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MOLLY CUNNINGHAM Staff Writer kydy@iup.edu @ThePennIUP Students at IUP have had a tradition of making class gifts for the school since the late 1800s.

The focus for this year is “Pick Your Passion.”

Class gifts are a way for current students to pay it forward and show their love for the institution. There have been all different types of gifts throughout the years from desks to sundials.

In addition to monetary gifts,

there have been gifts that go towards the institution whether that is indoors or outdoors. An example of this would be trees being a gift one year and stained glass windows another.

Starting Nov. 30, Stephen Abel, a graduate of 1973, will provide $10,000 in order to match funds for the Student Giving Challenge. Abel has been a supporter of IUP’s Veterans Assistance Fund and Military and Veterans Resource Center. IUP played a significant role in his life which is why it is important to him to give back.

These visible demonstrations

show their satisfaction and love for the institution and continue to advance the reputation and strength of the alma mater. This benefits students throughout their careers as they receive millions in scholarships which is a great number of them funded through private donations.

“Our Division of University Advancement and the Foundation for IUP takes the responsibility of managing gifts very seriously,” Michelle Fryling, executive director of Media Relations, said.

“They track all gifts, and they also report to the donors how the money is spent.”

A student’s IUP experience has largely been supplemented by students past and present, alumni,

faculty, staff, friends, corporations, and foundations as tuition and state funds cover less than 25 percent of a student’s IUP education.

Supporting IUP through giving back to the student giving project, a favorite program or department will help students ensure their own IUP experience is the best that it can be.

The tradition of giving and commitment to IUP has not changed, but a new gift to students donating $100 has started recently where they will be given a spot in IUP’s Future Leaders Council.

In addition, publications, such as the U.S. News & World Report, use philanthropy as a factor to rank IUP and determine overall student satisfaction. When they evaluate grant funding and prospective gifts, the

foundations and corporations use these rankings as a factor.

The student giving has had a significant influence on the university.

It has allowed for growth in IUP’s reputation and ongoing strength.

Looking back to 1934, the amount of the Jane E. Leonard Memorial loan fund was $12,917. From the interest and gifts, the amount increased by $1,545. In the same year, the class of 1913 donated $50, and the class of 1923 donated $523.77 along with other donations from alumni.

The decision of the gift is up to the graduating class along with what item the class chooses to fund in most cases. The amount donated has been linked to the graduating year. For example, the class of 2022 would be asked to donate $20.22.

If students are unable to donate, they can contribute by volunteering on campus, being a student leader and getting involved in the IUP Ambassadors.

If you are looking to donate, you can contact iup-giving@iup.edu.

(iup.edu) (iup.edu/IUP Archives) The “Rock of Ages” (above) was a gift to the Indiana State Normal The focus of the 2017-2018 Student Giving Challenge was the Grant Street Park Project (above). The project turned a section of Grant Street into a green space on campus for students.

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How to balance responsibilities in college IUP Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU) offers tips JULIA ROBINS Staff Writer spxbc@iup.edu @ThePennIUP For the past two weeks, the IUP chapter of the Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU) Thursday night meetings have been about the balancing act of juggling life and school.

Last Thursday’s meeting focused on determining priorities and creating schedules.

Attendees were prompted to get into groups and discuss challenges that were restricting them. Some responses included participation in family activities as well as getting schoolwork done, navigating in-person classes and juggling that time with athletics, and dealing with time management of schoolwork and sorority/social commitments.

“There are a lot of things that compete for our time,” Phil Floyd, campus minister, said. “One of the challenges is recognizing that not everything has the same priority.

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think about life, there are going to be some priorities that are going to weigh more heavily than others.”

Floyd said that if events and to-do items are not fixed into schedules, they most often do not get done.

“I can find myself wasting a bunch of time,” Floyd said. “I could read article after article on who the Steelers are going to draft for their seventh-round pick and what influence that will have on their season, or I could look up news stories of what is going on in Siberia today and get led down all these Google holes.”

In a discussion of some things that they have found to be distractions and waste time, responses included dance videos on TikTok, listening to music on repeat, and binge-watching Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU).

He encouraged students to use the calendar app on their phone to use time effectively in between classes and to plan how to accomplish tasks without getting distracted by things of lesser importance.

“We say, ‘Hey, I would really like

to better connect with my friends, but I am spending all my time watching six hours of SVU or other things that keep me from doing something incredibly urgent, like taking that exam by 11,’” Floyd said.

To illustrate, he took out a glass jar, three rubber balls and a bag of corn kernels. “[The corn] represents the smaller things in our lives that are important parts of our day but are not the highest priority and take up lots of time if we are not careful,” he said. “And then, we start putting in our top priorities, of work and friends and family, and we do not have room to stick them in.”

The top priorities, signified by the rubber balls, are inserted and all of the corn can fit in the jar afterwards by filling the gaps between the balls.

“What we see here in principle is that we got all our top priorities in, and we can all fit in a 24-hour day where we put first our first things first and then we can fill the rest with things that could be fun,” Floyd said.

In summary, by making a schedule of the most important and top priorities in life, such as academics, the leftover time can then be filled with enjoyable activities.

“Control your calendar, and do not let it control you,” Floyd said. “You want to get things in your calendar and then you really stick to the calendar and identify

these priorities.”

CRU meets every Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Monongahela Room at the Hadley Union Building (HUB), and at 5 p.m. every Wednesday at Commonplace Coffee. There are also Bible discussions for women on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. at the Northern 2nd Floor Lounge and for men on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. at the Crimson Café.

(Julia Robins/The Penn) Members of the Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU) at IUP present during their “How to Balance Everything in College” presentation on Thursday in the Hadley Union Building (HUB) Monongahela Room.

(Facebook/IUP CRU) CRU, or Campus Crusade for Christ, is an international Christian ministry group that aims to spread the word of Christianity and Jesus Christ. It was founded in 1951 at the University of California, Los Angeles, by Vonette Zachary Bright and Bill Bright and has expanded its reach ever since.

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Biden child care plan faces opposition Concerns raised regarding nondiscrimination clause CAIO GOMES Lead Culture Writer hysbc@iup.edu @ThePennIUP My name is Caio and I am a political science major covering D.C. politics.

President Joe Biden’s (D-Del.) child care plan faces odds as members of the Democratic Party debate over a nondiscrimination clause.

Debate began after a coalition of religious organizations protested the clause.

The child care plan is part of Biden’s $1.85 trillion social policy bill and would seek to provide funding to establish universal pre-kindergarten and other early childhood programs. As part of the $1.85 trillion bill, the plan is impacted by a nondiscriminatory provision that would require participating programs to comply with federal nondiscrimination laws.

This drew criticism and protest from several religious organizations, most of which are currently exempt from the said nondiscrimination laws. Protesters have argued that having the nondiscrimination clause in the bill would essentially prevent many providers from participating and getting federal money from the program. “[The nondiscrimination clause] will be detrimental to our ability to participate,” Jennifer Daniels, the associate director for public policy at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said.

“It would impact our ability to stick with our Catholic mission in a variety of ways. We’ve worked really hard to make our concerns known.”

Among concerns placed by the organization is that the language in the bill would bar federal funds

from going to programs that refused to hire an LGBTQ+ employee, refused to hire someone from a different faith or failed to renovate their facilities to accommodate disabled students.

The organizations have also argued that the rule would force them to choose between participating in the child care initiative and continuing to promote their “religious values.”

“As a general rule, Catholic schools purposefully avoid federal financial recipient status because it triggers a whole host of federal regulatory obligations with which nonpublic schools are not currently required to comply,” Michael Sheedy, executive director of the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops, wrote in a letter to Sen. Marco Rubio (R- Fla.). “The provisions of most obvious concern include nondiscrimination provisions related

to sexual orientation and gender identity that could create religious freedom issues for religious providers.”

Religious organizations make up a substantial share of child care centers and preschools in the United States, serving 53 percent of families according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.

This means that whether these programs would qualify for Biden’s plan could determine whether some families would be serviced by the plan.

For that reason, some lawmakers, including Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), have pledged to listen

to the organizations. The New York Times reported that Manchin privately told Democrats that he wants to ensure that religious organizations are not excluded from the program.

Others, including the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and civil rights activists, believe that it is long past time for such organizations to comply with the federal nondiscrimination laws.

Rep. Robert Scott (D-Va.), the chairman of the Education and Labor Committee in the House of Representatives, claimed that he worried that, without the provision the U.S. government, it could potentially fund institution-

(flickr.com) Sen. Joe Manchin (D- W.Va.) assumed office in 2010. He is generally regarded as one of the most conservative Democrats in the Senate. He is the chair of the Senate Energy Committee.

alized discrimination.

“The Build Back Better Act must not allow government-funded discrimination; in employment or in the provision of services to participants; in publicly funded programs,” Scott and Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) said in a co-written letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.).

“We believe that allowing such discrimination financed with public funds collected from all taxpayers is wrong,” the letter said.

“We are asking you to oppose any effort to remove or change the nondiscrimination provisions included in the child care and universal preschool provisions of the Build Back Better Act.” Many have argued that the provision does not limit faith in any way. The provision simply ensures that organizations that do not abide to anti-discrimination laws, such as Title IX, which protects against discrimination by sex, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, do not get federal funding. These people have argued that religion and nondiscrimination are not mutually exclusive.

“Who do [these organizations] want to shut out? Is it the lesbian mom [they] want to shut out?” Liz King, the director of the Education Equity Program at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said. “Is it the children with autism [they] want to shut out? Since at least 1964, the law and basic principle has been that federal funds cannot be used to discriminate.”

King also said that the provision is important because the plan is funded by taxes, which everyone including people who face discrimination must pay. She believes it is not fair for people to pay into a program that would allow organizations to exclude them.

“No one should have to subsidize their own discrimination,” King said.

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Writing Center helps students improve their writing TANNER SCHELL Staff Writer dsqcc@iup.edu @ThePennIUP On Nov. 11, as part of 90 minutes with the Center for Multicultural Student Leadership and Engagement (MSCLE), there was an event hosted by the Writing Center.

The Writing Center has three locations: Eicher Hall, the Stapleton Library and through online services. On MyIUP, there is a Writing Center link where students can schedule an appointment.

“When it comes to scheduling an appointment, you can schedule at least an hour or two in advance,” Jacie Martin (senior, English), an undergraduate tutor for the Writing Center, said.

“We still take walk-ins, but we advise that students create an account for appointments.”

Every Wednesday the Writing Center holds a writer’s workshop.

“Those workshops cover everything from MLA, APA, all the way to cover writing,” Martin said.

The Writing Center is free to all IUP students.

“The access to the center comes out of your tuition costs; there is no reason to not use it,” Martin said.

The center has tutors that can help at all points of the writing process.

“We also have handouts with info on writing strategies,” Martin said.

Any kind of paper can be taken to the Writing Center.

“Research papers are common, but we have seen all genres of paper,” Martin said.

The Writing Center also has a printer and a scanner, which can be hard to find on campus. It is important to bring notes, syllabi

or whatever is needed to write a student’s essay, so the tutor knows what the standards are.

“Tutors don’t know everything,” Martin said. “Help them out as best as you can so they can help you as best as they can.”

Writing at the college level is different from writing at the high school level.

“It's important to write concisely and clearly,” Martin said.

“Mind mapping” can help during the prewriting process.

“When completing a writing assignment, it's easy to have multiple ideas,” Martin said.

Tutors will help students avoid repetition.

“Instead, find synonyms or phrases that will sound better overall in the paper you want to write,” Martin said.

Whatever you need help with, the Writing Center will try its best to help you. You can schedule as many appointments as you need.

“You might need more than one session, but we will do our best to make sure your paper is written as well as you can,” Martin said.

Each session is uniquely tailored to a student’s needs.

“No two sessions are alike at the Writing Center,” she said.

If you need any academic support, even math help, you can reach out to the center.

“We had people come in for help with things that normally don't fall under the term ‘writing’, but we will do our best regardless,” she said.

For more information about the Writing Center and its hours of operation, visit https://www. iup.edu/writingcenter/ or stop in to its location in Eicher Hall room 218.

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KAYLEE KASSA Staff Writer bvmy@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

(hub.jhu.edu/jhu.edu) Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore. The university was founded in 1876 and is considered the first research university in the United States. The total enrollment at JHU is over 26,000 students with the majority of those being graduate or doctoral students.

Students learn about job, internship opportunities IUP alumna, Johns Hopkins University staff member speaks on campus KAYLEE KASSA Staff Writer bvmy@iup.edu @ThePennIUP Students seeking opportunities beyond IUP are encouraged to check out Johns Hopkins University (JHU) for jobs and internships.

Chemistry, biochemistry, physics and engineering students at IUP were informed of such positions on Friday by Dr. Caitlin Tressler, the research associate and assistant director of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Applied Imaging Mass Spectrometry Core (JHU SOM/AIMS).

Tressler, a 2009 biochemistry graduate of IUP, went on to study at JHU for her post-doctoral work in cancer imaging. She now works with fellow colleagues, Dr. Kristine Glunde and Director and Dr. Ethan Yang, a Postdoctoral Fellow, on the application of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI).

JHU’s MALDI technology is a method of ionization used for imaging mass spectrometry. There is a diverse group of institutions and JHU departments, such as oncology, infectious disease and

radiology, that use the technology.

After months of doing work remotely over the computer during the COVID-19 pandemic, JHU has been eager to get students back into the lab. In the process of recruiting summer researchers from IUP, Tressler presented the work of past and current JHU SOM/ AIMS students.

A student from the University of Scranton did research on gold nanoparticles for imaging neurotransmitters.

Another student looked into gemcitabine in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) as part of his thesis. He was able to present his published work at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) 2021 conference.

Undergraduates at JHU worked on a sample preparation optimization and off-tissue delocalization project.

The mission of the JHU SOM/ AIMS Core is to “develop and

share innovative MALDI imaging applications that enable biomedical discovery.”

“The technology is ready to expand out into other fields and is ready for students like you to work on,” Tressler said.

Other projects available to undergrads depend on their interests but include cryosectioning, sample preparation, MALDI imaging and data analysis problems.

Tressler is also recruiting for summer interns to help with her own personal research.

These projects include a collaboration with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Chemical Defense on novel mouse models for organophosphate poisoning and countermeasures.

Tressler is also looking into COVID-19 research, cancer metabolism, co-registration of multi-modality imaging and additional work on the sample prep optimization for MALDI imaging.

All of JHU’s technology and

scientific instruments are funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and through internal research funds. Now that they have the funding and the technology, Tressler said that they are eager to have students working in the labs to publish their own work.

Tressler said personal published and presented work from undergraduate students is impressive to the graduate schools that they might apply to; however, to take some of the pressure to publish original work off of students, Tressler said that she is happy if her students just learn something new.

JHU is offering these opportunities to IUP students so that they can “see what is out there beyond IUP.” JHU has access to research labs and scientific instruments that are not available everywhere to students.

“All we want to do is give you that access to explore higher instrumentation in science that you

wouldn’t get elsewhere,” Tressler said.

Tressler encouraged organized and excited students, preferably with chemistry or analytical chemistry backgrounds, to apply for these opportunities. Students who are comfortable with trying different things, doing a wide range of projects and learning as they go would also be compatible with the JHU SOM/AIMS Core research.

Computer-savvy people who can work with a larger data set and students with a programming background would do well in the program because there is much time spent putting together and making sense of data sets.

“We would like to pay it forward and help the next generation of IUP students be successful,” Tressler said.

For questions or more information, Tressler can be contacted at Ctressl3@jh.edu and the JHU SOM/AIMS Core program contact is aims@jhmi.edu.

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Native Lands of Western Pennsylvania

(Braden Murray/The Penn) Clare Brossman, a graduate assistant in Student Support and Community Standards, (left) gave a presentation titled “Acknowledging The Land: Honoring the Native Lands of Western Pennsylvania” in the Elkin Hall Great Room on Monday. The presentation informed attendees about the history of Native American populations and land in and around IUP. Students who attended the meeting were treated to light refreshments.

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(Longmont Public Library/Facebook) November celebrates National Native American/Indigenous Peoples’ Heritage Month. According to https://www.ncai.org/initiatives/native-american-heritage-month, “[it is] a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of native people.”

Think about Thanksgiving from all perspectives Indigenous viewpoint tells different story about holiday *This article contains sensitive material about rape and genocide.

What does Thanksgiving mean to Indigenous and native people?

To them, Thanksgiving is not a time of celebration and gathering with family to share a meal, but rather a time of mourning. The popular story about the breaking of bread between the settlers and the Indigenous people is a preferred “fairy tale” that masks the truth about the holiday.

The story goes like this: the settlers arrived in North America and were struggling and facing death. The Indigenous people saw them suffering and decided to feed the settlers and welcome them onto their land. This was a time of friendship, and everyone

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lived happily together.

This story could not be further from the actual truth.

This is what really happened: when the settlers arrived in North America to start their new way of life, they colonized, pillaged, raped and murdered the Indigenous people. The settlers stole the land that the Indigenous people lived on, created their livelihoods and raised their families on.

Thanksgiving was not a time of peace for Indigenous people; it was a time of suffering. It is still a time of suffering.

“Thanksgiving has always felt hollow to me in my adult life,” Dr. Adrienne Keene, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and an academic scholar and writer, said. “This is

native land. It will always be native land, and I am grateful for that. I will continue to fight for this land, I will continue to educate others about this land and I will pray for this land.”

Keene said that she is trying to have hope for the future, but it is hard when children are being taught since elementary school that Thanksgiving was a time of “friendship” and “community.”

“Thanksgiving is nothing less [than] an annual white victory lap,” Simon Moya-Smith, a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation and a journalist and activist, said. “It’s a celebration of aggressive Christian domination and imperialism.

The holiday, as presented, is an affront to [the] inexorable truth

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and history as it occurred. Indeed, the Thanksgiving narrative belies the rape, murder and genocide that was committed against this continent’s first peoples – men, women and children. Instead of a day of gluttony and excess, the day should be reserved to honor Native Americans.”

Moya-Smith wants people to acknowledge the truth about Thanksgiving and look at the atrocities that the white Christians committed against the Indigenous people.

“To bury the truth behind what Thanksgiving means to Native Americans does nothing but set us back as a country,” Moya-Smith said. “It’s time this nation faces the facts about its actions, its crimes.”

According to http://uaine. org/old/dom.htm, since 1970 the United American Indians of New England have recognized Thanksgiving as the National Day of Mourning. They hold observances at Plymouth every year to tell the truth about their history and struggles. Hundreds of Indigenous people come to support the observance.

This year, be mindful about Thanksgiving and the history behind it. Take time to educate yourself about how Indigenous people feel about the day.

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Culture Editor: Lane Lannan – ffpcc@iup.edu Lead Culture Writer: Caio Gomes – hysbc@iup.edu

(goodhousekeeping.com) According to bhg.com, the most popular Thanksgiving food in Pennsylvania is stuffing, which is a trend that is followed by New York and Connecticut.

Students share favorite foods, desserts of Thanksgiving LANE LANNAN Culture Editor ffpcc@iup.edu @ThePennIUP PATRICK HOUGH Staff Writer mqycc@iup.edu @ThePennIUP With Thanksgiving right around the corner, the students at IUP are getting excited about the foods that will be available.

It is hard to find someone that does not love a good Thanksgiving meal with friends or family.

With many different elements of the holiday, there is a lot to handle. One of the staples and highlights of the day is the food that is served.

While some may prefer the bigger ticket items like turkey

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or stuffing, others prefer the smaller dishes like corn or green beans. The options are endless as well as the variations that can be added or switched from the classic dishes like sweet potatoes replacing mashed potatoes for some families.

There is a lot to choose from for students as they select a favorite.

“It is tough,” Devin Faybik (sophomore, social studies education) said, “but I would have to go with stuffing because it is a classic.”

Stuffing is just one of many different foods that are associated with the holiday. Turkey,

cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and green beans are among some of the most popular dishes, according to www.tastesoflizzyt. com. Stuffing seems to be a popular one with multiple students, including Faybik.

“Probably stuffing, it’s the best part of the whole entire thing because it is simply a staple of Thanksgiving,” Daelin Digiannurio (sophomore, psychology) said.

According to a ranking from insider.com, stuffing is the second most popular food for Thanksgiving in the country, being beaten out by mashed potatoes. Other rankings on the

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list include macaroni and cheese at the third-place spot and rolls at the fourth-place spot. “[My favorite Thanksgiving dish is] mac and cheese,” Muminah Muhammad (sophomore, political science) said. “It’s always something I am always drawn toward.”

While a lot of students are specifically looking forward to the foods that would be eaten during the meal, there are also students that are more excited for the desserts.

“I am honestly really excited for the pies that will be there,” Bridget Gardner (sophomore, environmental engineering) said.

“Pumpkin pie, especially, as it is really associated with Thanksgiving and the fall season in general.”

In addition to the seasonal

pumpkin pie, other desserts like apple pie, pecan pie and cheesecake are all other options for people to include.

Whether you are going to be having a meal with friends or with family, the food that is present will likely be the same, and delicious, for those taking the time to indulge in the Thanksgiving season. With that in mind, students should be sure to have a good time and enjoy the break.

Taking the time to unwind and enjoy some quality family time and good food can be a wonderful time for students over the break from the college life.

The Penn wishes students a good Thanksgiving. Be sure to enjoy the time off and enjoy some good food. Also be sure to stay safe if you travel to visit extended family or friends.

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President Biden reveals plan to visit IUP, pardon crimson hawk EVA TILLICH Managing Editor jxsbc@iup.edu @ThePennIUP CAIO GOMES Lead Culture Writer hysbc@iup.edu @ThePennIUP The Crimson Hoax is a weekly column detailing satirical stories from the IUP community.

Editor’s note: This story is fictional The crimson hawk will be pardoned by President Joe Biden (D-Del.).

Every single year, the incumbent president of the United States “pardons” a turkey from being sacrificed to become Thanksgiving dinner. This year, however, the president will be pardoning a crimson hawk.

The earliest record of a presidential turkey pardoning was allegedly in 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln (R- Ill.) granted clemency to a turkey.

Then, from the 1900s on, presidents were sent turkeys to be pardoned and “saved them” from being slaughtered for Thanksgiving. This turkey pardoning ceremony became something lighthearted and humorous for presidents and the public to engage in.

“Honestly, I think it is so sweet that the president gets to pardon a turkey every year,” Matt Smith (junior, Earth and space education) said. “We are always hearing about pardoning humans who did bad things but never the poor turkeys sentenced to death because we are too greedy to refrain from eating them.”

“I think it is very cruel,” Smith said. “Turkeys are people, too, you know?”

Biden decided to break tradition this year and pardon IUP’s beloved mascot. This decision was made after Biden read a story

The Penn, the student-run newspaper associated with IUP, wrote about him.

Biden once came to IUP about 20 years ago when he was still in the Senate. On the occasion, Biden had a chance to speak to students and staff. Aides say that the then-Senator appreciated how the entire school welcomed him and treated him during his visit.

Now, as a president, Biden wishes to repay IUP for its kindness by symbolically pardoning its mascot.

“Although this is a new step for America, I think that this change can be a good thing that unifies our divided nation,” Biden said.

“The crimson hawk has a rich history with me since the bird and I are from the same place. It is like paying homage to my roots. I think we need to come together and reconnect with the places we started at.”

Reactions from IUP students have been mostly positive. Many felt as though gaining so much attention from the president would bring prestige to the university and its students.

“I feel like I am a celebrity at this point,” Miguel Baking (senior, public relations) said. “Never in a billion years I would have thought that the president would give our mascot a shout out.”

On the other hand, such attention has also come with a prize.

Criticism towards IUP by students who attend other universities has risen, especially coming from other schools in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE).

Many of these students feel as though it is not fair that IUP gets such high recognition worldwide and they do not.

“I don’t get it,” Jel Lucy, allegedly a student at Slippery Rock University, said. “Why does IUP get to be the main character and we don’t? I mean, yinz guys already had Nicki Minaj, Lil Yatchy and now Joe Biden talking about you. Where does it stop?”

To answer Lucy’s question, it

(flickr.com) In many cases, the pardoning ceremony is a funny event. For example, President Barack Obama cracked jokes during his final pardoning as President of the United States. is impossible to figure out when IUP will stop outshining everyone else. In the meantime, The Penn

recommends that students enjoy IUP’s minutes of fame and ignore the criticism from other schools

because in the words of one Taylor Swift, “Haters are [going to] hate.”

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IUP NAACP hosts talent show

Showcases on-stage talents of students CAIO GOMES Lead Culture Writer hysbc@iup.edu @ThePennIUP The IUP chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held its “NAACP Got Talent” talent show last Thursday.

The talent show took place at the Ohio Room of the Hadley Union Building (HUB) from 7:30 p.m. until 10 p.m. It was also livestreamed through NAACP’s Instagram account, @iupnaacp, where it is still available to watch as a permanent post.

Contestants were selected from a previous round of auditions open to all IUP students. Students could audition for singing, dancing, rapping, acting and other stage talents such as stand-up comedy and stage magic.

Many students believe that the flexibility in which talents were allowed combined with the selective process of the audition ensured an entertaining show.

“I think having previous auditions before the show was really smart on [NAACP’s] end because it prevented people who might not be as great as they think from performing,” Sydney Greitz (sophomore, psychology) said. “It was a really nice show because I got to see different types of talent like singing, dancing and poetry, but most importantly it was nice because everyone was really good.

“I don’t think I would have liked to watch a talent show in which people [were bad].”

The diverse array of talents was not limited to just performances, the final podium was also very diverse talentwise. While first place went to Kyon Page (sophomore, business/entrepreneurship) who performed as a singer, second place went to Erika Jackson (sophomore, psychology) a poet, and third place went to Hudson Jean (sophomore, music) who performed as a dancer.

Prior to each performance, the

(Caio Gomes/The Penn) The talent show was held to feature the talent of minority students at IUP. There was a screening done prior that narrowed the pool of student performers down to the most talented to ensure that the show would be as entertaining as possible. audience got to see a previously recorded interview with the contestant. Interviews were hosted by NAACP’s historian, Malcom Hawker (freshman, psychology), and questions included what the contestant would perform as well as why.

Students felt that the interviews were a positive add-on to the show as they got to glimpse a little of

each contestant’s personality.

Many have also felt that it was interesting to see the reasons behind choosing to compete and whether the contestant believed they would win first place.

Among interesting things that the audience learned through watching the interviews was that the first-place win-

ner, Page, actually did not think he would place that high.

“I don’t think I will take first place,” Page said in the interview.

“I am doing it for fun.”

This is a similar sentiment to the one shared by the runner up during her NAACP interview. Jackson, who performed a self-written poem comparing the parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and white supremacy, claimed that it did not matter to her whether she would be on the podium or not as long as she got to perform.

“I am not worried about winning,” Jackson said. “Personally, I am more worried about getting my message across.”

Even though both contestants did not care about where they placed, many felt as though it was rewarding to see them win. Students agree that it was a well-deserved victory.

Overall, the NAACP Got Talent seemed to have been a huge win for the organization. Not only was attendance high to the point that more seats were added in order to accommodate everyone, but those who attended seemed to have had a good time.

The IUP chapter of the NAACP meets every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Interested students can find the member interest form in the organization’s Instagram.

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Fall hits Oak Grove (Nick Schmidt/The Penn) As the fall semester has started to progress, the leaves have started to change more and more. In addition to that, the temperature has started to lower with the recent days being in the mid-to-high thirties. With the temperature dropping, there are also the upcoming holiday seasonal breaks that students have to look forward to with the Thanksgiving break first, happening next week.

After that, students will have finals to do and the winter break to look forward to as the fall semester comes to a close.

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‘A Journey to the Land of Sweets’ hits IUP theater

Depicts excerpts from ‘The Nutcracker’

By IUP Lively Arts The 2021 holiday season officially gets underway in this area on Thursday December 2 at 7p,.m., at Fisher Auditorium, Performing Arts Center when IUP Dance Theater, IUP Symphony Orchestra, The Mahoning Valley Ballet and guests present the perennial favorite, “A Journey to the Land of Sweets” excerpts from “The Nutcracker,” Music Direction under Dr. Alexandra Dee, directed by Joan E. Van Dyke.

Van Dyke and Company with the Mahoning Valley Ballet will also be performing “A Journey to the Land of Sweets” on Saturday Dec. 4 at the Jackson Theater in Punxsutawney. The elaborate production features more than 95 dancers and musicians performing to the music of Tchaikovsky.

The performers, ranging from preschoolers to senior citizens, come from Punxsutawney, Clearfield, Clarion, DuBois, Brookville, Indiana, Pittsburgh, Greensburg, Philadelphia, and the surrounding areas.

(Joan E. Van Dyke/IUP Lively Arts) “The Nutcracker” was choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, with the now iconic score being composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is adapted from the story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” which was written in 1818 by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann.

Commenting on the show, Joan E. Van Dyke, artistic director and choreographer, said that “The Nutcracker has become a holiday tradition around the world, especially in America and Canada. Tchaikovsky’s unforgettable music and the story itself combine all the elements

of beauty and fantasy. When you add the gracefulness of the dancers and the impact of special effects and lighting, there are so many things to please the audience. People can see the show several times and still pick up details they had never noticed before.”

Brimming over with familiar characters, the ballet revolves around Clara, a young girl who receives the gift of an enchanted nutcracker. This year’s journey begins with Olive Claypool, the

housekeeper at the Stalbaum’s home 1863 Austria. Olive tells the magical story of The Nutcracker and is frightened off the stage by life size mice! Other favorite characters include: The Sugar Plum Fairy, Chocolate, Candy Canes, Tea, Marzipan, Coffee and the unforgettable, Mother Ginger! The ballet culminates with the magical “Waltz of the Flowers”.

Principal characters and dancers include Brianna Adkins, Isabelle Bartruff, Sidney Burkett,

Caitlin Chavis, Lydia Domines, Ava Drozd, Brooke Henshaw, Rachel Kovach, Amy Kukula, Lilly Haugh, Briea Heckler, PiperJordan, Haley Magness, Julia McAdoo, Lydia McBee, Jenna Pfingstler, Michaela Rentko, Emily Ruggieri, Samantha Stahl, Bricelyn Webber, Lydia Zuccalotto and special guest appearances

by Bryce Jache, Trevor Runco, Flo West, and other community members all accompanied by IUP Symphony Orchestra.

“A Journey to the Land of Sweets” is a holiday feast for the eyes and ears not to be missed.

Sponsored by The Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance, The Music Department and The Student Co-op at IUP and Van Dyke and Company.

For tickets to the Dec. 2 performance please contact IUP Lively Arts Website or by calling 724357-2787. For tickets to the Dec. 4 performance please call Van Dyke and Company at 814-928-8434.

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Editor-in-Chief: Jeffery Hart – J.R.Hart2@iup.edu Lead Sports Writer: Matt Glover – htpz@iup.edu

Crimson Hawks win final game in comeback effort IUP misses playoffs, looks to come back strong next year BEN SPRIGGS Staff Writer dzbbc@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

(IUP Athletics) Tyrone Fowler Jr. (freshman, academic affairs) (top) was named the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Western Division Defensive Athlete of the Week.

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IUP football concluded the 2021 season this past weekend.

The Crimson Hawks traveled to West Chester, Pa., on Saturday for an out-of-conference season finale matchup.

Indiana won in comeback fashion following a slow start.

Neither team put points on the board in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, the Crimson Hawks drew first blood with a 25-yard field goal from Tyler Luther (freshman, computer science).

West Chester then responded with two back-to-back touchdown runs in short order to go along with a field goal in the closing seconds of the first half.

The Golden Rams led 17-3 at halftime.

Head coach Paul Tortorella and his staff made the necessary adjustments at the break and found success in the second half of play.

Defensive units of both teams controlled the third quarter as no points were scored.

Things then got entertaining.

IUP football proceeded to storm back with four fourth quarter touchdowns while surrendering just seven additional points to West Chester.

The first touchdown came on a 74-yard rocket from quarterback Harry Woodbery (senior, business administration) which was hauled in by Irvin Charles (senior, unclassified).

The electric senior duo played in their final career game this past Saturday.

West Chester would then respond with a nine-yard touchdown run to take the lead, 24-10.

That would be the last time the Golden Rams saw the end zone.

Woodbery then threw back-toback touchdown passes to both Qashah Carter (junior, pre-athletic training) and Duane Brown (redshirt junior, sports administration).

Dayjure Stewart (freshman, unclassified) completed the offensive comeback with a two-yard touch-

down run.

Woodbery finished with 237 yards and three touchdowns in 13 completions.

Charles was the leading receiver with 98 yards and a touchdown.

After struggling early, the IUP defense settled down and controlled West Chester’s offense.

Linebackers Melachi Newell (graduate student, senior transfer) and Connor Kelly (junior, marketing) played a major role in things, both finishing with eight tackles a piece.

The win was a positive ending to a relatively disappointing 2021 IUP football season.

At the midway point of the year, IUP football had appeared to be major contenders following a convincing win against a top-ranked Slippery Rock team where the Hawks showed no mercy.

A Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) game berth and possibly even playoffs certainly appeared to be in their future.

A collection of things then proceeded to go wrong for Indiana that resulted in a late October two-game losing skid that the team ultimately never recovered from.

The back-to-back losses to California University of Pennsylvania and a struggling Edinboro team removed IUP from PSAC and playoff contention.

You may not see the Crimson Hawks play in the postseason this year, but the 2021 season produced some great moments to look back on.

IUP beat an elite rival in Slippery Rock on the road, was 4-0 in homecoming games and beat the two teams that ultimately ended up playing for the PSAC Championship in Kutztown and Slippery Rock.

The Golden Bears defeated the Rock this past weekend 38-32 to win the conference title.

It will be a long winter for IUP football.

The next time you see them take the field, the Hawks will look very different as the team will lose many key starters to graduation this off season.

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Men’s basketball starts off season undefeated Hawks sweep IRMC classic starting out 2-0

MATT GLOVER

Lead Sports Writer htpz@iup.edu @ThePennIUP The No. 18 Crimson Hawks swept the Indiana Regional Medical Center (IRMC)/Hilton Garden Inn Classic to start the season 2-0, beating Concord 98-78 and West Virginia Wesleyan 87-61.

“There was a lot going on with the [COVID-19 pandemic] and some injuries, but it’s good to be back out there,” forward Tommy Demogerontas (redshirt fifth year, business) said.

Before this weekend, the IUP men’s basketball team had not played a meaningful game since COVID-19 canceled the 2020 NCAA Championships.

Guard Shawndale Jones (redshirt senior, communications media) was one of five Hawks to score in the double digits with 23 points Saturday night against Concord.

Guard Armoni Foster (redshirt senior, criminal justice) scored 17 points posting a double-double and led the team with nine rebounds. He also had seven assists, three steals and two blocks.

Guard Dave Morris (redshirt junior, kinesiology, health and sport science) scored 16 points with six steals, forward Ethan Porterfield (sophomore, criminology and criminal justice) scored 14 points and Demogerontas scored 12 points with seven rebounds.

IUP came out to an early lead of 24-5 about halfway through the first half before a series of three-pointers and free throws allowed Concord to catch up to within 11 points at halftime.

After halftime, the closest Concord got to IUP was within seven points, and the lead never changed.

The team had the advantage in field goal percentage, rebounds, turnovers, steals and blocks which helped secure the win.

Friday against West Virginia Wesleyan, the teams stuck with each other for most of the first half with IUP down for much of it.

“We started off a little slow,” Demogerontas said, “but as the game picked up, we started playing more defense, getting more rebounds, and that let us transition, which was easy buckets for us.”

The team is focused on a defense-first approach this year.

“Defensively,” head coach Joe Lombardi said, “I’m encouraged by our activity and our intensity, and showing signs of being a dominant defensive team.”

It was towards the end of the first half where IUP secured a 13-point lead going into halftime.

The second half was when IUP turned it on again, turning a seven-point lead into a 26-point lead by the end of the game and shooting 50 percent.

Jones again led the team scoring 19 points as five Hawks scored in the double digits. Foster scored 15 points and earned eight assists.

Demogerontas put up a double-double with 16 points and 15 rebounds in his 26 minutes on the floor.

“He has a lot of versatility on both ends of the floor and can obviously rebound the ball,” Lombardi said.

The younger men also did their part as Porterfield scored 10

points and guard Bryce Radford (redshirt freshman, unclassified) scored 14 points and went 4-4 on three-pointers.

IUP made 12 three-pointers with the help of Radford, Jones, Porterfield and Morris.

“Offensively, I think our guys shared the ball well,” Lombardi said. “We played at a fast pace and executed what we needed to do at a high rate.”

“We like to play with pace and see what the guy running says,” Demogerontas said.

The team will next take on the Le Moyne Dolphins in the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex (KCAC) today at 7:30 p.m. The first 400 students to arrive starting at 7 p.m. will get a free t-shirt celebrating back-toback PSAC Championship wins in 2019 and 2020.

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(Natalie Escalera/The Penn) The Hawks will look to start off their season much like they did in 2019 when they won their first nine games. The first 400 students that show up for tonight’s game will receive a free t-shirt (top).

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(IUP Athletics) In 2019, Justina Mascaro led the way for the Hawks averaging a team-high 14.2 points per game.

Women’s basketball back to its winning ways, starts off season 2-0 MATT GLOVER

Lead Sports Writer htpz@iup.edu @ThePennIUP IUP women’s basketball dominated the court this weekend to begin its season 2-0 after beating Livingstone College 70-38 and Virginia State 51-42.

Livingstone never stood a chance Sunday as IUP quickly took the lead in the first quarter, scoring 27 points and forcing nine turnovers compared to its three points and zero forced turnovers.

“We did really well coming out in the first quarter and handling things that. In the past, we weren’t really the best at like breaking the press and all that full-court pressure, even on ball pressure,” guard Justina Mascaro (redshirt senior, finance and economics) said.

Entering halftime, IUP was up 22 points and showed no signs of

slowing down.

Seniors Mascaro, Courtney Alexander (redshirt senior, nursing) and Maura D’Anne (redshirt senior, physical education) led the team with 17, 12 and 10 points scored respectively.

The seniors were not the only ones that performed well against Livingstone, though. Guard Kiera Baughman (freshman, kinesiology, health and sport science) scored nine points with five assists, two steals and only one turnover in the game.

Speaking of turnovers, one thing that held IUP back was 24 turnovers in the last three quar-

ters after committing none in the first.

“We want to get a good shot every time down, and 24 [turnovers] is way, way too many,” head coach Tom McConnell said. “Hopefully we’ll continue to grow and get better in that area.”

“There can’t be any game slippage,” Mascaro said. “You have to execute, run the offense and just do what we do.”

IUP finished this one with a 40.9 field goal percentage and 14 more rebounds than its opponent, which brought home the win.

Saturday, the team played

its first real game in 20 months against Virginia State where the seniors impressed yet again.

Mascaro went 7-15 scoring 16 points while D’Anne scored 14 points with nine blocks and led the team with nine rebounds.

The freshmen also came through again as guard Gina Adams (freshman, marketing) scored eight points, had the second-most rebounds on the team at six and went 4-4 on free throws.

“Gina gave us great toughness and has the potential to be a really good scorer,” McConnell said.

The Hawks went into halftime leading by 11 before the Trojans mounted a second-half comeback outscoring IUP 26-24.

IUP held on and used what it had learned from the preseason exhibitions and in practice to secure the win.

“Little things really matter,” Mascaro said. “Like the first pass, stepping to the pass, blocking out and finding your girl, those little

details. You can’t not do those things against very good teams.”

“We have to carry over all those little aspects we go over in practice,” D’Anna said. “Even if it’s just two inches or two feet over to the right, we have to be in the right spot, help our teammates and bring each other up.”

The Crimson Hawks’ success this weekend could also be attributed to switching up their defensive style.

“We played a lot more zone than we have in a long time,” McConnell said. “We felt the scouting report dictated that we played more zone limit triple penetration.”

The team will next play Mount Aloysius at home on Wednesday at 11 a.m.

“Every day we come in with a fresh mindset of it’s a new team,” D’Anna said. “We don’t care how we played the day before or the day after. We do our thing; good things will happen for us.”

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Volleyball finishes season on positive note Crimson Hawks make 11-game improvement on regular season record JAY McGARY Staff Writer fwzt@iup.edu @ThePennIUP IUP women’s volleyball finished the season on Friday with a win, and although it is a positive ending, it is not the ending the team had hoped for.

IUP finished the 2021 schedule with an 18-14 record, going 8-8 in conference play and putting a stamp on its season with a 3-2 win over Clarion, winning in five sets with scores of 26-24, 25-21, 23-25, 23-25 and 15-12. The Hawks also ended the season with a threegame winning streak.

Clarion heads into the postseason after the game, obtaining the No. 3 seed. The game played on Friday had playoff implications, and IUP was surely aware of this.

Sadly, those postseason aspirations were crushed when California

University of Pennsylvania (Cal U) defeated Mercyhurst 3-0 on Saturday afternoon, clinching the fourth seed.

This means that in head coach Julie Torbett’s first complete season with Hawks, she walks away with a winning record and solidified a .500 record in in-conference play.

“Having a winning season was one of our goals at the beginning of the season,” Torbett said.

“The fact that we were able to accomplish that, break the attendance record and improve on the number of overall wins (seven) is great. The final goal was to make it to the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Tournament.”

The primary reason the team missed the postseason was a result of a mid-season slump.

From Oct. 9 to Oct. 22, the team posted a 1-4 record. At the end of the month, IUP began to turn its season around and won six of its last seven games in a commendable attempt at securing a postseason appearance.

Though the victory over Clarion will mark the end of the 2021 volleyball season for the Crimson Hawks, it is safe to say that the team returning in 2022 retains a lot of the offensive production from this year.

Kill-leader Nicole Peterson (junior, sports administration) will return for her senior campaign

after posting a whopping 335 kills on the season and a team-high 3.13 kills per set.

Outside hitter Brooke Little (junior, sports administration), who really ramped up her production towards the end of the season, also returns for her senior year after accumulating a team-second best 224 kills and 250 points.

Caroline Walsh (junior, nutrition and dietetics) and Stefania Anagnostou (sophomore, biology) also return after productive offensive seasons, heading into their senior and junior years, respectively.

Bailey Flowerdew (sophomore, psychology), the team’s dig leader and libero, will return for her junior year after posting nearly a quarter of the team’s digs on the season.

Setter Leah Henderson (junior, sports administration) will return, and she was perhaps the most important cog of the Hawks’ offense this year earning 821 assists in 109 sets played, accounting for nearly

62 percent of all assists earned by the Hawks this year.

Sadly, IUP will graduate some of its best front-row defensive players. Kylie Osborn (senior, natural science/pre-pharmacy) had a team-second 84 blocks on the season, Lexi Hraga (senior, natural science) had the fourth most digs on the team with 138 and Jadyn Fuller (senior, natural science/pre-physical therapy) added another 19 blocks to the front-row dominance that the seniors provided.

Outside hitter Gia Cannavino (senior, natural science) will also graduate, and she earned 12 blocks, 92 digs and 120 kills as a very solid rotational player for the Hawks in her senior year.

The Hawks will certainly miss their seniors, but after a relatively successful 2021 campaign and only graduating four players this year, next year should be the year they can reach the postseason with Torbett at the helm.

(IUP Athletics) The Hawks were red-hot at the end of the season winning six out of their last seven matches. This gives the team something to build off of going into the next season.