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IUP receives largest single gift in university history

By KATIE MEST News Editor K.A.Mest@iup.edu

Students, faculty and distinguished alumni walked into a red-glowing Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex (KCAC) on Friday and were greeted by jazz music and a few exciting announcements for the university.

Each year, IUP holds its Celebration of Philanthropy, a night to honor the generosity of those who give back to their school and community.

The university announced it increased its campaign fundraising goal to $75 million from $40 million. It has already reached $53 million.

The Imagine Unlimited campaign fundraised in order to provide students with the resources necessary to teach them critical thinking, leadership opportunities and hands-on experience.

“It is apparent that our alumni and friends are very committed to IUP, and with enthusiasm,” said William Madia, campaign co-chair, “we expect to reach $75 million in the course of the next three years.”

After the celebratory dinner,

(IUP) Guests celebrated with streamers Friday in the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex with the announcement of the Imagine Unlimited campaign totals and gifts.

IUP President Michael Driscoll invited Tim and Deb Cejka to the podium, where they announced that they will donate an additional $2 million to the $5 million they have previously donated. Their most recent gift completes the match required by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of General Services to begin

construction of a new facility for science and mathematics, according to a Friday news release from the university.

The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics gained another generous gift – the largest in university history.

John and Char Kopchick, IUP alumni from Athens, Ohio, an-

nounced that they will be giving $23 million to the same college.

This will go toward the new building, research funds and scholarships.

“The extraordinary commitments made this evening and those we’ve received toward the campaign before tonight’s announcements are an overwhelm-

ing testimony of how IUP alumni truly believe in what we do here,” Driscoll said. “I see no limits to what IUP can accomplish as we prepare the next generation of leaders and as we make a positive and transformative impact on our region.”

In addition to the new science building, the campaign will benefit a wide range of scholarships, an executive-in-residence program for IUP’s Eberly College of Business and Information Technology, programmatic support for the Center for Multicultural Student Leadership and Engagement, support for health care simulation programs and facilities and more, Driscoll said.

Madia and his wife, Audrey, also committed $1 million to science and mathematics projects.

William and Judy Scheeren, of Greensburg, gave $1.4 million to the College of Education and Communications.

Terry Serafini, of Pittsburgh, gave $1 million to support mathematics, business and the building of Grant Street Park. The park will occupy Grant Street between the Humanities and Social Sciences Building and Putt and Delaney residence halls.

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(Paul Marchwinski/ The Penn) Students took advantage of the warm weather Saturday and Sunday in the Oak Grove, ignoring the snowy forecast for Tuesday. Cold temperatures are predicted for the rest of the week.

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The GOP’s biggest LGBT advocate is retiring. Here’s how the party plans to move ahead.

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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuba libre in hand, was busy waxing nostalgic with former Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart about their efforts to undermine Fidel Castro when the animated discussion was interrupted by Caitlyn Jenner.

The world’s most recognizable advocate for transgender causes wanted to hug the retiring Miami lawmaker with a history of bucking and pushing the Republican Party on LGBT issues.

“Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is a person of many firsts, and if you know anything about me I love firsts,” Jenner said at a recent gala honoring Ros-Lehtinen’s career. “The first Latina elected to Congress, the first woman elected to Congress from Florida, the first Republican in the House to support marriage equality, and she did it in a very big way.”

Jenner, also a Republican, and Ros-Lehtinen are at odds with the majority of Republican lawmakers.

President Donald Trump has announced a ban on transgender people serving in the military via tweet and multiple state legislatures have considered legislation that would restrict access to restrooms, locker rooms, and other sex-segregated facilities on the basis of sex assigned at birth.

“Fighting for gay rights, transgender rights is such an important part of my DNA and what I do,” Ros-Lehtinen said.

Ros-Lehtinen introduced legislation in 2015 that would prohibit schools from discriminating against students based on sexual orientation or gender identity. She

(TNS) Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, right, and former Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart met Wednesday with former Olympic gold medalist and transgender advocate Caitlyn Jenner in Washington, D.C. Ros-Lehtinen, one of the first Republicans to support LGBT issues in Congress, is leaving office after the 2018 elections.

also signed on to a friend-of-thecourt brief in a Supreme Court case seeking to protect access to public accommodations for transgender students.

And Ros-Lehtinen’s son, Rodrigo, is the first openly transgender child of a sitting member of Congress.

“The most important job Ileana’s had ... is being a mom,” Jenner said. “For the trans community we have many, many issues. The suicide rate for young trans youth is nine times higher than the general public, we have homelessness, we have young trans people being kicked out of their homes all across this country.

“Transgendered kids ... may be bullied in school, they may be a little different, but when they go home, (if) they go to a safe place and a loving family, that is by far the most important thing we can do for our kids. So Ileana, I want

to thank you for that.”

But Ros-Lehtinen, the only Republican in Congress with a 100 percent rating from the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBT rights organization, won’t be in office next year.

Her retirement and a potential wave election for Democrats in 2018 could make pro-LGBT Republicans a rare breed in the next Congress.

Four of the eight Senate Republicans endorsed by the Log Cabin Republicans, a pro-LGBT group, could be gone next year, and nine of the 11 House Republicans endorsed by the group are retiring or face tough reelection campaigns.

“I think it’s a real challenge for the Republican Party with people like Ileana leaving and I think it’s a real challenge for the Republican Party if you look at millennial voters, they support equality by

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phenomenally large numbers,” said David Stacy, the head of government affairs for the Human Rights Campaign.

But Stacy said if certain Republicans can win reelection – like Miami Rep. Carlos Curbelo and Virginia Rep. Scott Taylor, two 38-year-old members who get high marks from pro-LGBT groups – they can effectively carry on Ros-Lehtinen’s work within the Republican Party. Curbelo has the second-highest rating among House Republicans from the Human Rights Campaign, while Taylor was the second House Republican, after Ros-Lehtinen, to sign onto the Equality Act, a bill that adds sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal civil rights protections.

“To me, it’s a freedom issue, it’s liberty,” Taylor said. “Who cares who you love or what you do with your life as long as you don’t harm

anybody else? In terms of gay marriage, everybody should be equally as happy or as miserable as everybody else.”

Taylor entered Congress in 2017, less than five years after Ros-Lehtinen and then-President Barack Obama formally backed gay marriage in 2012. Gay marriage became law in all 50 states after a 2015 Supreme Court ruling.

Log Cabin Republicans president Gregory Angelo said the group has been preparing for Ros-Lehtinen’s retirement for years, cultivating relationships with lawmakers on the importance of taking pro-LGBT stances.

“I see the Republican Party moving, at times however slow, to a place of greater inclusion and leadership on LGBT issues,” Angelo said. “I do see that it was specifically her work that paved the way for Republican LGBT advocates.”

And Angelo is heartened that some new Republican lawmakers who assumed office after surviving a competitive primary are signing onto pro-LGBT bills.

One of the reasons some Republicans have shied away from LGBT issues in the past is because of the threat of a Republican primary challenger on the right.

“I see instances time and again of individuals who were decried as anti-gay Republicans in competitive primaries and ended up becoming allies of the LGBT community,” Angelo said, noting freshman New York Rep. Claudia Tenney and Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey as two examples of Republicans who signed onto pro-LGBT bills though they were attacked for being anti-LGBT during their initial runs for office.

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The actor Richard Gere, who has worked with Ros-Lehtinen for years on a number of human rights issues, said her long career as a trailblazer within the Republican Party on LGBT issues serves as an example for others to take a stand.

“People who feel people’s pain in a deep way, they’re there for the long haul,” Gere said.

“A lot of people come in and out of different subjects and might be interested for the moment, but she does feel things extremely deeply. I think she’s also realistic because nothing changes quickly.”

There isn’t much in the way of LGBT-related legislation that’s likely to move through Congress in Ros-Lehtinen’s final months in office, though advocacy groups are trying to find more Republicans like Taylor and Curbelo to cosponsor pro-LGBT legislation and will monitor attempts from social conservatives to insert anti-LGBT amendments into must-pass bills.

“As a trans woman, I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, your leadership, your compassion and your unconditional love I just want to thank you, baby,” Jenner said.

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President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer and hard-nosed fixer, Michael Cohen, lost an early round in federal court in Manhattan on Monday, as a judge ordered him to disclose the name of a client he had tried to keep secret: Fox News personality Sean Hannity.

The disclosure was the latest surprise in a highly unusual court case in which the president is fighting his own Justice Department.

Cohen, his lawyer disclosed, represents Hannity along with Trump and Elliot Broidy, the prominent Los Angeles-based Republican fundraiser.

Earlier in the day, Cohen’s lawyers said in a letter to District Judge Kimba Wood that he had only three clients, but they refused to divulge Hannity’s name.

The lawyers did not say what work Cohen has performed for Hannity.

Cohen has arranged at least two hush-money payments to women who claimed they had sexual affairs with Trump.

One was $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, the porn actress, and she attended the crowded court hearing.

For Broidy, Cohen helped broker a $1.6 million payment to a former Playboy model with whom he had a sexual relationship.

The woman became pregnant and subsequently had an abortion, Broidy said in a statement last week after The Wall Street Journal first reported Cohen’s role.

Cohen’s lawyer argued to keep the third client’s name confidential, but Wood dismissed his pleas to write it down in a sealed note. She ordered him to say it aloud.

“I rule it must be disclosed now,” she said.

The disclosures came at a hearing at which Cohen is trying to stop federal investigators from sifting through a trove of tax records, business documents, emails and other material that FBI agents seized in court-approved searches of his apartment, hotel room, office and safe deposit box last week.

Cohen’s lawyers argued that the evidence should be protected by attorney-client privilege.

(TNS) Federal prosecutor Thomas McKay, center, arrived Monday at Manhattan Federal Court. He is prosecuting the case against Michael Cohen for the government.

According to court filings, the public integrity section of the U.S. attorney’s office in New York has been investigating Cohen for months because of allegations that his private business dealings – including the secret hush-money payments – may have violated federal bank fraud or campaignfinance laws.

Cohen has said he paid the $130,000 to Daniels himself, was not reimbursed by Trump, and never even told Trump what he’d done. Trump also has said that he was unaware of the payment.

The government has proposed that Cohen’s materials can be reviewed by a walled-off “taint team” of prosecutors that will judge which material is relevant to the investigation and filter out documents that should be kept private.

In a court filing Sunday night, however, Trump’s lawyers argued that would not protect the president’s rights – thus disputing the Justice Department’s position.

“In the highly politicized, even fevered, atmosphere that envelops this matter, it is simply unreasonable to expect that a team of prosecutors, even if not directly involved in the investigation of Mr. Cohen, could perform a privilege review in the manner necessary to safeguard the important interests of the president, as the holder of the privilege,” said the filing by Trump’s attorney Joanna C. Hendon.

Trump’s lawyers argued that they should be given the right to first review the seized material to delete anything they believe is privileged material involving the

president.

Prosecutors responded Monday in a letter to Wood that “there is no basis for the assertion by the president that career federal prosecutors, designated to a filter team, cannot fairly evaluate whether certain files, obtained by a judicially-authorized search warrant contain privileged material.”

The president has complained angrily about the FBI raids on

Cohen, tweeting on Sunday that “Attorney Client privilege is now a thing of the past. I have many (too many!) lawyers and they are probably wondering when their offices, and even homes, are going to be raided with everything, including their phones and computers, taken. All lawyers are deflated and concerned!”

Trump may have undermined his own argument for protecting the records when he told reporters that he wasn’t aware of the $130,000 payment to the porn actress.

That will open up an argument that Cohen wasn’t acting as a lawyer when he paid the money.

Cohen appears to have taken a different position than Trump on how the documents should be handled.

In a court filing Monday morning, Cohen’s lawyers said either they and Trump’s lawyers should be allowed to review the seized materials before the prosecution, or that the judge should appoint an outside special master to do the review.

Allowing Cohen and Trump to review the materials before prosecutors can look at them would be a significant defeat for the government.

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RHA hosts 25th annual ‘Glitz and Glamour’ drag show

(Danielle DiAmico/ The Penn) The Residence Hall Association (RHA) hosted its 25th annual drag show, “Glitz and Glamour,” on Friday night. Student and professional entertainers, such as Lola LeCroix (in left picture, bottom right) and Sasha Nolan (in left picture, bottom left), took on the stage in the Hadley Union Building (HUB) Ohio Room.

SPC block party brings possibilities, funding to Grant Street Park

By CANDACE HOWELL Staff Writer C.J.Howell@iup.edu

Windy weather didn’t stop the Student Philanthropy Council (SPC) from hosting its free outdoor event Thursday, which provided prizes, food and music for students.

SPC President Alex Ickes (management) said the block party was organized to thank students who already supported the project and raise awareness for “the possibilities Grant Street Park has to offer.”

“One of my hopes for this event is to get the student body out and engaged,” Ickes said.

SPC Faculty Advisor Mary Jo Ludwig said the location helped students “visualize” the layout of the future park. Students like Mikayla McFarland (freshman, nursing) did just that.

McFarland said the park will be a “commonplace” for students to study and enjoy.

“I think [the park] will add to the overall feel of the campus,” McFarland said. “I think that … it will bring people from one side of the campus to the other. We have

(Candace Howell/ The Penn) Students gathered next to the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Building on Thursday for a block party, which was held by the Student Philanthropy Council to raise money for Grant Street Park.

this entire huge space that doesn’t get utilized. So we might as well use it.”

Freshmen Emma Russek (theater and dance) and Molly McDowell (theater and dance) shared similar opinions.

“I think the park will give campus more of a green feel,” McDowell said. “I think it’s better for the environment and definitely a better place for people to hang

out.”

Russek said that, while IUP has the Oak Grove and the Co-Op areas, the current “blocked off street” will be a nice “connecting spot” that will add to the campus’ atmosphere, bringing “more nature and more green” to IUP. Katrina Bloom (junior, early childhood special education) and Elizabeth Lacarte (junior, early childhood special education) said

the park will offer more students the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors while they study.

Ickes said that, while he doesn’t believe the new park will “add to the iconic Oak Grove,” it will be its own “distinct place that is more student-centered.” Ickes also said the Oak Grove is a treasure in itself that has graced IUP for many years.

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played music for and helped set up the event.

The volunteer DJ, Patrick Cone (sophomore, mathematics) said the college radio station has been particularly active in recent events, such as Take Back the Night and Radio Week. Cone said it was “necessary” for campus organizations to help each other, especially for a good cause.

“If one organization is supporting a good cause, then other organizations should support each other,” Cone said.

Students who stopped by played games like giant Jenga and cornhole. Students also entered to win a raffle basket and eat Romeo’s pizza and Pita Pit pitas.

Four students won four different raffle baskets, and some won T-shirts and IUP decals if they landed on various Plinko labels.

IUP’s mascot, Norm, even walked around to take pictures with students or coax them into participating in activities.

Ludwig announced Monday via email that more than 800 student gifts had been made to various endeavors on campus including scholarships, athletics, departments and Grant Street Park.

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The outlook in the state of Pennsylvania’s sports scene has come to fruition recently with the success of both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia’s teams. For the last decade, it has been up and down for both cities as both have shared in minor successes but were unable to win a title since the Philadelphia Phillies in 2008 and the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2009. It wasn’t until the Penguins went on a hot streak at the end of the 2015-16 season that they earned a Stanley Cup championship, which got one of Pennsylvania’s two biggest cities back on the title track.

After winning the organization’s fourth Stanley Cup, the Pens shocked the world by winning a second straight Cup the next season in 2016-17, a tough goal to accomplish in the NHL. Pittsburgh has also celebrated solid seasons from the Pittsburgh Steelers, which have won their fair share of titles with their NFL-leading six Super Bowls but have failed to get over the hump of the AFC Championship game since 2010.

Pittsburgh also enjoyed some competitive years with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 2013, 2014 and 2015 seasons, when the team snapped its 20-year playoff drought by reaching the National League Wild Card game in two of the three years and an NL Divisional Series berth in 2013.

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Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Brian Elliott stopped the puck Sunday during the second period against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference playoffs in Philadelphia.

As for Philadelphia, after enjoying the success of the Phillies from 2007 to 2011, which featured a World Series title, an NL pennant and three other trips to the postseason, it became a sharp decline following 2011.

The Philadelphia 76ers have been extremely disappointing to fans following “The Process,” which led to season-tanking in order for better draft positioning, as the team was one of the worst teams in the league from 2013 to 2017. The Flyers and the Eagles enjoyed success in the first decade of the 2000s but, like decades before, were unable to win a championship. In the

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2010s, both teams have taken a step back, missing the postseason several times and rebuilding.

As for right now, however, it is all looking up for Philadelphia with the Eagles winning the organization’s first Super Bowl in February and both the Sixers and the Flyers reaching the postseason with a lot to look forward to in the coming years.

The Flyers and Pens in particular are in the middle of the spotlight in the Pennsylvania sports scene, with the current firstround playoff series, a series the back-toback champs are leading, 2-1, with Game 4 set for Wednesday night in Philadelphia.

This is certainly exciting in and of itself, but also is a celebration of what the two great sports cities have been experiencing.

Philly, coming off a Super Bowl and on the rise in basketball, is squaring off with the Steel City, which is still enjoying its backto-back Cups. It seems bragging rights are on the line.

Here at IUP, this is the first time students from both sides of Pennsylvania are seeing their teams square off with a cross-state opponent in some time. The last postseason matchup between the cities occurred in 2012, when the Flyers defeated the Penguins in six games. This time around, it appears that the Pens have the upper hand in the series after outscoring the Flyers, 13-6, in the first three games.

However the series turns out, fans of either city can enjoy the head-to-head matchups since it has not been often that the pair of cities’ sports success has overlapped one another. If things keep going how they have been, the cities might run into each other in the postseason more often, which can only help build one of the best rivalries in all of professional sports.

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What was right and what was wrong about Trump’s Syria strike

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It has been clear for some time – telegraphed in typically blustering language on Twitter – that President Donald Trump intended to make Syrian President Bashar Assad pay a price for the poisoning deaths of dozens of people earlier this month in the rebel-held town of Duma. On Friday evening, Trump announced that he had indeed ordered “precision strikes” on facilities associated with Syria’s chemical weapons program and that they were being coordinated with the armed forces of Britain and France. On Saturday morn-

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ing, Trump and other officials declared the mission a success.

Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of Trump’s decision, he is right to see the use of chemical weapons as especially abhorrent.

Of course, conventional weapons also cause death and injury, and a child killed by a barrel bomb is just as dead as a child poisoned by sarin or chlorine gas. But for a century, chemical weapons have been viewed by civilized nations as beyond the pale. The descriptions in recent days of Syrian victims gasping, trembling and foaming at the mouth only reinforces that view. If the deployment of such weapons in Syria goes unpunished, other governments and movements

might be emboldened to violate that prohibition. That Britain and France were willing to participate in the strikes with the United States is proof that alarm about these atrocities isn’t unique.

Whether this weekend’s attack will succeed in its objective of deterring Assad from using chemical weapons is less clear. On Saturday, Trump tweeted, “Mission Accomplished!” and a Pentagon spokeswoman said that U.S. officials believed the strikes had “significantly crippled” Assad’s ability to carry out future chemical weapons attacks. Yet Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff director, acknowledged that “there’s still a residual element

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of the Syrian program that’s out there.”

Of course, the risk of such a strike is that it will further entangle the United States in this tragic and terribly complex conflict, and that it will lead, ultimately, to confrontation with Russia, Iran and other powers involved in the region.

Trump has asserted repeatedly that he wants to disengage from Syria, yet in his address to the nation Friday evening, he said: “We are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents.” And Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told an emergency Security Council meeting Saturday

that the U.S. is “locked and loaded” for further military action in the event the Syrian regime uses chemical weapons again.

If Trump indeed decides further military action is necessary – and we firmly hope that it will not be – he should seek authority in advance from Congress, as he should have done. He also should seek approval for the current deployment of 2,000 troops combating ISIS remnants.

Trump said Friday that “the purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread and use of chemical weapons.”

He was right not to extend the mission to regime change.

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(Facebook) The peanut butter and pickle sandwich has been a topic of discussion on social media for the last few weeks.

Peanut butter and pickles expose students’ weird food combinations

By JESSICA TRUBY Staff Writer J.L.Truby@iup.edu

This article contains opinion.

The combination of pickles and peanut butter has been floating around the internet as a new creation that sounds disgusting but tastes great. Many students at IUP tried the combination and agreed that it really does taste good.

Lily Whorl (junior, journalism and public relations) said she thought the combination was surprisingly good.

“I also like ketchup and mayonnaise, which some people think is a little weird,” Whorl said.

But Whorl is not the only one to enjoy the mayonnaise and ketchup mixture. Heinz, the company well known for its brand of ketchup, announced on its Twitter page that it is releasing a new product called “Mayochup.”

Mayochup is a mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup in one bottle that cuts out the work of mixing it yourself.

Ketchup is a starting point for many strange food combinations. Ketchup and macaroni and cheese, ketchup and popcorn and ketchup sandwiches are all strange combinations some people seem to enjoy. Most

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students who ate these ketchup concoctions ate them when they were children who were very picky about what they ate.

Another interesting food combination that might raise some questions is chocolate-covered potato chips.

Lay’s potato chips have many unusual flavors, but recently, Lay’s began selling chocolate-covered chips. It is a mixture of salty and sweet and is easy to make on your own.

Food Network has a recipe to make the chips on its website.

According to the website, when the chips are homemade, they are crispier than chips that have been covered and sitting in a bag for a while.

A unique food combination that is a little more well known, but still a little odd, is French fries and ice cream. An employee at

McDonalds on Wayne Avenue said customers order ice cream and French fries more often than some might think. Customers have also ordered French fries and dipped them in milkshakes or McFlurrys.

A more healthful, interesting food combination is avocados and something sweet. Chocolate avocado mousse has been popularized by Food Network Chef Giada De Laurentiis on her show “Giada at Home.” Her recipe can be found on Food Network’s website.

Videos of people trying some of these combinations and others are making their way around the internet. If you don’t know whether a weird food combination is good and want to see someone else try it first and give a review, looking up videos is a good place to start.

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The exhibit features work from the museum’s permanent collection of female artists. The exhibit is located at The Artists Hand Gallery on Philadelphia Street and runs until May 21.

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(Facebook) Jason Aldean released his eighth studio album “Rearview Town” on Friday.

Aldean rolls back in with ‘Rearview Town’

By SETH WOOLCOCK Culture Editor S.M.Woolcock@iup.edu

This article contains opinion.

Country music star Jason Aldean released his eighth studio album “Rearview Town” on Friday.

Prior to “Rearview Town,” Aldean’s last album, “They Don’t Know,” was released Sept. 9, 2016. More than a year and a half later, and after experiencing a lifechanging event while performing at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in October where a shooter claimed 58 lives and wounded another 527, Aldean is back.

The obvious difference from “Rearview Town” and Aldean’s previous albums is Aldean’s new approach to his music. In his new album, Aldean attempts to blend country and rock music to give listeners that old-time feel, while still putting a modern spin on it.

The 15-track album kicks off with a good vibing, long-workweek-ending jam, “Dirt to Dust.”

“Set It Off,” the second track on the album, takes listeners to a cool place in the countryside.

This track, like most on the album, picks up fast with guitar riffs and a quick-paced chorus.

Even though “You Make It Easy” was the first single from the album and has already been nearly overplayed, the song is still something different.

The slow-moving love ballad shows a different, more vulnerable side of Aldean. It defies the cliché that love is “too hard.”

While “You Make It Easy” shows a side of Aldean that isn’t often seen, “Gettin’ Warmed Up” shows a side of Aldean that we’ve seen many times before — his wild side. This track serves as the party anthem of the album.

“Backtop Gone,” the sixth track on the album, paints the picture of

a small-town kid who wants to see what’s past those county borders, with it’s classic country rock intro.

It’s the perfect song for cruising with the buddies or venturing out on a road trip.

“Drowns the Whiskey (featuring Miranda Lambert)” is a catchy song about how sometimes the memory of a past love can drown out the effects of whiskey, instead of the other way around. Lambert’s backup vocals throughout the song are well placed and not overpowering.

The track “Rearview Town” tells a story to which many can relate.

“I think, to me, the song means putting things that have maybe weighed you down a little bit,” Aldean said in an iHeartRadio interview, “putting those [things] behind you and looking ahead to what’s down the road.”

With so many powerful songs toward the top of the album, it may be strange to some that one of the best overall songs is found deeper within the album.

“Like You Were Mine” leads in with a funky, southern beat. Aldean uses his country fast-talk and rap skills, similar to those used in his 2010 hit “Dirt Road Anthem,” to set the scene. The song could be classified as a breakup song but can be an enjoyable listen for any occasion.

Other high points in the album for listeners could be “Better At Being Who I Am,” a song that says you shouldn’t change yourself for anyone, and “High Noon Neon,” a track that captures a scene following a small-town, midday breakup.

At the first listen, some could overlook the relatable stories that lie within Aldean’s “Rearview Town.” But after another listen, Aldean’s eighth album captures the maturity he gained in recent years and offers a new, but old, feeling of country music at its core.

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‘IUP’s Favorite Bite’ arrives at the Elite Eight

IUP's Favorite Bite

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Bob's Sub

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By SETH WOOLCOCK Culture Editor S.M.Woolcock@iup.edu

This article contains opinion.

The Penn officially released the bracket for the “IUP’s Favorite Bite” tournament two weeks ago to find out what truly is IUP’s favorite local restaurant.

The matchups got started on Twitter soon after the release.

Two rounds of matchups have been played, leaving only the foremost favorites to compete for the championship.

With only eight local retaruants remaining, the competition is heating up as things head into the Elite Eight.

In an anticipated matchup to

Indiana's Super 32 Restaurant Bracket decide IUP’s favorite pizza, Venice Cafe & Pizzeria easily defeated Tom’s Pizza in the semifinals and will face Romeo’s Pizza, which has crushed opponents thus far.

With both restaruants getting a ton of local support this far in the tournament, it’s tough to predict which restaurant will win.

To win the crown of IUP’s favorite bar food, Brunzies will face Steel City Samiches.

Brunzies, opening in only 2013, has caught the attention of many students and locals who are looking to enjoy the casual bar scene.

In the tournament, Brunzies made it to the Elite Eight by easily eliminating Boomerangs Bar and Grill in the first round and then pulling off an improbable upset

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agianst H.B. Culpeppers, one of Indiana’s busiest bars.

Steel City Samiches looks to end Brunzies’ tournament run.

Steel City specializes in Pittsburgh-style sandwiches, which are piled high with coleslaw, tomato and French fries.

Between the huge sandwiches and special nights, students can’t seem to get enough of Steel City.

It’ll be a tossup within the Bar Division.

The trend of sandwiches continues as the championship for the Other Divison unfolds.

9th Street Deli, a traditionalstyle deli, has run through the tournament, thus far defeating The Grapevine in Round 1 and

Bob’s Sub in Round 2.

After some help from its Twitter team, 9th Street received by far the most votes in Round 2 with 165 votes.

Its competition will be the latenight hot spot, Subs N Suds.

Located next to fellow Elite Eight restaraunt Brunzies, Suds offers sandwiches, pizza, six-packs and just about any drunk food one can imagine.

Will it be the classic-style deli or the late-night college joint?

We’ll find out.

Tres Amigos advanced to face China King for the International Division title.

Tres Amigos is a family owned Mexican restaurant that opened in Indiana in 2010. It specializes

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in authentic Mexican food and margaritas. With all-you-can-eat chips and salsa and happy-hour margaritas, Tres has become a favorite for many students.

Survive and advance has been the motto for China King during its tournament run.

The low-key Philidelphia Street Chinese restaurant defeated rival restaraunt Kim Moon in the first round.

In the second round, China King won in a double overtime thriller against Fortune Buffet, 52 percent to 48 percent.

Will IUP go for Mexican or keep it classic with Chinese? Only time will tell.

As the tournament continues, remember to cast your vote.

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ACM Awards bring country music back near site of Las Vegas shooting

(Twitter) Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean, Maren Morris and Thomas Rhett each spoke about the power of music and the strength of coming together as a community.

By RANDY LEWIS Los Angeles Times TNS

Country singer Jason Aldean is an old hand at awards shows by now, a regular presence among nominees at the annual Grammys, Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music ceremonies where he’s piled up dozens of awards and nominations over the years.

But it’s safe to say that the musician from Macon, Ga., has never experienced a more emotionally packed night than Sunday’s ACM Awards here in Las Vegas – nor one where that emotion had so little to do with who won what.

Aldean, along with dozens of his country music peers, gathered in the same city where 58 music fans were killed and hundreds more injured while he was on stage in October at the Route 91 Harvest Festival of country music.

They assembled for Sunday’s ceremonies at the MGM Grand, a short distance from where a shooter emptied one ammunition magazine after another while firing more than 1,100 rounds from the window of his 32nd-floor Mandalay Bay hotel room into a crowd

massed in an open lot across the street.

The show began on a somber note, with Aldean emerging out of darkness to say, “We thought about opening with a song, but this is bigger than a song.”

He was then joined by singers Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, Maren Morris and Thomas Rhett each speaking briefly about the power of music to heal and the strength of the country music fans and musicians coming together as a community in the wake of the shooting. Kenny Chesney followed with a song, “Get Along,” that extended the message of people coming together.

Most artists entering the MGM Grand Garden Arena were wearing one of two gold lapel pins: a “58” for the number of people killed last October, or “851” for the number that were injured.

“It’s in everybody’s hearts,” singer Brantley Gilbert said on his way into the arena. “It’s the elephant in the room.”

Country music historically has given voice to the harsh realities of human experience, although in recent years, mainstream hits have skewed heavily toward celebrating good times.

That attitude is reflected in the ACM’s slogan for its annual awards gathering, “Country music’s party of the year,” a theme that understandably had been downplayed this year – but not entirely abandoned – in the run-up to Sunday’s show, broadcast live on CBS. “Although on the surface (that slogan) may appear to be kind of at odds with what happened, it gave us pause to think about how we continue this great tradition of having fun here in one of the great entertainment destinations, Las Vegas, while still recognizing and honoring victims, the survivors, their families and the first responders,” ACM Chief Executive Pete Fisher stated.

“Our hearts were broken when the tragedy occurred,” he added.

“As an industry, we try to create a fun and entertaining experience that removes us from the difficulties of our lives. The October tragedy was the exact opposite.”

In attempting to serve both goals, several artists, among them the show’s returning host, Reba McEntire, met this week with survivors of the shooting, their families and emergency response workers who were on the scene.

“It’s very emotional,” said McEntire, herself a survivor of tragedy when a plane carrying members of her band crashed in 1991, killing seven of them and her tour manager. She was not on the plane.

“This is the first time our country music family has come back to Las Vegas since the tragedy,” she said. “Yesterday I got to go down to see some of the folks who were there, meet them, shake their hands and take pictures with them. It’s been pretty tough on a

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lot of them; it’s been pretty tough on all of us.”

The veteran singer described her hosting duties as “a huge responsibility,” adding: “The reason we came back to Vegas instead of going somewhere else for the show this year was to show that we’re not afraid. We’re tough, we’re strong, we’re proud Americans and we’re going to do what we do best, and try to help take people’s minds off their problems.”

Relative newcomer Luke Combs was on the bill with Aldean on the night of the massacre. On Sunday he said returning to Las Vegas this week affected him more power-

fully than he expected.

“I have kind of a thick skin,” he said. “But man, it hit me more than I thought it would. I really felt it – and it’s good that I did.”

Kristian Bush, half of the country duo Sugarland, which weathered its own tragedy in 2011 when a stage in Indiana collapsed during a storm, killing seven and injuring dozens more, said Sunday, “I’m really proud of the way people have come together over this. We know what tragedy at a show looks like and we wish there had been a community like this surrounding us to help everyone get through it.”

Friday’s Puzzle Solved

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P Sports Editor: Sean Fritz – S.D.Fritz@iup.edu Lead Sports Writer: Jarrod Browne – J.W.Browne@iup.edu

(IUP Athletics) The IUP baseball team celebrated Anthony Rigous’ (senior, business) game-winning home run in Game 4 of the series Saturday. The blast lifted the Crimson Hawks to a four-game sweep of Clarion University.

(IUP Athletics) Ted DeSanti (senior, criminology) hit .714 with 10 hits and 12 runs batted in over the weekend. DeSanti’s stellar performance led to him being named PSAC West Baseball Athlete of the Week.

Crimson Hawks complete four-game sweep of Clarion

By ELLIOT HICKS Staff Writer

E.Hicks@iup.edu

The IUP baseball team played its best series of the season during the weekend, sweeping a fourgame series against Clarion University.

The Crimson Hawks played all four games at home, making their season debut at Owen Dougherty Field.

The wins improved IUP’s record on the

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season to 10-18 with a 7-9 record in games within the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC).

In the first game, the Crimson Hawks won by a score of 9-6 over the Golden Eagles, highlighted by starting pitcher Colin Claus (junior, kinesiology) picking up his second victory of the season.

“I didn’t have my best stuff on the mound but fought through it,” Claus said. “It was tough with the windy conditions this weekend.”

IUP’s offense exploded in Game 2, earning IUP a 17-4 victory, tying its season-high run total.

Five Crimson Hawks had home runs, including Dan Sepic (senior, hospitality management) and Ted DeSanti (senior, criminology).

DeSanti had a phenomenal performance at the plate throughout

the weekend, hitting .714 with 10 total hits, four home runs and 12 RBIs. DeSanti credited playing at home as one reason for his strong performances.

“It was nice to play at home where we’re comfortable,” DeSanti said. “I felt like I was really seeing the ball well and was in a comfort zone throughout the weekend.”

On Saturday, Game 3 was a 9-7 victory for the Crimson Hawks. Jeff Allen (junior, criminology) got the win, pitching 4.2 innings and allowing two earned runs on seven hits while picking up five strikeouts.

Dan Roan (graduate, employment and labor relations) and Christian McClure (senior, criminology) finished the game on the bump.

“It was nice to wake up in Indiana and have a 3-minute drive to

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the field rather than 3 hours,” Roan said. “[This weekend] was amazing — exactly what we needed and wanted to do.”

Game 4 was the perfect end to an exciting series for the team, as a game-winning home run from Anthony Rigous (senior, business) gave the Crimson Hawks the sweep in a 9-8 victory. That home run was one of three in the inning, as DeSanti and Cory Wheeler (senior, kinesiology) turned an 8-5 deficit into a deadlock at 8, leading up to Rigous’ at-bat.

“I have never been a part of [a game] like that,” Claus said. “It was special for Cory, Ted and Rigous.

They stepped up in a big way.”

The series was massive for IUP, as the victories were extremely important to the team.

“It’s extremely difficult to sweep a team in a conference weekend, and I thought we stayed focused from Game 1 to Game 4,” Sepic said.

DeSanti picked up on the team being “a little down” from the past series but said “this weekend was definitely the kickstart we needed to help us get going in the right direction.”

The Crimson Hawks are now tied for fifth in the PSAC West and are just two games out of a playoff spot with three divisional series remaining.

“We control our own fate with playoffs,” Roan said. “So getting this sweep was huge for us and was exactly what we needed. I think it’s the start of a nice run we are about to go on.”

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IUP softball takes three of four

(IUP Athletics) The IUP softball team took three of four games over the weekend in a two-game split with Bloomsburg University on Friday and a two-game sweep of Clarion University on Saturday.

By JARROD BROWNE Lead Sports Writer

J.W.Browne@iup.edu

The IUP softball team won three of four Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) games this weekend, after splitting a doubleheader with Bloomsburg University and sweeping Clarion University.

The Crimson Hawks began the weekend traveling to Bloomsburg, where IUP sent Brooklyn Kotula (freshman, accounting) to the circle.

Lauren Zola (junior, hospitality management) relieved Kotula after two innings and four earned runs.

Zola allowed five earned runs through 3.2 innings before Megan Risinger (junior, nursing) finished the game while pitching 1.1 scoreless innings.

Despite Bloomsburg’s offensive output, the Crimson Hawks answered offensively, scoring 11 runs.

Kassie Kesneck (sophomore, English) led IUP offensively, going 3-for-5 with two RBIs. Kaitlyn Beers (sophomore, criminology) and Alaina Montgomery (senior, information systems and decision sciences) each had two hits.

Beers drove in four runs, while Montgomery had one RBI in the 11-9 IUP victory.

In Game 2, the Crimson Hawks made an exciting sixth inning to tie

the score after coming back from a three-run deficit, before Bloomsburg took the lead in the bottom of the seventh from a go-ahead double to win, 4-3.

“They’re a good team, and we’ve had some battles with them in the past,” head coach Bill Graham said. “Anytime you play them and a program of their caliber, you know you’re going to be in for a good game.”

Saturday, IUP traveled to Clarion University for its second doubleheader of the weekend.

In Game 1, the Crimson Hawks sent Zola to the circle, where she pitched a two-hit complete-game shutout in the 2-0 IUP victory.

In Game 2, IUP brought more offense, putting nine runs on the scoreboard.

But the Crimson Hawks’ pitching led the way.

Zola got her second start of the day. After a three-inning, two-run effort, Risinger relieved Zola.

Risinger finished the game without allowing a run to close out the 9-2 victory for IUP. Despite the success this weekend, the Crimson Hawks are still waiting for warmer weather to to build momentum.

“When we got back from Florida, we had three weeks of not even being outside,” Graham said.

“So that really took away from any momentum we were building.”

(IUP Athletics) Kassie Kesneck (sophomore, English) led the Crimson Hawks’ offensive outburst in Game 1 of Friday afternoon’s doubleheader against Bloomsburg University. Kesneck went 3-for-5 with two RBIs and a stolen base in the 11-9 victory over the Huskies.

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After IUP’s last home match of the season, the Crimson Hawks traveled to Charleston, W.Va., on Saturday to face the University of Charleston Golden Eagles.

For the third time in IUP’s last four matches, the Crimson Hawks held their opponents to a 9-0 shutout victory.

After IUP’s commanding win, the team headed south to Institute, W.Va., to play its last game of the regular season against the West Virginia State University Yellow Jackets.

Once again, IUP secured a dominating win, giving up only a single game during the 9-1 victory.

The lone loss came from von Agris’ singles match, where she was one win shy of breaking her own school record for most singles wins in a season with 52.

Von Agris finished with a 51-11 record. Von Agris’ doubles win with partner Jarka Petercakova (senior, management) advanced her to 104 combined wins, a new single season record for IUP. With an undefeated 6-0 conference record, IUP will be the PSAC West’s No. 1 seed for this weekend’s PSAC Championships held at Bloomsburg University.

After earning a bye for the quarterfinal, the Crimson Hawks’ first match this weekend will be against the winner of the semifinal match between No. 2 West Chester University and No. 3 East Stroudsburg University.

IUP won the PSAC Championship for the first time in the program’s history last year.

Before IUP’s 2017 championship, the California University of Pennsylvania (Cal U) Vulcans won 10 PSAC Championships in a row.

The Crimson Hawks lost to the Vulcans five times during Cal U’s decade-long winning streak.

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Crimson Hawks win second straight in victory over Shippensburg

(IUP Athletics) The IUP lacrosse team defeated Shippensburg University by a score of 17-5 on Saturday.

By SARAH MOLTZ Staff Writer

S.J.Moltz@iup.edu

The IUP lacrosse team grabbed a 17-5 win against conference opponent Shippensburg University on Saturday afternoon at IUP’s George P. Miller Stadium.

After Saturday’s victory, the 21stranked LACROSSE Crimson Hawks remained in a threeway tie for the No. 5 spot in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) with Bloomsburg University and Lock Haven University at 5-3.

IUP improved to 8-3 overall on the year.

Junior Ally Burrows (biology) had another impressive weekend, scoring five goals and adding an assist, leading the Crimson Hawks to their second win this week.

Adriana Greco (junior, child development) scored four goals.

Greco scored her first goal of the day just 39 seconds into the start.

The Crimson Hawks went on runs of 3-0 and 4-0 in the first half, as Burrows scored her third goal of the game and 50th of the year, with 8 seconds left before halftime.

Riley Greenleaf (senior, finance) added three goals for IUP. Kelly Shields (sophomore, disability services) and Brianna Chavis (junior,

sociology) each had two goals, and Chelsea Johnston (sophomore, food and nutrition) scored one.

Although Saturday wasn’t an important conference matchup, it was Senior Day for the Crimson Hawks, as they honored seniors Rachel Becker (marketing), Greenleaf and Natalie Morano (international relations) prior to the start of the game.

“It was without a doubt an emotional and bittersweet day, to say the least,” Greenleaf said. “I am honored to have spent the last four years on this team with an amazing group of girls.”

Greenleaf was happy the team pulled out a win and said she was looking forward to upcoming games.

“Yesterday’s win was a huge team win, and I’m already looking forward to coming out on top these next four games,” Greenleaf said. “We have so much talent, and if we put together and play the way we do, we will be able to dominate any team from here on.”

The Crimson Hawks are scheduled to play against PSAC opponent Lock Haven at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Lock Haven.

IUP is entering into its last four games of the regular season before heading into a possible postseason.

“It’s vital that we finish all of these games strong,” Greenleaf said. “Being tied for fifth right now makes every game going forward huge. As the scores this year within the conference have been very surprising, anything can happen. We can’t take any upcoming competition lightly.”

(IUP Athletics) The Crimson Hawks celebrated the careers of their three seniors Saturday as a part of the team’s Senior Day. Following the ceremony, the Crimson Hawks defeated Shippensburg University.

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