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Give to the Grove fundraising to end on Earth Day As our students transition into alumni, they can take pride in knowing that they can come back in future years and see how their investment has grown.

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

The Student Philanthropy Council (SPC) started Give to the Grove, a student-giving project to raise money for planting trees in the Oak Grove, last fall.

Now, SPC is asking students to donate to the IUP Arboretum to help replant some of the trees that have fallen in recent years due to disease or inclement weather.

Aside from the students raising money, Jerry Pickering, chairman for the Allegheny Arboretum Board, has pledged to match up to $500 in student donations to the Give to the Grove campaign.

According to Mary Jo Ludwig, co-adviser to SPC and assistant director of the Office of Annual Giving, Give to the Grove is IUP’s first campuswide IUP student-fundraising project.

She said SPC wanted to expand its philanthropic mission to all stu-

-Mary Jo Ludwig (assistant director of the Office of Annual Giving)

(Submitted photo) The Student Philanthropy Council has raised $600 of its $1,000 goal for funds to plant new trees in the Oak Grove.

dents after seeing recent growth in donations for the senior class gift.

“SPC students acknowledge the affinity students and alumni have for the Oak Grove,” Ludwig said.

“It is the heart of the campus, and a focal point that current students will likely visit as alumni

someday. Because the Oak Grove is known and used by all students, and due to the current need to replant some trees in the Oak Grove, it seemed like an ideal project.”

Before Pickering made his pledge to match donations, SPC had raised approximately $250.

Since the announcement, students have contributed around $600 to Give to the Grove.

The overall minimal goal for the project is $1,000, because the minimum cost to replace a tree is $500.

This would allow SPC to plant two trees, but Ludwig said they would like to exceed the goal if possible.

Each $500 means another tree can be planted.

The IUP Arboretum will place a tag on the tree stating who the donors are.

With the $600 raised since Pick-

ering made his pledge, Ludwig said SPC is “well on their way” to reaching its goal and, therefore, receiving Pickering’s matching donation of $500.

SPC set a deadline of Earth Day, April 22, for the campaign.

“The Oak Grove is such an important icon here at IUP, and this is an opportunity for students to invest in something special at IUP and make their mark for future generations,” Ludwig said.

“As our students transition into alumni, they can take pride in knowing that they can come back in future years and see how their investment has grown.”

More information can be found at www.iup.edu/MakeYourMark, and additional questions can be emailed to iup-giving@iup.edu.

Students can donate by going to www.iup.edu/GivetotheGrove or looking for SPC students who have been tabling in the IUP Libraries and Humanities and Social Sciences Building.

Holocaust survivor to speak at Six O’Clock Series

By CARL WELLS

Staff Writer C.J.Wells2@iup.edu

Holocaust survivor Judah Samet will be giving a candid recollection of his life at 6 p.m. Monday in the Hadley Union Building Ohio Room.

Samet lived in a concentration camp with his family for a large part of his early childhood.

Shannon Phillips-Shyrock, chairwoman of IUP’s Holocaust Remembrance Organizing Committee, shared some of Samet’s history.

“Judah Samet was born in Debrecen, Hungary, in 1938,” she said. “He was a child during the Holocaust. He was taken from his hometown, along with his family, in a cattle car going to Auschwitz.

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(Wikimedia) Holocaust survivor Judah Samet will speak at Monday’s Six O’Clock Series event in the Hadley Union Building Ohio Room. Samet was liberated from the Bergen-Bergen concentration camp in 1945.

Allied bombing caused the train to be rerouted to Bergen-Bergen

concentration camp.”

According to Phillips-Shyrock,

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Samet was liberated from this camp in 1945.

His father died soon after the war, and the rest of the family moved to Israel.

Samet then moved to the United States, where he worked as a teacher and jeweler.

He married his wife, Barbara, with whom he has one daughter and two grandsons.

Phillips-Shyrock emphasized the importance of student attendance in light of the recent rise of intolerance and tragedy evident in today’s world.

“It will not be long before there are no Holocaust survivors left to tell their stories,” she said.

“To hear a survivor speak is an amazing educational experience

that leaves a lasting impression on anyone who has the opportunity to attend. Our world today is filled with increasing hate and violence, so Judah’s message of increased understanding and the warnings of hate are very relevant today.

“We all need to work together toward repairing the work – or tikkun olam, in Hebrew.”

For those particularly interested in Samet’s life experiences or who have questions about the Holocaust, there will be a reception following the presentation in which survivors Moshe Baran, Solange Lebovitz, Shulamit Bastacky and Harry Schneider and his wife, Patty, will be joining Samet to answer questions regarding their experiences during the Holocaust.

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Police Blotter Alcohol Violations

• Adam McQuillan, 19, of Johnstown, was cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness at 9:18 p.m. March 24 on Garman Avenue, according to IUP University Police.

• Emily Wright, 18, of Gibsonia, was cited for underage drinking at 9:46 p.m. March 24 at Northern Suites, according to university police.

• A juvenile, of Gibsonia, was cited for underage drinking at 9:46 p.m.

March 24 at Northern Suites, according to university police.

• Kyle Meyer, 19, of Erie, was cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness at 10:54 p.m. March 24 at Wallwork Hall, according to university police.

• Christian Bryan, 24, of North Huntingdon, was cited for public drunkenness at 2:59 a.m. March 25 in the 500 block of Oak Street, according to the Indiana Borough Police Department.

• Seth Kraemer, 19, of Clarendon, was cited for underage drinking at 3:41 a.m. March 25 in the 1100

block of Gompers Avenue, according to borough police.

• Ryan Seiple, 20, of Saylorsburg, was charged with public drunkenness and underage drinking at 4:50 p.m. March 25 in the 200 block of Rice Avenue, according to borough police.

• Tramell Perry, 22, of Pittsburgh, was cited for violating the borough code for open containers at 9:19 p.m. March 25 at 319 Pratt Dr., according to borough police.

• William Baird, 20, of Pittsburgh, was cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness at 12:12 a.m. March 26 at 205 South Fifth St., according to borough police.

• Caleb Kephart, 20, of Portage, was cited for public drunkenness and underage drinking at 12:24 a.m. March 26 in the 500 block of Philadelphia Street, according to borough police.

• Cameron Miller, 19, of Pittsburgh, was charged with public drunkenness, underage drinking, disorderly conduct and possession of drug paraphernalia at 6:06 a.m. March 26 at 425 Church St., according to

borough police.

Drug Violations

• Emily Hartman, 19, of Lebanon, was charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana at 3:54 p.m. March 23 at the Robertshaw Parking Lot, according to university police.

• Shaneil Goodman, 19, of Yeadon, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia at 3:54 p.m.

March 23 at the Robertshaw Parking Lot, according to university police.

• Kalle Cooper, 19, of Lansdale, was charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia at 5:06 p.m. March 24 at the Hadley Union Building Parking Lot, according to university police.

Lot, according to university police.

• Thomas Heyward, 21, of Pittsburgh, was cited for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness at 3:17 a.m. March 24 at the Stapleton Library, according to university police.

Noise

• Mark Volpe, 21, of Media, was cited for violating the borough code for noise at 1:06 p.m. March 25 at 220 South Seventh St., according to borough police.

Theft/Burglary

• Michael Banner, 21, of Levittown, was cited for retail theft at

12:35 a.m. March 25 at Sheetz, 768 Wayne Ave., according to borough police.

• Kyle Bradley, 20, of Holland, and Joseph Keenan, 19, of Doylestown, were cited for retail theft at 3:03 a.m. March 25 at Sheetz, 380 Philadelphia St., according to borough police. Bradley was also cited for underage drinking, according to borough police.

• Jelahn Williams, 21, of Philadelphia, was charged with burglary, aggravated assault, criminal trespass, escape, resisting arrest, simple assault, theft, receiving stolen property, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct at 8:09 p.m. March 25 in the 00 block of Park Place, according to borough police.

Disorderly Conduct

• Tyzane Price, 18, of New Kensington, was cited for disorderly conduct and public urination at 12:49 a.m. March 24 at the Towers West

International Unity Day aims to teach students cultural diversity, appreciation

By KRISTY SHEARER Staff Writer K.A.Shearer@iup.edu

The Office of International Education (OIE) will be hosting the annual International Unity Day, a free event for students to learn about different cultures and meet new people, from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday in the Hadley Union Building.

International Unity Day has been an event bringing people together and giving international students a piece of home for more than 20 years.

The event is described as “a

time to renew and explore new cultures through delicious food and heartfelt performances.”

This year the event will feature 28 countries and will include 10 different entertainment acts.

IUP currently has 923 international students from 58 countries.

“International Unity Day is an amazing event and has been happening at IUP for over 20 years,” said Jessica Dories, assistant director of international student and scholar services.

“It’s a great showcase of IUP’s international students and the countries they come from.”

A news release for the event advertised diversity in “international cuisine, poster displays and entertainment.”

During the event, IUP international students and scholars will display different cultural aspects of their home countries.

Food samples from around the world will be served from noon to 1:30 p.m.

There will also be a children’s room, which will have origami, a photo booth, face painting and balloon art.

Dancing and musical performances will be from 1:30 to 3 p.m.

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SEEDS club to host climate awareness event Detroit Red Wings dietitian

By KATIE MEST

Staff Writer K.M.Mest@iup.edu

As climate change continues to be a growing issue in today’s world, IUP students are working to fight for their home.

The Strategies for Ecology Education, Diversity and Sustainability (SEEDS) club will be hosting Climate Unites Us from 1 to 3 p.m.

Monday in the Oak Grove.

Anyone who is a part of the Indiana community, including students and faculty, is invited to join the club in addressing environmental matters with government legislators.

Concerned citizens can stop by the table to sign a prewritten letter or compose their own letters.

SEEDS Vice President Kristina Kurelja (junior, biology) came up with the idea for the Climate Unites Us event.

“Participants of IUP’s Climate Unites Us will be given the opportunity to share their voices in support of climate change awareness and education,” Kurelja said

(Twitter) The SEEDS club will host an event to support climate change awareness and education Monday in the Oak Grove.

in an email interview Thursday, “through the power of writing, while learning more about this environmental issue overall.

“It is unbelievably important that people understand that the only way environmental progress will occur is through making our voices heard and taking action.”

As an incentive for participating, members of the club have made sustainable lip balm from coconut oil and peppermint that

they will be handing to those who sign.

The club will also be providing information about the many ways students can help the cause in the Indiana area.

These events also serve as ways in which students can get service hours while helping local organizations make a statement.

Dr. Ellen Yerger, SEEDS adviser, guided the club in organizing the event.

Dr. Chris Jeffords, an economics professor, is helping to fund the event.

The aim of the SEEDS club is to bring forth enough people who care about the environment to make a difference in the community and beyond.

“I think we play a valuable role in Indiana’s community through our focus on educating the public about environmental concerns and encouraging sustainable mindsets,” Kurelja said.

“We can’t wait and hope that someone else will do it. The hope is that this event will emphasize just that.”

speaks about health, wellness

(Twitter) The Student Association of Nurtition and Dietetics hosted Lisa McDowell, the dietitian for the Detroit Red Wings, Tuesday night in the Hadley Union Building Ohio Room.

By CARL WELLS

Staff Writer C.J.Wells2@iup.edu

Lisa McDowell, acclaimed dietitian for the Detroit Red Wings and former director of nutrition for the St. Joseph Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, Mich., gave some insight into the current state of nutrition in America Tuesday in Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 126.

McDowell began her presentation by sharing a little bit about her past with the audience, discussing how she graduated with a dual degree from Michigan State University and went on to work for a number of hospitals, primarily in intensive-care units.

Over the next few years, McDowell achieved a position as the director of nutrition at St. Joseph before accepting work as the team dietitian for the Detroit Red Wings.

McDowell said during her time at St. Joseph, she found herself waiting with her father for test results that would determine whether or not he would be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

She highlighted the difficulty of being on the receiving end of the hospital’s services. It was then, she said, that she realized for the first time she could apply her education in nutritional science toward her father’s treatment.

McDowell noted this as a breakthrough moment for her.

She said she realized that not only her father but all of the patients at St. Joseph were receiving “subpar nutrition.”

McDowell said she did not want her father eating the hospital food on his road to recovery, under-

standing the impact that poor nutrition can have on an individual’s health. McDowell noted that this situation was not uncommon in hospitals across America, so she set out to change things.

With her education and resources, she embarked on a mission to provide St. Joseph with a better supply of high-quality food and ingredients. This effort led to the creation of The Farm at St. Joseph.

The Farm is the first hospitalbased farm in Michigan, and one of a few nationwide. The produce grown at The Farm is used in the hospital and sold at a farmer’s market within it.

“When it comes to healthy eating, one of the most difficult aspects for people is finding quality produce at reasonable costs,” McDowell said. “We get many consultation requests from patients hoping to lose weight and begin living healthier lifestyles.

“Opening a farmer’s market featuring home-grown produce is a great way to enhance the healthy eating habits of people in our community.”

McDowell also stressed the importance of individual consumer decisions.

By making better dietary choices, she said, students can directly affect the availability of healthy and affordable food options. McDowell said it is largely up to individuals to educate themselves on the substances contained in most cheaply made and heavily processed food items.

For more information on nutrition, McDowell runs a health and wellness blog at: http://redwings.ice.nhl.com/club/ blog.htm?id=3644

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“Is The President Afraid Of Stairs?”

Yes, this was a real headline on CNN last week.

It was displayed at the bottom of the TV screen as a video showed President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence walking down the steps of a plane.

“Obsessive-compulsive President: Why DOES Donald Trump constantly need to rearrange the things in front of him?”

This headline came Wednesday via the news site Daily Mail. The article went on to speculate whether the president should be diagnosed with ObsessiveCompulsive Disorder because a video showed him fidgeting with cups of water during a meeting.

“Finally, There’s Proof That Donald Trump Has Small Hands.”

This headline came courtesy of The Huffington Post back in August. The story went in-depth about how Trump’s hands were found to be smaller than 85 percent of those of American men.

All of these headlines could spark numerous different opinions, but they should bring up only one question: Why?

Why do we care so much about these things? It is certainly true that Trump is no ordinary president, whether it stems from his consistent and aggressive use of Twitter, his personal attacks on celebrities and fellow politicians or various other controversial topics. What is a fact, however, is that he is the president of the United States. Shouldn’t we care more about Trump’s governing than his phobia of stairs?

We live in perhaps the most politically charged period in recent history. Immigrants are worried about their safety. Millions of Americans fear the fate of their health care. The whole world is on edge because of international terrorism and ISIS. Yet some of us have instead chosen to focus on personal habits of the president that have nothing to do with the way he governs.

Even worse, some media outlets have gotten caught up in all the speculation. Instead of practicing what they preach and reporting the straight news, some outlets are instead providing clickbaittype content that is doing an injustice to readers who are actually searching for the real news.

We believe everybody needs to refocus and examine the important issues. If American citizens want to criticize Trump about his policies, that is fine.

People have the right to do so because of the First Amendment. But pointing fingers at one another and posting articles about the president’s idiosyncrasies serves no purpose. Nobody wins.

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Letter rotito dTO Ethe eTHE htEditor otEDITOR retteL LETTER Fast forward. The year is 2027.

Many of you students now have jobs, are likely married. You may have a child or two.

You may have a home on which you have a mortgage and are paying taxes.

You work hard to afford this home to provide comfort and safety to you and your family. You cut your grass, trim the hedges, maybe have a pool to keep up after.

It is YOUR sanctuary from the outside world. Your refuge after a long day’s work.

But, you just happen to live in a college town. One that condones excessive drinking, partying, inviting friends in from all over to partake of these “festivities.”

Every year it gets bigger and bigger, with out of control crowds of highly intoxicated KIDS. Not adults, KIDS. Every year you

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dread what these festivities will bring, the destruction to your home, your property, your vehicles. The fear your children go through when they hear the screaming, see kids jumping on cars, urinating/defecating (oh yes, that actually happens!) on your property or others. Puking in the streets.

Fist fights, and the most feared of all, gun shots.

You can sit back reading this and say it wasn’t students that caused the recent mayhem of a fatal shooting, and we know it wasn’t. BUT, when events like this take place, you open it up for all. This event gets advertised across social media bringing people in from other states! Luring “townie” kids in to party for two or three days.

If you didn’t have it, they wouldn’t come!

So, are those who organized this responsible for the mayhem? Yes, indeed they are.

You can write asinine articles like the recent one by the editorial staff of The Penn that basically rubbed in the faces of the good folks of Indiana your lack of respect for our town. The four years you spend here are because of the good folks of this town who work in one capacity or another at IUP. If this were your own parents’ homes being invaded by others behaving in the manner some of you did, would it bother you?

Would knowing how hard your parents worked to provide you with a safe haven, only to be a target of unaccountable kids, bother you?

Please, come back when you are grown adults with priorities. With homes and fami-

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lies and sit back and watch the you of your past. Then tell me how much fun it is to wreck havoc on others.

You have zero idea what tax payers have been through since the reassessment of 2015. The anxiety they already suffer. You likely wouldn’t understand or care, because you have yet to reach that level of maturity.

Like it or not, those who organized IUPatty’s are just as responsible for the devastation that occurred as the ones who participated in it. You just give them a venue.

Laugh all you want now. One day you won’t think it is all so funny. Or, at least I hope you don’t because you finally reached true adulthood.

Tammy Curry Indiana

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Pictured clockwise from top left: Tal Gluck, Rachel Precht, Nicole Catalfamo and Ashley Bouton presented their work Saturday. Gluck and Bouton’s works are in the University Museum, and Catalfamo and Precht’s works can be viewed in the Kipp Gallery.

Art grads’ thesis exhibitions now on display

By LAITH ZURAIKAT Staff Writer L.A.Zuraikat@iup.edu

This past Saturday night, the members of this year’s class of MFA students celebrated putting the finishing touches on what has been three years of intensive work and artistic development with the official opening of the 2017 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition.

The exhibition features the work of four IUP students and includes pieces created using three different artistic mediums.

The students featured in this year’s show are Ashley Bouton, painting; Nicole Catalfamo, drawing; Tal Gluck, sculpture; and Rachel Precht, drawing.

These four students have been working diligently over the past several years to create their bodies of work for exhibition and, according to the IUP art department, the pieces on display explore the inter-

section between each medium’s tradition, contemporary practice and personal vision.

Due to the comprehensive nature of these artists’ creations, the exhibit is actually spread out across three different campus galleries.

The works of Bouton and Gluck can be found in the University Museum in Sutton Hall, while Catalfamo’s “Natural Systems” exhibit can be found in the Annex Gallery in Sprowls Hall.

The work of Precht, “Canary in a coal mine evidence of late capitalism in rural Appalachian Maryland,” is housed in the Kipp Gallery.

While the work of each artist reflects his or her personal journey, style and development as an artist, Nathan Heuer, an assistant professor and the art department chairman, said one attribute is shared by all four artists.

“Recipients of the MFA have earned the terminal degree in their field, and are now qualified to occupy the most prestigious

professional positions in visual art,” Heuer said.

Catalfamo cites her childhood experiences from growing up camping in rural western Pennsylvania as a “significant influence on the natural themes that I choose to depict.”

According to Catalfamo, her exhibit “explores a common perceptual condition in which one focuses attention on details in nature while not relating those details within a more meaningful, broader context.”

According to Precht, her work uses “the domestic architecture of houses in rural Appalachian Maryland as a vehicle to address the way in which we perceive the failure of The American Dream and late capitalism.

Through line drawings, connections are traced between struggling towns in a state of flux and an unsustainable post-industrial society."

Gluck’s “Peradams” exhibit offers visitors the opportunity for an interactive experience.

“Everything in ‘Peradams’ can be picked up and rearranged,” he said. “I ask people to try not to steal anything, and if there is something that they really want and they don't think they can afford it, they can email me to arrange a trade.”

Bouton’s work was inspired by her visits to the Navajo Reservation in Tuba City, Ariz., and seeks to communicate to the viewer the extensive history of the Dine (Navajo), their culture and the impact that their society has had on modern Western society.

Bouton also hopes to raise awareness about the issues of cultural appropriation through her work.

Admission to all three galleries of the exhibition is free. The University Museum hours are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 2 to 6:30 p.m.; Thursdays from noon to 7:30 p.m.; and Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m. The museum is closed on Sundays, Mondays and university holidays.

Kipp Gallery and Annex hours are Tuesdays through Fridays, noon to 4 p.m.

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Pittsburgh music groups to play The Brown Hotel

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Lazy JP (left) is the singer/MC and Barz Blackman (right) is the RapMasterGeneral, according to the group’s Facebook.

By RENEÉ WILLIAMSON Staff Writer R.A.Williamson@iup.edu

Lazyblackman and Manic Soul will be performing at 10 p.m. Saturday at The Brown Hotel.

Lazyblackman will be the first performers of the night. They are a hip-hop group from the Natrona Heights area made up of IUP graduate Justin “Lazy JP” Pitkavish and Joel “Barz Blackman” Carter.

The duo will be performing music from their RAWLAW LP, and possibly some unreleased works.

“We’ll be doing a lot of material from the RAWLAW LP, which is the project we dropped last July,” Carter said. “We did a lot of cover for pop and alternative indie rock songs. You might get to hear something new, but that is yet to be determined.”

Lazyblackman’s style is a blend of rock and hip-hop, Carter said.

“I would say that it’s alternative hip-hop, rock, high-level lyricism

with an indie rock, punk rock aesthetic,” he said.

RAWLAW includes an array of samples from the ’90s era of music.

“That’s where a lot of our inspiration comes from, too,” Carter said. “You can see from the LP. A lot of those bands are bands that we listen to that gave us inspiration for all of that stuff. Even some of that alternative and hard rock from the ’90s: Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, that sort of stuff.”

Live performances are important to Lazyblackman as artists, Carter said.

“That’s a big part of the experience,” he said. “A lot of people have a whole aesthetic and they have their videos. Ours is the live show.”

Lazyblackman is working on a new album that will consist of all original work.

“It will drop sometime this year,” Carter said. “Whenever we have it all nice and polished up,

we’ll drop it for you.”

Manic Soul will be the final performance of the night.

Manic Soul is comprised of Dhruva Krishna on drums, Aidan Epstein on bass guitar and Shane McLaughlin on lead vocals and guitar.

Krishna has worked with Lazy JP from Lazyblackman and recommended them to Sean Howard, The Brown Hotel manager.

“One of the singers, Lazy JP, and I have done a few tracks together,” Krishna said. “So they came to mind because I’m a huge fan of their work, and I thought it would be a good complement for us at the show. We’re both pretty energetic live groups. I thought it would be a really good intersection to have both of us at the show together.”

They will be performing mostly original work with a mix of covers.

“We cover a lot of artists like The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Anderson Paak, all these different guys,”

Krishna said.

Manic Soul’s style can be described as a fusion of blues and funk.

“Shane is a pretty blues-heavy guitar player,” Krishna said. “Aidan definitely has a really strong background in jazz and funk, and my style is definitely directly from ’70s fusion rock-jazz intersection.”

The members were all friends and a part of different groups before they formed Manic Soul.

“We all kind of shared the same love of these ’60s, ’70s fusion blues groups, and we wanted it to be the product and encompass that,” Krishna said. “So we just kind of came together and decided to do it.”

The group’s two albums are on manicsoul.bandcamp.com.

“One is live from Pittsburgh, and one is live from Chicago,” Krishna said. “We’re working on our third one that is going to kind of serve as our first EP, probably within the next month.”

Who: Patrycja Empacher (senior, English writing) What: A barn owl with a compass below it Where: Left forearm Pain level: “Honestly,

the line art wasn’t bad,” Empacher said. “The colors were more painful.”

Meaning: “I’m a military child, and I was born in Poland, so I’ve been traveling a lot,” Empacher said. “I’ve always wanted something with a compass, but circle tattoos are not really popular because they warp, so I wanted something with the compass, and I’m just a big fan of owls. I just like the wisdom behind owls.”

Any other tattoos?:

Yes, Empacher has seven additional tattoos.

Reactions: “I used to work at Subway here, and I always got a lot of compliments on this one,” Empacher said. “I’ve had no negative reactions.”

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Gastropub to host monthly Brew and Board Games Night

By SETH WOOLCOCK Lead Culture Writer S.M.Woolcock@iup.edu

H.R. Steinhouse continues to improve its atmosphere with the addition of a Brew and Board Games Night.

H.R. Steinhouse is a newly remodeled gastropub that opened in October. It can be described as a place for friends to gather that specializes in reasonably priced food and craft beers. They feature what owner Mike Peters calls “sandwiches with a twist.”

The gastropub has the mainstream domestic beers while offering six different craft beers on tap. The craft beers range from IPAs to Spouts to Porters.

The happy hour runs from 6 to 8 p.m. and offers $4 craft beers.

“Every other week, we get live music in,” Peters said. “So the game night is just another thing we hope catches on.”

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Award-winning playwright, actor and performer John Leguizamo premiered “Latin History for Morons” at Berkeley Rep.

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H.R. Steinhouse is located at 1108 Philadelphia St.

Peters with the idea of hosting a game night. Peters, who is a Scrabble fan himself, embraced the idea. The game nights are set to take place the first Tuesday of every month. Peters said if the idea catches on, it could be moved to a biweekly basis.

“It’s just an opportunity for some friends to come in, enjoy some beers, maybe eat some food and learn a new game or pick up an old favorite,” Peters said.

Peters also noted the possibility of trivia nights coming this fall.

John Leguizamo returns to stage with 'Latin History for Morons'

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John Leguizamo is out to teach us something in "Latin History for Morons," but don't run for the door. He's wearing a professorial tweedy sport jacket and a tie, and is surrounded by books, files and a big two-sided blackboard. But grown-up, thankfully, he is not.

In 95 delightful, subversively serious minutes, he actually does teach centuries of history that never made it to the school books.

He also reminds us that learning something, even (or especially) something tragic, can be a joy, and that the theater has missed him a lot.

It has been more than a quarter century since this gifted chameleon burst onto Off-Broadway with "Mambo Mouth," immediately marking his territory as the first Latin performance artist/stand-up monologuist with crossover star potential. For years, between movies and TV and writing books and getting awards, he used to return to the stage with solos that unofficially added up to a live onstage autobiography.

Now here he is at the Public Theater with his sixth solo, his first New York show since "Ghetto Klown" played Broadway in 2011.

He's 52 and not a kid anymore, though you can't guess that from the antic, ridiculous, street-wise, supposedly native dance interludes that interrupt the multiethnic commentary. He is a married guy and a dad with an urgent need to help his bullied eighth-grade son write a paper about a hero. Convinced that heroes existed in their history, he takes us on what believably feels like his own intense journey through the Maya and the Inca to the Latino soldiers in American wars.

Leguizamo still has a nonstop mambo mouth, the energy of an eighth-grader and a curiosity that careens around director Tony Taccone's tight yet friendly production with equal parts irreverence and sweetness. There is a sober dedication in the program: "To all the immigrants who made this country and its original people whose spirit still run our lives unbeknownst to us." But one doesn't have to read that to sense the angry incredulity that fuels the humor.

The ending is a little sappy, but no matter. With his face blazing with subtext and his merciless ethnic accents, he does not mince words. He dices them, toys sadistically with them and tosses them into a pile of observations that acknowledge the morons and the humanity in us all.

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IUP musicians to commemorate renowned composer

By SETH WOOLCOCK Lead Culture Writer S.M.Woolcock@iup.edu

Dr. Matthew Baumer, IUP associate professor of music history, and a group of his colleagues will be celebrating “the king of ragtime composers” with the Scott Joplin Memorial Recital at 3 p.m. Sunday in DiCicco Hall, located in Room 121 of Cogswell Hall.

“Scott Joplin was one of the most interesting composers ever,” Baumer said. “He was one of the first African-American composers that was able to negotiate his way around all the disadvantages that was set before him.”

Baumer said he has been a fan of Joplin since age 10, and has loved playing his piano compositions ever since.

“Joplin was able to combine classical themes with popular ideas,” Baumer said.

Baumer will be joined on stage by fellow faculty piano players SunMin Kim and Evan Englestad. Also performing will be the faculty brass quintet of IUP, The HoodleBug Brass Quintet.

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The HoodleBug Brass Quintet consists of (from left to right) Zach Collins, Heidi Lucas, Kevin Eisensmith, David Ferguson and Christain Dickinson.

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The performance will take place in DiCicco Hall, located in Cogswell Hall.

“It is our pleasure to be involved in this recital,” said Dr. Kevin Eisensmith, a member of the quintet.

“Ragtime music was a predecessor to jazz music and translates well for the brass quintet. We look forward

to a fun and interesting recital.”

Also adding to the recital will be the IUP Ragtime Orchestra, a group of 10 IUP students that are conducted by Janet Song Kim. IUP professor of dance Holly

Boda-Sutton will be directing and choreographing the IUP Ragtime Dancers, who will also take part in the recital. The Ragtime Dancers are a group composed of four students in the IUP Dance Theater program. They will be trying to add a visual element to Joplin’s music.

The recital is funded and performed solely by the IUP music department. The event will be free of admission. This is also the first memorial recital being performed at IUP since the Franz Liszt Memorial Recital back in 2011.

“Expect a lot of really great and really fun music that will hopefully showcase the value of Joplin and ragtime,” Baumer said.

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Another IUP lacrosse season is underway.

After starting the season with two losses to Florida Institute of Technology and Florida Southern College, who are ranked 17th and fifth in the nation, respectively, IUP went on a three-game winning streak, picking up two wins in its conference along the way over Gannon University and Millersville University before suffering a third loss against Tiffin University. IUP now sits at No. 18 in the national ranking for Division II. Leading the way so far this season is Ally Burrows (sophomore, biology).

BurLACROSSE rows has scored 20 goals already this season.

Also helping the team out are Adriana Greco (sophomore, undecided), Kelly Shields (freshman, marketing) and Katie Martyn (sophomore, criminology).

Greco has 18 points on the season, and Shields is leading the team in assists, with eight, while also recording eight goals. Martyn is currently leading the team in draws controlled, with 23, while still managing to pick up assists.

The team’s expectations for this season are rather high despite

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a .500 winning percentage six games into the season.

“There's a lot of talent all throughout the team this year, and I'm really excited for the rest of the season,” Greco said. “I feel, as a team, we still have a few things to work out, but [I] really do think we're capable of achieving great things and making it really far this year as a team.”

Hannah Bertolo (senior, marketing and finance) had a similar response.

“I have extremely high expectations for this season,” Bertolo said. “Although we lost a very talented senior class last year that had two All-Americans, we have been adjusting well. We have so much young talent and enthusiasm that has been growing game after game. We're currently 2-0 in the [conference], so hopefully we can continue this momentum into the harder games later into the season. Personally, I just want all of the hard work and effort that our team and coaching staff has put into this year to pay off, and I have high hopes that it will.”

Looking ahead, IUP will be going on the road to take on Shippensburg and Seton Hill universities.

Shippensburg has an overall record of 5-2 and a conference record of 1-2 going into its contest with IUP Saturday. Seton Hill is currently on a three-game winning streak while holding a 5-4 overall record and a 3-2 conference record. After IUP’s two-game road stretch, they will be returning home to play Lock Haven University on April 7 at Miller Stadium.

(IUP Athletics) The Crimson Hawks are 3-3 on the 2017 season and are 2-0 in PSAC play with the heart of the conference schedule ahead. IUP will travel to Shippensburg University Saturday for a matchup with the Red Raiders.

IUP baseball steps up to biggest stage yet

By SEAN FRITZ Sports Editor

S.D.Fritz@iup.edu

The IUP Crimson Hawks baseball team will have a chance to play on a biggerthan-usual stage on Monday afternoon.

The team will travel to Altoona to take on the Double A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Altoona Curve, in a scrimmage.

The Crimson Hawks, led by

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first-year manager Anthony Rebyanski, are excited and grateful for the opportunity to compete against professional ballplayers.

The backstory behind this scrimmage stems from an Indiana connection involving Curve manager Mike Ryan, who is originally from Indiana and graduated from Indiana High School in 1996. Ryan went on to an MLB career where he bounced around with a few organizations.

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The Crimson Hawks are in the beginning stages of their season and are off to a rocky 3-13 overall start, but will look at this opportunity against a highcaliber opponent to improve and get some extra work in before heading back to PSAC play.

The Crimson Hawks will begin a weekend four-game home-and-home series with Gannon University beginning Saturday at home at 1 p.m.

Game 2 of the series with Gannon will be held at 3 p.m

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Crimson Hawks win fifth straight match to stay undefeated in early season conference play

By AMBER BAILEY Staff Writer

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Currently No. 35 in the country, the IUP women’s tennis team shut out both Clarion and Edinboro universities Tuesday and Wednesday.

The match Wednesday moved the team to 10-4 overall TENNIS with a perfect 4-0 mark in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.

The Crimson Hawks were on a roll, winning all six singles matches.

Contributing singles wins for the team were Jarka Petercakova (senior, international business), Luise von Agris (junior, international business), Raquel Gonzalez (senior, business management), Rachel Wood (senior, criminology), Sophie Butland (senior, exercise science) and Mariana Valezuela (freshman, cell and molecular biology).

Clarion did manage to win two games in a doubles match against

the Crimson Hawks.

The doubles teams that competed for IUP were Petercakova and von Agris, who are currently ranked No. 16 in the nation; Gonzalez and Wood; and Butland and Katya Minchenkova (freshman, undeclared business).

Returning home the following day, IUP shut out Edinboro. The doubles pair of Petercakova and von Agris, as well as Butland and Minchenkova, both had victories of 8-0. Gonzalez and Wood also landed a win at 8-2.

The team picked up six singles victories once more, but in a very laid-back manner this time.

Petercakova went on to win, 6-2, 6-0; von Agris, 6-0, 6-0; Gonzalez, 6-0, 6-1; Wood, 6-1, 6-2; Minchekova, 6-2, 6-2; and finally, Butland rounding things off, 6-0, 6-1.

The team also saw some personal win streaks continue. Butland is in the lead for longest winning streak at six, followed by Gonzalez and Wood at five.

On the doubles side, Gonzalez and Wood have a six-match win streak.

The team is back in action this weekend as they head to Akron, Ohio, to take on a set of teams from the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

(IUP Athletics) Rachel Wood (senior, criminology) picked up a pair of wins in both singles and doubles play in IUP’s victory over Edinboro University Wednesday.

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As Opening Day nears, Chicago appears poised to repeat

By JARROD BROWNE Lead Sports Writer

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With Spring Training coming to a close, Major League Baseball fans will begin to look forward to Opening Day. On April 3, the MLB season will begin, marking the 162game pursuit of the World Series championship.

Starting in the National League, defending World Series champions, the Chicago Cubs, plan to retain the NL Central Division title.

The Cubs do appear to be the top dog in the NL Central after a 103-win season and retaining most of their roster, except for the loss of outfielder Dexter Fowler.

Following the Cubs in the NL Central will be a toss-up between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates, who both missed the postseason last year.

Both teams experienced uncharacteristic pitching trouble last year, with the Pirates recording a team ERA of 4.21 and the Cardinals recording a 4.08 ERA. The NL Central will close out with the Milwaukee Brewers, who went 73-89 last season, and the Cincinnati Reds, who went 68-94 last year. Both teams are in rebuilding mode.

The NL East is a two-horse race between the Washington Nationals and the New York Mets. Both teams bring powerful pitching staffs, with the Nationals recording a team ERA of 3.51 last year and the Mets recording a team 3.57 ERA. Although the pitching staffs are neck-and-neck, the Nationals have the advantage if their stars can stay healthy and perform consistently.

Daniel Murphy and Max Scherzer have proven that they can maintain health and perform at a high level.

Many fans and experts are predicting a Chicago Cubs repeat in 2017.

As for pitcher Stephen Strasburg, he has faced a career plagued with elbow injuries and is looking for his fourth career complete season. The Nationals also will rely on center fielder Bryce Harper to bounce back from the first sign of inconsistency in his young career. Following his 2015 MVP campaign, Harper finished 2016 with a career-low .243 batting average.

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The NL West is another twohorse race between perennial powerhouses San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Dodgers have the upper hand due to All-Star pitcher Clayton Kershaw. Kershaw led the Dodgers to the second-most dominant pitching staff in baseball, as the team allowed a .233 batting average in 2016.

Expected to lead the American

League East are the Boston Red Sox. Although the Red Sox play in the toughest division in baseball with three former playoff teams [Baltimore and Toronto], the Red Sox added a third All-Star pitcher to their staff. With the addition of Chris Sale, the Red Sox will have three Cy Young candidates with Sale, David Price and Rick Porcello.

The AL Central is expected to once again be controlled by the Cleveland Indians. Leading the Indians will be pitching ace Corey Kluber. Kluber is coming off a 16win season with an ERA of 3.14 The AL West is expected to be controlled by the Texas Rangers. The Rangers bring a powerful pitching staff led by Yu Darvish and Cole Hamels. Darvish and Hamels combined for an ERA of 3.37 and 22 wins in 2016.

Seattle and Houston should pose the biggest threat to Texas for the division crown.

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