10.14.10 Yellow Jacket

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Vol. 88 No. 6

51 W. College St. Waynesburg, PA 15370

SELF SERVICE

Students must reimburse school for New scheduling skipping prepaid activities, SAB says

By Gregory Reinhart Staff Writer Jennifer Brusstar, social vice president of Student Senate, announced that the Student Activities Board had implemented new policies for people who sign up for schoolsponsored and prepaid events.

According to Brusstar, two recent trips cost the University a combined $500 for unclaimed tickets and an unused bus.

Associate Dean of Stu-

“The Student Activities Board [lost] $400 because people changed their plans [without telling SAB].”

Jennifer Brusstar Social Vice President

dents Pat Bristor ordered another bus for the trip to Kennywood because of the large amount of people who signed up.

However, Brusstar said many students decided to

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stay later, meaning only 10 people rode in the second bus.

She said the University could have sent a van to cover those 10 people rather than ordering a new

bus.

“The Student Activities Board went out $400 because people changed their plans,” said Brusstar.

The University also lost money when three students who signed up for the horseback riding activity did not show up, Brusstar said.

Since no one knew they were coming, their tickets went to waste, and the University footed the $90 bill.

Helping Habitat

Stratton accepts fulltime position

By Kyle Edwards Editorial Assistant

Students who tried to register for next semester’s classes on Monday ran into complications.

They could access the registration page but were still unable to register for classes.

Furthermore, when the Department of Information Technology repaired the problem, students found that the system did not flag the classes that had prerequisites.

See NEW on A2 “Currently, in order to register for a class, students have to be authorized by their adviser, and there are no prereqs,” David Patton, programmer and analyst for IT said.

“It’s a brand new system, and at the moment we’re working through policy. It sounds like this is what the registrar had the system set up to do.”

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Soccer team raises $2,000 to fight pancreatic cancer

By Mitch Graham Staff Writer Larry Stratton, after being invited to speak last year, has joined the Waynesburg University staff as a full-time professor.

The Waynesburg University community may remember Stratton from last spring, as he taught a one-week survey of constitutional law as the visiting Stover Constitutional Scholar.

During his weeklong stay last semester, he guided students to “compare and contrast contemporary ideologies of constitutional interpretation with the ideologies of the founders and framers of the Constitution.”

He has co-authored two books and has written numerous articles on the Constitution, church, law, faith, religion and other numerous topics.

He received his Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

He also received his J.D. cum laude from Georgetown University.

He received his Doctorate and his M.Div from

process could pose potential problems

By Aaron Thompson Assistant Sports Editor

Photo by Amanda Rice

The Waynesburg University chapter of Habitat for Humanity sponsored a Habitat luncheon at noon on Oct. 7. For $5, people could eat food provided the chapter.

This past Saturday the women’s soccer program engaged in battles on and off the field.

The Jackets were taking on rival Washington & Jefferson in a Presidents’ Athletic Conference matchup at John F. Wiley Stadium.

The Jackets match ended in a hard-fought loss 2-1 to the Presidents on a warm October afternoon.

Despite the loss, the day meant much more than the outcome on the field. For the second straight year, the Jackets women’s soccer team hosted the Kick Pancreatic Cancer event. The

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Homecoming Week unites past, current students

By Hannah Dunbar Staff Writer

A variety of activities for current students, alumni and community members are scheduled during Homecoming Weekend.

“Homecoming is a See STRATTON on A3 time when students can

come together as a community,” said Associate Dean of Students and Director of Student Activities Pat Bristor.

Oct. 15 is Spirit Day for all Waynesburg students. Students are encouraged to wear the Waynesburg University colors of black and

orange and other Waynesburg attire.

From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., students who go above and beyond in showing their spirit will be “stung” and have the opportunity to be entered in a raffle for a $50 gift card to Sheetz, according to Bristor.

The winner will be announced at the pep rally at John F. Wiley Stadium on Friday. Fireworks will follow the pep rally.

The Waynesburg Idol Finale will be held in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center directly after the pep rally.

On Oct. 16, there is a 5K Run & Walk to benefit the Mission Trip Fund. The 5K Run & Walk will be starting in Johnson Commons at 8:30 a.m.

Bristor said there will be a pre-game picnic

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The football team overwhelms Geneva 55-42 in a wild game on Saturday.

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Local family receives recognition for nature film.

Alan Irvine tells spooky stories at the Sunday night event in Johnson Commons.

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event was started last year after then senior Cat Moore’s father Ken was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer.

The Jackets raised between $2,000 and $2,500 during their Saturday game.

All proceeds from concessions, T-shirt and raffle sales will go to the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research.

Colleges Against Cancer helped the team by working at the tables selling the items at the game.

“The team balanced the event and game very well,” said Sarah Spicuzza, senior defenseman.

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Alumnus discusses ‘many layers of home’ at Chapel

By Andrew Buda Staff Writer In coordination with Waynesburg University’s homecoming celebration this week, 2007 Waynesburg Alumnus Jeremy Ault spoke in chapel on home.

“When comparing differences in societies, there is a cultural disconnect of what home means,” said Ault.

After living, teaching and ministering in the Czech Republic for two years, Ault noticed significant differences between the United States and the Czech Republic’s views on what home is.

“The American view is that home is where your heart is,” said Ault.

“The Slovakian view is that home is where your ancestors are buried.”

Ault pointed out that the view in America is much more individualistic while the Slovakian view is much more traditional.

“But you can’t define home all in one layer,”

said Ault. “Home has to be looked at in multiple layers.”

The first layer: home as a physical, tangible place with specific coordinates on the map.

For Ault, when he remembers home he thinks of Beaver County, Pa., the bus stop and his childhood Crayola pillowcase.

“The physical layer of home is mainly a house, city and stuff,” said Ault.

The next layer: people.

People play a large role in determining whether or not a situation feels like home.

When Ault lived in the Czech Republic after graduating from Waynesburg College, the friends he made contributed greatly to his feeling of home even in a foreign land.

“Shortly after friendships were built, I felt certain aspects of home,” said Ault.

Another layer: home is simply nature.

“When you travel, trees, mountains, land

Jeremy Ault, a Waynesburg alumnus, spoke at Chapel on Tuesday about home.

Photo by Andrew Buda

and hills change,” said Ault.

These may not be as direct of a role, but they do factor into the feeling of home.

The final layer in the definition and formation of the idea of home: culture.

“Parts of culture con-

tribute greatly to the feeling of one’s home,” said Ault.

“Fairytales, language, literature, education and church can all be parts of the culture around us that influence the formation of our idea of home.”

Ault shared many examples for each layer of

home because of its complexity.

“Home cannot be defined with one simple definition because it has both intangible and tangible aspects,” said Ault.

Students agreed with Ault’s definition and gave many different types of examples when asked to

picture their own homes.

“I picture the country,” said freshman premed major Taylor Augustine.

“I picture my family and I out in the country surrounded by lots of trees.”

Junior Biblical Ministry Major Derek Platt thought mainly of friends.

“Home and family is not about whose blood you have,” Platt said, quoting a saying he had heard previously.

“It is about who you care about.”

Ault’s advice for students seeking to find a home at the University is a call to be active.

“Home is never passive, never apathetic.

To find a home at Waynesburg, you cannot just have a passion for places far away where the grass looks greener,” said Ault.

“You have to find a home here first. Whether it’s perfect or imperfect you have to invest in it if you ever want to have a home.”

Students perform Print Media Day to be held Oct. 28 on stage in first Lunchbox Theatre

By Kelsey Bradley Staff Writer

By Melissa Bosley Staff Writer On Friday at noon, Waynesburg University held its first Lunchbox Theatre event of the year in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center.

“Lunchbox Theatre is an opportunity for an audience to come to the theatre at noon on certain days, and enjoy some one-act plays or scenes,” said Edward Powers, associate professor of theatre.

“This allows our students additional acting opportunities, but it also gives some students a chance to experience theatre from a director’s point of view.”

This is not the first year that the University has had a Lunchbox Theatre.

“In 2008-09 we had a couple of presentations,” said Powers.

“Last year, ‘09-10, we had three presentations.”

Powers got the idea for a Lunchbox Theatre from his own college experience.

“When I was pursuing my graduate degree at the University of Memphis, we had noon-day theatre,” Powers said.

“I thought the idea would be nice here.”

For those interested in becoming part of the Lunchbox Theatre, Powers suggests getting involved in the theatre program.

“The best way to get involved is to get involved with the theatre program on campus,” said Powers. “If a student is involved on a regular basis, then the directors are automati-

cally going to think of that individual.”

Students interested in getting involved in the theatre program must be ready to commit to rehearsal times.

“This event has been a very individualized rehearsal time,” Powers said.

“But generally speaking a 20-minute one-act play may take as much as 18 hours of rehearsal time to make it performance ready.”

The Lunchbox Theatre is not only one-act plays, but also readings.

“For the event on Oct. 8, the theatre is sharing the stage with readers from ‘Muse and Stone,’” said Powers.

He hopes that students will become involved, and if the opportunity permits, he wants faculty and staff to get involved in the theatre.

“The theatre program is a very active program on campus,” Powers said.

According to him, theatre is for everyone, and it is important to support the theatre and the very talented students on our campus.

“Theatre can be time consuming, but it is very rewarding,” said Powers.

Powers encouraged the student body to support the arts by attending upcoming events that the theatre program is performing.

“Our major production for this fall is Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, ‘The Skin of Our Teeth,’” Powers said.

“We will present it Nov. 3-6 at 7:30 each night.”

The Public Relations Student Society of America chapter is hosting Print Media Day on Oct. 28 for high school students looking to improve their skills in yearbook and newspapers.

Initial plans for the event started the day after last year’s event.

Basic plans are made first, so that if the chapter runs into certain issues later, the problems can be easily fixed.

Students started actively planning in August and are in the process of putting the finishing touches on the event as it draws closer.

Phone calls to contact school districts were made and fliers were sent through mail and e-mail.

The design and programming committee are in the process of designing the programs for the

event.

“It is going well; we know what we need to get done,” said freshman advertising major James Little. “When it needs to get done so we set a pace to work through it and collaborate as a team to come to a final product.”

Students ran into some problems contacting teachers over the phone.

College students and high school teachers run on different schedules, making it difficult to figure out what time teachers are available.

The event will include a newspaper session, yearbook session and possibly a public relations session.

The chapter invites different professionals each year so students that attended the event last year can learn new, valuable information.

“All of these workshops will enhance the work that high school students are producing in

their extracurricular activities,” said Victoria Kamicker, PRSSA chapter president.

Each professional will have two classes, a learning session and a critique session. High school students are encouraged to bring their own yearbooks or newspapers for the professional critique.

“This event allows students to make connections that matter with professionals in the field,” said Sarah Spicuzza, PRSSA public relations director.

Even PRSSA members can take away experience from the event, learning how to conduct themselves in a professional manner and learning what goes into the event planning process.

“It is a good feeling. I will get to see our printed media around me and know that I had a part in producing it,” said Little.

“I know that what we’re

doing directly affects others and that is a good feeling because that is what I want to do in my career.”

Along with participation, the chapter works to improve the event every year based on what they’ve learned from past years.

“The event has improved considerably, and I believe that the different committees have created terrific organization,” said senior communication and criminal justice major Kelsey Polizzano. “Everyone within the PRSSA contributes and is more involved in the event planning process than ever before.”

Kamicker is excited about the event.

“I’m looking forward to getting to work with other students as passionate about public relations and who are passionate about providing high school students with a great event,” said Kamicker.

New policy implemented Continued from A1 The new rule in place would penalize anybody who signs up for an event and does not show up without any notice.

Students would not get their money back and would have to pay for the admission price for that activity.

“We wanted to put this in place because we want to filter in the student who actually want to come and also Student Activities Board is losing money on people who do not show up,” said Brusstar.

In other news, Senate also discussed Trayless Tuesday.

“It saves water and theoretically would cut down on food wastage,” said

Photo by Gregory Reinhart

Student Senate President Mike Quinn (left) discusses Senate business with other members of the Executive Board during Tuesday’s meeting.

Academic Vice President Natalie George.

The topic brought a lot of comments from the senate floor.

Senators wondered if there had been any kind of study done in the past

that would help the floor make a decision.

“Personally if we get rid of the trays, everybody will complain,” said Andrew Oreski, student representative. “But eventually it will die down.”

He compared the situation to the renaming of Willison Hall, in which everyone complained in the beginning but accepted the change.

The discussion was tabled for next week.

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Campus

Annual Homecoming 5K race to be held Saturday morning

By Kyle Edwards Editorial Assistant On Saturday, Oct. 16, the gun will once again be fired for the start of the annual 5K run/walk.

“This will be our 14th year holding the race,” said Pat Bristor, associate dean of students.

“As always, the proceeds will benefit the mission trip fund.”

Director of Housing Kelley Hardie said this year the number of participants is nearing the record high.

“The highest we’ve

File Photo

Waynesburg alumnus Torey Glenny crosses the finish line of last year’s 5K Run/Walk. The race is scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday. ever had was 120 [participants] total,” said Hardie.

Homecoming helps Waynesburg foster alumni relations

By Jon Ledyard Assignments Editor Celebrating the present and honoring, Waynesburg University will invite alumni to participate in Homecoming Weekend this Friday and Saturday.

“Planning for this event actually started well before Homecoming,” said Director of Alumni Relations Heidi Szuminsky.

“Back in January, we sent out save-the-date mailings telling them homecoming was this date and to plan on coming.”

Szuminsky says the University reaches out to 13,000 alumni and the contact with them does not stop with mailings.

“We do send them an activities calendar at the beginning of summer telling them what’s going to be happening Homecoming weekend,” said Szuminsky.

“But we also reach out to them through an online community and social networking in order to promote this event.”

The weekend will be full of activities for the alumni, starting with the pep rally and fireworks on Friday at John F. Wiley stadium where alumni can register, continuing through Saturday during the Homecoming game, according to Szuminsky.

“We will be offering campus tours since much of Waynesburg looks different, and some alumni haven’t been back in 40 years,” said Szuminsky.

“Then at halftime of the football game there will be a tent set up in the end zone with free food and giveaways, just as a time for alumni to connect with other alumni.”

Brunch, an afternoon tea, a doubles tennis tournament and a banquet are also planned to honor past graduates.

According to Doug Lee, executive vice president for Institutional Advancement, the event has taken much planning and attention to detail.

“Probably the biggest struggle in planning an event like this is paying attention to every detail

in order to have an enjoyable and successful event,” said Lee. “So we have had a couple of meetings now to make sure we are all on the same page.”

Szuminsky says that about 200 alumni have pre-registered, and they expect 100 to 200 more to register by Friday.

“Our young alumni, those who have graduated in the past five years, are our biggest group,” said Szuminsky. “Then our 1950 to 1970 graduates represent a large group as well.”

As an alumna of Waynesburg herself, Szuminsky believes there are several reasons alumni should return and participate in this weekend’s activities.

“First, it is a great opportunity to reconnect with friends from the past that you may not have seen in a while,” she said.

“Second, it is a chance to come back to a place that holds so many memories and see what it is like today.”

According to Szuminsky, it is important to honor alumni because their legacy lives on at Waynesburg University.

“Our alumni are the foundation of the University,” said Szuminsky.

“A lot of students don’t know that their tuition only pays about 75 percent of what it costs to be here.

“Alumni and donors make up the difference.

And even outside of financial contributions, alumni that hold jobs and important positions make connections for current students.”

Lee believes it is not only important to honor the alumni but also to show them how the University has grown and improved as an institution.

“The most important part of this weekend is showing our alumni what excellent students and what excellent faculty and programs we have,” said Lee. “It is very important for alumni to leave here proud of who we are and proud of their institution and alma mater.”

“So far this year, we have 104 preregistered, so we’ve almost reached

Prerequisites not required Continued from A1 Registrar Vicki Wilson confirmed that the removal of the prerequisites was done purposely.

“In the past the prerequisites were left on, and it caused a lot of problems with students,” said Wilson.

“So when we switched to Self Service,

our record total, and we still have a week to go.”

Bristor said that only

a few of those participating are walking.

“The majority of

that option was turned off to try to eliminate those problems.”

According to Wilson, students who transferred in credits ran into problems when scheduling as the system did not recognize those transferred credits.

Students wishing to register for a class originally with prerequisites now need only to get approval from their advisers, she said.

The registrar decided to leave it up to the

department chairs whether to allow students to enroll in a class for which they may not have complete the preliminary classes.

“We will provide a list [of names,]” Wilson said.

“The department secretaries are supposed to run them.”

The secretaries will check if students have taken the correct prerequisites and are able to take the course.

She said that students will be notified by e-

those 104 are running,” said Bristor.

“We have around 90 people running, and their ages range from six to 82. The rest of the preregistered participants are walkers.”

According to Bristor, the goal for this year’s race was more about the participation than the money.

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mail about their status in the course.

If students are not allowed to take a course, they should check with their adviser before signing up for additional courses, she said.

“Prerequisites will still be in the catalog, but they aren’t going to be a barrier when it comes to register for a class,” she said.

Reporters Natalie Bruzda and Rachel Brown contributed to this story.

Photo courtesy of University Relations

The Homecoming Court was announced, which included: front row, from left, K Scarry, Halie Theriault, Maddie Snyder, Angela Takos, Amy Mina, Mikey Macosko, Ashley Beaman and Julie Tischer. Back row, from left, Bertand Ngampa, Joe Scotti, Kyle Kooyers, Mike Winland, Bill Hanning, Jared Kephart, Esteban Saldi and Brandon Grainy.

Court announced Continued from A1 before the football game at 11:30 a.m.

Following the picnic at 1:30 p.m. will be the

Stratton hired Continued from A1 Princeton Seminary.

He was also a clerk to the Eastern District of Virginia U.S. District Judge, Claude M. Hilton.

This semester he is teaching Introduction to American Government.

Next semester he plans to teach American Political Theory along with Introduction to American Government.

This is not his first

homecoming football game where the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets will face the Westminster Titans at John F. Wiley Stadium. There will be a whiteout at the game, meaning that spectators are encouraged to wear white. White T-shirts will also be given out at

the game.

This year’s homecoming king and queen will be crowned at halftime.

The senior court includes Mikey Macosko, Amy Mina, Maddie Snyder, Angela Takos, Halie Theriault, Bill Hanning, Jared Kephart, Kyle Kooyers,

Joe Scotti and Mike Winland.

The junior court includes Ashley Beaman and Esteban Saldi.

The sophomore court includes Julie Tischer and Brandon Grainy.

The freshman court includes K Scarry and Bertrand Ngampa.

teaching experience.

Stratton has taught classes in relation to ethics and government at Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Pennsylvania, Drew, Pepperdine and Villanova Universities.

“My impressions after teaching half a term here at Waynesburg are definitely optimistic. The spirit, attitude and common sense students display here aides to a favorable, Christian environment,” said Stratton.

“I really enjoy having conversations with students about constitutional law.”

Cheryl Graham, program associate for the Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership program, said that the executive staff Waynesburg decided to bring Dr. Stratton back after he demonstrated an impressive hands-on approach to learning.

“The decision came from a committee of faculty members,” said Doug Lee, executive vice president of Institutional Advancement.

“We were impressed with first visit here, so we talked to him about coming back, and he accepted it.”

Lee said, “The com-

bination of his credentials, his insight he offers, and the connections he has with highly influential people in the field was also taken into consideration.”

The Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership look to renew American politics, culture and business based on the values and principles found in the Constitution of the United States.

The Stover Center develops leaders who embrace and apply these principles that guided the founding fathers.

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Retired professor discusses effects of popular culture

By Eric Bost Staff Writer Dr. LeRoy Ashby, a now retired professor from Washington State University, spoke in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center Wednesday.

Ashby has spoken to groups of students before, along with other different groups.

“When I was teaching at Washington State, I would give a number of public lectures to different groups, student groups,” Ashby said, “or say the League of Women Voters, before an election, want somebody to come in and

talk about the current political situation.”

The topic discussed when Ashby came for the Crosby Lecture Series was how popular culture can help understand American history. One of the people he talked about was Ronald Reagan, who was a movie star and became president.

“He’s a very familiar face, there’s so many people that saw him on the street,” said Ashby.

Ashby continued saying how Reagan also used his movie star knowledge to run the presidency.

“He often liked to draw up on movies when he

“...This ladder of mobility has allowed so many Americans to pull themselves up... that’s, I think, a good part of the story.”

LeRoy Ashby Retired Professor

was giving a talk. At one point, Congress was threatening to pass a law which he opposed and he said ‘Go ahead and pass it, make my day,’” Ashby said. “But that one line said volumes.”

Ashby also said popular culture could have a positive or negative effect depending on how you look at it. He referred to a fact that in a poll, when asked who said the words, “government of the peo-

ple, by the people, and for the people,” more than 50 percent said it was Paula Abdul while 20 percent said it was Abraham Lincoln.

“It’s possible to argue both ways. The fact that the overwhelming majority of people did not recognize Abraham Lincoln’s famous words in the Gettysburg Address and thought it was Paula Abdul- it bothers me,” said Ashby. “On the other hand if I think in terms of how this ladder of mobility has allowed so many Americans to pull themselves up, make it, become well known,

Fundraiser held Continued from A1 “We got to the field earlier than usual to decorate and set-up.

“Colleges Against Cancer did a wonderful job working the tables we had set up during the game, so once they showed up, we were able to focus on the match ahead of us.”

According to Spicuzza the turnout was what the team had hoped for and more.

“We had a great turnout on Saturday,” Spicuzza said. “Many parents, teachers and friends supported our cause.

“It was convenient that our opponent didn’t have to travel far because we were able to create awareness of pancreatic cancer with all of the W&J fans as well.”

Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality

Race scheduled Continued from A3 happened since we lowered the cost for students to $5 [from $10], than to have our goal be to reach a certain amount of money,” said Bristor.

“Last year we raised $2,200, and that’s great, but we try to focus more on the participation.

This year, we met our goal for participation.”

Bristor said that the current budget from the race’s sponsors is $1,900.

“We do have sponsors,” she said.

“Everyone who preregistered gets a shirt until I run out of them.”

Prizes for the top finishers consist of Waynesburg University ceramic jars and apparel.

According to Bristor, a decent portion of this year’s participants will consist of the women’s cross-country team.

“We will see how it affects the race, said Bristor.

“It could be that having the girls [cross country] team participate will push a few of the others.

Photo by Amanda Rice

Members of Colleges Against Cancer helped the women’s soccer team fundraise money to fight pancreatic cancer at the game against Washington and Jefferson College on Saturday. rate of all major cancers.

The statistics for the disease are also alarming as 94 percent of patients die within five years of their diagnosis and 75 percent of

It could even push the whole pack.”

Hardie feels that the course is relatively difficult.

“The course record for runners is 20:46,” Hardie said.

“I know Sarah Beth Rood and Michelle Naymick have won the race for the women’s side before, and we’ve had some alumni from the cross country team take top prize as well, so it will be interesting to see how well the team does.”

Both Hardie and Bristor remind students that while the deadline to sign up and receive a Tshirt may have passed it is not too late to sign up.

“Anyone can register up to the morning of the race,” said Bristor.

“The cost is $5 per student and $15 for nonstudents.”

According to Hardie, though it is a race, participants don’t necessarily have to run or walk.

“We’re always looking for volunteers who are willing to be road guards,” Hardie said.

Participants and volunteers should meet in Johnson Commons at 7:15 a.m.

patients die within the first year after being diagnosed. The premise of the event was to make more people aware of these facts and the dangers of the dis-

ease, as well as raise money to fund pancreatic cancer research.

“Pancreatic cancer research is extremely underfunded,” said Sarah Markwardt, junior

defenseman said. “In fact, only 2 percent of the National Cancer Institute’s annual funding goes toward pancreatic cancer research, even though it has one

influential, that’s, I think, a good part of the story.”

Freshman environmental science major Marisa van der Eijk seemed to learn the main points Ashby was trying to get across.

“I learned that that by studying popular culture we can learn many things such as history,” said van der Eijk, “I also learned that the social class element is very important when trying to understand entertainment. I agreed with Dr. Ashby when he said that ‘One could not ignore the impact of popular culture on our society.’”

of the highest mortality rates of all cancers.”

Spicuzza commended the campus and community for their role and graciousness in supporting the event.

“Once people actually hear how devastating pancreatic cancer is, they immediately want to do their part,” Spicuzza said. “The week went extremely well. Everything came together and the day was a success.”

According to Spicuzza, even though the event has taken place, the team will continue to accept donations for about a week.

To donate, people are asked to contact Spicuzza or sophomore midfielder Heidi Weaver.

Furthermore, there are a limited number of Tshirts available for $10.

All the proceeds will benefit the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research.

For more information about pancreatic cancer, visit pancreatic.org.

Guest columnist Zach Shoaf discusses American’s ignorance of global issues.

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County family receives national recognition for film

By Natalie Bruzda Region Editor It’s a family affair.

What began as a trip to a Christian film festival soon turned into a new way of life for the Crowe family.

David and Kellie Crowe, along with their three children, Taylor, Samuel and Grace, produced a film called “Your Backyard,” an introductory video that

teaches children how to identify birds by sight and sound.

“We have always enjoyed video,” Kellie Crowe said. “My father-in-law was an avid bird watcher and we want to connect our children to their grandfather and to connect our children to the legacy of nature.

We want to teach our children about creation because we are continually amazed by God and how he reveals his glory in creation.”

A trip to San Antonio, Texas for the San Antonio

Christian Film Festival was the catalyst that jumpstarted the Crowe family’s interest in film production.

After witnessing that a number of the up and coming Christian videos were created by families like theirs, the Crowe’s decided to begin a new journey.

“Film production is really becoming a cottage industry,” Kellie Crowe said. “We are using it as a See FAMILY on B4

Rebuilding after tragedy Restoration begins on the Avalon Court apartment building after an April 22 fire.

By Kaitlin Edwards Managing Editor After a fire destroyed the Avalon Court apartment building in Waynesburg on April 22, plans to restore the ruined building have been set into motion.

The new building should be completed by late spring of 2011 and will be dramatically different than the original building.

“We have a lot of plans we hope to accomplish with this building as long as the funds are available,” said Mark Altman of Altman and Altman Architects in Uniontown and project architect, “We hope to make this building more livable and comfortable for everyone.”

The Greene County Housing Authority approved the restoration plans for the building on Sept. 28.

Forty-one residents were left homeless after the apartment building was destroyed and have been living in temporary housing for the past several months.

Two residents, Patricia Eddy, 61, and Velma Morris, 77 died from smoke inhalation as a

result of the fire.

Several changes will occur from the original building which was built in 1966 as a result of the building project.

According to Altman, as opposed to the original 40 apartments in the old building, 34 apartments will be located in the area.

Out of these 34 apartments, the building will consist of 21 one-bedroom units, six efficiencies and six handicap accessible units. The rooms will differ from the original in several ways, including the structure, size and the features included.

“The new building will see several improvements over the old building,” said Altman. “The rooms will have updated sprinkler systems, as well as handicap access and all new finishes.

Overall, the apartments will be much improved from their original state.”

The building will also be brought up to current regulations and codes.

The original outside undamaged structure of the building will remain the same, but new doors

HARVEST FESTIVAL

Historical Society plans festival

By Sierra Shafer Op/Ed Editor Temperatures are cooling and the leaves are changing. With the clockwork of the seasons, the Greene County Historical Society will host the 39th annual Harvest Festival on Oct. 16-17. Open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, the family-friendly festival will charge an entrance fee of $5 per adults. Children who attend with an adult will be admitted for free.

“This festival is really family-oriented,” said historical society administrator Bernie Fox. “So much of it is going to teach children about the Civil War and native Indians.”

Children and adults alike will have the opportunity to learn how to start a handmade fire from a Native American in full, traditional dress.

“The exhibits this year are really about education for the children,” said Fox, though she pointed out that many of the festi-

(Above) The Greene County Housing Authority approved restoration plans for the Avalon Court apartment building on Sept. 28. The new building should be completed by late spring of 2011.

(Right) Forty-one residents were left homeless after the April 22 fire destroyed the building. The restored building will change from the original 1966 structure, with only 34 apartments compared to the previous 40.

Photos by Andrew Buda

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See BUILDING on B4

Greene is good: County raises money at Creative Industries Humane Society at Oct. 10 Cash Bash schedules art classes beginning Oct. 18 Stephanie Laing

Editorial Assistant

Hands raised, noise increased and money flew, suddenly stopping and silencing every fifteen minutes. At those moments, a number was called, announcing a winner. On Sunday, Oct. 10 from 1 to 7 p.m., the Greene County Humane Society held a Cash Bash at the Greene County Fairgrounds as a fundraiser.

“Overall, the place was packed,” said Sandy Yoders, outreach coordi-

nator. “We had a really good turn out.”

The Humane Society awarded $300 every fifteen minutes to the owner of the winning ticket. Larger amounts were awarded 45 minutes after every hour, starting at 2:45 p.m. with $600. The winning amounts increased for every hour until 7 p.m., when the Humane Society awarded $3,000 to a winner. Along with the consecutive 15 minutes prizes, the event sold raffle tickets for various gift baskets.

“I think it was very successful,” said Yoders.

“It is one of our biggest fundraisers. It keeps us going until the next one.”

Because it is not government funded, the Humane Society works entirely off donations. “[The money raised] will go for the shelter here. It will go to the animals and dogs we continually get,” said Yoders. “People surrender their own dogs and cats; we have to pay staff to come in and take care of them.”

Many in the community also volunteer to help support the Humane Society in more than just monetary means. “[I do it] because I love the animals and this is the only shelter in Greene County,” said Sue Turner, a volunteer at the Humane Society for eight years. “If we weren’t here, there would have to be strays with nowhere to go.”

Waynesburg University played a role in sup-

By Rachel Brown Executive Editor

Get in touch with your creative side this fall.

Eight classes and workshops focusing on different crafts will be held, starting Oct. 18, Creative Industries of Greene County announced.

“People can enrich their lives and learn something new [at these classes],” said Linda See FUNDRAISER on B4 Winegar, who manages

the Artisans Gallery in downtown Waynesburg with her husband. “We do it as community service.”

Class and workshop topics range from clay to landscaping to genealogy.

The Clay as a Creative Medium, led by Winegar and her husband, will be held at their pottery studio in Graysville.

The studio allows them to have access to See ART on B4

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Don’t wait Register for absentee ballots by Oct. 28 President Barack Obama has been in office for two years to date, indicating the arrival of this year’s midterm elections.

In the next 30 days, we will be bombarded with the usual campaign lingo.

We will hear it from the democrats and from the republicans.

While we might choose to tune out the political fluff that drones on continuously, we cannot choose to ignore this election.

As adults, we have the right to vote.

As citizens, we have the duty to vote.

Being uninformed about the issues is not a reason to skip the polling booth this month.

Politically undereducated? Study up.

The officials who are elected will pass policies that will directly affect us as young adults.

Inevitably, we will always complain about our government.

It will never satisfy everyone.

However, if we are not voting we should not be speaking out about these issues.

Having an opinion without the facts to back it up is worse than having any opinion at all.

We are the rising generation and we owe it to ourselves to own our citizenship and participate in one of the greatest expressions of freedom that the world has ever seen.

Who we vote for is our prerogative.

It is our right to choose.

We cannot waste this freedom by refusing to do so.

Money pit State giving $234 million to college dropouts High school graduates arrive at college full of dreams of lucrative future careers.

However, by the end of their first year, these students understand that future takes a lot of hard work to achieve.

Some continue to reach for their dreams, but many drop out.

According to a recent study by the American Institutes for Research, only about 60 percent of students graduate from undergraduate colleges and universities within six years.

The study also found that 30 percent of students never return after their first year.

Pennsylvania ranked 11th for the amount of money spent on first-year dropouts, paying out almost $234 million dollars.

These first year students take millions from students who will actually graduate from college.

Something has to be done.

Rather than the state shelling out millions to every student in need, the state should start a program for college dropouts that requires the dropouts to repay the state part of their financial aid.

The program would encourage more students to finish college to not incur financial penalties.

At the same time, students who need the financial aid still have access to it.

Whatever the results, the state needs to take action to prevent such windfalls from happening again. States already struggle financially.

Don’t make it worse.

Chilean tragedy hits close to home In the early hours of Wednesday morning, efforts to rescue the 33 Chilean miners began.

These men had been underground since the August 5 collapse.

That is 69 days underground.

These men have spent roughly 1,600 hours in a dark, damp and dangerous tunnel 2,000 feet below the earth’s surface.

By Monday morning, 11 of the miners had been safely rescued from the shaft.

From the beginning, following this story has made me eerily uncomfortable.

SIERRA SHAFER Columnist

I hate small, dark spaces. The psychological implications of being in the position of these Chilean men are almost too much for me to handle.

Yet since the first contact with the surviving miners, the men have appeared nothing but optimistic.

Even when they were told that rescue may not come until early December.

Students use media to hurt, not to help In a recent issue, one of our columnists discussed how news media is changing. She discussed how we now use the media differently than we have in the past.

Some observers now believe that the digital age has made students callous.

The suicide of a Rutgers University student has brought this belief to life by renewing scrutiny of the issue.

Observers say that today’s

Their high spirits have amazed me. Day in and day out, they focused on surviving and trusting that those still in the sunlight were working hard to come to their aid.

They were right.

The effort made by Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and the rescue team is to be commended.

What will be interesting to see is if the desperate pleas of the miners and this traumatic event will lead to any real change.

Long-term change.

Or will the worldwide publicity of this event lead to nothing more

NATALIE BRUZDA Columnist

media environment is desensitizing young people to the hurtful effects of their actions.

Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers University, killed himself Sept. 22.

According to prosecutors, a few days earlier his roommate, Dharun Ravi, and another student, Molly Wei, allegedly used a Web cam to secretly transmit images of a sexual encounter between Clementi and another man.

While it may be an extreme case, according to an article in

than a few book deals and a Lifetime movie?

Chile has our attention now.

But when the hype is gone, when the media returns their focus to the ever-present conflict in the Middle East and the struggling economy of America, will this still impact us?

It should.

Chile is worlds away from Greene County.

But mining should not be far from our thoughts.

Pennsylvania’s coal mining industry is still thriving.

And we have experiSee MINING on B3

the Christian Science Monitor, a lot of kids are using digital technology to spy on each other.

Furthermore, some studies suggest that new media technology dissolves some of the human connections; it objectifies people.

According to the article, one recent University of Michigan study found that college students’ empathy declined by about 40 percent between 1979 and 2009, with the biggest dropoff occurring after 2000.

Cyberspying and other forms of cyberbullying not only show a lapse in college students’ empathy but also indicate that students need to work on their critical thinking skills.

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Americans missing important global news I was out with my friends on Friday March 26, 2010, relaxing in Seoul, South Korea.

Midterms had just concluded and across South Korea and young people were out, after hours of studying, taking in the city atmosphere on a cool night.

At some point during that night an event occurred that could have changed our world.

A South Korean

ZACH SHOAF Guest Columnist

destroyer named the Cheonan sank as a result of a suspected North Korean torpedo strike.

The sinking resulted in the deaths of 46 sailors, many of them our age, in the frigid waters that border the two Koreas.

For those familiar with South Korea and North Korea (two countries technically still at war), this incident could have sparked a sequel to the 1950s’ conflict.

There is an American twist to it, because we have close to 30,000 soldiers in South Korea.

North Korea has a million men in uniform, nasty chemical weapons and dirty nuclear ones too and their rhetoric

toward the United States is as friendly as a caged cougar.

It’s not hard to imagine how scary things could have gotten not just for the Koreans but families of the soldiers in uniform for the United States.

While this was obviously a major event in South Korea, upon returning home it See STAY on B3

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Mining still dangerous Continued from B2

Courts should protect Westboro ravings The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that sorely tests the principle, articulated by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. nearly a century ago, that “we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.”

The case involves the Westboro Baptist Church, a deranged anti-gay religious group that routinely shows up at the funerals of American soldiers to express its bizarre belief that U.S. combat deaths are divine retribution for America’s tolerance of homosexuality.

In 2006, the group picketed the funeral of Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder, a Marine killed in Iraq.

The protesters held signs reading “Thank God for Dead Soldiers,” and “Semper fi Fags.”

Snyder’s father sued

the church for “intentional infliction of emotional distress” and other civil wrongs, but a lower court held that the picketers were protected under the First Amendment.

The Supreme Court is now being asked to reverse that decision.

The justices should resist temptation to rule against the protesters out of understandable sympathy for Snyder’s father.

Allowing even private figures to recover damages for distress caused by the political or religious speech of others would be a dramatic departure from the court’s protection of free expression no matter how offensive.

And it would have reverberations in settings far removed from military funerals.

This case is not about whether protesters can be prevented from engag-

ing in face-to-face harassment of mourners.

The picketers complied with local ordinances and stood a safe distance 1,000 feet, according to an appeals court judge away from the Catholic church where Snyder’s funeral took place.

Albert Snyder, the dead Marine’s father, didn’t see their signs until he watched television later in the day.

As a brief from a group of First Amendment scholars puts it, Snyder is complaining not of physical interference but of “psychological intrusions stemming from the content of the protesters’ message.”

That’s clear from the fact that Snyder’s suit is also based on a screed posted on the Internet by a church member several weeks after the funeral.

It alleged that the elder Snyder and his exwife had “taught

Matthew to defy his creator.” The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, correctly, that a reasonable reader “would understand it to contain rhetorical hyperbole, and not actual, provable facts about Snyder and his son.”

The appeals court’s most important finding was that the church, however outrageously, was addressing matters of public concern, just as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson were when they suggested that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were God’s punishment for toleration of abortion and homosexuality.

No doubt that statement caused emotional distress for relatives of 9/11 victims, but it was constitutionally protected.

The court should rule that the First Amendment also protects the ravings of the Westboro Baptist Church.

Regional Political Updates Election dates

Absentee ballots

Polling locations

Oct. 26 - the last day to apply for a civilian absentee ballot Oct. 29 - last day for County Boards of Elections to receive voted civilian absentee ballots Nov. 2 - general election Nov. 3 - first day to register after November election Nov. 9 - last day for county board of elections to receive voted military and overseas absentee ballots

To get an absentee ballot, contact the election office as soon as you know that you will be unable to go to the polls.

Waynesburg #1 Precinct First United Methodist Church 112 N. Richhill St.

Stay informed Continued from B2 became apparent that few Americans actually knew this had happened, or they had forgotten.

To be fair, I didn’t conduct a formal study, but let’s say some of you weren’t aware - some of you.

It’s obvious as the second generation of MTV college students, the majority of us could debate Jersey Shore long into the night, but how’s your knowledge on current events?

Could you point out where Yemen is located on the map?

Do you know why Israel does not want Iran to have a nuclear bomb?

For more information about election deadlines or registering to vote, call 724-852-5230, or visit the election office on the first floor of the Greene County Office Building at 93 E. High St. in Waynesburg.

Have you been paying attention to the violence in Mexico?

We need to wake up as Americans.

Who wins the Super Bowl this year has less impact on us than what Japan decides to do with their currency crisis.

We seem to be concerned with terrorism, it was evident with the warnings to “be cautious” in Europe, but we as consumers we seem unconcerned that there are Americans who have travelled to Somalia to fight for organizations with connections to terrorists, according to ABC News.

Wake up.

We all know the midterm elections are coming soon.

Do you know the issues? Why might uni-

Waynesburg #2 Precinct Waynesburg Borough Building 90 E. High St. Waynesburg #3 Precinct Central Greene Warehouse 54 N. Maiden St.

versal health care be bad? Why might illegal immigration be bad?

Who are your candidates?

This isn’t Jeopardy: this is your world and your life.

We live in a free society and are globally connected. Regardless of what political stance you might take, realize that our economy is connected globally.

What happens around the world affects us.

As a student of history, I’m more open to believe our Civil War was a worse time than the current situations in America despite what some politicians will have you believe.

We may have a rough economy and high unemployment, but around the world things

-by Stephanie Laing aren’t much better.

Don’t believe me; watch the news.

We have brilliance in this generation. It’s there. We aren’t lacking anything our forefathers had.

But we are missing something - observation.

The Internet is a source of good where we can learn about what is going on in our world.

We can access newspaper from across the globe.

News is available on your iPhone, it’s right there.

Form an opinion, and know what’s going on in the world.

Chances are there is something right now going on that affects us. as Americans.

Chances are we are missing it.

enced our own tragedies, like the one in Chile much close to home.

Mining is part of the history of this area and is still a major provider for jobs.

It is also a major provider of serious risk.

According to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, almost 4,000 mine accidents occurred in Pennsylvania between 2005 and 2008.

Greene County had the highest number of accidents at nearly 500.

Yes, we are fortunate to live in a country with more advanced laws and technologies than countries like Chile.

And hopefully the recent events in Chile will lead to improvements in their regulations and safety precautions.

Students are harassed Continued from B2 The article further states that we are seeing more and more of this callous indifference.

As a student who uses technology on a minute-by-minute basis, I definitely believe that this indifference exists. Technology has recently become an even more pervasive presence in my life after the purchase a smart phone – updating my Twitter account, checking my Facebook notifications, reading my email – become an almost instinctual act.

I have witnessed firsthand, the change in the way people interact.

People now communicate and develop relationships through social media like Facebook and Twitter rather than personally meeting their friends in faceto-face interaction.

If I want all my friends to find out about something, instead of sending a text to each individual person or calling each person on the phone, I update my Twitter account.

Now, it’s apparent, with Clementi’s suicide, individuals think that it’s acceptable to publish a person’s private business to a mass

Here in the United States, our miners may be statistically safer than those in Chile or other mining countries.But the risks are the same.

And 2,000 feet below ground is the same matter which continent you are on.

Pitch black in Chile is pitch black in Pennsylvania.

And while last year saw a record low for mining fatalities in Pennsylvania, it was still not a zero-fatality rate.

Alot has changed since the 1928 mine collapse in Greene County that killed 200. But by nature, this is not a safe industry., regardless of precautions.

And until Americans – and Chileans – make serious moves towards a more renewable and safely acquired energy sources, Pennsylvania will still be sending our fathers, brothers and sons underground while we hold our breath for a safe return.

audience.

And it can happen with the click of a mouse.

According to the article in the Christian Science Monitor, bullying should not be allowed for any reason for any student, however, Paul Guequierre, deputy press secretary of the Human Rights Campaign, believes that we need to bring up the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender component.

Officials and students at local colleges in the New Jersey area are planning events to raise awareness of harassment issues all students might face.

I found out about one of these events, of course, through Facebook.

On Oct. 20, “Spirit Day” will honor those who have taken their lives due to homophobic abuse.

This Facebook event is encouraging people to wear purple.

Although I do not believe that one day will curb the number of cases of cyberbullying that occur, I believe it’s a commendable effort and a step in the right direction.

We as a society need to work together to end cyberbullying.

We need to address the harmful uses of media technology and return to the golden rule: treat others the way you would like to be treated.

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Art classes scheduled Continued from B1 pottery wheels, clay and other tools used.

“We’ll offer all types of hand-building pots— coiling, pinch pots,” she said. “It depends on what people’s skills are.

We plan on taking people from their skill level

Festival held this weekend Continued from B1

vals events are sure to entertain as well.

Festival-goers will have the chance to indulge their senses in some of the season’s favorite foods.

“There will be beans and cornbread, soup and cabbage rolls and just food everywhere,” said Fox. The less traditional perogies, hotdogs, hamburgers and desserts are also on the weekend menu. While the Historical Society promises to host all of the festival’s traditional musicians and artisans, a few new faces will been seen at this year’s event. Festival visitors will have the chance to watch live chainsaw carving by Tom Dunfield, make their own handdipped candles or try a henna tattoo. According

Fundraiser helps animals Continued from B1 porting the Humane Society on Sunday.

Many of the volunteers were undergraduate students. Christy Szmyd, a sophomore human services major, chose to volunteer at the Cash Bash for a service learning course.

“I needed a place with flexible hours,” said Szmyd.

“I needed a place that was convenient for me, so I picked here. I love animals too.”

She spent the entire event selling 50-50 tickets, in which half the proceeds went to the Humane Society and the other half went to a ticket winner.

“I might [keep volunteering] whenever my schedule frees up because it’s rewarding,”

and move from there.”

According to Winegar, several people have already signed up for the class, but spots are still available in every class.

Some classes do cost money in order to participate, such as the $120 fee for the clay class.

“The money covers the rent and utilities for the building the class is in,” she said. “They also cover the cost of the

to Fox, some of the more traditional elements at the festival will be the print shop, run by Joe Kinney, as well as the quilting exposition.

The shop will demonstrate an antique letter press and visitors will have the option to take home a printed souvenir.

This year musical guests Jim N I and the Justin Fabus Band will be performing for the first time alongside several old favorites. Local favorites Tara Kinsell and Amy Randolf will be lending their melodies to the ambiance of the weekend. Guests familiar with the history of Greene County will enjoy civil war reenactments performed by the 140th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.

“The most important thing to me this year is that the kids are able to learn different and news things,” said Fox, who said she is crossing her fingers for beautiful fall weather.

instructor and supplies.”

Most of the instructors are affiliated with the Artisans Gallery, according to Winegar.

Many use the Gallery to exhibit their work and market themselves to potential customers.

This is not the first time Winegar has organized courses for the Greene County community. She sponsored a landscaping design

course last spring, which relates to the general landscaping class being held this fall.

The landscaping class was well attended and well received, she said.

One of the reasons the course returned was because of the positive feedback from participants.

“We use survey forms to determine what people are interested in,”

Winegar said. “The forms are available the Gallery, so when you’re browsing, you can fill one out. We take those into account.”

While Winegar has been pleased to see the community’s response to these workshops, she hopes for more involvement from Waynesburg University campus.

According to Winegar, Tutor Coordinator Pam

Abbe has sign-up forms available in her office for those who are interested. The Artisans Gallery will also celebrate its first anniversary from 47 p.m. on Oct. 23 at 52 E. High St., Winegar said.

She invited members of the community to visit the Gallery to view the work of local artists and to taste locally grown food.

Photo courtesy of Kellie Crowe

David and Kellie Crowe, along with their children, Taylor, Samuel and Grace, produced a film to teach children how to identify birds by sight and sound. The film received national recognition.

Family works together Continued from B1 way to make a difference and to give families things that are good, nurturing and wholesome to watch.”

Following a year and a half of work and learning, the Crowe family submitted their film, “Your Backyard,” to the San Antonio Christian Film Festival.

Out of 250 entries, their film is one of 50 semifinalists.

“Your Backyard,” shot in high-definition, focuses solely on the Greene County area, featuring an animated owl, Professor Solomon, created by Taylor Crowe, and a Greene County native, Ralph Bell.

At 96-years-old, Bell is

said Szmyd.

Along with the volunteers, specific individuals such as Jennifer Koolen, an employee of the Waynesburg Animal Hospital, help as often as they can.

“I collect [anything] whether it be litter, cat food, dog food, toys, blankets, anything.

They also accept monetary donations,” said Koolen. “[I give] anything to help them because they are only funded by donations.

You have to try every month or so to do something for that.”

The Greene County Humane Society will continue to put on events such as the Cash Bash in order to raise support.

“The community support is phenomenal,” said Koolen. “You have your animal lovers for Continued from B1 sure, and they’re the ones you will see over and windows will be and time again at these added. fundraisers.”

“We really want to

Building to be restored

the only bird bander in Greene County. After catching a bird, he puts a special band on its leg in order to study the migration and life span of the bird.

The small, individually numbered metal or plastic tags help Bell refind the same bird later.

Bell’s inclusion in the film is a central part to the Crowe family’s message.

“One of the goals in our videos – we plan on more – is to encourage multigenerational relationships,” Kellie Crowe said.

“We sometimes forget the wisdom of those who have age. They have far more wisdom than we could ever hope to have.”

Crowe’s Nest Media, the name of their new film-production company, has already experienced sales from the

“Your Backyard” DVD. According to Kellie Crowe, the amount of DVDs sold to individuals out of Greene County outnumbers the sales in the area.

“We have people all the way from Utah and South Carolina purchasing our DVD,” Crowe said.

“And for most, Ralph Bell is their favorite part.”

Although the film can attain additional recognition at the film festival including best documentary, audience favorite or overall winner, the Crowe family is more concerned about what can be gained from the trip to the San Antonio Christian Film Festival.

“There are lots and lots of families from all over the nation that come,” Kellie Crowe said. “This is an opportunity for us to make

continued contacts. We are definitely [new] at this kind of thing, so the question is, ‘what do we do next?’ We can find out from other families.”

The Crowe family has already begun to address this question of “what do we do next?”

Although there are several more ideas on the table, the family is currently in the process of working on another video focusing on the monarch butterfly.

“We want to teach children that they simply have to step out to their backyard to see the work of the creator,” Kellie Crowe said.

“There are incredible things in your backyard.”

To view a trailer of the video or for more information on Crowe’s Nest Media, visit the website: w w w. c r o w e s n e s t media.com.

improve the look of this building,” said Altman.

“We want to restore the community look of this place and make it look like it fits into the structure of the town.”

The building will be paid for through the use

of the insurance money and the builders will be working closely with the agency.

The majority of the former residents will be able to return to the building once it has been completed.

“In essence, this whole new building will be upgraded,” said Altman. “We hope to have these nice new facilities available for those in need and we are optimistic for the outcome of this project.”

Mike Fatigante joins the men’s basketball coaching staff.

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Football season kicks into gear

Whirlwind attack

By Steven Iser Staff Writer Saturday, October 16 is going to be a very eventful day for Waynesburg University. During the afternoon, the Homecoming game for Waynesburg football will take place, and later that night, the women’s basketball team will show its talent at Midnight Madness.

“The goal of Midnight Madness is to continue to raise awareness of our program,” head coach Sam Jones said. “It is a nice way to kick off the year.”

The players are also looking forward to the event.

“I’m excited for Midnight Madness,” sophomore guard Brittany Spencer said. “It’s Homecoming week-

Dave Floyd Senior Sports Editor

With so much going on in local football, a column on only one of the area squads seemed inept.

Midnight Madness set for Saturday

Photo by Mike Kabay

Senior quarterback Brad Dawson fires a pass in Saturday’s game at Geneva. Dawson threw for 336 yards and three scores in the Jackets’ wild 55-42 victory.

Balance essential The Waynesburg University football team showed a glimpse of the 2009 Yellow Jacket squad with their 55-42 victory in Saturday’s shootout at Geneva.

Waynesburg’s potent offensive attack was enough to overcome the 560 yards of total offense and those 42 points allowed by the Jacket defense.It proved to be a game eerily similar to many of last season’s highscoring affairs.

Prior to Saturday’s contest, with the exception of the opener at Wilkes, the Waynesburg defense had given up less than 275 yards total offense and just over 15 points per game in 2010.

If the team wants to win out until the final two weeks of the regular season and then compete against Thomas More and Washington and Jefferson, it will need to be both the offense and defense performing at their peak.

Despite the minor setback on defense, the play of the Jacket offense and senior quarterback Brad Dawson was a positive sign moving forward.

Offense blows away Golden Tornadoes

Wiser...for now As long as the Bowl Championship Series is in place in major college football, debates will rage on about non-conference scheduling.

The two teams in closest proximity to the Waynesburg campus, Pittsburgh and West Virginia, went in opposite directions this season, and opposite results followed.

With Big East Conference play set to begin for both teams, West Virginia looks the part of a team poised to battle for a league crown, while Pitt appears yet to have put much together (and that includes their games against New Hampshire and Florida International).

The Mountaineers played four considerably weaker opponents and a tough LSU team in Baton Rouge.

Pitt took on two much lesser programs and three quality squads in Utah, Miami (Fla.) and Notre

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Dawson regains form in shootout victory at Geneva

By Aaron Thompson Assistant Sports Editor For football fans that prefer low-scoring defensive struggles, Saturday’s contest between Waynesburg and Geneva was not ideal.

The Yellow Jackets used a fast start to have their finest offensive performance of the season as they beat the host Golden Tornadoes 55-42.

Waynesburg (3-2) used 539 total yards of offense against provisional conference member Geneva (33) to bounce back from last week’s road loss to Bethany College.

A key cog in the victory was Jackets’ senior quarterback Brad Dawson. He regained his form from last season after being slowed by a turf toe injury for most of the early part of this season.

The Pittsburgh native completed 19-of-30 passes for a season-high 336 passing yards. Dawson also passed for three touch-

downs while throwing just one interception against Geneva. “[The injury] is pretty calm right now,” Dawson said. “I started off slow this year. It feels good to get back to clicking and having chemistry [on offense].”

Waynesburg head coach Rick Shepas said Dawson appears to finally be 100 percent and appeared really comfortable against Geneva.

“The season for Brad Dawson has been an evolution,” Shepas said. “On the one hand he’s a twoyear starter but on the other hand he had to adjust to new receivers and a few new lineman. It just took him a while to get settled in and get comfortable.”

Waynesburg started fast as Dawson led the Jackets for a score on their opening possession as he connected with sophomore tight end Adam Moses for a seven-yard touchdown. Sophomore kicker Jon Storck added the extra point to give the Jackets a 7-0 lead.

Geneva bounced back quickly as they answered

right back to tie up the contest 7-7.

Just as quickly as Geneva scored Dawson responded by taking the Jackets back down the field on the ensuing possession. The Jackets worked their way into the red zone when freshman Bertrand Ngampa carried the football into the end zone from eight yards out to give the Jackets the lead right back. Storck’s extra point made the score 14-7.

The Golden Tornadoes, however, added another touchdown of their own when running back Gerald Muschette scored on a nine-yard pass from senior quarterback David Girardi. The score after the first quarter of play was already 14-14.

The amount of scoring didn’t let up much in the second quarter as the Jackets put some distance between themselves and the Golden Tornadoes.

Dawson connected from 13 yards out to hit Moses for another touchdown.

Geneva marched down the field to tie the contest up on the very next drive

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Photo by Tim Jackson

Senior Danielle Danhires dribbles downfield in the Jackets’ 2-1 loss Saturday against W&J.

Women’s soccer loses heartbreaker

By Matt Miller Staff Writer Despite outshooting Saint Vincent 28-10, the Waynesburg University women’s soccer team lost their fourth straight Presidents’ Athletic Conference game 10 Tuesday.

“We dictated play,” head coach Sean McCarthy said after the team’s fourth straight loss by one goal. “They got a chance late in the game, and they finished it.”

The first half of the game seemed to be going the Yellow Jackets way as they outshot the Bearcats 13-3. The Jackets continued to control play deep into the second See JACKETS on C3

Cross country runs in loaded field at CMU Swingle posts near-record time as Jackets place 14th

Freshmen, junior pace women’s XC

By Matt Paris Staff Writer

By Nicole Forte Staff Writer

The Waynesburg University women’s cross country team came back strong this weekend in the Carnegie Mellon Invitational at Schenley Park.

After having a week off, the women had a strong performance, finishing 11th out of 24 teams.

“We [the coaching staff] really thought they earned the week off,” said head coach Chris Hardie. “The women’s team specifically is facing a lot of injury right now. We didn’t think See SEASON on C4 they were ready to com-

Photo by Dave Miller, ADM Photography

Freshman Bre Paul (right) and junior Michelle Naymick were the Jacket women’s top two finishers Saturday. pete last week.”

Hardie stated his team had a solid week of training that showed in the race Saturday.

The Carnegie Mellon Invitational featured several scholarship programs,

but that did not seem to affect the Yellow Jacket women.

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The Waynesburg University men’s cross country team ran in the Carnegie Mellon Invitational held at Schenley Park Saturday.

The Jacket men finished in a tie for 14th place in a stacked 22-team field.

“We knew that we were this good from the start of the year,” said head coach Chris Hardie.

“But seeing the results this late in the season is a pick up for the veterans and an eye-opening experience for the freshman.”

This meet included the

host Tartans and Division II schools Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Seton Hill and Mercyhurst. Division I powerhouse Duquesne University was also in the strong field.

“We have raced in large meets like this in the past,” said Hardie. “Most of the meets are smaller, but every year we compete at the NCAA Mideast Regional Meet with some of the top schools in the nation.”

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Fatigante added to Jackets drop final conference match Christner’s staff

By Dave Rykala Staff Writer

By Emilee Wagner Staff Writer Head men’s basketball coach Mark Christner recently added a new member to his staff.

Mike Fatigante, from Sewickley, Pa. will be the men’s basketball team’s new assistant coach this season.

“Mike was referred to me by Coach [Sam] Jones [head women’s basketball coach],” said Christner. “He has a great work ethic and attitude, and he earned respect from his coaches when he was an athlete.”

Fatigante, who now lives in Canonsburg, graduated from Avonworth High School in 2004, where he played basketball and baseball. After high school, Fatigante went to Mount Union and continued his basketball career.

Fatigante has two brothers, both of whom go to Waynesburg and play football. Zach is a senior tight end, and Tyler is a sophomore quarterback.

He graduated from Mount Union with a degree in health and physical education in 2008.

As a four-year member of their men’s basketball team, Fatigante

The Waynesburg University women’s tennis team dropped a 9-0 match in their last Presidents’ Athletic Conference match Tuesday against Saint Vincent College.

“I am more concerned of where we end in the tournament,” said head coach Ron Christman.

“We lost to a team that I feel we’re better than.”

The loss dropped the Yellow Jackets to a final conference record of 3-5 and a 5-10 record overall, with two non-conference dual matches remaining.

The Jackets took on Penn State-Behrend Saturday and came out on the wrong side of a 6-3 decision. All three of the wins came in the singles portion of the match, and all three had to go through tiebreakers to pull out the victory.

The first victory came in third singles, with junior Jess Kody dropping the first set 6-1 but battling back to win the last two sets 7-6, 7-6.

Junior Jenny McAndrews tallied the second win for the Jackets with a 0-6, 7-6, 7-6 victory over the Lions’ Allison Quigley. In sixths singles, freshman Logan McDonald took the first two sets to tiebreak before winning her match 7-6, 7-6.

According to McDonald, the key to her success was her attitude going into the match.

“How I went into the See FATIGANTE on C4

was team captain his senior year and was also selected First Team Academic AllOhio Athletic Conference.

Fatigante is currently in his second year of teaching health and physical education at McGuffey High School, located in Claysville.

Along with that, Fatigante is also the junior varsity golf coach and the assistant varsity baseball coach at McGuffey.

This is Fatigante’s first coaching job for basketball, as well as his first college coaching job. He knew for a while that he wanted to get involved in basketball at the collegiate level, but didn’t think that he would ever get an opportunity like this so soon.

“I am thankful that Coach Christner gave me this opportunity, and I am looking forward to the upcoming season,” said Fatigante.

“Our goal is to build and develop a successful program that consistently competes for a championship.”

Fatigante said he is enjoying his time so far at Waynesburg.

“I see myself being involved in basketball for a long time,” he

Photo by Tim Jackson

Junior Kelsey Diesel hits a backhand in Saturday’s match against Penn State-Behrend. match with a positive attitude seemed to work,” said McDonald.

After the Saint Vincent loss, McDonald has won three of her last four singles matches.

“I was happier at Penn State-Behrend, especially in singles, then getting the two wins,” said Christman. “Every win was a tiebreaker, and it showed they won with something coming from the heart.”

On Friday, the Jackets traveled to Greenville, Pa. to take on the Thiel College Tomcats in a nonconference match-up. The Jackets made quick work as they beat Thiel 9-0. In first doubles, the pair of freshman Markie Gustafson and junior Rebeka Reyes dominated their match, winning 8-0.

Junior Kelsey Diesel and Kody beat the duo of

Katey Williams and Amy Nacey for Thiel 8-3. In the final doubles match, McAndrews and McDonald made it a doubles sweep, winning 8-0.

The wins continued to come in for the Jackets as they finished off the day winning all six singles matches. Reyes won in straight sets in first singles 6-3, 6-0, and Gustafson continued the trend in second singles by pulling out the 6-2, 6-0 victory.

In third singles, Kody did not allow a point against as she won 6-0, 60. With the match already decided, the Jackets poured on four more victories as Diesel won 6-3, 6-3 in fourth singles.

McAndrews and McDonald finished with convincing 6-3, 6-1 triumph from McAndrews, and a 6-0, 6-

1 win from McDonald.

“I’ve learned so much since being here,” said McDonald. “I know so much more in one week here than my whole high school career.”

The Jackets continued their grueling schedule one week ago at home against Bethany College, winning the match 8-1.

In first doubles, the team of Reyes and Gustafson defeated the Bison’s Sarah Wood and Brittani Seeman 8-3. The pairing of Diesel and Kody were victorious, winning 8-4, and McDonald and McAndrews also tallied an 8-1 win.

The lone loss of the match came in first singles as Reyes lost 6-3, 6-3 to Bethany’s Maria Vallone.

Gustafson pulled out the win in second singles, winning 6-3, 6-2, and in third singles, Kody won 61, 6-2.

In fourth singles, it took a tiebreak for Diesel to pull it out 2-6, 6-4, 6-4.

The Jackets finished the day with McAndrews beating Tiffany Simpson 6-0, 6-2 in fifth singles and McDonald prevailing 6-4, 6-3.

“Each player has shown something from the heart in every match this year,” said Christman. “We are gaining a lot of growth.”

The Jackets next match will be tomorrow at 3 p.m. against Penn StateAltoona, a match postponed from earlier in the year.

Miller speaks to athletes about sportsmanship, commitment

By Matthew Snyder Staff Writer Waynesburg University athletics joined together Oct. 6 to listen to Rob Miller of Proactive Coaching speak about being both a good teammate and person. Miller will speak with all 10 Presidents’ Athletic Conference schools as promotion for good sportsmanship. The PAC Athletic Directors Council set up the talks.

“I enjoy talking to athletes,” says Miller. “I enjoy helping anyone I can.”

Miller, NAIA Director of Champions of Character Initiatives, is an alumnus of Spring Arbor Col-

New season almost here Continued from C1 end, and we get to just have fun.”

Midnight Madness will be the women’s first time together to practice for the winter season. “I am very excited,“ Jones said.

“It is very frustrating before starting practice because there are so many things I want to implement and try, but I have to wait.”

Midnight Madness will allow the girls a chance to

lege. Miller travels and speaks to an average of 120 schools each year about commitment, which he says is the biggest part to having success.

Miller indulged deeply into the life as an athlete and as a person. He posed questions to the athletes of behavior and what they considered to be acceptable. He gave examples of how others reacted in the

situations he posed and asked if they could do the same.

Miller stated that his goal was to make the athletes think in a way they had not before. He said he wanted them to think in depth about different situations that could possibly take place.

“Miller came highly recommended by multiple people,” said Executive Director of the PAC

Joe Onderko. “Talking to all 10 schools was set up to promote good sportsmanship. [Miller’s] talk was considered as an education tier for which we have money to schedule speeches and events such as this.”

Miller has a deep history with athletics, stemming from being a foursport athlete in high school to coaching at the college level. Miller has received many awards from both competing and coaching.

Miller spoke of his great teammates and teams during his presentation. Miller explained to be “great” you must have no regrets and hold nothing back. Commitment,

relax and put on a show for the fans, faculty and students.

“Midnight Madness is always a great time for basketball players and basketball fans,” junior captain Hannah Hunter added. “It is mostly a relaxing time where we can enjoy basketball with our friends and teammates.”

Although it is thought of as more of a relaxed competition, the team members will still be playing hard to show off the skills they built during the off-season.

“I think the start of

October gets everyone excited for basketball season,” junior captain Callie White said. “I also think everyone is excited to see how all the off-season hard work has paid off.”

The players feel this season can be different than last season.

“I think our rebuilding phase is officially over, and we have enough experienced players that know what needs to be done,” White added. “Even the freshmen already have experience from our Canada trip.”

The Jackets know every season will have

some sort of difference due to changes in personnel.

“Every season is different because of the different players, so we have to adjust what we do based on our personnel,” Hunter said. “Every drill we do and the plays we run are developed to work best for the team we have.”

The Jackets feel the early experience they gained in Canada will allow them a bit of an edge on their opponents.

“This start of the season is different because we are already 10 practices up on

“You can’t say cliches and ask for commitment. You have to give clear definitions of what commitment is.”

Rob Miller NAIA Director, Champions of Character Initiatives

he said, plays the biggest part in this.

“You can’t say clichés and ask for commitment,” said Miller. “You have to give clear definitions of what commitment is.”

During the presentation, Miller stated that similar issues face all teams. Miller said that elements such as respect and commitment are ones that can be handled easily.

Miller used injuries as an example of a matter that is not always easy to overcome.

“Respect has to be more than just a word on the wall or a banner,” said Miller. “Take it away from a word on a T-shirt.

Make it an action state-

ment. Here is what we believe; here is what you will see.”

“Athletes have to commit to hard work,” said Miller. “Important is passion or enthusiasm. That is the foundation.”

Miller told stories from his time as a player and a coach. He had advice for players and coaches on getting a team to commit.

“There needs to be a clear vision,” says Miller.

“There needs to be buy in from everyone. Administration, coaches and athletes all need to buy in. It starts at the top. They have to provide a vision and an example.

“If you have one thing at the end of a season, let it be no regrets.”

our opponents,” Spencer said. “We have already got the kinks out and readjusted to each other.”

The Jackets plan to use this advantage to make improvements on what they may have run out of time for last year. “We get a shot to accomplish all that we did not last year,” Spencer added.

The players also know how much hard work they still have ahead of them, both mentally and physically. “Positive attitudes are the most important,” Hunter added. “We have to buckle down and focus.”

Although Midnight Madness allows the team the chance to relax, hard work is sure to follow come Monday.

“Saturday we are going to have fun, and I think that is when our best basketball is played.”

Spencer said. “At the same time, I know we have a lot of practice ahead that may not be fun.”

Fans and students are encouraged to show up at Marisa Fieldhouse late Saturday night, for Midnight Madness will tip off at midnight and last a couple hours into Sunday.

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Men’s soccer falls to 0-3 in PAC play

By David Franczak

down a goal eight and a half minutes into the match off of a direct kick from W&J forward Mike Pappas.

Almost exactly two minutes later, W&J capitalized yet again off of a shot from Homayoun Falkshahi.

The Presidents tallied another goal later in the first half.

Tad Piscatelli found the twine for W&J to put them up over Waynesburg 3-0 going into the half.

Buzzard came out from between the pipes to be replaced by junior goalkeeper Ryan Hunsberger.

Buzzard faced six shots in the first 45 minutes of play and allowed three to find the back of the net.

The Jackets were outshot by the Presidents 111 in the first half.

No scoring took place in the second half until junior forward Erick Burke buried a pass from freshman Brad Baker with less than five minutes of play remaining.

Burke’s goal was his 11th of the season, which still leaves him second in the PAC in both points (24) and goals.

Hunsberger finished the game in net for Way-

nesburg with seven saves.

“We worked our way back, but it wasn’t enough,” said McCarthy.

“We rarely play a full 90 minutes.

“We play bits and pieces every match and need to stop our peaks.”

Prior to the home loss to W&J, the Jackets took on the defending PAC men’s soccer champions, Thomas More.

Last year, the Jackets traveled to Kentucky to face off against the Saints.

Against huge odds, the Jackets came out with a tie and notched the only blemish to the Saints’ PAC record.

The Saints would have none of that this year, defeating Waynesburg 2-0.

Waynesburg was able to hold the game to a scoreless tie going into the half.

However, in the second half, Thomas More scored two goals, both off of headers from crosses.

Buzzard played all 90 minutes in net for Waynesburg, making nine saves.

The Jackets will now have some time off until their next match against Grove City College at home on Oct. 20.

and goal to go at the Geneva five-yard line when he found Dawson with just seconds to go before halftime. The touchdown and extra point put the Jacket ahead 31-21 at halftime.

After halftime the Jackets defense continued their string of good possessions when junior cornerback Sean Hunt intercepted his fifth pass of the year. Dawson once again led Waynesburg down the field for a score when he found junior Jeff Young who caught the ball and ran for a 57-yard touchdown. After the extra point, Waynesburg’s lead swelled to 38-21. The opportunistic Jackets’ defense forced another turnover when freshman Brandon Fedorka recovered a fumble and ran it 22

yards to the Geneva oneyard line. Jackets’ freshman short yardage back Dom Moore then added onto the lead by converting a score from one-yard out. By this time the Jackets held a 45-21 lead.

Geneva looked liked they would try to fight back when Muschette scored his fourth touchdown and tacked on a two-point conversion as well to cut the Jackets lead to 45-29.

That, however, would be as close as Geneva would get as Storck added an 18-yard field goal and a 64-yard touchdown by Ngampa to eventually put the game out of reach.

Geneva managed another touchdown by Muschette and a touchdown run by Zach Hayward, but Way-

nesburg spoiled Geneva’s homecoming with the victory.

Williams led the the Jackets with 10 solo stops.

The two teams combined for 1,099 yards of offense for the 7,045 in attendance.

Dawson said the victory gives them momentum heading into their upcoming conference games but they must be careful not to get too excited about the victory.

“Even though we beat Geneva, we have to move on,” Dawson said. “Each game is tough in this league. We have to be even more prepared to win this week.”

The Jackets face Westminster Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at John F. Wiley Stadium for Homecoming.

for 117th place.

Junior runner Bill Moder followed Angoti with a time of 29:43.69 and a 123rd-place finish.

Freshman runner Jonathan Blatt slipped up a bit with a 131st place finish.

“My time wasn’t as good as I would have liked it,” said Blatt. “I tried to pace myself throughout the race, and I did a bad job at it.”

Although he didn’t like where he finished, Blatt is still happy with his time.

“To have a bad race and still break 30 minutes is pretty good I think,” said Blatt.

When it was all said and done, Hardie was pleased with the performance of his team. “Overall it was a solid performance,” said Hardie. “We look forward to greater things in the next week or so.”

The meet was a good measuring stick for the team to get ready for the

Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships due to the level of competition.

“The CMU meet was a very competitive meet for us,” said Blatt. “But it also showed us a lot.

“We beat Washington and Jefferson for the first time in a while and beat Westminster by over 100 points.”

Although he is a freshman, Jonathan Blatt likes where this team is headed. “I think we are working our way right up the charts in the PAC standings.”

The Waynesburg men return to action this Saturday at 10:30 a.m. They will be competing in the Hood College Open.

That meet is their final competitive event before the PAC Championships at the Greene County Airport Oct. 30.

The team will look to improve on their fifthplace finish in the 2009 PAC Championships.

Top three lead Jackets

Staff Writer Looking to rebound after a 3-15-1 season a year ago, the Waynesburg University men’s soccer team had a solid start to the 2010 campaign. Presidents’ Athletic Conference play so far this season is not what the Jackets were expecting.

The first PAC game came Saturday Oct. 2 when the Jackets fell to Westminster College, 5-0.

Tag two more losses to the PAC record for Waynesburg after a disappointing weekend.

The Jackets dropped a match Saturday to Washington and Jefferson College 3-1 on a day dedicated to pancreatic cancer research.

“It’s disappointing,” said head coach Sean McCarthy. “This isn’t the way we wanted to start out. We understand we have to work to get to the level of Thomas More and Washington and Jefferson.”

The Presidents overwhelmed freshman goalkeeper Dan Buzzard with 11 shots in the first half of play.

Waynesburg went

Offense paces WU Continued from C1 before both teams finally exchanged scoreless possessions.

The Jackets took over and broke the tie when Storck connected on a 25yard goal just before halftime.

The Jackets appeared to be content with the score the way it was until the defense forced a punt and gave the offense excellent field position at their own 43yard line.

This time the Jackets scored in unconventional fashion.

Safety Ryan Williams, a former quarterback, was under center on second

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“The veterans know what to expect,” said Hardie. “It is refreshing for them to place well in a bigger meet.”

Senior Adam Swingle was Waynesburg’s top finisher, as he placed 85th in the 234-man field.

Swingle’s time of 28:30.33 was not only the fastest of all the Waynesburg men, but it is now the second fastest time in the history of the men’s cross country program.

Junior runner Kam Schaefer followed Swingle by posting a time of 29:14.18.

This time was good for 108th place.

Freshman Justin Angoti was next in line by posting a time of 29:28.58, which was good enough

Photo by Dave Miller, ADM Photography

Junior goalkeeper Ryan Hunsberger made seven saves in relief in the second half of Saturday’s game.

Continued from C1 us at all,” said Hardie. “A younger team runs with blinders on, where they just go out and run. That is something you can’t teach an athlete. They are just worried about being the best that they can.”

The Yellow Jackets had three top-40 finishers this week despite the high level of competition represented in the race.

“I got really nervous when I heard schools like University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University were running,” said freshman Bre Paul. “I still went out and ran my hardest.”

Paul led the way for Waynesburg, finishing 27th out of 261 individual runners. The first-year runner finished the race with a time of 20:22.37.

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With 10 minutes left, however, Saint Vincent seemed to create momentum off of a few corner kicks. With 48 seconds left, Saint Vincent netted a goal past junior goalkeeper Katrina Kelly.

“They didn’t have many chances before that, maybe two or three; we probably had five or six,” McCarthy said. “We were the better team and just didn’t come out on top.”

The loss Tuesday brings Waynesburg’s record to 6-6-2 overall and 0-4 in the PAC. “It’s tough,” McCarthy said. “I think the girls have been performing well. It hasn’t shown in the results. They’ve all been one-goal games, and they have been close competitions.

“We want to keep pushing, keep working hard and just take it one step at a time going forward and try to make the most out of the opportunities that we have coming up in conference play.”

Waynesburg only has five games remaining on their schedule, leaving

them little room for error.

“I’m not really unhappy with the way that we are playing, I think we are playing alright,” McCarthy added. “I think that we’re just really not putting the cherry on the sundae. We’re not just finding that quick goal that we’ve found during our seven-game win streak.”

Saturday afternoon the Jackets lost to rival Washington and Jefferson 2-1 at John F. Wiley Stadium.

W&J scored two goals in the second half before freshman Susie Godwin scored on a loose ball with five minutes remaining in the game to give Waynesburg their lone goal.

Thomas More came to Waynesburg Thursday night and beat the Jackets 1-0.

Waynesburg looks to break this current losing streak this Saturday as they travel to Chatham for an afternoon match.

“From what I’ve been told the toughest tasks are behind us,” McCarthy said. “We’ve got to really push to get [a win] in every single match going forward right now.”

“We’re going to put it together, and we’re going to find a way to get a win and just keep moving forward from there.”

Photo by Mike Kabay

Freshman Cody McGee makes one of his four catches at Geneva. He had a breakout game with 64 yards.

feelings about my performance this weekend,” said Paul. “I was really pushing breaking 20 minutes this weekend. When I found out I placed pretty high in a field of over 200 runners, I was really excited.”

Junior, Michelle Naymick crossed the line in 20:37.92, good for 38th place overall. “I was extremely pleased with my performance this week,” said Naymick. “I feel like I had a solid performance throughout the entire race, and I had a strong kick at the end.”

Finishing third for the Yellow Jackets was freshman Tiffany Onifer.

Onifer crossed the line right behind Naymick in 39th place with a time of 20:39.07.

Filling the four and five spots for Waynesburg were sophomore Casey Morris and senior Sarah Beth Rood respectively.

Morris finished the race with a time of 22:24.72,

good for 109th place, while Rood finished 145th overall by crossing the line in 23:19.52.

The women have had a consistently solid top three runners throughout the season, but various Yellow Jacket runners have filled the four and five spots.

According to Hardie, he likes the depth that he has on this team but would like to see the gap start to close between the fourth and fifth runners and the top three.

The Yellow Jacket runners are scheduled to participate in the 14th annual Homecoming 5K race this Saturday.

The race is open to the public. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. in Johnson Commons. Cost is $15 and $10 for current Waynesburg University students. Fee includes a Tshirt, and all proceeds will benefit the Waynesburg University Student Mission Trip Fund.

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Volleyball loses seventh straight match

By Katie Rihn

ed to do, she’s worked on it and gotten better at it, and she’s consistent right now. That’s what we’re looking for in our libero, and she’s doing the job that we need her to do.

Hopefully it will push her other teammates to get better also.”

Mitrik recognizes ways in which she can contribute to the team and what her goals are for the remainder of the season.

“I think my positive attitude is definitely a good thing, and I’ve been working on my passing, and I think it’s helping towards the team,” Mitrik said. “I’m going to continue to work hard at practice and each day to

just get better and better.”

Another new face in the tweaked lineup is freshman right side hitter Sam Styche.

“Sam is a bright spot on the team. She’s a little bit of a character for us, and I think having that on the court helps us,” said Benkowski.

“She’s improved a lot over the course of the season, and she continues to work hard at practice. Sam doesn’t seem to get down, so she needs to keep the team positive when we get down in games.”

Over the weekend the Jackets competed in a trimatch at Saint Vincent.

Their first match paired them with the host school

and saw a straight set win (25-12, 25-18 and 25-12) for the Bearcats. Match No. 2 saw similar results (25-16, 25-19 and 25-14), only this time versus the Thiel Tomcats.

The Jackets were without the services of junior middle hitter Lauren Wagner for their matches against Bethany, Saint Vincent and Thiel.

Benkowski said it hurt not having Wagner’s consistency in the lineup.

“We miss having Lauren around,” said Benkowski. “It’s also a time for Mabel Culp and Shannon Langworthy to show us what they have for three games.”

Langworthy, along with her on the court play, uses her vocals to motivate the team. “I try to keep a positive attitude,” Langworthy said. “I’m really loud, so I try and use that to my advantage.

Last Wednesday the Jackets welcomed visiting Washington and Jefferson to the Rudy Marisa Fieldhouse for a PAC matchup.

The Presidents came out victorious, 3-1 (25-23, 2522, 25-10 and 25-20).

Waynesburg’s record now stands at 7-15 overall and 1-9 in the PAC. They travel to Grove City Thursday to battle the Wolverines in hopes of snapping a seven-game losing streak.

Fatigante’s life from the time he was little.

He started playing as a kid out of love for the game, then proceeded to play from high school through college because he loved the game, and that now brings him to coaching.

“Basketball is the ultimate team game.

From the starters to the last player on the

bench, it takes a total team effort to be successful,” Fatigante said. “The camaraderie between teammates and also between coach and player is a special thing. I have met a lot of incredible people through basketball, and I am looking forward to working with Coach Christner and all of the guys on the team.”

Christner is very happy to have Fatigante on his staff.

Christner said: “The players have a little familiarity with him, he knows what we are after here at the Division III level, and he is passionate and enthusiastic about the game. We are both very excited for this great opportunity.”

Staff Writer The Waynesburg University women’s volleyball team continued to struggle on the court, dropping four Presidents’ Athletic Conference matches in the past week.

In their most recent matchup the Yellow Jackets traveled to Bethany College Tuesday night to take on a Bison team ranked fifth in the PAC. Bethany took the match in three straight sets (2518, 25-14 and 25-11).

Head coach Stephanie Benkowski input a few changes to the lineup.

“The new lineup needs tweaking, and we need to work on a lot of things,” said Benkowski. “One thing I can still say is we never gave up. It might not have been a pretty third game, but we kept pushing, and that’s one positive I can say. With us being so young we’re still fighting no matter what.”

For most of the season the team’s libero position has been filled by sophomore Presley Cupp. The past couple matches, though, freshman Shayla Mitrik has been in that spot.

“Shayla brings consistency, and she’s been working hard all season,” Benkowski said. “She’s asked me what she’s need-

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said. “I would love to be a head coach someday if the opportunity was right for me and my family.”

Basketball has played a large role in

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Freshman Shayla Mitrik led the Jackets with 20 digs in their tri-match Saturday at Saint Vincent.

PAC awards The Waynesburg University football team received a pair of honors from the Presidents’ Athletic Conference after winning at Geneva on Saturday.

Senior quarterback Brad Dawson was lauded with his first PAC Offensive Player of the Week selection this season, and sophomore kicker Jon StorDawson ck picked up his second-straight PAC Special Teams Player of the Week nod.

Dawson’s award is his fourth since joining the Yellow Jackets.

Dawson put together his finest performance of the season on Saturday as he led the Yellow Jackets to season highs in points (55), passing yards (341) and total yards (539) in a 55-42 win Storck over the Golden Tornadoes. He threw for 336 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed for 50 yards on nine carries and caught a five-yard touchdown pass on a trick play.

After a breakout freshman season, Storck has continued to be one of the more reliable kickers in the PAC. He went 7-7 on extra point tries and made a pair of field goals (25, 18). He’s now 24-24 on PAT tries and 5-5 on field goals for the season.

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Despite losses, each team showed at least a glimmer promise in their road defeats, West Virginia at LSU and Pitt at Utah and Notre Dame. However, it was the team’s poorest performances where scheduling played a difference. West Virginia needed a comeback to beat Marshall as they were able to pilfer a win in dramatic fashion. When the Panthers fell flat on their face, Miami made them pay, embarrassing Pitt 31-3.

The Mountaineers are sitting pretty as the only nationally-ranked Big East team at 4-1, while the Panthers are below .500 at 2-3. Good news for Pitt, though, the Big East’s automatic BCS bowl berth is given to the team who performs in conference play.

And those competitive non-conference matchups may prove beneficial.

Parity abounds Parity in the National Football League has almost never seemed as evident as it does this season.

Through five weeks, no team is undefeated, and only three teams remain winless. Only eight teams have avoided their second loss, and in the AFC South, all four teams sit at 3-2. This comes at a perfect time for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Despite being without star quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, the Steelers find themselves at 3-1, just a half game back in their division.

Now, with their franchise signal caller back under center, a ferocious defense returning to form and everybody else in the league failing to separate themselves, it’s hard to overlook Pittsburgh as legitimate Super Bowl contenders.

Westboro Baptist Church members face the Supreme Court.

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From the original fourteen participants, ten students remained for the second round of Waynesburg Idol. The third round will take place starting at 9 p.m. on Oct. 18.

Events planned for Think Pink Week

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By Amanda Wishner Staff Writer The Waynesburg University chapter of Colleges Against Cancer is organizing Think Pink Week in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Various activities will be held throughout campus from Oct. 18-23. Funds collected from the weeklong event will be donated to the American Cancer Society.

“Think Pink Week is a week packed full of events that help to raise awareness about breast cancer,” said Kaitlyn Karan, junior nursing student and president of CAC at the University.

“The entire month of October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but we pack a ton of educa-

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Ten students remain in competition for second round of Waynesburg Idol

By Alex Hinton Staff Writer Last Friday was the second round of this year’s Waynesburg Idol competition. The theme for the night was “songs from your birth year,” in which each contestant sang a song from the year he or she was born.

For the first time during all six seasons of Waynesburg Idol, there was a three-way tie between contestants.

Because of the tie, contestants and audience alike were surprised to find out that round two would be made up of the top ten students rather the original plan for the top eight.

The top ten contestants were Andrew Dennis, Andrea Siciliano, Shannon Wolfram, Kirsten Repco, Crystal Boehmer, Kaitlin George, Rachel Tobias, Sarah Markwardt, Steph Yocca and Michelle Gottschalk.

Judge and 2009 Waynesburg Idol Megan Peebles opened the evening as a guest performer by singing “Anyway” by Martina

McBride.

The first contestant of the night was Dennis, who sang “Free Falling” by Tom Petty from the year 1989, and Gottschalk closed the show with “Straight Up” by Paula Abdul from 1988.

“The best part of the competition so far has been behind the scenes hanging out backstage,” said Repco.

“There is a great sense of camaraderie [between the contestants].

“Everyone is doing such a good job, and I just love getting to hear them sing too.”

Repco has wanted to sing since she was fiveyears-old, and she started singing in talent shows at age nine.

Along with singing in smaller shows back home and this summer at her local fair, Repco was one of the finalists in last year’s Waynesburg Idol.

“This year feels slightly more comfortable. I’m always nervous but I’m a little more seasoned.”

Last Friday, instead of voting on paper like

Exhibit combines mental illness, art

By Carrie Maier Staff Writer Photographer Charlee Brodsky’s work will be featured in the Waynesburg University Benedum Art Gallery Oct. 18 through Nov. 12. Her exhibit, titled “I Thought I Could Fly,” focuses on individuals and their personal experiences dealing with mental illness.

“It was inspired by her daughter’s own diagnosis,” said Department of Fine Arts Chair Susan Phillips. “She [Brodsky] wanted to see what it was like for other people

dealing with that.”

Brodsky’s daughter was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, sparking Brodsky’s desire to connect with others.

The exhibit will feature excerpts from Brodsky’s book, “I Thought I Could Fly... Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion, and Despair,” in which photographs are paired with narratives by individuals living with a mental illness.

“She was already a photographer by trade, and she used her medium to explore,” Phillips

they did during round one, the audience voted by texting the code number for their favorite contestants to the number 22333.

Each member of the audience was allowed to vote once.

“I’m kind of nervous but it’s still a lot of fun,” said George of being on stage in front of her fellow students.

She has also been singing since her childhood.

Previous to Waynesburg Idol, George sung in GCO Rising Stars for Thiel College and for the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association for her high school.

“The best part of the competition for me so far was having fun and seeing everybody else sing and perform,” George said. “I’m kind

of nervous, but it’s still a lot of fun because I’m singing.”

The competition is getting more serious as students are battling for a place in the top four for the finale, which will take place this Friday in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center after the pep rally and fireworks at John F. Wiley Stadium.

The final theme of season six of Waynesburg Idol will be “Movie Hits,” which goes along with the theme “TV Land” for Homecoming, which also takes place this weekend.

The finale will determine which contestant out of the top four will become the Season Six Waynesburg Idol Champion and win the $200 cash prize.

tion, events and fundraising into one week to raise awareness about it.”

The University’s CAC chapter is a non-profit organization coordinated by adviser Kelley Hardie, director of Housing and assistant director of Student Activities.

The organization consists of about 40 members, a record for the chapter.

“Think Pink Week, like every other activity the CAC does, is for our mothers, sisters, grandmothers, aunts, cousins, friends and other loved ones that have suffered,” said Brittney Nard, sophomore nursing student and vice president of CAC. Think Pink Week kicks off with a weekSee CAC on D2

Are you afraid?

Alan Irvine tells ghost stories

By Brandon Reed Staff Writer This Sunday there was a very chilling atmosphere in the Johnson Commons.

Ghost storyteller Alan Irvine was on campus this Sunday from 9 to 10:15 p.m. telling stories that had either a moral, a chilling ending, or were humorous to about 70 people.

Following Irvine’s presentation, there were marshmallows and materials for making smores around a fire pit.

Irvine has been telling stories since he worked as a camp counselor in

the Louisiana pine woods. He used to tell his ghost stories to help the kids fall asleep, and the kids would always ask for more.

“I like telling them to all ages,” Irvine said.

“But mainly college students and young adults.”

Irvine likes telling his stories to this specific age because they understand a lot of the underlying tones in his stories whether they are creepy or humorous.

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Vampires versus urban fantasy

Professors present works at conference

By Sarah Bell Staff Writer

The Religion and Fantasy panel at the regional Pop Culture Conference had two Waynesburg University Professors presenting their work.

Joonna Trapp, chair of English and Foreign Languages, presented her essay, “Not the Scoobies: Buffy and Angel and the Dunamis of the Communal Landscape.”

See DISPLAY on D2 Trapp was most

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Joonna Trapp and Jamie Dessart presented their works at the regional Pop Culture Conference where they also attended panel discussions. impressed with panel discussion at the conference. Jamie Dessart, associate professor of

English, also presented.

“I really enjoyed our panel,” said Trapp.

“The conference was

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Professors present Continued from D1 ence where there will be more people in my specific genre.”

When Dessart was asked about the conference, she also gave it an adequate review.

Dessart’s essay, “Nightmares to Pop into the Old Psychic VCR: The Urbanesque and the Multiplicity of Construct,” discusses Jim

Butcher’s novels.

Recently, Dessart has been working with the novelist Jim Butcher’s work. Butcher’s novels are considered urban fantasy. The regional conference had a variety of different panels, but both Trapp and Dessart were disappointed with some of them.

“There were some good panels and some bad panels,” Dessart said. “I saw at least eight panels on Twilight.”

“No one has done anything with Urban fantasy,” said Dessart.

“It is a writer’s dream. I am trying to describe what Urban fantasy is through Jim Butcher.”

Jim Butcher’s series, The Dresden Files, are the primary focus of Dessart’s paper.

According to Dessart, a quality of Urban fantasy is when a novel is set in a city where everyone is close. This type of fantasy uses theory of spaces. Dessart is currently writing a book and she wants to get feedback; one of the things that authors do is discuss their work with

each other.

She hopes to get her book published, and this work could possibly be finished when the time comes for the national conference next year.

The national conference will be held in San Antonio, Texas. Both Trapp and Dessart agree that if they cannot make the national conference this year, they will next year.

“I am not sure if I will be presenting on Buffy at the national conference,” said Trapp. “I like a lot of gothic things, and I love film.”

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B-I-N-G-O “Let’s Make a Deal” bingo was held in the Beehive at 8 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 11 as part of the Homecoming Week activities.

Display to begin Oct.18 Continued from D1 said. “The exhibit will feature 20 photographs and their corresponding statements.”

Brodsky is an awardwinning author and professor of photography at Carnegie Mellon University. Through this exhibit, she hopes to bring to audiences the experiences and routines of someone dealing with a mental illness.

“She’s taking it to different venues so more people can see it,” Phillips said. “It’s traveling.”

Organized by American Jewish Museum of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, the event had simple beginnings.

Phillips said she simply received a phone call

asking if Waynesburg University would be interested in displaying the exhibit.

Phillips agreed, though she admits to not being familiar with any of Brodsky’s creations.

“I really have not read any of her work,” said Phillips. “I just want to see photographs and react to them. Sometimes if you read a lot about an artist it skews your reactions.”

Most of all, Phillips said she hopes that people take the time to read and take in each piece.

“I know it’s going to be profound, and I hope people actually spend some time with the photographs,” Phillips said.

“I hope they don’t just breeze through it and say, ‘What was that about?’ It’s going to take a little bit of work on part of the viewer.”

The Gallery’s hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

long basket raffle. Students can purchase tickets for $2 starting Monday in the Beehive. The tickets make students eligible to win various prizes such as gift baskets and a $300 gift card to Panera Bread.

The winners will be announced at the football game Saturday.

Tuesday gives students the opportunity to decorate breast cancer ribbons in the Benedum Dining Hall at noon, and Relay For Life captains gather for a kick-off meeting at 9 p.m. in the Stover Campus Center on Wednesday.

CAC’s Pink Ribbon Ball begins at 8 p.m. on Thursday. Tickets are sold at the door for a

Although the conference was not exactly what she expected, Trapp enjoyed the experience because it gave her the chance to recharge.

“Conferences are about regeneration of self,” Trapp said.

“Teachers give so much of themselves to their students; it was nice to get it back.”

This semester, Dessart is also teaching a course on Jim Butcher.

In the class, students trace the ideas in a book.

The students just fin-

ished a book with ghosts in it, so they had to trace ghost theory, according to Dessart. They discuss Greek Mythology and Victorian Fiction.

“Pop Culture looks at how things change and what is popular,” said Dessart. “We have traced a tradition called gothic which goes into things like True Blood and Twilight.”

According to Dessart, the students in the class can expect to discuss fey fairies and they are starting Shakespeare next week.

donation of $2 on the third floor of Stover.

Students are encouraged to wear pink clothing to show their support for the cause. Food and drinks will be provided, as well as music from the University’s radio station 99.5 The Hive.

Think Pink Week’s new program Quack For a Cure debuts on Friday.

Students can purchase a pink rubber duck for $5 in Stover during the Beehive’s lunch hours in preparation for the duck race.

The race begins at the practice fields at 3 p.m. on Friday. The winner will receive two tickets to a Pittsburgh Penguins game at the new Consol Energy Center.

Students should look for CAC’s Quarters For a Cure collection can.

The University’s cheerleaders will also be “cheering for a cure” and tossing pink t-shirts into

the bleachers. Karan encouraged students to attend these events.

“They are a great way to win prizes, hang out with friends, take a study break and do something amazing for someone else,” said Karan. “Their $5 rubber duck could win them Pens tickets, but more importantly pay to take someone to their cancer treatment.”

All money raised during Think Pink Week will be donated directly to the American Cancer Society to support both cancer research and cancer victims.

“This week is so important because so many people’s lives have been affected by breast cancer,” said Karan. “It is so important to raise awareness for this disease that has claimed so many lives and is still so far away from being cured.”

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Irvine’s favorite story to tell is a tragic romance called Lady Anne.

The story is about a man who tries to restore an old mansion and stirs up the ghost of Lady Anne.

Their common love for the house grows into much more, but has a tragic ending for one of the protagonists.

Most of Alan’s stories are either original or from reading older folk tales and hearing them at different storytellers’ shows.

Another one of Alan’s favorite stories to tell is one called “Molly Malone.”

In the story he mentions that the song is an

Photo by Amanda Rice

Alan Irvine told ghost stories to students in Johnson Commons on Sunday, Oct. 10. old Irish folktale that he turned into a story about a woman named Molly Malone.

“It is actually an old Irish folktale,” Irvine said. “I just added my own twist to it. It is easily one of my favorites to tell.”

Irvine said that he participates in a lot of different Irish or Scottish fes-

tivals.

He said that he particularly enjoys these platforms because he feels like he is really in his element. The stage and settings for these events really brings the crowd into his stories.

Irvine is also the president of a storytelling group that he created in 1988 called StorySwap.

He can be heard performing on the Saturday Light Brigade radio show and web cast. In addition to all these activities, Irvine still finds time to teach workshops on storytelling.

Irvine has numerous recordings that can be found online, several of which have won Storytelling World awards.

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Two physicists get Nobel prize for graphene discovery

By Thomas H. Maugh II Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Two Russian expatriates working in Britain have been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics for their discovery of graphene, a two-dimensional layer of carbon molecules whose unexpected properties promise to revolutionize the electronics industry, the production of lightweight materials and a host of other applications.

At a time when multibillion-dollar particle accelerators and orbiting telescopes are often deemed necessary for major breakthroughs in physics, Andre Geim, 51, and Konstatin Novoselov, 36, both of the University of Manchester, laid the foundation for their discovery with an ordinary piece of Scotch tape.

The pair, who will share the $1.5-million award, used the tape to peel successive layers of carbon from a small chunk of graphite similar to that found in a pencil, eventually obtaining a layer a single atom thick that they dubbed graphene. That’s when the real work began, Geim said at a news conference organized by the Nobel committee.

Researchers had thought such two-dimensional materials would be very unstable, but graphene confounded their expectations.

It is 100 times stronger than steel and conducts heat and electricity better than copper.

Unlike pencil lead,

graphene is transparent, and it stretches up to 20 percent when stressed.

“For the past five or six years, we have been intensively studying the properties of these materials, trying to figure out what they can be useful for,” Geim said.

“I would compare this situation with the one 100 years ago when people discovered polymers. It took some time before polymers went into use in plastics and became so important in our lives.”

But it may not take nearly as long with graphene, said H. Frederick Dylla, executive director of the American Institute of Physics.

“Within a year or so of Andre Geim’s and Konstantin Novoselov’s first work with graphene, it became the subject of dozens of sessions at large scientific meetings. Many scientists, seeing a rich research opportunity, stopped what they were doing and turned to graphene.”

Among potential applications cited by the Swedish Nobel committee are replacing carbon fibers in composite materials to produce even lighter aircraft and satellites and replacing silicon in transistors to produce faster and more efficient electronic devices.

The material could be embedded in conventional plastics to enable them to conduct electricity, and because it is transparent, it could be used to produce touch screens for computers and telephones.

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British aid worker killed by captors in Kabul

White House national security adviser resigns

KABUL, Afghanistan – A British aid worker was killed by her captors after a failed rescue attempt by NATO forces in eastern Afghanistan, the British government said Saturday.

Linda Norgrove, 36, was taken hostage along with three of her Afghan co-workers in an ambush two weeks ago while visiting a project along the Pakistan border.

Her colleagues had already been released at this time.

The British government gave few details on the Friday night rescue attempt of Norgrove, a former U.N. worker who headed a $150 million project .

She was working to strengthen local economies for the U.S. aid group Development Alternatives Inc. NATO allies received a tip on Norgrove’s whereabouts, a decision was reportedly to send in and U.S. Special Forces, given the danger she faced.

WASHINGTON – Retired Marine Gen. James Jones resigned Friday as the White House national security adviser and was replaced by his deputy, Thomas Donilon.

The swap will have little impact on policy. However, it could strain relations between the White House and the military.

While Jones has deep ties to the military, Donilon didn’t serve in uniform, and his lack of experience helped make him suspect to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other Pentagon officials.

Jones lauded Donilon’s organizational skills, but he also thought that Donilon was prone to making rash decisions.

4 Arrest made after toxic waste spill kills seven

BUDAPEST – The managing director of MAL Ltd., the owner of the plant behind last week’s catastrophic toxic waste spill in Hungary, has been arrested.

The toxic spill was not being treated as a natCisco unveils video-system for home use ural disaster, but as negligence.

The prime minister was speaking a week after SAN FRANCISCO – Networking giant Cisco close to a million cubic meters of toxic red mud Systems Inc. on Wednesday unveiled a high-end, spilled from a waste storage reservoir, killing high-priced video-calling system that it hopes seven people and covering villages and large will open the door to wider home use. areas of countryside.

Cisco’s new “umi” (pronounced you-me) system consists of a set-top box, camera and remote controller designed to connect with home users’ Wife of Nobel winner placed under house arrest high-definition television sets and high-speed BEIJING – The wife of China’s Nobel Peace Internet service.

Prize winner said late Sunday that Chinese The system, which Cisco plans initially to authorities allowed her to visit her husband, Liu sell through Best Buy and Verizon, will cost Xiaobo, in prison over the weekend, then placed $599 for the system and a monthly fee of $24.99 her under house arrest when she returned to Beifor unlimited calls and the ability to store mes- jing. sages and other video online.

As Liu Xia revealed her whereabouts, China’s Users can make calls to other people who ruling Communist Party appeared to still be conhave the system or who use Google’s video chat sidering how to respond to the very public chalservice. lenge to its authoritarian rule that the prize repUmi will compete with widely used, low-cost resents. video-calling services such as Skype, which Liu Xiaobo is serving an 11-year sentence for allows users to make free calls with their own his role in drafting a political manifesto calling webcams. for democratic reforms in China.

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Basic skills present barrier for many two-year college students

By Jennifer Oldham The Hechinger Report LOS ANGELES — The three petite, soft-spoken Latinas are all friends.

They graduated from Grant High School here, are on one another’s speed dial and share a preference for electric blue. All three are stuck in basic-skills courses at Los Angeles Valley College after bombing their college placement exams, in part because they had so little guidance about what would be tested.

“I did bad _ I was tired,” said Karina Carrillo, 18. “I was surprised that I had to take so many English classes over. They won’t even count as college credit for two years.”

The experience of Carrillo and her classmates Sonia Ortega and Mariana Casillas at their two-year college reflects a graduation crisis at community colleges _ one that President Barack Obama addressed at a White House summit last week.

“More than half of those who enter community colleges fail to either earn a two-year degree or trans-

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From left, Karina Carrillo, Mariana Casillas and Sonia Ortega relax during a recent morning on the Los Angeles Valley College campus in Los Angeles, California. Like many of their peers, they must all take multiple basic-skills courses. fer to earn a four-year degree,” Obama said.

The stakes of getting stuck in remedial classes and never earning a degree are especially high in California, which is home to the nation’s largest community college system, with 112 campuses and 2.9 million students.

Nationally, between 60 percent and 80 percent are placed in the basic-skills classes Carrillo and her classmates can’t escape, leading many to quit in frustration.

Remedial education is where far too many community college students begin and end their careers, and it remains one of the most intractable obstacles to graduation, said Tom Bailey, director of the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. Only 31 percent of students placed into remedial math ever get to collegelevel work, and half of students referred to remediation of any kind com-

plete the entire sequence, Bailey has found.

Bailey’s research has shown that remedial education is often ineffective, and students who need it drop out at alarming rates.

So Obama called for the first White House summit on community colleges after setting a goal last year of increasing the number of students who earn degrees and certificates from the two-year institutions by 5 million in the next decade.

The placement tests

that determine whether students are ready for college-level work are the first big hurdle to graduation, said the authors of a new study on California community colleges.

“It wasn’t a test of what you could do, but about what you could remember from a long time ago,” one student who took algebra and geometry in high school told researchers.

The study based its findings in part on interviews with 257 students at five California community colleges. It sheds new light on the poorly understood, and often ineffective, course-placement structure at the state’s community colleges, which educate three-quarters of its college students.

Too often, students get little counseling and may have less than a day to formulate their education plans, said Michael Kirst, a professor emeritus at Stanford University.

“At community colleges, people just show up and are processed immediately,” Kirst said. “This raises questions about whether this one-shot

assessment is an appropriate measure of what you know and what you don’t know.”

Exam questions often bear no relation to what students learned in high school, the study found.

The exams are essentially one-size-fits-all, meaning that students who have small gaps in their knowledge or skills are placed into classes where they actually know most of the material. Some 83 percent of incoming students scored so low that they were placed in remedial math courses that don’t count for college credit, while 72 percent of students tested into remedial English.

“What we found are indications of a broken system. It’s shockingly bad, the lack of completion, and the placement into basic-skills classes, and the amount of time students swirl in these classes,” said Andrea Venezia, a senior research associate at WestEd and a co-author of the study.

(Jon Marcus and Liz Willen contributed to this report, which was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan educationnews outlet affiliated with Teachers College, Columbia University.)

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Church’s protest at military funeral troubles Supreme Court

By Michael Doyle McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices seemed both troubled and divided Wednesday as they questioned whether a small Kansas church could be punished for mounting a protest that many found contemptible outside a military funeral.

The high court didn’t clearly tip its hand during the hourlong oral arguments in the case pitting the Westboro Baptist Church against a grieving Pennsylvania father. Several justices did, however, hint that the 2006 funeral protest was lawful even if it was obnoxious.

“Didn’t they stand where the police told them to?” Justice Ruth

Bader Ginsburg said at one point, adding that the protest “was with the knowledge and permission of the police.”

To underscore the case’s difficulty, however, Ginsburg later questioned whether the First Amendment should “tolerate” what she termed “exploiting a private person’s grief” for the purpose of getting attention.

The most anticipated free-speech case of the year, Snyder v. Westboro Baptist Church centers on a March 2006 protest by seven Westboro members outside a Roman Catholic Church in Maryland.

Inside the church, Albert Snyder was holding a funeral service for his late son, Matthew, a 20-yearold Marine lance corporal

Photo by Amy Mina

A member of the Westboro Baptist Church protested in Washington, Pa., as the group traveled to Washington, D.C. to face the Supreme Court. who was serving in Iraq’s Anbar province when he was killed in a vehicle accident.

“Mr. Snyder simply wanted to bury his son in a private, dignified man-

ner,” attorney Sean E. Summers of York, Pa., told the court.

During the Snyder funeral service and roughly 1,000 feet from the church, Westboro Baptist

protesters carried signs conveying such messages as “You are going to Hell,” “God hates you” and “Thank God for dead soldiers.” One sign, according to a legal brief,

included “a picture of two males performing anal sexual intercourse.”

Church members, several dozen of whom were present outside the court Wednesday, believe that God is punishing the U.S. for tolerating homosexuality. Albert Snyder didn’t see the protest signs until he saw a television news show that night. He sued, claiming intentional infliction of emotional distress, and eventually won a $5 million award.

An appellate court threw out the award. “The words that were at issue in this case were (from) people from a church delivering a religious viewpoint,” Topeka, Kan., attorney and Westboro Church member Margie J. Phelps told the court.

Three University of Wisconsin students Retailers foresee face up to $86,000 in fines for keg party Facebook as next

By Sharif Durhams and Cailley Hammel Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MADISON, Wis. — It must have been some party.

Madison’s city attorney’s office has slapped three University of Wisconsin-Madison students with fines totaling more than $86,000 - that’s about $28,000 apiece - for hosting a house party last month that led to more than 130 citations, Madison police said Tuesday.

To put that in some context, attending UWMadison for a year and paying for housing and other expenses costs about $21,600.

Travis W. Ludy, 21, Mitchell J. Klatt, 20, and Kevin J. Tracy, 20, were each cited with one count of dispensing alcohol without a permit, 21 counts of procuring alcohol for an underage person and 21 counts of adult encouraging underage alcohol consumption.

The students also could face discipline from the university.

Madison Police Officer Brian Chaney, who was involved in breaking up the party at a two-story brick house, said officers

“They get some sort of citation, but nothing in comparison with the parties that are uncooperative.”

Brian Chanley Madison Police Officer

were more concerned about safety than racking up fines. The problem was that the hosts didn’t work with the officers. The three students were charging most partygoers $5 per cup to get in and get drinks from half-barrels, according to police.

Many of the attendees were freshmen in just the second weekend of classes. When police arrived and saw 200 to 300 students milling around the house with plastic cups, they knocked on the door.

Those inside immediately stopped the music, locked the door and hushed themselves, Chaney said.

Officers wanted the hosts to come out and give them permission to search the home, Chaney said. That way, they could check whether students inside were incapacitated.

They have found in the past that house parties can get so big that the hosts can’t keep track of

the guests.

Chaney said it took awhile before students decided “it wasn’t worth it to barricade themselves in the house with their hosts.”

When the hosts still didn’t identify themselves, the officers started counting suspected underage drinkers.

They stopped once the hosts came forward and were cooperative.

In an interview Tuesday Ludy said the party started as a pregame celebration before the Badgers game Sept. 11 against San Jose State University.

Marci Paulsen, who handles most house party cases for Madison’s city attorney’s office, noted that the fines are the maximum that the hosts of this party might have to pay. The hosts might negotiate a lesser amount with her office.

The party is the only one with major fines so far this year, Paulsen said,

adding there were only one or two such parties last year. Authorities in Madison said they’ve been trying to crack down on large house parties because they worry uncontrolled revelry could lead to sexual assaults, batteries, thefts and damaged property, as well as alcohol poisoning.

Chaney said officers have been pushing residents to limit the size of any party and to make sure they know those attending parties they host.

There is a benefit for hosts who cooperate.

Chaney said officers on his Community Police Team broke up another house party on the same night about a block away from the kegger. The hosts at that party worked with police - and were only issued about $5,000 in tickets, he said.

“They get some sort of citation,” he said, “but nothing in comparison with the parties that are uncooperative.”

For Tracy, who didn’t want to comment Tuesday on the Sept. 11 party fiasco, the incident was another chapter in an already well-chronicled college career. Tracy was featured on the MTV series “College Life.”

frontier for sales

By Maria Halkias The Dallas Morning News DALLAS — Brick-andmortar retailers badly want to tap into Facebook’s 500 million users.

Retailers realize that for a growing number of Facebook users, it’s no longer just a website. It’s a new platform, one of the “big new disruptors” in the online world, according to experts assembled at last week’s Shop.org annual retail technology summit in Dallas. Stores are chatting with customers on Facebook about what’s new in stores, holding contests and posting weekly ads. Now, in time for the holidays, companies are building Facebook “stores” that will allow people to shop without leaving Facebook.

“Retailers want to “turn all these (social media) conversations into conversions,” said Henry Wong, chief executive of Adgregate Markets, a company that’s about to put a dozen retailers, including the Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy, into social commerce.

Adgregate, based in

Sausalito, Calif., is working with McAfee to provide security for the shopping platforms.

Mike Murphy, vice president of global sales for Facebook, said “there’s a lot of page-building happening with the functionality to allow shopping” inside Facebook.”

“Originally, we all thought of Facebook as a destination website that people went to” and now it’s viewed as a platform, said Josh Goldman, general partner of Norwest Venture Partners.

It’s helping to define what Goldman calls “social retailing.”

Some of the move to Facebook is an example of the old “location, location, location” axiom, said Rob Solomon, president and chief operating officer of Groupon, the fast-growing daily deal site. “In the old days, everyone had to be on Yahoo. Now you have to be on Facebook.”

For some retailers, especially brick-and-mortar vs. online-only retailers, Facebook pages are seeing more traffic than websites, Murphy said

Unemployment at 9.6 percent as organizations slash jobs

By Don Lee Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — A sharp falloff in local-government payrolls, mostly at public schools, added an ominous new weight to the depressed labor market last month as the American economy lost 95,000 jobs and the unemployment rate remained at 9.6 percent.

In the last monthly employment report before the Nov. 2 midterm elections, which many see as a referendum on the economy, the Labor Department said Friday that private employers added just 64,000 jobs in September -

not nearly enough to offset the large cuts in public payrolls.

Moreover, most of the private-sector job gains were lower-paying, part time or short term and were at businesses such as temporary help firms and eating and drinking establishments.

One major disappointment was the paltry job gains in the private sector, which amounted to even less than in each of the previous two months and were eclipsed by declines in public payrolls.

Surveys suggest that small businesses remain reluctant to add workers because of weak sales and

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uncertainty about future taxes and policies. Corporations are continuing to cut costs by moving jobs overseas.

“For most businesses I talk with, even if they’re doing expansion, they’re planning to do it with as few workers as possible,”

said Mark Vitner, a senior economist at Wells Fargo in Charlotte, N.C. “The economy just lacks a spark right now.”

In September, the Labor Department said, the Census Bureau let go of 77,000 - nearly all the remaining staff brought on for the census.

But while that drop-off was expected, the big surprise was the loss of 76,000 jobs at local governments nationwide.

Two-thirds of those were teachers, administrators and other staffers at public schools.

State governments added to the woes by eliminating 7,000 jobs.

And private education services trimmed their payrolls by 15,000.

All told, the hit to public- and private-sector education last month was 73,000 jobs.

“It’s huge. We’re cutting one of the key things related to future productivity growth,” said Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute.

The National League of Cities estimated that even with the September job losses, local governments were not halfway through the 480,000 layoffs projected to occur from last year through next year.