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N E W S SLEB’S STEPS TO SILENCE STRESS News Editor: Jake Slebodnick – J.C.Slebodnick@iup.edu Lead News Writer: Emily Loose – E.D.Loose@iup.edu

Take physical, mental, and emotional care of yourself Exercise often Get at least 8 hours of sleep each night Eat nutritiously balanced meals

Take periodic breaks It’s okay to take breaks to destress. Don’t think that you always need to work.

Listen to music that you enjoy, as it will take some stress away Invest in a pet - big or small - that you can turn your attention to when you’re stressed

Seek help instead of staying quiet Staying quiet increases anxiety in your mental state Talking to others, whether it’s a certified professional Be aware that you need help or friend, could result in beneficial advive to handle stress As arbitrary as it may seem, recognizing when you need help is a huge step in relieving stress Never turn to alcohol/illegal drugs You’ll know what to do and where to go These are sources of immediate relief instead of long-term These are addictive and can only make symtoms worse Only use drugs prescribed by a medical specialist

Editor gives indicators for spotting stress in students JAKE SLEBODNICK

News Editor J.C.Slebodnick@iup.edu @Jake_WIUP

As we near the middle of the semester, one thing is certain: students become stressed due to the amount of assignments.

While stress can keep us alert to what we have to complete, or what may be creeping up in a few days or weeks, it can also damage our mental and physical health.

But these symptoms may not be as prevalent as we think, which is why it is important to be aware of the potential warning signs of stress.

1. Increased irritation Say your friend normally keeps a calm and collected personality and always acts optimistic in high-intensity situations. But recently, he/she becomes noticeably different in their attitude since assignments have started piling up.

Rather than staying cool, they

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become nervous and seemingly distressed and lash out to those closest to them. Instead of distancing yourself from them, pull them aside when they have a minute and become Facebook by asking “What’s on your mind?”

More often than not, they will express their concerns rather than turning you away.

2. Memory problems One of the biggest signs of stress expressed in cognitive behavior is someone's sudden loss of memory.

I don’t mean memory loss that has long-term effects, but rather if someone is caught up in various things and they ask you a simple question, they may repeat it a few times.

This is due to the rapid increase of activity processing in their mental state that their brain pushes that question, or questions, aside since it isn’t labeled as a top priority.

If this becomes a factor, do not approach them with hostility for

repeating questions. The best solution is to continue answering them like nothing is wrong.

3. Sudden reduction or lack of appetite We all love food, and if you say you don’t, stop lying.

But this love for food can be overtaken by stress, especially if it becomes too overwhelming.

Students may involuntarily skip meals to finish assignments and keep up with productivity, but missing meals could negatively impact grades and physical states.

Food fuels you. If you have five minutes to stop at Sheetz or McDonald’s on your way to class or prepare a sandwich at your dorm or apartment, please do so.

Assignments can wait while you eat.

4. Sudden illnesses/differences in physical health Stress can cause students to make ill-advised choices when it

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comes to finishing assignments.

I often find myself saying, “If I stay up for another 30 minutes to finish this assignment that’s due in two days, I’ll have more time to complete more future assignments,” and this example of thinking can lead to negative effects in your health.

Students can fall ill, or even experience other physical side effects such as indigestion, loss of sexual drive, constant nausea, etc., if these choices are made.

If possible, set at least 10 hours each night to rest, destress and, most importantly, sleep.

5. Certain changes in daily routines This is probably the most apparent factor considering temptation surrounds students constantly at college.

If someone experiences stress and begins to abuse certain substances, such as alcohol, cigarettes or drugs, quickly stop them from continuing to use them.

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which could turn stressful situations worse than they have to be since they are depressants, or items that mellow out someone’s mental state.

I’ve seen too many friends and acquaintences of mine resort to these, and their lives have only gotten worse or end entirely.

There are more productive ways to cope with stress than what lies in the devil’s cabinet.

If students need somewhere to relieve stress and express their concerns, the Health Center on the Suites on Maple East, Room G31, has a counseling center with licensed professionals who will walk students through productive ways to handle stress.

To schedule an appointment, call (724) 357-2621 or visit the center during its business hours.

If symptoms become severe, see a specialist off campus and see if you can get a prescription for anti-anxiety medication.

Keep in mind that while the middle of the semester can be a difficult time, there is always a better way of coping with stress.

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• Madison Donahue, 19, of Dubois; Gianna Gagliardi, 19, of Holland; and Cassidy Graham, 19, of Exeter were charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia after police responded to a report of individuals smoking marijuana inside a residence at 7:44 p.m. Sept. 27 in the 300 block of S. Sixth Street, according to Indiana Borough Police.

VEHICULAR Violations

• An unknown person driving a red Ford four-door sedan struck

another vehicle in the rear bumper around 11:40 a.m. Oct. 12 in the 800 block of Church Street. The driver of the red sedan then left the scene before the victim could exchange all relevant information, according to police. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Borough Police at (724) 349-2121.

• An unknown person driving a white or lightly colored vehicle

struck a parked vehicle and left the scene without providing required documentation between Oct. 7 and Oct. 11 in the 900 block of Church Street. Anyone with information is asked to contact the police.

MISCELLANEOUS Violations

• An unknown person damaged a chain link fence behind a

residence between Oct. 10 and Oct. 11 in the 700 block of South Street, according to Indiana Borough Police. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

• Richard Leasure was charged with strangulation, simple assault

and harassment after police responded to a report of domestic violence at 7:39 a.m. Oct. 7 in the 300 block of S. Sixth Street. Leasure had placed a hand around the victim’s neck in the middle of the assault. Leasure is being held in Indiana County Jail, according to police.

• An unknown person broke into a locker and stole property that

was inside between 4:30 and 5:50 p.m. Oct. 10 in the 300 block of Pratt Drive, according to police. Anyone with information is asked to contact the police.

(Marty Weaver/The Penn) Student organizations came together for National Coming Out Day in the Oak Grove on Friday. This celebration gave students an open platform to express their sexuality and/or sexual orientation. Pictured are Jake Nelson (senior, business management) and Sasha Aquino (sophomore, psychology) on top and Julene Pinto-Dyczewski of the Office of Housing and Residential Living and Dining (left) at their tables.

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Even with low enrollment, IUP continues academic excellence OLIVIA CARBONE

Staff Writer O.C.Carbone@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

IUP’s fall 2019 enrollment reflects strong academic achievement, improved student retention rate, strong diversity in the student body, higher percentage of veteran and military student enrollment and an increase in the number of students in IUP (non-degree) career-preparations programs.

The total enrollment at IUP for fall 2019 is 10,636. This is comprised of 10,348 students in degree-seeking programs such as the University College and 288 students enrolled in career preparation programs.

“Like many public and private universities in Pennsylvania, our fall 2019 overall enrollment is less than fall 2018,” President Driscoll said in the fall newsletter. “This was expected, especially in light of the decreasing number of high school graduates in our region.”

Along with many other new programs, IUP has developed the

mester freshman.”

IUP has received a lot of national recognition in the recent news. Forbes recognized IUP as one of America’s top colleges for 2019, based on academics, student experiences, career success and student debt level.

Washington Monthly recognized IUP in its 2019 College Guide rankings, based on contributions through social mobility, research and public service. EdSmart.org ranked IUP among the top 20 online colleges and universities for 2019-20.

Two students recently received support to study abroad by receiving the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. Adama Kouyate, a fashion merchandising major, is at the Paris College of Art, and Kailyn Provitt, an Asian

studies major, is at Korea University’s Sejong campus.

IUP’s Cook Honors College, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, has admitted its largest fall class of 138 students.

The retention rate from fall 2018 to fall 2019 rose -Mason Carothers by almost Junior, 2 percent Health and Physical Education from fall 2017 to fall 2018 retention rate. Out of the total IUP enrollment, 20.7 percent of IUP students are listed as minority and 561 students are international, comparable with fall 2018 totals. A total of 56 countries are represented in the student population and a total of 694 students are from out of state.

A total of 964 veterans or military-affiliated students, 9 percent of the student body, are attending IUP. This is an increase from the percentage in the fall of 2018.

“I think [the University College] is a really good program for incoming freshmen because faculty take the time to make sure that the students aren’t wasting money,”

(IUP Website) While enrollment at IUP may be low, faculty members are giving students more opportunities to display their academic potential by building connections and working with them closely.

University College. This program gives incoming students who are unsure of their career paths a chance to make connections with professors, other students and faculty without changing their major back and forth and adding on more years of education. This gives students who are undecided a chance to explore many different career paths by taking classes that spark their interests.

Students may be able to take

a communications media and a nutrition class during the same semester in order to figure out what career path fits them.

“I think that this is a really good program for incoming freshmen because faculty take the time to make sure that the students aren’t wasting money,” Mason Carothers (junior, health and physical education) said.

“I wish this program would’ve been here when I was a first-se-

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(Levi Donaldson/The Penn) The Wall That Heals, a replica of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington D.C., made its appearance in Indiana on Thursday. The wall was built to symbolize those who lost their lives in the Vietnam War and to honor their sacrifices.

The Wall That Heals stops in Indiana Fairgrounds to honor war victims LEVI DONALDSON

Staff Writer L.Donaldson@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

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The Wall That Heals, a replica of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, is mobilized for the sake of reaching out to veterans and their families for closure and a more private commemoration that comes to them.

Indiana had the highest turn out for the wall of any community it has gone to before, and the wall resided in Mack Park from Thursday until Sunday. There was a gentle, sad, but appreciative atmosphere of community Thursday, and many men and women were decorated or wearing clothes or pins out of respect. The wall itself was long with people spread all along it, and it gradually got higher and higher. There was an announcement that moved people to the grand stands for the presentation and speeches.

The speaker explained how many people go through the loss of a loved one and how damaging losing someone to war can be. She said that many veterans develop mental illnesses and urged everyone to understand and support these veterans. A military chaplain prayed for healing and peace in the lives of surviving soldiers.

“There is no event more misunderstood than Vietnam,” Sheriff Robert Fyock said. “It is the only time that veterans came home to people that harassed and abused them. It is important to learn the truth about these men and women and understand their sacrifices.

Even today veterans deal with issues. We should do all we can for them, such as the readjustment services. Never again will veterans be treated again like such. We should separate and understand soldiers separated from the politics.”

Fyock then asked all the Vietnam veterans to stand. It was jarring how real everything said became. The soldiers and veterans were all through the audience. They were not a far away concept but a very close one.

Four star general Dominic Rocco also addressed the crowd.

“These are terrible times we are in,” Rocco said. “I’ve seen caskets and limbs going this and that way. This stadium should be full. We are the beneficiaries of honoring their service.”

He described the mortuaries he’d seen in the war and said that everyone should see the war hospitals, where men had lost legs, arms, sight or hearing.

Rocco explained the service of putting bodies back together to

send home to their families and how someone had to be the one to explain to the family that they had lost someone they love.

“The grieving begins but never ends,” Rocco said. “And we will still go to war far past I’m gone, and you’re gone and your kids are gone. That is the nature of the United States. We can’t keep our fingers out of places we think we can help.”

Another speaker told about his brother’s best friend, who was his hero. He said how that name was now on the wall.

While his brother’s friend was in Vietnam, he had mailed him a letter every week and finally one of those letters was buried in a casket with the fallen soldier.

He cited John 15:13, which says, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

More men and women spoke on the people they had lost.

The stories from childhood and potentials of what could have happened and never did. Every name on the wall represents a full life with loved ones whose memories will never go away.

The event was beautiful. It was respectful and full of appreciation and requiem. Seeing the men in wheelchairs struggle to rise out of respect for the names of the lost being read aloud was a beautiful, inspiring and sobering thing to see.

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Geoscience department hosts seminar regarding graduate school possibilities

(Downtown Indiana Facebook) Student organizations took to the streets Saturday to clean the streets of Indiana following homecoming festivities the week prior.

‘Into the Streets’ cleans up Indiana after homecoming EMILY LOOSE

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

Even something as small as sweeping up leaves can make a huge difference for a community.

IUP’s biannual Into the Streets event took place Saturday with various organizations and student groups helping out the make the Indiana community cleaner and the best it can be.

Taking place the week right after homecoming, there was a lot of work that needed to get done.

Into the Streets is an event that takes place once a semester. Any organization or individual group is able to help out after filling out an application online. The event is sponsored by the Office of Service Learning.

“We’ve been doing Into the Streets for 25 or more years,” Dr. Tammy Manko, director of IUP’s Career and Professional Development Center, said.

According to Manko, the highest number of volunteers was during the 2016-17 years, which saw roughly 400 students helping.

Though this semester saw 74 volunteers, Manko believes there will be many more in the spring.

Promising to work in rain or shine, the beginning of the day was rainy, but students still worked hard to help out local agencies including the Evergreen Conservancy, Downtown Indiana and the

Humane Society.

Each agency had different times scheduled for help, but overall Into the Streets took place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Some of the work that needed to be done included sweeping leaves off sidewalks, weeding flower beds and painting walls at the Salvation Army.

IUP’s website says that the event is a way to “ increase and diversify the number of people participating in sustained and thoughtful community service.” The website also says that it helps show the commitment that students have to the community.

Students as a unit complete approximately 150,000 hours of service each school year.

Some of these organizations include The Economics Club and Phi Gamma Nu. Both groups were thanked by Downtown Indiana in a Facebook post that showed students in those groups sweeping.

Along with the event, all volunteers and agencies were treated to a picnic at Pratt Hall that took place 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The event coincided with Downtown Indiana’s “Lovin’ Series,” a monthly event during which stores and shops throughout the Indiana community hold special deals and sales. This month’s theme was “Lovin’ IUP” and featured deals from Dan Smith Candy, Insomnia Cookies and Subway.

The next event will take place in March or April.

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(Morgan Detweiler/The Penn) IUP’s geoscience department hosted a seminar to give students an idea of the opportunites beyond graduation.

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Trump wants to use efficiency of Medicare, doesn’t see difficulties SARAH GENTZ

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With Medicare's annual fall enrollment period starting Tuesday, President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to enhance Medicare Advantage – privately run Medicare plans he described as more efficient and a greater value than traditional Medicare.

People with Medicare Advantage – managed care plans run by insurance companies – on average are healthier and use fewer health-care services. Yet analysts say that according to the government's own reporting, the government spends about the same per person, whether they're covered by traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage.

How can that be?

Gretchen Jacobson, an associate director of Medicare policy at Kaiser Family Foundation, said the way the government pays for Medicare Advantage members and insufficient reporting requirements makes it hard to determine exactly how efficient the program is.

"It should be a clear-cut answer, but it's not," Jacobson said. "There are a lot of things we don't know."

WHAT WE DO KNOW Medicare is the government health plan that covers seniors and the disabled. Under traditional Medicare, the government pays doctors and hospitals directly for members' health services. Members pay a Part B premium, which covers medical services, and may buy a Part D drug plan and a supplement plan, called Medigap, to cover other costs, including copays.

Under Medicare Advantage, insurance companies contract with the government to manage members' care, including by restricting people to specific provider networks. Traditional Medicare members can go

(Flickr) While making Medicare options more flexible would benefit consumers, Donald Trump hasn’t taken the potential risks of capitalizing on the efficiency in order to make it flexible.

to any provider that accepts Medicare.

Medicare Advantage members still pay the Part B premium and may also pay a second premium for the Medicare Advantage plan, which typically includes drug coverage and other benefits not covered by traditional Medicare, such as vision and dental. Those addons, and the simplicity of having one plan, are appealing to an increasing number of Americans. About a third of Medicare beneficiaries – some 22 million people – are enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan.

And these plans are good for the insurance business, too.

Insurers earned a gross profit of about $1,600 per Medicare Advantage beneficiary between 2016 and 2018 – double their profit for members in their individual and group health plans – according to an August report

by Kaiser Family Foundation, which studies health policy and public health.

HERE'S WHERE IT GETS COMPLICATED A 2015 study published in Health Affairs found that

emergency and ambulatory care costs for Medicare Advantage members were as much as 30 percent less than such costs for people covered by traditional Medicare.

That makes it sound more efficient. But costs may be lower partly because the people who choose Medicare Advantage plans are healthier. Another study found that many high-cost patients who initially enroll in Medicare Advantage move to traditional Medicare, presumably to access more providers.

So why doesn't the government save on Medicare Advantage? One answer could be that it's paying too much.

Medicare Advantage plans are paid a set amount per member, with additional payments for people who are sick – which can lead insurers to overstate the severity of their members' health problems. Plans over-billed almost $30 billion over the past three years, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expects enrollment to continue to climb.

Administrative costs are also a lot higher for the private plans than the government-run option.

Such costs account for 1 percent of spending for traditional Medicare. Combined administrative costs for traditional Medicare and private insurers' administrative costs for Medicare Advantage and drug plans account for 7 percent of total spending, the New York Times reported last year.

SO WHAT DOES TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER DO? Trump's executive order calls for the secretary of health to compose a plan to make Medicare Advantage plans even more flexible, to include telehealth services and allow members to create Health Savings Accounts to help cover out-of-pocket costs. In 2020, Medicare Advantage plans are already expanding to offer more services, such as transportation to medical appointments and home safety improvements.

The changes could lead to more plan options, which would increase market competition and could help slow the overall growth in Medicare costs, said Matt Eyles, CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade association that represents

insurance companies.

WILL IT HELP CONSUMERS? The trouble, Medicare experts say, is that choosing the right Medicare plan should be a matter of considering one's own health and finances, not the fringe benefits.

Medicare experts focused on helping people choose the plan that is right for them are concerned about how the Trump administration's emphasis on Medicare Advantage could affect consumers' decisions, said Casey Schwartz, senior counsel for the Medicare Rights Center, a patient advocacy organization.

While the fall enrollment period is a time for members to evaluate and change their coverage, most people sign up for Medicare when they turn 65.

"We're always looking at what's being put out," Schwartz said of informational materials.

"The need for good education and support for that decision, especially if people are comparing Medicare Advantage to original Medicare with a Medigap plan – that needs to happen as they become eligible, not waiting for fall open enrollment."

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The Penn editors share their opinion on class scheduling 1. Editor-In-Chief, Katie Mest

As someone who is scheduling her last ever college semester, I can say class scheduling is tricky. My advice would be do plan as far ahead in advance as possible. Know what classes you want to take the next few semesters, so you don’t get blindsided when graduation comes around. Always go into your advising meetings with a list of classes ready.

2. Managing Editor, Steven Langdon Jr.

As far as class scheduling goes, the hardest part is finding classes that do not interfere with out-of-class organizations. I noticed that the hard part comes later in your academic career.

There are only so many classes that you could take that are enjoyable.

3. Managing Editor, Jess Truby

Class scheduling has been easy for me after my freshman year. That first time scheduling at orientation is the roughest. The advice I give to people is be ready to schedule as soon as you can and know what classes you would like to schedule before hand.

6. Sports Editor, Elliot Hicks

I’ve just enjoyed being able to schedule before (almost) everyone else thanks to being a part of the Cook Honors College. Also, an early class in college is a lot different than an early class in high school. Time sneaks up on you.

7. Copy Editor, Marty Weaver

None of the classes I want to take are being offered next semester, so looks like I’ll just take a bunch of fun classes in the spring and have a hell of a fall semester.

9. Grapic Designer, Teddy Jeannette

It’s over complicated, frustating, and is incredibly difficult to get the classes you want, especialy in the art department

10. Photo Editor, Autumn Dorsey

Skip at least three classes to keep your mental health up to par.

4. News Editor, Jake Slebodnick

My advice would be to schedule according to what’s easier for you. If you’re not an 8 a.m. person, DO NOT TAKE AN 8 A.M.! If you do by choice, don’t complain about it on social media.

5. Culture Editor, Heather Bair

Be sure not to overlaod your schedule that you don’t have any free time.

11. Video Editor, Sean Seaman You should manage your time.

12. Audio Editor, Kyle Scott

Breaks between classes are underrated. You don’t need to have all your classes in a row, and it might be better in the long run if you don’t.

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(Facebook) Flags represent the diversity that Hispanic Heritage Month is the month of October.

IUP celebrates diversity with Hispanic Heritage Month HEATHER BAIR Culture Editor H.Bair@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

With October being Hispanic Heritage Month, IUP is being sure to take part in the celebration.

The purpose of Hispanic Heritage Month is to recognize the presence of Hispanic and Latino/a Americans in the United States.

The celebration was originally one week long but was lengthened by President Ronald Reagan in 1988.

The event, a “Special Series on the Southern Border” features free upcoming events that are open to the IUP community.

On Friday, visiting artist and scholar Maria Enriquez discussed the controversial Arizona House Bill 2281 in a presentation titled “Wet-book Crossings and the Librotraficante Movement.”

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In 2011, the bill eliminated Mexican-American Studies and other ethnic programs in Tucson public schools. The bill stated that the school district should not have, among other things, classes that are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group. Along with the ban of these classes came the ban of the books that focused on ethnic groups.

Librotraficante means “book trafficker.” They smuggled banned books, called “wetbooks,” back into Arizona.

The Librotraficante Movement began in 2012 when school walkouts protested the bill, which forced books that focused on ethnic groups to be moved to storage, not to be used in the classroom setting. Author and activist Tony Diaz led the movement.

Diaz’s group became a make-

shift caravan that smuggled the removed – banned – books back into Arizona in order to promote Latino/a literature. The books created underground libraries, and even established a library with some of the books at a Tucson youth center.

(Facebook) Hispanic Heritage Month started in 1988.

The caravan relaunched in 2017 after the ruling of Arizona House Bill 2281.

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On Friday, a photographic exhibit will be held at 4 p.m. in 126 Humanities and Social Sciences room 126. The exhibit is called “No Limits: A Photographic Cartography of Writers Along the U.S.-Mexico Border.”

The photos belong to Alejandro Meter, a visiting artist and professor of Latin American Literature at the University of San Diego. His work has been shown in the United States, Mexico and Argentina.

“The images displayed are part of a photographic project that seeks to make writers of the Mexico-U.S. border visible,” Meter said on his website.

“To make new literary voices known and, also, to recognize writers whose trajectories have left an indelible mark on the cultural imaginary of the region.”

Meter can be reached on his website, meterphoto.com, or

through his email, info@meterphoto.com.

The last event of the month will take place Saturday, from 9 a.m. until noon in the Hadley Union Building (HUB). A multi-session culminating event is open to students, staff and faculty.

Discussion sessions are scheduled that include “Immigrants’ Voices and Identity,” “Migrant Workers’ Rights,” “Internal Militarization,” “Inside the Courtroom” and “Foreigner vs.

Invader,” as well as others.

Attendance vouchers for all events will be available for students.

The Hispanic Heritage Month events are co-sponsored by the Social Equity and Title IX Office.

For any questions or further information, Marjorie Zambrano-Paff, chair of the Hispanic Heritage Council, can be reached at mzambran@iup.edu.

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Midterms means registering for next semester’s classes at IUP.

for registering for classes OLIVIA CARBONE Contributing Writer O.Carbone@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

Midterms are here at IUP, which means it’s time for advising meetings and registration for classes for the upcoming spring semester.

On Monday, winter 2019-20 registration began for all students, and spring registration began for undergraduate and graduate veterans and military.

Wednesday, freshman and graduate students can begin to register; Friday is when seniors begin to register; Oct. 21 is when juniors can begin to register, and Oct. 23 is when sophomores can begin to register.

Seniors have 90 or more credits, juniors have 60–89 credits, sophomores have 30–59 credits and freshman have 0–29 credits.

Some tips on registering for classes are knowing your registration date, double and triple checking academic requirements, scheduling an adviser visit early, planning your gaps wisely, considering morning vs. evening classes, researching professors and avoiding the overload trap.

Moving at your own pace during your college career is not only going to benefit your life in the long run but your mental health as well.

Just because some other students may finish in four years or sooner doesn’t mean you’re wrong for taking some

extra time.

To register for classes, log onto MyIUP and click under academics. There, you will find the “register for classes” tab. Then you can start adding the classes and making sure you’re building the perfect schedule for yourself.

The scheduling software doesn’t allow you to have any time conflicts, which is nice because it saves time and frustration.

Mason Carothers (junior, health and physical education major) recommends using “Rate My Professors” when registering for classes.

“It helps when scheduling so you know what professors work best with how you do your work,” Carothers said.

IUP provides many different types of classes and more than 140 undergraduate majors to choose from.

Knowing what career path you want to follow helps you greatly when it comes to registering for classes.

IUP has established the University College, which gives students who are undecided a chance to explore many different career paths’ while making connections, just like students in a decided program.

For incoming students who are unsure of their career path, this is a great way to explore and truly find what your passion is.

There are many faculty, staff and students who can help guide other students on what classes to take.

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Staff Writer L.Donaldson@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

The theater programs at IUP are creative and vary in many ways.

One program is TOST, a nonprofit organization that encourages and invites people from any major to get involved in theater productions.

Many of TOST’s members aren’t theater majors, and the group is easily accessible to join.

One of the events hosted by TOST is Twenty-Four Hour Theater, an event in which participants have 24 hours to write, cast, rehearse and perform the plays.

This year, there were three plays written by a handful of writers, many of who also acted in the plays. The collaboration and closeness of everyone was productive, making something as limited as a 24 hour production even work.

“I kind of liked the fact that it was all us and not any old people directing us,” Tony Bartash (freshman, biochemistry) said. “So I definitely support it. And since I knew most of the people up there, I’d probably go see it again.”

The event itself was open to the public and entirely free. The three plays went on without a hitch.

“The time limit did not change the normal writing process for me other than how much more aware of time I had,” Kaitlyn Cianco (junior, journalism and public relations) said. “It made it so there was no tie for second guessing or writer’s block. It might have even made my writing more creative.

(Levi Donaldson) Actors of TOST put on the second play

“Although, the time limit also meant there was less time for edits, and the morning after writing, we were not sure if what we had produced at 2 a.m. was even any good,” she said.

“The play went really well,” she said. “Quinn and mine was partially dialogue with less stage direction, so we were nervous to have our actors go off for the performance so soon. It was more than we could have hoped for with the time limit. A surprising moment from the whole process was how much fun and how much we got back from the experience. Despite not having a lot of people this time around, we all took on extra roles, and it worked out in the end. It was also surprising how different all three of the plays were from each other yet still all so creative.”

“TOST started doing Twenty-Four Theater a year ago,” Meagan Ryder (senior, English) said. “It’s an intense amount of work but it’s a fun way for all of us to be creative.

My favorite part of doing it is that it’s a fun, extra event during the

semester, and there’s a whole day where TOST members can hang out.”

She also explained how convenient TOST is because it involves people who aren’t able to commit to the full productions.

Tyler Miller, a sophomore communications media major, was an audience member at the performance and said that, “I thought the performances were well done, especially since they were conceptualized, written, and sent to the stage in 24 hours,” said Tyler Miller (sophomore, communications media) said.

“It was a neat and well done experiment. I think that the fact that they were all done in 24 hours puts each performance into perspective, as they were all one-scene short narratives. I think that it would still be cool regardless, especially ‘Don’t Eat Purple Apples,’ but since they were all created in such a small time frame makes it all the much better.”

Ultimately the event is an experimental and genre-pushing exercise.

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Nancy Drew gets upgrade in CW’s reboot

(Facebook) The CW’s “Nancy Drew” airs every Wedesday at 9 p.m.

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Staff Writer M.Davis@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

This article contains opinion.

The CW network premiered a brand new “Nancy Drew” series just in time for the spooky season.

You better get your popcorn ready.

This series is more for mature audiences and is a brilliant choice for a new show.

It offers a dark twist compared to the original youth-oriented stories and, in all, had a successful first episode.

This series hints at the supernatural that other shows, such as “Riverdale,” failed to follow through with.

The original series brought some new faces to the big screen that some may have not seen before.

Kennedy McMann stars as the famous Nancy, now 18 years old, trying to cope with the loss of her mom, who is played by Sara Canning.

The tragedy leads to Nancy giving up her detective hobbies, which is where we see her in the beginning of the show, a year later.

Other characters that were revealed in the first episode is Nancy’s father, played by Scott Wolf, and her acquaintances, which are played by Tunj Kasim, Leah Lewis,

(Facebook) Kennedy McMann and Tunji Kasim portray Nancy Drew and Ned Nickerson, respectfully, in the new “Nancy Drew” series.

Alex Saxon and Maddison Jaizani.

Nancy is quick to comment on how they are not friends, which becomes ironic once they are all brought together after becoming suspects of a murder in their town.

It is not just the murder that Nancy brings herself to solve, but there is also the murder of Lucy Sable, who is rumored to be haunting Nancy and the entire town.

The theory that Sable’s ghost may be Nancy’s mother is becoming popular very quickly, even though the show is only on the first episode.

While the series goes forth under the category of supernatural thriller, it does not go overboard with that element.

The show alludes to some possible suspects to the murder but does not exactly give it away automatically.

Being a Nancy Drew virgin, I found that this show satisfied my spooky craving while still making it tolerable to watch without getting too scared. (Don’t watch at night alone, though; you will get creeped out.)

At the end of the episode, I wanted more. I wanted to see

what happened next, because if you watched the premiere, you will know what I’m referring to.

The first episode alone had some unexpected plot twists which makes it promising for the rest of the series. It will be interesting to see where the show goes and to see if it stays as exciting as the first episode.

Premiering in October was the smartest decision for the show because many are looking for eerie programs to watch for “spooky season.”

I would highly recommend starting this series if you want

something creepy to watch for girl’s night.

If you aren’t quite into the scary season of October, then I recommend waiting until it is out on Netflix to marathon watch because I have a hunch that it will be well worth the wait.

All in all, I was highly impressed with the first show of this new series and will make the weekly watch into a habit for the rest of the month and November.

Definitely check out this series if you want something different to watch instead of rewatching old “Friends” episodes.

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Rapper Danny Brown offers ‘fresh Stephen Amell proud and original’ music with new work of his work on ‘Arrow’ RICK BENTLEY Tribune News Service TNS

LEVI DONALDSON

Staff Writer L.Donaldson@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

This article contains opinion.

Detroit rapper Danny Brown delivers his newest album, and it’s as unique as listeners have come to expect from him. The album “uknowhatimsayin¿” was executively produced by Q-Tip and features Run The Jewels, Blood Orange and JPEGMAFIA. The approach to hip hop is definitely a fresh and original one.

“Danny is 10 years into his career and still putting out career highlight projects like this,” McHale Baden, a junior theatre major and IUP radio DJ said. “I’ve been following him since ‘XXX,’ and ‘uknowhatimsayin¿’ honestly might top that as my personal favorite project of his. Favorite track by far is ‘Best Life.’ The pairing of Danny and Q-Tip is absolutely legendary.”

This album does stand out from Brown’s discography.

“This is my version of a standup comedy album,” Brown said.

“Most of my close friends now aren’t rappers—they’re comedians and actors. So I wanted to create something that mixed humor with music. Something that was funny but not parody.”

The music video for his single “Dirty Laundry” definitely reflects and reinforces this concept for tone. The video shows Brown dressed up in a yellow suit and prosthetics to change his body shape and facial features. Then he goes through a city as a crazy caricature, interacting with people and spouting his wild-sounding vocals. This character is the source of the humor, as well as the bewildered expressions he receives. But through this, we can see into the city and the people’s lives. Their lives are interrupted by him, and there’s this comedy without parody.

The album starts out very strong with “Change Up,” a lower-voiced track about violence and finding peace and praying for mercy. His voice has a deep and subtle echo during the chorus that adds to the darker atmosphere. This song is about how Brown won’t change as a person and he will remain who he is despite his harsh surroundings.

“Change Up” serves as a good opener for this album. The oddity of the project is forwarded by him

(Facebook) Danny Brown released his new album “uknowhatimsayin¿” on Oct. 4.

essentially explaining that maintaining his personality is an act of defiance towards his environment.

The second track, “Theme Song,” feels less focused lyrically and serves a theme song for those who get rich and arrogant. It makes fun of this while cementing himself as cut from a different cloth. It also includes a needling violin that pulls you into the album.

The Run The Jewels collaboration, “3 Tearz,” leans more into hopelessness and about not caring about what’s going on. The track references “The Big Lebowski” and MF Doom and has this odd underlying humor. Killer Mike delivers a verse in which he disavows everything, politics, celebrity, crime and even the action of not caring.

It’s a defiant track with a nighttime sound. This is contrasted by the later track, “Best Life,” which sounds a lot more soulful and sunny.

Brown goes over his rough upbringing and experiences. With lyrics like “Went from flippin’ on mats to flippin’ them sacks, Hide and seek, send spots to out on, we sell crack, facts, War on drugs was a chess game, Was a pawn, guns drawn on my front lawn,” the song gives profound insight through the personal lens that Brown brings.

The theory of the song is to strive to make it out and live a fulfilling life.

My personal favorite track from the album is “Negro Spiritual” featuring insane vocals from JPEGMAFIA and funky production from Thundercat and Flying Lotus. Brown’s verses are flooded with hedonism but through a wild presentation that doesn’t idealize these things. The chorus from JPEGMAFIA, shows him sing with a hoarse, incredibly unique voice.

Lyrically the chorus reflects back to the verses and muses on how physical everyone has become while pretending to be spiritual.

The final track on the album, “Combat,” brings it back to the themes of constant violence that continues to ramp upwards. This song samples a New York documentary from the 70s on gang warfare to provide dark insight. The final lyrics of the album is “Pretty soon they’re gonna steal the damn atom bomb.”

This project reminds of vaguely of Earl Sweatshirt’s project from last year, “Some Rap Songs,” mostly for its genre pushing originality and experimentation. However despite them being in the same vein of boundary pushing, they are completely their own projects. This album is wild and I sense it would be quite divisive, but if the bizarre presentation is engaging then you’ll be able to get a lot from this album.

Stephen Amell was filming an episode earlier this year for the final season of The CW’s “Arrow” when he took off the leg quiver he wears during a break. He didn’t put the costume piece back on and filmed the rest of the night without it. The next day Amell pushed for the scene to be reshot because of the continuity problem.

His reaction came when it would have been easy for the Canadian actor to have just moved on because the show is coming to an end. That’s not the way Amell works. He has been a passionate advocate of the TV series since it went on the air in 2012, playing both the playboy-turned-good guy Oliver Queen and the hooded vigilante Arrow with the same deep convictions. Amell stresses if he didn’t care so much about the show, things like continuity mistakes wouldn’t bother him.

Amell’s commitment will take him through 185 episodes playing the character, with the final offerings starting at Tuesday. He says in the year “Arrow” debuted, there were 180 scripts for network TV shows ordered and 60 filmed to be potential series. Only “Arrow” and “Chicago Fire” are still on the air from that season of new programming on the five networks.

The story starts with a violent shipwreck that left billionaire playboy Oliver Queen missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the North China Sea. When Queen gets home to Star City, he’s determined to right the wrongs of his family. Help in doing that came from former soldier John Diggle (David Ramsey), computer science expert Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), inventor Curtis Holt (Echo Kellum), street-savvy Rene Ramirez (Rick Gonzalez) and meta-human Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy).

Amell has also worked on the feature film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” and the television movie “Vixen: The Movie.” Other credits include “New Girl,” “Private Practice,” “Hung” and “CSI: Miami.”

There have also been crossover episodes where he appeared on “The Flash” and “Supergirl.”

There will be another major

(Facebook) Stephen Amell plays superhero “Arrow”

crossover event this year starting Dec. 8, “Crisis on Infinite Earths,” where Amell will play two different characters.

Executive producer Beth Schwartz explains the 10 episodes that make up the final season of “Arrow” will be leading up to “Crisis,” and the crossover has changed the normal structure of how the show has been filmed.

“This year, because we’re leading up to something spectacular, we’re allowed to do huge event episodes, and we’re allowed to bring characters back that we haven’t seen in a while. And it’s each episode is humongous. It’s not like anything we’ve done on a show before,” Schwartz says.

The intensity of the final season has been a distraction for the cast and crew from dealing with the final days of filming. Amell describes how this year every episode has felt like they were trying to try to put a button on a certain part of the program.

“And every day, knowing that there’s an end in sight, knowing how many of our crew despite the fact that they got offers for shows that are going to be filming 22 episodes this year, our entire crew came back for 10 episodes. Every day that I walk on set, I just think about how lucky I am to have had this opportunity,” Amell says.

“I know it sounds weird to say this, but what I did on ‘Arrow,’ I think I have become a pretty good actor. I am ready to get back in the room and fight for something that I want. Nothing would make me happier than if someone else would be Arrow and nailed it.

But I am ready to say goodbye to Oliver Queen,” Amell said.

He does have one tiny regret.

“I’m kind of pissed we didn’t get to 200 episodes, but what are you going to do?”

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Are these end times for binge culture?

(Facebook) Apple launches its new streaming service Nov. 1.

MEREDITH BLAKE Los Angeles Times TNS After years of buildup, Apple will make its long-awaited push into original programming with the Nov. 1 launch of its streaming service, Apple TV+.

Easily its most anticipated series is “The Morning Show,” starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon as journalists caught in the maelstrom when the popular anchor of a morning news program, played by Steve Carrell, is fired for sexual misconduct.

With its A-list cast, lavish production values, acclaimed creative team and timely, provocative subject matter, “The Morning Show” might have been created in a streaming TV lab with one exception.

Viewers eager to consume the show will have to pace themselves: Apple TV+ will make three episodes of the series available immediately, but the remaining seven will be released weekly.

As the number of original series grows and four new streaming platforms prepare to enter the market, the scramble to stand out has led key players to lean away from releasing full seasons at once a model introduced by Netflix if not wholly abandon it.

Which raises the question: Is this the end of the binge?

Hardly. But while these new platforms have changed the face of television, they’re not ditching the traditional rule book entirely.

Disney +, launching Nov. 12, will release episodes weekly. Apple TV+ will take the same hybrid approach with “See” and “For All Mankind” as it will with “The Morning Show,” while “Dickinson” will be dropped en masse. HBO Max, expected in the spring, is also unlikely to adopt the “binge and burn” approach, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. Even Netflix is experimenting with releasing select reality titles and talk shows on a different schedule.

Appointment viewing might seem old-fashioned, but weekto-week anticipation and strong word of mouth helped propel the growth of recent shows like HBO’s “Succession” and “Chernobyl.”

It turns out if you want a “watercooler” show, it helps to be in the room at the same time.

It’s also become harder to break through the noise in the first place: TV is booming, with nearly 500 original series in 2018, according to research by FX. This may be especially true of quirkier, under-the-radar shows dependent on word of mouth, such as the animated comedy “Tuca & Bertie,” which was abruptly canceled by Netflix in July fewer than three months after its debut. It was one of the best reviewed shows of the year, but by the time many viewers were inspired to sample it, its fate had been sealed.

And evidence suggests that binged shows don’t linger as long in viewers’ minds. In a 2017 study, researchers at the University of Melbourne found that people who

watched all six hour-long episodes of the Cold War drama “The Game” in a single sitting retained less information in the long run.

Shows that follow a more traditional week-to-week release can often benefit from the measured build of a season spanning months. The HBO limited series “Chernobyl” became an unlikely hit this spring, thanks largely to positive buzz that reached deafening levels over the course of its five-week run.

According to Twitter, mentions of the series grew tenfold between its May debut and June finale. The show’s same-day ratings also grew by more than 50 percent, from 1.2 million to 1.9 million viewers on Monday nights.

“Succession” which ended its second season Sunday, has also benefited from a more traditional release pattern (not to mention its outsize popularity with media professionals).

Even as it moves on from “Game of Thrones,” mourned by many as “the last show everyone watched together,” HBO plans to stick with the weekly rollout.

“Why would you give up the weekly episode release?” programming president Casey Bloys told The Times in August. “To have people united watching and talking about these shows. To give the audience numerous chances to connect.”

But shows released on a more traditional timeline also benefit from being available on demand and in bulk, so that when a friend

or TV critic recommends a show, viewers can catch up easily.

According to HBO, once delayed viewing was factored in, the average audience for each episode of “Chernobyl” rose to 12.9 million viewers, meaning the overwhelming majority of the show’s audience was watching on demand or through one of HBO’s streaming platforms.

A number of streaming players are testing multiple release strategies. CBS All Access, which programs series such as “Star Trek: Discovery,” mostly uses a weekly strategy, but it has applied the binge format selectively, dropping all episodes of the cop comedy “No Activity” and the upcoming true crime series “Interrogation” at once.

“It fits the nature of our consumer base and our history,” said Marc DeBevoise, president and COO of CBS Interactive. “It allows us to show our creators that we are extending our marketing plan, that we are supporting the shows past a few episodes. The binge is always there if the viewer wants to wait until the end.”

Hulu, a pioneer in the pace yourself approach often releasing two or three episodes at launch, then one each subsequent week has made binge-release exceptions for certain shows, such as its “Veronica Mars” reboot.

“We went from a world where consumers didn’t know anything but weekly to this new model where they could binge it all, and now seeing we’re seeing this sort of the hybrid mode,” said Ryan

Crosby, Hulu’s vice president of content and brand marketing.

“We’re not in a spot where we can force them to engage in a certain way.”

Netflix itself has deviated from the binge model with certain genres, beginning with talk shows like “Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj” and David Letterman’s “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.”

Now, as part of a licensing agreement, new episodes of the popular reality series “The Great British Baking Show” stream weekly on Netflix a few days after airing in the U.K. “Rhythm + Flow,” in which judges Cardi B, T.I. and Chance the Rapper search for the next great hip-hop star, will be released in multiepisode batches.

It’s Netflix’s first attempt at a music competition show in the vein of “American Idol” or “The Voice” a format that relies on building anticipation for the moment when the winner is revealed.

It “will be enough to satisfy the binge-watcher while still protecting the identity of the winner” and build word of mouth, predicts executive producer Jeff Gaspin, who helped develop unscripted hits like “The Biggest Loser,” reruns of which often aired in cable-TV marathons, and the once-ubiquitous “Behind the Music.”

But dropping entire seasons at once also has potential drawbacks, Gaspin said. “If people don’t discover a show quickly, it could also go away rather quickly. If the algorithm doesn’t keep recycling it and it’s no longer one

(Facebook) “Night of the Living Dead” and “Dracula” are some of the spooky movies to catch on TV this month

Television offers spooky thrills for October LUAINE LEE Tribune News Service TNS

Television huddles in the shadows right along with you by sporting a panoply of spooky programming for the season.

TCM is filling the bill with dozens of classic horror movies penetrating the airwaves every Thursday night at 8 p.m. Eastern.

Robert Wise’s chilling “The Haunting” is one of the films scheduled for Thursday, along with the 1922 Swedish horror flick, “The Phantom Carriage.”

On Oct. 24, the network plans two archetypal screamers: George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” and “Nosferatu,” the unorthodox version of Bram Stoker’s novel shot in Germany in 1921. It proved so superbly scary it brought its director, F.W. Murnau, to America.

Hang in there till Oct. 31, when TCM offers full-time double features including “Dracula: Prince of Darkness,” “Bride of Frankenstein” and the ever-so-controversial “Freaks.”

Of course, Charlie Brown and his “Peanuts” pals will be back in ABC’s “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” on Oct. 22.

Freeform will feature its “31 Nights of Halloween Fan Fest” on Friday at 11 a.m. The gala will be hosted by Vanessa Hudgens and Jordan Fisher. Christina Aguilera serves as a special guest as well as Kristin Chenoweth, JD McCreary, and Ray Parker Jr. The great “Scream” movies the first three will begin airing there Friday at 3 p.m.

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at 6:45 p.m. And who you gonna call at 8:55 p.m. on Freeform?

“Ghostbusters,” no doubt, with No. 1 airing then and No. 2 at 11:25 p.m. They’ll appear several times on the network until Halloween hits.

The streaming sites are conjuring lots of diabolical dealings for their viewers. Hulu finds a bunch of college students caught up in a deadly board game in “Into the Dark: Uncanny Annie.” And it will bring the chilling “Castle Rock” back for Season 2 on Oct. 23. Based on characters, places and themes of Stephen King, the psychological horror series stars Lizzy Caplan and Tim Robbins and a bunch of weirdo townspeople.

Shudder (an aptly named streamer for this time of year) will continue with its spooktacular “Creepshow.” The anthology series that promises everything from werewolves to goblins with bad intentions will feature two new tales Thursday, “The Companion” and “Lydia Layne’s Better Half” starring Tricia Hefler. These can be seen via streaming or on demand.

For folk who like a little humor with their horror there’s “Agatha Raisin & the Haunted House,” premiering on Acorn.TV Oct. 28. It stars Ashley Jensen as the

amateur detective who investigates the murder of a contemptible woman who inhabited the haunted mansion.

Skip on over to Sundance/Now and you’ll find “A Discovery of Witches,” the tale of modern love in a world populated by witches, demons and vampires who hide in plain sight among the unsuspecting humans.

Aussie Teresa Palmer plays an historian who denies her warlock roots but is confronted by her lineage when she calls up an ancient manuscript. Costarring is Matthew Goode (Tony Armstrong-Jones from “The Crown”) as a vampire.

Aim your telly on Britbox Oct. 29 and you’ll find Michael Caine in an uncharacteristic role. He’s starring in “Jekyll and Hyde,” a 1990 TV movie based on the Robert Louis Stevenson classic about a researcher extrapolating the evil in himself.

HDNet Movies is cobbling up “13 Nights of Halloween” from Saturday through Oct. 31. The menu will include that most heinous insult of all, “I Spit on Your Grave,” Oct. 26, and three Edgar Allan Poe interpretations starring the chilling Vincent Price: “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “Tales of Terror,” and “The Raven” on Oct. 29. The grand finale will be a 17-film marathon starting Oct. 31 at 12:30 a.m. Eastern.

But enough of fiction how about a real ghost hunt? A&E is proclaiming the “most ambitious televised paranormal investigation ever” with its two-hour special “World’s Biggest Ghost Hunt: Pennhurst Asylum,” premiering Oct. 30.

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children. Five brave souls will incarcerate themselves among the walls of the fabled sanatorium for two weeks to document reports of hyper-paranormal activity.

On Oct. 26 the Travel Channel finds filmmaker-adventurer Dakota Laden, his sister and his best friend trekking to abandoned (and haunted?) locations where they must spend the night on the new series, “Designation Fear.”

The premiere episode finds them camping out at Brushy State Penitentiary in Petros, Tenn., known as the “Alcatraz of the South.” Will they emerge unscathed?

Ballad says they have pinpointed a tiny atoll in the pacific called Nikumaroro Island. What we know already, he says: “She landed her plane, we believe, at low tide _ and we have all sorts of data to suggest that’s when she did it.

But she had to land at the newly exposed ocean floor that she thought she could land on. And so, she parked her plane right next to this giant cliff that falls down over 10,000 feet,” he says.

“We believe she got off the plane, she was communicating, but then finally she lost her batteries and went ashore. And then the plane was washed over the cliff. So, we’re looking for a plane or more than likely a busted-up plane on the side of a mountain that drops 10,000 feet down, at the angle of repose, that everything wants to go down. And it’s in total darkness,” he said.

Super writer Damon Lindelof (best known for “Lost,” “Crossing Jordan” and “The Leftovers”) has adapted the graphic novel “Watchmen” for HBO, and the changeling baby arrives Sunday. While it’s not exactly a

carbon copy of the original, it has its roots, says Lindelof.

Watchmen is a descriptive term, but whether or not the show feels like it’s “Watchmen” “is in the eye of the beholder,” he said.

“And some people who have an intense relationship with the source material might say, ‘This feels like “Watchmen” to me.’

Others might say, ‘This is an aberration and I wish that it’d never existed!’ And then people who are coming to it for the first time, who have no relationship whatsoever with ‘Watchmen’ won’t even be asking that question: What is ‘Watchmen’ as it pre-existed the show?

“So all I can say is I love the source material, and I wouldn’t be sitting here talking to you right now if Watchmen’ had never been written,’ he shrugs.

“It is something that I hold in incredibly high regard and high esteem, and I went through a very intensive period of terror of it up, and I’m not entirely sure I’m out of that tunnel ... But I have a tremendous amount of respect for this; but, at the same time, I feel that that respect could impair me from doing my job, which is to tell stories and stories that make sense to me and my collaborators.

And, so, I had to separate myself a little bit from this incredible reverence, because if I was too reverent, then I wouldn’t be able to do anything that was risky.”

If he’s known for anything, Lindelof has always taken chances. Many of his most devoted fans were confused by the ending of “Lost,” and some just never jibed with “The Leftovers.” But Lindelof is an acquired taste, 100 proof to some and corn liquor to others.

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(IUP Athletics) IUP football suffered its first loss of the season Saturday to Slippery Rock.

Despite late comeback, football loses first game of season JEFF HART

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

The IUP Crimson Hawks football team is coming off its first loss of the year against arch-rival No. 9 Slippery Rock.

It was a nail-biter that came down to the final minutes, but ultimately favored The Rock 45–42.

IUP struggled heavily to start the game. Both squads went threeand-out on their first drives of the game. The Hawks then threw a pick six on their second offensive drive of the game and never quite recovered in the first half.

The Crimson Hawks couldn’t seem to get a consistent offensive

flow going and were inconsistent on offense to start this game. At one point, the Hawks were down 31–7 in the second quarter, and things were beginning to look dire for this squad.

Going into halftime, IUP was down 31–14; however, this would soon change after coach Paul Tortorella’s halftime adjustments.

The Hawks came out of halftime looking like a brand-new team as they came out and scored a touchdown off an 8-yard pass to receiver Dom McNeil (senior, exercise science).

McNeil went off in the second half and had a historic performance where he put up 141 receiving yards and two second-half touch-

downs. IUP was on fire offensively and put up 28 points in the final two quarters of the game.

The Hawks had a chance to clench the game late in the fourth quarter. SRU quarterback Roland Rivers with around two minutes left in the game was under heavy pressure on a third and long for The Rock; however, Rivers’ elusiveness enabled him to complete an 11yard pass that would seal the deal for SRU. IUP managed to put together a last-second touchdown drive together. Sadly for the Crimson Hawks, it would be too late as there were fewer than 10 seconds remaining in the game.

It was a high-scoring affair be-

tween two of the best squads in Division II. The Hawks managed to limit the second leading passer in Division II to 180 yards passing.

IUP’s downfall was ultimately The Rock’s run game, as it allowed SRU to rush for a collective 230 yards on the day. Tortorella knew the dynamic rushing threat that The Rock presented going into the game.

In his Oct. 7 edition of the Coach Tortorella Show, Tortorella emphasized SRU’s dynamic offense.

“They have two transfer running backs getting the job done. And with Rivers’ running ability, that’s their running game. Nobody has stopped them offensively.”

Tortorella knew this would be a tough matchup for his squad, and

he managed to neutralize the passing game.

Even though IUP ultimately fell short, the Hawks displayed resilience and grit as they put up a prolific offensive performance in the second half.

Slippery Rock has proven that iit deserves recognition as one of the best programs in the country.

If IUP faces The Rock again in the playoffs, it will be able to use this matchup as the steppingstone going forward.

Looking ahead, the Crimson Hawks’ next matchup is against a 3–3 Clarion squad. IUP will look to rebound and focus on its goal of winning out and ultimately making the playoffs.

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Millersville

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Lock Haven

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Kutztown

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Football Standings

Overall record (Conf. record)

EAST

WEST

East Stroudsburg

13

3–0 (6–0)

1–2 (2–4)

3–0 (6–0)

1–2 (3–3)

3–0 (6–0)

1–2 (1–5)

2–1 (5–1)

1–2 (2–4)

2–1 (5–1)

0–3 (1–5)

2–1 (4–2)

1–2 (1–4)

1–2 (2–4)

0–3 (1–5)

1–2 (3–3)

1–2 (1–5)

California

35 West Chester

20

Bloomsburg

17

Mercyhurst

Edinboro

44

23 Clarion

20 Shepherd

32 EAST

Shippensburg

30

Seton Hill

25

CONF.

Gannon

21

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Women’s Soccer Standings overall

overall

CONF.

8–1

10–1

9–2

8–1

8–1

10–1

7–2–2

7–0–2

7–2

8–2

6–3–2

5–3–1

6–3

7–3

6–4

5–4

4–5

5–5

5–4–1

4–4–1

3–5–1

3–5–2

4–6

4–4

3–6

5–6

4–7

3–6

1–9

1–11

3–7

2–7

0–8–1

0–9–2

1–9

0–9

WEST

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Standings

(IUP Athletics)

Conf.

Overall

West Chester

5–0

12–0

E. Stroudsburg

5–0

12–1

Shippensburg

4–1

7–4

Mansfield

3–1

9–3

Kutztown

3–2

8–4

Millersville

2–2

10–2

IUP

2–3

6–6

Mercyhurst

1–4

3–9

Bloomsburg

0–4

3–9

Slippery Rock

0–4

3–9

Seton Hill

0–4

1–8

Brianna Lubrarsky (senior, biology) scored in a victory against Bloomsburg.

Field hockey rebounds with Bloomsburg victory JEFF HART

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

The IUP field hockey team is flying high after a close 2–1 overtime win against Bloomsburg.

Coming into the season, Bloomsburg was ranked ninth in the country and faced the Crimson Hawks earlier this season. In their first matchup, IUP shutout the Huskies 2–0.

On Saturday, the Hawks dominated offensively and outshot Bloomsburg 10–1. Both squads

were scoreless in the first half.

Bloomsburg put up the first goal of the game in the third quarter off their only shot of the game.

The Hawks quickly responded off a swift goal from Brianna Lubarsky (senior, biology). Neither team was able to end this gritty game in regulation.

The Crimson Hawks quickly ended things in overtime after a goal from Lizzi Clemmer (junior, nursing) only two minutes into overtime.

After a tough two-game losing streak, this squad was excited to take away the game Saturday.

“We all understood we really needed to come out with a win Saturday if we wanted a chance at making the playoffs,” freshman forward Emily Opshinsky (criminology) said. “It feels super rewarding to put the work throughout the week and see it pay off in the end.”

The Hawks had been struggling with their offense the past few matchups and were outshot 22–6 in their past two games.

Senior midfielder Camen Weber expressed her excitement with her team’s performance.

“It was awesome to be able to

mentally regroup and collect ourselves after our tough loss against Mansfield. It can be a difficult transition to make. . . Last week we worked really hard on our offense and focused on executing inside of the circle. This really helped us create more opportunities against Bloomsburg.”

Looking forward, the field hockey team will face Seton Hill in the next matchup Wednesday. This is a struggling 1–8 Griffins squad, and they will look to use this game as a momentum builder to make a push for the playoffs.

Even though Seton Hill is struggling, IUP will not take them lightly.

“They are not a team to be taken lightly,” Opshinsky said. “We need to continue to work hard leading up to Wednesday and feed off our last win.”

“The most important thing for us is to focus on with our game against Seton Hill is to play our style of game. We excel when we pass quickly down the sideline and have quick ball movement.”

Even after a crucial win, this squad remains unphased and hungry to make a run in the playoffs.

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Crimson Hawks Roundup ELLIOT HICKS

Sports Editor E.Hicks@iup.edu @ehicks39

CROSS COUNTRY: Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams captured topfive finishes at the Carnegie Mellon Invitational Saturday at Schenley Park in Pittsburgh. The men’s squad finished fourth out of 13 teams, while the women placed fifth out of 16 teams.

The men’s effort, led by seventh-place finisher Noah Mandel (senior, exercise science), was the best performance at this meet by an IUP men’s team in a decade.

Mandel’s performance was his best in an 8K meet in his Crimson Hawks career. Each of the five members of the IUP team finished in the top 50.

Paige Wess (freshman, nursing) once again led the way for the Crimson Hawks’ women’s team, finishing 12th overall.

The top five women’s competitors for IUP also finished in the top 50, including top-30 finishes from Brianna Herr (junior, nutrition) and Ala Small (senior, human resource management).

The next meet for both teams is in two weeks as the PSAC Championships will take place in Bloomsburg.

(IUP Athletics) Jeremy Eckenrode (senior, finance) and Nicole Peterson (freshman, biology) had solid performances this weekend.

HOCKEY: GOLF: Three top-10 finishes by members of the IUP golf team highlighted a third-place finish in the Saint Rose Fall Shootout, which took place Friday and Saturday in Guilderland, New York.

Richie Kline (freshman, academic affairs) led the Crimson Hawks’ effort, finishing sixth and posting his best scores of the season.

IUP finished 10 strokes behind the lead, but its score of 29-over 597 is its best 36-hole score this year.

Jeremy Eckenrode (senior, finance) and Shaun Fedor (freshman, marketing) also scored top-10 finishes for the Crimson Hawks.

The PSAC Championships lie ahead for IUP this weekend in Hershey, which will round out the team’s fall season.

IUP’s men’s club hockey team brought home a pair of road victories over the weekend, defeating West Virginia 3–2 and Slippery Rock 4–2.

Brandon Will (academic affairs) opened the scoring for the Crimson Hawks in Morgantown, West Virginia, and Brendan George (communications media) added a pair of goals in the second period.

Tyler Kurts (criminology) saved 29 of 31 shots to earn the victory.

Against The Rock, Jared Stahel (management) had a stellar performance in net, saving 52 of 54 shots to give IUP the victory.

Mackenzie Schopfer (academic affairs) scored in the first period for the Crimson Hawks, and with the game tied at one in the third period, IUP scored three goals in just over a minute to put the game out

of reach.

A glut of home matchups at S&T Bank Arena are upcoming for the team, starting with a matchup against Mercyhurst on Friday.

SOCCER: IUP soccer picked up an important win against California (Pa.) on Saturday to keep the team on the cusp of the postseason.

Taylor Karan (senior, speech pathology) and Mya Hilliard (senior, developmental studies) scored for the Crimson Hawks in a 3–1 victory.

Madeline Smakulski’s (junior, communications media) seven saves were enough to give IUP a victory.

Each of the Crimson Hawks’ two victories last week came on the road, marking the team’s first road wins of the season. IUP sits fourth in the PSAC West division with a

5–4 conference record (6–4 overall.) The team will host Edinboro on Wednesday for its next matchup.

TENNIS: IUP tennis dominated a pair of teams from the PSAC East Saturday in a successful wrap-up to the team’s fall season. The Crimson Hawks defeated Millersville 6–1 and earned a 7–0 sweep against Shippensburg.

Seven different Crimson Hawks earned a victory of some sort, including a sweep of the doubles matches on the day.

Newly-crowned PSAC champion Joanna Stralka (freshman, psychology) and Mariana Valenzuela (senior, biology) earned the doubles win against the Marauders, while Thais Andreotti (sophomore, psychology) and Maria Magraner (junior) defeated the Red Raiders later

in the day.

VOLLEYBALL: The IUP volleyball team earned a morale-boosting victory against Kutztown Friday, sweeping the Golden Bears to earn the team’s first victory in a sweep since Sept.

21, 2018 and, coupled with a loss to East Stroudsburg Saturday, has still given the Crimson Hawks victories in two of their last four matches.

In the victory, the Crimson Hawks defense accrued 12 blocks in support of strong performances

by Nicole Peterson (freshman, biology), who had 12 kills and Jessica Ignace (senior, psychology) who racked up 10.

Ignace led the Crimson Hawks with eight kills in the loss to the Warriors.

The team remains at home to face Pitt-Johnstown on Tuesday.

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(TNS) Doug Pederson and the Philadelphia Eagles are 3-3 in 2019.

Eagles drop to .500, tied at top of NFC East AUSTIN SMITH

Staff Writer A.S.Smith7@iup.edu @ThePennIUP

This article contains opinion.

The Philadelphia Eagles find themselves tied with the Dallas Cowboys at the top of a weak NFC East division after a 38–20 loss to the Minnesota Vikings.

The NFC East has been an interesting division so far this year with Washington winning its first game and the Giants being inconsistent.

The way the Eagles are playing is

inconsistent, which is the theme for the weak NFC East. The birds could have won this game. They could have been in first place, but Minnesota stopped them from doing so.

It was funny because this week, Carson Wentz threw for a lot more yards than he did last week against the Jets. Wentz threw 26/40 and more than 300 yards and a couple of touchdowns. If you ask me, that does not sound too bad and sounds like it should have been a close score the whole game.

Kirk Cousins went off throwing 22/29 and 333 yards and four touchdowns. Three of the four touchdowns for Minnesota came from the lethal weapon in this game for

the Vikings, who was none other than Stefon Diggs. Diggs was the main reason why I think the Vikings won offensively as well as Minnesota playing tight defense in the first half.

The Eagles once again found themselves trailing in a game.

I can’t stress this enough, Eagles fans. In this league, you cannot play from behind all the time. The Eagles had played behind in every game this season except when they played the Jets.

This is a recipe for disaster, if you ask me.

So, Philly found itself down 24–3 at one point in the game. Alexander Mattison and Dalvin Cook gave

some decent rushing yards at certain points throughout the game for Minnesota.

But of course, the star in this game was Diggs, who had three touchdowns. Not to mention he had almost 200 yards in receptions and averaged 23.9 yards per reception. Cousins just seem to have that hot connection all game with Diggs and threw a couple of deep touchdown passes to him.

Even though it seemed like Wentz and the Eagles were out of reach most of this game, they were down 24–20 at one point.

Wentz made some good throws to Miles Sanders and Alshon Jeffrey throughout the game, and these

two guys were also a huge part of the scoring for the birds.

In all, I feel the Eagles would have been more in this game if they scored a lot earlier. This could have given them more momentum, and I think if they scored first or were at least a lot closer with Minnesota with the score earlier on in the game.

The Eagles will look to continue to find a game where they dominate for the most part offensively and defensively like they did against Green Bay. They need to start that against their division rivals, the Dallas Cowboys, Sunday night to have the inside track to the NFC East title.

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‘Renegade’ played in LA during Chargers/Steelers JEFF MILLER Los Angeles Times TNS They’d already heard the chants, the cheers and the chaos, the Chargers well aware that their stadium had been overtaken by fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

But now, with the arrival of the fourth quarter Sunday, they were hearing something over the giant speakers at Dignity Health Sports Park completely unexpected.

It was the opening of the Styx song “Renegade,” which is a regular anthem at Steelers home games.

“It was crazy,” running back Melvin Gordon said. “They started playing their theme music. I don’t know what we were doing _ that little soundtrack, what they do on their home games. I don’t know why we played that.

“I don’t know what that was.

Don’t do that at our own stadium ...

It already felt like it was their stadium ... I don’t understand that.”

(TNS) Pittsburgh defeated Los Angeles Sunday night 24-17.

“We’re used to not having any fans here,” offensive lineman Forrest Lamp said. “It does suck, though, when they’re playing their music in the fourth quarter. We’re the ones at home. I don’t know who’s in charge of that but they probably should be fired.”

What the Chargers also didn’t understand was that the song was being used as a setup, a setup of a

joke that was then delivered when “Renegade” stopped playing and was replaced by Rick Astley’s song, “Never Gonna Give You Up.” Such pranks, the likes of which have become popular at various stadiums, is intended to mock the visiting fans.

The problem Sunday was that the Chargers trailed at the time, 24–0. It also didn’t help that Pitts-

burgh’s fans had dominated the noise all night.

“We were kind of expecting it from the tendencies from the past,” running back Austin Ekeler said. “There’s no hiding it. A lot of times, we have more away fans than home fans. We’ve kind of gotten used to it.

“Today was a little more than usual. We just like the energy. In my opinion, I just like energy in the crowd. I don’t care if it’s our fans, other fans. I just like energy. It gets me going coming out of the tunnel, ready to play.”

Coach Anthony Lynn agreed, downplaying the notion that the sound from the stands impacted what was happening on the field.

Instead, he talked about lacking execution on a night when the Chargers failed to run the ball, didn’t do well enough stopping the run and couldn’t prevent the Steelers from extending drives with third-down conversions.

“The crowd doesn’t play,” Lynn said. “If anything, I thought that

crowd tonight brought a lot of energy to the stadium. It was an exciting night to play football. We just didn’t execute the way we should have.”

The Chargers never have experienced much of a home-field advantage since moving from San Diego before the 2017 season.

After beating Indianapolis, they’ve lost each of the last three home games.

In 2018, they were 4-3 here, with their eighth home game being played in London.

“Tonight was pretty big,” defensive back Desmond King said.

“We knew what was going to happen. They travel in packs. We were prepared for that. Other than that, we’ve just got to come out here and play. There’s nothing we can do about that.”

Perhaps the crowd Sunday wasn’t a major factor in why the Chargers fell 24–17. But it certainly was another flustering element to a group of players who never expected to start the season 2–4.

Florida, Georgia still in SEC playoff race after first losses MATT BAKER Tampa Bay Times TNS Before Florida left for Tiger Stadium on Saturday, some of the Gators gathered to watch the tail end of rival Georgia’s stunning home loss to South Carolina.

Their reaction was mixed.

“A lot of us don’t like Georgia, so some people were happy that they lost,” safety Donovan Stiner said Monday. “But some of us ... we kind of wanted them to win so once we play them, it’ll make the game bigger, and we would be the ones to knock them off.”

Alas, UF won’t be the first team to knock off Georgia, if the Gators win on Nov. 2. Nor can the Bulldogs be the team that ends UF’s perfect season; LSU already did that.

But as eventful and entertaining as both games were last weekend across both sides of the state line, the 10,000-foot view hasn’t changed. Florida and Georgia are still on a collision course to Jacksonville that will likely decide the SEC East championship.

Granted, that statement seems

(TNS) Florida and Georgia still have a realistic chance at making the College Football Playoff in 2019.

less definitive now than it was a week ago.

Georgia looks vulnerable after standout quarterback Jake Fromm delivered the worst performance of his career. If South Carolina is good enough to win in Athens, then Will Muschamp’s Gamecocks are good enough to beat his old team at Williams-Brice Stadium this weekend.

And at least one set of advanced metrics (SP+) considers Missouri a top-10 team, ahead of UF.

But talent usually wins, and the Gators and Bulldogs are still the division’s most talented teams.

They’re just don’t look like elite ones yet.

Georgia was supposed to be there this year after stringing together three consecutive topthree recruiting classes. Maybe in December we’ll look back on the South Carolina loss as a fluke caused by an uncharacteristically rough performance by a future

NFL quarterback and a missed field goal by an All-American. But for now, it’s hard to see a team that lost at home to Muschamp’s third-string quarterback as a national title contender.

While Georgia’s loss showed the Bulldogs might not be as good as the experts expected, UF’s defeat proved the Gators are exactly who we thought they were. They’re very good but not great.

As gifted as coach Dan Mullen

is as a play caller, UF still has too many weaknesses on its roster. Mullen thought his offense could run on LSU, and it succeeded at times.

But the Gators averaged only 3.7 yards per carry – their third-worst performance so far – in part because of a young offensive line.

Mullen has said repeatedly that he’s still building depth through recruiting. The holes are showing on defense.

The Gators stumbled when they lost standout pass rushers Jabari Zuniga and Jonathan Greenard to injuries at LSU. UF doesn’t have enough experienced talent behind them, especially after Jachai Polite regrettably left early for the NFL. The result: A Gators defense with the fifth-most sacks in the nation failed to record one Saturday.

“It’s a big loss when they’re not out there,” Stiner said.

To be fair, losing two NFL-caliber players is a big loss for any program. Only a select few have the talent and depth to withstand those kinds of hits – and they’re the Alabamas and Ohio States that consistently contend.