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October expected release date for Wi-Fi in dorms

By TYLER GODWIN Editorial Assistant

Waynesburg University students are currently unable to access the internet in their dorms without a router, but that problem is soon to be solved.

The Information Technology Services (ITS) department is aware of the problem and its staff is about to eradicate it. The ITS department is on the verge of releasing campus-wide wireless internet through its overall infrastructure project. It will be accessible in all of the buildings on campus, including the dorms and remote campuses.

According to the Vice President for Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer, Bill Dumire, the campuswide network will become available within the next month, as they plan to release it in spurts. Dumire said they want to make sure everything works with each building before they move on to the next. “… [The new system] is in place with new switches, cabling and access points,” said Dumire. “[We] need to evaluate to make sure all access points will work.

We are going to test all devices, building by building, and collect feedback. We are going to start with the first dorm towards the middle of October.”

Students will be able to log in and connect through their university usernames

and passwords. They will be able to connect multiple devices at the same time, but it will not include every device. Gaming consoles will not be included on the list of connectable devices, but students will still be able to utilize the wired connections the school currently has available.

“It is an academic network meant to help students with academics… [it’s] not meant for consoles,” said Dumire.

“However, students will be able to use the Comcast wired connections that are available, so students will be able to connect anyway.”

The network is directed towards students, as well as faculty, as it stresses academics and aiding with everyday schooling needs. A list of policies and procedures will be released that users will be responsible for following.

Dumire noted that the project was the department’s top priority over this past summer, working on completing it as soon as commencement ended.

“The moment commencement was over, [we] began planning and testing,” he said. “It was our primary focus, as we understood students need that kind of access.”

Dumire explained that since the overall infrastructure project began approximately two years ago, there have been a few obstacles that have delayed the service becoming available to INTERNET >> A4

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‘What would Clari do?’

Photo courtesy of Beth De La Cruz

Clari De La Cruz was a Waynesburg University freshman when she died Nov. 16, 2014. Almost two years later, Clari's mom Beth De La Cruz is raising money to build a kitchen in a Haitian orphanage. The project is inspired

by Clari's love of missoin work. De La Cruz was led to pursue it by asking herself, "What would Clari do?"

After student's death, mother continues mission work in her name

By JACOB MEYER Sports Editor

Nearly two years after her daughter Clari’s death, Beth De La Cruz still thinks of her constantly.

Whenever De La Cruz is going through tough times, she can’t help but think of her. De La Cruz said her daughter was a very forgiving person, something she’s not.

“It just keeps her close to my heart,” she said. “It helps me be a better person and it also turns a little bit of the bitterness and the sadness into a more productive feeling.”

For the last 22 months,

before making any decision, De La Cruz asks herself, “What would Clari do?” The answer to that led her to a fundraiser to build a kitchen in a Haitian orphanage. *** O n N o v. 1 6 , 2 0 1 4 , Waynesburg University freshman Claribeth De La Cruz died of a suspected suicide. She was 18 years old.

Clari, who grew up in Naperville, Illinois, was a member of the Waynesburg University women’s track & field team and was also a Student Senator. She battled numerous allergies as well as postural orthostatic tachy-

cardia syndrome, which affected her heart rate and blood pressure, according to her teammates.

In high school, she heard an advertisement on a Christian radio station about the university’s annual CSI Camp, and decided to visit Waynesburg with Admissions Counselor Bob Barnhart, who said she would pay “check up” visits to his office.

De La Cruz visited her daughter the weekend before she died – the last time she would see Clari. She hasn’t forgotten who her daughter was. She said she never will.

“Clari was a tiny girl full of life, full of energy and a passion for life that’s hard to

compare to anything,” she said. “Whatever she did, she went for it 100 percent.

That’s how she lived life.”

De La Cruz still can’t help but laugh when she thinks of the type of person her daughter was.

“Part of her not-so-good side was that she was going to be your friend whether you wanted it or not,” she said, laughing. “She was just full of life and she was not afraid of sharing that with people. She was bold in her faith, and she lived it all out.”

De La Cruz believes her daughter is the reason she is as strong in her faith as she CLARI >> A4

New FAFSA application date Start-of-year test a necessary allows for earlier federal funds stressor for nursing students take their time to really see what the financial aid package With changes to • STUDENTS CAN BEGIN FILING is going to be and to the 2017-18 Free Apconsider that into FAFSA ON OCT. 1 INSTEAD OF plication for Federal their college decision Student Aid (FAFSA), process,” said Payne.

JAN. 1 students will be able High school seto complete the appli- • TAX RETURNS FOR TWO YEARS niors can complete cation three months their FAFSA in OctoPRIOR WILL BE USED earlier than previous ber before even being years. Applications • COLLEGES MAY AWARD accepted into college. will now be available If they completed the FINANCIAL AID SOONER to all students on Oct. form by the time they 1, 2016, though the are accepted into coldeadline is still May 1. lege in November or While these changes have students make more informed December, they will receive an an effect on current college decisions for college. award letter informing them students, the biggest impact Shari Payne, vice president of the amount of money they will be on high school seniors. of enrollment at Waynesburg will receive from the governThe Federal Government de- University, is very supportive ment. This gives families amcided to bump up the FAFSA of these changes. deadline to help high school “This allows students to FAFSA >> A2

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In a Nutshell

Juniors, seniors prepare during summer for difficult exam

By BRENDAN KEANY Op/Ed Editor

While many students on Waynesburg University’s campus enjoy the laid back nature of the first week of school each year, nursing students are thrown right back into hard work.

In fact, on the first day of classes in the fall, juniors and seniors are required to take a medication administration exam that determines their

standing in the program.

Director and Professor of Nursing Dr. Nancy Mosser shared a pamphlet of information regarding the requirements and guidelines of the test.

The minimum passing grade is 90 percent, and those who fail on the first attempt must attend a remedial session and then attempt the test a second time. If the student does not achieve a passing grade on the second attempt, they are “deemed unsafe to be in the clinical setting and therefore will not be permitted to participate in any clinical activities. Such students will be required to withdraw from the course or receive an ‘F’ in the course,

and they will not be permitted to complete the clinical portion of the course.”

This means that students who fail do not participate in nursing classes for an entire semester.

To junior nursing student Julie Gerber, the stress level of such an exam that determined the ability to move on in the program was intense, even though she felt prepared.

“It was definitely stressful just because the first day of class you already have a test, and it’s kind of going to determine if you move on for the rest of the year,” said Gerber. “But I did study the NURSING >> A3

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September 22, 2016

WU Student Senate sets goals and objectives for 2016-2017 term

By GRACE HUTCHISON For the Yellow Jacket

The Sept. 13 Student Senate meeting began promptly with a loud crack of the gavel and roll call of its 15 current members. It was announced that it is not too late for freshmen to sign up and run for a position on the Senate, though they would have to be a write-in vote. President Ryan Schwertfeger, a senior electronic media major, reminded all in attendance of the Stover Scholar play related to Constitution day, taking place on Thursday, Sept. 15.

Dr. Larry M. Stratton, advisor of student senate, then spoke of his excitement for new members to join student senate. The minutes from the Student Senate meeting on Sept. 6 were read and approved by members, prompting a recap of last week’s events.

“Senate has a lot of things going on currently, as well as things to come in the future,”

said Junior Senator Shon Meade.

The Executive Vice President Tyler McCoy, a sophomore history and political science major, proposed an amendment to the Student Senate Constitution that would lay out the procedure for filling a seat if a Senator vacates their seat for any reason. Currently, the Constutuion just lists the reasons as to why a senator might leave.

There was also an update on the coffee bar located on the bottom floor of Eberly Library.

Senior Vincent Wise, a history major, worked on the project with the Associate Dean of Students Pat Bristor,.

They clarified and organized the stock and inventory of the coffee bar, and ordered everything necessary for it to be fully functioning. He said that coffee should now be available more smoothly and reliably than in the past.

The recycling program, led by junior history and pre-law double major Luke Hutchi-

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Dr. Larry Stratton, faculty advisor for the Waynesburg Univesity Student Senate addresses the senators as they tackle the schedule for the next academic year. son, is attempting to create an organized and simple method to make recycling easily accessible across campus. There is one recycling worker returning from last year, as well as a new one starting work this school year.

A problem that they have

faced is that some faculty have complained that they have not had their recycling collected since Spring of last school year. Hutchison said that their goal was to synchronize a schedule between the faculty, senators and recycling workers to have the recycling collected.

Inventory of the residence halls needs to be taken to see which halls and floors have recycling and which don’t so the senate can assess what is highest priority and supply what is needed. One of the senate’s goals for this year is to move recycling to the upperclassmen dorms, since

there are already recycling resources in underclassmen dorms.

Another topic discussed at Tuesday’s meeting was the idea of replacing water fountains around campus, said Wise. He said that he has overheard many students saying they wished Waynesburg had more higher-quality water fountains that also had the feature that allowed them to easily fill their plastic refillable bottles.

President Schwertfeger said that he would be willing to help organize and work with other clubs on campus to try to accommodate the hefty price tag of around 2,000 dollars per water fountain.

Near the end of the meeting a few other topics were discussed, including the upcoming Harvest Festival, and Buhl Gardens was approved for a service day project.

After those matters were discussed the motion, to end the meeting was made and approved by members.

Alumnus' paper on technology, missions presented at conference

By CODY GUTHRIE

For the Yellow Jacket

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GUEST SPEAKER IN ROBERTS CHAPEL

At chapel Tuesday, Sept. 20, guest speader the Rev. Derek Davenport spoke about being born again and giving grace, referencing 2 Kings 5:18.

Former Waynesburg student Alexander Tenenbaum was asked to present his paper “The Role of Technology in Missions” at the International Conference on Computer and Mission (ICCM).

The ICCM is a conference put into place to recognize the importance of technology’s involvement in mission trips when used correctly.

Although Tenenbaum was not able to attend the event, Dr. Elizabeth Wang, professor of computer science, was able to step in and present Tenenbaum’s paper.

When asked why Tenenbaum was unable to attend, Professor Wang said he was serving in a missionary capacity.

She states that Tenenbaum’s paper examined the use of technology on mission trips. The majority of the information presented in Tenenbaum’s paper came primarily from his work in Papua, New Guinea.

Through his trip to Papua

New Guinea, Tenenbaum was able to connect with various people, such as Jim Leamer who presented his knowledge on the effect that older technology had on the people he was serving.

Leamer was a missionary worker who was working at the same time as Tenenbaum, and his missionary work dates back to the 1970s. In the article, Leamer expressed the drastic changes in technology, explaining the drastic change in both computer size and storage methods.

The information collected from missionaries displays the positive and negative connections between technology and religion.

Through his paper, Tenenbaum expresses the importance of being able to translate the information present in the Bible.

Wang said Tenenbaum has a great passion for missionary work and a deep connection with his faith.

Tenenbaum studied 21 missionaries in the field while on his mission trip. In Te-

nenbaum’s paper, he explains that only about 40 percent of people in the world have access to the internet. He explained that this limits people’s access to the Bible.

Tenenbaum’s paper explores technology as it transitions from the past to the present. This shows how far missionary work has come.

It mainly stresses the improvements in translation software, such as being able to distinguish clicking noises that are present in some languages.

Not only does his paper present the technological improvements in Papua, New Guinea, but also shows the ability to send copies of religious text to North Korea without their own government knowing about the interaction between both North and South Korea.

“The Role of Technology in Missions” expresses electronic involvement in missionary work, as well as emphasizing the importance that it is capable of fulfilling, CONFERENCE >> A4

Waynesburg builds connections FAFSA: Gov. adjusts filing start date through WVU partnerships Continued from A1

By TEGHAN SIMONTON Managing Editor

While Waynesburg University is a small institution, it’s several affiliations with nearby West Virginia University (WVU) provide it with the resources of a large one.

The main partnerships, according to University Provost Dr. Dana Baer, are with the WVU School of Medicine, the School of Osteopathic Medicine and Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC).

“They would be affiliation agreements, which means that the schools of medicine and Waynesburg agree on certain prerequisite courses and if our students meet those requirements than students can apply to the graduate programs,” Baer said. “And we also work with WVU’s Army ROTC so they can enroll and take classes at Waynesburg and finish their ROTC classes at WVU if they receive the scholarship.”

Baer said the ROTC partnership allows students to receive credits from Waynesburg University while completing their junior and senior ROTC credits at WVU. By graduation, the students who complete the required courses are able to receive commission.

According to Baer, all of these programs allow students of Waynesburg Univer-

sity to foster connections with professionals in their fields, who could be of benefit in their extended education.

“It’s good to develop those types of relationships,” she said. “It allows our faculty and students to interact with the programming has and to network with professionals in the graduate school.”

This way, Baer said, both the students and faculty members of Waynesburg University increase their professional contacts.

There are some difficulties, however, as Waynesburg and WVU faculty must find ways to make the undergraduate and graduate programs coincide.

“We have to compare the curricula,” Baer said. “[We need] to make sure that students are going to be able to satisfy the graduate curriculum and satisfy the undergraduate curriculum too.”

She said that this often leads to schedule conflicts as well, as students struggle to organize their program sequences to accommodate the extra courses.

“Fortunately, we have really good people at Waynesburg and really good people at WVU who are willing to accommodate students,” Baer said.

Baer added that those students involved in the affiliations are typically skilled at juggling their courseloads.

Looking ahead, Baer indicated that the future of these affiliations remain bright.

To expand upon Waynesburg’s relationship with WVU Army ROTC, she hopes to create a military science minor.

“It includes all of their ROTC classes…plus a handful of what would really be military history courses,” she said. “It would be a really good fit because we offer a number of military history courses already, through our history department.”

Baer also said she hopes to create additional relationships with other universities, and to design partnerships with more programs of study.

“I’m also working with a couple of institutions,” she said. “We’re looking at some additional engineering agreements and some pre-law agreements.”

The goal of these programs, said Baer, is to provide students with security in their future endeavors, ensuring their eligibility for graduate school.

“Pretty much any time we’re working a program with another institution, we’re working at what benefits our student,” she said. “So it makes the transition from undergraduate to graduate school more seamless. It’s going to give them a degree of maturity that they wouldn’t have otherwise.”

ple amount of time to figure out what school is financially best for their situation.

“The hope is to put the financial aid process more in line with the admissions process, so that ideally students and families can make informed decisions,” said Matthew Stokan, director of Financial Aid at Waynesburg University.

In previous years when the FAFSA application opened Jan. 1, students could not fill out the application until they completed their federal tax returns. This process would not allow students to complete their FAFSA’s until February or March.

The Federal Government has introduced Prior-Prior to eliminate the wait. Prior-Prior is referring to a student’s tax returns, as students will use their federal tax returns from two years earlier. This means for students filling out the FAFSA for the 2017-18 school year, they will use their tax returns from 2015. This allows students to file their FAFSA in October, and universities will be able to award money earlier.

“Our hope here is to start awarding students early December, maybe November but I think more like early December,” said Stokan.

Some colleges and universities, such as Pennsylvania State University, are not going to take advantage of being able to award money months

earlier. Many colleges plan to start rewarding money to students only one month earlier than previous years.

The Admissions and Financial Aid offices are encouraging students to take advantage of the early opening and complete the form before the year ends, so students do not forget about it or push it off until the last minute. Payne hopes students will take the initiative to complete it before the end of the year.

“In some ways I think it will be easier, and in some ways, I

wonder if folks who had always filed later in the cycle will still file a FAFSA later in the cycle,” said Payne.

Admissions is making sure incoming students are aware of the changes. They are also adjusting their net price calculator because of the modifications. Payne says it will be a significant shift in her department and Stokan agreed.

“This is by far, and I’ve been doing this for twenty-five years now, is probably one of the biggest changes in the history of financial aid,” Stokan said.

September 22, 2016

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Safety officials push campus alert system Counseling Center offers group therapy sessions to students

By TYLER WOLFE

Chief Photographer

Over the first four weeks of school Waynesburg University has seen a slight rise in security incidents compared to past school years.

“There has been an increase in incidents over the past few weeks and it can be attributed to students settling in and getting used to the college life,” said Mike Humiston, director of the Department of Public Safety. “It also has to do with new students not knowing certain rules and regulations.”

The Waynesburg University code of conduct can be found on the right hand side of the myConnect page under “Other Information/Requests.”

When an incident does occur, The Department Of Public Safety investigates what happened and works closely with Chris Hardie, assistant dean of Student Services, for disciplinary action.

The Department of Public Safety also works hand in hand with local authorities for certain incidents.

“We have a very good professional working relationship with the borough police department which we work closely with in incidents like the Thayer car accident and the threat to a student on campus a few weeks ago,” said Humiston.

The Department of Public Safety recently hired two new part time officers and hired a returning officer, Mike Pavlic, who is also a deputy sheriff in town, to replace John Kingston, who moved on to a new job opportunity in the county.

“It has been a busy start to the year but it seems like it always is,” said Hardie. “We have not done an analysis of the data yet so it’s hard to tell, but a bigger student body can lead to more issues.”

Student Services works with code of conduct issues, making sure students live to the code of conduct on university property.

“The student body here is amazing,” said Hardie. “Everyone makes an error in judgment at some point in their life, and we try to minimize

that by holding students to high standards.”

There have not been any major changes to the code of conduct in the past few years besides strengthening or clarifying positions on a few things. The most recent addition was the ban of hover boards, which are considered a fire hazard.

Also, a clarification has been updated about smoking cigarettes, using smokeless tobacco and using E-cigarettes, which are prohibited in any university building or vehicle.

Student Services and the Department of Public Safety work to make sure the Waynesburg University campus stays safe, in part, by utilizing e2campus. E2campus serves to alert students, faculty and staff on all of Waynesburg University’s campuses of security situations.

“It is crucial for students and faculty to have signed up for e2campus,” said Humiston.

“People can be put in harm's way if they don’t know about safety concerns on campus.”

Hardie agrees with Humis-

ton about the importance of this system.

“E2 is vital, vital to response time even if it just gets you 60 seconds in front of the problem,” said Hardie. “It’s not always security threats either, it could be weather related too.”

To sign up for e2campus, log into myConnect, click the e2campus icon on the left side of the page and input your information.

Currently e2campus is not mandatory or an automatic sign up for students for several reasons, as Kelley Hardie, assistant dean of Student Services, explains.

“When it was first implemented, not everyone had free texting and putting the whole university on the system would max out our usership,” said Kelley Hardie. “We also cannot put students’ personal information automatically into that system, students have to do it voluntarily because it could be considered spam.”

Any security issue should be reported to the Department of Public Safety at 724852-3303.

WU plans new Christmas service project

By SHON MEADE Managing Editor

With summer recently coming to a close and fall weather taking over in Western Pennsylvania, the Waynesburg University Center for Service Leadership is already looking ahead to the holiday season.

Each year, the university comes together for a Christmas service project. This year, the project has been changed from the usual, Operation Christmas Child.

This year, students will have the opportunity to gather gifts, serve food and execute a Christmas party for the community.

This all came from feedback from students saying they wanted to make an impact a little closer to the university. This now opens doors for students to help people in the local area as opposed to those in other countries.

“A lot of students expressed interest in serving locally in Greene County because they have connections with local service partnerships as well as relationship with families and children,” said Hardie.

“They really wanted to give back to those that they are serving and loving.”

This new Christmas service project will be held, and, with a little bit of help, organized by West Sides.

West Sides is an organization in the area that helps to serve the youth of Greene County. Roughly 75 families will feel the affects of Waynesburg’s contribution this year, said Hardie.

As far as the university’s involvement goes, there will be an Angel Tree available for students to buy gifts for a child in Greene County. This tree will be in the Center for Service Leadership office.

Those who volunteer to help out the day of the party will help serve breakfast and join the families in the celebration. Santa Clause and the Waynesburg University mascot “Sting” will also be in attendance.

Hardie believes that this will be a wonderful chance for fellowship to be shared between students and the community.

Operation Christmas Child is not going away entirely, as students will still

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Instead of participating in Operation Christmas Child at Christmas like the last several years, this year, the campus will host a community Christmas party. have the chance to fill boxes.

Information is available on the organization’s website, and there will be boxes on campus for students to fill, Hardie said.

In previous years, the university filled almost 300 boxes to ship to those in need.

However, each box costs $7 to ship, which adds up.

No matter which service opportunity students decide

to do, their impact will be felt.

“I think it will be great.

It’s going to be really cool to serve our local community like this,” said Hardie.

The official date for the event and deadlines for gifts have not been announced yet. For more information, contact Hardie directly via email at khardie@waynesburg.edu.

By ASHLEY HALL

For the Yellow Jacket

The Counseling Center, located on the third floor of the Stover Campus Center, aims to help Waynesburg University students with their problems, granted the students’ willingness to communicate and share through group counseling. “[Group counseling] does wonders if you have somebody that feels they’re all alone,” said Jane Owen, director of the Educational Enrichment Program, Clinical Services and Counseling Center.

Owen encourages students not to hesitate to contact one of the counselors for help, whether it be in a one-on-one session or in these counseling groups.

“Learning how to be aware, to communicate, to cope, and to problem solve, is essential for change.”

Owen said. “If you are able to do that with a group of your peers, that can bring about long-lasting change.”

Owen said group counseling is a tool that the counselors at Waynesburg University try to utilize within the small campus c om mu n it y, t hou g h it would be easier for larger schools.

She believes that students do not like sharing their personal life with their peers because they feel that there is then something that can be held over their head.

Despite this deterrent, attendance for group counseling sessions has increased in recent years.

Owen proposed the hypothesis that more students are accepting mental disorders as actual problems, making them “destigmatized.”

In the past, the Counseling Center has held groups catering to grief, graduate school anxiety, self-growth, sexual abuse sur vivors, highly sensitive people and social anxiety, according to Owen and Mary Hamilla, assistant director of the Counseling Center.

This year the counselors are considering groups about healthy choices, self

care, being your best self and social awkwardness.

Owen is especially interested in holding a group about healthy communication habits through cell phones.

O wen s aid t hat t his group would be focusing on “students that complicate their lives through the use of their cell phone, and their lack of communicating to people in person.

When students have a hard time going through a fifty minute class without their phones, then there is a problem.”

It is a requirement for Waynesburg University Graduate students enrolled in counseling to lead group counseling in order to graduate.

A.J. Sturges, a graduate of West Virginia University, who is working towards a master’s degree in counseling and a Ph.D. in sports psychology, and Hannah Sandy, a graduate of Fairmont State University, who is perusing a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling, are the two interns that are currently working in the Counseling Center.

“We have so many students who are interested in the helping professions and who are going to be going into counseling and social work type of programs,” Owen said.

She hopes that students attend the groups as an aid to themselves, their peers and also the graduate interns.

“Last year, the group that was really popular and a lot of students consistently came to was in late afternoon, early evening,” Hamilla said.

This year, all times will be considered because the counselors are willing to work with students’ schedules, said Hamilla.

These groups will not run all semester long. If a student has an idea for a group or wants to be considered in a group, they are encouraged to email Jane Owen at jowen@waynesburg.edu or any of the other counselors in the Counseling Center.

University receives Nursing: 90% pass threshold drives work ethic grant funding for walking trail project Continued from A1

By ANTONIO PELULLO For the Yellow Jacket

The EQT Foundation has awarded the Waynesburg University Urban Forest and Walking Trail a $20,000 grant for the university to work on the trail that goes down the hill outside of Martin Hall. This has been on the radar to be completed by the Waynesburg Urban Forest and Walking Trail since the spring.

“A student who graduated, it was kind of his legacy that he wanted to have a trail here,” said Dr. Janet Paladino, assistant professor of biology.

In conjunction with that, Paladino and student Nate Ribar took the idea to Institutional Advancement to learn whether funds could be acquired for the trail. As the lead on the project now that Ribar has graduated, Paladino talked with Bill Coates, executive director of Institutional Advancement.

“He said, ‘yeah, we should probably ask the EQT if they want to fund this’ and they were very interested in funding it,” said Paladino.

In an area such as Waynesburg, urban forests are valuable due to the lack of natural forest areas where

people can walk. Last winter, work began on the trial with a field biology class, but work was left unfinished. “[The winter class] built half of an outdoor classroom and they didn’t get the other half up because of the fact most of them graduated,” said Paladino.

“The first thing we are going to do is finish the outdoor classroom.”

The classroom is being built on the land where a house was built at the turn of the century, and another similar piece of land will be turned into a meadow.

The Waynesburg University Urban Forest and Walking Trail project is also looking for volunteers to help build and clean up the forest.

“We are absolutely looking for student volunteers,” said Paladino. “We met with the biology club and the eco-steward club. They are actually who originally ignited the project before there was any money.”

Clubs that get involved they will have the opportunity to mount a plaque on whatever project they help build.

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practice exam a lot, so I had some idea of what to expect, and I feel that it did prepare me for the actual test.”

Although the consequences of failure appear steep for one test, especially considering that most of the students have poured a lot of work into the program for two years through that point, Gerber understands the need for a standardized measure of aptitude.

“I think it’s good because you are going to have people’s lives in your hands, so you want to know what you’re doing,” said Gerber. “I think it is important for the drug calculation quiz that we had because meds are really important, and if you make a med error, you could kill somebody.”

However, she noted her lack of understanding as to why students who fail cannot continue with other classes in the program, and she had a difficult time putting into words exactly what she would do if she had failed the test.

“I don’t even know what I would do, really,” said Gerber. “I guess I would try to take that year to take gen-eds or any other classes that I had to take and then probably reapply to the program next year, and I think that’s what a few of them are doing, but I think if you transferred to another school it would al-

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Nursing majors spend the summers before their junior and senior years studying for exams which they must pass at 90 percent to stay on track in the program. most put you behind a year because our credits don’t really transfer to other places, so you’re kind of in a tough position.”

Emily and Katherine Latimer, senior twins in the nursing program, echoed many of Gerber’s positions on the test, as seniors have the same type of exam, just on a more difficult level.

“There’s always that twinge of doubt,” said Emily Latimer. “So the night before you’re cramming for this math test that you should be able to pass without having to study, but we panicked anyway,” she added in reference to her sister.

Both Latimers said that the rigid consequences of failure are sometimes difficult to cope with, but much like Gerber, they understand

the importance of accuracy and precision, especially in their line of work.

“It’s kind of heartbreaking for people especially if you’re not a good test taker or you have a lot of anxiety or something. If you make a couple mistakes and don’t end up passing, then you’re already a year behind because of that one test,” said Emily Latimer.

“At the same time, I completely understand it because it is drug calculations which can kill people if you do them wrong,” added Katie Latimer.

Gerber did stress that there are ample opportunities and time to prepare for the test, and she believes the professors want the students to succeed.

“They give you a study guide halfway through the

summer so that you can start practicing problems,” said Gerber. “It’s pretty similar to the study guide, so if you study, you should be pretty good with it. They’re not trying to trick you.”

In the end, it’s all a part of their trade. Caretakers in the medical field cannot afford mistakes 35 percent of the time, which would be a normal passing rate in other areas of study. Nursing students realize that their bar for accuracy is set much higher.

“There were a few people who failed it, and they’re not with us anymore,” said Gerber. “It’s kind of sad, in a way, just because we spent all last year together, but at the same time, you want to have a nurse who is going to give the best care to patients.”

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September 22, 2016

Counseling Center helps exploring majors follow their passion

By MATTIE WINOWITCH Managing Editor

Jesse Levier had no idea what he wanted to do with his life when he first came to Waynesburg University.

“I didn’t even know if college was right for me,” said Levier, a junior who is now studying digital design.

Torn between joining his father’s plumbing business and pursuing a college degree, Levier chose the latter without having a sense of direction. After taking various general education classes and the mandatory Career and Life Planning course offered to those who are exploring majors—or “undecided”— Levier was slowly able to figure out what he could picture himself doing for the rest of his life.

Levier is not alone. According to University Counselor Chaley Knight, many freshmen enter into college without a game plan and end

up clinging onto someone else’s words.

“When it comes to students from 17 to 19 years old, there are so many social pressures,” said Knight. “They’re brought on by parents, grandparents, friends and teachers who tend to speak into their lives.”

Knight teaches the Career and Life Planning course that helps exploring majors, which Levier once was, to figure out their academic path.

In this course, activities and deep self-evaluations are performed to help the students figure out their exact calling.

Unlike Levier, junior criminal justice major Sara Lescher was torn between three majors.

After the second semester of her freshman year, it was Knight’s class and the guidance of the counseling center that helped her make her choice.

“I would sit there making pros and cons lists, and every time the results didn’t point to

the criminal justice program, I would get disappointed,” said Lescher. “That’s how I knew it was right for me.”

Lescher said one of the hardest parts of being undecided was feeling left out of her friend group.

“My friends all knew their majors coming in, and they knew exactly what they wanted to do, so I felt a little bit of pressure finding out what was right for me and what my path should be,” said Lescher.

Even after declaring a major, Levier was still put down for his final choice.

“It hurts when people put me down and tell me that I am taking the easy way out and taking an easy major,” said Levier. “Sometimes they make me feel like I made the wrong choice, but then I remember they don’t see the work that I put in and the things that I create.”

Knight said that it is imperative that students pick their own passions, despite

what others say.

“When you work a job that you’re not passionate about, it affects your whole life,” said Knight. “It affects your eating, your sleeping and your relationships with other people.”

This idea is something that Knight incorporates into her classes, telling students to think wisely about what they choose. But as a counselor, this is also something she revealed that she struggles with.

“As a counselor, what is really hard for me as that I want students to take their time and explore all of their options, while another part of me is a staff member of Waynesburg University wanting to make sure that their time and their money is being put to good use,” said Knight.

Although allowing students to take their time can help them to make the right decision, doing so could cause them to not graduate on time.

The goal of Waynesburg’s

Counseling Center is to help get exploring majors to declare within a semester. Levier and Lescher both chose at the end of their freshman year.

Knight said that students generally have until their sophomore year to decide, but due to the rigorous programming that Waynesburg provides, timing becomes an issue.

“You can’t stay in the ‘I don’t know’ phase for too long because then you turn into a fifth or sixth-year student,” said Knight. “People sometimes joke about that, but when students have to pay $30,000 more, then it’s not funny anymore.”

As a Waynesburg graduate who was also undecided at one point, Knight said one thing she struggled with was taking advice from people who were trying to help.

“I was the student who had no clue, and people would tell me I was a great listener or that I was good at writing, and I would constantly

downplay them and shut them down,” said Knight. “As soon as I learned to listen, I realized I could get paid for doing something that comes so easily to me. And now I’m here helping the students who were just like me.”

Levier’s advice for students that are currently undecided is to be open to many different options.

“Have an open mind because there are a lot of things that will hit you, and you’ll get stressed out about a lot of them, but eventually, you’ll find one that doesn’t stress you out,” said Levier. “Stick with that.”

And Lescher recommends that confused students look within themselves to find the solution.

“Follow your heart. It’s ultimately about what you want to do,” said Lescher.

“It shouldn’t be about what your parents or your friends are doing—it’s down to your passion.”

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students.

“The first obstacle [was] the age of the dorms; they were not truly equipped for wireless,” he said. “The second was performing a site survey of every building, ensuring that there was the best possible signal and all areas were covered. There were a lot of people we have had to work with.”

Director of Information Technology Services Joshua Starsick wants Waynesburg University students to know that once the network is up and running, there are resources available to help students with any problems that they have with their devices.

“We have student support available Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.,” said Starsick. “The phone line is also available any time, even after hours, for password problems. Students can also fill out a ticket on myConnect for help requests.”

The department is also opening a new client area in the Wiley Armory, which is located across the street from the Fitness Center, which will allow students to bring in their devices to get handson help from the staff and student workers.

When it is all said and done, Dumire wants the ITS department to give back to the students and faculty and make sure they have a good experience with technology on campus.

“We want to make sure students have the best possible experience, and faculty as well,” said Dumire.

The hope, Dumire said, is that by Winter Break all of the buildings on campus will have full access to the wireless network on campus.

For any students that may have questions about the new Wi-Fi services coming to the campus, or any technology problems in general, Dumire can be reached at wdumire@ waynesburg.edu. The ITS help desk can be reached at 724-852-3413.

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by spreading the word of the Lord.

This is the fifth paper that Wang has aided seniors in either presenting at a conference or publishing as a chapter in a book. Wang talked about working with Tenenbaum and encouraging him to strive to get his paper published.

When asked what Tenenbaum was currently working on, Wang stated that he is

currently attending seminary, which is a school that prepares people to go into ministry-based positions.

When asked about Tenenbaum’s involvement in previous missions, Wang said that Tenenbaum was involved in various projects during his years at Waynesburg.

“He has a great passion for missions,” said Wang.

She went on to say that she was glad he could use his knowledge from Waynesburg University to glorify God in the missions field.

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and damaged the forest; for the forest to grow and trail to stay clear, they must be completely removed.

“It’s a very degraded forest; it’s not a beautiful natural forest,” said Paladino.

“Invasive species are crowding out the native species; we want to promote more native species.”

The project will not end

any time shortly, as the forest continues to grow and become a closer part of Waynesburg.

“It’s going to be an ongoing project – it’s going to be a legacy,” said Paladino.

“You can continually add to a project like this.”

Any creative students who feel they can make a strong contribution should contact Paladino, as she is looking to add to the trail in any way possible.

to Naperville Presbyterian – the church she still goes to today.

“As a young kid, she saw something that I hadn’t seen yet, and she was the one who brought me to the place where we are worshiping now, which is what helped transform my faith a lot,” she said. “We kind of want things our way, and her passing is not my way. But it made me trust Him more and that plan that I don’t see, that I don’t understand and that hope to see her again.”

De La Cruz knows trusting God is what Clari would want her to do.

ing the orphanage by building a kitchen.

“I knew that’s what Clari would want me to do,” she said.

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As Clari approached her high school graduation, her mother was thinking of a gift to get her.

“I know it’s really expensive for me to go to college, and I understand if you can’t, but if you’re planning on giving me a present, would you consider a mission trip?”

Clari asked her mother.

In the summer of 2014, only a few months before she died, Clari and her mom went to Honduras on a mission trip.

“It didn’t surprise me because Clari was the definition of selfless,” De La Cruz said. “She was so into helping people. Even if she didn’t get asked to help, she was still going to help you whether you wanted it or not.”

The experience in Honduras, combined with the constant thought of her daughter, De La Cruz decided to go to Haiti on a mission trip in February.

“I went there in memory of Clari,” De La Cruz said.

“Clari was the one that got me involved in mission work. After she passed away, I found solace in doing the things that she liked to do.

And I know that she would have jumped at the opportunity to go to Haiti.”

One of the places De La Cruz worked in Haiti was at the Cavaillon Orphanage.

She remembers how happy and loving the kids were, despite how little they had.

“I walked into a kitchen and witnessed this kid just literally scraping a pot to eat.

They were so hungry,” De La Cruz said. “The kitchen is a little small kitchen, a little square basically with three rocks on the floor and they put a pot there. That day the dinner was noodles. The kids are scraping the bottom of the pot and sucking on their fingers.”

She said the kids in the orphanage only get one meal a day, sometimes bread for a second meal.

It was in Haiti that De La Cruz first considered help-

De La Cruz has another child, a 23-year-old son named Gabby. He has several neurological conditions and is a wheelchair user. She has taken care of him while also working a full-time job as the World Languages Curriculum Specialist for a textbook publisher.

Time is one of the reasons why, at first, De La Cruz doubted the project would be possible.

De La Cruz barely slept the entire mission trip in Haiti. She couldn’t stop thinking about what God was telling her to do.

But still, when she arrived home in early March, she had doubts.

“How can I raise $50,000?”

“I a m a l re a d y b u s y enough. I take care of my son, I work full time and travel for work.”

“No one is going to give me their money.”

When she asked the permanent missionaries about the kitchen, they said it was the next project they wanted to do.

“You can’t cook for 100 people three times a day on three rocks,” De La Cruz said. “Facilities were the number one thing that they needed. They already knew it was going to take about $50,000, and so honestly, God just put it in my heart to do something about it.”

De La Cruz said she had never been the type of person to doubt God. This kitchen led her to doubt.

“I questioned God [with this]. I went to my pastor and asked, ‘How do you know that [God’s] talking to you or that you’re just making up stuff.’”

He responded with what was in De La Cruz’s heart.

“What would Clari do?”

Photo courtesy of Beth De La Cruz

When Beth De La Cruz visited Haiti earlier this year, she saw an immediate need for a kitchen in the orphanage she worked with. The project is now underway.

*** De La Cruz launched the “Kitchen That Love Built” campaign on May 6. Three months later, she did some-

thing else for her daughter – she checked an item off Clari’s unfinished bucket list.

In 2010, when Clari was 14 years old, her mother took her to San Francisco.

Clari loved history, so they visited Alcatraz. They wondered how difficult it would be for prisoners to escape Alcatraz and swim the one and a half miles to San Francisco.

“We said that we would someday swim Alcatraz together,” De La Cruz said.

In August, De La Cruz accomplished that goal and swam Alcatraz – without Clari.

“A lot of people think that this swim was a physical thing,” she said. “It was such a spiritual thing. I felt Clari’s presence the whole entire time with me. It was overwhelming. It wasn’t so much thinking that she wasn’t there, as feeling that she did it with me. It was a very special day.”

Today, nearly $71,000 has been raised, and the kitchen in Haiti is currently being built. A cafeteria is also being built so the kids can eat in their community. The building is earthquake- and hurricane-proof, a feature De La Cruz said they don’t currently have.

It will take about $40,000 more to furnish the kitchen, add a generator and add flushing toilets. De La Cruz is going back to Haiti in February 2017 to dedicate the kitchen to Clari.

The trip to Haiti, the fundraiser, the swim, everything in the last two years has been with her daughter in mind.

“It’s been very healing for me to do the things that Clari loved or to do the things that Clari wanted to do,” said De La Cruz. *** Clari was baptized as a baby, like many, without her knowledge. But she was strong-willed. She wanted to choose to be baptized.

She went on a mission trip for three years in a row to West Liberty, Kentucky, which was hit hard by a tornado in 2012.

During the trip in the summer of 2013, Clari decided she wanted to get bap-

tized. She called her mom asking for her permission.

“Of course. You don’t have to ask me permission for that,” De La Cruz said.

“I want to make sure that you’re ok with me doing this.

When I was young, you had me baptized, but I have never chosen it myself,” Clari said. “And I want to choose it myself.”

Clari described the baptism in a testimony at “Share Night” at Naperville Presbyterian six months before she died. Members of the church, mostly adults, were sharing how the Holy Spirit has worked in their lives in the past year.

Clari got up, scaring her mother.

“I’m thinking, ‘Oh dear God, what’s this kid going to do,’ because she’s so impulsive,” De La Cruz said.

Clari gave a two-minute and 16-second testimony.

Six months later, a friend at the church had a recording of it and showed it to De La Cruz.

Her friend created a video montage with pictures of Clari on different mission trips and the testimony playing in the background followed by her favorite song, “Do Something” by Matthew West.

In her testimony, Clari talks about the importance of following God’s “go,” or calling, just like she did when she decided to get baptized again.

“I can’t begin to tell you how amazing that feeling is when you are filled with the Holy Spirit and you just go.

Like don’t make an excuse.

Go,” Clari said in her testimony.

“Tomorrow’s not promised to you. Go.” De La Cruz said she doesn’t listen to Clari’s testimony often, but she can’t help but listen to it once in a while to hear her daughter’s voice.

“You know if I’m missing her in a painful way, I’ll go back and listen to it because her words are so inspiring.

Listening to God calling me to do the Haiti thing was my ‘go’ moment, because I was so scared to say yes,” De La Cruz said, crying.

“Her words were the ones that told me to do this.”

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High St. closings delegated by Public Works department

By ANNIE MCGLAUGHLIN

News Convergence Editor

The historic High Street in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, is one of the busiest areas in town. Located right next to the Waynesburg University campus, the street has shops that tailor to almost any need.

However, the street is closed for a few events during the calendar year, which can cause problems for those who need to pass through.

The six events include Rain Day, 50’s Fest, Veteran’s Parade, Open House, Halloween Parade and the Christmas Parade shut down the entire street for their event’s duration.

The process for shutting down the street goes beyond Waynesburg borough and the public works.

“We send PennDot a letter about a month in advance stating why the roads need to be closed, then a detour route is set up and a letter is sent back either accepting or declining the request,” said Waynesburg Chief of Police, Robert J. Toth. “I also let 911 and Greene County Emergency Management Agency know about the closing.”

The effect isn’t much more than a minor inconvenience for those attempting to navigate through Waynesburg.

The closing is always announced and scheduled in advance with advertisements in the newspaper and spread through word of mouth.

Truckers are the people most affected by the closing.

Traditional Waynesburg events such, as Rain Day, have been going on since the early days of the town. Therefore, the closing should not

come as a surprise to residents or students.

“People do get irritated about going around the closure, but it is clearly marked,” said Toth.

“It’s for a short period of time. It really shouldn’t be much of a shock to students or public."

Only two of the events, Rain Day and Open House, shut down the road for the entire day. The other events shut it down just for the duration of the event, which is typically only a couple of hours. Signs are also put up to show the alternate detour route and guide travelers.

Toth said he is the first police chief to shut down the road for the Open House event in December. He feels it creates a safer environment due to the foot traffic. The event takes place in a winter month, so there is less daylight and accidents are more likely.

Toth said the effect on student population is minimal due to the fact that most of the events take place when they are not on campus or on a weekend.

On the contrary, he said closing the road is more of an inconvenience to him and the borough as opposed to the residents. He has to staff and patrol the events as well as take care of the PennDot requirements for the closing.

The next event High Street will be closed for will be the Halloween Parade and costume-judging contest on Oct. 27.

For more information about events coming up in Waynesburg borough and on High Street, visit www. waynesburgboro.com/events.

New recreation center planned for community to use

grams.

Some other activities and rooms will be an eight Greene County Memo- foot climbing wall, a birthrial Hospital Foundation, day party room, for chilalong with their sponsor dren to play while parents EQT Corporation, will workout and a concession start construction soon on stand that will be open the new EQT Recreation, during tournaments and Education, and Communi- other gatherings. ty (REC) Center. Although “It’s not just so you it is not the location it was and I can go kick around originally planned for, it is a soccer ball, it will be a still being built at the Ev- place for everyone,” said ergreene Technology Park. Jones. "There is nothing in “We had an opportunity the county like this." to have a site to be more EQT Corporation’s Meconducive,” said Executive dia Relations Manager, Director of Greene County Linda Robertson, comMemorial Hospital Foun- mented on Greene Coundation David Jones. ty’s importance to EQT. The REC Center will “Greene County is one be two-stories high, with of EQT’s most prolific a 60x40 yard turf soccer and successful operationfield, which can also be al areas,” said Robertson. used for other sports such “When EQT first learned as flag football, wiffle ball about Greene County Meand kickball. There will morial Hospital Foundaalso be a regulation sized tion’s plans for this combasketball court that will plex, we knew we wanted also have volleyball lines to be a part of it because painted on it. Looking we wanted to be able to over the soccer field will be give something back to the an indoor track for people community that has welwho want to walk or jog. comed us and grown with The center will also us during the last several have three large commu- years.” nity rooms that will have Robertson said giving sliding walls so that they back to the community can all combine into one is their number one goal large room if needed. with this project.

The rooms will be used Construction is estimatfor banquets, fitness pro- ed to take less than a year, grams and one room will meaning that the REC cenhave a kitchen for healthy ter will be open sometime eating awareness pro- in the fall of 2017.

By COLIN MCLAUGHLIN For the Yellow Jacket

Braedyn's battle

Sports injury leads doctors to diagnose local boy's cancer

By JACOB MEYER Sports Editor

Braedyn Wasko was diagnosed with cancer on Aug. 12, three days before his 10th birthday.

The doctor told his mother, Carla Hughes, it was Ewing’s sarcoma, a bone cancer that consists of one percent of childhood cancers. She didn’t know how to tell him.

“Am I going to die?” Braedyn asked his mom when she told him.

“It’s hard to explain to a little boy who was getting ready to start football practice, and now he’s worried about dying. It was very scary for him,” Hughes said.

“It was heartbreaking. It was shocking to find out that your soon-to-be 10-year-old son has cancer.”

Three days later, on his birthday, Braedyn spent most of the day in the hospital getting tests done.

Hughes said Braedyn is coping as well as anyone 10-year-old could.

“We have talked about this a lot, and he understands what’s happening to him,” she said. “He’s doing well—a lot better than, at 10 years old, how I would have handled it. He’s amazing in my eyes with how he is dealing with it.”

Something Braedyn can’t do right now—and may never do again—is play sports.

He loved playing football and hoped to one day be like his older brother and play for Carmichaels High School.

Braedyn also loved playing baseball, which is what led to doctors discovering his cancer.

In April, Braedyn was hit

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Braedyn Wasko wasn't even 10 years old when he was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma. Today, instead of doing what he loves on the field, he is staying strong in between chemotherapy treatments. with a pitch in the same exact spot on his right leg on back-to-back days. A bump on his leg appeared, and they assumed it was a hematoma, a blood clot outside of a blood vessel.

Hughes then got concerned. She called Braedyn’s doctor, who referred them to an orthopedic doctor. He said it’s likely a hematoma.

A few weeks went by, and Braedyn’s leg didn’t improve.

He got an X-ray in late May, which revealed a stress fracture in his leg from being hit by the pitch.

Again, a few weeks went by, and Braedyn’s leg didn’t improve. “ Tr uthfully, I ne ver thought it was anything different because we were kind of told that there are times that [some] hematomas that happen don’t go away on their own,” Hughes said.

But Braedyn went back to his orthopedic doctor, who said more tests were going to have to be done to find the problem. Now, Braedyn and his mom were worried.

An MRI in early July showed something else may be wrong with Braedyn’s leg.

Doctors did a bone scan on his right leg, followed by a biopsy at UPMC Shadyside.

That was on Aug. 8.

Four days later, Braedyn would find out he has cancer.

The tests done on his birthday revealed a week later that the cancer was only localized on the tumor on his leg and had not spread to other parts of his body.

“Because it’s a fast growing cancer, if they don’t catch it quickly it tends to spread to his lungs or anywhere in his body very quickly,” Hughes said. “Because it was caught quickly, he has a better chance of survival than if it would have spread. We did get lucky with catching it quickly.”

If Braedyn didn’t get hit by the baseballs back in April, they may not have found his cancer as soon as they did.

“He could’ve gone years without knowing, and by then he could have been later into this and the outcome could have been completely different,” Hughes said.

“We feel that it’s a blessing that he got hit…ultimately this could have saved his life.”

Braedyn started chemotherapy treatment on Aug. 22. He has three months of treatment, and then the doctors will decide whether BRAEDYN>> B4

Sanders rallies at CMU for McGinty

By GRACE HUTCHISON For the Yellow Jacket

“Anybody here in student debt?” Senator Bernie Sanders asked the roaring crowd packed into the gym at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) on Friday Sept. 16.

Sanders was at the event to endorse Katie McGinty’s candidacy to represent Pennsylvania in the United States Senate.

The crowd, which was largely composed of college students, anxiously waited in line outside of the gym doors.

“I waited for over an hour before I got in,” said Benjamin Barklaiz, a freshman cinema major at Point Park University.

Much of the crowd seemed to have attended the event just to hear the former Democratic presidential nominee speak. Many of his diehard fans came to the gym decked out in his merchandise, one of those people being University of Pittsburgh freshman political science major Joel Heiney.

“His focus on income inequality, as well as finance reform, is what attracts me to him,” Heiney said. “I love how he can back up what he says with his history of activism, such as how he protested for the Civil Rights Movement.”

The event began with the head of the Democrat club at CMU speaking of uniting all Democratic students and the importance of young people getting involved in politics.

After he was finished speaking, John Fetterman, the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, began his speech. He

Grace Hutchison, For the Yellow Jacket

On Friday Sept. 19, Bernie Sanders and Katie McGinty rallied together to endorse McGinty's candidacy to represent Pennsylvania in the US Senate. McGinty would be the first female Senator in Pennsylvania history. initially was running against McGinty for the candidacy, but she won the Democratic nomination over him.

Fetterman gave his support to McGinty for Senate, as the crowd cheered him on.

His speech ended with him welcoming McGinty to the stage, where she greeted him with a hug.

McGinty spoke about her core issues, LGBT rights, making college affordable and legalizing marijuana.

McGinty fans, such as Sarah Olearchick, a freshman at Chatham University, support her for not only her political views but also because she wants to see McGinty become the first female Sena-

tor in Pennsylvania history.

“I want to see more women in government, especially in my own state,” said Olearchick.

“It’s time to send Pat [Toomey] packing,” McGinty said of her Republican competitor.

Her speech had the crowd cheering in support of her every word.

Her short speech ended with her introducing Sanders as an “ally” of hers in Washington, D.C., where he is fighting for the issues that she believes in.

Sanders walked onto the stage as the crowd chanted his name.

He began speaking, and

after noticing the number of young people in the crowd, began shifting his speech towards being informed citizens.

“Get involved get involved deeply,” Sanders said.

“We are talking about the future of America, we are talking about defeating Donald Trump.”

Sanders didn’t step far outside of his usual rhetoric of rigged elections and poorly distributed wealth, and as he spoke, the crowd cheered in support. He ended his speech by stressing the importance of going to vote this November and encouraging young people to get involved with politics.

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Beyond 'Brangelina' We need to consume important information

Angelina Jolie filed for a divorce from her husband Brad Pitt on Monday. It was the biggest headline on nearly every news outlet to start the week, likely generating the most clicks out of any other story.

Here’s the other news that made headlines in those two days.

Police officers in Tulsa killed an unarmed black motorist last Friday and videos surfaced early this week.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump used money from his charity to settle lawsuits.

Federal charges were filed against the New York City and New Jersey bombing suspect.

A football player at the University of North Carolina remains a student and football player on the same campus where he raped a girl.

Two things with the Brangelina divorce aren’t right.

The first is that the media is covering the story as if it’s just as important—and in some cases more important—than actual important news.

The other is society’s role as consumers. If consumers put Brangelina ahead of legitimately important things, then the media will continue putting a high emphasis on Brangelina.

In the grand scheme of the world, the ending of Brangelina's is quite unimportant. But the other things that occurred recently, like the Tulsa shooting, Trump’s character or more news of a terrorist attack, actually matter.

As a responsible citizen, please start reading and watching the things that actually matter.

September 22, 2016

It’s hard for me to fathom that the popularity of youth sports is declining, because I just don’t see it.

I went to high a school in which 80 percent of the students played a sport for at least one of the three seasons—which of course, is much higher than the national average-a staggering number.

Wa y n e s b u r g i s n o t quite to the level of my high school, but most of my friends play a sport or have played a sport at some point in their collegiate careers. Of course, I am a member of the cross-

country team, which skews the data a little bit; there is still a decent percentage of Waynesburg students who are involved in athletics.

I’m not here to argue against the likes of Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, because I’d like to think that those media outlets know more than me.

The numbers they are reporting are stunning, however. From 2008 to 2012, participation in America’s most popular sports-basketball, soccer, baseball and football-by kids between the ages of six and 17 fell by four percent, according to the Wall Street Journal.

These numbers sadden me for two reasons: The first is that Americans are becoming increasingly

sedentary, which does not bode well for the longterm health of the nation.

The Wall Street Journal notes this much as well.

Wi l l i am W. D e x te r, president of the American College of Sports Medicine, said, “It is much more likely that someone who is active in their childhood is going to remain active into their adulthood.”

Unfortunately, the opposite is also true. Kids who are not exposed to the physical benefits of playing sports at a young age are much less likely to simply pick it up as they grow older.

According to the American Heart Association, one in three American kids and teens are overweight, and the obesity rates have

tripled from 1971 to 2011.

There is a ton of research that claims that today’s millennial generation may actually have a shorter life expectancy than the generation before.

While nobody can totally know for sure at this point, and the findings of this research are disputed in some circles, most agree that the quality of life will go down significantly, according to BBC News.

The second reason is that I don’t believe parents and coaches are really attacking the root of the problem.

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We must let go of the hand that feeds us MITCH KENDRA Columnist

Going off to college is a big step for students, as too many students come in relying on others and continue to do so. It’s great to have help through high school, but it’s bad to continue relying on that help throughout college.

Too many people rely on others.

When they should be going the other way on the spectrum and becoming more independent, they are used to having someone holding their hand, whether it was a parent, family member, coach or friend.

Today, too many college

students are still holding onto that hand, grasping on for dear life. But that’s not how it should be. College should be the time when we release the grip, letting go of the hand, but appreciating who offered it and why they did.

We need to understand why that hand was there to help us but realize it’s now our time to become independent.

This can vary from things such as living – doing one’s laundry and cooking – to getting a part-time job to help pay for college.

If you mess up, whether it is something minor or massive, own up to it and learn from it for the future. Don’t blame others and expect to get off easy, take responsibil-

ity and learn.

Now, that’s not to say you can’t find mentors in your life, or still look up to your parents or mentors from high school – you absolutely can, you just can’t rely on them.

Your coach will tell you when practice is but can’t be calling you reminding you, just as it’s not your professor’s job to make sure you’re in class, it’s yours.

These people help us by establishing the guidelines to follow but can’t be there holding your hand throughout the process. It’s time to mature and understand we need to be in control of our lives; it’s our time to takes the reins.

We need to become independent now, so that we are better prepared for our

futures. No one is going to sit you down in the real world at your new job and talk to you like you’re still a kid – and no one wants to be treated that way either.

No one is going to care about you in the real world. If your job application doesn’t stand out, no one is going to care because everyone else is trying to make their resumes and applications look better than yours.

Now is the most important time to realize this, because if we realize this after we graduate, it’s going to be too late.

If we don’t realize this now as college students, then the only hand we will be receiving after graduation will be a slap in the face, when the hard truth of reality hits us.

Find a routine

Good habits can make up for academic lull One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea of time management and prioritization. As college students, it’s essential that we learn these skills quickly, or our time here will become difficult to overcome.

We are getting to that point in the semester when apathy kicks in. It’s not intentional, but it’s the “no man’s land” portion of the schedule when the excitement of being back in school has rubbed off, but we’re still a decent ways away from a significant break.

That’s why it’s imperative that we find routines that work for us. We need to create habits—good ones—that can carry throughout this difficult portion of the semester when the brain begins to go on autopilot.

The majority of college students struggle with this. The homesickness starts to set in, and professors certainly don’t lay off the work or the bulk of the material that needs to be covered.

Some students try to map out their whole semester in their planners as soon as the syllabi are distributed. Some have stacks and stacks of sticky notes that somehow remind them of everything that must be completed.

The point is, as students, we all need to find that system that works for us so that the routine of the schedule can navigate us through the craziness, yet dullness, of the middle weeks of the semester.

If this is done, then the bulk of the semester transpires much more efficiently and effectively as we all attempt to keep control of our lives.

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FAITH ON CAMPUS

Friday gives practical advice on living for God Editor's Note: The following is an interview with junior psychology major Kristen Friday as part of the Faith on Campus series.

By BRENDAN KEANY

For the Yellow Jacket

Kristen Friday doesn’t mind testimonials and stories of coming to Jesus.

In fact, she finds them to be interesting and beautiful—but she wanted to take another approach when she spoke at Upper Room on Sunday evening.

Friday shared practical advice on how to live more like a Christian on a dayto-day basis.

“I was able to make a choice every day on how I was going to approach that day,” said Friday.

There were themes for her planning. For instance, Wednesday was a day that she dedicated to seeking out joy.

“I went into the day anticipating to choose joy in every situation,” she said.

“It was very cool to see how that played out for

me; it made a hard day a lot easier.”

She described a scenario that occurred that day: a stretch of craziness that most college students are familiar with.

Friday had class in the morning followed by work.

Then, she had to tutor three consecutive sessions.

Although she enjoys tutoring and helping other students, the busyness of the day appeared daunting.

However, she went into the sessions with the mindset that she was going to make a positive impact on the life of someone else.

Thurs day was ab out trust.

‘That day – it was a hard one,” said Friday. “It was hard to pursue that the whole entire day, because I started to freak out a little bit.”

Thursday is the least busy day of the week for Friday, and she wanted to use the day to study for the assortment of exams and quizzes that she would soon be confronted with.

As life always seems to have it, she ran into some

issues that needed to be handled, and she didn’t have as much time to study for an important exam as she had originally anticipated.

But it led perfectly into Friday, the day of surrender.

“That was the day of my very difficult Dr. Reider personality exam,” she said.

“I studied for it, but I don’t know if I really felt fully prepared. So going into it, I was just like, ‘I’m just going to lay this down to You, and You’re going to see me through it.’ And He did, because I did well.”

The main point of Friday’s advice is that people who become followers do not all of the sudden possess less of a daily struggle

than non-believers.

“Just because you know Jesus doesn’t mean that life is easy for you,” she said.

“It’s still hard for everyone, it doesn’t discriminate against anyone, so what I want to convey is that it’s okay to have faith and still struggle.

Life beats you down a little bit, but there’s a peace and a sense of rest in knowing that, at the end of the day, it’s not about what’s going on in our life and how hard things can get, it’s about how we can use what we’re going through to glorify God and pursue him more every day.”

She left all of the people See FAITH on B3

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Cheat Sheet: Tulsa police officer kills unarmed black man Editor's Note: The following is a synopsis of a recent topic trending in national or world news.

By BRENDAN KEANY

For the Yellow Jacket

In a time when tension is already running high between police and the black community, another incident occurred on Friday.

Terence Crutcher was fatally shot on Friday, and video surfaced of the incident on Monday.

One angle is from above via helicopter, and the other is from another police officer’s dashboard camera. From recorded audio within the helicopter, a police officer said, “That looks like a bad dude, too.”

According to Liam Stack of the New York Times, “the Police Department in Tulsa, Oklahoma, released video on Monday of an encounter during which, the authorities said, a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black man who could be seen raising his hands above his head.”

Betty Shelby, a Tulsa police officer since 2011,

Tribune News Service

A pedestrian walks past a mural and a memorial wall for Alton Sterling next to the Triple S food mart in Baton Rouge on July 18. is under a lot of scrutiny since the incident and gave a statement to the department on her version of the story.

The police department opened a criminal investigation into the shooting, and federal Justice Department also opened a civil rights investigation following the incident.

“Video recorded by a police helicopter and a patrol car’s dashboard cam-

era shows Mr. Crutcher raising his hands, walking toward a car and leaning against it,” according to the New York Times. “He was then Tasered by one officer, Tyler Turnbough, and fatally shot by Officer Shelby.”

Shelby believed that Crutcher had a weapon, but it was later revealed

by Chuck Jordan, Tulsa’s police chief, that Crutcher did not have a weapon on

him or inside his vehicle.

According to Jordan, Shelby requested backup because she could not get Crutcher to cooperate.

Turnbough responded to her backup request, and it was his car’s dashboard cam that recorded much of the shooting.

“When the second police car arrived, Mr. Crutcher had his hands raised and was walking away from Officer Shelby, who walked

behind him with her gun pointed at his back. Three more officers soon joined her. Mr. Crutcher was shot less than 30 seconds after the second car arrived,” according to the New York Times.

The Washington Post recorded 986 people who were shot and killed by police in 2015, and a disproportionate number of those killed were black men.

“And although black men represent 6 percent of the U.S. population, they made up nearly 40 percent of those who were killed while unarmed,” according to the Washington Post.

The Guardian is keeping a running tally of the number of people who have been killed by police in 2016, and as of Sept. 20, the number is 787.

Of course, and this can’t be stressed enough, the public people does not know how many of these incidents were warranted.

However, the fact that major media outlets are keeping track of such statistics to this degree displays the growing awareness effort.

In fact, the Huffington Post ran a story on Tuesday citing the number of black people who have been killed by police since Colin Kaepernick began kneeling for the National Anthem at 15 and the total number of people killed by police has reached 67.

“It will come out,” said Chief Jordan via the Daily Mail. “I will make this promise to you: We will achieve justice in this case.”

In the News: Five headlines you need to know this week

1. Alleged New York/New Jersey bomber caught After engaging in a shootout with police, the suspect of bombings in both New York and New Jersey on Sept. 17 was caught this past Monday.

Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, is believed to be “directly linked” to both the bombings in Seaside Park, New Jersey before a Marine Corps charity race, and a blast in a Chelsea neighborhood that injured around 29 people.

He is being charged with five counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, as well as second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon and second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

“We have every reason to believe this was an act of terror,” said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday.

Rahami was caught by an American citizen. A bar owner in Linden, New Jersey saw the man’s face on CNN while on his laptop early in the day. When getting to his business, he noticed what he thought was a drunken man in his doorway. To his surprise, it was Rahami, leading him to instantly call police.

“I’m just a regular citizen doing what every citizen should do. Cops are the real heroes, law enforcement are the real heroes,” Bains told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

Rahami pulled a handgun and exchanged gunfire with police, striking one officer in the chest and grazing another across the face. Eventually, Rahami was shot multiple times, and later taken to the hospital for treatment.

The officers were also treated for non-life threatening injuries. Authorities believe the “main guy” has now been caught by police.

However, there is still an investigation to ensure Rahami did not have help from a partner.

FBI Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr. has said there is “no indication”

management is improved upon.

-Sept. 20 CNN

Tribune News Service

A man fitting the description of Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, is loaded into the ambulance on E Elizabeth Ave Monday morning, Sept. 19, in Linden, N.J. of an active operating cell still existing in the New York area, however, evidence suggests Rahami was not working alone. Law enforcement stresses that there is no reason to believe there is still a bomber on the run.

-Sept. 19 CNN 2. Minnesota man stabs 10 in mall Dahir Adan, 22, is the man suspected of storming a St. Cloud, Minnesota, mall and stabbing 10 people on Saturday night before being shot dead by an off-duty police officer.

Despite having committed the act, Adan was a private security firm employee in St. Cloud’s Somali community according to Haji Yussuf, a local Somali community leader who has been in contact with Adan’s family.

Two other Somali community leaders, in contact with the man’s family, say that Adan had been acting strangely before the incident Saturday.

While Adan was first publicly identified on Monday, an ISIS-linked news agency has praised him as a “solider of the Islamic state.”

The FBI have called the attack “a potential act of terrorism,” however, authorities

maintain that Adan appears to have acted alone and not with the terrorist organization.

“We haven’t uncovered anything that would suggest this was anything but a lone attacker at this point,” St. Cloud Police Chief William Blair Anderson told reporters Monday.

-Sept. 19 Fox News 3. France bans plastics in 2020 France has become the first country in the world to ban plastic cups and plates.

A new French law has been passed that requires all disposable tableware to be made from at least 50% biologically-sourced materials that are able to be composted at home by January of 2020.

By January of 2025, that number must rise to 60% of materials.

This law is an addition to France’s “Energy Transition for Green Growth Act,” a law adopted in 2015 that aims to help mitigate the impact of global climate change.

According to the French Association of Health and Environment, France throws away 4.73 billion single-use cups per year. Of that 4.73 billion, only 1% of them are

recycled. While the goal of curbing climate change can seem cheerful, many businesses and groups are not happy with the new French ban.

Pack2GoEurope is an association that represents Europe’s leading food-packaging manufactures, and they claim the measure will violate EU law on the free movement of goods.

“Finding a package that meets the really critical food hygiene requirements that consumers want, that can also be composted in a domestic composter...right now they don’t exist,” said Eamonn Bates, secretary general of the association.

Back in July, France also banned the use of plastic bags, according to CNN. Bangladesh was the first nation to ban the use of plastic bags in 2002, and since then, countries such as South Africa, China and Mexico have done the same.

Certain States in the US have followed suit.

According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, about eight million tons of plastic waste was dumped into the world’s oceans back in 2010, with that number expected to multiply in the future unless international waste

4. Fuel shortage in Southeast This past month, a pipeline that runs from Houston to New York has been closed after a leak was discovered.

The pipeline delivers gas to much of the Southeast and East Coast.

While Colonial Pipeline, the company responsible for the leak, said that it expects construction of a bypass to restore full service later this week, it has still sparked an increase in fuel prices in the affected areas.

Some gas stations in the Atlanta and Northern Georgia regions, for example, were either out of gas or had customers lined up waiting to get whatever they could from stations that still had gas left.

In Georgia, gas prices were up an average of 21 cents, and in Tennessee prices were up an average of 13 cents since this past weekend, according to AAA. While those price increases make the average price per gallon around $2.32 in Georgia and $2.13 in Tennessee, some drivers found even higher prices.

A driver in Georgia, Bryan Jones, reportedly found a station charging $2.99 for regular grade gas, well above the national average.

“This was a good 30 cents higher than I saw anywhere else yesterday and this morning,” Jones told CNN. “Even yesterday, prices were probably around $2.50.”

The pipeline leak occurred near Birmingham, Alabama.

The cause is yet to be known, but the company estimates the pipeline provides gas for around 50 million people on the East Coast, causing many to scramble for alternate ways to get gas, or live without it, for the time being.

-Sept. 19 CNN

5. Eagles join in on National Anthem protest Under the lights of Soldier Field, three Eagles players continued the trend, started

by San Francisco 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick, in the National Football League to protest the National Anthem.

As Jim Cornelison began to sing his rendition of the anthem, the three Eagles raised their fists in unity.

While a controversial topic, the issue has successfully raised the debate of racial inequality and police brutality in the sports world.

Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins led the groups decision to raise their fists during the National Anthem rather than place their hand on their heart.

Jenkins made it known before the game that he intended to join the on-going protests before games and stated his intentions clearly.

“There’s just a lot of things systematically that have been set up in this country since its inception that really … put minorities, especially African Americans, at a disadvantage when you talk about quality of life and actually growing in this country,” Jenkins said Friday on WIP-FM in Philadelphia. “So we want to continue to keep that conversation going, push it to as many people as we can, obviously while also doing our part in bringing forth change.”

Also joining Jenkins was Steven Means and Ron Brooks. The Eagles opponent, the Chicago Bears, did not appear to have any players join in on their cause.

Jenkins stated he had spoken with team members about doing it during week one of the NFL season, but decided against it due to the 15th anniversary of 9/11.

-Sept. 20 USA Today Information curated by Matthew Shinkle For the Yellow Jacket

Sports: Injuries are a part of game Faith: Making the choice is simple Continued from B2

participation is safety.

While it’s understandable that a parent wouldn’t want their kid to play a violent sport such as football or hockey, abandoning the sport altogether is not the way I would treat the situation.

Coaches must learn how to teach the game the correct way. They must convey

how to safely make a tackle in a way that protects the defender, as well as the kid they’re tackling.

Concussions have been given a lot of attention in recent years, and the concern is completely justifiable. But the risk of injury, to me, is a poor reason for not participating in a sport.

Injuries are a part of sports, contact or not, and kids often learn the most about life when they have

to overcome injuries.

In fact, I struggled so much when I broke my arm and had to sit-out half a season for hockey. But it taught me about perseverance and how to come back.

I want to see the number of kids participating in sports back on the rise again. Sports are too valuable and life changing for adolescents to be passed over.

Continued from B2

who attended Upper Room with a test, or perhaps an opportunity.

“My challenge to everyone in the room was to let go of whatever fear they were holding on to, and to, this week, choose to find joy in situations,” she said.

“Choose to trust that the Lord is going to bring you through it and choose to

surrender it all down instead of worrying about it because we don’t have to, He already won.”

Her practical approach to her time of sharing provided real examples of how Christians can live better lives everyday.

With the craziness of life, the pressure of success and the peripheral struggles of life, she emphasized that there is a simple way to break down each day.

“It can be overwhelming to be like, ‘Oh, I need to be a better Christian, I really need to love God more and reach out to people more,’” said Friday. “…So I am going to break this down into simple things like to choosing to be joyful.

Choosing joy sounds simple, but sometimes it can be difficult, and choosing to trust the Lord, that is difficult, but at times it can be very simple.”

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September 22, 2016

Homemade art appreciated at annual covered bridge festival

By MATTIE WINOWITCH Managing Editor

As horse-drawn carriages, the smells of freshcooked food and the sound of live music led people in, the streets slowly filled up at the 46th annual Carmichaels Covered Bridge Festival. This festival, which was held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 17 and 18, was one of 10 covered bridge festivals that occurred in the Greene and Washington County area over the weekend.

Presented by EQT, the event is known to locals as the start of the fall season.

The other festival locations included the McClurg Bridge, Pine Bank Bridge, Ebenezer Bridge, Krepps Br idge, Henr y Bridge, Brownlee Bridge, Wy it Sprow l s B r i d g e , Hughes Bridge and White Bridge.

Located in the Old Town section of Carmichaels, the Carmichaels Covered Bridge Festival was hosted by the Greene Academy of Art only a block away from the Carmichaels Bridge.

The Greene Academy of Art is an organization that plans and sponsors various artistic programs and classes for the general public.

According to the President of the Academy, Alan Vozel, their event was a bit different than those that were held at the other covered bridge locations.

“S o m e t h i n g s p e c i a l about our covered bridge event is that it has a small-

Mattie Winowitch, Managing Editor

The 46th Annual Covered Bridge Festival held by the Greene Academy of Art provided an outlet of art and fellowship for the community. Locals were able to browse homemade art, jewelry and candles in booths set up around the event. er venue to showcase everything,” said Vozel.

“Everything showcased is also homemade. We have jewelry makers, artists and wood workers selling things here.”

Booths including homem a d e ar t , f u r n i sh i ng ,

home décor, candles, room scents and more lined the sides of the event. Live entertainment, which featured four local bands, al-

lowed patrons to sit and relax with their BBQ, ice cream and fresh-squeezed lemonade.

Vozel said he has been

happy with the turnout of the event, not only this year but in previous years as well.

“We’ve really done well

within the past few years of this event,” said Vozel.

“We have good crafters and good music. What more could you ask for?”

Other events that the patrons could take part in were a petting zoo and face painting booths.

Vozel said that a variety of activities can bring in more people, and the success of the event is what allows it to take place year after year.

“People are in and out constantly,” said Vozel.

“That’s exactly what we want to happen with an event like this.”

Vozel also said one benefit of the Greene Academy of Art hosting the event is that they can celebrate the historic heritage of the bridge within such a close proximity, which is the meaning behind it all.

The e vent do es t his while promoting art, which he said is the cornerstone of ever ything that they do.

Vozel said he is so grateful for another successful year with the Covered Bridge Festival.

“We want to thank all of the helpers and supporters of our event, as well as the people that attend and make it all possible,” said Vozel.

“We really couldn’t do it without you guys.”

The Carmichaels Covered Bridge festival, as well as the other bridge festivals in Washington and Greene County, will be held in the third week of September each year.

Braedyn: Fundraiser spurs football Up in the air: Civil Air Patrol team to shave their heads for support squadron looking for local recruits Continued from B1

By JOE SMELTZER

it’s time to surgically remove the tumor or not.

“If the tumor is shrinking and they feel that he is ready, they will go ahead and surgically remove the tumor and a portion of his bone,” Hughes said. “There’s a possibility that he could have a prosthetic in that area; he could have a donor bone.”

Braedyn and his mother travel to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC multiple times a week for three weeks a month—even going five days a week for the third week of every month.

While Braedyn’s chances are better because of the early diagnosis, that doesn’t mean Hughes doesn’t worry.

The thought of Luke Blanock, the Canon-McMillan teen who battled the same cancer and died four days before Braedyn’s diagnosis, is one Hughes doesn’t like having.

“I mean it would scare any parent,” she said. “Knowing that your child has the same cancer that another young man just passed away from, not very long before we found out that Braedyn had the same type of cancer. It’s scary to know that.”

Despite being scared, Braedyn isn’t alone in his battle.

“We knew he was worried about losing his hair. Maybe it'll put his mind a little bit at ease if he sees all of us without hair, too.”

RYAN KRULL

Football Coach The football team he hopes to play for when he’s in high school, Carmichaels, is showing him support.

At the team’s pep rally on Friday, Sept. 30, players and coaches on the team

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Because his chemotherapy would make him lose his hair, Braedyn decided that he wanted it to go out in style. A mohawk and the cancer survivor ribbon became his new haircut. will be shaving their heads as part of a Carmichaels High School fundraiser to support Braedyn.

Losing his hair was something Braedyn was worried about. It’s mostly gone now, but before the chemotherapy treatments kicked in, Braedyn wanted a new haircut.

“Hey mom, if I’m going to lose my hair, I want it to go out in style,” Braedyn said.

“I want it to look cool when it’s coming out.”

So, Braedyn got a Mohawk and a cancer ribbon shaved in the back of his head.

Braedyn’s older brother, Colby, told head football coach at Carmichaels Ryan Krull about his younger brother’s cancer and mentioned how he didn’t want to lose his hair.

“My first thought was, what can we do to help?”

Krull said.

“So after some thinking, we thought it would be a good idea to do a fundraiser ourselves, the school, to help him.”

So, they decided to shave their heads, which 37 players, four coaches and six teachers have agreed to do on Sept. 30.

Krull doesn’t have much hair, he said, so he is shaving his eyebrows.

“We knew he was worried about losing his hair,” Krull said.

“Maybe it’ll put his mind a little bit at ease if he sees all of us without hair too.”

Hughes will never forget the moment Krull told her what the school was planning to do for her son.

“When [Krull] came to us and wanted to do that for Braedyn, it was really just amazing what the community is doing for him to let him know that he isn’t going through this alone,” she said.

A new squadron is about to take flight for the Civil Air Patrol. Squadron 606, captained by Dave Shaw, is in the process of recruiting new members.

Shaw has been in the Civil Air Patrol for ten years and is very involved of the organization.

“Our three core values are cadet programs, air space education and emergency services,” said Shaw. ‘’Depending on the day, we do 85-95 percent of inland search and rescue. We fly over and do a lot of photography as well.”

The Civil Air Patrol was founded December 1, 1941—six days before the Pearl Harbor Bombings— and has a wide variety of programs serving student interests.

“Whether you like to fly or do communications and public relations, there are administration, supply and emergency services,” said

Shaw. “We are also in the STEM program, have color guard, with color guard competitions for the cadets, and those kids can advance to other levels and get paid for trips.”

According to the Civil Air Patrol’s website, the seeds for the Civil Air Patrol were planted in the late 1930s when over 150,000 volunteers, who had a love for aviation, argued for an organization to put their planes and flying skills to use in defense of their country.

Shaw is very proud of the history of the Civil Air Patrol and pointed out that, on the day after September 11, 2001, the Civil Air Patrol was the only organization that was able to take areal photos for the military following the tragedies.

Shaw said that there are several benefits enticing students to join the organization. ‘’You’ll become a better person, prove yourself and, indirectly, serve your com-

munity,” said Shaw. “Any university student can come to our meetings.”

Shaw is a man who is ver y appreciative of Waynesburg’s past, saying that he would like to name his squadron after General Edward Martin, one of the university’s notable alumni.

Martin is the namesake for one of the male underclassmen dorms, Martin Hall.

But Martin was also an essential figure in Pennsylvania history, according to Shaw.

A two-star general, Martin also served as a senator, treasurer, and, from 19431947, the 32nd Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

“We have to go through formal stuff submitted,” Shaw said. “But we hope to become General Edward Martin composite squadron.”

For more information on what the Civil Air Patrol is all about, students can visit the website, www.squadron606.us.

Kyla Wolper, For the Yellow Jacket

LITTLE FREE LIBRARY OFFERED IN COMMUNITY

A mini library provided by the Greene County Department of Recreation allows community members to read at their leisure for free and without a library card. The little library, which is located near 108 E. High Street, is the first of its kind in Waynesburg.

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Women's XC finishes third at meet in D-1, D-2 heavy field

By LUKE GOODLING

Sports Convergence Editor

Last season, junior Julie Gerber made Waynesburg University history as the first women’s cross country runner to make it to nationals. This past week, Gerber returned to the team and completed in her first event of the season.

“I was definitely really excited [to be back], since I didn’t get to race much in

track season,” said cally filled the numGerber. “I definitely ber one spot for missed competing Waynesburg in the last season in track, top seven, Gerber and I was really stayed back in the looking forward to pack at the Saint cross country last Vincent College season. I was just Invitational, helpreally excited to get ing pace freshman back into racing.

Mary Beth CunGerber I’m definitely ready ningham. Gerber to be back to myself with run- said she purposely ran more ning.” conservatively to help ease Although Gerber has typi- into the season and out of a

recent injury. “[The coaches] had me pace one of the freshman [Mary Beth Cunningham],” said Gerber. “I really enjoyed that, and I thought it was a good way to come back. I was pacing her, and we were able to hit the pace that the coaches wanted us to hit. I was happy I was able to be a part of that with her.”

The added presence of Gerber to the starting line, after

Dougherty out for season QB1 fractures collarbone in loss to CMU

By KYLE DAWSON

By LUKE GOODLING

Rob McKinney, Yellow Jacket

Sophomore quarterback Jake Dougherty fractured his collarbone on a fourth quarter QB draw in the Jackets' 35-23 loss to Carnegie Mellon last week.

However, the most disappointing factor of the injury, said Dougherty, was not the fact that he was going to miss games, but rather he was going to miss playing with the graduating class.

"I was really looking forward to playing with [the senior class], and it just stinks

I can’t finish the season with [senior wide receiver] Kevin Barnes and [senior wide receiver Tim] Cooper and those guys,” said Dougherty. “That’s what I’m more upset about – that I can’t finish out with those guys.”

As the Yellow Jackets go into the rest of the season

without Dougherty, Shepas said he prepares for situations like this, which led to the acquisition of transfer sophomore Tyler Perone, who was a redshirt freshman for Seton Hill last year, and is a freshman athletically for the JackQB1 >> C4

strong top group of runners is critical, Hardie said. Despite Gerber staying back in the race, Hardie said the team filled the gap.

“To really do well at this race, you need seven runners; it’s a high Division I, Division II meet,” said Hardie. “It’s pretty notorious. It’s one of the bigger races we go to, and we knew we would be at a disadWXC >> C3

Despite 4th quarter lead, Jackets lose third straight to start season Assistant Sports Editor

Sports Convergence Editor

After taking a fourth quarter lead and marching the Jackets downfield to put Waynesburg within one score of Carnegie Mellon in last week’s game, sophomore quarterback Jake Dougherty’s season ended.

“I’ve gotten stingers before, and I knew it wasn’t that. As soon as I got hit, I got this shock of pain up my neck and I literally just sat down,” said Dougherty. “I started punching the ground because I knew this is the season – I knew something was wrong.”

Late in the fourth quarter of the Yellow Jackets’ football game against Carnegie Mellon University an attempted twopoint conversion by Waynesburg prematurely ended Dougherty’s season. Helmet contact to Dougherty’s shoulder fractured Dougherty’s clavicle on his non-throwing shoulder and put him out, according to doctors, 10 to 12 weeks.

After the hit on the field, Dougherty said he thought back to the preparation that went into the season.

"You practice nine months out of the year, and it comes down to the third game of the season," he said.

not running in the opening two events of the season, added assurance for the women, said head coach Chris Hardie.

“Any time you have a national qualifier, somebody in the top 100 in the country that’s at your starting line, I think that helps. It adds confidence,” said Hardie. “She is highly respected on this team for what she does outside of racing too.”

In a tough meet, having a

Following a 35-23 loss to Carnegie Mellon University in its Presidents’ Athletic Conference opener, Saturday, Sept. 17, the Waynesburg University football team, according to Shepas, has shown improvement despite an 0-3 record.

On a two-point conversion in the fourth quarter, sophomore quarterback Jake Dougherty lowered his shoulder on a quarterback draw, receiving a hit that fractured his left collarbone.

It’s an injury that Shepas said no one expects and one that would derail momentum for some teams, but according to Shepas, not much will change due to how his program is run on a daily basis, as sophomore-transfer Tyler Perone will take the reins moving forward.

But, in order to move forward, a breakdown of the loss Saturday at CMU is in order to find out what adjustments the coaches are looking for and what can lead to more success on the field.

Second half offense Offensively, things again started slowly, but once things picked up in the second quarter and beyond, Shepas said it was evident the Jacket of-

fensive unit had begun to spin the wheels and move forward.

On Waynesburg’s second play from scrimmage, sophomore running back Ben Ciero took a clean handoff from Dougherty but fumble a few steps later. The ball was eventually recovered by the Tartans at the Waynesburg 1-yard line.

“We can’t put the ball down the second play of the game and give up a score,” said Shepas.

It was in the middle of the second quarter when Waynesburg’s offense started to click.

Big plays by Dougherty, freshman running back Chad Walker, junior wide receiver Mitch Kendra and senior wide receiver Kevin Barnes Jr. led to a 3-yard touchdown run for freshman running back Whitney White. The game-tying scoring drive lasted 10 plays for 80 yards.

“I was happy with the progress in the passing game,” said Shepas. “I think we can continue to see it get better."

Before the injury, Dougherty was 22-39 for 259 yards and two scores and didn’t throw an interception. White and Walker also averaged over 4.5 yards per carry, which is improvement from past weeks.

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Women's soccer Hennigh not the typical soccer player wins on late PK Defender's

By MARCUS WALLACE For the Yellow Jacket

On Monday, Sept. 19, Waynesburg University’s women’s soccer game was ultimately decided by a scored penalty shot against Franciscan University.

Both teams were at a stalemate into the second half until the Lady Barons scored the first goal of the half. Junior midfielder Megan Luiso put back a pass from junior midfielder Anna McCarty to tie the game at 2-2. Then, a critical penalty in the box by the Lady Barons occurred with less than 10 minutes remaining in the match, giving the Yellow Jackets a penalty kick.

Sophomore midfielder Natalie Fortna took the penalty kick and was able to score, giving the Jackets a 3-2 advantage. With little time remaining in the match, Fortna said she realized the significance of her goal.

“After I kicked it, I was really excited,” said Fortna. “I knew that it was going to be it, if we could hold it out then it would be the game-winning goal right there.”

Midfield possession and passing to open territory were keys to the game, head coach Laura Heethuis said.

“We knew they were going to play pretty direct out of the back. They had a really good tall forward up top,” said Heethuis. “They look to try to target, so it was to kind of account for that but then use our numbers in the midfield and try to possess around them and open up space to play.”

The Jackets were able to score their first goal in the sixth minute of the first half, giving them a 1-0 edge. Junior forward Melanie Byler found junior forward Nikki Davis to put the Jackets on top.

Later in the half, freshman midfielder Christina Golonka scored a goal assisted by freshman midfielder Brittany Woodcock that increased the lead to 2-0. The Jackets seemed to be entering the second half with a 2-0 lead, but the Lady Barons’ Megan Riederer, a junior midfielder, found Clare Kennedy, a junior forward/midfielder, to score in the second to last second of the half. The rest fell into place.

On the evening, according to Heethuis, the Jackets showcased inconsistent play. “There were moments of really good soccer and there were moments of some pretty poor soccer, pretty poor decisions,”

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body type leads to success

By JACOB MEYER Sports Editor

When most people see Josh Hennigh, they would assume he plays linebacker for the Waynesburg University football team.

When the 6’0” 235-pound defender showed up freshman year to his first soccer practice, a player on the team genuinely thought he played football.

“First day I got there, one of the players on the team told me, ‘You missed your practice. Football goes before soccer,’” Hennigh said. “Started off right away that I was one of the biggest dudes on the team, and it didn’t feel like I fit in right away. Everyone else looked like they played soccer, but me not so much.”

He’s had referees and players tell him that he does not belong on a soccer field, including a player already this season calling him “fat,” to which he replies with lifting up his shirt and showing the player his visible ab muscles.

Dave Miller, ADM Photography

Senior defender Josh Hennigh said he would have played football if his high school had a team. Now a captain on the men's soccer team, Hennigh is glad his high school didn't have football.

Hennigh said his size is “a blessing and a curse.”

“Being big, I can body people off the ball, I can get in people’s way and I still have speed so I can stay with these kids and body them off the ball,” Hennigh said. “But, at the same time, the refs don’t look at the size, they look at who fell, so most of the time it ends up on my back because I’m a bigger dude, throwing

my weight around and they don’t have the same weight.”

While head coach Brad Heethuis understands the difficulties around his size, he thinks his size benefits him much more than it hurts him.

“The only thing I can think of [that’s a curse] is he’s going up against guys who are probably a little bit quicker foot speed than him, so it’s tough playing against forwards,”

Heethuis said. “Blessing wise, he’s able to muscles guys off balls and win aerial balls that not everybody can because of his size. Definitely more blessing than curse for us.”

During his freshman season, Hennigh played a role as a substitute on defense and played more as the season progressed, earning the nickname “Hulk.”

“I’ve started since sixth grade, and not starting my freshman year right off the bat is something that was weird to me,” Hennigh said. “Definitely was a very humbling experience.”

When his sophomore season began, he was surprised to be named a captain.

"I knew I would have a role as a leader, but I didn’t think I would be named a captain," Hennigh said. "It puts on a whole new kind of pressure. I don’t need to title of captain to be a leader, but now everyone is watching you and you’re responsible for every single action. Now I’m held to a higher standard.”

Heethuis, whose first season at Waynesburg was Hennigh’s sophomore year, said he was not wary of making Hennigh a captain despite only being a sophomore.

“We ask the guys every year who they feel is captain material and who exemplifies the HENNIGH >> C4

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September 22, 2016

Men's soccer drops match in double overtime Men's golf loses to Thiel,

women finish last at GCC

By BRYCE WALTER

For the Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg University men’s soccer team met the Franciscan University Barons on Sept. 19, at John F. Wiley Stadium.

The first goal of the evening, scored early at the 13-minute mark, by Franciscan’s junior forward Leo Herrmann, gave the Barons a quick 1-0 lead.

The Yellow Jackets would remain shut out through the majority of the match before a shot by senior defender Josh Hennigh found the net at the 78-minute mark of the game.

Head coach Brad Heethuis said the single goal by Hennigh gave the entire team added incentive on the evening.

“Goals like that really change momentum, and it gave our guys some adrenaline,” said Heethuis.

For Hennigh, he said the goal came at a pivotal moment for the Yellow Jackets.

“I was pretty pumped,” said Hennigh, “It was a huge turning point.”

The game would carry into overtime after being held at 1-1 between the two teams.

Both teams would survive the first overtime, forcing a sec-

By DAN DAVIS

For the Yellow Jacket

Tyler Wolfe, Yellow Jacket

The men's soccer team, pictured here in a match earlier this season, lost 2-1 in double overtime to Franciscan on Monday. ond overtime on the evening.

Then, at the 100-minute mark, Herrmann scored his second goal of the match, handing the Yellow Jackets their fifth loss on the season.

Despite the loss, Waynesburg was able to edge Franciscan in the shot column 13-11, though only three of Waynesburg’s shots were on goal. Hennigh said the team performed well on the evening, but he thought the team

should have won the game.

“We had an unlucky finish,” said Hennigh. “We worked hard and just need to sort out some issues.”

Heethuis said the loss was difficult for Waynesburg, but the game saw freshmen filling roles.

“We had a lot of freshmen step up and play some meaningful minutes,” said Heethuis.

“It won’t be easy to respond to this loss, but we need to learn

from our mistakes and focus on the positives.”

In their next match, the Yellow Jackets will face off against Marietta College on Sept. 24 in Marietta, Ohio. With several days of rest and recovery ahead, the Yellow Jackets men’s soccer team seems optimistic moving forward.

“We have four days to recover,” said Heethuis. “We have to come out and compete.”

Men’s golf continued its season earlier this week, while the women’s team kicked off its season on Friday, Sept. 16.

The Waynesburg men’s golf team hosted Thiel College, Tuesday, Sept. 20, at the Southpointe Golf Club. The Jackets fell to the Tomcats by a score of 459 strokes to 376.

The Jackets were coming off of an eighth-place finish at the Grove City College Fall Invitational with top finishes by freshman Alex Orlandini, who finished with a 94, and senior RJ Leisie with a 114.

Head coach Sam Jones said the team has improved overall through week two, even though the match did not end in the Jackets’ favor.

Jones also noted the team had lost the two best members from last season, but it will not be an issue as the roster is spotted with young talent.

Leisie said despite the finish, there are positives that can be taken away from the day.

“A positive item from today’s match would have to be that we played a dif-

ficult course. Southpointe, our home course, is a tighter course with a lot of rises and falls. It was the hardest course we’ve played and some guys played better than at the Grove City Invitational.”

The women, on the other hand, sent just three individual golfers to the Grove City College Fall Invitational on Friday, Sept. 16, due to class and schedule conflicts.

Freshman Marisa Goodright, Brandy Rohal and senior Andrea Lasko hit the links, shooting a 111, 164 and 177, respectively on the day.

Grove City took home a second place finish, while Saint Vincent won the event four-player score of 394.

The Jackets did not qualify for team score due to Waynesburg only being able to send three golfers.

“It was a good start for our youth of the team,” said Jones.

“Now, we’ll look to build off that going forward.”

The women return to the course Friday, Sept. 23, when they head to Mount Aloysius College, while the men will to Westminster on Monday, Sept. 26.

Yellow Jacket Athletes of the Week Kevin Barnes Jr.

Justin Buberl

In the Waynesburg UniverSo far, the Kittanning, Pennsity football team's 35-23 desylvania, native has played in feat against Carnegie Mellon, every game for the Yellow senior wide receiver Kevin Jackets.

Barnes Jr. led all receivers with Barnes has caught 13 passes seven receptions for 113 yards on the season for 161 yards, and one touchdown. second on the team.

Sophomore quarterback Jake Last season Barnes led all Dougherty’s 16-yard touchWaynesburg receivers with 50 down pass to Barnes late in the catches for 773 yards and was Barnes Jr. fourth quarter put the Yellow named to the All-Presidents’ Jackets just five points away from the Athletic Conference Honorable MenTartans of CMU. tion team.

Freshman men’s soccer midBuberl also assisted senior fielder Justin Buberl recorded defender Josh Hennigh in the his first collegiate goal along Jackets' 2-1 double overtime with first collegiate assist durloss to Franciscan on Monday. ing Waynesburg’s 3-1 victory Bub erl, a West minster, on the road against the UniMaryland, native, has started versity of Pittsburgh at Greensevery game for Waynesburg, burg. recording 482 minutes of game With Waynesburg down 1-0, time so far this season.

Buberl fed sophomore forward Out of the eight shots Buberl Buberl Austin Zurik the game-tying has taken so far this season, algoal and then would go on to score him- most half of them, three, have been on self in the 89th minute of the game. goal.

PRESIDENTS’ ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ROUNDUP FOOTBALL STANDINGS

Saint Vincent Case Western Reserve Thiel Thomas More Carnegie Mellon Westminster Wash & Jeff Bethany Geneva Grove City Waynesburg

MEN’S SOCCER Conf. Overall 1-0 3-0 1-0 2-0 1-0 2-1 1-0 2-1 1-0 1-1 0-0 2-0 0-1 2-1 0-1 1-2 0-1 1-2 0-1 0-3 0-1 0-3

Saturday’s Box Score

CARNEGIE MELLON 35, WAYNESBURG 23 Waynesburg 0 7 3 13 23 Carnegie Mellon 7 0 7 21 35

SCORE RECAP

First Quarter: CMU - Bryan Jangro 1 yd run (Gabe Renna kick), 11:31 Second Quarter: WAY - Whitney White 3 yd run (Garret Guthrie kick), 2:14 Third Quarter: CMU - Sam Benger 22 yd run (Renna kick), 8:15; WAY - Guthrie 33 yd field goal, 2:09 Fourth Quarter: WAY - Tim Cooper 20 yd pass from Jake Daugherty (Guthrie kick), 12:23; CMU - John Prather 4 yd pass from Alex Cline (Renna kick), 11:31; CMU - Alex Froimzon 10 yd pass from Cline (Renna kick), 4:45; WAY - Kevin Barnes 16 yd pass from Daugherty (failed 2 pt.), 3:23; CMU - Roy Hubbard 4 yd run (Renna kick), 1:20

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

Waynesburg passing COM ATT YDS TD Dougherty................. 22 39 259 2 Waynesburg rushing

ATT YDS TD Walker................................... 9 41 0 Waynesburg receiving

REC YDS TD Barnes................................... 7 113 1 Carnegie Mellon passing COM ATT YDS TD Cline......................... 7 11 121 2 Carnegie Mellon rushing

ATT YDS TD Benger................................... 28 193 1 Carnegie Mellon receiving

REC YDS TD Prather................................... 4 77 1

RECENT RESULTS

Saturday, September 17

Thomas More 35, Wash & Jeff 9; Saint Vincent 28, Geneva 21; Thiel 57, Bethany 47; Carnegie Mellon 35, Waynesburg 23; Case Western Reserve 55, Grove City 0

UPCOMING GAMES

Saturday, September 24 Carnegie Mellon at Thomas More - 12 p.m.; Grove City at Saint Vincent - 1 p.m.; Case Western Reserve at Waynesburg - 1:30 p.m.; Thiel at Geneva - 3 p.m.; Westminster at Bethany - 6 p.m.

STANDINGS

Grove City Thomas More Westminster Wash & Jeff Bethany Geneva Thiel Waynesburg Saint Vincent

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Conf. Overall 0-0 6-1 0-0 4-2 0-0 3-3-2 0-0 2-2-1 0-0 2-3-2 0-0 2-3-1 0-0 2-4-1 0-0 2-5 0-0 1-6

Thomas More Chatham Grove City Wash & Jeff Geneva Westminster Waynesburg Bethany Saint Vincent Thiel

0-0 5-0-1 0-0 4-1-1 0-0 4-2 0-0 4-2-1 0-0 3-2 0-0 3-3-2 0-0 3-4 0-0 2-4 0-0 1-3-1 0-0 0-6-1

Monday’s Box Score

Monday’s Box Score

FRANCISCAN 2, WAYNESBURG 1 Franciscan 1 0 0 1 2 Waynesburg 0 1 0 0 1

WAYNESBURG 3, FRANCISCAN 2 Franciscan 1 1 2 Waynesburg 2 1 3

SCORE RECAP

SCORE RECAP

First Half: FRN - Goal by Leo Herrmann, 13:51 Second Half: Goal by Josh Hennigh (assist by Justin Beberl), 78:53 Second Overtime: FRN - Goal by Herrmannm 100:27

RECENT RESULTS

Friday, September 16 Thiel 1, Pitt-Bradford 0; Bethany 3, La Roche 1; Carnegie Mellon 2, Westminster 0 Saturday, September 17 Frostburg State 6, Wash & Jeff 1; Fredonia State 2, Geneva 1; Hilbert 3, Saint Vincent 2; Grove City 2, Heidleberg 1; Franciscan 3, Bethany 0; Capital 3, Waynesburg 1; Kenyon 1, Thomas More 0 Monday, September 19 Franciscan 2, Waynesburg 1

UPCOMING GAMES

Friday, September 23 Carnegie Mellon at Grove City - 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, September 24 Penn State GA at Thiel - 1 p.m.; Wash & Jeff at Heidleberg - 3 p.m.; Saint Vincent at Hood - 3 p.m.; Wilmington at Bethany - 3:30 p.m.; Waynesburg at Marietta - 4:30 p.m.; Capital at Thomas More - 5 p.m.; Geneva at Muskingum - 7 p.m.

PAC M. SOCCER LEADERS

POINTS: Betteridge, 15, GRO; Runyon, 14, TMC; Reese, 13, GRO GOALS: Runyon, 7, TMC; Carleton, 6, GEN; Betteridge, 5, GRO ASSISTS: Betteridge, 5, GRO; Smith, 3, TMC; Young, 3, THI SAVES: Conrad, 43, THI; Bohn, 42, SVC; Appleby, 41, BET

PAC W. SOCCER LEADERS

POINTS: Ruzzini, 18, W&J; Schoeneweis, 16, GEN; Ceffaratti, 12, GEN GOALS: Ruzzini, 7, W&J; Ceffaratti, 6, GEN; Schoeneweis, 5, GEN ASSISTS: Schoeneweis, 6, GEN; Orihel, 5, GEN; Sieg, 4, CHA SAVES: Gentry, 53, THI; Page, 46, WES; Riddle, 34, BET

First Half: WAY - Goal by Nikki Davis (assist by Melaine Byler), 6:20; WAY - Goal by Christina Golonka (assist by Brittany Woodcock), 41:54; FRN - Goal by Clare Kennedy (assist by Megan Riederer), 44:59 Second Half: FRN - Goal by Megan Luiso (assist by Anna McCarty), 61:33; WAY - Goal by Natalie Fortna, 81:51

RECENT RESULTS

Friday, September 16 Marietta 2, Geneva 1; Thomas More 3, Kenyon 0; Penn State Altoona 3, Bethany 2

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL STANDINGS Conf. Overall Thomas More Wash & Jeff Bethany Geneva Saint Vincent Westminster Grove City Thiel Chatham Waynesburg

4-0 3-1 3-1 2-1 2-1 2-2 1-1 1-3 0-3 0-5

6-6 8-2 6-6 7-5 7-7 8-7 3-10 6-7 0-12 0-11

Saturday’s Box Score

THIEL 3, WAYNESBURG 1 Waynesburg 25 9 18 22 1 Thiel 17 25 25 25 3

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Waynesburg Kills

Lang.............................................................. 9 Waynesburg Assists Ayers..............................................................21 Waynesburg Digs Proper...........................................................13

Saturday, September 17 Carnegie Mellon 2, Grove City 1; Chatham 1, Franciscan 0; Mount Aloysius 7, Thiel 0; Hilbert 2, Saint Vincent 0; Juniata 0, Westminster 0; Wash & Jeff 6, Penn State Behrend 0; Capital 5, Waynesburg 0

Thiel Kills

Monday, September 19 Waynesburg 3, Franciscan 2; Pitt-Greensburg 1, Thiel 1

Rossman.......................................................40

UPCOMING GAMES

Sweeny.........................................................16

Allen.............................................................17 Thiel Assists Thiel Digs

CROSS COUNTRY MEN RECENT RESULTS

Team Saturday, September 17 SAINT VINCENT INVITATIONAL 5. Saint Vincent, 131 pts.; 7. Thomas More, 205 pts.; 8. Wash & Jeff, 244 pts.; 9. Geneva, 275 pts.; 10.

Grove City, 300 pts.; 12. Waynesburg, 337 pts.; 13.

Bethany, 387 pts.; 14. Chatham, 413 pts.; 16. Thiel, 476 pts.

PENN STATE BEHREND INVITATIONAL 5. Westminster, 131 pts.

Individual Saint Vincent Invitational 1. Austin Cooper, 26:27, Indiana (Pa.); 2. Randy Violette, 26:46, Allegheny; 3. Matt Kazanjian, 26:48, Pitt Club; 7. Brandon Morretton, 26:57, Saint Vincent; 61. Joel Kuzminski, 30:01, Waynesburg

UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, September 24 Wash & Jeff at Lock Haven Invitational - 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, September 30 Wash & Jeff, Thiel, Westminster, and Waynesburg at Washington & Jefferson Invitational - 5:15 p.m.

WOMEN RECENT RESULTS

Team Saturday, September 17 SAINT VINCENT INVITATIONAL 3. Waynesburg, 108 pts.; 9. Geneva, 264 pts.; 10. Saint Vincent, 286 pts.; 13. Grove City, 349 pts.; 14. Thomas More, 434 pts.; 15. Thiel, 444 pts.; 16.

Bethany, 461 pts.; 17. Chatham, 466 pts.

PENN STATE BEHREND INVITATIONAL 2. Westminster, 71 pts.

RECENT RESULTS Friday, September 23 Point Park at Saint Vincent - 4 p.m.; Thomas More at Ohio Friday, September 16 Ohio Wesleyan 3, Grove City 0; Denison 3, Grove City 1; Northern - 7 p.m.

Geneva 3, Frostburg State 0; Geneva 3, SUNY Geneseo 0 Saturday, September 24 Saturday, September 17 Heidleberg at Geneva - 12 p.m.; Grove City at Mount Case Western Reserve 3, Grove City 0; Defiance 3, WestUnion - 2 p.m.; Roanoke at Wash & Jeff - 2 p.m.; minster 0; Wash & Jeff 3, Thiel 1; Geneva 3, Susquehana Waynesburg at Marietta - 2 p.m.

2; Thomas More 3, Bethany 2; Penn State Fayette 3, Saint Sunday, September 25 Vincent 1; Bethany 3, Chatham 0; Geneva 3, Nazareth Westminster at La Roche - 1 p.m.; Illinois Wesleyan at 1; Wash & Jeff 3, Waynesburg 0; Muskingum 3, Thomas More - 1 p.m.

Grove City 2; Thiel 3, Waynesburg 1; Thomas More 3, Chatham 0; Saint Vincent 3, Mount Aloysisus 0; Denison PAC VOLLEYBALL LEADERS 3, Westminster 2 KILLS: Yoho, 196, WES; Dy. McKenzie, 158 , BET; Da. McKenzie, 131, BET

Individual SAINT VINCENT INVITATIONAL 1. Sarah Guillaume, 23:18, Allegheny; 2. Monica Patrick, 23:28, Allegheny; 3. Jenna Lezanic, 23:34, Indiana (Pa.); 10. Katie Latimer, 24:07, Waynesburg; 30. Summer Wark, 25:16, Thiel

ASSISTS: Borders, 399, TMC; Powell, 352, BET; Lyte, 268, GEN

RUSHING YARDS: Benger, 444, CMU; Tarrant, 340, TMC; Marshall, 302, GEN

BLOCKS: Yoho, 54, WES; Muhammad, 42, BET; Friedel, 41, THI DIGS: Sweeny, 268, THI; Massinger, 239, SVC; Russell, 202, GRO

WAYNESBURG ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Justin Buberl, Men's Soccer Courtney Syfert, Women's Soccer

UPCOMING GAMES

Friday, September 23 Bethany at Carnegie Mellon - 4 p.m.; John Carroll at Bethany - 6 p.m.; La Roche at Waynesburg - 6 p.m.

Saturday, September 24 Thomas More at Saint Vincent - 11 a.m.; Westminster at Wash & Jeff - 12 p.m.; Thomas More vs. Grove City - 1 p.m.; Randolph-Macon vs. Bethany - 1 p.m.; Geneva vs. Westminster - 2 p.m.; Arcadia vs. Bethany - 3 p.m.; Grove City at Saint Vincent - 3 p.m.; Geneva at Wash & Jeff - 4 p.m.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, September 24 Saint Vincent at Lock Haven Invitational - 10 a.m.

PAC FOOTBALL LEADERS

PASSING YARDS: Coughlin, 839, W&J; Stewart, 793, SVC; Kuntz, 744, TMC

Recieving Yards: Garland, 398, TMC; Zubik, 381, W&J; Black, 299, SVC SACKS: Khoury, 4.5, CMU; Brad Grinnen, 4, WAY; Mitchell, 3, TMC Tackles: Hayden 44, BET; Simmons, 29, GRO; McCarthy, 29, SVC

Sunday, September 25: Thomas More at Thiel - 1 p.m.

GREENE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS ROUNDUP Jefferson-Morgan

Carmichaels

Mapletown

Waynesburg Central

Football

Football

Football

Football

UNION 30, JEFFERSON-MORGAN 0 Jefferson-Morgan 0 0 0 0 0 Union

6 12 6 6 30

CARMICHAELS 28, WEST GREENE 6 West Greene 0 6 0 0 6 Carmichaels 6 15 7 7 0

MAPLETOWN 39, AVELLA 33 Avella 0 7 14 12 33 Mapletown 6 8 13 12 39

ELIZABETH FORWARD 33, WAYNESBURG 0 Waynesburg 0 0 0 0 0 Elizabeth Forward 6 20 7 0 33

Friday’s Box Score

Next Game: @ West Greene 9/23 - 7 p.m.

Thursday’s Box Score

Next Game: @ Avella 9/23 - 7 p.m.

Friday’s Box Score

Friday’s Box Score

Next Game: vs. California 9/23 - 7 p.m.

NEXT GAME: vs. Yough 9/23 - 7 p.m.

West Greene Football

Thursday’s Box Score

CARMICHAELS 28, WEST GREENE 6 West Greene 0 6 0 0 6 Carmichaels 6 15 7 7 0 Next Game: @ Avella 9/23 - 7 p.m.

September 22, 2016

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R E G I O N A L AT H L E T I C S

Dylan Rush carries local high school to 3-1 start to season

By ZACH CAIN

For the Yellow Jacket

Soon, Greene County will have its fifth running back in history break the 4,000 yard plateau. It already has a 1,000 yards rusher through four games in the 2016 WPIAL football campaign.

Junior running back Dylan Rush of Mapletown High School ran for 388 yards, breaking his previous school record of 387 yards, and five touchdowns while also passing for a score in a win against Avella.

Rush also made the lone extra point for the Maples and scored the only twopoint conversion, as the junior scored all 39 points for Mapletown. He also attributed for 95 percent of the team’s total yards, while touching the ball on 43 of 50 plays.

“All of the credit goes to the lineman,” stated Dylan

Photo courtesy of the Southeastern Greene School District

Last Friday, Mapletown's junior running back Dylan Rush broke his own school record of rushing yards in a game while carrying the Maples to a win over Avella.

Rush. “Between them and our fullback, the holes were always there.”

The offensive line is not the

only thing that Rush gives a lot of credit to. “Growing up with my dad and having him as a coach has really benefited

me over the years,” Rush said.

“He has been a big part of my success with all of the help he has given me since a young

age.”

“The best part of Dylan’s game is definitely his work ethic and training,” said Dylan’s father, Jeff Rush. “All of his work in the offseason really prepares him for the season. When it comes to the game, his best trait is his vision and speed.”

In the offseason, Dylan works hard to help his football skills.

“I like to do a lot of leg work,” Dylan said. “I focus mostly on trying to get my speed up and cuts better.”

All of this extra work in the offseason has led to Dylan running a 4.52 second forty in a recent camp being held at North Carolina State University.

He is looking to play football in college.

“Dylan has talked to over a dozen college football coaches in Division II, division I and the FCS,” Jeff Rush said.

“He does not have one picked out yet.”

When it comes to football for Dylan, he has received a handful of awards for his accomplishments, as he has been selected to the All-Conference team and All-District team twice. He was also one of two runningbacks selected by fans of the WPIAL for this year’s MSA Sports All-Star Kennywood Preseason team, the other being Jeannette’s Kareem Hall.

All of this success from Dylan and the Mapletown Maples is bringing high hopes for the team in the future.

“The goal for us is to make the playoffs this year,” Dylan said. “A few more conference wins and that will be done.”

Mapletown is currently 3-1 overall and 2-0 in the section.

Mapletown’s will host California (2-2, 1-1) on Friday, Sept. 23 at 7 p.m.

Brown, Evans lead Volleyball loses both in PAC tri-match tennis to first win

By ELIZABETH NICODEMUS

By CODY YANKULIC Editorial Assistant

The Yellow Jackets began the day on Tuesday, Sept.

20, in search of their first win of the season. In just a couple hours, the Jackets and first-year head coach Ron Headlee would be seeking no more.

The team was winless entering the day’s contest against the Bethany Bison, who are in last place in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference. The match was one that Headlee felt the Jackets could win.

“Today, we had a good chance of winning,” said Headlee. “It was good we got that done.”

Headlee also added that, although the final score of 9-0 wouldn’t show it, the Jackets played well against conference leading Thomas More College.

The last two matches for the Jackets were against the top two teams in the conference and the team was blanked on the scoreboard for both the doubles and singles matches. Tuesday’s match was a different story.

Waynesburg (1-4, 1-2) defeated the Bison (0-6, 0-5) by a score of 6-3. The team won all three doubles sets and three of the six singles sets.

Waynesburg’s number one doubles team of sophomore Aubree Brown and senior Heidi Evans defeated Bethany juniors Alyssa Smydo

and Gabrielle Berrios, gaining the pairs first win of the season.

The doubles set is only the pair’s third set together, and having only played together for a short amount of time, both Brown and Evans reported communication problems.

“We definitely have more of an understanding of how we play,” said Evans.

“Just getting the feel of how we play is one thing but second-guessing is another.

We have to be confident in our calls on getting the ball.”

While Evans and Brown were successful in doubles, they each had their own singles matches to compete in.

Evans picked up the win in the third singles match, after losing her last two singles matches in tiebreaker sets.

Brown went down early to Smydo and lost her first set 6-1 but stormed back in the second set to notch a 6-4 set win and force a tiebreaker.

Brown would be victorious in her singles match, winning the tiebreaker set 12-10.

The Jackets are slated to begin their next match at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, at 3 p.m., today Thursday, Sept.

22. The Jackets will then host Thiel next Tuesday, Sept. 27.

Editor’s Note: For a recap of the match against Saint Vincent today, Thursday, Sept. 22, go online to theyellowjacket.org.

For the Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg University volleyball team continued its season on Saturday, participating in a tri-match at Thiel College that included two Presidents’ Athletic Conference rivals, Thiel and Washington & Jefferson.

The Jackets started the day by being swept by W&J and then played against host Thiel, taking the first set but dropping the next three. The Jackets have lost their first 11 matches of the season, five of which have been against PAC teams.

Head coach Stephanie Benkowski said, despite being winless on the season, if the team can find their first victory it would rejuvenate the team.

“The team is working hard and giving a ton of effort at practice, so I know if we can get that first win, I believe it will make a huge difference in our record, because they will see that all the hard work they’re putting in starting to work,” said Benkowski. “But we have to be consistent for the record to turn around.

What [the coaches] want for the team is to play consistent volleyball for a whole match, and we believe when that happens is when the [wins] starts to come.”

The first match of the day for the Jackets was against the Presidents from W&J. The Jackets dropped all three sets to the Presidents by scores of 25-12, 25-17 and 25-14.

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Sophomore outside hitter Lexy Waldman, pictured here in a match last season, led the Jacket offense in kills in the Jackets' first match, a 3-0 loss to W&J. The offensive effort for the Jacket women was led by sophomore outside hitters Lexy Waldman and Jordyn Wyllie, who both had four kills, while freshman defensive specialist Alyssa Proper had two aces.

Senior middle hitter Rachel Lang and freshman outside hitter Addie Barr, who had two blocks each, led the defensive effort for the Jackets.

Sophomore setter Sydni Ayers had 15 assists, while Proper had 13 digs.

The major difference between the two teams, however, was the kills and the assists, which were led by W&J 35-15 and 28-15, respectively.

The Yellow Jackets’ second game, which was against Thiel, saw Waynesburg winning set one 25-17 and drop-

ping sets two, three and four by scores of 25-9, 25-18 and 25-22.

In the match against the Tomcats, Lang and senior right side hitter Shannon Morgan, who had nine and six kills, respectively, led the Jackets on offense. Lang also led the Yellow Jackets in blocks, recording three.

Joining Lang and Morgan in the offensive effort was Waldman with five kills, while Ayers led the team with 21 assists.

The defensive effort was led

by Proper, who had 13 digs.

The Yellow Jackets led Thiel by one in the aces department, but the Tomcats more than doubled the Jackets’ kills total, 52-25. “[Previous opponents] have certainly highlighted

the areas in which we need to improve,” said Wyllie.

“Personally, I believe that we can compete with every team physically. Our mental game is what we really need to work on. It would be easy if we were making errors that were easy to correct. Our mental game is a weakness we have, and need to focus on each day in order to get out of the ruts we get into.”

The Jackets took on Chatham and Geneva in a home tri-match on Wednesday, Sept. 21. The Jackets will then compete at home against La Roche on Sept. 23 at 4 p.m.

Editor’s Note: For a recap of the matches against Chatham and Geneva on Wednesday, Sept. 21, go online to theyellowjacket.org.

Hardie disappointed in men's XC team at meet WXC: SVC invite good “There were three conference schools that we preperation for PACs

By DREW VORCE

For the Yellow Jacket

really needed to see head to head. Those three schools beat us, and beat us pretty badly, and that is something we did not want towards our confidence."

The Waynesburg University men’s cross country team traveled to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Sept. 17, to compete in its third meet of the season, the Saint Vincent Invitational.

Hardie said he observed As a group, the men’s during the race. team placed 12th out of “[Freshman] Randy Hatthe 17 colleges competing field had a three-minute at Saint Vincent College on personal record from one Saturday. race to the next,” said HarAccording to head coach die. “That is pretty rare to Chris Hardie, the team was happen in our sport; it’s looking to specifically com- pretty awesome.” pete against a couple other Sophomore Joel Kuzminteams in the Presski, who finished idents' Athletic 61st overall with Conference. a time of 30:01, “ There were topp ed of f the three conference Jackets’ top three schools that we f i n i she rs f rom really needed this past weekend. to s ee head to Freshman Mahead,” said Harson Klopp foldie. “Those three lowed, at 30:24 schools beat us, for 67th overall, Kuzminski and beat us pretty and senior Cody badly, and that is something Nail completed with a final we did not want towards time of 30:25. our confidence.”

Freshmen Blake Ettien While the outcome of the and Justin Lewis, along with race may have been disap- sophomores Jacob Pryor pointing for the Jackets, and Josh Olive, rounded there were a few positives out the scoring for Waynes-

CHRIS HARDIE

Head coach

burg.

There were two primary goals for the men coming off a hard training week, according to Hardie; one being to improve upon their times from prior weeks.

For Nail, he said he felt he performed well at the individual level.

“My time was roughly a minute faster than the previous week,” said Nail. “I had a solid race and felt a lot better than the last couple of weeks, and I’m happy for that.”

Additionally, it was crucial for the Jackets to locate stretches along the course to better prepare themselves for the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships to be held over a month from now, on Oct. 29, at Saint Vincent College's course.

“It is extremely important to become familiar

with Saint Vincent’s course since Championships are there,” said Nail.

“For the upperclassmen, we have run this course a total of three times now, but we still have places to work on.”

The grouping of the team is an indicator of depth, said Hardie, something that is important for the men's cross country team.

“The thing about this t e am i s t h at t h e y are clumped together really well,” said Hardie. “That’s pretty good depth, and you don’t really know who is going to step forward each week.”

As the season continues, Hardie said he would like to see a more consistent effort at practice from his players.

If the team can maintain a level of consistency, it will be revealed, according to Hardie, through improved times on the course.

The Jackets have some time to develop that level of consistency that Hardie seeks, as they take an extended break of nearly two weeks before running in their next meet on Friday, Sept. 30, at the Washington & Jefferson Invitational.

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vantage with not having Julie in the top group, but this team really stepped up.”

After the team finished third out of 18 teams, Hardie said over the past few years, this meet was one of the more memorable. “[The women] had a sensational race, I mean in my mind, thinking back four or five years, this was one I would circle,” said Hardie. “They really stepped up after a tough week, knowing they would be without [Gerber] in the top group again.”

For the third time this season, senior Katie Latimer and her twin sister Emily were the first two women to cross the finish line for Waynesburg University. Out of the entire field, Katie finished 10th with a time of 24:07. Emily would follow behind her, taking the 12th spot with a time of 24:16.

Finally, junior Angie Marchetti would round out Waynesburg’s top three runners with a time of 24:36.

With Gerber easing herself into the season and junior Elinore Loch, who typically fin-

ishes in the top three, taking a break from the invitational, as Hardie said he did not want her racing consecutive events, Marchetti filled in for Waynesburg, among others.

“That’s really the kind of amazing thing about it. If you look at that team and that two of [our] top seven sat, we really had to rely on [Marchetti] and the Latimer twins and [sophomore Teghan Simonton] to kind of push – and they did.”

After coming off a challenging week of training last week, according to Hardie, paired with the difficult hill course at Saint Vincent, the team was not expecting to see exceptional paces. Instead, Hardie said the team was looking more towards scouting the future Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championship course.

“Running [the course] fast was a goal, and we wanted to test the corners and kind of feel the layout of the land and see how tight some of the turns were," Hardie said.

With an upcoming extended break, the women’s cross country team will not compete again until Sept. 30 in the Washington & Jefferson Invitational.

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September 22, 2016

WEEK FOUR FOOTBALL PREVIEW: CASE WESTERN RESERVE

Offense looks to keep pace with top PAC passing attack

By ANDY STANKO

For the Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg University football team continues to search for its first win of the 2016 season in its Week Four game against Case Western Reserve University at John F. Wiley Stadium on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

Waynesburg fell to 0-3 on the year and 0-1 in Presidents’ Athletic Conference play after losing to Carnegie Mellon University 35-23 in Pittsburgh last week. The Tartans opened the season receiving top-25 votes nationally and were picked to finish in the top half of the conference again in the PAC preseason poll.

Start from Scratch The Waynesburg offense looked better than it had all season in Saturday’s loss to CMU, putting up 23 points after scoring 23 points in the first two weeks combined.

Barnes returned to his 2015 form by going over 100 yards,

Cooper came back from injury to grab a few catches early and a touchdown in the fourth and Kendra kept his impressive season going with another solid performance.

For Dougherty, Saturday was his best performance this season and one of the better games in his career. Towards the end of the first half, Dougherty orchestrated an 80yard scoring drive and then brought the Jackets 83 yards in fewer than 90 seconds to close the half.

Dougherty then completed four passes in a row to come up with a fourth-quarter touchdown to put the Jackets in position to come back and win the game.

“I think we started to see it better, which is really the art of playing quarterback,” said head coach Rick Shepas.

“Coverage recognition, seeing where the openings are going to be in advance. I thought we saw it better and we can continue to work to see it better.”

Dougherty is out for the season and the offense will

have to find its stride under sophomore-transfer Tyler Perone.

“I won’t ever feel like we’re starting from scratch,” said Shepas. “We’ve spent perpetual time in thought about how we’re going to handle different guys. I was happy when Tyler did come in and he didn’t hold back from getting the ball out of his hands. I thought he took some good snaps.”

Despite clicking in the second half against CMU, Perone inherits an offense that ranks 10th out of 11 teams in scoring, yards from scrimmage and rushing.

Defensive Challenge Waynesburg’s defense rose to the challenge of taking on the nation’s reigning rushing leader and kept Waynesburg

in the game with an outstanding first half effort against CMU, Shepas said. The only Tartan touchdown in the first half came after a Jacket fumble set up CMU at the Waynesburg 1-yard line.

Later in the game, two personal foul penalties led to Tartan touchdowns and CMU’s backup quarterback converted two third-and-long situations with completions of 18 and 21 yards on scoring drives.

Case Western comes into Saturday with 100 points through two games. Junior quarterback Rob Cuda, who leads the conference in total offense, accounting for almost 350 yards from scrimmage per game, leads the Spartan offense. Case connected on six passing plays of 25 yards or more last week against Grove City after putting together five scoring drives of at least 10 plays in week one against Chicago.

“This will be our toughest week of preparation, according to [defensive coordinator] coach Venick,” said Shepas.

“[Cuda] runs it – he’s the guy you can’t account for. He’s always a dangerous threat to run and keep the drive alive.”

Scouting Case Case Western Reserve continues to receive votes for D3Football.com’s top 25 poll in Division III. The passing combination of Cuda to senior wide receiver Brendan Lynch is one of the best in the PAC. Lynch is among the statistical leaders in catches, receiving yards and touchdowns despite Case having its bye week already. Lynch is a top two receiver in terms of receptions and receiving yards per game, while tied for the PAC lead in touchdowns.

Regardless of the graduation of six of Case’s front seven defensive players in coach Greg Debeljak’s 3-4 front, the Spartans remain one of the top rushing defenses in the conference. Case’s opponents have totaled 133 yards on the ground in two games on less than three yards per rush.

Football: Passing game finds life in second half QB1: Shepas not worried as our guy stepping in for Dougherty. It was good for them.”

Shepas said this week will be the toughest week of preparation in dealing with Case Western’s powerful offense, led by its junior quarterback, Rob Cuda.

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the Jacket offense may have been Barnes, who, despite being double-teamed on the vast majority of plays from scrimmage, found a way to muster 113 yards on seven catches, one of which was a touchdown reception.

“By going to some other guys like Mitch [Kendra] and Tim Cooper, it opens some things up,” said Shepas. “It was part of our intentional effort to be better on first downs.

When we go empty, it helps him too, and we’ll do more of that.”

“It helps a lot to have more guys so we can spread the field more,” said Barnes. “They can’t just put people on me now, they have to cover those other guys.”

Senior tight end Dan Davis is down for the year with a tear in his knee suffered noncontact in practice before the CMU contest.

That and some other spots, Shepas said, the team is still searching for.

Defense contains Benger Shepas continued to be impressed with the play of the defensive unit for the Jackets, as once again, they kept Waynesburg in it for a while, according to Shepas.

Special teams inconsistent

The biggest challenge to date for the Waynesburg defense came in the form of Carnegie Mellon’s AllAmerican running back, Sam Benger, who, outside of a 64-yard run, was held at bay – a sight Shepas said he was happy to see.

“We were so excited with the way we were playing defensively,” said Shepas. “You talk about the games our guys are playing and they are giving everything they got. [Benger] busted a 60-yard run, but he rushed for over 300 against W&J last year, but we had him right where we wanted him.”

Senior cornerback Josh Mundell was beat on two touchdowns during the game, and according to Shepas, it

was a mismatch that Carnegie Mellon exploited with a height difference. Shepas also said the plays were good throws in perfect spots.

Waynesburg did sack CMU’s starting quarterback Bryan Jangro in the second half, and Jangro exited the game with an injury. That’s when backup quarterback Alex Cline came in and threw for 121 yards and two touchdowns.

Shepas said CMU was better with Cline in the game.

“The backup came in and seized the opportunity, and to their credit, the first play he was in there they threw it,” said Shepas. “That’s what we’re going to do, you know, not hold Tyler Perone back

The special teams game on Saturday was up and down for the Jackets, according to Shepas.

While sophomore kicker Garrett Guthrie missed a 24-yard field goal that would have given the Jackets a 10-7 halftime lead, he made a 33yard field goal in the third quarter.

The return game also improved, according to Shepas, with freshman wide receiver Ta’Vaughn Johnson seeing some more action in the kick return game.

“You’ll see more of TJ [Johnson] in there on returns,” said Shepas. “He did a nice job Saturday.” *** Waynesburg returns home to play the Spartans of Case Western Reserve University on Saturday, Sept. 24. Kickoff from John F. Wiley Stadium is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.

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ets. Shepas said Perone is the quarterback moving forward.

“For whatever reason, it’s the road we’re going down and it’s the cards we’re dealt,” said Shepas. “That’s why we recruited Tyler Perone; that’s why he’s here.”

After Dougherty left the game late in the fourth quarter, Perone stepped onto the field as Waynesburg’s replacement quarterback and took his first collegiate snaps in a single drive for the Yellow Jackets.

“There’s a pressure, I feel like I have to step up and help the team in anyway that I can,” said Perone. “I don’t feel like there is immense pressure on me either [though], because I’ve been preparing. I don’t feel like a first-year player being thrown into this. I’ve been around the block with Seton Hill and [being] here now.”

Shepas said Dougherty and Perone are comparable in their play style within the pocket and said the new role for Perone will encourage him to step up and excel. “[Perone] just doesn’t have the game reps that [Dougherty] has,” said Shepas. “The motivation is: how do you see yourself? Sometimes with an increased role, you might see

yourself differently and embrace that role.”

Dougherty is eligible to complete the rest of his season as a redshirt sophomore, as a medical hardship is possible because he didn’t play more than 30 percent of the season.

Dougherty said getting his MBA following graduation is a possibility.

Shepas said this could be a great learning opportunity for the quarterback.

“This will be a great opportunity for [Dougherty] to take a step back,” said Shepas. “He’s been in the pressure cooker as a starter right away and a lot of pressure coming in. The way he handles the injury while he is convalescing is to take a step back, help us coach and visualize what’s going on."

The injury, according to Shepas, will not change the overall outlook for the team and instead will provide an opportunity for improvement.

“I don’t look upon [the injury] as a negative. Some of the things that happen to you during the course of a season, they just make you better,” said Shepas. “I just think the circumstances any of our coaches deal with here, at any time, can make you better because it forces you to find solutions whatever the circumstances; this won’t be any different.”

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qualities we want in a WU Footy player,” Heethuis said.

“Guys who they respect and guys they are willing to have lead and represent them, and Josh fits that billing.”

Hennigh battled injuries in his sophomore season, but played in 18 of 20 games, starting all 18 at centerback, and scored three goals, two of which game-winners.

The men’s soccer team lost to Grove City in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference semifinals 2-1 in double overtime, which is the furthest the men’s soccer program has made it in Waynesburg history.

The following season was the complete opposite for the men’s soccer team, as the Jackets finished the season 1-16-1, allowing 68 goals while only scoring 11.

Hennigh started all 18 games at centerback for the Jackets, and he said it was a difficult season for him, because despite the team’s record, he still thinks he played the best soccer of his life.

“Personally, I thought I

played the best soccer I ever played," Hennigh said. "But it was disappointing for us going into games, losing by sixplus goals, and you think to yourself that you couldn’t have played your best soccer ever if you’re losing by six goals.”

Hennigh said Heethuis put him up for All-PAC honors last season, but he was not awarded on either team or mentioned. Heethuis said he thinks his senior captain is underrated.

“That’s probably due to that he’s not your prototypical soccer player or centerback,” Heethuis said. “He doesn’t look like a lot of the other centerbacks in the league. He’s got different traits and he does get undervalued a little bit, but we love having him here."

As Hennigh is playing his last season of competitive soccer, he is grateful that he started playing soccer in the 6th grade.

He grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and graduated with 20 kids in his high school class from Hershey Christian, where Hennigh also played basketball and made it to districts in the shotput. If he would have gone to a high

school with a football team, something that was not possible with the small class size at Hershey Christian, Hennigh undoubtedly said he would not be playing soccer today at Waynesburg.

“I would have played football,” Hennigh said. “Looking back now, where I am not, with the friends I’ve made and the relationships and overall how much I love soccer that I didn’t have the option to play football.”

One of those relationships that Hennigh is happy he made is with former Waynesburg women’s soccer player Karleigh Murphey, who graduated this past May and was selected to the All-PAC second team in her junior and senior seasons. Hennigh proposed to Murphey, his girlfriend of nearly three years, two weeks ago.

The couple has argued about who is the better soccer player – an argument Hennigh admits he loses.

“She is a very good soccer player,” Hennigh said. “If we’re talking scoring, she’s a better player. If we’re talking defender, I’ve got her all day.

But [overall], she’s better.”

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said Heethuis. “I think there’s positives to take away from the game and things we also need to work on, which is good for us right now.”

Not sufficiently executing the game plan was another factor that Heethuis said her team struggled with.

“A major factor was us deciding to not play with our game plan of playing feet,” said Heethuis. “I think we kind of dropped to their level of playing pretty direct, and that isn’t a style that necessarily suits us all the time, especially when they’re a little bit bigger, taller than us.”

Despite the challenges for the Yellow Jackets throughout the game, Fortna said the team is starting to get on the same page.

“I thought that the game kind of showed how we’re starting to come together as like a team, because we have a lot of new freshmen,” said Fortna. “I feel like we all start to connect now, and we’re starting to play the ball a little bit better than before.”

With still a few weeks left on the schedule before the Yellow

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Sophomore midfielder Natalie Fortna scored the game-winning goal on a penalty kick to win the game for the Jackets against Franciscan Monday.

Jackets begin Presidents’ Ath- their next match. letic Conference play, Fortna “[We will] just kind of said there are a number of regroup a little bit, refresh things the team will work on the bodies. We’ve had three in practices. games in six days, so we’re “We need to work on our tired; we’re banged up a little technical skills,” said Fortna. bit,” said Heethuis. “I think for “We need to be able to push us right now the game plan is the field better. We need to just getting them back to being keep first touches close.” healthy and being ready to go.”

After competing in three The next matchup for the games over six days, Heethuis Jackets is scheduled to be away said the team is looking to against Marietta College Satrecover before moving on to urday, Sept. 24 at 2 p.m.

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For some, laying in a hammock after class is the best way to relieve stress

Hammocking trend a source of mid-air relaxation for students

By ANNIE MCGLAUGHLIN

News Convergence Editor

When walking through campus during the warmer months, one may see an array of hammocks tied up between the trees in Johnson Commons. The hammocks with the brand name, ENO,

have become a popular pastime among students during the warm and sunny days at Waynesburg University.

ENO, or Eagles Nest Outfitters, is an outdoors company based in Asheville, North Car-

olina, specializing in hammocks, accessories and other outdoor equipment.

Morgan Davis, a sophomore international business major, and Sarah Trocki, a sophomore psychology major, both recently got into the hammocking trend.

“I saw it around campus and thought it was a cool idea,” said Davis. “I then researched it and I got it as a Christmas

gift that year.”

Trocki chimed in and said, “I’m usually with Morgan and when she got it, I decided to get one because it would be so easy to put up when I go camping” Hammocking or just “Mocking” gives students a time to relax and get away from the hustle and bustle of everyday college stress.

“It’s a good way to get to know people on campus and procrastinate homework,” said Davis. “Plus you can do it anywhere, not just campus. I’ve even seen them at Coopers Rock [in West Virginia].”

Freshman forensic accounting major, Rylee Smith, said it’s a great way to hang out with your friends outside your dorm room.

“ENOs are great for just hanging out with your friends without sitting in the library or dorm. All you really need are two trees,” said Smith. “Depending on the type, size and people, you can usually fit 1-2 people in one hammock at a time.”

Both Trocki and Davis stated the best part about hammocking is the campus involvement while relaxing outside and being able to people watch.

Senior psychology major, Kaitlyn Wetzel, also loves the interaction with the campus.

“I think the best part is being able to relax and be really comfortable while still being immersed in the school because we hammock in the commons and see everyone who walks around,” said Wetzel. “It’s the best way to relax outside. We always have music going too, so it’s like a little party going on.”

The process of setting up the hammocks is easier than one would think. Trocki said it’s easy once you get the hang HAMMOCKS >> D2

Wing Night artists Fall semester brings new outlook, appearance to engage with crowd College weight-gain stereotype through song requests broken by some WU students

By RACHEL MANGAN and MITCHELL KENDRA Staff Report

The Student Activities Board (SAB) will be hosting the first Wing Night of the year in the Beehive Saturday, Sept. 24, at 8 p.m.. This Wing Night will feature a performance by the group “88 Keys & the Truth.”

The purpose of the event is to be fun and entertaining, while drawing students together to enjoy wings and a musical performance. Staff members in the past have commented on the community feel of the environment created during the Wing Nights, which SAB hosts several times throughout the academic year.

The group is based out of Nashville, Tennessee, and Columbus, Ohio, according to their website.

Founded by Matty Monk and Andrew Varner, the group has been together since 2010 and visits different venues, from weddings to corporate events to casinos, and have done numerous college and university shows.

The group brings a varied show to the wing night experience, which follows past Wing Nights where SAB has brought in artists of different genres.

The group can perform a

wide range of music and will also be taking song requests from the audience. In a YouTube promotional video, the group explains their show as a two-man show where they take song requests from the audience – depending on the venue – but also a live band.

Monk and Varner play their “dueling pianos” and sing, but are also experienced instrumentalists on other instruments too.

It is also a bit of a comedy show, as the performers will ad lib to fill time between songs and to keep the audience interested.

Wing Night, an event that usually draws a large crowd, is held several times a year and SAB books a different performer each time.

The event wouldn’t be named Wing Night without offering wings to those in attendance.

Pat Bristor, associate dean of students, said that there is the same amount of wings at each event. In the past, there has either been a surplus of wings or a wing shortage.

The amount of wings at the event solely depends on the attendance of the student body, thus more students creates a shortage of wings.

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By KYLE DAWSON

Assistant Sports Editor`

There’s a local bike path that goes through Elgin, Illinois.

It follows a river going north and south, past the IllinoisWisconsin border. It’s called the Fox River Path.

From start to finish, it’s a 35mile trek, making it a 70-mile round trip for bikers wishing to pedal the entire path.

The Midwest is known for being flat.

For the most part, the path is just that. It has some twists and turns but not many hills.

For any biker doing it competitively, it is still long.

The trek was something a group of friends always wanted to do. They had talked about it for a while.

One day they decided to do it.

Senior communication major Austin Anderson was one of the friends in that group.

He had a 28-speed road bike and was more in shape than his friends.

Their bikes weren’t quite as built for the length of the path.

It took the group almost four hours to travel the 35 miles to the Wisconsin border.

Anderson wasn’t really even pedaling at that point.

“I could’ve walked at that rate,” said Anderson. “Part of it was their bikes, but after we got there, they weren’t feeling it and called for a ride home.”

Anderson opted to do the full round trip.

It took him a little over two hours to get back, finishing the 70-mile round trip.

“It was a very fun experience,” said Anderson. “I’ve been talking about doing it for years and now that I’ve got in shape, it was a good idea.”

Anderson lost 55 pounds this summer, and the bike trek was towards the end of the process.

A process, Anderson said, was needed.

“A bunch of things culminated to it being time to lose the weight,” said Anderson.

“There are health issues on both sides of the family that could be an issue down the road. Another was my internship and jobs being flexible, giving me time to do something.”

Anderson put that time to use by working out, running at least a mile a day throughout the summer, on top of a series of nightly core exercises.

Between those exercises, he would bike 15 miles or go to the gym and work out every five or so days.

The routine was altered as Anderson prepared to return to Waynesburg University for his senior year, but he has kept up with the core workouts and running. ***

Photos courtesy of Austin Anderson

Senior Austin Anderson feels and sees the change in himself from junior year to senior year.

Anderson was not the only one who lost a substantial amount of weight between the end of the spring semester and returning back to Waynesburg this fall. In fact, a good amount of students came back weighing significantly less than they

did a few months before.

Sophomore marketing major Tommy Schneid was one of those students, as he lost approximately 40 pounds over the summer.

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Annual Constitution Day play draws community, students

By HOLLY HENDERSHOT For the Yellow Jacket

The Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership presented a Constitution Day play on Sept. 15 in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center.

The presentation was titled “Steeling and Dealing: President Truman’s Seizure of the Steel Mills.”

Written by Stover Scholars Andrew Stanko, Olivia Schultz-Falandes and Tyler McCoy, and directed by Professor Edward L. Powers, a professor of theatre at Waynesburg University, the play revolved around President Truman’s decision to seize the steel mills, leading to the 1952 Supreme Court case, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. versus Sawyer.

The play was open to all homeschoolers, high school students and college students, students from the Linsly School in Wheeling, West Virginia, attended the event.

“Institutions across the

Breanna Fazio, Yellow Jacket

Members of the Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership performed a Constitution Day play Sept. 15 for members of the community, high school students as well as university students. nation are honoring the founding of America on Constitution Day which… is the 17th of September by having various speakers and other activities,” said Dr. Lawrence M. Stratton.

“Waynesburg University is unique in having a production [actually our sixth year], in which students themselves have written a play about the U.S. constitution and performed it, so this is a historic moment unto itself here at Waynesburg.”

After a short introduction

from Stratton, the director of the Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership and assistant professor of ethics and constitutional law, the production started with a scene in which President Truman, played by senior John Wicker, makes the decision to seize the steel mills. The next scene helped the audience understand the position of those in authority over the steel mills at that time.

Next, “President Truman” announced that he

was seizing the mills, and the audience witnessed the enragement of the “steel mill managers.”

The situation was then introduced to “the court” and all the true facts of the matter were explained. After listening to all the reasoning and evaluating the Constitution and rights of the people and president, “the U.S. Supreme Court” made its decision. A 6-3 ruling that Truman overstepped constitutional limits on executive power resulted.

“I didn’t really know much

about what [the production] was about,” said a Waynesburg University freshman who attended the event as a class requirement. “But I learned [much]. It was very educational.”

Junior Ryan Schwertfeger, who played the part of Mr. Kiendl in the production and wrote the play in a previous year, said “It’s always a lot of work [that goes] into it, especially given the limited time constraints, but it’s always great sharing the message of the constitution with

everyone.”

According to Schwertfeger, that work includes the writing and directing of the presentation and play rehearsals two times a week prior to the production. He said the Stover Scholars try to relate the theme of their plays each year to current issues or events happening in society today.

“We start writing the next year’s play… immediately after the previous one,” said Stanko, who also was the coauthor of this and last year’s Constitution Day play. “[In] a conversation I had with Dr. Stratton… he said it would be really neat if we did the Youngstown case because it is so important, because of [what] is set in terms of presidential power, and the fact that it was local with Youngtown steel and Bethlehem steel being involved,” said Stanko.

The Stover Scholars are already beginning to prepare for their next play in the fall of 2017.

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SAB holds afternoon jewelry design event Liberty Fund donates books to WU library

By ELAINA SPAHMER For the Yellow Jacket

Tuesday, on the second floor of the Stover Campus Center, a design-your-ownjewelry event called “Bead It” took place. Starting at 11:30 a.m., students popped in and out at their leisure, experimenting with the materials at hand.

Linda Venezie, owner of the independent company for which the event is named, said it was the second “Bead It” event held on campus. The first event ran five years ago.

This year, over 30 students came out and had the opportunity to create their own bracelets, necklaces, key chains and anklets.

“I try to get a good mixture, stuff that’s both masculine and feminine, nicer quality,” said Venezie. “I don’t like the junky stuff.”

Fire Mountain Gems and Beads, Inc. is the jewelry supply company where Venezie purchases the materials used at these events.

Venezie was interested in jewelry from early on in her life.

“My mom had a jewelry

By PATRIC FEISEL

For the Yellow Jacket

Michelle Keith, Yellow Jacket

More than 30 students took to the Stover Campus center Tuesday during mid-day to design their own jewlery to take home. place,” said Venezie. “She lived in Ohio and that’s what got me started.”

Venezie also runs events for employees at Sheetz who are celebrating their five, ten or fifteen year anniversaries.

“They take them up to Seven Springs,” said Venezie.

“They get to stay overnight and they have all types of entertainment there for them and we get to be part of it.”

Waynesburg University isn’t the only college to experience Venezie's novelty jewelry.

“Bead It” is a popular event at Slippery Rock University, Robert Morris University and

the University of Pittsburgh.

Emily Stowell, a sophomore sociology major who serves as the chair of novelty and showtimes for the Student Activities Board, helped pick and plan the activity.

She explained that each individual novelty event offered is put on once per year because they like to offer a wide variety of events.

There is a process in selecting these events.

The idea filters first through the committees and eventually reaches Pat Bristor, the associate dean of students, and other advisors.

Most novelty events held on campus are run by outside companies that the school chooses to pay and support.

“If it’s a good idea and everybody likes it, it usually goes through pretty quickly,” said Stowell.

Making arts and crafts is an enjoyable hobby because it helps relieves stress, explained Kara Hawkins, a freshman nursing major who attended the event..

“I like to do crafty things in general,” said Hawkins. “I wanted to make a bracelet for my mom because her birthday is on Thursday.”

All Fall Break service trips filled early

By KAITLYN MOORE

For the Yellow Jacket

Faith, Learning and Service are the three components of Waynesburg University's mission.

This fall, the university is offering four different service trips that will allow students to get involved within the community. Kelley Hardie, assistant dean of Student Services, believes the university does an excellent job repre-

senting the mission each time a service trip is held.

“That’s what makes our service really unique,” said Hardie. I think we live out our mission of faith, learning, and service every time we fulfill a service trip at Waynesburg.”

The service trips will take place over fall break, beginning on Oct. 15. The fall service trips take place at four different locations this year.

The locations include Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Wheel-

ing, West Virginia, Green County Habitat for Humanity and Greene County Emersion.

All four of the service trips are filled. Students are still encouraged to reach out if they are interested in participating.

The number of students varies at each service trip after factoring in the location and how many people are needed to work.

“On the local trips, so that would be to Wheeling,

West Virginia, with Laughlin Memorial Chapel, Greene County Habitat and Greene County Emersion, we have a total of six students participating and 18 participating in Gettysburg,” said Hardie.

Hardie is confident that students will learn a lot from these trips.

Friday, Sept. 23 is the last day for students to sign up.

Sign up is available on myConnect's Service tab along with more information.

Hammocks: Hanging in JC a new trend on campus Continued from D1

of it and the cords cooperate with you and do not get tangled.

“You have two cords that have loops in them and you wrap them around the tree and around itself. Then you adjust the various loops on the cord for tightness of the hammock and then you choose your looseness and you’re on your way,” said Trocki.

Some tips for new hammockers are to be patient and to invest in quality hammocks over cheaper ones. According to Davis and Smith, it will pay off in the long run.

“Don’t be afraid to fall out of the hammock, I’ve done it before,“ said Davis. “Getting in and out will take practice.”

Annie McGlaughlin, YellowJacket

Students stack their hammocks three-high in Johnson Commons on a sunny day in mid-September as other students walk past.

Smith stated that when looking to invest in hammocks, one should go and get the ENO brand.

Smith owns the Double Deluxe hammock and is content with the purchase.

“They’re very reliable, I’ve never had someone say something negative about the

brand,” said Smith.

Wetzel stated the campus needs more hammockers that are willing to take risks because this is an investment anyone can be pleased with.

“Buying a hammock is definitely worth the money and getting the ones where you can have more than one

person in them,” said Wetzel.

“So far we’ve done 3 high and we’re hoping for more but we need more people with more hammocks.”

ENO hammocks run in price from about $60 to $95, although accessories such as cords and ties are sold separately.

Weight: Eating, exercise habits lead to overall change Continued from D1

Schneid’s method was a bit different, but the general reason why was similar, as he said he feels it is for most people who want to lose weight: he didn’t feel comfortable with the way he looked.

“I got to a point where I just wasn’t happy with how I looked,” said Schneid. “I knew I needed to make a change.”

Schneid hit the gym, and he hit it hard. This all after working 10-hour days.

Schneid also did a lot of meal preparation.

“I meal-prepped pretty much all the time,” said Schneid. “I also drank a ton of water. Meal-prep, the gym and water worked. I just ate a lot healthier.”

The same went for Anderson.

“My metabolism, despite having weight, was always high because I could just shed plates and not gain much total weight so I knew with minimal exercise I could maintain it,” said Anderson. “I could eat the whole cafeteria. Brick and all. Now I use an Un-

der Armour fitness pal app.

I was eating probably close to 3,500-4,000 calories a day.

Now, I’m anywhere between 2,000-2,500.”

Both felt some social insecurities from themselves to look better. Schneid said he thinks that goes for most who want to lose weight.

“Personally, I was going through some other social confidence issues besides the weight itself,” said Anderson.

“The culmination of losing the weight and finding out other things, I don’t have to try as hard to feel accepted in other social situations.” *** Every college student hears the studies.

They hear about the “freshman 15.”

They hear that 70 percent of students gain weight in college.

Studies cite many factors as to why this weight gain happens.

A study on news.health. com cites all-nighters, parties and snacking as big reasons why college students gain

weight.

Researchers at Auburn University in Alabama followed 131 students over four years of college and found that a whopping 70 percent of them packed on pounds by graduation (an average of 12, and up to 37 pounds).

The overall percentage of students found to be overweight increased from 18 percent to 31 percent. The researchers noted gains in body fat composition and waist circumference as well.

But never is there really a study showing how many lose weight.

There aren’t many studies out there that show the reaction of peers to a college student dropping a ton of weight.

But with social media nowadays, according to Anderson, those wishing to drop weight can get inspiration. He said that’s where people can turn to if they need to.

“When I set my mind to something, I get it done,” said Anderson. “When everything was going downhill towards the end of last semester, dropping the weight was a tangible way for me to improve my

well-being.”

Anderson said it’s possible for anyone who sets their mind to it, and there are many ways to go about it, a statement that Schneid agreed with. *** The reaction from peers can also impress, according to Anderson.

“I hadn’t really ever met Tyler Reis [a sophomore baseball player] until recently and he commented out of the blue on it,” said Anderson. “I hadn’t talked to Carter Hill [an assistant football coach] a lot even being in class with him a few times, and he commented on it.”

Anderson added that it’s not just about losing the weight that makes people notice things.

“Looking better makes people compliment that, but they also realize more about that person’s well-being,” said Anderson. “Weight loss doesn’t make you a better person, but it corresponds at least subconsciously within yourself.

The overall reaction though has been great.”

In the Waynesburg University Stover Center, located on the top floor of Eberly Library, there is a set of books published by the Liberty Fund. The books are still relatively new to the campus and were given to the school by grant from the funding.

“I was having lunch with my friend George Carey in Georgetown. He said that he could give a give us a book grant,” said Dr. Larry Stratton, director of the Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership.

The fund is a private educational foundation which promotes a society of free and responsible individuals. They offer a number of resources for individuals to study and discuss the idea of American liberty. In addition to publishing more than 20 books annually, the fund participates in conferences, provides online educational resources and gives grants According to Stratton, the Liberty Fund believes in the purpose and mission of the Stover Center, which motivated them to bestow the grant.

“The Liberty Fund said the books had to be in a certain room,” said Stratton.

“They believed in the purpose of the Stover Center.”

After Stratton talked to the university provost and university President Douglas Lee, who was a vice president at the time, they all agreed

that the Stover Center was the perfect place for the books.

“One afternoon, 50 boxes of books arrived,” said Stratton. “At that point, the Stover Center bought the bookcase [and] the barrister bookshelves.”

Stratton said that the bookshelves hold a special purpose for building the atmosphere of the Stover Center.

“We wanted to have bookshelves to respect the grandeur of law,” said Stratton.

“Like they belonged in a Barrister Library.”

The books are still relatively new—Waynesburg received the books in 2011 and still receives books each time the Liberty Fund publishes more.

“If your field is constitutional history I would recommend you find your way to the bookshelves,” Stratton said. “Anyone can use the books and I do believe that the books can be signed out by students for one or two nights.”

Stratton emphasized the benefits for students of all disciplines to discover this rarely visited shelf in the library, saying that the Liberty Fund collection is there to admire the beauty of the creation and liberty of America.

“I encourage every student in the university to take time in this room and admire the beauty of the bookshelves, and scan for books that intrigue them about America’s heritage of liberty,” Stratton said.

Music: Quanitity of wings to stay consistent Continued from D1

wing flavors: barbeque, buffalo and garlic. Students are encouraged to try all three flavors and are allowed to return to the line to receive more of their favorite wings.

Another component of Wing Night is the root beer keg. At this point, the fate of the root beer is still unknown, says Bristor. There will not be a keg of it, but there is still a possibility of there being root beer.

It is important that students remember what the event is really about, said Bristor.

“The events not about the wings, its about the music,” says Bristor. “Remember why you’re here, appreciate the talents of the performers.”

The events that Waynesburg hosts, such as Wing Night and Coffeehouse, are great ways for local or newer artists to get their name out.

Some of the performers at previous Wing Nights have been: “Ball in the House,” an a cappella group based out of Boston, Massachusetts, whose group included with a

beatboxer; the Doyle Brothers, the 2010 Hard Rock Battle of the Bands winner; and Jared Mahone, who is a Columbus, Ohio, native who has visited campus a couple times. Mahone first came to campus in 2013 when he performed at a Coffeehouse event. In 2016, Mahone returned with his band for a Wing Night performance, bringing new songs to the event.

Like “88 Keys & the Truth” incorporate their audience into the show, SAB has interacted with the students by having contests; for example when “Ball in the House” was performing covers, students could go onto Twitter and tweet Waynesburg with the original artist’s name in order to win a prize. Waynesburg hosts events such as Bingo nights and Wing Nights on the weekends to give its students the opportunity to come together to share experiences throughout the weekends.

People are encouraged to eat and enjoy, as they respectfully snack and converse amongst others while the artists perform.

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WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Oodles and oodles 6. Airport idlers 10. Poetic foot 14. Kemper of “Unbreak able Kimmy Schmidt” 15. Wintry coating 16. Tennis court surface 17. Work with a loom 18. How some sloganed Tshirts should be washed 20. Toddler’s taboo 21. Ocho minus cinco 22. More than rotund 23. Baltic Sea capital 25. RC or Pepsi 27. 1998 Bullock/Kidman film involving witchcraft 33. Metal-rich deposits 34. Chicken chow __ 35. Catch 37. Dollar competitor 38. High in the sky 40. Flag Day month 41. Maiden name intro 42. Clicker’s target 43. Not at all excited 44. Going to the grocery store, the bank, etc.

48. Word on a shoppe sign 49. Data set average 50. “Gone With the Wind” family name 53. Uno card 55. Knight’s weapon 59. Unsportsmanlike be havior 61. Divided island of Southeast Asia 62. Twistable cookie 63. Ritz-Carlton rival 64. Scent

65. Chestnut horse 66. “And away __!”

67. Some speeches open with them ... as do this puzzle’s four longest en tries

DOWN 1. Mended using stitches, with “up” 2. Elizabeth Taylor role, informally 3. Economist Greenspan 4. Acts like Elizabeth Tay lor?

5. “Understand?”

6. Former French presi dent Jacques

7. Top-notch 8. Symbol for the lower piano music part 9. __ Lanka 10. Swelling reducer 11. Medicinal houseplant 12. Rodent in a German lab 13. Data unit 19. Ken or Daria of finan cial journalism 21. __ Friday’s 24. “__ all good” 26. Leave out 27. Word after floor or flight 28. Mars explorer 29. “So long!” along the Seine

30. In the middle of 31. Preserve, as ashes 32. Did some wickerwork 36. Hotel count 38. Corrosive liquid 39. In need of a friend 40. Surrealist painter from Barcelona 42. Subsurface woodwork decoration

43. Bikini top 45. Big name in antivirus software 46. Estevez of “The Break fast Club” 47. Hollywood agent 50. Scent 51. “Big Hero 6” hero 52. Neck of the woods 54. Classic arcade game

Donkey __ 56. Every which way 57. Obedience school command 58. Historic periods 60. Comics punch sound 61 __ Mahal

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Human trafficking is one of the most common reasons for missing people around the world. Traffickers are snatching people who may be looking to escape from poverty, experiencing physical abuse, suffering from addictions, parents who sell their children, orphaned teens, strippers or prostitutes and just plain abduction night or day.

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What's next at Waynesburg U? FRIDAY, SEPT. 23 8 p.m. Waynesburg Idol Round 1 in GPAC

SATURDAY, SEPT. 24 Service Saturday - World Vision, info on myConnect 1 p.m. – Football game with Field goal kicking contest during halftime sponsored by SAB 8 p.m. – Wing Night in the Beehive with “88 Keys & the Truth”

SUNDAY, SEPT. 25 1 p.m. – Bus leaves from Miller for trip to Pittsburgh Zoo 2 p.m. - Ultimate Frisbee at Wiley Stadium 8 p.m. - Upper Room in Roberts Chapel

MONDAY, SEPT. 26 5 p.m. - Bus leaves for Pirate Game in Pittsburgh Chelsey Withers, Yellow Jacket

Junior criminal justice major Paige Gilchrist is studying at Waynesburg to tackle human trafficking.

10 a.m. - 1 p.m. - Grad School Expo in Marisa Fieldhouse 7 p.m. - Suicide Prevention Program

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Binge-Worthy Shows on Netflix Binge watching, defined by Netflix, is watching more than two to four episodes of the same show in a row. As college students, we have all done it. The need to know what happens next to your favorite characters and the ability to not have to wait for the next season to come out is the plus side of binge watching.

According to Netflix, these are the shows that you should be watching right now:

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If you’re into zombies and the apocalypse, then “The Walking Dead” is for you. Rick Grimes is a former Sheriff's deputy who has been in a coma for several months after being shot while on duty. He awakens to discover that the world has been rampaged by a zombie epidemic of apocalyptic proportions and that he seems to be the only person still alive. After returning home to discover his wife and son missing, he runs into survivors Morgan and his son, who teach him the ropes of this new world. In search for his family he heads to Atlanta. He is up against the world prepared to do whatever it takes to survive.

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If you are looking for something new and similar to “American Horror Story,” then this series is for you. In a small town where everyone knows everyone, a peculiar incident starts a chain of events that leads to the disappearance of a child, which begins to tear at the fabric of an otherwise peaceful community. Dark government agencies and seemingly malevolent supernatural forces converge on the town, while a few locals begin to understand that there's more going on than meets the eye.

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