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Haven Project increases AWAREness By Keri Durrett Staff Writer K.D.Durrett@iup.edu
Webster’s dictionary defines “haven” as any place of shelter or safety. For the students of IUP, the Haven Project provides exactly that. The Haven Project was founded in 2002 with the goal of reducing sexual and other types of violence on campus. It seeks to be an advocate for students that experienced these types of violence and offers counseling as well as preventative classes on topics such as stalking and relationship violence. It also helps organize programs such as “Take Back The Night,” a town march to show support for the victims and survivors of violence. The Haven Project extends a hand to many different areas of need. Malinda Cowles, project director for The Haven Project said that “the services provided are based on the needs of the individual student,” when it comes to victims, treatments are not one-size-fits all. The project assists students who are filing for crime compensation, and the organization also helps to explain the judicial process to students who are required to attend court as a result of a crime that took place. Perhaps, most importantly, the Haven Project at the Alice Paul House offers 24-hour crisis intervention. The program is
important for a plethora of reasons. The Haven Project’s website offers some startling facts about the occurrence of rape in the United States. Every two minutes in the United States a woman is raped, according to the website. It is important to raise awareness to this issue and to attempt to do something to counteract the acts of violence seen in our country. “We want our town to be safe and to be able to move about campus without fear,” Cowles said. The project is a free service to students, and is covered, in part, by the Health and Wellness fee. The organization has a two-prong goal, Cowles said. “One, to educate students about violence and sexual violence and to help our students speak out against these acts. Secondly, to provide services to those who have
experienced violence,” she said. The Haven Project continued its Green Light Campaign on September 7-9. The goal of the Green Light Campaign is to emphasize the importance of consent in sexual relationships. It urges students to “Get the Green Light,” meaning to be sure to get consent for any sexual activity, not just intercourse. The Green Light Campaign offered green buttons during the event. Several different organizations work together to make the Haven Project possible, including university police, state police, Indiana borough police, The Alice Paul House and the Counseling Center. For any further questions about the services provided, please contact the Health AWAREness department at (724) 357-4799, or visit their website at www.iup.edu/ haven/.
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• At 2:23 a.m. Sunday, Christopher M, Garrett, 18, Brecksville, Ohio, was was observed by campus police staggering in an occupied roadway at Pratt Drive and Grant Street. Garrett was found to be intoxicated and was cited for underage drinking and public intoxication. • Campus police reported that at 2:11 a.m. Sunday, Jedediah Fletcher, 19, Bloomington, IN, was cited for public drunkenness and underage drinking after he was observed lying on the sidewalk and yelling in the 500 block of Pratt Drive. • At 1:24 a.m. Saturday, Molly E. McGillian, 18; Moira L. McCarthy, 18; and Matthew W. Danelutti, 18 were cited for underage drinking after they were found walking back to a residence intoxicated by campus police. •At 2:30a.m. Saturday, borough police responded to a noise complaint at 1055 Philadelphia St. Upon arrival, Nathan D. Leister, 20, East Berlin, was found to be underage and have been drinking. He was cited for underage drinking and released at the scene. • At 3:39 a.m. Saturday, Brandon Shaw, 22, Everett, was oberved sleeping against a building in the 600 block of Water Street by borough police. He was arrested for public drunkenness and later released to a sober adult. • At 12:13 a.m. Sunday, borough police arrested Seth Mcmeem, Fostoria, Ohio, for public drunkenness after he was observed vomiting from a vehicle in the parking lot of the Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave. The driver of the vehicle, Adam Jones, Killeen, Texas, was also arrested for driving under the influence. • At 1 a.m. Friday, borough police found Chelsea R. Boden, 21, Pittsburgh, lying in the eastbound lane in the 500 block of Philadelphia Street. Boden was issued a non-traffic summary violation for public drunkenness and a summary traffic citation for pedestrians under the influence. • At 1:11 a.m. Friday, borough police observed Kyle J. Larkin, 21, Harrisburg, fall on the sidewalk several times in the 500 block of Philadelphia Street. Larkin was found to be intoxicted and was arrested for public drunkenness. He was later released to a sober adult.
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• At 2:11 a.m. Sunday, Christopher Titus, 49, Shelocta, was arrested for disorderly conduct after he was found shouting obscenities while waiting to enter the Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave. Titus was issued a summary citation and later released from the borough police station. •At 11:16 p.m. Friday, borough police responded to a report of a loud party at 1131 Washington St. Austin L. Afshar, 22, North Hills, was cited for violating the Indiana borough code for disorderly gatherings.
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• At 4:09 p.m. Saturday, Nicholas Carrolli, 20; Ryan Keeler, 19; and Dean Law, 20, all of Greensburg, were arrested and charged by borough police with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after they were observed acting suspicious behind S&T Bank along the 800 block of Church Street. While investigating police found marijuana and drug related paraphernalia.
Items Burgled • Campus police reported that sometime between 3:30 p.m. Friday and 6:45 p.m. Sunday, someone took the whiteboard off of the door of room 357 in Ruddock Hall. Anyone with information is asked to contact campus police at 724-357-2141. • Borough police reported that at 3:29 p.m. Saturday, security observed Aaron J. Thompson, 18, Indiana, stealing from the Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave. Thomson was cited for retail theft, underage drinking and public drunkenness.
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• Borough police reported that at about 12:20 a.m. Thursday, a female pedestrian was struck at the intersection of Ninth and Philadelphia Streets by a tan four-door Sedan heading north that fled the scene. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724-349-2121.
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Newman Book Sale set for weekend By Kat Oldrey News Editor K.E.Oldrey@iup.edu
If, amid schoolwork, extracurriculars and a social life, you still have time to read for pleasure, head to the Newman Used Book Sale this weekend. The hours of this forty-second annual book sale are 5-10p.m. on Friday, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. The sale is run by the St. Thomas More University Parish and will take place in the Newman Center on Oakland Avenue. The sale offers a variety of books, DVDs and other items. According to Cindy Schillinger, a pastoral associate, the most popular items in recent years have been novels and religious books, although DVDs have been very successful as well. The money raised by the book sale goes to help pay for general expenses, unless another specific use is designated by a parish committee. The parish is looking for volunteers to help sort the books for sale Sept. 13 - 16 from 10
Student assaulted By Vaughn Johnson Editor in Chief V.M.Johnson@iup.edu
A woman was reportedly sexually assaulted outside of Stapleton Library at 3 a.m. Sunday morning. The suspect was described in campus-wide crime alert sent out by police as a six-foot tall, black male with short hair wearing dark jeans, a blue and white polo shirt and a New York Yankees hat. The incident occurred in the Southeast corner of the Stapleton Library. After the alleged assault, the suspect fled in the direction of Putt and Delaney Halls. In the alert police asked students to adhere to simple safety tips including to walk with friends, be aware of surroundings and to use the blue light telephones for in case of emergencies. Police also asked for anyone for information on the alleged assault to contact University Police at (724)-357-2141.
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a.m. - 10 p.m. On Friday, Sept. 17, the book sort will continue from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Volunteers are also needed to help clean up after the sale.
Volunteers are encouraged to call and sign up, but walk-ins are also welcome. To sign up to volunteer, or for more information, contact the parish at 724-463-2277.
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FCC expected to allow use of ‘white space’ to boost Wi-Fi By Troy Wolverton San Jose Mercury News MCT
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Farmers’ market offers fresh options By Jeff Brunermer Staff Writer J.C.Brunermer@iup.edu
The farmers’ market is an opportunity for anyone to receive local, fresh produce, among other items. The market is located on the corner of 8th and Church Streets. There are several stands that sell different items, mostly produce. Many of the vendors are located in Indiana and make a short hike every Wednesday, 4-6 pm, and Saturday, 9 am - 12 pm. For the past four years, IUP has had the pleasure of being close to the farmers’ market. “Most of us own farms outside of the city,” said Bill Reeger, a local farmer. “And it’s a great opportunity for us to come together and offer people local products.” And that’s exactly what each vendor is doing. Reeger’s farm is located just outside Indiana. He grows garden vegetables, but also uses his green house for a large range of
products. His produce receives little pesticide from him, but enough to keep the many insects away. According to their website, the farmers’ market offers 50 products, mostly vegetables and fruit. But one can also obtain meat, dairy, and even locally made soap. The locally-made soap is done by the small company known as “Pretty Soaps by Phyllis.” Phyllis Geletka has been a member of multiple farmers’ markets, and Indiana’s farmers’ market since 2006. She creates each soap from olive oil, sweet almond oil, shea butter and essential oils. As stated on her website, nothing is created from animals or tested on them. She creates as many as 26 soaps, depending on the season. Geletka loves the opportunity to come to farmers’ markets and offer her products. “I love the farmers’ market,” said Geletka. “I’m doing one four times a week.” The farmers’ market is held from June to October, and is within walking distance of the campus.
Consumers may soon be able to connect to the Internet with a new, super-powered flavor of Wi-Fi, thanks to the government’s expected release of some airwaves formerly reserved for television. On Sept. 23, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve a final rule that would free up for unlicensed use so-called “white spaces” in the spectrum set aside for television broadcasts. Because the white spaces are in the robust television portion of the spectrum, they can travel through walls, unlike Wi-Fi, and can cover an area that is 16 times greater than Wi-Fi signals. “This creates the potential for Wi-Fi on steroids,” said Michael Calabrese, director of the wireless future program at the New America Foundation, a Washington think tank that has long pushed for freeing up white spaces. The FCC is freeing up the spectrum as part of its efforts to open up more of the airwaves for mobile Internet traffic. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has stated that the agency is going to have to respond quickly to the rapid increase in mobile Internet usage. “Consumer demand for spectrum-
hungry mobile devices is a very good thing, but it also creates infrastructure problems,” Genachowski said in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News. “This is one of the most important things that we’re working on.” The white spaces are essentially the television channels in each broadcast service area over which no one currently sends signals. In the past, the FCC left such channels open to prevent interference between television signals. But the digital television transition that was completed last year freed up numerous channels, many of them in the VHF part of the spectrum. The digital signals also tend to require less bandwidth, making interference less likely, the agency argues. The opening of the white spaces has been a long time coming. The FCC began thinking about how to reuse the television spectrum early last decade, long before the digital transition was completed. The agency essentially approved in outline form the opening of the white spaces two years ago. But the agency ran into opposition from broadcasters and other groups. The broadcasters worried that unlicensed transmissions in the white spaces would interfere with their television signals. Users of certain wireless microphones, such as churches and performers,
expressed similar concerns. The broadcasters sued the FCC to try to stop the release of the whitespace spectrum, but the suit is on hold for now. In the meantime, the National Association of Broadcasters, an industry group, is approaching the new rules cautiously. “NAB is working constructively with the FCC in hopes that the agency adopts final ‘white spaces’ rules that preserve the ability of local and network broadcasters to deliver interference-free television,” the group said in a statement. The FCC plans to address the potential for interference by creating and maintaining a database of channels in each television market that are in use. New devices using the white-space spectrum would be required to check the database before choosing which channels to use in each market. Consumer groups and technology companies, meanwhile, have pressed the agency to move forward with opening up the white spaces. Adding more spectrum for consumer wireless uses could increase competition for wireless providers such as AT&T and Verizon. “It opens up an opportunity for other players that wouldn’t be there otherwise,” said Tracy Rosenberg, executive director of Media Alliance, a consumer advocacy group based in Oakland, Calif.
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UCLA grad program aims to break free from state funding By Larry Gordon Los Angeles Times MCT
UCLA’s Anderson School of Management is seeking to end any reliance on state funds under a controversial proposal that would be the first such shift to self-sufficiency in the cash-strapped University of California system and could provide a model for other programs seeking more freedom to increase tuition rates and faculty salaries. Anderson, a graduate school that offers master’s and doctorate degrees in business programs, wants to wean itself off most state funds by 2015 and to replace that $5.6 million a year with additional private donations and tuition levels closer to that of private schools. Annual tuition for California residents in a full-time master’s program would rise over time from $41,000 now to more than $50,000, including a $5,000 discount for in-state students, according to the proposal. Cuts in state funding in recent years and continuing uncertainty about such money are driving the proposal, which must receive approval from UC headquarters and UCLA faculty. The plan’s supporters say the status quo is hurting the school’s ability to compete with private schools for top business faculty, who are among the most highly paid in academia nationwide. “We’ve got to change the way we operate if we are to continue being
what we are,” Anderson’s dean, Judy D. Olian, said in an interview. “State support has declined so significantly that we’ve asked ourselves what is the best model to sustain the excellence of the school and the excellence of what we can do in this region.” Some critics contend that Olian’s plan is another step toward privatizing the University of California and is based on risky assumptions about private fundraising. Olian and her supporters say that is not the case and that Anderson will remain fully under UCLA’s academic governance and policies, including tenure and pension rules. They add that the rest of UCLA will benefit because money Anderson otherwise would receive from the state could be diverted to help support such departments as English and math, which have heavy undergraduate enrollments and fewer opportunities for private fund-raising. “There is a kind of win-win,” Olian said. Business schools at two other state universities, the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia, already have adopted similar steps with success, and others are considering it, experts say. Those schools “want to control their own destiny,” according to Jerry E. Trapnell, executive vice president of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the main accrediting agency for business schools. Beyond more stability and freedom in funding, they want
to respond more nimbly to market demands for new classes and programs “without having to be heavily compromised by the bureaucracy that the larger institution would demand.” The biggest challenge, he said, is to ensure enough financial aid and to maintain the income and ethnic diversity that are hallmarks of public institutions. Within UC, several other business and law schools could be candidates for similar changes in the future, but adoption would not be widespread, officials said, because of limits on what students in many programs would be willing to pay and the difficulties in tapping alumni pockets in such fields as, say, social work or chemistry. Although noting that he expects the Anderson plan to generate strong debate on campus, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, who previously was provost at the University of Virginia, said he “fully” supports Olian’s proposal as an innovative response to the state budget crisis. He said it maintains the mission of a public university while redirecting state funds from Anderson “to chronically underfunded undergraduate programs elsewhere on campus.” But approval is not a sure thing. UC President Mark G. Yudof said he had not seen the detailed proposal yet and could not comment on it. Yudof wants the UC Board of Regents to review “something of this magnitude,” he said in a statement released through a spokesman.
Antonin Scalia (left) is introduced at dedication of law school’s new building.
At new hall, Scalia stresses teaching By Ben Poston Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MCT
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia offered frank advice Wednesday to the hundreds of faculty and students who turned out for the dedication of Ray and Kay Eckstein Hall, Marquette University Law School’s new $85 million building. He implored the faculty to focus more energy on instruction and less on getting research published in law journals. “The reality is that the part of your academic career that will have the most lasting impact and that will be remembered after you are long gone is those hours you spent producing a living intellectual legacy in the classroom,” Scalia said. “I hope Marquette will always be a teaching law school.” He urged students to take a broad range of courses to better prepare them for the practice of law
after graduation. Scalia, who gave the keynote address, said he stuck mainly to core courses while at Harvard Law School. “Even so, I could not take all the courses I wanted to, and I feel deeply the existence of some gaps in my education as a lawyer, gaps that I will never be able to fill,” he said. “It is only in this place, in a law school, that you will be able to study an entire body of law, not haphazardly or episodically, but systematically.” Scalia, who once clerked at Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee between his second and third years at Harvard Law School, joked that Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson had named him an “honorary cheesehead.” Scalia said he was honored to speak at the dedication of Eckstein Hall, the high-tech building that overlooks the Marquette Interchange. “I have great delight in the flourishing of this institution,” he said. “I look forward to its growth and prosperity.”
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Feeling stumped by your software? Is unfamiliarity with necessary programs, rather than too much familiarity with Facebook, keeping you from getting your assignments done? A new computer lab has opened in the Center for Student Success in the basement of Pratt Hall. The Project Assignment and Technology Assignment Help (PATH) lab is intended to tutor students in the use of software required for class projects. Students receive semiprivate, one-on-one consultations with staff experts. Use of the PATH lab is free to all students. The lab is open Monday through Thursday, 2 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Friday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and can be found in Pratt Hall room 101. The PATH lab can help students with basic programs such as PowerPoint, but also offers assistance with various audio and video editing programs. It also offers instruction in screen capturing and survey creation. The PATH lab has an area devoted to group work, including space for eight students, laptops, a
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China, reacting bitterly to Japan’s handling of the collision of a Chinese fishing boat with two Japan Coast Guard patrol ships near the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, has postponed talks on a bilateral treaty on joint maritime gas field development, it was learned Saturday. Beijing’s action was a countermeasure against Wednesday’s arrest of Chinese fishing boat skipper Zhan Zixiong, 41, and the subsequent 10-day extension of his detention along with the boat’s 14 crew members, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu was quoted as saying by China’s official Xinhua News Agency. The Japanese and Chinese governments had planned a second round of negotiations in the middle of this month in Beijing on a gas exploration treaty aimed at ending a dispute between the two countries over waters containing undersea gas fields near the Senkaku Islands, called Diaoyu in Chinese. The first round of the ministerial bureau chief-level talks were held in late July in Tokyo.
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wall monitor and wireless access. Lab staff members are not tutors. They do not help students complete their assignments. Instead, they instruct students in the use of software that is necessary to complete these assignments. It is not recommended that students procrastinate coming in; some programs are more complex than others and take longer to learn.
The PATH lab has a four-person student-based staff. Coordinator Robyn Defelice specializes in audio editing, Captivate, Excel, PowerPoint and Qualtrics. The PATH lab recommends making reservations, because the staff specializes in giving one-on-one instruction. To make a reservation or ask any questions, contact 724357-4078.
The spokeswoman was cited by Xinhua as reiterating the Diaoyu Islands are “inherently territories of China,” lambasting Japan’s stand that the Senkaku Islands are part of the city of Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture. “Japan has ignored China’s repeated solemn representations and staunch opposition, and obstinately decided to subject the Chinese captain to so-called judiciary procedures,” Jiang said. “If Japan continues in this reckless fashion, it will taste its own bitter fruit,” the spokeswoman was quoted as stressing. Beijing has reacted in an especially severe manner to a Japanese court decision in favor of a prosecutor’s request on Friday to extend the boat captain’s detention for 10 days. The decision came after Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi summoned Japanese Ambassador to China Uichirio Niwa earlier Friday to lodge a strong protest over handling of the boat collision. Diplomatic sources in Beijing said China is keen to pressure Japan for the early release of the boat skipper and his crew members by taking “hostage” the joint gas field development pact sought by Japan.
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For a few weeks, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth singlehandedly ground to a halt all new federal grants for work that promises to alleviate much suffering. He issued a temporary injunction against federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. Fortunately, the judge’s sweeping order was lifted by an appeals court Thursday pending a hearing on the full case. But the episode points out the need for Congress to put embryonic stem-cell research on firmer ground by scrapping the federal law that threatens it and writing ethical guidelines regarding human embryos. Connecticut’s own law could serve as a model. The judge’s temporary injunction had dealt a cruel blow not just to medical research but to those who put their hopes in life-saving therapies for themselves and loved ones. He had wrongly interpreted the 1996 Dickey-Wicker Amendment as barring federal tax dollars from being used on any research involving human embryos that have been destroyed. His misreading led the National Institutes of Health to freeze millions of dollars in new grants.
On Tuesday, Judge Lamberth turned down a request to lift his temporary injunction. The judge said the NIH was exaggerating the “parade of horribles” that would follow his ruling.On Thursday, the D.C. appeals court stayed the judge’s injunction, letting the Obama administration resume funding for embryonic stem cell research for the time being. The human embryos at the heart of the matter are 4- or 5-day-old eggs the size of a pinpoint that have been fertilized in Petri dishes at fertility clinics. In Connecticut, they are voluntarily donated by couples who don’t need them. The embryos are destroyed to obtain their stem cells, which can repair tissue or turn into muscle, blood or any number of other specialized cells. Researchers are studying their curative powers for everything from childhood leukemia to Lou Gehrig’s disease. Whether destroying embryos is killing life is the subject of great debate. Yet that microscopic embryo, which can’t survive outside the womb or a freezer, may help scientists find the cure for devastating ailments. The plaintiffs in the case are researchers who work with adult stem cells, which can be obtained without destroying embryos. Those
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researchers argue that they could be harmed by federal funding of rival embryonic stem cell research. In fact, far more federal funding goes into adult stem cell research than into embryonic stem cell research, even though adult stem cells are hard to get, hard to grow and can’t turn into other cell types nearly as easily as embryonic stem cells can. Connecticut has been at the forefront of embryonic stem cell research with the state’s own $100 million, 10-year investment, begun in 2005. Congress should take note: Connecticut’s law has many safeguards in place. It forbids cloning work on embryonic stem cells. It requires that couples being treated for infertility be informed about the disposition of leftover embryos and given the option to store them, donate them to another person or make them available for research, with written consent. It prohibits any payment for embryos used to produce stem cells. The state’s investment is funding promising research in Parkinson’s and many other diseases – and is encouraging economic development, as in the new 117,000-square-foot research building in Farmington that will serve as a joint University of Connecticut-Wesleyan lab.
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A fate worse than death By Ingrid E. Newkirk PETA MCT
First, there was the jaw-dropping story of a British woman who was caught on camera tossing an affectionate cat into an outdoor trash bin. Then, it was an Eastern European girl slinging crying puppies into a fastmoving stream. Now, in America, some people have imprisoned a dog inside a box barely bigger than his own body. The box has solid sides, and the dog can only see out if he jumps up and peers over them. He has been locked in the box for months. To add to the mental torture, the dog has worn his teeth down to the nubs from biting at his prison, so his owners occasionally take him out of the box to drill painful holes vertically into his teeth in order to irrigate them. And right there by the side of the box, the dog’s keepers also manually extract sperm from him and use it to breed other dogs to sell. There’s more, but the abuse I’ve already described is enough to make any decent person sick. Take a look at Google Maps and you can look down into the container and see the dog lying there. Why, you may ask, aren’t these people in jail? How is it that the local humane society has not swooped in and seized the dog? Oh, I’m sorry. Did I write “dog”? I meant to write “killer whale.” And the people perpetrating this horror are SeaWorld executives. So why exactly does swapping one intelligent animal for another or swapping an average Joe for rich business executives lessen the horror of this orca’s ordeal or the injustice of the situation? Answer: It doesn’t. Tilikum is the killer whale. He killed a human being — for the third time — earlier this year. Perhaps there’s a reason why killer whales are called “killer” whales. Tilikum didn’t give his keeper, Dawn Brancheau, a little playful toss or misjudge and hold her under water just
a second too long for her to survive. He shook her like a rag doll, slammed her into the side of the pool, stopped her from surfacing and tore her body apart. My bet is that he knew exactly what he was doing. Having seen how he is kept and knowing where he came from, it’s not hard to comprehend the depth of his anger and frustration. Tilikum is 32 years old. When he was just 2 years old, he was caught by marine “cowboys” who kidnap dolphins and orcas to sell to amusement parks. He was taken from his family, his pod, in the open waters off Iceland, and he’s lived in a cement pool ever since, unable to use his echolocation, unable to swim away, to travel the oceans, to hear or see his relatives. He is “trained” to eat what he’s given and do what he’s told. He is also trained to roll over, which allows trainers to masturbate him with a gloved hand and collect his semen in a container. His semen is frozen for later use or used immediately to inseminate female orcas at one of SeaWorld’s parks so as to provide additional animals to use in shows. Life in a tiny concrete tank is no life at all for these animals, as evidenced by the death this week of Tilikum’s 12-year-old son at SeaWorld San Diego. Twelve! This orca would likely have lived to be 50 or 60 in the open sea, his rightful home. After the third human being lost her life to Tilikum, SeaWorld reduced his meager “world” even further. Tilly is now relegated mostly, if not solely, to the “F pool,” a solid-sided concrete pool that measures just 36 feet long and 25 feet wide. Tilikum is 221.5 feet long with a big wide orca girth. He weighs more than 12,000 pounds. So he has to scrunch just to turn around. And once turned, there he is again, nose against the other wall. He has been condemned to hang in place in the water indefinitely. PETA is calling on the local humane society and the state’s attorney to free Tilly. After all, cruelty to animals, whether to a dog or to an orca, is illegal in all states.
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Be wary of skewed media By Kelsey Gross Contributing Writer K.L.Gross2@uip.edu
More and more I’m thinking to myself, “What do Tiger Woods’ sexual exploits have to do with me?’ The answer, of course, is nothing. I want to know about government happenings that are going to impact me, or the people close to me. I care about war, poverty and other world problems, not the criminal record of Lindsay Lohan. I want someone to tell me what exactly the health care bill is instead of trying to scare me with phrases like “death panels.” The problem is that the news media fails to provide coverage on the things people need to know, or they report a skewed version of facts. I remember checking a CNN post on Facebook on May 5 to find that, instead of anything about the flood in Nashville, or the people that died as a result, CNN posted a story about Sandra Bullock’s adoption. Many people are just apathetic when it comes to politics, and it’s
easy to see why. The U.S. is a celebrity-crazed country where reputable newspapers are barely getting by, and good, unadulterated information often has to be sought out because it’s not handed over. This is why reputable newspapers are so important as the watchdogs of America – because they do real reporting. But, as newspapers die, so does a trustworthy source of information, usually more unbiased than some three-letter networks. Eighty percent of Fox News viewers have misconceptions about the Iraq War, according to a study conducted by the Program on International Policy Issues (PIPA) at the University of Maryland. Those polled were asked if they believed in the misconceptions of Iraq’s involvement with 9/11, the idea that weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq and the favorable international opinion of the Iraq War. The lowest reported misconceptions came from National Political Radio’s (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting
System’s (PBS) audience. Overall, I think CNN, FOX and MSNBC’s news channels should leave gossip and nonsense to magazines like the National Inquirer and shows like Entertainment Tonight, which are devoted to that kind of thing. I would encourage everyone that’s not completely overcome with apathy to get the news from a few different sources. It takes a little work to stay informed, but it’s worth it. Seek out opinions different from your own and allow yourself to be challenged. Be sure to check several newspapers or reputable news web sites to get a peripheral view, and not a tunnel view, of the facts. If people continue to be apathetic about the things that matter, the top will eventually be blown off of our democracy, because the U.S. government relies on the knowledge and the informed decisions of its people to function, which is sometimes a scary thought.
Green lights, red zones – a great deal of color terminology is thrown out at students during the early days of the school year. Though the colors and metaphors may seem light hearted, they relate to the serious truth of sexual assault on campus. A female was sexually assaulted near the library Sunday. Students were notified, and signs were posted around campus. This is a real and sobering reminder that the awareness activities presently occurring on campus are to be taken seriously. The warning from campus police said that students should walk in groups, be aware of surroundings, and utilize the blue light telephones in emergencies. This might make it seem like random attacks are the norm in instances of sexual assault, but according to the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network, roughly two-thirds of rapes are committed by someone the victim knows. In an effort to decrease these statistics, programs like the Green Light Campaign have been implemented on campus. The Green Light campaign urges students to make sure they have consent before engaging in sexual activity, but some jokesters have said that Green Light buttons signal that the wearer is open to sexual contact. Sexual assault and rape should never be a laughing matter, especially with a recent attack on campus. In 2002, a campus survey conducted by the Center for Student life reported that 87 percent of students were concerned about sexual assault at IUP. According to RAINN, even though sexual assault has decreased by 60 percent since 1993, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted every two minutes. Any rape statistic is too high. Any type of violence, but especially sexual violence, has no place on our campus or in our community. If you picked up a Green Light Campaign button last week, wear it proudly as your commitment to ending sexual assault on campus. As we head towards the booze-and-party-filled weekends of Homecoming and Halloween, it is imperative we all remember that when it comes to questions of sexual activity, any answer other than “Yes” is No.
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With new album, Arcade Fire ‘Keeps Car Running’ By CLARE WELSH Contributing Writer C.C.Welsh@iup.edu
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Students, organizations have ‘blast’ By NOEL OSTAPKOVICH Contributing Writer N.W.Ostapkovich@iup.edu
Counter Blast has been held annually since 1992 and has seen its eighteenth year this past Saturday, Sept. 11, near the HUB Delaware Room. “This event was designed to promote friendship between [the] upper and lower classmen as well as the minority and majority students,” Dr. Carolyn Princes, Associate Dean/
Director of Students for Multicultural Affairs, said. There were tables representing the NAACP, BEC and various fraternities and sororities on campus. Along with the social interactions occurring, Counter Blast offered various games and events that included tarot card readings, custom air brushed T-shirts, skee-ball, henna tattoos and a performing magician. “[The Counter Blast event] is good for the upper and lower classmen to meet each other and make new
friends,” Andrea Howell said (junior, communications media). “There is good music, good food and just an overall good time.” With a live DJ playing today’s hottest tracks, people couldn’t help but get up and move once a dance contest was underway. “It [was] amazing, like a mini-IUP day,” Raymond Smith said (senior, criminology/pre-law). “They did a great job putting on the program this year, and it keeps getting bigger and better.”
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Four online college coupon books for students By COUPON SHERPA MCT
It’s taken college coupons and coupon book vendors quite some time to catch up with their tech-savvy, green-minded target audience. College students know they want to save money and trees, but for so long they’ve been inundated with wasteful — not to mention lame — paper coupon books. Uninitiated freshmen with smart phones in hand may balk at the idea of using coupons around town, haunted by images of Mom and her wad of uncool clipped coups. Even seasoned upperclassmen familiar with the irresistible draw of late night pizza can be overwhelmed when every nook and cranny on campus is stuffed with local free coupon books. In response, several coupon book publishers are tapping into the lucrative online coupons world. They take the same local vendors found in campus coupon books and place them at the eager fingertips of every paper-avoiding, munchie-developing student online. Each site allows you to set a page designed for your campus and browse by popular student categories: from banks and bookstores to tanning salons and tattoo parlors. Even by late September — when the on-campus coupon book selection begins looking as haggard as Zach “Fat Jesus� Galifianakis — most online coupons are available until local shops release the newest batch of promos. Here you’ll find five of the most popular and comprehensive sites, spanning nearly 250 campuses and reaching five-million students in all. Now go and get your save on — whether you’re a student or not. 1. Campus Special The biggest coupon provider of the bunch serves over 100 universities. Campus Special (CampusSpecial. com) supplements their localized free coupon book with a clean, spam-free site. Select your state on the home page and choose from a list of affiliated campuses. Not all the included schools are currently active, but most are projected to be up and running by October. Campus Special offers printable and text coupons with convenient maps for most locations. Given the nature of their clientele (these are mom and pop places), hardly any support the fancy-shmancy scannable coupons larger retailers developed for smart phones, but you’ll receive text alerts
for your favorite stores whenever a selection is updated. New for the class of 2010, the site launched a free online ordering service, dubbed “Food Court.� Log onto your university home page, click on “Food Court� in the upper menu bar and browse for the most drool-inducing grub. Campus Special supplies you with a menu, prices, phone number and, if available, a link to order online. Unlike similar services such as CampusFood.com, Campus Special doesn’t charge for the service. Campus Special serves universities from coast to coast, including Florida State University, Syracuse University and Montana State University. 2. College Coupons College Coupons (College-Coupons. com) is another paper-and-glue book looking to modernize and reach a larger audience. The site is relatively stripped down, but comes complete with all you need to save. Pick your school from a drop list to be taken directly to a custom page. Every merchant listing includes an address, phone number and link to available coupons, already formatted and ready to print. One downside: No way to search by category. The folks at College Coupons bring deals to students throughout the west and midwest, including Utah State University, Colorado State University and the University of Wisconsin. 3. The Survival Kit To anyone in the Pacific Northwest, The Survival Kit (TheSurvivalKit.com) is more prominent than Mt. Hood or rainy afternoon skies — kind of. The student version is available on only five campuses, but what it lacks in reach it makes up in selection. Most areas have 100 unique coupons, all found online or in the mailed brochure. (The coupons are also intended for community members.) The Survival Kit e-newsletter is a good way to make sense of this enormous variety. Sign up to receive quarterly updates and occasional new deals. 4. My Student Deals My Student Deals (MyStudentDeals. com) is the most similar to general public sites, hosting a section for online coupons at national chains. For the swankiest college coupons this side of the quad, select your university and search the “Local Companies� tab. A nice touch is the “Buy/Sell Textbooks� tool and regularly updated list of grocery coupons, most of which are accepted at any local grocer.
Facebook movie starting to build buzz By SCOTT DUKE HARRIS San Jose Mercury News MCT
When Facebook recently unveiled its new location-sharing feature, one executive fondly mentioned Antonio’s Nut House in Palo Alto, Calif., as the sort of establishment that might inspire plenty of posts. The next day, an ACLU leader, addressing privacy concerns raised by the new feature, complained that she would like to hang out at the Nut House without Facebook asking “again and again and again if I want that shared with everyone nearby!� So what better place than this irreverent, bustling watering hole, located just a short jaunt down California Avenue from Facebook headquarters, to assess Silicon Valley buzz about “The Social Network,� the upcoming Hollywood film about Facebook’s messy genesis. Trailers now appearing at the cineplex and online hint at a portrait of founder Mark Zuckerberg as a 19-year-old Harvard discipline problem who is Machiavellian in his pursuit of success. (“Your best friend is suing you for $600 million?!�) The moody, dirt-dishing preview has already inspired parodies saluting MySpace, YouTube and Twitter. (“Rated A for Awesome.�) “Oh, I didn’t know there was a Facebook movie coming out,� said bartender Stephanie Livingstone, serving up a pint of pale ale. Was
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this the right place? “Oh yeah, this is a big Facebook hangout. And I have friends who work at Facebook. And I haven’t heard nothin’.� It’s not hard to see why Facebook employees, like Stanford students, adore the Nut House and its vibe. While Facebook has now added the location-sharing Places feature to go with its Walls, the Nut House has its literal Ceiling. “You know it’s going to get stranger,� declared one ceiling panel, next to another depicting a mermaid. “Oh no, not you again,� says another. So what’s the deal with the ceiling? Livingstone explained that if you provide a deposit, you can take a panel home, decorate it and bring it back — a real-life version of what Internet moguls call “user-generated content.� But back to Facebook and the flick. Perhaps it’s not surprising that Livingstone hasn’t heard any chat-
ter about “The Social Network.� Facebook employees may be understandably reticent if their leader, who in person evinces an unpolished geeky charm, can be as ruthless as he wants to be. At a pool table, Maya and her girlfriend Aubrie were celebrating Maya’s 22nd birthday with some guys. Like a few other patrons, Maya, Aubrie and Mike declined to offer their last names. Funny that a generation that plasters party photos on the Internet is so guarded. But whatever. Just the night before, when they’d gone out to see “Inception,� Maya and Aubrie caught the trailer for “The Social Network.� It changed Maya’s mind. When she had first heard there would be a movie about Facebook, “Honestly, I thought that sounded stupid,� Maya said. But the trailer looked cool, the young women agreed, so now they plan to see the movie.
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Crimson Hawks defeat East Stroudsburg 23-17, Pat Smith injured By kyle predmore Sports Editor K.R.Predmore@iup.edu
The IUP football team managed to rally back from an early deficit to defeat East Stroudsburg 23-17. Despite the big win on the road, IUP did not come out unscathed. Quarterback Pat Smith injured his throwing hand in the third quarter Saturday and did not return. Smith downplayed the injury after the game, but seemed to be in obvious pain as he left the field. In his absence, Bo Napoleon completed three of his six attempts and managed to hol off ESU. The first two drives for the Warriors produced points that put the Hawks in an early bind. After the early 29-yard field goal by ESU kicker Taylor Groff, Matt Marshall for the Warriors connected with Kendrick Williams for a 29-yard touchdown pass to increase the lead to 10-0. The Crimson Hawk offense had to respond and had to do so quickly to slow down the Warriors’ momentum. What a better way to respond than with a 72-yard, 13-play drive that led to a Harvie Tuck to a one-yard touchdown to help the Hawks slowly crawl back into the game, 10-7. On IUP’s next drive, Smith hooked
up with receiver Mychal Skinner for a 38-yard pass, but the drive stalled and led to a Craig Burgess 31-yard field goal that tied the game at 10. With five minutes left in the second quarter, the Crimson Hawk offense started on their own 2-yard line. This was not a problem for Smith and the IUP offense. Smith was able to connect on backto-back plays with Darryl Herod for a 15-yard reception and then again to Skinner for a 46-yard first down. IUP tailback James Johnson also made an appearance in this game, picking up crucial yards and first downs while in the red-zone. However, Smith’s 13-yard reception to Pat Brewer came up two yards short of a touchdown. So Burgess came on the field and made his second field goal of the game to put IUP in the lead for the first time in the game, 13-10. IUP extended its lead to 16-10 after another field goal from Burgess. Napoleon came in as the Hawks quarterback in the middle of the third quarter after Smith’s injury. The Warriors drove down the field until Mike Scott grabbed the first interception of the game. Napoleon connected with Nate Morrow a seven-yard touchdown pass to make it 23-10 essentially putting the game out of reach. The Warriors were only able to drive it down the field one more time on
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IUP’s defense and were able to score with 32 seconds left in the game. After a failed on-side kick attempt, the Crimson Hawks regained possession and took home their second victory of the season. Smith passed 196 passing yards on 14 completions before his injury. Napoleon came in and while he only completed three of his six attempts, he did have the only passing touchdown for the Hawks offense. Skinner was the main target in this game for both Smith and Napoleon, picking up 128 yards on seven receptions. But what was more impressive was the Hawks defense. In one word, Smith described the game as “amazing.” The Warriors only managed to pick up 147 yards through the air. While the IUP offense ran the ball more once Smith left the game, Napoleon still came in and did was asked of him. “I’m real impressed by Bo’s performance. He came in, did his job, and completed his passes. [Scott’s] interception was key on [Bo’s] scoring drive. It was a dagger in the heart. It’s what we needed. We needed to take it away from them and make that stop,” Smith said. IUP will take the road again to play at 1 p.m. Saturday to play Bloomsburg.
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IUP soccer loses close one to Shippensburg, 3-2 By paul shade Contributing Writer P.T.Shade@iup.edu
A hard fought game left the IUP womens soccer team on the losing end of their second PSAC game Saturday, losing 3-2 to Shippensburg. The loss brought IUP’s record to 1-1-1 overall. The Crimson Hawks started off quick as junior midfielder Paige Virgara knocked in a ball that ricocheted off Shippensburg’s goalie, Megan Delio’s arms. A few minutes later Shippensburg’s
Cassie Arnold put the ball in the back of the net off of a corner kick by Molly Sanders at 18:41 mark in the first half. IUP’s Heather Robbins knocked in her fourth goal of the season at the 34:29 mark in the first half off a pass from junior Melissa Kornock, giving IUP a 2-1 lead. It held the lead going into half time, however, the Red Raiders mounted a comeback midway through the second period. At the 59:51 mark, Shippensburg’s Jen Bon put in an unassisted goal. IUP gave up another unassisted goal at the 74:58 mark,
which was netted by Katie Leverentz. IUP had a few chances late in the half to tie it up, but Robbins and Adrianna Konstantnides each missed scoring attempts late in the game. Kelly Brennan was in the net for the Crimson Hawks, taking the loss and giving up her first goals of the season. She allowed three goals but did make four saves. IUP outshot Shippensburg 14-7, but the balls just weren’t getting in the back of the net for the Hawks. The Crimson Hawks travel to Edinboro to play the Fighting Scots at 6 p.m. Wednesday.
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Hawks continue winning streak By Christina Starr Contributing Writer C.C.Starr@iup.edu
The IUP women’s volleyball team had four wins at the Memorial Field House this weekend, increasing their record to 8-0. The Crimson Hawks kicked off their weekend at 4-0, playing Davis and Elkins Friday at the Memorial Field House. Senior Jessica Bodkin led the team in kills, with 15. Danielle Ostendorf followed closely with 11 kills. Senior co-captain Emily Pany had 29 digs and senior co-captain Chelsey Kreinbrook led the team with 43 assists. The Crimson Hawks defeated Davis and Elkins in four sets with scores of 23-25, 25-9, 25-16 and 25-15. IUP then turned to its second matchup Friday against West Virginia State. Sophomore Laura McFadden led the Crimson Hawks with eight kills, while freshman Kadie Koeneman followed with seven. Kreinbrook had 25
assists, and Pany 18 digs. McFadden and Koeneman contributed seven digs each to assist the team. The Crimson Hawks defeated West Virginia State in three sets with scores of 25-15, 25-9 and 25-16. The team started off Saturday against Shepherd. Bodkin had 12 kills, while Kreinbrook had 36 assists. Pany led the team with four digs, while McFadden contributed 11 digs for the Hawks. The team defeated Shepherd in three sets with scores of 25-20, 25-16 and 25-16. IUP’s final match of the weekend was against AldersonBroaddus. McFadden had nine kills, while Bodkin followed up with eight. Kreinbrook had eight kills and 31 assists for the Crimson Hawks. Pany led the team with 24 digs, while junior Emily Vaughn contributed 11 digs. The team defeated Alderson-Broaddus in three sets with scores of 25-20, 25-20 and 28-26. “We played very well this past weekend to continue our undefeat-
ed record so far,” Kreinbrook said. “We are a very close-knit team that works hard for each other day in and day out. Being 8-0 is an awesome accomplishment, and I’m very excited about it, but we still have lots of work ahead of us. We hope to continue our winning streak as we begin to play teams in our conference.” The team will travel to East Stroudsburg and Lock Haven next weekend, where they hope to continue their eight-game winning streak.
Women’s tennis opens 2010 season 2-0 By Mike Wilson Contributing Writer M.J.Wilson3@iup.edu
The IUP women’s tennis team opened its 2010 fall season with two wins at the Nancy J. Health Invitational at Allegheny College Saturday. IUP opened play against Penn State-Behrend, winning all nine matches. Freshman Tabtip Louhabanjong only allowed Behrend’s Stephanie Cattron two games, winning 6-0, 6-2. Also winning in straight sets were IUP’s Ranvita Mahto, Kelly McBryan and Emilia Osborne. Despite dropping their first sets,
the Crimson Hawks’ No. 1 Katie Eaton, along with No. 5 Alex Ballard, had to come back to win in three sets. IUP’s doubles’ teams were even more impressive in the victory over the Nittany Lions. The teams of Eaton/ Mahto and McBryan/Ballard only dropped one game in their matches, both winning 8-1. The No. 2 team of Osborne/ Louhabanjong shut out Behrend’s Lasher/Leslie Durante 8-0. IUP matched its impressive win against Behrend with a 7-2 victory over host school Allegheny College later in the day. Louhabanjong continued her success by putting up a straight set
shutout victory over the Gator’s Elyse Schmitt. Emilia Osborne was nearly as impressive in defeating Sara Longo 6-0, 6-1. Other singles wins came from Eaton, McBryan and Ballard. Though the doubles victories didn’t come as easy as they had earlier in the day for the Crimson Hawks, the two teams still managed to record wins. Osborne/Louhabanjong squeezed by 8-6 and McBryan/Ballard won 8-4. The Crimson Hawks will have a busy weekend as they travel to Clarion for three PSAC crossover matches in consecutive days, squaring off against Bloomsburg 1 p.m. Friday, East Stroudsburg 9 a.m. Saturday and Shippensburg 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
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Vikings lack of run offense shows in loss By Judd zulgad Star Tribune MCT
The production might not have been there, but Brad Childress was pleased with his offense at halftime of Thursday’s game in New Orleans. “[I] told the guys it was just about the way if you had to draw it up that you’d plan it,” the Vikings coach said. “Hold the ball for 17 minutes. The yards were tough to come by, and we kept an explosive offense off the field.” Given that success, the question posed to Childress the day after the Vikings’ opened the season with a 14-9 loss was this: Why didn’t he stick with that formula? Running back Adrian Peterson had 13 of the Vikings’ 17 rushing attempts in the first 30 minutes, and Brett Favre attempted 15 passes. That helped the Vikings control the ball for 17 minutes, 24 seconds and take a 9-7 lead. The Vikings stuck with the run to open the third
quarter as Peterson had three consecutive carries. But after that the ground game was on the back burner. Peterson was handed the ball only three more times, all in the third quarter, and Favre ended up throwing 12 passes, completing four of them. The Vikings had five possessions in the second half, and three were three-and-outs. In those situations, the Vikings faced third-and-9, third-and-13 and third-and-7. While the decision to go away from a Pro Bowl back in Peterson can be questioned, the bigger issue is where this offense stands as a whole. Last season, the Vikings were second in the NFL with 470 points and Favre threw 33 touchdown passes, but Thursday night they struggled. Among the factors: Favre’s late arrival at training camp; the calf injury that sidelined center John Sullivan for the preseason; the time missed by receiver Percy Harvin because of migraines; and the hip injury that is expected to sideline Sidney Rice for the first half of the season. The Vikings wide receivers
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had little impact. Favre, who attempted to take much of the blame for missing on throws, directed 12 passes toward his receivers, but Bernard Berrian, Greg Camarillo, Greg Lewis and Harvin caught only one pass apiece. Tight end Visanthe Shiancoe had a team-leading four receptions, all in the first half. Asked if he could point to a play that didn’t work because of a lack of practice time between Favre and his receivers, Childress picked one from the first quarter. With a first down at the Vikings 41, Favre fired deep over the middle for Harvin, who was matched up on a linebacker. Harvin, though, slowed his route at the Saints 25.There has been speculation the Vikings might bring back Javon Walker or attempt to acquire holdout Vincent Jackson from San Diego to boster the receiving corps, but Childress said he isn’t looking at adding anyone. “I’m not thinking about adding another body,” he said. “I know those guys weren’t as involved as we would have liked
MCT Adrian Peterson ran for 87 yards during Thursdays game.
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Zombies lumber into University of Baltimore curriculum By Childs Walker The Baltimore Sun MCT
Arnold Blumberg plops the zombie head on a table at the front of the small theater. “I brought a friend,” says the University of Baltimore professor, clad in an unbuttoned black shirt adorned with red skulls. Blumberg is meeting his class for the first time and it seems appropriate that he greet them beside “old Worm Eye,” undead star of the 1979 Italian cult film “Zombi 2.” It was Worm Eye’s decaying visage that called to a young Blumberg from the shelf of a Randallstown video store in the 1980s. Without him, maybe Blumberg wouldn’t be here today, teaching a new generation about his favorite movie monster. Zombies are everywhere these days. Last year they hit the best-seller list in a bizarre mash-up with Jane Austen called “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” They have inspired math professors to devise statistical models for surviving a “zombie apocalypse.” This fall, they’ll star in the AMC TV series “The Walking Dead.” And now, they’re the subject of
a new course, otherwise known as English 333, at the University of Baltimore. “Zombies are one of the most potent, direct reflections of what we’re thinking moment to moment in our culture,” Blumberg tells the class in explaining why they’re all here. Students will watch 16 classic zombie films (including “Zombi 2,” in which a zombie fights a shark), read zombie comics and, as an alternative to a final research paper, have the chance to write scripts or draw storyboards for their ideal zombie flicks. Jonathan Shorr, chair of the university’s school of communications design, wanted a rotation of “interesting, off-the-wall” courses for a new minor in pop culture. But when Blumberg pitched him a course about the walking dead, he says, “I hit the side of my monitor a couple times thinking, ‘Do I have this right? Did he say zombies?’” “It’s a back door into a lot of subjects,” Shorr says. “They think they’re taking this wacko zombie course, and they are. But on the way, they learn how literature and mass media work, and how they come to reflect our times.” The university isn’t the first
to jump in line with the lumbering undead. Columbia College in Chicago has offered Zombies in Popular Media for years, making several lists of the country’s most bizarre courses in the process. At Iowa’s Simpson College, students spent the spring semester collectively writing a book on “The History of the Great Zombie War.” Blumberg, curator of Geppi’s Entertainment Museum at Camden Yards, takes zombies seriously enough that he wrote a book about them. But he’s not above tongue-in-cheek remarks about his decidedly nontraditional course. “This hopefully is as dry and historical as we’ll get for the rest for the semester,” he says during a discourse on the misguided interpretation of West Indian rituals that allowed zombies into popular culture in the 1930s. “We’ll get the blood and guts flying up on the screen soon enough.” Among the official course objectives, he lists “get you ready for a zombie apocalypse.” “Well, not really,” Blumberg says. “But pay attention, and you’ll pick up a few tips along the way.” Blumberg starts class with a deceptively complicated question: What is a zombie?
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“I know that lately, a lot of zombies have been created by viruses,” one student volunteers. “Is that a zombie?” “Absolutely!” Blumberg says merrily. One of his key beliefs is that we use zombies to reflect contemporary dreads, such as our current fear of pandemics. He seems thrilled that a student has tapped this theme so quickly. “It’s a computer used to attack other computers,” says another. “Yes!” Blumberg says. He’ll be talking a lot about how zombies have invaded everyday language — so again, he’s excited that a student has anticipated his message. “It’s pretty much anyone who doesn’t have free will,” the same student says. “That’s an excellent way to look at it,” Blumberg replies. Though he’s an all-inclusive zombie guy who makes fun of the geeks who’d fight you over rigid definitions, Blumberg does have a few prejudices. Frankenstein and other monsters constructed of human parts aren’t zombies, for one. And the hugely successful Marvel Comics series that turned favorite superheroes into zombies? Well, that really bothered him.
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“As I get older, I have my restrictions,” he says. Before plunging ahead, Blumberg offers a warning. “If you’ve come in with just a general sense or just saw ‘zombie’ in the catalog and thought ‘cool,’ I want to reinforce the degree to which this material can be found offensive by a lot of people,” he says. “We’re going to be dealing with some of the truly disgusting stuff that’s been done in horror over the years.” No one leaves. “This is not fluffy bunny cartoon stuff,” Blumberg adds. “Bunnies might show up, but they’d probably be torn to pieces.” It becomes obvious that a healthy minority of the 40 students are already steeped in zombie culture. Mike Ziegler, the student who wowed Blumberg with his initial reflections on zombiedom, says that when he saw the course description, “I didn’t care how many papers I’d have to write; I was taking it.” “I think the breakdown of human society has a great pull on people as an idea,” says Ziegler, a part-time student who also teaches computer science at Archbishop Curley High School. “People like to think about how they’d do if zombies took over.”
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