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A Day in the Life: Bonner Program worth the time commitment By KIMMI BASTON Executive Editor
Wake up. Spend three hours in class. Go to work for three and a half hours. Serve the community for three to five hours. Do homework. Sleep (a little). Repeat. That's most days for Nick Lies, a sophomore Bonner Scholar and English major, but he doesn’t mind. Yes, he readily acknowledges that it’s
tough to balance being a fulltime student and a Bonner Scholar required to complete 140 hours of service each semester. But he truly loves service – it’s all about building relationships – so it’s not a burden. Lies transferred to Waynesburg University in the fall of 2016 from the Community College of Allegheny County. Despite being in only his second semester as a Bonner student, Lies is highly involved and invested in service and in Waynesburg, and that’s in
part thanks to the Bonner Program. “Bonner has given me so many opportunities to meet people that I wouldn’t h a v e m e t ,” said Lies. “I wouldn’t be having the relationships with the students I do now or the people in the community I do now. It has made my
transferring and my student life here [much] more colorful.” Lies said his life at Waynesburg is all about time management. He keeps track of his classes, Bonner events and service site commitments on a giant wall c a lend ar. On top of that, he works several hours per week in the
Center for Service Leadership at Waynesburg. Bonners need to complete an average of 10 service hours per week to meet their semester requirement. Despite his many commitments, Lies has no trouble meeting this number. In fact, he usually has more service hours than he needs. That doesn’t stop him from serving at every chance he has, though, including attending Saturday service opportunities that often don’t count toward his hours.
“Because I do service trips through breaks, Saturdays aren’t as necessary for me,” said Lies. “I still sign up for them because they’re good opportunities to get to know people that I haven’t met yet in the [Bonner] program or in the school that aren’t necessarily Bonners.” Service trips are one of the best parts of being a Waynesburg student and Bonner Scholar for Lies. While Bonners can only count two serBONNER >> A3
Overnight staff work in obscurity Gap in mass email list poses problem for junior students
Buhl cleaning lady among those who make campus livable
Many unaware they're missing campus-wide information
By JACOB MEYER Sports Editor
Nearly every Tuesday night for the past two and a half years I’ve seen the Buhl Hall cleaning lady. She works nights — actually, early mornings — and our paths cross when I work late on Tuesdays. She typically comes into the Yellow Jacket Office around 4:30 a.m. She asks, “Another long night?” She knows my answer. Before she grabs the B E H I N D T H E trash bags and leaves, she SCENES says, “Try and get some An occasional series sleep tonight.” She knows that I won’t. Because of the hours she works, almost no one at Waynesburg University even knows she exists. Well, they know the idea nighttime cleaning people exist – because things
By LUKE GOODLING
Sports Convergence Editor
A few Sundays ago, junior nursing major Angelina Ortoleva heard sirens on campus. At the time, Ortoleva did not know they were in response to the death of Brad Grinnen. She left Waynesburg for clinical prep and spent the day trying to determine if she was safe, her friends were safe and if there was a threat to the campus of Waynesburg University. She never received the campus email updating students on what was happening. In fact, Ortoleva said she has not received a campus-wide email since her freshman year. “[I needed] to know that
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Danielle Carlson, a night cleaning person for Buhl Hall, loves that her job provides her the stable hours and lifestyle she never had growing up.
there was no threat – to know that it was one situation and not multiple things going on,” said Ortoleva. She was in Morgantown preparing for for clinicals, hoping her friends on campus were ok. Relying on social media for news was frustrating and not comforting, Ortoleva said. She believes it was the university’s responsibility to inform the student body about what was going on, and not just on Twitter or Facebook. If she had received the email that was sent out to the entire student body that afternoon, Ortoleva said she would have been far more reassured. Ortoleva is not the only student who didn’t receive the campus-wide emails on the day of Grinnen’s death, let alone emails sent to the campus on a regular basis. A significant portion of the junior class has reported not receiving emails sent to the rest of the student body including EMAIL >> A4
Students take on jobs during school to ease financial burden By SHON MEADE Managing Editor
According to a study by U.S. News, it can take up to 21 years for the average college student to pay off their student loans after graduating from a bachelor’s program. That’s the reality looming over students’ heads during their entire undergraduate education. Paying for a degree is no small feat. So, in addition to working in the classroom, students put in work at jobs both on and off campus to defray the cost of their education. A study by the National Center for Education Statis-
tics showed that 45 percent of traditional students work while in college. True to this statistic, it’s not unusual to find students at Waynesburg University working on campus, off campus or both – whatever it takes for them to make the extra money needed to get through college and the years ahead. It can be tough to balance working part-time and giving enough attention to classes – the very thing students are working to pay for. However, knowing that saving money now will lead to an easier post-graduate life motivates many students to strike a balance and find time for their job(s) even amidst the rest of
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Marla Holland balances her class work with working in Benedum Dining Hall to help her offset the financial burden of her college education. college life.
Waynesburg University offers a variety of jobs for students to earn some extra cash during the semester. These
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jobs can range from working at the cafeteria, in the library or even being a Student Ambassador giving tours to pro-
spective students. Marla Holland, junior psychology major, spends a few days a week serving food in the cafeteria, a job she started the latter half of her freshmen year. For her, it’s the people she works with and around that get her through it. “I kind of enjoy serving people,” said Holland. “The group of people I work with are exciting.” Holland works a few days a week, and most of the money she earns goes to pocket change. Student’s schedules don’t always line up with the hours the school needs them to WORK >> A3
WASHINGTON SCHOOLS TESTS WATER FOR LEAD
MEDIA EFFECTS
With controversies raising up in the county over clean water supplies, Washington School District has recently taken advantage of a free testing program.
As mass shootings continue to occur in America, many experts believe the attention media coverage gives to them has something to do with their continuation. Should something change?
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Three-time PAC champion Ryan Shank came to Waynesburg after dropping out of Lindsey Wilson College and taking three years off.
In the midst of midterm exam and project week, students relieved stress by spending time with furry friends from the Greene County Humane Society.
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