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Sustainability summit to discuss poverty

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

Several groups will hold a summit Oct. 29, which will include different workshops and speakers about poverty in America, according to facilitator Fredalene Bowers of the Human Development and Environmental Studies department.

Bowers said the summit will feature keynote speaker Ruby K. Payne, Aha! Process, Inc. CEO, who authored several books on poverty, economic classes and socioeconomic issues. Bowers said Payne will speak twice at the summit, from 8:30 to 10 a.m. and again from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at Pratt Auditorium. “Payne will speak about how low income families do things in comparison to middle and upper class families,� Bowers said.

Tickets are $10 for I-Card holders.

Bowers said Payne is nationally known for her books, which include “A Framework for Understanding Poverty,� written in 1996; “Hidden Rules of Class at Work,� co-written in 2002 and “Under Resourced Learners: 8 Strategies to Boost Student Achievement,� which was written in 2008. She also co-authored or wrote more than a dozen other books on poverty in education, social services, the workplace, communities, churches and leadership.

The summit will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Oct. 29 in the HUB and Pratt Auditorium.

It is sponsored by the Alice Paul House, Indiana County Children in Youth Service, Head Start, Armstrong Indiana County Interim

Unit and IUP’s Human Development and Environmental Studies department. “The summit will include a majority of the agencies in [Indiana County] that work with children and families,� Bowers said.

She said the summit will also include two different workshops, which will look at several different issues affecting people in poverty. “The summit will look at the effects of poverty and making people more aware and helping teachers in school districts understand the consequences of living in poverty,� Bowers said. “We want to look at issues of children and families living in poverty and find strategies of what some solutions are to combating it.�

She said “middle class values run a lot of school districts,� which was a subject discussed in one of Payne’s books. Bowers said a lot of poorer students find it harder to understand what is taught in school because of the simplified language often used at home. “The speak and sentence structure of impoverished people is often much different than how others speak,� Bowers said.

The summit will examine several issues often associated with poverty, including legal issues, what it does to the brain, agriculture and how it could be an affordable nutritional source and several other issues. Bowers said each workshop will include up to nine different topics about the different impacts of poverty.

Each workshop will be informal and students will learn about how different things are related to poverty. Bowers said she is looking at no more than 50 people

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All the workshops will be held in the HUB, with registration held in the atrium. Bowers said the surrounding rooms will be the “breakout rooms� where the workshops will be held. She said there will be several of Payne’s books available in the atrium.

The summit will begin with a keynote speech from Payne and will end with another speaker from the Pittsburgh Project, an urban neighborhood-based Christian community development organization that helps out vulnerable homeowners.

Registration for the entire event is $50 for one person or $40 per person for groups of 10 people or more.

The registration deadline is Oct. 20.

Bowers said donations to impoverished children are also being accepted. “We are looking for non-perishable foods that meet the needs of elementary students that are hungry,� she said.

For more information, students are asked to contact Bowers at 724357-2336 or e-mail her at fbowers@ iup.edu. Students also can email Debby Graff, an employee at ICCAP, at dgraff@iccap.net.

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National security advisor resigns

By Sandy Bauers The Philadelphia Inquirer MCT

Retired Marine Gen. James Jones resigned Friday as the White House national security adviser and was replaced by his deputy, Thomas Donilon.

Like other top changes in the White House, President Barack Obama turned to a familiar face already on his team, and the swap will have little impact on policy.

However, it could strain relations between the White House and the military.

While Jones has deep ties to the military, Donilon didn’t serve in uniform, and his lack of experience helped make him suspect to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other Pentagon officials, according to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s new book “Obama’s Wars.�

Jones, 66, had told people for weeks that he planned to leave at the end of the year. Three officials, who all requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to the media, said his departure was hastened after he was quoted criticizing both White House staff and Donilon in Woodward’s book.

Jones referred to political staffers in the White House as the “Politburo� and “water bugs,� Woodward reported. Jones lauded Donilon’s organizational skills, but he also

thought that Donilon was prone to making rash decisions.

After last year’s earthquake in Haiti, for example, Woodward wrote that Donilon rushed into Jones’ office to demand that the head of the U.S. Southern Command be relieved for a slow response. “Calm down,� Jones told Donilon, according to the book. “It was an example of how Donilon made impulsive statements and snap judgments,� Woodward added.

Jones also criticized his deputy’s lack of experience overseas — Donilon hadn’t been to Afghanistan or Iraq. “You have no credibility with the military,� Jones told Donilon, the book reported.

Gates shared the concerns about Donilon, Woodward wrote. “Gates felt that Donilon did not understand the military or treat its senior leadership with sufficient respect. The secretary later told Jones that Donilon would be a ‘disaster’ as Obama’s national security adviser.�

In a Rose Garden ceremony, Obama lauded Jones’ work marshaling administration policy toward Afghanistan and Iraq, building pressure on Iran to stop its nuclear program, improving relations with Russia, pushing renewed Middle East peace negotiations, and organizing U.S. relief efforts for earthquake victims in Haiti and flood victims in Pakistan. “Through these challenges, Jim has always been a steady voice,� Obama said. “The American people owe Jim an unbelievable debt of gratitude for a lifetime of service.�

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Police blotter Alcohol Violations

• According to borough police, Amber Miller, 20, Philadelphia, was seen vomiting on the sidewalk in the 600 block of Philadelphia Street at 1:49 a.m. Sunday.

Williams was cited for public drunkenness and underage drinking by borough police.

• Matthew Pato, 20, Star Junction, was stopped by borough police in the 200 block of South Seventh Street for investigation of a fight. He was found to be intoxicated; Pato was cited for underage drinking at 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

• At 1:11 a.m. Sunday, Tyler White, 19, New Milford, was cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness after borough police observed White leaning face first into the side of a building in the 00 block of South Seventh Street.

• Campus police reported that at 12:57 a.m. Sunday, Brittany E. Holmes, 20, Tarentum, and Eric J. Walter, 28, Ambridge, were cited for public drunkenness.

Holmes was also cited for underage drinking after they attempted to gain access to McCarthy Hall.

• Borough police reported that at 12:12 a.m. Sunday, Nicholas J. Biddle, Belle Vernon, was cited for public drunkenness and released to a sober adult after he was seen stumbling down the sidewalk in the 00 block of South Sixth Street.

• Justin W. Sowers, 19, York, was found passed out in the shower covering the drain and causing the shower to overflow in Delaney Hall, at 6:20 a.m. Saturday, according to campus police.

• At 3:30 a.m. Saturday, Carly J. Riches, 18, Ephrata, was cited for underage drinking, public drunkenness and disorderly conduct, at the Suites on Pratt.

While campus police were questioning Riches, she became violent and swung her fist at an IUP officer.

• Steven G. Williams, 20, Harrisburg, was cited for underage drinking and released to a sober adult after he was found wandering the halls of Northern Suites unescorted at 2:06 a.m. Saturday, according to campus police.

• At 1:38 a.m. Saturday, Andre Singleton, 26, Upper Darby, was cited for public drunkenness on the 00 block of South Carpenter Avenue.

• Campus police reported that at 12:37 a.m. Saturday, Caroline D. O’Donnell, 19, Allentown, was cited for underage drinking for an incident occurring in her room at Ruddock Hall.

• According to borough police, at 12:21 a.m. Saturday, Dustin R. Weakland, North Cambria, was cited for public drunkenness after he was found staggering on the roadway in the 500 block of Philadelphia Street.

• Borough police reported that at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, Thomas Shank, 23, Lower Burrell, was cited for public drunkenness in the 700 block of South Street.

• At 11:03 p.m. Saturday, Joseph N. Schmid, 23, Pittsburgh, was cited for public drunkenness after he was observed to be intoxicated by borough police in the 600 block of Gompers Avenue.

• Sharod M. Blake, 18, Philadelphia, was found on the fifth floor of Elkin Hall at 10:56 p.m. Saturday and was cited for underage drinking, according to campus police.

• Campus police reported that at 10:46 p.m. Saturday, Brian J. Criscuolo, 18, Havertown, was cited for consumption of alcohol after he was found in the second floor men’s restroom of Elkin Hall.

• At 7:14 p.m. Saturday, Madison Crouthamel, 19, Allentown, was found unresponsive in the 700 block of Locust Street. She was found to be intoxicated.

Crouthamel was cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness, according to borough police.

• Marinda J. Cheskiewicz, 18, Johnstown, was found unconscious at the Suites on Pratt at 11:09 p.m. Friday, and was cited for underage drinking by campus police.

• James J. Bradford, 19, Ashburn, VA, was cited for underage drinking after he was observed with an open container of alcohol in the 700 block of Locust Street at 11:30 p.m. Friday, according to borough police.

- Compiled from police reports

Correction

• It was mistakenly reported that Mercyhurst had recorded 85 sacks before its game against IUP Saturday. Mercyhurst had 16. IUP had only given up four sacks on the season. Incorrect information appeared Oct. 8

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Duke grad’s ‘honors thesis’ joke goes bad, viral

By Leah Friedman McClatchy Newspapers MCT

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Friday marked the completion of the fourth and final phase of IUP’s Residential Revival, with the ribbon cutting and naming of Stephenson Hall, formerly known as the Crimson Suites.

“This is a landmark day for IUP,” said Terry Carter, vice president for university relations.

The building was named for Andrew W. Stephenson, a 1972 IUP graduate and member of the Foundation for IUP Board of Directors. He has also served co-chairman of the Residence Hall Committee since 2005.

Carter called the completion of the project “almost miraculous,” citing how the economy continued to grow more dismal as the revival project progressed.

“IUP could not have had a better advocate than Andrew Stephenson,” he said. “We are indebted to you, Andrew.”

Interim IUP Pesident Dr. David Werner offered his thanks and congratulations to all who took part in the project. He said the revival project is a reflection of the university’s commitment to serving students and emphasized the role the new buildings will play in the IUP community.

“These new buildings complement the look of an already beautiful campus,” he said. “This project not only meets our primary goal of serving our students, but also serves our home community by attracting jobs and enhancing the economic climate.”

Stephenson took the podium, saying that despite it being his name on the building, he wants those who look at it to think of the foremen,

journeymen and everyone else who worked on the project.

“We had to be willing to let our daughters and our sons live in these buildings,” he said. “If we couldn’t make it happen, we had off-ramps.

“Instead of calling it Stephenson Hall, call it home. Home is where you are when all the off-ramps are in the rearview mirror.”

Other speakers at the ceremony included Dr. Jacqueline Beck, director of academic planning and assessment in the College of Health and Human Services; Timothy Rupert, president of the Foundation for IUP Board of Presidents; senior communications media major Daniel Minkel; and Dr. Michele Norwood, associate dean for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

“It takes hands to build a house, but only a heart can build a home,” Norwood said, calling upon the famous quote. “And hearts have come together to build a home for our IUP students.”

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It seems so obvious — be very careful with every e-mail message you send, every thought you post on Facebook, every blog entry you write.

But once again, an online joke meant for just a couple of friends has gone viral, bringing embarrassment and a host of new questions about Internet privacy.

Karen Owen, a 2010 Duke University graduate, created a 42-page PowerPoint presentation with the title “An education beyond the classroom: excelling in the realm of horizontal academics.”

What Owen called a “senior honors thesis” is not really a thesis, of course. It’s a joke in which she rates 13 guys she says she had sex with while she was a Blue Devil. She names the men, includes photos of them and offers details of their encounters, including locations (once in a library and another in a BMW), descriptions of body parts, quotes and how much alcohol was consumed.

Most of the men are or were Duke athletes. Five are on the lacrosse team.

Owen used e-mail to send the joke to a few friends, one of whom sent it to a few more friends. With lightning

speed, it went viral, picked up

by Deadspin.com and other national blogs. On Thursday, a segment about the “thesis” appeared on NBC’s “Today Show.”

Making something digital — whether as a joke or as a cruel act — means it has the potential to be repeated indefinitely, said Daren Brabham, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill who researches new media.

It also means it’s permanent, he said.

Brabham said the Duke story also points to a lesson even larger than watching what you put on the Web. “I think we need to start teaching different aspects of sexual education,” Brabham said.

Teens need to know that safe sex is more than just preventing disease, he said. “The lesson here is you need to make sure that all the cameras are off and make sure you trust the person you’re having sex with,” Brabham said.

The Duke campus has been abuzz over Owen’s online joke for the past week. Some say it’s unfortunate publicity for a campus that made national headlines in 2006 when a stripper hired to perform at a lacrosse team party falsely claimed she was raped. Three lacrosse players were arrested, but the charges

were later dropped.

And in 2004, some people drew parallels between Duke and the fictional Dupont University in Tom Wolfe’s novel “I Am Charlotte Simmons,” which chronicled an atmosphere of drunken sexual hookups.

Although Wolfe said the elite, Gothic campus in the book was based on research at several colleges, his daughter graduated from Duke in 2002.

Responding to the Owen story Thursday, Duke spokesman Michael Schoenfeld said, “Our foremost concern is to provide for the well-being of our students and to respect their privacy. We’ve been reaching out to those who’ve been affected by this incident and will continue to support them.”

Schoenfeld added his own warning about the Internet.

“This is an unfortunate and highly visible reminder that anything you create or send in digital form can find its way to the web, where the media have an insatiable appetite for the outrageous and your privacy and reputation can be shredded with a few clicks,” he said.

Owen has been silent except for an interview with the website Jezebel.com.

“I regret it with all my heart.

I would never intentionally hurt the people that are mentioned,” the website quotes Owen as saying.

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MCT Karina Carrillo, Mariana Casillas and Sonia Ortega (from left) are among many students placed in basic skills classes.

Basic skills can be barrier to success for community college students

By Jennifer Oldham The Hechinger Report MCT

The three petite, soft-spoken Latinas are all friends. They graduated from Grant High School here, are on one another’s speed dial and share a preference for electric blue. All three are stuck in basic-skills courses at Los Angeles Valley College after bombing their college placement exams, in part because they had so little guidance about what would be tested.

“I did bad — I was tired,” said Karina Carrillo, 18. “I was surprised that I had to take so many English classes over. They won’t even count as college credit for two years.”

The experience of Carrillo and her classmates Sonia Ortega and Mariana Casillas at their two-year college reflects a graduation crisis at community colleges — one that President Barack Obama addressed at a White House summit last week.

“More than half of those who enter community colleges fail to either earn a two-year degree or transfer to earn a four-year degree,” Obama said.

The stakes of getting stuck in remedial classes and never earning a degree are especially high in California, which is home to the nation’s largest community college system, with 112 campuses and 2.9 million students. Nationally, between 60 percent and 80 percent are placed in the basic-skills classes Carrillo and her classmates can’t escape, leading many to quit in frustration.

Remedial education is where far too many community college students begin and end their careers, and it remains one of the most intractable obstacles to graduation, said Tom Bailey, director of the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Only 31 percent of students placed into remedial math ever get to collegelevel work, and half of students referred to remediation of any kind

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complete the entire sequence, Bailey has found.

Bailey’s research has shown that remedial education is often ineffective, and students who need it drop out at alarming rates. So Obama called for the first White House summit on community colleges after setting a goal last year of increasing the number of students who earn degrees and certificates from the two-year institutions by 5 million in the next decade.

The placement tests that determine whether students are ready for college-level work are the first big hurdle to graduation, said the authors of a new study on California community colleges.

High school counselors aren’t advising students about how to prepare for the tests, according to “One-Shot Deal? Students’ Perceptions of Assessment and Course Placement in California’s Community Colleges,” by the education research agency WestEd. Too often, students who likely would have passed if they’d simply reviewed certain math or reading concepts find themselves on the remedial track.

“It wasn’t a test of what you could do, but about what you could remember from a long time ago,” one student who took algebra and geometry in high school told researchers. He was tested on fractions he hadn’t studied for years and placed into basic math.

The study based its findings in part on interviews with 257 students at five California community colleges. It sheds new light on the poorly understood, and often ineffective, course-placement structure at the state’s community colleges, which educate three-quarters of its college students. Too often, students get little counseling and may have less than a day to formulate their education plans, said Michael Kirst, a professor emeritus at Stanford University.

“At community colleges,

people just show up and are processed immediately,” Kirst said. “This raises questions about whether this oneshot assessment is an appropriate measure of what you know and what you don’t know.”

Exam questions often bear no relation to what students learned in high school, the study found. The exams are essentially one-size-fitsall, meaning that students who have small gaps in their knowledge or skills are placed into classes where they actually know most of the material. Some 83 percent of incoming students scored so low that they were placed in remedial math courses that don’t count for college credit, while 72 percent of students tested into remedial English.

“What we found are indications of a broken system. It’s shockingly bad, the lack of completion, and the placement into basic-skills classes, and the amount of time students swirl in these classes,” said Andrea Venezia, a senior research associate at WestEd and a co-author of the study.

Some students also reported having to wait weeks before receiving their scores on placement exams. Many encountered unclear policies about if or when they’d be allowed to retake the exams to place out of remedial courses, with one school making its students wait three years for a second shot. Most students have nowhere to go to for advice: Community college counselors are swamped with caseloads of hundreds, or even thousands, of students.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced last week that it’ll invest $35 million over the next five years to boost graduation rates. Last month, U.S. Education Undersecretary Martha Kanter called remedial education “a barrier to success,” noting that too many students are frustrated and falling out of the system. Business leaders, foundation officials and educators who gathered at the White House last week spent hours discussing ways to dramatically boost graduation rates.

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IUP safety report shows varying trends

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

New IUP crime numbers from 2009 have recently been released, which shows mixed numbers in total crime and referrals, according to the 2010-2011 Safety and Security report released by campus police.

According to the report, IUP experienced an increase in alcohol related arrests from 2008 to 2009, but also showed a drop in drug related arrests during the same time period.

The number of on-campus alcohol arrests went from 171 to 177 last year, an increase of six arrests between 2008 and last year. The same report found that on-campus drug arrests went from 51 to 30, a decrease of 21 arrests.

Samuel Clutter, of campus police, said on-campus arrests include students in the residence halls, along with students found on other parts of campus. He said alcohol is difficult to track, which he said explains the difference there was in statistics.

Clutter said they are improving in getting more accurate results.

“The method of reporting [alcohol violations] is more finite than it was,” he said.

Clutter said the methods are hard for tracking alcohol because of the difference in residence halls, making no arrests when alcohol is found during a health and safety inspection and for not being aware of the possession.

The report went on to show that liquor and drug arrests both saw a decrease in the residence halls.

According to the report, residence hall alcohol arrests were down to 86 last year, from 117 in 2008, a decrease of 31 arrests.

Drug arrests in the residence halls fell to 20 last year from 35 in 2008, a decrease of 15 arrests.

Crimes that were recorded oncampus included one aggravated assault and robbery and seven non-forcible burglaries and seven forcible sexual offenses, according to the report. Aggravated assault, robbery and non-forcible burglary saw decreases from 2008, but forcible sexual offenses rose from 2008, which recorded one offense.

IUP’s residence halls ended up

recording an aggravated assault, three forcible sexual offenses and seven non-forcible burglaries, according to the report. Non-forcible burglaries and forcible sexual offenses saw increases from 2008, while the number of aggravated assaults remained steady.

Mixed numbers were also recorded when it came to referrals, or reports made to the University Judicial System, according to the report.

The report showed that on-campus alcohol referrals increased, while drug referrals decreased.

According to the report, last year’s recorded alcohol referrals stood at 209, which is an increase of 106 from 2008 that showed 103 referrals. Drug referrals were at 42, which decreased by two from 2008.

He said the reason referral statistics are placed is because referrals don’t always come from arrests.

“Housing and Residence Life and the Office of Student Conduct give us [referral] statistics,” Clutter said.

Referrals in the residence halls showed increases for alcohol and drug related activity, according to the report. The report showed last year’s alcohol-related referrals rose to 196 from 92 in 2008, an increase of 104.

Meanwhile, drug referrals saw an increase of one to 37, from 2008’s total of 36. According to the report, drug referrals in the residence halls have been steadily on the increase since 2007, when they recorded 29 referrals.

Clutter said the overall trend shows that there has been a drop in most crimes committed, but said more needed to be done to reduce the number of alcohol violations.

“We consider underage drinking and public drunkenness a serious offense,” he said.

Clutter said he plans on working with borough police and other agencies to help reduce the number of alcohol arrests and referrals. He predicted that the recession will require changes in strategy.

“I think it is fair to say that different agencies will have to cooperate,” Clutter said. “Agencies will have to tighten their belt.”

“I am really proud of the people who work with me,” he said. “They have public safety in mind every hour they work.

“The Office capabilities built in (to the phones) are unique and incredibly powerful.”

— Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president of Microsoft

Microsoft unveils Windows-based phones

By Sam Mamudi, Dan Gallagher and John Letzing MarketWatch MCT

Microsoft Corp. lifted the wraps Monday from a line of handsets for its new Windows Phone 7 mobile-operating system, which the software giant hopes will revive its sagging business in the smart-phone market.

At a media event in Manhattan, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer touted the company’s efforts to build “a different kind of phone.”

Features for the phones that Microsoft hopes will help the devices stand out in a competitive sector are Microsoft Office software, Xbox Live accounts and close integration with online services such as Facebook and Slacker.

Several device manufacturers from the PC and wireless industries, including Dell Inc., Samsung, HTC and LG, will build handsets for the platform.

The first phone, the Samsung Focus, will launch Nov 8. with AT&T Inc. Speaking at the event, Ralph de la Vega, chief executive of AT&T mobility and consumer markets, said the carrier plans to offer phones from LG and HTC within weeks of the launch.

The devices “offer a user experience unlike anything we [at AT&T] have ever seen,” added de la Vega.

All three handsets will cost $200 each, and will be powered by the Snapdragon processor built by Qualcomm Inc. Ballmer said that Windows Phone 7 devices will be carried by 60 operators, including T-Mobile, Orange and Vodafone PLC, in 30 countries.

Nine handsets have been developed

so far to run Windows Phone 7, he pointed out.

As part of what Microsoft and AT&T are billing as a new experience, Windows phones will be organized into six hubs — people, pictures, office, music and video, games and apps — and each hub will be connected to cloud services.

For example, the pictures hub will not only display pictures taken by the phone, but also photographs downloaded from a synced PC and any albums from a user’s social-networking account, such as Facebook. Users can also upload photos taken by the phone to their Facebook accounts by simply tapping on the picture.

In the people hub, contact information, including photographs and updates, can be directly downloaded from Facebook and similar services. “[We’re] trying to connect to cloud services in a very interesting way,” said Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president at Microsoft, who led the design of Windows Phone 7.

Belfiore added that Windows Phone handsets will be the only devices to offer access to Microsoft’s Xbox Live games and digital network. Belfiore also announced at the event that videogame-making giant Electronic Arts Inc. will have a “suite of games” available on the devices, and proceeded to show game play on a phone from one of EA’s best-selling titles, “The Sims 3.”

Windows Phone’s social and gaming aspects seem to take aim at Apple Inc.’s iPhone and handsets built for the Android operating system developed by Google Inc. But Belfiore also showed off what the devices can do with Microsoft Office software, presenting features for the corporate market currently dominated by the BlackBerry line of prod-

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ucts from Research In Motion Ltd. “The Office capabilities built in [to the phones] are unique and incredibly powerful,” he said.

Outlook, Microsoft’s e-mail software, will be fully integrated with a user’s PC account, and the devices will also provide access to shared documents stored on cloud servers.

The phones will run presentations on PowerPoint 2010, and users will also be able to edit and change slides using the software as well.

All the phones will feature three “hard” buttons at the bottom: a back button, an action button akin to the iPhone’s one “hard” button, and a search button, which will launch Microsoft’s Bing search engine.

Among other features, users will have free online access to their phone, with a website that shows their device’s data and files.

Microsoft faces an uphill battle as it tries to regain share in the mobile device market after its predecessor OS — Windows Mobile — diminished significantly in popularity after bruising competition from rivals.

As a result, the software giant has become a minor player in the market, with Windows accounting for less than 5 percent of the global smart-phone market by the end of August compared with 8.7 percent for the same period last year, according to data from Gartner Inc. In that time, Android’s market share has soared from 3.9 percent to 17.7 percent, while Apple’s iOS has climbed from 14.4 percent to 15.4 percent.

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Last check, it was 2010, not 1984

By Shane Craker Contributing Writer S.B.Craker@iup.edu

I was informed by a good friend of mine about a rather disturbing story recently. He linked me up to Gizmodo, and I checked it out. I was absolutely shocked.

Recently, a young man named Yasir Afifi made a startling discovery.

He took his car to a shop, and the mechanic pulled something off his car that obviously wasn’t supposed to be there.

It appears to be a black cylinder, about the size of a paper towel roll with a few bumps on it (think lego block) with a transmitter attached.

He posted pictures to Reddit and some of the other site-goers eventually identified it.

It was a Guardian ST820. The Guardian is a GPS tracking unit that is made for, and exclusively used by, law enforcement and the US Army by a company called Cobham.

Wait. What?

A little background information is in order. Afifi is a 20-year-old American citizen who just so happens to be half Egyptian, and, you guessed it, Muslim. His father was former president of the Muslim Community Association in Santa Clara, Calif. His father moved back to Egypt in 2003, and Afifi came back to the States to

study in 2008.

After he posted and identified it on Reddit, he got a knock from his friendly neighborhood FBI Agent. He called himself Vincent and said: “We’re here to recover the device you found on your vehicle. It’s federal property. It’s an expensive piece, and we need it right now.”

Afifi asked if ‘Vincent’ was responsible for putting it there, and the response he received was: “Yeah, I put it there. We’re going to make this much more difficult for you if you don’t cooperate.”

So, Afifi returned the tracker to the FBI agent and was interrogated.

One of Afifi’s friends had written “something to do with a mall or a bomb” on a blog, and the FBI agents didn’t approve. They approved so little in fact, they had agents stationed outside this friend’s house.

The FBI learned his favorite restaurant, his business plans and his new job, but they assured him he had nothing to worry about. They assured him: “Don’t worry, you’re boring.”

In case people haven’t noticed; I’ll fill you in on what’s wrong here.

We have FBI agents, without any real suspicion, attaching GPS units to people’s cars unknowingly. This whole situation, which transpired in August, I believe, was amidst a very scary judicial ruling. The US Court of Appeals ruled that it isn’t a violation

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of the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure.

They claimed that driveways do not have an expectation of privacy, and, therefore, warrants are not required. It wasn’t too long before this ruling was overturned, but the closeness we came to having a law like that scares me. Last I checked, it was 2010, not 1984.

The Fourth Amendment is one of my favorite Amendments. It protects us from unreasonable search and seizure and makes a requirement of a warrant and probable cause to be searched.

Maybe it’s just me, but I fail to see how a GPS on a seemingly innocent 20-year-old man’s car falls in the realm of “reasonable” and “with probable cause.”

Regardless of his father’s background, regardless of his cultural and religious identity, come on. Is it really necessary to monitor every move he makes?

I’m at a complete loss of words here. It is never okay to trade liberty for safety or well-being. Our country was founded of the principles of liberty, and if you are a subscriber to the notion that “If you don’t have anything to hide, why be worried?”

I leave you with this bit of Wisdom from Ben Franklin.

“Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.”

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Editorial Houston Chronicle MCT

The recent spate of teenage suicides has provided a heartbreaking glimpse into the lives of young people, both in Houston and nationally, who just couldn’t bear, for whatever reason, to keep on living. Equally disturbing have been the disclosures that bullying may have played a significant part in several of them.

Sometimes the evidence seems overwhelming that bullying was the cause of a particular suicide, but experts caution against simplistic conclusions: Bullying is especially hard to quantify and categorize, wrote psychology professor Susan Swearer, a nationally recognized expert, on the American Psychological Association Web site.

But there are ways that parents and educators can help both young people and themselves recognize and guard against bullying and the vulnerabilities that could lead to suicide.

Depression, for example, is linked to bullying, and is a risk factor in attempting suicide.

The Chronicle’s Cindy George reported last weekend on a suicide conference at Houston’s University of St. Thomas, where experts talked about the steps, mostly simple and commonsense, that can alert adults to potential suicidal leanings.

Pam Greene, chief nursing officer at Houston’s Menninger Clinic, a psychiatric hospital, said parents should watch for dramatic changes in sleep patterns, attitude and behavior, and a parent of a teen suicide urged parents to monitor social media such as Facebook for suicidal comments and to take them seriously.

When it comes to bullying, Swearer wrote that “parents and teachers MUST intervene when they see bullying,” and should keep records of bullying behavior. While more than 40 states, including Texas, have some kind of anti-bullying laws, there are no national, long-term data, she wrote, so it is vital that schools collect comprehensive data so they can

design effective interventions.

Rose Signorello, director of the University of St. Thomas counseling center, told the Chronicle it is paramount to reach out to vulnerable kids and let them know they are not alone, that parents should try to teach more accepting, less judgmental attitudes, and that schools, while budgets may be squeezed, should consciously incorporate tools that can prevent bullying, such as problem-solving and coping skills, into everyday routines.

“Build it into the curriculum,” she said. “Pick materials in history, literature and other courses that illustrate how individuals and groups deal with racism, sexism, ageism .... Part of bullying is fear and discomfort with people who are different, who don’t fit a norm.” Which is why gay and lesbian students are bullied more, “because people who bully tend to seek the most vulnerable, the most different from them.”

This has sadly proved true in recent suicides, many of whom were reportedly hounded because of their sexual orientation, including Asher Brown, the 13-year-old Houstonian who shot himself to death two weeks ago. In response to Brown’s death, state Rep. Garnet Coleman announced that he and fellow Houston Democratic state Rep. Jessica Farrar would (again) seek to pass an anti-discrimination bill for Texas public schools in the 2011 session.

Called the Dignity For All Students Act, it would outlaw discrimination and harassment on the basis of “ethnicity, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, religion or national origin.” The bill, filed each session since 2003, has been repeatedly killed in the public education committee, reported the Texas Tribune, which quotes Coleman as saying, “The opposition is from people who believe there is a homosexual agenda. This is just about protecting kids.”

It is indeed, and kudos to Coleman and Farrar for their untiring efforts.

One would think that a body called the public education committee would be the first to applaud them.

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Tolerance should not be an issue in this day and age

Letters to the editor Lately I’ve seen a lot of cigarette butts littering campus. Lining the sidewalks, around benches and all over the entrances to the dorms, they seem to pop up everywhere! I see no excuse for just tossing your butts on the ground.

There are numerous ashtrays located all over campus where you can dispose of your cigarette once you are done with it. Yet even around these ashtrays you can find people’s cigarette butts. At the benches in front of my dorm there must be dozens of butts despite the presence of an ashtray only a few feet away. Seriously? You can’t get up off the bench and walk 10 feet to throw your trash out?

That’s just lazy.

My roommate, who smokes, is the one who originally pointed out how many butts liter campus.

He says he’s tired of other smokers being inconsiderate and giving them all a bad reputation.

So please, next time you’re outside enjoying a cigarette, please don’t throw it on the ground. Hang onto it for the extra minute or two it takes to find an ashtray. Do your part to help keep IUP beautiful.

Andrew Mauritz

Worshipping a gun god Editorial Pittsburgh Post-Gazette MCT

If you believe Pennsylvania needs more encouragement for gun violence, House Bill 40 is the legislation for you. It supposedly better protects law-abiding gun owners who use lethal force to defend their property.

What it really does is open a can of deadly worms.

The legislation seeks to expand the “castle doctrine,” an ancient principle of common law asserting that a person’s house is his castle and can be defended against intruders. Pennsylvania law holds that a person threatened must, in certain circumstances, retreat before using potentially deadly force to defend himself – a common-sense provision detestable to those who think that gun rights trump all other considerations.

In this bill, that castle is more than a house – it is also a garage, a porch or deck, a driveway, a backyard or frontyard and a personal vehicle (which doesn’t have to be motorized, so presumably it could be a bicycle or skateboard). In this free-fire zone, the person who feels threatened by someone intent on committing a crime – someone armed with a weapon but not necessarily a gun –

can stand his ground with the right to be judge, jury and executioner.

This is an invitation to trouble and it holds life cheaper than current law.

It is also a solution to no obvious problem. The state constitution guarantees people the right to bear arms in defense of themselves and the current law works well.

As the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association wrote in a letter to House members, “A resident never has the duty to retreat if he or she is threatened inside of his or her home or place of work, regardless of whether the person can safely retreat. Moreover, outside of home or work, a person has a duty to retreat only if that person knows that he or she can retreat with complete safety.”

Despite the concerns about this bill, nothing cheers politicians more than being pro-gun before an election. The House passed the bill by the lopsided margin of 159-38 and it now sits before the Senate, where it can be expected to receive a similar reception.

Worship of the gun god allows no distractions. If this bill reaches Gov. Ed Rendell’s desk, he should take a pro-people stand and veto it because empowering itchy trigger fingers is more about encouraging violence than standing up for self-defense.

Monday was National Coming Out Day, a day where gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or allied individuals celebrate coming out and offer support to those who are in the process of coming out.

Many of those who are facing the decision to come out of the closet might wonder about their safety and the reactions of the people they tell. In the wake of four suicides of gay teens in three weeks, which have been largely attributed to intense harassment, it seems that the fear of not being accepted is very real.

Late last month after the first few suicides, sex columnist Dan Savage, who is gay, started the “It Gets Better” project, a YouTube channel where people can share their stories about the hardships they faced because of their orientation, and how life is better now.

Savage and his husband posted the first video, telling viewers that not only does life “get better,” but it can “get awesome.” However, one has to keep living through the bad parts to get there.

In 2010, we should not have an epidemic of suicides caused by bullying. It seems that tolerance and acceptance are not being fully ingrained in any age group, and that hate continues to triumph.

People deserve the freedom to openly be themselves. No one should have to be afraid of the repercussions of coming out. But it’s obviously difficult to be fearless when others, even prominent figures, say hurtful things about gay people.

It is up to us to create a safe atmosphere for all students. We don’t get to pick and choose which orientations and identities we accept, and those that we do not.

College seems to be a more accepting environment for students of all different walks of life, but even campus is not immune to bullying. It was disappointing to hear booing from spectators at the Homecoming parade when representatives from Pride, Indiana Cares Campaign, and PFLAG walked past.

We should be above this behavior – it should not be an issue in a community as diverse as our campus. Exercise tolerance, and you could save a life.

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African Dance Ensemble recruits dancers for new year

By IDA ARICI Contributing Writer I.D.Arici@iup.edu

Brock Fleeger/The Penn Lewis Black, famous for his numerous appearances on Comedy Central, performed his “In God We Rust” act Thursday in Fisher Auditorium.

Comedian Lewis Black performs, shares views on politics, economy By imani dillard Senior Staff Writer I.J.Dillard@iup.edu

Presented by Onstage, Lewis Black performed his “In God We Rust” show Thursday in Fisher Auditorium.

The doors opened at 7 p.m with the show starting at 8 p.m.

Before Black came on, comedian John Bowman, famous for his stand-up comedies and his appearances on Comedy Central, opened the show with jokes about pills, Jimmy Stewart, and his good friendship with Lewis Black.

After his performance, Bowman introduced Black, who was loudly applauded by the students and fans who showed up to the event.

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“I wish the GOP and the Democrats would define themselves better, and that there was a third party in between the two extremes.”

— Lewis Black went straight home since it was a school night.

He told non-students to do the same because they had work in the morning, and he’s not an excuse for missing work or school.

Black talked mainly about subjects ranging from politics and the economy, to the legacy his generation isn’t leaving behind, all the way to the legalization of marijuana.

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When asked about the reason behind his current tour, “In God We Rust,” Black stated how the economy was messed up and the infrastructure was shot.

Black had a few choice words when he expressed his political views.

“I wish the GOP and the Democrats would define themselves better and that there was a third party in between the two extremes,” He said in response to the Tea Party.

He also said that his generation had more of a voice when he was young.

When asked about the firing of Rick Sanchez from CNN, Black only said that Sanchez should have been fired for having a terrible show.

Black’s advice to students was that they should figure out what they want to do and do it and not let anyone tell them they can’t do something or be whom they want.

The African Dance Ensemble held an informational meeting Thursday in the HUB Conemaugh Room.

ShaRae Edmonds (senior, psychology/health), president of the student organization, welcomed potential members with smiles and music as they walked into the room.

Edmonds displayed videos of the various styles that the African Dance Ensemble incorporates into its performances, including additional information about each style.

Soukous, the typical dance style utilized by the ensemble, is a dance music genre that came about in the late 1930s.

This style was created when Congolese musicians fused Congolese and other traditional African with Caribbean and South American Sounds, according to TripAtlas.com. A more modern dance style that the ensemble uses is called Mapouka.

This “sexy” dance originated out of West Africa and was introduced to the club scene in the late 1990s, according to Kubatana.net.

“We also do some modern twists on traditional African dance,” Edmonds said.

“We kind of do it all.”

Open to all IUP students, the African Dance Ensemble requires a minimum of 10 members to keep its organization standing and university funding.

The ensemble, which is looking for a new president, holds rehearsal every week for an hour and a half to two hours, typically on Fridays.

“I enjoy the different styles of dance and the events that we do,” Ashley Lackey (junior, biology) member of African Dance Ensemble said.

In previous years, the African Dance Ensemble has participated in Caribbean Night, Unity Day and, for the past three years, African Night.

They also marched in the 2009 Homecoming parade and participated in IUP Day. Unlike a typical dance team, African Dance Ensemble does not require its members to have a background in dance.

“They’re lenient about what they expect from beginners,” Edmonds said. “I didn’t have any experience in African dance. I can catch the rhythm, but it took me a few days to figure out how to get everything on point.”

For more information about African Dance Ensemble, call Center of Student Life at 724-357-2598.

Student organization closes out heritage month with bang By kayla king-scott Contributing Writer K.S.King-Scott@iup.edu

Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month, according to HispanicHeritageMonth.gov.

Each year, Americans observe this time period by celebrating the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Carribean and Central and South America, according to the website.

The Hispanic Heritage Coucil will host “Noche Latina,” the closing celebration to Hispanic Heritage Month on Saturday in the HUB Ohio Room from 6 to 9 p.m. Sponsored by the Hispanic Heritage Council, Cozumel and the Latino Student Organization, also known as LaSO, “Noche Latina” is about bringing everyone together as an IUP community to embrace the Hispanic culture.

Jasmine Jackson (freshman, criminology) said that she is very interested in the event, due to her interest in branching out of her own culture and learning more about the Latino culture. “[Noche Latina will be like] a student-run talent show,” Patricia Krausslach, Administrative Assistant of the Office of Social Equity and Civic Engagement, said.

The show will consist of 12 acts, which includes singing, dancing, poetry and comedy. Ritmo Latino Dance Crew, a group working to introduce and promote the Latino culture, will also perform. Not only will entertainment be provided, but a variety of Latino foods will be prepared for students to partake in.

Tickets are $3 in advance and $5 at the door. For more information about this event, contact the Office of Social and Civic Engagement Office, located in Delaney Hall, Room B17, or call 724-357-3402.

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LaSO sheds light on global epidemic

By KRISTEN GILMARTIN Staff Writer K.R.Gilmartin@iup.edu

IUP’s Latino Student Organization will hold an event to support victims of the AIDS epidemic in the Latino community in the HUB Delaware Room on Friday.

National Latino Awareness Day will be held from 6 to 9 p.m.

The event is sponsored by LaSo and will shed light on the current issue of HIV/AIDS and its effect on the Latino community specifically, as well as non-Latino victims and their families.

According to CDC.gov, the Center for Disease Control website, “CDC estimates that more than one million people are living with HIV in the United States.

“One in five (21 percent) of those people living with HIV are unaware of their infection.”

“Already, more than 25 million people around the world have died of AIDS-related diseases,” according to www.Avert.org. In 2008, 2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV and two million men, women and children lost their lives.

More than 33 million people around the world are now living with HIV.

Special guests of National Latino Awareness Day include Congreso de Latinos Unidos, a Philadelphiabased organization who will focus on informing the audience about AIDS and the consequences faced by those infected.

“People with healthy immune systems can be exposed to certain viruses, bacteria, or parasites and have no reaction to them — but people living with HIV/AIDS can face serious health threats from what are known as ‘opportunistic’ infections,” according to AIDs.gov. “[Congreso de Latinos Unidos’] vision is to provide a bilingual and culturally sensitive comprehensive network of services to support and empower residents to create positive solutions to challenges they face daily,” Tiffany Hall Campbell, (senior, psychology) LaSo president, said.

LaSo seeks to spread AIDS awareness and to inform people that AIDS can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, race or class.

“We hope that this event can become an annual thing, as it’s an issue that requires constant attention and our undying support for those affected,” Campbell added.

Option for coed dorm rooms may become available By encarnacion pyle McClatchy-Tribune News Service MCT

At most colleges, men and women have lived harmoniously together in coed dorms — often just a floor, wing or few doors away — for decades.

Student activists at Ohio and Denison universities are now pushing for the final step in the student housing revolution: to allow members of the opposite sex to share rooms.

The movement started about 10 years ago at a few small, progressive liberal-arts colleges in an effort to help gay and transgender students feel comfortable in on-campus housing.

But more colleges are embracing the idea to allow all students, gay or straight, to pick the most-compatible roommates.

Gay, bisexual and transgender students at Ohio University currently can request special accommodations, but they have to “out themselves” to the housing staff to do so, said Amelia Shaw, vice commissioner of the Student Senate’s GLBT panel.

Shaw noted that such accommodation often means students are put into single-occupancy

rooms, which are more costly. Campus housing officials have been independently studying the issue since the summer.

“We’re in the business of creating safe environments, and we think this is just the next logical step,” said Judy Piercy, associate director for residential housing. She said her department would need to make a recommendation by February to make it possible to roll out a few coed units next fall.

About 55 schools nationwide, including the Columbus College of Art & Design, Miami University and Oberlin College in Ohio, allow men and women to live in “gender-neutral” housing.

Freshmen typically aren’t eligible.

Others offer a few units where men and women of any sexual orientation can live together.

A few make coed housing possible everywhere but in single-gender halls. Generally, advocates say, about 2 percent to 3 percent of rooms at the institutions have been made coed.

“We are still in the very early processes of reviewing data, talking with students, thinking about it in committee and studying other programs at peer institutions,” said Bill Fox, associate dean of students and residential-life director.

Brandon Oakes/The Penn Jason DeRulo headlined a show in front of a sold-out crowd Friday night in the HUB Ohio Room.

Jason DeRulo performs, reminds students ‘Sky Is the Limit’ By aubree napoleon Contributing Writer A.L.Napoleon@iup.edu

Jason DeRulo, famously known for his songs, “Whatcha Say,” “Ridin’ Solo” and “Sky is the Limit,” performed Friday in the HUB Ohio Room.

Students waited for the show to begin while taking advantage of the projections on the wall, provided

by Samsung, in which they texted messages to be shown on the screens, in hopes to possibly win and meet Jason DeRulo himself.

Jason DeRulo fans were given a second opportunity to meet the star by adding “Jason DeRulo Tour” to their AIM Buddy Lists to win a chance to meet him.

The opening act introduced a new

Aussie girl group called “Trinity,” consisting of three girls named Yianna, Sammy and Stephanie.

According to SoundsOfOz.com, the R&B group is heading to Los Angeles to record its debut album, which will be released through PLW Entertainment later in the year.

During the second act, Auburn, an up and rising urban pop singer and songwriter famous for her first official single, “La La La,” took the stage.

According to HipOnline.com, the Minneapolis-born 21-year-old has been in the studio with multiplatinum songwriter and producer J.R.Rotem, known for working with Jason DeRulo, Rihanna, Leona Lewis, Britney Spears and Rick Ross.

Despite working with a hoarse

voice, she was able to perform, at the same time joking around with the audience about her scratchy throat.

Finally, Jason DeRulo made his way to the stage, entering on his song and showing off his robotic moves to amplify his presence.

During his performance, DeRulo even performed different variations of the late Michael Jackson’s, “Billie Jean” and Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back.” DeRulo will be performing in Orem, Utah, Oct.12.

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Mercyhurst hands IUP second loss on final drive, 28-27 play. It never should have happened.

And obviously the missed tackles in the end to let them score.”

Rearick completed five of six passes and picked up a total of 68 yards on The IUP passing defense struggled Mercyhurst’s last drive, which picked against Mercyhurst in the last drive of up the game-winning touchdown. the game to give up the lead and the The drive took only six plays and game, 28-27. burnt up just over a minute on the Mercyhurst started second string clock. quarterback Travis Rearick due to the “They started a new quarterback, starting quarterback being injured. changed what they did and very canThis change had an influenced against didly, our new guys couldn’t adjust to the IUP defense. Rearick’s passing it.” Tepper said, “So there was a lot of contributed to IUP’s second consecu- coaching going on over on the sideline tive loss on Homecoming. as we went.”

“They came out and gave us a Overall, it was Mercyhurst’s passdifferent menu from what we have ing game that kept them in the game, seen,” IUP Head Coach Lou Tepper putting up 344 passing yards. Rearick said in an interview after the game. had a total of three touchdowns, two “And all the strong tendencies we had interceptions and completed 32 of 53 on them were essentially out of the passes. window. And made you go back to the On the ground, IUP’s defense played drawing board.” well, giving up a mere 35 yards.

IUP had a six-point lead with less “They had a good plan,” Tepper than two minutes left in the game. said. “To throw for 340 yards, I’m just Tepper was confident that his team shocked. We couldn’t get them off the was going to stop the two-minute field. The time of possession had to be drill that was certainly going to be well in their favor. And offensively we predominantly passing plays. didn’t control it very well. Offensively “Prior than that, [Mercyhurst] had we ran it pretty well, but when we had certainly moved the ball, so it wasn’t to throw it to make first downs, we as though we didn’t think they could didn’t control it very well.” move it,” Tepper said. “But we made 2:41 a PMFor IUP Penn - x3_Layout 2 9/21/2010 Page 1 Bo Napoleon completed IUP, huge check error that gave them a big seven of his 18 attempts and threw

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for 121 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions.

Harvie Tuck had 160 rushing yards, which now makes him the 27th IUP player to get to the 1,000-yard mark in his career.

The loss does not take IUP out of the playoff picture, but it will make it even more difficult.

At 4-2 overall, 2-1 in the PSAC, IUP will end their season playing the three worst teams in the PSAC West and Cal U, which currently sits at the top spot in the West at 6-0 overall, 3-0 in the PSAC. “It feels good now,” Tuck said. “I’m upset about the loss. It would have been a lot better to get the [win] on Homecoming at home. But I mean, it’s a good goal.

Allowing one sack and helping IUP reach close to 200 yards on the ground, the offensive line was doing their job effectively.

“The offensive line did a great job today.” Tuck said. “We just got to work on our redzone, getting it in.

We got to be hungry for it. And I feel like we haven’t established that yet.

We’re going to work on that this week for sure.”

Tuck was not the only one with a big game. Johnny Franco had 13 tackles (11 solo, two assists) and had two interceptions, With one of them turning into a touchdown.

“We thought the touchdown was going to be the changer for us.” Tepper said. “But Johnny been a consistent player for us throughout and just a real positive player.”

The two interceptions for Franco are his only two on the season.

“It felt good to finally get one,” Franco said after the game. “But it took the wind out of our sails to lose, so it doesn’t really matter if I caught them or not, because in the end of the day we didn’t win. We weren’t playing

Brock Fleeger/The Penn Franco (28) picked up two interceptions Saturday in the game against Mercyhurst.

with discipline in the first half. The second half we made some adjustments and stepped up, but we weren’t very disciplined in the first half. I think

that’s what killed us.”

IUP will host Clarion (1-5 overall, 1-2 in the PSAC) 1 p.m. Saturday at George P. Miller Stadium.

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Crimson Hawks beat Gannon, 1-0 By damon boykiw Staff Writer D.M.Boykiw@iup.edu

Melissa Kornock scored the lone goal for the IUP women’s soccer team in a 1-0 win over Gannon.

Kornock was able to connect on a penalty kick to the low right under the keeper 17:33 minutes into the second half.

This was her seventh consecutive game with at least one goal, and leads the team in both goals (12) and assists (5).

Goalkeeper Kelly Brennan, who became the career leader in saves at IUP last Wednesday, continued to amaze, as she contributed 10 saves, including a diving save of a header in the second half and a crucial tip up over the crossbar in the final seconds

to secure the shutout for the Crimson Hawks.

The Golden Knights, much like other squads the Hawks have recently faced, played a far-forward defense in an effort to catch the offense offsides.

It worked for the Knights six times and they were able to advance the ball down the field, but then met Brennan at the goal, who made the difference.

The Hawks were outshot by a Gannon 30-8 over the course of the game, including 14-2 during the first half. Golden Knights keeper Sabrina Chirco had two saves herself, stopping Kornock once in the first half, and then Carter Sheely.

With the win the Hawks improve to 8-2-1, 6-3-1 in conference, and are almost certain of seeing the postseason, in which the top eight teams of the 16 team conference will play.

IUP hockey drops three in AHCA Showcase By zach graham Staff Writer Z.Graham@iup.edu

The IUP Crimson Hawks traveled to Boardman, Ohio over the weekend to take part in the ACHA Showcase, a three-day event featuring 18 teams.

The Hawks, facing three teams ranked in the Top 25, dropped all three decisions; the team’s record dropped to 1-4-1 on the season.

On Friday, the Hawks faced Adrian College. The Bulldogs, ranked eighth in the ACHA polls, came out with another victory, defeating The Hawks 6-3.

The Bulldogs jumped out to a 4-0 lead within the first 15 minutes of the game, scoring three goals, all on the power play.

The Hawks responded with goals from Chris Clouiter and Joe Ford in just more than a minute, while Adrian added one more before the end of the first period.

IUP tried to claw its way back in during the second period. Phil Trombetta scored on the power play with 2:06 left, but the Hawks were not be able to find the net after that.

Adrian added one more in the third to finish out the scoring. The Bulldogs had goals from six different players, while goalie Jason Spada made 27 saves.

In their Saturday match, the Hawks lost a 6-2 decision to No. 13 Minot State. The Hawks gave up an early lead. This time, the Beavers went up 3-0 in the first seven minutes.

In the second period, the Hawks responded with goals from Clouiter and Seth Feldman, but the Beavers added three more.

Ryan Lord made this first appearance as the Hawks net minder, playing the final two periods and making 21 of 24 saves.

Sunday afternoon the Hawks played their final game of the Showcase, a 7-6 overtime loss to the No. 17 Robert Morris (Illinois) Eagles, which featured eight goals in the first period.

Though the Eagles scored first, the Hawks answered with goals from Lance Lewandowski, Chris Ondek and Ford in a span of 42 seconds.

Still in the first period, the Eagles scored three more, while Ford added another with under a minute left, closing a whirlwind first period with a 4-4 tie.

Robert Morris went go up 6-4 in the third period, but the Hawks battled back.

Trombetta scored, and shortly after, Ford would complete his hattrick, tying the game at six.

Overtime did not take long, as the Eagles intercepted a pass after the opening face-off and skated into the zone and scored.

The Hawks will open their CHMA conference schedule this weekend. On Friday they will host Duquesne at S&T Bank Arena at 8 p.m., and on Saturday they will face No. 24 West Virginia at 4:15 p.m. in Morgantown.

Proceeds for Friday’s game will go the Play for the Cure, the ACHA’s cancer fundraising effort.

IUP is currently ranked eighth in the NSCAA Atlantic region, which includes the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) as well as 10 members of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

The next rankings come out Oct. 12. With the recent victories, it should Increase its ranking, but not enough to get into the Top 25.

The Hawks travel to meet Bloomsburg, No. 4 in the Atlantic region, today at 5 p.m. Bloomsburg is 5-1-2 in conference, though their sole loss actually came to Gannon, making this one a winnable contest, something the Hawks players know going into it.

The Hawks come home again on Saturday at 1 p.m. to host the East Stroudsburg Warriors at South Campus Field.

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Brock Fleeger/The Penn Kornock (13) picked up the games only goal in the win against Gannon Saturday.

IUP women’s tennis finishes strong

By Mike wilson

Louhabanjong’s performance.

“Both [Drmac and Ezzo] were regionally ranked singles players.

Those are very strong wins,” Peterson Tabtip Louhabanjong, Katie Eaton said. “She’s stepping up and learning and Emilia Osborne wrapped up the a lot. She has a style of play that IUP women’s tennis team’s fall sea- disrupts other players’ game plans. son with an impressive She makes opponents play showing at the PSAC indiher game.” viduals tournament.

Katie Eaton also entered Louhabanjong flew the singles competition, through the first two but retired due to illness rounds, defeating Slippery in her first match against Rock’s Dunja Drmac, 6-1, 6 Plowman after winning the 1, and Millersville’s Melissa first set 7-6.

Plowman, 6-2, 6-1, before “We talked with the overcoming a first-set trainer and it was decided Eaton loss in the quarterfinals to that it was good for her to advance past Mercyhurst’s get the rest,” Peterson said.

Kim Ezzo, 4-6, 7-5, 10-7.

Eaton’s rest came in handy during On Sunday, Louhabanjong fell doubles play. in the semifinals to eventual tourEarlier on Saturday, Eaton teamed nament champion Annabel Pieschl up with Emilia Osborne in the doufrom Cal U, 6-0, 6-0. bles tournament to advance to the Nonetheless, IUP Head Coach second day.

Larry Peterson was pleased with The pair defeated Brittany Counts/ Staff Writer M.J.Wilson3@iup.edu

Luisi Souto of West Chester, 8-0, and Jaclyn Metzer/Michaela Handy of Clarion, 8-3 in the first two rounds.

The Crimson Hawks doubles duo defeated Mercyhurst 9-8 in the semifinals before falling in the championship to Cal’s Pieschl/Jade Pondicas, 8-4.

“We work hard on doubles,” Peterson said. “It’s an important part of Division II tennis. It was nice to see the work they’re putting in pay off.”

The PSAC individuals tournament concluded the fall season for IUP. The Crimson Hawks finished with a team record of 4-1 and with excellent performances at three tournaments.

“We have grown a lot, which is very nice to see with a young team,” said Peterson. “Everybody is pumped up (for the spring) and working hard.

They’re understanding the opportunities we have to be successful.”

IUP will open their spring season in Olean, NY, on Feb. 18 against St. Bonaventure.

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Penguins drop first two in new home Nine more games in October, to Blair Betts in the final minincluding two against the utes of the second.

Flyers, will prove a challenge The 2-0 Toronto Maple Leafs to the Pens, as it are the Penguins next now stands. The 2-1 opponent. Will the Pens have proved Consol Energy Center nothing except that continue to bode illthey are giving fans will for the Pens? The something to worry Wednesday 7:30 p.m. about. game will tell all.

Saturday’s I think the Penguins game against the are going to have to Canadiens showed work for this win.

By Alycia king a glimmer of hope Toronto has already Staff Writer when the Penguins beaten Montreal A.L.King@iup.edu were up 2-1 in the 3-2. Again, that third period. But score that seems to the win wasn’t meant to be. haunt the Penguins.

Within one minute the Pens The Pens looked so good in allowed two goals by Montreal. the preseason. What happened According to the statistics, to Pittsburgh’s team? The Pittsburgh should be 2-1. It out- Penguins lost only one game shot Montreal in every period, this preseason. had two less penalties than the Sidney Crosby has yet to Canadiens; and still, no win. score a goal, even though it has The 3-2 score seems to be only been two games. I believe if haunting the team in Consol Crosby was on the score sheet, Energy Center. If anything can things would be different. be said for the team, it is that Evgeni Malkin scored against in Saturday’s game, they didn’t the Canadiens to tie the game dig themselves a grave. and give the Pens a chance.

Against Philadelphia, the At this point my prediction Pens went into the third period for the season remains unsure. down 2-0, after allowing a goal I do believe that the Penguins

MCT Crosby (87) has scored no goals but one assist in three games.

will make the playoffs. I think they will have to work for it though. This won’t be an easy season for the Pens. They are without Sergei Gonchar and Bill Guerin, who both helped them last season.

My prediction for the month of October is 6-6. If the Penguins can escape this month with an even record, November can be a month in which they prove just how good they are.

After the Maple Leafs come the Islanders, who as of now, are 0-1 from a shootout loss to the Stars.

The Penguins travel to Philadelphia for a chance to redeem themselves Saturday at 7 p.m. A quick home-game Monday against the Senators finishes off this Penguins week.

Prediction for the week: 2-2 with wins against the Islanders and Senators.

Penn State drops to 3-3 after loss to Illinois

By Shannon Ryan Chicago Tribune MCT

Illinois left Happy Valley in 2008 with vividly unpleasant memories of a rabid white-out crowd and a bitter loss.

After convincing dialogue about Illinois’ improvement as a team, the Illini now have tangible evidence of that. The 33-13 victory at Penn State proved progress has been made.

“It is a dramatic change,” coach Ron Zook said. “But it’s something we expected.”

It took Illinois (3-2, 1-1) until its sixth Big Ten game last season to record its first conference victory. One of those five setbacks was a 35-17 home loss to Penn State.

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Before the game, Wilson challenged someone on defense to score, and Bussey delivered.

He intercepted freshman quarterback Rob Bolden and returned the ball 16 yards for a 14-3 lead in the second quarter.

Bussey also acted as a bandage when he recovered Jack Ramsey’s fumble of the opening kickoff.

“It was an amazing feeling,” Bussey said of his touchdown.

“I thought that’s the play we wanted.”

Last season, Penn State racked up 513 yards, including 100-yard rushing performances from two running backs.

Saturday, Illinois focused on shutting down that part of the Nittany Lions’ game.

Penn State running back Evan Royster gained only 35 yards on 11 carries and the Nittany Lions rushed for an average of 2.5 yards per carry.

Penn State’s only touchdown came on a first-down 80-yard pass from Bolden to Derek Moye that cut Illinois’ lead to

MCT Penn State is now 10th in the Big Ten after Saturday’s loss to Illinois.

14-10 in the second quarter, but otherwise its offense was limp.

Ramsey may appreciate Illinois’ defense the most.

After mishandling the opening kickoff, Ramsey fumbled two punts. On the first, Penn State took over on the Illinois’ 23-yard line but was forced to settle for a 28-yard field goal.

Zook stayed with Ramsey in the second quarter, and the sophomore did it again, with the Nittany Lions taking over on the Illinois 9. The defense

again stuffed Penn State, which settled for a 22-yard field goal.

“The (first one) made me second-guess,” Ramsey said.

“The defense backed me up.”

Illinois quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase was steady, completing 15 of 19 passes for 151 yards. He threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Jenkins and had no interceptions against a banged-up Penn State defense. Derek Dimke kicked four field goals, including a 50-yarder.

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Chelsea Yurisic/The Penn Left: Students prepared floats for the parade Saturday.

Above: IUP’s marching band performed in the parade.

Chelsea Yurisic/ The Penn

Chelsea Yurisic/The Penn

Brock Fleeger/The Penn Lewis Black brought comedy to IUP Thursday night.

Brock Fleeger/The Penn Teddy Blakeman (30) ran for nine yards during Saturday’s game.

Dark side of the Internet: Can laws catch up to online voyeurs?

By Sarah Lundy The Orlando Sentinel MCT

Voyeurism has gone global on the Internet, but the laws against spying on a person’s most private moments have yet to catch up in Florida and across the nation.

The issue made it to the national spotlight last week when Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi committed suicide after his roommate and another student allegedly used a webcam to broadcast his sexual encounters with another man in his dorm room.

“Many technologies that may not be thought of as spying-type technologies are in our hands, in our pocketbooks and in our pockets,” Parry Aftab, an attorney and executive director of WiredSafety.org, a cyberspace safety and educational program. “Anyone who wants to spy on someone else can.”

Laws do exist to punish those who violate another’s privacy, but they have little or no bite, experts say.

“The core problem is the

technology has gotten so far ahead of our culture that we don’t realize collectively the impact,” said Jon Mills, a law professor at the University of Florida, and nationally known expert on privacy. “It’s so easy to intrude ... that intrusions are going to happen.

We have to both realize that and we have to learn to punish, too.”

In Florida, someone who uses a camera to violate a person’s privacy can be charged with video voyeurism, a misdemeanor that carries a sentence of up to a year in jail.

If convicted of the crime more than once, the penalty jumps to third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.

Mills and prosecutors weren’t aware of any proposals to toughen the law in Florida.

“It takes time for laws to catch up with technology,” said SeminoleBrevard Assistant State Attorney Michael Hunt.

In the Rutgers case, the students are charged with violation of privacy, which carries up to a five-year prison sentence. Prosecutors are reviewing what other laws, including a hate

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crime, might apply to the case.

Victims can opt to sue in civil court to impose financial punishment on those involved, winning damages because of an invasion of privacy, public disclosure of private facts or causing distress.

But a civil suit can’t stop images from being shared over and over again online.

“Once these things get out, they get copied so many times,” Mills said.

“It’s virtually impossible to get them all.”

A Seminole County case illustrates the point, where a woman is suing several websites and a man who took pictures of her performing sexual acts as a minor and shared them online without her permission.

In 2007, she was 15 years old when she met the 18-year-old man who lived in California through MySpace, a social-networking website.

She traveled to California to visit him, where the pictures were taken, according to court records. The man refused to remove the pictures after she found out what he did.

In 2009, the woman learned that

her co-workers at a restaurant in Seminole County saw the photos on a website.

She contacted the website, saying she was a minor when the photos were taken and demanded they be removed. The website did several days later, court records show.

But two more websites posted the photos in ensuing months, forcing the woman and her lawyer to file more complaints.

The woman was not identified in the lawsuit and could not be reached for comment. Her attorneys did not return messages left by the Orlando Sentinel. “(Technology) makes it easy and makes distribution easy,” Mills said.

“It makes misuse easy.”

Until the laws change, people need to protect themselves, Aftab said, by always being mindful that web cameras, cell phones and other handheld devices can record you anywhere and anytime.

“We are almost always on camera,” Aftab said. “The one place we thought we could count on — the privacy we have when we shut the

door. Now, sadly the student at Rutgers has betrayed that.”

TIPS TO AVOID BEING RECORDED TARGET

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Cyber-safety experts say there are steps you can take to protect yourself, including: Treat your cell phone and laptop like your cash card — keep them on you and in your sights at all times.

Assume anyone holding a cell phone or other hand held devices with photo capabilities may be taking your picture. Don’t do anything in range of that camera that you don’t want the world to see.

Point web cameras up toward ceiling when not in use or close laptops with cameras. A camera on a laptop can be in use even if screen appears blank.

Periodically use Google to search your name, your screen name or any other identifying information to ensure your image or information isn’t being shared. The quicker you respond, the better chances you have that the images have not been copied.