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• At 2:16 a.m. Wednesday, borough police observed Cale McKee, 20, Camp Hill, staggering along South Sixth Street and then hiding in the bushes of a nearby business. McKee was arrested and charged with public drunkenness, underage drinking and carrying a false ID. • University policed cited Katlyn M. Dorben, 19, Erie, with underage drinking at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday after she was found intoxicated and vomiting in the women’s restroom and in her dorm room in McCarthy Hall. She was taken to Indiana Regional Medical Center for evaluation. • At 8:54 p.m. Sunday while investigating Lily States, Clymer, for driving under the influence, borough police found a handgun that States had been concealing in the vehicle. States was arrested and charged with carrying a firearm without a license, driving under the influence, tampering with interlock system, open container, driving on the right side of a roadway and windshield obstruction. • Borough policed were dispatched at 2:08 a.m. Sunday to a report of an unknown intruder sleeping on the couch of a residence in the 1000 block of Water Street. Police found Nikolas Knueven, 26, Avon, Ind., sleeping on the resident’s couch. Knueven was cited for criminal trespass and disorderly conduct and lodged in the Indiana County Jail. • Borough police reported that at 1 a.m. Sunday, Christine L. Ammer, Hermitage, was cited for public drunkenness after she was found to be intoxicated and stumbling in the 00 block of South Seventh Street. • At 8:57 p.m. Saturday, Michael D. Motter, Lebanon, was observed staggering in the 1000 block of Philadelphia Street by borough police. Motter was found to be intoxicated and underage. He was cited for public drunkenness and underage drinking and later released to a sober adult. • University police cited Nathan R. Alberts, 19, Connellsville, for underage drinking when he was found to be intoxicated. • Lee Zarnick, 28, Indiana, was cited by university police at 5:40 a.m. Saturday after he was found intoxicated in the intersection of Grant Street and Wayne Avenue. He was cited for public drunkenness and released to a sober adult. • At 1:50 a.m. Saturday, Thomas Douglass Jr., 23, Homer City, was cited by borough police after he approached a marked police cruiser in the 500 block of Water Street and attempted to enter the rear passenger door. Douglass was found to be intoxicated and in possession of a small amount of marijuana. He was cited for public drunkenness, pedestrians under the influence of alcohol and possession of a small amount of marijuana. Douglass was processed at the borough police station and later released to a sober adult.

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Drop/Add period offers scheduling ﬂexibility By IMANI DILLARD Senior Staff Writer I.J.Dillard@iup.edu

With the beginning of a new semester classes that students are registered for can sometimes pose problems, whether those problems are a conflict in time, registering for the wrong class, or just not liking a particular class from day one. The Drop/Add period usually solves most of these problems. The Drop/Add period usually occurs within the first week of the semester, and it allows students to withdraw from a class and/or register for others. Drop/Add allows students to try out their current schedule and still be able to make changes if needed. If a class is dropped during this period, no notation is made on the student’s transcript. This is the only option for adding classes after the semester has started, but students can withdraw from a class anytime during the first two thirds of the semester. The withdraw period is beneficial to students who are taking a class and grades aren’t going as hoped. Withdrawing from a class can also be beneficial to students who need to leave school completely due to unforeseen circumstances. If a total university withdraw is enacted within the first five weeks of the semester, students may receive some sort of refund. The sooner a student decides to do this, the lesser the percent of refund forfeited. Students should be aware that dropping or withdrawing from a class can affect their financial aid. It is extremely important that students are sure about dropping a class. According to the Office

of Financial Aid’s website, it is suggested that students seek advice from their advisors before dropping or withdrawing from a course. Students who receive the PHEAA grant have to take at least 12 credits every semester in order to continue receiving the grant. If the student drops below the full-time status, the grant can be reinstated if the student makes up the credits in the next semester. For students to continue to receive federal financial aid — which includes the Pell Grant, the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG), the Academic Competitiveness Grant (ACG), the SMART Grant, Federal Stafford loans (both subsidized and unsubsidized), Federal Perkins Loans, Federal PLUS loans, and Federal Work Study (FWS) — they must earn at least 75 percent of the cumulative number of attempted at IUP and not exceed 165 attempted credits. According to the Office of Financial Aid’s website, “Students

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The quest for cheap textbooks took a turn toward the illegal Tuesday. Nicholas A. LaCamera, of Hermitage, was caught by borough police attempting to steal a textbook from the Co-op Bookstore at about 4 p.m.

Tuesday. LaCamera was taken into custody and charged with retail theft, according to a police report. LaCamera is a student at IUP in the College of Health and Human Services. The textbook in question was valued at $111.50.

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who earn a 0.00 GPA at the end of a term, and if that GPA consists of “F”, “I,” and/or “*” grades, are considered to have unofficially withdrawn and must provide documentation to the Financial Aid Office from their instructors confirming the last date of academically-related activity for the semester. “Failure to document academically-related activity beyond 60 percent of the semester will result in a reduction of your federal financial aid for the semester in which a student receives the 0.00 GPA by 50 percent. “Students are responsible for any resulting balance owed to the university.” Dropping, adding and withdrawing from classes can all be accomplished through students’ URSA accounts and doing a web drop from the desired classes. For the Spring 2011 semester the drop period ends on Sunday, the add period ends Monday, the last day for individual course withdraw is April 4, and the last day for total university withdraw is April 8.

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Tuition Freedom Day offers opportunity to say thank you By kat oldrey News Editor K.E.Oldrey@iup.edu

Students flocked to the HUB Atrium Wednesday to participate in Tuition Freedom Day. According to Tuition Freedom Day’s “Fast Facts” leaflet, tuition paid by the student covers less than 60 percent of that student’s education. Another roughly 33 percent is contributed by the state. The balance is covered by donations from sources including parents, faculty and staff, alumni and others. These funds are solicited by the Office of Annual Giving, through telethons, direct mail and email. Donations can be made through the IUP Alumni Association’s Support IUP and through the Office of Annual Giving. This is the first year the event has

taken place, but Assistant Director of the Office of Annual Giving Sheila Rawling said that it is to become an annual event. “It’s hugely successful, so we will be doing it again next year.” Participating students write postcards, personally thanking the donors for their contributions. More than three-quarters of IUP students get financial aid, according to “Fast Facts.” “[Tuition Freedom Day] allow[s] the students to say thank you to the donors,” Rawling said. The postcards will be mailed to the donors within the next few days. For more information on Tuition Freedom Day, as well as general donations, visit the Office of Annual Giving in Sutton Hall 311, or at www.iup.edu/ giveagift, or, in the case of alumni, the IUP Alumni Associatiton in Breezedale Alumni Center.

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Investors drawn to exploding social media By hanah cho The Baltimore Sun MCT

For every powerhouse like Google, there are dozens of Internet companies that flop. Still, a decade after the dot-com bubble that burst, there is no shortage of investors trying to get a piece of the next online blockbuster. Lately, much of the hype has centered on social media. While many of the big names — Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter — may sell stock publicly through IPOs one day, they have been raising capital by selling stakes to institutional investors, venture capitalists and wealthy investors. Momand-pop investors — and users of social media — also are angling for ways to invest in these private companies. Earlier this month, California investment company NeXt BDC Capital Corp. started a closedend mutual fund to buy shares in fast-growing private tech startups, which could include Facebook and other social media. That would give the public, who can buy closed-end shares that are traded like stocks, a chance to get in on the action. And some mutual funds are reporting stakes in social media, though those investments are often only a fraction of a fund’s portfolio. Baltimore’s T. Rowe Price Group was one of several companies

reportedly in talks to buy stakes in online deal site Groupon. T. Rowe Price is not commenting, but after avoiding the tech fads during the Internet bubble, the company has dabbled in the social media space through several of its funds. But while early investing can mean the potential payoff is greater, so are the risks. “The question for investors is: When you look at some of the private companies out there, are they the next Google or not?” said Jordan Rohan, an Internet analyst at Stifel Nicolaus. “There’s no easy answer to that.” With little public information about the financial performance of social media, it’s difficult to put a value on these private companies and many other tech startups, analysts said. And questions remain about whether the hot startups can turn a profit and sustain it. Investors also need to consider the fluidity of social media — where technology, trends and consumer interest can swiftly change, analysts said. Just a few years ago, MySpace was the dominant social networking website, and it was snatched up by News Corp. for $580 million in 2005. But Facebook has now taken over, and MySpace announced plans last week to lay off nearly half of its work force.

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But unlike the buying frenzy during the 1990s dot-com boom, which pumped up the stocks of many companies, today’s investors are putting up the cash for a more select group of private startups, said Harry Weller, a general partner of venture capital firm NEA, an early investor in Groupon. “People are more focused on investing in the winners because of the lessons learned during the Internet bubble,” said Weller, who sits on Groupon’s board. Indeed, venture capitalists and other big investors are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into recognizable names. Goldman Sachs, which bought a stake in Facebook for $450 million a few weeks ago, has offered wealthy international clients an opportunity to buy shares of the social networking site now valued at $50 billion. Groupon raised $950 million during its most recent private fund-raising. Groupon is pushing ahead with plans for a public offering that could value the company at $15 billion, according to published reports late last week. Some of today’s hot social media startups will eventually sell stock to the rest of the investing public, but right now they haven’t needed to because they have been able to raise capital privately, said Weller of NEA. For average investors, it makes sense to wait for an initial public offering, he said.

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Grants offered for research, projects By john boddington Staff Writer J.M.Boddington@iup.edu

With today’s tough economic times, cut funds are appearing more and more common among companies, businesses, and public schools and universities. Now, IUP faculty, temporarily employed or long-term, as long as full-time, can apply for funding to strengthen the educational process. Through the University Senate Research committee (USRC), all IUP faculty members can have the chance to improve their classrooms and broaden their students’ horizons. “These grants provide great opportunity for our faculty members to start a research project that can really grow to create external funding,” said Hilliary Creely, Assistant Dean for Research in the School of Graduate Studies and Research. Although this opportunity is made available for everyone, potential applicants for this grant need to apply through the School of Graduate Studies and Research. “There is no set number of grants able to be given; it depends on our budget and how many people apply,” Creely said. “ We are only limited to our budget - I strongly encourage many to apply.” When filling out the general application, one must dictate the specific category their desired grant request falls under. There are seven grant from which to select: Cooperative Programs, Research and Scholarships, Innovative Teaching Projects, Student/Faculty Research Awards, New Investigator Award,

International Presentations, and Presentations within the United States. Aside from having seven different categories to list one’s grant under, there are also seven committee members to oversee all submissions and come together with a decision; there is a committee member for each college. Once the application is put together and submitted to Stright Hall room 113 with one original and nine copies, the University Senate Research Committee will deliberate and generate a decision; if approved, a grant accountant will oversee the spending of the grant in a separate grant account. Even though these grants can be spent on almost anything after given sufficient reasoning as to why the university can benefit from the purchase, several limitations need to be established and obeyed; grants cannot be used for purchase of alcohol, gift cards, or used for one’s salary. The individual(s) the grants go to will also be required to provide a decent summary of their spending and the outcome of the project. More information can be found at IUP’s website under School of Graduate Studies and Research; there are eight different months with eight different submission dates throughout this academic year. There are eight separate dates set up for the committee to make their decision. Dates can also be located on their website. “I just want IUP to know that I would be more than happy to speak with anyone who has questions concerning the grants,” Creely said.

In Honor of IUP’s 21st Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Program You Cordially Invited to:

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Six O’Clock Series offers new programs By jeff Brunermer Staff Writer J.C.Brunermer@iup.edu

The Six O’Clock Series will kick off its spring semester Jan. 31 when it plays host for “FUEL” in Fisher Auditorium. While the Fisher Auditorium will usher in the beginning of the Series this semester, a majority of the presentations will take place in the Ohio Room of the HUB. Rick Kutz, of the Center for Student Life, explained the change of scenery. “The Fisher Auditorium is much larger than the Ohio Room,” said Kutz. “It gives us the ability to welcome some presentations that are much larger.” The segments “FUEL” and “IUP Sexfest: Talk Sex with Sue Johanson,” taking place April 18, will be the two episodes that

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change their setting to Fisher Auditorium. This semester welcomes the most Six O’Clock Series yet. Each one is sure to hit upon a subject that interests every student. “We tried to outreach to a greater number of niches this semester,” Kutz stated. “We wanted to have great speakers that are specifically focused.” Although Kutz said the entire Six O’Clock Series focuses specifically on certain topics, the individual events offer a variety of entertainment options. In the past, topics have focused around a guest’s lecture. This semester will feature a film, discussions, and even a performance. “We welcome any feedback for future ideas from the IUP community,” said Kutz. “Check our website for more information on each event individually.”

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Another unemployed university graduate in Tunisia has electrocuted himself as a wave of demonstrations and public suicides that has claimed dozens of lives continued Tuesday. Allaa Hidouri, 23, died after climbing an electricity pylon in his village of El Romrane on Monday, a teacher from the area told the German news agency dpa. El Romrane is situated in the central-west part of the north African state, near Sidi Bouzid, where the unrest began on Dec. 17 when a 26-year-old jobless university graduate set himself alight after the police confiscated vegetables from him. The suicides triggered a wave of protests across the depressed central region over stubbornly high unemployment and poverty. At the weekend, the situation escalated sharply when police opened fire on demonstrators in several areas. The government has confirmed 14 dead in the protests, but trade unions and human rights groups estimate the dead to number at least 30. The situation remained tense Tuesday, although most of the country was calm after the government ordered schools and universities to close until further notice. A group of around 100 intellectuals and artists attempting to hold a protest outside the municipal theater in Tunis in solidarity with the demonstrators were roughed up by police, witnesses told DPA. The unrest is the worst in the country of around 10 million people since the early 1980s.

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By Chuck Shepherd Interested in Boredom? Two hundred boredom “activists” gathered in London in December at James Ward’s annual banalapalooza conference, “Boring 2010,” to listen to ennui-stricken speakers glorify all things dreary, including a demonstration of milk-tasting (in wine glasses, describing flavor and smoothness), charts breaking down the characteristics of a man’s sneezes for three years, and a PowerPoint presentation on the color distribution and materials of a man’s necktie collection from one year to the next. Another speaker’s “My Relationship With Bus Routes” seemed well-received, also. Observed one attendee, to a Wall Street Journal reporter: “We’re all overstimulated. I think it’s important to stop all that for a while and see what several hours of being bored really feels like.” The Redneck Chronicles (1) The Key Underwood Memo-

rial Graveyard near Cherokee, Ala., is reserved as hallowed ground for burial of genuine coon dogs, which must be judged authentic before their carcasses can be accepted, according to a December report in The Birmingham News. The Tennessee Valley Coon Hunters Association must attest to the dog’s having had the ability “to tree a raccoon.” (In March, a funeral for one coon dog at Key Underwood drew 200 mourners.) (2) Safety Harbor, Fla., trailer-park neighbors Joe Capes and Ronald Richards fought in December, with sheriff’s deputies called and Capes arrested for assaulting Richards. The two were arguing over whether the late country singer Conway Twitty was gay. Ironies A sculpture on display at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minn., was stolen in December. The piece, by artist John Ilg, consisted of wire mesh over a frame, with 316 rolled-up dollar bills stuffed

in the mesh. The piece was titled, “Honesty.” (Attitudes have changed in the two years since the piece was first presented, at the Minnesota State Fair, when visitors liked it so much that they added rolled bills to the display.) Elected officials caught violating the very laws they have sanctimoniously championed are so numerous as to be No Longer Weird, but the alleged behavior of Colorado state Sen. Suzanne Williams following her December car crash seems over-the-top. Though a strong seat belt and child-seat advocate, Williams was driving near Amarillo, Texas, with her two unbelted grandchildren when her SUV drifted over the center line and hit another vehicle head-on, killing that driver and ejecting Williams’ 3-year-old grandchild, who survived with injuries. A Texas Department of Public Safety report noted that Williams was seen scooping up the child, returning him to the SUV and belting him in.

Bright Ideas The Toronto Public Library began its “Human Library” project in November with about 200 users registering to “check out” interesting persons from the community who would sit and converse with patrons who might not otherwise have the opportunity to mingle with people like them. The first day’s lend-outs, for a half-hour at a time, included a police officer, a comedian, a former sex worker, a model, and a person who had survived cancer, homelessness and poverty. The Human Library actually harkens back to olden times, said a TPL official, where “storytelling from person to person” “was the only way to learn.” If Life Gives You a Lemon, Make Lemonade: (1) When Bernie Ecclestone, CEO of the Formula One racing circuit, was mugged in November and had his jewelry stolen, he sent a photograph of his battered face to the Hublot watch company and convinced its chief executive to run a brief advertising campaign, “See

What People Will Do for a Hublot.” (2) The treasurer of Idaho County, Idaho, turned down the November suggestion of local physician Andrew Jones — that more cancers might be detected early if the county sent colonoscopy suggestions to residents along with their official tax notices. The treasurer said residents might find the reminders “ironic.” Update Charles Clements, 69, appeared in this space two months ago in a report on his having deliberately shot to death a 23-year-old neighbor whose fox terrier had answered a call of nature on the perfectly manicured lawn of the reportedly obsessive Clements. (According to witnesses, the victim was displaying macho bravado just before the shooting, but Clements admitted he was not under attack when he fired.) On Dec. 29, a judge in a Chicago suburb rejected requests for a 20-year sentence and ordered Clements to serve only four months — out of jail, on probation.

The 21st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Program/Black History Month Kick-Off 2011 Presents

Clifton J. Brown’s Reflections in Black: African American History on Wheels Exhibit Thursday, January 27, 2011 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM • HUB Ohio Room For more information call the AACC at 724-357-2455. Sponsored by the IUP African American Cultural Center in conjunction with several university departments and organizations including The Student Co-op and the office of Social Equity and Civic Engagement. Page 8 • Friday, January 21, 2011 • www.thepenn.org

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KCAC receives final touches, books shows By vaughn johnson Editor in Chief V.M.Johnson@iup.edu

The Kovachick Convention and Athletic Complex (KCAC), the massive $79 million building project on Wayne Avenue, is all but completed and the final preparations are underway for its grand opening March 4. On that day, the KCAC will be christened with a public ribbon-cutting. Along with the ribbon cutting, there will be a community open house where people can go in and take a glimpse at the building. All that remains to set up are furniture fixtures and equipment that is being installed by IUP’s engineering and maintenance group. “I think it’s huge [for Indiana],” said Sam Phillips, Interim Assistant Vice President for Administration. Phillips said the KCAC will generate in excess of 125 full and parttime jobs for Indiana, creating what he thinks will be a boom for the town’s economy. The 33-acre complex is being built for a number of different uses. It will be split into sections, which will include an area for conferencing, an arena and an auditorium, all under one roof. The building has been designed to host different services simultaneously, as a basketball game could happen at the same time as a conference or an event in the 650-seat Toretti Auditorium. The acoustics of the building allow for such occurrences, according to Phillips. The conference portion of the KCAC is 6,000 square feet and has several conference rooms of various sizes. The biggest, the PNC Conference Room, can fit up to 300 people sitting at round tables or banquetstyle seating. There are audio-video capabilities

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in every room, including two video conferencing rooms. “It’s a very well-designed building for its main uses,” Phillips said. “The conference portion of the building is outfitted very well using current technologies so that our building can compete with very easily with regional conference venues.” Companies can rent a room in the Conference Center for prices ranging from $75 to $750 per day. For those who wish to beef up security, the KCAC has swipe card readers outside the conference room doors and provides swipe cards. The Ed Fry Arena will be the most noticeable of upgrades of the KCAC to residents of Indiana.

It has five private boxes, one being reserved for the university president. Each box will have catering supplied by the KCAC. There will also be seven concession booths in the concourse of the arena where people can stand in line for food and still see the action going on inside the arena. There will also be televisions with game footage at the concessions. Aramark will operate the concession booths, but Phillips said that some of them can still be franchised. Although the men’s and women’s basketball and women’s volleyball teams will not begin play in the KCAC until next academic year, they will be greeted with new locker rooms that will be outfitted with a lounge area. “On the arena side, the arena is designed to serve very well the need for IUP athletics and also the concert and entertainment events that will be coming in,” Phillips said. “I think it will serve the needs of the university and the local community for years to come.” The estimated number of years of use is between 40 to 50 years for the steel building, but Phillips said with maintenance and upkeep, the building could last well past the 50-year mark. The first scheduled attraction to the KCAC is the Harlem Globetrotters on March 10. Globetrotters proved to be a hot ticket as it broke a record for ticket sales in one week for any Globetrotter game of a venue that seats 5,000 or less. More than 1,500 have been sold and there are some still available. Prices start at $18. They can be purchased by calling 1-800298-4299 or at the KCAC’s website: www.kovalchickcomplex.com.

“The Harlem Globetrotters are a universally accepted family show so it seemed like it would have a wide appeal for the facility,” Phillips said. Bringing family-friendly entertainment like the Globetrotters is the intention of the KCAC, according to general manager of Global Spectrum, the facility management firm for the KCAC, Jim Grafstrom. Grafstrom said during a Jan. 19 phone interview that he wants to bring “first-class” entertainment to the KCAC and Indiana. He said that he used the KCAC being a brand new facility as a big selling point to potential acts. He also intends to bring acts that are not only affordable for the KCAC and the people at Global Spectrum, but the people of Indiana as well. “It will bring entertainment that normally wouldn’t come to the local region, to the market to the school, so that’ll help the local community and the university,” Phillips said. “And it creates the opportunity for bringing in conferencing to the region that we wouldn’t normally have.” There are more family-friendly acts coming to the KCAC with the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus, appearing from April 7-10, where they will do at least five shows, according to Grafstrom. Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Feb. 11. Grafstrom also managed to book band Widespread Panic. Tickets will go on sale 10 a.m. Feb. 4. He has some other acts that are in the works, but could not reveal who they were as negotiations are still ongoing. He did say that there are shows booked for December of this year and April of 2012, but did not divulge any further details.

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Japan sees increase in vocational training popularity The Yomiuri Shimbun MCT

A growing number of university entrance examinees are aiming to join Japanese universities that will help them acquire a teacher’s license or other vocational qualifications likely to improve their chances of finding a job amid uncertain economic times. As two-day unified college entrance examinations, known as the National Center Test, started at 706 venues across Japan Saturday, job prospects were on the minds of many examinees. “At any rate, I want to be a public servant,” said Kota Matsuura, 19, at the University at Tokyo in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. “Civil servant jobs are stable even in a recession, and are quite popular among my friends.” Matsuura said he wants to study law and become a public servant. Misato Toyoda, 18, said she wants to get a qualification she can use as a child-care worker. “When considering the universities I want to apply to, I closely checked if I can get a qualification and if graduates of those universities have good employment rates,” Toyoda said. Ippei Maeda, 18, who took the test at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, said his first choice is a state-run university in Kanto. “I heard there are more job opportunities in Kanto than in Kyushu,” he said. “That’s one reason why I chose the university.” The number of university students receiving tentative job offers before they graduate has been particularly low in Kyushu. At Nagoya University, Masaki Sato said his first choice is an education department of a state-run university. Sato, 19, hopes to become a physical education teacher. He said

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competition among job seekers on the employment front and concern about the gloomy economic situation were reasons for his choice. “A school teacher is a stable job. I want to be a good teacher,” he said. Besides science, engineering, agriculture and medical departments, university departments that offer qualifications as teachers or nurses have received considerable interest, according to several major cram schools. Some examinees, however, remain convinced that following their passion remains the best option, rather than being preoccupied with short-term considerations. “The economy can change pretty quickly,” Hisaki Nagase, 18, said at Kyoto University. “Rather than choosing a department more likely to land me a job under the current economic situation, I really want to study science — and I intend to throw myself into my studies.” Nagase’s view was echoed by an 18-year-old female student taking the test at Kobe University. “I’ve no idea how the economy will be when I start looking for a job three or four years from now. I’ll choose a major that I really want to study so I don’t have any regrets,” she said. Inspired by Japanese Nobel Prize laureates or the gripping journey of the Hayabusa space probe, a growing number of female students are opting to take science courses at universities. Science courses have tended to be dominated by male students, but venues conducting the National Center Test said more female examinees than usual were among the test-takers this year. Some universities have even set aside rooms exclusively for women students to make them feel even more welcome.

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NASA announces delayed Shuttle Discovery mission to launch Feb. 24 The Orlando Sentinel MCT

Space shuttle Discovery is now scheduled to launch on Thursday, Feb. 24, almost three months after its originally scheduled date of Nov. 1, NASA announced Thursday. The 11-day supply mission to the International Space Station is shooting for a 4:50 p.m. liftoff. NASA also set the launch date for Endeavour — what could be the final flight of a space shuttle — for 7:48 p.m. on April 19. A third shuttle mission has

been tentatively scheduled for June, but it’s not clear whether pending congressional budget cuts might prompt its cancellation. The target dates for Discovery and Endeavour were selected Thursday during the space shuttle program’s weekly Program Requirements Control Board meeting, NASA said. Discovery’s final flight had been set for Nov. 1, but was initially delayed by weather and then a leaking hydrogen vent valve. In dealing with that issue, NASA inspectors spotted cracks in the

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2010 ties 2005 for warmest year on record By pat brennan

“Although you cannot attribute any individual event [...] to climate change, it’s always important to keep in mind that the probability of seeing these kinds of events does increase as the climate warms.”

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The year 2010 tied with 2005 as the planet’s warmest on record, and 2010 was also the wettest year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Nine of the past 10 years also rank among the 10 warmest on record, reinforcing the idea the planet is heating up, the warming driven by emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The warming trend was apparent in surface-temperature data despite two unusually cold winters in a row in the eastern United States, said David Easterling, chief of the scientific services division at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. “Does this disprove climate change, climate warming?” Easterling said in a telephone press conference Wednesday. “The answer is, unequivocally, ‘No.’” The climate agency’s year-end summary (http://www.ncdc.noaa. gov/sotc/global/2010/13) totals up surface temperature, rainfall and other data for the year, then compares them with global records going back to 1880. The year 2010 was the 34th consecutive year with global temperatures above the 20th century average, the summary says, with

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MCT The year 2010 was the 34th consecutive year with global temperatures above the 20th century average.

combined land and sea-surface temperatures 1.12 degrees Fahrenheit above the average. But while the average temperature in the contiguous United States alone was above average, this was only its 23rd warmest year on record.

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Global ocean surface temperatures alone tied with 2005 as the third warmest at 0.88 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average. The Pacific Ocean saw the fewest hurricanes on record since the mid 1960s, with three hurricanes and seven named storms. The Atlantic, however, tied for third place in 2010 with 19 named storms, and second place with 12 hurricanes. The Arctic saw its third smallest minimum in sea-ice extent, behind 2007 and 2008. But while Antarctic sea ice hit its eighth smallest yearly maximum in March, it grew quickly to its third largest extent on record in September. While the “hottest year” numbers generate much interest among scientists and the public, they say little about long-term climate trends. But the data over decades is far more revealing. “The climate is continuing to show the influence of increasing greenhouse gases, showing evidence of warming,” Easterling said. “There has been some notion that people put forth that the climate stopped warming in about 2005. I think this year’s results show that notion lacks credibility.” He said he is asked frequently whether weather events, such as heat waves, can be tied to long-term climate trends. “We get questions about these sorts of events,” he said. “’Is this a harbinger of things to come? Is this climate change?’ Although you cannot attribute any individual event, such as the Russian heat wave, to climate change, it’s always important to keep in mind that the probability of seeing these kinds of events does increase as the climate warms.”

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Education Corp. and DeVry Inc. are down 9.7 percent and 14.8 percent, respectively, in that time. In August, the GAO said all 15 for-profit colleges made questionable statements to undercover applicants. The GAO report didn’t mention the schools by name, but their identities were divulged in Aug. 4 Senate testimony by the report’s author. They included the College of Office Technology in Chicago and Chicago’s Argosy University, which is owned by publicly traded Education Management Corp., whose stock is down 23 percent since the beginning of 2010. Gregory Kutz, GAO managing director, testified that all 15 proMCT vided “deceptive and questionable All 15 colleges examined made questionable statements to undercover applicants. information,” but he said that three for-profit college enrollment has risen Education Department officials sprinkled “good practices” into meetto more than 2 million students from in Washington, about the gainful ings with undercover students. Two 600,000, Harkin said. employment issue, according to the of the three, he said, were Argosy and But for-profit college advocates DOE. The following day the GAO reis- the College of Office Technology. Pedro Galva, president of the say default rates are mostly relat- sued its report. ed to students’ socioeconomic staSuspecting that errors and biases College of Office Technology, said tus, not the type of school. Colleges still permeate the revised report, the last week he was dissatisfied that that serve more minority students coalition sued the DOE in U.S. District his business’ recruitment practices have lower loan repayment rates, Court in Washington, accusing the have come under GAO criticism. “We one study found. The average loan department of “wrongfully withhold- shouldn’t have been painted with the repayment rate is 30 percent at colleg- ing records by failing to respond to a same brush,” he said. In the only example given in the es with more than two-thirds minority Freedom of Information Act request.” enrollment, compared with 62 per- The original FOIA request, filed Oct. GAO report about questionable cent at colleges where less than a 15, sought documents, including behavior at his school, an admissions tenth of students are minorities, tapes, videos and notes related to the worker was asked by the undercover applicant about transferring credits. according to a September report by GAO report, according to the lawsuit. FinAid.org, an online resource about On Oct. 27 the DOE acknowl- Initially, the admissions worker told student financial aid. edged the request, and under federal the applicant that the credits would Avy Stein, managing partner of law has 20 working days to Chicago-based private-equity firm respond, the lawsuit contends. The Willis Stein & Partners — whose coalition said its request is being holdings include Birmingham, Ala.- stonewalled. based Education Corp. of America, In its Dec. 9 suit, the coalition said which operates Virginia College — told it also requested documents related to the Chicago Tribune that the govern- communications between DOE and ment’s actions against for-profit investors who may have “shorted” schools will cost jobs and eliminate stocks of for-profit colleges. Shortoptions for minority students. Stein sellers bet against stocks. is co-chairman of the Coalition for Since the beginning of 2010, an Educational Success. index of 13 for-profit colleges is down 9:00 - 11:00 P M On Nov. 29, Stein and other 24.3 percent on an otherwise up coalition members met with four year for the broader market. Career 2 H o u rs

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A question of class Editorial Los Angeles Times MCT

The Supreme Court has agreed — ominously — to consider derailing a sex-discrimination lawsuit against the giant retailer Wal-Mart. If the justices rule that the class-action suit can’t go forward, Wal-Mart employees may not be the only ones to be denied a meaningful day in court. The allegations against Wal-Mart, which haven’t yet been put to a trial, are that women are paid less than men for comparable jobs and that women receive fewer promotions. But those issues aren’t before the Supreme Court. Instead, the justices will decide the more significant question of whether hundreds of thousands of female employees can join together as a “class” to be represented by a handful of named plaintiffs. Though derided by business groups, which claim that they give plaintiffs an unfair advantage, classaction suits are often the only way to achieve justice for workers who can’t — and shouldn’t have to — proceed

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with anti-discrimination claims individually. But whether such suits can go forward depends on a court’s determination that there are questions of law and fact common to members of the class. This case is a bold attempt to persuade a conservative Supreme Court to dramatically narrow the criteria for determining what a class is. If Wal-Mart succeeds, victims of discrimination in future cases will find it much more difficult to pursue justice. There is currently no limit on the size of a class, nor should there be. Wal-Mart says that its huge female workforce doesn’t have enough in common to form a class, and points out that hiring and promotion decisions are made by individual store managers, not at the company’s Arkansas headquarters. It dismisses the plaintiffs’ argument that there is a corporate culture that requires allegations of discrimination to be considered on a company-wide basis. A majority of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that it was reasonable in this case to regard all female employees as a class. Writing for the majority, Judge Michael Daly

Hawkins cited a finding by a lower court that Wal-Mart’s system for compensating and promoting employees was sufficiently similar across regions and stores to raise issues “common to all class members.” The dissenters ridiculed that notion, with Chief Judge Alex Kozinski saying that members of the proposed class “have little in common but their sex and this lawsuit.” But the majority got it right. Referring to the court’s estimate of 500,000 female Wal-Mart employees, Judge Susan P. Graber wrote in a concurring opinion: “If the employer had 500 female employees, I doubt that any of my colleagues would question the certification of such a class.” In other words, Wal-Mart’s size shouldn’t immunize it to a lawsuit that otherwise meets legal standards. Underlying the dispute about the contours of a class is a more general question: Should civil rights laws be interpreted liberally, or should courts adopt narrow interpretations that close the courthouse door to victims of bias? A victory for Wal-Mart would represent the triumph of the latter view.

MCT There were 195 Marcellus Shale wells drilled in Pennsylvania in 2008 and another 768 in 2009, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. Another 364 had been drilled as of May 5, 2010.

Residents deserve tough drilling laws Editorial Pittsburgh Post-Gazette MCT

Just as Pennsylvania gets a new governor, a disturbing report by The Associated Press suggests that now would be the wrong time to ease up on state regulation and oversight of Marcellus Shale gas drilling. According to the AP, the state has had difficulty controlling, tracking and minimizing wastewater discharges produced by the drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The report published in the Post-Gazette last Tuesday said wastewater from fracking is only partially treated for substances that could be environmentally harmful before some of the fluid is dumped into rivers and streams from which Pennsylvanians draw their drinking water. While most states require drillers to dispose of the liquid by injecting it into shafts thousands of feet deep, the story said Pennsylvania is the only one that lets waterways “serve as the primary disposal place” for frack solution. State records show that during the 12 months ending June 30 more than 3.6 million barrels of the liquid went to treatment plants that empty into rivers. The AP said the state, however, couldn’t account for the disposal method for 1.28 million barrels. Researchers are still trying to determine if such discharges into waterways, at present levels, could cause serious environmental harm. Industry experts say the wastewater is safely diluted when it enters the

state’s big rivers. Even so, the AP reported, the 10 biggest drillers in Pennsylvania – which account for 80 percent of the liquid – have either stopped discharging into waterways or have cut back drastically on the practice. Pennsylvanians should be glad for that. John Hanger, secretary of the state Department of Environmental Protection, reacted strongly to the article and resented any implication that Pennsylvania’s water supply was in jeopardy. He has worked during his time in the Rendell administration for tougher regulations on the industry, more staff to monitor compliance and more funding for adequate oversight. But Tom Corbett, who has been much friendlier to the Marcellus Shale drilling industry than Ed Rendell, will be inaugurated as governor on Jan. 18. Mr. Corbett was the big recipient in political contributions from drillers in the 2010 governor’s race and he named to his transition team a CEO from a drilling company that donated $125,000 to his campaign. He also has opposed consideration of a severance tax on drilling, a common source of revenue in other states that have deep shale operations. Add the concerns raised by The Associated Press story to those that deserve greater vigilance by state regulators. The jobs and economic activity from drilling are welcome, but Pennsylvanians have a fundamental right to safe drinking water and an environment unspoiled by new hazards.

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Renewed call for assault-weapon ban Editorial Bangor Daily News (Maine) MCT

In the aftermath of the Tucson, Ariz., shooting that left six dead and 13 wounded, many are calling for a renewed discussion of limits on gun and ammunition ownership. Such a conversation is overdue. A common question is why a 22-year-old who had been rejected by the military and suspended from his community college was able to buy the assault pistol and extended ammunition clip that were used in the Jan. 8 shooting. The Glock 19 pistol that Jared Loughner is accused of firing in the mass slaughter was fitted for rapid shooting with a 33-round magazine. Witnesses said he had used up a first magazine and was trying to insert a second when he was tackled, preventing further shots. To deal with one angle of this situation, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy of New York and Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey, both Democrats, are preparing a bill to

ban the manufacture and sale of magazines carrying more than 10 rounds. Rep. McCarthy’s husband was killed in the 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting. Their bill would resume only part of a Clinton-era ban that also prohibited certain assault weapons until it expired in 2004. A 2004 Senate amendment to extend the ban won approval by a vote of 52 – 47, with both Maine senators voting with the majority. But the measure to which the amendment was attached later failed, and the ban expired. “There is no Second Amendment or God-given right to be able to maim and kill your fellow Americans with military-style arms,” said Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. The nonprofit organization takes its name from Jim Brady, an aide to President Ronald Reagan who was wounded in 1981 when an assassin attacked President Reagan. “Surely we can agree that largecapacity magazines have no place in our society,” Mr. Helmke said this week. The argument for limiting the

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size of ammunition clips is not that it can prevent outrages like the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, but that it could have saved many others from the effects of the rapid-fire pistol with its high-capacity magazines. Opponents fear, perhaps rightly, that even a minor restriction on firearms could be a foot in the door for outlawing guns altogether. The National Rifle Association, with its generous political contributions to lawmakers and its loyal membership, has fought the assault weapons ban and is opposing even a proposed narrow extension that would limit magazine size. But the narrowly drawn ban would do nothing to harm the interests of sportsmen or target shooters, who have no need for 30-round ammunition clips. If a narrow ban is to be considered, congressional committees will first have to hear conflicting details about weapons and weapons users. Both sides feel strongly. But the final result should at least put some limit on the current almost unlimited firepower of a would-be assassin.

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Study shows people in love feel less pain By SANDEEP RAVINDRAN Santa Cruz Sentinel MCT

â&#x20AC;&#x153;One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been more than 2,500 years since the Greek playwright Sophocles wrote those words, but scientists have now proved that being in love can actually reduce pain. And theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also shown why. Love may tap into some of our oldest brain pathways, making us feel so euphoric that we ignore pain, according to a recent study at Stanford University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The scientists found that students in love felt less pain while staring at a picture of their significant others. In addition, love acted through the same brain pathway as several strong painkillers and addictive drugs such as heroin and cocaine. Studying the effect of love on these pathways might not only tell us more about love itself but could also help us find ways to treat both pain and addiction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a nice connecting of the dots between what we understand of the neural systems of love and what we understand of the neural systems of pain,â&#x20AC;? said Dr. Sean Mackey, chief of the pain management division at the Stanford University School of Medicine and one of the studyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s researchers. Love acts on the same brain systems as any intensely rewarding experience, such as winning the lottery, said Arthur Aron, a social psychologist at SUNY Stony Brook who collaborated with Mackey. Aron has been a â&#x20AC;&#x153;love researcherâ&#x20AC;? for 30 years, but he never thought to study pain until he attended a

big neuroscience conference five years ago in Washington, and shared a hotel room with Mackey. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sean and I really hit it off,â&#x20AC;? Aron said. As he and Mackey discussed what brain pathways each studied, they realized they were talking about the same ones, and decided to study the interaction between love and pain. In July 2007, the researchers started recruiting Stanford undergraduates for their study. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the easiest study Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever recruited for,â&#x20AC;? Mackey said. They put up fliers around campus, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;within hours we had a dozen couples knocking on our door.â&#x20AC;? Sara Parke, a Stanford undergraduate and research assistant in Mackeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lab at the time, said numerous students would approach her to ask about the study. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our participants were some of the happiest people that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d meet,â&#x20AC;? she said, noting how excited they were to see neuroimages of their brains in love. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They had all these questions: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Am I in love?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Is my partner in love?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;How much in love?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Are we going to be together forever?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Having so many volunteers allowed the scientists to screen for those who described themselves as intensely in love and also scored highly on a â&#x20AC;&#x153;passionate love scale,â&#x20AC;? a standardized measure of romantic feelings. Additionally, the group only considered students who had been in a relationship for nine months or less, to get those with the strongest romantic feelings. It was a good thing the eight women and seven men picked for the study were as happy and excited as they were, because the next step was to subject them to â&#x20AC;&#x153;a very intense, acute pain experience,â&#x20AC;? said Jarred Younger, a Stanford

assistant professor who conducted the study while a post-doctoral researcher in Mackeyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lab. To inflict pain, the scientists used a heated probe on each studentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hand, and slowly increased the temperature until the pain became intolerable. Students rated their pain on a scale of zero to 10, with zero being â&#x20AC;&#x153;no pain at all,â&#x20AC;? and 10 being â&#x20AC;&#x153;the worst pain imaginable.â&#x20AC;? The researchers then generated pain levels of zero, four and seven while students lay inside a brain scanner looking either at a picture of their significant other or of someone they found equally attractive. Students felt a lot less pain when they stared at their partnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s picture. And the more time students had previously said they spent thinking about their partners, the greater their pain relief. Students who spent more than half of the day thinking of their significant others experienced three times more pain relief than other participants, Younger said. Parke remembered one participant who was just wildly in love with his partner. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His answers to the love questionnaire were hilarious,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He picked the maximum level on every single answer.â&#x20AC;? That student experienced the most pain relief, Parke said. He and his partner have now been together for several years, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still really enthusiastic about each other,â&#x20AC;? she said. But participants also experienced pain relief while performing distracting word association tasks, thinking of responses to questions such as, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What are some sports that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use a ball.â&#x20AC;? Previous studies had shown that such distractions could reduce pain.

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Music affects human body physically, emotionally By imani dillard Senior Staff Writer I.J.Dillard@iup.edu

Music is something everyone partakes in, whether by listening or playing. Everyone takes part in music. Even though at first music seems like a good way to pass time or just a hobby, it has more effects than most people could imagine. Musicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s effect on people has been a researched subject for a very long time. According to WebMDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website, listening to music triggers the release of a neurotransmitter called dopamine in the brain. Dopamine is a chemical in the brain that sends pleasure signals to the rest of the body. The more the person likes the music, the more pleasurable the experience is for the body. Dopamine is involved in the brainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reward system, which includes more tangible pleasures like food, money, psychoactive drugs, and even sex. Music can also be effective when it comes to health issues. According to eMedExpert. com, music heals, makes people

smarter, improves physical performance, calms and relaxes the body, as well as improves mood and decreases depression. eMedExpert.com also states that music is effective therapy for pain because it serves as a distractor, giving the patient a sense of control. It causes the body to release endorphins that counteract pain, and slow music relaxes a person by slowing breathing and heartbeat. It also has the power to enhance some kinds of higher brain function, including reading and literacy skills, spatialtemporal reasoning, mathematical abilities and emotional intelligence. It was thought before Dreamstime that only classical music could improve brain function but recent research shows that listening to any music that is personally enjoyable has positive effects on cognition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Making music is a way to get out emotions,â&#x20AC;? Sarah Hosterman (senior, music education) said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So if you can express your emotions, it can lower stress and take care of all the mental and physical issues associated with high stress. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even have to be playing the music yourself: like you know how if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in an anxious mood and listen to soothing music, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll feel better instantly.â&#x20AC;?

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Various college classes are named best to enroll By KAYLA KING-SCOTT Staff Writer K.S.King-Scott@iup.edu

Colleges often offer a wide variety of classes and majors. Due to student’s different interests and personalities, students are usually able to find their perfect classes. According to campusgrotto.com, “No matter what major you decide to choose, there are certain courses that all students should take in college.” These classes include economics, extracurricular classes, law, web design and marketing. All of these courses, although completely different from each other, share a common thread of helping students in business and everyday life. According to IUP’s website, “Economics is a science of choice: of how choices are made, why choices are made, and what impacts those choices have.” Most students who turn away from this class would do so due to the math involved. Economics deals with present day issues, such as inflation, unemployment, monopoly, economic growth, pollution, free enterprise, health care, pov-

erty and many other controversial topics. Students will be able to understand money, finance and the global world, which will come in handy during study abroad trips. Students will also learn how to manage, save and spend their money. Extracurricular classes, such as theater, art, music and dance tend to stimulate one’s creative side. Law can also be crossed reference as Criminology. “Criminology research areas include different types of crime as well as its causes and explanations during the course students examine the operation of the criminal justice system and public policy,” the IUP website states. It is good to understand basic terms and the process of the legal/criminal justice system. This should hopefully keep students out of future trouble and help them defend themselves in an unjust situation. The Internet has taken over the world and is our future, which is why it’s best to know how to create a webpage. Even though web pages can always be great for businesses or self-promoting, knowing how to cre-

“No matter what major you decide to choose, there are certain courses that all students should take in college.” —IUP Website ate a webpage takes us one step to becoming like Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook. New businesses are founded through the Web every day. Whether one knows it or not, something is always being marketed, thanks to college classes. Other classes that can give students valuable job skills include business, communication and political science. Students might even consider natural science classes beyond their liberal studies requirement. “Today students don’t always look to challenge themselves; they take the classes needed for their degree and then move on,” Angel Dawson (sophomore, nuclear medicine) said. “Students should step out of the box and learn something different. Science is around us and basic biology covers some of everything.”

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Tradition comes alive with ‘Fiddler on The Roof’ By JAZMINN JONES Life & Style Editor J.V.Jones@iup.edu

Traditional music, dance and humor is presented to the Indiana community through “Fiddler on the Roof,” the Tony-award winning musical that won worldly smiles and hearts through its remarkable acting. It will be presented on campus Jan. 24 at Fisher Auditorium. According to Onstage’s official website, OnStageAtIUP.

com, “Fiddler on the Roof” has been lauded by critics again and again, and won the hearts of people all around the world. Filled with a rousing, heartwarming score, which includes “Tradition,” “Matchmaker,” “If I Were A Rich Man” and “Sunrise, Sunset,” “Fiddler on The Roof” is a timeless classic. Tickets are currently on sale at the HUB box office, located in the HUB Atrium, or online at iuptickets. com. For more information about the event, contact OnStage at 724357-2315 or visit their website.

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Nine tips for cutting down clutter paper clutter at home Mother Nature Network MCT

Paper clutter poses a challenge for the most organized among us, with seemingly limitless amounts of junk mail arriving daily. Short of going paperless (a great option, if you can pull it off), managing and filing paper can reduce the clutter currently occupying your desk, dining room table or kitchen counter. (And by the way, keeping your papers in shoeboxes isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the best answer either.) Though there isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a â&#x20AC;&#x153;right way,â&#x20AC;? the following are nine tips from the experts on how to manage the paper stream in your life. 1. Sort by verb, file by noun: Believe it or not, grammar can help differentiate between papers you need to deal with now versus those you can store away, according to Renee Kutner, a self-described â&#x20AC;&#x153;chaos advisorâ&#x20AC;? and founder of Atlanta-based Peace by Piece Organizing. Generally speaking, documents that require action should be sorted by verb. (Such as: pay a bill, RSVP to a party, call someone back, mail the form.) Use a noun to file away papers by category. (Such as: recipes, insurance, kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; report cards, tax information.) There is no right way to label the system, Kutner says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The question is, what are you going to look for when you want to retrieve it?â&#x20AC;? she says. 2. Enlist help in getting off mail-

ing lists: Sure, you can place dozens of calls to get yourself off those mailing lists ... or you can hire help through websites like www.41pounds. org and www.stopthejunkmail.com. The average adult receives 41 pounds of junk mail each year, according to www.41pounds.org. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll contact dozens of companies on your behalf to stop your junk mail and protect the environment,â&#x20AC;? the site boasts. 3. Open your mail over the recycling bin: Opening your mail over the trash can and recycling bin stops junk mail before it can clutter up your desk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It saves so much time,â&#x20AC;? says Dahlia Bellows, a licensed master social worker and founder of New York Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Your Amazing Space. Head straight to the garbage when the mail comes, Bellows says. When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re finished, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have fewer items to go through. 4. Pay your bills online. In this day in age, most bills can be paid online. And, many utility companies and credit cards have paperless options to stop the paper bills from coming via the post office altogether. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can set up an e-mail account solely for your bills,â&#x20AC;? Bellows says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That way it wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t share your private e-mail address.â&#x20AC;? 5. Scan paperwork and toss the originals. Use electronic filing and then â&#x20AC;&#x153;make the trash your best friend,â&#x20AC;? advises Peggy Umansky, founder of St. Louis-based Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s About Time. Pretty much any information

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How to keep pets healthy during winter hood of your car before starting it to give them a chance to wake up and escape. — Keep ‘em leashed. Animals As the temperatures plunge, can easily lose their scent in winter I do a bunch of things around the months, especially when snow covers house to help my family adjust to the the ground. cooler temps — dig out sweaters and So keep your dog on a leash when mittens, close the attic vents, and you’re in an unfamiliar area. Also, bulk up on soups and hot chocolate make sure his ID tags are up to date for snow days. It’s a heck of a lot as more pets are lost during easier to ride out the cold when you the winter than during any have warm clothes, a warm house, other season. and a warm belly. — Change your antiBut what about my pets? My freeze. Cats and dogs 11-yearare attracted to the old black lab/ sweet smell and taste of mastiff mix puppy antifreeze, and will often gets special care in sample it if they find a the winter months, puddle on the sidewalk or too. garage floor. For starters, we Unfortunately, keep him inside a regular antifreeze, lot more (he graces or ethylene glyDreamstime the outdoors to pee col, is highly toxic to and bark at the mail lady) pets. Be sure to thoroughly clean and we bring his water dish indoors to up any spills from your vehicle, and make sure it doesn’t freeze. consider using a brand made from Here are some more tips for keep- propylene glycol instead. ing pets safe and healthy all winter — Wipe ‘em down. Ice-melting long: chemicals can irritate and burn the — Watch the temp. It is easy to pads of your pet’s feet and can think that their fur coats will keep cause serious illness if swallowed (or pets warm in the winter, but in reality, licked). pets get cold outside just as easily as Be sure wipe down her belly, legs, we do. If your pet is sensitive to cold, and paws to remove these chemicals keep him inside. if she’s spent any time outdoors. The Sacramento SPCA recom— Break the ice. Sure you may have mends that short-haired dogs, cats filled up your pet’s water bowl in the and puppies be kept indoors when the morning, but did it turn in to a block temperature dips below 40 degrees of ice by lunch? Check your pet’s water Fahrenheit; all other pets should come bowl frequently and break the ice if in when temps fall below 20 degrees necessary to make sure he has access Fahrenheit. to clean, fresh water. — Slap the hood. Cats and other — Make sure your pet has a warm critters seek refuge from winter winds place to rest, whether she stays wherever they can, sometimes snug- indoors or out, as well as plenty of gling up to your car’s engine to soak fresh water. That will go a long way up a little warmth. towards keeping her safe, healthy and Make it a practice to slap the happy all winter long.

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EpicMix website provides social media for skiers By david philipps The Gazette MCT

For some reason, ski culture has always been as much about talking skiing as it has been about actually doing it. Base-area bars survive on daily bouts of apres ski braggadocio: steeps that were conquered, rocks that were dropped, powder that was destroyed. “It’s a culture of sharing,” said Mike Slone, a longtime skier who is the social media manager for Vail Resorts. “As long as there have been epic days, people have been talking about them.” But what happens to those tales of epic days when we increasingly replace face-to-face story swapping with Facebook updates, Twitter tweets and blog posts? Vail Resorts’ answer is EpicMix. EpicMix is a website and mobile app that tracks skiers’ time on the mountain — vertical feet skied, terrain covered — then serves it up in digital tidbits that skiers can blast out to friends and family. It is one of a number of electronic advances that ski areas have rolled out in order to connect to an increasingly plugged-in crowd. SYSTEM BEGAN AS CONVENIENCE It all started in 2008 — digital eons ago — when the ski resort giant added tiny radio frequency

identification chips (RFIDs) to most of its lift passes. It was meant as a convenience for customers: Lift operators could wave a scanner without skiers having to take their passes out of their jackets. But soon Vail started using the electronic chips to collect information on use and traffic patterns. “In the years since, we’ve had this explosion of iPhones and apps that track movement and people updating their friend networks constantly,” said Slone. “The world has changed. “We have a new generation of skiers who don’t even know what life was like before e-mail,” he said. “We wanted to do something for them.” So this summer Vail’s five mountains (Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, and Heavenly in California) added RFID scanners at the bottom of its lifts to record when and where every skier (with a chipembedded pass or lift ticket) is on its mountains. You can log onto EpicMix.com and see your stats for the day — how many runs you made, how many vertical feet you skied. “It’s sick,” said Bryan Hollenbeck, a 22-year-old snowboarder from Denver who was skiing at Breckenridge last week. “My friends are on it, we can compare our stats. That was something we could never do before.” ENHANCES THE EXPERIENCE In the past, most skiers measured

their season by counting days on the slopes. EpicMix allows you to measure your season down to the vertical foot. There is even a leader board that shows you where you rank for the day, the week, the entire season. (A Vail local with 1.5 million vertical feet is currently ranked No. 1 this season.) Beyond numbers, EpicMix awards you virtual pins when you reach certain goals, such as skiing 175,000 vertical feet (Superfly pin) or skiing on a day with more than a foot of fresh snow (Blizzard pin). There are pins for kids, too, and pins easily earned by skiers who visit only a day or two a season; they appear automatically on a skier’s online EpicMix profile. “Our goal was to enhance the experience without interfering with it,” said Slone. EpicMix is also a boon for Vail’s advertising. At a time when traditional ad vehicles like magazines are foundering, EpicMix lets skiers spread the word through Facebook. “The impact it has is something we never could achieve on our own,” said Slone. A mobile version showing lift-line traffic and location of friends and family on the mountain should be unveiled in the next two weeks. (It is months behind schedule.)

MCT Austyn Williams rides at Breckenridge, Colo. EpicMix already has changed her riding habits, coaxing her to ride more often and on new terrain.

MINOR PRIVACY CONCERNS All this tracking and measuring understandably makes some people nervous, as if Big Brother were watching them, even when they are on the mountain. A former Breckenridge ski instructor went as far as developing a sleek $5 sleeve he calls the Ski Pass Defender that keeps EpicMix from reading the chip on your lift pass. But Breckenridge spokeswoman Kristen Petitt says there is little point.

No one’s ski information is shared unless they choose to share it via sites like Facebook. “We’ve been tracking people and collecting information about them anyway for years,” she said with a wry smile. “With EpicMix, we just finally let you see that information.” She agrees there are privacy concerns. “If you are friends with your boss on Facebook,” she said, “think twice about calling in sick to go skiing. If you post your EpicMix stats to Facebook, you’ll be in trouble.”

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The clever mobile payment system that Starbucks has been testing in a few stores in Seattle, New York and Silicon Valley is going national. Starbucks is announcing that it has expanded the “pay by phone” program to 6,800 of its stores, plus more than 1,000 outlets inside Target stores. It began testing the system at a few stores in September 2009. To use the system, Starbucks cardholders load an application onto their iPhone or BlackBerry smartphones. The application displays a barcode that’s scanned at the register to pay for drinks. Users can also manage Starbucks accounts and find nearby stores with the application. With the launch, Starbucks claims to be operating the largest mobile payment program in the country, giving millions of cardholders a fast way to pay for their jolt and a muffin. One in five Starbucks transactions

is now made with the store cards, and mobile payments “will extend the way our customers experience and use their Starbucks Card,” Brady Brewer, vice president of card and brand loyalty, said in a release. “With mobile payment, the Starbucks Card platform further elevates the customer experience by delivering convenience, rewarding loyalty and continuing to build an emotional connection with our customers.” Customers apparently like using Starbucks Cards. They loaded more than $1.5 billion onto the cards last year, up 21 percent over 2009. They also like smartphones. Starbucks said more than a third of its U.S. customers use the devices, and nearly three fourths of the smartphone-toting Starbucks customers have either an iPhone or a BlackBerry. A version of the Starbucks application for Android-based phones is being developed. There’s no word yet on plans for a Windows Phone version.

College students are known to eke by on meager meals like peanut butter sandwiches, cold cereal and ramen noodles. But as tuition skyrockets and family finances remain tight, some students are having trouble buying even such humble staples. It’s given rise to a small but growing trend: the campus food bank, where hungry students can get a free can of soup, box of oatmeal or package of spaghetti. A food pantry opened last week at the University of California-Davis, following similar efforts at the University of CaliforniaLos Angeles, Bakersfield College and Oregon State University. “It’s the most basic need of a student — to eat,” said Davis student Ashley Thomas, who plans to use the pantry. “You can’t study for a chemistry final if you’re hungry.” A recent survey of Davis undergrads found that almost 25 percent “somewhat to very often” skipped meals to save money and another 25 percent “occasionally” skipped meals for the same reason. The finding spurred student government leaders Justin Gold and Hannah Kirshner into action. During

MCT UC Davis students, senior Justin Gold (left) and junior Hannah Kirshner, organizers of the UC Davis Food Pantry, talk with Roger Beachy (right) director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

the fall term they contacted campus organizations and local businesses. Donations came in from Campbell’s Soup, Sprouts Market, the Davis Food Co-Op and several campus organizations, Gold said. KDVS, the campus radio station, gave up a sound room in the basement of the student union building that’s now lined with shelves full of cereal boxes, jars of tomato sauce and cans of soup. A sign next to the service counter tells student volunteers how to help customers. Pantry volunteers must ask students seeking free food to show their student ID cards but don’t

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In the crowded world of portable Bluetooth wireless headsets, BlackBerry’s Bluetooth HS-300 is as simple to use as any, without a lot of bells and whistles. The HS-300 is well designed in a lightweight compact body and, most important, is simple to use. Like any other portable electronic device, when you don’t have power the device is useless. Giving HS-300 just 15 minutes of charging will result in about two hours of talk time; a full charge takes a few hours longer but gives users up to four hours of talk time. The unit even sounds a chime to alert you when the battery is reaching low levels and needs a charge. To use the unit, pair it up with any Bluetooth-enabled cell phone — and this should be a simple chore for any phone on the market today.

There aren’t a lot of controls besides a multi-function call button, which controls most everything on the headset. A power switch turns it on and off, the USB port is used for charging and obviously there is a microphone. Other features include automatic volume control, which will raise or lower the volume while you are on a call, depending on the background noise. Included with the Bluetooth piece is an ear hook to help keep the earpiece in place, a microUSB cord, four ear gels and an AC wall charger with the headset.Details: http:// us.blackberry.com, $49.99 Microsoft’s Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 is built with BlueTrack technology, allowing it to move on almost any surface. The wireless works with any Mac or Windows system including desktop or laptop units. Along with making it a great functioning device, Microsoft has

designed the mouse in stylish designs and patterns with colors featuring berry pink, graphite, lime green, teal blue, a Susan G. Komen version and regular core colors. The snap-in nano transceiver plugs into any USB port for a plug-and-play connection and can remain there, whether in use or not. A single AA battery gives users up to 10 months of life, according to Microsoft, but that number can vary in either direction depending on usage. A small LED will alert you when it is time to change the battery. As mentioned, the mouse works instantly on connection without the need of external drivers but it does come with software (Intellipoint 7). This enables access to settings for button assignments for specific tasks while clicking or scrolling. If desired, users can take advantage of the four customizable buttons for functions such as instant access to music or videos. Details: www.microsoft.com, $39.95

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Top eight invasive species good to eat By ROBIN SHREEVES Mother Nature Network MCT

After a recent report about invasivores, people who eat invasive species for the express purpose of controlling the species so they don’t devastate ecosystems, a representative from Roger Williams University contacted me and told me they had done research on eating invasive species and had come up with a list of invasive species that can be eaten. I thought it would be interesting to share the list with you. I’ve also tracked down recipes for them. 1. Lionfish. Lionfish Romesco Stew was featured in The Washington Post last summer. It was also called the sustainable “it” seafood conservationists say more people should begin eating. 2. Asian carp. The Bowfishing Association of Illinois has a recipe for Smoked Asian Carp that can be prepared two ways — savory or sweet. You’ll have to scroll half way down the page to find the specific recipes. 3. Brassica rapa (aka turnip mustard or field mustard). The Selfsufficientish blog has information about this invasive plant species and a recipe for Simple Mashed Turnips.

4. American cannonball jellyfish. Apparently eating jellyfish is common in Asia. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has some instructions on how to prepare jellyfish to be added to salad or served alongside vegetables. 5. Kudzu. I found several suggestions for kudzu on Granpappy’s Basic Recipes. Both the leaves and the blossoms can be used to create teas, salads and even wine. 6. Bullfrog. In France, frog legs are considered a treat. I’m not so sure I’d want to give them a try, but garlic makes everything better so maybe this recipe for Garlic Frogs Legs might make them seem more palatable. 7. Feral pigs/wild boar. If you’re a skilled hunter and want to help thin out the invasive pig and boar population, you might as well make a meal out of your kill, right? Texas Gourmet has a recipe for Sugar Cured Feral Hog that is cooked in a BBQ pit. 8. European green crab. Green crabs can be used in most crab recipes, although they are smaller than many crabs so getting enough meat can be time-consuming. Try Green Crab Enchiladas from Big Oven or Green Crab Soup from Epicurious.

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“It’s practically pornographic.” WORTH IT Duo Wheel, Everlast, $14.95 “That thing’s awesome,” says exercise specialist Seth Shanahan, 27. “We really like this,” Ray says. “I’m a frequent user,” chimes in trainer Jesse Perez, 35. In fact, all three trainers say the ab wheel is part of their fitness regime. They pronounce this one solidly made with easy-to-understand instructions. DON’T BOTHER Twist Board, Everlast, $12.99 “What is this?” asks Perez, puzzled by what this swiveling disc is supposed to do. Because it’s hard to stay balanced on the thing, “It just makes everything more dangerous. You’d probably be better off doing exercises on the floor,” says Ray. “This thing is just weird,” she says. “If you’re on a budget there’s other things you should spend your money on,” Shanahan says. DEFINITELY NOT Gel Flex Tube, Bally, $11.95 “A total bomb. Not worth it,” says Shanahan. And he says the instruction sheet is “stupid.” “Everything you do on this feels really goofy. All the motions are unnatural,” agrees Ray, adding, “The concept is really garbage.”

“This would not really do anything,” Perez says. GREAT INVESTMENT Deluxe Speed Rope (aka jump rope), Valeo, $12.95 “I would take a jump rope any day over a $1,000 treadmill,” Perez says. You can go slow on a treadmill and get comfortable but when jumping rope, “You can’t cheat,” he says. “These have been around forever. That’s because they’re effective. Jumping rope is as good as any cardio exercise you can do,” Shanahan says. “You can get a lot accomplished in a short amount of time,” he says. “Ellen says: I’m now sold on jumping rope (portable, packable) but my personal preference is a leather or segmented jump rope. Learn more at drjump.com. GOOD IDEA BUT... Chin-up/Sit-up Bar, Valeo, $15.95 Shanahan says a bar is one of his favorite pieces of exercise equipment but this particular one “is a piece of junk.” When it’s wedged into a doorway you can’t use it for pull-ups —although instructions show you can — because your elbows hit the door frame. Also, the foam handgrips are misplaced, says Ray: “They made it wrong.”

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Electronic devices become essential for careers By sarah benson McClatchy Newspapers MCT

Jacinta Langford Hoyt’s workday starts before she gets out of bed. Her TMobile G2, which doubles as an alarm clock, wakes her up. She grabs it from her nightstand and pops open e-mail. After cleaning up her ever-expanding inbox, Langford Hoyt logs on to Twitter to respond to any tweets from her clients’ customers. Next, it’s on to Facebook. Langford Hoyt skims that like the front page of a newspaper before perusing her favorite celebrity news blogs for updates on Prince William’s upcoming wedding. All this before breakfast. Langford Hoyt, 30, works 50 or 60 hours a week as head of her own marketing company, Langford Media. But those hours aren’t divided into tidy eight- or 10-hour chunks — they’re scattered in bursts of productivity throughout every hour of every day. That blending of work and personal life is becoming increasingly common. Thanks to the Internet, e-mail, laptops, smart phones, WiFi and social networking, we can work anytime, anywhere. All those things unleash us from our cubicles and allow us to be productive from anywhere, even bed. Chandler Simpson, 27, has already given up on separating his work and personal lives. Like Langford Hoyt, Simpson runs his own company, Itzu Media, a Kansas City-based multimedia contractor that does everything from videography to Web strategy. Like Langford Hoyt, he sets his own hours. Simpson says he’s most productive late at night. Sometimes, he edits video until 6:30 a.m. His philosophy: “You can’t can good ideas into a time frame.” For lots of workers, a 9-to-5 workday doesn’t make sense anymore, says Kathy E. Gill, a senior lecturer at the University of Washington who studies human-computer interaction. Gill says clocking in for eight straight hours is reasonable if you work on, say, an assembly line. But if you have a job that deals in

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information and ideas — designing, researching, writing — it’s not. For many white-collar workers, being productive used to mean putting in eight hours at a cubicle. Now it means finishing a task or coming up with an idea, whether that takes eight hours or eight minutes. “In a way, it’s almost like going back to piece work, when people were paid by the piece, not by the hour,” Gill says. That’s a pretty sweet system when you’re feeling creative and knocking out everything on your to-do list. When Simpson MCT feels like he’s ahead (he says that’s rare), he’ll kick up his feet and watch “The Original Kings of Comedy.” Even if it’s 2 p.m. on a Tuesday. Likewise, Langford Hoyt treats herself to a walk with her dog or a few errands after typing up a time-consuming e-mail blast. But there’s a flipside: When you’re behind, you have all day and all night to catch up. You have your smart phone, your laptop, your Bluetooth. You have no reason not to work. It’s not that way for everybody, though. Recently, Simpson collaborated with a Web developer who always quits work at 6 p.m., no matter what. “At first, we butted heads over that,” Simpson says. After Simpson and the Web developer established a few ground rules (no e-mails after 6, etc.), their working relationship smoothed out. That wasn’t the last time Simpson’s workaholic tendencies caused problems in his personal life. Simpson says he and his girlfriend broke up a couple of weeks ago in part because he works too much. We’re all struggling to figure out how this new technology fits into our lives, Gill says. And it is new — humans have been around for thousands of years, but it wasn’t until 1991 that we started dialing in to America Online. Gill says scientists don’t yet know how, say, Google, is changing us. But we can look to previous advances in communication technology, such as the printing press, radio and television, to see how things might play out. Every time a technology is introduced, she says, there’s a period of euphoria, followed by a period of major disappointment, when we all realize that nothing can live up to the hype.

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Event spurs gamers to jam out new design ideas By stanley a. miller ii Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MCT

Designing a fun video game is challenging enough with big budgets, generous timetables and plenty of veteran professionals. Now try it with no money, developers with varying experience and only 48 hours to get the job done. That’s the premise of the Global Game Jam (http://globalgamejam. org/jam), a worldwide event beginning Jan. 28 that challenges game enthusi-

asts to quickly create electronic, board or card games and then share them for public consumption. The annual event, now in its third year, lures game-makers from all over the world, and this year Milwaukee is hosting its first Game Jam site at the Milwaukee Area Technical College. “The students came to us and said this was going on,” said Emil Harmsen, Milwaukee’s jam organizer and a parttime instructor at MATC. “We looked at it and said, ‘Wow this fits right into our program.’ It will allow them to see how well they can compete and how

their skill sets stack up globally.” The Global Game Jam gives volunteer designers a theme _ and some limitations — announced just before the event and then two straight days to finish their submissions. The goal, organizers say, is to tap into aspiring talent and creativity to help the games industry grow. The legion of game jammers is growing steadily: the first drew more than 1,600 participants in 23 countries and produced 370 games, and last year had more than 4,300 designers generating about 900 games.

Harmsen, who is also the owner of Forever Interactive, a local game studio, will be the studio chief for MATC’s jam site and be responsible for organizing the talent into balanced teams. Milwaukee’s jam — along with nearly 150 others in 43 countries — will start off with brainstorming sessions after the theme is announced. Then it’s up to the teams to transform their ideas into working software. “We really have to take that theme and build off it,” Harmsen said. “We will sit down with a whiteboard and

hash it out. We will work at building the framework, and the design will evolve based on how well the game is playing as we are building it.” Although technical skills are an important part of the Global Game Jam, Kevin Harris, who is organizing a Madison, Wis., site, noted that non-techie jammers can contribute to a project by helping with design aesthetic, game testing and writing documentation. The addition of board game design might attract a few more non-techie types.

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A new iPhone application created by the California State Parks Foundation allows users to access trail-guide information while they’re on the trail. Among the first 50 trail guides: Doheny State Beach, Crystal Cove State Park and Huntington State Beach. The free app, called CalParks, can be downloaded from iTunes. It includes interactive elements and will be updated with seasonal information as well as new trail guides to cover more of the 278 parks in the state system. “We have guides to trails within the state parks, some with narrative, all GPS coordinated,” said Jerry Emory of the Parks Foundation. “It’s also community based. So once people join, they can put in their own trailguide information.”

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IUP women’s basketball falls to Cal, 93-59 By Vaughn Johnson Editor In Chief V.M.Johnson@iup.edu

Another chapter in the rivalry between the IUP and Cal U women’s basketball programs was written Wednesday night. The Vulcans soundly defeated the Crimson Hawks 93-59 at Cal U’s Hamer Hall – bringing the Hawks’ eight-game win streak to an abrupt end. History was made for all of the wrong reasons for IUP (10-5, 2-1). Cal U’s (11-4, 2-1) 93 points were the most allowed since the 2003-04 when it gave up 94 to guess who – Cal U. The 34-point margin was the largest loss IUP has taken since the 199697 season. All of the keys to victory that IUP Head Coach Jeff Dow devised for his team before the game were things led to IUP’s downfall. IUP wanted to win the rebounding battle. It was outrebounded 44-28. Going into Wednesday night’s game, IUP was the best team in the PSAC in turnover margin and wanted it stay that way. It committed 23 turnovers while only forcing 16. IUP wanted to contain Kayla Smith and Amy Johns while also not letting another player get hot from the field. Smith led the Vulcans with 27 points while Johns contributed 17. The other player the Crimson Hawks did not want to get hot turned out to be Danielle Luckett who scored 19. Those three scored 63 between them – more than every Crimson Hawk combined. IUP did post four in double figures with Eryn Withers scoring 13, Lacy Claar posting 11 and Katelyn Marshall and Sarah Pastorek contributing 10.

Lastly, the Crimson Hawks wanted to be aggressive on the offensive end, but IUP took too many long 2 and 3-pointers, which led to transition points for the Vulcans. IUP obviously didn’t expect a beating like this, but neither did Cal U, according to Dow as Cal U Head Coach Mark Swasey told him that Wednesday was the best the team had played all season. Dow, having seen the Vulcans three times in person and numerous times on film, agreed. “I thought the one thing that they did, literally for the entire game, is that I always felt like they were the aggressor,” Dow said. “Whether they were on offense, whether they were on defense or whatever the case may be. The nature of sports is when you’re the aggressor you tend to make plays and good things tend to happen.” The most aggressive Vulcan was Smith who along with her 27 points, grabbed 10 rebounds. “As talented as she is, I think the trait I admire most about her is that she just plays really hard and she’s just relentless,” Dow said of Smith. “Obviously a very physical player and talented, but just plays extremely hard.” The Crimson Hawks admittedly hadn’t seen many players or teams of the caliber of Smith and the Vulcans during their win streak. “We haven’t really been tested by somebody that good or that athletic,” Dow said. Since that test has come and gone, IUP will use the Cal U game as an eye-opener, an awakening and use it to improve upon the rest of the season. The Crimson Hawks will be without a player for the season, however. During its winning streak, IUP

actually suffered a loss, but it wasn’t on the scoreboard. It was in the form of season-ending knee surgery for Amber Dubyak performed last week. Dubyak should be 100 percent by August just in time for the start of school. The team will apply for a medical hardship, which could give her an additional two years of eligibility. Dubyak only played in four games this season and averaged seven points and 19 minutes, as she was not 100 percent. The only positive for the Crimson Hawks is that Dubyak hadn’t played much this season, which means the team has been used to playing without her and will not have to completely overhaul anything. “There’s never a good time for somebody to get hurt,” Dow said. “It would have been I guess even more devastating if all of a sudden this would have happened now just as were jumping into conference.” “On the plus side, if there is a plus side, the fact that she had played so few games, it increases her chances of getting this year back in terms of redshirting, too,” Dow said. The next challenge for IUP is hosting the Clarion Golden Eagles at 5:30 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Field House. The Golden Eagles (4-11, 1-2) come into Saturday on a two-game losing streak as IUP looks to redeem itself from a embarrassing defeat to Cal U. “The thing we emphasized after the game and continue to reiterate this today at practice is that it’s just one game,” Dow said. “We did not lose three games tonight. We lost one game. So we got to show some resolve and bounce back and hopefully have a good couple of days of practice and hopefully take it out on Clarion on Saturday.”

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Despite missing players, Pens continue win streak The Penguins are almost done with the Winter Classic Jan. 1. And though the fourth month of their season, and Staal didn’t make the All-Star Game, as of Wednesday they were ranked his brother Eric Staal, a center with second in the Atlantic Division with 62 the Carolina Hurricanes, was named points. Philadelphia is ahead by three captain Tuesday. Their brother Marc points. Staal, with the Rangers, is an all star A puck hit the goal post for the as well. Penguins when captain Sidney Crosby Tuesday night’s game against the was diagnosed with a concussion Detroit Red Wings brought with it Jan. 6. With the Penguins memories of the Stanley sending four players to the Cup loss, but more imporAll-Star Game Jan. 30 in tantly, the Stanley Cup win. Raleigh, N.C., Crosby’s staThe Pens triumphed against tus for the game is in the the Wings 4-1. air. Pittsburgh had the upper Crosby was quoted on hand the entire game. They NHL.com as saying “I’ve jumped out to a 2-0 start, definitely gotten better. and when the Red Wings It’s kind of hard to judge Johan Franzen scored they because it’s not somecame right back with By Alycia King thing I’ve gone through, another goal. The fourth Sports Columnist but I’m progressing. goal was an empty-nettA.L.King@iup.edu Hopefully, in the next er scored by Matt Cooke. few days things get betThe Penguins’ upcomter. If I can be there, I’ll ing games in January will be there.” be played Saturday and Tuesday. The The other players representing Saturday game against the Hurricanes Pittsburgh will be assistant captain will have the Staal vs. Staal attraction. Evgeni Malkin (15 goals, 22 assists), Carolina is fourth in their division as of Kris Letang (7 goals, 33 assists) and Tuesday. goalie Marc-Andre Fleury (21-11-2). Jan. 25 the Pens host the New York Jordan Staal returned to the ice for Islanders for a 7 p.m. game.

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Hawks drop two straight against Rutgers By Zach Graham Staff Writer Z.Graham@iup.edu

The IUP Crimson Hawks returned to the ice after a month off on Jan. 12 when they visited Duquesne in a CHMA league match-up. The Hawks entered the winter break with a record of 11-11-1 through their first 23 games of the 31-game season. Their 7-2 record within the CHMA was good for first place in the conference. At Ice Castle Arena on January 12, the Hawks were able to continue their success in the CHMA, defeating the Duquesne Dukes 3-2 in overtime. Duquesne jumped out to a 2-0 lead through the first nine minutes of play with goals from Brock Heinauer and Chase Evans. The Hawks battled back, with Joe Ford scoring in the second, and Jesse Kunkle tied the game at 2 with 14:32 to play in the game. The tie held for the rest of regulation. In overtime, Phil Trombetta netted the game winner for the Hawks. On Jan. 14 and 15, the Hawks traveled to ProtecHockey Ponds in Somerset, N.J. for a two-game series against Rutgers. Last season, the Hawks took two from the Ice Knights, but this year Rutgers managed to enact revenge, winning both match-ups. Friday night was a battle, with the teams exchanging goals and leads. Rutgers scored first just over five minutes into the game. Bryan Campbell answered for the Hawks, scoring two minutes later on the power play.

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The Ice Knights added another in the first period. The second period saw a quick strike from the Hawks. Campbell scored his second of the night 1:24 into the period, and added another to earn a hat-trick just 19 seconds later. Trombetta assisted on both goals. Rutgers answered with two before Casey Stern scored for the Hawks to tie the game with 1:05 left in the second. With no additional goals in the third or overtime periods, Rutgers prevailed in the shootout. On Saturday, Rutgers took a much more decisive 9-4 victory. The Ice Knights took a 4-0 lead in the first period before the Hawks could answer on a Casey Stern goal with 1:27 left in the period. The Hawks made it competitive in the second period, and into the third, and eventually Bryan Campbell scored on the power play to pull the Hawks within one. However, the Ice Knights went on another four goal streak, including goals on the power play and shorthanded. The Hawks will return to S&T Bank Arena this weekend with a two-game series against John Carroll. The teams face off 8 p.m. Friday and 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Only one of the games will count for the CHMA.

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Hawks take apart Vulcans Darryl Webb’s third-straight double-double with 28 points, 12 rebounds lift Hawks over Cal, 77-58 By Anthony Scherer

at 1,627 career points, which puts him who had 13 points. He had help from Scooter Renkin. The Hawks were up by they rallied and won the rebounding 44 points away from breaking Robert Rashawd Hatten and Chad Tipton, 16 at that point with 11 minutes left to battle 36-35. Misenko’s career scoring record. who each scored 11 points. go in the game. The Hawks have only been outWebb is also Cal U led by as The Hawks rebounded in one game this the school’s allmany as six in the put the margin at season. The Crimson Hawks won time leading first half until the 20 points at the After the victory against an important conference rebounder with Hawks went on a 7-minute mark the Vulcans, the Hawks game Wednesday night at 1,047. 19-7 run late in when they were record improves to 12-3 California University of PA, Webb bounced the first half and ahead 62-42. The (3-0). 77-58. back from a 1 of 7 went up 33-27 at Hawks also led by Their next game will be The Hawks were led by first half. In the the end of the 23 points twice Saturday against Clarion at Darryl Webb, who pitched in second half he first half. during the game 7:30 p.m. in the Memorial with his third straight douwas 8of 11. He also The Hawks as well. Field House. ble-double with 28 points smith Renkin Sanders Webb hit all four of his started to pull The Hawks This will be the last home and 12 rebounds. Ashton free throws to score away midway also came back in game before the Hawks go Smith scored 13 point, and 21 second half points that helped the through the second-half when they the rebounding category. In the first on the road for four straight games Julian Sanders contributed 11 points. went on a 9-0 run. It was sparked half the Hawks were outrebounded to play Edinboro, Mercyhurst, Lock This was Webb’s 46th double-dou- Hawks pull away. Cal U was led by Steve Swiech by 3-pointers by Sanders, Webb and by the Vulcans, and in the second half Haven and Gannon. ble in his career, and he currently sits Staff Writer A.J.Scherer@iup.edu

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Personal attacks aside, Rex Ryan shows respect for Steelers By Roderick Boon Newsday MCT

Rex Ryan got on his stump and publicly challenged some of the NFL’s heavy hitters over the past two weeks, first making things personal with Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, then taking on Patriots coach Bill Belichick. So it’s only fitting he continues that trend as the sixth-seeded Jets (13-5) prepare to meet the secondseeded Steelers (13-4) in Sunday’s AFC Championship Game at Heinz Field, right? “Give me someone you want me to call out,” Ryan cracked Monday. “I guess Hines Ward and Casey Hampton. Those would be the two early targets.” Ryan was joking and made it clear he’s going to veer away from any personal vendettas this week, all because of the high regard he has for Steelers coach Mike Tomlin despite Pittsburgh getting the best of the Ravens in the AFC title game two years ago. “I’ve got a great deal of respect for Mike Tomlin,” Ryan said. “He’s one of my favorite coaches.” That’s when he told a story about something that transpired Nov. 5, 2007, a night Pittsburgh mashed the Ravens, 38-7, on national television when Ryan was serving as Baltimore’s defensive coordinator. “We couldn’t stop a nosebleed,” Ryan said. “We were getting crushed, like 30-something to nothing. I think we had my son [Seth] out there playing corner. Really, it was ridiculous, and they were up like 30-something to nothing at halftime. They ran the ball every snap in the second half. And the

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next on their hit list. “Going into this playoff run, people said it couldn’t be done,” right guard Brandon Moore said. “Manning, Brady, Roethlisberger, Super Bowls between all those guys, and we’ve knocked two off. We’ve got our hands full with Roethlisberger. But yeah, it’s another mission impossible.” “It’s a heck of a road, but as a competitor, as a player, you wouldn’t want it any other way,” center Nick Mangold said. “If you think that you’re the best and you want to be the best, you’ve got to go against the best. Peyton is one of the best quarterbacks in the league, has been. Then you look at the Patriots, the way that they were going. Those were great teams that we had to beat to get here and now are coming up on the Steelers. “That’s another great team that we have to go against.” Trevor Pryce can’t think of a postseason road, by any team in recent memory, that compares to what the Jets have endured on their potential journey to Arlington, Texas, site of next month’s Super Bowl. “It’s a lot to ask of us,” the 15thyear defensive lineman said. “We want it, they want it. But it’s a lot to ask to go through three storied franchises, three franchises that have Super Bowls, three franchises that have the top quarterbacks in the NFL. The top three quarterbacks in the AFC are those guys. Period. Point blank. “That’s why I want to focus on the accomplishment that we’ve had to make it to the AFC championship after all the things we’ve been through, and I want to put kudos on this organization for hiring that guy [Ryan]. Two years in a row, two AFC Championship

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Remaining NFL teams looking for shot at Super Bowl XLV By Sam Farmer Las Angeles Times MCT

Nobody believed in them. Only the people in their locker room thought they could get this far. They are a team of destiny, and Super Bowl XLV is just one win away. They are the New York Jets. Pittsburgh Steelers, Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears. With all due respect, where’s all the respect that’s due? All of the four NFL teams in this weekend’s conference championship games have at some point claimed they have been overlooked, undervalued, ignored by all but those rare true believers. These aren’t title games; they’re just hopped on the bandwagon bowls. People have been waiting for weeks for the Bears to come unglued. The Steelers were doomed from the start, and playing their fourth-string quarterback by Week 3. As for the Packers and Jets, they barely made it into the playoffs as sixth-seeded teams. “Maybe everybody else didn’t believe in us or whatever, but we believed,” said Jets coach Rex Ryan, whose team followed the example set by Green Bay and knocked out the No. 1-seeded team. “We worked too hard to get back here, and we came for a reason. We thought we were the better team.” The Jets latch on to the disrespect

card the way Santonio Holmes hangs on to the football. Yes, there have been slights, but, as is the case with all teams, everything that can be magnified will be. “We’re all still little football players at heart, and little football players like to be motivated, like to have an edge going into a game, some sort of anger, some reason to be more focused,” said CBS analyst Boomer Esiason, a former All-Pro quarterback who spent three of his 14 seasons with the Jets. “Even as juvenile as it sounds, football players have been conditioned since we began playing that it’s an emotional game that requires great focused intensity. So every single one of these coaches are going to try to do that with their teams.” Before the Packers played their divisional game at Atlanta, Green Bay defensive coordinator Dom Capers apprised his players of dismissive comments allegedly made by Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli. While saying he didn’t know where Capers came up with the comments Mughelli supposedly made after a three-point win over the Packers in November, Green Bay’s B.J. Raji said the remarks “kind of fueled our fire a little bit.” Said Raji, in the wake of Saturday’s win in the Georgia Dome: “[Mughelli] was saying after the first game how we were soft. When somebody challenges your manhood, you have to respond. It had nothing to do with

football. It was just strictly being a man.” Whether those comments were as advertised, or spiced up for effect, they seemed to do the trick. It’s not uncommon for coaches and players to go in search of bulletin-board material for snubs, interpreting everything in the most negative way possible. Last summer, for instance, Pittsburgh’s Hines Ward talked about how no one believes in the Steelers, no one was willing to give them the respect they deserve. It’s one of his favorite refrains. It dampened the argument a bit when a reporter reminded him Sports Illustrated had picked the Steelers to win the Super Bowl. That’s not to say Ward was (and is) entirely off base. The Steelers have overcome a lot to get this far, including going 3-1 during Ben Roethlisberger’s suspension, losing offensive tackles Max Starks and Willie Colon for long stretches, losing their punter, parting ways with their longtime kicker, and generally dealing with turbulence better than many teams would. If Ward is looking for some backup on the we-get-no-respect argument, he doesn’t have to look far. “People are doubting Hines? Good,” Roethlisberger said recently. “He loves proving people wrong.” That’s not a unique sentiment in the NFL. The Bears, for one, will happily use disrespect as motivation.

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Kentucky coach apologizes for outbursts toward freshman Jones By Jerry Tipton McClathchy Newspapers MCT

The woman who introduced Terrence Jones to sports said Wednesday that Kentucky coach John Calipari need not apologize for the profane scolding he gave the freshman near the end of the Alabama game. “I don’t have any worries about it,” said Ava Mashia, Jones’ aunt. “Terrence can take it.” Her nephew came to Kentucky to be pushed, she said. Calipari cursing is part of getting pushed. “[Jones] sees him as a person who’s trying to help him,” Mashia said. “That’s [Calipari’s] method. That’s the way he talks to everybody on the team.” ESPN, which televised Tuesday’s game, showed Calipari drop a foursyllable ‘F bomb’ on Jones and seemingly call the freshman selfish late in the second half. Later Tuesday night, Calipari posted an apology on his Twitter account. “I want to apologize for my language at the end of the game,” he tweeted. “I got caught up in the emotion of the game, but that’s no excuse. “Sometimes you don’t realize in the moment that what you’re saying is on national TV. The BBN [Big Blue Nation] deserves better, and so do my players.” On his weekly radio call-in show Wednesday night, Calipari again apologized. He called the F bombs “uncalled for,” although he stuck by the description of “selfish” as “fine.” Calipari said a call of disapproval from his wife, Ellen, prompted the tweet of apology. Mashia, whom Jones credits with teaching him about athletics, was a high school basketball player in the Portland, Ore., area and later walked on the University of Washington’s

women’s team. She knows athletics. She put Calipari’s profanity in the context of a competitive coach trying to get the most out of a player. “It looks like he’s picking on Terrence,” she said. “But I think it’s because he knows Terrence has a skillset he can probably bring to the table that the coach isn’t seeing.” “Coach is competitive. He wants his team to win. Terrence wants the same thing. I’m sure they’re on the same page today. Everybody gets overheated in the heat of the moment.” While understanding what might have motivated Calipari’s vulgarity, the player’s family recoiled at the sight of it being directed at one of their loved ones. “We hate to see it happen,” Mashia said. “But we see what Coach Cal is saying, as well. Yes, there are some things Terrence needs to work on. I’m sure Terrence sees it, as well. He’s trying to make him a better player. I don’t think he’s doing it to embarrass him.” Mashia noted that Jones was adjusting to a new, more muscled body and a new role of inside presence. At Jefferson High in Portland, Jones played mostly on the perimeter, she said. “Being the only ‘big,’ that’s a lot of pressure on him,” she said. “He’s not used to playing that position.” In high school, Jones weighed about 215 pounds, Mashia said. For the Alabama game, UK listed his weight at 244. “He’s big!” Mashia said with a laugh. “I don’t think even he realizes how much muscle he has.” That Alabama used its muscle to push Kentucky around irritated Calipari. That made Kentucky 2-for-2 in terms of getting outmuscled on the road in Southeastern Conference play this season. Pretty much the same thing happened at Georgia in the conference opener. The physical nature of the game

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Newton discusses legacy at Auburn By Andy Bitter McClatchy Newspapers MCT

Cam Newton, who led Auburn to the national championship despite an NCAA investigation into his recruitment, added another trophy to his already impressive haul, winning the Manning Award, given after the bowl games to the nation's top quarterback. But questions Wednesday weren't about his accomplishments as much as what's coming up for the quarterback, who decided to go for the NFL draft last week. One topic was what he hopes his legacy will be. "My legacy at Auburn or I hope the impact I've put on the NCAA is that here's a young man that was very resilient and left it all on the field," he said. "I really wanted to come out and try to be the best [. . .] I play football to try to be the best, and that's what I was striving to be this whole season." Newton faced public scrutiny after allegations of impropriety emerged about his recruitment. The NCAA ruled Newton's father, Cecil, solicited money from Mississippi State but that Cam had no knowledge. Cam was briefly ruled ineligible in a procedural manner before being reinstated with no further penalty. Throughout the ordeal, he never thought the external pressures were too much. "The Bible says, God won't put too

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much on a person that that person can bear," Newton said. "And obviously this season, I have been tested not only on the field but off the field. "I think for me to play as well as I did, there are a lot of things that come into play: my supporting cast off the field, my family, just keeping my head clear throughout this trying time, and my teammates and obviously my coaches." He said the back injury he suffered in the BCS championship game against Oregon was not a problem. Newton ran for 1,473 yards and 20

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The University of Texas and ESPN have agreed on a 20-year, $300 million deal to launch a 24-hour, strictly Longhorns-content network in September. Terms of the contract are fully guaranteed, according to an ESPN spokesperson. The announcement came Wednesday in Austin during an oncampus news conference that was streamed live on TexasSports.com. “I want to make it clear,” said Burke Magnus, ESPN senior VP/ college sports programming. “This is UT’s network. This is not ESPN Texas.” The upstart network primarily will carry Longhorns athletic programming but will also generate academic and cultural content. “It helps build good, positive relationships on campus . . . to be able to help financially on the academic side,” said DeLoss Dodds, UT men’s athletic director. The new network will carry at least one Longhorns football game, plus scrimmages, coaches’ shows and pre- and postgame reports. A minimum of eight men’s basketball games will be telecast, plus women’s basketball and virtually every other sport on the Longhorns calendar. The 20-year agreement allows UT and ESPN to grow content together and develop a deep-rooted partnership. “We are very happy not just to have this be for two or three or five years, but a long-term commitment with ESPN,” said UT President William Powers Jr. Discussions with ESPN have been ongoing for months. The ability for the university to create its own programming network proved pivotal in

MCT The 20-year network deal creates 24-hour strictly Longhorns-content network to boost the school’s programs.

the Longhorns’ decision to remain in the Big 12 last June, once conference rivals Colorado and Nebraska jumped to the Pac-10 and Big Ten, respectively, effective 2011-12. UT’s television revenues, including its share of Big 12 contracts with ESPN/ABC and Fox Sports, will now approach $30 million per year. Financial terms of the agreement have been reported by the “Austin American-Statesman”, with Powers detailing the breakdown with ESPN and IMG College, a company that handles marketing and licensing for the school. According to the report, ESPN has guaranteed $300 million, with 82.5 percent of that figure earmarked for the university and IMG assured of 17.5 percent of the total ($52.5 million).

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Pitt one of many AP Top- Heat weakness shown with Bosh Injury 25 teams from Big East By Dave Hyde Sun Sentinel MCT

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You know you’re in a fancy restaurant when the filet mignon isn’t even the best item on the menu. The Big East is a five-star steakhouse in that case. No. 8 Connecticut edged No. 7 Villanova Monday afternoon, but it wasn’t even the featured game. That came when No. 3 Syracuse went to No. 4 Pittsburgh later in the evening. The conference featured nine of its 16 teams in the Associated Press Top 25 this week, as West Virginia made an appearance at No. 21, Georgetown is No. 23 and Cincinnati hung on to No. 25. Notre Dame is No. 16 and Louisville is No. 19. Must be a lot of star power in this league, right? Not really. Other than player of the year candidate Kemba Walker, who scored on a drive with 2.5 seconds remaining to lead UConn to the 61-59 win Monday, the league’s best teams are made up of balanced casts of experienced players. “We try to explain to our guys, if you’re maybe the eighth or ninth man, it just means you’re on a good team,” Villanova coach Jay Wright said. “The quality that teams have to have is quality depth. That’s hard in college basketball because a lot of times if a kid doesn’t think he’s getting a lot of playing time, he transfers.” Most basketball fans would be hard-pressed to name the Pittsburgh starting lineup, considering the Panthers boast seven players scoring 6.8 points per game or better. Ashton Gibbs is one of three players averaging double digits and one of seven who plays more than 14 minutes per game and also shoots at least 44 percent. Syracuse can use any one of four players averaging at least 10 points to

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be the ring leader for a night. Villanova and Notre Dame have maintained a high profile despite losing their star players from last season. Notre Dame, which has lost two straight on the road, has a cast of characters to help replace Luke Harangody’s scoring. “This nucleus had some confidence,” Irish coach Mike Brey said. “It’s kids being competitors. They have chips on their shoulders. They all love to show we’re all right even though we lost that guy.” Villanova, now without Scottie Reynolds, has guards that embarrass most other backcourts on a nightly basis. Corey Stokes and Corey Fisher combine to score nearly 32 points per game.

For the first month of the Heat season, Chris Bosh was the reason for why this Heat season didn’t work and never would. Then, as his game rounded into form, there came an appreciation of his deft mid-range shooting touch. But Tuesday night was the game you came to understand exactly how much Bosh means on a team with championship hopes. And he did nothing. He sat out a 93-89 overtime loss to Atlanta with a sprained ankle. Joel Anthony started in Bosh’s place. Anthony had the game of his season. Forty-three minutes. No points. Not even a shot. None. Bully for Anthony’s effort, even as he slid back to his usual center. But eight of Anthony’s rebounds were offensive ones, too. He still had no tips, much less a single tip-in. Subbing behind Anthony, Juwan Howard had one missed field goal and one free throw in 10 minutes. So in a game sent to overtime, in a night’s worth of minutes, the Heat got three points from the players thrust into larger roles with Bosh out. And the team that wasn’t going to lose two games in a row now has lost four straight. Not that anyone’s hyperventilating over the losses just yet. This isn’t

November. The Heat showed they are who they thought they are. The unrelenting stretch of 21 wins in 22 games showed that. Clearly, the Heat are one dynamic, formidable and seriously flawed team. They have little depth anywhere and none at all up front. At least when LeBron James sat out, Dwyane Wade is there to play a similar game. And vice versa. The Heat has nothing to do but put James at power forward, as it did for stretches Tuesday. Udonis Haslem already is hurt. Atlanta even played most of the game without its starting power forward, Al Horford, who went out with an ankle sprain of his own. Even then, Atlanta isn’t the measuring stick. Boston is. That’s the team the Heat has to get through to play into the deepest part of June. MCT They have as many inside presences Chris Bosh was out Tuesday during the as the Heat, except they can score. 93-89 overtime loss to Atlanta. Team President Pat Riley surely noticed from his seat a few rows up. down the stretch. It still wasn’t enough against an His basketball philosophy is built on and inside presence. Bosh isn’t a Atlanta team that has enough talent force inside. But at least he can pro- to keep disappointing its fans. At one point as LeBron rode the wave, vide a presence. In the first quarter, the Heat took Bosh stood up and threw a fist into 19 shots. Only three were in the paint. the air, the kind he does in emotional None of those went in. They went on celebration sometimes on the court. Bosh might be a pilot-fish off the have their worst-shooting night of the season. By the end of the Wade and LeBron. But his game game, it was LeBron taking over, just never looked better than a Tuesday as it probably would have been in any he scored as much as his replacegiven night. Him or Wade. This time, ments without coming off the LeBron scored 15 consecutive points bench.

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Kansas sits at 18-0 By Blair Kerkhoff Contra Costa Times MCT

For the sixth time, Kansas has reached the 19th game of the season without a loss. The previous occasions stretch across the program’s history. The bust part is something Texas knows all too well. The Longhorns started last season 17-0 and limped to a 24-10 finish with a first-round NCAA Tournament exit. Is it worth mentioning that Saturday’s game is on CBS? The Tiffany network has broadcast Kansas’ last four losses, beginning with the 2009 postseason setback against Michigan State. But the amazing thing is, Kansas is 51-3 since then. 51-3. Incredible. The Jayhawks soared to a remarkable start in five other seasons. Two were coached by Phog Allen, two by Roy Williams and this is Self’s second time breaking this strong from the gate.

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