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Son charged as suspect in
murder of retired professor
geography, and she wanted to pass that
on to students,” Benhart said.
“She was also demanding. If students had her in class, they were going
A retired Indiana University of
to be a little fearful, but they would
Pennsylvania geography professor was
come away with a great respect for her
pronounced dead at Indiana Regional
knowledge and what they got out of
Medical Center after being beaten
the courses.”
and left unconscious on her bathroom
Benhart also said she would still
floor Friday morning.
come into the department to check
Ruth Shirey, 72, taught at IUP for
up on how things were
37 years and earned
going.
emeritus status in
She even took time
The
contributions
2007.
to attend commenceShirey
has
made
in
Indiana borough
ments,
Christmas
her field have
police responded to a
parties, other departreported burglary and
elevated IUP’s
mental functions and
assault at her Diaacademic status
fundraising events.
mond Street home
and have enhanced
Shirey began her
around 3 a.m. Upon
time at IUP in 1970
geographic
literacy
their arrival, they
and chaired the dein elementary,
found that the victim’s
partment of geography
secondary and
car was missing from
and regional planning
her garage.
post-secondary
from 1977 to 1987.
The victim’s son,
schools.
Shirey earned her
Todd Royce Walters,
bachelor’s degree in
36, was found drivgeography education
- 2008 distinguished from IUP in 1965 and
ing his mother’s car
in Altoona and now
alumna award
her master’s and docfaces criminal charges
toral degrees in Tenfor homicide and agnessee.
gravated assault. Officials said that
She received numerous campus and
Walters was traveling with a number national awards for her contributions
of guns from his mother’s house.
as a geography professor, such as the
At a news conference held Friday many books and journal articles she
afternoon, officials said they were un- wrote.
She also worked as executive direcsure why the brutal assault happened.
The suspect’s father, Royce Walters, tor of the National Council for Geoalso lives in Indiana and told police graphic Education from 1988 to 2002.
IUP awarded Shirey with a disthat his son has been suffering from
psychological issues and has failed to tinguished alumna award in 2008 for
her geographic literacy advancement
take the proper medication.
Royce also said that he was at the efforts and academic and research
victim’s home Thursday evening, but achievements.
The announcement of this award
he had left after his son threatened to
read: “The contributions Shirey has
punch him.
IUP students and faculty are ap- made in her field have elevated IUP’s
palled at the loss of a respected pro- academic status and have enhanced
fessor and colleague who remained a geographic literacy in elementary, secvalued member of the community for ondary and post-secondary schools.”
Despite her passing, Shirey’s conyears after her retirement.
Current geography department tributions to the world of geography
Chairman John Benhart Jr. said Shirey live on, both at IUP and the countless
was well-respected by both her col- other schools that have improved beleagues and students, according to a cause of her efforts.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article Friday.
Robinson-Lytle Inc. in Indiana is
“She was hugely passionate about handling her funeral arrangements.
By CASEY KELLY
Lead News Writer
C.E.Kelly2@iup.edu
IUP student running for Democratic seat on
the Indiana Borough Council
By CASEY KELLY
Lead News Writer
C.E.Kelly2@iup.edu
An Indiana University of Pennsylvania student is running for a Democratic seat on the Indiana Borough
Council in the hopes of becoming the
first student to be part of the council.
That student is James Smith (senior, political science), of West Mifflin.
Smith said he decided to run for
council because of his love of politics,
IUP and Indiana.
After his first visit to IUP the summer before his senior year of high
school, he knew that he not only wanted to attend the university, but he also
wanted to be an active member of the
Indiana community.
“A way to bring people in and keep
them here is through the university,”
Smith said. “We have 15,000 students
who come here every year looking for
where they’re going in life, and Indiana can be that place. Indiana can be
their home.”
One major concept that Smith
hopes to take advantage of if he is
elected is the “Town-Gown” relationship, which is unique to college towns
like Indiana.
“The Town-Gown relationship is
one that can be mutually beneficial
to each other and form a symbiont
circle,” he said, “where the success of
one benefits the success of another. I
really believe that the Indiana borough
can use the resources that are available
to them from the university to benefit
the community.”
Smith said that in addition to helping him better understand the TownGown relationship that is present in
Indiana, being an IUP student has
given him relative, hands-on experience in the world of politics, both
through his major and through his extracurricular activities.
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IUP senior James Smith will run for the Democratic seat on the Indiana Borough
Council. Preliminary elections will begin in May, and the general election will be
held Nov. 3.
“A lot of the experience I have
comes from doing the university government work through [the Student
Government Association], the university senate and the Co-op board,”
Smith said.
Indiana’s population has decreased
by 12 percent over the last several
years, while the real estate tax has been
increasing by 4 percent, according to
Smith.
Thus, another goal of his is to “see
Indiana grow” rather than watch the
population fall even further.
“This is the time for students’ voices
to be heard,” Smith said. “Indiana
borough is made up of 70 percent
students, and, currently, not a single
student has a seat on borough council.”
The primary election will be May
19. Although this is after graduation,
students can still vote via absentee ballots as long as they are registered to
vote. The general election will be Nov.
3.
Students can get involved with
Smith’s campaign by phone banking, going door-to-door or by helping other students to register to vote.
To learn more about Smith’s campaign, students can visit his website at
jamessmithforcouncil.com or his
Facebook page at facebook.com/
jamessmithforboroughcouncil.
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February 24, 2015
DRUG VIOLATION
• Braxton Stetler, 20, of Middletown, was charged with possession of a small
amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia after university police
investigated a report of the odor of marijuana coming from his room in Wallwork
Hall Feb. 19 at 4:14 p.m., according to university police.
FAKE ID
• An unidentified individual reportedly attempted to use a false identification to
gain entry into a bar in the 500 block of Philadelphia Street Feb. 18 at 12:48 a.m.,
according to borough police. Police report he was last seen running north on Taylor
Avenue from the bar. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to
contact borough police at 724-349-2121.
CRIMINAL MISCHIEF
• Several sculpted blocks of ice were reportedly damaged in the North Seventh
Street and Philadelphia Street areas. The damage occurred sometime after 2 a.m.
Feb. 22. Anyone who witnessed the criminal mischief or has information regarding
the incidents is asked to contact borough police.
• A 2005 Ford Focus parked in the Robertshaw parking lot was reportedly damaged
sometime between 8:30 p.m. Feb. 15 and 12:15 p.m. Feb. 20. The front passenger
window of the vehicle was broken. Anyone with information is asked to contact
university police at 724-357-2141.
• A door window in the 500 block of Philadelphia Street was reportedly shattered
sometime between 3:30 p.m. Feb. 19 and 9 a.m. Feb. 20. The door was on the side
of the building facing North Taylor Avenue. Anyone with information is asked to
contact borough police.
Supreme Court justices wary of
expanded rights for new immigrants
By DAVID SAVAGE
Tribune Washington Bureau
TNS
WASHINGTON – Supreme
Court justices gave a mostly skeptical
hearing Monday to a California woman who wants the State Department to
explain why it barred her Afghan husband from joining her in this country.
The government argued it has an
undisputed “power to exclude aliens”
from entering the United States, and
“there is no right to judicial review”
of a decision to deny a visa to such a
person, said Deputy Solicitor General
Edwin Kneedler. During questions
and comments, the court’s conservative justices appeared to agree with the
government’s strict position.
They said they were wary of establishing new rights that might encourage spouses, parents or children to go
to court whenever one of their close
relatives is barred from entering the
United States. The case of Kerry vs.
Din asks whether a U.S. citizen has a
right to object after his or her spouse is
turned down for a visa.
Fauzia Din, an Aghan native and
a naturalized U.S. citizen, married an
Afghan man in 2006 and sought to
have him join her in this country.
But the State Department rejected
his application for a visa in 2009, citing a provision of the law that bars
foreigners connected to “terrorist activities.” She denied her husband had
any connection to terrorists, winning
a partial victory from the 9th Circuit
Court of Appeals last year. Its judges
said that as a married woman, she had
a right to demand an explanation for
the government’s decision to deny a
visa to her husband. Her position won
some support during Monday’s argument. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and
Stephen Breyer said they were troubled by the possibility the government
had made a mistake.
“That’s what we were told after
9/11,” Sotomayor said.
The government said then it had
good reasons for arresting and holding foreigners, only to admit later they
made a mistake in some instances,
she said. Kneedler insisted the State
Department double-checked before
denying a visa, and that officials need
not explain their reasons for excluding
someone.
“No matter what?” Breyer asked.
What if the consular official denied
the visa for racist reasons or because
he thought husbands and wives should
not live together? Kneedler denied
such a possibility. But when Los Angel es attorney Mark Haddad rose to
argue Din’s case, Chief Justice John
Roberts and several of his colleagues
said they did not want to extend new
rights to relatives to contest immigration decisions. If wives have a constitutional right to go to court in such
cases, they may also have a right to object when their imprisoned husbands
are sent to a facility that is far away,
said Justice Samuel Alito.
SIX O’CLOCK
SERIES
Documentary follows life of recovering
drug and alcohol addicts
By BRIAN DAVIS
Staff Writer
B.G.Davisiup.edu
“Together, we are creating a new
reality, one where people in recovery
don’t want to stay anonymous, where
addiction will be treated like the
chronic disease it is and not a moral
failing.”
That quote is the main sentiment of
“The Anonymous People,” the documentary shown to Indiana University
of Pennsylvania students in the Hadley Union Building Ohio Room about
the more than 23 million Americans
“living in long-term recovery from alcohol and other drug addiction.”
The film, part of a Six O’Clock
Series co-sponsored by the IndianaArmstrong-Clarion Drug and Alcohol
Commission, was directed by and features Greg Williams, who has been in
recovery since a near-fatal car accident
when he was 17.
“I’m not supposed to tell you about
my addiction,” Williams said in the
film, referring to the social stigma surrounding addiction. “I’m supposed to
be nervous about what you’ll think,
how you’ll judge me and how you’ll
treat me.”
The film features a number of
people in recovery talking about the
shame and societal assumptions surrounding their illness and the public
costs of letting these problems go unresolved. If more people were unafraid
to talk openly about their condition,
- “The Anonymous People”
the film said, recovery would be treated at the same level as other chronic
illnesses, like cancer and AIDs.
The film said the reasons people
shy away from speaking about their
conditions include the War on Drugs,
cultural shaming of addiction and an
interpretation of the anonymity rules
of the recovery organization Alcoholics Anonymous.
“Anonymity has endured as one of
the hallmark tenets of AA,” Williams
said. “Without it, suffering alcoholics
might have never attended their first
meeting.”
“But as important as anonymity
has been to the growth of recovery, it
has often been misunderstood, misinterpreted and misused by both those
in recovery and those on the outside
looking in.”
According to the film, some AA
members interpret the “anonymous”
aspect of the organization to mean
that all members are prohibited from
speaking publicly about their condition, while others believe it exists to
protect only those who want to be kept
anonymous.
Several celebrities in recovery were
featured in the film, including Emmy-
Award winning actress Kristen Johnston and former professional basketball player Chris Herren.
“When a diabetic goes off their
sugar and they show up to the emergency room, they’re treated with great
empathy,” Herren, a recovering drug
addict since 2008, said in the film. “An
addict walks in after a relapse, and he’s
thrown back on the road.”
“You may think of addiction as a
problem people deal with in private,”
Williams said, “but the public wreckage is frighteningly quantifiable.
Addiction costs the American
public $350 billion a year in lost productivity in the workplace, increased
healthcare costs and criminal justice
expenses, according to the film.
Williams said that 98 percent of
the costs go to “cleaning up the mess
caused by addiction,” and that 2 percent goes to preventing it and treating
it.
“The idea for getting help and support to overcome alcoholism or drug
addiction hasn’t always existed,” Williams said.
“Fortunately, for me and millions of
others, many pathways to support and
long-term recovery are available now.”
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Taiwanese Student Association
celebrates Lunar New Year
By STEPHANIE BACHMAN
Staff Writer
S.L.Bachman2@iup.edu
The Taiwanese Student Association
celebrated the Lunar New Year Saturday with a Taiwanese Sin-Tshun New
Year Celebration in the Hadley Union
Building’s Delaware Room at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania.
Taiwan, along with other countries such as China, Vietnam and Korea, all celebrate the Lunar New Year
with their own customs and traditions
unique to their culture. However, some
similarities exist between the celebrations.
Chia-Yen Lin (graduate, political
science), vice president of the Taiwanese Student Association, explained
some of the cultural significance of the
festival for the people of Taiwan.
“The term ‘Sin-Tshun’ means ‘new
spring,” Lin said. “It includes the cultural meaning of Taiwanese. Spring is
a valuable season that is not just a beginning of a calendar year but a starting point of everyone’s mind.
“In the Taiwanese language,” Lin
said, “the meaning of the pronunciation ‘Tshun’ is the same with [the saying] ‘saving some for the future’; and
it has been used by our older genera-
tions for teaching us to cherish food,
money and the relationship with others.”
On Saturday, TSA held a New Year
celebration in order to give Taiwanese
students a chance to celebrate an important part of their culture while they
were away from home and could not
celebrate with their families.
The night started off with a dinner
that consisted of traditional Taiwanese
dishes that were cooked by members
of TSA.
The various meals served foods
such as dumplings, cordial shrimp,
sesame oil chicken and Taiwanese sausage, which are all dishes that families
have as part of their family gatherings.
After dinner, students decorated
red envelopes with goats and sheep.
The envelopes are traditionally given
by older family members to the young.
The envelopes symbolize good luck
and are supposed to ward off evil spirits.
Everyone also wrote down what
they were thankful for in the past year
and their wishes for 2015.
These were shared among the
group, and envelopes were exchanged
with each other.
Next, participants put their wishes
in their new envelopes. They will keep
them closed for the next year only to
open them on the next Lunar New
Year, when they see if their wishes
come true.
One of the participants, Yun Lee
(junior, hospitality management), also
said what the celebration means to her
and why she felt it was important to
attend.
“I think [the Taiwan Sin-Tshun
New Year Celebration] is a time for
people to get together,” Lee said. “We
had a great year last year and wish for
a great New Year for everyone. It is a
time to care for each other, be happy
and have fun.
“Taiwan culture is a little bit different,” she said. “I hope we can share
more of our customs with people here
and share all of this with IUP.”
Lee also talked about what it was
like celebrating with her friends and
being away from her family during this
important time of year in her culture.
“I think it’s a little bit lonely because in the past, I usually get together
with my family and have fun and see
family I can’t see very much,” Lee said.
“I can’t be part of this in America.
“My family is what I miss most
about Taiwan.”
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Turkey, US sign pact to train
Syrians, but enemy still unstated
By DUYGU GUVENC
McClatchy Foreign Staff
TNS
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey and
the United States signed an accord
Thursday to jointly train and equip
thousands of Syrians over the next
three years in a rare sign of cooperation between the NATO allies.
But the document, which wasn’t
made public, apparently doesn’t spell
out whom the Syrians will be trained
to fight. The two countries couldn’t
agree whether the rebels will be
trained to fight the Islamic State, the
American priority, or the government
of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Turkey’s preference, Turkish officials said.
Asked about the impasse by reporters, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut
Cavusoglu had a diplomatic response:
“Of course, the Islamic State is the priority, along with the regime.”
“It is only a first step,” Feridun
Sinirlioglu, the undersecretary at the
Turkish Foreign Ministry, said at the
signing ceremony.
“There are so many things for us to
do,” Sinirlioglu said. “We are experiencing many chaotic situations in our
neighborhood and in other parts of
the world. When we work together, we
believe that we can make a difference.”
U.S. Ambassador John Bass echoed
Sinirlioglu’s words that the accord was
just a beginning and a great deal remained to be done. The Turkish Foreign Ministry later announced that
Sinirlioglu would travel to the United
States for further discussions.
Cavusoglu said details of the agreement would be made public later.
U.S. trainers will use a Turkish base
in central Anatolia to train 2,000 Syrian rebels a year for the next three years,
and a similar number will be trained
in bases provided by Saudi Arabia and
Jordan.
Asked who’ll decide which Syrians are to be trained, another point of
contention, Cavusoglu responded that
“our experts will decide,” without saying who they are or by what process.
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February 24, 2015
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Student loan delinquency is
higher than other borrowing
Student prepares to graduate with two majors,
two minors and two trips abroad under her belt
By STEPHANIE BACHMAN
Staff Writer
S.L.Bachman2@iup.edu
After taking advantage of numerous opportunities available to students
at Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
Shelby Ledger (senior, Spanish) is getting ready to graduate this May.
With her dual baccalaureate in
Spanish and Spanish education, minors in French and Latin American
studies and two trips abroad, Ledger
has accomplished much in her past
four years at IUP.
Ledger explained that her college
experience has been no easy task, but
it has been rewarding.
“It can be difficult to juggle all of
the schoolwork,” she said in an email
interview Monday, “but you quickly
become responsible and independent,
which makes the process much easier.
“The best part about pursuing multiple degrees is that it opens avenues
for various careers,” she said, “and allows me to learn so many new and different things.”
Ledger’s study-abroad experiences
allowed her to study in two different
countries during her college career.
Her first study abroad was after her
freshman year in 2012 to go to Costa
Rica in order to fill a major requirement. While there, she took Spanish
classes and improved her language
skills by immersing herself in the culture and living with a host family. Two
years later, Latin America called her
back.
This time, Ledger went to Peru
with a volunteer group called
UBELONG in order to teach English
and math to local elementary school
children in an underdeveloped area.
Ledger said she believes studying
abroad is an important and great opportunity that college students should
take advantage of before graduating.
“Studying abroad is just as important as adding another major/minor,”
she said.
“It is challenging, but extremely
enriching. Studying abroad allows us
to find out more about the world in
which we are living and, moreover, al-
lows us to communicate with individuals of various cultures. It is a beautiful
thing.”
Ledger said she thinks learning
other languages is an important skill
and is one that others should practice
more. She also said she is aware of the
need for bilingual or multilingual people in an ever-expanding world where
interacting with people from other
countries on a regular basis is becoming the norm, thanks to new technologies. However, language learning has
also become her hobby.
“One of my most rewarding experiences during my IUP career was during my hike to Machu Picchu,” she
said.
“I spoke with other tourists in
English, Spanish and even French. It
was then that I realized that language
learning had made a larger impact on
me than what my diploma could ever
show.
“It gave me confidence, allowed me
to communicate with people of various
cultures and became my hobby rather
than a class requirement,” she said.
By DIAN ZHANG
McClatchy Washington Bureau
TNS
WASHINGTON – Student loans
had a higher delinquency rate than
credit cards, auto loans and home
mortgages over the past three years,
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
reported recently.
Outstanding student loans in the
country have reached $1.16 trillion, an
increase of $77 billion from a year ago.
About 11.3 percent were in default –
more than 90 days delinquent – in the
last quarter of 2014, compared with
11.1 percent in the previous quarter.
By comparison, 3.5 percent of car
loans were past due, as were just 3.1
percent of mortgage loans.
“Although we’ve seen an overall
improvement in delinquency rates
since the Great Recession, the increasing trend in student loan balances and
delinquencies is concerning,” Donghoon Lee, research officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said in
a statement.
But even as borrowers struggle
to make payments, more continue to
jump into the loan pool to help finance
their schooling. Moreover, the age of
student-loan borrowers is creeping upward. More than a third are older than
40, according to the New York Fed’s
Liberty Street Economics blog.
Outstanding household debt increased to $11.83 trillion, a 1 percent
rise over the previous quarter. Home
mortgages and student loans, which
increased by $39 billion and $31 billion, respectively, are the biggest contributors to the rise in debt.
The student loan delinquency rate
– payments missed for fewer than 90
days – may be much bigger than the
default rate shown in the report. An
earlier report by the New York Fed
said the delinquency rate for student
loans was 21 percent in 2012.
The findings come amid a push
by President Barack Obama to boost
funding for higher education by promoting two years of free community
college tuition.
He’s proposed a Pay as You Earn
plan that would cap student loan payments at 10 percent of monthly discretionary income, for all student borrowers.
For Katie Tamola, a recent Boston
University graduate with a master’s
degree in journalism, “the whole situation is very stressful and intimidating.”
She’s repaying $75,000 in student
loans for college and graduate school.
That’s after her mother took out
$60,000 in parent loans to help pay for
her daughter’s education.
Tamola will owe monthly payments
of nearly $900.
Tamola works part-time at a yogurt
store and is struggling to find fulltime work. With entry-level salaries in
journalism averaging around $30,000,
she said, her debt won’t give her much
financial leeway if she’s successful
finding a job in her field.
“I thought about this all the time,
actually,” said Tamola. “Sometimes I
wish I had a different job that makes
more money, but I’m born with the
love for writing, and I want to do a job
that I love.
“I don’t have any regrets on that,
and nobody forced me to take a student loan.”
But she’s “really scared” of what
might happen in the future.
February 24, 2015
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Criminal profiling lecture
scheduled for March
By LOGAN HULLINGER
Staff Writer
L.R.Hullinger@iup.edu
The English department will hold
a lecture on criminal profiling March
18 in room 101 of McElhaney Hall at
Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Beginning at 5:30 p.m., Dr. Jeremy
Olson, assistant professor of criminal
justice at Seton Hill University and
associate editor of Criminal Justice
Policy Review, will give the presentation titled “Serial Killers: A Lecture.”
The lecture is geared toward “prelaw majors of all disciplines, criminology majors, psychology majors and
others,” according to the English department’s website.
“We invited Dr. Olson to reinforce
the interdisciplinary nature of the
English pre-law track program and to
stress that the English pre-law track is
a vital and lively component of IUP’s
pre-law track programs,” said Dr. John
Marsden, co-coordinator of English
pre-law at IUP over a Thursday email
interview.
Despite being aimed toward prelaw students and other related majors,
the presentation will be open to the
public, encouraging all who are interested to attend.
“There are a few reasons to attend
this particular presentation,” Olson
said. “First, it is a glimpse into the real
life/real death world of serial killing
from a safe distance. … Second, the
presentation will help you understand
that what you think about serial killers
may not be true.”
Olson also plans to strike down
some common myths surrounding the
complex criminals.
“The most common myth about serial killers is that all serial killings are
about sex,” Olson said. “This just isn’t
true. At the end of the hour, attendees
will know at least three other reasons
behind serial killing.
“[The presentation] will be a discussion about four typologies – reasons, ways and means of killing – serial killers fit into. We will talk about
each typology, explore the characteristics that allow killers to fall into these
typologies and then give examples of
a killer from each typology, including
killing and post-death details.”
In addition, Olson placed emphasis
on the lecture being an easy and fun
extra-credit opportunity for some students. A question-and-answer session
will follow the lecture, which will allow students and locals to receive additional information relevant to the
topic of criminal profiling.
(Photos by Brittany Persun/ The Penn)
The Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex housed the Winter Warm-Up Saturday for students to see all the clubs and
organizations on campus. (Bottom left) Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority Incorporated had information for prospective students
to learn more about who they are and what they do. (Top right) Ashley Zuchelli (senior, fashion merchandising) and Katie
Waite (junior, fashion merchandising) talk to Stuart Frick (freshman, marketing), a prospective student for the Fashion Visual
Merchandising Club.
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February 24, 2015
News
The community braces the cold for
Downtown Indiana’s first Fire and Ice Festival
Psychic medium will return to her
alma mater for reading hosted by
the Paranormal Society
By CASEY KELLY
Lead News Writer
C.E.Kelly2@iup.edu
(Photos by Brittany Persun and Cal Cary/ The Penn)
Philadelphia Street was decorated with professionally carved ice sculptures (right) Saturday at Downtown Indiana’s first Fire
and Ice Festival. Don Henry (bottom left) handed out samples of his homemade chili for the Chili Cook-Off. Jared McAlister
(top left) carved into an ice sculptor at the Downtown Indiana Fire and Ice Festival.
(Photos by Brittany Persun/ The Penn)
The Chinese lion dance (left), performed by a professional group from Pittsburgh, was seen at the Chinese New Year celebration in the HUB Ohio Room Friday. IUP President Michael A. Driscoll (top right) gave some words of encouragement during
the celebration, and Nien Jung-Tuan (freshman, political science), Hyein Choi (freshman, political science) and Kyeongnam
Lim (freshman, English) (bottom right) enjoyed the performances during the Chinese New Year celebration.
Not many Indiana University of
Pennsylvania alumni can say they left
Indiana and went on to become psychic mediums – but Kitsy Higgins can.
Higgins, a graduate from the communications media department, will
return for the second time to her alma
mater at 7 p.m. Saturday in Keith 130
for a large group reading that will be
hosted by the Paranormal Society of
IUP.
While the event is free, the PSIUP
will be collecting donations for the Indiana County Humane Society. Higgins will be available for questions after the reading is over.
While she is a psychic now, she did
not leave IUP knowing that her spirituality was what would lead her down
her “true path in life.”
Her first job after graduation was
with Yellow Pages. This was followed
by various other jobs in the communications field.
Higgins then got her master’s degree in business from Waynesburg
University and began volunteering at a
hospice where she learned about Reiki,
a relaxation and stress-reduction technique.
“I was working with people who
were within a month or even days of
passing away,” she said.
“In that experience, I learned that
our bodies are meant to hold on to
every experience we have. I learned
a lot of important insights that I now
preach.”
Higgins said her time at the hospice helped her find what she was supposed to be doing – teaching others to
connect with their spirituality, which
she now does through her business,
Kitsy Higgins, LLC.
She said both her IUP and Waynesburg educations have allowed her to
connect with her clients on a much
deeper level.
Higgins said her business motto is
“to help heal the world one person at
a time.”
When she first started her business, she learned many ways to remove
anything in her life that was no longer
serving a purpose, which has proved to
be a form of stress relief that she now
passes on to her clients.
“All of us have a passion,” Higgins
said. “It’s at some point in your life
where you just say, ‘I’m leaving what
makes sense for other people, and I’m
going with what my heart says.’”
The services that Higgins’ business
offers are psychic medium readings,
spiritual counseling, Reiki sessions,
spirit releasement therapy and holistic
business consulting.
Higgins said her readings reveal
only loving, uplifting messages because she does not allow negative spirits to interact with her.
She said her spirit guides protect
her during readings by working as a
liaison between herself and any negative spirits.
“Spirits know the things we are
lacking in our life,” she said, “so if they
can tell you what you are lacking during a reading, that will allow you to
have a more fulfilled life.”
Higgins said there are four senses
that allow her to connect with spirit:
hearing, seeing, feeling and knowing.
She said that, primarily, spirits produce
images and sounds in her brain that allow her to give readings.
The sense of “knowing” refers to
spirits that plant small pieces of information in a medium’s mind to help
with the reading.
She also said that everyone has the
ability to communicate with spirits; it
is just a matter of practicing the skills
and focusing on spirituality.
“Everyone has it,” Higgins said.
“What this is, is intuition, and I’ve just
chosen to sharpen my intuition.”
Students interested in attending
a free psychic medium group reading
are able to attend Higgins’ reading
Saturday and can visit her website at
revkeh.com or her Facebook page.
Opinion
Cartoon by Brandon McDonald
Student risk too great to allow more guns on campus
By PALM BEACH POST
TSN
The following editorial appeared in the
Palm Beach Post on Friday, February 20.
True to form, the Republican-controlled Senate Criminal Justice Committee approved separate disaster evacuations and guns-on-campus bills earlier
this week.
But it is the latter that raises the most
concern, and legislators should once
again stop it in its tracks.
Perhaps we should feel fortunate that
the Legislature is even thinking about
schools and higher education. After
years of paltry funding for our state universities and rising costs of attendance
for many Floridians, legislators appear
to be concerned about students on campus. Unfortunately, they seem to think
that what our schools really need is not
more financial support, but more guns.
This push for firearms on campus
seems based more on ideology than
any studies or evidence. News reports
of student carelessness with alcohol are
common, as is coverage of violence on
campus.
State universities focus significant resources and help for many students who
suffer from stress and depression during
what is often an important transitional
time in their lives. It is hard to see the
Opinion
wisdom of adding concealed weapons to
that environment.
Not surprisingly, the people and
groups most affected by this proposal
– the university system’s Board of Governors, university police chiefs and the
12 public universities – have all come
out in opposition to the proposed legislation.
The Board of Governors, in a diplomatically worded understatement,
noted that the new concealed weapons
proposal “could create new challenges in
our ability to provide a safe and secure
learning environment.”
The Legislature seems little moved
by studies suggesting problems with
guns on campus. A Journal of American
College Health study showed that twothirds of college students who own guns
engage in binge drinking.
Students with firearms at college
were more likely to report that they
took part in activities that not only put
them at risk but others, as well. Moreover, that same study found that there
were more gun threats at schools that
permitted students to carry guns than
those that did not.
The National Rifle Association and
pro-firearms groups vehemently support the legislation. Their chief argument being that it would deter armed
“murderers, rapists, terrorists, crazies”
from targeting college campuses, or perhaps prevent a mass shooting by having
students or faculty shoot it out with
potential threats. There is, of course,
no substantial evidence that allowing
people to carry concealed weapons on
campus will do either.
The last time this legislation was seriously considered in 2011, the bill was
blocked successfully by then-senator,
now Florida State University President
John Thrasher. He was moved to oppose
the bill after the tragic death of Ashley
Cowie, who was accidentally shot in the
chest at an FSU fraternity party. “When
it comes to guns on campus,” Thrasher,
a Republican, said in a statement, “the
consequences far outweigh the positives.”
Indeed. Rather than creating “a
Wild West on campus,” the Legislature
should focus on increasing the resources
and faculty at our universities. And if
lawmakers are truly concerned about
campus safety, they should adequately
fund mental health services and help
our institutions of higher learning find
and counsel students in distress.
Our colleges and universities have
significant challenges in educating and
supporting their students. Putting those
students’ lives at risk with more unchecked, armed people on campus does
not help.
February 24, 2015
Penn EDITORIAL
And the Oscar goes to...
The 87th annual Academy Awards premiered Sunday to an audience of only
36.6 million viewers – the lowest viewership since 2009. The spectacle earned a
10.8 rating among adults 18-49, equating to a 17 percent drop from the ratings
for the 2014 Academy Awards and the worst the ceremony has done since 2008,
according to deadline.com.
Has the public tired of the humdrum chatter of the red carpet? It seems that
Hollywood, too, has finally tired of the drab “Who are you wearing?” question
and spoke up on much more contemporary political and humanitarian issues this
Academy Awards.
Hollywood starlet Reese Witherspoon was vocal on ditching the tired question
all together and took to Instagram to take part in the #AskHerMore movement.
Female stars clamored to be asked questions that came from a deeper place than
the usual questions about their fancy shoes or designer gown, such as “What’s the
biggest risk you’ve taken that you feel has paid off?” or “What potential do filmmakers and characters have to make a change in the world?”
Witherspoon was not the only celeb pushing for a more politically aware Academy Awards either – the night was full of them.
The evening allowed politically charged celebs to call the American population to action on issues stretching far beyond the red carpet: wage equality, equal
rights, immigration and LGBT and veteran suicide rates, among others.
After receiving the award for Best Supporting Actress in the film “Boyhood,”
Patricia Arquette argued for wage equality for women.
“We have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s our time to have wage
equality once and for all and women’s rights for everyone in America,” Arquette
said.
First-time nominee and winner Graham Moore’s (Best Adapted Screenplay,
“Imitation Game”) moving acceptance speech discussed his struggles with suicide.
“When I was 16, I tried to kill myself because I felt weird and I felt different
and I felt like I did not belong,” he said. “I would like this moment to be for the
kid out there who feels like she’s weird and different and feels like she doesn’t
belong. ... Yes, you do.”
Backstage, the actor disclosed that he had decided to use the moment in the
spotlight to “say something meaningful.”
And that he did. Although these Academy Award ceremonies may have been
the lowest viewed since 2009, they deserved to be viewed by the entire country.
It was refreshing, to say the least, to watch Hollywood’s best, brightest and richest shed some light on issues that really matter.
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Wet Ink
By MARY ROMEO
Staff Writer
M.E.Romeo@iup.edu
Despite the unusual rain that paid a
visit to Los Angeles, the 87th Academy
Awards continued on at the Dolby Theater Sunday.
The A-list stars rocked the red carpet
in shades of red, pink, black, white and,
of course, gray.
Dakota Johnson, a new actress in
Hollywood who played Anastasia Steele
from the highly anticipated movie “Fifty Shades of Grey,” was accompanied by
her lovely date for the night, her mother, who claimed she probably won’t be
going to see her daughter’s film.
Johnson wasn’t the only star who
brought a parent as a plus-one to the
Oscars. Ansel Elgort, Emma Stone and
Bradley Cooper were all paired with
their mothers.
Hosting the event, Neil Patrick Harris commenced the evening with an abnormal, yet entertaining show-tune introduction of the nominees, paired with
Anna Kendrick and Jack Black.
2014 was quite a year for movies,
with 60 outstanding films up for awards.
The Oscars not only recognize
the amazing actors of the films, but
also the work behind the camera,
such as the makeup artists, costume designers, directors, music composers and
scriptwriters.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences conducts the voting for
the nominees and winners with either
an online or paper ballot.
The voting starts in December, and is tabulated by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Only two people
from the firm know the results until the
envelopes are opened during the live
telecast, according to the Oscars website.
“Birdman,” “Boyhood,” “The Grand
Budapest Hotel,” “American Sniper”
and “The Imitation Game” swept the
show with six or more nominations.
J.K. Simmons received the first
award of the night for Best Supporting
Role in the movie “Whiplash.”
“Boyhood,” which took 12 years to
film, was nominated for six Oscars but
received only one for Patricia Arquette’s
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THE PENN
Wet Ink Editor: Rachel Clippinger – R.M.Clippinger@iup.edu
Lead Wet Ink Writer: Andrew Milliken – A.P.Milliken@iup.edu
Black Lives Matter
event to give students a
voice Wednesday
By MARY ROMEO
Staff Writer
M.E.Romeo@iup.edu
(TNS)
Lady Gaga arrives at the 87th Annual Academy Awards Sunday at the Dolby
Theatre in Hollywood.
supporting role.
Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of
Everything”) and Julianne Moore (“Still
Alice”) received Oscars for Best Lead
Actor and Actress.
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” won
four Oscars in Best Achievement in
Costume Design, Best Achievement in
Makeup and Hairstyling, Production
Design and Best Original Score.
Though “The Lego Movie” was not
nominated for Best Animated Feature
Film, The Lonely Island and Tegan and
Sara performed the movie’s theme song
“Everything Is Awesome.”
Phil Lord, director of “The Lego
Movie,” responded to the Oscar
snub in January by posting an Oscar award made of Legos on Twitter with the caption, “It’s okay.
Made my own!”
Several Oscar awards made of Legos
were distributed to members of the audience, including Emma Stone, Steve
Carell and Oprah, during the song’s
performance.
“Big Hero Six” walked away with the
Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film.
“How To Train Your Dragon 2,” “The
Box Trolls,” “Song of the Sea” and “The
Tale of the Princess Kaguya” held the
other nominations for the award.
Performances by Adam Levine, Rita
Ora, Jennifer Hudson and John Legend
and Common were well-recieved at the
show, with a standing ovation for Lady
Gaga’s “The Hills Are Alive” tribute to
Julie Andrews.
Lady Gaga was not the only one to
awe the crowd and earn a standing ovation. Graham Moore, screenwriter for
“The Imitation Game,” gave a heartfelt
Oscar award speech of the night. He
said:
“When I was 16 years old, I tried
to kill myself because I felt weird, and
I felt different, and I felt like I did not
belong. … For that kid out there who
feels like she’s weird or she’s different or
she doesn’t fit in anywhere: Yes, you do.
I promise, you do.”
Eight films were nominated for Best
Picture: “American Sniper,” “Birdman,”
“Boyhood,” “The Grand Budapest
Hotel,” “The Imitation Game,” “Selma,” “The Theory of Everything” and
“Whiplash.”
Best Picture, the last award announced of the night, went to “Birdman,” which also took home Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and
Best Cinematography.
Based on the awards received Sunday night, “Birdman” and “The Grand
Budapest Hotel” are must-see movies of
the year.
February 24, 2015
Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s first spoken word and poetry gallery, Black Lives Matter, will be held in
the Hadley Union Building Delaware
Room Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Hannah Matthews, coordinator of
the event, was inspired to host the poetry gallery in November after the verdicts
were made for the Michael Brown and
Eric Garner cases.
“It was Thanksgiving break when
the lack of indictment decision came
through for the Michael Brown case,”
Matthews said, “and I – like a lot of
other people – was upset and incredibly
disheartened by the result.”
She explained that she had reached
out to her mentor, and he suggested a
gallery as a way to give people an opportunity to speak their minds in a way
other than a protest.
Matthews said that she had organized a protest in the past, but she believed a poetry and spoken-word event
would be a way for students to express
themselves positively and peacefully.
“I had wanted to give students the
opportunity to express themselves about
these issues and give them a platform to
do that,” Matthews said.
In addition to Matthews, IUP
NAACP, Alpha Phi Alpha and Floetry
will be coordinating the event.
“My boss told me about a group on
campus called Floetry and that they
were planning an event very similar,”
Matthews said. “So, I contacted the
group to see if we could put our ideas
together, and we’ve been collaborating
from then on.”
Because Floetry is a student-based
group on campus for actors, writers and
poets, they were able to contact and
arrange many of the participants for
Wednesday night.
Approximately 20 student acts
will perform at the gallery, including
poetry,
spoken
word,
two singers and a rapper.
“Poetry and spoken word can be interchangeable,” Matthews said. “But I
think spoken word is when poetry leaves
the page and becomes a performance.”
Matthews said she will be performing a poem of her own and will be participating in another act at the event.
NAACP will be planning a collaborative march with minority organizations
that will represent a stand and response
to inequality.
“Our event is called Black Lives Matter, but that doesn’t mean it’s limited,”
she said. “When we say that, we don’t
mean black lives matter more. We just
mean they need to be valued as much as
everyone else’s.”
“We’re trying to insight a response and push for change,”
she said. “This event isn’t just a performance, or an open mic or talent show.
We want it to serve a purpose on this
campus to ignite the fire for change.”
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February 24, 2015
Wet Ink
‘The Money Store’
debuts from Death
Grips
By ANDREW MILLIKEN
Lead Wet Ink Writer
A.P.Milliken@iup.edu
Insanity, murder and wearing faces
like Yamakas are everyday topics for the
noisy, macabre band Death Grips on its
major label debut, “The Money Store.”
The
California-based
hip-hop
trio, which made waves in 2011
when it released its mixtape “Exmilitary” for free via online streaming sources, has returned with a
vengeance to deliver a pulse-pounding,
adrenaline-fueled, primal force of an
album.
From the glitchy, frenetic beat on
the album’s opener, “Get Got,” Death
Grips makes it clear that the listener
is in for a singular trip through the
hellish minds of its members, rapper
MC Ride (Stefan Burnett), producer
Flatlander (Andy Morin) and one of
the most aggressive drummers currently
making music, Zach Hill.
While “Get Got” features the brutal,
complex instrumentals fans have come
to expect from Death Grips, Burnett’s
voice is unusually calm for a rapper
whose trademark is his vocal-cordshredding intensity.
The rest of the album, however,
features Burnett and the rest of Death
Grips in full swing.
“The Fever (Aye Aye)” provides the
second punch to the album’s opener by
being bigger, louder and more abrasive.
The first seconds resemble a siren growing closer until the sound erupts into
Burnett’s verse.
“Sprayin’ execution, witch fingernails
clawin’ through em/ crawlin’ through
them tunnels losing touch with everything I’m doin’/ (yells) mass confusion,”
raps Burnett over Flatlander’s heavy beat
and drums so harsh you can’t help but
feel sorry for the sticks.
The
chorus
of
“The
Fever” is just devastating, with Hill
transitioning into a half-time feel and
the ear worm of a hook blasting its way
into your brain.
On first listen, the hooks and instrumentals are the most memorable parts of “The Money Store.”
Death Grips expertly creates drops so
satisfying you’ll swear that you’re actually enjoying song after song about violent crimes, sexual deviance and mental
dysfunction.
The beats also keep changing right in
the middle of the tracks, as on “Punk
Weight,” when the first instrumental
heard abruptly cuts to the beat used for
the rest of the song with no warning or
tempo relationship.
This manic, unpredictable element
to “The Money Store” helps keep one of
the most energetic bands ever recorded
at full tilt for the album’s entire runtime,
a trim 41:08 for 13 tracks.
Instrumentally, the album is fast,
loud and unforgiving, pairing so well
with the vocals that Burnett’s voice
sounds more like an extension of the
band’s noise rather than a separate instrument.
Burnett’s lyrics have always been
dense, cryptic and so completely over
the top that it borders on ridiculous,
and the rest of “The Money Store” is no
exception.
Mainstream hip-hop lyrics usually
focus either on straightforward narrative or self-promotion, but Death Grips
is not concerned with either of these
approaches or anything mainstream for
that matter.
Burnett’s words come off more like
the ramblings of a violent madman than
anything else.
Anyone attempting to find narrative
structures on “The Money Store” will
end up in tears or in Bedlam.
Their lyrics are not total nonsense,
however. The band’s dark language is
intended to paint a picture rather than
explain it.
That picture, however, is horrifying
and divisive. Death Grip’s music is not
for everyone, but a genuine outlet for
the emotions of its members.
“Nothing about the creative or the
musical aspects of the group are at all
forced or contrived; it’s all very natural,” Hill said in an interview with The
Skinny, a cultural magazine based in the
United Kingdom.
“Empowering music,” Hill said, “I
guess is what I would say, for our own
benefit, and for our own mental health.”
“The Money Store” contains music so polarizing that you’ll either bang
your head and revel in the sadistic glee
of music that may be destroying your
mental health as it improves the band’s
or dismiss Death Grips as noisy garbage.
However you react to Death Grips,
its three cigarette-devouring, angry,
gaunt Californians have made a thrill
ride of an album that is almost guaranteed to profoundly affect the listener,
and this is more than can be said for
many current, mainstream artists.
‘Soldier’s Heart’ brings an
emotional drama to IUP
Photos by Nick Dampman/ The Penn)
Above: Chelsea Kikel (senior, theater) and Katie Leonard (sophomore, theater)
performed as Margie and Casey in “Soldier’s Heart” at Waller Hall Sunday.
Right: Leonard and Matthew Smith (senior, theater) as Baines dramatically took
to the stage Sunday.
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Sports
THE PENN
Sports Editor: Cody Benjamin – C.J.Benjamin@iup.edu
Lead Sports Writer: Michael Kiwak – M.T.Kiwak@iup.edu
Ugbede’s double-double thrusts IUP over UPJ
By CODY BENJAMIN and
VAUGHN DALZELL
The Penn Staff
the-penn@iup.edu
Devante Chance (senior, communications media) and Daddy Ugbede
(junior, communications media) combined to score more than 40 points
for the Crimson Hawks Saturday, and
the Indiana University of Pennsylvania
men’s basketball team powered past the
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
in a 78-65 win.
Chance, who had 21 points and
four assists in a full
40 minutes of action,
said Ugbede’s first
career double-double
came at an opportune time, helping
lift IUP to its second
consecutive victory
and sweep Pitt-Johnstown on the year.
“Daddy and I were able to put some
shots up,” Chance said, “and he was just
scoring and rebounding so well that he
made a huge difference in the game.”
Ugbede, who had 10 rebounds in 21
minutes and reached the 20-point mark
for the second time in three games,
helped make up for IUP’s lack of success
beyond the arc, as the Crimson Hawks
converted just three of 17 3-point shots,
but notched 40 points in the paint.
“I just try to be aggressive and play
our team-type of game and go with the
flow of the game,” Ugbede said.
Shawn Dyer (graduate, criminology), who had nine points for IUP in
the team’s second-to-last game of the
regular season, said it will be important
for the Crimson Hawks to keep Ugbede
involved in offensive strategies moving
forward.
“We have to make it an emphasis to
feed him the ball,” Dyer said. “Especially in tourney time. He is a beast, and I
don’t think anyone can stop him.”
Ugbede and IUP did have some
trouble, however, when it came to defending Pitt-Johnstown’s Ian Vescovi,
whose numbers have ranked atop the
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference
for much of the season. Vescovi had 28
points in a losing effort for UPJ.
The Crimson Hawks did have several
scoring streaks to help limit Vescovi’s
impact. Runs of 10-0 and 8-2 in the
second half put IUP on track for its
13-point victory.
Foul-shooting success didn’t hurt,
either. While Pitt-Johnstown hit on 13
of 20 shots from the charity stripe, the
Crimson Hawks converted all but two
of 21 free throws, adding to a 47.5-percent shooting percentage from the field.
In contrast, UPJ managed to connect
on 39 percent of its shots.
Also contributing to IUP’s win was
Jeremy Jeffers (senior, communications
media), who added 10 points and went
3-of-4 from the free-throw line.
With one regular-season game remaining, IUP (22-5, 16-5 in the PSAC)
sits in third place in the PSAC West,
behind Gannon University (19-8, 174) and Mercyhurst University (20-7,
17-5), both of which have defeated the
Crimson Hawks this season.
IUP will close its season Wednesday
in a 7:30 p.m. matchup with Clarion
University (9-15, 6-14) at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex. The game will serve not only as a
precursor to the impending PSAC tournament but also as senior night for the
Crimson Hawks’ veteran players.
Daddy Ugbede, left, powers ahead for IUP. (Daniel Kirby/ The Penn)
IUP swimming garners top-five finishes at PSAC Championships
Crimson Hawks men post 663 total points, the best total for IUP in 15 years
By MICHAEL KIWAK
Lead Sports Writer
M.T.Kiwak@iup.edu
On the final day of the Pennsylvania
State Athletic Conference Championships, Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s men’s and women’s swimming
secured themselves top-five finishes,
thanks to some standout individual performances.
The men claimed second place with
663 total points,
SWIMMING making it the best
finish the team has
seen in the last 15
years.
It just trumps last
year’s performance,
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when the team finished third.
The women fell behind Bloomsburg
and West Chester universities to finish
in third place with 511.5 points.
Both of West Chester’s teams maintained their leads throughout the entire
four-day duration of the competition.
All in all, the Crimson Hawks recorded two first-place finishes, three
school records and 34 total NCAA BCut qualifying times.
The two first-place finishes came
courtesy of Brandon Hopkins (senior,
exercise science) and Yuri Fernandes (junior, computer science).
Hopkins recorded a 15:40.28, a
qualifying time, in the 1,650-yard freestyle to secure his placing, which was
seven seconds faster than the secondplace finisher. Hopkins also broke IUP’s
1,000 freestyle record earlier in the
competition.
Fernandes, a Brazil native who is in
his first year at IUP, earned his placing
in the 100-yard freestyle with a qualifying time of 45.69.
He also walked away from the weekend with two new school records in the
200 and 400 individual medleys.
Other performances on the men’s
side included those of Alex Plimpton
(junior, accounting), Rudy Da Costa
(graduate, accounting), Andrew Richey
(sophomore, applied mathematics) and
Paul Singerman (junior, physics).
Plimpton finished with a qualifying
February 24, 2015
time and a fourth-place finish the 1,650
free, completing the event in 16:00.64.
Da Costa qualified for the 200-yard
backstroke with a 1:50.94, which also
got him a third-place finish.
Richey and Singerman, in cohesion
with Da Costa and Fernandes, formed
the 400-freestyle relay team that finished
third in the race. The team finished one
second shy of a qualifying time.
For the women, Paige Spradling
(sophomore, biology) recorded the best
finish during the competition.
She finished second in the 200yard breaststroke with a B-Cut worthy
2:19.51.
Laura Silva (senior, operational management) finished third in the 200 back-
stroke with a qualifying time of 2:03.33,
and Taylor Snyder (senior, family and
consumer science) recorded seventh
place in the 100-yard free style.
Barcelona, Spain, native Beatriz
Gonzalez (freshman, business) qualified
in the 1,650 free with a 17:38.74, which
was good for 10th place.
Finally, the 400-yard free team of
Synder, Aniella Janosky (sophomore, accounting), Gabriella Guttman (senior,
exercise) and Allie Humphries (senior,
disability services) finished third in the
event with a qualifying time of 3:31.75.
Those who qualified will return to
the pool one last time this season to
compete in the NCAA Championships
March 11 in Indianapolis.
Sports
February 24, 2015
Sports
13
IUP’s Stamp values success on and off the court
By JED JOHNSON
Contributing Writer
J.N.Johnson3@iup.edu
Few athletes would deny that teamwork is one of the most important aspects of sports.
Basketball is no exception to this
rule, as evidenced by the Indiana University of Pennsylvania women’s squad.
IUP leads the Pennsylvania
State Athletic Conference in assists-pergame with 18.95.
They also have the
PSAC’s second highest scoring offense
at 77 points-pergame and boast the
top-ranked defense
at 57.2 points-pergame.
Many players figure into a team’s
overall success on the court; however,
Lindsay Stamp (senior, criminology)
stands out as a dynamic player who has
carried the team both statistically and
motivationally this season.
Stamp said that this year’s squad has
been “better than any other year [she’s]
been a part of,” and she has certainly
made her fair share of contributions to a
nationally ranked unit.
Stamp leads the squad and the entire PSAC in points per game at 19.6.
Holding a top-five spot in IUP’s alltime record books for scoring average
and 3-point percentage. Stamp could
have integral implications in the Crimson Hawks’ potential playoff run in the
coming weeks.
Stamp has an imposing presence inside the paint, as well, leading the squad
in rebounds with 192.
Stamp has also mentioned that her
versatility is undoubtedly the highlight
of her game.
She said she is comfortable doing
nearly everything on offense – whether
it is filling in a role as a guard or a small
forward, going inside or attacking from
the perimeter.
When Stamp graduates from IUP,
she plans to attend graduate school so
she will have more options in the criminology field.
Earlier this month, Stamp was
named a Capitol One Academic AllDistrict recipient, which is an award
No. 46 Crimson Hawks
top Oberlin in 8-1 victory
By JAKE ENDERS
Staff Writer
J.G.Enders@iup.edu
The Indiana University of Pennsylvania women’s tennis team continued its
strong start to the regular season Saturday afternoon in northern Ohio, defeating Oberlin College by an 8-1 score.
Oberlin, currently ranked 32nd nationally in NCAA
Division III, proved
TENNIS
to be a somewhat
stiffer test for the
Crimson
Hawks
than their last opponent, Seton Hill.
However, IUP still
encountered little resistance in rolling
to eight-straight victories to crush the
Yeowomen.
Tanya Timko (senior, psychology)
once again led the charge, winning 6-4,
6-1 in the No. 1 singles spot.
Timko’s singles victory, the 73rd of
her career, pushed her into a tie with
2013 graduate and former teammate
Emilia Osborne for second all-time in
program history.
She needs just nine more wins to
pass Katie Eaton – also a 2013 graduate – and become IUP’s career leader in
singles victories.
IUP dropped the first game, as Timko and Abby McCormick (senior) fell in
the No. 1 doubles spot.
The Crimson Hawks rebounded in
fine style, though.
Jarmila Petercakova (sophomore, human development and environmental
studies) and Raquel Gonzalez (sophomore, management) winning 8-4 in the
No. 2 doubles spot.
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a varsity level who have maintained a
GPA of 3.30, have acquired sophomore
athletic and academic standing and have
been nominated by the athlete’s sports
information director.
Her mantra is to focus on basketball
when she’s at team functions, yet focus
solely on academics when she’s away
from the court.
In regard to losses, Stamp said, “You
don’t learn when it’s easy; you have to
learn from the hard times.”
This attitude, she said, emanates
throughout the locker room, which is a
key aspect of the team’s resiliency.
Stamp believes her most memorable
moment is one that will happen in the
future. She expects the NCAA tournament this year to be something that she
will remember for the rest of her life.
Regardless of how this season concludes for IUP, Lindsay Stamp could
– and likely will – be revered in the
IUP community for her dedication to
academics and athletics, something that
is not easily attainable without a strong
sense of drive or the sense of teamwork
that often goes overlooked.
Lindsay Stamp (senior, criminology) takes the court.
(Nick Dampman/ The Penn)
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Sports
15
Trade talks heating IUP qualifies at Kent State Tune-Up
up at NHL deadline
By JED JOHNSON
By DANIEL KIRBY
Contributing Writer
D.J.Kirby@iup.edu
Only one week before the NHL
trade deadline, trade rumors are starting
to heat up.
With a couple of major trades already completed this season, the trade
market looks to become very busy in the
next two weeks.
With several teams still in the middle
of a playoff race, a few have surfaced as
buyers and sellers at the trade deadline.
Teams like Toronto, Carolina, Edmonton, New Jersey, Buffalo and a
few others have become involved at the
deadline.
With recent trades like David Perron
going to the Penguins, Mike Santorelli
and Cody Franson going to the Predators and the Sabres and Jets swapping
Evander Kane and Tyler Myers, the
prices have been set for players that are
on the block.
Some of the most talked about players left are still waiting to hear if they
will be moved before the deadline.
Forwards Daniel Winnik (Toronto),
Jaromir Jagr (New Jersey) and Antoine
Vermette (Arizona) and defensemen
Zbynek Michalek (Arizona), Andrej
Sekera (Carolina) and Jeff Petry (Edmonton) seem to be gaining the most
attention around the league.
For most teams, with the exception
of the Predators, one of the biggest
problems is the salary cap space that is
available to be able to acquire players
before the deadline hits March 2.
Teams like Pittsburgh, which doesn’t
have much cap space at all, are looking
for both forwards and defensemen, and
they will have to give up something in
order to get quality players in return.
In cases like Winnik, the price has
been raised and is still rising. The Maple
Leafs are looking for a second-round
draft pick and a prospect to acquire his
talents.
Although teams are sometimes hesitant to pull the trigger on deals such as
the proposed Winnik move, there are
assuredly still plenty of teams calling
and making inquiries.
On a more interesting note, Phil
Kessel has been gaining plenty of attention from areas around the league.
The Maple Leafs are looking to trade
him either before the deadline or before
the upcoming draft to get assets, get
draft picks and remove his $8-million
cap hit from the books in Toronto.
Sekera is probably the most soughtafter defensemen since Franson was
traded. The thing about Sekera is that
it’s still a little unclear if he will be available.
Since his name first hit the rumor
mill, the Hurricanes have been trying to
sign him to a contract extension.
And with two weeks left before the
trade deadline, it looks like he will be
dealt.
A deal could be even more likely
because of how Carolina would benefit
from it. By making a trade, the club
would be able to obtain some form of
compensation for Sekra.
Calgary Flames forward Curtis Glencross has been in contract negotiations
for some time now, but it doesn’t look
like a deal will be made any time soon,
and the Flames are looking to move him
before the deadline.
Glencross and a couple other players
have no trade clauses within their contract and can waive them.
He recently submitted a list of teams
for which he would waive his clause.
On another note, the Pittsburgh
Penguins are making some news with
their reported recent interest in bringing back former player Jordan Staal.
Staal was part of the Stanley Cup
team in 2009 and was later traded in
2012 to the Hurricanes for Brandon
Sutter, Brian Dumoulin and first-round
draft-pick Derrick Pouliot after rejecting a 10-year deal from Pittsburgh.
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Contributing Writer
J.N.Johnson3@iup.edu
The indoor track regular season concluded Saturday for Indiana University
of Pennsylvania at the Kent State TuneUp with the Crimson Hawks participating against a multitude of universities from Division I, II and III athletics.
A number of rivals from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference participated alongside
IUP in this contest,
TRACK & FIELD
including Slippery
Rock
University,
California University of Pennsylvania,
Edinboro University
and Clarion University.
Unlike some of the other schools at
the competition, IUP did not win any
given event outright.
However, eight Crimson Hawks
athletes performed well enough to
qualify for PSAC times.
As was the case last week, IUP tended to place better in the field events as
opposed to the track events.
Elizabeth Coppella (freshman, kine-
siology health & sport science) placed
second in the women’s unseeded pole
vault.
With her performance, Coppella
built on her third-place finish for IUP
at the Division II Team Challenge
hosted by SPIRE Sports Academy two
weeks ago.
Jennifer Dibert (sophomore, human
development and environmental studies) followed suit with a strong thirdplace performance.
Jumper Brooke Smay (sophomore,
safety sciences) had a strong showing
for the women’s program, as well, with
a fourth-place showing in the women’s
long jump and a PSAC-qualifying standard of roughly 37 feet.
On the men’s side, Charles WilsonAdams (freshman) had the highest
placing with a fourth-place result in the
high jump, surpassing the PSAC standard with a roughly 6-foot-6 jump.
Demetrius Timmons (freshman,
computer science) and Jeremy Claypoole (junior, kinesiology health &
sport science) also performed relatively
well in the long jump events, finishing
fifth and eighth, respectively.
Only two athletes placed in the
track events.
Troy Zangaro (senior, marketing)
placed seventh in the men’s 200-meter
event with a PSAC-qualifying time of
22.4.
Austin Cooper (freshman, accounting) also performed above the PSAC
standard with a seventh-place showing
in the mile run, finishing with a qualifying time of 4:18.57.
Raymond Ofman (redshirt junior,
kinesiology health & sport science) also
recorded a PSAC-qualifying time of
4:20.45.
The IUP men’s A and B relay squads
placed ninth and 16th, respectively, in
the only relay for men on the schedule,
the 4x400-meter relay.
The IUP women’s program did not
participate in any relay events at the
competition.
The men’s and women’s programs
will participate in the PSAC Championships from Feb. 28 to March 1 at the
Mike Zafirovski Dome in Edinboro.
If IUP qualifies, it will then compete
at the three-day NCAA Indoor Championships competition, which will be
held in Birmingham, Ala., from March
12-14.
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