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Journalism professor Dr. Pat Heilman gave a presentation in Delaney Suites room G-5 Wednesday from 7 to 8 p.m. to aid students looking to improve their résumés and cover letters. About a dozen students came out to hear her speak while taking notes and asking questions.

“It is very hard to write a résumé if you really do not know how, Hayley Markoff said (senior, math educa-tion). “I had one made up, but this workshop helped me critique it.”

Heilman began the workshop with suggestions on what to add to one’s résumé and where to place it.

“A résumé is not your autobi-ography, it is an advertisement for possible employers to see what you have done,” Heilman said.

The first thing she suggested was adding at the top was one’s spe-cial skills; Heilman broke the skills down into three categories. The cat-egories are functional or transferable skills, like the ability to lead or orga-nize; adaptive and personal skills, such as creativity and dependability; and technical skills dealing with com-puter abilities.

Next, she explained the differ-ence between the two basic types of résumés. First, the reverse chrono-logical résumé lists the most recent information for prospective employers to view quickly.

Second, the functional résumé acts

as the more common choice among individuals. This type of résumé gives the creator the power to place whatever they want wherever they want.

After choosing the type of résumé one wants to use, students should be sure that they do not over-crowd the document. Several items con-sidered ‘filler’ on a résumé are pho-tos, age, GPA (if not excellent), high school accomplishments and salary needs.

“This taught me several tips on creating a valuable résumé,” Jessica Pcola said (junior, math education).

Continuing on with cover let-ters, Heilman pointed out that the best way to grab a possible employers attention is to print the résumé and cover letter on professional lightly colored green, gray, or blue paper and to use matching envelopes.

Other aspects of a good résumé stressed were to have plenty of copies, to place your résumé on an online PDF file, to include mul-tiple ways of contact and to always make sure that one’s résumé is error-free.

“This was very informative, considering that I will be start-ing my résumé very soon,” said Jessica Crawford (sophomore, math education). “I do have a starter résumé, but it is nothing of professional quality; this will help me use that existing résumé and re-create it into something functional.”

By John Boddington Staff Writer

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“A résumé is not your autobiography. It is an advertisement for possible employers to see what you have done.”

— Pat Heilman, journalism professor

Résumé-writing workshop instructs students

Top Republicans conceded Sunday that they could fall short of winning control of the Senate in Tuesday’s congressional elections.

Tension rose over a faltering Tea-Party-backed Republican candi-date in Alaska.

One top Senate Republican declined to say whether he thought his party’s candidate, Joe Miller, could still win, and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lashed out at Republicans, Democrats and the media for Miller’s problems.

Overall, Republicans predict-ed sweeping wins on Tuesday, including a takeover of the House of Representatives, enough wins to control a majority of the nation’s governorships, and substantial gains in the Senate. They need to win a net of 10 seats to take control of the Senate.

“It’s harder in the Senate,” said Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi, chairman of the Republican Governors Association and a for-mer chairman of the Republican National Committee, during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“We’ll make a lot of headway. I’m not predicting that we will get the majority this cycle. I think it probably is going to take two cycles,” said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, on ABC’s “This Week” program.

“But there is certainly a poten-tial there, depending on just how high and how broad this wave election is.”

Democrats insisted that they will retain control of both the House and Senate.

“It’s not a lost cause,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen ( D-Md.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. “Democrats are going to hold onto the House.”

He said Democrats are turning out in early voting in many states, more than expected and enough to counter any Republican wave. Van Hollen also said that unde-cided voters remain up for grabs.

“What they’re now doing is taking a very close look at these Republican candidates, recogniz-ing that they’re way off on the right extreme,” Van Hollen said. “Many of them are these candidates that have been recruited and blessed by Sarah Palin. And they’re saying, ‘We don’t want someone way off on the right.’”

Complicating Republican hopes to take the Senate: two Tea Party candidates who seized Republican

nominations away from more mod-erate and established candidates in Alaska and Delaware.

In Alaska, Cornyn conceded that he’s concerned about Miller, the party’s nominee.

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski had seemed all but certain to hold the seat. But she was defeated in a primary by Tea Party candidate Miller, with strong backing from Palin, who’s had a long-running feud with the Murkowski family.

Now Miller is bogged down by his admission that he lied about his use of government computers for politi-cal work, and by his use of private guards to handcuff a reporter who tried to ask Miller a question.

He’s in a close three-way race with Murkowski, who’s making an inde-pendent write-in bid, with Democrat Scott McAdams trailing.

Cornyn disputed reports that the national party was abandoning Miller in favor of Murkowski, but offered a tepid endorsement of Miller and declined to say whether he thought Miller could win.

Asked if Miller could win, he said, “Well, I think that polls are very close

now between Senator Murkowski and Joe Miller, and what we want to make sure of is that the Democrat doesn’t win.”

Palin, appearing on Fox News Sunday where she is a paid con-tributor, blamed “the GOP machine and the Democrats and the liberal media” for Miler’s problems.

Menendez suggested that the race is down to Murkowski vs. McAdams, and that McAdams “actually has a real chance of winning this race.”

In Delaware, Republican insiders once thought they could take the Democratic seat once held by Vice President Joe Biden when it appeared that popular Rep. Mike Castle would win the nomination.

But he was upset in August by Tea Party favorite Christine O’Donnell. She’s now handicapped by her staunch conservatism in a more liberal state and by controver-sial statements such as believing that scientists are developing mice with human brains and that she had classified information about a secret Chinese plan to take over America.

She trails in polls by double digits.

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GOP leaders concede Senate may be out of reachAlcohol Violations• Torlair R. Robinson-Taylor, 19, Wayne, was cited for underage drinking, carry-ing a false identifi cation card, and misrepresentation of age to secure alcohol at 10:14 p.m. Sunday after she attempted to purchase alcohol with a false iden-tifi cation card, which represented her to be over 21 years old at Uncle Sudsy’s, according to borough police.• At 4:08 a.m. Sunday, Tyler Light, 26, was cited for public drunkenness after he was seen swaying side to side on the sidewalk along Pratt Drive by Eberly Hall, according to campus police.• Borough police reported that at 3:33 a.m. Sunday, Jody Sager, Blairsville, was arrested for underage drinking, false ID to law enforcement, obstruction of jus-tice and permitting violation of title after police found her to be intoxicated, allowing a suspended operator to drive her vehicle and providing police with a false name in the 100 block of South Seventh Street.• Paul Tice, 25, Morrowville, Kan., was seen vomiting several times and was unable to stand without assistance in the 200 block of South Seventh Street, borough police said. He was cited for public drunkenness at 2:45 a.m. Sunday.• Campus police reported that Melissa A. Robinsky, 18, Latrobe, was observed being carried by two males to Elkin Hall. Upon investigating she was found to be intoxicated. She was cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness at 1:42 a.m. Sunday.• At 1:39 a.m. Sunday, Rachel Donovan, 19, Sewickley, was cited for underage drinking and released after borough police assisted IUP police with a traffi c stop in the 700 block of South Street.• Kiya S. Mielnik, 18, Somerset, was found leaning over a toilet in a restroom stall on the fi fth fl oor women’s restroom in Elkin Hall, according to police. She was cited for underage drinking and released to a sober adult at 1:13 a.m. Sun-day, according to campus police.• Campus police reported that at 1:02 a.m. Sunday, Dorothy E. Lucas, 18, Pitts-burgh, was found in an intoxicated state in the HUB parking lot. She was taken into custody by IUP police when she started to vomit. She was charged with consumption of liquor and public drunkenness.• At 12:20 a.m. Sunday, Stephen Duncan, 26, Indiana, was observed slumped over a parking meter in the 00 block of South Eighth Street, and borough police cited Duncan for public drunkenness. • IUP police reported that at 11:52 p.m. Saturday, Matthew T. Anderson, 19, Clearfi eld, was cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness after he was found behind the IUP police station in an intoxicated state.• Chase C. Keibler, 19, Irwin, was cited for underage drinking after he was heard screaming along the 900 block of Fleming Avenue at 11:26 p.m. Saturday, ac-cording to borough police.• According to campus police, Justin W. Burnett, 21, Erie, was cited for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct after he was observed lying on the ground with two males attempting to lift Burnett to a standing position on Oakland Avenue by Weyandt Hall at 11:21 p.m. Saturday.• At 11:01 p.m. Saturday, Bretton Nedwreski, 19, Erie, was seen carrying an open container along the 600 block of Locust Street. He was cited for underage drinking and released, according to borough police.• According to borough police, Kristopher Whitcomb, Harrisburg, was arrested for public drunkenness, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and prohibited of-fensive weapons. After he was found at the Fourth Street Sheetz highly intoxi-cated while carrying a large hunting knife at 2:50 a.m. Saturday.• Campus police reported that Rolan S. Mitchell, 20, Monroeville, was found passed out in the lounge of McCarthy Hall. While being taken away, Mitchell became combative and was pepper sprayed. He was cited for underage drink-ing, public drunkenness and resisting arrest at 2:06 a.m. Saturday.• Megan L. Dutrow, 18, Tyrone, was seen staggering and stumbling on the side-walk and roadway near Northern Suites. She was cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness, according to campus police.• At 12:06 a.m. Sunday, Miranda L. Black, 18, Wampum, was found semi-con-scious and vomiting in a restroom in the Northern Suites, according to campus police. She was cited for underage drinking.• Borough police reported that at 11:28 p.m. Friday, Shane R. Gribbin, 20, Gibso-nia, and Colten L. McDermott, 19, Sarver, were cited for underage drinking after both males were observed fi ghting in the kitchen at 839 Wayne Avenue.• Zachary W. Campbell, 23, Indiana, was observed vomiting in the lobby of Del-aney Hall. He was cited for public drunkenness, according to campus police.

Criminal Mischief• Someone damaged the front passenger side window of a silver Chrysler PT Cruiser parked at Buggey’s Exxon Towing in the 500 block of Philadelphia Street, sometime between 6 p.m. Thursday and 7:55 a.m. Friday. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724-340-2121.


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The IUP Mathematics Department will welcome Dr. David Ross for a day-long presentation Wednesday.

The presentation will begin in Wallwork Hall room G-98, from 8 — 9 a.m.

Ross comes to IUP from the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.

The event is organized by Dr. Rick Adkins and Dr. Yu-Ju Kuo. Both teach in the Department of Mathematics.

“Dr. Ross will be here to talk generally about biomathematics and differential equations,” Dr. Kuo said. “He will also meet with a couple of students to discuss his work in industry.”

Ross has worked as an industri-al mathematician with the Eastern Kodak Company, solving prob-lems in imaging science and technology.

He is an academic applied mathe-matician, involved in research on rumor propagation, prostate cancer, wound healing and the thermodynamics of mixtures.

Ross will begin his presenta-tion by discussing mathematical modeling of calcium homeostatis

and bone remodeling.Ross suggests that individuals

familiar with calculus should attend. From there, he will be moving to Stright Hall.

In room 201, he will discuss applied mathematics with students from 2:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m.

This will be of interest and assistance to those who havelooked at and studied math in a more general and basic form, accord-ing to Kuo.

Lastly, Ross will discuss what he calls “A Fully Nonlinear Bellman PDE for Inferring Gibbs Free Energies from Light Scattering Data.”

Kuo said this lecture would be suit-able for those who have studied dif-ferential equations.

Ross can be found, for this par-ticular lecture, in room 327 from 5 — 6 p.m.

All sessions are free and open to the public.

Fliers are posted across campus for interested students seeking more information.

Students can also contact the Department of Mathematics by visit-ing their office in Stright 233, Monday-Friday 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 - 4:30 p.m., by calling 724-357-2608 or by visiting their website.

By JOHN BODDINGTONStaff Writer

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Math Department welcomes guest lecturer

For the upcoming election, Washington, D.C., was preparing to allow some voters to send their bal-lots in over the Internet. It’s a good thing election officials tested the sys-tem first.

Just two days after the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics opened the application for the public to experiment with this fall, the system was hacked. Unbeknownst to D.C. officials, a team of comput-er scientists from the University of Michigan took control of the website and changed the code to make it play the school’s fight song.

The fight-song gag was the part of the hacking that elections officials discovered themselves. More troubling is what they didn’t notice.

That was revealed at a recent D.C. Council committee hearing, where J. Alex Halderman, a University of Michigan professor who led the hack-ing effort in order to demonstrate the system’s security flaws, testified that his team had in fact wrested complete control over the elections board’s serv-er. Halderman produced 937 pages of names, addresses and PIN numbers of test voters who had signed up to try out the system. Had it been a real election, Halderman said, he could have changed the votes on ballots

or revealed voters’ supposedly secret choices on the Internet. Additionally, Halderman’s crew wasn’t the only one rooting around in the D.C. system. They noticed other attacks occurring, originating in China and Iran.

In response, the elections board decided to shelve the idea of having voters submit ballots online. Eligible voters in the military and others living overseas can still use the system to receive blank ballots, rather than wait-ing for them in the mail. But they’ll have to print the ballots out and mail them back to Washington.

While the D.C. episode was a set-back for voting over the Internet, elections experts disagree on what it

means for the future. Some say the District’s experience demonstrates what computer scientists have been saying for years — that the Internet in its current state cannot allow for secure online voting. Others, including D.C.’s top elections official, still see potential in online voting. In fact, the state of Arizona and eight counties in West Virginia aren’t giving up plans to go ahead with their own online voting experiments on November 2.

The debate over online voting is not new. The U.S. Department of Defense conducted the first pilot project for the 2000 general election. Some 84 citizens used the Voting over the Internet system, the first

time that binding votes were sent over the Internet for federal, state and local offices. Voting in the Democratic Party presidential primaries in Arizona in 2000 and in Michigan in 2004 was conducted online. But 2004 also was when concerns about the security of online voting crystallized and another Pentagon pilot project was scrapped.

At least one significant change has altered the landscape since then: Congressional passage of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act of 2009. Two elements of the federal law could lead to more experimentation with online voting. First, the law mandates that states send ballots to military and over-seas voters at least 45 days before an election. Second, the law allows and encourages states to implement pilot programs that test new election technology.

States can safely use the Internet to reduce the time it takes to send ballots out. The question is whether voters can return those ballots online without the risk of hackers tampering with the results.

Joe Hall, a researcher at the University of California-Berkeley, says it’s almost impossible to guarantee that online voting could be done safe-ly. “All an attacker has to find is one hole in a system to mount a serious attack,” Hall says. Meanwhile, elec-tions administrators “have to think of all such possible holes and try and plug them.”

Since the D.C. site was hacked, much of the debate has hinged on the underlying technology of online vot-ing. Washington used a system based on open-source software that allows developers anywhere to find mistakes and help fix them.

D.C. elections officials believe that using open-source — rather than a vendor’s proprietary product — pro-vides the sort of transparent approach necessary for elections, and can be made secure enough to use to trans-mit ballots. By contrast, West Virginia is using proprietary software that offi-cials there believe to be more resistant to hackers.

Rokey Suleman, executive director of the D.C. board of elections, believes the hacking episode was not as big of a setback as some have made it out to be. In fact, he says it represents an opportunity to push the technology forward. “We are not disappointed that this occurred,” Suleman says. “It is an opportunity for the computer sci-ence community to work with us.”

Suleman says software develop-ment will continue over the next 15 months and that he hopes D.C.’s sys-tem will be ready to accept voted ballots online by the time of the 2012 presidential primary. “We will do some mock elections and more testing before that,” Suleman says, noting that he hopes hackers like the ones at the University of Michigan will try to help make the system work rather than aim to demonstrate that it doesn’t.

Some critics aren’t convinced. The nonprofit groups Common Cause and Verified Voting used the D.C. council hearing on the hacking to say that states should be extremely cautious about moving toward online voting.

“There are many ways we can help military and overseas voters get their ballots and get them returned with-out entering this minefield,” testi-fied Susannah Goodman, director of Common Cause’s national campaign for election reform.

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The music department’s OcTUBAfest featured student tuba and euphonium ensembles, a play written and performed by the tuba and euphonium majors and a junior euphonium recital.

Originally, OcTUBAfest was to begin Wednesday, Oct. 27, with a performance by Zach Collins, assistant professor of tuba and euphonium. However, his accompanist was sick, accord-ing to Collins, and the recital was cancelled.

The performance of “Franken-tuba” captivated the audience, which required extra seating in 121 Cogswell.

“It’s the first time we ever did something like this,” said Nicole Robinson (senior, music education), who played Lady Gaga. “We’re glad it was a success.”

The first of its kind, “Franken-tuba,” opened with Dr. Victor Van Frankentuba, played by Jack Salter (senior, music composition), and his assistant, Igor, played by Mark Dundore (senior, music composition) discussing Dr. Frankentuba’s desire to create the greatest tuba known to man.

As the play continues, the monster, Frankentuba, played by Dave Comer (sophomore, music education), is created. He leaves Dr. Frankentuba’s home at Indiana

University of Transylvania and meets Lady Gaga. The two meet dancing to Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” played by the orchestra comprised of tubas and euphoniums. The orchestra also played Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi.”

After joining Lady Gaga’s troop of professional dancers, Frankentuba falls in love with her. Little does he know, his creator also fell in love with Lady Gaga. The two duel for her heart using tuning slides.

The show tickled the funny bones of the audience, who didn’t stop laughing until the end, when the monster died because of “13 clogged tuning slides.”

Salter, who played Dr. Franken- tuba, went off the written script a lot, according to Rice. The whole cast ad-libbed as the play went on.

Gorell Recital Hall housed Michael Waddell’s junior euphonium recital Friday, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m.

Waddell, accompanied by Melanie Davis on piano, opened with composer, Eric Ewazen’s “Concerto for Euphonium.” Next, Waddell per-formed composer Peter Meechan’s “Funk Theory.” Zack Karcher, Chaz McCown and Kerry Orchowski accompanied him on trombone while George Alberti accompanied him on the tuba.

After an intermission, Waddell and his accompanist, Andrew Cotts on piano, performed composer, Allen Feinstein’s “Concerto for Euphonium: Swimming the Mountain.” The recital concluded with composer, George Doughty’s “Air and Variations on Grandfather’s Clock.” Melanie Davis once again accompanied Waddell on piano.

The festival concluded with a grand finale of a two-part student showcase Saturday, Oct. 30 that began at 11 a.m.


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Tuition outpaces inflation, College Board says

State budget cuts and declines in philanthropy and endowments helped push the cost of college tuition up much higher than general inflation across the country this year, amount-ing to an increase of 7.9 percent at public campuses and 4.5 percent at private ones, according to a study by the nonprofit College Board.

Tuition and fees for the current school year average $7,605 for state residents at public four-year colleges and $27,293 at private institutions, according to the report released Thursday. Room and board added an average of $8,535 at public campuses and $9,700 at private schools.

However, significant boosts in fed-eral grant aid and the use of tax cred-its provided so much relief that many families, particularly low-income households, were shielded from those price increases, the report found.

“That doesn’t mean families aren’t struggling to pay. They are struggling to pay,” Sandy Baum, a policy analyst for the College Board, said Thursday. But she noted that “extraordinary increases” in federal Pell grants for low-income students and education benefits for military veterans allowed many to enroll and stay in school even as unemployment rose.

The average undergraduate last

school year received $6,041 in vari-ous grants and $4,883 in loans, the study said. About 55 percent of recent graduates at public colleges borrowed some of the cost of college and their debt total averaged $19,800, the College Board said. At private non-profit colleges, 65 percent of gradu-ates borrowed money, and on average owed $26,100.

With general inflation only 1.2 percent, the cost of college without financial aid sped past other consum-er costs as it has for three decades, officials noted. The biggest jump came at state institutions, for which state revenues declined as a result of the recession.

Public universities that offer doctorates now average $8,503 for tuition and fees, up 8.9 percent from last year, the College Board said. The University of California approved a 32 percent increase rise in basic under-graduate fees for this school year, bringing those well above the average to about $11,300, not including living costs, a figure well above the national average.

The report showed that state uni-versities that mainly offer bachelor’s and master’s degrees averaged $6,588 in tuition and fees this year, up 6.5 percent. Undergraduates at California State University pay about $5,100, after a 5 percent increase that still kept them below the national average for this year.

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“That doesn’t mean families aren’t struggling to pay. They are struggling to pay.”

— Sandy Baum, policy analyst, College Board

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The Internet is developing so rapidly that users typically discover only after the fact that their privacy was invaded or their private online activities were revealed to strang-ers. Safeguards don’t seem to keep pace. That’s troubling if, for exam-ple, a private marketer stealthily follows your online activities, as the Wall Street Journal has reported, or if trusted online sources permit oth-ers access to users’ personal infor-mation without their knowledge or consent.

It’s bad enough when private organizations track or share the Internet behavior of unsuspecting users. But private entities have lim-ited control over our lives. It’s quite another thing when the government does the snooping.

The Obama administration wants Congress to make it easier for the FBI to force private compa-nies to turn over records of individu-als’ Internet activities and to do so without so much as a court order if government agents believe the information pertains to terrorism or an intelligence investigation.

The danger in such expansive powers to document personal online behavior — particularly without court review and approval beforehand — should give all Americans pause.

The administration desires to add the words “electronic communica-tion transactional records” to items the law already permits the FBI to demand from Internet providers without a court order. The additional records include addresses to which e-mail is sent, including the times and dates it’s sent and received. The FBI also may seek access to users’ browser histories, the Washington Post recently reported.

We probably should be relieved the government isn’t seeking to inspect the content of e-mails or “other Internet communication,” as

the Post put it. But we wonder how far off reading your e-mail might be without a judge’s OK if the FBI gains unfettered access to these Internet records.

Industry lawyers and privacy advocates object. But the govern-ment says it merely seeks expan-sion of warrantless access already permitted with the issuance of so-called “national security letters,” which are demands for information an FBI field office can make on its own authority. National security letters not only permit the govern-ment to request such information, but to keep the request secret when obtaining electronic records.

“It’ll be faster and easier to get the data,” Stewart A. Baker, a for-mer Bush Homeland Security offi-cial now practicing national security and surveillance law, told the Post. “And for some Internet providers, it’ll mean giving a lot more informa-tion to the FBI in response.”

We don’t doubt that. Expansion of the government’s warrantless accumulation of private communi-cation records also proportionate-ly would diminish Internet users’ protections, and transform their Internet providers into arms of the government, collecting and pass-ing on users’ records without their knowledge or consent.

One of the many problems posed by the sought-after additional authority is that the phrase “elec-tronic communication transactional records” isn’t defined in existing statute or in the proposed law.

“Our biggest concern,” said Kevin Bankston, attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit Internet privacy organiza-tion, is that the expanded power “might be used to obtain Internet search queries and Web histories detailing every Web site visited and every file downloaded.”

We share that concern. We hope Congress does, too, when this matter is taken up again after the election.

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In 1969, Carol McDonald was 28, married and the mother of two young children, out for an evening of fun with a couple who smoked marijuana. By the end of the evening she was on her way to a 19-year addiction.

People like McDonald may be largely overlooked in the statewide debate over legalizing marijuana. The drug has a benign reputation: Many baby boomers smoked and emerged unscathed, and medical marijuana facilities with their friendly images of seven-fingered leaves have popped up all over Los Angeles.

That might be why Proposition 19, the Nov. 2 ballot measure that would legalize marijuana and regulate it sim-ilarly to alcohol, has generated scores of reports and debates regarding the potential effect on business revenue, tax dollars and law enforcement but scant discussion on the potential fall-out on people’s health.

“It’s bizarre to me when people say, ‘Make marijuana legal, and we’ll have no problems with it,’ “ said Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Stanford University who recently served as a White House senior adviser on the nation’s drug control policy.

Because the science of marijua-na’s health effects is in many cases unclear, experts on each side of the legalization debate can point to sci-entific studies that support their own position.

They do agree that marijuana should be avoided during pregnancy and that it is harmful for people with mental illness or who are at risk for developing a serious mental illness,

such as schizophrenia.And they agree, too, on some basic

statistics: Marijuana is addictive for about 9 percent of adults who use it, according to federal data.

The science of marijuana becomes murky when one steps beyond addic-tion statistics to examine effects on health.

A series of studies conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published in 1998 found that the effects of marijuana alone on driving were small or moder-ate, but severe when combined with alcohol.

But other studies show little impair-ment from a moderate dose: A 2004 study in the journal Accident, Analysis and Prevention found no increased risk of motor vehicle accidents causing traumatic injury among drivers using marijuana.

“Even after smoking, there aren’t any real deficits in driving ability that we can detect in the laboratory,” said Mitch Earleywine, an associate professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Albany, who serves as an advisory board member at the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.

In addition, numerous studies sug-gest that the earlier in life someone uses marijuana, the riskier it becomes. Among 14- and 15-year-olds who start to smoke, 17 percent will be depen-dent within two years, said Dr. Tim Cermak, an addiction psychiatrist and president of the California Society of Addiction Medicine.

The effect on school performance and learning could be significant if more minors use the drug, Cermak added. “Marijuana is not devastating in the same way alcohol is,” he said. “But to an adolescent, it can impact

their life permanently. When you take a vacation from development in school for five years, you just don’t get to the same endpoint that was available to you earlier in life.”

The fact is, however, that no one knows how many more people will try marijuana if it becomes legal. Some experts predict a 50 percent increase while others say that the numbers are unlikely to rise because California’s relaxed medical marijuana laws have already made the drug easy to obtain.

“The bottom line is that marijuana is far less dangerous than alcohol and cigarettes,” said Stephen Gutwillig, director of the Drug Policy Alliance. “It’s far less addictive than either of them. People tend to use marijuana in smaller amounts. It does not have alcohol’s noxious association with vio-lence and reckless behavior. And you can’t overdose.”

Members of the California Society of Addiction Medicine are divided on legalization. In a recent survey, more than two-thirds of the members believe there will be an increase in the amount of marijuana addiction if the drug were legalized. And close to 70 percent think there will be increased use by adolescents.

Though the association itself takes no position, its website lists controls that should be in place if the drug becomes legal.

Among them: creating restrictions to minimize minors’ access to the drug; advertising and marketing rules; warning labels on marijuana products; use of fees and taxes from marijuana sales to fund marijuana addiction treatments; treatment instead of legal punishment for adolescent marijuana users; and periodic evaluation of the law for its effect on health and driving under the influence.

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Voter turnout at IUP during the 2008 Presidential election was phenomenal. Both campus precincts, Indiana 3-1, Pratt Hall and Indiana 3-2, then at Pierce Hall, broke records for turnout.

Prior to Election Day, students registered to vote in droves and participated in many campaign activities. Midterm elections tend to squeak by with little of the fan fare afforded to Presidential Election years. There are fewer campaign stops and activities, and many draw the wrong conclusion that midterm elec-tions do not matter.

This is not the case, by any means. Midterm elections may not have as much high profile campaigning, but your vote still matters. The Pennsylvania guber-natorial and senatorial races are hotly contested, and many IUP students live in District 12, and will elect someone to fill John Murtha’s seat.

Among other things, there are three important races that will affect many things in this state, including funding for public education, including the public university that we attend.

Do not vote blindly. Inform yourself about how, when, and where to vote. Don’t miss your chance to cast your ballot because you miss voting hours, or you’re a first time voter and forget to bring photo ID.

On-campus precincts this year are at Pratt and Zink Halls. Students in on-campus housing will vote at one of these two locations. Off-campus students may vote at these locations, or at another based on where they live in the county. Your voting location can be found on your registration card.

A great source for voters is votespa.com. You can look up your polling loca-tion, poll hours, and familiarize yourself with the type of ballot you will use on Election Day.

Don’t forget to check out the candidates either. This election matters, and will impact the years to come. You might be sick of campaign ads and candi-dates slinging mud without actually talking about the issues. Turn off the TV and check out non-partisan sources to see where they really stand on the issues that matter to you.

Take pride in your voting record. The general voting population tends to ignore Midterm Elections, so they expect even less of students. Don’t give them the satisfaction of calling us unengaged.

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Hundreds of miles of streams and rivers in Pennsylvania are polluted by acid mine drainage from abandoned coal mines.

Because the companies that mined the coal and pocketed the profits are long gone, state residents must either live with environmen-tally damaged streams and rivers or pay cleanup costs.

Likewise, thousands of acres of prime industrial land across the commonwealth cannot be developed because their soil is contaminated with chemicals, heavy metals and other debris left over from closed manufacturing plants.

All too often, these contaminants are the only legacy the long-gone steel mills, oil refineries, chemical plants, etc., have left us.

Again, we must live with the

emptiness or dig deep into our pock-ets to pay for the cleanup.

Barring a political miracle, the same thing is going to happen when it comes to extracting natural gas from the Marcellus shale.

Last week, Gov. Ed Rendell said a proposed tax on natural gas extrac-tion “clearly is dead” for the year.

He blamed Republicans in the House and Senate, who promptly returned the blame. Because of the breakdown in talks, Pennsylvania remains the only state with sig-nificant natural gas production that does not tax it.

Granted, the politics of the Nov. 2 general election and industry money being thrown around had a lot to do with creating this debacle.

But don’t expect much after the election, especially if Republicans win control of the House – they are firmly in control of the Senate – and Tom Corbett is elected governor. Corbett opposes a Marcellus shale

tax, as well as any other new or increased taxes.

But what about the costs of the short- and long-term environmental damage?

How will the drilling companies be held accountable for what happens not just now but 20, 30 or 40 years down the line? If for no other reason, Pennsylvania needs a natural gas extraction tax to provide for these contingencies.

Let’s also put to rest another argument that is being used against imposing an extraction tax – that the companies will simply pass the cost on to customers.

That’s true. But failing to enact a tax to generate revenue to deal with the environmental costs of extrac-tion only foists the financial costs of cleanup (and, again, living with the consequences) on future generations of state residents.

This is the height of irresponsibility.

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Unemployment rates have reached 9.6 percent in the United States, according to www.bls.gov. If you are one of the many individuals struggling to find work in the current economy, the answer might come from an unex-pected source: fashion.

“First impressions are always going to be important,” Mark Anthony, the director of the Career Development Center said. “So, to come across as a mature, authoritative person, espe-cially for a young person, is going to be very important.”

Students might be loath to don a suit that they could have borrowed from their parents, but according to Anthony, “conservative is the best way to go.”

The Career Development Center Guide, which is available in its Pratt office, gives some guidelines for dressing for success. Men should wear a business suit in navy, gray or black, and a dress shirt and necktie. Women should wear a suit with a compli-menting blouse that has a neckline no shorter then the collarbone. Skirts or slacks are acceptable for women. If a person opts for the skirt, the hem should not be higher than two inches above the knee.

“If they’re going in to something more stylish such as fashion or advertising, than they could go a little more daring with things,” Anthony said. “I wouldn’t go too far, but cer-tainly look at professional clothing, look at quality stores where busi-ness apparel is sold and consult with

somebody in making a decision about what kind of clothing you’re going to buy for the type of organization you want to work for.”

When it comes to self-expression, it is best left out of your outfit.

“If you want to express your indi-viduality, you may overshadow your message because they will remem-ber what you wore and not what you said,” Anthony said. “In the interview, it’s what you said, how you come across, the meaning behind what you have to tell them.”

For men, the biggest accessory or form of expression is the tie. Anthony suggested a color as a form of expres-sion. But don’t take it too far. It is important to keep the company you are interviewing for in mind.

The Career Development Center Guide also gives tips about hairstyle. Your hair should be clean and styled off your face. For men, short hair is preferable, and facial hair should be trimmed.

“The Career Development Center is a comprehensive career planning and placement office, which means that we help students with planning on what it is they would like to do to be successful after graduation and finding ways to develop the skills and experiences that will help to make them successful,” Anthony said.

If people have any questions about interviewing, they may want to visit the Career Development Center located at 302 Pratt Hall. While there, people can also pick up their Career Development Center Guide, which has helpful tips for every aspect of future employment from planning your resume to dining etiquette.

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The IUP football team gave up a 15-point lead in the fourth quarter to lose in overtime, 18-15 The upset that never was

Cal U came back after being down 15 points in the fourth quarter to push the game into overtime and win 18-15.

IUP traveled to Cal U for the second -annual Coal Bowl over the weekend. For the first time in a few weeks, IUP had a two-possession lead going into the fourth quarter. However, they missed extra points, were unable to produce first downs and came away with zero points during redzone trips, which proved to be just some of the factors that went into IUP’s fourth loss in a row.

Early in the first quarter, IUP drove the ball down the field all the way to Cal’s 1-yard line. The IUP offense struggled to push the ball any further and was forced to make a decision on fourth down. IUP Head Coach Lou Tepper made one of the few “calcu-lated risks” of the day. They gave the ball to their tailback, Harvie Tuck, in hopes for a touchdown.

“[We] had nothing to lose,” Tuck said after the game. “Might as well get it if its 4th and inches, and plus, it would have helped our momentum.”

But the Cal defense proved tough and allowed IUP no points on the early drive.

“In my mind they’re not great risks if you feel like you have a 90 percent chance at getting them,” Tepper said “And we got three of them. It’s just hard because I thought we were a bet-ter team today.”

After losing three straight games by an average of 12 points, it was a change to see IUP being ahead by so much and they were fortunate enough

to take an early lead with a one-yard touchdown run by Tuck in the second quarter.

Tuck had 112 of the team’s 130 rushing yards. A good amount com-pared to the 61 rushing yards Cal mus-tered.

“They run-blitzed a lot,” Tuck said. “Which is hard to run on, but we did what we could.”

The entire game came down to the fourth quarter, when the IUP defense could not stop the passing game.

“Offensively, we ran the ball very well in the first half,” Tepper said. “We told them it was going to come down to four-minute offense. There was going to be a point where we were going to be ahead with four minutes to go, and we were going to have to grind out the clock, and we couldn’t do that. Or it was going to have to come down to two minutes with the defense, and it did. And we didn’t stop them.”

Cal quarterback Josh Portis threw for 210 yards, completing 21 of his 31 attempted passes. But the big thing for the IUP defense was the five times they brought the Cal quar-terback down in the backfield. IUP quarterback Bo Napoleon threw the ball 13 times, but only completed four passes. He had a total of 42 yards with one interception.

The young IUP team has had strug-gles through the air on both sides of the ball this entire season. The game against Mercyhurst ended in similar fashion with a last minute touchdown by the opponent changing the out-come of the game.

“You know, we needed one stop,” defensive back Tobias Robinson said about the final drive in regulation. “Just execute the game plan like we were in the first few quarters. It was a tough one. A tough one to go out

like that.”On the final drive in regulation, the

IUP defense let up the touchdown and the two point conversion, which pushed the game into overtime.

IUP forced Cal to kick a field goal on its first possession, which left the door wide open for IUP. But after a penalty sent them back 10 yards, unable to get a first down, Craig Burgess was sent on the field to attempt a 41-yard field goal. But the field goal was missed, and IUP was handed their fifth loss of the season.

“The kick – no, it wasn’t easy,” Tepper said. “But it was the only way to go. They were loading the line of scrimmage and just daring us to throw the football, and so there was no thought of doing anything else but kicking but that was our best chance to another overtime, and try to win it.”

While the team sits on a 4-5 record, Tepper still believes in his team.

“When we can play with enthusi-asm and discipline, we have a chance. And I know it’s hard to say that when

we’re as young as we are, we have a chance,” he said. “But we are fragile. I mean, that’s just the way young teams are. They’re fragile. But take nothing away from the effort today. They were in it for the long haul, and we told them there were going to be times where Cal might be ahead. Fortunately that never happened until the end, so just positive vibes all day for us.”

The 4-5 Crimson Hawks will stay at home for the next game against Lock Haven 1 p.m Saturday.

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The qualities of a team leader are achieved not only through an indi-vidual’s talent, but also through their experiences traveling through the ranks of the roster. They gain knowl-edge of and passion for their sport, which they pass to the classes below them.

For most collegiate sports teams, these qualities come in the form of seniors. The women’s tennis team at IUP, however, does not have the luxury of upperclassmen. Shouldering the load of leadership and experi-ence for the Crimson Hawks are four sophomores. Those core second-year athletes are joined by four freshmen to make up the youngest team that IUP Head Coach Larry Peterson has ever directed.

“You’re putting a lot of pressure on the sophomores to step up and set a good example,” Peterson said.

This lack of senior guidance does not appear to be fazing this young team. IUP finished its shorter fall sea-son with a team record of 4-1 and had impressive individual performances at three tournaments at both the region-al and conference levels.

“We’re going to take a few lumps leadership-wise because it’s just a difficult position to be in,” Peterson

said. “But they’ve realized the role that they’re in, and they’re willing to do their best to fit into some big shoes and try to lead by example.”

The Hawks’ situation is unique to the PSAC. Of the 11 other schools in the conference with women’s tennis programs, all have at least one senior. Shippensburg and West Chester are the only other schools with no juniors, as well as the only two schools with more freshmen than IUP, seven and five, respectively.

Facing juniors and seniors from other schools doesn’t rattle the cages of these younger athletes.

“They’re just like any other players really,” sophomore Katie Eaton said. “We don’t go out on the court think-ing we’re young and inexperienced and not going to win. We think ‘OK, we haven’t got as much experience as these other players, but we’re still going to try our best.’”

One advantage of having as much youth as this IUP team does is that it brings a level of vitality to the court and carelessness about their ages. These qualities even show through the freshmen on the team, like Tabtip Louhabanjong, who refuses to be intimidated by other players simply because they are older.

“We work hard,” Louhabanjong said. “It doesn’t matter what age we are.”

Peterson knows that just because

his oldest players are only finishing their third semester at IUP doesn’t mean they don’t know the game as well or how to look at their oppo-nents.

“Although they may be less expe-rienced in terms of college years, the top three or four players on our team have been playing tennis for many years,” he said. “They think about their competition more in terms of their strengths and weaknesses rather than their age.”

But there is perhaps an even more important advantage to having such a young group of players. And every member of the team knows it.

Last year, today’s sophomores joined a group of seniors for only one season together, a season that allowed little time for team develop-ment amongst players of different ages. This year, these eight players will have three seasons to develop team chemistry — something Peterson knows his team will do well.

“They love their teammates,” he said. “We’ve got a very tightly-knit team.”

The coach’s expectations for his young team don’t reflect his play-ers’ ages. On the horizon, Peterson, now in his third year at IUP, envi-sions his team being in the handful of best teams in the Atlantic Region as well as earning a spot in the PSAC championship — a tough mission to

accomplish playing in the deep PSAC West. Beyond that, he would like to see his team win conference champi-onships in both singles and doubles and earn a spot in the national cham-pionships.

“We saw at the ITA (Intercollegiate Tennis Association) championships that we can compete with the stron-

gest teams in the Atlantic Region,” Peterson said. “This year, we’re find-ing that we’ve got a possibility to step up and win some of the big matches that last year we weren’t quite ready to win. You want to put yourself in a position to be successful and I think we’re going to have an opportunity to do that.”

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Furnished apartment for 3. Fall 2011 to spring 2012. 724-840-6214.

Heath Housing now leasing for Fall 2011- Spring 2012. Furnished single units with A/C. private bath, microfridge, utilities and cable tv with HBO included. Inn- Towner building next to campus. 724-463-9560. www.inn-towner.com.

1 Bedroom for 2 students. $600 per month. Includes utilities and parking. 349-5312.

Uptown 2, 4, 5 bedroom apartments. Include some utilities 724-840-5661. PARK-ING AVAILABLE.

2 apartments off campus. Spacious, fully furnished. Full bath, kitchen all appliances available. May 2011. 724-349-2809 4pm.

Great student rentals for non-partying students. Fall 2011/ Spring 2012. 2 bed-room and 4 bedroom units. Nice furnished apartments with parking. Call 724-463-3418 or 724-465-9612.

1,2 or 3. Bedroom apartments, nice, close to campus. Parking available. 724-388-5481.

Townhouse for 3 students for Fall 2011/ Spring 2012 close to campus $1650 per semester. Phone 724-465-2635.

1 and 2 bedroom apartments available Spring 2011. Summer, fall, and spring. Clean, off street parking. 413-309-0379.

1, 3, and 4 bedroom apartments. 724-349-5312.

WANTED: A sorority to fill a private dormi-tory floor of 12 single furnished. Fall 11/ Spring 12. Each room has central air, cube refrigerator, internet, and microwave. Will provide FREE two 13 ft. x 23 ft. meeting rooms which I will carpet and paint to suit your colors. 724-349-3352. Offer good until Thanksgiving vacation.

2 and 3 Bedroom apartments available Fall 2011/ Spring 2012. $2000 per person/semester, all utilities included, off street parking. 724-464-7399.

For rent one bedroom apartment for fall 2011. Phone 724-349-5366.

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UPTOWN. 1-2-3 bedroom, furnished apartments/ house. 2011-2012 school year. Parking and some utilities included. 724-354-2360 before 9 p.m.

Individual needed to fill Spring 2011 lease at 909 Gompers Ave. Tenet pays electric, cable, and internet. The payment system is $500 prior to winter break, and $1600 come spring semester. Financial Aid is ac-cepted by the Realtor. Please contact Zach Pittman at 724-549-5241 or [email protected].

For rent: Large studio bedroom. Furnished, all utilities, close to campus: Rent monthly $350.00 Call after 4:00 PM: December through spring semester. 724-349-7437.

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Women’s basketball hopes for success

The IUP women’s basketball team made a surprising run last season.

The team finished 17-10 and 10-4 in the PSAC West, one game behind the team from the year before, which won the PSAC title.

Its only four losses in confer-ence play came to Gannon, who was undefeated for the major-ity of the season and Cal U, who was arguably the second-best team in the region behind Gannon.

That run warranted IUP to be voted to finish second in the PSAC West behind only Cal U.

”I think certainly on the PSAC West side, things are fairly wide open,” Dow said dur-ing IUP basketball media day Oct. 28. “I think you can make a case for any of the three teams between ourselves, Gannon and Cal. It really doesn’t mean a whole lot on Oct. 28 when you’re picked. I think anybody in the league would say, ‘Check back with me in February, and I’ll have a little better idea’.”

The team returns its top-three players from last season: Lacy Claar, Eryn Withers and reigning PSAC Freshman of the Year, Sarah Pastorek.

Although Withers is expect-ed to play this season, she has yet to practice, and Dow hopes that she can play against James Madison Nov. 5.

The team also returns key contributors in guards Katelyn Marshall and Vianca Tejada and forward Brianna Johnson, which

could make a pretty formidable frontcourt with Johnson and Pastorek.

“[Johnson] and Sarah really enjoy playing with each other,” Dow said. “They play off of each other extremely well, they look for each other within the offense and really push each other as well when they’re going head-to-head. Whether it’s in a conditioning session or even when we’re scrimmaging, too,” Dow said.

The Crimson Hawks brought in some good talent on the recruiting trail as well.

The newcomers include forwards Taylour Alston and Chelsea Gieringer guards Liz Kane, Arika Ullman and Alex Vega. Dow was very high on Vega during media day and announced that she will be the starting point guard for IUP come Nov. 5.

“Alex Vega is off to a terrific start,” Dow said. “She showed up from day one in tremen-dous shape. On a daily basis she’s one of our hardest work-ers. Barring something really strange happening in the next week, she’ll be starting at the point guard position for us next Friday night.”

Vega playing point guard alleviates pressure off of Claar, who is a natural shooting guard and struggled to play at the point when she was asked to do so last year to spell Kierstin Filla. Claar committed a team-high 93 turnovers last season.

“She’s a little bit better and she’ll be the first to tell you that she doesn’t want to have to play the point a whole lot, but with some of the different set plays and what not that we run, it’s a little bit easier to bring Lacy off screens and that kind of thing

when she’s playing the two-guard position,” Dow said.

With all of the potential weapons, IUP should have the depth the team lacked a year ago.

”I think we have a lot more offensive threats,” Claar said.

Dow and the rest of the Crimson Hawks

will get a pretty good indication of how good they are after a tough exhibition schedule.

IUP starts the sched-ule Nov. 5, when it travels to Harrisonburg, Va., to take on Division I James Madison at the defending Colonial Athletic Association champions at 7 p.m. Two days later, the Crimson Hawks will travel to Washington, D.C. to take on Division I American University, a team that won 22 games, a share of the Patriot League regular season title.

The biggest test, however, is Nov. 10, when the Hawks will travel to Storrs, Conn., to take UConn. Yes that same UConn team that has won 78 games in a row and is the defending two-time national champion.

“Even if we get our butts handed to us; I think that we’re going to appreciate the chance to them, we’re going learn from our mistakes,” Claar said.

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