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(Facebook) Osama Alomar was the focus of Monday’s Six O’Clock Series.

Syrian describes life as an exiled writer EMILY LOOSE

Lead News Writer E.D.Loose@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

The most recent Six O’Clock Series event Monday focused on Osama Alomar, a short story writer from Syria who was exiled from his home in 2008.

The event was sponsored in part by the English department and included Dr. Thomas Slater as an event speaker.

Alomar currently lives in the area of Pittsburgh known as the City of Asylum, a district where writers can stay when exiled from their countries. It is currently the only asylum district that is municipally supported.

“It’s something that Pittsburgh can really be proud of,” Slater said. “They are doing a lot of great work in helping writers who are persecuted or chased out of

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their homes.”

He was exiled due to one of his short stories mentioning how military can devastate and ruin lives. It was published, and the government took action.

Fearing for his life, he fled to the U.S. “Luckily nothing happened to me,” Alomar said. “People can simply just disappear.”

Slater said this was an example of how things can be taken differently from the context.

“He wasn’t a rebel, he wasn’t criticizing the governments. . . He just had one image in one very

short story,” Slater said.

Alomar has been writing since he was 15. He said that he wanted to get his feelings out, and writing was recommended by his father. “‘Honesty is creativity,’” he said, quoting his father.

At the event, Alomar read the audience 20 of his short stories, including works from “Fullblood Arabian” and “The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories.”

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Some of Alomar’s stories were short and humorous, but other writings were more thought-provoking, as told by the audience’s deep attention and silence.

In one story, Alomar described a woman who was going to leave the country but had it all taken from her as she traveled.

“They wracked her,” he said.

“They stood her with the petrified remains of dignity. Human rights ran away barefoot from the human.”

After he was done, Slater led the audience in asking questions regarding Alomar’s life.

Alomar explained that he lost everything when he left, including his apartment which had been destroyed a few years ago. It made living in America difficult, and he said he finds it hard to describe his feelings.

“It’s not easy to see your coun-

try destroyed from afar and you can do nothing,” he said.

Though he is far from Syria, Alomar says he still has plenty of inspiration, and he still feels close to Syria.

“My mind is there,” he said.

“I have a lot of books. . . Some friends who fled Syria can help me.”

At the close of the discussion, the audience had a chance to speak with him and also buy copies of his books that were on sale in the back.

His books can be found on Amazon or on Barnes & Noble’s website.

The next Six O’Clock Series is Monday and will feature a panel of Holocaust survivors discussing their experiences in a feature titled “The Dangers of Hate: A Panel Discussion With Holocaust Survivors and Scholars.”

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• Steven Panick, 20, of Portage was charged with underage drinking

after officers discovered Panick while speaking with a relative in a disorderly conduct investigation. Panick was found to be in possession of alcohol and under the influence while under the age of 21 at 6:31 p.m.

March 22 in the 1200 block of Klondyke Avenue, according to Indiana Borough Police.

• Miles Eggleston, 19, of Baltimore Md. was charged with underage drinking and minors prohibited from operating with any alcohol in system at 11:42 p.m. March 21, in the 900 block of Wayne Avenue, according to borough police.

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• Austin Adams, 28, or Indiana was charged with open lewdness after police discovered Adams exposing himself while sitting in his vehicle at 5:40 p.m. March 20 in the 800 block of School Street, according to borough police.

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• Rachel Winslow, of Indiana was cited for harassment after police

found that Winslow did harass an identified male victim at 10:05 p.m., April 1 at 135 S. Second St., according to borough police.

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• A known resident unintentionally discharged a handgun resulting in minor injury to the resident at 7:10 a.m., March 2 in the 900 block of Fleming Avenue, according to borough police.

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• Isaiah Prentice, 20 of Verona was charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia at 1:58 a.m. March 24 in the 00 block of S. Seventh Street, according to borough police.

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(Twitter) The IUP chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity is once again participating in the national charity event, “Derby Days.”

IUP fraternity to hold annual event raising money for cancer research NICK AGOSTINI

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

The IUP chapter of the Sigma Chi Fraternity will host its annual charity event, called “Derby Days” next week.

All the fundraiser’s proceeds will be donated to the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Since December 2012, Sigma Chi fraternities across the U.S. have raised $8.4 million towards cancer research through this event.

Through the week of April 7-14, the organization will host events each day that will encourage students at IUP to participate in.

Each event will provide a chance for students to donate money.

“We are hopeful that this year will be successful, just as the previous years have been.

All the money donated is given toward a great cause, and we are just happy to be a part of such a wonderful movement for cancer research,” said Stefen Vyhonsky (criminology), this year’s IUP Sig-

ma Chi Derby Day chairman.

According to Vyhonsky, the majority income of donations in the past came from the sororities on campus. They setup most of the events in a way that promotes their involvement and donations.

Prior to the charity event, Derby Day T-shirts will also be sold as added donation money.

“Our goal this year is to reach at least $10,000. Our fraternity’s chapter has exceeded that number in the past, and I am confident we will be able to do it again this year,” Vyhonsky said.

The Derby Challenge is a competition between each Sigma Chi chapter at universities across the U.S. In December 2012, Sigma Chi declared the Huntsman Cancer Institute as its philanthropic partner. Each year since then, every chapter hosts its own Derby Days event and states its collected donations to the Sigma Chi headquarters. The money is then donated to the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

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tute is a cancer research facility and hospital. It is located on the University of Utah’s campus in Salt Lake City, Utah. The institution was founded in 1995 by Jon Huntsman Sr., a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. Since its founding, the Huntsman family has donated more than $400 million toward cancer research.

According to the Huntsman Cancer Institute’s website, part of its mission is to understand cancer from its start. The organization wants to use that knowledge to create and improve cancer treatments, to relieve distress of cancer patients and to provide education about cancer risk, prevention, and care.

Any IUP student who wants to donate to this cause can do so by participating in the events or by donating online at derbychallenge.org. IUP Sigma Chi will also be creating a Venmo account. For additional information regarding ways to donate, contact Stefen Vyhonsky at 814-691-0409.

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IT department warns students of phishing scams ABE ESHELMAN

Staff Writer A.Eshelman@iup.edu @DukeOfKalos

At IUP, students and staff rely on their emails every day as a valuable source of communication; however, IUP emails have been plagued by a wave of spam and scam that experts refer to as “phishing.”

Phishing is “a form of social engineering designed to trick people into revealing personal information,” according to IUP’s IT security manager Paul Grieggs. The most common form of phishing, in Griegg’s opinion, is the sending of suspicious links by email to steal and gather personal information.

The end goal of phishers seems to be “to steal your username and password to use your IUP computing account resources.” They generally are trying to access your

(Facebook) IUP IT Services work to stop phishing on IUP email accounts.

IUP computing account (your four letters, email, username, password, etc.) to gain access to your money.

Other potential risks include

alternative financial loss, invasions of privacy and data theft. Phishers who try to scam money out of students, according to Grieggs, will most often either “use account

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credentials to change deposit routing information for pay checks, financial aid refunds and other electronic funds transfers, entice a user to purchase and send gift card images via email or offer a job such as Mystery Shopper.”

The phisher might send the victim a check and tell them to deposit it and send a smaller amount back to the criminal in the form of a money order. The check will bounce, and the victim will lose the amount of the money order.

The many “suspicious job offer” emails have been reported and seen by many students and are generally the most common financial scam. Griegg advises students to remember that “any job offer that sounds too good to be true, probably is.”

“If you aren’t talking with someone and suddenly you get a random job offer email, it’s probably a fraudulent job offer,” he said. “Typically, the first email asks for contact information and a cell-phone number.”

Financial scams can also happen to administration and staff.

“We’ve seen attempts to change employee direct deposit information as well,” he said. “Of course, we require banner ID verification for students and employees as a protective measure.”

He also wants to warn of the dangers of privacy and data loss, which can involve cyber criminals requesting private information about an individual, which can be sold on the dark web or used in extortion plots; downloading all your emails; and with the aid of malware, gaining access to your microphone and camera.

“Criminals may use phishing to entice you to open a malicious attachment that encrypts all the data on your device,” Grieggs said.

“They will extort money to decrypt the data.”

Another possible danger in American university email servers is the risk of foreign invaders.

“We see a lot of Iranian attacks, who generally are looking for information databases like libraries, you’d see this a lot with China in the past too, especially for engineering or other research databases,” Grieggs said. “That’s usually at schools like MIT (Massachusetts

Institute of Technology) and Penn State. CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) has a lot of trouble with foreign governments trying to invade their databases.”

To protect students, IUP takes several protective measures and actions.

“We probably block more emails than we accept by a factor of 8:2,” Greiggs said. “We probably disregard 80 percent of the emails people try to send to IUP email accounts. We have filters, quarantines, all kinds of things students hopefully don’t have to worry about.”

Grieggs warns that the best defensive tool for students, however, is awareness and self-protection.

One area where students must be aware of preventable dangers is whenever scammers take advantage of Microsoft’s allowance of setting your own name in emails.

“Scammers frequently send emails from President Mike Driscoll, despite being random Xyz@gmail.com accounts,” he said.

Grieggs recommends that students always check the address of any email account they’ve received emails from or are sending them to, to make sure it is actually to or from who they think it’s from.

Whenever receiving an email that warrants suspicion, contact the sender via phone or text. If this is not possible, forward the email to abuse@iup.edu, and IUP IT Services can evaluate the message and provide a response.

The final warning that Grieggs makes is that students be concerned with their online reputations.

“Avoid posting videos or photos of the crazy party you attended last weekend,” he said. “These items often lose their context after they are posted. Instead, post things to improve your online reputation. If you have writing or research you are proud of, post it to a blog.

“Almost all employers will do a search on your name. If you search your name, positively reflecting things should come up, such as assignments, jobs or good publicity.”

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Students combat stress-related mental health issues

you, who is already off your sleep schedule, will not fall asleep and spend an hour or two falling asleep again, perpetuating the cycle once more.

A simple method of fixing your sleep schedule is, instead of finalizing social media, to set your phone down an hour before you settle down and read. Another is to work out and exercise before settling down, so your body can rejuvenate from physical work instead of work to become tired.

SAMUEL CUNNINGHAM Contributing Writer S.Cunningham@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

IUP is now into the last half of the spring semester.

Finals are coming up, as midterms are over. Large papers will be written, diplomas will be given, GPA’s will be calculated, and during that whole time, you will be thinking about your next steps.

If you’re graduating, where are you going to find your job? Have you started applying already? Will you have to move to find this job?

If you’re still here for another few years, what are your courses going to be? How much will you need to work this summer to catch back up to student loans?

Will you even be able to?

These are natural questions for the nervous mind, but when it especially comes to mental health issues, it is crucial that you put your health before anything else.

For these next few weeks, keep in mind that your grades come secondary to yourself, and watch out for some potentially dangerous habits that are natural to feel at this time in the semester.

Here are some tips to remember to combat these problems.

1. Over-Stressing

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out about your future or past.

The easiest way to overcome stress is to do something with it, whether it’s working to accomplish a large essay, exercising or even having fun at a party. Of course, party responsibly, as spending every minute you have at a party decreases the likelihood you will actually do what you want done.

If this is an after-graduation event, plan it out. Write a goal statement and stick to it after graduation so you have a plan and path to follow.

2. Not Sleeping

Everybody loves Insomnia Cookies.

What people don’t love is insomnia itself, which is simply a sleeping habit disorder caused by hundreds of potential causations.

It can be work, school or monetary.

If you spent the night working on a project or essay due to being busy at work, you are setting your sleep schedule off-course (if this hasn’t happened already).

Insomnia – and not sleeping in general – will cause you to be tired after waking up from a full eight hours of sleep, and it decreases overall performance throughout the day, right until you start to sleep again. Then

This can mean basically anything in which whatever energy and aspirations you used to have are gone due to constantly working for a future or goal.

You start to isolate yourself from your progress and alienate what you’ve accomplished from what you have yet to accomplish. This is seriously dangerous because now you start to wonder if you’ve even accomplished anything by going to school and spending so much on tuition and if it will be worth it.

Depression can follow, and individuals who have clinical depression can confirm that this is not wanted. Instead of isolating yourself, boast your progress to yourself, hype yourself up for your own accomplishments and tell yourself, “Look at how far I have come! Nothing can stop me now!” or something similar to that.

Talk to people to keep yourself engaged with your social life, and if it becomes serious, talk to professional counselors or trusted adults about your problems. The IUP Counseling Center offer appointments for students to talk to a professional.

Detachment can be instantaneous, like a breakup. All that matters is how you bounce back from your pain and how hard you work to achieve your goals after the fact.

The semester is almost over.

Summer break is almost here.

You are almost done, but you still have over a month to go.

Keep your mental health your first priority, as achieving anything is difficult without a good mindset.

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Paying for college admittance invalidates hard work News broke over spring break of the college admissions scandal – celebrities and other wealthy parents falsifying test scores and lying about athletic records to guarantee their children admission to prestigious universities.

University of Southern California, Yale and Stanford are all on the list of schools that are under investigation. Federal prosecutors charged 50 people in relation to a bold scheme to buy spots in the classes of top universities.

As a college student, the uncovering of these events is disgusting. Many students work hard to achieve their success, and for the students involved in the scandal, their admission was not a challenge.

As a parent how can you not encourage your child to do well on their own and be satisfied with the education they receive at another university that would admit them without the lying or cheating?

Some of the parents in question, like “Full House” and “Fuller House” star Lori

(TNS) Actress Lori Loughlin (right) is among a group of celebrities under investigation for paying for her daughter Olivia Jade’s (left) admittance into college.

Loughlin, did not attend college and is still a large success. Her daughter has made a

successful online presence and was working with major hair and makeup brands and did not want to attend college.

Why would she force her to go? She is a success without the higher education.

The daughter, who goes by the name Olivia Jade online, has faced backlash in the past for making comments about how she does not take school seriously and how it is not her top priority.

Also did the parents ever consider what would happen if people found out about what they were doing? These students are not going to be able to go to college without being teased about if they truly got in on their own terms. These students, some in the middle of their college careers, are leaving, and while we do not think that what happened was morally correct, once the student is there, if they are completing the work on their own, they should be allowed to stay.

This should show people that schools students graduate from can matter to an

extent, but employers should not exclude candidates from smaller or lesser-known schools. The scandal scars the schools’ reputations and the credibility of the professionals the schools produce.

The discrimination can be seen everywhere, even at IUP. Being surrounded by bigger names schools, such as Pitt and Penn State, we can often be overlooked, and the scandal should encourage employers to branch out from big-name schools.

Unfortunately, that is not the reality.

Celebrities will continue to flaunt their wealth and pay to get their way, and there is nothing to do about it. They have been doing it for a long time and just because a few out of hundreds have been caught does not mean it will stop.

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(STATIC website) (KCAC website) (IUP website) Indiana will serve as the venue for events such as the STATIC (The Student Activity Committee) Roller Skating Party in the Hadley Union Building (HUB) on Saturday (left), and “Menopause the Musical” at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex (KCAC) Saturday and Sunday (middle) and the IUP Film Fest in the Stouffer auditorium Saturday (right).

Get out and about this weekend with events for all ages MEGAN DONNY Staff Writer M.Donny@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

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The spring season is in full bloom and what better time to get out of your room and enjoy the weather. This weekend, Indiana will be the venue for events for all ages.

STATIC Roller Skating Party STATIC presents its Roller Skating Party 7 p.m. Saturday evening in the Hadley Union Building gymnasium.

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This year’s party will be tropical themed and will include music, arcade games and food.

The event is on a first-come, first-serve basis, and space for skating will be limited.

Haley Brown (sophomore, environmental biology) and Dorothea McCullough (sophomore, fashion merchandising) attended the Roller Skating Party last year.

“It was a lot of fun last year, but really crowded,” Brown said.

“I would maybe go again but arrive earlier so I don’t have to wait for skates.”

McCullough said she didn’t skate, but she played the arcade games and basketball with her friends.

You do not need to have any prior experience with roller skating or even enjoy skating to attend the event.

“I went last year even though I do not like roller skating,” Alexander Puri (senior, physics) said. “I went for the food and the company.”

IUP Film Fest “In terms of the stuff we’ve shown, this is the best quality,” IUP communications media professor Jeremy Waltman said about this year’s IUP Film Festival.

“That’s not to put down anything we’ve shown before,” he clarified, but the amount of submissions this year and the quality of the content was immense.

The IUP Film Festival will take place Saturday. Doors open at 8:30 a.m. in Beard Auditorium in Stouffer Hall. Tickets are $5 at the door and $4 when bought online as a group.

The event starts at 9 a.m. with national and high school films.

There were about eight hours’ worth of short film submissions and only an hour and a half of them were accepted.

At 10:45 a.m., the IUP Student Film Association will be premiering its short films, as well as a film titled “Unwelcome.”

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At 11:15 a.m. the guest panel will open up. The panel is structured largely like a podcast but with an audience question-and-answer period. The guests are actors and filmmakers, including actor Migs Govea of “Oceans 8.”

Following at 12:15 p.m., there is another guest panel of IUP alumni, and following, the awards will be announced for the high school films.

Nationwide and local music videos and short films will be shown starting at 1 p.m., which will conclude the festival.

“Menopause the Musical” “Menopause the Musical” is making a stop in Indiana on its national tour.

The musical is about exactly what it says, women going through menopause.

The musical, originally written

by Jeanie Linders in 2001, had its debut March 28, 2001, in

Orlando, Fla. The musical is a winner of 44 Tony Awards and 54 Drama Desk Awards.

During the show, viewers can listen to 25 unique songs about chocolate cravings, hot flashes and loss of memory.

These songs are also parodies of songs from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s.

Over the years, the production has toured much of the U.S., stopping in Off-Broadway productions and in Las Vegas. It has also been on tours overseas in Europe and Australia.

In its national tours, the musical has done charity work helping to raise funds for ovarian cancer.

The musical will be presented in Toretti Auditorium of the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex (KCAC) at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m Sunday. Tickets are still available and can be purchased at the KCAC box office and at www.kovalchickcomplex.com.

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The Best Bar Bracket finds its Final Four competitors NICK MACIA Contributing Writer the-penn@iup.edu @ThePennIUP This article contains opinion.

They came, they drank, they voted, they Ubered home.

The votes are in for the second round of IUP’s Best Bar Tournament, and the Final Four is now sat on the stools.

The Elite Eight consisted of a mix of blow outs and tightly contested matchups, making it hard to determine what will happen now. One local establishment is two victories away from claiming the title “IUP’s Best Bar.” Great specials Tuesday through Thursday wasn’t enough for Boomerangs to beat Brunzies. The voters favored Brunzies in a 78 percent to 22 percent win against Boomies.

It is unusual to see such a lopsided match up this far in the tournament.

Boomerangs had fairly close matchups in the previous round but didn’t bring enough to the table in order to make it to the Final Four. Even though Boomerangs got blown out, there will always be IUP students heading down to the fireplace for Boomies Tuesday.

Brunzies will be facing off with

the victor of the closest matchup of round two, H.B. Culpeppers.

Tres Amigos was only 8 percent of the vote away from being the true Cinderella of this year’s bracket. However, the massive line outside of Culpeppers shows that whatever is inside those doors on a Saturday night must be worth it.

Brunzies and Culps facing off in the Final Four might mean chalk this far in the tournament, but it should bring an extremely contested matchup between the two loyal fanbases.

Twisted was the third team to secure a spot in the Final Four, this time in a 72-28 percent lopsided victory against Wolfies.

While Wolfies Wednesday Country Night cult-like following was able to secure the bar a place in the Elite Eight, it wasn’t enough to defeat Twisted Jimmy’s and its shot wheel.

The Coney, the favorite to win it all, solidified all favorites in the Final Four as it defeated Al Patti’s 66 percent to 34 percent of votes in the polls. Although the smaller bar of Al Patti’s did not pull off the upset, it still pulled in a respectable 34 percent share of the vote.

If Twisted wants a chance to knock off Coney, it may need some help from its social media following like last year when it’s sister restau-

rant Steel City Samiches offered sandwiches for a year for a vote and retweet to one lucky customer if

they happened to win it all.

Only time and alcohol will tell who truly is IUP’s Best Bar. Be

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Jordan Peele amazes fans with new thriller ‘Us’ JEREMY STOUT

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

This article contains opinion.

Jordan Peele might be the most important voice in American film at the moment.

“Get Out” was one of the smartest and most vital films of 2017. It deftly tackled issues with white liberalism and the racial divide in the U.S. while still being a thrilling horror film.

It’s a movie that does what the best kinds of horror do. It forms a story around a central conceit that probes at some greater idea.

“Us” does the same thing. For “Get Out,” racial dynamics were the issue. With “Us,” Peele focuses on the possibility that we are the bad guys.

The film examines this on both an individual and societal level and along the way makes the most fun and dynamic horror film since “Get Out,” and the best film of the year so far.

While the idea seems basic at the outset – after all, this is not the first film to point the finger back at the viewer, it does it in such a clever way and tethers it to a cultural time in America (the Regan Era and, more specifically, the Hands Across America campaign) that typifies our societal issues with ignoring those that are forced into the margins of society.

That’s on a macro level. On a micro level, it looks at how individuals often ignore what’s happening around them to focus on themselves.

The film centers around a family (Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex) on vacation when they come faced to face with evil doppelgangers of themselves, called the tethered.

The movie’s scope starts fairly small, as a sort of home-invasion thriller, but it eventually widens into an apocalyptic horror film with far higher stakes.

The real standout of the film is Nyong’o’s performance. She provides a compelling dual role as the matriarch of both families. She instills Adelaide with a strong emotional core of someone dealing with trauma while still being there for her family, and Red, the evil doppelganger,

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(Facebook) “Us,” directed by Jordan Peele, was released in theaters March 22.

is handled with a sense of sadness that provides the character with a level of sympathy that most don’t allow for in villains nowadays.

The film works on almost every level it sets out. Its scares are effective and the commentary haunting, while still allowing for a

sense of humor that runs through all of Peele’s work. It also features an incredibly satisfying twist at the end that underlines the core of the film.

The movie successfully looks at what makes us the heroes of our own stories while being the villain of someone else’s.

“Dumbo” is the most alive a Tim Burton movie has felt in at least a decade, but it’s not without its faults.

The biggest among them is the entire first half of the movie, which is one massive slog. That section of the film is more or less a straight up remake of the original 1941 movie, and it feels like no one involved cares about anything that’s happening.

The additional wrinkle they add to this is a dad (Colin Farrell, doing a painful Southern accent) who just returned from World War II trying to reconnect with his kids after the loss of their mom. This, of course, all takes place at a circus, run by Max Medici (Danny Devito, the only person who feels like they’re putting any effort in during this part of the movie).

You know the rest from here.

There’s an elephant that can fly, but this time a little girl teaches him how to instead of a mouse.

Look, what happens in this part of the movie doesn’t matter because it’s boring.

Then, then something won-

derful happens. Michael Keaton enters the movie as a scenery chewing, evil-billionaire ringmaster, and the movie suddenly gets a pulse.

As soon as Dumbo is brought to Dreamland, the nightmarish amusement park/circus, the movie becomes a lot more fun.

Burton becomes alive. The gags come fast, and the set pieces are dynamic and interesting. One gag in particular is an extended homage to German-expressionist horror films that’d make Robert Wiene smile.

By the time Keaton is smashing a weird ‘50s sci-fi control panel as the park burns down around him, I was cackling like a mad king.

The problems are still there.

The human characters, outside of Devito and Keaton are uninteresting at best. The romantic subplot between Eva Green and Farrell feels forced and comes out of nowhere.

Still, the movie counteracts all of that by just going full-tilt wacky.

I truly hated this movie in the first half and was expecting it to be another halfhearted Tim Burton “reimagining,” but there’s enough fun to be had that it’s quite enjoyable. The only problem is sitting through the first hour or so to get there.

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IUP Art Department honors MFA candidates

(John Vasas III/ The Penn) The IUP Art Department held an exhibit for students who are candidates for the spring 2019 Master of Fine Arts (MFA). The art works were displayed in the University Museum in Sutton Hall. The exhibits are presented in the University Museum and the Kipp Gallery and Annex Gallery on the first floor of Sprowls until April 27.

Sports

Sports Editor: Elliot Hicks – E.Hicks@iup.edu Lead Sports Writer: Brad O’Hara – B.L.Ohara@iup.edu

(IUP Athletics) Kassie Kesneck (junior, English) is hitting .300 this season with eight RBIs.

Softball, improving fortitude, sweeps doubleheader against Clarion BRAD O’HARA

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

The IUP softball team was able to build some momentum heading out of a weekend of doubleheaders, taking a pair of victories following nine games without a win.

The Crimson Hawks dropped both games to Mansfield on Tuesday to add to that streak but earned two decisive victories against Clarion at home Wednesday.

IUP went into Tuesday’s first game looking to pick up a victory for the first time since March 15, not to mention trying to win its first games in the Keystone State all season – its only victories up to this

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point had been in West Virginia or Florida.

The Crimson Hawks started the game strong with their defense holding Mansfield for the first three innings. IUP only faced four batters in each of the first two innings and did not let any batter past second base in that time frame.

The Crimson Hawks’ offense was also cruising to start the game. IUP picked up at least one hit in every inning. In the third inning, it was finally able to capitalize as a single

by Lauren Goetz (senior, art) plated the first run of the game.

However, the lead did not last long as the top of the fourth inning opened the gates for Mansfield, and it took a 4-1 lead. IUP was nev-

er able to fully come back from that despite a home run by Renee Wall (sophomore, criminology) and another RBI from Goetz. The Crimson Hawks lost game one 5-4.

Game two was rough for IUP. After taking an early 1-0 lead in the first inning off a single by Wall, the game sharply went downhill. Mansfield scored in all but the fourth inning in the remainder of the game as it handed IUP a 9-2 loss.

After a duo of hard-luck losses, Clarion came to Indiana on Wednesday for a doubleheader.

In game one, offense no longer was an issue for the Crimson Hawks.

After scoring six runs total in the two games Tuesday, IUP scored 17 runs in just game one Wednesday.

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Jenna Rhue (freshman, criminology) brought home six runs, and Renee Wall drove home four as IUP picked up the 17-5 victory.

The Crimson Hawks kept their offense rolling in game two, but their defense took a step back. IUP took an early lead off of a two-run third inning that put them up 3-1.

However, a four-run bottom of the third inning and a three-run home run in the fifth inning quickly left IUP trailing 8-3.

In the sixth inning, the Crimson Hawks began their comeback. Five players drove in runs for the Crimson Hawks as they scored seven runs in the inning.

Another two runs were scored in the seventh as IUP picked up its

second win of the day, 12-8.

Tuesday and Wednesday saw almost exact opposite IUP teams with the Crimson Hawk offense and defense showing up at completely different times.

“We need to improve on our mental toughness,” Goetz said.

“We are a talented team but very young. When times get tough, the inexperience shows. To improve our efficiency, I think we need to stop looking for walks and swing early in the count.”

The Crimson Hawks will have a pair of doubleheaders once again, looking to continue their newfound winning streak, as Bloomsburg comes to Indiana Saturday before IUP heads to Lock Haven Sunday.

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Crimson Hawks Roundup

(IUP Athletics) Nicholas Ward (left), Adriana Greco and Mariana Valenzuela (right) starred for the Crimson Hawks this week.

ELLIOT HICKS

Sports Editor e.hicks@iup.edu @ehicks39

Golf: The IUP men’s golf team finished fifth Sunday and Monday in the Oglebay Resort Invitational held at West Liberty University. IUP shot a 34-over-602 for the tournament, finishing 12 strokes behind the winners from Charleston.

Matt Cocorikis (senior, accounting) continued his stellar final year, joint-leading the Crimson Hawks with a finish of 13th place, tied with Nicholas Ward (freshman, marketing).

Other notable performances from IUP came from 25th-place finisher Jeremy Eckenrode (junior, finance) and 32nd-place finisher Jack Buccigross (freshman, marketing).

The next tournament for the Crimson Hawks comes Monday at West Chester’s Cottrell Invitational.

After head coach Brenna Gallagher called a timeout, IUP was able to score 13 goals in the remainder of the first half, including nine in a five-and-a-half minute time frame.

Nine different Crimson Hawks scored a goal in the contest, including three who scored their first goals of the season. Adriana Greco (senior, interior design) and Shannon Hartigan (junior, biology) each scored a trio of goals.

The victory broke a three-game losing streak and improved the team’s record to 4-5 on the season.

IUP has just two road games left in the season, having the benefit of playing five of their final seven at Miller Stadium.

The Crimson Hawks sit eighth in the PSAC with a 2-3 conference record and play only conference games the remainder of the year, starting Saturday with a home matchup against No. 9-ranked East Stroudsburg. Six teams qualify for the PSAC tournament after the season.

Lacrosse: Continuing her dominant senior season, Ally Burrows (biology) scored six goals in a 19-6 victory for the IUP women’s lacrosse team against Edinboro.

The Crimson Hawks found themselves behind early as the Fighting Scots jumped to a quick 2-0 lead.

Tennis: The IUP women’s tennis team is on a three-match winning streak following a 7-0 defeat of Clarion Tuesday.

The Crimson Hawks surrendered just three points across the trio of

doubles matches, with Julia Newman (sophomore, management) and Mariana Valenzuela (junior, biology) sweeping their opponents 6-0.

In singles matches, Newman

joined Laura Dunarova (freshman, accounting) and Thais Andreotti (freshman, psychology) in earning 6-0 victories.

The Crimson Hawks, who are 2-0 in the PSAC West this season, will

continue a run of six consecutive matches away from home, traveling to Ohio for a pair of matches this weekend, taking on No. 26 Grand Valley State Saturday and No. 20 Wayne State Sunday.

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(IUP Athletics) Nick Hess (sophomore, marketing) went 3-for-7 with three RBIs Tuesday in a doubleheader against Walsh.

Baseball drops pair of home games to Walsh JAKE SLEBODNICK

Production Manager J.C.Slebodnick@iup.edu @slebby24

On Tuesday afternoon, the IUP baseball team hosted a non-conference double-header between the Crimson Hawks and the Walsh University Cavaliers, dropping both games at Dougherty Field.

In game one, IUP quickly gained the upper hand as it went up 5-1 after the first inning.

What jumpstarted the Crimson Hawks was a three RBI single by Nick Hess (sophomore, marketing), which scored Chris Eisel (junior, pre-physical therapy), Markus Cestra (freshman, business management) and Nick DiAndreth (freshman, exercise science).

The Cavaliers quickly responded as they battled for three runs, bringing them within one of IUP.

The game was slow-paced up until the top of the third inning when Walsh’s Brenden Spaulding sent the ball over the fence, tying the game at five.

The fireworks went on display in the top of the sixth when the Cavaliers rallied for five runs after a wild pitch broke the floodgates open.

This led to a sacrifice fly by Bailey Mosley, an Andrew Czech RBI single, an error and a Spaulding double.

IUP would rally for one more run in the final frame but would ultimately fall short in game one 10-6.

In game two, the scoring column remained bare until the third inning.

The Cavaliers put up seven runs in the top of the third inning and three in the fifth after a three-run home run by Czech put them in front by double digits.

IUP’s JP Pellis (junior, finance) allowed six runs on five hits in his second longest outing of the season.

Walsh’s Caleb Canter allowed only two hits and no runs while striking out three batters in three innings of work.

IUP’s only run of the game was batted in by Tyler Adams (junior, criminology) after he grounded out in the bottom of the sixth, driving home Nick Hess.

While the Crimson Hawks kept things close in the first game, they fell 15-1 in game two.

Despite the loss, IUP showed great resiliency on the diamond.

By getting ahead early in the first game and fighting back in game two, head coach Anthony Rebyanski and his squad have a great wave of momentum as they head into their next series this weekend against Mercyhurst, which is ranked

eighth in the nation.

“Our team has shown a lot of resiliency all year up to this point,” Rebyanski said. “It’s just been a few small mistakes here and there that have been the difference in games.

It’s just a matter of how we overcome and learn from those mistakes that will propel us.”

The Lakers will be a tough competition, but if IUP can overcome those mistakes, as Rebyanski said, it will make the series much better than anticipated.

“We will take the same approach against Mercyhurst as we do every team we’ve played up to this point” Rebyanski said. “The key this series will be to match their arms on the mound. They have four high caliber starters that will make it a challenge, but we have the offense that has the ability to be successful against them.”

While matching arms, IUP will have a few aces going this weekend. One in particular is Colin Claus (senior, physical education), who has a confident mindset for the upcoming games.

“Even though they are a nationally ranked opponent, it won’t change my preparation,” Claus said. “No matter the opponent, I still have my routines, and that won’t ever change. I just have to use my strengths against them, and it will give us a good chance to come out on top.”

It will be a battle of strengths as IUP and Mercyhurst square off in a four-game series this weekend.

Saturday will see action at Dougherty Field before the Crimson Hawks travel to Erie Sunday.

The Saturday games will be broadcast on 90.1 WIUP-FM with first pitch slated for 1 p.m.

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(TNS) The Philadelphia Phillies have had a stellar start to the 2019 MLB season.

Phillies talk of the league to start MLB season BRAD O’HARA

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

The MLB season is officially underway, and, quickly, teams are seeing their offseason moves coming to fruition or handily collapsing.

The Philadelphia Phillies were the talk of the MLB with their offseason pickups. Along with their biggest signing of Bryce Harper, the Phillies were able to get JT Realmuto, David Robertson and Andrew McCutchen to bolster their roster.

Now at the start of its season, Philadelphia has won four out of its first five games. Also, its offense has been consistent as it has scored at least five runs in each game.

The Phillies’ offseason moves have played a large role in their offensive consistency. Bryce Harper has batted .500 through the first five games with three home runs and five RBIs. One of those home runs came Tuesday against his former team, the Washington Nationals.

However, not all offseason moves are helping their teams

flourish.

The Cincinnati Reds are struggling to start their season as the transactions they made have done very little so far to help them stay afloat in a strong NL Central. Yasiel Puig and Matt Kemp are failing to provide any offensive support as they have combined for only four hits in 28 at-bats.

Also, the Reds’ pitching acquisition have not been what they had hoped for. Before the season could even begin, Alex Wood saw his first stint on the injured list this season. Meanwhile, Sonny Gray had a rough first outing as he lasted only 2.2 innings and gave up two earned runs and one unearned in that stretch.

Staying in the NL Central, the St. Louis Cardinals are a team that has been seeing success from their offseason addition. The Cardinals made waves in the MLB back in December when they announced their trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks for All-Star first baseman Paul Goldschmidt. Now, Goldschmidt has already begun making his presence known on this Cardinals roster as he launched four home runs and

picked up eight RBIs in the first six games of the year.

Despite this, pitching has already shown itself to be an issue in St. Louis this year. The Cardinals pitching staff has given up at least four runs in every game this season.

Most of the runs also came early in games putting the Cardinals in a tough position that they then had to work out of for the remainder of the game.

In order to be in contention for the pennant at the end of the year, St. Louis will have to bolster its bullpen and starting rotation.

Also in the division, the Pittsburgh Pirates have showed that they are offensively capable of winning but are still a few pieces away from being in full contention. The Pirates have had a lead in every game they have played this season.

Even in their losses, that lead was often carried late into games by efficient batting and a strong starting rotation.However, the bullpen has shown to be an issue already. In each of the Pirates three losses, the lead was lost soon after the game was turned over to the bullpen, with two relievers earning

losses – also, closer Felipe Vazquez has already blown a save.

The MLB season is fresh and has a long way to go. However, teams

can clearly already see where they need to grow in order to make a run in September and October for a World Series possibility.

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(TNS) On April 3, 1989, outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. made his major league debut with the Seattle Mariners. Griffey, drafted first overall in 1987, spent 13 of his 22 seasons with Seattle. He hit 630 home runs and batted in 1,836 runs in his career, spent with the Mariners, Reds and White Sox. Griffey was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2016.

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Current Odds for No. 1 Pick as of April 3

14% 14% 14% 12.5% 10.5% 8.3% 8.2% (TNS) Murray State’s Ja Morant boosted his draft stock during the month of March.

March Madness setting up stock for NBA Draft JEFF HART

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

They drafted who?

The month of March is maddening for everyone, especially NBA coaches and front offices.

The tournament is indiscriminate to those involved. It does not pick a side, nor does it give any

advantages. One thing is for sure; it has really helped and hurt some players chances of playing professionally.

To start things off on a positive note, the tournament has helped a bevy of players. Players like Zion Williamson took full advantage of this tournament. Going into March, there was question as to whether he would go first or second in the

draft. After willing his Duke team into the Sweet 16, Williamson has solidified himself as the No. 1 pick.

That being said, no player benefitted more than Ja Morant. The Murray State guard has profoundly increased his draft stock due to his superior performance in this crucial time. Murray State upset its firstround matchup against Marquette.

Morant put up a triple double in the 83-64 upset. This stellar performance in combination with his freakishly athletic ability, has him as a shoo-in for the second overall pick in the draft.

As one of the teams to advance to the Elite Eight, the Gonzaga Bulldogs had a great deal of success throughout the tournament.

Rui Hachimura is perhaps the one that has benefitted the most from this success.

Experts have Hachimura going anywhere from the top five to the late lottery. The junior averaged 16.5 points per game in the tourna-

ment. It will be curious to see how the big man’s draft stock is truly affected come draft night.

For some players though, the tournament has had an adversely different effect. Some are not able to handle the added pressures of the tournament. A select group of players seemed to underperform under these circumstances.

Cam Reddish of the Duke Blue Devils tragically hurt his stock in 2019’s NBA draft. The freshman guard was predicted by many to be a top-five pick in the draft before the tournament.

Now, the freshman has dropped to the latter part of the top 10 according to many analysts. This came to no surprise, since Reddish averaged only eight points per game in the tournament.

With so much at stake, Reddish seemed to crumble under the pressure. Reddish is not the only Duke team member that has hurt his draft chances.

Tre Jones was touted as being a solid offensive contributor to the Blue Devil’s success in the regular season. Jones gave Duke good reason to be confident. With the freshman averaging 9.5 points during the regular season, he lived up to the hype.

Sadly, Jones seemed unable to perform to his full potential. In some of the biggest games of his career, he seemed unable to have confidence in his shot. In a tight game against UCF, Jones went 1-8 from the 3, as well as going 0-2 against North Dakota State.

With such suspect shooting in the tournament, it wouldn’t be surprising to see Jones fall in the draft.

Many had him going in the early second round but now are unsure whether he will even be drafted.

All these players are just evidence of the indifference the tournament has towards its participants. Perhaps that’s why so many are attracted to it.