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(James Neuhausel/ The Penn) IUP Libraries moved away from its 24-hours-a-day, five-days-a-week hours before the start of the 2018 fall semester.

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(James Neuhausel/ The Penn) Late-night hours of the library were the best time for some students to get work done because it was the calmest time to do homework, some students say.

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Students at IUP are not pleased with the library’s change in hours of operation announced Aug. 13 to take effect this semester.

IUP Libraries moved away from its 24-hours-a-day, five-days-aweek rule before the start of the 2018 fall semester. According to a 50-student survey, 66 percent said they do not like the hour change.

The library is now open at 7:45 a.m. on weekdays and closes at 12:45 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The library is open at 11 a.m. on weekends.

Many students have even said that this change has negatively affected their education significantly.

“I have a busy day with classes and clubs,” Emma Frazier (soph-

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omore, nursing) said. “At night is when most productive studying gets done, and for that opportunity to use school resources being cut puts a strain on my education.”

Some students have classes that start early in the day, end late at night or go all day long, so not being able to go to the library at any hour can affect their work productivity.

Many students often find that they do not study and work effectively in their living space because they tend to want to lie in their beds, or they feel that they can take breaks easier and for longer periods of time because they are in a comfortable, homey environment.

“Things are pretty hectic during the day, so I enjoy being able to go to the library late at night and sometimes until 2-3 in the morning,” said Sydney

Naughton (junior, hospitality management). “If I’m there studying, I’ll stay awake, opposed to being at home.”

This change has not only affected regular library goers but also students who choose to spend their time there during midterm and finals week.

Logan Brink (junior, criminology) admitted that he doesn’t usually go to the library except for during those times. He explained that the late-night hours of the library were the best time for him to go because it was the calmest time to do homework. He said it was most chaotic during the daytime, and fewer people would go late into the night because many would go home to sleep before their exams.

The “24/5” rule was implemented in 2015 as a pilot project to be evaluated for success or failure.

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(Twitter) The annual Military and Veterans Resource Center (MVRC) meet and greet Oct. 8 was an opportunity for the students to talk to staff and see what the facility has to offer.

Military-affiliated student presence grows CATHARYN PILCH Staff Writer C.M.Pilch@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

The annual Military and Veterans Resource Center (MVRC)

meet and greet Oct. 8 provided an opportunity for military-affiliated members of the IUP community to socialize and enjoy food.

“It gives military-affiliated students a chance to come down and view the center,” said Cory

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Shay, director of the MVRC. The meet and greet is also an opportunity for the students to talk to staff and see what the facility has to offer.

There are 1,009 military affiliated students enrolled at IUP for fall 2018, which is an increase from the 713 enrolled in fall 2015.

Twenty-nine people attended the event, as well as IUP President Michael Driscoll; Kate Linder, associate vice president of the Division of Student Affairs; Theo Turner, Center for Multicultural Student Leadership and Engagement (MCSLE) director; Caitlin Aiello, assistant director for communications; and Brianna Drylie, MCSLE assistant director of program coordination, communication and assessment.

Donald Griffin (sophomore, small business management), a marine corps veteran, said he has a schedule that makes it difficult to find time to eat on campus.

“It was nice to just come in, grab something and see what was going on,” Griffin said.

Giovanni Serrapere (senior, chemistry) is a navy veteran and a

MVRC student worker.

He said he thinks IUP has more to offer its military-affiliated students than other schools with which he is familiar.

(Facebook) The Military and Veterans Resource Center held its annual meet and greet Oct. 8.

“My friends go to other universities, and all they have is a single

person to go to,” Serrapere said.

“They don’t have all the resources that we have here.

“Having our own place to study is nice.”

The next MVRC event is the Veterans Day celebration.

Military-affiliated students and veterans will receive a free lunch in the Great Room of Elkin Hall Monday, Nov. 12 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be a presentation, and MVRC is requesting photographs from anyone at IUP that has prior or current service members in their family they would like to recognize. A student can also recognize themselves.

Submit a photograph – they do not have to be in uniform – with name, rank and dates of service. If a student is being recognized, include their year and major.

Email the submissions by Nov. 2 to cshay@iup.edu or bring them on a flash drive to the MVRC at Pratt Hall 101 and 102, and they can be directly downloaded. If there are any questions call (724) 357-3008.

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Students cope with isolation in college For instance, many students will turn to substance use to deal with emotional challenges such as loneliness. Barone said that while When Nick Barone (senior, man- he used to drink a lot more, he still drinks two to three times a week. agement information systems) was “It’s absolutely a direct coping in high school, his graduating class contained only around 200 people. mechanism for loneliness,” he said. And he isn’t the only one.

Finding someone to make a conThirty percent of freshman said nection with was relatively easy; he they consumed drugs or alcohol felt like he knew everyone. “regularly” during their first term Then he came to IUP, a campus to cope with their emotional strugof more than 12,000 students. gles, according to a survey from Making friends suddenly became the JED Foundation. an intimidating task. The univerApart from health risks associatsity’s “party school” reputation ed with substance abuse, multiple made him worry how he would get other health issues are related to along with his peers. loneliness.

“That’s not what I was coming Loneliness and social isolation [to IUP] for,” Barone said. are linked to conditions like high Now in his last year of college, blood pressure and cardiovasBarone said he still finds it difficult cular disease, according to CQ to feel comfortable.

Researcher. Some studies even “I sometimes feel like if I went show that loneliness poses the to a different university, I would same health risk as smoking 15 be able to associate with other cigarettes a day and has a greater students,” he said. “I can’t really associate with most people around mortality risk than obesity.

College students with signifhere. I have close friends obviousicant feelings of loneliness and ly, but I generally feel disconnectisolation are also likely to see a ed from the student body.” decline in their mental health.

Barone is not alone in feeling Loneliness is associated with a varihe is unable to connect with his ety of issues, including depression peers. In a study conducted by and anxiety, which are considered John Cacioppo at the University two of the largest barriers to good of Chicago, 54 percent of responacademic performance. dents reported feeling like “no Even more serious consequencone knew them well.” Fifty-six percent reported feeling like those es are possible, as some people are unable to see an end to their around them “are not necessarily loneliness. Twelve percent of stuwith them.” dents said they seriously considThese types of feelings contribered suicide to cope with feeling ute to a larger problem on college lonely, according to the ACHA campuses: loneliness. A 2017 survey.

American College Health AssoIf many college students are ciation survey of 28,000 college experiencing students revealed loneliness and its that nearly 30 harmful effects, percent reported what are colleges they felt “very doing about it? lonely” in the past Most universitwo weeks and 64 ties, including IUP, percent felt that have counseling way in the past services available year. for students to Barone rework out their sponded similarly. feelings on a variHe said he feels ety of subjects. lonely “relatively —NICK BARONE Anxiety and frequently” and (SENIOR MANAGEMENT depression are, has had a greater INFORMATION SYSTEMS) by a wide margin, sense of isolation the most comsince coming to mon concerns of students seeking IUP. counseling services, according to a To many, loneliness is only a normal part of the transition to col- 2017 report from Penn State’s Center for Collegiate Mental Health. lege life. However, research shows The report says that “anxithat there are multiple serious ety and depression have shown consequences to chronic feelings of loneliness and isolation. year-over-year increases of their SAMANTHA KAHLE Copy Editor S.L.Kahle@iup.edu @samgogh_

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(James Neuhausel/ The Penn) College students with significant feelings of loneliness and isolation are also likely to see a decline in their mental health.

frequency,” conditions that can be associated with or worsened by loneliness.

Fortunately, with the increased frequency of conditions, more students themselves are seeking out help.

For example, Cornell University’s Health Counseling and Psychological Services provided treatment to 21 percent of students in 2016-17, up from only 13 percent in 2005-06.

At IUP, the Counseling Center is located in the Center for Health and Well-Being in the Suites on Maple East. It offers one-on-one counseling with a licensed psychologist as well as group therapy with other students who face similar issues.

Kadey Donitzen (junior, environmental geology) said that she had a positive experience at the Counseling Center after transferring during her freshman year. “[The Counseling Center] created an environment where I felt I could comfortably express myself,” Donitzen said. “I knew there was someone there who cared about what I had to say.”

She said talking with a counselor helped her further her socialization and communication skills.

Therefore, reaching out when she experienced loneliness was easier than it had been when she first arrived.

However, with an increased number of students seeking help to deal with their issues, many counseling centers are struggling to provide services to all who need it.

This is a relatively new issue.

While student visits have increased, budgets for counseling programs have remained relatively the same, according to Inside Higher Ed.

Barone said he tried a while ago to speak with a professional at IUP’s Counseling Center, but there was a waitlist for months.

“They gave me an excuse of being understaffed,” he said. “It was off-putting. I never went back.”

Students like Barone who have come to a center for help feel even more excluded when they can’t get an appointment and are turned away.

“It’s always possible that somebody’s built up the nerve to come in and may feel rejected in some way… that’s not what we want to happen,” Dan Jones, president of the Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors, said. “We are probably a victim of our own success in some ways.”

Those rejected feelings could

make a student’s situation even harder to bear and may contribute to greater feelings of isolation.

With these new issues, many university counseling centers are making changes so they can be available to more students.

The University of Iowa has made it a priority to hire more counseling personnel to keep up with student demand, according to Inside Higher Ed. They are also establishing a model that “embeds” counselors in various buildings around campus so they are more accessible.

Other schools like Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., have made attempts at developing a 24-hour hotline for college students to seek help whenever and wherever they need it.

Barone suggested similar solutions for IUP and said there should be increased funding and staff at the Counseling Center. However, he also proposed an idea that doesn’t even involve the Counseling Center. Instead, he thinks campus organizations like STATIC (The Student Activity Committee) should focus on providing a wider variety of events for the many different demographics at IUP. “There’s a lot to do on campus, but much of it just doesn’t appeal to me personally,” he said.

With more entertainment options for students, they may more easily discover activities they enjoy and people they can connect with.

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DNA sequencing puts people’s privacy in jeopardy DEBORAH NETBURN Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Everyone’s DNA sequence is unique. But for those who wish to maintain their genetic privacy, it may not be unique enough.

A new study argues that more than half of Americans could be identified by name if all you had to start with was a sample of their DNA and a few basic facts, such as where they live and how about how old they might be.

It wouldn’t be simple, and it wouldn’t be cheap. But the fact that it has become doable will force all of us to rethink the meaning of privacy in the DNA age, experts said.

There is little time to waste.

The researchers behind the new study say that once 3 million Americans have uploaded their genomes to public genealogy websites, nearly everyone in the U.S. would be identifiable by their DNA alone and just a few additional clues.

More than 1 million Americans have already published their genetic information, and dozens more do so every day.

“People have been wondering how long it will be before you can use DNA to detect just about anybody,” said Ruth Dickover, director of the forensic science program at the University of California, Davis who was not involved with the study. “The authors are saying it’s not going to take that long.”

This new reality represents the convergence of two long-standing trends.

One of them is the rise of direct-to-consumer genetic testing.

Companies such as Ancestry.com and 23andMe can sequence anyone’s DNA for about $100. All you have to do is provide a sample of saliva and drop it in the mail.

The other essential element is the proliferation of publicly searchable genealogy databases like GEDmatch. Anyone can upload a full genome to these sites and powerful computers will crunch through it, looking for stretches of matching DNA sequences that can be used to build out a family tree.

To test the growing power of these sites, researchers led by Columbia University computer scientist Yaniv Erlich set out to see whether they could find a person’s name – and thus, his identity – if all they had to go on was a piece

(TNS) A Los Angeles Police Department Criminalist with the Forensic Science Division, Forrest Yumori, demonstrated the computer display of a DNA profile generated by a genetic analyzer.

of his DNA and a small amount of biographical information.

They started with a full DNA sequence from a person whose genetic information was published anonymously as part of an unrelated scientific study. (They had actually identified this woman in a previous study, but for the purposes of this work, they pretended they didn’t know who she was.)

Erlich and his collaborators uploaded her genetic code to GEDmatch and ran a search to see if she had any relations on the site. They found two: one in North Dakota and one in Wyoming.

The researchers could tell they were all related because they shared a number of single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs. These are single letters in specific spots among the roughly 3 billion A’s, Cs, Ts and Gs that make up the human genome.

The more SNPs people share, the more closely related they are.

By comparing the DNA of all three relatives, Erlich’s team was able to find a common ancestral couple that were the Utah woman’s great-grandparents.

Next, the researchers scoured genealogical websites and other sources for additional descendants of that long-ago couple.

They found 10 children and hundreds of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Then they started culling their massive list of descendants. They eliminated all the men from the sample, then those who were not alive when the Utah woman’s DNA was sequenced. The authors also knew that their subject was

married and how many children she had, which helped them zero in on their target.

After a long day of painstaking work, they researchers were able to correctly name the owner of the DNA sample.

The authors said the same process would work for about 60 percent of Americans of European descent, who are the people most likely to use genealogical websites, Erlich said. Though the odds of success would be lower for people from other backgrounds, it would still be expected to work for more than half of all Americans, they said.

To come to this conclusion, the researchers analyzed a different database consisting of 1.28 million anonymous individuals who had their DNA sequenced by MyHeritage, a DNA testing and family history company where Erlich is the chief science officer.

If you can find a person’s third cousin in a genealogical database, then you should be able to identify the person with a reasonable amount of sleuthing, Erlich said.

So the team checked to see how many relatives on the order of a third cousin or closer they could find for each individual in their data set.

They found plenty: 60 percent of the 1.28 million people were matched with a relative who was at least as close as a third cousin, and 15 percent had a relative who was at least as close as a second cousin.

The findings were published Thursday in the journal Science.

So far, 72-year-old Joseph

James DeAngelo is the most famous person to be identified this way. You may know him better as the suspected Golden State Killer, charged with 13 counts of murder and 13 counts of attempted kidnapping.

When law enforcement officials used a publicly accessible DNA database to catch DeAngelo in April, it was only the second time in crime-solving history that the strategy was implemented successfully.

Since then, at least 13 additional suspected criminals have been identified in the same way.

“The solving of the Golden

State Killer case opened this method up as a possibility and other crime labs are taking advantage of it,” Dickover said. “Clearly a trend has started.”

Private citizens are benefiting from the technology as well.

Adoptees have found biological parents and siblings, and others have found distant cousins who can shed new light on a family’s origins and heritage.

But as more of us upload DNA to publicly searchable databases, the implications can be creepy.

“When the police caught the Golden State Killer, that was a very good day for humanity,” Erlich said. “The problem is that the very same strategy can be misused.”

Think of foreign governments using this technique to track down American citizens, he said.

Or protesters and activists being pursued in this way.

Erlich and his co-authors proposed a mitigation strategy that would make it harder to upload an unknown DNA sequence to a genealogical database and search for a match.

They suggest that direct-to-consumer DNA testing companies put a special code on the raw data files they send to their customers. Genealogy sites could then agree to allow people to upload DNA sequences only if they have a valid code. This would ensure that people could conduct searches related only to their own DNA.

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(TNS) Bill Gates and Paul Allen relocated Microsoft to Bellevue, Wash., in 1979.

Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, dies at 65 SCOTT KRAFT & LAURENCE DARMIENTO Los Angeles Times (TNS)

(Facebook) Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died Monday of non-Hodgkin lymphoma at age 65.

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Paul Allen, the taciturn computer programmer who founded the software behemoth Microsoft with Bill Gates when he was 22 and walked away eight years later with what would become one of the largest fortunes in the history of American capitalism, died Monday in Seattle. He was 65.

The cause was complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to his investment company, Vulcan Inc. Although once dubbed the “accidental zillionaire” by Wired magazine, Allen was in fact an essential part of the launch and early success of Microsoft, which thrived on the combination of Allen’s creative programming genius and Gates’ hard-driving business acumen.

“I guess you would call me the doer and Paul the idea man,” Gates said in 1981. “I’m more aggressive and crazily competitive, the front man running the business day to day, while Paul keeps us out front in research and development.”

As early as 1977, Allen was telling Gates and other friends about his vision of a “wired world.”

Writing in a trade magazine at the

time, he predicted that the personal computer would become “the kind of thing that people carry with them, a companion that takes notes, does accounting, gives reminders, handles a thousand personal tasks.”

The difference between the two Microsoft founders was that “Gates wanted more than anything to make money; Allen wanted more than anything to be the first to spot a technological idea,” Laura Rich wrote in her biography of Allen, “The Accidental Zillionaire: Demystifying Paul Allen.” “It was a partnership made in heaven – and it worked.”

Allen left the company’s dayto-day operations in 1983, against the wishes of his friend Gates, a year after beginning treatments for Hodgkins disease. The treatments were successful, but the illness had left him exhausted and also newly imbued with a sense of his own mortality and the need, as he put it, “to re-evaluate your priorities.”

Microsoft stock went public in 1986, and by the end of the first trading day, Allen’s shares were worth $134 million. He kept a substantial investment in Microsoft stock throughout his life, and his net worth at the time of his death was $20.3 billion, according to Forbes magazine, which ranked

him as the 21st wealthiest person in the world this year.

After leaving Microsoft, Allen decided he wanted to have fun with his money, to donate to worthwhile causes and to invest in “other people to do exciting, new, creative things,” as he told the Los Angeles Times in 1995.

He devoted the rest of his life to spending that vast fortune – on an opulent lifestyle of planes, yachts and fancy homes, on an eclectic mix of philanthropic causes and on myriad investments that included professional sports teams, space travel and technology.

He owned the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers and the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks and had a stake in the Seattle Sounders soccer team.

Despite his wealth, he retained the aura of the computer geek he had always been. He was a preternaturally reserved man who dressed modestly, appeared uneasy in public and closely guarded his privacy.

Allen, who overcame Hodgkins disease in the early 1980s, battled non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2009.

On Oct. 1, he tweeted that the disease had returned, and that he was being treated and his doctors were optimistic.

He died Monday afternoon, Vulcan said.

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NFL should take the plunge to go global The National Football League (NFL) has been considering other cities outside of the U.S. for quite some time.

In the last 11 years, this has taken off with teams playing in London as well as Mexico.

Is it good for the league?

There is a long history of games being played outside the U.S. The first game that was played outside the U.S. between two NFL teams was in 1960 when the Chicago Bears beat the New York Giants in Toronto.

Sixteen years later the first game outside of North America was played between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Diego Chargers in Tokyo.

The International Series was officially created in 2007.

With talks of expansion discussed year after year by the league, it looks more likely that a team will move to Mexico City or London within the next few years.

The big reason why a team would struggle going to London, the most talked about city for relocation, is the travel time needed. Just to go from New York to London is around a 12 hour flight. Given the travel time, planning a team schedule would be problematic.

The thought to help prevent all the travel is to play several games in the U.S. before going back home to

(TNS) The Jacksonvile Jaguars hold the most potential of any NFL team to make the global move because of owner Shahid Khan’s connections in London.

London. The team would then not have to go through travel nightmares.

The league has said that a team would not move overseas until a major fanbase was established there.

Although there aren’t any available statistics to show the growth of the sport in the United Kingdom, the attendance was solid with the Seattle Seahawks and Oakland Raiders game Sunday at 84,922. The attendance set a record for an NFL game in the U.K. The biggest potential team to move to London, if any team, is the Jacksonville Jaguars. The reason many suspect the Jaguars is because

of owner Shahid Khan.

Khan is a Pakistani-American billionaire businessman who also owns Fulham F.C., a soccer club based in West London. He is also in advanced talks for buying Wembley Stadium, the largest stadium in the U.K. at a 90,000-person capacity.

Wembley is the stadium that most believe would be the ideal stadium to play football games. It does not host many soccer games each year, and many of them happen in May. Khan being approved to buy the stadium would add to the ever-growing speculation of Jacksonville moving.

The NFL has already influenced countries around the world to play the game. In 2017, one in 39 players were not born in the U.S. Currently Canada, followed by Germany, owns the most players not born in the U.S. Apart from the most commonly known football leagues in the world, the NFL and the Canadian Football League, there are several other countries that have been influenced and created their own football league. These countries include Sweden, Israel, Mexico, Australia and Japan.

With football being the most popular sport in the U.S and quickly becoming a popular sport around the world, now is the time to go all-in on expanding. If a team could sell even 80,000 tickets at Wembley, they would currently have the second best attendance rate below the Dallas Cowboys.

If the league executives want to test the waters and go for a London team, they should do it now instead of later, especially with the success it has shown.

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IUP offers students the opportunity to minor in LGBTQ studies.

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Gender studies: should it be a more popular minor?

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“Gender studies? You can’t get a job with that major.”

How many times have we all heard that, whether it be women’s, gender or sexuality studies, the consensus always tends to be the same in mainstream news – you should’ve chosen something more practical. But what can you do with a major, or even a minor, in these specific fields?

Majors and minors in these fields have often been met with an abundance of skepticism. Is it the idea that you can’t get a job with knowledge in these areas? Or is it not realizing the importance that these minors and majors can hold?

Just because you have this certification doesn’t mean you have to go into one specific field – quite the opposite actually. You can use this area of study in your career and in your life.

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Committing to a full major might be a bit extreme, unless of course you are going into a specific field within that study. The information from LGBTQ studies tend to be connected to other careers, meaning that if you were going into one field and had an LGBTQ minor, you’d be better off not having a full major.

The LGBTQ studies minor is offered at more than 10,000 universities in the U.S. and is steadily growing. The minor has also been suggested to be paired with many majors in broad areas like psychology and business.

IUP has only recently offered the minor to students starting in June 2016 after several years of discussion among faculty. More and more schools are beginning to add these types of minors, including LGBTQ, women’s and African studies.

For a university as liberal as IUP (rated No. 40 on Niche.com’s most liberal schools in Pennsylvania), it’s hardly a surprise that these kinds of studies are growing in popularity. The LGBTQ minor specifically includes gender and sexuality

studies that can be beneficial and applicable to anyone.

Elliot Wallace, president of the Gender and Sexuality Spectrum Association (GSSA) at Point Park University, said that this minor could be very valuable.

Point Park doesn’t currently have a LGBTQ studies minor but they do have several classes within the gender studies umbrella. “I think that this is something that should be more normalized in today’s world. Point Park is actually in the process of discussing this becoming a minor, but it’s still in the early stages,” Wallace said.

Wallace currently went through the process of getting his certifica-

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tion in LGBTQ Sensitivity Training, now he is able to professionally help people in the community going through a hard time.

“I think that having a certificate goes a long way to show someone that you can help,” he said.

Wallace is a criminal justice major and said that this area of study will be hugely successful in his future career.

Having the understanding and sensitivity to handle certain situations can be utilized to make the job easier and more effective.

“I think that things as simple as pronouns being commonly displayed to normalize it is a big stepand that’s just something small,” he said. “But I think that an important part would be including the history of [the LGBTQ community]. It’s important to understand what was accomplished to get us where we are now.”

Having a student’s perspective showed that this choice could be beneficial to anyone and that there shouldn’t be a stigma about something so useful. Any career could benefit from having an LGBTQ minor to strengthen one’s study.

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“A Star is Born” Movie Earnings: Year

Earnings 2 Million 6.1 Million 80 Million 75 Million

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“A Star is Born,” directed by and starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, was released Oct. 5.

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Bradley Cooper shines in directorial debut in “A Star is Born” JEREMY STOUT

Staff Writer J.W.Stout2@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

This article contains opinion and spoilers.

We should just give it all the awards right now. There’s no point in waiting until the Oscars to give it Best Picture.

Look, I was in the bag for this movie as soon as “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” hit and the title faded in, in the most old-Hollywood red font imaginable.

This movie shows so much about why I love movies.

It’s classic melodrama. It’s schmaltzy without ever becoming cloying. It’s this perfect balance of bitterness and sweetness.

Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut is the third remake of “A Star is Born.”

It’s kind of like a weird game of telephone with the original 1937 movie being about movies, then the ’54 version being a musical about movies and the ’76 version being a movie musical about the music industry.

It’s the ’76 Barbra Streisand- and Kris Kristofferson-starring film that Cooper takes the most from.

The film follows aging, alcoholic crooner Jackson Mayne (Cooper) and Ally (Lady Gaga) as they fall in love, and Ally skyrockets to star-

dom while Jackson falls lower than he ever has before.

It’s following a co-dependent relationship and the thrilling highs and dramatic lows that come along with it. And it’s all anchored by some of the best performances and the best music in a film this year.

Both Cooper and Gaga shine in this movie, bringing a great deal of humanity to the screen. They play off each other in an incredibly good way that it makes the lows all the more heartbreaking.

Show me a better scene in a movie this year then when Cooper takes the fake eyebrow off Gaga after he first sees her perform. There’s a tenderness to the moment as it shows Jackson waking up from a long self-destructive fugue state.

Gaga, in her feature debut, is wonderful here as she struggles with losing herself to fame and losing the person she loves to drugs and mental illness.

Cooper made a bold choice in making this his directorial debut as he’s performing the backwardsand-in-heels task of not only singing for the first time on screen but doing it all while emulating the voice of Sam Elliott.

Elliott is so good as the aggrieved brother and manager of Jackson. He shows why he’s one of the best and most underappreciated actors of all time.

The scene where Jackson

breaks and finally lets it out that he doesn’t idolize their father, he idolizes his brother features this incredible closeup of Elliott as tears well in his eyes while he pulls out from a driveway. It’s a guy who’s clearly breaking inside but is just going to push through and take care of the task in front of him.

It’s a scene that really shows what an actor friendly director Cooper is – which makes sense seeing as how that’s what he does. But some actors who become directors (*cough* Kenneth Branagh) tend to hold all the best moments for themselves.

Cooper avoids this and provides everyone in this movie with a great entrance or moment.

Even the dog gets a great little character moment.

Cooper hasn’t necessarily coalesced into his own filmmaker yet, and the fingerprints of Clint Eastwood are felt all over this movie, but that’s OK. It shows that Cooper understands the most important part of a movie is how to structure and tell a story in a way that makes it matter.

The movie, shot by Mathew Libatique (this is easily his best movie to release on Oct. 5), is visually reminiscent of Eastwood films, with the deep pools of shadow and limited color palette from scene to scene.

The visuals work though and provide a great contrast for the high-gloss mold that Gaga’s Ally is

forced into by her manager.

That’s all before even talking about the music, which is some of the best in movies.

It’s also so well deployed, and every musical number in the movie has a story telling purpose. And while not every musical needs this from its numbers, it’s nice that the effort was made here.

Also, just so it’s clear, “Shallow”

is an amazing song, and you totally buy that with zero preparation that Gaga and Cooper can perform this incredible duet.

This movie is one of the highlights of the year and deserves to slay at the box office. It’s a movie that should be seen and marks the start of what I’m hopeful will be a long and interesting career as a director for Cooper.

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“Venom,” starring Tom Hardy, has box office success even after poor critic scores.

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Is ‘Venom’ box office poison after bad reviews by critics?

EMILY LOOSE

Staff Writer E.D.Loose@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

This article contains opinion.

There are times that people look to critics for an opinion on a movie before they go see it. While

most of the time they end up agreeing with the public opinion, there are times when the critics are incredibly different.

That is what it is like for the film “Venom.”

Made by Sony, which had previously made the original “Spider-Man” trilogy, the film has been

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widely talked about on the internet due to the conflicting reviews giving by critics and viewers.

Released Oct. 5, “Venom” has received vastly different opinions among critics and viewers. Currently, the film holds a 30 percent rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, while viewers gave it an 88 percent.

This big difference made me curious to watch the film. After viewing it, I would have to agree with viewers on its score.

In the film, Tom Hardy takes the lead role of Eddie Brock, a reporter who becomes down on his luck after accusing CEO of The Life Foundation, Carlton Drake, of doing human experiments. While true, Drake has too much power for anyone to believe Eddie.

Later, an employee of The Life Foundation sneaks Eddie into the lab, where he is attacked by a symbiotic life form that takes over his body, this, of course, is Venom.

The film shows Eddie and Venom trying to deal with each other, as well as find a way to stop Drake from more human experiments.

While Hardy’s American accent is definitely off-putting, his voice work as Venom is easier on the ears. This is mostly because you can’t tell it’s him.

The relationship between Eddie and Venom is terrific. It comes off as being two stubborn roommates, which it kind of is. Hardy did a great job at making it look as though he was crazy or that Venom was with him.

One of the best performances of the film was Michelle Williams as Anne Weying, Eddie’s fiancee.

Though she felt like a rip-off of Pepper Potts at first, Williams makes Anne her own, playing the role of a loving but struggling girlfriend well.

You can feel the conflict she is going through, quickly understanding where her points comes from when she is upset with Eddie.

She is not one of those girlfriends who are overbearing and harsh. She deeply cares for Eddie, but he is making it difficult.

Despite many critics calling the movie terrible, it is actually not so bad. Certain aspects of the film do make criticism justifiable, but a lot of the plot and look of the scenes are very well made.

While not a straight-on comedy, the film uses humor in perfect doses to the point that it is not overbearing. Some of the humor might be more dark than one would like, but it is evened out with the lighter jokes.

The biggest issue with the film is probably the inconsistencies with the look of Venom. There are scenes that show him to look horrifyingly real, while other scenes make him look like CGI from a ‘90s horror movie. However, these scenes are usually quick, so they are not easily noticeable.

The film, which holds a rating of PG-13, definitely feels more rated R. With a lot of swearing and some of the most disturbing body horror scenes since Cronenberg, it might not be a film for the faint of heart or children. As someone who isn’t scared easily, even I was freaked out by some scenes.

“Venom” does have many faults, but so do many movies. If you can get past some gross body humor and a few bad CGI models, you will probably like “Venom.”

If not, the two end credit scenes are still worth seeing as they give sneak peaks on two different upcoming films.

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Thrift Life

One girl’s trash is another girl’s treasure

Salvation Army is one place that people could find clothing at a cheap price in Indiana.

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in which brand names and following trends are considered cool.

In my book, what’s cool is being yourself: the unique person you are.

A way I have learned to express my funky personality is through my attire. This funky attire did not come from the mall or any department store but from thrift stores, of course. Thrifting has changed my life and can change yours, for the better.

When you buy a shirt from a store in the mall, you’re doing

exactly what other people before you have done. You easily have the chance to see someone wearing that exact shirt you bought.

When you buy an article of clothing from a thrift store, you’re buying a piece of clothing that cannot be duplicated. Not only is this article special, but you’re also giving life to a used piece of clothing that still has time to give. With a quick wash and for a fifth of the price, you now own a sweater with a story that you can

LAURA SCOTT

Contributing Writer L.Scott@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

This article contains opinion.

Most of my treasures have been second-hand things I have bought, found or even pulled out of the trash.

Just because something has zero value to someone, doesn’t mean it has zero value, period.

We tend to live in a generation

add to your closet.

Thrifting involves taking your time and giving attention to the copious amounts of clothing on the rack. Going through these items can pay off, as the best treasures are hidden. Patience is key but worth the wait when you find that perfect pair of mom jeans.

Thrifting not only helps you,

but also prevents useful items that have been through the turns of time to continue their time, avoiding the trash. Re-using items that have nothing wrong with them other than age is a smart buy.

Over the next weeks, I will discuss the local thrift stores of Indiana so you can also join me in the thrift life.

Cover T o Cover

Writer releases top 5 bookish villains list VALERIE KERRIGAN Staff Writer V.A.Kerrigan@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

superior, or simply someone who gets away with everything they do, no matter how bad. That, and she carves punishments into students’ skin.

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1. Dolores Umbridge from “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” by J.K. Rowling This list kicks off with a character that might just be the worst of them all. Potter fans continuously bond over the fact that Umbridge is scarier than Voldemort, the true villain throughout the entire series. Why? She is more realistic.

Part of the reason Umbridge is so terrifying is because we have seen people like her.

She could represent a past teacher or

2. The girls from “The Merciless” by Danielle Vega This will be the second time “The Merciless” is mentioned in Cover To Cover but the girls within this book have earned their places on the villain list.

Readers will find similarities to Regina George’s “plastics” group, but on a more twisted level. Sofia, Riley, Grace and Alex form a terrifying girl group, one that carries out bone-chilling actions.

On the lighter side, the topic of exorcisms within this novel comes just in time for Halloween.

3. The Dad from “I Hunt Killers” by Barry Lyga Jasper Dent, nicknamed “Jazz,” does not have the most normal family.

His father makes the list as – within this novel – he is the world’s most infamous serial killer. Jazz grew up witnessing crimes the way other kids watched cartoons.

As the story picks up and complications arise, the suspense builds to produce an exploding ending.

One thing is for certain, a serial killer father grooming his child to be just like him is absolutely horrifying.

4. Victor from “Vicious” by V.E. Schwab (Villains #1) The line between good and evil becomes blurred the further this list goes.

Victor and Eli first met as college roommates, but things changed drastically in their senior year.

Ten years later, Victor is breaking out of prison while Eli is carrying out his own mysterious mission.

Split between two-time periods, “Vicious” is a story of revenge and discovering what makes a hero, and a villain.

5. Adelina Amouteru from “The Young Elites” by Marie Lu Adelina is a fantastic anti-hero whose still on her way to becoming a full-fledged villain. She loves revenge, is not afraid to commit crimes and possesses a bitterness that readers seem to adore.

Since readers are envisioning the story from her perspective, she is not viewed as a heartless villain but rather a girl re-claiming her life.

Bonus: Villainous characters who turn out to be cinnamon rolls.

Rhysand from “A Court of Mist and Fury” by Sarah J. Maas Although readers see glimpses of his true self in the first book of the series (“A Court of Thorns and Roses”), his unique personality has you rooting for “the bad guy” one-hundred percent of the time.

Aaron Warner from the “Shatter Me” series by Tahereh Mafi Just like another favorite misunderstood blonde character (aka Draco “My Father Will Hear About This” Malfoy), Warner will have readers hooked even when he is still labeled as heartless.

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Fencing club hosts USA Fencing sanctioned open competition

Metacritic : 76 IMDb : 8.1/10 Rotten Tomatoes : 81% Jonah Hill and Emma Stone surprise many with new dark comedy show ‘Maniac’ JEREMY STOUT

Staff Writer J.W.Stout2@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

This article contains opinion.

I really wish I liked Cary Fukunaga’s work.

He is an amazingly gifted technician, but almost everything I see of his (which is admittedly limited) leaves me incredibly cold.

He excels at creating an interesting visual but falters at providing characters that are any deeper then surface level.

Sure, he does a decent job of pretending that his work will be profound, but it rarely ever is.

No, more often it’s like “Maniac,” a show that’s ostensibly about the human condition, but is just about a bunch of people (and a computer) being sad.

The two principle sad sacks are Owen (Jonah Hill) and Annie (Emma Stone). Owen has schizophrenia and is very outwardly sad about life. He has reason to be as his family is pressuring him to lie in court and testify on behalf of his brother (Billy Magnussen).

This seems like a bad plan by the Milgram family as Owen often sees his brother when he’s not there.

Annie is also very sad, but she pretends to be tough. She became a drug addict in the wake of her

sister’s death in a car crash while they were on road trip to Utah.

She’s become addicted to an experimental drug that allows her to relieve the final day with her sister over and over. She’s dependent on the misery.

This leads both to join a drug trial that will solve everything for them and create a world where therapists are obsolete. What could go wrong?

This show takes forever to set up that very basic premise. It doesn’t get into the basic episode-to-episode setup of a series of increasingly strange vignettes (fantasy noir, ‘90s LA gangster movie, etc.) until Episode 3.

It’s not structured well or even like a TV show. That’s the biggest problem. There’s no reason for this to be serialized.

It’s not structured episodically or even in a workable way. It’s a movie that has been stretched past its breaking point and no longer works at all. This is made more obvious by Netflix’s distribution model.

If people can watch everything all at once, it becomes hard for them to ignore that they’re being told the same information repeatedly.

The show tries to get around this and to conceal how surface level it is by being weird.

A computer (Sally Field) that’s manic after the death of their lover, check. A doctor (Justin Theroux) who has been seriously messed up by his mother (also Sally Field) that he copes by being a VR squid and having sex with polygonal Atlantean women, check. Jonah Hill hanging out with aliens and doing a bad accent, check.

It’s all just wallpaper though for a show that’s incredibly shallow and obvious.

Theroux at one point, while coming to the realization that he needs to move past his mother, boldly proclaims that he must kill his digital mother. Do you get it?

He can only move on by killing the evil computer modeled after his mother and stopping the project that’s all about replacing her.

It’s not deep; it’s stupid. There’s nothing to be found in these hills.

There’s nothing profound that’s said here. I thought that I just wasn’t getting “it,” but as the show went on I realized that there’s just not that much to get.

The profound idea at the center of this show is that working through trauma is good and connecting with people is important.

That’s all there is here. It’s not deep or particularly interesting. It’s a lot of flashy visuals, some workable lead performances and a few decent jokes.

(Danielle DiAmico/ The Penn) The IUP Fencing club held the event in Zinc Hall Saturday afternoon. The event was part of the Western Pennsylvania USA Fencing competition.

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(Vincent Marino/The Penn) Lenny Williams (senior, accounting) handed off to Chris Temple (redshirt senior, business).

(Vincent Marino/The Penn) Justice Evans (sophomore, management) attempted to break a tackle against Clarion.

Football gets back in the win column against Clarion BRAD O’HARA

Lead Sports Writer B.L.Ohara@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

IUP football bounced back with a late win over Clarion to end its losing streak, scoring a touchdown with inside four minutes to play to take a 24-23 victory over the Golden Eagles.

Miles Williamson (senior, kinesiology) caught a 27-yard touchdown pass with 3:54 left on the clock to give IUP a lead it wouldn’t relinquish.

According to Williamson’s Twitter, the game-winning catch came four years to the day after a surgery to repair a torn ACL, making it all the more special for the wideout.

Yet, the victory was no easy task for the Crimson Hawks, as they quickly reverted back to the same struggles that lost them the past

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two games.

Turnovers were a major issue in the first quarter as IUP would lose two fumbles on its first two drives.

The first drive ended in the red zone as Lenny Williams (senior, accounting) was unable to keep ahold of the ball and the second fumble came on the kickoff to start the second drive.

On top of the turnover issues that plagued the Crimson Hawks offense, Williams struggled to connect with his receivers in the first half.

The quarterback attempted seven passes in the first half, only completing one of them.

Along with the offense struggles came a lackluster start for the Crimson Hawks defense.

Overall, the defense played very well and very consistently, but three major plays defined the outlook of

the game at the end of the first quarter.

A 78-yard pass, the fumble on the kickoff and a 37-yard run started Clarion off with a 20-0 lead at the end of the first quarter.

“They had three big plays, two of them scored on that play… Those three plays are on us, but that’s different from a whole drive getting put together and then them coming down and scoring on us,” said linebacker Damon Lloyd (junior, exercise science). “Every single time they scored, we came back to the sideline, and we were like we’re going to get them the next time.”

That’s exactly what the Crimson Hawks defense did. After giving up 20 points in the first quarter, IUP only let up three points in throughout the rest of the game.

The defense not only kept them from scoring but also kept them

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from even moving the ball.

In the first quarter alone, the Crimson Hawks let up 193 total yards. For the last three quarters IUP only gave up a total of 140 yards.

On top of the defense coming alive, the offense began to make a comeback as well starting to look like the nationally ranked team that we knew them to be.

Williams rebounded from that lone first half completion, coming back to complete five of eight for two touchdowns in the second half.

All six of his passes went to either Williamson or Dom McNeil (junior, kinesiology).

However, turnovers still appear to be a looming issue for the Crimson Hawks as Williams gave up a fumble and one interception on only 15 pass attempts. Last week Williams also threw an interception

late in the game.

The only difference is that this week the Crimson Hawks were able to hold on and finish against the Golden Eagles.

“We didn’t play great again offensively, but we played good enough to get the win this time,” Williams said. “We didn’t really expect it to be going like this, I’m sure no one did, but at the end of the day we’re in the fire now. We just got to get through it. How are we going to act in the fire? At the end of the day, as long as we take care of our business, we still have the chance to get what we really want.”

The Crimson Hawks look to build another winning streak at 12 p.m.

Saturday as they take on Gannon.

The Golden Knights started their season 0-5, but have won their last two games against Seton Hill and California (Pa.)

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Field hockey narrowly misses out on upset against Bloomsburg JAKE ROUSE

Staff Writer J.A.Rouse3@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

Despite another outstanding performance from goalie Olivia Accardi (senior, communications media) the Crimson Hawks fell short Saturday evening at George P. Miller Stadium, losing an overtime battle with No. 7 Bloomsburg University 2-1.

Both teams started the game strong on defense, as only three shots were taken between both teams in the first 14 minutes.

IUP was the first to put points on the board when defender Hannah Miller (freshman, education) found the cage 15 minutes in.

The shot was a rebound, and the assist was credited to Kalista Gioglio (senior, kinesiology).

IUP held its own the rest of the half, led by Accardi’s defense, and kept a 1-0 lead going into halftime.

Bloomsburg came out for the second half in attack mode, keeping the pressure on IUP’s defense.

Seven minutes into the second half, Bloomsburg’s pressure prevailed as it scored its first point of the game, tying it up at 1.

The Huskies controlled possession of the ball in the second half, keeping the Crimson Hawks under constant fire for an extended period of time. Accardi saved 14 shots in a 15-minute span.

(Jake Rouse/The Penn) A Bloomsburg University player prepared to take a shot against the IUP defense.

Bloomsburg had countless opportunities to take the lead in the second half with 16 penalty corners including 11 back-to-back.

“It was an unfortunate series of events,” said Emma Smiley (senior, natural sciences and mathematics).

“It happens, and it was frustrating, but at that time, the team pulled together to do what we had in order to keep them from scoring.”

IUP’s defense did not budge, forcing overtime with the score tied

at 1-1. “On the field, we were still positive and confident in each other’s abilities,” Smiley said.

In overtime, the Crimson Hawks were still under consistent pressure from Bloomsburg’s offense.

The Huskies had five corners and tallied four shots in the extra period.

Bloomsburg’s strong offense finally prevailed with 1:58 remaining in overtime on a breakaway goal, giving the Huskies the victory.

Accardi’s efforts in goal have been some of the best in the conference this season.

Tallying 20 saves in the loss to Bloomsburg, she added to her PSAC-high 105 saves, facing more shots than any other goalie this year.

She has two games of 20-plus saves, and four games with 10 or more saves.

IUP may have a modest 3-8 record (2-2 in the PSAC), but on four

different occasions have come very close to upsetting Top 10 teams, taking both the Huskies and Millersville into overtime.

“Going into every game, we are confident in our abilities to win because we know how talented we are as a team,” Smiley said.

The Crimson Hawks now sit seventh in the PSAC, just outside of a tournament berth. Their next game will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday when they travel to Mansfield University.

Soccer swept over weekend

(Jake Rouse/The Penn) The soccer team had its momentum stifled over the weekend with a 4-1 loss to Edinboro Friday and a 2-0 loss to Kutztown Sunday. Kutztown’s Kristina Miller scored a goal with a header off a corner kick to double the Golden Bears’ lead.

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(TNS) LeBron James signed with the Los Angeles Lakers over the summer.

Dramatic summer moves bring eagerness for new NBA season NICK DADOWSKI

Contributing Writer N.J.Dadowski@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for NBA fans.

The NBA will begin its 73rd season Tuesday after a very busy and dramatic summer.

With a lot of shocking acquisitions this offseason, the league has been shaken up.

Perhaps the biggest move of the summer occurred when arguably the best player of all time, LeBron James, took his talents not back to South Beach but to Hollywood to join the Los Angeles Lakers.

LeBron leaves the Eastern Conference for the first time in his career to attempt to add another chapter to what is an already storied franchise.

No one really knows whether LeBron made the move to L.A. in thought of the future of his family and film career or because he actually believes that this team can take down his now in-state rival, the Golden State Warriors.

But as it has been for so many years now, the world will be watching LeBron James for a 16th season, this time in the famous yellow and purple.

Now that he has gone west of the Mississippi River, there is a

throne in the Eastern Conference for any team to secure.

Opening night in the NBA will begin when Joel Embiid and his Philadelphia 76ers will travel to the TD Garden to take on the Boston Celtics.

Both of these teams are highly touted contenders to win the East this year, with their rosters each stacked with a healthy young core.

Returning to Boston this year are superstars Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward. They come back to a team that made it to the Eastern Conference Finals without them.

With Jayson Tatum now in his second year and Al Horford still playing at an elite level, the Celtics look to be the first team in four years to win the East not named the Cleveland Cavaliers, though the “process” in Philadelphia may finally be worth trusting to deliver a deep playoff run.

Also in the East, another superpower that could not get past LeBron James for years looks for revenge, even though they are unrecognizable.

The Toronto Raptors made a move to give away superstar and franchise player Demar Derozan to the San Antonio Spurs in exchange for arguably one of the best twoway players in the game in Kawhi Leonard.

Not only have they swapped out their longtime superstar, but they also made 2017-2018 Coach of the Year Dwayne Casey pack his bags and leave Toronto. Many are skeptic as to what the Raptors’ plan is for the upcoming season.

Are they going to win the East?

Are they going to be able to make Kawhi like the organization enough to sign a long term deal with the team?

Eighty-two games and four rounds of playoffs will hopefully give the viewers of the NBA the answers they desire.

Another opening night matchup will see the Oklahoma City Thunder take their squad to the Bay Area in California to take on the returning champions from Golden State.

Luckily for the Thunder, Carmelo Anthony is done putting up unnecessary shots, and Paul George is back to stay with teammate Russell Westbrook to take care of what he calls “unfinished business.”

Eyes will not be watching the Thunder too carefully that night, however.

The NBA will be watching the empire of the league in the Warriors. As if they weren’t stacked enough already, the Warriors added all-star center Demarcus Cousins to a dirt cheap contract.

You could compare this dastard-

ly act to Star Wars, when the evil emperor converted the lovable Anakin Skywalker (Cousins) to the dark side.

Some fans are devastated by Cousins move to go to California, but keep in mind that he is recovering from a torn Achilles.

Many believe the Warriors already have this season locked up for their third-straight championship, which would also be their

fourth in the last five years.

With a very stacked Western Conference, and an up-for-grabs Eastern Conference, the NBA season is finally here.

To NBA fans everywhere, let’s pray for yet another exciting and unpredictable season.

At least this season we shouldn’t have to worry about seeing the Warriors and Cavaliers duke it out in the Finals for a fifth-straight year, right?

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(TNS) Oakland Raiders head coach Jon Gruden has led his team to a dismal 1-5 start.

(TNS) Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs lost their first game of the season to New England Sunday night.

NFL season features plenty of excitement near halfway point JEFF HART

Contributing Writer J.R.Hart2@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

With the NFL season in fullswing, each week is full of new storylines and issues for every team.

Here is a recap of the stories you need to know following Week 6.

A Giant Problem With the New York Football Giants’ disappointing start to the 2018 season, some teammates have become dissatisfied with the team’s performance.

All-Pro wide receiver Odell

Beckham Jr. resorted to speaking to the media about the Giants’ dysfunctionality this season. After a disappointing 33-31 loss to the Panthers in Week 5, Beckham held a candid interview about the state of the team, saying that its issues have stifled his potential.

“I don’t feel like I’m being given the opportunity to be the very best that I can, to bring that every single day,” he told reporters at the time.

With lack-luster quarterback play and a poor offensive line performance week after week, it is easy to see why a generational talent like OBJ would become frustrated.

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With Beckham’s brutal honesty, many are wondering how the chemistry in the Giants’ locker room will be affected.

Now after a brutal loss to the Eagles and an already anemic 1-5 record, Giants fans are now wondering how to tackle this gigantic disappointment.

Ahead of the Pack With the NFL season nearing its halfway point, there is one team that has clearly stood out above the rest.

The Los Angeles Rams have absolutely dominated the competition to start the season.

With a perfect 6-0 record, fans have had little to complain about with this young core of players.

Jared Goff looks like he may just become the next of the elites at the quarterback position, while Todd Gurley rushed for more than 200 yards in snowy Denver in Week 6.

This electrifying start has fans believing that the “Greatest Show on Turf” from the 1999-2001 Rams teams has returned.

Hold on Jon The Oakland Raiders’ 1-5 record has fans questioning the coaching ability of head coach Jon Gruden.

With the trade of All-Pro Khalil Mack combined with Gruden’s $100 million-dollar contract, the coaching staff is being pinpointed as the likely cause of the Raiders’ poor performance.

Gruden has been praised as be-

ing an offensive genius, but with the pathetic performance on both sides of the ball, many are wondering if the game has simply passed him by, following a decade away from the sidelines.

With Gruden in year one of a 10year deal, Raider Nation can only hope that this is the worst of what is to come.

Tamed Tigers The Bengals suffered another heart-wrenching loss Sunday at the hands of the Steelers, with Pittsburgh taking a 28-21 victory on a last-minute touchdown by Antonio Brown.

Not only was this a key divisional matchup that may have playoff implications, it was a game that continued a distressing losing streak for the Bengals.

Cincinnati has lost its last six matchups to Pittsburgh, including a controversial playoff loss in 2016 as well, in which two late penalty flags on the Bengals defense gave the Steelers a victory.

With the Steelers holding a handsome 63-35 record over the Bengals, many fans are left wondering when this terrible streak will be broken.

With a solid 4-2 record and another matchup with Pittsburgh, Cincinnati will have yet another chance to break the streak that looms over this pained franchise.

A Battle of the North The AFC North is shaping up to

be one of the most interesting divisions in the NFL this year.

With the Steelers’ nail-biting win over Cincinnati, the AFC North just became far more compelling to watch, with the top three teams in the division all currently within one game of each other.

Come playoff time, many eyes are going to be on this competitive and entertaining group of teams as the North is up for grabs.

AFC Juggernauts Face Off So far this season, quarterback Patrick Mahomes has led the Kansas City chiefs to utter dominance in the AFC. Leading them to a 5-0 start, people thought that Mahomes and the Chiefs were unstoppable.

There was, however, one more obstacle that stood between Kansas City and sheer dominance over the AFC: the New England Patriots.

The Chiefs went into Foxborough Sunday night and lost a tightly contested game 43-40.

This truly proved to be one of the best matchups of this season.

Mahomes had an amazing showing and proved that he and his high-powered offense are a force to be reckoned with.

The Patriots also re-asserted themselves as being one of the most dominant teams in the AFC and should not be underestimated.

With both teams sitting above .500, this game has many hoping to see this stellar matchup again in the postseason.

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(TNS) Penn State coach James Franklin consoled Trace McSorley following a loss to Michigan State.

(TNS) Tennessee quarterback Jarrett Guarantano led the Volunteers to an upset over Auburn.

Wild weekend in college football shakes up playoff picture JAKE SLEBODNICK

Contributing Writer J.C.Slebodnick@iup.edu @slebby24

This week was one to remember in the college football universe.

It was a way to really highlight the midpoint of the college football season. It was full of upsets, amazing drives and fan favorites.

Let’s look into how the Top 25 rankings will shape up following this week and look at some predictions for the second half of the season.

Kicking off the games that had most fans questioning their very existence was No. 21 Auburn taking a heartbreaking 30-24 loss against the unranked Tennessee Volunteers.

Tennessee snapped an 11-game SEC losing streak with help from QB Jarrett Guarantano, who guaranteed a show for the hometown crowd as he racked up 328 yards and two touchdowns.

This victory brought them to 3-3 on the year and refreshed the season for a potential elite bowl bid.

Michigan State came up big against the Penn State Nittany Lions in Happy Valley this weekend.

It came down to a last-minute touchdown pass from Brian Lewerke to Felton Davis that gave the Spartans the last minute lead. The win was a good rebound for MSU coming off a home loss to Northwestern.

Trace McSorley struggled to

lead the Lions to victory for the second straight week at home. Happy Valley is not looking so “happy” right now, as 4-2 PSU falls to #18 in the AP poll.

Another notable upset was unranked Iowa State quieting Heisman favorite Will Grier and the West Virginia Mountaineers 30-13.

Cyclones QB Brock Purdy went 1825 for 254 yards and three touchdowns.

Virginia took home a victory against No. 16 Miami after a clutch 47-yard field goal by Bubba Baxa, arguably the best name in the football world today.

Looking at the current playoff picture, the hopes for a dual-threat by the SEC in the college football playoffs are down but not out.

Georgia would need to win out the rest of the season in order for the NCAA selection committee to even consider them Top Four following a loss to LSU. The grunt of their schedule is coming up with bouts against Florida, Kentucky and Auburn, all of which hold the possibility of bucking the Bulldogs. No matter what, Georgia have a solid bowl bid ahead, but to contend for the title is sweeter than anything.

Pitt almost had a huge upset this weekend, holding a lead against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

They held a 14-12 lead against the Irish with five minutes to go in regulation, but the Irish’s Ian Book changed the story’s ending when

he found Miles Boykin, coming from behind and taking the game 19-14 at home.

Despite remaining undefeated, the Irish still have a lot of work to do in order to keep their high ranking in the following weeks. This is very possible since they have proven time and time again that they cahold strong.

Alabama now has first place locked up despite having to play Tennessee and LSU in the coming weeks.

They have the support of fans and coaches all over the world.

People speculate if the Tide will stop rolling soon, but if history hastaught us anything, it’s that they prove their worth continu-

ously.

This week has shown us that the college football world can always be shaken up. With four matchups scheduled featuring both teams currently ranked in the Top 25, let’s hope we see more upsets next week.

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