By Chelsea DicksEditorial Assistant

“I had to step over mymother’s dead body to getout of our house.”

There was silence formany seconds as Kimber-ly Furmanek tried to fin-ish the sentence.

“Her saying, ‘who areyou, what do you want’were the last words I everheard her say.”

Kimberly was only sixyears old when her 24year-old mother RhondaHelmington was tortured,raped and stabbed to deathby her stepfather on Dec.1.

The abuse had beengoing on for years, evenbefore the marriage. Itbegan with mental abuseand escalated to physicalabuse, said mother of thevictim, Carol Furmanek.

“She always wanted tohelp out the guys who hadtroubled backgrounds andwere trouble themselves,and bring them up out ofthe gutter,” said Fur-manek. “All she wantedto do was help people, andit ended up getting herinto a lot of trouble.”

Ed Helmington wasalways screaming andfighting with Helmington;he beat Kimberly Fur-manek as well, leavinghandprint bruises on thesix-year-old girl. But CarolFurmanek never suspect-ed that he was abusing herdaughter or granddaugh-ter. She thought they werethe normal married cou-ple who fought occasion-ally, but that was not thecase.

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By Aaron AndersonStaff Writer

The incident withWashington & Jeffersonstudent Tim McNerney afew weeks ago has raisedmany concerns with stu-dent safety on campusesin the area.

McNerney was beatento death just off of hisschool’s campus in Wash-ington, PA according to

Washington police.Waynesburg, as a town,

is generally known as asafe place because of itssize and location. That,however, does not meanstudents do not need to beaware of potential dan-gers.

“A common miscon-ception in a rural area isthat everything is safe,”

By Nick FarrellAssistant Sports Editor

Under the leadership ofChief of Police RobertVernon, the Los AngelesPolice Department wasrecognized as the top forcein California.

“We flew a flag underthe U.S. Flag and the Stateof California Flag,” saidVernon.

“It was a blue and sil-ver flag with the letters‘LAPD’ written on it, andall it said was ‘#1’because, at the time, wewere number one.”

During his 37-yearservice at the LAPD,

worked with many profes-sionals and was in chargeof over 10,000 people aschief.

Chief of Police is notthe only active leadershiprole that Vernon has heldduring his life.

In fact, he began devel-oping his leadership skillsin his youth.

As a child, Vernon wasa leader among his peers,especially at his localchurch.

“When I was 12, it allclicked,” said Vernon.

“I made my commit-ment to the Lord.”

Vernon vigorously dis-played that commitment

in his work with theLAPD.

“The best way to leadis through example and byliving out the morals thatthe Word of God teaches,”Vernon said.

Dr. Larry Stratton,director of the Stover Cen-ter for ConstitutionalStudies and Moral Leader-ship, said that the formerpolice officer embodiesmoral leadership for thatexact reason.

“To understand ChiefVernon, you have to knowthat he is a passionateChristian about Jesus

By Sarah Bell Executive Editor

Nearly four times theparticipants in last year’sHaunted Lab attendedthis year’s spooktacularevent.

In past years, therewere only around 50 par-ticipants from the com-

munity; this year farexceeded the expectationsof American ChemicalSociety President JericaBriggs.

“I was really sur-prised,” Briggs said. “Ilooked outside at 6:15p.m. and there werealready 30 kids and theirparents waiting to come

in. It was awesome. Iwent around with a grinand told everyone to get totheir stations because wewere going to getswamped.”

The Haunted Lab offerscommunity members andstudents the opportunityto witness the sciencebehind different types of

special effects and reac-tions.

“It’s really awesomecommunity-wise,” Briggssaid. “We try to get moreand more people to comeevery year. It’s mainly forkids.”

According to Briggs,

By Sarah Bell Executive Editor

Waynesburg UniversityBonner Scholars are leav-ing their handprint on theworld – literally.

One of the manyevents that took placeduring Bonner Congress

weekend from Oct. 19 to20, prompted students toask themselves what theirvision would be 20 yearsfrom now.

After tracing theirhandprints, Bonners fromaround the nation wrotetheir vision on their hand-print.

“We came up with thehand mural because partof the big idea is comingup with individual goals,”Sophomore Bonner Schol-ar Katie Shultz said.

The mural went alongwith the theme of “20/20Vision,” which encour-aged the students to look

at the future. Students’ responses on

the mural ranged from,“To know that I havegiven every ounce ofeffort, dedication and sac-rifices for causes that Ibelieve,” to “Teach empa-

Women’s soccer shocks W&J, moving into secondplace in the PAC.

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By Michelle DunseathStaff Writer

As October draws to aclose, the student mem-bers of the Chi Sigma IotaHonors Society (CSI)begins its annual Thanks-giving fundraising efforts.

This month, CSI held afood drive to collect non-perishable food items forthose struggling withhunger. The week of Oct.22 is the final week of thefood drive, and all goodscollected will be donatedto the East End Coopera-tive Ministry shelter.

EEMC provides food

and shelter for the Pitts-burgh-area homeless, hun-gry or any others in need.The shelter regularlyholds events and pro-grams to reach out tothose in need.CSI willteam with EEMC on tohost a Thanksgiving din-ner for anybody whoneeds a hot meal.

“Our goal for this eventis to provide a good mealfor the less fortunate,”said Shanna Reese, CSI’sstudent president.

CSI consists of studentsfrom the Graduate and

By Erin PowellStaff Writer

Chief Robert L. Vernonwas welcomed by a largenumber of students andfaculty at chapel this pastTuesday morning.

Vernon is the Presidentand point man at theLeadership Institute. Pre-viously, Vernon served 38years as a police officer inLos Angeles, Calif. Ver-non has toured a total of55 nations, includingChina, Russia, andBolivia.

Vernon talked aboutGod’s promise to stu-dents. “The Bible is veryclear,” Vernon said. “Hepromises your paths willbe straight.” God doesn’tlay out His plans for usthe way we’d like, so wehave to seek Him and His

will. “There are three condi-

tions to His promise,”Vernon said. “Trust in theLord with all your heart,lean not into your ownunderstanding, and in allyour ways acknowledgeHim.” Vernon went on tosay that the differencebetween belief and faith isthat “faith is personal.You claim it, it’s yours.”

Vernon tells us to prayevery day. “Everyoneshould have that ongoingdialogue with God. If wetrust in His understand-ing, His word, we will findGod’s principles of life andHe will lead us with everyturn,” said Vernon.

Vernon has been invit-ed to the Christian Lead-ership convention at theVatican in the spring of2013.

said Mike Humiston,director of public safety.“Just because you are inWaynesburg doesn’t meanthat nothing can happento you.”

There have been recentreports of a man comingto campus and asking stu-dents for money. It isadvised that if this manapproaches any studentthat they do not engage inany sort of conversationwith him and that campussecurity is contactedimmediately. Security iscurrently working withthe local police to find theman.

“These people are a lotlike a stray cat. Feed themonce and they will comeback,” said Humiston.

One way to ensure safe-ty is to simply know yoursurroundings, Humistonsaid. If something is out ofplace, it is very likely thatsomething is wrong.

Another way to remainsafe is not to engage in

random conversation,Humiston said.

This is a private univer-sity and as a result, peoplewho are not students arenot supposed to be here.

“The buddy system is agreat thing to have,” saidHumiston.

Partnering up with afriend when walkingaround at night could helpaccomplish all of thesesafety ideas.

The number one way toensure safety, however, isto call campus securityimmediately if somethinggoes wrong.

“When it comes downto fight or flight, wewould rather people flightand call us,” Humistonsaid.

“We want to be proac-tive as opposed to reac-tive.”

As a whole, studentsafety has to be main-tained by the “Waynes-burg Family.”

Students, faculty andstaff all play a part inkeeping campus a safeenvironment.

If there is a problem,the Office of Public Safetycan be reached at 724-852-3303.

Christ and wants to havea greater appreciation ofthe Bible so that peopleget to know God moreclosely,” said Stratton.

Vernon continues toexpress his beliefs andshare his biblical knowl-edge in his retirement.

Vernon is now a lectur-er who has spoken onChristianity and leader-ship in 45 different coun-tries and was recentlyinvited to speak at theVatican.

Vernon spoke at Way-nesburg University’sRoberts Chapel last year.

The experience was sogratifying that he desiredto come back for a secondgo-around.

Vernon returned to thecampus from Oct. 22-23to speak in Alumni Hallas a part of the StoverScholar Lecture Series.

Dr. Stratton workeddiligently to arrange forVernon to lecture at Way-nesburg again.

“I called him up in May

and said that we’d love tohave him back,” saidStratton.

“After a series of con-versations, we came upwith the idea for this pro-gram.”

Vernon prepared a spe-cial lecture for the StoverScholars and the rest ofthe Waynesburg commu-nity called “Daniel: Beinga Successful Leader in aHostile Culture.”

The lecture was divid-ed into two parts thatwere delivered on Mon-day and Tuesday. Vernonalso made an appearanceat the weekly chapel serv-ice in Roberts Chapel.

The three sessions eachdealt with developingChristians leadershipskills applicable in today’sever-changing society.

Monday night’s lecturefocused on the Book ofDaniel. Vernon explainedhow the young Danielexuded many characteris-tics of leadership andrelated Daniel’s taxing sit-uation the current state ofAmerica.

According to Vernon,Daniel’s best characteris-tics included decisiveness,an ability to negotiate,high value of prayer and

integrity and diligence.Vernon backed each of

his claims with a passagefrom the Bible thataffirmed Daniel’s skill hasa leader.

“The goal of Mondaynight was to have [the stu-dents in attendance] real-ize that they, too, couldinfluence,” said Vernon.

“Daniel, a teen, influ-enced kings. I wanted stu-dents to know that theycan be of great influenceand maybe even impacthistory.”

Vernon delivered thesecond portion of his pres-entation on leadershipTuesday night. The subse-quent lecture dealt againwith developing the char-acteristics of moral leader-ship during a time of hard-ship.

Vernon admitted thatthe definition of leader-ship has been marred byAmerican culture.

“All of us are in awhiteout as far as sin isconcerned. It’s hard toknow what’s right andwrong anymore,” saidVernon.

“This proves theimportance of a founda-tion, a lighthouse ofsorts.”

At Chapel Tuesdaymorning, Vernonpreached the importanceof developing a faithfulrelationship with Jesus,comparing faith to thebulletproof vest that savesa policeman’s life.

“Believing in the vestisn’t enough; you have tohave a personal relation-ship with the vest. Youmust wear the vest,” saidVernon.

“This is what you mustdo with your faith. Youmust put on Christ andform a relationship withhim.”

Colin Phillips, a sopho-more Stover Scholar,attended each of Vernon’slectures and appreciatedthe former police chief’sview of leadership.

“I liked how it wasn’tjust a typical leadershipspeech where a speakertells you to be a better per-son using leadership. [Ver-non] described how to be abetter person using leader-ship, but included Biblicalprinciples,” said Phillips.

“Using those Biblicalprinciples in my life andbasing my decisions andleadership in my life issomething I will takeaway from this.”

By Lucas DiethornNews Editor

A business meetingturned to murder when agunman shot five people,killing four, with deadbodies, EMT’s and even ajanitor.

The Waynesburg Uni-versity Department ofCriminal Justice andSocial Sciences, theForensic Science Programand the Office of Admis-sions held the annualMock Crime Scene Work-shop Saturday, Oct. 20, onBonner Scholar weekend.

“This event provideshigh school students theopportunity to experiencethe hands-on training inthe areas of criminal jus-tice and forensic science,”said Adam Jack, chair ofthe Department of Crimi-nal Justice and Social Sci-ences.

“It also allows the visit-ing students to minglewith Waynesburg Univer-sity students and facultyto obtain information

about the university andprograms.”

The event afforded highschool students the oppor-tunity to train withexperts in the criminaljustice and forensic sci-ence fields.

The mock crime scenewas set up in McCanceAuditorium on the thirdfloor of Buhl Hall.

Several WaynesburgUniversity studentshelped the event by roleplaying EMT’s, dead bod-ies and even a janitor try-ing to clean up.

The high school stu-dents then had to come inand secure the crimescene, find evidence andeventually solve the case.Students did receive guid-ance from experts and afew Waynesburg Univer-sity students during thescene.

Caiti Filippi, a seniorcriminal justice major,was in charge of organiz-ing the scene.

The Waynesburg stu-dents all said it was fun

for them and at points,very intense.

The scene was set sothat when the murderer atthe scene was found, hepulled out a gun.

One of the high schoolstudents immediatelytackled the gunman anddisarmed him.

All staff and studentsthere were overallimpressed with the workof the high school stu-dents.

Throughout the morn-ing, participants wereorganized into teams thatrotated through a varietyof sessions.

In addition to the pro-fessionals instructing thecourses, current Waynes-burg University criminaljustice and forensics stu-dents assisted in the daysevents.

Sessions included acrime scene simulationled by a retired member ofthe Pennsylvania StatePolice (crime lab) and alaser shot simulation ledby Jack, a former West-

moreland County detec-tive. Participants alsolearned about crimescenes involving arsonand explosives fromBureau of Alcohol, Tobac-co, Firearms and Explo-sives agents, and they hadan opportunity to see nar-cotics detection dogs dur-ing a session with theWaynesburg BoroughPolice Department.

Through the Laser ShotSimulation Program,workshop participantswere able to act in themanner of a police officer,while giving commandsto handle varying situa-tions including trafficstops and house distur-bance calls, without theirsafety being affected.

After the event theBonner students treatedthe high school studentsto pizza for lunch, but themembers that had thefake blood on them had towait for theirs to bebrought to them becausethey were covered inblood.

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Professional Studies pro-gram at Waynesburg Uni-versity’s SouthpointeCenter and the other grad-uate program locations.

“Our students [at thedifferent locations] have achallenge of workingtogether,” said StephanieHelsel, faculty advisor ofthe event. “The eventsalways turn out to be asuccess in the end.”

Because of the contin-ued success and positiveoutcomes of the events,CSI is able to conductprojects each semester,said Scott Tracy, directorof Counseling Program atWaynesburg’s South-pointe campus.

“The students havenever failed to completetheir projects and contin-ue to grow and participatein other events,” saidTracy.

In the past, CSI joinedforces with organizationslike Operation TroopAppreciation. The stu-dents collected things like

personal care items for themen and women servingour country in the mili-tary. The items were thensent to military personneldeployed overseas, saidTracy.The students alsoconducted counseling ses-sions for family membersand friends of militaryparticipants that neededsupport or grief counsel-ing.The students that takepart in CSI activitiesdecided to hold a fooddrive as this semester’scontribution to the com-munity.

“As a professionalcounselor, it will be

important to advocatethose who need us,” saidShanna Reese. “We needto promote helpfulness inthe community in differ-ent ways.”

The next anticipatedproject for CSI is a walkfor breast cancer aware-ness, which will be heldsometime next semester.

“The students arealways willing to give toothers,” said Tracy.“These events not onlyhelp the students in thecounseling program gainlearning experience, butthey are able to give backand help others in need.”

the Haunted Lab is alsorewarding to WaynesburgUniversity students whohave the chance to con-duct experiments thatthey are not able to com-plete in regular courses.

The Lab also serves as arecruiting technique forthe sciences.

“Right now Americadoesn’t have a whole lot ofpeople in the science andtechnology fields,” Briggssaid. “We kind of need toencourage that technolo-gy field to have more ofour own workforce.”

Evonne Baldauff, chairof the Department ofChemistry and ForensicScience, agrees that theHaunted Lab is a greatway to attract more peo-ple to the field.

“By calling it ‘TheHaunted Lab’ it kind ofgives us a back door ofshowing people that sci-ence is more interestingthan they originallythought it was,” Baldauffsaid.

She also noted that theHaunted Lab is appealingto children, which means

that their parents willhave the opportunity tolearn new lessons as well.

The Lab was set up onthe third floor of StewartScience Hall. It tookbetween 30 and 45 min-utes to walk through theLab. The event was heldfrom 6:30 to 8 p.m.Approximately 187 chil-dren attended the event.

“I’m just glad we had somany volunteers thisyear,” Briggs said. “Lastyear we wouldn’t havehad enough members tocover all the stations ifthat many kids hadshown up.”

This year’s activitiesincluded boogie monster’s

toothpaste, spooky slime,glowing worms and thefire rainbow.

Tiffany Onifer a juniorpre-med major, enjoyedthe colorful display of agummy bear experiment –when you heat gummybears and put them in acertain chemical, thereaction produces differ-ent colors.

For Briggs, the best partof the Lab is acting like akid again.

“We get to dress up, soI actually get to wear myHalloween costume andnot look like a fool,” Brig-gs said. “It’s also reallygreat to see the kid’sfaces…that ‘a-ha’ look is

perfect for me.” The Haunted Lab was

the first of many eventsheld during NationalChemistry Week.

On Tuesday, the Amer-ican Chemical Societysold periodic table of ele-ments cupcakes in StoverCampus Center. Wednes-day, they hosted a sciencetrivia event. To continuecelebrating NationalChemistry Week, ACS isparticipating in the Har-vest Festival today. To fin-ish the week, the award-winning chapter plans totravel to Carnegie ScienceCenter to do somedemonstrations on Fridayand Saturday.

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Zachary Frye, 9, attended the Haunted Lab with his mother, Danielle. The Lab isintended to make children more interested in the science and technology fields.

me too much. I had noidea the seriousness of theproblem until October1994,” said Carol.

Both Kimberly andCarol Furmanek remem-ber this day all too clearly.Kimberly Furmanek andher two-year-old sisterwere at home with theirmother when their stepfa-ther, Ed Helmington,broke into the trailer.Kimberly and her sisterhid in their room whilethey listened to theirmothers screams. Kim-berly Furmanek sat on herbed and covered her earstrying to drown out thesound. But it didn’t work.

Finally, the screamsfaded.

The door to their bed-room opened slowly,revealing a bloody,undressed Rhonda. Shecame in and took the twosmall girls in her arms,grabbed a baseball bat andwent outside to makesure he was really gone.

After Rhonda Helming-ton was sure that her hus-band was not in the yard,

she went to their twoneighbors’ houses, tryingto find a safe haven for hertwo little girls. The firstneighbor didn’t even openthe door; the second letthem in after expressingher agitation.

“Looking back nowand being older, I cannotbelieve our neighborsacted that way. My moth-er was covered in blood,yet my neighbor shruggedher off, saying ‘Not nowRhonda,’” a memory thatstill haunts Kimberlytoday.

Ed Helmingtonthought he had killed hiswife. He had beaten herpast recognition. EdHelmington went on therun for weeks beforeRhonda found him andturned him in.

“I couldn’t believe hehad tried to kill her, buthe soon showed me thathe had the personality ofDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,”said Carol Furmanek.

The family thought itwas over: Rhonda Helm-ington had filed for adivorce and was goingback to school for hernursing degree. Ed Helm-ington was waiting for hiscourt date and finally thefamily was getting back tonormal.

But that all changedDec. 1.

Kimberly Furmanekhas trouble recalling all ofthe details from years oftrying to block them out,but remembers a lot of thehorror of that winter day.

Kimberly was in herroom when she heardsome noises coming fromthe front of the house. Sheheard her mother say‘Who is it? What do youwant?,’ and then screams.Kimberly grabbed her lit-tle sister and hid in thecloset in her room, butafter what seemed like along time, she becameafraid that the peoplewould come into theroom for her. She quicklymoved from inside thecloset to underneath herblankets on her bed,thinking that if the badpeople came in, theywouldn’t be able to seeher. She ended up fallingasleep and woke up thenext morning to see hermother’s carpool friendsitting in the kitchen dial-ing 911. That is whenKimberly saw her moth-er’s body face down, in apool of blood.

“When we went to mygrandmother’s house andshe heard the news, shestarted going ballistic,

banging her head off of thewalls,” said Kimberly Fur-manek.

Ed Helmington hadcome into the house withhis girlfriend, TammyJones, and their friend Jojoand tortured, raped andkilled Rhonda.

“I hope she died longbefore she…” Carol’svoice broke trying to holdback her emotions. “Imean they tortured her somuch and for so long.”

When the police inter-viewed Kimberly aboutwhat she rememberedthat night, she was sur-prisingly able to name oneof the accomplices andalso recall major details ofwhat they were wearing.

“I think I may havewalked out when themurder was occurring butI believe that I blocked itout,” said Kimberly Fur-manek. “I mean, to beable to say they werewearing ski masks andwho it was I must have, Ijust don’t have any recol-lection of it.”

Ed Helmingtonreceived life in prisonwithout parole. His friendJojo received the samesentence, and TammyJones received 8-20 years,but was let out after eight.

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received custody of thetwo young girls who hadto go through years oftherapy and continue tocarry the scars.Today,Carol Furmanek wears apicture of her deceaseddaughter everywhere shegoes, never taking it off.

“I never thought thiswould happen to my fam-ily, but the truth is it canhappen to anyone,” saidCarol. “I tell my story sooften because I do notwant Rhonda turning intoanother statistic. I want tomake sure her life was notfor vain.”

Now, both Kimberlyand Carol Furmanekspeak out about RhondaHelmington and theirexperience with domesticviolence. For Carol it isthe only thing that helpsher get through this event,and for Kimberly Fur-manek it is a way to helpother girls from havingthe same fate as her moth-er.

“I always say silencehides violence,” said Kim-berly Furmanek. “If yousee a friend strugglingwith this issue beingsilent about it will nothelp anyone.”

This is an issue thatusually begins in the teenyears with dating accord-

ing to Carol Furmanek.She believes that there aretoo many girls strugglingwith this problem, even atWaynesburg University,who are being silent aboutit.

“People handle domes-tic violence differently; itseems to be a private sub-ject that people have ahard time talking about,especially teens,” saidCarol Furmanek.

According to dvcr.orgwomen ages 20-24 are atthe greatest risk of nonfa-tal intimate partner vio-lence. Carol Furmanek’sadvice to girls is to takerelationships seriously.Take your time getting toknow a potential signifi-cant other, do not hesitateto seek help.

“If you see domesticviolence taking place donot be silent about it,”said Kimberly Furmanek.“It is your business. Youcould be saving a life.”

Waynesburg offers anumber of help services.The pregnancy center islocated at 50 WestFranklin Street. Theirnumber is (724) 852-3399.There is also a Women’sShelter located at 43 NMorgan Street Waynes-burg. Their number is(724) 852-2463.

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Student health con-cerns and knowledge onnutrition are an issue atWaynesburg University.

Nurse Director of Stu-dent Health Services Jen-nifer Shiring stressedworry concerning studenthealth in general and theconcept of the“Freshman15.”

The words“Freshman15” strikeworry into thehearts ofmany incom-ing collegestudents.

With colderweather uponus and the hol-idays fastapproaching,watchingwhat you eatcould be moreimportant than ever.

Shiring stressed theimportance of good healthand keeping off the extrapounds.

“This is the time ofyear when the studentsare most susceptible togain weight,” said Shiring.

“They need to be care-ful that they do not fallinto the trap of weightgain.”

According to Teen-sHealth.org, studies showthat, on average, studentsgain three to ten poundsduring their first two yearsof college.

Most of this weightgain occurs during thefirst semester of freshmanyear.

According to the samearticle, there are manyother factors that con-

tribute to the weight gain. First semester of fresh-

man year is the first timethat college students areon their own and free toeat whatever they want.

Additionally, most col-lege students do not exer-cise as much as they did inhigh school. The websitestates that stress, home-sickness, sadness and anx-

iety triggerovereatingin collegestudents.

Shiringattributessomeweight gainto thechange ofclimate.

Studentsfrom warmclimatescome toWaynes-burg andare notused to the

cold weather. When they run, the

cold air hurts their lungsand discourages themfrom exercising.

Shiring continued thatstudents are oftentimesmisinformed about whatto eat, and what is goodfor them to put into theirbodies.

“Students often askshould I eat this or that, isit low in fat or high insugar,” said Shiring.

“Students just need astraight-forward guide onhow to eat healthy andwhat is good for them.”

With only two mainplaces to eat on campus,students’ choices are slim.The Beehive is a fast solu-tion to hunger, but often-

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“This is the time ofyear when studentsare most susceptible togain weight. Theyneed to be careful notto fall in the trap ofweight gain.”

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times lacks nutritionalvalue.

“Here at Waynesburg,students have limitedaccess to food,” said Shir-ing.

“There are healthychoices out there, but stu-dents are limited nonethe-less.”

Rodriguez said he neverreally thinks about whathe eats; he just gets whathe gets.

“I eat at the Beehive atleast three times a week,”said Jose Rodriguez, afreshman communica-tions major. “I usually getchicken or a burger withfries. Sometimes I get thefruit, but rarely.”

Shiring offered sometips to students to keep offthe weight.

First, she suggests get-

ting seven to eight hoursof sleep each night.

Shiring told students tokeep a regular sleep sched-ule, do not nap too much,avoid caffeine in theevening and avoid loudforms of media beforegoing to bed to reduce therisk of weight gain. Shir-ing also suggested settinga routine eating schedule,eating slowly, keepingsnacking to a minimum,watching portion sizesand keeping healthysnacks in the room.

Shiring said that havinghealthy snacks on handand avoiding fast food andvending machines alsohelps maintain a healthyweight.

“Obviously, the UnitedStates is doing somethingwrong with us being themost obese country in theworld,” said Shiring.

“The ‘Freshman 15’ issomething that con-tributes to obesity and itneeds to be addressed andfixed.”

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thy.” However, the mural,

which now hangs proudlyin the Center for ServiceLeadership, was just asmall piece of the big pic-ture.

Like the PresidentialElection and theOlympics, Bonner Con-gress only comes aroundevery four years.

“For some this will bethe only opportunity theyhave to meet other Bon-ners,” Shultz said.

Hosting the conferenceat Waynesburg Universitywas an honor for studentsand Bonner ScholarshipCoordinator Sarah Brand-stetter.

“It’s huge becausewe’re part of a network ofover 70 schools all overthe nation…the fact thatwe get to host schoolsfrom all different places,that they’re coming hereto learn from us and howwe do service,” Brandstet-

ter said. Most of the students

who attended were fromschools that are a part ofthe Bonner Network,though some just came tolearn and to see if theywanted to join the Bonnerprogram.

The Bonner Network isa Network of schools thatare committed to service,Brandstetter said. Twenty-two of the schools areBonner Scholar schools,while the remaining 48schools are Bonner LeaderSchools, which work fromAmericore funding.

One hundred and fiftystudents attended BonnerCongress from differentschools throughout thecountry, Brandstetter said.

“Our goal was to planthis thing called ‘The BigIdea.’ Each school – thepoint is to better their pro-grams so the outcome canbetter assist the commu-nity in which they’relocated,” Brandstettersaid.

“Each school is chargedwith an idea – it needs tobe a very big idea, like endhunger or prevent home-lessness, which is then

brought down into asmall, sizable objectivethat can be accom-plished.”

For Shultz, the week-end was a valuable net-working tool that pre-pared her for the future.

“It pushed my bound-aries just to see how far Icould go,” Shultz said.

Waynesburg Universi-ty’s Bonner Program cele-brating 20 years of serviceinspired the theme of“20/20 Vision.”

“So, what we were ask-ing all of the schools to dowas look at the past of theprogram, to look at thatand move forward,”Brandstetter said.

During the weekend anumber of events andworkshops were held.

Brandstetter explainedthe hosting Congresswould have been impossi-ble without Waynesburg’sBonner Scholars.

Waynesburg Universitypicked up the event andonly had six weeks to planthe entire weekend.According to Brandstetter,a school typically has 10months to plan the Bon-ner Congress activities.

“I don’t even knowhow to put into wordshow amazing our stu-dents are here,” Brand-stetter said. “They wentabove and beyond tomake this weekendsmooth, professional andexciting.”

The school that wassupposed to host theactivities originally hadan issue and was unableto have Bonner Congresson their campus, Brand-stetter said.

After hearing the Bon-ner Congress needed anew location, Brandstet-ter talked to students,asked if they were inter-ested in the opportunityand volunteered Waynes-burg University for theconference.

“I am just speechlessand there’s no way that Ican think of that I canexpress to these studentsjust how proud of them Iam, and beyond that, howdedicated and hardwork-ing they are,” Brandstettersaid.

“I just don’t know how,but to say ‘Thank you,thank you, thank you’ amillion times.”

Conferenceheld at WU

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Photos by Kyle Digiandomenico

Bonner Congress in session(Top) Students from the Bonner Network, which con-sists of 70 schools, register for Bonner Congress.(Above) Waynesburg University Bonner Scholars deco-rate for the dance Saturday night.(Right) Waynesburg University Bonner Scholar SarahBlais pumped up the crowd during the caramel appleevent on Friday night while dressed in a cow costume. (Below) Students attending Bonner Congress partici-pated in a number of workshops throughout the week-end to discuss their big ideas and the future.(Bottom right) Matt McNeil leads the performance dur-ing worship service Sunday morning.

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By John LydicStaff Writer

Breast Cancer Aware-ness Week comes toWaynesburg Universityas students do their partto raise funds for a seri-ous cause.

According to theAmerican Cancer Socie-ty, approximately 63,000new cases of breast can-cer appear every year.

In addition, approxi-mately 40,000 womendie of breast cancer eachyear.

It is a disease thatclaims many lives everyyear and has no cure.

Waynesburg Universi-ty is doing their part tohelp find a cure to thisterrible disease.

This upcoming week,Oct. 22-26, WaynesburgUniversity in associationwith American CancerSociety will host manyevents to help raisemoney to find a cure forthis disease.

This week started twoyears ago at WaynesburgUniversity.

It was with a partner-ship with Collegesagainst Cancer.

“We focus on educat-ing students about thedisease and trying toraise funds,” said KelleyHardie Director of Hous-ing and Assistant Direc-tor of Student Services.

All proceeds go towardthe American CancerSociety.

“The three themes ofthis week that we focuson most is education,advocacy and honoringthe survivors,” saidHardie.

Breast Cancer patientsusually have a treatmentplan of six to twelvemonths.

The women that makeit through this longprocess cannot wait toreturn to normal lifeaccording to MedicalWebsite.

Waynesburg will behosting many eventsthroughout his weekincluding a fundraisercalled, Quack for theCure. This event willtake place Friday, Oct. 26at 3PM at Purman Run.

Students can purchasepink rubber ducks toenter in the race. Ducksare $5 each and all pro-ceeds go to the AmericanCancer Society.

The winner of the racewill win two tickets toSunday Dec. 23 Steelergame against the Bengals.

This week is also akickoff week for theRelay for Life registra-tion. This event will beheld at Waynesburg Uni-versity on Apr. 14, 2013.

This event is done inassociation with Col-leges against Cancer andthe American CancerSociety.

Waynesburg Universi-ty will be working withhealth services through-out the week to performscreening tests.

“The University willalso be passing out rib-bons to raise awareness”,said Hardie.

Finally, the week willend with an event duringthe football game on Sat-urday.

The University Cheer-leaders will be Cheeringfor a Cure and be deckedout in all pink. The ath-letes are also encouragedto wear pink during thegame.

Students will again bepassing out ribbons to allfans in attendance.

Waynesburg Universi-ty will do its part to raiseawareness about this ter-rible disease.

For more informationon how you can con-tribute to Breast CancerAwareness Week stu-dents can stop in the Stu-dent Services offices onthe third floor of StoverCampus Center or con-tact Hardie.

Awareness weekintended to honorcancer survivors

Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012

By Kyle EdwardsSenior Editor

The natural gasindurstry will bring $3.1million to the county inthe form of an impactfee sometime in thenext week.

The Public UtilityC o m m i s s i o nannounced Mondaythat it will distribute$99.4 million generatedby Marcellus Shale

Impact Fees to localcommunities with gaswells and contiguousmunicipalities.

According to a pressrelease from Pennsylva-nia Senator TimSolobay, nearly one inevery five dollars beingdistributed to countiesand municipalities withgas wells through Act13 will be coming backto Greene and Washing-ton counties.

This money can beused for local needs andpriorities instead of thestate’s general fund,Solobay said.

“Local officials canwork with residents andcommunity groups todecide where they’ll getthe most bang for thebuck,” he said.

“That’s a refreshingchange.”

State officials alsoannounced Monday

that Act 13 will gener-ate a total of $204 mil-lion, with $23 million ofthat going to state agen-cies for environmentalprotection, fire protec-tion, emergency man-agement and adminis-tration, according to thepress release.

According to thepress release, 40 percentof the remaining $181million will go into theMarcellus Legacy Fund,

with the majority ofthat to be distributed inall 67 counties for envi-ronmental, water, sewerand road projectsthrough a competitivegrant program.

Fifteen percent ofthat fund will be distrib-uted to all countiesbased on population.

Of that, GreeneCounty will get$32,821.

Of the money being

distributed to countyand local governmentwhere gas wells arelocated, Greene Countymunicipalities will get$4.5 million.

The PUC will send$3.1 million to GreeneCounty government.

For Greene County,the funds from this feewill be put towardshousing and human

Drilling impact fee to bring $3.1 million to county

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Borough approves plans for senior housingBy Katherine MansfieldEditorial Assistant

The new kids on theblock is a bit of astretch, but, if all goesaccording to plan, a 51-unit apartment com-plex will be the newsenior center on theblock.

According to BruceWermlinger, Waynes-burg Borough manager,construction on thecomplex – which willoffer single or double-bedroom apartmentsto the 62 and oldercrowd – is slated tobegin in 2014 acrossthe street fromMcCracken Pharmacy.The complex will belocated at the currentsite of Doctor StanleyFowler’s office, a sin-gle-family home, astorage unit and aparking lot.

The apartment com-plex will be construct-ed by the Ohio-basedPartnership for IncomeRestricted HousingLeadership, whichplaced a bid to build inGreene County afterthe county announcedthat it was interestedin attracting contrac-tors for housing andapartment buildings.

“They came to us,”said Wermlinger.

“PIRHL picked thelocations, [talked with]the property owners.They approached theborough when theyneeded the zoningapproved.”

Zoning wasapproved at a boroughmeeting on Oct. 8;now, it is funding thatthe company mustworry about.

Waynesburg Bor-ough moved to con-tribute $10,000 to theproject at the Oct. 8meeting, and other

funds are expected tocome from federalhousing tax creditsales, which the stateawards to developerson a competitive basis.

The apartment com-plex is a housingnecessity.

Studies show thatGreene County – Way-nesburg Borough espe-cially – is lackingapartments and hous-ing.

The housing short-age is an easy fix,though: Wermlinger

speculates that theshift of seniors fromtheir single-family res-idences – where theyare responsible forhome and yard mainte-nance –  to the apart-ments,  convenientlylocated within walk-ing distance of thepharmacy and HighStreet, will revitalizeGreene County’s hous-ing market andencourage a youngergeneration to settle

Photo courtesy of Waynesburg Borough

The new housing for seniors will be located on the corner of High and East Streets inWaynesburg. The project will be similar to Uniontown Senior Housing, shown here.

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Dinner and a movie:First Presbyterianpresents pirate playBy Chelsea DicksEditorial Assistant

The First PresbyterianChurch of Waynesburgpresented “The LastPirate of the Caribbean,”a mystery dinner theaterproduction, to a fullhouse on Saturday, Oct.20.

Tickets cost $25, andall proceeds went to theyouth New York FloodProject’s youth and adultDominican Republicmission trip.

The evening beganwith an extravagantthree-course meal thatconsisted of CaribbeanJamaican dark wings,mini Cuban sandwiches,island spiced mixedgreen salad with mangoand a sweet orange dress-ing, lachon acado (aCaribbean pork dish),cilantro white rice,Cuban black beans andpineapple upside-downcake.

After dinner, a com-fortably full audienceenjoyed the church’s per-formance of “The LastPirate.”

The script was writtenby play writer KimberlyMandoza, and the per-formance included avariety of compellingcharacters, from ghostsand monsters, to honey-mooners and pirates.

The main characterswere a pirate namedJarvis and two supposedhoneymooners whoturned out to both belooking for the treasurethat was hidden withinthe run-down resort, saidKathy Bortz, a churchmember who helpedwith the production.

It was a mysterytwister that held theaudience’s attentionuntil the end, Bortz said.

Many members of thecommunity came out tosupport the event andthe mission trip.

Even a couple of Way-nesburg University stu-dents volunteered to per-form in the production.Tiffany Frank, RobbieShultz and Michael Sick-les played some of thelead roles within theplay.

Robbie Shultz played

County approvesfunds for cemeterycare, renovations

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By Katherine MansfieldEditorial Assistant

Halloween is fastapproaching and, whilesome Greene Countyresidents stocked up oncandy, the county com-missioners approvedgraveyard renovationsand made summer plansat the bi-weekly countycommissioners meetingon Oct. 18.

The commissionersapproved the allocationof $231 for the care andmaintenance of 77graves in Wolf Ceme-

tery, in Dunkard Town-ship.

County Commission-ers Vice ChairmanArchie Trader said thatthe money allocated toWolf Cemetery will beused for landscapeupkeep, specificallygrass mowing aroundthe graves. Trader saidthat county cemeteriesusually receive funds forthe upkeep of veterans’graves in the spring, butWolf Cemetery was leftout of the first round.

“Usually we [grant

See CEMETERY on B4

Photo by Katherine Mansfield

Rawhide!Auctioneer Jeff Stansberry of Nashville, Tenn. accepts bids for the 25th lot at the 32nd annual Keystone AutumnKlassic on Saturday. The auction was held at Woodside Farm in Waynesburg, and consisted of shorthorn livestockof varying breeds, ages and bloodlines. Cattle farmers from all across the country were in attendance.

Choosing a collegewas not a very difficultdecision for me becauseWaynesburg had every-thing I wanted, but Ihad no idea what toexpect.

I know my room-mate very well whichmade the transition somuch easier, but I did-n’t know how I’d makenew friends. In highschool, I didn’t reallyhave a lot of friends anddidn’t really hang outwith people outside ofschool much. Highschool wasn’t the bestyears of my life, let’s

just say that. I had one friend tell

me things would be dif-ferent in college, but Ididn’t know if theywould be.

I thought thingswould be different inhigh school comparedto grade school, but itwasn’t, so why would itbe different now?Would life truly be bet-ter than before?

I pushed off comingto terms with my col-lege transition as longas possible becausefrankly, I didn’t want todeal with it.

My family kept ask-ing me if I was excited,but I never was. It neverreally hit me. Eventual-ly the day came, and Iadmit everyone friend-ly, but on the otherhand so does everyoneelse on first impres-sions, for the most part.

During the matricu-lation ceremony, I wasstanding next to peopleI didn’t know and near-

ly every attempt tostart a conversationwas ignored or didn’t goanywhere.

It felt like highschool. For the mostpart, I kept to myself inmy room, watchedmovies with my room-mate and chilled.

People came by tosay hello, and while Iappreciated the senti-ment and courtesy, Ihad no idea who theywere and names werequickly forgotten.

Things weren’t look-

The news magazineNewsweek had a good,long life. From 1933 to2012, it informed theworld of current eventsand provided the masseswith entertainment. Butthe 80-year-old maga-zine announced lastThursday that it will endits print publication atthe end of this year.

But it isn’t dead – notreally. It’s just tran-scended. After the Dec.31 issue hits the presses,Newsweek will be avail-able online only.

Newsweek is the sec-ond-largest news maga-zine in the world, secondonly to Time. But

despite its success, themagazine’s readershiphas seen a significantdecline in the last fewyears. From 2007 to2009, its revenuedropped 38 percent.

And it’s not alone.More daily newspapersare printing only once aweek, and even more areexpected to follow theweekly trend. In the lastfew years, numerousmagazine and newspa-pers have opted to pub-

lish online only (or insome cases, cancelledaltogether. These bleakstatistics have promptedsome people say thatprint is dying, but I dis-agree.

Call me old-fash-ioned, but there’s justsomething about hold-ing a glossy magazine orcrinkly newspaper in myhands that just gets me.And I’m sure there areothers out there like me.

I just don’t get thesame satisfaction fromclicking through an e-book or online newspa-per that I do from loving-ly turning a printed page.

Keep in mind this is

all coming from a techaficionado. The firstthing I do everyday isscroll through my Face-book feed to see what’sgoing on. I follow CNNand other news outletson Twitter. So I can defi-nitely see why most peo-ple are consideringNewsweek’s transitionto Newsweek Global tobe a smart move.

Whether you like it ornot, the magazine’sexecs are just trying tokeep their publicationafloat. But on top of that,they’re trying to stayahead of the curve.

Waynesburg is a place to call ‘home’

It’s the Halloween season: atime when the sound of a famil-iar creaky staircase after night-fall sends shivers up your spine;when black cats and spilled saltare cause for panic and the deadrise from their graves to hauntthe living.

It’s also the time of year whenthe color purple reminds thenation that monsters live

among us.October is Domestic Violence

Awareness Month, a monthdedicated to raising awarenessabout a very serious issue thatoftentimes goes un-discussedbecause victims of abuse areembarrassed or afraid of seekinghelp.

According to dvcr.org, one infour women will be subjected todomestic violence in her life-time; nearly 6 million womenaged 20 through 24 will be a vic-

tim of abuse each year.Many victims of abuse are

hesitant to speak up, and manywho do confess that they’re avictim are met with disbelief orfriends who turn the othercheek. Reasons for remaining inan unloving, unfulfilling anddangerous relationship rangefrom fear of the partner or fearof being alone to feeling thatthere is nowhere or no one toturn to.

No one should ever feeltrapped in a relationship wheretears and bruises are the norm.

Those fortunate enough toknow a happy, healthy relation-

Exercise cautionRemember safety tips to avoid danger

Combat weight gain through healthy choicesRest in peace: Death of a legend

Help victimsof monstersamong us

For some freshmen, college is about getting aneducation, creating new friendships and experienc-ing new things. For others, it’s all about beating theFreshman 15. Contrary to popular belief, the Fresh-man 15 is not all that common. According to Teen-sHealth.org, students gain an average of three to tenpounds in their first two years of college, which canbe attributed to metabolism changes.

Many students freak out about gaining even apound, but don’t be too alarmed. Don’t get too com-fortable with lugging around some extra baggageeither. The biggest excuse students have regardingtheir weight is that they don’t have time. All it takesis 60 minutes a day; time spent on Facebook orStumble Upon could easily be spent at the gym.

Another way to combat the freshman 15 is to eatright. It’s easy so sit on a futon and play Call of Dutywhile eating potato chips all day. Avoid fatty snacksand look for alternatives, such as Cliff bars and 100-calorie snack packages. Eating deep-fried food at theBeehive five times a week is not a very smart ideaeither. Healthy choices are offered in the Beehive,but let’s be honest: how many times have you seensomeone grab the salad bar and a piece of fruit? Thefood in the cafeteria may not be the healthiest either,but there are more choices. A bowl of cereal withskim milk is the perfect alternative to French friesand grilled cheese, which seems to be a staple.

More times than not, we are all guilty of indulgingin food we shouldn’t eat, or choosing snacking andmovie-watching over work working out. The Fresh-man 15 isn’t as common as believed, but is entirelyin your control.

See NEWSWEEK on B3

See COLLEGE on B3

See VIOLENCE on B3

Halloween is almost here and it is likely that stu-dents will be out late this weekend as they trek toevening activities on campus and Halloween cele-brations. While everyone should have the opportuni-ty to dress up as someone else for a night, eat candyand have fun making memories with friends, it iscrucial to stay informed about safety both on and offcampus.

The tragic murder of a Washington and JeffersonCollege student earlier this month brings a greatsense of loss to the community, which should alsoserve as a reminder that danger can be lurkingaround any corner. Washington and Jefferson is asmall school made up of approximately 1,500 stu-dents – about the same size as Waynesburg Universi-ty. Washington is just a short distance away, and thisterrible act of violence must raise awareness that vio-lence can occur anywhere.

Students must exercise caution when walkingoutside in the dark. Director of Public Safety MikeHumiston wants students to remember that justbecause Waynesburg is a small, rural area doesn’tnecessarily mean that it is safe. Humiston said thatseveral ways to ensure safety are to be aware of one’ssurroundings, avoid engaging in random conversa-tion and partnering up with a friend when walkingaround at night.

It is also a good idea to add campus security’sphone number to your contact list. If ever a compro-mising situation arises, students should call theOffice of Public Safety immediately at 724-852-3303.

Beat the ‘Freshman 15’

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GuestColumnist

TIMNERAL

KATHERINEMANSFIELD

Columnist

AMANDAWISHNER

Columnist

ing so good the firstweek. However, peoplekept coming in to sayhello and soon I actual-ly was rememberingnames. I started to bemyself, and little by lit-tle I realized I wasn’tbeing judged for who Iwas; I was being accept-ed. One time my room-mate was playing FinalFantasy on our PS2.Final Fantasy is a greatgame, but in highschool I knew a lot ofpeople who were pickedon because they werestill into stuff like that.While he was playing,one of the guys on ourfloor came in.

At the time, the onlything I knew about himwas that he was on thefootball team and thathe came to talk to ussometimes. At my highschool, if a footballplayer saw you partici-pating in a role playgame or talking aboutFinal Fantasy, you wereinstantly ostracized, soI could only hope thisguy’s reaction wasn’tgoing to be the same asall the ones in highschool, and let’s just saymy hopes weren’t veryhigh. No offense tofootball players or ath-letes in general, butthey nearly always, atleast at my high school,had the same persona.They didn’t want totalk to me unless theywanted help withschoolwork. While Idon’t mind helping peo-ple, it made me feel bad

that that was all I wasgood for to them.

Some of the athletesat my school shared alot of things in com-mon with me and wecould have been goodfriends, but none ofthem wanted to beassociated with the foureyed nerdy kid. To mysurprise, this guy saidhe loved Final Fantasyand actually got into aconversation with myroommate about it. Mymind was blown. Myjaw dropped fartherthan it had probablydropped in a long time.No joke, that same kidactually came in theother day and said hewas bringing his Dun-geons and Dragons setthe next time he wenthome.

Waynesburg Univer-sity actually has com-munity, something Ihave not had in my lifefor a very long time.People actually careabout other people hereand I’ve never had somany friends in myentire life.

My roommate and Ioccasionally havemovie nights and weinvite our friends over.We’ve had six people inthe room at one timewatching a movie.Looking around, look-ing at all the faces ofthe new friends I’vemade, I can only smile.

I’ve referred to thiscampus as “home” onnumerous occasions,and maybe it’s just aslip of the tongue, but Ithink it’s because thisplace is like a secondhome, a second homewith a second familyand I’m so grateful forit.

ship should extend ahelping hand to thoseliving with a monster.Victims of abuse needto know that help isavailable 365 days ofthe year, but October isthe perfect time torecommit to helpingthose struggling to sur-vive or to escape anunhealthy relationship.

The DomesticServices ofSouthwestern PA hoststhree fundraisingevents throughout

October andNovember, and thereare ample opportuni-ties to show supportthrough volunteerismand donations.

The DSSP acceptsdonations of new per-sonal care items, over-the-counter medica-tions, paper products,batteries and otherhome items at anytime throughout theyear.

This month,Domestic ViolenceServices is in need of avariety of items:kitchen ware, likedrinking glasses andcoffee pots; showeritems, like shavingcream and shampoo;

office supplies, like spi-ral notebooks andwhite-out; and miscel-laneous items, includ-ing wrapping paper,umbrellas and childsafety locks.

Cash or check dona-tions made out to theshelter are also greatlyappreciated.

Those who can sparetwo hours each weekare welcome to donatetime to communityoutreach initiatives –support group leadersand hotline volunteersmake a difference inthe lives of victimswho dream of chattingwith a cheery voice orreceiving a friendlysmile.

Volunteers mustundergo 45 hours ofdomestic violencetraining and obtain Act33 and 34 Clearancesbefore extending theirheartfelt services.

The dead mightreturn to their graveswhen the night turnsto day on Nov. 1, butthe living who hauntthe dreams of victimsof domestic violencedon’t disappear atdawn. Everyone in thecommunity needs to dotheir part by donatingeither time or items toDomestic Services. Anew pair of pants, acheery voice and asmile just mightchange a life.

They’ve done a good jobof it in the past. In 2010,Newsweek merged withthe online opinion publi-cation The Daily Beastto keep up with whatreaders want.

There’s clearly a dra-matic shift in our culturegoing on. It’s more com-mon to see a smartphone or an iPad (now inminiature size, just incase you want some-thing to fill that awk-ward void between youriPhone and iPad) insomeone’s hand than anewspaper.

E-reader sales arebooming, and the appstore is full of newsapps. As a journalist, Iguess that I shouldn’tcomplain, and as an avidsocial media junkie, I

should complain evenless. That would justmake me a hypocrite.

As long as people arestill reading and con-suming news, that’s allthat matters.

But are they?Pews Research Center

says that news reader-ship is increasing, butanother study by IBM’sMedia and Entertain-ment Group suggestedotherwise.

In 2008, roughly 64percent of young adultssaid they’d viewed anonline newspaper withinthe last year. By 2009,that number dropped toonly 54 percent.

I guess that brings meto my big point:

Stay up-to-date on thenews. I don’t care howyou do it. There’s somuch going on in theworld, and it’s all at yourfingertips, whetheryou’re holding a printnewspaper or an iPad.

Newsweekout of print

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Debate: Romney endorses ObamaMonday's presidential

debate, the third and lastbetween PresidentObama and Gov. MittRomney, featured aforceful and articulatedefense of Obama's for-eign policy. That was nosurprise. What was sur-prising was that it camefrom Romney.

That seemed to annoythe president _ who wasprepared to rebut hisopponent's previous,more bellicose pro-nouncements.

But the ever-shiftingRepublican nomineetacked even closer to themoderate middle thanhe did in the debatedevoted to economicpolicy.

Once Romney inti-mated that he mightkeep U.S. troops inAfghanistan pastNATO's 2014 deadline.No more. Now he agrees

with Obama that it isfeasible to transfer com-bat responsibilities tothe Afghans by thatpoint. On Iran, Romneyemphasized economicsanctions rather than thethreat of a militaryattack, effectivelyendorsing Obama'sapproach.

On Syria, Romney dis-appointed some of hisneoconservative sup-porters by forswearingdirect U.S. militaryintervention or theestablishment of a no-flyzone.

There was no call forreturning U.S. forces toIraq, though Romneycontinued to accuseObama of bunglingnegotiations aimed atkeeping a small residualforce there. Yes, therewere nuances of differ-ence. Obama says theU.S. won't allow Iran to

develop a nuclearweapon, while Romneycontinued to describethe red line as "nuclearcapability." And Rom-ney didn't discard hismore sweeping indict-ments of Obama's for-eign policy. He dustedoff his canard that thepresident had conductedan "apology tour"through the Middle East.

To be clear: Obamahas not apologized forAmerican influence;every time Romney saysotherwise, he reinforcesthe many reasons to dis-trust his honesty. EvenRomney's rhetoric wasless blustery in thedebate than it has beenon the campaign trail. Aviewer who hadn't tunedinto the campaign beforeMonday night mighthave wondered what allthe shouting was about.Both candidates support

withdrawal fromAfghanistan, a carefulcourtship of Syrian oppo-sition forces, the contin-ued targeting of suspect-ed terrorists by drones,and the leveraging ofmilitary aid to induceEgypt and other nationswhere Islamists areascendant to respect therights of women and reli-gious minorities. Bothwant to engage China intrade, but press it to playfair.

If Romney believes ina thoughtful and centristforeign policy, which hehadn't until Mondaynight, it would argue forhis candidacy. But if thatvision is attractive, andit is why not stick withthe president who isalready pursuing it?

___This editorial original-

ly appeared in the LosAngeles Times.

College islike home

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Violenceis haunting

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This Week in HistoryBy Rob LongoEditorial Assistant

Oct. 23, 42 B.C.

Marcus Junius Brutus, a leadingconspirator in the assassination ofJulius Caesar, committed suicideafter his defeat at the second bat-tle of Philippi.

Two years before, Brutus hadjoined Gaius Cassius Longinus inthe plot against the Roman dicta-tor Julius Caesar, believing he wasstriking a blow for the restorationof the Roman Republic.

However, the result of Caesar'sassassination was to plunge theRoman world into a new round ofcivil wars, with the Republicanforces of Brutus and Cassius vying

for supremacy against Octavianand Mark Antony.

Oct. 24, 1945

Less than two months after theend of World War II, the UnitedNations was formally establishedwith the ratification of the UnitedNations Charter by the five per-manent members of the SecurityCouncil and a majority of othersignatories.

Despite the failure of theLeague of Nations in arbitratingthe conflicts that led up to WorldWar II, the Allies as early as 1941proposed establishing a new inter-national body to maintain peacein the postwar world.

Oct. 25, 2001

President George W. Bushsigned the Patriot Act, an anti-ter-rorism law drawn up in responseto the attacks on the Pentagonand the World Trade Center onSept. 11, 2001. The USA PatriotAct, as it is officially known, is anacronym for "Uniting andStrengthening America by Provid-ing Appropriate Tools Required toIntercept and Obstruct Terror-ism." Bush hoped the bipartisanlegislation would empower lawenforcement and intelligenceagencies to prevent future terror-ist attacks on American soil.

Information provided by History.com

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Region

Assault reported

State police said thatat 12:20 a.m. Oct. 22,Gary Black Jr., 25, ofWaynesburg wascharged with simpleassault after attemptingto antagonize anotherperson into a fight.Black attempted toresist during the arrest,and a knife was foundon his person, police

said.

Crash reported

At 3:58 p.m. Oct. 19,a vehicle driven by Jef-frey Lapping, 46 of Way-nesburg crashed intoanother vehicle drivenby Rodney R Robinson,17, of Dilliner, afterRobinson attempted tomake a left turn onto Rt.88 from Mapletown Rd,

causing Lapping’s vehi-cle to crash into Robin-son’s, state police said.

Neither driver wasinjured in the crash.

Man accused

State police said thatat 6 p.m. Oct. 16,Thomas Joshua Whit-field, 34, of Glen EastonW. Va., was accused ofpunching Corey Lee

Harps, 18, of Waynes-burg several times whileboth were working at ajob site for BurnsDrilling on Stawn Hol-low Rd. in Richhill Twp.

Crash reported

State police said thatat 7:50 a.m. Oct. 18, acommercial vehicledriven by Dennis P.Miller, 63, of Waynes-

burg attempted tomaneuver past a waterline construction site onN. Liberty St. when thehis vehicle slid off of theroad, traveled over theembankment andscraped a utility polebefore rolling over. Thevehicle came to rest onthe driver’s side.

Miller was transport-ed to Southwest Region-al Medical Center with

minor injuries, policesaid.

Tires slashed

Waynesburg policesaid that sometimebetween 4 p.m. Oct. 13and 6 a.m. Oct. 14,someone slashed the leftrear tire of a vehicleowned by Nancy Wrickof Waynesburg. Aninvestigation is pending.

service programs,according to GreeneCounty CommissionerPam Snyder.

”Our chief clerk, JeffMarshall, is putting anumber together thatwill be put into our Cap-

ital ImprovementFund,” Snyder said.“That fund pays forprojects such as replac-ing the roof on the coun-ty courthouse.”

Snyder also said thatthe money from the feewill be put towardsimprovements on thecounty infrastructure.

”We’ve always had torely on funding from thefederal government inorder to pay for repairs

and reconstruction ofour county bridges,” shesaid. “I’m happy to saythat we aren’t anymore,but the downside of thatis that we’ve had to findother ways to pay forthose repairs, and thefunding from this feewill help us to do that.”

Snyder explainedthat, although she isthrilled to have such alarge amount of moneygiven to the county gov-

ernment, the totalamount didn’t reallycome as a surprise.

“We’ve had the pro-jection ever since thelegislation was passed,so we pretty muchknew what we weregoing to get,” she said.

“It feels good, youknow? It’s great to besure that we will be ableto run the countyresponsibly withouthaving to raise taxes.”

Passed in February,Act 13 is Pennsylvania’soil and gas regulationthat charges drillingcompanies $50,000 oneach horizontal gas welland $10,000 on eachvertical gas well drilledin 2011. Under Act 13,revenue will be distrib-uted to various agenciestasked with oversight ofthe development of theindustry and thosemunicipalities with gas-producing wells, alongwith neighboring com-munities that may beimpacted.

Cornerstone Bible Ministry holds Fall Fest

the part of Arbie, a nerdyman who pretends he isan Australian drifter andescapes to the resort toevade his wife and hisbaby on the way. Hesoon starts searching forJarvis’s treasure as well,until his true identity isuncovered by his wife.

“It was indeed a greatexperience,” saidSchultz. “I feel as thoughI’ve grown from it as aperson.”

The performance tookabout a month to puttogether. Around threepractices were held eachweek, said Schultz.

Even though the stu-dents do not attend thechurch regularly, theystill felt compelled tovolunteer their time.

“I volunteered mytime because I have hada hunger for practicingdrama this semester,”said Schultz.

The dinner theaterraised about $2000.

“We are in the process

of adopting a village (inthe Dominican Repub-lic), which means wewill go back every yearand fix up anything theyneed, from building anew well to fixing up oldbuildings,” said Bortz.

The week-long trip isscheduled for March.The number of atten-dants is still up in the air.

“I would personallylike to thank everyonewithin the communityand the college for com-ing out and supportingour mission trip, we allreally do appreciate it,”said Bortz.

down in Waynesburg.“We have close to

300 homes in the bor-ough that are occupiedby seniors. They don’thave any place tomove,” explainedWermlinger.

“When this apart-ment complex opensup, then all these sin-gle-family homes aregonna open up, andyou’ll have young cou-ples move in, updatethem. You open up allyour markets when theseniors [move] out oftheir single-familyhomes.”

The senior citizenapartment complex isstill in its early stagesof aesthetic develop-ment. PIRHL said thatthe complex will stand

four stories tall, butwhere appearance isconcerned, the newbuilding will addmodernity to an anti-quated landscape –  fornow, that’s all the pub-lic knows.

“They did a seniorcitizen apartmentbuilding in Uniontownthat’s pretty nice,”said Wermlinger.

“It’s a seven to ninemillion dollar project,so it’s not gonna beshabby.”

Wermlinger expectsthat all 51 units will beoccupied before theproject is completed,and, though the apart-ment complex is stillin its early stages ofdevelopment, he iseager for the ground-breaking.

“It’s not like Christ-mas or anything,” saidWermlinger with alaugh.

“But I’m anxious toget it done.”

funds to county ceme-teries] around MemorialDay…to honor the vet-erans,” said Trader.

“A lot of people go tothe cemeteries in Mayand we want to keep itlooking decent. [WolfCemetery] for some rea-son didn’t get theirpaperwork in.”

Because the cemeteryis receiving its funds inthe fall instead of spring,

graves at Wolf Cemeterywill be spruced up justin time for Veteran’sDay Nov. 11.

Graveyard renova-tions were not the onlyitem of business dis-cussed at last week’smeeting; the commis-sioners also approvedrenovations to the WanaB Park swimming poolin Carmichaels.

Jake Blaker, directorof the recreation depart-ment, said that the poolhas battled sinkage sinceits construction and thatthe seam has cracked.The pool needs repairednow so that it is up and

running when swim sea-son begins at the end ofMay. County commis-sioners allotted fundsfor the pool’s renova-tion.

An election boardmeeting was held afterthe commissionersmeeting. County Elec-tions Director TinaKiger announced thecounty’s need for pollworkers at various loca-tions on Election Day.

Greene County resi-dents who are registeredto vote are encouragedto volunteer time Nov. 6to work the polls; to signup, simply call the elec-

tions office at (724) 852-5230 before Nov. 2.

Kiger also reportedthat electronic ballotshave been approved foruse on Election Day.

A sample votingmachine located in theelections office is avail-able to those who wishto practice casting theirballots before the bigday. The Election Boardwill not meet againuntil 2013 unless other-wise announced; thenext county commis-sioners meeting will beheld Nov. 15 in theGreene County OfficeBuilding.

By Kyle EdwardsSenior Editor

Scarecrows, apple but-ter, gospel music by theAmbassadors and even a1600 pound pumpkin;all could be seen at theCornerstone MinistryCenter’s 2nd annual FallFestival on Saturday.

The event was heldfrom 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.,and, also of pumpkinpainting, crafts for chil-dren, various vendors –selling both wares andfood – and hay rides.

“We also had scare-crow stuffing – the kidsloved that – a pettingzoo, we gave away freepink pumpkins to cancersurvivors – that wasunique, I’ve never seenpink pumpkins before,”said Judy Virgili, execu-tive director of Corner-stone Ministry Center.

Virgili said that the

centerpiece of the eventwas the giant pumpkinowned by Alan Brady ofTaylortown.

“Alan took 4th placeat the 2012 Ohio ValleyGiant Pumpkin Grow-er’s association,” shesaid. “He brought thepumpkin in, and the

kids got to have theirpictures taken with it.”

In the center’s newlyrenovated gym, food andcraft vendors set upshop.

“We had apple buttermaking and a bunch ofother vendors set up inour gym. There was a

wide variety of reallygood food,” Virgili said.

Despite the coldweather, the event drewa large crowd, Virgilisaid.

“The hallways, gymand parking lot were full– we estimate probablyaround 250 peopleshowed up,” she said.“We were just so pleasedthat so many people gotto see the camp and allthe opportunites that wehave to offer the com-munity.”

Toward the end of theevent, Virgili said that araffle was held for donat-ed prize baskets.

“Beth Minder donateda Steelers basket, Emilyand Randy Fraas donateda $100 basket full ofsoup containers andother assorted items, andthere were a few otherdonated baskets aswell,” Virgili said.

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This 1600 pound pumpkin, owned by Alan Brady ofTaylortown was the centerpiece for the Fall Festival.

“I volunteeredmy time because Ihave had a hungerfor practicing dramathis semester.”

Robbie ShultzPlayed part of Arbie

I hope when RogerGoodell steps down as theNational Football LeagueCommissioner, he doesn’tthink he increased theleague popularity amongstfans.

While I could go intogreat detail pointing outall Mr. Goodell has doneto decrease the NFL’s pop-ularity, I instead want toreveal that for all Mr.Goodell may think he hasaccomplished, the NFL’sjaw-dropping popularitycan be attributed to fanta-sy football.

Yes Mr. Goodell, fanta-sy football, not your dicta-tor-like approach to gov-erning the NFL has elevat-ed the league to newheights.

According to a 2011study by the FantasySports Trade Association,24.3 million people playedfantasy football in 2011.

Let’s assume that those24.3 million people are alljust like me.

For me, Sunday is myfavorite day of the week.So, for 24.3 million others,Sunday is also theirfavorite day.

I dedicate my Sunday towatching the NFL, reli-giously refreshing theYahoo page that hosts myfantasy league.

Fantasy football hasmade me into an addict – Ican’t get enough football,and by the time MondayNight Football ends, Ithirst for more.

As a fan of the Balti-more Ravens, their gameis my first priority, butbecause of fantasy foot-ball, I am a fan of theLions, Seahawks, Browns,Patriots, Cowboys, Pack-ers and even the Steelers.

Now, each week I amnot necessary pulling forthese teams to win, I justhave an interest in some oftheir players.

I pray that MarshawnLynch ate a full helping ofskittles before the Sea-hawks game, so he can gointo “Beast Mode.” I yellat Tom Brady when hedoesn’t throw the ball toWes Welker or he throws atouchdown to Aaron Her-nandez instead of RobGronkowski.

I long for Matt Staffordto morph back into thequarterback he was a yearago, and stop playing likeRex Grossman. I evenhope that Antonio Browncatches a touchdown eachweek.

Managing a fantasyfootball team has forcedme to follow my oppo-nent’s players as well.

Kyle OlandSports Editor

Fantasyfootball, notGoodell,helping NFL

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By Kyle OlandSports Editor

In the days leading upto Saturday’s Presidents’Athletic Conferenceshowdown between theYellow Jackets and Gene-va College, Geneva headcoach Geno DeMarco saidthat if the game camedown to the leg of seniorkicker Bryan Visingardi,he was confident in histeam’s chances to win.

With 14 seconds left inthe game and the GoldenTornadoes down by one,Visingardi came on toattempt a potential game-winning 45-yard fieldgoal.

Visingardi entered thegame as the PAC’s leadingkicker, nailing 66 percentof field goal tries with aseason long of 37-yards.

Waynesburg headcoach Rick Shepas electedto call a timeout beforethe kick.

“The kick was rightoutside [Visingardi’s]range,” said Shepas.“There was a lot of psy-chology going on in[Visingardi’s] head, so we

iced him to make himthink about it a littlemore.”

After a good snap and

hold, the senior kickerstepped into the kick,sending a low line drivetowards the uprights;however, his attempt toend the Yellow Jacketsperfect season fell 10yards short.

Sophomore quarter-

back Carter Hill and theoffense ended the game invictory formation as Way-nesburg held on to win21-20, improving itsrecord to 8-0 (6-0 PAC).

The win marks the firsttime a Waynesburg foot-ball team has started 8-0

since 1966. That 1966team went on to win theNational Association ofIntercollegiate Athleticsnational championship.

“The 1966 team is aspecial group of guys, andthey have a special bondto each other,” said Shep-as. “I think it’s awesomethat the 1966 team is partof this whole thing. Itmakes for a great story-line.”

The game started outwell for the Yellow Jack-ets when the defenseforced a fumble on thefirst possession of thegame. Senior linebackerJordan Helmick recoveredthe loose football.

On the ensuing drivefor Waynesburg, theoffense took over at itsown 40-yard line, going 60yards on 12 plays. Thedrive ended when juniorrunning back BertrandNgampa scored on an 11-yard rush with 6:56 left inthe first quarter. Juniorkicker Alex Henry con-verted on the PAT, givingthe Jackets a 7-0 lead.

Geneva answered Way-nesburg’s score when onthe second play of theensuing drive, junior quar-terback Zack Haywardfound senior wide receiver

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Sophomores Kyle Richey (left) and Travis Forrai bring pressure on Geneva quarter-back Zack Haywood during the Yellow Jackets 21-20 victory on Saturday.

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Susie Godwin dribbles past a W&J defender during theKick Pancreatic Cancer fundraiser game on Friday.

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Tennis competes at PAC’sKlemash paces women to best finish since 2009By Rob LongoEditorial Assistant

A year really can make a difference.Last year, the Waynesburg women’s

tennis team scored four points in thePresidents’ Athletic ConferenceTournament and tied for fifth place.

This year, the Yellow Jacketsearned 19 points and tied for fourthplace, their best performance since2009.

“Considering everything, this year’sPAC Tournament went very well,” saidhead coach Ron Christman. “This tourna-ment was as competitive [as any] I have everbeen to.”

One of the biggest stories of the PACTournament this year was Saint Vincent’steam championship.

Saint Vincent and Westminster tied with 49points at the end of the two-day event, but SaintVincent owned the regular season tiebreakerwith its 14-0 overall record.

For the first time in 25 years, a schoolother than Grove City won the conferencetournament.

Waynesburg played a part in GroveCity’s downfall.

Sophomore doubles pair Ellen Lim-back and Madison DuBrock were ableto score a first round victory over Kait-lyn Heese and Danielle Mendheim fromGrove City, 8-4.

Schools only earn points towards ateam victory if they make it to the semifi-nals. Last year, Limback and DuBrock fin-ished in fourth place in third doubles at thePAC Tournament.

“Beating Grove City was a huge accomplish-ment,” Limback said. “It’s the highlight of theseason.”

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Rachel Klemash

Can the team stay undefeated this weakagainst Westminster?

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By CJ TrammellStaff Writer

Last year, when Way-nesburg faced Washington& Jefferson in the Presi-dents’ Athletic Confer-ence semi-finals, juniormidfielder Susie Godwinscored the game-winninggoal that sent the YellowJackets to the PAC finals.

This year, Godwinscored the goal thatproved to be the game-winner against W&J, onceagain.

The Yellow Jacketswon a regular season boutagainst the Presidents 1-0

on Friday night.“[Head] coach [Carl]

Griffiths stresses on beingtougher in the box,” saidGodwin. “I think he ishappy with [my goal].”

Godwin’s goal came offof a corner kick, whichthe Jackets have beenpracticing often in prac-tice.

“We have been puttinga lot of time into finishingin the box,” said Griffiths.

The Yellow Jacketswork paid off, consideringthey only had three cornerkicks in the game and

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By Eric BostEditorial Assistant

No matter what sportit is, no matter where theteams are in the stand-ings, bragging rights arealways something to beplayed for when the Way-nesburg Yellow Jacketsand Washington & Jeffer-son Presidents go to bat-tle.

Friday night’s homegame at John F. Wiley Sta-dium was no exception.

“It’s W&J, there’s nobigger game,” said Way-nesburg starting goalkeep-er Brandon Daughtry.“No matter where you arein the standings you justwant to beat them.”

The Presidents hadWaynesburg’s numberentering their Presidents’Athletic Conferencematchup. Washington &Jefferson hadn’t lost to theJackets since 2006, Way-nesburg’s only win in the26-game series betweenthe two teams.

Waynesburg head

coach Carl Griffiths toldhis team at halftime thatthis game was make it orbreak it if the team want-ed to keep their postsea-son chances alive.

“We needed to attack.We weren’t playing for atie, we were playing for awin,” said Griffiths. “Itwas anybody’s game sowe needed to press for-

ward and go for it and notworry about regrets. It’s amust-win for us.”

The Jackets abided bywhat Griffiths said andwon a hard-fought gameas junior Tim Fields tooka header from junior JuanAngel, putting the ballpast Presidents’ keeperJon Best three minutesinto overtime.

“When my shot hit thepost, I wasn’t sure if itwent in. Then I lookedand everyone was runningafter me so I knew it wentinto the net,” said Fields.

Waynesburg’s defenseplayed tough as they wereberated with shotsthroughout the contest,particularly in the secondhalf of the game, as theYellow Jackets were out-shot 21-7.

“It’s a team sport, it’snot just one player,”Fields said. “A lot of thecredit goes to my team-mates. Brandon [Daugh-try] played great in netand the defense held W&Jto minimal chances.Theres 11 men out thereand we all play together.”

Even with the differ-ence in shots, it was Way-nesburg who would strikefirst as sophomore CodyLemke scored off a

rebound to give the Yel-low Jackets the lead 71minutes into the match.

After taking the leadmidway through the sec-ond half, the Jacketslooked to wrap up theirsecond- ever win againstthe Presidents; however,only a few minutes laterthe Jackets almost gavethe lead away whenWashington and Jeffersonwas awarded a penaltyshot.

Daughtry made thebiggest save of the gameas he prevented the Presi-dents from tying thescore.

“I was just thinking‘I’m not going to let themscore,’” said Daughtry. “Idid not want them toscore. We had the lead andall we wanted to do waswin the game.”

The momentum didn’tlast long, as Washington& Jefferson tied the matchonly a few moments laterwhen Adam Suter scoredthe goal for the Presi-dents.

The Jackets quicklyfound themselves in afamiliar situation as thegame went into overtime.

On Oct. 9, Waynesburgwas the team to score latein their game against

Saint Vincent to forceovertime.

The Jackets knew theyneeded to hold off themomentum shift and getback to attacking thePresidents.

“I reminded them thatthis was an all or nothinggame,” said Griffiths.“We were going to com-mit everything we had toscoring another goal.When we finally got ourchance we put it away.”

The game-winning goalby Fields gave Waynes-burg its second conferencewin of the season.

With the top threeseeds virtually wrappedup, the Jackets remainone game out of that cov-eted fourth seed.

Waynesburg will finishout the regular season bytaking on Thomas Morethis Saturday at home onsenior night.

If the Jackets win theirlast two games they couldfind themselves in thePAC tournament.

“We just have to keepplaying hard,” said Fields.“We have to have themindset that if we winout we still could end upmaking the playoffs, sowe just have to keep push-ing forward.”

Waynesburg defeats Washington & Jefferson for the first time since 2006Fields netsgame-winnerthree minutesinto overtime

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Cody Lemke goes up for a header earlier this season.The forward scored one of the Jackets two goals Friday.

However, that is notthe only victory the Jack-ets scored over theWolverines.

Freshman Sarah Reyespicked up a hard-foughtvictory over Heese ofGrove City. Reyes won inthree sets, 6-0, 4-6, 10-7.

Reyes lost in the semi-finals and third placematch, but was able to

score points for the Yel-low Jackets regardless.

Sophomore AlyssaDaniel and freshmanRachel Klemash also didsome damage in the dou-bles portion of the tourna-

ment. The pair defeated Caro-

line McGuire and Lau-ren -- from Grove City, 9-7, to take third place atfirst doubles.

“It was nice to play

spoiler to Grove City,”Christman said.

Grove City finished inthird place in the PACTournament with 39points. Klemash alsoearned Waynesburg teampoints at first singles.

Klemash defeatedMaria Vallone of Bethany,6-4, 6-2, before finishingat fourth place.

“I thought I playedwell; better than I thoughtI would,” said Klemash.

Because Klemashadvanced in both singlesand doubles, she wasforced to play four match-

es on Friday, somethingshe has never done before.

Klemash was surprisedthat she experienced suchsuccess at doubles thisfall.

“I’m not really a dou-bles player,” she said.

“I was nervous at firstand didn’t know what toexpect coming into thisseason, especially playingwith an upperclassman. Ireally want to work onmy doubles game [in theoffseason], especiallystrategy wise.”

Limback gives thefreshmen on the team a

lot of credit for Waynes-burg’s improvement.

“The freshmen reallystepped up,” Limbacksaid.

“They were more pre-pared than I was when Iwas a freshman.”

Limback also thinksthe team can only go upfrom here.

“We did a lot betterthan last year,” said Lim-back.

“I feel like each seasonwe are getting better. Thatgives us the confidence towin against good teamsnext year.”

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“I feel like each season we are getting bet-ter. That gives us the confidence to win againstgood teams next year.”

Ellen LimbackSophomore

By Brandon ReedStaff Writer

Junior midfielder, Susie Godwin earned herselfathlete of the week rights for the first time this sea-son. Godwin racked up two points for the women’ssoccer team this week.

Godwin assisted the game-winning goal againstGeneva on Wednesday and scored the game-winninggoal against Washington & Jefferson on Friday. W&Jwas undefeated in Presidents’ Athletic Conferenceplay before entering this week.

The Waynesburg women’s soccer team went 2-0this week, improving its overall record to 9-6-1 and 5-1-1 in the PAC.

Godwin is tied for third on the team in points withnine. Her game-winning goal against W&J was herfirst of the season.

Also getting athlete of the week honors this weekis junior midfielder, Tim Fields, who scored thegame-winning goal in overtime against W&J on Fri-day.

It was not Fields’ first time scoring an importantgoal in his career. Last season, the junior scored onlytwo goals, but both were game-winners againstMount Aloysius and Westminster.

The men’s victory over W&J is their first since2006. The win moves Waynesburg out of the cellar ofthe PAC past Saint Vincent. The men’s team is 2-3-1in the PAC and 7-7-1 overall.

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By Nate RegottiStaff Writer

Freshman women’s goalkeeperCiara Scott picked up two awardsthis week.

Scott was awarded as the EasternCollegiate Athletic Conference(ECAC) Division III South DefensivePlayer of the Week.

In addition that award, Scottearned Presidents’ Athletic Confer-ence (PAC) Women’s Soccer Goal-keeper/Defensive Player of theWeek.

It was the keeper’s first PAC and ECAC awards inher collegiate career.

Scott went 2-0 last week for the Yellow Jacketswith wins over Geneva and Washington & Jefferson.

The first year standout totaled eight saves on theweek, five of which came against W&J in a 1-0 victo-ry.

It was Scott’s ninth win and seventh shutout of2012.

Scott helped move the Jackets into second place inthe PAC behind conference leader Thomas More.

The Waynesburg women are back in action onWednesday, Oct. 23, when they travel to Bethany totake on the Bison in a PAC showdown.

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Despite strong play, Jackets fall

By Marvin Sampson Jr. Staff Writer

On Tuesday night theWaynesburg Yellow Jack-ets (7-18, 2-14) lost toGrove City (13-15, 7-10),who still holds onto thesixth and final place in theplayoff hunt in the Presi-dents’ Athletic Confer-ence.

“We [played] a verygood team, and we knowthat from last time weplayed them,” said headcoach StephanieBenkowski. “I believeGrove City played excep-tionally well tonight.”

The Wolverines tookthe first two sets, 25-14and 25-16. In the last set,the Yellow Jackets foughthard but came up short,losing 25-19.

Grove City successful-ly swept Waynesburg forthe second time this sea-son.

Both teams had played

with energy throughoutthe game, but the Wolver-ines were able to sustaintheir intensity throughoutthe whole game, due inpart to their urgent needfor a win to stay alive inthe playoff race. The Jack-ets were a bit out of syncand really couldn’t estab-lish a rhythm.

“We really needed thiswin tonight to keep aplayoff spot alive,” saidGrove City head coachSusan Roberts. “Our teamknew we had to win,that’s why we played sohard.”

The Yellow Jacketskept the Wolverines ontheir heels with theirscrappy style of play, butthe Wolverines over-camethat with solid floor playand took away any

momentum that the Jack-ets tried to gain.

“We made good adjust-ments to Waynesburgstyle of play. It’s kind oftough facing a team likethis because the ball is notusually hit up in the air,so we have to constantlymove across the floor try-ing to get to the ball,” saidRoberts.

It seemed like keepingthe ball inbounds was akey problem for the Jack-ets performance. Duringparts of the game, theJackets showed good signsof hitting the ball andwere making playsbecause of it, but failed tostay consistent throughthe entire game.

“Hitting accuracy was-n’t really on pointtonight,” said Benkowski.

“For the most part, we hitthe ball consistently, butwe got away from it a lit-tle because we were over-aggressive. Overall weadjusted what needed tobe adjusted.”

Even after another dis-appointing loss, Benkows-ki was pleased with someaspects of Waynesburg’splay.

“We played welltonight, had a few mentalgaps, but for the most partwe played very well.”

The Jackets play theirlast home game of the sea-son tonight at 7 p.m. inthe Rudy Marisa Field-house against conferencerival Washington & Jeffer-son. They will then wrapup their season on theroad Saturday against theThiel at 3 p.m.

Women losethree sets toGrove City

This past week, I wasinterested in 12 otherteams outside of theRavens, meaning I fol-lowed nearly half theNFL.

Because of fantasy foot-ball, for me and the 24.3million other addicts, nolonger do fans just root,watch or follow theirfavorite team. Instead, theaddicts follow numerousteams, which in turnincreased the overall pop-ularity of the league.

Even after all theweek’s games are finished,I am still playing fantasyfootball and following theNFL.

Tuesdays are dedicatedto analyzing my roster andpredicting which playershave the best matchup intheir next game.

Wednesdays I check the

injury report, and drop oradd players to my rosters.

Thursdays, thanks toMr. Goodell, I get to fol-low any of my playerswho play that night.

Fridays are spent rejoic-ing or sulking over myplayers’ performancesfrom Thursday night.

Saturdays I count downthe hours till Sunday.

Sunday morning, I ago-nize over my players andmake last minutechanges.

By 1 p.m. on Sunday,the games begin alongwith the refreshing of myweb browser.

For me and the other24.3 million, this patterncontinues all season.Because of fantasy foot-ball, the NFL garners a 24-7 following.

So Mr. Goodell, pleasetell me again that youhave increased the popu-larity of the NFL –because I beg to differ, thepopularity stems fromfantasy football.

scored off of one of them,W&J had nine and couldnot score.

This was the Presi-dent’s first loss in regularseason PAC play sinceOct. 23, 2010 whenThomas More beat themin overtime, 1-0.

Before the game, W&Jsenior midfielder ChrissyMarcius was leading thePAC in goals and assists.

The President’s, as ateam, were in third in thePAC in goals scored inconference games enter-ing their match at WileyStadium.

Griffiths said that soph-omore defender TaylorBombalski was given thetask of man marking Mar-cius throughout the game.

“I knew she was fast,”Bombalski said. “So I hadto give her some space. Ihad to be physical withher because they weresuch a physical team.”

The Yellow Jacketsdefense and freshmangoalkeeper Ciara Scott gotanother shutout againstthe Presidents’ strongattack.

Scott leads the PACwith five shutouts in con-ference play.

“We had a good gameplan, said Griffiths. “Ourdefenders did a great job

containing [W&J’s attack],and defending one-on-one.”

Godwin’s goal came inthe first half when juniormidfielder Missy Cole-man took the corner kick.

Coleman put the balldeep in the box, and itinstantly caused troublefor W&J’s defense.

The ball bouncedaround in the box, untilsophomore defender EricaNordlund trapped the balland sent it to Godwin,who shot it.

The Yellow Jackets

took the lead, and weath-ered wave after wave ofthe President’s attack forthe remainder of thegame. Waynesburg heldon to the lead, and wonthe game, 1-0.

Waynesburg also wontheir game against Gene-va earlier in the week.

Sophomore midfielderBecky Hotek scored twogoals and was heavilyinvolved in the build-upfor the third goal.

“Becky [Hotek] createsenergy for us coming offthe bench,” said Griffiths.

“That depth was impor-tant for us in that game.”

With the two wins thisweek, the Yellow Jacketsmoved to second place inthe conference with a 5-1-1 record.

“[This week] reallysolidified our position inthe conference tourna-ment and our belief in ourability as a team,” saidGriffiths.

The Yellow Jackets willhost Thomas More forSenior Night at John F.Wiley Stadium on Satur-day at 6 p.m.

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“We played well tonight, had a few mental gaps,but for the most part we played very well.”

Stephanie BenkowskiVolleyball head coach

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The Yellow Jackets celebrate with each other after defeating Washington &Jefferson 1-0 Friday night. The loss was the Presidents first PAC loss since 2010.

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Corey O’Patchen deepdown the field for a 78-yard pass play, putting theGolden Tornadoes on theWaynesburg six-yard line.

Two plays later, Hay-ward hooked up with jun-ior Rocco Colavecchia fora six-yard touchdown.

A Visingardi PAT tiedthe score at 7-7 with 5:55left in the first quarter.

Early in second quarter,junior All-PAC safetyBryan Gary left the gamewith an injury, forcing theYellow Jackets to playwithout one of their bestplaymakers.

“It’s a devastatinginjury for Bryan, as pas-sionate as he is about thegame,” said Shepas. “Wehad to overcome the psy-chology of him goingdown and what he meansto our defense.”

Midway through thesecond quarter, the Gold-en Tornadoes struck againwhen Colavecchia scoredon a one-yard rush, finish-ing off a 13-play, 66-yarddrive.

The PAT was blockedby junior Logan

McAnany, which heldGeneva to a 13-7 lead.The block would prove tobe the difference in thegame.

On the first possessionof the second half, Way-nesburg ran the ball 11straight times, movingthe ball 58-yards. On theeleventh play of the drive,senior running backDominic Moore rumbledtwo yards into the endzone for a touchdown.

A Henry PAT, gave theYellow Jackets a 14-13lead with 11:17 remainingin the third quarter.

Waynesburg’s lead wasshort lived, as the Geneva

offense drove 77-yards on15 plays. The drive ended

when Hayward connectedwith O’Patchen for a 13-

yard touchdown. Follow-ing the PAT, Genevaregained a 20-14 lead with7:59 left in the third quar-ter.

Midway through thefourth quarter, with theGeneva offense on its own41, DeMarco elected toattempt a fourth-and-one.

Lining up at quarter-back, Colavecchia took adirect snap and a lungedforward, but was stoppedshort of the first down bythe Waynesburg defense.

Taking advantage ofgreat field position, twoNgampa rushes picked uptwo first downs. Twoplays later from the Gene-va eight-yard line, Hillfaked a handoff, and thenfired a bullet to juniortight end Mike Ferraro inthe corner of the end zonefor a touchdown.

A Henry extra pointgave the Jackets a 21-20lead with 5:30 seconds leftin the game.

“We [practiced] thatplay all week,” said Hill.“The coaches saw thatthe corners had been pret-ty aggressive with the rungame, so we got themwith a play fake, and thenhit it in the back of thecorner.”

Down by one, theGolden Tornadoes drove

to the Waynesburg 39-yard line. After a big hitfrom Waynesburg juniorBrandon Fedorka causedHayward to leave thegame, Colavecchia movedto quarterback to try andlead the comeback.

On a third-and-15, theYellow Jacket pressurecaused Colavecchia tothrow off his back foot,unleashing a deep pass tothe end zone. The throwwas picked off by juniorcornerback Marvin Samp-son at the Waynesburgthree-yard line.

Following a Waynes-burg three-and-out, theGolden Tornadoes tookover at the Jackets’ 39with just 1:12 left on theclock.

With Hayward still onthe sideline, Colavecchiastayed at quarterback. Fol-lowing an incompletepass, Colavecchia rushedfor an 11-yard gain.

Two more incompletepasses and a one-yard rushby Colavecchia put theball on the Waynesburg27, leaving the outcomeof the game to Visingardi.

“For us to slug it out,and to keep slugging, slug-ging slugging,” said Shep-as, “and have differentguys step up, it shows themakeup of the team.”

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By Nick FarrellAssistant Sports Editor

For the eighth con-secutive week, theYellow Jackets cameaway with a win on thegridiron with a dramat-ic Presidents’ AthleticConference victoryover the GenevaGolden Tornadoes.

Waynesburg (8-0, 6-0PAC) now shifts hisattention to theWestminster Titans (3-3, 2-3 PAC), who willbe travelling to John F.Wiley Stadium onSaturday for a 1:30kick.

When these twosides met last year, theJackets dropped theirfirst PAC decision ofthe season to theTitans, 22-20.

The Yellow Jacketswill enter Saturday’sconference showdownwith a national rankingfor the first time since2007. In this week’spoll, d3football.comranked the Jackets No.25 in the country.

In addition,Waynesburg’s 8-0 markis its best in 46 sea-sons.

But an impressiverecord and nationalranking don’t automat-ically translate intomore wins. Theseaspects of Saturday’sgame will decide ifWaynesburg maintainsits unbeaten streak or ifWestminster will be aspoiler once more.

Jacket rushingattack

The biggest story of

last season’s contestcame in the rushingcategory. Waynesburgwas outrushed, 155 tominus-one.

This season though,the Waynesburg rush-ing offense is the bestin the conference, andhead coach RickShepas is convincedthat running the foot-ball will once againbring forth fantasticresults on Saturday.

“Westminster has agood front, but we’regoing to do everythingwe can in our filmstudy to make sure wecreate those opportuni-ties in the run game,”said Shepas. “We’realways looking to putour guys in a premiumsituation.”

In Waynesburg’s lasttwo games, juniorBertrand Ngampa hasmade significant con-tributions on theground and is now thefourth-best rusher inthe conference. Heaverages slightly fewerthan 73 yards per gamewhile his counterpartsenior Dominic Moore,another top-10 back inthe conference, aver-ages about 68 yards pergame.

According to Shepas,this two-headed mon-

ster will continue to bethe main cog inWaynesburg’s offense.

“Dom [Moore] runsthe ball so hard, espe-cially in short yardagesituations and on thegoal line; he’s relent-less in his approach,”said Shepas. “The factthat Bertrand [Ngampa]gives us the elusive-ness in the middle ofthe field and the poten-tial to break any runfrom anywhere on thefield is also signifi-cant.”

Titans’ head coachJeff Hand said thatWestminster’s third-ranked rushing defenseis scheming to limitthe production ofNgampa and Moore.

“Waynesburg’s rush-ing attack this seasonhas been phenomenal,”said Hand. “Our prior-ity is to play good rushdefense.”

In order for theJackets to pick upanother win, the rush-ing attack must contin-ue to dominate.

Containing DakBritt

Waynesburg hasbecome familiar withelusive and efficientquarterbacks in PAC

play.Over the last three

weeks, the Waynesburgfront has faced thelikes of Grove City’sBrian Pell, Bethany’sMatt Grimard andGeneva’s ZackHayward. Each of thesequarterbacks rankamong the conference’stop five in total offense.

In those games, theJackets still tallied foursacks for 15 yards.Again, Waynesburgfaces another produc-tive quarterback inWestminster’s DakBritt.

Shepas thinks thatthe defensive line’sstellar play, anchoredby senior Matt Krauseand junior BrandonFedorka, will continueagainst Westminster’soffensive.

“Krause and Fedorkawill continue to playwell on the line,” saidShepas. “But I thinkthe key is going to liein the support guys.”

Hand recognizes thatWaynesburg’s frontseven is among the bestin the conference, buthe wants the Titans tostick to their usualgame plan.

“Offensively, we’llgo with the same mind-set and set up our pass

game with a solid run,”said Hand.

The Jackets also leadthe conference in oppo-nent third down con-version efficiency,allowing just 25 per-cent of its third downs.

If the Waynesburgfront-seven can contin-ue its determined play,the Titans will struggleto produce any bigplays on offense.

Special Teamsbattles

In last year’s game,Christian Jacksonreturned aWestminster punt 93yards for six points.Shepas, along withassistant head coachJason Falvo, expectsthe senior return spe-cialist to break outanother lengthy run-back on Saturday.

“We’re so close withsome of our returns,”Shepas said.

Hand and the Titanssaw just how explosiveJackson is last season.

“Jackson is good;he’s a special playerand we need to coverkicks well to stophim,” Hand said.

Hand sarcasticallyadded that Jackson is sodominant that it seems

sometimes only prayercan stop him.

Senior punter ZackRogers has had a phe-nomenal year, averag-ing nearly 40 yards perpunt and leading thePAC in the process.

Having a reliablepunter like Rogers tofall back on is a hugesecurity blanket,Shepas said.

“Rogers has been anall-conference puntersince his freshmanyear,” said Shepas.“The kid’s got a power-ful leg.”

In addition, first-yearkicker Alex Henry hasconverted each of his17 point after tries thisseason and kicked thedecisive field goal inthe waning momentsof Waynesburg’s defeatof Bethany two weeksago.

Each ofWaynesburg’s last fivePAC games has beendecided by a touch-down or fewer. Expectspecial teams to play asignificant role in thisupcoming conferenceclash.

Tune in to WCYJ-FM for complete cover-age of this weekend’sPAC contest. Pre-gamecoverage will begin at1:15 p.m.

Week nine football preview: Westminster25th rankedJackets look toremain perfect

Staff report

Senior defensive back Brian Garywent down with a leg injury againstGeneva last week, and Shepas saidthat he might miss some significanttime.

Gary will be inactive this Saturday,but Shepas hopes he will return for theseason finale on Nov. 10 againstWashington & Jefferson.

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Photo by Dave Miller, ADM Photography

Top: Junior Bertrand Ngampa looks for a hole against the Golden Tornado defense.Bottom: Senior Lavance Turnage Jr. breaks up a pass intended for a Geneva receiver.

By Eric BostEditorial Assistant

Waynesburg Universi-ty’s Relay for Life is set-ting big goals as they lookto raise money for cancerthis school year.

After the kickoff meet-ing on Oct. 17, teamswere allowed to startsigning up to help raisemoney for cancer aware-ness.

Kelley Hardie, Waynes-burg University’s directorof Relay for Life, said thatthe goal of the year-longevent is more than justraising money.

“Waynesburg Universi-ty has not only decided touse [Relay] as a fundraiser,but as an educational pro-gram as well,” saidHardie. “What we do isask teams to pick a cancerto represent so teamshave information aboutthat cancer at their boothon the day of the event.”

Last year, 45 teams par-ticipated and over$24,000 was raised;Hardie said that this year,the goals are set evenhigher, and she believesthat the student body canhelp accomplish them.

Students and facultyare able to sign up for ateam until Nov. 1, the dayof the first captain’s meet-ing.

Over 22 teams signedup at the kickoff eventOct. 17-the most Waynes-burg has ever had in onekickoff event.

All the money that israised from Relay for Lifewill be donated to theAmerican Cancer Society,which will help benefitthe entire Greene Countyarea.

Hardie said that theAmerican Cancer Societyhelps Greene County can-cer patients in many

By Abby LutcherStaff Writer

Waynesburg Univer-sity’s theater produc-tion plans to take view-ers back to the 1940’s inthis year’s fall play.

This year’s fall play,“Arsenic and OldLace,” takes place in1940.

The play, a favorite ofaudiences for decades,is about two older auntswho rent rooms to eld-erly widowers and havethree nephews that playa big role in their livesaccording to EdwardPowers.

Although cast mem-

bers and Associate Pro-fessor of Theater, saidthat this play was a lotof fun and a favoriteplay to perform, becom-ing the characters wasdifficult for the studentcast members. 

“This is not a simple,little easy does it kindof play,” said Powers.

“We have studentswho are 19 to 21 play-ing characters that areanywhere from 40 to 75years old, and that takesa lot of extra rehearsalsfrom them.”

Members of the castagree that taking on the

By Paula BittnerStaff Writer

Four ensembles show-cased their talent at theChamber Works I con-cert held on Oct 18.

To begin the concert,the percussion ensembleplayed “Bossa Nova-caine” by Tom Davis.

Members of theensemble include RosaCho, Steffani Croyle,Kiersha Keller, BethanyMay, Danielle Morrisand Steven Terrill.

Ryan Frost is theirinstructor.

The woodwind ensem-ble continued under thedirection of Dr. RondaDePriest to perform“Adagio” by Samuel Bar-ber. The ensembleincludes Tiffany Franckon flute, Jonathan Zelenyand Danielle Mellot onclarinet, Jason Logan onalto saxophone, tenorsaxophone MarkFordyce, Emily Roper onbassoon and stringbassist Jonah Gollihugh.

The instructor for thewoodwind ensemble isJeremy Olisar.

Beauty Shop wowed

the crowd with their per-formance of “All I Haveto Do Is Dream” byBoudleaux and FeliceBryant.

The members are Lau-ren Meyer, Megan Pee-bles, Olivia Workmanand Julie Collins. Thegroup’s instructor isMatthew Komula.

The jazz e nsemble leftthe audience with per-forming “Fly Me To TheMoon” by Jimmy VanHeusen and Johnny Mer-cer. It featured AmberFreeman as a vocalist.

The instrumentalistsincluded the followingstudents: bass guitar,Trenton Bromen-schenkel; tenor saxo-phone, Mark Fordyce;flute, Tiffany Franck;trombone, Brian Karns;and drum set, DanielleMorris.

Instructor James Copeplayed the trombone andDaniel Baker, lecturer ofmusic, played the guitarfor the ensemble.

After the performance,Freeman shared how shegets ready for a perform-ance. “I drink a lot ofwater,” she said.

“We practiced four orfive times before peoplecame.”

She loves the song andknew it before singing itfor everyone.

“I love belting and see-ing people’s surprisedreactions,” she said.

As a member of theaudience, freshman Kris-ten Sniezek said, “Myfavorite part was theBeauty Shop.”

The Chamber Works IIconcert will be on Thurs-day, Nov. 15 at noon inthe Marsh Center.

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Practice makes perfect Finding a voice:Fall play challengesstudent actors

First Chamber Works concert showcases four ensembles

Photos by Allyson Wernert

Dr. Ronda DePriest directs the woodwind ensemble to the tune of “Adagio” by Samuel Barber. Below, DanielleWise shows off her timpani skills during the percussion ensemble’s performance.

By Alex HintonAssignments/Op/EdEditor

As part of the curricu-lum for Public Relationsfor the Arts, a classoffered for the first timethis semester, guestspeakers with experiencein both the arts and pub-lic relations fields sharetheir knowledge withstudents in the Depart-ment of Fine Arts.

“There was a need anddesire for a class for pub-lic relations specificallyfor the arts,” said Alejan-dro Pinzon, lecturer offine arts.

“I decided with Dr.

DePriest to create the[PR for the Arts] class forart administrationmajors. I’m very excitedwe got this opportunityto start the class.”

Pinzon said that,while the Department ofCommunication facultyspecializes in the busi-ness side of public rela-tions, art organizationsare not administered inthe same way.

Pinzon brings to thecourse a combined spe-cialization in public rela-tions and the arts with abachelor’s degree in pub-lic relations and a mas-ter’s degree in orchestraconducting.

The class took a fieldtrip to the PittsburghPublic Theater last weekas part of a lesson byWaynesburg Universityalumna Katie Conaway.

“Katie Conaway cameto talk to us about herexperience as group salesmanager for the Pitts-burgh Public Theater,”Pinzon said.

“I wanted students tosee how she uses publicrelations knowledge andskills with the arts.”

The class arrived atthe theater two hoursbefore the show and hadthe chance to see theFront of House setting upand learn about pre-show

preparations.“My intention was for

students to see backstageand how organizationsfunction before theshow,” Pinzon said.

“They got to see thewhole aspect that theaudience doesn’t get tosee. For students plan-ning to work in the artadministration field,they need to be acquaint-ed with these processes.”

Emily Roper, a seniordouble major in musicministry and biblicalministry studies with abusiness administrationminor, feels that theclass trip to the Pitts-burgh Public Theater

was a beneficial experi-ence.

“The experience forme was a great opportu-nity,” Roper said.

“The faculty of theFine Arts Center workvery hard to provide uswith every opportunityto let us meet peoplewho are well-establishedin the arts and do whatwe desire to do.”

Conaway has not beenthe only guest speakerfor the class this semes-ter.

“We started with fac-ulty member Christo-pher Gunnell. His spe-cialty is light design,”Pinzon said.

The course will wel-come two more guestspeakers this month –Emily Stewart, programassistant director ofOvery Arts, and Char-lene Lattea, a public rela-tions specialist at theCollege of Creative Artsat West Virginia Univer-sity.

“[Stewart] works witha small nonprofit organi-zation that is just start-ing up.

It’s a totally differentenvironment from thePublic Theater, which isa solid, old, well-estab-lished organization,”

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Karaoke kingsRobert Cronkite, Matt Kenney and Austin McCay compete in Saturday’s karaoke contest. The trio placed first outof nearly 40 acts that put their singing skills to the test last weekend.

‘Mary Poppins’ trip allows students to experience the artsBy Sarah BellExecutive Editor

Color, fun and familywere on display duringWaynesburg Universi-ty’s trip to see Mary Pop-pins at the BenedumCenter in Pittsburgh.

Twenty-six studentsattended the theatricalproduction last Thurs-day, which was followedby dinner at Olive Gar-den.

Tiffany Onifer, juniorpre-med major, enjoyedthe production and thedinner.

“They really broughtthe theme to life,” shesaid. “I thought it wasbetter than ‘Wicked.’”

Attending shows like“Mary Poppins” is part

of the Student ActivitiesBoard’s musical enter-tainment focus.

“The Student Activi-ties Board is alwayslooking for ways to openstudents up to experi-encing the arts, and wehave a performing artsseries where we go up toPittsburgh and watchshows,” Luke Payson,assistant director of stu-dent activities said.

Payson had never seenthe Disney film beforeand was impressed withthe show overall.

“I loved it. I had nevereither watched themovie or the showbefore, so I reallyenjoyed the color andthe fun,” Payson said.

“I really enjoyed the

family aspect of theshow.”

According to thePittsburgh CulturalTrust website, “MaryPoppins” is sure to be ahit.

The show features“the irresistible storyand unforgettable songsfrom one of the mostpopular Disney films ofall time, plus brand-newbreathtaking dancenumbers and spectacu-lar stage-craft. ‘MaryPoppins’ is everythingyou could ever want in ahit Broadway show,”[according to the web-site.]

Onifer would agreewith the trust’s evalua-tion and plans to attendthe show again if she

ever gets the chance.“I look forward to see-

ing it again at a differentlocation so I can com-pare,” Onifer said.

“It left such a greatimpact that I just wantto see it again. Therewas nothing to complainabout. It was amazing.”

Onifer also expressedthanks to the StudentActivities Board formaking the event a pos-sibility.

“It helps you cultural-ly immerse if you’re notfrom Pennsylvania,” shesaid.

“The Benedum is oneof the best theater cen-ters, so I got to compare[to past experiences].

It’s great because wedon’t have that opportu-

nity at home sometimeswith our families, butwe do have it with theschool.”

Earlier in the semes-ter, the Student Activi-ties Board featured “Jer-sey Boys” as part of theirmusical entertainmentfocus.

The third productionthat students will havethe opportunity to viewthis semester is“Stomp.”

Tickets are on salenow for the show; theyare $30 per student.

The bus will leavefrom Miller Hall at 4:30p.m. on Nov. 2.

In addition to theshow, dinner at theSpaghetti Warehouse isincluded.

“The shows are reallyjust about trying to openpeople to the arts,expose, experience –good ‘E words’ likethat,” Payson said.

In addition, Paysonstressed that any stu-dents who would like tosee different events likethese as a part of the artsseries can attend Stu-dent Activities Boardmeetings on Thursdaysat 11 a.m. in StoverCampus Center.

“Sometimes studentscomplain about events,but students pickthem,” he said.

“The best way to getan activity you want isto become a member orparticipant of the Stu-dent Activities Board.”

Pinzon said. “I wanted toshow students the twodifferent views.”

Pinzon said that Latteawill bring useful knowl-edge to his studentsbecause she deals withpublic relations on a reg-ular basis and works witha very large arts depart-ment at West VirginiaUniversity.

“Sometimes a wordsaid the wrong way canstart a riot,” Pinzon said.

“I want the students tosee how [Lattea] handlesthe written elements ofpublic relations.”

Pinzon said that bybringing guests whowork directly in the field,he wants students to seethe application of theorybefore they graduate.

“I hope [the class] is a

good tool for their ownset of skills as art man-agers,” he said. “I hopethey can apply thoseskills at work and ineveryday life.”

Roper plans to enter amasters program in artsadministration after grad-uation and believes thepublic relations for thearts course has been help-ful for her future plans.

“Professor Pinzon hasa background in publicrelations, so he has a lotof knowledge about it.For me, it’s been helpfulto receive his knowledgein public relations for thearts,” she said.

Roper believes that theguest speakers’ lessonshave been beneficial toher and her classmates.

“The guest speakershave a wide variety ofexperience and positionsin public relations for thearts,” she said.

“It’s helpful to receivesuch a wide variety ofinformation.”

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role of elderly charac-ters poses difficulties. 

“Playing an oldercharacter was challeng-ing because you have tothink of all aspects youwouldn’t think of likehow you walk or sit orphrases you would sayon a daily basis andhow those don’t fit anolder character,” saidKimberly Peters, who isplaying Dr. Einstein inthe play. 

The actors andactresses have learnedto speak like elderlypeople by using a moreformal vocabulary.

They have also had tolearn to walk and runlike old people whichtook a lot of practice.

Tabitha Newman,who is playing Martha,spoke on behalf of mostof the students playingthe older characters.She said that they havepracticed so much, thatnow when they are onstage, they havebecome their charac-ters.

“It was more difficultfor me to get the voice

of my character,” New-man said.

“It’s hard to find avoice that sounds oldbut not picking up anaccent at the same timesince my characterdoesn’t have anaccent.” 

Newman proved thatshe became Martha, hercharacter, when shecould not even explainwhat exactly Marthawas supposed to actlike.

She truly became thecharacter, so much so,that she did not knowhow to differentiate hercharacters actions com-pared to her own.

“She’s a sweet littleold lady and the walk-ing was not that hard toget down, but fun and

kind of cute,” Newmansaid. 

Newman said mostof the actors andactresses had fun tryingto walk like elderlypeople using canes, andit made the practicesmore fun for them. 

“I enjoy my characterbecause even thoughshe is older, she is stillcrazy and fun. But over-all, comedies are chal-lenging because come-dy is all about the tim-ing,” said Peters. 

“The way you delivera line or a certain man-nerism has to be donethe right way at theright time or it won’t befunny.

It was challenging toget the timing right todeliver a laugh.”

Opening night of“Arsenic and Old Lace”is tonight at 7:30 in theGoodwin PerformingArts Center. Perform-ances will also takeplace tomorrow andSaturday at 7:30 p.m.

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ways.“The American Cancer

Society assists in educa-tion programs, advocacyand survivorship, as wellas assisting with treat-ments and payments andthings like that all for thecancer patients of GreeneCounty,” said Hardie.

This year will also bethe first year that Way-nesburg has its own Relayfor Life chapter. In thepast the university wasaffiliated with the GreeneCounty Relay for Life.

This is just one of themany new ideas thatRelay for Life is introduc-ing this year.

Shawn Wharrey, thedirector for CollegesAgainst Cancer, said thatRelay for Life also has anew Facebook page, creat-ed so students and facultycan receive updates onRelay for Life’s Rival U.

Rival U is a competi-tion between Pennsylva-nia and Ohio colleges anduniversities’ Relay ForLife teams.

Every school is given alist of tasks to accomplishon a per-week basis.

Whichever school finish-es the most activities willget a ‘Pimp My Relay’makeover.

The winning schoolwill have the luxury ofhaving the events (title)come in and decorate theentire Relay course forthat school.

Wharrey said that hehopes more students“like” the Facebook pageso there can be more andmore people to not onlyhelp Waynesburg winRival U, but to learnabout cancer in theprocess.

Different studentorganizations havealready begun fundraisingfor the Relay event,which ends in April. Col-leges Against Cancerbegan their fundraisingearlier this month withthe annual Quack for aCure event because theywill not have a table onthe day of Relay for Life.

Hardie said that stu-dents have multipleopportunities to getinvolved in Relay for Life,even if they don’t want tojoin a team.

“Even if you’re not on ateam you can show upand support the event andhonor the cancer sur-vivors as well as educat-ing yourself on cancerawareness,” said Hardie.

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