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Parsons Union Building
Lock Haven University
Lock Haven, PA 17745
Newsroom 484-2334
usiness Office 484-2753

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Lock Haven University's Student Newspaper

Fiona Cheong
reads, celebrates
Chinese New Year
Amanda Alexander
Staff Reporter
aalexan3@lhup.edu

Erin Hippie / Eagle Eye

Aramark food workers in Bentley may be working under a new food service provider this June.
From left, Linda Litz and Paulette Schwab, take a break from checking out student diners.

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Fiona Cheong, author
and college professor,
off the
helped kick
Chinese New Year festivities Thursday night by
reading from her work.
The event was held at 7
p.m. in the PUB MPR.
Dressed in blue jeans
and a blazer, Cheong
greeted the audience
enthusiastically and had
just the right tone for an
audience of college students. She also provided
thorough introductions to
her readings, so the students could understand
the context of the stories

and the meaning behind
them.
Cheong started out by
reading from her second
novel, "Shadow Theatre."
Cheong described it as
a polyphonic novel, told in
several voices. She read
the excerpt in the dialect
that she grew up speaking
in Singapore.
Cheong said, "I was
trying to capture the way
people used to talk in
Singapore," and said it
was a difficult process
because sometimes exact
transcripts of conversations can fall flat.

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Bentley to see new food provider in June
Food Service Committee assesses vendor proposals
Christina Shuman
Staff Reporter
cshuman@lhup.edu
Food
Service
The
Committee here at LHU is
currently assessing the
five proposals it received
from vendors interested in
\he future serving of the
campus' dining establishmerits.
The request for proposals went out in November
with regard to what is
essential to this university
and all bids were due by
Jan. 31.
The process of review-

ing these proposals is
underway and hopefully
should be complete by Feb.
28. Fourteen members,
along with the chairman,
make up the committee
within
the
Student
Council
Cooperative
(SCC).
Students are a part of
this and are encouraged to
get involved. The committee meets monthly with
the director and the staff.
"I hope there is a lot of
students involved, for they
are the ones that get to eat
there everyday," said Dr.
Linda D. Koch, vice president of student affairs.

All proposals received
by the committee will get
a score and this score will
be used as a measure
against both financial concerns and legal concerns
in determining the winner.
The vendors' institutions, where they have
provided their services
previously, will be looked
into after another committee reviews a separate
financial submission. The
university wants to make
sure that they are getting
the best service possible
for staff and students.
The committee hopes to

decide on the winning bidder by the beginning of
March.
"We are looking for a
vendor to partner with
that offers the best food
service available at the
least possible cost for students," said Koch.
The winning vendor
with the best proposal
that meets all of the university's specifications will
have a 5-year contract
with two 1-year renewal
extensions.

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Fiona Cheong reads pieces from her works at the

PUB for the Up-Write reading series.

Snow storm creates
slippery conditions
throughout campus
From Staff Reports

[ On Tuesday, Feb. 12 Lock Haven was hit
:with a winter storm that covered roads and
slowed down everyday activities throughout
the city and campus alike.
The average temperature for the day was
20 degrees with snow and wind flying for the
of the day.
At press time campus had received 2.5
inches of snow and flurries were still visible
in the air.
At right, a fleet of maintenance workers
shovel the steps behind Raub Hall Tuesday
afternoon in an attempt to keep campus clear
as classes continued.
Maintenance workers also worked well
into hours after the sun went down with
snow blowers and plows large and small trying to clear the sidewalks and steps for students.
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Proposals are also in
the works for East
Campus, which may soon '
house a "grab n go" style
establishment, similar to
Robinson Hall's.
The
prospective vendors have
also been asked to look at
Lock Haven's Clearfield
campus but are also looking at a challenge, for the
campus is 70 miles away
and only has about 400
students
"1 would like to reassure people that while
this process is going on
not to worry about the
qualitv of service we
receive right now and
even if we choose another
contractor that the service from Aramark will
remain the same until the
new
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said Ben
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Food Service Committee
of the SCC
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service
director
of
Aramark, respects the
university's privacy during contract selection and
was unable to comment
on the actual process.
The winning vendor
that will supply its services to the university will
begin June 1, 2008.
The current supplier
will end its contract at the
end of May. Students will
not have to worry about
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This contract, just in
one year, is worth $4.5
million. For the complete
7-year contract term, it is
worth around but no more
than $35 million.
Again, students are
encouraged
to
get
involved; this may be a
one time opportunity to be
involved in something
like this.
Opinions and comments are always welcome, for the students are
the ones who will be benefiting from the new vendor. It is the job of the
Food Services Committee
ofthe SCC to work for the
students, express their
concerns and provide
them with the best service
available.
As chairman of the
committee and direct liaison between the students
and the food service contractor, Green encourages
interested students with
any input that they may
him,
e-mail
bgreen@lhup.edu, stop by
his office in the PUB or
call him at 484-3814.
"My committee and I
are excited to have this
opportunity to work on
giving our input into
selecting the next food
service contractor. We
will be looking for the best
possible food service for
the students as per their
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input and request.
really is quite an opportunity for all of us and we
will do our best job to put
in as much student input
as possible. We should
look forward to a new food
service contract, containing different programs,
meals and services," said
Green.

Campus precautions in place,
prepared for natural disasters
Joe Stender
Staff Reporter
jstenderf" lhup.edu
With recent tornadoes
happening in the eastern
part of the country, the
students of Lock Haven
University can rest easy
with the emergency plans
that the university has in
place.
The university is very
much prepared for all disasters that could happen
to the area.
The university has a
full book of operation
emergency plans that covers a variety of potential
situations that would
require emergency plans.
The book has specific
measures that should be
taken for each situation
and how to do so. The
book gives specific plans
for every situation from
terrorism to fires and
more.
The first thing that the
university can do is notify
the students and faculty of
the emergency.
There are multiple
ways that the university
can do so. They can get
the message out by putting it on the radio, emailing students and faculty or
by putting it on the university's webpage.
Also, Paul Alterei, the
university's director of
public safety, suggests
that everyone signs up for
the university's new textmessage service.

the situation. The people
involved in the process
give us the chance of know who is in charge of
immediately notifying the what and who they
students of the shooter answer to.
"We're not going to go
and where it is," said
the
facilities people and
Alterei.
to
them
in charge of
The emergency plans have
We're
to go to
going
that the university has food.
to
take
the
hall
dining
uses the National Incident
ofthe
food.
Everyone
Management
System. care
This is the same system has their job, their expertthat the Army uses for ise," explained Alterei.
Lock
Haven
their handling of emerThe
University campus will
gency situations.
not just take care of the
In this system everyone has their job that will students and faculty if
result in a well-organized there is an emergency
and successful outcome of though.
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such as
Buildings
Zimmerli and Thomas
Field Houses are designated Red Cross sites for the
area. These buildings can
be used to house people or
they can be used as POD's,
Points of Distribution.
POD's are places that
the state uses if they need
to get a shot or vaccine out
in mass numbers.
If
there's an epidemic that is
spreading and everyone
needs a vaccine then the
government will supply
these POD's with medicine and doctors to give
the vaccine out to the people.
These emergency plans
have already been put into
action.
Last summer the university had a planned
period of time with no
electricity. The university
had to plan what to could
be done so that this time
could run smoothly. Also
during the water shortage
this past summer, the university had already begun
a plan that would allow
them to gain water from
other towns and surrounding water sources.
"We had other places
that we could've gotten
water from.
We had
things set up," said
Alterei.
The university is very
much prepared for all situations that it may be put
into. The students should
have no worries about
their safety because the
university is ready.

Multiple summer camps to
be offered at the university
Joe Stender

depending on the activities
planned for the
Staff Reporter
and which topics
camps
jstenderfa lhup.edu
will be discussed during
Lock
Haven them.
The STEP program
University will host multhat
will be offered is for
tiple camps on campus
freshmen.
incoming
this summer.
While
at
this
camp the
The camps will cover
freshmen
learn
will
many different topics and
about
the
and
laptops
activities.
There are
use
how
to
them.
This
is
ones for those who like
an
of
important
aspect
business topics and there
are some for those who college life for the freshlike more active types of men to learn because of
the inexperience in using
camps.
laptops
by most freshThere are a variety of
men.
men.
different types of camps
"Having the camps at
that
the
university
LHU
gives the campers a
offers. The camps usualchance
to get used to the
ly run anywhere from
and see if they
campus
four to seven days,

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The university will
also offer a music camp
this summer.
Also a
business camp which is
aimed at an older demographic will also be conducted on campus.
Sports camps will also
be held on campus. The
camps will range from
Martial Arts to Soccer.
These camps are used to
help athletes gain the
skills and techniques
that they will need to
help their game. The lessons they learn will give
them the competitive
edge that the athletes
will need in order to
compete at their top
level while on the field.
A women's soccer
camp will be provided by
the university to help
female soccer players
learn the specific skills
that they will need for
the upcoming season.
The camp will be ran by
Heather Davis, the Lock
Haven
University's
women's soccer team
head coach which should
allow the participants to
gain valuable knowledge
of the game. The camp
is usually teams that
come to it which lets the
participants to grow
together and learn the
importance of teamwork.
"The
women's
wrestling camp is a
newer camp and we're
excited for it," said Troy
Miller, the director of
athletic development.
This camp will be

and because of the fact
that most schools do not
have a women's wrestling
team. The rarity of the
women's sport makes
this camp predominantly
individual
camp
an
instead of a team camp.
Terry
Fike,
the
women's wrestling coach
for Lock Haven, will lend
experience and knowledge to the camp.
The university will
also offer the Nike Field
Hockey camp which could
lead to complications.
This is because the fields
that are usually used for
this camp will be having
maintenance on them.
Though the hope is that
will be done by the time
that the camp is scheduled to begin.
The camps are helped
and staffed by some LHU
students.
The LHU student athletes help out with the
sports camps to lend
some first-hand experience.
Other students
might find working at the
camps helpful to gain
experience that they will
need in the work field.
"A lot of the students
find the experience to be
a great way of developing
the skills for their field,"
said Miller.
The university hopes
to have another great
year of camps. Both staff
and campers work very
hard to make these
camps fun and exciting.
A lot is learned at these
camps and will hopefully
make those who participate better at their craft.

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trained in that position? If
the answer is no, that
affects the student body.
Negotiations are failing to go forward due to
PASSHE's
failure
to
include an outsourcing
clause in the new contract.
On the issue ofa strike,
SCUPA has no concrete
plans to demonstrate a
strike. Although it can be
used as a tool in the negotiation process, the future
of a demonstration is
unknown.
Frank DeStefano, president of SCUPA, said,
"This stand is for much
more than wages and jobs
but a fight for the very
soul of our universities
and the greater good that
they provide for our communities."
DeStefano also said,
"SCUPA is concerned
about more than just
wages, hours and conditions of employment. We
are virtually concerned
about the quality of life on
our campuses."
Although SCUPA has
been without a contract
for 225 days, many are
hopeful that there is
bright future with the
negotiations and a contract can be met soon.

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including LHU, have been
working without a contract since June of last
year and after a recent
update, negotiations are
still pending.
The SCUPA organization is a group that represents all the employees of
the State System of
Higher Education. The
organization has around
550 members statewide.
to
the
According
SCUPA constitution, the
purpose of the group is to
promote the general educational welfare of State
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System
Higher
Education and also to protect and advance the
interests of its members
and to advance the educational, economic and professional standards of its
members.
Since June 30, 2007,
SCUPA has been working
without a contract and are
in the negotiation process
with
PASSHE
State
(Pennsylvania
of
System
Higher
Education) to replace the
old contract. The PASSHE
is managed by a Board of

Governors that establish
policies for the universities.
One of the key issues
for the negotiation is outsourcing.
means
Outsourcing
people can be hired who
are not educationally
trained in their appointed
position and get paid
cheaper for the work they
provide. This can threaten
members of the universities by these (on-the-job
training) individuals taking their jobs.
This idea of outsourcing can affect students of
the universities as well.
As students, many are
concerned and questioning
this outsourcing issue.
According to James
Watta, vice president of
SCUPA, "students should
require more attention."
For example, as a student if there is an issue
with financial aid one
would need to go to the
financial aid office. One
would want to talk with
someone who is thoroughly trained on that particular subject and be able to
answer any possible questions that may arise.
The question remains,
can a person be trained on
the job and deliver the
same level of service to the
students as someone who

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20, some parts of North
America, South America,
Western Europe, Africa
and Western Asia are
expected to experience a
total lunar eclipse.
NASA's eclipse website
announced that the total
eclipse will begin at
approximately 10:01p.m.
and will end at approximately 10:51p.m.
The eclipse ofthe moon
can be seen from here on
campus and the science
department is hoping to
find a good observation
location.
As reported by Dr.
Wheeler, an associate professor in the geology
department, "if the skies
are clear, I hope to be at
an observing site with
binos and a small telescope.
The details will

depend on the weather,
and the athletic schedule."
More information on
the observation plans will
be available closer to the
date of the eclipse.
According to Dr. Wynn,
an assistant professor of
geology in the science
department here at LHU,
a total lunar eclipse is,
"...when the moon travels
into
the
completely
Earth's
umbra
(Shadow)..."
A lunar eclipse only
occurs when, according to
Wynn, "...the sun, earth
and moon are aligned with
the earth in the middle.
This only can occur
when the moon is full
therefore we do no have an
eclipse every month as the
three only align two times
a year.
If going out to see the
lunar
on
eclipse
Wednesday, look for a
semi-red glow during the
hours reported above.

This red glow is
because of the sunlight
being refracted by the
earth's atmosphere into
the shadow. The sunlight
that passes throw the
shadow has gone through
a long and dense layer of
the earth's atmosphere.
Wynn explains that,
"when the sunlight goes
through our atmosphere
at an angle, the shorter
wavelengths of light are
scattered by small particles. So, by the time the
sunlight reaches the moon
it is only composed of the
longer wavelengths, which
our eyes perceive as red."
So if out in Lock Haven
on Feb. 20, look up to the
sky for a magnificent
sight. For more information on this month's lunar
eclipse, a helpful website:
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.
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she tried to Americanize
herself.
"Eventually, when you
close your eyes, you won t
feel what's missing," she
read.
As she gets older, the
girl
realizes
that
American culture isn't as
as
she
picturesque
thought. She realizes that
some American men hit
their wives after all, and
she finds out that her
American boyfriend is
cheating on her.
She is becoming disillusioned with American culture and more confused
than ever about her identity. Cheong ended the
story by saying the girl
knows she has to "fake it
till you make it."
During the question
and
answer
period,
Cheong said that the work
was based somewhat on
her own experiences.
"Everything is semishe
autobiographical,"
said. "You draw from people as you see them."
Cheong also said that
to become an American
writer, one needs an "identity story."
Her goal was to find a
fresh way to show the
struggles
immigrants
overcome while adjusting
to America and trying to
hold on to their values.
She also wanted to teach
the moral that "you take
on certain things, and
they become you; you can't
be half-real and halffake."
The story seemed to

resonate with audience
members.
Jennifer Sine, a junior
who attended the reading,
said, "I think it introduced
me to a culture I wasn't
that aware of."
Several
students
approached Cheong after
the reading to thank her
for her work and get to
know her better.
Cheong is an associate
at
professor
the
University of Pittsburgh.
Other than "Shadow
Theatre." she has also
written the novel "The
Scent ofthe Gods" and is a
contributor to "Tilting the
Continent:
Southeast
Asian American Writing,"
and "Charlie Chan is
Dead: An Anthology of
Contemporary
Asian
American Literature."
She is originally from
Singapore and is a cofounder of the Asian
American Writers' Forum.
Cheong also had lunch
with the students and faculty in the International
office on campus during
the day she presented in
the PUB.
The reading was sponsored by the LHU English
Department and the
Institute of International
Studies and supported
with funds from the LHU
Foundation and a diversity and equity grant from
the Pennsylvania State
System
of
Higher
Edueatiot) Office of the
Chancellor.

The story was told from
the voice of a mother
named Helena, who wants
her single daughter to get
married. The mother had
several wise and worldweary remarks about life,
such as "You take a man,
you take a woman, what
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ence that she normally
Watershed in order to
protect the Chesapeake Activated Sludge system new structure would not works on several things at
once, so it takes a long
have to be built.
Bay, which includes the which requires practically tripling the size of
Also, the designers time to finish the stories,
city's wastewater treatthe plant and adding and City Engineer Jason but said that she has been
ment plant.
In obedience with two new clarifiers and a Dershem provided DEP writing short stories more
this effort, the city has new sludge pumping with a rough timeline of often lately. Cheong said
she wrote the story about
progress and hope to
been trying to identify station.
The second option is have the project coma year ago, and has yet to
alternatives to upgrade
between try to publish it, although
the plant in compliance called an Integrated pleted
her friends keep urging
with the nutrient cap Fixed Film Activated September 2010 and
her to do so.
loads that have been Sludge system retrofit 2011, therefore meeting
which is comparable to the nutrient cap loads
"Chinese" was written
placed.
in the voice of an immiAlan Zeigler, project the first option in that it by September 2012.
college student
grant
adds two new clarifiers,
City Manager Rich
manager and represenexpressing her feelings in
Marcinkevage provided
tative of Larson Design a sludge pumping stathe second person. It
council with an estimate
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depicted her struggles
to
the of how this project
there are two alternawith "becoming American"
tives for the headworks study, "The only differwould affect sewer costs
ence would be the addiand turning her back on
for the city.
of the system.
her native culture.
Using a best and
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to
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the
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aerated zones of the worst case
scenario,
study, "The city's wastegirl
settles
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water treatment plant
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ume
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need
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be
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constructed
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solids
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first
option.
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wastewater treatment
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plant's headworks."
recommended
convince herself that she
by the $22 million project.
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design
team, would per"This is one of the
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end
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OPINION
Time to rally behind McCain
Chris Hoskavich
Opinion Editor
choskaviCa lhup.edu

candidate shares our basic
values.
It is time to determine
who we are, what we
stand for and where our
future lies. Despite outcry
from prominent conservative commentators, the
future of the Republican
Party and our country lies
with John McCain.
I don't agree with
everything McCain has
said and done, but these
disagreements often boil
down to issues of policy
details. In terms of fundamental philosophy and
vision ofAmerica, McCain
is an ideal republican candidate.
Unfortunately, conservative pundits like Rush
Limbaugh, Sean Hannity
and Glenn Beck have disavowed him. Ann Coulter
has even said she would
vote for Hillary Clinton
over John McCain.
With all due respect,

Call me crazy, but I
think it is an exciting time
to be a republican.
To the casual observer,
it may seem as though our
party is in a state of chaos,
but I prefer to think of it
as a time of flux.
Since its birth as an
anti-slavery party in 1854,
the Republican Party has
evolved
continually
through the eras of
Radical Reconstruction,
Theodore Roosevelt and
the rise of Goldwater and
Reagan.
We are now at a critical
point in our history. We've
lost control of congress,
the presidency is in jeopardy and we are divided
over whether or not our

these people have all gone
mad.
There are certain key
issues that these commentators point to that supposedly disqualify McCain

Chris Hoskavich
from warranting their
support.
Some of their criticism
is appropriate.
The McCain-Feingold
Bill, for example, has no
redeeming features. It

curbs freedom of the most
critical form of speech:
political expression. I'll
give this one to the
Limbaugh's of the world,
but it won't, on its own,
prevent me from voting for
McCain.
Immigration policy is
another issue that has
dogged McCain among
conservatives. I haven't
supported the bills that he
has thus far championed,
but I do support some of
the underlying reasoning
behind them.
It is critical to secure
our border, but we must
remember that a large
part of our economy has,
for better or worse, become
dependent on cheap labor
from illegal immigrants. I
don't support blanket
amnesty for illegal aliens,
but we need a plan that
will deal with them without crippling the economy
in the process.

Max Chaiken
Brown University
U-WIRE

Over the past six
months, my habit of obsessively surfing the blogosphere for news about Sen..
Barack Obama, DHL,
Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.,
and the presidential primaries has become a
downright addiction.
Yes, I'll admit it: I'm
addicted to the Drudge
Report. As you can imagine, I haven't slept much
over the past few days.
And as an Obama supporter and an organizer on
campus, there are a lot of
good reasons to be excited.
But while I could easily
spend this column discussing everything from
the results of Super
Tuesday to the financial
situation of the campaigns, I thought instead
that I might take a minute
to address what some are
calling the "mass messianism" surrounding Barack
Obama's candidacy.
I joined the Students
for Barack Obama team in
late July and started planning for the semester with
a few others in August. I
am not a registered
Democrat, though I did
vote for John Kerry four
years ago. I have never
been involved in any type
of political
campaign
before. And I have to
admit, Barack earned my
support through a combination of policy and idealism, vision and substance.
I do like the way he
speaks.
But with both Clinton
and Obama vying for fron-

trunner status (and at the
same time calling themselves underdogs), there
have been suggestions
that there is something
"creepy," "salvational," or
"messianic" about our
movement - you can read
ABC News senior national
correspondent
Jake
Tapper's blog for a sum-

vey his intricate knowl-

edge of policy details. But
this is not because his
policies lack detail, but
rather because he recognizes that what our country, and especially our
generation, needs right
now is a call to action, not
a litany of details.
The power of Obama's
mary.
candidacy derives from
There have also been the fact that he has the
various suggestions that ability to inspire individuthere is no substance to als to take action and
Obama's policies, and that work together for the comhe focuses too much on mon good.
inspiring people and not
His candidacy and
enough on details. Yet as a campaign challenge us not
supporter and a student, I to be distracted by the polbelieve the latter is itics of fear and the natuunfounded, and the for- ral cynicism bred by seven
years of a devastatingly
mer, blatantly myopic.
The criticism that obtuse and narrow-mindObama's policies have no ed presidency and vision,
substance is preposterous. but rather to reach out for
A short look at his Web what we know to be true
site would quickly disaand good about our counbuse anyone of this notion try.
you can download dozens
Do we believe that we
of detailed policy proposcan work together to overals discussing specifics of come the challenges of terenergy, health care, fiscal rorism and an unjust war
and educational policy.
that has not made us safer
He holds many events but has reduced our standfor the specific purpose of ing around the world?
discussing policy details,
Yes, we do.
such as the economic sumDo we believe that we
mit he held in New Mexico can unite around our combefore Super Tuesday. mon goals, hopes and
Having worked as a state dreams to finally make
legislator and a U.S. senaprogress on issues like
tor (and having served in energy and the environelected office for longer ment, education
and
than Clinton), he underhealth care?
stands the policy-making
Yes, we do.
process on both a state
Do we believe that perand national level.
haps only once in a generMany people might ation, a leader with a
still argue that his speechvision and the unique
es are lofty and that his power to communicate
talk about hope and that vision, comes along to
change is idle or false. It is help us make our country
true that he talks a lot great?
about hope and change. It
Yes, we do.
is also true that oftenMuch has been made
times he aims to inspire lately of the slogan "Yes,
audiences rather than con- we can." The popular

-

music video featuring
celebrities singing one of
Barack's speeches has
accumulated over 3 million hits on YouTube in
only eight days. Many
pundits have noted how
this campaign has truly
become a movement over
the course of the last
month. And our movement
is sure to draw criticism
that somehow we are hoping for too much - that we
are investing undue salvational fervor into a political cause or somehow raising Barack to a messianic
symbol.
Perhaps then, "Yes, we I
do" better reflects the true I
nature of this movement.
"Yes, we can" does not
mean that we sit at home
and wait for Barack to
save our country. It means
that we believe in this candidate and this movement,
and that we will work
relentlessly for that which
we know is possible.
"Yes, we do" mobilized
40 Brown students to volunteer in New Bedford,
Mass. days before Super
Tuesday. It motivated
dozens to trek up to New
Hampshire last semester
and over winter break. It
inspired us to make hundreds, maybe thousands of
phone calls to voters over
the past few months. It
calls a movement of people
to action.
If we elect Barack
Obama as our next president of the United States,
it will not be simply
because we have said,
"Yes, we can." Rather, we
will have said "Yes, we do"
recognize that we can elect
Obama, but only if we are
willing to work tirelessly
to achieve that goal.

,

even full columns.
this way about what we
Don't feel intimidated or believe in.
worry about negative reacAnd remember, you are
tions. I am sure my opinion in welcome to write about ANYthis week's column will be THING you feel is worth your
unpopular among many liber- time.

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McCain's VP to make
him look younger?"
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John McCain.

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als and conservatives alike,
but it is something I care
about, so I am proud to have
expressed it.
I think we should all feel

Obama are essentially
campaigning on the prom,
ise of increasing government spending.
Given that McCain's
positions on these issues
aren't nearly as liberal as
some pundits have asserted, all republicans should
support him because he is,
at this point, the only candidate who will fight for
the causes we hold dear.
Only McCain will work
to ensure victory in Iraq.
Only McCain is a reliable
proponent
of
second
amendment rights. Only
McCain
will appoint
judges who don't have a
leftist agenda.
Maybe he isn't Ronald
Reagan, but John McCain
is who we need right now.
The stakes are too high to
wait four more years for a
candidate who meets the
unreasonable standards of
a few talking heads.

For the record

Not just soul, but substance
Brown Daily Herald

I think John McCain
understands this and will
work with congress to
develop a border policy
that will address these
problems and be acceptable to those of us who are
not willing to sacrifice our
nation's sovereignty.
McCain's conservative
critics also point to his
votes against George W.
Bush's tax cuts. It is
important to keep in mind
that McCain has said he
will work to keep these tax
cuts permanent as president, and voted against
them in the first place
because they were not tied
to spending cuts.
Slashing government
spending is, in fact, a
linchpin of his economic
plans. What could be more
conservative than that?
This aspect of McCain's
economic views is all the
more important when we
consider that Clinton and

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state. Instead they would
win the number of votes
that they accumulated.
This would make the
presidential election a
truly national election.
There are some problems people have with this
type of voting method. The
first is tradition and the
fact that the Founding
Fathers instituted a system that has withstood
the test of time.
However, tradition is
no excuse to keep a broken
system. The elimination of
a state-by-state electoral
process also violates what
some believe to be the
United States' federalist
principles.
In a sense, an election
by popular vote impedes
on states' rights to institute their own election
procedures.
The United States was
founded on a principle of
federalism, a nation of
loosely aligned states in
national government, as a
way to prevent the consolidation of power into a
central government.
However. federalist
principles do not ensure a
fair and just election procedure,
especially for
those of the minority party
in a single state.
The changing of the
voting method is not something that would profoundly impact the rights
of all states. It will ensure
that all the votes are
counted. States will still
have the rights to elect
senators and representatives to serve their interests.
A truly national election will not impede
states' rights to make
their own laws and govern
their people as they see fit
in certain circumstances.
Instead it will combat disenfranchisement
by
ensuring all citizens that
their votes are actually
counted.
The United States is
also not solely a federalist
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The Electoral College
has been around for more
than 200 years and it is
safe to say that it has outlived its purpose.
Its inherent disenfranchisement has led to some
despicable votpr turnouts,
even in the most hotly contested and important elections.
Despite the fact that
Republicans
and
Democrats would not
change the current electoral procedure because of
the risk of diminishing
their own powers, there
are potential voting alternatives. However, there
are those that staunchly
defend the current electoral process.
The aspect of presidential elections that needs to
change is the separation of
the electorate by states.
The president is the
only national office which
is voted on by the entire
populace of the United
States. Candidates try to
win states instead of
appealing to the nation as
whole.
The minority party in
some states, such as
Democrats in Texas or
Republicans
in
Connecticut, end up of
having no say in the election process because most
states are all-or-nothing
with regards to distributing delegates.
Instead of competing
on a state-by-state basis,
candidates
should be
forced to compete on a
national scale. This means
instead of electing the
president by the Electoral
College, it should be done
by the popular vote.
In this system all votes
would count evenly. If a
candidate obtained more
votes that another in a
state, they would not win
all the delegates, or even
the sole support of that

support base, is the citizens' choice even if they
lost the popular vote
because the person who
won the popular vote could
have garnered their votes
only from a certain portion
of the country.
However, just because
a region is more populated
does not mean its say
should be diminished by
limiting the number of
electoral votes.
A vote in a more populated region, such as the
northeast, can still be offset by the many votes garnered thorough out a more
sparsely populated but
larger region such as the
Midwest. Second, and
most importantly, when
instituted, the Electoral
College did not account for
the vast changes in technology that has occurred
to the present day.
The Electoral College
ensured that candidates,
in a time where there were
not even light bulbs, crisscrossed the country and
delivered their message to
a wider audience than
those in just the most popcountry.
ulated area.
According to uselecHowever, with the
tionatlas.org, "it is principally because of the advent of TV, the internet,
Electoral College that YouTube and 24-hour
presidential nominees are media coverage, caminclined to select vice prespaigning is already done
idential running mates on a national scale. Even
from a region other than the poorest people in this
their own. For as things country usually have
stand now, no one region access to a TV. Candidates
contains the absolute are constantly under spotmajority (270) of electoral light and scrutiny and are
votes required to elect a always campaigning to a
national audience.
president.
Thus, there is an incenWhether a candidate
tive for presidential candivisits a certain state may
dates to pull together be an issue for some votcoalitions of States and ers, but in the end it is the
regions rather than to issues that should matter.
exacerbate regional differA change in the elecences. Such a unifying tion process would end
mechanism seems espesome disenfranchisement,
cially prudent in view of minus the absurd ballot
the severe regional probaccess laws in some states
lems that have typically that prevent third parties
plagued
geographically from joining the tickets.
large nations such as More people would feel
China, India, the Soviet like their votes counted
Union, and even, in its and in turn voter turnout
time, the Roman Empire." would increase substanThis view contributes tially resulting in a truly
to the notion that the presnationally elected presiident, because of a broad dent.

CIA, FBI, DEA and even
the IRS.
The federal government taxes people in all
states. Even the education
system has become federally regulated. The No
Child Left Behind Act,
though controversial, is a
piece of legislation that
governs all states and
ensures guidelines as to
how to implement certain
requirements in the public
education system.
The most anti-federalist organizations are the
armed forces. Most states
do not have a militia for
times of unrest to protect
themselves against a central government. Instead
the country rallies behind
a national army. Why is it
then not appropriate for
the citizens to rally behind
a nationally-elected president?
One of the more convincing arguments to keep
the Electoral College in
place is that it requires
that a candidate gain a
broad range of popular
support throughout the

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to the Australian government who apoloto the country's Aborigines for what Prime

gized
Minister Kevin Rudd called years of "mistreatment" and "profound grief, suffering and loss" for
the country's "Stolen Generation." Until 1970, the
Australian government took children of mixed-race
from Aboriginal families and placed them in dormitories or industrial schools, claiming that they were
protecting them. These children often grew up in
harsh conditions, with little or no education and
faced severe abuse.

Thumbs Up.,,
to those involved with the negotiations sur-

rounding the crippling Writer's Guild strike, which
looks to be finally wrapping up and reaching an
agreement. The Guild managed to wrest some of
the industry's digital revenues from management,
after losing weeks and weeks of time at work and
putting all those involved with our beloved TV
shows out of work as well. Perhaps the most important point in this whole development we get our
shows back!

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Use it, or lose it

It's true that with these new
In a time when campus
events and activities have
i events, attendees have also
become more and more ere- i increased. HAC has reported
ative, the head counts of atten- i during SCC Senate meetings
dees remain sadly dismal.
some events with nearly full
HAC has brought distinctly
turn-outs. But these numbers
different and interesting acts to are definitely not consistent.
campus within the last year
Especially for those students
including the fall semester's I living on campus, the activities
strangely fascinating Freak
iavailable from HAC offer quite a
and
Week, loads of comedians
Ilot of solutions to a very boring
big screen movies and hypnohypno- ievening spent watching T.V. in
tist, game shows and (the latest 1the dorm room.
of the bunch) laser tag and ice
The student activity fee
skating.
tacked
on to your tuition bill
1
When most of us here at the |pays for all the wacky, funny, or
Eagle Eye were freshmen,
i downright strange visitors who
those activities were no where icome to campus to entertain
;you.
near options.
Now there is more of those
Since, in essence, we are
than ever, too. Options, that is. |paying for the events that come
And still students are not taking 1to campus it seems rather uninfull advantage of the acts that Itelligent that we aren't attending
they paid for in their student
1the events in staggering numactivity fees.
Ibers.
It's depressing to go to an
Basically, we are paying for
performance
a
and
watch
a
event
movie ticket, a comedy show
and a hypnotist and not showin front of a pathetically small
ing up. That certainly isn't ecocrowd.

nomical or entertaining.

This lack of attendance
unfortunately spans across the
university entertainment world
far beyond HAC events.
Club sponsored events and
LHU sporting events are also
dismally attended.
The common response to
attending sporting events is
often, "our teams are no good."
In a few cases this may be
true, but there is no substitute
for good old fashion student
body support to bolster a teams
drive.
Far too often we hear students grumbling about a lack of
activities, but a simple visit to
the activity calender or a trip
over to Price Auditorium on any
given evening will curb those
woes.
If the people who so kindly
organize these activities for us
had the same apathetic attitude
about planning as we have
about attending we'd really
have something to bitch about.

lhueagleye.com

February 13, 2008

Art, English professors author children's book
Erin Hippie
News Editor
ehipple@lhup.edu
Sometimes
what's
deemed a "failed hope"
only needs a creative reinforcement.
And such was the case
for
art
department
Professor Philip Huber
after dozens of attempted
rhyming poems and years
spent trying to carve out a
vision for a children's book
that just never really sat-

isfied.
But another door soon
opened for Huber.
Colleague and Director
of Creative Writing in the
English
department
Marjorie Maddox-Hafer
brought a fresh spin and a
few new rhyme schemes to
Huber.
And together, Huber
and Maddox Hafer have

delved back into their
childhood and written and
illustrated a children's
book: The Crossing of
Zebras: Animal Packs in
Poetry.
Huber's vivid and

detail-oriented drawings,
combined with MaddoxHafer's poignant voice in
have
poetry
merged
together to entertain and
teach children of the
groupings of animals.
Whether it is an army
of ants, a murder of crows,
a pounce of alley cats or a
crossing of zebras, the
book features 14 groupings, accompanied by one
of Maddox-Hafer's poems
and Huber's illustrations.
And
back
looking
Huber remembers his
original plan, where he
tried his hand at writing
the rhymes.
"My rhymes just didn't

work out," said Huber
laughing. "I had to invest
in the help of Marjorie... I
needed the reinforcement."
And although MaddoxHafer is no stranger to
writing books, she admits
that there were challenges
along the way, just as
there are with any publication.
'The entire process has
been a lot harder than I
thought, but very rewarding," said Maddox-Hafer.
As Huber describes, the
book is unique in the fact
that it was created backwards.
"It's almost like the
book was done backwards
because the poetry was
done after the drawings,"
said Huber. "I came to
Marjorie with my drawings and she had to craft
the poems to the illustra-

tions."

Maddox-Hafer agreed
that it was like an
assignment where she
was given the title and
the pictures and had to
create a poem that coincided with Huber's ideas.
"We didn't keep the
originals of anything. I
have revised the poems
20 or 25 times and I
know Philip has modified
the drawings slightly
when necessary," she
said.
The 32-page book,
whose audience is children 8-12, is being published by Wordsong of
Boyds Mills Press in
Honesdale, Pa. and will
retail for $16.95.
Working with a publisher and editors can
also be challenging, especially when the vision of
the editor and the vision
ofthe author do not align.
"It's always challenging," said Maddox Hafer.
"You have to be open to
the editors' ideas, and our
editors
were
very
involved."
But once the final project was completed, everyone was satisfied.
"Sometimes our work
has to sit on a back burner
for a while," said Huber of
the
writing
process.
"Especially as a professor,
it can be hard to find the
time. But this was our
chance to let it all out."
The book also caters to
families, dabbling in a
hint of adult humor combined with attention-todetail concepts, such as
each illustration having
one particular animal

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Above and left: all artwork which is featured
throughout the children's book, The Crossing of
Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry, is original and
hand drawn by Philip Huber and the poetry is
original work by Marjorie Maddox-Hafer.
looking directly into the
eyes of the reader.
And
Huber
and
Maddox Hafer couldn't be
more excited for the
arrival ofthe first copies.

Haven, as well as the university's
Day
of
Scholarship.
The book will be able to
be found at most bookstores including Amazon.
And the two agree that
this is not the end of the
road for writing, as both
have other works in the
process- Huber in the writing process and Maddox
Hafer in the publishing

"The book is actually
being printed in China,"
said Maddox-Hafer. "It is
supposed to come out in
the spring as a market for
National Poetry Month."
Huber and Maddox- process.
Hafer hope to have the
"And I know we'll find
book available for signing something else to work on
in Williamsport, at the together in the future,"
Ross Library in Lock said Huber.

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Students take full advantage of the many inches of snow that
campus and the surrounding city received throughout the day
on Tuesday. Left, students play a game of rugby on the
Russell Lawn.
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However, the snow did not provide all fun and games for
everyone. Above, a crew of maintenance workers shovel the
steps and ramps throughout campus to make the walkways
safer and easier for students to traverse.
All photos courtesy of Adam Roberts.

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The Eagle Eye strives for accuracy in its reporting, and would like to
correct a mistake in last week's issue. Dr. Sandra Barney of the History
department took part in the Environmental Focus Group which was
highlighted on the front page.

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www.lhueaeleve.com

Wednesday, February 13, 2007

Morse and Mock lead
track and field teams
in fierce competition
Garrett Graziano
Sports Editor
ggrazian@lhup.edu
Both the men's and
women's track and field
teams were in competition
this past weekend. Split up,
the teams competed at
three different events, most
notably the New Balance
Collegiate Invitational in
New York City.

Photo Courtesy of Sports Information

Daniel Craig, seen above, grapples with a fellow heavyweight at a match
earlier this year. Craig's victory lifted LHU over Bucknell this past Saturday.

Wrestling comes away with
win in heavyweight match
Kris Glad
Sports Reporter

score 5-2. This was the
first time in almost a
month that Trumbetti had
given up any points to an

kglad@lhup.edu

At Bucknell University
this past Saturday the
wrestling team earned
their second victory in
three matches, but what
made this victory extraordinary was that it came
down to the final match to
decide the victor.

The final match was
tied up and it was up to
freshman
heavyweight
Daniel Craig to win it for
LHU.
"It felt really good to be
able to pull off a win to
give the team a victory
that they deserved," said
Daniel Craig
With the win or loss
riding on Craig's performance, he stepped up and
showed what he has
improved over the season
and can take the pressure
of having an entire match
put on his shoulders.
"I thought I wrestled
pretty good, which was
good since I was working
hard on the things I need
to improve on the past
week," said Craig. "Just
glad to see it paid off and
was glad it came when the
team needed it."
It wasn't just him that
got Lock Haven the victoJohn
Trumbetti
ry.
extended his winning
streak to five straight victories as he took the 125
lb. weight class by the

opponent.

"I thought I could of
opened up a little more
against Matos (his opponent)," said Trumbetti.
The next two bouts
went in Bucknell's favor,
but junior Matt Fittery
put the Bald Eagles back
into the match with his
team best 18th win of the
season, despite feeling
under the weather. He
took down his opponent 86 in the 149 lb. bout.
"I don't really think I
wrestled too well in my
match. I should've been
able to pick up bonus
points, but I wasn't feeling
well and got tired and it
ended up being a close
match. So I wasn't very
happy with that," said
Fittery.
Freshman
John
Mangini kept the Bald
Eagles momentum going
by taking the 157 lb. bout.
With his victory Mangini
had closed the gap that
the Bison had to just one
point.
Bucknell
responded
with a couple more victories oftheir own. It wasn't
known at that time but
those would be the last
bouts that Bucknell would
win that evening.
With three match's left
LHU came back fighting.
In the 184-pound match
sophomore Jeremie Cook
made fast work of his
opponent, by pinning him

just 2 minutes andl4 sec-

onds in to the match.
Junior Ben Hepburn
wrestled a close match in
the 197 lb. weight class,
edging out his opponent 75. Both wins tied up the
score at 18 points apiece
with the final match of the
evening, the heavyweight
match, being won by
Craig.
"The match was very
exciting I think it brought
our team together as a
family. It took the efforts
of everyone to win that
match and in the end the
payoff was tremendous,"
said Trumbetti
The Bald Eagles have a
busy weekend coming up
as the will host the
Bloomsburg University
Huskies this Friday in
Eastern Wrestling League
(EWL) action at the
Thomas Field House.
Then Saturday LHU will
travel
to
Clarion
University the next day to
take on the Golden Eagles
in more EWL Action.
"These are both big
matches for us, but I think
if we wrestle well, we will
walk away with two victories this weekend. Bloom
especially is one that we
really want to win," said
Fittery.
"They are a tough
team, but I think if we
wrestle like we can, we
will beat them. Clarion
has gotten a lot better and
will be a tough match too
so we need to be ready to
go both days this weekend."

Held at the New York
Armory, this was one of the
steepest meets the Haven
has been involved in all season. With a slue of Division
I-A powerhouses present,
Chelsea Morse had the best
performance on the day of
any Haven competitor.
Morse's leap of 1.74m in
the high jump championship was good enough for
a fifth-place tie with Rider
University's
Kelly
Kajunski. Morse, however,
would be the only one to
crack the top 10 all day long
for LHU.
"Morse did a good job at
the
New
Balance
Invitational," said Head
Coach Aaron Russell. "We
competed against top caliber schools throughout the
whole meet so for her to
come away with a fifth
place finish says a lot."
Fellow Lady Eagle,

Shala Simms, had the next
best individual placement
when she finished 42nd in
the 800 meter run in a time
of 2:20.53.
On the men's side Chris
Edelman took 53rd out of a
field of a 122 runners in the
400 meter dash championship with a time of 49.22,
while teammate Paul
Martin 61st in the 60 meter
hurdles championships.
As a whole, the men's
distance medley team came
away with an 11th place
finish in the championship
event with a time of
10:08.36.
"For the most part we
did O.K., but we can definitely do better than what
we showed," said Coach
Russell. "Some of our kids
are battling sicknesses
right now and I'm proud of
the way they still competed
at a high level."
At Bucknell University's
annual Winter Classic,
Haven competitors fared
much better in competition.
Greg Mock set the bar
for LHU with a secondplace finish in 55 meter
dash with a time of 6.56.
Capitalizing on his success,
Mock also took sixth in the
200 meter dash clocking in
at 23.22.

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Boxing team prepares
for LHU Invitational
Clayton D. Desmond
Boxing Writer
cdesmond@lhup.edu

bouts for the Bald Eagles
were freshman, William
Goss, (1-2) who lost to
Army's Terrell Anthony
junior,
Greg
In preparation for and
Stratton
who
(5-8)
their annual Lock Haven
a
close
decision
dropped
Invitational, the defending National Collegiate to Army's Steve Solaja.
Boxing
Association Behind most of the bout,
Stratton finished the
(NCBA) team champithird
round strong, closons, competed in both
the
ing
gap in the action
the
Black
Knight
bout.
packed
Invitational at West
Also freshman, 165
Point, NY and the Bullet
lb.
Donny Brady, (3-4)
Invitational
at
lost
via RSC-Retirement
Gettysburg College, last
(medical)
in the third
Saturday night, Feb. 16.
round to Army's national
qualifier Ryle Stous.
"We have seen some
improvement
in our
Five boxers traveled
boxers
and
younger
to West Point, NY to parwe
hopefully
can
correct
ticipate in the 14-bout
Knight Invitational with some of our mistakes
two
of LHU's
top before next Saturday's
pugilists garnering wins. LHU Invitational," said
Addy Pizarro (132, Coach Ken Cooper.
Bullet
At
the
Sr.) increased his career
Jamie
Invitational,
record to 19-3 with an
1-0)
was
Snyder
(junior,
impressive 3-0 decision
first
colleawarded
her
over Army's rugged Dan
over
win
Hogan, while teammate giate
Gettysburg
College's
Aaron Lynch (195, Dr.)
advanced
his career Candace Tucker, in the
record to 9-8 with a evening lid-lifter.
methodical decision over
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Army's Jody Chapman.
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Chinese tradition celebrated at LHU
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February 13, 2007

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Kelshaw's clutch shooting
lifts the Lady Eagles over SRU
Alan Trexler
Sports Reporter
atrexler(« lhup.edu
After falling at home to
IUP on Wednesday night,
the women's basketball
team traveled to Slippery
Rock Saturday and picked
up their second conference
victory.
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Sophomore
Kristen
Kudrick recorded a double-double and Junior
Lauren Kelshaw hit her
second game-winning shot
in three games to lead
LHU (7-14, 2-5 PSAC
West) to the 62-59 victory
over the Rock.
Earlier this season
Slippery Rock (7-15, 1-6)
came
to
Thomas
Fieldhouse and escaped
with a four point win.
Heading into Saturday's
rematch
head
coach
Jennifer Smith had one
thing on her mind.
"Slippery Rock is all
about paybacks," said
Smith. "We do not feel
like we should have lost to
them the first time. We
didn't play well at all. We
are going into this game
ready to take care of business."
The Lady Eagles took
care of business down the
stretch with clutch shooting and big defensive
stops.
With the game tied 5858 and only 24 seconds
Lauren
remaining,
Kelshaw hit a jumper to
give Lock Haven the 60-58
lead. After a Slippery

Rock free throw, Kelshaw
added two free throws of
her own to make the final
margin 62-59.
Kelshaw finished with
16
and
points
six
rebounds.
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Saturday
Kelshaw hit the game
winner for LHU. Last
week she hit a jumper
with 22 seconds left to give
Lock Haven a one-point
win over Edinboro.
Though Kelshaw stole
the spotlight at the end,
Kudrick was the star of
Saturday's contest. She
scored a game-high 22
points and pulled down 10
boards including seven on
the offensive glass.
It marked the first
time this year a LHU
player has recorded a double-double. Kudrick was
also effective on the defensive end recording a gamehigh six steals.
Malika Miller and
Elizabeth Finneran each
added eight points for
Lock Haven.
On Wednesday night
IUP came to Thomas
Fieldhouse and left with a
71-54 win over the Lady
Eagles.
IUP, ranked
10th
nationally, pulled out to a
seventeen point halftime
lead and held on to win by
the same margin.
"Our biggest issue was
that we started off flat in
the first half, said Smith.
"Just about everybody was
flat defensively and offensively."
IUP (20-2, 5-1) used a
12-4 run early in the game
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to put distance between
themselves and LHU.
Lock Haven had trouble
handling the ball as IUP
scored 21 points off
turnovers in the first half.
"We had 19 turnovers
in the first half so we just
dug ourselves a hole," said
Smith. "We talked about
it at the half and the second half score was 30-30.
Most of our turnovers
were our own fault rather
than their defensive pres-

sure."
The Lady Eagles were
solid in the second half but
were unable to climb out
of the double digit deficit.
"We showed we can
play with them and I
think we did in the second
half," said Smith. "I think
we can go out there and
play with them and beat
them if we play for 40 minutes."
Kudrick led the team
with 17 points on 8 for 10
shooting. Kelshaw added
15 while Casi Donelan
pulled down a team high
six rebounds.
Three players from
IUP scored in double figures led by Jahzinga
Tracey who had a game
high 18. Kylie Miller
added 15 while Kierstin
Filla chipped in with 12.
The Lady Eagles are
back in action tonight at
Thomas Fieldhouse when
they host Shippensburg at
6.
Tonight is also Think
Pink Day as the Lady
Eagles will be wearing
pink warm-ups to promote
breast cancer awareness.

Kristen Kudrick, seen above, battles with defenders. Kudrick recorded the
first double-double of the season for LHU this past Saturday.

From wrestling to fighting
Tim Boetsch, a LHU alumni and former wrestler has left the
mat behind for the safe confines of the UFC caged octagon
to a first round knockout.
Alan Trexler
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Four years ago Tim
Boetsch would have been
kicked off the LHU
wrestling team for throwing
his opponent to the mat and
repeatedly striking him in
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But in the world of
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
his
has
performance
received nothing but praise.
On Feb. 3 Boetsch, a
2004 graduate of Lock
Haven, made the most ofhis
biggest opportunity in the
sport. In his first appearance in the UFC, the major
leagues of MMA, ho dominated David Heath en route

On the sport's biggest

stage, Boetsch impressed

the audience with a nearly
flawless performance.
"The matchup for me
was perfect style-wise so I
had to jump on it," said
Boetsch. "There was never
any question in my mind as
to whether I was going to
take this fight."
Despite his wrestling
background from his years
at I-ock Haven, Boetsch controlled the fight from his
feet.
reel.
"It was kind of the way
the fight went," explained
Boetsch. "In my mind I
wanted to take it to the
ground and win that way
but as it turned out I was
able to stay on my feet and
make it a striking battle. I
think from the way the fight

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ter striker that night."
During his years at
LHU, Boetsch. now fighting
out of Sunbury, wrestled in
the 197 pound and heavyweight classes. The transition to MMA required him
to improve his skills on his
feet.
"Learning to throw your
hands and kicks and everything that goes along with
stand up fighting is a bit
awkward at first so I was a
little uncomfortable," said
Boetsch.
"That's one of the things
I have worked hard on.
Now I feel like striking is
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Eagle. McLean has had a hot hand lately for LHU. He recently set a career
high in points per game.

Basketball faces slue of
problems in PSAC losses
Brandon Apter
Sports Reporter
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The Bald Eagles lost two
PSAC West games this past
week to IUP, 70-57, and to
Slippery Rock 53-43.

Men's Basketball
The Haven couldn't contain their lead against IUP
and could not overcome a
poor shooting performance
against Slippery Rock.
Billy Arre scored 19
points in the game against
IUP. giving him sole possession of fifth-place on the
LHU all-time scoring list,
passing Doug Legette, with
1507 career points. Arre is
the first to pass 1500 points
since the '97 season when
Mike Shue accomplished it.
The Bald Eagles could
not overcome a hot shooting
IUP team either. The
Haven stuck around for a
lot of the first half and even
had a 13-11 lead at one
point thanks to a triple by
local product Eli Hanna.
IUP would answer right
back with a 3-pointer of
their own, to take a one
point edge. Junior standout
Billy Arre sank two threepointers in a row to put the
Haven ahead again. The
lead wouldn't last for long

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From, T & F, Bl
"Mock is an interesting
story," said Coach Russell.
"He did not train duringthe
fall, but despite that, he is
surprising a lot of people
and with continuous training could continue to
improve upon his success."
Haven runner Nick
Hilton took home fifth in the
5000 meter run with a time
of 15.38.02, while teammate
Ix)gan Wolfe finished in sev-

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In a mild upset, Josh
Wisniewski (sr. 21-8) , the
2007
National
125
Champion, moved up to
132 lbs. and dropped a
decision
to
split
Mansfield's Jarell Hill in
an action packed bout.
Both coaches, Dr. Ken Cox
and John Stout thought
Wisniewski won the hotly
contested bout.
Also losing their bouts
were the Bald Eagles junior. 147 lb. Mike Bechdel
(2-7) who was stopped in

as IUP would go on an 11-4
run to closeout, to half and
take a commanding 35-26
going into the locker room.
A lead of 12 would be
one ofthe largest for IUP in
the second half, which was
right before the Haven
made their typical comeback bid.
This rally would only
bring the Haven to within
six at 56-50 and IUP would
go a 14-7 run to closeout the
game with a 70-57 win.
"Down the stretch, it
was our lack of execution,"
said LHU Head Coach John
Wilson Jr. "Sometimes we
can be our own worst
enemy."
For the first five minutes against Slippery Rock,
the Haven did not score a
single point, putting them
at an early eight-point
deficit.
Both teams struggled to
get their offenses to click as
the game stayed in single
digits until Billy Arre
knocked down a jumper to
put Lock Haven up 10-9.
But just as the Bald
Eagles took the lead, the
Rock came right back and
went on a 5-0 run to lead
14-10. Kelvin McLean
would knock down two
clutch shots to secure a
halftime lead of 26-21.
The Bald Eagles came

out of the gates quickly in
the second half to build
their lead up to seven but
Slippery Rock was just getting warmed up.
Over the next five and a
halfminutes, SRU would go
on an 11 -3 run to take a 32r
31 lead.
The Haven would go
back ahead on a jumper by
Billy Arre but they couldn't
hold the lead for much
longer.
With just under ten
minutes to go, the Rock
would go on a 9-1 run and
dominate the Bald Eagles
for the rest of the game,
eventually sealing a 53-43
victory.
"I think that we just
have to start out the games
at a faster pace," said center
AJ Zimmer. "Doing that
will help us not get down by
double digits."
Billy Arre would score a
game high 19 points but his
performance could not overshadow the dismal 22 percent shooting performance
from LHU down the
stretch.
.'
"I think we have a
strong team here, we are a
young team with a lot oftalented players," said guard
Justin Wilson. "We are
going to keep working hard.
We have to take it one day
at a time."

enth-place in the shot put
with a throw of 13.95m.
On the women's side
Jenny Sheler led all Lady
Eagles with a fifth-place finish in the weight throw with
a toss of 13.62m.
Teammates Elise Tooker
and Theresa Gould took
seventh and 10th place in
the 500 meter dash with
times of 1:23.99 and 1:27.69
respectively.
In the pole vault competition, Ashley Mancil took
sixth with a vault of 3.06m.

Wrapping the day up
was the Haven's 4x400
meter
team.
relay
Comprised ofAngela Pierce,
Caitlin Burke,
Cassie
Snider and Tooker, the
team took home a seventhplace finish, clocking in at
4:10.92.
Both track and field
teams will be in action
again this Saturday at
Susquehanna University
for
the
Susquehanna
Invitational. Action is slated
to start at 9:00 a.m.

the third round by West bouts will begin at 2:00
Virginia's Tomo Matsui p.m. and the main card
and 139 lb. sophomore, (open division) will start
Joe Finneran (0-1) who promptly at 7:30 p.m. The
lost a 3-0 decision to ever popular "Let's Make a
Navy's Paul Hollwedel.
Deal" with Dr. Larry Cox
Losing in the female will again be held at the
division was the Bald intermission of the main
Eagles' 160 lb. freshman, card.
Aariel Hostetter (0-2) who
The Bald Eagles top
lost a close decision to boxers. Josh Wisniewski
Penn
State's
Jamie (125). Addy Pizarro (132):
Sanfillipo.
Danny Marrero (147);
The Bald Eagles host Dave Harper (156), Tom
their always popular 29th Dando
(165),
Greg
Annual LHU Invitational Stratton (185), and Aaron
this Saturday in the Lynch (195) are all schedThomas Field House. The uled to box Saturday
under-card (preliminary) night.

February 13, 2007

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I miss football
Garrett Graziano
Sports Editor
ggrazian@lhup.edu
I'm bored. Football is over and basketball is overrated.
It's that time of the year again where
to find something to entertain
struggle
I
me as much as football has the last 20 or
so weeks.
I love hockey, I think going to hockey
games is one ofthe more enjoyable sports
to see live, but for some reason the sport
has lost its. flair to me when watching it
from home.
I don't know why, maybe it's because
of the strike a couple years back, maybe
it's the fact a game is harder to find on
television than ever before and now I'm
so far behind in the season I don't care, I
really don't know, but it's not doing it for
me anymore.
Last year I wrote an editorial about
NASCAR and how I was going to
embrace it as my new sport of choice.
Well I gave it a chance, but for as much
as I love the sports intriguing perspective I still cannot bring myself to sit
through a whole race.
Let's face it, I'm depressed. I try to
love all sports, and I think I do, but it's
kind of like having a step child and a biological child. Football would be the biological child, while the rest of the sports
comprise the red-headed step children
from hell. Of course I like my biological
child more.
Luckily I have this little system that I
have built up for the past couple years to
keep me sane until next December.
Right now I watch hockey, mostly
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those are the two teams that are most
frequently on. I would have to say I like
the Flyers more, but Malkin and Crosby
are by far two of the best players in the
NHL right now.
And when I tire of hockey, NASCAR
fires up in Daytona and I'll watch my
usual 50 or so laps of the raoe. You know
a few in the beginning, a few in the middle and the last 10 or so. Those are the
only ones that count anyway.
I will admit that for some reason 1
like watching golf, but only certain
events. The Masters is coming up this
spring so that will give me at least one
weekend. Other than that watching golf
is like being in lecture.
I don't gamble so March Madness and
the Final Four have no real appeal to me.
I do usually align myself with either the
Cinderella squad, but it always seems to
end in relative disappointment.
Finally, by the time the college hoops
tournament ends hockey is into their
playoff season and baseball is just getting started so I have spring pretty well
figu'red out.
Summer, however, is a whole other
monster. I like the first month or so of
baseball then I tire of it. So now I'm left
watching training camp updates for the
rest of the summer until the pre season

Sports Editor
jcooney@lhup.edu

Well now that the 07-08 NFL
season is officially over following
the basically pointless Pro Bowl,
what is a sport fan to do? The
answer, the Daytona 500. But why
would any respectable sport fan
watch the Great American Race? If
you do spend the time and watch,
you can see the greatest dynasty in
sports today.
Hendrick Motorsports has the

current
two
time defending
NASCAR Champion in Jimmie
Johnson. I know you don't get
credit for second place, but Jeff
Gordon finished in second last season as well. These two are current
teammates racing under the
Hendrick flag.
If. you aren't familiar with how
NASCAR works they race all season and then the top 12 racers
make the Chase for the Cup. In
those top 12, Hendrick had one
more driver. Kyle Busch, who will
not be returning to Hendrick
Motorsports, finished fifth overall.
Three of the 12 drivers in the chase
were from Hendrick Motorsports.
The final member of the team is
Casey Mears. Mears finished 15th
overall. That's four finisher's in
the top 15. That is amazing. I
know in other sports owners can't
own more than one team, but technically all four of these drivers
competed
under
Hendrick
Motorsports. So they are all teammates competing against other
teams.
Let's look at the numbers.
NASCAR raced 36 races last year.
Of those 36 races a Hendrick teammate won 18 times.
Jimmie
Johnson won 10 times. Gordon
won six times, Busch and Mears
each had one win respectively.
Besides those 18 wins, a

starts.
Football is to me, what Christmas is
to a child. I look forward to it every year
and every day spent doing something
else is somewhat meaningless to me.
Oh well, what can you do? Only seven
more months.

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E. Stroudsburg

Hendrick teammate finished in the
top five 39 times. That's 57 top five
finishes. That means the Hendrick
team average over one top five finish per race.
So what about this year? Well
Kyle Busch won't be back. So who
did Hendrick go out and sign? Well
basically the got themselves a
Randy Moss. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
joins the Hendrick team driving
the number 88 National Guard/
Mountain Dew Amp car.
Junior is probably the most marketable face in all of NASCAR. Oh
and by the way, Dale Jr. hadn't
won a race in about two years, his
first race behind the wheel of a
Hendrick car, he won the
Budweiser Shootout.
I would encourage people to
watch the race. If you need an
exciting sport to fill the void of
your football needs, I'm telling you
to tune into the Daytona 500. It is
the 50th anniversary of the race. If
you don't like cars going in an oval,
like critics say, watch it for the
wrecks.
The cars will be traveling at
about 185 mph. When they bump
into each other it gets fun. They
will also be driving three and
maybe four wide so their will be
groups when they do crash.
If you don't want to watch
NASCAR baseball is right around
the corner. Pitchers and catchers
report today to spring training.
There is about a moth and a half
until the regular season opens up.
Then we will have the wonderful
time of watching 162 games of the
greatest sport.

So relax football fans, there are
lots of sports to pass the time.
Besides you can listen to ESPN
and hear all about the NFL draft
and the scouting combine. If you
do happen to turn the race on, on
Sunday make sure you cheer for
Kasey Kahne driving his new num-

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the
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in
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first
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thought
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be
might
on
to
something."
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continued.
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on
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for a living. But when an "That fight was absolutely hard all the time and diet
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Wallace's free throws carry the
Hoyas over Villanova Wildcats
Olivia Scott
The Hoya
With 30.1 seconds left
on the clock, the scored
tied up at 53 and
Villanova in possession of
the ball, most teams
would be nervous, but
Georgetown had seen this
situation before. And once
again, the Hoyas survived
with the pressure on, winning a 55-53 nailbiter over
the Wildcats last night at
Verizon Center on two free
throws from senior guard
Jonathan Wallace.
Georgetown
saw
almost the same situation
just a few weeks ago at the
end of regulation against
rival Syracuse -- the game
tied, one possession left
and the ball in the opponent's hands.
This time, Georgetown
knew the ball would pass
through the hands of
Villanova's star, sophoScottie
guard
more
Reynolds (24 points), and
just like they had against
the Orange, the Hoyas put
sophomore
guard
Jeremiah Rivers on the
spot to defend the play.
"Last possession
I
think everybody in the
crowd and everybody
knew who was gonna get
the ball, and who was
gonna take the last shot,"
Rivers said.
The strategy worked
like a charm, Rivers suffocated
Reynolds;
Villanova's sophomore lost
control of the ball and
Wallace grabbed the steal.
"He tried to beat the
screen and he tried to
come back," Rivers said.
"And when he drove baseline he ran out of places to
go."

Wallace drove down
the sideline, and picked up
the foul from Villanova
freshman Corey Stokes.
Stokes
fouled
the
wrong person. With the
game on the line, there is
no one more experienced
at making the big play
then Wallace, who is an
82.6 percent shooter from
the line in his career.
He sunk both free
throws with one-tenth of a
second left on the clock to
give the Hoyas their first
win against the Wildcats
at home since 1997.

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"Jonathan Wallace is
cold as ice when it comes
to hitting free throws,"
senior center Roy Hibbert
said. Thompson didn't
mind that Wallace was the
one at the line with the
game on the line, either. "I
feel good every time the
ball leaves his hands."
The
was
game
Wallace's first solid performance since his 15point show in overtime
against Syracuse. Once a
consistent scorer, Wallace
has been struggling lately,
but came up big with two
3s down the stretch in
addition to the game-winning free throws for a total
of 15 points. He also
tacked on four steals to
the tally.
Wallace had his work
cut out for him, set to
guard Villanova's big
threat, Reynolds, the only
other unanimous preseason all-Big East first team
selection
besides
the
Hoyas' Hibbert. Reynolds
led all scorers on the day
with his 24 points, but
Thompson was impressed
with Wallace's defense,
calling it "one of the best
defensive efforts I've seen
from him in four years."
Nevertheless, it was
Reynold's
performance
early on that turned what
to
be
a
appeared
Georgetown blowout into
a grinding game for both
sides.
The Hoyas grabbed the
early
advantage,
as
Georgetown jumped up
eight points just six minutes in, but Villanova's big
threat answered with
eight of his own. Reynolds
topped off his run with a
drive inside to tie it up at
15 with just under 10 minutes remaining in the first
half, and the rest of the
half was a battle, with
Georgetown trailing by
one point, 29-28, at the
half.
Villanova focused on a
1-2-2 press, a defense that
has been problematic for
Georgetown in the past.
"In years past, where
that has caused us trouble
is we end up taking eight
seconds to get it across,
four to six seconds to get
organized and then you
don't have time to play,"
Thompson said. "So what

we wanted to focus on is
let's beat the pressure and
let's get into our sets."
The Wildcats opened
the second half with a
dunk by junior guard
Dwayne Anderson, who
ended with six points and
10 rebounds on the day.
Georgetown retaliated
with a 10-3 run behind the
force of Hibbert and sophomore forward DaJuan
Summers (12 points, eight
rebounds), whose physical
presence
boosted the
Hoyas all night.
Georgetown extended
its lead to 12 points with
8:42 remaining, and it
looked like the Hoyas had
finally established a comfortable lead.
But
once
again,
Reynolds brought the
Wildcats roaring back.
Hibbert started out
quietly, netting just one
field goal in the first 20
minutes of play, and having trouble producing
points from inside the
paint. But as he has tended to do all season,
Hibbert found a way to the
hoop and ended with 13
points for the Hoyas.
"It was a good chess
match between the players," Villanova
Head
Coach Jay Wright said.
"We played good defense,
and they found a way to
win the game. That's what
great teams do."
Rebounding,
Georgetown's fatal flaw in
their loss to Louisville on
Saturday, was again a
trouble spot for the Hoyas
as the Wildcats outrebounded the team 41-35,
including a 16-4 edge on
the
offensive
glass.
Summers led the Hoyas
with just eight rebounds.
Freshman
guard
Austin Freeman, one of
the leading scorers on
evening
Saturday
in
Lousiville, had zero points
and zero assists on the
day.
The Hoyas' next game
doesn't look to be any less
anxiety-ridden as they
face
rival
long-time
Syracuse at the Carrier
Dome Saturday afternoon,
the same team that gave
them the overtime thriller
at Verizon Center in
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Jessica Horbach
Feature Editor
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Like most other game
shows, such as "Wheel of

Fortune," Price Is Right"
and "Deal or No Deal," the
Think Fast Game Show"
is exactly what its name
says it is: 'A think fast
game.'
"Think Fast Game
Show," sponsored by The
Haven's Activities Council
(HAC), was set up in Price
Auditorium on Feb. 7.
The object of the game
is to answer the question
that appears on two giant
screens on the stage as
quick as you can.
A cordless response
system, like a remote control, was the answering
device used to pick the correct answer.
Participants in the
game show would receive
a remote and could either
play as an individual or as
a team.
Once the questions
appear on the screen, you
had 10 seconds to answer
the question.
Choosing from one
through five or A through
E, students who answered
the fastest and got the
right answer received the
most points.
Ashley Campion, a senior who attended the game
show for the first time.

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You may have had to
answer questions fast, but
students definitely weren't
lining up fast for the game
show.
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approximately 35-40 students who attended the

game show, and for a
medium to large auditorium, that's not many peopie.
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$200 cash prize would
entice people to show up
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playing. I loved it," he
said.
He split the money
with his partner. It's only
fair.
According to Roberts,
the smaller the group, the
less money you have to
split.
"When I played for the
first time last year, there
were a lot of people there.
The two times I went this
year, they were both consistent. Not many people,"
he said.
The question that gave
Roberts the win was,
"What's the only state in
the U.S. that can grow coffee?"
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answer
was
Hawaii.
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Where: Hall of
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Dr. Wynn: investigating past to predict future
Amanda Alexander
Staff Reporter
aalexan3C« lhup.edu
One might notice a
theme upon entering Dr.
Thomas Wynn's office.
The office is fairly tidyWynn joked that he files
by "the stratographic
method," with the oldest
items on the bottom of the
stack- but the shelves are
filled to capacity with
books on geology and cluttered with rocks.
The desk is decorated
by several tiny toy dragons, and a sign on the wall
reads: "Beyond this place
there be dragons."
Wynn, a geology professor
at Lock
Haven
University since 2004,
said his fascination with
earth science has grown
over the years.
"I've always been interested in science since I
was a kid," he said.
Growing up in the
small town of Mebane,
N.C., Wynn loved to read
all kinds of books.
"It was a way to go
other places and see other
things and meet other people," he said.
It was during a general
education class that he
discovered his true calling.
Wynn attended the
of
North
University
Carolina at Chapel Hill for
his undergraduate degree
in biology, and he had to
take a geology course as a
pre requisite for another

Wynn loved geology so
much at UNC Chapel Hill
that he went on to get his
master's degree in geology
at
Old
Dominion
University, and then his
doctorate in geology at
Virginia
Polytechnic
Institute
and
State
University.
Wynn hopes to help his
own students discover
their hidden talents in his
His
geology
courses.
favorite thing about being
a professor is "being able
to get up and try to convey
my passion for what I do,
to students."
Wynn was inspired by
his own geology professor
and hopes to inspire his
own students in a similar
way.

"I enjoy working with
students. Sometimes I
think I get a little too
enthusiastic," he said.
"But it's a fun thing to do."
Wynn finds it gratifying when students decide
they want more sciencerelated education after
taking his courses, and he
also enjoys involving students in his own research.
The only thing Wynn
finds disappointing is the
students who "are just
here to be here and they're
not really trying that
hard."
He likes to see all of his
students excel and get
excited about their education and feels responsible
for students who aren't
reaching their potential.
"It's sort of a disapcourse.
pointment
because you
Everything just clicked
for Wynn during the ask yourself, 'did I fail?' It
is sort of a letdown," he
course.
"Once I did that, I said.
Wynn's love of science
found out that I had this
and
nature extends to all
talent for working with
rocks and reading them to aspects of his life. He
find information about enjoys doing amateur phothem. It was more than tography and taking picjust a talent," he said. "I tures of nature or reading
liked doing it. I realized books in his free time.
Like most of his stuthat I would do that job
dents,
he also likes to "veg
even if wasn't getting
out
front
of the TV" and
in
paid. It was fun. It's a job,
watch
cartoons or sci-fi
but it's more of a passion."
after a long day.

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Amanda Alexander/Eagle Eye

Even though the sign on his wall says "Beyond this place there be dragons,"
all students are welcome to Dr. Thomas Wynn's office.
His favorite TV show is
"Dr. Who," a BBC broadcast.

"I grew up watching it,"
he said.
He also enjoys reading
the "Dragons Riders of
Pern" series by Anne
McCaffrey.
Wynn's other hobbies
include fossil collecting
and collecting sciencerelated stamps.
His favorite
thing
about science is asking
questions and digging for
answers.
"What I like most is the
idea that I can pick up a
rock or a fossil and I'm the
first person that's ever
seen it. Also, that I have
this ability to 'read' the
record of what's gone on in
our planet's past, just by
looking at these things,"
he said.
Wynn compares his job
to searching for evidence
in a crime scene investigation. He likes "the challenge of putting all this
stuff together and making
sense of it."

"We don't put someone
into jail for doing a crime,
but we can put together
what the Earth was like in
the past and use that to
try to predict the future,"
he said.
Wynn has two role
models that he tries to
emulate while teaching
and helping his students.
The first one is John
Dennison, a professor he
had at UNC Chapel Hill
who taught him to incorporate his passion into his
teaching and the ways to
get students involved in
research. The second is his
doctorate advisor, Fred
Read, from Virginia Tech.
"He sort of showed
me... how to be a professor, really," Wynn said.
The combination of
these two men is something Wynn aspires to
become.
"I try to strive to do
things the way they did,
and maybe do them a little
better. That's what you
should always do," he said.
Wynn feels that he has

.

grown as a professor in the
time he has been at LHU.
'*I like to talk to people.
When I first started out, I
was scared to get up and
talk in front of large
groups, but you learn to
get over that. I enjoy interacting with people," he
said.
Wynn has high hopes
for his students.
"Probably the most
important thing that I'd
like them to take away
from any course that I
teach is how to think critically," he said.
Wynn said students
need to learn not to trust
everything they read on
the Internet or hear in the
media and to be able to
sort through all the information they receive to find
the truth.
He wants his students
to be able to pick out facts
and make informed decisions.
"To me as a scientist,
that's the most important
thing," he said.

How to... findyour love in hock Haven
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Olga Malyavskaya
Feature Editor
omalyavsfa lhup.edu

For people who are in
love, St. Valentine's Day is
a day filled with joy and
excitement.
For others who are not
so fortunate to have
already
found
their
halves, this day brings
nothing but depression
which only true love can
cure.
Finding one is not an
easy task, however. No
one walks around with a
sign on his or her forehead: "I am the one you
need!"
Thus, in order to find
your half, you need to
know the right place to
hunt for your future
boyfriend or girlfriend.
So, if you are sick and
tired of being single, read
carefully the following
advice from some of LHU
alumni and students who
agreed to reveal their
secret places of finding the
best matches in Lock
Haven:
What could be better
than a slow walk on the
dike under the moonlight?
Shinning stars, reflected
in the waters; silent lampposts, lighting softly your

way; sonorous singing of
crickets and mysterious
whisper of Susquehanna all this makes the dike
with the J. Doyle Corman
Amphitheatre one of the
most romantic places in
Lock Haven.
The very air, full of
true poetry, creates an
ideal atmosphere to find
someone very special.
"Whether you are just
strolling or running by the
dike, smile, wink, give a
little 'hello' and see what
happens next," Christine
Autrey who graduated
from LHU in 2007 with a
major in
psychology,
advised.
So, in your quest for
love, check out the dike.
Maybe this handsome guy
or that pretty girl is meant
to be yours? One way or
another, daily walking
along the dike is definitely
good for your health.
If you are fond of
the
Student
sports,
Recreation Center (SRC)
can be the best place for
you to find your true half.
Your rapid breathing, hot
sweat, blushing cheeks;
non-stop sound of ball
bouncing and vague outcries around - these attributes make SRC a perfect
place to go wild and venture upon something you

would never dare before.
centuries and make you
"Most of the students very dreamy. If you feel
are hanging out there this way too, you might
either being really healthwant to take advice of
conscious or just trying to Jessica Kreamer, a senior
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Library
degree effectory
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who
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acquainted with
y works in
a couple of guys
the library:
there,"
said
"A lot of cute
Lyudmyla Sonchak, a ™
guys come in looksenior in business admining for books, so
istration.
there is always a posThus, this modern sibility for romance.
Coliseum can help you to Besides, here you can
build not only a strong decide if you two are able
body, but also a strong to share silence comfortrelationship.
ably."
Besides, where else can
Looking for your best
you find so many guys or half, don't forget to spend
girls with only a bare minsome time in the library.
imum of clothes on?
Even if you don't find your
Stevenson Library: this match, this way you will
cozy red-brick building get your homework done.
with its deep colorful sofas
They say you can find
and arm-chairs becomes absolutely everything in
your second home immediWal-Mart, but what about
ately since the first time love? Can you find a true
you come in.
love in this place, too? Yes,
Thousands of books at you can.
the bookshelves remind
"You may casually
you of high-flown ideals bump into someone with
which the humankind your shopping cart," said
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Christine Autrey, class
of '07, also gives a piece of
advice:
"Try to find someone
buying the things you like.
This way you can strike up
a conversation."
Thus, your future
boyfriend or girlfriend
may be wandering somewhere between numerous
shelves of what-nots. You
have pretty good chances
of finding him or her in
here if only you don't lose
yourself in such a vast
variety of products. In any
case, you will get your groceries.
Delicious aroma of
potato-parmesan, yummy
smells of fleshy fruit and
fresh-baked pizza please
your nose at the very second you come in Bentley.
"Many students go
there to perform their
daily lunch ritual that
lasts minimum one or two
hours. That's a good place
to push somebody accidentally or to stumble as it is
always crammed with people," Lyudmyla Sonchak, a
senior, advised.
Besides, "Talking is
easier during eating," as
XinRan Li, a senior in economics, said.
Bentley, however, has
some secret treasures, hid-

den from general public.
Let Michael Burket, a senior in criminal justice, tell
his story:
"Several years ago I
worked at Bentley in the
dish room. Imagine a
small, always dirty room,
full of greasy plates and
food waste: that stinks a
lot, believe me. I hated
this place so badly, and I
never expected to meet my
love in here.
One day a girl came in,
and despite her lousy
Bentley T-shirt and a huge
plastic apron, she seemed
to me the most beautiful
girl ever. She lit the room
with her smile, and since
then I didn't care about
trash, rumbling noise of
the washing machine and
that disgusting smell.
I
was so happy just being
next to her.
We got married last
April, and our marriage
means everything to me. I
love my wife so much!"
As you can see, even in
such places, as Bentley's
dish room, people still
manage to find their true
love. So, maybe it does not
matter where you are, but
what does matter is
whether you are ready to
love or not. When love is
knocking at the door of
your heart, just open it.

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Audrey Ward
Staff Reporter
awardl@lhup.edu
"Fool's Gold" is nothing
more than another typical
sappy romantic comedy,
a.k.a another chick flick.
The fdm is directed by
Andy Tennant and stars
Matthew McConaughey as
Benjamin Finnegan and
Kate Hudson as Tess
Finnegan.
Basically, "Fool's Gold"
is a film about a treasure
hunting team whose sole
mission is to find the
Spanish Queen's Dowry
from the 18th century.
The Dowry that the
team seeks has over 40
chests of treasure that
mysteriously disappear at
sea in the early 1700s.
a
In
nutshell,
Benjamin Finnegan persuades Tess, his ex-wife,
that he knows where the
treasure is.
Reasons for Benjamin
telling Tess emerge so she
can help him persuade billionaire Nigel Honeycutt
(Donald Sutherland) to
borrow money for equipment to find the lost treasure.
In my opinion, the
actors gave the film that
extra edge to the very
lacking plot.
and
McConaughey
Hudson are the perfect
leading actors for this film
because they have a history of working together in a
romantic comedy.
In 2003, the two
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Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson play Benjamin and Tess Finnegan,
ex-husband and wife in search of a lost treasure. The two make the perfect
duo, also starring in 2003s "How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days."
Days."
"How to Lose a Guy in
10 Days" is a romantic
comedy
where
McConaughey
and
Hudson make bets with
their bosses that they can
get each other to either
fall in love with their partner or break up with each
other in 10 days. They do
this to get further on in
their careers. However,
they don't expect to actually fall in love and find
their soul- mate.
I feel that because the
duo
had
previously
worked together, it really
helped with the chemistry
on the set of"Fool's Gold."
You could tell that
McConaughey
and
Hudson were comfortable
working together because

no signs of awkwardness
were shown throughout
the film at all.
If you watch television,
you might recall seeing
the preview clip with
Benjamin and Tess at the
church while on the hunt
for the treasure. This
scene was right before the
climax and allowed for
some laughs from the
audience.
Aside
from
McConaughey
and
Hudson, "Fool's Gold" has
an excellent cast featuring: Donald Sutherland as
Nigel Honeycutt, Alexis
Dziena
as
Gemma
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estimated $22 million
which dominated the box
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Home Roscoe Jenkins"
and the "Hannah Montana
& Miley Cyrus: Best of
Both Worlds Concert."
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was simple. I feel that the
actors and actresses gave
their all in order to make
the film interesting.
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be the film of the year, I
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today.
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Instead, we'll explore
favorite Foo Fighters song,
one of music's guilty pleasand only acoustically.
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cover song to launch their
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an album as a secret track,
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overwhelming
get you jumping
or
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around, but if you liked
already popular song and
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genre, they decided to released
an album a few
tackle Madonna's "Like a years back called "Writers
Prayer."
Block," an all cover song
A song that most men album.
wouldn't be caught dead
"Maniac" is the first
listening to now has a song on the album and one
whole new audience in a of the few that leaves the
genre dominated by males. rock realm, which makes
It's because ofthis parit overly appealing.
adox that I've decided to
Much
like
H20,
review the top 10 best Evergreen Terrace really
cover songs of all time.
tapped into a genre of
Keep in mind when music that most metal and
reading/downloading: not hardcore fans aren't familall of these covers will iar with, but in doing so,
appeal to everyone's musithey have closed a gap
cal tastes, but I encourage between two sets of fans:
you all to look past your people who like hardcore
musical ignorance and and people who don't.
give these songs a chance.
By covering such a popNow with all of that ular song hardcore kids
being said here are my top and more traditional pop

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common. Barely, but still
in common.

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Line
"I'm Real"
(Jennifer Lopez and Ja
Rule Cover) - Pop punk
band, The Starting Line
turns this urban hit into a
summer suburban hit.
At first, you may not
even realize you're listening to a cover, but once you
find yourself singing along
the realization hits you
once you hit the chorus.
I'll admit the song
doesn't flow like the original, and the tempo is bit
faster, but give it two or
three listens and you'll be
hooked.

"Stronger" (Daft Punk
Cover/Remix) - Bridging
the gap between European
and American musical culture, Kanye West and Daft
Punk have created a masterpiece out of a masterpiece.
I wasn't sure ifI should
have classified this as a
cover rather than a remix,
but given the circumstances and the complexity of what he has achieved
I wanted to put this in my
list.
Not being a particularOrgy
"Blue
ly big rap fan myself, but
loving Daft Punk as much Monday" (New Order
Cover) - Anyone alive
as I do, this song is nothknows this cover. I don't
ing short of genius.
It takes some guts to care who you are, but you
cover a Daft Punk song, know you like it.
Covering
especially in the rap
synth-pop
bands of the 80s isn't as
forum.
easy as people think, espe"You cially for a nu-metal band
Atreyu
in the late 90s.
Gave Love a Bad Name"
Criticism from their
(Bon Jovi Cover) -1 only fans and the genre at the
have one problem with time nearly killed Orgy's
this cover.
success.
It has ruined the origiYet looking back on it
nal version on me.
now, the only song most
Just like Evergreen people remember from the
Terrace, Atreyu gives you band is "Blue Monday."
a louder, heavier and far
more aggressive version of
H** Throwdown
this rock classic.
Filled with screams, "Baby Got Back" (Sir
Mix-a-lot Cover) As far
squeals, chants and breakas
hardcore goes, this is
Atreyu's
downs,
interprethe
best cover song in the
tation makes Jovi's sound
like a tribute bands genre.
A genius mix of rap and
pathetic
at
attempt
achieving the same sound. heavy
mosh-inspired
music,
everyone
And don't worry, there
I've ever
played this song for has
is singing in it too.
fallen in love with it.
First off, "Baby Got

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Back" is one of those songs
that will never die.
Play it at a party, bar,
club, funeral and people
will start to sing along
with it.
Now multiply that scenario with metal instrumentation and you've suddenly taken a sensation
from the late 80s and early
90s and gave it a make
over for a new generation.

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Found

Glory - "The Glory of
Love" (Peter Cetera
Cover)
Anyone who
knows the movie "The
Karate Kid" knows this
cheesy montage inspired
song.
Thankfully,
"New
Found Glory" took a huge
change and resurrected
this cheese ball into a
summer ballad of sorts.
Loud, fast and fun,
NFG's cover was one of my
favorite songs way back in
10th grade and continues
to be to this day.

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The Gourds

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"Gin and Juice" (Snoop
- Folk rap,
who would have ever

Dogg Cover)
guessed?

Long before Nelly and
Tim McGraw hooked up.
The Gourds, a quintet
from Texas transcended
the seemingly endless gap
between folk and rap.
Imagine it as the only
rap song your back-woods
toothless uncle would ever
listen to.
Complete with banjos,
fiddles and overalls, this is
one of the last outfits anyone would have pinned as
rap listeners.
Like I said before, if

you can get your mind
past the music and just
enjoy the fact that five
men from Austin are rapabout
life
ping
in
Compton, this song will
sure to become a crowd
favorite at your next party

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Limp Bizkit

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"Faith"
(George
Michael Cover) - Yes,
Limp Bizkit will go down
as one of the most hated
bands of all time, but love
them or hate them; they
set the cover song bar with
their
hit
enormous
"Faith."
And much like the
other covers on the list,
the reoccurring theme
seems to be the daringness
to go in a direction that
most bands from your
genre wouldn't go.
The original version
done by George Michael is
feminine,
a
slightly
acoustic ballad set to horrifically cheesy 80s theme
of the time. It wasn't too
tough.
Limp Bizkit's cover
changed all of that. Now
backed
by
screams,
turntables and downtuned guitars "Faith" had
become a catalyst for the
nu-metal movement.
Even today after fame
has run its course, "Faith"
continues to be their
crowning
achievement.
And I know that even
though 98 percent of the
musical world hates this
hand, if this song were to
come on right now everyone and I mean everyone
would be singing along
with it.

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lhueagleye.com

February 13, 2008

Local bands 'rock out' at LHU

Adam Roberts
News Editor
arobertsfa lhup.edu

On Monday, Casey
Roberts and James Reyes
were able to successfully
combine pop, punk and
rock bands for an epic
evening of music in the
PUB.
The event, dubbed
"WLHU Radio Presents:
Rock Out at the PUB"
brought five Lock Haven
area groups together for a
free show.
"There is a local scene
and people are willing to
play," said Reyes, the
WLHU radio president.
Roberts took on the
task of recruiting bands
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of the semester, which he
did by attending local gigs
and with his myspace.com
account "Lock Haven
Music."
Reyes and Roberts
made a conscious effort to
represent different genres
in the show.
"We try to make it
diverse to bring people
out," Reyes said.
The event's biggest
draw was the classic-rockfeeling "Dead Horse"
which is made up of LHU
students, Brian Flanigan,
bass; Zack Sliter, lead
vocals; Tony Villella, lead
guitar and Kyle Cicilioni,
drums. Rounding out the
line up is rhythm guitarist
Ryan Collins who is an
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stage fourth after collaboration
on the song
"Someday Soon," with solo
acoustic performer Dan
Short.
Short sang and played
guitar alone for the first
time with a combination of
covers and original songs.
Though Short battled a
sore throat, he used his set
to tell the story of a recent
break up.
The collaboration with
"Dead Horse" came after
Short filled in on guitar for
Collins and became close
with the band's members.
"Dead Horse" stayed
true to its straight forward
rock
influences like
"AC/DC"
and
"Guns
N'Roses."
Tony Villella, senior
political science major and
face-melting
guitarist,
said the band's formula is
based on simplicity.
"We make music that
gets your feet tapping and
your fists in the air,"
Villella said.
The Horse also relies
heavily on the strong voice
of lead singer Zack Sliter
to carry it through their
original anthems.
Hoobler, comprised of

four
members
from
Central Mountain High
School brought their punk
rock stylings to the stage
first. The band came
equipped with a group of
younger followers and a
high energy stage show.
The show's second act
was "Rocky3."
The solo performer
from Williamsport utilized
the unique combination of
a keyboard and previously
recorded music for the
background as he sang.
His melodic and bubbly
tracks filled the room and
got the crowd moving.
"I want people to
dance," "Rocky3" told the
crowd. "I make pop
music."
The final band was the
retooled
recently
"Welcome to Winfield."
The current line-up has
been together for two
weeks and prepared with
two 72 hour marathon
practice sessions.
"Welcome
to
Winfield's" set list included a few originals and several covers from bands like
'The Aquabats," "Ok Go"
and "Blinkl82."
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attended and most importantly it served Roberts
and Reyes' goal to support
local musicians.
Roberts believes in this
support because as he suggested, "every band was a
small band at one time."
The next WLHU radio

event will be held in the
PUB on March 1.
The line-up is still in
the works, but Roberts
hopes to bring in traveling
bands from Pennsylvania,
New York and New
Jersey.

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(Top Right) Dan Short, acoustic singer, plays
with "Dead Horse" at the show. (Bottom Left) Tony
Villella, guitarist for "Dead Horse." (Bottom Right)
Members of "Dead Horse" play their set.

Chinese New Year becomes popular on campus
Gerda Smirnova
Guest Writer
gsmirnovC«Thup.edu

dent from Morocco who
attended the event.
While guests were
enjoying the feast, students of ASA presented
Chinese cultural values of
the New Year celebration.
Yizhi Li, former LHU
volleyball player from
China, spoke about the
meaning of the Chinese
New Year and the importance of this traditional
holiday.
"Chinese
culture

Asian
Student
Association (ASA), with
the support of Institute for
International
Studies
(IIS), organized annual
Chinese New Year celebration which took place
at the PUB on Saturday,
Feb. 9.
President Keith Miller
welcomed the students
and faculty who gathered together during
Chinese \e\v
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tion
brings various!
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cultures
onl A
campus.
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to president >l'
ASA, Yu
this New Year v
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celebration
"brought
people
together on LHU campus
and introduced them to always attract to people
from the west," she said.
the Chinese culture."
have
different
"It is also a very good "We
life
and
styles
chance to bring all the believes,
traditions.
So
think
I
it
Chinese students together
be
to
other
great
give
will
celebrate
this
to
festival
and share our feelings people a briefly explanations of what is Chinese
together," she said.
The event wouldn't be New Year all about."
As a former athlete,
so festive without the 20
feet long table of Chinese Yizhi pointed out that people should learn more
traditional food.
about
China because 2008
"The food wa»'good and
is
big
year for the couna
represented- tifaina very
due
to
try
Olympic Games
well"
said
Youness
that
take
place there.
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Penn State University
Having
previously
were invited to perform attended this event, he
the traditional Chinese agrees that "every year
Lion dance.
there is an increasing
"This show reflects number of people" which
their [Chinese people's] shows the popularity of
tradition," said Mountaki. this celebration on cam"I see this new year as pus.
a window to the Chinese
The event presented
culture," he added. 'There not only traditional views,
is Chinese community in but a modern insight into
Lock Haven, so it was a Chinese culture as well, as
small New Year in Lock students were engaged
Haven."
into the festive Chinese
One of the guest songs and modern dance.
students also pre"It was kind of young
an generation stuff," said
k sented
impressive Kawakita. "China has long
fu perhistory, but even Chinese
people are changing in
think this generation. They did
showed as much as they can in
Chinese origi- Lock Haven."
JM nality," said
Yu Gao admitted that
M Gen Kawakita the "celebration was close
from
Japan enough to the ones in
w
ho
attended
China."
'pm
the
event.
"Even though we were
"Kung fu fighter not celebrating with our
was definitely Chinese families," she said. "We
tradition."
were celebrating the festiThese two performancval with our friends and
es, Chinese lion dance and professors in Lock Haven."
kung-fu demonstration,
Chinese New Year celegave a nice touch to the bration did not go on the
Chinese New Year cele- streets of Lock Haven as it
bration expressing some of would traditionally occur
vivid cultural icons on the in China. However, Gao is
country.
positive about the outPaul Mburu, a student come.
from Kenya and the ex"We did have everypresident of International thing: great preference,
Student Association (ISA) great people and great
hosted the event.
mood," she said.
"It was a new experiThe event wouldn't be
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Evgeniya
and Anna Morlang put the
mask of a lion for the famous Chinese Lion dance.
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port of the university and
The interim assistant
Institute for International director of Institute for
Studies (IIS).
International
Studies
"From the beginning of Laurence Tuccori said,
this semester, the interna"The students put a lot of
tional office paid close work into the entertainattention to our event," ment, and clearly enjoyed
said Yu. 'The best way to sharing their culture and
show
the
university traditions with the rest of
expressed support is that the campus."
there were some many
people came to our event,
even the Dean."