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(The Penn archives) Students on the Co-op Board of Directors are put on one of three committees – finance, aberrations or bookstore – and will help make decisions in overseeing those areas of campus life.

Students elected to Co-op Board of Directors

By KATIE WILLIAMS Staff Writer K.L.Williams9@iup.edu

The Co-op Board of Directors announced its four new members Friday. Students were allowed to cast a vote for up to four candidates. Out of the student undergraduate population, 893 of approximately 12,000 students voted.

The new members are Serena Haeuser (junior, child development), Jalen Jones (sophomore, geography and regional planning), Rachel Dawsey (junior, communications media) and Carson Nicholas (sophomore, political science).

Once elected, the students will be appointed to one of three committees: finance, aberrations or bookstore, according to Louis Garzarelli, Co-op executive director and CEO. Garzarelli said while all students elected are eligible to be appointed to certain committees, anyone appointed to the finance committee would not be allowed to vote on the budgets for any other organization from which he or she benefits.

For instance, Nicholas, who serves as the vice president of the

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(James Cannon/ The Penn) New members elected to the Co-op board, from left to right, are Serena Haeuser (junior, child development), Rachel Dawsey (junior, communications media), Jalen Jones (sophomore, geography and regional planning) and Carson Nicholas (sophomore, political science).

Student Government Association, would not be permitted to vote for the allocation of funds regarding the SGA if he were put on the finance committee.

Nicholas said his main goal is to see that the student activity fee is spread “only [to] those endeavors that would truly benefit the student body.”

The students offered a variety of reasons for running in this election.

“I wanted to be a voice for the minority community,” Jones said, “specifically students who identify as black or African American.”

Dawsey decided to run to get more involved with her school. She said she thought that this opportunity would allow her to get involved in multiple areas.

She was also excited to get to “experience other views on different topics, from all walks of life, coming together to make IUP the best it can be.”

Nicholas decided to run because he said he has a “good sense for what the student body would like to see from the Co-op.”

Dawsey added that she would like to gain an understanding for how the school runs, and hopes to be able to generate a positive voice for all students.

Jones said he hopes to “be able to bridge the gap between the majority and minority communities by finding ways to incorporate necessities of both the parties to essentially enhance the ‘student life’ experience while in college.” He

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said his goal is to satisfy everyone, not just some students.

Both Jones and Dawsey said they wanted more information from students about where they prefer to allocate their student activity fees before making any decisions.

“I feel like what’s more important is having a true understanding for what the campus needs and wants from the student activity fee,” Jones said. “It gives us a better direction this way.”

Nicholas said he is more concerned with how to spread the funds rather than where. He said he aims to be very frugal with how the funds are dispersed.

The elected members also have a responsibility to represent the

student body with their decisions.

“I plan to best represent the student body while on term by one simple thing: integrity,” Dawsey said. “I believe that having integrity and being an authentic representative, both in the board meetings and out on campus, is truly the best way to represent the student body at IUP.” Similarly, Jones said he plans to represent the student body “by being an honest and open board member.”

“This will get done by effective communication with the student body as a whole and those of us on the board,” he said.

Nicholas said he plans to be a conduit between SGA and the Coop if he is re-elected.

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Police investigating alleged rape of University of Minnesota fraternity pledge

By LIBOR JANY

Minneapolis Star Tribune TNS

Local police are investigating the reported rape of a University of Minnesota student by a classmate who used his position as a fraternity member to coerce the victim into a sexual act.

The victim, who was pledging Alpha Epsilon Pi at the time of the assault, told police that he was raped by one of the fraternity’s members on Jan. 29 at the Marshall Apartments, an off-campus student housing complex in Dinkytown. The victim later went to a nearby hospital, where he underwent a rape exam, according to a search warrant affidavit.

(Wikipedia) An Alpha Epsilon Pi pledge alleges that a fraternity member coerced him into having sex.

What started out as a consensual encounter between the two men swiftly took a frightening turn, the victim told police, according to court filings.

The suspect reportedly also “threatened to document the sexual encounter,” the filings said, “by photos and video that he could

Police Blotter Criminal Mischief

• An IUP student reported that someone damaged a window screen between 3:30 and 9 a.m. March 2 in the 100 block of South 10th Street, according to the Indiana Borough Police Department.

• Someone keyed the passenger side of a red Chevrolet Equinox while it was parked between March 3 and 4 in the 500 block of School Street, according to borough police. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724-349-2121.

• Borough police are investigating an incident of criminal mischief at 3:45 a.m. March 5 in the 100 block of South 10th Street. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

Burglary

• A resident reported that someone damaged a rear door and stole items between 10 p.m. March 2 and 4 a.m. March 3 in the 800 block of Grant Street, according to borough police. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

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• Andrew Herman, 26, of Indiana, was charged with harassment, simple assault, false imprisonment, resisting arrest and recklessly endangering another person at 10:10 a.m. March 2 at 400 Poplar Ave., according to borough police.

• Tyhiem Brooks, 20, and Brianna Triplin, 20, both of Philadelphia, were cited for summary harassment at 12:07 a.m. March 3 at Stephenson Hall, according to IUP University Police.

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• A vehicle struck a silver Nissan while it was parked between 1 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. March 5 in the 400 block of Maryland Way, according to borough police. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

use to blackmail (the victim) into silence about the assault.”

It was unclear whether the suspect actually filmed or photographed the encounter.

He also told the victim that he would use his stature within the organization to keep the other man from joining the frat unless he did as he was told. He later sent the victim a threatening message on the popular messaging app Snap-

chat, warning him not to tell other frat members about the incident, authorities said.

The first-year student, who has since been suspended from the fraternity, has not been charged, which is why The Minneapolis Star Tribune is not naming him.

The investigation remains ongoing. Messages left with a fraternity representative were not immediately returned.

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Student prepares for graduation, jobs abroad

By STEPHANIE BACHMAN

I just fell in love with the Japanese culture.

Lead News Writer S.L.Bachman2@iup.edu

For Kira Womack (senior, communications media), graduation is only a few weeks away, but she already has major plans for after IUP, thanks in part to a summer internship and hard work over winter break earning an English teaching diploma.

Womack had an internship this summer in Los Angeles. Before traveling there, Womack also had an interview with Dream Careers.

Dream Careers is a company that helps provide housing and accommodations in the Los Angeles area to students whom it feels have the potential to find internships and be successful.

They also show interns the city, provide tours and do other activities with students to make their time in Los Angeles more enjoyable.

After receiving housing from Dream Careers, Womack found an internship on her own. An internship is required for all communications media students to graduate, and she was able to do hers at an actual television company, KidsatPlay.

“It was pretty awesome to me,” Womack said. “I got to travel and go into the entertainment world in a place where entertainment is born. I got to see Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Venice Beach.

“It’s just like any other city, but all the people and entertainment make it what it is. I made some great friends. We still talk about LA and future plans. The good thing about the program is everyone I met there is determined to go back there. You make lifelong friends and see them again.”

This summer, Womack will be returning to Los Angeles to work for Dream Careers as a media specialist. Her new job will require her to create videos to show off the

(Stephanie Bachman/ The Penn) Kira Womack (senior, communications media)

program to new interns.

Because she also went through the experience herself, Womack will be a mentor to interns by helping them become professionals in the entertainment world as well as counseling and advising them however necessary.

Womack said this job is only temporary in relation to her more long-term goals, though. She plans to be in the city only for the summer. After that, she wants to use her recently acquired English teaching certification to teach abroad.

Womack is qualified to teach English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) because of a 250hour diploma-granting program she took over winter break through UNI-Prep Institute.

UNI-Prep is an accredited university that offers various courses and certifications including TESOL. The course Womack took was online and granted her a diploma in the field.

In addition to various courses she took, she also gained experience student teaching in local schools in her hometown of Oxford over break. Womack said she wants to teach English abroad in order to see the world, pay off her student-loan debts and gain new experiences.

-Kira Womack (senior, communications media) Japan is her preferred country to teach in because she has always been fascinated by the culture, and she took language courses at IUP. “I just fell in love with Japanese culture because I fell in love with the language,” Womack said. “I like the way they approach things.

I like their traditional culture, but also their pop culture. It is very futuristic over there.”

While studying Japanese at IUP, Womack had the opportunity to emcee Japan Night and East Asia Night during her sophomore year.

In spring 2015, Womack also helped organize the first annual IUP Japanese Speech Contest. Her

Japanese professor, Yongtaek Kim, asked her to help with the event.

She was responsible for buying supplies, setting up the event with other students and working alongside Kim to plan and make it a success.

The event was open to students from local high schools and other western Pennsylvania colleges such as Carnegie Mellon University, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania and Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.

Kira has also been involved in other organizations at IUP, as well.

She was the technical director for TOST and Turned in fall 2015 for the group’s production of “Arsenic and Old Lace.”

She has been involved with IUPTV as a part of the show “SketchO-Phrenia” for two years. During that time, she has served as

producer, actor and general crew member.

Womack has also done work for the Center for Media Production and Research, filming IUP commercials, live broadcasts of football and basketball games and projects for professors.

Womack offered some advice to other students, especially those trying to find their niche at IUP. “Take initiative; don’t undersell yourself,” Womack said. “If you have a goal that you want, go for it. Don’t tell yourself you can’t do it because you can do it.

“Find your passion, definitely, because I bounced around between majors. Instead of focusing on money or status, I focused on what I’d be happy doing, and that is being creative. Why not spend your time in college and life doing what you love?”

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Library to change book availability

By TYLER SCHEFFLER Staff Writer T.R.Scheffler@iup.edu

Spring cleaning is underway as plans to make room on the second floor of Stapleton Library are currently in progress.

According to library Dean Luis Gonzalez, Stapleton Library has about 489,000 volumes in it.

Recently, IUP has contracted with a third-party firm named Sustainable Collection Services which will allow the library to use a software program called Greenglass.

Essentially, Greenglass allows the library to do an assessment of how often its books are used or checked out.

Additionally, it allows the library to compare its holdings with that of every other library located in the country. With this new software, the library will analyze the need for a large number of books, specifically narrowing it down to books that have not been circulated in the past 20 years.

Those that have not been used recently will be marked down for review by the the librarians, who

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(The Penn archives) Stapleton Library plans to review and possibly remove more than 15,000 books.

will then look over the material and deem whether or not it’s necessary for the library to keep.

During this process, the teachers and faculty of IUP will also be briefed about which books are pending review. From there, they can then make recommendations about which books are worth keeping.

“Even if a book hasn’t been circulated in more than 20 years, some titles are seminal works, very important works,” Gonzalez said.

“Those would be maintained.

That’s why it’s a pretty big number.”

The books, however, won’t disappear completely.

Through Greenglass, students will still be able to view the older volumes, find out what library they are located in and obtain them through an interlibrary loan. This is the kind of loan in which a user in one library can borrow books from another library.

More than 15,000 volumes are being put up for review over the next two years.

With this process, students in the library will have another quiet lounge to study in on the second floor.

(Pixabay) This year’s St. Patty’s Open will be a miniature golf charity event.

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

Beer, food and miniature golf in March.

That’s what the 13th annual St. Patrick’s Open is slated to offer Saturday in uptown Indiana. The Indiana County Community Action Program (ICCAP) will host the event for the second consecutive year.

“ICCAP has been running since the 1970s, and has done a fantastic job since,” said Linda Donnelly, ICCAP/St. Patty’s Open committee member. “They have helped create many great things, such as the Alice Paul House and the Chevy Chase Center. They are also the main distributer for the community food bank.”

Teams of four can compete in the tournament, but players must be 21 or older. Registration is $250.

The event, sponsored by McNaughton Brothers, Inc., starts and ends at The Coney.

Teams will gather from 5 to 6 p.m. at The Coney for bar food and a complimentary beer. At 6:15

p.m., the teams will be guided to their first holes near local venues such as Grubbs and H.B. Culpeppers.

Teams will play either the First Commonwealth Bank front nine or the S&T Bank back nine.

Following each hole, volunteers will text or email score updates back to The Coney, where there will be live scoring updates throughout the tournament.

At 10 p.m., the holes will close, and the winners of the front nine and back nine will face off in a onehole playoff to decide the champion. The winners of the open will receive a complimentary round of golf at Chestnut Ridge Golf Club.

Other awards, such as bestdressed team and most unique putter, will also be awarded following the match.

“Overall, it’s just a really fun time for adults to get together, socialize and play some mini golf,” Donnelly said.

ICCAP is accepting teams until the day of the tournament.

For more information, contact Golfball2016@gmail.com or call Donnelly at 724-388-3841.

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Americans want Obamacare fix; SoyNut Butter sued, 12 infected in E. coli outbreak Koch groups push for full repeal

By GREG TROTTER Chicago Tribune TNS

By LISA MASCARO

Tribune Washington Bureau TNS

As Republicans worked overtime Monday to craft their Obamacare replacement plan, political pressure mounted from almost all sides with conflicting messages over what to do with the health care law.

New polling Monday showed that most Americans want to fix the Affordable Care Act, rather than gut it, as Republicans have long promised.

Fully 68 percent of Americans want to keep what works and fix the rest, while just 32 percent prefer the GOP’s repeal and replace approach, according to polling from Hart Research. Moreover, the polling showed most Americans – including 54 percent of President Donald Trump’s voters – have a favorable view of the Medicaid system, which would face steep cuts under the Republican plan.

At the same time, the powerful Koch conservative network has launched a massive advertising push to encourage Republicans to keep their promise of full repeal of the health care law.

“You promised” is the slogan for the effort by Americans for Prosperity, which is hosting a rally Tuesday outside the Capitol to pressure GOP lawmakers.

The mixed political messages complicate the already difficult legislative task for Republicans.

Republicans in Congress want to repeal Obamacare and replace it with a new health care system that costs less but provides just as much coverage.

Analysts, though, find that goal difficult, and expect millions of Americans to lose insurance under the GOP plan. It calls for slashing access to Medicaid and capping the tax benefits of employer-sponsored health care plans.

“We know the task before us is daunting,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Monday.

“Let’s keep working this week

(TNS) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he hopes to relieve the American people of Obamacare.

so that we can bring Americans much-needed relief from Obamacare as soon as possible.”

As Republicans struggled to meet a self-imposed deadline Monday to unveil their bill, their traditional allies in the Koch network of conservative groups hardened against them.

Americans for Prosperity launched a six-figure ad buy against any GOP effort that falls short of full repeal.

The Koch groups are siding with a growing number of congressional conservatives who oppose the proposal, which he derided as “Obamacare lite” or “Obamacare 2.0.”

Conservatives, including Trump rivals Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., worry the GOP alternative will simply replace the health care law with new mandates for coverage and create new federal costs.

They particularly take aim at the GOP plan to replace the subsidies offered through Obamacare that help some Americans buy private insurance with new tax credits.

They see that as a new federal entitlement program.

The Koch group’s campaign is expected to expand soon to television ads with stories of Americans who want Republicans to end the health care law.

Two California parents are suing SoyNut Butter Co. for liability and negligence, among other charges, after their 8-year-old son was allegedly infected and hospitalized with E. coli after consuming I.M. Healthy SoyNut Butter.

Mosby and Erin Simmons, of Santa Clara County, Calif., filed the lawsuit Monday morning in U.S. District Court in Chicago.

Just two days prior, SoyNut Butter, headquartered in suburban Chicago, expanded its voluntary recall of products as federal officials continue to investigate the company’s I.M. Healthybranded soy nut butter as the likely source of an E. coli outbreak that has infected 12 people so far – 11 of them children – in five states.

Infections have been reported in Arizona, California, Maryland, New Jersey and Oregon. Four of the people infected have developed hemolytic uremic syn-

(TNS) Ana Ong, a molecular lab tech at Walter Reed, held a culture of E. coli with the drugresistance gene.

drome, a type of kidney failure, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Simmons’ son, identified in the lawsuit only as T.S., was admitted to Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose, Calif., on Jan. 30, but his condition continued to deteriorate, and he was transferred to Lucile Packard Stanford Children’s Hospital, according to the lawsuit.

There, he was diagnosed with E. coli infection and “treated with dialysis and blood transfusions for life-threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome” before being discharged on Feb. 23, the suit said.

A spokesman for SoyNut Butter couldn’t be immediately reached Monday for comment.

The product, marketed toward children with peanut allergies, is commonly served in schools and day care facilities. The SoyNut Butter website claims to serve “over 2 million children a month.”

“My hope is this recall will cause more people to look into their pantries,” Bill Marler, the Simmonses’ attorney, said Monday.

SoyNut Butter expanded its voluntary recall Saturday of I.M. Healthy Original Creamy SoyNut Butter products to include 15-ounce plastic jars with the “best by” dates of July 5, 2018, Aug. 30, 2018, and Aug. 31, 2018; individual portion cups with the “best by” date Aug. 8, 2018; and 4-pound plastic tubs with “best by” dates of Nov. 16, 2018, and July 25, 2018.

Meanwhile, the CDC website advises consumers to not eat any I.M. Healthy-branded SoyNut Butter products or granola that has been coated with the soy nut butter.

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White House: Trump won’t accept intelligence findings

By JOHN T. BENNETT CQ-Roll Call TNS

President Donald Trump feels no obligation to accept the findings of two congressional panels looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, despite asking them to also examine his charges that his predecessor tapped his phones.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday it would be “premature” for the president to state his acceptance of the conclusions of investigations being conducted by the House and Senate Intelligence committees.

“I don’t think you would ever just blanketly say, ‘I’m ready to accept these outcomes,’” Spicer said.

The president on Sunday asked Congress to look into his claims that President Barack Obama ordered national security entities to tap phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign – one day after making the allegations, without proof, on Twitter.

(TNS) Donald Trump has accused Barack Obama of tapping his phones during the election.

In doing so, he opted against directing the Justice Department from investigating or naming a special counsel.

What’s more, letting the Legislative Branch look into the matter honors the “separation of powers” principle, he said, arguing that a Justice Department review would essentially have directed that department to investigate itself.

Still, however, the president is not accepting the House and Senate panels’ findings on the Obama allegations nor about Russian meddling because “it’s hard

to pre-judge what they’re doing,” his press secretary said.

“We’ll have a lot of respect for what they do,” Spicer said.

Trump’s Twitter blast was apparently a unilateral decision that he did not discuss with his top aides. After a day of internal discussions about what to do next, the White House issued a statement notable for its terseness on Sunday morning.

“President Donald J. Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity, the congressional intelligence committees exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016,” the statement said. “Neither the White House nor the President will comment further until such oversight is conducted.”

Trump and his top aides have yet to provide any evidence for his charges against Obama, whose post-presidency staff and former aides have denied he ordered any such phone-tapping.

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Gold Star father cancels Toronto speech over ‘travel privileges’

(TNS) Khizr Khan held a copy of the Constitution with his wife, Ghazala Khan, during the last day of the Democratic National Convention July 28 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.

By ALENE TCHRKMEDYIAN Los Angeles Times TNS

Gold Star father Khizr Khan has canceled a scheduled speech in Toronto after being told his “travel privileges are being reviewed,” according to the event organizer.

Khan, who has lived in the U.S. since 1980 and is a naturalized U.S. citizen, was scheduled to speak Tuesday at a luncheon hosted by the Toronto-based organization Ramsay Talks.

The two-hour event was slated to include a presentation and question-and-answer session on “what we can do about the appalling turn of events in Washington, so that we don’t all end up sacrificing everything,” according to the organizer.

In a statement posted on Facebook, Khan said he was not told why his travel status was under review.

“This turn of events is not just of deep concern to me but to all my fellow Americans who cherish our freedom to travel abroad,” he said, according to the statement.

“I have not been given any reason

as to why. I am grateful for your support and look forward to visiting Toronto in the near future.”

Khan, whose family is Muslim, made national headlines after his fiery speech at the Democratic National Convention, during which he blasted Donald Trump’s rigid stance on Muslim immigration.

“Donald Trump, you’re asking Americans to trust you with their future. Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution?” Khan said before pulling a pocket Constitution from his jacket. “I will gladly lend you my copy. In this document, look for the words ‘liberty’ and ‘equal protection of law.’”

Khan immigrated to the U.S. from Pakistan in 1980. He and his wife, Ghazala, became American citizens six years later.

Their son Humayun Khan was killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2004.

The Army captain was running toward a taxicab approaching his troops when a bomb inside exploded. Khan was killed while the other soldiers remained safe.

Khan received the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star posthumously.

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Trump orders new, narrower travel ban goes into effect in 10 days

By NOAH BIERMAN, MICHAEL A. MEMOLI and BRIAN BENNETT Tribune Washington Bureau TNS

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday ordering new travel restrictions for residents of six Muslim-majority countries as well as a temporary ban on refugees from around the world, retooling a directive issued five weeks ago that stoked chaos at airports and drew international condemnation and a rebuke in the federal courts.

The new ban, which takes effect March 16, halts travel for 90 days for residents of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The refugee suspension will last 120 days.

Iraq, whose citizens and nationals had been on the original list of banned travelers, was removed after officials there agreed to accept all Iraqi citizens being deported from the U.S., according to a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security who briefed reporters on the latest plan.

That was one of several changes to the order designed to insulate it from court challenges that blocked the first one. The new order also leaves more time for agencies to implement it in hopes of alleviating the confusion that accompanied the original order, which was issued only a week after Trump took office, with little consultation from top agency officials.

The new ban also clarifies that

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permanent residents and those holding valid visas will be allowed to enter the country or remain here. The order will give the State Department room for exceptions “on a case-by-case basis when in the national interest of the United States,” according to the Homeland Security Department.

“There should be no surprises, whether it’s in the media or on Capitol Hill,” Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly said during an announcement at his agency alongside Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Trump signed the order privately Monday morning with little fanfare, and the White House announced it only afterward. White House officials have indicated for days that a new iteration of the January order – now stuck in legal limbo – was imminent.

Trump had defended the hasty manner in which the original order

was crafted as necessary for security, claiming bad actors would try to enter the country if there was any delay in stopping them. Yet the new order not only took weeks to release, but it also provides time between Monday’s signing and next week’s effective date.

Many in Trump’s circle are also trying to change the subject, after several days of questions about the White House’s ties to Russia and a weekend in which Trump made unsubstantiated charges that former President Barack Obama was tapping his phones during the presidential campaign.

“This is a very important week in this White House, where the president is going to continue to act on, along with the Congress, major pieces of his legislative and executive agenda,” Kellyanne Conway, senior White House counselor, said Monday on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” citing the travel ban order as one piece of Trump’s plan.

The newest order will have sweeping effects, slowing the refugee program to a trickle and creating a new immigration standard for the six countries effected. But it falls short of the all-out ban on Muslims that Trump promised during the campaign. Unlike the earlier directive, the new instructions do not suspend Syrian refugee admissions indefinitely. Syrian refugees are included in the blanket suspension and are not singled out.

Trump had vowed to keep fighting for the original order, tweeting “see you in court” after a pair of legal defeats that suspended enforcement of the ban. He has said his new order would be “tailored” to meet court challenges, while adding that he still considered the courts’ initial rejection a “bad decision.”

But two lines near the bottom of Trump’s new travel order wiped away his original ban, an apparent attempt to end the court battle.

“Executive Order 13769 of January 27, 2017, is revoked as of the effective date of this order,” the new order reads.

The order, while not freezing all asylum seekers, would still repeat language in the old order that would slow their entry dramatically, by capping the program at 50,000 refugees for the year, compared with 110,000 allowed under policies of the Obama administration.

The U.S. has already accepted 35,000 refugees this year, meaning only 15,000 more would be allowed.

In addition to blocking visas from the six listed countries, the new orders require agencies to “take immediate steps” to create “enhanced vetting and screening procedures” for all foreigners wanting to visit the U.S., the senior Homeland Security official said.

“The president is very concerned about existing vulnerabilities,” the official said.

After the new order is implemented next week, Homeland Security and State Department officials will examine every country in the world to ensure they are providing the U.S. enough information to vet their citizens appropriately, a Homeland Security official said.

This review period could also be used as leverage to force countries to take back people that the U.S. would like to deport, the official said. The initial ban ran afoul of the courts in part because it gave a preference to refugees who are religious minorities fleeing persecution in their home country, underscoring the argument some of Trump’s allies made that he was trying to fulfill a campaign promise to initiate a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”

There is also no waiver for religious minorities in the new temporary refugee ban.

Trump also said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network on the day the first order was issued that it was intended to help Christian Syrians.

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Cafaro returns to Washington in new educator role

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(TNS) Ken Babb, 51, of Leawood, petting his dog Patch, suffers from a chronic nerve condition known as complex regional pain syndrome, or CRPS. The result is that the slightest touch, even a slight breeze against his right lower leg, will cause him extreme pain. Babb, who suffered the injury in an accident in 2012 in China, has taken to wearing a kilt to keep even fabric from touching his leg. The condition has spread to his hands, causing his hands to become extremely cold or hot, so he wears gloves to keep his hands warm.

Capri Cafaro is back in Washington, but not the way she initially envisioned it 13 years ago.

The Ohio Democrat ran unsuccessfully for Congress, the first time at age 26.

In 2007, she was appointed to the Ohio Senate, where she served for nine years and rose to Democratic leader.

Term-limited, she’s now the new executive resident at American University’s School of Public Affairs.

She said she sees herself in the students she’ll be teaching.

“I know how it feels to be excited to see a member of Congress that you’ve seen on television, or the excitement that you get what you have an opportunity to work on a research project,” she said. “I think all of us in D.C. and those of us in government, we have a mutual appreciation for nerding out on policy and government.”

Cafaro will begin teaching in the fall, and for now she is building partnerships with other universities and policy organizations.

“We’re still sort of in the process of trying to see where (teaching) fits in,” she said. “If it’s going to be on the health policy side, or if it will be more focused on women in politics.”

She said she was considering another run for Congress had her representative, Tim Ryan, sought higher office.

“It is unlikely that I will run any time in the near future,” she said.

But she’s not ruling it out later.

“You never know what will happen in the future,” she said.

“Redistricting happens in 2022, we’re going to go through redistricting reform. I’m still involved with my community back in Ohio, as well.”

She added, “For me, Congress would be the best fit, and that’s just not in the cards.”

When she’s not at American, she goes back to Ohio twice a month because she is on the state’s turnpike commission, the board of the

(TNS) Capri Cafaro ended her term as a Democratic senator Dec. 31.

association of free clinics, and other organizations.

Cafaro gained some fame by running for Congress at such a young age. But the name was no secret to politics.

Her father, J.J. Cafaro, was connected to the flamboyant and colorful former Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., who was expelled from the House in 2002 after being convicted of bribery, racketeering and corruption and later sent to prison.

J.J. Cafaro had pled guilty the previous year, admitting that he provided an illegal gratuity to Traficant in the form of houseboat repairs then later bought the decrepit vessel from Traficant. Cafaro was sentenced to probation.

He was later sentenced to three years of probation after he failed to disclose a donation to his daughter’s 2004 campaign, which she lost to former Ohio Rep. Steve LaTourette.

J.J. Cafaro’s name popped up recently, this time connected to President Donald Trump. Thencandidate Trump called him out from the stage for the $50,000 donation he made to Trump’s veterans charity last year.

And he and his wife, Janet, cochaired a Red Cross ball held at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last month, the Miami Herald reported.

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Spring break: Should you stay or should you go?

Spending every weekend at college is great.

It’s the perfect three-day vacation (if you count Fridays) when one can catch up on the schoolwork that has been building up in one long procrastinated todo list. Others prefer to participate in club activities, university-funded events, attend “social gatherings” (as the kids call it nowadays) or take a trip homeward for the weekend.

Some students do not have the opportunity to go home on weekends; they are too swamped with schoolwork or jobs to take that break and visit the family, and more importantly, their pets. Sure, you can take a trip to Cancun or South Dakota (the Tropical Dakota), but why not save the money and give your parents a week of you not showering instead?

This is why spring break offers the perfect chance to take a stress-free week off, home, shoveling the brownies your mom made just for your imminent return (very different from the brownies offered at “social gatherings”) and binge-watching “Making a

Murder” on your sister’s Netflix account.

Going home for the week gives you the chance to unwind and destress from the responsibilities of school, and did we mention you can see your pets?

However, it’s also important that you are not going home every weekend, according to Michael Thompson, psychologist and author of “The Pressured Child” (Ballantine, 2004).

“I think it’s nice in a relentlessly competitive capitalistic culture we carve out more family time,” Thompson said, “but it disrupts the commitment to college. It can have a regressive effect.”

It is vital that you balance out your visits. Going home too much can make it harder for you to be your own person at IUP. And you may be forming an argument in your head right along the lines of “But, my parents love me and want to see me every chance they can.” Well, parents love their children unconditionally; that is the unspoken contract between parent and child that everyone knows. However, the fine print in that contract states that parents get angry when their children waste their money on gas every weekend just to visit their pets.

So if you have been going home every weekend since January, maybe stay here over spring break or dip into your younger brother’s college fund for a trip to Myrtle Beach.

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Trump’s pushback and blame games likely mean there’s something there

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Here are two cardinal Washington rules.

When a politician declares that something is “much ado about nothing,” it’s about something. And when politicians lie, it’s because they’re trying to hide something.

This brings us to the Trump-Russia connection, which President Donald Trump charges has been distorted by “fake news” manipulators conducting a political witch hunt. It’s neither; it’s raised serious issues that will cast a shadow over his presidency for the foreseeable future.

“If there is nothing there, nothing to hide, you open the doors and invite them in,” says John Dean, of Watergate fame.

“When you start seeing a big pushback and blaming it all on the media, you know there’s something there.”

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Dean and other Watergate veterans have a familiar feeling watching the Trump White House dissembling, enlisting accommodating Republicans to knock down credible stories and reacting to a drip, drip, drip of revelations.

Last week came more reports of contacts between Russian officials and Trump backers, along with the news that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met privately with the Russian ambassador in September and denied it during his confirmation hearing. Thus Sessions became the third Trump insider to be caught in evasions about Russia connections, after former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and campaign foreign-policy adviser Carter Page.

On Thursday, Sessions removed himself from any investigation of charges that Russia tried to sway the presidential election.

When Dean heard Republican Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes de-

clare recently that there’s “no evidence” of wrongdoing, he says he thought of Hugh Scott. Scott was the Senate Republican leader who in 1973 repeatedly said he’d spoken to the White House and concluded that Watergate was much ado about little.

U.S. intelligence agencies have already concluded that Russians were behind the hacking of emails from accounts of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, and that Russia gave the emails to WikiLeaks for dissemination of embarrassing particulars. In a public report, the intelligence agencies concluded that President Vladimir Putin directed the “influence campaign” to help Trump.

That much is already clear. What’s at issue is whether this was done in collusion with Trump operatives, something that might raise questions about criminality and the validity of the election result. Trump and

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his team vehemently deny this. Numerous news reports, citing intelligence sources, say there’s clear proof of multiple contacts though not of active coordination.

In contrast to ham-handed past episodes of Russian cyber hacking, last year’s interventions showed a nuanced understanding of U.S. politics. An example: On the eve of the Democratic National Convention in July, leaks surfaced showing that the party chair tried to tilt the nominating process against the insurgent challenger, Sen. Bernie Sanders, infuriating his followers. The timing was exquisite and the impact strong.

Then there’s Oct. 7. That was the day that 17 U.S. intelligence agencies released a joint statement saying that the Russian government directed the theft of emails connected to the election. It was also the day when a videotape appeared in which Trump was caught making coarse boasts about groping women.

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Culture Editor: Jason Daquelente – J.E.Daquelente@iup.edu Lead Culture Writer: Seth Woolcock – S.M.Woolcock@iup.edu

“Eternal Flame” by Deanna Ansaldo (senior, art studio and psychology)

“Paths Left Traveled” (left) and “Melting Pot” (right) by Brennan Brougher (junior, art studio)

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Students hosted an art show Friday at the Bottle Works Ethnic Arts Center in Johnstown.

Undergraduate art students open exhibition in Johnstown

By JASON DAQUELENTE Culture Editor J.E.Daquelente@iup.edu

IUP art students opened the exhibition “Gyotaku” Friday at the Bottle Works Ethnic Arts Center in Johnstown.

The opening drew a large crowd to admire the work submitted by IUP students and hear the art show’s winner.

Gallery curator Madelyn Barrante (senior, art studio) announced the winner, but the artist was not present to receive the prize.

The piece that won was “Xenophobic,” an oil painting by Kyle Foor (senior, art studio).

Second place was “Sleepwalking,” a digital illustration by Anthony Pippetti (senior, art studio).

Third place went to “Landscape of Home,” an oil painting by Valerie Wray (sophomore, art studio).

The honorable mentions were “Tangle of Fabric” by Emily Bensinger (senior, art studio) and “Copper Brooch” by Bethany Brenchak (senior, art studio).

Many of the paintings featured in the exhibition were oil paintings, but other mediums included digital media and 3-D work, including one belt buckle made by Morgan Scalese (senior, art studio).

Most students had one or two pieces featured in the gallery, but one student, Lauren Haig (senior, art studio), had six oil paintings hung in the gallery.

Much, but not all, of the student works were for sale.

“Many of the artists who submitted work were either juniors or seniors,” Barrante said, “so I have grown with them while here at IUP. “The growth has been substantial from all of the artists.”

Barrante was very proud of the work that was submitted, but she favored Bensinger’s “Tangle of Fabric” and Angel Steinkirchner’s (seinor, art studio) “Possum Parade” series. “[They] have a sense of charm and freshness to them. They are both unique and technically done very well,” Barrante said.

Overall, Barrante was happy with how

the show turned out and praised exhibit coordinator Todd Stiffler’s assistance with hanging the show.

“He has been able to make all the pieces, no matter how different, flow together,” Barrante said.

The jurors of the show, Ramon Riley, Eric Brennan and Brian Dumm, were not present, but spoke highly of the show and Barrante’s hard work in putting it together.

“Madelyn Barrante is doing amazing work to generate energy around the IUP arts community,” Riley said. “As her former high school teacher, I am proud of her, but I also saw it coming.”

Riley acquired his master’s at IUP in 2013 and currently teaches art privately and at Pine-Richland High School in Gibsonia.

“IUP was so important to my develepment as an artist. The place and people remain close to heart and ever present in my thoughts,” Riley said.

Riley is currently working on pieces for his show, LOVENEVERENDING, which opens Oct. 7 at BoxHeart Gallery in Bloomfield.

LOVENEVERENDING is made possible by grant funding by The Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Program, a partnership with The Pittsburgh Foundation and The Heinz Endowments.

Dumm was also glad to be a part of this show and enjoys the diversity in the work submitted.

“I think that as a collection of work, this exhibit references the evolving possibilities in contemporary visual arts careers,” Dumm said.

Dumm and Riley also have a show at Bottle Works Ethnic Arts Center called “Connections,” which is available for viewing during open hours.

Executive director Laura Argenbright of the gallery was quite impressed by the work submitted and very happy to have been a part of the show. She is also looking forward to working with the IUP art department again.

The gallery will remain available to view at Bottle Works Ethnic Arts Center until April 8. Admission is $10 for members of Bottle Works and $12 for non-members.

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Some students will be traveling to different touristy parts of the U.S.

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Some students will be using the break to work.

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

Midterms are now the only thing standing between IUP students and spring break. As some view this as a time to be reckless and spend money, other students use it as a time to get ahead and make money. Some are simply content having a week off from the heavy college workload.

“I’m going to Arizona to drink margaritas, tear it up in golf and just enjoy the warm weather with my family,” Garrett Baerg (junior, marketing) said.

The 21-year-old’s advice to students for break is to stay off your phones and enjoy what’s around you.

Sawyer Yan (junior, marketing), originally from China, said he will also be traveling over break.

“My friends and I will be going to Florida to enjoy our spring break,” Yan said. “We will be exploring Universal and other nearby attractions.”

Yan is not the only student with vacation plans on his mind.

“A couple of my brothers and I will be kicking it in Myrtle Beach for the week,” Dustin Burrows (senior, management) said. “Honestly,

I think we’re just excited to get away from it all for a little while.”

As some students are willing to spend money to venture for a warm-weather getaway, others will be returning home to do the opposite.

“I won’t be doing too much. I will just be working at Martin’s again and catching up with friends from home,” Kelly Kumetis (freshman, management) said.

“I’ll pretty much just be back home working with my friend and her horses,” Emily Ryan (freshman, criminology) said.

While some students will be putting in work hours over the break, others will be taking the time to enjoy themselves.

“I’m going to spend my time with my friends and family back home,” Trey Cone (freshman, biology) said.

Andy Beddia (freshman, undecided) will also be enjoying his time over break.

“I won’t be doing too much,” he said. “I’m going to a hockey game with my family, but for the most part, I’ll just be lying away spending time with friends and family.”

Well-rested students will resume classes March 20.

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Sheeran is determined to conquer the charts

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Ed Sheeran's sentimental streak is matched only by his determination to win on "÷," the British singer's third album of shrewdly conceived love songs in which every last detail feels arranged for maximum impact.

Introduced as a sensitive folkie on his hit 2011 debut, "+," Sheeran became a superstar with 2014's more expansive "x." The record sold millions of copies, led to soldout concerts at Wembley Stadium and spawned a modern wedding standard in "Thinking Out Loud," which won the Grammy Award for song of the year.

Here was a guy, it seemed as his profile kept rising, proud to have learned early on that "heart" rhymes with "chart."

Yet by the end of 2015, Sheeran's longed-for success was pushing him toward burnout. So he spent the next year mostly out of sight, traveling the world without a cellphone (or so he's said).

In his absence, he also cleared a path for a new group of nice guitar guys such as Shawn Mendes and Charlie Puth, each of whom developed a following they might not have had had Sheeran still been in the mix.

Now Sheeran's back, and he's eager to reclaim his spot at the top.

Pronounced "divide" (after the earlier records called "plus" and "multiply"), "÷" contains the

singer's clearest bids for Top 40 penetration. "Shape of You," one of two lead singles and the current No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, is a slinky electro-pop come-on with traces of the tropical-house style familiar from recent hits

by Justin Bieber and Kygo. The other single, "Castle on the Hill," channels Coldplay channeling U2 for an openly nostalgic tune about missing one's hometown.

"Running from the law through the backfields and getting drunk with my friends," he reminisces with an audible lump in his throat, "Had my first kiss on a Friday night/ I don't reckon that I did it right."

Then there's the handful of shamelessly goopy ballads, including the John Mayer-ish "How Would You Feel (Paean)," complete with soft-rock guitar solo by John Mayer, and "Perfect," which Sheeran has said he wrote expressly to outdo "Thinking Out Loud."

"I found a love to carry more than just my secrets/ To carry love, to carry children of our own," he sings, and you can already see the countless first dances taking awkward shape in your mind.

As calculating as Sheeran can seem here, he understands there's a fine line between universal and generic, which is why he gives his songs the idiosyncratic touches they need to stand out.

In "Castle on the Hill," it's a line about how he knows he and his friends have matured because it's been ages since they've thrown up from drinking too much; in

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"Supermarket Flowers," which documents his grandmother's funeral, it's the painful specificity of the images – nightgowns folded "neatly in a case" and so on.

The new album also reflects Sheeran's travels with several tunes full of local flavor. But where "Barcelona" and "Bibia Be Ye Ye" might be thought of as hip souvenirs from trips to Spain and Ghana, "Galway Girl" and "Nancy Mulligan" are surprisingly credible Irish ditties (with tin whistle and everything) that few in Sheeran's audience outside Ireland are likely to view as especially cool.

"Nancy Mulligan" in particular is a welcome oddity: almost certainly the only song about the Protestant-Catholic divide we'll hear on a major pop release this year.

Then again, Sheeran told the Guardian one reason he wanted to do the Irish stuff is "there's a huge gap in the market" that nobody's filled since the Corrs sold 20 million records in the late 1990s.

What a romantic.

Jessica Lange knows more than you might imagine about how a woman can become invisible to Hollywood.

The two-time Oscar winner, who starting Sunday can be seen playing Joan Crawford to Susan Sarandon’s Bette Davis in FX’s “Feud: Bette and Joan,” has won three Emmys and a Tony in recent years. But Lange says the drying up of opportunities that led Crawford and Davis to team up for the 1962 horror movie “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” still exists for older actresses.

“I have to thank my dear friend (‘Feud’ co-creator Ryan Murphy) for giving me these parts over the last five years,” Lange told a small group of reporters after an FX press conference in January.

Not only did two of her Emmys come for roles in Murphy’s “American Horror Story,” “but the fact that I won a Tony (in 2016) on Broadway for playing one of the greatest parts ever written ... was because he optioned

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the play for me, for ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night,’” said Lange, who at 67 is about a decade older than Crawford was in the period covered by Feud.

“If it hadn’t been for that, I think there would be very lean times. I do. I’m not offered the kind of roles that I was 20 years ago. And I actually don’t think they’re out there, really. I look back, and I think, in the last 10 years, what parts done by women my age would I have died to do?

And I can’t come up with one.”

Lange met Davis early in her career “I was maybe 26 at the time. I remember her saying to me, ‘You better court the press, honey’” but never met Crawford, who died in 1977.

Crawford also had much to overcome, starting with a childhood that reads like “tragic Dickens story,” Lange said.

“The poverty, the physical abuse, you know, a mother who never wanted her, liked her. No father. The sexual relationship she had with her stepfather from the age of 11. I mean there was just like one thing after another,” she said. “It really is quite astonishing what she managed.”

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Punxsy dive bar parties, too Punxsutawney duo frequents Midway Inn

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

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Midway Inn is located at 558 W. Mahoning St., Punxsutawney.

By JASON ADAMS Staff Writer J.C.Adams3@iup.edu

Midway Inn, a popular dive bar for locals and college students in Punxsutawney, is featuring several notorious area DJs Saturday and March 18 who are sure to bring a good time.

DJ Mad Maxx, a frequent performer at the venue who has been playing in the Punxsutawney area since 1991, will be preforming Saturday.

DJ Chewy, a rising performer who has built a reputation in the area over the last year, will hit Midway Inn March 18.

“The 18th is going to be a great event with cold drinks and good music,” Chewy said. “The crowd at Midway is always friendly, and the staff is top-notch and really fun to work with.”

Punxsutawney may be small, but it has a love for music.

“Midway is a great small-town pub,” Mad Maxx said. “It’s full of interesting people and a wide array of music preferences.

“Punxsy loves to party.”

Performing in Punxsutawney can be vastly different in comparison to a larger city. With a smaller area, there can be more competition and fewer events that need DJs. “You have other DJs always trying to compete,” Chewy said. “I feel that if you are good enough, you’ll build a reputation based on your performance. Also, when you’re a small-town DJ, you must travel to further locations for jobs.”

DJ Mad Maxx noted the challenge contemporary DJs face in the bar scene.

“I’ve faced every kind of adversity you can think of,” Mad Maxx said. “The bar scene is very tough these days. In years past, the bars were full every night of the week. These days, you can only find that kind of entertainment on the weekends, and even then, attendance is way down from what it used to be.

“The younger generation hasn’t taken over the bar scene like our ancestors did. They don’t have the same social structure as the ‘over 30’ crowd does.”

Midway Inn attracts a young audience as a result of the nearby branch campus of IUP, but locals of the area also frequent the bar. The broad range of customers gives Midway Inn a chance to offer a wide variety of great tunes.

“We have $350,000 worth of legal music in our library,” Mad Maxx said. “I play all genres of music, and we get the latest hits before they’re known. I focus on top 40 dance, pop and rock. I also find that people like to dance to songs they know and love.

“Playing at this bar is so much fun – you get a mixture of people there. You have the young crowd who loves to dance, and also an older crowd that prefers older rock ’n’ roll and country music. We just play music for the crowd. We’re not a DJ service that plays what we want to hear. We play what the crowd wants. If someone requests a song, we are more than glad to play it.”

For more than 16 years, Joe Pascuzzo and Matt Taladay, a.k.a. the Lounge Lizards, have been entertaining crowds in Punxsutawney with their lively acoustic renditions of classic rock ’n’ roll and blues hits, frequenting Midway Inn. After having spent most of their lives in and out of various bands, the duo decided to join forces in 2001 after playing together in Pascuzzo’s basement one night and really hitting it off. Taladay and Pascuzzo had known each other for years as neighbors, and Taladay also just happens to be Pascuzzo’s attorney, which certainly makes for an interesting backstory.

The two decided to take a more acoustic approach to

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The Lounge Lizards is a Punxsutawney duo.

their music, and after going out and doing some informal entertaining together, they decided to officially form the Lounge Lizards.

Both members of the band play the guitar, and Pascuzzo serves as the lead vocalist.

“We do a lot of old rock ’n’ roll and some blues,” Pascuzzo said.

The Lounge Lizards perform together on and off throughout the year, focusing mostly on playing in venues that are within a one-hour drive of Punxsutawney.

“We don’t play regularly

anywhere – just anywhere we can get into,” Pascuzzo said.

One reason for the rather sporadic performance schedule of the band is because Pascuzzo is retired and Taladay still serves as a practicing attorney in the region, which limits the group to performing mostly on weekends.

The band mostly performs acoustic covers of the Beatles, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughn. If you are interested in checking out the musical stylings of the Lounge Lizards, their next performance will be July 1 at the Laurel Mountain Winery.

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IUP alumna hosts artistic and adult events in local studio

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

As more and more schools continue to reduce programming and budgets for the arts, former art teacher and local artist Kristin Olson decided to fill what she saw as a major gap in the Indiana cultural scene with the founding of her painting and art education business, Kristin’s ArtCart.

Olson loves reaching out to kids through art, as she believes that art education is very important.

“There is a passion for art in every child,” Olson said.

Olson, who is a state-certified art teacher, graduated from IUP in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in art education, and served as a substitute teacher in the area for several years before taking a hiatus to have kids and start a family.

However, in September 2015, Olson found herself being drawn back to her artistic roots and decided to return to teaching. It was during this period that through a little bit of chance and luck, she received the inspiration for

Kristin’s ArtCart.

The idea for the business first came to Olson when one of her friends wanted to have an artthemed party for her daughter and asked Olson to serve as a visiting artist.

This venture was such a success that it served as the catalyst for Olson’s current business. It made her realize that there were not many opportunities for kids to enjoy artrelated activities in Indiana.

According to Olson, she "started out mostly as a party service.” However, with artthemed events like Painting With a Twist becoming trendy with adults, Olson decided to expand her business to cover all ages.

Olson also noted that her love of teaching all age groups, not just children, was a motivating factor behind this decision. In fact, one of the reasons that she decided to leave substitute teaching was because this opportunity allowed her to reach more than one set age group.

In September 2016, following a year as a solely mobile service, Kristin’s ArtCart took the next step

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Kristin’s ArtCart hosts craft sessions and courses for children.

in its evolution when Olson and her husband converted a property that they own at 465 Oak St., Indiana, into a formal studio.

Thanks to this conversion, Olson is now able to offer a wide range of events in addition to still serving at off-site events and private parties.

Olson now offers several different monthly workshops and courses

that are open to the public and are geared toward people of all ages.

One such course is the monthly “Wee Ones” workshop. It is designed for children ages 2 to 4 and provides kids and their parents with a chance to learn about painting and create several pieces of art together.

The ArtCart also hosts a monthly course that teaches elementary school children about art. Adultthemed events, like the popular “Canvas and Cocktails” night, allow participants to indulge in their love of adult beverages and art at the same time.

Despite being a relatively new addition to the Indiana art scene, Olson has found the community response to be a positive one.

“It’s been excellent; it’s been really excellent,” she said.

Thanks largely to word-of-mouth advertising, Olson’s business has seen plenty of growth, and she hopes to be able to continue to share her passion for painting and art education with the Indiana community for some time to come.

Information about upcoming monthly courses and special themed events that will be hosted at Kristin’s ArtCart, as well as contact information to reach Olson about scheduling a private event, can be obtained via Olson’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/KristinsArtCart

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By Christie D’Zurilla Los Angeles Times Actor Bill Paxton died from a stroke that occurred 11 days after he had surgery on his heart and aorta.

Surgery to fix an aortic aneurysm and replace the 61-yearold actor’s bicuspid aortic valve was done on Valentine’s Day, according to his death certificate, which was published Monday by TMZ .

The document indicated that no autopsy was performed.

Paxton died late on Feb. 25 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

“Paxton was an actor’s actor,” The Times said in an appreciation after his death, “more journeyman than star, although he was most certainly a star. That square jaw and Texas drawl could be stretched or softened according to need, the eyes beneath the receding hairline cushioned or steeled, but always in service to character rather than brand.”

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S PO R T S IUP women’s basketball brings THE PENN

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

home PSAC Championship

By SARAH MOLTZ Staff Writer

S.J.Moltz@iup.edu

The IUP women’s basketball team won the 2017 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championship with an 84-79 overtime victory over California University of Pennsylvania Sunday afternoon at Shippensburg’s Heiges Field House.

Sophomore guard Carolyn Appleby (safety science) had a career performance, scoring a career-high 30 points, grabbing six rebounds and five assists.

Appleby helped by leading IUP to its fifth all-time conference title and first since 2009. Finishing 7-of15 from the field and a career-best 6-of-8 from beyond the arc, Appleby shined when it mattered most.

She also went a perfect 10-of-10 from the foul line, including 8-of-8 in the fourth quarter.

Appleby was also named the PSAC Tournament Most Valuable Player. She averaged 22.3 points while adding 18 assists in IUP’s three playoff victories.

“I just felt from the tip that we were all so focused and wanted this game more than anything,” Appleby said. “My teammates really gave me opportunities to be successful.”

Junior forward Megan Smith (management) had 17 points, one

steal and one assist. Sophomore forward Brittany Robinson (early childhood/special education) also scored 17 points. Robinson went 8-of-12 from the field and grabbed a pair of steals and one block.

“Being PSAC champions means a lot because I feel like everyone on this team put [in] so much effort this year, and we all play so unselfishly,” Appleby said. “We have come such a long way, and it’s just so rewarding to win it.”

California as a team shot 49 percent from the floor, but only went 2-of-10 from 3-point range and turned the ball over 16 times.

Last year’s champions will move on to the NCAA Atlantic Regional Championships along with the Crimson Hawks, who will be continuing their season with a 23-6 overall record. Cal fell to 28-3 with the loss.

Both teams contributed 10 steals, while IUP had 29 rebounds and Cal had 26.

The Crimson Hawks played Cal twice during the regular season, losing both meetings. The Crimson Hawks will make their 10th appearance in the NCAA Division II Championships.

IUP has earned the No. 2 seed in the Atlantic Region and will face No. 7-seed Johnson C. Smith University Friday in California, Pa. “Our mindset for NCAAs is to just take one game at a time and prepare the same way we always do,” Appleby said.

The game, slated for Friday, will be IUP’s third straight appearance in the NCAA tournament under head coach Tom McConnell.

“Coach McConnell is such an

(IUP Athletics) The IUP women’s basketball team secured the PSAC Championship by defeating rival California University of Pennsylvania Sunday afternoon in Shippensburg. The title is IUP’s fifth conference title in program history.

amazing role model, coach and leader,” Appleby said. “He wants the absolute best for all of us, and he really shows that he does. He wants nothing more than for all of us to succeed in all that we do.”

California sits at the No. 1 seed in the region and will play against Glenville State College.

Also, on Saturday afternoon in Shippensburg, sophomore Kendall Hunter (communication disorders, special education and disability services) was named PSAC Women’s Basketball Champion Scholar.

Hunter has accumulated 53 credits toward her disability services degree while maintaining a 3.87 grade-point average.

Tip-off time for Friday’s game has not been announced yet.

(IUP Athletics) Guard Carolyn Appleby posted a career-high 30 points in the team’s PSAC Championship victory Sunday. Appleby was named Tournament MVP while averaging 22 points per game and adding 18 assists in IUP’s three playoff victories.

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Crimson Hawks’ comeback attempt falls short in heartbreaking loss in PSAC Tournament

(Ishaaq Muhammad/ The Penn) Sophomore forward Jacobo Diaz (economics) tallied 22 points for the Crimson Hawks as the team fell to Shippensburg University Saturday in a 90-87 overtime elimination game.

By JARROD BROWNE Lead Sports Writer

J.W.Browne@iup.edu

The IUP men’s basketball team rallied from a 16-point deficit with 5:16 remaining in regulation, but eventually fell to Shippensburg University, 90-87, in overtime of its Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Tournament semifinal game Saturday at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex.

With the loss, the Crimson Hawks’ historic winning streak was stopped at 18 wins, and the team was eliminated from the conference tournament.

Leading the way for the Crimson Hawks was junior guard Anthony Glover (marketing), who tallied 23 points.

Glover was not the only player for IUP to record impressive numbers, as sophomore Jacobo Diaz (economics) tallied 22 points for the Crimson Hawks and junior Blake Danielak (finance and legal studies) recorded 21.

Danielak took the final shot of the game for IUP with Shippensburg up by 2 with .3 seconds left in overtime, but the attempt fell short.

“We’re only talking about a onebucket difference, and it could’ve gone the other way,” head coach Joe Lombardi said. “If we make another 3-[pointer] here or there, we’re talking about the greatest win in the history of the KCAC.” Despite the loss, IUP left the tournament proud of its effort but not so much its execution.

“At the end of the day, we need to play better to beat a team like this, and we just came up short,” Lombardi said. “We played with great heart, played with a lot of purpose, played together. We just have to put the ball in the bucket.

We didn’t do a good job with that today.”

Despite the loss, the Crimson Hawks still received an invitation to the Division II NCAA Atlantic Region Championship.

IUP will take on PSAC rival Kutztown University in the first round Saturday in Fairmont, W.Va. Kutztown fell to Shippensburg in the PSAC Tournament final, 73-63, and IUP defeated Kutztown, 77-76, Dec. 6.

Although the Crimson Hawks would prefer to enter the national tournament as PSAC champions, IUP is using its loss to Shippensburg as motivation.

“We have to put 40 minutes together,” Lombardi said. “We’re still not a team that’s really been battle-tested all year. Sometimes it’s better to lose a game and get battle-tested.”

(Ishaaq Muhammad/ The Penn) Anthony Glover (junior, marketing) led the Crimson Hawks in scoring in Saturday’s PSAC Tournament loss to Shippensburg University.

Glover scored 23 points in the loss.

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Crimson Hawks baseball team drops three of four to Winston-Salem State

By DENNIS CANIZ

Staff Writer

D.M.Caniz@iup.edu

(IUP Athletics) Jeff Allen (sophomore, criminology) secured his first victory of the year in Game 1 of the four-game set with Winston-Salem State. Allen gave the Crimson Hawks five innings of four-hit ball while striking out six.

This past weekend, the IUP men’s baseball team traveled down to Winston-Salem, N.C., to play a four-game series against Winston-Salem State University at BB&T Ballpark.

The Hawks split a doubleheader on Saturday, but BASEBALL were unable to come away with a win in Sunday’s doubleheader.

The Hawks’ bats came out hot in Game 1 of the four-game series, scoring five runs in the first inning.

The 5-0 lead began with a bases-loaded walk to Scott Hess (senior, safety sciences).

IUP tacked on a few more runs before the Rams scored in the bottom of the sixth.

IUP won the game, 8-3, and pitcher Jeff Allen (sophomore, criminology) got the victory.

The break in-between games Saturday cooled down the Hawks’ bats as they lost the second game, 3-2.

The Rams took an early 2-0 lead in the third inning as Brandon Ford hit a triple to deep left-center field, allowing two baserunners to score.

The Hawks cut the lead in half the very next inning on an error by the Rams.

IUP outfielder Chris Eisel (freshman, pre-physical therapy) tallied an RBI single in the sixth, and that would be all for IUP. Colin Claus (sophomore, physical education) was the losing pitcher in the second game.

Sunday was a new day for the Hawks, but they ended up getting swept.

The Rams took an early 2-0 lead after Emilio Abreu hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the first inning.

The score remained the same

until infielder Dan Sepic (junior, hospitality management) knocked in an RBI single.

Hawks pitcher Mike Klingensmith (junior, exercise science) took the loss as the Hawks lost, 2-1.

In Game 2 Sunday, the Hawks looked good early on after a 1-0 lead in the top of the second on an RBI groundout from Matt Eperesi (senior, accounting).

The Rams tied the game later that inning.

The Hawks had a chance to take a lead in the third with runners in scoring position, but the Rams were able to get out of the inning unscathed.

The game remained scoreless until the bottom of the sixth inning. Winston-Salem’s Ivan Acuna doubled to right-center field, scoring one run.

Acuna later scored on a throwing error from IUP’s catcher, giving the Rams the win, 3-1.

“The season isn’t quite going the way that we expected it to begin,” Dan Roan (junior, sports administration) said.

“But team sports are all about overcoming adversity that is thrown your way. We are going to be just fine as the season continues.”

IUP mostly struggled to find an equalizer in the weekend series against Winston-Salem State.

Three of the four games in which they fell were by a total of just four runs.

Despite comeback attempts, the equalizing run is what IUP struggled to acheive.

In order to improve offensively, the team will have to capitalize when given the opportunity.

The Crimson Hawks left a combined 27 men on base throughout the weekend, a stat they will look to turn around heading into their next series.

The Hawks are currently 3-6 overall.

Their next series will come this weekend as they take on the East Stroudsburg University Warriors.

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IUP track and field looking forward to strong spring season

By BRAD O’HARA Staff Writer

B.L.Ohara@iup.edu

The warm weather and the upcoming break are both signs of spring, but they are also signs of the start of the men’s and women’s outdoor track and field seasons for IUP. The indoor season showed promise and gave the athletes and coaches high exTRACK & FIELD pectations for the outdoor portion of the season.

The men’s team placed fourth out of nine teams on the first day of the indoor Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships, and fifth out of 12 teams on the second day.

The women’s team landed a ninth-place finish out of 15 teams both days.

Brooke Smay (senior, safety science), Elizabeth Coppella (junior, exercise science), DJ Horton (sophomore, kinesiology health and sport science) and Charles Wilson-Adams (redshirt junior, communications media) qualified for the National Championship Saturday in Alabama, and Horton was selected to compete.

“My main focus going into senior outdoor season is to just have fun and enjoy the ride with teammates and coaches who became family the past four years,” Smay said. “If we can do that, along with staying healthy, then everything else will fall into place with a successful season. The PSAC has quite a few girls in triple jump with a lot of talent, so I know that's going to continue to push me even more.”

Smay placed seventh at the PSAC Championships and has

(IUP Athletics) Brooke Smay (senior, safety science)

had three top-10 finishes since the start of 2017, all in triple jump.

Greg Beaudette (senior, exercise science) of the men’s team has a similar mindset to Smay’s.

“My expectations for this season are to build on the great indoor season I had and to place high at the outdoor conference meet,” he said. “I was very consistent throughout indoor, and competed just about as well as I imagined at the conference championships. So if I could come close to recreating those results again, I would be very happy.”

Beaudette qualified for the PSAC Championships in the 5,000 meter, 3,000 meter and the mile, leading the team in the first two events.

He then went on to place second in the 3,000-meter event and placed third in the 5,000-meter event.

With the conclusion of the indoor season approaching rapidly, the main focus is now on the outdoor season.

The first meet of the outdoor season is the California Early Bird Invitational on March 25, followed by two more meets April 1 at Slippery Rock University and University of Cincinnati.

The men’s and women’s track and field teams will be returning home for the Western PA Challenge April 8 at IUP.

(IUP Athletics) Austin Cooper (junior, geography and regional planning) was one of IUP’s top performers in the indoor track and field season. Cooper finished second in the 800 and the mile at the PSAC Indoor Championships in February.

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Conference tournaments set to begin for Power 5 conferences

By KEVIN BOHAN Contributing Writer K.J.Bohan@iup.edu

It’s March, so that means it’s time for madness. But before we can get to the 68-team tournament, teams are wrapping up their regular seasons with conference tournaments beginning this week. A few midmajors have already punched a ticket to the dance, so let’s preview championship week for college basketball’s Power 5 conferences.

ACC Let’s start off with what’s widely regarded as college basketball’s top conference: the ACC. With six teams in the Top 25 (North Carolina, Louisville, Florida State, Duke, Notre Dame, Miami) it’s hard to argue with that claim.

North Carolina comes in as the favorite after winning the regularseason title led by ACC Player of the Year Justin Jackson. But with multiple player of the year candidates and potential All-Americans, and rich program history throughout this conference, the tournament is wide open. Look for the impact of some legendary coaches to come into play in later rounds.

Big 10 This conference has been confusing all year, with some teams underachieving and some exceeding expectations. Purdue comes in as the favorite, led by double-double machine and probable All-American Caleb Swanigan. As a very topheavy conference, look for most of the excitement to come in the later rounds, as star power should have a big impact on whoever wins this conference title.

Big 12 If the top of the Big 12 has been anything over the past few years, it has been consistent. Kansas pulled off its 13th straight regular-season title and gave head coach Bill Self

his fifth Big 12 Coach of the Year award. But that’s not to say that this conference has nothing to offer. Teams such as Baylor and West Virginia have been staples in the top 10 for the entire year and will not be an easy out. Known for its fast-paced style of play, look for this conference to be decided by a number of up-tempo games led by intense defensive play that come down to who has the ball last.

Pac 12 Another conference that, outside of the top teams, doesn’t offer too many interesting storylines.

With that being said, those top teams are loaded with talent.

UCLA, Oregon and Arizona have been shifting around the top 10 for much of the year.

All three teams are led by possible All-Americans and future top NBA draft picks, headlined by UCLA’s Lonzo Ball. Look for this conference to exhibit some highscoring contests, as these teams have been known all year for their high-powered offenses and ability to put up points in a hurry.

SEC This conference is much like the Big 12 in that the top rarely changes much. Kentucky has been a staple at the top for years now and has done so with the excellent play of elite freshmen, and this year is no different. Led by star freshmen D’Aaron Fox and Malik Monk, Kentucky looks poised to win its fifth conference title under Coach John Calipari. Look for teams like Florida and South Carolina to try and stand in their way, as both teams have been a part of the Top 25 for most of the year.

Conference tournament week is the week that sets the mood for the entire NCAA tournament, the official start of March Madness. With these games tipping off, basketball fans can rejoice and enjoy the pinnacle of one of the greatest postseasons in all of sports.

(TNS) North Carolina will be one of the favorites to win its conference after posting the top record in the ACC during the regular season. Head coach Roy Williams will look to bring this year’s Tar Heels squad back to a national title appearance after falling to Villanova at the buzzer last season.

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