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Homecoming Court members speaks out on winning election “It is my last year here at IUP, and I always wanted to get more involved, especially with homecoming, so I figured I’d just go for it.�

By Sean Bracken Senior Staff Writer S.M.Bracken@iup.edu

Homecoming preparations are now underway for students who were elected to this year’s Crimson Homecoming Court.

These preparations come about a week after the conclusion of last week’s elections, held Sept. 21 and 22.

According to the ballot results obtained Sept. 23, the winners of this year’s homecoming court were Heather Weleski (senior, special education), Adel Albalushi (junior, hospitality management), Jack Salter (senior, music education), Katie Tidwell (senior, psychology), Christie Rocco (senior, marketing) and Tiffany Dyer (senior, English).

Marquis Graham-Budd (freshman, criminology) later was named the winner of IUP’s branch campus in Punxsutawney.

Student Government Association member Zachary Stayman (junior, political science), in charge of overseeing the Homecoming election, said there were 1,617 total votes cast. He said 1,515 voted for the entire ballot.

A majority of the winners said they found out sometime late Thursday morning or early afternoon.

Graham-Budd said he found out early Friday by assistant dean Theo Turner. “I’m pretty excited, but also nervous because I have to be in front of everyone at halftime,� Weleski said.

A couple of students added that they were surprised by the results because of how many votes were cast

— Christie Rocco (senior, marketing) for them, despite appearing alone on the ballot.

According to the results, three of the seven winners were the only one on their ballot. “I never thought so many people would actually vote for me,� Rocco said.

Most of the winners said they used Facebook as part of their campaign, including Rocco, Salter, Weleski and Dyer. Tidwell also said Facebook was part of the campaign, which she said her friends made for her.

Salter said he created a Facebook event, which ended up getting mire than 100 students pledging their support. He said he ended up getting 542 votes.

Dyer said she also chalked, placed fliers up around campus and talked to her friends about voting for her.

Graham-Budd said he also hung signs and created “Team Budd,� which consisted of about 15 others that helped get out the vote.

Albalushi campaigned by taking three laptops and standing outside Folger Food Court, where he talked to passing students about why they should vote for him.

He also said he met all of the international students, printed out color fliers, which he said cost him about $150, and had professors help get the word out.

Albalushi also went on to thank

everyone involved in his campaign, including Communications Media instructor Sarah Tourtellotte and a lot of his friends who helped get the word out.

He said he ended up receiving 621 votes, despite nine other students running against him. According to the ballot results, Albalushi received the most votes out of anyone on the Homecoming Court.

Weleski said she wanted to have “no regrets� about her senior year and to do something different, which prompted her to run. This was a feeling shared by Tidwell, Dyer and Rocco. “It is my last year here at IUP and I always wanted to get more involved, especially with Homecoming, so I figured I’d just go for it,� Rocco said.

Dyer ran because a couple of her friends thought about running after they heard the Homecoming elections changed.

She said they all decided to run together.

Salter he ran because he wanted to see representation on the court from a band member. “[Since I’ve been here], we’ve never seen guys in the marching band for Homecoming,� he said.

SGA adviser Kate Linder said this year’s Homecoming elections were different because they aimed to elect a student to represent each college, rather than have the traditional king and queen. She said this was a move

Brock Fleeger/The Penn Front row: Tiffany Dyer (senior, English), Katie Tidwell (senior, psychology) and Christie Rocco (senior, marketing); back row: Jack Salter (senior, music education), Adel Albalushi (junior, hospitality management), Heather Weleski (senior, special education) and Marquis Graham-Budd (freshman, criminology) were elected to IUP’s homecoming court.

to make the court more “culturally inclusive� and “gender neutral.� “I like the court because it gives more people the opportunity and it is not a popularity contest anymore,�

Weleski said.

However, Rocco had a different opinion about the court. She said the court itself was a good idea, but added it should include a king and queen representing the entire court. “The guy and girl who received the most votes on the ballot should still be the king and queen of the Homecoming Court,� Rocco said.

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SGA member Jennifer Krastin (junior, management) said the members of the homecoming court needed to be enrolled full-time and had to have completed 60 credits with at least a 3.00 cumulative GPA.

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Police blotter Alcohol Violation

• At 10:44 a.m. Saturday, Gerald Socol, Blairsville, was cited by borough police for public drunkenness at the Indiana County Housing Authority at 104 Philadelphia Street, police said.

• At 12:30 a.m. Saturday, Aaron Dumars, 20, and Sean E. Haywood, 20, both of Sharpsville, were charged with underage drinking by borough police. Dumars was also charged with disorderly conduct, public drunkenness, scattering rubbish and resisting arrest at 100 S. 10th Street after he got into an altercation with police about his open container, police said.

Criminal Mischief

• Borough police reported that at 11 p.m. Tuesday, someone slashed the tires of two separate vehicles at The Moose Club parking lot at 425 N. Fourth Street. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724349-2121.

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• At 11:05 p.m. Friday, David T. Neff, 19, Allison Park, was arrested for possession of marijuana and underage drinking by borough police on the 600 block of Clark Avenue after he was observed acting suspiciously between several houses, according to a news release.

• Kevin T. Williams, 19, Chalfont, was charged with possession of marijuana, and underage drinking by borough police at 11:35 p.m. September 4, at the Giant Eagle parking lot on 7th Street, police said.

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• At 12:28 p.m. Saturday, a female driving a green Chevrolet Cavalier hit a parked silver Pontiac Sunfire in the 1100 block of Grant Street causing damage to the Pontiac, and left the scene. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724-349-2121.

Rutgers death a suicide; bias crime charges considered

By William Lamb, Andrea Alexander and John Reitmeyer The Record (Hackensack, N.J.) MCT

The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office is reviewing the case of a Rutgers University freshman who jumped from the George Washington Bridge last week after images of him having sex with another man were broadcast on the Internet, and will decide whether to prosecute the incident as a bias crime, a spokesman said.

A body that was pulled from the Hudson River off Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park on Wednesday was positively identified Thursday as that of Tyler Clementi, a 2009 graduate of Ridgewood High School.

The death was ruled a suicide.

Clementi’s roommate, Dharun Ravi, and a friend of Ravi’s, Molly Wei, have been charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy for using a webcam to film and transmit footage of Clementi having sex in his dorm room.

An emotional Gov. Chris Christie called the incident an “unspeakable tragedy” at a news conference in Trenton on Thursday morning, but

said he would leave it to Attorney General Paula T. Dow to decide whether to prosecute the incident as a hate crime. A spokesman for Dow said the office was reviewing the case.

Ravi and Wei each face a maximum five-year sentence for allegedly transmitting the footage over the Internet, a thirddegree crime. Ravi faces additional fourth-degree privacy invasion charges for allegedly collecting the images. If Dow elects to prosecute the matter as a bias crime, the third-degree charge would be elevated to a second-degree offense, and Ravi and Wei would face a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, Loriquet said.

Clementi posted a brief message on his Facebook profile on Sept.

22 announcing that he planned to leap from the bridge. His wallet was found on the bridge last Wednesday, authorities have said.

Authorities say Ravi of Plainsboro, N.J., used a webcam to surreptitiously broadcast Clementi having sex.

The sexual encounter was with “a dude” according to Ravi’s Twitter page.

Ravi surrendered to Rutgers police Tuesday morning and was released on $25,000 bail. Wei was released after surrendering to Rutgers police in New Brunswick on Monday.

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Career Expo gets students looking to the future

By Megan GUza Managing Editor M.S.Guza@iup.edu

Students had the opportunity to talk with potential employers at the Career Development Center’s second Career Expo from 1 – 4 p.m. Tuesday in Memorial Field House.

“It brings employers in to recruit students for internships as well as permanent positions,” said Dr. Tammy Manko, assistant director of the center. “It provides students with many opportunities in kind of a multi-disciplinary setting.

Last year, the event drew about 500-600 students, according to Mark Anthony, Career Development Center director.

“We’d like to see [graduate students] and alumni here too,” he said, “because employers are looking for more seasoned students as well as those who are novice.”

The event featured 47 companies from various sectors of the workforce, including Bayor, PNC Financial Services Group, the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration, Maxim Health Care, the PA State Civil Service and several branches of the military.

Graduate assistant Caitlin Jones (student affairs in higher education) was on hand to allow students to practice their “personal commercial.”

“We call it the personal commercial or elevator pitch,” she said. “It’s a 30-60 second presentation of yourself to your employer. Shaking hands, introducing yourself, talking about your qualifications, seeing what the employer is looking for, and just trying to stand out over the next person.”

Information about what questions students should be asking was also offered, including comeback questions, planning questions, and what key company information they should get.

The company representatives were on hand to answer questions not only concerning potential jobs in the various fields, but also to give students helpful hints in regard to standing out from other applicants when applying for a job.

“We look for some who’s reliable and wants to learn,” said Judy DeWitt, human resources representative from MLP Steel, LLC, a steel wire and grating manufacturer. “It’s actually hard to find those kind of people.”

Janet Eggleston, human resources recruiter from Hamot Medical Center, said customer service is key.

“We want someone with good patient service skills,” she said. “The patient is our customer, and we’re there to serve them.”

Debra Hocket and Charlotte Foster, nursing resource coordinators from the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, offered advice to students on how to stand out from their peers at the expo.

“Be friendly. Be anxious to find out about the department,” Hocket said.

Jesse Smartt/The Penn Students talked to representatives of 47 companies at the Career Expo.

“There were several students who knew exactly what positions we were offering,” Foster said. “Often, people don’t know what it is we do.

They need to understand our mission because not everyone can be in veteran’s affairs.”

Dr. Walter Blaney, regional resources manager for the Defense Contract Audit Agency, also had words of advice.

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He said a sense of humor — as well as being trainable — is also key.

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Students took well to the event.

“There was a lot of information provided,” Debra Onadera (senior, political science/pre-law) said. “I think this is the best time to start looking for opportunities.”

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— Bill Hendrix Jr., Clemson University trustee

Officials clash at education summit in South Carolina

By Wayne Washington McClatchy Newspapers MCT

It was supposed to be a summit, the beginning of an extended discussion on what could be done to arrest the trend of steadily increasing tuition rates at colleges and universities in South Carolina.

Instead, Tuesday’s gathering of legislators and college officials, put together by Gov. Mark Sanford and held at a packed auditorium on the Airport campus of Midlands Technical College, merely underscored the starkly different views of what has happened in higher education over the past decade.

The governor and college officials disagreed on the fundamental question of whether the state has increased or decreased funding to colleges and universities.

Sanford, who has argued that higher education in South Carolina is too costly and inefficient, argued that funding for higher education has actually increased if state-funded lottery scholarship money is factored into the equation. College officials, smarting over insinuations that they have allowed administrative salaries to balloon and that they have moved forward with costly construction projects even in the midst of the current economic downturn, said lottery funding should not be included because it goes to students, not schools. They also pointed out that if the governor wants to count lottery scholarship money as state funding for higher education, the tuition rates he puts forward should be decreased because that’s how the scholarship money is used.

Those dueling arguments aren’t esoteric points to be examined in a high-level economics class. They could play a role in whether members of the State Budget and Control Board vote Wednesday to impose a moratorium on all building projects at public colleges and universities.

College officials say such a moratorium, which is backed by Sanford, one of the five voting members of the board, would be an unwise step in a state still starving for jobs.

“If it were a blanket moratorium on all projects, it would be devastating to the university,” said William T. Moore, vice president for finance and planning at the University of South Carolina.

Moore estimated that a building moratorium at the University of South Carolina would cost the state 4,800 jobs. And that’s just through a halt to projects at USC, Moore said.

Other college officials made similar, though less specific, warnings

about job losses.

“We hope they won’t take a onesize fits all approach to projects,” said Bill Hendrix Jr., a member of Clemson University’s Board of Trustees.

Hendrix was joined at Tuesday’s summit by representatives of public colleges and universities throughout the state, including Francis Marion University, USC, Winthrop University, Coastal Carolina University, S.C. State University and several of the state’s technical colleges.

They sat in the audience and listened restlessly as Sanford and a pair of experts hammered away on a similar theme: tuition has risen sharply at the state’s public colleges and universities, which have accepted an increasing number of out-of-state students.

The governor warned that the tuition hikes in South Carolina, which already has the most expensive public colleges and universities in the Southeast, are unsustainable.

“What we want to be careful of is crowding out local South Carolinians whose parents have been paying taxes in South Carolina for years,” Sanford said after the meeting.

Tuition has risen sharply in South Carolina over the past decade, and some colleges have increased the percentage of out-of-state students on their campuses during that time.

School officials argued Tuesday, as they have in the past, that out-ofstate students add to the educational experience of South Carolina students.

Because many out-of-state students pay higher tuition rates, their presence helps keep tuition rates for instate students lower than they would be otherwise, school officials said.

Even that point, however, was disputed by some of the state legislators who attended the summit. They said the schools have forgone millions in revenue by allowing out-of-state students to pay in-state rates.

Some colleges and universities do allow some particularly highachieving out-of-state students to pay lower tuition rates as an inducement to attend. Other out-of-state students pay in-state rates if they are attending through the academic common market, a program that seeks to prevent students in participating states from paying more for academic programming not available in their home states. That common market allows S.C. students to pay lower rates when they choose to go out of state to pursue degree programs unavailable here. Tuesday’s summit, which at times was testy, did not resolve the differences between Sanford and state colleges. Several college officials said they are not sure what was accomplished.

Panel to offer insight into public relations

By Megan Guza Managing Editor M.S.Guza@iup.edu

The Public Relations Student Society of America will sponsor an alumni panel discussion from 7 – 9 p.m. Monday in the HUB Susquehanna Room.

“The event is a panel,” said PRSSA President Jessica Brown (senior, journalism), “which means it will be a question-and-answer session with our panelists on things such as how to transition from college to the workforce and how they stay current with news and trends in the public relations industry.”

Following the formal questionand-answer session, the floor will be opened for questions.

Light refreshments will be served afterward in order to allow students

to talk to panelists one on one.

The five panelists, all IUP alumni, include the following: Jeff Krakoff, director of brand marketing practice at BursonMarsteller, a Pittsburgh public relations and communication firm; Anna Goth, Communications Assistant for the American Legacy Foundation in Washington, D.C.; Tim Hayes, president of Tim Hayes Consulting in Pittsburgh; Mark Richards, vice president of marketing and public relations for Indiana Regional Medical Center; and Elaine Smith of the IUP Communications Department.

Brown said that the field of public relations and communications are all about networking.

“Anytime someone goes out of their way to meet people in their field, they open up the possibility of having a connection when it comes

time to do a project, apply for an internship or even apply for a job,” she said.

PRSSA tried to get a diverse group of panelists, Brown said, in order to give insight into the different aspects of public relations.

“We really wanted to focus on how students can use their education from IUP to succeed in their careers,” she said.

“All of our panelists have been students at this university and have learned the skills we are learning now.”

PRSSA is the campus equivalent of the Public Relations Society of America.

Its aim is to give members experience in the field and foster awareness, appreciation and understanding of all things public relations.

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Ida Arici/The Penn From left to right: Alumni Emily Cicconi, Dijon Cole, Meredith Giantsos and Richard Lansberry offered career advice with the help of moderator Tammy Manko.

Alumni share success stories at Six O’Clock Series

By Jeff Brunermer Staff Writer J.C.Brunermer@iup.edu

The most recent edition of the Six O’Clock Series brought together alumni, staff and students.

The series emphasized the importance of voluntary work in the community.

The university welcomed four recent alumni to discuss their successful stories through community involvement and leadership.

The four alumni included Emily Cicconi, Dijon Cole, Meredith Giantsos and Richard Lansberry.

Tammy Manko, Assistant Director of the Career Development Center, moderated the discussion.

Manko first asked what experiences the panel had from their undergraduate studies. Lansberry was the first to be called upon.

He stated that he remembered planting trees from the YMCA, and wanted to be recognized in the community as a leader.

“I wanted something that separated me from everyone else,” he said.

Giantsos was next and talked about how important it was to interact with alumni. She stressed that students should join clubs they love and want to be involved in, not just clubs that look good on resumes.

Giantsos was very involved with her sorority, Sigma Kappa, and was even supported by current members of the sorority at the Six O’Clock Series.

“It’s absolutely key to be involved in your community to land the job you want,” Giantsos said.

Later Manko switched the discussion to how the panelist’s initial career goals changed to their actual career paths.

Cole began his answer by talking about how he always wanted to

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work for himself. He actually didn’t think he was going to attend college.

Once in college, Cole joined the Black Student League, made connections with a lot of administrators, developed IUP Day and started his own consulting firm named the Young Entrepreneurs Consulting Firm.

He currently works for FEA in Harrisburg, but said that he knows this isn’t the last stop for his career path.

The last topic addressed was reflections the panel had for the audience.

Manko asked for the experiences and reflections that the alumni had for students.

Emily Cicconi had a lot of advice for students looking to succeed.

She talked about the three things that employers look for: internships, community involvement and studying abroad.

“Study abroad if you have the chance,” Cicconi said. “Employers always look for it on resumes.”

In the end, all four had inspirational words for the crowd.

Cicconi emphasized making one’s resume look good, network with everyone, and use the available career services at IUP. Lansberry accentuated keeping an open mind and going to as many events as possible.

He said to never stay in “because you’re tired.”

“Learn to golf, don’t graduate early, write thank-you notes and avoid errors on your resume,” Giantsos said.

Cole concluded the event with his words of inspiration.

“Set yourself apart from the others,” he said.

“Expand on whatever you’re doing at the time. Your career started on the first day of college.”

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Student Diversity Association helps students explore useful resources at IUP

By Megan Guza Managing Editor M.S.Guza@iup.edu

The Diversity Resource Conference, sponsored by the Student Diversity Association, offered students a chance to familiarize themselves with IUP’s resources from 5 – 8 p.m. in several rooms throughout the HUB. The event aimed to give students a better understanding of what type of resources IUP has to offer.

“Getting information out to students is hard,” said association member Felicia Moore (senior, adult and community education) who helped organize the event.

“Especially if they do not know what

resources surround campus.”

The mini conference included speakers, workshops and networking resource tables. Sixteen organizations participated in the event, including Aramark, IUP Police, the Center for Career Development and the Center for Student Success.

Moore said that many students are not “dressed” for success even after they graduate. She said she hoped the conference gave students the chance to meet people face to face, shake hands and exchange business cards.

“Students should know where to go if they need services,” she said.

Three speakers offered tips and advice to students. Dr. Christine Black, a health and physical education professor, presented “First Impressions,”

which covered such topics as preparing for class, using professional language and maintaining professionalism.

Educational psychology professor Dr. Roger Briscoe discussed prioritizing and decision-making in “Time Management,” and Leslie Thomas of the financial aid office offered financial tips in “Money Management.”

“Freshman and sophomores are more prone to drop out of school than juniors and seniors,” Moore said. “The statistics regarding minorities are even higher. Hopefully, students will be able to continue their education by getting connected and improving the relationships they develop on campus.”

Police: Student in mask fires AK-47, kills self in Texas

By Dave Montgomery McClatchy Newspapers MCT

A ski-masked student armed with an AK-47 spread terror at the University of Texas at Austin on Tuesday as he fired randomly into the air before running into a library, where he killed himself, investigators said.

No one else was injured in the hours-long drama, and UT officials praised the swift response from a combined force of UT and Austin police.

The Travis County medical examiner identified the gunman as 19-year-old Colton Tooley, a sophomore mathematics major from Austin.

Late Tuesday, authorities still had not determined a motive.

Tooley lived with his parents in a tranquil middle-class neighborhood in Austin and was described by neighbors and former teachers as an amicable teenager with a standout scholastic record in high school.

The drama immediately brought back memories of August 1966, when Charles Whitman climbed to the observation deck of the UT Tower and began shooting. Fourteen people died, and 31 were wounded. Whitman had also killed his wife and mother the night before.

On Tuesday, the first shots were fired about 7:50 a.m. as the black-clad gunman walked through part of the campus, alternately shooting into the air and at the ground as horrified students and faculty members ran for safety. Some witnesses said the gunman waved and smiled.

UT Police Chief Robert Dahlstrom said that when the gunman saw police officers approaching, he rushed into the Perry-Castaneda Library and made his way to the sixth floor, where

he killed himself.

About 100 students were reportedly in the library and immediately responded to shouts from library officials to evacuate the building.

Authorities locked down the sprawling university — nicknamed “the Forty Acres” — until early afternoon as investigators and SWAT officers swarmed the campus searching for a possible second gunman and for explosives.

Helicopters and armored vehicles were also dispatched. Emergency sirens blared throughout the morning.

“It was a good response,” Dahlstrom said. “We’re very fortunate that no one else was injured other than the lone gunman.”

At a late-morning news conference, UT President Bill Powers said that police had secured a perimeter and that there were no other reports of injuries.

Fears of a second gunman emerged because of conflicting descriptions of the shooter, Dahlstrom told reporters. But authorities later said they had concluded that the gunman had acted alone.

A semblance of normalcy returned to the campus by late afternoon, but classes did not resume.

Police, meanwhile, went to Tooley’s home to interview his family and search for clues to explain the bizarre episode.

Tooley graduated from Crockett High School in 2009, where he was “an excellent student who excelled in every subject and was ranked seventh in his class,” Crockett Principal Craig Shapiro said in a statement. “His teachers recall him with words such as ‘brilliant,’ ‘meticulous and ‘respectful.’”

“All of us in the Crockett High School community are shocked and saddened by today’s tragedy at the University of Texas,” Shapiro said.

“Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Colton Tooley.”

Neighbors described Tooley and his parents as a quiet but pleasant family who typically kept to themselves.

“I just want to express my condolences to the family,” Bryan Winkle said.

Winkle said that he and his family moved into the neighborhood nine years ago and that the Tooley family was there when they arrived.

“They were a very quiet family,” he said. “Colton seemed like a very quiet young man as well.”

Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo confirmed reports that the gunman killed himself and said no shots were fired by law enforcement officers. He credited students and faculty members for cooperating with officers to maintain order.

“The students did their part,” Acevedo said. “They cleared the streets and the grounds in a very quick manner.”

Acevedo also confirmed that the gunman’s weapon was an AK-47 but declined to say how many shots were fired.

After UT officials lifted the campuswide lockdown, the area around the library remained sealed as investigators concentrated on two general crime scenes _ the section of the library where Tooley took his life and other sections of the campus where shots were fired. Police were seen picking up shell casings on a sidewalk hours after the incident.

More than 51,000 students are enrolled at the campus several blocks north of the state Capitol in central Austin. UT officials said the only metal detectors are on the ground floor of the UT Tower in response to terrorism fears after Sept. 11.

“It could have been a whole lot worse,” Dahlstrom told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “We have no idea what his motive was. We’re very fortunate.”

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Lease could be lost over discrimination

By Bill Mccleery The Indianapolis Star MCT

The owners of a cookie shop that has operated for more than two decades inside the Indianapolis City Market could face eviction.

But it’s the reason behind that possible eviction that is raising provocative questions that pit the rights and moral beliefs of a business owner against the obligation of the city to do all it can to prevent discrimination and encourage tolerance.

The city is investigating whether the owner of Just Cookies engaged in discrimination last week when he cited moral objections to homosexuality as his reason for declining a customer’s request to provide rainbowiced cookies for a “National Coming Out Day” event planned for Oct. 7 at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

“That could be grounds for taking away their stand in the market,” said Wayne Schmidt, president of the City Market Board, who said Just Cookies is on a month-to-month lease. “I’d hate to lose them, but we can’t tolerate any kind of discrimination like that.”

A spokesman for Mayor Greg Ballard said the city’s Office of Equal

Opportunity is looking into the matter because it involves a tenant of a city-owned property.

“The mayor was certainly dismayed and wants to make it clear that a person’s values, morality and personal beliefs are absolutely not relevant to making a purchase at the City Market,” said Robert Vane, the mayor’s deputy chief of staff.

David Stockton, who owns Just Cookies with his wife, Lily, said Wednesday that he told a caller to the bakery that he did not feel comfortable preparing a special order for a group that endorsed homosexual activity. He told the caller he wanted to set what he believes is the right example for his two daughters.

That caller was Heather Browning, IUPUI’s coordinator of social justice education in the Office of Student Involvement.

“A gentleman explained to me that they would not be able to support it due to their moral values,” Browning said.

Lily Stockton said Wednesday that any moral issues aside, “we no longer do special orders like that. We are too busy.”

But that apparently was never communicated to Browning, nor was it cited as a reason by David Stockton for denying the request.

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Micah Clark, who heads the American Family Association of Indiana, said the Stocktons have nothing to apologize for – and that business owners should be well within their rights to refuse such special requests on moral grounds.

Clark said he planned to contact the Stocktons and see whether they might be interested in any legal assistance that his organization could provide.

“You have to wonder, what rights do business owners have?” Clark said. “It’s one thing if someone walks into a store and buys a cookie off the shelf, but [the Stocktons] were being asked to become part of the [National Coming Out Day] celebration.

“To make rainbow cookies for a special event with which the company has a disagreement – I think that goes beyond the pale of what we should expect companies to do.”

Vane, however, said sexual orientation is one of the categories in which discrimination is specifically forbidden by city ordinance. Further, he said, the publicly owned City Market is not a place where officials would allow discriminatory practices.

In the end, the IUPUI organizers of the celebration took their request and their dollars elsewhere.

Same old, same old

By Sean Bracken Senior Staff Writer S.M.Bracken@iup.edu

A lot of the reporting I did the past semester, which extensively covered the Student Government Association, made me come to my own personal conclusion: SGA was dysfunctional.

From the events I covered, to the elections and my interviews I did with SGA members, I had all of the evidence I needed to suggest SGA has problems.

It is clear there are problems when roughly only 0.1 percent of IUP students attend a “Speak Up IUP” event, when an election is held with 2 percent of eligible students voting and with the voting process screwed up where students did not receive their ballots on time.

Last year, I interviewed David Bivens (senior, political science), and he talked about the need to “reshuffle” the SGA. That to me was a concession from him that the SGA was not governing affectively for the students. I would say he was correct.

Fast-forward to this year: not too much has changed, in my opinion.

For example, last week when students had the chance to vote for six students to be a part of this year’s homecoming court, I noticed problems with SGA’s timeliness in getting the ballot accessible through URSA. According to the information I reported, the election was supposed to be available between 12:01 a.m. Sept.

21 and 11:59 p.m. Sept. 22. However, when I signed onto my URSA account at about 2 a.m. Sept. 21, the homecoming election was still not available.

To me, it was the Qualitics system all over again, since the survey was not available when it was supposed to. If these ballots continue to screw up, it could taint election results and further diminish the effectiveness of SGA and how students view it.

I have also voiced my concerns over not having meetings openly available to the students. I remember attending the University Senate meeting held Sept. 14, where SGA Vice President Andrew Longacre (sophomore, safety sciences) encouraged everyone to

come to SGA meetings – only he forgot to say when those meetings would be held.

I then went to the IUP website and checked to see if that information was available. It was not. Instead, the meeting times listed dated back to the spring of 2009, four semesters ago.

After I found out Bivens and Longacre would be on the IUP radio show, “Global Alert,” I decided to e-mail a question about what was going on with that. The question was asked to both of them.

Bivens agreed with me that the website was in poor shape and that they would work to update it. But the answer that really struck me was when Longacre said there were no meetings finalized because they couldn’t get a room large enough where everyone could attend.

After hearing that, I went back to their website that had that old information and I saw that SGA previously met in the HUB Susquehanna Room. I also remember that last year’s “Speak Up IUP” event was held in the HUB Ohio Room.

I believe if SGA was previously able to meet in the HUB, then they can meet there again with the right planning. If for some reason they couldn’t, then there are a lot of other options they could have looked at, including the auditoriums at Eberly, Pratt or Stouffer halls.

I would also like to make it clear that these complaints are not about me. It is about the students.

I think it is a disgrace that most students interviewed on “Global Alert” do not know what SGA is and what it does. SGA is supposed to be the representative body for students, and it is a problem if students are not in tune as to what it is.

While it might be true that there is only so much they can do, and that isn’t entirely their fault students are not involved, they still can do things better than what they are doing, in my opinion.

Again, my complaints are not about me, but about the students. All I want is fot students to be represented on campus, regardless if it is the administration or SGA. I really do not think that is too much to ask.

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Destructive behavior to planet must end

By Lewis W. Diuguid McClatchy Newspapers MCT

The planet keeps trying to tell us to stop industrialization’s punishment to the air, water and land.

It is unlikely, though, to slow the “drill, baby, drill” need for more offshore wells because this country and the world thirst for oil.

Global warming cries also are going unheeded. Too many conservatives see climate change as a spoof.

But no one should be laughing.

Last winter was the fifth warmest on record worldwide. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center reported that worldwide, the average temperature in the winter was 54.9 degrees Fahrenheit — 1.08 degrees above average for winter months.

Worldwide temperatures have been climbing because of human activities dating to the Industrial Revolution, according to reputable atmospheric scientists. In February the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that the 2000 to 2009 decade was the warmest on record, eclipsing the 1990s, the previously warmest reported.

What’s also tragic is global warming is causing sea levels worldwide

to rise. That trend dating to the 19th century continues to affect island nations and coastal areas.

Beaches such as those in Hawaii, which President Barack Obama had called home, will continue to erode.

In 100 years, sea levels are expected to be at least 3 feet higher.

Scientists say that 60 percent to 80 percent of the existing U.S. shoreline will continue a chronic erosion pattern. Multibillion-dollar tourist areas will feel the bite.

Perhaps an even worse problem is what we’ve been doing to our food supply, and Mother Nature knows it.

Farmers for decades have used the weed-killer Roundup. Television stations in this area used to carry advertising for the ubiquitous weed-killer.

It seemed to work great allowing farmers to produce more food because the product killed a broad spectrum of weeds. It was advertised as easy and safe, with little negative environmental impact.

But the widespread use of the Monsanto product now sold under the generic name of glyphosate has caused a spread of superweeds.

Farmers have used it so much that the weeds have adapted and evolved so that the weed killer no longer is as effective. Scientists have called the superweeds “the largest threat to production agriculture that we

have ever seen.”

The first Roundup resistant species surfaced in 2000 in a Delaware soybean field. The problem has spread since with the emergence of 10 superweeds, all resistant to Roundup and related products. At least 22 states have been affected, involving millions of acres.

The superweeds have lessened the enthusiasm for genetically modified crops. Some corn, soybeans and cotton seeds, for example, have been genetically engineered to survive spraying with Roundup.

Such seeds have become a mainstay in American fields. Now, however, farmers have little reason to spend the extra money for them if Roundup and its generic cousins can’t kill predator weeds.

Farmers are being forced to use more toxic sprays, which could jeopardize humans, and people are having to pull weeds by hand in a return to more labor intensive agricultural methods. That will raise food prices, lower crop yields and cause more pollution.

Mother Earth can’t be fooled. The time to stop the destructive behavior is now. More energy conservation has to occur, and renewable sources such as wind, geothermal and solar must be fully engaged. The planet won’t let us continue any other way.

Each year, the American Library Association designates the last week of September as Banned Books Week. The name speaks for itself – it aims to raise awareness concerning books that are challenged due to their “age-appropriateness” or their “viewpoints.”

In 2009 alone, the ALA received 460 challenges. The list-toppers? The “Twilight” series, “Catcher in the Rye,” “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” – widely considered to be the “great American novel.”

What would the literary world be without Scout Finch and her complicated childhood maturity?

And to think we pride ourselves on the First Amendment and the free exchange of ideas. Censorship, it seems, is not such a thing of the past.

Banned Books Week isn’t just about “raising awareness,” though. It’s about our right to read these books, no matter what their content might be. Who are the few to decide what should or should not be read by the masses? What happened to intellectual freedom? Don’t we have the right to pursue ideas, viewpoints and prose that we deem fit for ourselves?

What about the people who pen these works? Just because we might not agree with the content of the book, our automatic reflex should not be censorship. The First Amendment guarantees them the right to express their ideas, no matter how unorthodox they might be. It also gives us the right to read these ideas.

Every time someone challenges a book – be it for “inappropriate” content or “offensive” language – the rights of readers everywhere are infringed upon.

Every time a book is pulled from the shelves, you’re restricting thoughts and ideas – not just those of the person who wrote the book, but those of the people who now don’t have access to the book.

Perhaps Supreme Court Justice William Douglas said it best: “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.”

If we don’t have the freedom to form our own thoughts and opinions, what have we got?

If you don’t like it, don’t read it, but don’t take it away from the people who do wish to read it.

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have had to travel to such locations as The Shadow Lounge, in the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh, in which Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall is an occasional participant, or The Pittsburgh Café, in Lawrenceville.

Gibson, of Boulder, Colorado, is a world-renowned slam poet, spoken word artist and political activist whose creative work highlights issues of gender equality, politics, civil rights and social issues concerning members of the LGBTQ community.

There will be a suggested donation of $2 for Saturday’s event. Other donations will be accepted.

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a poetry slam, though Women’s Studies is hoping to sponsor one in the future, according to GlovasKurtz.

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The top point-getters advance to a second round, in which they recite a different poem.

The winner of the slam may read an encore poem. The poem may be performed as much as it is recited, though no props of any kind are allowed.

Topics covered in slam poetry often include, but are not limited to political hot-button issues.

There is typically a threeminute time limit for poems in a competitive slam.

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The IUP Women’s Studies Club in conjunction with the Department of Theater and Dance will be hosting an open-mic night in the downstairs studio of Waller Hall from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday.

The event is open to “any and all poets and lovers of poetry,” event organizer Pete Glovas-Kurtz (junior, English) said.

Glovas-Kurtz, along with coorganizer Ociele Hawkins (sophomore, theater and dance), are putting on the event to raise money in order to bring 2008 Women of the World Poetry Slam champion Andrea Gibson to campus later this semester.

A poetry slam, according to Glovas-Kurtz, is an event where various artists read original work or recite it from memory and are then judged by three to five audience members on a

“[The event is open to] any and all poets and lovers of poetry.”

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Stevens’ son has actually urged her to use Facebook, saying it would free him from relaying so much daily information to her.

An increasingly gray Facebook can be tied closely to seniors’ desire to keep in touch with those who have moved almost all their communications online.

People who are not on sites like Facebook can feel excluded from the sharing of family news and photos.

“I think I am missing out on a lot of old friends,” Stevens, the holdout, said.

“I’m not from Michigan, and to stay in touch with family or friends or college friends, they’re all over the United States, so this is a nice way to stay in touch, I’m sure.”

For Katherine Dallas Hammond, 55, of Troy, who co-taught the social media class, Facebook has been a way to reconnect with her girlfriends from high school, making them “feel like we were still standing by our lockers.”

But at the Troy computing class, one woman who had heard that Facebook would share all one’s information was reluctant to learn more.

“I don’t want to ever use Facebook,” said the woman, who declined to be identified, as she left class during a break. “I don’t want to spend hours on that. I volunteer. I want to do other things.”

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Awash in jargon — “wall,” “news feed,” “tags,” “defriend” — social media can be intimidating for baby boomers and seniors who have spent most of their lives comfortably in an analog world.

But that isn’t stopping them from signing up for sites like Facebook in droves.

Social media users 50 and older are now the fastest-growing demographic among Internet users, a recent Pew study showed.

In the last year, social networking among 50-plus Internet users nearly doubled — from 25 percent to 47 percent, according to the Pew study.

That’s compared with an increase of 10 percentage points among Internet users 18-29 years old, whose membership level is now at 86 percent.

Just last week, a group gathered at a computer lab in Troy designed to teach the ins and outs of computing and the Web. The Troy (Mich.) Senior Computer Learning Center has seen increased demand this year as digital holdouts face pressure from family and friends to make the leap, curriculum director Bob Treharne said.

“If they want to know what’s going on in their grandkids’ lives, they have to text or log on to Facebook,” he said.

The top concern among the Troy group, however, was no different than the chief, well-weathered complaint about Facebook: privacy.

Privacy concerns, paired with Facebook’s affinity for redesigning the site and changing its policies on what information of yours it shares, have created an air of trepidation.

Nancy March, 80, of Troy chose to display an incorrect birthday and not identify two of her sons on her newly created Facebook profile.

“I don’t want my kids being bothered with my busybody friends,” March said.

Some also express concerns over infringing on their children’s personal lives. For some, friending their child or grandchild is akin to snooping.

“I’ll be crushed if I ask to get on my son’s and he says, ‘No, Mom, I don’t want you to find out all this information,’” joked Sally Stevens, 63, of Troy, who has not joined Facebook but is considering it.

Privacy controls do allow users to decide which groups of friends see what information.

Kids can choose to have certain updates kept from their parents and vice versa.

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Playstation makes ‘Move’ into more interactive game play By billy o’ keefe McClatchy-Tribune MCT

Most will assume the Playstation Move is the product of Sony scrambling to create a motion controller that out-Wiis the Wii. And most would be at least partially wrong, because in addition to doing buttonless control first with the Playstation 2’s EyeToy camera in 2003, Sony was giving closed-door demonstrations of rudimentary Move technology before the EyeToy was even commercially available.

Those demonstrations, which showed off the low-tech EyeToy’s ability to track light and crudely interpret three-dimensional motion, form the basis of what makes the Move so much more than a mere metoo Wii remote.

The hardware is more powerful and the camera (now called the Playstation Eye) is now HD, but it’s those original ideas that allow the Move to trounce the Wii in multiple respects.

The most obvious improvement is the capacity to track precise movements on a 1:1 scale — something the Wii couldn’t remotely do until Nintendo released the Wii MotionPlus attachment last year.

The disc golf game in “Sports Champions,” for instance, allows players to grip the Move wand as they would a frisbee, and the slightest tilt or turn on the wand is replicated on screen. Players can cheat on the Wii by flicking the remote to fake a fast throw, but the Move is savvy enough to differentiate a flick from a complete motion.

If you want to succeed in “Champions” gladiator duel game,

you need to swing the wand like a sword. Flicking it will simply make you look inept.

The Move also demonstrates an impressive ability to understand 3D space. The Eye camera can tell when players are moving forward and backward based on its view of the wand.

In “Champions” table tennis game, for instance, players can move toward the camera to return soft shots and back up to return hard shots.

The game is able to read player position with skillful accuracy, and players are similarly in tune with their position because their onscreen racket moves in lockstep with every arm and foot motion.

With a little conditioning, the act of playing the game becomes so instinctive that the virtual barriers essentially fade away.

But perhaps the Move’s coolest trick is its continuation of what the EyeToy started in 2003.

Because we’re pointing Move wands at an HD video camera instead of a sensor bar, the Move can put players inside the game while also tracking their movements.

The camera can discern the Move wand’s light from everything else in the frame, and it’s able to transform the wand’s onscreen likeness into whatever object it pleases.

In the party game collection “Start the Party!,” for instance, the wand might turn into a mallet for a whack-a-mole game.

Players see themselves on the screen bopping virtual moles with a 3D virtual mallet that appears to be in their hand, and because the camera tracks the wand so perfectly, the whole exercise

is immersive enough to drop jaws.

In terms of tech — and in stark contrast to the Wii, which cleverly masked its shortcomings more than overcame them — the Move fulfills every single promise Sony made about its possibilities behind closed doors more than seven years ago.

Provided developers back it up over time with a worthy software library, this is the perfect antidote for those who were seduced by the Wii’s promises but ultimately left feeling cheated by the final product.

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IUP goes against Edinboro Saturday with number of injuries

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

The IUP football team continues its tough schedule 6 p.m. Saturday when it travels to unbeaten Edinboro to play the Fighting Scots at Sox Harrison Stadium.

IUP Head Coach Lou Tepper will once again go back to the place where he held the same position for six seasons from, 2000-05.

The fact that Tepper was going back to Edinboro used to be a big deal, especially to Edinboro, who felt that it was spurned by Tepper’s departure.

Now that this will be the third time he will go back, and most, if not all, of the players he recruited while at Edinboro are gone, the animosity has died down.

The same goes for IUP, as some of Tepper’s players didn’t even know he used to coach there until this week.

“Will we get a few boos? Probably.

But it won’t be like that first game,” Tepper said about the game back in 2006 between Edinboro and IUP where Tepper received the coldest of receptions.

In 2010, the game is just another tough game for IUP to deal with, another challenge it will have to get over.

IUP (3-1, 1-0) has faced many challenges already this season, and the season is only four games old.

IUP has to deal with a rash of injuries, the most notable being the one to quarterback Pat Smith.

In his place. Bo Napoleon struggled against Bloomsburg, but bounced back somewhat against SRU, completing 10 of 15 passes and most importantly committed zero turnovers.

“I just hope that his confidence will be such that each week we would be able to do a little bit more,” Tepper said about Napoleon.

IUP went to a more conservative offense, which included pounding the ball with Teddy Blakeman and James Johnson.

Both Johnson and Blakeman combined to carry the ball 37 times against Slippery Rock.

The emphasis on the ground game is not only of the inexperienced Napoleon, but also because the number of injuries in the receiving.

Both Mychal Skinner and Roy-al Edwards were scratched from lineup last week due to injuries, leaving Javon Rowan as Napoleon’s only viable threat in the passing game.

Even Rowan, who is nursing a hamstring injury, is not at 100 percent.

“Certainly if we had those threats at wide receiver […] now all of a sudden we’ve got some weapons,” Tepper said about receiving corps.

“If Pat [Smith] had played with receiving corps we had last week, we would have still been running it,” he added.

“If the receivers are back and healthy to the point that we can play two or three of those guys at a time, there are a lot more opportunities in the passing game.”

Until those weapons are healthy, expect more running than passing out of the IUP offense.

Though Tepper believes Blakeman and Johnson have done a good job, he still sees a lot of room for improvement in both of them, which he would prefer would come in a backup role, but due to the injury of usual starter Harvie Tuck, they are forced to carry the load.

“They should be the relief guys for our starter,” Tepper said about Blakeman and Johnson.

“They rush things. There were several runs that could have made big plays on, but everything just happening too fast for them, so they rush to the line of scrimmage instead of being

Brock Fleeger/The Penn IUP quarterback Bo Napoleon completed 10 of 15 passes for 79 yards against Slippery Rock.

patient. They made quicker decision than they should make” “But they run hard, they protect the ball, they’ve gotten better at pass protection. If we have Tuck back and healthy, it would be the ideal situation where we could put these guys in to give him a break little by little,” he added.

Running the ball does not seem like an ideal situation against Edinboro, as it is second in the PSAC, giving up only 92.8 yards per game.

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Opposing running backs have amassed a mere 2.8 yards per carry against the Fighting Scots defense.

The one thing that could help IUP against Edinboro’s defense is its offensive line, which has IUP running for 162 yards per game.

The unit received a welcome addition against Slippery Rock when Pitt transfer Dan Matha made his longawaited IUP debut in the first half.

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him against SRU as he missed the second half when it tightened up.

To prevent this from happening again, IUP will bring an exercise bike to Edinboro for Matha to ride during the break at halftime.

While Matha was out, Tepper was impressed with Byron Duvales.

Tepper gave glowing reviews of the freshman during the press conference Tuesday.

“Duvales has been one very pleasant surprise,” Tepper said. “Duvales is going to be an outstanding offensive lineman in the near future.”

Defensively, IUP will no longer have to deal with three-time All-PSAC West and current Jacksonville Jaguar quarterback Trevor Harris.

Instead, it will have to deal with his little brother, Cody.

Despite being Trevor Harris’s younger brother, Cody Harris does not have the skills that Trevor had quite yet.

Edinboro’s passing is much like IUP’s — nonexistent. Edinboro sits 13th in the PSAC in passing yards per game (136.5) — one spot ahead of IUP (134.2).

Cody Harris will be throwing against a secondary in IUP that, although he has played well, is still learning and still making mistakes.

Harris has thrown for 549 yards and four touchdowns this season.

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Tashina Johns/The Penn Carter Sheely (25) scored her third goal of the season against Millersville Wednesday.

Hawks defeat PSAC rival Millersville, 6-1 By damon boykiw Staff Writer D.M.Boykiw@iup.edu

The women’s soccer team might have been without key forward Heather Robbins Wednesday due to an injury, but that did not stop several other members of the Crimson Hawks offense from putting up points in its 6-1 victory over Millersville.

Robbins, who sustained a right knee injury late in the game against Kutztown Saturday, watched from the sidelines as six of her teammates put goals on the board for the Hawks. It was confirmed by IUP Head Coach Adel Heder that this was “the most physical match of the season.”

“We were a lot more technical, as far as moving the ball from the defense, to the midfield, to the offense,” Heder said.

The first goal of the game was recorded for IUP by Melissa Kornock, on a pass from Carter Sheely just before the 16-miunte mark. Sheely increased the lead with an unassisted goal at 31:49. Just before the second half, Lindsay Lobevero, assisted by Jordan Snook, knocked one in to give the Hawks a 3-0 lead.

The second half of the game opened to a successful Millersville scoring chance, with the lone goal for the Marauders by Taylor Suskie, assisted by Allison Snyder, early in the second half.

This was answered at 49:36 by Michelle Grozinsky, assisted by Allison Keller for the Hawks. Keller scored on

“It’s going to be a whole different level of play [against West Chester]” — Adel Heder, IUP Head Coach an assist from Kornock at 69:02.

The clock was stopped at this point for approximately 10 minutes while an injured member of the Millersville squad was attended to. Heder took this opportunity to sub in senor goalkeeper Kelsey Dowling.

Within three minutes, she made three saves, all coming with 20 minutes left in the game. A goal by Tori Pikur, assisted by Kelsey Fisher, ended the scoring.

The victory over the Marauders did not come easy for IUP, but with teamwork and a tenacious, more physical game, the Hawks were able to put up their sixth victory of the season.

Wednesday’s match marked the midway point of the 17-game regular season. It is at this point in the season that all the conference teams are seeking to improve or maintain their records as the playoffs slowly make way into the picture.

The Crimson Hawks offense and defense has been playing very well during their current five-game win streak.

The offense has averaged more than four goals a game, while the defense included two shutouts, have allowed only three goals.

The Hawks host No. 1 ranked West Chester University 1 p.m. tomorrow at South Campus.

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The sport of fencing originated in 19th century France.

Now, here in the 21st century, IUP has a fencing club.

Led by its president Nathan Forbes, the club meets Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8-10 p.m. in Zink Hall Gymnasium B. The club, which was just a team when it first started in the 1970s, made the switch to a club sport in 2004.

Forbes is the fourth president since the switch.

To join the club, all students have to do is show up to one of the meetings. It doesn’t matter what month it is in the semester, students can still join.

Dues for the club are $60, which according to Forbes is

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cheaper than other universities.

When asked how challenging fencing is as a sport Forbes responded, “not at all.”

The fencing club differs from varsity sports. In fencing the veterans (those who have been fencing for more than one semester) and beginners learn together.

“It’s teaching them,” Forbes said. “You come to a varsity sport already knowing the sport and knowing what you do. But when you come to fencing, we’re teaching them from the ground up.”

IUP’s fencing team is a member of the United States Fencing Association (USFA) and holds matches at least once a semester.

The club is hosting a tournament in November where 60 to 100 fencers from all over will join IUP.

Texas vs. Oklahoma keeps its national championIt is the renewal of the “Red ship hopes alive.

Rival Rivalry” this weekend Prediction: Oklahoma 35 when the Oklahoma Sooners Texas 21 visit the Texas State Fair to take on the Texas Longhorns.

Wisconsin vs. Michigan State Texas is coming off an upset This will be an emotional loss to unranked UCLA at home, game for Michigan State Head while Oklahoma is coming off a Coach Mike Dantonio, who is victory against Cincinnati. coming back from a minor heart Texas is led by sophomore attack that he suffered two quarterback Garrett weeks ago.

Gilbert, who isn’t livHis Spartans ing up to the expectahost Wisconsin in a tions that were put on game that will go him at the start the a long way to see season. who might go to the He hasn’t showed Rose Bowl later in the control of the the season. offense that head For Wisconsin coach Mack Brown this is the first of would have liked By anthony Scherer three games in to see. the next month Sports Columnist He is going to against ranked A.J.Scherer@iup.edu have to grow up opponents. fast this weekend if he is going After this, it hosts Ohio State to do well against the Oklahoma in two weeks, and the week defense. after it will travel to Iowa.

Oklahoma’s Landry Jones is This game will show if living up to the hype.

Wisconsin is back with the elite He is continuing to be an of the Big Ten. early-season Heisman candiMichigan State, on the other date. hand, is just happy to be in the He is also doing much bet- situation that it is in. ter on his turnover differenWith Dantonio coming tial compared to last season. back this week the Spartans Last season he was averaging are going to have the crowd on an interception for every two their side. touchdowns that he threw.

They just better not look Now it is up to three touch- past this game and look fordowns per interception. ward to the Michigan game next week.

BCS Implications: If Texas wins, will take control of the Big BCS Implications: A 12 South over Oklahoma for the Wisconsin win keeps their right to go to the Big 12 champi- hopes alive for a Big Ten title, onship game against Nebraska. but a loss really hurts with As for Oklahoma, a win here games against Iowa and Ohio State coming up. With a win against Wisconsin, Michigan State would make a high jump in the polls and position themselves as a dark horse for the Big Ten title.

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Florida vs. Alabama This is a rematch of last year’s SEC Championship Game, which saw Alabama defeat Florida to move onto the National Championship Game.

This matchup will be a lot different than last years.

To start, Florida doesn’t have quarterback Tim Tebow or some of the weapons that they had on offense.

Also, the defense took a hit with all the guys that left to go to the NFL. As for Alabama, it is bringing back most of the offense that helped beat Florida last season.

Alabama should be able to exploit the passing defense of Florida with wide receiver Julio Jones.

Also, with Mark Ingram and Trent Richardson running the football, it will be a long day for the Gators.

BCS Implications: An Alabama victory keeps it on the path to repeat as national champions.

As for Florida a loss here would knock it out of the top 10, but not out of the SEC race.

Prediction: Alabama 31 Florida 17 Stanford vs. Oregon This game features the two best teams in the Pac-10.

A victory for either team would boost them into the national championship hunt.

Oregon is led by sophomore quarterback Darron Thomas and sophomore running back LaMichael James.

Both men should have a good game against a Stanford defense that isn’t good against the run.

Stanford is led by Heisman candidate Andrew Luck, who could also be the first pick come next years’ NFL draft.

Luck has 11 touchdowns and only two interceptions through the first four games.

If he keeps this up, he will be sitting in New York City as a Heisman finalist.

BCS Implications: The winner has the inside track at the Rose Bowl and possibly a shot at the national championship.

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