and scandals in every major sport. Look at baseball, football, look across the board.”

How much the BCS has to do with the larger problems in colleges is debatable. Breaches of ethics and rules violations aren’t confined to football.

“The biggest concern that I have among the threats to the collegiate model is simply the threat of integrity,” NCAA President Mark Emmert said at the Final Four.

MCT USC was given a two-year bowl ban for major violations.

Major-college football, though, is the only sport the NCAA doesn’t control. It is the only sport that doesn’t have a playoff, making its shortcomings easier to exploit.

Blaming the BCS for the ills of athletics is terrific political fodder. BCShaters point to what happened at the Fiesta Bowl as a reason why the system must be revamped.

BCS officials don’t see it that way.

“What happened there (with the Fiesta Bowl) was more of an individual aberration, but it’s not playing that way,” McKibben said. “But the Fiesta

Bowl is going to be a red flag and a warning light to all of us. We’ve got to go back and take a careful look at how we operate our business.”

McKibben says the scandal created “a little bit of backlash” and prompted the Rose Bowl to thoroughly review its books and procedures in accordance with its tax-exempt status.

He said the Rose Bowl continues to operate within the rules.

Those thinking recent problems will precipitate the end of the BCS may be out of luck. Officials here are meeting to reaffirm what they already

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have. The Fiesta Bowl, it’s believed, is going to survive and be allowed to stay in the BCS rotation.

“Do I personally think all this will lead to the fall of the BCS and college football and the bowl structure?”

McKibben said. “No.” The NCAA licensing arm is meeting with the Fiesta Bowl on Thursday, but it won’t make any sort of ruling until a BCS task force investigating the situation rules, probably in late May. Lawsuit?

The BCS has been dodging antitrust charges for 13 years.

“It’s fair to say the attorney general of Utah just put fuel on a fire that was already burning,” McKibben said.

Hancock said Wednesday BCS attorneys have assured commissioners the BCS complies with antitrust laws.

The BCS brand has been battered and bruised, but it’s been kicked like an old car for more than a decade.

There certainly are issues.

“The only thing that risks the future is how leadership handles the issues,” Scott said.

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BYU accepts invitation to 2011 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl

By David Thomas McClatchy Newspapers MCT

BYU has accepted an invitation to play in the 2011 Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl if the Cougars qualify for a bowl game in their first season as an independent team.

The bowl, in its ninth year, is scheduled for 11 a.m. Dec. 30. It will be played at SMU for the second consecutive year because of stadium renovations at TCU. BYU has left the Mountain West Conference and as an independent

had no automatic tie-ins with a postseason bowl. The Cougars have made six consecutive bowl appearances and have played in 29 bowl games overall. The most recent bowl win came against UTEP, 52-24 “When we announced our football program was going independent, we recognized it would be a challenge given the timing to secure a bowl affiliation for 2011,” BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe said in a statement. “As an institution, we have a lot of respect for the service academies and the individuals who protect our country. We are

privileged to participate in a game that honors the men and women of our armed forces.”

“Our goal is to attract schools with a national presence to help us honor the men and women of the United States Armed Forces,” bowl executive director Brant B. Ringler said in a statement. “BYU is a nationally recognized institution with an outstanding fan base.”

Army made its first Armed Forces Bowl appearance last year, beating SMU 16-14, and Air Force participated the previous three years in the game at TCU. MCT Rodger Goodell was greeted with boos as he introduced the incoming rookies at the 2011 NFL Draft.

Judge rules for players again, confusion still reigns within NFL

By Mark Craig Star Tribune MCT

Confusion still reigned throughout the NFL on the eve of Thursday’s draft, even as U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson tried to clear things up by denying the owners a request for a stay on her decision to end the league’s 45-day lockout on Monday.

Technically, the lockout is over, which it has been since Monday.

However, the league isn’t expected to begin signing and trading players Thursday. It’s likely to turn quickly to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and ask for the same stay to be granted throughout an appeals process that could last into the summer.

Meanwhile, Nelson’s ruling, while coming down on the side of the players, does not force the NFL to start its league year by signing free agents and trading players.

“Defendants are under no obligation to enter a new contract with any player,” Nelson wrote.

What this does is take the league a step closer to playing the 2011 season.

Pending an appeal, of course.

“Players face the real and immediate harm of a lost season in a typically short professional career,” Nelson wrote before adding, “Considering the wide-scale ramifications of a lost football season to the public weighs in favor of denying the NFL’s Motion for a Stay.”

Fans will no doubt celebrate that argument. However, at this point it’s uncertain what effect, if any, Nelson’s ruling has, other than it was yet another loss for the owners in court.

The league has kept the status quo since the lockout was lifted Monday, and there’s nothing to indicate that will change, at least during the threeday draft.

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Owners and players jabbed at one another via court filings throughout the day Wednesday. The league argued that being forced to lift the lockout would put it at risk of violating antitrust laws by forcing it to come up with league rules without a collective bargaining agreement (CBA).

Attorneys for the players fired back.

“If the NFL defendants are faced with a dilemma, they put themselves in that position by repeatedly imposing rules and restrictions that violate the antitrust laws,” they wrote. “Any alleged predicament is of their own making.”

The NFL argued that without a CBA and antitrust protection, the competitive balance that’s vital to its success would be harmed by unlimited free agency and the elimination of the draft in future years.

Meanwhile, teams still preparing for the grind of a three-day draft were left to scramble to put together contingency plans in the event the league year began at any moment. Even after Nelson’s ruling, there’s no clarity when things will start and what the rules will be.

Teams aren’t sure if they will be following rules from 2009, when there was a salary cap and less restrictive free agency, or 2010, when there was no salary camp and more free-agency restrictions.

They also could be told to follow an altogether different set of rules, which, by the way, could be out of date once there’s a new CBA. It’s enough to make heads spin from front offices to the league’s rabid fan base.

And that concerns NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

“It’s one of the things I don’t think is healthy for the players, the clubs and, most importantly, our fans,” he told reporters during a predraft function Wednesday night.

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New book on Jeter exposes details on relationship with A-Rod

By Neil Best Newsday MCT

Word is Derek Jeter isn’t too thrilled about Ian O’Connor’s new book about him, at least not about some leaked material regarding his relationship with a certain slugging third baseman.

But after reading all 378 pages of “The Captain: The Journey of Derek Jeter,� I would say this: Only a guy as secretive and image-conscious as No. 2 in pinstripes could possibly be upset.

If O’Connor wants to write a book that says this many nice things about me, by all means, please do.

It’s not that the author didn’t attempt to dig up some juicy new material on El Capitan.

O’Connor is a skilled writer and reporter, and he interviewed 200-plus people, including Jeter in a series of chats by his locker. (Joe Torre and Alex Rodriguez declined to talk.)

But Jeter being Jeter, there only is so much even a dogged journalist can add to the discussion. Unless Jeter decides to tell all, or at least tell a lot, as Torre did to entertaining effect in “The Yankee Years,� the Shortstop for Life is destined to remain an opaque icon, just the way he likes it.

None of which is to say O’Connor’s book isn’t a valuable addition to the thin Jeter canon. (It officially won’t be out until next month, but it is available now on Amazon.com.)

Jeter-ologists will gain new insights on a variety of topics, from the life and influence of Jeter’s maternal grandfather to the intrigue of the 1992 draft to the “messy� contract talks of last offseason, even to sidebars such as Jeffrey Maier’s path to Yankee

Stadium one autumn day in 1996.

And, of course, there’s the A-Rod thing.

It’s all here, a relationship that went from warm to frigid to thawed, one that at times threatened to drag the entire franchise down with it.

Much of the ground is familiar, but the passage of time has allowed O’Connor to add depth to stories, notably the infamous popup that dropped between the two in 2006.

GM Brian Cashman tells Jeter “this has to stop� after observing Jeter shoot A-Rod a look that seemed to say, “That’s your mess, you clean it up.�

Jeter responds by saying, “Show me the video.�

The Jeter vs. Rodriguez dynamic consumes a hefty chunk of the book, and leads to most of the negative material Jeter would have liked to avoid. Turns out he could be petty and cold when it came to his old pal.

But mostly the book seeks to answer a question the author poses in the introduction: “How did number 2 get to be number 1?�

The answer is by generally being an all-around great guy who is kind to his parents, umpires, (most) teammates, fans and, always, children.

Opponents respect him. Women adore him. Corporations hire him.

Reporters appreciate him, even as he follows Don Mattingly’s advice to “bore them to death.�

On several occasions, O’Connor refers to him as Derek Sanderson Jeter for an extra dose of reverence.

But he is human, even when he is not stewing over A-Rod or enjoying perks such as the companionship of female celebrities. (Friends marvel when he quickly achieves two childhood goals: playing shortstop for the

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Great SUMMER apartment! 2Bedroom, $936/month (+electric, internet), May already paid for! A/C, across from HUB. Contact 724-689-4908 or 724-9723037.

Great Location, Furnished - Behind Wallwork. 5br / 2 baths. 4 great guys for roommates. Not coming back next semester and need to sublet my room. 835 Grant St #16. Lease starts on 8/19/11 and ends on 5/14/12.

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One- and two-bedroom apartments available summer, fall, spring. 412-309-0379.

New opening -- Four bedroom apartment for four students. One block from campus, close to student union. Call Jessica at Putt Real Estate, 724-465-5607. Available Fall 2011.

One bedroom apartments located across the street from the HUB. Security deposit $450; Summer rent $600 per person; Fall rent $2800 per person; Spring rent $2800 per person. The rent includes: Off street parking and water bill. Unit ideal for graduate student or a student who is looking for a quiet living unit. Please call Diane 814-243-0192 for more information.

3 br. Close, quiet. Free gas. $1425 per semester. 724-349-6748.

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Female roommate needed. Please contact diana sieber at 412-605-4523 or rich morganis at 724-388-1277.

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Updated Houses, Fully Furnished, W/D, dishwasher, parking. Close to Campus.

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Houses 5 bedroom, 2 bath $1400 p/p semester.

Included free washer dryer, free off street parking and some utilities. 724-465-7602.

2011 Summer housing. All utilities, parking, w/dryer included. Furnished, single or multi bedroom houses. Excellent locations. Reasonable Rent 724-5398012.

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One-three person housing for summer 2011 utilities, parking included. Furnished, clean and spacious. 724-3492018 / 724-463-7222.

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Spring 2012. Oakland Avenue, close to Philly Street and HUB. Spacious, furnished single room. 484-894-7188.

Summer Rental, 3 bedroom. 1 block from campus includes utilities, washer and dryer. phone 724-349-7688.

668 Water St 2 or 3 bdrm avail Summmer 11, 2300.00 all utilities inc Call 724.465.0100.

Educational Services For Rent: Grad student tutor guy. Bio. Stats, Geog, Astro. Can help you teach yourself this stuff. Gifts and tributes accepted. Respond jjhq@iup.edu.

Help Wanted Dance Instructor part time beginning Spring 2011. 724-349-2811.

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Your true self solves problems. Embrace your originality, and listen to your intuition. The next couple of days you can collect the fruits of your labor. Push for a raise. All is well that ends well.

Just because life feels good, don’t just start spending with abandon. It’s better to save for a rainy day. Let an expert solve a technical problem. Be open to surprises.

Hanging out with friends provides high-powered fun and adventurous conversation. A person who seems dumb is actually brilliant. Creativity sparks in the group.

Adventure time! Encourage others to make bizarre suggestions.

Have at least one silly conversation. Listen to all ideas and then choose. It’s okay to try something new.

It’s time to put your hard hat on, and push forward through those blocks that have stopped you before. No pain, no gain, they say.

Do it now, and be done with it.

Don’t mind those who don’t appreciate your artistic ability. Now is a good time to draw or paint. Don’t worry about what it looks like.

Find inspiration in little children.

Prepare for a test that could jump you up a level in status. This provides a new level in understanding, and the practice pays off with great results.

Time to batten down the hatches. Feel free to stay down below and cuddle with loved ones at home.

Take on a project at home, handle domestic chores ... then watch a movie with popcorn.

Plan a fun escape, but don’t take off just yet.

A pleasant surprise awaits. Make sure to get your reservations all in order before you leave town. Expect the unexpected.

Today is a great day to start writing a novel, or simply put your ideas on paper. Catch up on email and letter writing.

Make sure to get plenty of rest.

Consider replacing an old household item. The money’s there. Stick to the budget, but get what you need. Listen to an expert that you admire, and think long term.

It’s time to bring home the bacon, figuratively speaking. Emotions run high today, so use them to your advantage. Your imagination gives birth to a brilliant idea.

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