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VOLUME 14, NUMBER 9 MARCH 26, 2012
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Foreign
Language
Video Takes
Prize
hat started as a multimedia presentation
for an Educational Technology course
resulted in national recognition for
senior Maggie Fike and four other Cal U students.
Fike is majoring in secondary education/
Spanish. For a class taught by Dr. Marcia Hoover,
she created a video about the benefits of learning a
new language.
As president of the Foreign Language Club,
Fike realized that her class project aligned with the
theme of a national student video contest sponsored
by the American Council on the Teaching of
Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
Conducted during Discover Languages Month
in February, the “Discovering Languages”
competition was part of a public awareness
campaign promoting language learning.
Fike submitted the video in the contest’s
postsecondary education category. Cal U finished
third, behind only The College of New Jersey and
Miami University in Florida.
Collaborating with Fike were fellow students
Anna Villagomez, Laurie Navarro, Charisse Varga
and Yazen Al-Badayneh.
Using a video camera from the Modern
Languages and Cultures Department, Fike and
Villagomez edited the 60-second video.
Navarro spoke in French about the educational
opportunities afforded by her knowledge of two
languages. Al-Badayneh spoke in Arabic about how
learning English helped him land a good job.
Varga and Villagomez both emphasized how
being bilingual has helped them meet many new
people and has significantly increased networking
opportunities.
“Even though we didn’t finish first, it was very
gratifying to be a national finalist,” said Fike. “In
an enthusiastic style, we got across just how
beneficial learning different languages can be.”
An organization with more than 12,000
members, ACTFL is the only national organization
dedicated to the improvement and expansion of the
teaching and learning of all languages at all levels
of instruction.
Foreign Language Club adviser Andrea Cencich
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Moderator Jon Delano (left) speaks with panelists (from left) Daniel M. Shea, Louis Jacobson, William C. Binning and Costas
Panagopoulos at Cal U in 2010. This popular team of experts will return to on Tuesday to discuss this year’s presidential and
congressional elections.

‘Election Outlook’ Returns
popular team of political
experts will return to Cal U
to examine the outlook for
this year’s presidential and
congressional elections.
Political analyst Jon Delano,
money and politics editor at KDKATV, will serve as moderator for the
2012 Election Outlook: The Race for the
White House.
The free event is presented by the
American Democracy Project at Cal
U. It begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday in
Room 110 of the Eberly Science and
Technology Center.
Panelists are William C. Binning,
chair emeritus of the Department of
Political Science at Youngstown
State University, Ohio; Louis
Jacobson, staff writer for the Pulitzer
Prize-winning PolitiFact.com
website, a contributing writer for
PoliticsPA, and a contributing editor
at National Journal magazine; Costas
Panagopoulos, director of the Center
for Electoral Politics and Democracy

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and the graduate program in
Elections and Campaign
Management at Fordham University
in New York; and Daniel Shea,
director of the Center for Political
Participation at Allegheny College in
Meadville, Pa.
“This outstanding panel always
gets people talking,” said Dr.
Melanie Blumberg, a professor in
the Department of History and
Political Science and campus
director of the American
Democracy Project at Cal U.
“Jon Delano’s insightful
questioning takes full advantage of
their broad-based expertise — and
their comments are always cuttingedge and provocative.
“Even people who say they ‘don’t
care about politics’ come away
feeling they’ve been both informed
and entertained.”
The same panelists, with Delano
as moderator, drew a full house
when they visited campus in 2010 to

examine the mid-term elections.
Many of the panelists also spoke at a
program examining results of the
2008 presidential election.
The American Democracy
Project (ADP) is a multi-campus
initiative focused on higher
education’s role in preparing the next
generation of informed, engaged
citizens.
Co-sponsors of this ADP event at
California University are the Office
of the President, the Office of
Academic Affairs/Provost, the
College of Liberal Arts, the
Department of History and Political
Science, and Cal Campaign
Consultants.
The program is open to the public.
Registration is not required. Visitor
parking is available in the Vulcan
Garage, off Third Street near the campus
entrance.
For more information, including
links to speakers’ biographies,visit
www.calu.edu .

Swimmer Adds Two National Championships
enior Melissa Gates has won the NCAA
Division II 50-yard freestyle
championship for a second consecutive
year and added a championship in the 100-yard
freestyle event, becoming just the second
student-athlete in Cal U history to win three
individual national titles.
Track and cross country standout Brian
Ferrari won the 1983 NCAA Division II cross
country championship and consecutive 10,000meter national titles in 1983-84.
Gates set an NCAA D-II Championship
record this year, winning the finals of the 50yard freestyle in 0.41 seconds as she finished

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with a time of 22.59 seconds at the national
meet in Mansfield, Texas.
Gates also finished second in the 100-yard
breaststroke event and was a part of two AllAmerican relay teams. The 200-yard relay team
consisting of Gates, sophomores Clarissa
Enslin, Kelsey Nuhfer, and junior Caitlyn
Sirkoch finished fifth while the 400-relay team
of Gates, freshman Alyssa Novotny, Enslin and
sophomore Jess Machmer placed seventh.
Gates will swim in the 2012 Olympic Team
Trials this summer.
This year, the Vulcans finished a programbest 12th in national team standings.

Melissa Gates
has become
just the second
student­
athlete in Cal U
history to win
three
individual
national titles.

Women’s Studies
Conference
Looks at Violence
Worldwide

Expert on
da Vinci
Visits
Thursday

eclaring that “The Political Is Personal,” speakers
focused on international violence against women at the
seventh annual Audrey-Beth Fitch Women’s Studies
Conference.
The daylong event March 6 in the Performance Center
opened with a look at the “homegrown” issue of human
trafficking in the United States.
“These are American citizens who are sometimes under the
age of 18,” said Denise V. Holtz, a certified FBI instructor and
the Pittsburgh Division’s coordinator or the National Center for
the Analysis of Violent Crimes. “They are trafficked around the
United States for different reasons, mostly the sex slave industry.
“I’m here to tell you slavery still exists, but it’s now a hidden
crime,” she added. “Organizations that used to sell drugs for
money now sell human beings, because human trafficking is a
big money-maker.”
By some estimates, more than 750,000 women have been
trafficked in the United States over the past decade, Holtz said,
and 12.3 million have been coerced into forced prostitution or
labor worldwide. The exploitation affects every country.
Finding victims and educating law enforcement, government
and non-governmental organizations about human trafficking is
a major challenge. That’s why the FBI now oversees the
Southwestern Pennsylvania Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition.
“The coalition has expanded our intelligence base to
increase the identification of victims,” she said. “Sometimes
the hardest part of my job is to talk to a victim and trying to
convince her she is a victim of a crime. A 14-year-old girl does
not decide on her own to stop going to the eighth grade to
become a prostitute.
“We try to reach out.”
The conference’s second speaker shifted the focus to Africa,
where women in the Democratic Republic of Congo continue to
be targets of sexual violence related to years of political and
economic unrest.
Dr. Lee Ann De Reus, an associate professor at Penn StateAltoona, explained how Congo’s natural resources contribute to
abuses in the country.
“There are large deposits of what are known as ‘conflict
minerals’ in Congo,” De Reus explained, “and they end up in
the supply chain because they are the key materials in many
electronic devices. The world’s consumption of these contributes
to the violence in Eastern Congo.”
Years of political unrest have weakened the Congolese
government, and at many mine sites, armed rebel groups are in

r. Bulent Atalay is a
scientist, an artist, a bestselling author and one of the
world’s foremost authorities on
Leonardo da Vinci.
In fact, Smithsonian Magazine,
NPR and PBS all have described
Atalay as a “modern Renaissance
man.”
A regular
speaker at the
Smithsonian
Institution, the
National
Geographic
Society and the
Corcoran Gallery
of Art in
Washington,
Dr. Bulent Atalay
D.C., Atalay will
give a special
presentation at 11 a.m. Thursday in
Steele Hall Mainstage Theatre.
Appearing in conjunction with
the ongoing exhibition Leonardo da
Vinci: Machines in Motion, he will
discuss da Vinci’s artworks,
inventions and ideas with school
groups and members of the Cal U
community. The public may attend.
Atalay teaches university courses
in physics and quantum mechanics,
and he travels the world as a lecturer,
photographer and artist. The author
of Math and the Mona Lisa and
Leonardo’s Universe, among many
other works, he also blogs for
National Geographic.
As a lecturer, Atalay regularly
speaks not only to scientists, scholars
and arts professionals, but also to
students at high schools near his
home in Virginia. He especially
enjoys exploring the connections
between science and the arts.

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West Point
Symposium
Papers Featured
in ‘Review’
he current edition of the Institute for Law
and Public Policy’s Homeland Security
Review features the text of papers
presented at the second annual West Point
Critical Infrastructure Symposium.
Hosted in April 2011 by The Infrastructure
Security Partnership and the Society of American
Military Engineers, the annual symposium aims
to foster the integration of resilient infrastructure
policy, practice and education.
College students and faculty conducting
research in critical infrastructure protection and
resilience were invited to submit papers.
Homeland Security Review is an
interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted
to the discussion and analysis of issues related to
homeland security. Available by subscription, it
publishes feature articles, book reviews,
commentaries and articles focusing on this field.
Copies of Homeland Security Review are
available in Manderino Library.
For submission guidelines or a subscription
form, choose “Information for … Business and
Community” on the Cal U homepage,
www.calu.edu , then click on “Institute for Law
and Public Policy” and “publications.”

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Dr. Lee Ann De Reus (left) speaks with Cal U sociology major
Latashia Woods during the seventh annual Audrey­Beth Fitch
Women’s Studies Conference.

charge. They use many tactics, including rape, to control the
population.
De Reus travels regularly to the General Referral Panzi
Hospital, located in Bukavu, DRC, where she conducts research
and develops programs for rape survivors. Part of De Reus’
research involved interviews with 30 women, all rape survivors.
She related the story of a 15-year-old girl who was kept as a
slave, raped at age 13, became pregnant, and suffered serious
injury at the hands of her captors during childbirth.
“The girl told me, ‘Why I tell you my story is because so
many people don’t know. I want you to tell others.’”
De Reus also encouraged the audience to become involved
as global activists.
“Pick your topic and play to your strengths,” she suggested.
“If you play softball, organize a game to raise money. If you
write poems, organize a reading on a particular topic. You don’t
have to go to the Congo to make (an impact).”
Psychology major Allyson Simbeck said she was moved by
the presentation. “Motivating, is what she is,” Simbeck said. “I
want to be a high school guidance counselor, but this makes me
want to make a difference.”
A panel of members of the Cal U Activist Club discussed ways
to get involved as part of the women’s studies conference. The day
concluded with Call + Response, a film about the slave trade.

Light Therapy Helps Battle SAD
n the dark days of winter, a ray of 27, but it will be offered every
semester, she said.
light can make a real difference.
The program consists of
That’s why the Wellness Center
behavioral therapy in combination
has launched a new Light Box
with bright light from a specially
Therapy program for students with
designed, cool-to-the-touch
symptoms of the
device that delivers
wintertime depression
therapeutic levels of white
known as Seasonal
light while screening out
Affective Disorder, or
harmful ultraviolet rays.
SAD.
Used for just minutes
More than “the blues,”
each day for two to four
SAD is a form of
weeks, Bright Light
depression with symptoms
Therapy has been shown
that typically occur during
to relieve SAD symptoms
the winter months and
Dr. Mary Ann Salotti in many patients.
subside in spring and
Students are free to go
summer.
about their normal activities while
According to the Journal of the
sitting in front of the light box,
American Medical Association, 35
which delivers strong light at an
million Americans suffer from SAD
angle, so it doesn’t shine into the
each year. Symptoms often arise
patient’s eyes.
between ages 18 and 30.
“Bright Light Therapy is a
“Our new Light Box Therapy
beneficial, gentle system that is
program will offer students who
suffer with depression an opportunity appropriate for interested students
to try a non-pharmacological strategy who have been medically and
clinically cleared for the treatment,”
before they determine that it is an
Salotti said.
effective one for their personal, atA student who walks in to the
home use,” said Dr. Mary Ann
Wellness Center can meet with Salotti
Salotti, a licensed psychologist at the
or medical director Dr. Allison
Wellness Center.
The initial program will end April Verenna, and then schedule a clinical

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interview with counselor Brooke
Sanderson, the Wellness Center’s
doctoral–level practicum student.
If the therapy is deemed
appropriate, the student will sign a
consent form and complete
depression inventories and surveys at
the beginning and end of the initial
treatment.
The student commits to 30- to 45minute appointments Mondays
through Fridays for two to four
weeks.
As with all Wellness Center and
Counseling Center services, there is
no cost to the students for the Light
Box Therapy introductory experience.
“Ultimately, an effective therapy
for depression improves students’
functioning, which directly relates to
successful completion of academic
goals,” Salotti said.
A number of Cal U professionals
collaborated to make the therapy
available at the Wellness Center, she
added. They include Verenna,
licensed nurse practitioner Fran
Fayish, nurse supervisor Debra
Anderson, Counseling Center Drs.
Dawn Moeller and John Massella,
and Dr. Tim Susick, associate vice
president for Student Affairs.

Career Services Give
Seniors a Boost
o help graduating seniors begin
planning for life after
graduation, Career Services has
organized “Senior Week 2012:
Backpack to Briefcase.”
The weeklong event begins today
with a graduate fair from 11 a.m.-3
p.m. at the Cal U Bookstore. While
picking up their caps and gowns for
Commencement, seniors can meet
with career advisers and learn about
upcoming job fairs, graduate schools
and Career Services’ job search site,
College Central Network.
A LinkedIn photo booth will be
setup near the bookstore so seniors
who bring their cell phones can have a
professional picture taken.
“Just in Time Job Search
Information”
sessions will take
place during the
common hour on
Tuesday. Seniors
from the Eberly
College of Science
and Technology will meet in Room
251, Eberly Hall. The College of
Education and Human Services meets
in Room 136B, Hamer Hall, and
students from the College of Liberal
Arts gather in Room 210, Duda Hall.
On Wednesday, more than 100
employers will be conducting personal
interviews and offering advice at the
WestPACS Job Fair, open from 10
a.m.-3 p.m. at the Monroeville
Convention Center. To register, visit
WestPACS.org and click the “For
Candidates” link, or register at the
door for a $10 fee.
Career Services will conduct two
simultaneous events Thursday during
the common hour. At “How to Lose
an Internship in 10 Days,” in Eberly

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Cal U dancers rehearse for the Department of Theatre and Dance 2012 spring concert, fea­
turing innovative choreography by faculty and students. Dancers will perform ‘Kinesthetic
Mindfulness’ at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday in Steele Hall Mainstage Theatre. Faculty
choreographer is Diane Eperthener.

Dance Concert
Explores Mindfulness
he Department of Theatre and Dance continues its 2012 season with a spring
dance concert featuring innovative choreography by faculty and students.

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Dancers will perform “Kinesthetic Mindfulness” at 8 p.m. Thursday through
Saturday in Steele Hall Mainstage Theatre.
Faculty choreographer is Diane Eperthener. Student choreographers are Britney
Vokish, Emily Cutwright, Rachel Colson and Jessica Krieger.
“For this event we are connecting the psychological definition of ‘mindfulness’
to dancing and movement,” Eperthener said.
“One definition states that mindfulness is a state of active, open attention to the
present. When you’re mindful, you observe your thoughts and feelings from a distance, without judging them good or bad. Instead of letting your life pass you by,
mindfulness means living in the moment and awakening to experience.”
The dance concert consists of two acts with five parts each. The public may
attend.
Ticket price is $12 for adults, seniors and children. Students with valid CalCards
are admitted free; their $5 deposit will be returned when they attend the performance.
For ticket information, or to charge tickets by phone, call the Steele Box Office at
724-938-5943.

Events planned for
“Senior Week 2012:
Backpack to Briefcase,”
beginning today, include:
• graduate fair
• professional photo booth
• job search information
• job fair
• internship information
• LinkedIn profile
assistance
• networking information
• resume reviews
251, students can pick up tips on
making a successful transition from
student to professional. At “Brand
‘You,’” in Eberly 255, they will learn
to create a personal
profile that makes an
impact and to market
themselves through
the networking site
LinkedIn.
On Friday, seniors are urged to
walk in to the Career Services office
from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. to receive a free
business card holder, have a quick
resume review, and ask questions
about their job search.
“Although we provide services,
resources and networking
opportunities year-round, we wanted
to dedicate this week to seniors to give
them that extra boost they may need
right now as they prepare for
graduation,” said Rhonda Gifford,
director of Career Services.
“Many seniors may not know that
even after graduation, we provide
lifelong career services at no cost to
them as part of the Cal U for Life
initiative.”

Campus BRIEFS
‘Blueberry Years’
Author Reads Today

Maggie Fike (pictured with students from Chilean she taught last summer)
and four other Cal U students have collaborated on a video about the
benefits of learning a new language. Their work has been recognized by the
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

Video Takes National Prize
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said Fike’s work has made a lasting impression at Cal U.
“This project helps open the door for our students to go beyond the
University environment and reach organizations and communities with
our club’s mission,” she said.
“Through this type of contest students really express their passion
for what they’re doing, and speaking several languages during the video
gives a nice mix that helps people understand culture.”
Fike will use her language skills again this summer when she returns
to Chile to teach at The English Institute in Santiago and at Colegio
Villa Aconcagua in Concon.
“I will definitely pass along all the information (about the contest) to
students in the club, and I hope they will do something similar next
year,” Fike said.
“Cal U needs to be active with ACTFL. This video was a good
experience, something I can build on.”

The Northern Appalachia Network
will sponsor a reading by award-winning
author Jim Minick at 11 a.m. today in
rooms 206-207 of the Natali Student
Center.
Minick is the
author of The Blueberry
Years: A Memoir of
Farm and Family,
named the Southern
Independent
Booksellers Alliance’s
Best Nonfiction Book
for 2010.
Jim Minick
The book captures
the story of Minick’s experience creating
and operating one of the mid-Atlantic’s
first certified-organic, pick-your-own
blueberry farms.
A native of Newberg, Pa., Minick has
lived his entire life in the Appalachian
Mountains.
He will be available afterward to field
questions.

Women’s History
Month Concludes
Cal U’s celebration of Women’s
History Month concludes with three
events this week

On Tuesday, “Humanitarian Responses
to International Human Trafficking” will
be presented at 11 a.m. in Room 117,
Duda Hall.
At 5 p.m., the group “i am that girl”
will hold a meeting focusing on Women’s
History Month in the multipurpose room,
Carter Hall.
On Wednesday, a video TED Talk with
Dr. Sunitha Krishnan will focus on
“Fighting Sex Slavery.” The program
begins at 11 a.m. in Duda Hall.

Speaker Promises
‘Speedy Delivery’
David Newell, who portrayed “Mr.
McFeely” on the children’s television show
Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, will cap off
a series of presentations with a talk from
6:30-8:30 p.m. April 2 in Steele Hall
Mainstage Theatre.
School groups, the campus community
and members of the public are welcome to
hear Newell speak and to watch the film
Speedy Delivery, a documentary about his
work.
Newell, whose catchphrase was
“Speedy delivery!”, will bring the Purple
Panda and other puppets to campus. He
also will greet guests and sign autographs
after his talk.
There is no admission charge and the
presentation is also open to the general
public.

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Intercollegiate
Band
Cal U student Evelyn Schwer
plays the flute during the 65th
annual Pennsylvania
Intercollegiate Band Festival,
hosted by Cal U March 9­11.
After two days of rehearsal,
more than 100 students from 23
colleges and universities
performed in Steele Hall under
the direction of guest conductor
Frank B. Wickes. Seven Cal U
students performed with the
band; faculty co­hosts were Cal
U’s Max Gonano, chair of the
Music Department and director
of bands, and Dr. Marty Sharer,
associate director of bands.

Steve Swiech was recently named to the
Capital One Academic All­America third team.

CERTIFIED RESULTS OF FACULTY ELECTION
CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY FORUM
Members of the Executive Committee of the California
University Forum met in open session on Tuesday, March 6,
2012 at 4:00 p.m., in Room 408 of the Manderino Library.
The purpose of the aforementioned meeting was to certify
the faculty election results. The following members were in
attendance: Ms. Alexandra Brooks, Ms. Fran Fayish, Ms.
Autumn Harris, Ms. Geraldine Jones, Dr. Michael Slavin, Dr.
Craig Smith, and Dr. Tom Wickham. Also present were
Douglas Hoover, Presiding Officer; Loring Prest,
Parliamentarian and Dana Turcic, Recording Secretary.

Liberal Arts:
[Vote for one (1)]
Sean Madden
Marta McClintock
Laura DeFazio
Aref Al-Khattar
Not applicable
Totals:

58
40
30
17
5
150

At-Large:
[Vote for one (1)]
Chad Kauffman – Sci & Tech
Sean Madden – Liberal Arts
Brian Wood – Ed & Human Ser
Laura DeFazio – Liberal Arts
Marta McClintock – Liberal Arts
Paul Sible – Sci & Tech
Pamela Twiss – Ed & Human Ser
Aref Al-Khattar – Liberal Arts
Paula Caffrey – Sci & Tech
Harrison Pinckney – Sci & Tech
Ralph Belsterling –
Ed & Human Ser
Mario Majcen – Sci & Tech
Bernadette Jeffrey –
Ed & Human Ser
Not Applicable
Totals:

Eligible faculty members were notified via e-mail that the
election would take place on February 15th and 16th,
2012 and the instructions on how to vote were included in
the e-mail. Two hundred sixty-two (262) full-time
permanent faculty members were eligible to vote. One
hundred fifty-two (152) votes were recorded; for a voter
participation rate of fifty-eight percent (58%.)
The Office of Continuous Improvement submitted the
results, which were tallied electronically and reported the
results as follows:
Notification and Certification of Faculty Election Votes
Education and Human Services:
[Vote for two(2)]
Pamela Twiss
80
53.7%
Ralph Belsterling
78
52.3%
Brian Wood
37
24.8%
Bernadette Jeffrey
32
21.5%
Not applicable
16
10.7%
Totals:
*
*
*Note: Multiple answer percentage-count totals not
meaningful.

Athlete
Honored for
Academics

38.7%
26.7%
20.0%
11.3%
3.3%
100%

22
19
18
17
15
11
10
9
9
7

14.5%
12.5%
11.8%
11.2%
9.9%
7.2%
6.6%
5.9%
5.9%
4.6%

6
6

3.9%
3.9%

2
1
152

1.3%
0.7%
100.0%

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By unanimous vote of the Executive Committee, the
faculty election results were certified.
A plurality of the votes cast was necessary to win. The
successful candidates will assume their terms at the
September 4, 2012 Forum Meeting.

ATTENTION UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY!
Call for Student Nominations to Standing Committees
to the California University Forum
The California University Forum has
announced a call for the nomination of
students for the University Forum
standing committees. The Forum is
the University’s shared governance
system, which enhances the communication between and among all segments of the University. The University
Forum consists of administrators, faculty, staff, students and alumni, all of who
have a voice in the university’s future.
Alumni, faculty, staff, students, or
community members may nominate
any student of California University
to serve. Self-nominations are permitted. The numbers of student seats
available on the committees are as follows:

Athletic Advisory (3)
Budget (2)
Communication (3)
Core Values (3)
Planning & Priorities (3)
Safety and Social Equity (3)
Student Life (7)
Technology (3)
The committees meet periodically to
tackle certain issues and make recommendations to the full Forum. For further information and details of the committees visit the Forum website at
http://www.calu.edu/faculty-staff/administration/forum/index.htm .
The Forum Executive Committee will
make the final decision on appointees
to the various standing committees.

n all-conference player on the
basketball court, senior forward
Steve Swiech is a high scorer in the
classroom, too.
As a result, he recently was named to
the Capital One Academic All-America
third team by the College Sports
Information Directors of America
(CoSIDA).
He is the first Cal U men’s basketball
player to earn this national academic
achievement since Cal U Hall of Fame
inductee Ray Gutierrez in 1993.
To qualify for the academic honors,
student-athletes must maintain a cumulative
3.30 grade-point average or higher and must
have reached sophomore athletic and
academic standing at their institution.
Nominees must have participated in at least
50 percent of the team’s games, and each
must be a starter or important reserve with
legitimate athletic credentials.
Swiech initially was chosen as a firstteam, all-district academic selection in an
area that includes the Pennsylvania State
Athletic Conference (PSAC), West Virginia
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
(WVIAC) and Central Intercollegiate
Athletic Association (CIAA).
Swiech, who is pursuing a master’s degree
in business administration, owns a 3.7
cumulative GPA. Since transferring from the
University of Akron in 2010, he has made the
Cal U Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for
three consecutive semesters. He also was a
2010-2011 PSAC Scholar Athlete.
He led the Vulcans in scoring and
rebounding each of the past two seasons.
This year he averaged 11.1 points and 6.2
rebounds per game. He is the Vulcans’ top
field goal shooter, at 61.1 percent, having
converted 135 of 221 attempts.
Swiech helped the Vulcans achieve
consecutive PSAC playoff appearances. He
received first-team all-conference honors this
season and was a second-team selection in
2010-2011.

The nominees will be contacted to confirm acceptance of their appointment.
The nomination form is available via
the Public Folders (Campus-Wide
Resources/University Forum) on the
university’s Microsoft Exchange Server.
(For detailed instructions, contact the
Computing Systems Helpdesk at campus extension 5911.) All nominations
must be submitted to the Forum Office
by Friday, March 30, 2012. For more
information contact Mrs. Dana Turcic,
Forum Recording Secretary at 724938-1633 or via email at
CalForum@calu.edu or
turcic@calu.edu . You may also write
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