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“I’m Shmacked” is returning to Indiana University of Pennsylvania this weekend, according to the group’s official Twitter account.

“I’m Shmacked” is a group of “party animals” that travels to colleges around the U.S. recording videos of parties and posting them on their YouTube account.

The IUP Crimson Crazies, IUP’s basketball student section, reported the group will be in attendance at Saturday’s men’s basketball game in a Jan. 26 tweet.

Despite the fact that “I’m Shmacked”’s original YouTube account has been suspended “due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement,” according to the group’s website, they have created a new account under a different username, ImShmackedTV.

A Business Insider article reported that “I’m Shmacked” has capitalized on college partying and made it into a true business that is valued at $5 million.

The company earns a profit through T-shirt sales and ads on their social media accounts. Including the views from the deleted account, “I’m Shmacked” has more than 25 million YouTube views, 114,000 Facebook likes and 179,000 Twitter followers.

The group still continues to travel to the biggest “party schools” in the country in hopes of catching clips of crazy students essentially attempting to “outparty” each other.

Historically, “I’m Shmacked” has visited only the best of the best Division-I party schools (Penn State, West Virginia, Indiana and Ohio State, to name a few), but according to a series of two tweets sent from their account on Jan. 26, the group is steering clear of D-I schools for a while.

“We’re in the middle of a large deal,

so we have to lay low,” read the first tweet. “That is the reason we’re exploring D2 schools.”

Michelle Fryling, IUP spokeswoman, said the university is doing everything it can to prepare for the return of “I’m Shmacked,” and she hopes IUP students realize the long-term repercussions of being involved in a video posted by the party-seeking group.

“It’s cool until you’re sitting in a job interview and the employer says, ‘Oh, you went to IUP? I think I saw you partying in a video posted by ‘I’m Shmacked,’’” Fryling said. “Is that how you want people to view your university?”

Fryling also said that Greek life is cooperating well with the university.

Many Greek organizations plan to increase security this weekend in hopes of lessening their involvement in the videos and receiving the negative publicity.

“I’m Shmacked” first visited IUP’s campus in 2012.

By pete sirianni Managing Editor P.M.Sirianni@iup.edu

Earlier this year, the Republican-led House of Representatives passed a measure to move forward with the controversial construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The much-talked about pipeline would send tar sands from Canada through the midwestern United States directly to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. The vote actually centers around the fourth phase of the project, known as the Keystone XL. The proposed fourth phase will connect the pipeline from its origin in Alberta, Canada, to Steele City, Neb. Republicans have been clamoring for this project, which, they say, would help create jobs and reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil.

Democrats, including President

Barack Obama, are wary to approve construction because of possible environmental ramifications.

Obama repeatedly has threatened to use his veto power should a measure pass through the G.O.P.-held House and Senate.

The fourth phase would pass through Baker, Mont., which is home to a crude oil reserve, which could be tapped for even more oil production. However, the resistance stems from the pipeline passing through the Ogallala Aquifer, which has enough water to cover the contingent 48 states two feet deep in water, according to an Aug. 6, 2012, Washington Post article.

Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) joined with eight other Democrats and a unanimous Republican group to pass the measure 62-36, missing the 67 required votes to overrule a presidential veto.

The bill is set for a vote in the House of Representatives next week.

‘Let’s Talk’ addresses racism as part of African American Cultural Center series

By Andrew Milliken Lead Wet Ink Writer A.P.Milliken@iup.edu

Racism in all forms was discussed in an open forum Thursday as part of an event series sponsored by Indiana University Pennsylvania’s African American Cultural Center.

The series, titled “Let’s Talk,” opened with a discussion led by Dr. Beverly Goodwin of the IUP psychology department.

Goodwin opened the discussion with a quote from the USA Today article “Voices: The exhausting task of being black in America,” by reporter Arienne Thompson: “Do you know what it’s like to be followed in a store? ‘Mistaken’ for the help?

Petted like a dog because your hair is ‘interesting?’ Told to ‘get over’ the wholesale trade and trafficking of your ancestors? I do. And so do millions of other black Americans. … We are exhausted.

We are tired. We can’t breathe.”

In her efforts to set students on the road to providing an atmosphere of truth, understanding and moving forward, Goodwin touched on examples of racism ranging from the seemingly

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insignificant to the nationally pervasive.

“When I leave this campus and go out into the world, all kinds of things happen,” Goodwin said, citing incidents of everyday discrimination such as being asked for food stamps at cash registers and being followed through department stores by watchful eyes anticipating a theft.

To Goodwin and the small group of students present, these actions are the result of both systemic oppression and uninformed, individual prejudices.

Goodwin then cited a classroom example of a white, male student who told her that the problem in America today was the result of black Americans not working hard enough to bring about change.

“What more work do you want us to do,” Goodwin asked, “when individuals have given their lives, individuals have given their mental health, individuals have given their finances, individuals have given their all?”

While she did lead the discussion, Goodwin hardly dominated the conversation, often inviting the attending students to voice their own opinions in an attempt to foster mutual understanding.

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(Left) Senoumou Keita (graduate student, public affairs), Dr. Beverly Goodwin and Samira Gaikwad (graduate student, English literature and composition) discussed their thoughts on anti-black racism with other students (right) at the Brown Bag Intergroup Discussion Thursday in the Multicultural Suite in Delaney Hall.

Natifah Hercules (freshman, criminology), who frequents events sponsored by the AACC, found the opening “Let’s Talk” event beneficial to anyone willing to attend.

“I thought it was very informative,” Hercules said.

“Anyone who decides to come here will gain something.

“It’s just to get a better understanding.”

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Goodwin also skillfully avoided any misunderstood pretense that the struggle for racial equality in 2015 is based on an us-versus-them mentality and described the current social climate not as an African American movement but as an “American movement.”

Conversation also covered the differences in race relations and awareness between the civil rights movement and 2015, with technology and the Internet

being the biggest contributors to the way social movements are organized.

Goodwin brought the discussion to a close with a message of hopefulness, explaining that as long as we continue to move forward through open conversation, self-examination and mutual agreement, we will continue to move closer to, if not solving, at least understanding the monumental obstacle of racism in America.

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Twitter’s user growth lags even as sales grow By queenie wong San Jose Mercury News TNS

Alcohol Violations

• Jacob Alexander Clark, 20, of Stoystown, was taken into custody and cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness inside Sheetz, 768 Wayne Ave., Feb. 1 at 1:57 a.m., according to borough police.

• Mason Sutton, 20, of Philadelphia, and Kwame Edwards, 20, of Philadelphia, were arrested for public drunkenness and underage drinking on the sidewalk between Weyandt Hall and Northern Hall Jan. 31 at 1:58 a.m., according to university police.

• Christopher Rader, 22, of Wexford, was cited for public drunkenness in front of Folger Hall Feb. 1 at 1:42 a.m., according to university police. Rader is not an IUP student.

• Alyssa Pritz, 18, of Ivyland, was charged with underage drinking and public drunkenness on the sidewalk of Garman Avenue Jan. 31 at 12:48 a.m., according to university police. Pritz was lodged in the county jail.

• Alexander Buterbaugh, 26, of Indiana, was found by borough police lying alone in the snow in the 800 block of Church Street Feb. 4 at 2:37 a.m., according to borough police. Buterbaugh was cited for public drunkenness, the report said.

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SAN FRANCISCO – When it comes to attracting more users, Twitter still has a lot to prove.

About 288 million people logged into the service at least once a month in the fourth quarter, a slight uptick from 284 million users in the third quarter, the social network said Thursday, Feb. 5, as it released earnings.

Analysts and investors have been watching Twitter’s user growth rate closely as an important measure of the company’s financial health and future.

“The question was whether they could attract and retain new users.

They’ve pretty much failed to do that,” said Nate Elliott, an analyst for Forrester Research.

But Twitter also reported sales of $479 million in the fourth quarter, compared to $242 million during the same period last year. That beat the $453 million in sales analysts on average surveyed by Thomas Reuters expected the company to report Thursday and Twitter’s shares were up in early afterhours trading.

“We closed out the year with our business advancing at a great pace,” said Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo in a statement.

The social network hasn’t made a profit yet, reporting a net loss of $125 million, or 20 cents a share in the fourth quarter. Excluding certain one-time expenses such as stock-based compensation, Twitter reported a profit of 12 cents per share, beating Wall Street’s expectations.

Twitter has been trying to convince

investors that its audience is much larger than the monthly user numbers and they can make money from users who are logged off of the microblogging site.

People see tweets when they’re embedded in websites, mobile apps or Web searches.

The social network said Tuesday, Feb. 3, it’s teaming up with the newsreading app Flipboard and Yahoo Japan, allowing them to show tweets paid for by advertisers on those two services.

It also struck a deal with Google that would make tweets more searchable on the web browser.

Meanwhile, Twitter has been rolling out new features in the last month including direct group messaging, mobile videos and making tweaks to its timeline. Twitter’s shares were up 1.41 percent to $41.29 when the market closed Thursday

• Jay Michael Pettina, 23, of Indiana, was charged with resisting arrest, obstructing emergency services, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness after Pettina reportedly obstructed emergency aid and yelled profanities at borough police when they responded to a medical emergency at Culpeppers Bar, 653 Philadelphia St., Jan. 30 at 1:24 a.m., according to borough police.

State police arrest ‘high-level’ dealers in Indiana, Westmoreland counties

Vehicle Violations

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•Bryant Omar Thomas Jr., 23, of Philadelphia, was cited for illegally operating a vehicle without ignition interlock after borough police found Thomas’s vehicle unresponsive parked on the roadway in the 500 block of South Sixth Street Jan. 31 at 3:36 a.m., according to borough police. Thomas’ drivers license required him to only operate vehicle with an ignition interlock system, the report said.

Theft

• Borough police responded to Sheetz, 768 Wayne Ave., for a report of a retail theft Jan. 31 at 12:30 a.m. Upon arrival, workers reported that suspect Cory Hunter, 20, of Collegeville, had taken a Reese’s candy bar without paying, according to borough police. Hunter was taken into custody and cited for retail theft and underage drinking, the report said.

• A wallet was reportedly stolen from a locker in the Hadley Union Building Fitness Center sometime between 1 and 2:30 p.m. Feb. 4. Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to contact borough police at 724-349-2121.

• A blue, specialized Crossroads comfort bicycle was reportedly stolen from a business in the 00 block of South Fifth Street sometime between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Feb. 2.

• An iPhone charger was reportedly stolen from a room on the fifth floor of University Towers Jan. 30 at 5 p.m. Anyone with information is asked to contact university police at 724-357-2141.

Burglary

• Students living in the 300 block of South 11th Street reported to borough police that someone entered their residence through an unlocked door while they were away and stole several laptop computers sometime between 10:30 p.m. Jan. 30 and 3:30 a.m. Jan. 31. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

• Students living in a residence in the 1200 block of Oakland Avenue reported that someone entered their residence and stole several items, including cash, a computer and a back pack, sometime between 2 and 8 a.m. Feb. 1. Anyone with information is asked to call borough police.

Criminal Mischeif

• A Community Assistant in Putt Hall reported that unknown persons tore down a sign, breaking it on the third floor Feb. 2 at 2:02 p.m. Anyone with information is asked to contact university police.

• A female student reported to borough police that she was driving her red Honda Civic southbound in the 400 block of South Seventh Street Feb. 1 at approximately 3 a.m. when a large group of people crossed the street in front of her. She reported that she slowed her vehicle, allowing them to cross, and a passenger inside her car honked her horn repeatedly at the pedestrians. One of the males in the group then kicked her car, causing a large dent in the rear passenger door. Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call borough police.

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Pennsylvania State Police say they have arrested three “high-level” people in a drug operation that ran through much of Western Pennsylvania.

Two were arrested Wednesday during a traffic stop and a third was arrested Thursday, Feb. 4, at the State Office Building in Greensburg, where he was working to clean the building for a private contractor. During a news conference today, officials said troopers in the narcotics and vice unit out of the Greensburg barracks were conducting an investigation when they pulled over a car for speeding shortly after 12:30 a.m.

Wednesday on Route 422 in Armstrong Township, Indiana County.

Inside the car were Kevin Witcher, 41, of New Kensington, and Katie Eaton, 22, of Indiana, both of whom were taken to the Indiana County Jail on drug and conspiracy charges.

State police said they found 1,249 stamp bags of heroin and more than $6,500 in cash during the traffic stop.

Their interactions with Witcher and Eaton led them to an apartment on Terrace Avenue in Apollo, Armstrong County, that officials described as a “stash house.”

There, troopers said they found a locked tool box that contained more than 16,000 stamp bags of heroin, two kilograms of cocaine, as well as crack cocaine, marijuana and three guns, one of which had been reported stolen in Lower Burrell last year.

Police wrote in a criminal complaint

that when they stopped Witcher, he had a lanyard with keys that opened the box. Troopers said they suspect the man who rented the apartment, 31-year-old Justin King, left the apartment shortly before they arrived, and they continued to search for him this morning.

After word that police were searching for King went out on social media, someone called Greensburg police to report that he was working at the State Office Building. Police arrested him at the building, and he will be taken to the Armstrong County to await arraignment, Trooper Stephen Limani said.

Capt. Stephen Eberle said troopers suspect this group was selling drugs in Allegheny, Westmoreland, Indiana and Armstrong counties. He said troopers are still trying to determine where they acquired the drugs.

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Bodies of pilot, co-pilot found after Taiwan crash DPA

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TAIPEI – The bodies of the pilot and co-pilot were retrieved from the wreckage of a plane that crashed into a river in Taiwan killing at least 31 people, media reports said Thursday.

TransAsia Airways flight GE235 was en route from Taipei’s Songshan Airport to Kinmen Island with 53 passengers and five crew members on board when it hurtled into a river after takeoff at 10:52 a.m. Wednesday, clipping a bridge and missing tall buildings nearby.

The bodies of pilot Liao Chien-tsung and co-pilot Liu Tzu-chung were among those found at the site, state-run Central News Agency reported.

More parts of the TransAsia Airways plane were lifted out of a river in Taipei

early Thursday after cranes were used to hoist part of the wreckage Wednesday, CNA reported.

Fifteen injured survivors are in the hospital and 12 people remain missing, the report said. There were 31 Chinese tourists and 22 Taiwanese passengers on board.

According TransAsia Airways, 34 family members of Chinese passengers will arrive in Taiwan Thursday, some of whom will be asked to help identify unknown victims.

Chinese tourism officials from Xiamen in Fujian Province are scheduled to arrive in Taiwan Thursday afternoon.

Taiwan’s minister for the Mainland Affairs Council, a government body that deals with the Beijing authorities, said it would offer assistance to the family members of the affected Chinese tourists.

US and Russia preparing for Mars, seek harmony By jonathan tirone Bloomberg News TNS

VIENNA – The U.S. and Russia are seeking to achieve a level of agreement in outer space that political leaders of the two countries have found increasingly elusive on the ground.

U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko lift off March 27 on a record-breaking yearlong mission aboard the International Space Station. They’ll be running experiments to prepare for a future joint mission to Mars, Julie Robinson of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said at the United Nations in Vienna Thursday.

“Originally, Russian and U.S. spacedevelopment programs developed independently, and we each saw different problems,” Robinson, who is NASA’s chief scientist for the space station, told Bloomberg News. “Now we’re bringing that science together. The political sphere and the practical sphere are very separate.”

U.S.-Russian collaboration in Earth’s orbit is one of the few areas unharmed by tit-for-tat accusations that have left relations between the two powers at post-Cold War lows. Some U.S. leaders are considering military solutions to counter Russian influence in eastern

Ukraine. Russia sees threats from expanding military bases in its neighborhood, along with U.S. missile-defense plans and cyber attacks.

The Russian and American Scientists aboard the space station will conduct experiments aimed at countering bone loss experienced during extended stays in zero-gravity environments, Robinson said. Other experiments will examine vision loss that affects some astronauts as well as the dangers of cosmic radiation.

Before embarking on an open-space journey to Mars, which NASA doesn’t expect before 2035, scientists need to gain a better understanding of how humans adapt to the physical and psychological challenges of an extended period in space.

“I’ve work with my Russian colleagues on a daily basis, and as we’ve worked together over the years we’ve only gotten closer and more effective in working together,” Robinson said.

“We’ll eventually have a U.S.-Russian consensus about the right way to treat the crews as they go to Mars.”

Without being able to understand and alleviate the stresses and solitude that the astronauts face, “you have the perfect ingredients for murder,” Robinson told an audience Wednesday, Feb. 4, at Vienna’s Natural History Museum.

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Rescuers carry out rescue operation after a plane plunged into a river in Taipei, southeast China’s Taiwan, Feb. 4. A Taiwan TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a Taipei river on Wednesday morning, killing at least 21 people. Flight ATR-72, which was headed for Kinmen from Taipei, had 58 people on board, including 31 passengers from the Chinese mainland. It crash landed in the Keelung River after it clipped an elevated motorway with its wing.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. – A shooting incident on the University of South Carolina’s Columbia campus is being investigated as a murder-suicide.

University of South Carolina police and others responded to the shooting at the Public Health Research Center on campus about 1 p.m. Thursday. University spokesman Wes Hickman subsequently said the building had been secured and an all-clear issued.

However, confusion persisted.

According to the university’s Darla Moore School of Business, university police were saying not to release students from that nearby building, even though the threat had passed.

An investigation is being conducted by the State Law Enforcement Division, which takes the lead in all shootings on South Carolina college campuses.

Thom Berry of SLED said the agency was investigating a murder-suicide in the public health building.

“There was no active shooter other than the two deceased,” Berry said.

No names were released, and Berry

wouldn’t say if the two killed included students, faculty or others related to the university.

University President Harris Pastides declined to comment Thursday afternoon.

A schoolwide alert went out at 1:16 p.m. in a text message to all 25,000-plus university students and faculty saying, “SHORS FIRED AT NEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. Seek safe shelter.”

The typo was included in the message.

Afterward, the university said all public health classes and any classes in the Public Health Research Center (New School of Public Health) had been canceled for the remainder of the day.

There was an unconfirmed report from an employee at the school, who declined to give her name, that the shooting happened on the fourth floor of the building.

As the alert was issued, people were asked to seek a safe shelter. All university buildings also were put on lockdown, and police set up a perimeter, blocking off several streets.

Immediately after the alert, Cam-

eron Razzaghi, 22, a Univerity of South Carolina student in a bank parking lot across from the school, said he was worried some friends might still be in the school.

Razzaghi said he was on the Virginia Tech campus at the time of the 2007 shootings there, while growing up in Blacksburg.

“I’m worried,” Razzaghi said. “I’ve been through this before.”

The manager of Subway on Assembly Street said police ordered the shop and gas station to lock its doors about 1:30 p.m. Six employees were inside.

“The road is blocked,” said the woman, who declined to give her name.

“Nobody in and nobody out.”

Gov. Nikki Haley cut short a news conference for security concerns Thursday. Some state government workers, who work close to campus at the Capitol Complex, also were notified by security officers of the shooting.

Officers in SWAT gear, armed with AR-15s, moved students across Assembly Street from the school of public health.

Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook was on the scene as well as the Columbia Fire Department.

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Survey finds college freshmen party less, worry about money more By larry gordon Los Angeles Times TNS

LOS ANGELES – The current crop of college freshmen showed up at school as less experienced party animals than their older peers, but with more mental health and emotional issues, according to a national survey by the University of California, Los Angeles researchers.

At the same time, the new college students – who entered their teens when many of their parents grappled with the recession’s economic fallout – are more concerned about financial success and aspire to attend graduate schools to enhance their career prospects, the annual American Freshman study found.

The survey suggests that the incoming freshmen “were buckling down prior to college and taking their academics more seriously,” said Kevin Eagan, interim managing director of UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute, which has administered the poll for 49 years.

However, it remains unclear whether these students will prove on average to be a tame group, Eagan said. In fact, he said their relative abstinence during high school may mean they could be more tempted to binge drink and get into other trouble as social newbies away from the constraints of home.

That risk, along with reportedly higher levels of depression and other emotional problems, will challenge colleges to provide enough counseling support and substance abuse education, he said.

Nearly 11 percent of respondents said they spent six hours or more a week at parties during their senior year of high school, down from 23 percent a decade ago, the survey found.

Additionally, 61 percent reported that they spent only an hour or less a week at parties, up from 39 percent 10 years ago.

Along the same lines, those who said they occasionally or frequently drank beer dropped to 33.5 percent, compared with 45.5 percent a decade before and 69 percent in 1984. Just 39 percent of current freshmen said they drank wine or hard liquor in the last year, compared with about 52 percent 10 years ago and 68 percent in 1987, when the poll addressed the issue.

Colleges around the country are

struggling to meet higher demands for psychological and crisis counseling, heightened by fears that their campuses could face incidents of violence and suicide.

The survey, which was taken by 153,000 students mainly during last summer’s orientations at 227 four-year colleges, bolstered those concerns. Nearly 12 percent of the freshmen rated their mental health as worse than most others their age; that compared with roughly 7 percent about a decade ago and 3.5 percent in 1985, when the question was first asked. In addition, 9.5 percent said they frequently felt depressed, up from the 6 percent low point, recorded in 2009.

“This is signaling that students are bringing with them some emotional struggles, some mental health issues,” and those issues could make it harder for students to stay in school and earn a college degree, said Eagan, who is an assistant professor of education at UCLA. Yet whatever problems the freshmen have, a lack of ambition is not one of them.

A record 82 percent said that it was very important or essential that they become well-off financially, compared with nearly 77 percent in 2008 before the recession hit and almost double what it was 40 years ago during the countercultural era. Similarly, the share of students entering college with plans to eventually earn a master’s degree increased to about 44 percent, also a record and up from 28 percent four decades ago.

Freshmen who indicated they wanted to earn a doctorate or professional degree also was at a new peak: nearly a third, compared with 21 percent four decades ago. Interest in medical school has increased in the last decade while the popularity of law school has dropped a bit.

Freshmen saw the economy crash in 2009, and many knew of college-educated people who lost jobs.

As a result, they are entering early adulthood believing “they need more money to be comfortable and seeing that a bachelor’s degree may not be the end of their educational journey,” Eagan said.

Plus, worries about college costs and student debt heighten desires for a good salary after graduation, he said.

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2016 election campaign will debate US troops to stop Islamic State By david lightman McClatchy Washington Bureau TNS

WASHINGTON – The horrifying murder of a Jordanian pilot, made public this week, suggests that U.S. efforts to stop the Islamic State extremist group are ineffective, making it more likely that the 2016 election campaign will become a debate about ground troops.

President Barack Obama has launched waves of airstrikes at Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria, but he steadfastly rules out sending ground troops into combat.

At least six potential Republican presidential candidates won’t dismiss that option. Others, though, hedge when asked how they’d proceed beyond criticizing Obama’s airstrikes-only strategy as ineffective.

Dealing with the Islamic State is risky political business. Politicians have to be careful that they don’t appear to be taking advantage of fear and outrage over the group’s brutality.

And they know that ground troops are not a crowd-pleasing idea, since a war-weary public has vivid memories of the lengthy U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Americans are increasingly worried about terrorist threats and want heightened readiness and a tough response.

A recent Pew Research Center survey found combating terrorism inching ahead of the economy as Americans’ top priority for Obama and Congress. Twothirds were concerned that the Islamic State was a major threat to this country.

The drumbeat of horrors keeps the apprehension fresh. The beheadings of hostages, the killings at the offices of satirical Paris-based magazine Charlie Hebdo and the burning alive of Jordanian Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh intensify the concern.

Republicans, far more than Democrats, have for months sensed an opportunity to use terrorism policies to their advantage, and aren’t relenting.

“There is a Democrat in the White House, so it’s a little easier (for Republicans) to be hawkish,” said Craig Robinson, editor of TheIowaRepublican.com, a partisan website.

Add to that the prospect of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the

Democratic nominee, even though she was in office in 2011, when American forces killed terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.

As a U.S. senator, Clinton voted in 2002 to authorize President George W. Bush to use military force in Iraq, a vote she later said she regretted.

“Republicans likely view her as being weak on foreign policy,” said Robinson.

Clinton said last month that military action against Islamic terrorists was “critical.” She did not get more specific about U.S. ground troops.

Republicans argue that weakness from the Obama administration, including the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq, allowed the rise of the Islamic State.

“We should not be surprised,” former Virginia Gov. James Gilmore said of Tuesday’s murder. “When the good guys step out and leave a void, the bad guys step in and fill it.”

Ground troops, many suggest, could or should be an option. Among their views: – Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry: He “believes we shouldn’t take options off the table when it comes to protecting America’s interests,” said spokeswoman Lucy Nashed.

– Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson: “If you need ground troops to take ’em out, you put in ground troops,” he told McClatchy in a recent interview.

– Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker: “We have to be prepared to put boots on the ground if that’s what it takes,” he told ABC on Sunday.

– Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida: The fight against the Islamic State “might require some element of U.S. ground power in order to finish the job,” he told CNN last fall. He continues to think the U.S. shouldn’t take options off the table.

– Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina: He suggested “ground troops on the American side to supplement a regional force . . . with large enough numbers to defeat” the Islamic State.

He called for about 10,000 American support personnel “to make sure that we win not only in Syria but in Iraq.”

– Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky: He has been a supporter of U.S. airstrikes, though he said Obama had acted im-

properly by not seeking congressional authorization first. In December, he introduced a resolution providing that consent, which hasn’t been taken up for a vote. It included a section limiting how ground forces could be used.

It said such forces could be used “for limited operations against highvalue targets or as necessary for advisory and intelligence gathering operations.”

Ground power could also be used to protect or rescue U.S. citizens or military personnel from “imminent danger” posed by the Islamic State.

Others are less specific.

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas suggested Tuesday, “The question of what is to be required should be a military question driven by the objective.”

The problem with Obama’s foreign policy, he said, is that “the objective has not been focused appropriately on destroying ISIS. Rather, it has been a photo op foreign policy.”

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a New York audience last fall that the rise of the Islamic State has come partly because of allies’ inability to trust Obama and his policies. His office didn’t respond to requests for comment. Nor did former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s political committee.

Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton wanted to see a more focused strategy.

“The United States needs an objective more than anything else,” he said.

“Asking about U.S. ground forces before asking about what our objective should be is a propaganda technique encouraged by the White House, and which reveals all the weaknesses of current administration thinking.”

Asking anyone to predict the specifics of policy two years ahead is probably an impossible task, though.

“I can’t tell you today what is the best policy for whatever crisis is to come,” said former Gov. Gilmore, who headed an influential high-level congressional panel before and after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that assessed threats and recommended policies.

What is clear is this, said Carroll Doherty, Pew director of political research: “There’s always potential for national security and terrorism to be an issue.”

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Obama pushes student data privacy By christi parsons Tribune Washington Bureau TNS

WASHINGTON – The White House began pushing Thursday for legislation to protect the online privacy of students, allowing them to do schoolwork while keeping the door closed to marketing and sales, according to senior officials.

“We should be able to encourage those innovations,” senior Obama adviser John Podesta said, “while still protecting kids’ privacy in school.”

Aides believe the initiative is an area where President Barack Obama can find bipartisan cooperation, and the administration is working on the measure with lawmakers in both parties.

“That’s something we can work on together,” Podesta said.

The new push for the Student Digital Privacy Act came as the president’s economic advisers released a report on their work to protect consumers from privacy breaches. Much of the work involves studying the nature of the massive troves of personal data being

collected online and how they’re being used for commercial use. One such use is highly informed marketing, in which online users are shown ads targeted to them based on data that’s been collected about them. This can lead to higher prices for people who seem more likely to buy a product.

The administration plans to release draft legislation this month proposing a broader privacy rights standard and also is calling for a single national standard to protect consumers from data breaches. Lawmakers have tried but failed to come up with a federal standard along the lines of several state regulations to protect online privacy.

Every new report of privacy breach raises lawmakers’ concerns about the potential for disaster, Obama advisers argue. Hours before Thursday’s White House conference call with reporters, the health insurer Anthem disclosed that the personal information of millions of customers and employees had come under a “very sophisticated external cyberattack.”

“There’s a lot of concern in both parties,” Podesta said.

Pope set to address congress By kurtis lee Los Angeles Times TNS

House Speaker John Boehner, ROhio, announced Thursday that Pope Francis would visit the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 24 and become the first head of the Roman Catholic Church to address a joint session of Congress.

“It will be a historic visit, and we are truly grateful that Pope Francis has accepted our invitation,” Boehner said in a statement.

The pope will arrive in Washington on Sept. 22 and meet with President Barack Obama at the White House the

next morning, the Catholic News Agency reported last month.

He will then travel to New York on Sept. 25 and speak at the United Nations. From Sept. 25 to 27, Pope Francis will attend the World Meeting of Families conference and will give Sunday Mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.

The events are expected to draw 2 million people to Philadelphia. Boehner extended the invitation to the pope last March.

“We are eager to welcome His Holiness to the U.S. Capitol,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a statement.

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3-D printers to make customized human body parts By steve johnson San Jose Mercury TNS

SAN JOSE, Calif. – It sounds like something from a science fiction plot: So-called three-dimensional printers are being used to fashion prosthetic arms and hands, jaw bones, spinal-cord implants – and one day perhaps even living human body parts.

While the parts printed for humans so far have been fashioned from plastic, metal and other inorganic materials, researchers in California and elsewhere also have begun printing living tissue, with the goal of eventually employing these “bioprinters” to create customized kidneys, livers and other organs for people needing transplants. What’s particularly attractive about the technology, according to its proponents, is that 3-D printers can produce body parts much quicker and cheaper than other methods.

“You can make things for tens of dollars rather than thousands of dollars,” said Stanford University professor Dr. Paul Wang, a cardiovascular and bioengineering expert who is among those studying the printers’ potential for prosthetics, replacement bones and other applications.

“It’s totally opened up what’s possible.”

Developed in the 1980s by physicist Charles Hull, 3-D printers have been used to make everything from jewelry, toys and guns to smartphone cases, car components and portions of NASA’s robotic Mars rover. Last year, a Chinese firm even constructed a five-story apartment building from 3-D-printed walls and other pieces.

Although the process varies, 3-D printing typically involves using an inkjet-like printer that extrudes layer upon layer of substances into shapes digitally

fashioned with computer-aided-design software. Applied to medicine in recent years, the technology is producing remarkable results. People missing limbs or suffering other physical problems have been outfitted with printed arms, hands, shoulder joints, heel bones and portions of spines, hips, faces and skulls, among other things.

Bespoke Products of San Francisco 3-D-prints “fairings,” which fit around prosthetic legs to make them look more natural. And a researcher for software company Autodesk is helping Ugandan officials learn how to print other prosthetic leg parts for children in that country. But among the most ambitious dreams for the technology is that it will prove useful for making implantable human tissue, especially organs, which are in short supply, said Carlos Olguin, who is part of an Autodesk research team he describes as “looking at life as a new design frontier.” Replacement organs, he said, are a “need that is not being satisfied at all in many cases.”

One company working on that problem with Autodesk’s help is Organovo of San Diego. Using a combination of cells in what it terms “bio-ink,” Organovo already has 3-D-printed blood vessels as well as liver, lung and breast-tumor tissues for laboratory studies of potential treatments for cancer, Parkinson’s disease and pulmonary hypertension.

Although the company has yet to be profitable since it was incorporated in 2007, it has forged partnerships with several research institutions and drug companies, including giant Hoffman La Roche.

Many experts caution that printing viable replacement organs will prove extremely difficult, especially for such complex organs as the brain. In addition, it’s hard to print the blood-vessel networks needed to replenish organs with oxygen and nutrients. Nonetheless,

University of Pennsylvania researchers say they’ve designed a way to print those networks and a Russian company, 3-D Bioprinting Solutions, has vowed this year to 3-D-print a transplantable thyroid gland, which is laced with blood vessels.

Still, other researchers are 3-D-printing insulin-producing pancreatic tissues to help manage diabetes, viruses that can attack cancer cells and organ models that surgeons can practice on or that can be used to help design medical devices.

Stanford’s Wang, for example, has made a 3-D-printed model of the heart along with a prototype of a tiny gadget he envisions one day could crawl through real hearts to gather information on the organ’s health or kill cells that damage it.

The business-information firm Visiongain has estimated that the 3-Dprinting medical market could generate about $4 billion in 2018. But Lux Research, which tracks emerging technologies, has a far more conservative forecast. Assessing the current market at $25 million annually, it projects the business will reach no more than $638 million by 2025. One of the biggest challenges for the industry will be convincing the government of the safety and efficacy of implanting bioprinted tissues into people, said Anthony Vicari, a Lux research associate.

“I think it’s going to be held back more than some of the advocates expect by the difficulty of getting regulatory approval,” he said. “That’s likely to slow things down.”

Attracting potential investors could be another barrier, said Shaochen Chen, a University of California, San Diego

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Washington University biomedical engineering students designed and built a robotic prosthetic arm for teenager Sydney Kendall of St. Louis. Sydney requested that her new arm be pink. She lost her arm in a boating accident when she was six years old.

nanoengineering professor experimenting with 3-D printers to make blood vessels and a liver-like device that can remove blood toxins.

Although he believes the business “will be big,” he added, “this is a relatively new field, and it takes a while for people to recognize its importance.”

Yet despite such challenges, many

people are encouraged by the impact 3-D printing already is having on health care.

“It’s going to be a long road; there are a lot of hurdles ahead of us,” said Michael Renard, Organovo’s executive vice president for commercial operations.

“But there is a lot that’s showing us it’s worth continuing to move forward.”

Yahoo gains search share, thanks to Firefox

By TRACEY LIEN Los Angeles Times TNS

In December, Yahoo replaced Google as the default search engine on the Firefox browser. The result: Yahoo’s highest market share numbers in more than five years.

Still, Yahoo is still getting crushed in the search market. The numbers, tracked by Web analytics company StatCounter, show 10.9 percent of search referrals in the U.S. came from Yahoo

in January.

Google took the top spot with 74.8 percent of searches, and Bing came in second with 12.4 percent.

In a report focusing only on Yahooon-Firefox usage in the U.S., StatCounter found that Yahoo tripled its search referrals from 9.9 percent in November to 28.3 percent in January. Over the same period, Google-on-Firefox usage in the U.S. fell from 81.9 percent to 63.9 percent.

“When we removed Firefox usage from the U.S. search data, Yahoo’s

gains and Google’s losses were erased,” said StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen. “This highlights the importance of the default search option and the significance of the upcoming Safari search deal for the major players.”

Safari, Apple’s Web browser, currently uses Google as its default search engine.

The company’s contract with Google expires in early 2015, which will leave the field open for competitors like Yahoo and Bing to make a play as the default search engine for the browser.

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Opinion Cartoon by Samantha Barnhart & Kristin May

Order now and get a free two-year degree

By Charleston Daily Mail

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The following editorial appeared in the Charleston Daily Mail on Friday, Jan. 23: It’s an incredible offer.

High school graduates across the country will be able to attend community college for free. That’s right. Free.

A technical education in the latest skills are just a session of Congress away for millions of new high school graduates. All they’ll have to do is pick their school and show up.

They’ll get two years of education with the federal government paying 75 percent of the bill.

Their home state will pay the other 25 percent.

But wait, there’s more to this great sounding new federal entitlement program.

It will add $60 billion to the federal debt that today’s graduates, their children, grand-children and great grand-

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children will end up paying, plus interest.

And if you buy now, it will grow out of control.

What, with guaranteed government payment of tuition bills, student tuition will skyrocket.

But that’s okay, the degrees will be free. Free! FREE!!!

Okay. So we jest.

But like so many “As Seen on TV” products that arrive in the mail not nearly as useful as they appear in the commercial, President Obama’s free community college proposal is not nearly as good as it sounds.

Make no mistake, the need for more community and technical college graduates is great.

An estimated 35 percent of job openings in America will require a degree of some kind by 2020, reported the Daily Mail’s Samuel Speciale recently.

“Most high-skill and high-paying jobs require some college now,” said James Skidmore, chancellor of West Virginia’s 27-campus community and

technical college system.

But federal involvement in states’ community colleges is not likely to improve education.

“The feds make billions of dollars off student loans annually,” writes Jennifer Kabbany in The College Fix. “These government-backed loans ... have actually increased the price of a degree, as tuition prices have skyrocketed far greater than inflation rates and continue to do so.

“With that, the incentive to keep costs down has vanished. School bureaucracy is far less efficient and bloated because of all the ‘free-government money’ being throw at it.”

Tennessee recently implemented a free tuition program for in-state students. May any state that wishes and can afford to offer free community college to its citizens do so.

But the federal government has a poor track record on such great sounding programs.

Let’s not federalize community college education.

February 6, 2015

Penn EDITORIAL

Better late than never A timely announcement at the start of Black History Month, HarperCollins Publishers stated in a press release earlier this week that author Harper Lee will release a sequel to her classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” almost 55 years after it hit bookshelves.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about racial inequality in a small southern town of Maycomb, Ala., during the 1930s probably found its way onto many students’ summer reading lists or into their American literature classes in high school.

Those who chose to SparkNote it instead of reading it may have missed some of the important life lessons packed into the chapters of the timeless story.

The plot follows the life of two children (and their friend) whose father is asked to represent an African American man who is being tried for rape. Most importantly, they learn not to judge a book by its cover.

“Go Set a Watchman” was actually written before “To Kill a Mockingbird,” but a publisher convinced Lee to write “To Kill a Mockingbird” as the prequel to release first. The “Go Set a Watchman” manuscript was thought to be lost for several decades, but was recently found by Lee’s lawyer.

Sparking some controversy, the announcement of the sequel led to speculation that Lee is not in the right state-of-mind to have made the release decision on her own. Lee, 88, now lives in an assisted-living home, following a stroke in 2007.

Residents of her town know her to be “deaf, blind and poor in health,” according to Fox News, raising the prevalent concerns. HarperCollins publisher Jonathan Burnham said he did not have any direct contact with Lee, but he is “completely confident” she was on board with the decision.

Others say that speculations were expected.

Either way, Lee wrote this book in the 1950’s with the intent of having it published. Why wouldn’t she want that now? People just like controversy, and they are taking advantage of a great author’s aging to get it.

“Go Set a Watchman” is the product of Lee’s hard work and ultimately, it will positively compliment the first novel and Lee’s legacy as a writer. It would be a shame if the issues surrounding the book’s release affected its reception.

Without a doubt, people will continue to form their opinions leading up to the release, but, after all, it was Lee who wrote, “People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for.”

Time will tell if “Go Set a Watchman” will make the same impression as its predecessorthe issues surrounding its release will not affect its reception.

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What to expect for the 57th Grammy Awards

The best in music come together for a night of awards Sunday By mary romeo Staff Writer M.E.Romeo@iup.edu

With many great songs and albums produced, performed and perfected in 2014, fans can look forward to this year’s 57th Grammy Awards Sunday on CBS. Performances by Kanye West, Paul McCartney and Rihanna are set for Sunday.

Between the trio, they’ve won 46 Grammy awards.

Two-time Grammy winner LL Cool J is scheduled to host the awards for the fourth consecutive year.

Just some of the many artists expected to attend the award show this year are Iggy Azalea, Katy Perry, John Legend, Ariana Grande and Pharell Williams.

Unsurprisingly, pop icon and 17time Grammy winner Beyoncé has swept the show with six nominations.

However, rising pop singer/songwriter Sam Smith has earned the same amount of nominations as Beyoncé, with one of them being Best New Artist of the Year,

while his song “Stay With Me” is up for three nominations.

Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran, a oncerumored couple, share the same amount of nominations at three.

Swift is a seven-time Grammy winner. Sheeran and Smith have yet to win a Grammy, though both are nominated in the same two categories – Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album of the Year.

The other three nominees for Album of the Year are Beck’s “Morning Phase,” Pharrell Williams’ “G I R L” and Beyoncé’s “Beyoncé.”

Fans have boosted Beyoncé to royalty after she dropped her fifth album without warning.

However, it is still hard to predict who will walk away with the Grammy award for Best Album.

Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran have certainly earned their spots beside Beyoncé, so we will just have to sit tight and watch as the show unfolds.

Smith’s “Stay With Me” and Swift’s “Shake It Off” are up against one another for Best Pop Solo Performance,

alongside John Legend’s “All of Me,” Sia’s “Chandelier” and Pharrell Williams’ “Happy.”

Whether you love to hate her or hate to love her, there is no denying that at age 25, Swift has become a legend, getting praised by Madonna and becoming the first artist of 2014 to sell one million albums.

Swift is one of the few who have had two singles – “Blank Space” and “Shake It Off” – from the same album, “1989,” which hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Top 100, according to Inquistr. com.

We haven’t heard much about Miley Cyrus lately, most likely because her provocative pictures on the Internet have finally slowed down.

However, her album “Bangerz” is nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album.

Cyrus is up against five other nominees in the same category, including Coldplay, “Ghost Stories;” Ariana Grande, “My Everything;” Katy Perry, “Prism;” and newbies Sheeran, “X” and Smith, “In The Lonely Hour.”

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Hoax This is a satirical news column.

Harding says ‘less is more’ with attributions By samantha barnhart Copy Editor S.E.Barnhart@iup.edu

Gail Harding, author of the writing studies book “Short and Sweet,” gave an exclusive interview on the proper way of writing attributions in news stories in the Commonplace Coffeehouse & Roastery Thursday.

“Attributions after quotes should always be short and sweet,” said Harding, who studied proper literature and writing in several countries, including England, Thailand, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, France, Italy and Syria, and studied technical writing and rhetoric in several languages, including Swahili, Portuguese and Farsi, during the 20-some years she spent traveling the world, finding herself, disappointing her parents and dating without reserve anyone who looked into her eyes, which look like deep pools of green water or the rings of the far-off planet Harding has dreamed of discovering since the fragile age of eight years old, which was also her age when she fell out of a tree and into the arms of her next door neighbor, Timmy Fitzgerald.

“When writing for a newspaper, try to avoid excessively long attributions because they are often unprofessional, irrelevant and take away from the important content of the story,” Harding said, gazing down into the depths of her small soy caramel

latte, no foam, as she stirred the hot drink over and over, always counterclockwise, while in her mind’s eye she toyed with the idea of running into Timmy again, perhaps as they both walked different directions in a hurry because they were now both very important people, no doubt; perhaps Timmy – or would he go

by Tim now? – would bump shoulders with Harding and look up, noticing the freckles he had always admired and realizing fate had given him a second chance with the girl of his dreams.

“Journalistic writers should always do their best to be precise and to the point,” she said as she sat in the crowded Commonplace Coffeehouse & Roastery, considering for the first time in 25 years how different her life might have been if she had asked Timmy to the seventh grade Sadie Hawkins dance at Mount Leroy Middle School – which was shut down in 2007 for a giant rodent infestation – instead of asking Kyle Ackeroy, who only agreed to go with Harding because her mom made the best homemade cheesecake and her sister, Tina, was really hot and might think he was sweet for going with Harding.

“The most important thing to remember is,” Harding said, reaching into her purse, pushing past the lipsticks and gum wrappers to get to her high-tech cellphone to look up Timmy or Tim Fitzgerald on LinkedIn, “less is always more.”

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By Katlynn Resides Photo & New Media Editor K.M.Resides@iup.edu

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Fall Out Boy’s breakthrough album “From Under the Cork Tree.”

Those that still remember FOB from their days of middle school dances remember the thrashing pop-punk melodies that drove the band into popularity. After disappearing from the scene in 2009 and resurfacing in 2013, it was clear that the youth-driven pop-punk phenomenon that was “From Under the Cork Tree” was no more.

It was evident when FOB reunited a few years ago that it had no interest in going back to its adolescent garage-punk ways. 2013’s “Save Rock and Roll” was a grown-man undertaking, fueled by electronic beats, sweeping lyrics, soaring hooks and four musicians that had had enough of its early-2000s connection to the ‘emo’ movement that shook through high schools across the country.

FOB’s latest album, “American Beauty/American Psycho,” moves the band even further away from its punk-rock influences and toward more electronic sounds and hip-hop-style samples, for better or for worse.

While the album, in essence, is a great listen, perhaps the largest problem with the band’s newest creative venture sits within its lack of creativity.

(Photo courtesy of falloutboy.com) Fall Out Boy celebrates the release of its 2015 album, “American Beauty/ American Psycho.”

The album’s lead single, for example, “Centuries,” borrows from Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner.”

“Uma Thurman” samples the theme from “The Munsters,” and the title track takes its fun loving spirit from Mötley Crüe’s “Too Fast for Love.”

This eclectic mixture of noises provides for very interesting results that sound very pleasing to the ear.

The only problem? They’ve done this before – on their last record.

After the release of 2013’s “Save Rock and Roll,” fans were met with a much more commercial-sounding record, complete with samples from across the pop world and cameos from stars like Courtney Love and Sir Elton John.

Loud, pop beats mingled with sweeping guitar licks, and a decidedly hip-hop overtone created a very different image of the band, and it appears that image has remained unchanged on the band’s newest production.

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Listening to “American Beauty/ American Psycho” felt like listening to a continuation of “Save Rock and Roll” – pleasant, but not ideal.

Lead singer Patrick Stump sounds boyishly giddy on poppy, hip-hop influenced songs like “Fourth of July” and the blaring title track.

Stump channels Sir Elton John again on the track “Jet Pack Blues,” echoing sounds that fans may have heard on their last record.

“Novocaine,” for example, can be played in conjunction with 2013’s “The Phoenix” and sound as if they could be sitting side by side on the same record.

For fans missing the angsty, punkdriven verses sung by Stump on the band’s first few ventures can take solace in knowing that lyricist/bassist Pete Wentz is still finding compelling ways to showcase his angst.

Also on “Novocaine,” Wentz writes “If you knew, knew what the bluebirds sing at you/ You would never sing along,” before urging listeners not to “stop until your heart goes numb.”

There’s no doubt the musical style of “American Beauty/American Psycho” may shock old fans. Save for Stump’s distinctive voice, songs like the “Fourth Of July” and “Favorite Record” sound unlike anything pre-2013 FOB ever did. Yet, fans joining the band during

their “Save Rock and Roll” era will be pleased to find that the band is continuing down its road of pop and hip-hop influenced dance beats.

Those things considered, “American Beauty/American Psycho” is a good record, period.

It’s easy to listen to and extremely catchy. It’s very well-written and showcases four very talented, very grown-up musicians.

Unfortunately, however, the album comes as a underwhelming venture following last year’s similarly concocted “Save Rock and Roll.”

Fans of the band have come to expect a certain diversity in its music. It’s easy to say that 2003’s “Take This to Your Grave” is much different from 2005’s “From Under the Cork Tree,” which is clearly not the same as 2007’s “Infinity on High,” which isn’t even remotely the same as 2008’s “Folie à Deux.”

When the band returned in 2013 with “Save Rock and Roll,” it was extremely different from the whole crop of previous records.

2015’s “American Beauty/American Psycho” just doesn’t have the same effect in comparison to the band’s previous album.

With this album, Fall Out Boy did well but certainly could have done more.

Senior theater major takes the stage alone in one man show By casey kelly Lead News Writer C.E.Kelly2@iup.edu

“They say that if you shoot for the moon, you’ll land among the stars. But who’s to say they’ll catch your fall?”

Jeremiah Gibbons (senior, theater) will take the stage solo this weekend to perform a coming-of-age story as his senior project for the College of Fine Arts.

The show, which costs $5 for the public and $3 with

an I-Card, will take place Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in the basement of Waller Hall.

While Gibbons has directed a show for a class requirement, this is the first time he will perform a musical he wrote himself.

Gibbons said the idea for the solo show came out of the need for a senior project and the fact that he was short on time to put it together.

In addition to these factors, he realized that many of his peers would be busy during the spring semester, so he

decided to create a one-man show.

“I knew the only story that would make sense would have to be interpersonal,” he said, “and [it was] even more perfect to have it be a coming-of-age story, seeing as it was my senior project.”

Gibbons described the show as “very raw.” The minimal, personal feel of the show adds reality and freshness, while also allowing audience members to connect easily with the theme.

As far as preparation goes, Gibbons said he feels that his professors at Indiana University of

Pennsylvania have properly equipped him with the necessary skills to put on a show of his own.

“The highly abstract nature of the show harkens back to the work I did with Jeannie-Marie Brown, previous head of music theater at IUP,” he said, “her use of devised theater both in class as well as production.”

Gibbons also said that his show is focused more around his interest in “voice and movement” rather than “a traditional plot or convention.”

For the most part, Gibbons did not have help constructing the show.

The concept and score was completely written by Gibbons.

He did receive help, thanks to the “knowledge and creativity” of the following individuals: Robert Gretta, Andrew Milliken (senior, music), Lydia Hassell (senior, theater), Mallory Walsh (senior, theater), Shane Malachow (freshmen, computer science) and Regan Cramer.

“If the show is a success, I share the success with these fine artists,” Gibbons said.

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No. 5 IUP stunned by Cal in 76-45 loss Nationally-ranked Crimson Hawks limited to 22 shots in second loss of season

By MICHAEL GOSNELL Staff Writer M.J.Gosnell@iup.edu

It’s a natural rivalry between California University of Pennsylvania and Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Another edition of the women’s basketball clash between the Vulcans and Crimson Hawks was showcased Wednesday night at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex.

The Vulcans got the better of the Crimson Hawks in their previous contest at the Convocation Center in California in a 73-68 overtime victory.

IUP hoped to best their division rival, but the Vulcans – specifically, Kaitlynn Fratz – had something to say to that.

Fratz, a senior guard, knocked down 21 points, including 15 points from beyond the arc en route to a resounding 76-45 win over the No. 5 Crimson Hawks.

And from the opening tip, the Vulcans grasped the game and never looked back.

“Give them the credit because defensively they were very disruptive,” IUP head coach Tom McConnell said.

“Every pass was challenged,” he said, “and it took us out of our rhythm.

When we didn’t turn it over, we struggled to get a good shot.”

Where IUP struggled was ball control. The Crimson Hawks turned the ball over three times in the first five minutes of the first half.

The team committed 18 turnovers before they went into halftime.

As a result of the turnovers, the Vulcans went on a scoring parade, sending IUP into halftime with a 16-point deficit on their hands – a deficit which included a 10-2 run by California and a 14-0 run that stretched their lead to

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28-9 at one point.

California head coach Jess Strom credited her team’s stifling defense for the high-octane offense the Vulcans enjoyed during the first half.

“We don’t really worry about offense a whole lot,” Strom said. “In fact, our practices are about 95 percent defense.

When we come out with defensive energy and pressure the ball, it makes it very difficult for other teams to run their stuff.

“It’s just our attitude,” she said. “Our kids have a defensive attitude.”

The statistics back up her statement.

California held the high-scoring tandem of Lindsay Stamp (senior, criminology) and Ashley Stoner (senior, English) to three and zero points, respectively.

Moreover, the Vulcans limited IUP to only 22 shots, of which the Crimson Hawks scored just six.

Irina Kukolj and Emma Mahady paced the Vulcans with eight points each at the half, while Amy Fairman (senior, sports management) and Marita Mathe (senior, safety science) led the way with five points.

Facing a hefty deficit, IUP wanted to make adjustments at halftime to come back.

McConnell said he wanted to get his offense going, starting with Stoner.

“We were trying to get her going a little bit,” McConnell said. “We wanted to play inside out, and it worked early, but they did a great job taking that away.”

IUP eventually worked to cut the deficit to 11 just over six minutes into the final half, but Fratz clicked offensively and increased the Vulcan stranglehold.

“We couldn’t string together enough stops on the defensive end,” McConnell said.

Fratz, along with her teammates, continued to force turnovers and missed opportunities. She hit five three’s overall and said that she felt confidence from beyond the arc to start the half.

Lindsay Stamp (senior, criminology) drives toward the basket for the Crimson Hawks.

(Photos by Dan Kirby/ The Penn)

Marina Wareham (junior, exercise science) shoots a three-pointer for the Crimson Hawks Wednesday.

“I felt good when I came out,” Fratz said. “When I hit that first three, it was very successful [from there].”

She would connect with five threepoint shots, three in the second half.

The Crimson Hawks tried to limit turnovers and were successful early in the final 20 minutes but ended the game

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with 28, well over their season average of 14 per game.

As a result, IUP’s comeback failed as California maintained their double-digit advantage and closed out the Crimson Hawks.

For IUP, the loss moved them into second place in the PSAC West with a

14-2 overall conference record.

McConnell said the team will move past this loss quickly.

“It’s the way we have to look at it; it’s a stumble, not a fall,” McConnell said.

The Crimson Hawks will take to the road and face Gannon University Saturday in Erie.

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Balanced effort drives IUP over Vulcans

By VAUGHN DALZELL Staff Writer V.S.Dalzell@iup.edu

Sam Bradford could return to the St. Louis Rams in 2015.

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Reports: Cignetti Jr. in line to be Rams OC

By CODY BENJAMIN Sports Editor C.J.Benjamin@iup.edu

The Cignetti family has rich ties to football, and one of its own is expected to rise up the ranks of the game in the near future.

Frank Cignetti Jr., a graduate of Indiana Area High School and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, is in line to become the St. Louis Rams’ next offensive coordinator, according to reports from NFL Network and other outlets.

For the last four years, Cignetti has been the Rams’ quarterbacks coach, helping to instruct the likes of Sam Bradford, Shaun Hill and, most recently, Austin Davis.

But if reports hold true, he will join the New York Giants’ Ben McAdoo as the second NFL coordinator to come from IUP. After playing for IUP from 19851988, Cignetti kicked off his coaching career as a graduate assistant for the University of Pittsburgh. In 1990, he returned to Indiana to serve as his alma mater’s wide receivers coach and spent the next nine seasons working in a variety of assistant roles.

He made his professional debut in 1999 when the Kansas City Chiefs hired him as a quality control coach.

But Cignetti began to make his mark as an NFL quarterback specialist the following year, in which he became the QBs coach for the New Orleans Saints.

After two years with the Saints, Cignetti returned to the collegiate ranks, expanding his responsibilities as offensive coordinator for Fresno State University.

In 2006, he held the same title with the University of North Carolina while also serving as the team’s QBs coach.

He had another one-year stint in the NFL in 2007 – coaching the San Francisco 49ers quarterbacks – before handling coordinator duties with a trio of Division-I football programs.

Cignetti worked for the University of California, Berkeley in 2008, spent two seasons in a second stint with Pitt and then finally served as Rutgers University’s OC in 2011.

Cignetti is the younger brother of IUP football head coach Curt Cignetti and the son of Frank Cignetti Sr., who held Curt’s position from 1986-2005 and compiled more wins than any coach in school history.

Curt, formerly the wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator for the University of Alabama, has guided the Crimson Hawks to a 34-12 record over the course of his first four seasons at the helm of IUP’s football program.

In 2012, his Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-winning team advanced to the quarterfinals of the Division II playoffs.

And Curt has been no stranger to praise for coaching quarterbacks, too.

Before his tenure with the Crimson Tide, he spent seven years at North Carolina State University, recruiting eventual Super Bowl-winning Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson and coaching eventual first-round draft pick and NFL all-star Philip Rivers.

Cignetti Sr., whose name was memorialized as part of the 2014 rebranding of IUP’s George P. Miller Stadium, spent four years as the head coach of West Virginia University before his longtime tenure at IUP. In two decades heading the coaching staff, Cignetti Sr. led IUP to a 18250-1 record and two Division II championship appearances.

Shawn Dyer (graduate, criminology) had the hot hand for the Crimson Hawks Wednesday night, starting Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s game against California University of Pennsylvania with consecutive threepointers and finishing one rebound shy of a double-double.

Dyer’s efforts, coupled with scoring contributions from all over the floor, helped IUP capture its fourth straight win, a 6456 decision over the conference rival Vulcans.

Devante Chance (senior, communications media) had 12 points on the evening, and forward Jeremy Jeffers (redshirt senior, communications media) added 10.

“It was a great boost for us tonight,” Jeffers said, addressing Dyer’s emergence as the latest IUP starter to lead the team in points. “You never know

who can have the big night, and that is why we are so hard to guard.”

At halftime, the Hawks led the Vulcans 31-27, and across the board the stats were similar for both teams.

IUP shot 40.7 percent from the field with 17 rebounds and 10 points in the paint, while Cal U shot 39.3 percent from the field with 17 rebounds and 16 points in the paint. Until foul trouble swung the momentum in IUP’s favor, the Vulcans seemed to have an advantage in the paint.

Calvin Brown and Tony Richardson were among the notable contributors for Cal, but both fouled out of the game as a result of calls that spawned debate from Vulcans fans at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex.

In contrast, IUP had only reserve Tevin Hanner (junior, sociology) foul out, while Brandon Norfleet (junior, communications media) and Daddy Ugbede (junior, communications media) were both one foul shy of disqualification Wednesday.

“Foul trouble definitely impacted the game tonight,” Chance said. “We tried to play through the post, but the

foul trouble made us rely on the perimeter a bit more.”

In the second half, the physicality of the game transpired from the post into the full court press, as the Vulcans attacked Chance.

Chance, who nearly played another 40-minute game, was an active member of IUP’s offense as is often the case.

Despite losing more turnovers against Cal than any other Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference opponent and also playing with a taped wrist, Chance said he will be fully “ready” for the Crimson Hawks’ Saturday matchup with Gannon University.

In IUP’s last meeting with Gannon, the Crimson Hawks were outrebounded 41-20, the largest margin of the season for the team. But IUP outrebounded Cal 35-29 Wednesday and is looking to carry its success into the weekend.

“The game will be just as physical, and we have two days to prepare and be ready for another tough game,” Chance said.

No. 18 IUP’s showdown with Gannon has a 7:30 p.m. tipoff, and it marks the last of three straight home games.

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NOTES, PREDICTIONS AND OPINIONS ON THE WORLD OF SPORTS

By MICHAEL KIWAK Lead Sports Writer M.T.Kiwak@iup.edu

The Quips What. A. Game.

Without a doubt, Super Bowl XLIX will go down as one of the best ever. For 60 minutes, two juggernauts slugged it out in front of millions of people.

In the end, it was the New England Patriots that managed to come back from the largest deficit in Super Bowl history to win 28-24.

The victory is New England’s fourth championship in the past 14 years.

While all of the cheater talk takes away from his luster, don’t let public perception fool you.

Bill Belichick is one of the greatest head coaches of all time, right up there with Bill Walsh, Don Shula, Chuck Noll and Vince Lombardi.

He is certainly the greatest head coach of this generation, and what he has managed to do with the Patriots during his tenure is nothing short of remarkable.

He’s currently fifth in all-time regular-season wins with 211 (171 of them with New England) and first in playoff wins with 22; he’s a three-time AP Coach of the Year, his teams have appeared in six Super Bowls, and the Patriots have won their division 12 times.

You don’t have to like him, but you should definitely respect him.

When talking about Belichick, you can’t leave out his right-hand man, quarterback Tom Brady.

Brady, like his coach, is much-maligned, but he too is one of the greatest in the history of the sport.

He now joins Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw as the only quarterbacks to win four Super Bowls.

That’s some esteemed company.

His importance in this latest victory cannot be understated, as Brady rebounded from two interceptions to put on a masterful performance against the best pass defense in the league.

He threw for 328 yards and four touchdowns, the last of which came on a classic Tom Terrific drive to put the Pats ahead for good. His performance earned him Super Bowl MVP, the third time he has earned the honor.

In addition to that, he’s a two-time NFL MVP, fifth in all-time passing

yards and touchdowns, a two-time first-team All-Pro, and he was named a member of the 2000s All-Decade Team.

Those are just a few of the accolades he has stockpiled over the course of his 14-year career.

You better believe that Brady deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Montana, Dan Marino, Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Johnny Unitas and John Elway.

Uggs and all.

Don’t worry, Pats fans, I’m not going to forget your team’s defense.

Boy, I knew New England’s secondary was going to be a tough outing against the Seahawks’ wideouts, but their performance was impressive nonetheless. Aside from no-namer Chris Matthews gashing them a few times and an absolute miracle of a catch by Jermaine Kearse, New England’s defensive backs did a great job of holding Seattle’s targets in check.

The run defense also played well, as they remained disciplined and kept mobile Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson from tearing them up. Running back Marshawn Lynch still got more than 100 yards, but it could have been a lot worse.

It’s not easy to keep “Beast Mode” in check. But let me get to the game’s unexpected star: Malcolm Butler.

After Kyle Arrington started getting beat up and was benched, Butler came in to replace him.

The former undrafted free agent out of the University of West Alabama played very well, and his interception of Wilson at the goal line with less than 30 seconds left in the game was as great a play as you’ll see from a defensive back, let alone any player on that side of the ball.

He had to be perfect, and the most unlikely hero you could imagine is a huge reason why Brady and Belichick were able to hoist their fourth Lombardi Trophy.

Now, we reach the most controversial part of the game.

Why in the name of all that is good and holy did offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell and head coach Pete Carroll decide to throw the ball at the 1-yard line with 26 seconds remaining?

Why? I watch a lot of football, and I see

a lot of stupid decisions, but that one takes the cake.

It was the worst play call that I have ever seen and probably ever will see.

Lynch, who has carried the Seahawks for the past four or so seasons and built a reputation as the hardest running back to bring down in the league, did not get the ball.

Why? Now, to be fair, it was a very simple play that provided a favorable matchup for Seattle.

However, it’s more than that; it’s the context in which the play was called.

When you have arguably the best running back in the league who, to that point in that game, had been stopped for zero and/or negative yardage only twice out of his 24 carries, there should not have been a discussion.

Carroll shouldn’t have even needed to think about it. The decision should have come to him as naturally as breathing or blinking.

So what if the opponent sees it coming? That certainly doesn’t mean they can stop it.

Additionally, if you don’t want to go with the straight-ahead approach, why not take advantage of that focus? They could have run play action.

You also don’t need to necessarily have Lynch be the one to run the ball.

Wilson ran for nearly 900 yards during the regular season, and he has proven to be lethal with the read option.

That could have been a viable play, as well.

In the end, Seattle’s coaching staff simply overthought the situation, and they robbed their team of back-to-back championships because of it.

Oh, and Katy Perry performed at halftime.

To sum it up, she rode a giant lion that looked like the demon dogs from Ghostbusters, danced with chess pieces that had mad back-flipping skills, smiling beach balls – don’t worry, they appeared to be fully inflated – and a shark that stole the show and broke the Internet.

She also performed with Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliott in what I can only describe as a brief time warp back to the early 2000s, and she rode “The More You Know” star.

Outlandish? Absolutely.

Entertaining? Very much so.

MARCH OF THE

Playoff hockey starts now

By JAKE ENDERS Staff Writer J.G.Enders@iup.edu

Back in June when Mike Johnston took the reins as the new head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins, one of Johnson’s major principles was that his team would be prepared to sacrifice wins in the regular season as long as they were making strides toward a style of play that could succeed when it was time for playoff hockey.

For both Johnston and the Penguins, that time is now.

Sure, the Stanley Cup playoffs don’t officially begin until mid-April.

However, take a look around the NHL, and it becomes evident that the best teams have started to ramp up for the two-month postseason grind that will conclude with one of them hoisting the coveted Stanley Cup. It’s time for the Penguins to follow their lead.

Currently, the Penguins sit in second place in the Eastern Conference’s Metropolitan Division with a 28-14-8 record and 64 points.

They have all but locked up a ninth consecutive playoff berth and are well within striking distance of a third straight division title.

However, these impressive accomplishments mask an area of great concern: the Penguins’ less-than-stellar record in the most important games.

In 10 games thus far against the Islanders, Rangers and Capitals – each has also nearly secured a playoff berth – Pittsburgh is a dismal 2-6-2, and most of the more recent losses have been by lopsided margins.

In order to reach the Eastern Conference Finals, much less the Stanley Cup, the Penguins will almost certainly have to defeat one of the above teams in a seven-game series, and might have to beat two of them.

Right now, it certainly doesn’t appear the Penguins would be favored in any such matchup.

Since storming out of the gate in the season’s early stages, the Penguins have crashed back down to earth. Their

record since Christmas is an underwhelming 6-7-3. Included in the loss column is their most recent humiliation, a 4-0 whitewash at the hands of the Nashville Predators on home ice.

This sort of abject failure is something new.

In each of the previous three seasons, the Penguins have cruised through the regular season and entered the playoffs as favorites to win the Eastern Conference and reach the Stanley Cup Final.

And, in each of the previous three seasons, the Penguins have lost to a lower-seeded opponent.

Perhaps a dose of adversity will help them right the ship and finally bring that ever-elusive fourth Stanley Cup back to the Steel City.

Certainly the pending return of superstar center Evgeni Malkin from injury bodes well, as does the fact that the team will soon be healthier than at any point since the season opener.

But it’s time for the Penguins to strike while the iron is hot.

Pittsburgh has 32 games remaining with which to perform at a level befitting their remarkable talent. All they have to do now is start.

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