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(Nicolette Querry/ The Penn For 17 years, Philadelphia Street has celebrated the holiday season with lights and festivities.

Lighted holiday displays returned for ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ Festival

By ALEXANDRIA MANSFIELD and KAYLA MURPHY the-penn@iup.edu

The missing lighted displays as part of Downtown Indiana’s “It’s A Wonderful Life” Festival were returned, according to a Thursday email from Kevin Foster, assistant director of the IUP Center for Multicultural Student Leadership and Engagement.

A Tuesday email from Michelle Fryling, IUP’s executive director of communications and media relations, announced that three holiday displays were stolen.

One of the displays, described as a “6-foot-tall angel decoration,” was made to honor a 12-year-old boy who died of cancer in 1991.

This and the other two decorations, a Christmas tree and a candy cane, were reported stolen last

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(Kevin Smith/ The Penn) This year marks the first six-week-long “It’s a Wonderful Life” Festival, filled with entertainment and activities from Nov. 18 to Dec. 23.

week. The lighted holiday displays downtown are meant to contribute to the “It’s A Wonderful Life” Festival. Each year for the past 17 years, Philadelphia Street celebrates the holiday season with lights and festivities. The festival began with a parade Nov. 18, in which hundreds

participated. The Downtown Indiana organization decided to expand the festival this year. Instead of having just one night of entertainment, a total of five weekends of music and activities were added to the schedule.

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ket and family-friendly entertainment are featured events to continue each weekend until Dec. 23.

Downtown Indiana’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” celebration has been a collaboration between many community organizations and businesses, including student

organizations that are part of the “pop-up” market.

In addition to the festive activities, brand-new decorations were added on Philadelphia Street, including the lights on the buildings and the decorations on posts downtown.

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New form of assault prevention, protection hits market

(Submitted photos) Students find The Sound Grenade by ROBOCOPP helps prevent assault.

By SETH WOOLCOCK Staff Writer S.M.Woolcock@iup.edu

It’s no bigger than a USB flash drive and weighs less than half an ounce. The Sound Grenade by ROBOCOPP is the newest form of a personal safety device.

It all started when CEO Sam Mansen got his younger sister, who was living on a college campus, a personal alarm. At the time, personal alarms were bulky and a pain to use. So Mansen set out to create a personal alarm that was unnoticeable, easy to use and lightweight. He succeeded when he built the Sound Grenade, the world’s smallest personal alarm.

The alarm, which looks similar to a USB, releases a devastating blast of sound when pulled – a sound as loud as an ambulance.

“It’s a no-brainer to have a Sound Grenade,” said Jill Turner, ROBOCOPP’s personal relations director.

“They’re not expensive, weigh virtually nothing and really do decrease your chance of being attacked.”

In fact, studies and research show that 68 percent of criminals will leave when they hear an alarm sound.

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used as an alternative to pepper spray.

Pepper spray is normally used to confront an attacker, whereas the Sound Grenade possesses the capability to prevent attackers altogether. Pepper spray is also harder to use, as one must aim the spray directly in the attacker’s eyes and pray the attacker doesn’t have the chance to use it against them.

“There is always a time and a place for a gun or pepper spray,” Turner said. “But as both weapons can be useful, they both are inviting violence into a situation. With the Sound Grenade, violence never enters the situation.”

Turner also said that if one night you spray a suspicious person with pepper spray and they turn out not to be an attacker, you can be charged with assault. As for the Sound Grenade, there is no crime in making a sound.

What’s up next for the company is the ROBORanger. The ROBORanger is the same size as the Sound Grenade and operates the same way. However, when the alarm is sounded on the ROBORanger, it sends a SMS to a 24/7 hotline that will dispatch police to your location.

This will be the first connected personal alarm in the world.

All of ROBOCOPP’s devices can be found at ROBOCOPP.com.

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Police Blotter Alcohol Violations

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• Kristine Brennan, 19, of Downingtown, was charged with public drunkenness and underage drinking at 8:36 p.m. Nov. 30 at 319 Pratt Dr., according to the Indiana Borough Police Department.

• Sean Duncan, 20, of Lakeville, was charged with public drunkenness, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct at 7:57 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Wallwork Hall sidewalk, according to IUP University Police.

• Darnell Turner, 20, of Philadelphia, was cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness at 1:23 a.m.

Dec. 4 at the Hadley Union Building parking lot, according to university police.

• Chadwick Orelien, 19, of Douglasville, was charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, reckless driving, accidents involving death or injury and other traffic offenses at 7:31 p.m. Dec. 2 at the intersection of Maple Street and Pratt Drive, according to university police.

Theft • Alexandria Barr, 21, of Avella, was charged with theft, loitering, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness at 1:57 a.m. Dec. 8 in the 00 block of North Sixth Street, according to borough police.

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Doctoral candidate conducts research about technology use among international students

By STEPHANIE BACHMAN Lead News Writer S.L.Bachman2@iup.edu

Many of us don’t think about how our technology use affects our learning. And if we do, we don’t usually consider how that differs across countries.

Abdulsalami Ibrahim (doctoral candidate, curriculum and instruction program) is in the third year of his doctoral program at IUP and he has accomplished a lot since coming here, including conducting research on international students’ use of technology and presenting his research at national conferences.

Ibrahim’s research project is titled, “Connected or disconnected? A comparative study of international students’ technology use in the U.S. and their home countries.”

He is doing his research alongside Dr. Crystal Machado, a professor in the department of professional studies in education.

The project is looking at international students’ access and use of technology in college within the U.S. compared to their use of technology in their home countries.

Ibrahim is interested in the extent that technology either enhances or limits international students’ success in the classroom.

There has been little research conducted regarding the effects that international students face when they come to a more technologically dependent university.

Ibrahim said he is currently in the second set of data collection for his research, which he will resume in the spring semester.

His goal is to finish the data collection before the end of next semester so he can begin writing his dissertation.

I found this topic very important when I volunteered... during the International Students Orientation.

-Abdulsalami Ibrahim (doctoral candidate, curriculum and instruction program)

“I found this topic very important when I volunteered as graduate student leader during the Fall 2015 International Students Orientation organized by the Office of International Education,” Ibrahim said.

“The whole idea [started] to occur when I was helping my group to register for classes during the library tour. Several people from my group had asked me a lot of [questions], which I feel their needs have to be addressed in a good way.

“I hope the finding of this study [will] be helpful to OIE in planning some form of technology-related session during the orientation, as most of these international students are coming from countries [where] technology is not very often integrated at various [levels] in the educational system.”

Ibrahim had the opportunity to present his research in April at the 2016 New England Educational Research Organization (NEERO) conference in Portsmouth, N.H. Ibrahim said the NEERO conference was his first big presentation.

He presented his research during a session with approximately 18 attendees.

“I was the second to present in that session and nervous at the beginning,” Ibrahim said. “It went so well. I was able to compose myself, and the presentation was awesome. That was when I became friends with a lot of people.”

Ibrahim was also part of a

(Stephanie Bachman/ The Penn) Abdulsalami Ibrahim (doctoral candidate, curriculum and instruction program)

roundtable session while at NEERO, which he described as much more informal.

He said during the roundtable he received “a lot of positive feedback regarding my dissertation.”

In addition to his current research, Ibrahim has also presented at Technology Day hosted by the College of Education and Educational Technology.

Additionally, he has conducted multiple seminars with Machado and Melissa Calderon at IUP’s first GenCyber Camp over the summer and was the invited presenter at Berlin Brothersvalley High School in Berlin, Pa. Ibrahim also was a literacy corps volunteer tutor during the Fall 2015 semester at the ARIN Intermediate Unit, a session chair at the 2016 Graduate Scholar’s Forum and a volunteer editor for the In-

ternational Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education.

After he finishes his doctoral program, Ibrahim said he wants to become a college professor and teach in a teacher preparation program.

He wants to “invest [his] time in teaching, research and services and to mentor students to grow in the field of academia.”

“I would not have achieved all this if not because of my outstanding mentor,” Ibrahim said.

“Professors are all there to help students grow in their career choice, but most of the times students often feel reluctant to reach out to those professors. “Feel free and be very optimistic. Professors are here for us.”

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Students offer advice, tips, tricks for finishing the semester, getting through finals week just one of them. “Switch subjects every 30 minutes or so,” Lucas Mafrica (senior, economics) said.

It is easy to get caught up with your toughest class and not save time for your others.

By NICOLETTE QUERRY Staff Writer N.M.Querry@iup.edu

Students of all majors and years stress during finals week.

For many, this is the most stress they have experienced all year. Excess stress can be unhealthy and, in some cases, unhelpful.

Upperclassmen offered their best finals week tips for remaining healthy and sane while studying.

1. Hydration: Stay hydrated and move around. “Don’t forget to drink water and get up every hour or so to move your legs around,” Anna Lou (junior, English) said.

If it makes it easier, set a timer on your phone every 30 or 60 minutes to get up and take a drink of water.

2. Body Health: Don’t forget to sleep and eat while you are study-

4. Fighting Stress: When you feel stressed or tired, take a break.

A break will help you release some built-up stress.

“If you’re feeling sleepy, go outside and take a quick walk,” Breanna Dominguez (class of 2016, biology/pre-med) said.

“This works best when it’s freezing.”

(The Penn archives) Many students find themselves flocking to the library in preparation for finals.

ing. An empty stomach can make it difficult to focus.

“Get sleep the night before and make sure you’re not hungry before you take an exam,” Louisa

Clara (junior, communications media) said.

3. Organizing:

Remember to study for all your classes and not

5. Planning: “Plan your study sessions. Not all times of the day are productive for all types of people.” Faith Hartzell (class of 2016, sociology) said.

“Work during the times of day you are naturally most productive.

Otherwise, do things like sleep and socialize.”

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Does Boehner miss his old job?

‘Oh, my God, no’

By ARYN BRAUN CQ-Roll Call TNS

Former House Speaker John A. Boehner weighed in on the incoming Trump administration Wednesday, calling the president-elect a “good guy,” who wants to do “big things,” and advocating for bipartisanship in the new Congress.

Boehner told Cincinnati TV station WCPO he and Trump have known each other a long time.

“We’ve played a lot of golf together over the years,” Boehner said. “When I was speaker, if I was having a tough week I’d always get a call from Donald. He’d pat me on the back, cheer me up.”

When asked if he misses being in the thick of things, a relaxedlooking Boehner didn’t hesitate.

“Oh, my God, no.” Boehner said, incredulous. “Really?”

The Ohio Republican resigned his seat in the House last October after serving 24 years, and was replaced by fellow Midwesterner Rep. Paul D. Ryan. On the topic of Trump, the former speaker gave the reality star credit for tapping into the American consciousness.

“He actually understood what the American people were thinking, and what a majority of them were feeling,” Boehner said.

“I think Donald Trump sees himself larger than life,” Boehner continued. “Looking back through history, he kind of reminds me of Teddy Roosevelt, another guy who saw himself larger than life.”

Boehner seems to be enjoying discussing some of his former colleagues. Most notably, Boehner stood by his comments likening Sen. Ted Cruz to Lucifer, and still thinks the Texas senator is “the most miserable person.”

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U.S. life expectancy decreases in 2015

By KAREN KAPLAN Los Angeles Times TNS

The final numbers for 2015 are in and it’s now official: Life expectancy for Americans was shorter last year than it was the year before.

A person born in the U.S. in 2015 could expect to live 78.8 years, on average. That’s 0.1 years – or 36.5 days – less than in 2014.

The main reason for this decline is that eight of the nation’s 10 leading causes of death were deadlier in 2015 than in years past, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Heart disease, chronic lower respiratory diseases, unintentional injuries, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, kidney disease and suicide all claimed more lives last year.

A total of 2,712,630 official deaths were registered in the United States in 2015, an increase of 86,212 compared with 2014.

Those additional deaths boosted the country’s age-adjusted

(TNS) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came out with a chart showing U.S. life expectancy rates from 1980-2015.

death rate for the first time since 1999, the CDC said. For every 100,000 people in a “standard population” – a hypothetical group with the same age distribution the country had in 2000 – there were 733.1 deaths in 2015, up from 724.6 in 2014. (Age-adjusted death rates allow for easier comparisons

Leading cancer group calls GOP to slow Obamacare repeal push

By NOAM N. LEVEY

Tribune Washington Bureau TNS

One of the nation’s leading patient advocacy organizations Thursday urged congressional Republicans not to repeal the Affordable Care Act without first offering a replacement, joining the growing list of voices urging the GOP to slow its Obamacare repeal push.

“As members of Congress consider the future of the Affordable Care Act, it is critically important that cancer patients, survivors and those at risk of the disease don’t face any gap in coverage of prevention and treatment,” American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network President Chris Hansen said. “Replacement health care legislation that accompanies repeal needs to provide recognized patient protections that currently

exist.” Congressional Republicans have been working on plans to pass legislation early next year, rolling back major portions of the 2010 health law, including its Medicaid expansion and its system of insurance subsidies to help lowand middle-income Americans buy health coverage.

Senior GOP lawmakers say they intend to delay implementation of the repeal for two or three years to give themselves time to develop an alternative.

“Delaying enactment of a replacement for two or three years, and leaving insurers without any certainty in projecting risk, could lead to the collapse of the individual health insurance market with long-term consequences,” Hansen said. The Affordable Care Act has brought health coverage to more than 20 million previously uninsured Americans, surveys indicate.

from year to year, since increases or decreases can’t be chalked up to the fact that the total population is older or younger than in years past, the CDC explains.)

The increase in age-adjusted death rates was concentrated in certain demographic groups. It rose 1.6 percent for white women,

1 percent for white men and 0.9 percent for black men, according to the report. No significant increases were seen for Latinos or for black women. Figures for Asian Americans were not reported.

Heart disease remained the leading cause of death last year, accounting for 168.5 deaths per 100,000 people in a standard population. Cancer was a close second, taking 158.5 lives per 100,000 people. Altogether, the 10 leading causes of death were responsible for 74.2 percent of all deaths in the country last year.

One bright spot in the report was that the age-adjusted death rate for cancer fell 1.7 percent in 2015 compared to 2014. It was the only leading cause of death to experience a decline last year.

Deaths from influenza and pneumonia held steady, while the eight others rose. Notably, the age-adjusted death rate for Alzheimer’s increased 15.7 percent last year compared to the year before.

Overall, women continued to outlive men, and that gender gap grew by 0.1 years in 2015. The life

expectancy for boys born in 2015 was 76.3 years (0.2 years lower than in 2014) and the life expectancy for girls born in 2015 was 81.2 years (0.1 years lower than in 2014).

Women who turned 65 in 2015 could expect to live another 20.6 years, on average, while men who reached that milestone birthday last year could expect another 18 years of life.

The 2015 infant mortality rate was 589.5 deaths per 100,000 live births, a slight increase from the 2014 rate of 582.1 deaths per 100,000 live births. That change was too small to be statistically significant, the CDC said.

The 10 leading causes of death for babies under 1 year remained the same in 2015 as in 2014. Sudden infant death syndrome moved up a notch from fourth place to third, switching places with maternal complications. Congenital malformations and low birth weight remained the first and second leading causes of infant death.

The report was published Thursday by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

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Raunchy rap video shot in rented Minneapolis high school gym

By PAUL WALSH Star Tribune TNS

F-bombs, the N-word and lyrics about sex acts are featured in a rap music video shot in the Patrick Henry High School gym by a Minneapolis-area performer, who attended classes there, and his Chicago partner.

A Minneapolis School District official said Thursday that the people who used the gym last month on a Sunday afternoon misrepresented their intentions when they applied to use the space.

District spokeswoman Gail Plewacki said Patrick Henry Principal Yusuf Abdullah asked the producers to remove from YouTube the video “Keep Me Going,” which stars former Patrick Henry student P. Skud and Lil Bibby, of Chicago.

The video’s creator has so far declined, Plewacki said.

The applicants, who paid $300

for the gym time, said they were going to produce a “basketball promotion,” Plewacki said.

“Clearly, a basketball promotion was a misrepresentation. We were tremendously misled.”

She emphasized that the lyrics and imagery in the video, which has been viewed more than 50,000 times since it was posted last Friday, “do not align with our values. We do not endorse the content, and we do not approve of the content.”

Aspiring rapper P. Skud, whose actual name is Lavern Jamison, said he doesn’t feel that he pulled a fast one on school officials.

Jamison, 26, said he loved his three years at Patrick Henry before he graduated elsewhere.

“I used to perform at Henry in talent shows,” he said.

Should the producers, Chicago-based A Zae Production, refuse to take down the video, there is a “rigorous process” that the

district can pursue to have YouTube remove it.

The video opens with teens entering the gym for a basketball game as P. Skud appears and the lyrics start with “Money, keep me going; drinking, keep me going.”

The lines quickly turn raunchy, with crude references to sex, prostitutes and utterances of the F-bomb and the N-word. Fans dance on bleachers during the basketball game, and on the sideline cheerleaders in short skirts at times expose and shake their bare buttocks for the camera.

Plewacki said allowing the school’s identity to be revealed in the video violates the permit agreement. Plewacki said the people in the video are not current students of the north Minneapolis high school or otherwise affiliated with the district.

On the day of the shoot, a maintenance person checked the permit, let the users in and left.

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DiCaprio meets with Trump to discuss job creation

(TNS) Leonardo DiCaprio met with Donald Trump to discuss environmentally friendly job creation Wednesday at Trump Tower in New York City.

By CHRISTIE D’ZURILLA Los Angeles Times TNS

Add Leonardo DiCaprio to the list of people who’ve come to Trump Tower to meet with President-elect Donald Trump. The subject: green jobs.

The Oscar winner, who’s known for his environmental advocacy as well as his support of Hillary Clinton, connected with the next commander in chief Wednesday in New York City, the chief executive of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation confirmed to The Associated Press.

“We presented the presidentelect and his advisers with a framework – which LDF developed in consultation with leading voices in the fields of economics and environmentalism – that details how to unleash a major economic revival across the United States that is centered on investments in sustainable infrastructure,” Terry Tamminen said in a statement.

“Our conversation focused on how to create millions of secure, American jobs in the construction and operation of commercial and residential clean, renewable energy generation,” said Tamminen, who was California’s Environmental Protection Agency secretary in the early 2000s under former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The message of jobs aligns well with Trump’s stated agenda. The green part?

Based on Trump’s selection Wednesday of climate change skeptic and oil industry ally Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA, some folks would say not so much.

But the campaign’s stated intentions have included implementing an “energy revolution” that also takes steps to “conserve our natural habitats, reserves and resources.”

That and opening up energyrelated onshore and offshore leasing on federal lands. The DiCaprio Foundation has called for offshore and deep-water drilling to be “banned everywhere.”

According to the AP, the meeting ran 90 minutes, during which DiCaprio gave Trump a copy of the documentary “Before the Flood,” in which the actor visits environmental hot spots worldwide.

DiCaprio had previously met with Ivanka Trump, who attended Wednesday’s meeting as well, and given her a copy of the film, The New York Times reported Monday.

“We look forward to continuing the conversation with the incoming administration as we work to stop the dangerous march of climate change, while putting millions of people to work at the same time,” Tamminen said.

A person familiar with the meeting but not authorized to speak on the record told the AP that the president-elect promised he would watch the film and suggested meeting again next month.

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Feathered baby dinosaur tail, mistaken for a plant, found trapped in amber

By AMINA KHAN Los Angeles Times TNS

While browsing amber markets in Myanmar, scientists discovered the feathers and partial tail of a tiny baby dinosaur that lived some 99 million years ago.

The find, described in the journal Current Biology, offers a rare window onto the structure and organization of dinosaur feathers – one that could help shed new light on their evolution.

Scientists have long studied feathers that pop up in the fossil record in part because they want to understand the origins of birds.

Birds are thought to be the only living descendants of dinosaurs, and questions of how and when their ancestors first developed flight – and the feathers that enabled it – remain confounding mysteries.

In recent years, paleontologists have also realized that many dinosaurs were not scaly, a la “Jurassic Park,” but feathered like birds.

However, their plumage’s original purpose – for example, for insulation or for camouflage – remains up for debate.

Researchers want to understand the origin of feathers, as well as figure out how they eventually evolved for flight.

But there are limits to what they can learn from studying feathers in isolation, without seeing how they were positioned and organized on the body, and without knowing which species the feathers came from.

And those preserved plumes found with fossil skeletons are typically compressed flat in the rock, which makes it difficult to know what the animal looked like in three dimensions.

This new fossil, encased in amber, solves all of those issues. Colead author Lida Xing of the China University of Geosciences discovered the fossil at an amber market in Myanmar last year.

Because of its bushy appearance, the seller believed the tail

(TNS) Scientists have discovered the partial tail of a 99-million-year-old baby dinosaur covered in feathers.

to be some kind of trapped plant, but Xing believed differently and asked the Dexu Institute of Paleontology to purchase it.

“It wasn’t until Lida took a close look at it that he realized there were feathers coming off the side of the little filaments running through the amber,” said co-lead author Ryan McKellar, a paleontologist with the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina, Canada.

“That’s when the real fun began, from a research standpoint.”

Amber is a paleontologist’s best friend for many reasons: Among them, it insulates the fossil from chemical alteration by the environment and helps to preserve it in three dimensions.

“Amber is like nature’s plastic,” McKellar said. “It seals in a lot of information. At the same time it’s basically drying out a lot of inclusions that end up in the resin.”

Xing, McKellar and colleagues CT-scanned the tail through the amber, studying its microscopic structure.

The partial tail, which probably belonged to a coelurosaur about the size of a sparrow, consists of eight full vertebra surrounded by highly preserved feathers.

In birds, tailbones are fused to-

gether in what’s known as a pygostyle, which is why scientists think this one must have come from a

non-avialan dinosaur.

“This flexible tail isn’t something that you see in modern birds,

so it restricts you to a group of dinosaurs that are outside of archaeopteryx and modern birds,” McKellar said. “You have to be dealing with something lower down in the evolutionary tree. And this means you’re firmly in dinosaur territory, as opposed to bird territory.”

Unlike birds, the dinosaur’s feathers had an underdeveloped main stem, or rachis. The top feathers were dark and those on the underside were light, so it may have been used for camouflage or signaling, McKellar said.

There are limits to what this particular fossil can reveal about feathered dinosaurs, the scientist added, but it does show that more such fossils might well exist, mistaken for bushy plants or other debris, just waiting to be found.

His colleagues, he added, were continuing to search amber markets, hoping to get lucky once again.

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Clinton says ‘fake news’ is risking American lives

By LAURA LITVAN and MARGARET TELAV Bloomberg News TNS

Hillary Clinton, making her first visit to the Capitol since losing the presidential election to Donald Trump, said “fake news” is putting people’s lives at risk and that Americans need to address the problem to protect the nation’s democracy.

“This isn’t about politics or partisanship. Lives are at risk,” Clinton said Thursday at the portrait unveiling for Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who is retiring after 30 years in Congress.

Clinton’s warning comes days after an episode where a North Carolina man showed up with an assault rifle, and fired it, inside a neighborhood Washington pizzeria in an effort to “self-investigate” false claims that Clinton and her inner circle ran a child-sex operation based there.

No one was injured and the man was arrested.

“It’s imperative” that government and private industry fight back against the fake-news trend, she said.

“We must stand up for our democracy just as Harry has done in his entire career.”

The farewell event for Reid was a homecoming of sorts for Clinton, who served as a U.S. senator from New York from 2001 to 2009.

The event also drew Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the incoming Senate Democratic leader.

As she took the podium, Clinton joked, “This is not exactly the speech at the Capitol that I hoped to be giving after the election, but after a few weeks of taking selfies in the woods, I thought it would be a good idea to come out.”

Two days after the election, a

(Flickr) Hillary Clinton made her first appearance since losing the presidential election in Washington, D.C., Thursday when she spoke at the portrait unveiling for Harry Reid.

woman got a picture of herself with Clinton after encountering the first lady and former President Bill Clinton walking their dogs in the woods near their home in Chappaqua, N.Y. Clinton’s appearance came as Trump and his transition team are interviewing and naming officials to his Cabinet, and as Congress wraps up its final session under President Barack Obama.

Clinton has made a few public appearances since the Nov. 8 election, including her concession speech the following day.

On Nov. 17, she told supporters to “never, ever give up” and “stay engaged on every level” at a gala for the Children’s Defense Fund, the advocacy group where she got her start as a lawyer.

She also made a surprise appearance Nov. 30 to honor pop star Katy Perry with a humanitarian award at a UNICEF event.

OPINION

EDITORIAL The key to success during Finals Week

Chances are that you’re stressed right now. After all, it’s finals week – that’s just how it goes. We all have homework, tests, quizzes and papers to tear through before next Friday.

If you’re involved in campus activities, organizations and clubs, you’re probably ready to just crawl in bed and never get out. All of the stresses of college life are getting to you, and your head is just about ready to explode.

Here’s what you need to do: Relax, take a deep breath and plan things out. Take small breaks in -between studying and writing those papers, too.

It will help put your mind at ease and get in the right mindset to be successful these last few days of the semester.

You’re also in luck, because IUP offers plenty of activities to destress over the next week or so: • You may have been one of the lucky ones Thursday at Suites on Maple East when the therapy dogs were hanging out. Nothing makes college

students happier than seeing a man’s best friend before starting to study.

• Don’t forget about BACCHUS Bingo nights at 10 p.m. every Friday in the Hadley Union Building Ohio Room.

If you aren’t into the party scene, this is an excellent and fun alternative.

• If you want your sports fix, head to the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex on Saturday night when the women’s and men’s basketball teams battle Mansfield University. The women’s team will get it started at 5:30 p.m.

• Listening to that Spotify playlist might get old. If you’re already in the holiday spirit, check out the IUP Bands in concert at 8 p.m. Saturday in Fisher Auditorium.

• Before heading into the dreaded finals week, get one last chance to chill out and make your own ice cream sundae at 7 p.m. Sunday at Maple East.

College is tough, but it’s also what you make of it. Make time to get your work and studying done each day, then take breaks, have some fun and go to some of these special events.

When all is said and done – and you’re at home in a couple weeks sipping hot chocolate in your pajamas knowing you aced your finals – it just might be worth it.

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What Obama and his successor actually have in common

By BARTON SWAIM Los Angeles Times TNS

The differences between how Donald Trump and Barack Obama express themselves are vast and obvious. Trump is sometimes funny and cheerful, but more often cruel, barbarous, vindictive and vulgar. Obama is none of these things. He is too earnest to be genuinely funny, and it would never occur to him to engage in the kind of raw meanness for which his successor is famous. But reflexive accusations of “moral equivalence” shouldn’t prevent us from acknowledging what Obama and Trump have in common: a searing contempt for their critics.

Trump dismisses his opponents with the simple epithets favored

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by pre-teen boys: “loser,” “liar,” “crook” and so on. Obama’s contempt is infinitely subtler and more focused, but it’s no less real.

We got a hint of it in his first inaugural address in 2009. “There are some who question the scale of our ambitions,” Obama said.

Were there? I remember many people questioning the ambitions themselves – that is, disagreeing with him on grounds of policy – but did they, as Obama went on to say, “suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans”?

He was sure, in any case, that that’s what they meant. “What the cynics fail to understand,” he said, “is that the ground has shifted beneath them, that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply.”

Those who opposed Obama’s

agenda, chiefly his promise to spend truckloads of government money in an effort to “stimulate” the economy, were already “cynics” with “stale arguments” in the first hour of his presidency.

Obama would return again and again to this conceit over the course of his presidency. In a 2010 speech on his education initiative Race to the Top, for instance, he concluded his remarks this way: “I know there are some who say that Race to the Top won’t work. There are cynics and naysayers who argue that the problems in our education system are too entrenched, that think that we’ll just fall back into the same old arguments and divides that have held us back for so long.” These “naysayers” had no countervailing proposal, according to the president. They

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were content merely with saying his would not work. I would despise such critics too, if they existed.

Obama’s imaginary opponents aren’t just cynics and naysayers, however. They’re irrational and malevolent. “Over and over we’ve been told by our opponents,” he said at a campaign event in 2012, “that since government can’t do everything, it should do almost nothing.” A few people here and there may believe government should do “almost nothing,” but approximately no one believes that government’s inability to do everything is the reason it should do almost nothing. In Obama’s mind, though, lots of people not only believe this piece of sonorous nonsense, but use it as a reason to dismiss other people’s

problems as irrelevant. “If you can’t afford health insurance,” he went on, lampooning his own invention, “hope you don’t get sick.

If a company is releasing toxic pollution into the air that your children breathe, well, that’s the price of progress.”

Many a politician, of course, has failed or refused to distinguish between his opponents’ views and what he believes to be the consequences of those views. If I think your view will lead to more car accidents, I accuse you of trying to increase the number of car accidents; and so on. That’s part of politics. But Obama engages in this practice so frequently as to suggest some form of neurosis.

His opponents are goblins, fixated on the ruin of everything he loves simply because he loves it.

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Christmas-themed tattoos aren’t requested as often as other holiday-themed tattoos, according to Shawn Holbrook of SkinWork Tattoos & Piercings.

Tattoo shops celebrate the holidays, too

By LAITH ZURAIKAT Contributing Writer Laith.Zuraikat@iup.edu

What makes a good Christmas gift? Is it something that is unique and heartfelt? What about something expensive? Or is it something homemade and creative?

According to tattoo artist Shawn Holbrook, the owner and artist at SkinWork Tattoos & Piercings on Oakland Avenue, why not give someone a gift that will last forever?

“Give a gift that will last a lifetime,” Holbrook said. “Because that’s one of the only things you give somebody – a tattoo – that doesn’t go away. You can’t use it.

You can’t wreck it.”

For those who are interested in giving the gift of ink this year,

SkinWork Tattoos & Piercings is running several different specials for the holiday season in addition to their traditional Thursday through Saturday deal – buy one small tattoo and get one small tattoo for free.

“We are going to do 25-percent off all tattoos and $5 off a piercing for the month of December,” Holbrook said.

The shop will also be selling gift certificates for Christmas during the month.

While buying someone a tattoo can be a unique and potentially thoughtful Christmas gift, when it comes to holiday-themed tattoo requests, Christmas does not seem to be a subject that inspires many requests. Holbrook could only remember one time that he had a client request a Christmas-themed tattoo.

“I’ve done one that was a Christmas tree with presents and stuff, but mostly it’s just memorialthemed tattoos for a lot of people,” he said.

Although Christmas may not be the most popular tattoo theme, Holbrook noted that St. Patrick’s Day and Halloween are very popular inspirations for many tattoo requests.

Corey Lim, tattoo artist at Big Mojo Tattoo and Body Piercing Studio, echoed these sentiments when asked about any Christmasinspired tattoos that he had ever been asked to do.

“I know personally I haven’t,” Lim said.

While he did think that one of the other artists in the shop may have been asked to create a Grinch tattoo once, “other than that, nothing is really coming

to mind.”

When it comes to holidays that have inspired people to get a tattoo from Lim, he has found that there are three major dates that seem to be very popular.

“We’ve done a lot of Halloween ones,” he said. “It’s just a popular theme, and then, surprisingly, Friday the 13th is a big one; a lot of people get a Friday the 13th tattoo.

Occasionally we do Valentine’s Day ones, too.”

Big Mojo isn’t currently running any holiday specials or discounts as of yet, but Lim noted that if anything did come up that they would post it to the studio’s Instagram account. Be sure to check the studio out online for any possible deals.

One shop that will definitely be offering discounts this holiday

season is Ikonic Ink Indiana, located on Philadelphia Street. According to the shop’s Facebook page, all winter-themed tattoos off of Ikonic Ink artist Matt Wright's winter flash sheet will be discounted at $60 (they usually cost $80 to 100), and Wright will be giving deals on oddball flash throughout the month.

The shop will also be offering gift-card specials for the holiday season. Customers who spend $100 will get a $20 gift card that can be used starting in January, and anyone who spends $200 will get a $50 gift card.

Anyone who is interested in checking out Ikonic Ink artists can head over to its website at ikonicinkindiana. net to see some of the recent work by Wright and his fellow artists.

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Cheap presents still bring holiday cheer It’s that time of the year again.

Beneath everyone’s excitement about the season and hopes for the new year is anxiety about what to get family and friends.

So, if you procrastinated during November and most of December, consider these last-minute gift ideas before the big day:

3. Cards Against Humanity

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The hilarious game for terrible people.

1. Starbucks gift card

If the person you’re shopping for likes a good laugh, consider Cards Against Humanity. This game has pretty much become the adult UNO and can turn any night into a party.

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Let someone else get you a cup of joe.

There’s nothing better than the gift of caffeine. A Starbucks gift card is definitely the gift that keeps on giving. Even that person on your list who is really hard to buy for will appreciate a Grande Americano or a fresh iced green tea, right? Not to mention the endless and trendy selection of on-the-go coffee mugs. You can’t go wrong with a Starbucks gift card.

2. decorated case of beer

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The cold never bothered my toes.

Socks have become a vital accessory in recent years. You wouldn’t want the person you care about to fall behind on their sockslaying game, right? With all the selections on websites like Happy Socks and even Amazon, you can find the perfect match for anyone on your list.

5. insulated water bottle

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You’re hot and you’re cold. But that’s OK. (Flickr)

Jingle beers! Jingle beers!

If someone on your list is a 21-year-old and you’re at a loss, consider getting creative with some craft brews. Pick up a sixpack, some googly eyes, glitter and colored cotton balls and get artistic.

Brands such as S’well make those oddly shaped, on-the-go cups you’ve seen on campus or at work. These stainless steel creations have the ability to keep liquids cold for hours on end and hot for approximately eight hours.

They’re perfect for coffee addicts or fitness freaks.

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What do students truly want this holiday season?

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Ciara Irwin

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Cole Scisciani

By LAITH ZURAIKAT Contributing Writer Laith.Zuraikat@iup.edu

While having a break from classes and homework may be the main attraction of the fast-approaching holiday season for many students, not much can beat the tingle up your spine when waking up on Christmas morning to a nice big pile of presents under the tree.

However, as we grow older, go off to college and become ‘adults,’

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Kwame Stroman

our tastes and interests inevitably change, and it seems as though the fun gifts that we used to get as kids come to be replaced by a consistent pattern of socks, clothes and other more ‘practical’ gifts. While we may actually need a new ironing board or more three-ring binders for spring semester, it doesn’t necessarily mean that we want to be unwrapping them as gifts on Christmas morning.

Several members of the IUP stu-

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dent body spoke about what gifts they’re most looking forward to getting this year.

Dylan Murphy’s (junior, operations management) response reflected the current trend of vintage and nostalgic items returning to popularity.

“I asked Santa this year for a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Vinyl Player, and I’m hoping to get some records along with that vinyl player,” Murphy said.

Along that musically themed

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– albeit less tangible – line, Tom Lyttle (junior, human resource management) would like “to share the gift of rock ‘n’ roll with the entire world.”

Another student who will be asking for a non-traditional gift this year is Kwame Stroman (junior, adult education and communications technology), who would like one simple thing.

“A reelection,” Stroman said. “That would be the best Christmas gift anyone could get me.”

However, if that’s not possible, he was willing to settle for a new computer.

The gifts that Cole Scisciani (senior, Spanish and international management) asked for were a little more on the practical side, as he asked for a pair of slippers and a map.

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Tom Lyttle

“I don’t usually ask for much, just clothes and to be with the family,” he said. “That’s about all I really ask for.”

Lindsey Jones (junior, communications media) is also hoping for family time over the holidays.

“For the past two years, instead of doing presents, my parents took us all on vacation to the Dominican Republic and to Jamaica,” Jones said. “My best friend just moved to Thailand, so I’m hoping that they will go halves with me to buy a flight to Thailand.”

Ciara Irwin (senior, English and Spanish) is looking forward to getting a smaller – but just as personal – gift this year.

“There is a necklace that has a cross inside of a heart, so it’s related to your heart and your faith, so I think that’s a very exciting gift to get,” she said.

Happy Holidays from The Penn

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‘Office Christmas Party’ is wicked fun that’s definitely not safe for work

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T.J. Miller as Clay Vanstone and Jason Bateman as Josh Parker.

By KATIE WALSH

Tribune News Service TNS

When it comes to big, brassy studio comedies, a filmmaker can do worse than to gather the brightest, funniest stars, situate them in an odd, yet relatable situation and let 'em rip.

That's exactly what directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck do with "Office Christmas Party," the delightfully debauched holiday desecration we need this year.

Working from a screenplay credited to no less than six writers, the greatest strength of "Office Christmas Party" is its casting. If you've got fabulous weirdos Kate McKinnon and T.J. Miller in lead roles, there are bound to be more than enough laughs.

McKinnon and Miller more than deliver in their roles, supported by some of comedy's best team players in Vanessa Bayer, Rob Corddry, Randall Park, Sam Richardson and Jillian Bell. Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston bring a pleasantly acid sting to the proceedings, reprising their chemistry from the "Horrible Bosses" movies. The inimitable Courtney B. Vance also makes a memorable appearance. This cast, coupled with the time-honored bad idea of getting drunk with your coworkers, is as good a match as cookies and milk, hot cocoa and marshmallows, egg and nog.

There's not much you can do to mess it up.

Miller plays the good-time boy Clay, boss of the Chicago branch of data storage company Zenotek.

He was installed by his father, the company's founder, and shares a deep rivalry with his Grinchy big sister Carol (Jennifer Aniston), who's consistently threatening to close him down and fire everyone.

The night of the office holiday mixer, Clay decides to throw the biggest, baddest bash possible in order to woo a business deal with Walter Davis (Vance). Things go from very awesome to very bad in short order.

The real fun of "Office Christmas Party" is the utter bacchanalia in which these corporate stooges engage while believing their work world is going to end. It rapidly escalates from a rowdy dance party to a depraved orgy of sex and violence, and the pleasure is in watching these buttoned-up archetypes traffic in everything lewd and crude imaginable. You wish for far more of the flaming Christmas tree jousting and way less setting up the internet server.

The fact of the matter is that it's nigh impossible to not enjoy McKinnon playing a repressed HR manager finally cutting loose, or Miller as the overgrown, overenthusiastic frat boy in a Santa suit who can't bear to lose any of his employees. "Office Christmas Party," which delights in a grotesque carnival of the worst behavior, still has its heart firmly in the right place.

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PASSHE gives students Christmas bonuses

By KATIE MEST

Staff Writer K.A.Mest@iup.edu

On Wednesday afternoon, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education announced a Christmas bonus that will benefit every state-funded university in Pennsylvania.

Due to the strike that occurred in October, the State System felt it necessary to make it up to its students.

Each student at the 14 state universities will have his or her books for the spring semester purchased for them by the State System.

Public relations consultant Tara Brinks dubbed this event the

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As money falls from the sky, the students will be having a stellar break.

“Student Christmas Bonus.”

“We received many complaints during the strike from parents, students and university faculty,” Brinks said. “We just hope that the Student Christmas Bonus

can help make up for the major inconvenience of the three-day strike.”

The State System has struck a deal with used-book sellers such as Amazon and Chegg to be able to

provide for the more than 100,000 students within its universities.

The average student spends $350 per semester on textbooks alone. The State System is looking to alleviate some of that cost in the spirit of the holidays.

Students will receive books on their first day back on campus in the spring semester.

Dylan Myer (junior, anthropology) commends the State System for its generosity.

“Honestly, I’m psyched,” Myer said. “Now, I can work over break for some extra cash without having to immediately spend it on textbooks. It’s a Christmas miracle.”

IUP professors are grateful that the State System is attempting to

make it up to its students.

Chemistry professor Eric Suave sat on an Indiana street corner in both rain and sun during the strike.

“They missed three days of what should have been course material,” Suave said. “The students stood by us as we were on strike, and we thank them for that. Now, PASSHE is showing its support toward the students’ education.”

“Buying books each semester can be hard on the wallets of students and parents,” Brinks said.

“We just wanted to remind our university families that our main focus is to see our students and universities succeed.”

The book bonus will also qualify to those who are new transfers for the spring 2017 semester.

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‘Frank & Lola’ is an impressive thriller

By CARLY DARLING

Fort Worth Star-Telegram TNS

The enigmatic, low-key and slow-burn romantic thriller “Frank & Lola” is impressive on a number of levels. It’s the first feature-length film from young director/writer Matthew Ross, it’s blessed with a superlative cast, including Michael Shannon, Imogen Poots and Michael Nyqvist – and it features the kind of performance from Shannon that earned him notice before the likes of “Man of Steel” and “Boardwalk Empire” came calling.

Shannon is Frank, a talented but down-on-his-luck chef working in Las Vegas. The one bright spot for him is his blossoming romance with Lola (Poots), but that’s put in danger when she has a fling with “a guy from California.” She blames it on a tempestuous childhood and a sexual assault in Paris by her mom’s lover at the time, Alan (Nyqvist).

He’s already insecure about his relationship with the much younger Lola. He’s not pleased

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Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots star in “Frank & Lola.”

when a younger man (Justin Long) flirts with her at a bar, so when work summons him to Paris, he uses it as a chance to confront Alan – but gets more than he bargained for.

Ross avoids the obvious thriller tropes. In other hands, “Frank & Lola” could have been a rousing crowd-pleaser in the “Taken” vein, but instead goes

for something more moody, deliberate and nuanced. He’s helped by the perpetual nighttime cinematography from Eric Koretz and the sultry score from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans.

This is the kind of debut that whets the appetite for what else this filmmaker has up his sleeve.

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Player spotlight: IUP men’s basketball player Devon Cottrell

(IUP Athletics) Devon Cottrell (redshirt senior, communications media) leads the team in shooting percentage at 64 percent from the field and is averaging 10 points per game in 2016. He also is the team’s leader in blocks with 12.

By EVAN MCCUE Staff Writer

E.M.McCue@iup.edu

IUP’s male athlete of the week is a member of the basketball team who just earned his mark in the Crimson Hawk history books.

IUP got a big victory at home against the undefeated, No. 8 Kutztown University Golden Bears last weekend in dramatic fashion. With the

Crimson Hawks trailing, 76-75, with seven seconds to play, Ayron Hutton (junior, communications media) shot a 3-pointer that came up well short but was quickly snatched out of the air by Devon Cottrell (redshirt senior, communications media) and put back in for the game-winning layup just before the buzzer.

This shot by “Drizz” Cottrell added to what was already a memorable day for him as he became the IUP all-time blocks leader with 163, passing Darryl Webb, who played from 2007-2012.

Cottrell finished with 18 points, going 7 for 10 from the field and grabbed seven rebounds.

“As a player, his focus is on the team; for it to happen in a big game just made it more exciting,” coach Joe Lombardi said when

(The Penn archives) Cottrell was named IUP Athlete of the Week after his performance in Sunday’s win over Kutztown University. Cottrell made the game-winning shot with one second remaining in regulation and also set the all-time blocks record at IUP.

asked about Cottrell. “He has been one of our best defensive players that we have had over the last 10 years.”

Cottrell has earned all 163 of his blocks, dealing with plenty of adversity in his six seasons with the Crimson Hawks.

Cottrell is a Pittsburgh native and played his high school ball at Gateway prior to coming to IUP. As a freshman, he practiced and worked out with the team but could not play in any games due to Lombardi’s decision to redshirt him.

“Freshman year was tough,” Cottrell said. “But it was a good way for me to adjust to college, and if it wasn't for that redshirt, I wouldn’t be playing right now.”

His next three seasons went rather smoothly, playing in just

about every game and tormenting Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference competition on the defensive side of the ball.

He led the team in blocked shots in all three of his seasons and even set the single-season blocks record his redshirt junior season (2014-2015) with 60 blocks on the way to the team’s national championship appearance.

His fifth season started off well, averaging 8.3 points and 6.2 rebounds, until he suffered a serious foot injury that kept him sidelined for the remainder of the season.

“It was awful,” Cottrell said.

“I thought my basketball career was over.”

Fortunately, he was granted a medical redshirt and was presented with the opportunity to return for a sixth season and pursue a

graduate degree after graduating in the spring of 2016.

“It was an easy decision for me to return for my sixth season,” Cottrell said. “I love this game and this team too much to go out on such a bad note.”

Cottrell now anchors the defense of this year’s team and is averaging about 10 points and five rebounds per game.

“I take pride in being one of the veterans on a young, talented team,” he said. “This team is hungry, and we believe we can play with anybody in the country. I’m excited to see what we can accomplish together.”

Cottrell and the rest of the Crimson Hawks are back in action Saturday night in a PSAC matchup against Mansfield University at the KCAC.

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NFL Power Rankings: Top 15 teams heading into Week 14

By JARROD BROWNE Lead Sports Writer

J.W.Browne@iup.edu

With just about a month remaining in the NFL regular season, it’s time to take a look at some teams that are the cream of the crop so far this season.

Here are our top 15 power rankings after Week 13: 15. Miami Dolphins After dropping a 38-6 loss to the Ravens, the Dolphins look to return to their winning ways after winning six out of their last seven games.

14. Green Bay Packers The Packers currently stand at 6-6 but look to gain their third straight win as they welcome the Seahawks this week.

13. Atlanta Falcons Matt Ryan and Julio Jones have been the hottest duo in the NFL this year. Despite the success between those two, the Falcons have dropped two out of their last three games.

12. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Eleven unanswered points in the fourth quarter allowed the Buccaneers to capture their fourthstraight win, putting them at 7-5 11. Washington Redskins Two straight losses put the Redskins at 6-5-1. Although the team is on a losing skid, Kirk Cousins has still thrown for 3,811 yards this season.

10. New York Giants With an 8-4 record, the Giants looked helpless on both sides of the ball against Pittsburgh. This would be a bad time to slump in the season with games against Dallas and Detroit coming up.

9. Pittsburgh Steelers With a 7-5 record, the Steelers are still trying to find their stride with arguably the most dangerous offense in the NFL. 8. Baltimore Ravens Currently leading the AFC North at 7-5, the Ravens have put together an impressive season with wins against the Bills, Steelers and Bengals.

7. Detroit Lions The Lions may be the hottest team in the NFL right now after winning seven out of their last eight games, giving them an 8-4 record.

6. Denver Broncos Currently with a 8-4 record, the Broncos’ defense makes it easy to win, only allowing 17.4 points per game.

5. Seattle Seahawks The Seahawks continue to challenge the Cowboys for the best team in the NFC. A 40-7 win over the Panthers now puts the Seahawks at 8-3-1.

4. Kansas City Chiefs After winning seven out of their last eight, the Chiefs currently stand at 9-3 and look to take control of the AFC West when they face Oakland.

3. Oakland Raiders Derek Carr is having an MVP season with 3,375 yards and 24 touchdowns, all while leading the Raiders to a 10-2 record.

2. Dallas Cowboys Despite having the best record in the NFL at 11-1, the Cowboys still do not hold the top power ranking due to the fact that they are being led by a rookie quarterback and running back who are still learning the system and pace of play in the NFL. 1. New England Patriots Currently sitting at 10-2, the Patriots are playing better than ever without Rob Gronkowski. Tom Brady is playing like a four-time Super Bowl champion, only throwing one interception compared to his 19 touchdowns.

As the end of the 2016 regular season ends and the NFL postseason approaches, the debates will begin over who is the favorite to reach the Super Bowl.

The Dallas Cowboys are one of those teams, and many will certainly have to consider them to win the NFC. The favorite in the AFC is a topic that has been debated, but New England has been one of the most consistent teams all season, which is noteworthy.

(TNS) Rookie quarterback Dak Prescott has led the Dallas Cowboys to the NFL’s best record at 11-1 heading into Week 14. Along with Prescott’s impressive rookie campaign, rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott has played just as important a role in the Cowboys’ offensive attack.

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Warriors, Spurs, Cavs among NBA leaders as December begins

By MATT STAUB Staff Writer

M.A.Staub@iup.edu

The NBA season is still young, but the top teams are standing out.

The defending NBA champions, the Cleveland Cavaliers, are currently first in the Eastern Conference.

In the Western Conference, the Golden State Warriors sit atop the standings with a 19-3 record.

The San Antonio Spurs aren’t far behind them with an 18-4 record and 13-0 line on the road.

The Cavaliers have gotten strong play from their three stars as LeBron James, Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving have all been averaging more than 20 points per game.

On Wednesday night, the Cavaliers defeated the New York Knicks, 126-94.

(TNS) The Golden State Warriors are once again holding the NBA’s best record at 19-3 so far in the 2016-17 season. Golden State set the single-season wins record in a regular season by going 73-9 last year. The record was previously held by the 1996 Chicago Bulls.

The blowout win ended the Knicks’ four-game winning streak.

The Cavaliers dominated the entire game. They were led in scoring by Irving, who had 28 points.

As a team, the Cavaliers went 22-

40 from the 3-point line.

After a slow start to the season, the Knicks have begun to find their footing.

Point guard Derrick Rose missed the game against the Cav-

aliers with back spasms.

He has been healthy the rest of the season and has played consistently.

The Knicks have been dealing with the controversy caused by president Phil Jackson’s comments. Jackson referred to James’ business associates as his “posse,” and the comments offended James and others in the black community. Jackson also slighted the past accomplishments of the Miami Heat when James was a member of the team.

Jackson commented on his own star player, Carmelo Anthony, stating that he holds onto the ball too much. Many critics wonder if Jackson is becoming too much of a distraction for the team.

In the late-night game, the Warriors defeated the Los Angeles Clippers, 115-98.

On Monday against the Indiana Pacers, Warriors guard Klay

Thompson scored a season-high 60 points in only 29 minutes.

Thompson didn't even play the entire fourth quarter.

Thompson also has the record for most points scored in a quarter with 37.

He, along with Steph Curry and Kevin Durant, gives opponents fits on a nightly basis.

There have also been rumors of the Washington Wizards potentially trading All-Star point guard John Wall. The Wizards are a disappointing 7-13 despite having the self-proclaimed best backcourt in the league.

Many fans are wondering if it is possible for the Wizards to win with the combination of Wall and Bradley Beal.

Just as Durant and former Oklahoma City Thunder teammate Russell Westbrook split up, we could soon see another pair of stars split, too.

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NHL announces expansion team coming to Las Vegas

By DENNIS CANIZ Staff Writer

D.M.Caniz@iup.edu

As the new expansion team coming into the National Hockey League, the Las Vegas Golden Knights franchise must build a club of contenders from the ground up.

The Golden Knights will be a part of an expansion draft.

With no farm system to pull players from, they will be forced to take players from the 30 other teams in the league.

For this, each existing team is told it can "protect" a certain number of its existing contracted players by listing their names to the league office on or before 5 p.m.

June 17.

The new Las Vegas franchise is then allowed to select players not on the protected list, similar to an entry draft.

The protected list allows the other 30 teams to have two options for players they wish to protect in the expansion draft.

For one, teams may choose to protect seven forwards, three defensemen and one goaltender.

The other option is to protect eight skaters and one goaltender.

When it comes down to who can be protected and taken, contracts of players have to be taken into consideration.

All players who possess continuing "no movement" clauses in their contracts at the time of the expansion draft must be protected and will be counted toward their club's applicable protection limits.

All first- and second-year professionals – and all unsigned draft choices – will be exempt from selection and will not be counted toward their club's applicable protection limits.

When it comes to players who are eligible for the expansion draft, all clubs must meet the league’s minimum requirements.

Each team must have one defen-

seman and two forwards who will be under contract in 2017-18 and played in 40 or more NHL games in the prior season, or have played in 70 or more NHL games in the prior two seasons.

Each team must also have one goaltender who is under contract in 2017-18 or will be a restricted free agent at the expiration of his current contract.

If the club chooses to make a restricted free agent goaltender available in order to meet this requirement, that goaltender must have received his qualifying offer prior to the submission of the club's protected list.

Players with potentially careerending injuries who have missed more than the previous 60 consecutive games may not be used to satisfy a club's player exposure requirements unless approved by the NHL. The Las Vegas franchise must select one player from each presently existing club for a total of 30 players; at least 14 forwards, nine defensemen and three goaltenders and a minimum of 20 players who are under contract for the 2017-18 season.

The Las Vegas team will be able to submit its expansion draft selections by 5 p.m. June 20.

When it comes to the 2017 NHL Draft Lottery, Vegas will be given the same odds as the team finishing with the third-fewest points during the current regular season.

After the first round, the team will have the third pick in each of the following rounds.

However, this may be changed if the team is subject to trades and other potential player transactions.

This will make it difficult for the franchise to get a standout player, but the expansion draft will help establish the team and will allow for the franchise to build.

This will be the first NHL expansion draft since the year 2000 when the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets entered the league.

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