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Photo Courtesy ofKaitlyn Kunkle

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Sen. Barack Obama- IL speaks to 22,000 supporters at a rally on the Old
Main lawn at Penn State University on Sunday.

An Obama supporter rallies in front of Old Main while waiting for the
presidential hopeful.

Battleground PA:

rhe Democratic primary comes to Central PA with visits from Sen. Barack Obama-Ill. and former
President Bill Clinton. Local supporters plan to campaign daily in anticipation for April 22.
Bill Clinton's 45 minute many ofthe same topics as
speech centered on why Clinton, but also offered
News Editor
voters should choose his an explanation of why he
aroberts@lhup.edu wife for the nomination.
was running for office. The
The former president Illinois senator confronted
The realization that covered an array of topics critics who say he should
the long road to the presiincluding Sen. Clinton's wait until he has more
dential nomination runs plans for health care, globexperience to run for presthrough PA has been al warming, the war in ident by
reached by both democratIraq and higher education. saying
ic candidates as the April
Having realized the that the
22 primary nears.
importance of the primary time for
This realization is eviFortuner jumped at the change is
dent by a visit to the Penn chance to attend the rally. now.
State University Rec. Hall
"I'm a Hillary supporton Thursday by former er first off, but I've always
President Bill Clinton, in liked
"America can't
Bill Clinton. He has
support of his wife Sen. great public speaking this is a pivotal moment in
Hillary Clinton and Sen.
skills," said Fortuner who history," Mendoza said.
Barack Obama's speech on was
entertained
by "We need a leader who can
the Old Main lawn at PSU Clinton's sense of humor.
listen to the people and
on Sunday.
Lock Haven was also know what's right."
The appearances by represented in the audiCentral Pennsylvania
both campaigns brought ence of 22,000 who attendmay prove to be a turning
droves of devotees from ed the Barack Obama point the tight race, and
in
across the region, includrally on Sunday afternoon. LHU students are taking
ing loyal supporters from
"I decided to go because the opportunity to get
LHU and the city of Lock
I'm actually a Barack involved in the historic
Haven.
Obama supporter and a primary.
The Thursday evening volunteer on the camLast Wednesday a
event drew a crowd of over paign," said Brandon group of Clinton support6,000 people to the Rec. Mendoza, a senior crimiers took over the Eagle
Hall.
nal justice major and Wing Cafe to create signs
According to Resident political science minor.
that they will use for visiDirector Chrissy Fortuner
Obama touched on biUty promoting their can-

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Hillary Clinton D-NY at the PSU Rec. Hall on
Thursday evening to a crowd of over 6,000.

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didate.
The primarily student
group also included Lock
Haven residents and a
from
representative
Clinton's campaign.
Heather Doherty, a
sophomore political science major, helped organize the sign making event
after a discussion with
other Clinton support-

visibility.
"I
am a big
mm
supporter of Hillary
and there are a lot of
Obama supporters so I
wanted people to know
said
Hillary,"
about
Doherty who feels that
some voters may have the
wrong idea about the NY

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jHoagie sale benefits fire victims
\dam Roberts
Ntews Editor
aroberts@lhup.edu
In the wake ofa devastating fire that severally
damaged custodian Bobbi
Jo Hummel's home the
custodial department is
arganizing a hoagie sale to
assist the family of five.
Bobbi Jo, her husband
Brian and the couple's
three children, ages 10, 13
and 15 are staying with
family after losing their
Beech Creek home and

their belongings to an electrical fire on March 20.
The fire occurred in
the afternoon while the
family was at work and
school so no one was home
at the time of the blaze.
The fire began in a bedroom. That room was the
only one to suffer fire damage while the rest of the
property was damaged by
the smoke.
After hearing about the

unfortunate
Hummel's

decided to
fundraiser.

event
coworkers
start a

"We were heartbroken
and we all said we want to
do something," said custodial supervisor Annette

Miller.

A cash donation was
taken immediately by the
custodial staff and the
idea to host a hoagie sale
was developed.
The goal was then set
sell
1,000 hoagies at $4
to
sandwich
by the April
per
10 deadline.
What started as just
custodians has blossomed
into a group of volunteers
that includes what Miller

called the entire "LHU
family."
Local
businesses
including
Hilty's
Convenient
Store,
Walker's
Hardware,
Miller Brothers Auto
American
All
Sales,
Janitorial
Inc.,
the
Restless Oaks Restaurant,
Holsum Bread Bakery and
D-Heart Paper Products
have also pledged to help.
The orders are being
taken
by
custodians
around campus in both the
residence halls and in
classroom buildings. In

some ofthe residence halls
the resident assistants are
helping to take orders.
Once all of the orders
are taken, over 40 staff
members will make the
hoagies on April 17. That
evening and the next day
the sandwiches will be distributed.
The profits for the sale
will be placed in a trust
fund at the Jersey Shore
Bank in Wal-Mart where
people can also deposit
donations said Miller.
Other fundraisers are
still in the works. "We are

thinking of other ideas,"
said Miller. "If the hoagie
sale goes well we'll wait a
few months and do another."
Even with over a week
left for orders to be placed
Miller is impressed with
the response.
"It's great how people
can open their hearts to
someone in need," Miller
said.
Those interested in
helping or donating can
call Annette Miller at 570295-4463 or Donna Getgen
at 570-295-4464.

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April 2, 2008

lhueagleye.com

ZTA hosts breast cancer benefit:
third annual aerobic-a-thon
Bryn Zeigler
Staff Reporter
bzeigle2(« lhup.edu
A group of girls working out at the Student
Recreation
Center
Sunday morning were
all wearing the same
shirt. Most days, this
would be a fashion crisis. Sunday, the look-alikes didn't mind.
Over two dozen Zeta
Tau Alpha (ZTA) sisters
and 25 additional Lock

Haven
University
female students were
participating in the
third annual Aerobic-athon. All of the girls
were
wearing shirts
that ZTA produced and
sold specifically for the
event.
The event that benefits
Breast
Cancer
Education
and
Awareness featured the
52 participants doing
step aerobics and hiphop dancing for four
hours straight.
This
year's version was ham-

pered by the fact that have been working for
two of the scheduled weeks organizing and
instructors were unable gaining sponsorship for
to make it.
the Aerobic-a-thon.
Lauren Schrader, one
"Every one of the sisof
two
Fundraising ters has their own job.
Chairs in the sorority, All of us have had a part
said, "Things are a bit in making this event
different than planned possible,"
said Tina
because we found out Bennett,
sophomore
last minute that two of ZTA sister.
the aerobic instructors
The money the event
weren't going to make raised is sent to the
it. We still have shifts national headquarters
of girls going for the of ZTA then directed to
entire
four
hours the appropriate organizations from there. One
though."
The sisters of ZTA of the ways they earned

money were selling tshirts around campus

for the past couple
weeks.
Meghan Fesby, a senior ZTA sister, said, "We
took turns selling shirts
at either Bentley or
Robinson."
The Aerobic-a-thon
also featured raffles and
food for the participants. These products
were donated by a variety of area businesses.
The donators included
Lock
the
Haven
Bookstore, Pizza King,

Auntie Anne's Pretzels,
Blue Rose Piercing and
Scot's Lo-Cost.
An impressive fa"ct
about the event was
that the number of nonZTA affiliated participants that the sorority
was able to sign up to
volunteer their time.
One of those individuals. Amber Grube said,
"It's great to be able to
support a cause and get
my daily aerobic workout."

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Bryn Zeigler / Eagle Eye

From left: Lauren Schrader and Gabby Stahl pose with Aerobic-a-thon t-shirts at the third annual event while other students workout in the Student Rec Center
on Sunday.

'Sex-perts' take center stage with Sex Squares
Jamie MacDonald
Staff Reporter
jmacdona* lhup.edu

ty squares are faculty and
staff.
Students
become
involved as each residence
hall is allowed to have a
What other mammal, team of five members, pitbesides humans, practice ting hall against hall to
group sex? What country see which students really
uses more condoms than know more about sex.
any other? What cereal Going through seven gruwas
introduced
to eling rounds of sex questions, only one team can
decrease masturbation?
For the answers to earn the title of Sex
these questions and a lot Squares champions.
With the closing of
more on sexually related
Russell
Hall last year,
topics, there is only one
left one team
RHA
was
place to go: Sex Squares.
short
of
the
usual eight
The Residence Hall
teams
to
participate.
In
Association (RHA) is holdorder
to
have
teams
eight
ing the annual sex program in Price Auditorium compete, RHA turned to
on April 3 at 7 p.m., with the Student Cooperative
Council (SCC) to put
doors opening at 6:30.
For anyone new to Lock together of team of their
Haven, Sex Squares is the best "sex-perts."
Each round is a headcampus-wide spring event
to-head
competition.
held by RHA in order to
One
team chooses a
increase sexual education
to ask the quescelebrity
and awareness, giving
tion
to.
The
master of certhose who think they
emonies
then
asks the
know it all when it comes
a
sex
related
celebrity
to sex a chance to test
The
question.
celebrity
their knowledge.
answers the quesWendy Walsh. RHA then
tion.
tion.
advisor, brought the idea
Once the celebrity has
to Lock Haven with her
stated
their answer, the
from SUNY Cortland,
teams
must then decide
where they did Alcohol
whether
the celebrity is
Squares.
or
and then
right
wrong,
The program has been
of
disagree
in order
agree
running here since 1991,
to
earn
a
square.
educating students on sex
A team can earn a
for almost 17 years.
square if the celebrity is
For those who have not
seen Sex Squares, let's right and they agree or if
the celebrity is wrong and
review the format.
Sex Squares borrows they disagree. The opposing team gets the square if
the game show atmosphere from the popular the first team is incorrect.
"This year there are
show,
game
T.V.
Hollywood Squares. Only three co-chairs, myself,
in Lock Haven the celebri- Susan Brown, and Lydia

Dively. We also have our
advisor, Wendy Walsh,
RA's, and other RHA
members helping with
publicity and progress of
the program," said Stacy
Bowman, co-chair and
RHA vice president.
One of the major things
the committee does in programming is choosing the
celebrities. To do so, the
committee looked over last
year's list, but also added
new celebrities.
This year's list of
celebrities brings back
some Sex Squares veterans, along with some virgins.
The veterans include
President Miller and his
wife, Vice President Linda
Koch, Dean Dr. Dwayne
Allison, Albert Jones, Dr.
Jeffrey Walsh, Resident
Director Wendy Walsh,
Resident Director George
Jamie
Rusczyk,
Baumgardner, Brad Dally,
Resident Director Max
McGee, Resident Director
Christine Fortuner, and
Dr. Cheryl Newburg.
The virgins, appearing
for the first time on the
Sex Squares stage are
Kenny Hall, Dr. Joseph
Calabrese, Dr. Christine
Offut,
Dr. Constance
Reece,
and
Resident
Director Emmy Borst.
Albert Jones has been a
part of Sex Squares for
five years, and doesn't
deny that his favorite part
of the program is talking
about
aDoui sex.
sex.
"I am the campus
expert on sexual harassment. I bring the "expertise" to the discussion
lit- W

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about sex," said Jones on
why he's accepted the
celebrity position.
Many celebrities enjoy
being able to talk about
sex and trying to fool students on the answers, but
the education part is
important too.
"I have a very good
time and I find it important to support educational programs on campus,"
added Christine Fortuner.
who will be enjoying her
third year as a celebrity.
The program touches
not only on the basic topic
of sex, such as which position is preferred by most
American's, but also topics
such as STD's. rape and
sexual assault, and birth
control methods.
But being a part of the
audience is not just a pas-

sive experience. Members
of the audience, although
encouraged not to shout
out any answers, are given
raffle tickets when they
enter Price. RHA has gone
the Lock
throughout
Haven area to gather
prizes from businesses.
Some of t he prizes have
come from McDonald's,
Arby's, Subway, and even
the Lock Haven SCC
Bookstore. Prizes will be
raffled off in between
rounds while the teams
switch places on stage.
Even Albert Jones has
learned something over
the years, that it takes at
least two people to have
great sex.

RHA and the Sex
Squares committee are
forward
to
looking
Thursday night for the

whole thing to coife]
together.
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studying and work to coijkej
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co-chair but also
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students and faculty come
together to have such an
open and fun discussipr
about sex, which makes*it
all the more reason #c
come and experience it
first hand, it's usually b tter that way.
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Sex Squares, set up much like the game show Hollywood Squares, will take
place in Price Auditorium on April 3 at 7 p.m.

April 2, 2008
While Bill Clinton
was
speaking in State
From, Primary, Al
College, a group of
Alice Alexandrescu, Obama supporters that
community
a junior visual arts included
members,
and
faculty
major, is also working
students
met
with
a
to bring Clinton's message to students with representative from the
signs and a facebook Obama campaign at
Caffeine Nation in Lock
group.
Alexandrescu who Haven.
The meeting opened
calls Clinton a "purple
with
the attendees
candidate" because of
sharing
why they want
her bipartisan appeal,
to
with Sen.
help
believes students need
Obama's
campaign.
to look deeper at the
"I am hungry for a
candidates.
new
kind of politics,"
"When I ask people
Mark
Cloud of the
who they like they don't Dr.
psychology
department
have in depth answers.
told
the
group of over
They need to look
beyond pundits and the 20.
The
participants
media," Alexandrescu
shared
their personal
said.

connection to their canwho
said
that
didate. Many cited his Franklin Roosevelt
books, "Dreams from was president when
My Father" and "The he was 11.
With less than
Audacity of Hope" and
his speeches, especially three weeks until PA
from
the
2004 democrats cast their
Democratic
National votes to decide this
Convention and his highly contested prirecent speech on race in mary the state is cerPhiladelphia as catatain to continue to be
lysts to their support.
fiercely campaigned.
Local supporters
Community member
John Johnson shared will also work hard to
his excitement with ensure that their canthose in attendance.
didate is one step
"This is only the seccloser the nominaond time since I was 11 tion.
that I was excited about
a presidential candidate. The first was John
Kennedy. I think we
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Sen. John Wozniak speaks to faculty, students, staff and members of the local
community about the pressing crises facing the state dealing with education.
The event, in its 17 year, took place in the PUB last Thursday. Other legislators
present included the following: Rep. Mike Hanna, Field Representatives Mike
Glazer and Tom Bowman, Representative.Scott Conklin among others.

Area politicians preach change
Sarah Wojcik
Editor in Chief
swojcik(« lhup.edu
The

17th

annual
Legislator's Day brought
together several area
politicians to discuss the
many issues facing the
state, chief among them
being education quality
and costs.
Following a luncheon
for political guests and
members of the university, area officials were
invited to voice their opinions on the outlook for
education in the state.
The outlook doesn't
look all that great if costs
for college continue to rise,
smaller two-year universities find no home in the
area and high schools
graduate less students. All
three obstacles appear to
be looming on the horizon.
Attempts to battle
these and other issues facing Pennsylvania's education lie largely with
reevaluating funding on
education and establishing efficient performance
indicators for secondary
education, according to
most of the officials pres-

ent.
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ones that the state has an
obligation to fund, first
and foremost," said State
Rep. Mike Hanna, D-Lock
Haven.
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suggestion that the state
"eliminate state funding
to private schools" was
met with a generous
applause. Gov. Rendell,
to
according
Hanna.
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schools and has proposed
that an additional three
percent increase in state
school funding, with only
1.5 percent moving toward
state-related campuses
and one percent for private universities.
The $65 million that
goes
to
state-owned
schools is usually not
enough, said Hanna.
"It doesn't go very far
when it comes to renovating buildings," Hanna
explained. "We can't be
left out of this mix."
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praised
Pennsylvania's grand reputation in education and
emphasized the need to
maintain it.

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make college financing
less of a burden.
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Assistance
Agency
(PHEA), is according to
Hanna, ready for change.
"PHEA is embattled
right now," said Hanna.
"This is our opportunity
for reform."
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Arlen
senting
Specter, R-Pa., suggested
decreases among student
loan interest rates which,
with the help of the new
Promise Grant program,
would drop from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent by
2012.
Pell grants may be
another way to help with
college financing, but
Bowman explained that
with each $100 increase in
grant dollars, the education budget increases by
$300 million.
"Universities
are
Pennsylvania's backbone,
and we have to stay that
way,"
said
Conklin's
whose son is a junior at
LHU.

...

For the second time
within a month, Michael
"Max" McGee made an
appearance at an SCC
Senate meeting, this time
urging the legislative body
to conduct a vote to gauge
their stance on the job
positions being grieved by
the State College and
University Professional
Association (SCUPA).
McGee's plea to the
senate followed an open
forum
statement
by
Senators Dan Sullivan
and Josh Reynolds, who
were the first to breach
the subject of the SCUPA
grievance since last meeting.
"We've tried to sit down
and listen to both sides so
far," said Sullivan explaining that he and Reynolds
approached Jodi Smith to
receive the full story.
"We should really have
a say in this," said
Reynolds, "I don't really
understand why we don't."
McGee called for the
senate to consider the
issue within their jurisdiction.
"Contrary to popular
opinion, this issue is not
over," said McGee during
the meeting. "It's over
when you say it's over."
McGee lambasted what
he thought was a stifled
silence surrounding the
issue.
"Student government
is a democratic body,

something where you
should debate issues not
just put them in the corner," said McGee. "There
comes a point where the
senate makes a decision.
It shouldn't be dictated by
anyone else. It should be
your decision."
Sullivan and Reynolds
shared their feeling at a
Student
Board
of
Government Presidents
meeting where they felt
that other schools' student
government organizations
had more influence and
power.

"It was really eye-opening," said Reynolds. "It
just seems like we are
kind of behind."
1
of the Senate
Speaker
with help
Baney,
William
the
advisors, was
from
able to explain that the
SCC Executive Board is
the only body within the
student government capable of handling a corporate
issue such as this one.
At the moment, the
executive board is awaiting the April hearing
where the state system
will rule on the issue.
Right now, it is in the
hands of the university
and PASSHE.
"There's a grievance
process for a reason and
this grievance is really
with the university," said
Christine Fortuner outside of the meeting.
Fortuner is a Woolridge
resident director who is a
member of SCUPA but
also a faculty advisor to
the SCC.
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Because of her union
membership and advising
status on the student government, Fortuner's position is rather unique. For
this reason, she said she
has been careful to remain
objective.
"I've never been one to
take sides, per se," said
Fortuner, "and I've been
trying to stay very objective by gathering facts
from both sides. At this
point, it would be unprofessional of me to take
sides."
During the meeting,
Sen. Zach Smith again
voiced his feelings about
the issue.
"Before (the senate)
comes to any kind of opinion, we need to take the
personal into the consideration," said Smith. "I do
think this is a drawn-out
issue
we do need to
move on."
President Will Dowd
spoke up after the meeting, offended by what he
felt were attacks by
McGee toward faculty
advisors,
particularly
Student
Activities
Director Jodi Smith.
absolutely
"I
was
offended that he said that
Jodi Smith doesn't have
the students in mind. She
always approaches the
students first," said Dowd.
The Executive Board
was keeping nothing from
the senate, Dowd went on,
but it often acts as the
gatekeeper for such tangled corporate issues as
this one.

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Track and field fundraises
with annual sneaker sale
Audrey Ward
Staff Reporter
awards lhup.edu

it to raise money. We
wanted to add another element to it, and decided to
add the community service portion to the fundraisLock
Haven er," said Head Co-Coach
University's track team is
Aaron Russell.
holding their fifth annual
The track team holds
Sneaker Sale today from 8 the sneaker sale in order
a.m. to 5 p.m. at Thomas
to raise money for the
Fieldhouse.
team's scholarship fund
Brands like Nike, and
to donate to local famAdidas, Reebok, Mizuno, ilies or programs need.
in
Brooks,
Saucony,
In year's past, the team
Timberland, Asics, as well has donated
money to the
as many more will be sold.
Clinton County Women's
Both men's and women's
Shelter, The Tiger Den
shoes will be available in Playground,
Big
men's sizes 5-15 and Brothers/Big
Sisters and
women's 5-12.
to a local young girl in the
The reason why the Jersey Shore
area that
team has started the had
eye cancer.
sneaker sale tradition is
Last semester over
because, "We heard about $500
was raised, and the
it through a track and
fundraiser is held once
field team at another
every semester.
PSAC school that utilizes

This time the sale is
very important because
it's very near to their
hearts.
"This year's cause is
very near and dear to our
hearts, and we'd like to
raise as much as possible.
Weil also have a donation
can available for anyone
who'd like to make donations to the Hummel family, said Russell."
The Hummel family
recently lost their home in
a fire last week. Bobbi Jo
Hummel is a custodian
who works where the
track and field coaches
offices are in Thomas
Fieldhouse.
Half of the money that
is donated will go to her
family to help them as
they try to get comfortable
again.

Up-Write series presents Spike Lee's first documentary and
novel "Four Spirits" in relation to 1963 Birmingham bombing
Amanda Alexander
Staff Reporter
;up.edu
The new Up-Write
Reading Program for April
focuses on the theme of
the 1963 Birmingham
church bombings with two
upcoming events.
The first is the screen
ing of Spike Lee's first documentary, "Four Little
Girls," on Wednesday,
April 2 at 7:30 p.m. The
screening will be held in
the Hamblin Hall of Flags
in Robinson.
The second event is a
reading of the book "Four
Spirits" by its author.
Sena Jeter Naslund. The
reading will be held in the
PUB MPR at i p.m. on
Thursday, April 10. Both
events are free and open to
the public.

The book or excerpts of
it are being read in several
literature classes this
semester. Both the documentary and book focus on
the deaths of four African
American girls who were
killed in the bombing of a
black church during the
civil rights movement.
The bombing took place
at
Sixteenth
Street
Church
on
Baptist
Sept. 15. 1963.
The Crime Library
says of the event, "Its significance was nothing less
than to alter the course of
history and stir the conscience of a nation."
The search for the men
behind the bombings has
gone through eight presidents, and only one man
was ever arrested.
Lee took interest in the
story as a film student in
New York in 1983.

He wrote a letter to
Chris McNair, the father
of victim Denise McNair,
asking permission to film
a documentary on the
event, but was turned
down.
It was after Lee established himself in the
industry with ten feature
films
that
McNair
changed his mind. In
1997, HBO spent $1 million for Lee to shoot the
film.
When asked why he
chose to shoot the film as a
documentary rather than
a dramatization of the
event, Lee told CNN, "I
think a dramatization
would have cheapened it.
Also, a lot of these people
are very old, so when they
go, their story goes."
Will Blythe of The New
York Times referred to the
novel "Four Spirits" as "a

drifting, collective portrait
of a city in distress."
The book covers three
main events: the demonstrations of May 1963,
when black protesters
were attacked with police
dogs and fire hoses; the
Birmingham church bomings; and the assassination of JFK.
Blythe said Naslund
weaves together fictional
characters with historical
figures to make the events
come alive. He says,
"Oddly — and refreshingly
— for a historical novel,
most of the battles that
[the characters of "Four
Spirits") fight are inner
ones."
Professor
Marjorie
Maddox Hafer, of the
English department, said,
"As we near the anniversary of the assassination
of Dr. Martin Luther King, "

Jr., it is our hope that the

film
screening
and
Naslund's reading will
both encourage dialog
across campus and honor
the memory of all those
who worked for change
during the Civil Rights
Movement."
Also, "In addition, we
hope each event will
inspire students to continue
these
addressing
important
issues
in
today's society," she said.
Maddox Hafer hopes
the film and book will
encourage communication
among students about the
events, as well as what
improvements have been
made in the country since
the bombings, and what
still needs to be done.
Naslund has written
four best-selling novels,
including "Ahab's Wife"
and "Abundance: A Novel

ofMarie Antoinette."
She
is
currently
Distinguished Teaching
Professor and Writer in
Residence
at
the
University of Louisville
and program director of
the Spalding University
brief-residency Master in
Fine Arts in Writing. She
is also a recipient of the
Harper Lee Award and the
Southeastern
Library
Association
Fiction
Award, as well as the cofounder of The Louisville
Review and the Fleur-deLis Press.
The events are sponsored by the English
department
and
the
departments of history,
political science and economics.

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OPINION
Too old to trash tables
Christina Shuman
Staff Reporter
cshuman" lhup.edu

Normally it takes a lot
to bother me. Ok, maybe
not too much.
It's great that there are
so many more tables at
Bentley and you don't
even have to worry about
the huge lunch crowd
when it comes to finding a
place to sit at prime time
lunch hour.
There is only one problem and this doesn't have
to do with our fine eating
establishment itself.
Students apparently
feel the need to be lazy
and leave their trash and
dishes on the tables after
they are finished eating!
How old are we, people?

The trash bins are
located by where you got
your food in the first place
and they really are not
hard to find. So why do
people insist on leaving
their garbage and dishes
on tables? Now there is a
mystery.
Yes, there are more
tables to sit at but the
opportunity to have your
choice at an empty table
goes down when there are
leftover trash, food and
dishes on them.
Who
wants to sit at a table with
leftovers already on it?
People don't even have
to read the menu posted
outside, they can just walk
past tables and see what
others have left behind.
Bentley's hard working
employees should not have
to pick up after us.
We are adults, even
though some of us don't
believe in acting like

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adults, sorry, your age
Yes, we do not have
puts you in that position of trays, no newsflash there
expected maturity.
but just deal with it! We,
don't
I
even want to as students here, should
think about what perspechave more respect because
tive students and their it is a privilege to attend
parents think when they this institute of higher
come into Bentley on a education.
tour. Of course, this is not
I really do hope that we
all students but I guess can pull it together and
the walk to the trash bins put our trash and dishes
is a little too much for in the proper place. The
some.
kids I work with at a preWe can walk all the school back home have
stairs up to North and enough common sense to
beside Raub and even clear away their trash
after lunch without even
walk up stairs when elevadecide
tors
to break on us being asked.
but the walk that requires
What does that say for
close
the
us?
Yikes.
physito
nothing
cal exertion it takes to
Complain about the
walk around campus or up food all you want, deal
the hill for a game, some of with it and then realize
us can't handle? It may be that you are as old as you
easier to leave out that are. After the realization
side door in the back part that you are in fact an
of Bentley but come on, is adult, kindly take your
that extra little walk going dishes up, along with your
to kill you?!
trash and act your age.

Elections should go
beyond the presidency
Chris Hoskavich
Opinion Editor
ehoskavF" lhup.edu

For the first time I can
remember, there is a real
interest in politics across
campus. While this is certainly refreshing, it is
unstable and we should
try now to prevent the bottom from falling out later.
ft'fl no secret that the
race for the democratic
presidential nomination is
the source of this newfound
fascination.
Pennsylvania is suddenly
important in deciding who
running
will be
in
November and the candidates are pushing hard for
our votes.
Unlike in a general
election, in which the candidates have to spread
their efforts across the
country, the two democratic candidates will be
focusing inordinate attention on our state for the
next 20 days.
Just this weekend.
Lock
Haven students
could travel less than half
an hour to see either
Barack Obama or Bill
Clinton
at
speaking
engagements.

The downside to the

interest in politics this
race is bringing to young

Pennsylvanians is that is
almost entirely predicated
on a dramatic battle
between two candidates
who
are
essentially

Chris Hoskavich
celebrities.
Will the interest hold
through next year's primary? Will it even hold for
a particular person if their
candidate of choice doesn't
get the nomination? Will
these political neophytes
even pay attention to the
other races on this year's
primary ballot?
I prefer not to presume,
but I fear I know the
answers.
I remember the first
time I voted. It was the
2004 general election,
when John Kerry was

looking
to
unseat
President Bush. When I
got to the polling station, I
had to wait in a long line
before I had the chance to
pull the lever.
When I came to vote in
the 2005 primary, I
thought I had come on the
wrong day. There was no
one. The '05 general election wasn't much better.
The tragedy of it is that
as excited as people get
about presidential candidates, the candidates they
don't get excited about will
probably have more of a
direct impact on their lives
than any president ever
will.
We have a tendency to
think of the president as
some sort of king, or perhaps this year queen. The
truth is, though, that
while the president may
have the most powerful
individual role in the government, congress and the
Supreme Court are just as
critical in running the
country.
Don't underestimate
the importance of voting
for a representative to congress. The make-up of congress has as much influence on the direction of the
country as the values of
the president, because
they write and pass federal legislation and have the

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organizers of the Miss Landmine
Angola contest, the winner of which will be
crowned today.
The pageant for women who have been
injured by landmines left over from Angola's civil
war, is designed to help build the pride of such
women and raise awareness of the problem of
mines buried throughout, the country.
Contestants will all receive money to go to
school or start a business.

Acrassicauda, which is billed as the "'only
heavy metal band in Iraq."
The band is the subject of a new documentary called "Heavy Metal in Baghdad." The band is
now based in Turkey, but between 2000 and 2007
they practiced and played in bombed out Baghdad
neighborhoods.
Aside from the risks already associated with
living in a war zone, the members of Acrassicauda
faced the threat of violence from rejigious fundamentalists who opposed their lyrics, music and
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For the record
"I think boycotting the

opening ceremony, which
really gives respect to the
Chinese government, is
something that should be
kept on the table."
of the House Nancy Pelosi, on
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2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and
concerns over Chinese human rights
violations

"Chill out and let everybody have their say. We are
going to win this election."
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US must understand Iran

Mohammad Ahmad
The Daily Cougar
U. Houston
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No one can deny the
importance and relevance
of international relations
post-9/11 to our everyday
lives. Yet the predominant
theories that define our
perspective of the world
are awkward at best when
it comes to analyzing
international relations. In
many examples, both liberalism and realism fail.
The most dangerous failure is our country's inability to understand Iran.
For most of our history
we have adopted either
the liberal or the realist
school of thought in our
interaction with other
countries. Realism was
the hot theory of the century during the Cold War;
it led to arms races, political muscle flexing and
marathons
of testosterone-driven power. We
understood the world as a
countries
bipolar race
labored
were pawns we
to
control in order to contain
the mythical communist
threat.
In this context liberalism also gained favor as a
theory combative of communism. Adam Smith's
capitalist theory was dia-

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metrically opposed to the
socialist
perspective,
hence it became a natural
foreign policy cornerstone;
we intervened in many
countries, overthrowing
their democratically elected governments and put
capitalist-minded tyrants
in their place.
These theories worked
well for us; aren't we the
world's sole superpower,
with no existentialist
threat worth mentioning?
We seem to be lost though,
after the collapse of the
Soviet Union. The great
liberal Francis Fukuyama
published his book The
End of History, blatantly
stating the war was done
and democracy would now
spread all across the
world.
He was empirically correct; however, realism and
liberalism are unable to
explain how or why certain international actors
behave in their particular
ways. Both these theories
fail because they assume a
view of the state as a
rational, secular entity
that creates a political
market with the citizen as
consumer. Iran as a theocratic state does not follow
this premise.
Neither liberalism nor
realism understand religious premises, let alone
predict Iran's next move.
Unlike realism's argument, Iran's objectives are

not merely about security.
In fact on a microscopic
level, Iranian agents are
more than willing to give
up their physical security
in exchange for irrational
heavenly guarantees. If
the components of a society act in this manner, how
can anyone expect the collective society to act
rationally as understood
by a secular theory?
Liberalism fails in the
sense that Iran's economy
is very much based on capitalism. The dominant
political force is a faction
that has labeled itself the
Combative Clerics. These
paragons of peace and
virtue appeal to free-marketeering merchants and
shop owners for their support. Capitalism is definitely not bringing about
democracy or even brotherhood
between
the
Iranian people and others
in the region, let alone
opening the doors to our
McDonalds.
The basic premise of
Iran lies in its theocratic
roots. It is a religious state
that acts on religious
impulses, or at the very
least on a rationale based
on religious principles.
That is, Iran acts as a
modern-day nation-state
with its nationalism, culture, identity and borders
all working toward the
realization of its religious
ideals.

Iran's opposition to
Israel is hence explained.
It is not a desire to dominate the Middle East that
leads it to conflict. It is
because of its religious
objection to the premise of
the Jewish state that
aggravates it into action.
American foreign policy
experts have failed to formulate a policy that adequately deals with Iran.
This is the real reason
behind our inexplicable
strategy with Iran: don't
touch them, just wait and
see.
Wait and see what? If
our theory cannot deal
with the reality of a modern theocratic nation, then
we have to try something
else. In other words, the
State Department needs
to free itself from the
parochial dichotomy ofliberalism and realism and
adopt a more functional
post-modern approach to
the post-modern world.
The solution lies in
accepting Iran's religious
and
political reality,
engaging it in diplomatic
relations and adopting a
proactive role toward foreign relations. The containment approach will
not work with Iran as it
did with the U.S.S.R.,
since Iran is not competing with us. Let's try
engaging them, because
the stalemate is of benefit
to no one.

Reaction to Dutch
film will be telling
Greg Pivarnik
The Daily Campus
U. Connecticut
U-WIRE
A recent video released
by Geert Wilders, a Dutch
right-wing politician, is
sparking outrage in the
Muslim world.
The issue here is not
Wilders' right to freedom
of speech, which the Dutch
should protect at all cost,
but it is the reaction by
the Muslim world that
needs to be closely monitored.
His views, however
incorrect they may be, do
not deserve the immense
amount of media scrutiny
they have been getting.
Unfortunately, the attention he has gotten has
nothing to do with his
views, but instead the fear
of violent Muslim backlash against Dutch citizens at home and abroad.
The video, which I
watched on Google, is a
shrewd piece of propaganda, but is far from blasphemous. The title of the
film is "Fitna," which is a
word from the Quran often
translated into "strife."
The basic premise of
the video, which is about
17 minutes long, is that
Islam is an inherently violent and intolerant religion toward non-believers.
Wilders interweaves
quotes from the Quran,
which encourage hostility
and violence towards nonbelievers, with images and
videos of of extremist
Muslim propaganda and
violence captured by different media outlets.
There are clips of the
Sept. 11 attack, the train
bombing in Madrid, as
well as the bus bombings
in London. There are

videos
of
numerous
Muslim leaders, as well as
Iranian
President
Amedenijhad,
claiming
that Islam is the greatest
religion and that all those
who do not follow its scruples do not deserve to live.
There are videos of executions of women, gays
and adulterers, as well as
a
beheading.
People
march and shout hate
speech towards Jews, with
one person even holding
up a sign that said "God
Bless Hitler." There is
even an interview with a
little girl who admits that
"Jews are pigs" and that
her hatred for them has
come from the Quran.
Wilders then parlays
these images into a message to people of the
Netherlands that they
need to stop "Islamisation"
in their country or eventually face destruction.
This is not a new tactic
and has been used by
politicians In the U.S. as
justification for the illtreatment, torture and as
a means to wage war
against Muslim peoples.
Wilders'
sentiments
rise out of a fear and lack
of understanding about
Islam. He sees the growing Muslim population,
now near 1 million in a
country with a population
of only 16 million, as a
threat to the culture of the
Netherlands (kind of how
blacks or Latinos were
supposed to ruin the U.S.)
Hopefully many people,
as I do, would see Islamic
extremism as it is currently defined extremism. I
would like to give the benefit of the doubt that most
Muslims do not believe the
violent and hateful rhetoric preached by some of
their leaders. I would not
like to be defined as a

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white American by the
action of the KKK, neocons or even the Bush
administration.
Every religion and culture has a part of their
society that will resort to
violence to push forward
ideologies based on prejudice.
It wasn't until recently
in human history that
wars in the name of Jesus
ceased to occur. Even
today, prejudice still exists
in some Christian circles;
against Muslims, gays,
Jews, secularists and even
other Christians.
Muslims and nonMuslims alike have come
out against the video.
Dutch politicians have
decried the video as racist
and assured that Wilder
does not hold the view of
the majority of Dutch citizens.

However, the claims
that Islam is a peaceful
religion, seem to be redundant when more and more
extremists find ways to
exploit the religion. A couple years ago there was
outrage in the Muslim
world at Dutch cartoonists
for depicting Muhammad
in insulting and degrading
ways.
There
were
riots
around the Muslim world
which resulted in fatalities. There was even the
murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, also
depicted in the movie, in
broad daylight by an
extremist that did not
agree with the film makers views that Muslims
should treat their women
more humanely.
It becomes increasingly
harder and harder to
argue with people on the
that
Muslims
right
deserve a chance, that
they aren't all violent.

when events like these
consistently take place.
Christians,
Jews,
Buddhists
and
Hindus,
many other people from
all walks-of-life, would not
even consider the idea of
violence in retaliation for
a person's prejudiced
views.
The mere fact that
Dutch officials are worried
for the safety of their citizens at home and abroad,
show that there is an
extreme
disconnect
between the West and
much of the Muslim world.
There seems to be a significant portion of the
Muslim population that do
not support freedom of
speech in the broadest
sense.
Granted, Wilders' video
has no other purpose than
to be inflammatory. He
has no other goal than to
use the fear of Islam to
propel himself to power.
However, despite this,
there is no reason that
Dutch citizens should fear
for their safety, or for their
right to free speech. It is
now in the hands of
the
in
Muslims
Netherlands, and in the
rest of the world, to show
that they can combat
intolerance with intelligent debate and education
instead of violence.
The religion of peace
that many Muslims claim
Islam is, needs to be practiced at this moment and
not just preached.
If violence and unrest
does occur, and people are
hurt, then Wilders is one
step closer to proving his
point, and people like
myself, who I consider liberal and tolerant, will be
one step closer to revoking
the benefit of the doubt
that I have bestowed upon
the Muslim world.

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Wallops Island, Virginia:
LHU and marine biology
Erin Hippie
News Editor

ehipple@lhup.edu_
Many say that the bulk
of a student's resume
should contain external
hands-on
experience:
knowledge in the career
field, a down-and-dirty
feeling for what he or she
is studying.
For Lock
Haven University marine
biology students, multiple
trips to the Wallops Island
Marine Science Center in
Virginia tops the charts.
Because the marine
biology concentration is
fairly new to the university's Bachelor of Science
degree in biology, having
began in 2001, there are
currently only about 25
students enrolled in the
While it may
program.
seem small to some,
marine biology students
consider this good news.
According
to
Dr.
Kenneth Thompson, professor in the biological sci-

ders the NASA/Goddard
Space Flight center.
In the past, the center
has been used to send
Oceanography
classes
about twice each year.
Ichthyology
students
(those who study fish)
have also used it during
independent studies.
Today, the WIMSC is
used for a variety of classes and LHU isn't the only
school reaping the benefits.
"WIMSC is a non-profit
educational
institution
composed of 17 universities and colleges from five
states," states LHU's
brochure on marine biology.

The students who visit
the center are not merely
sitting behind a desk, listening to a lecture, either.
On the 40-acre campus,
students are privy to classrooms, laboratories, a
library, cafeteria and student residence halls.
A large overhaul is also

Caitlin Feather, Dr. Kenneth Thompson and
Missy Collins collect chemical data from Queen's
Sound during 2003's ichthyology class.
ence department, approximately 15-20 students
have the chance each summer to take classes at the
Wallops Island Marine
Science Center (WIMSC),
meaning multiple opportunities for the students to
visit the campus throughout their career at Lock
Haven.
The marine biology
track requires nine semester hours (approximately
three separate classes)
directly related to marine
biology, and these classes
are taught only during the
summer at the WIMSC.
Some of the classes
include marine biology,
marine ecology, marine
invertebrates, behavior of
marine organisms, ichthyology, marine botany, ecology of marine plankton,
coral reef ecology, marine
mammals and biological
oceanography.
LHU has been involved
with the Wallops Island
Marine
Science
Consortium, which maintains the WIMSC, as an
associate member for a
quarter of a century. The
center is located along the
Delmarva Peninsula with
the Chesapeake Bay and
Atlantic Ocean as main
waterways. It also bor-

underway with new dorms
being designed in July and
completed within the next
few years.
"Right now they (the
residence halls) are old
WWII barracks buildings,"
said Thompson with a
smile. "But they're doing
some major improvement
work."
Students also take
advantage of the field
work which is included
during summer study.
Wallops Island is only
about six square miles,
but the vast span of bay
and ocean surrounding the
island proves for many
unique areas of study.
"We utilize Mosquito
Creek (which surrounds
the
the
campus),
Chincoteague
Bay,
Queen's Sound, Tom's
Cove and even spend some
time traveling south to
Kiptopeke,"
said
Thompson.
Class of 2007 graduate
Fred Marin agrees that
field work really adds to
the program's credibility.
"In addition to lecture
and lab you spend a lot of
time in the field where you
learn to use an array of
field equipment, k is a
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field collecting scientific
data which you later analyze and draw conclusions
from."
The WIMSC also owns
three large research vessels, many smaller water
craft and a research station
located
at
Greenbackville, Va, about
12 miles north.
The vessel used most
often for students is a 47
foot aluminum crew boat:
the R.V. Philip N. Parker,
named after the consortium's first boat captain.
The boat is powered by
two,
300 horsepower
Detroit Diesel engines.
The craft can venture as
far as 50 miles from the
Chesapeake Bay,
but
Thompson notes that they
usually take it out about
five miles.
On these field trips,
students use a Mongoose
Trawl which can skim the
top or bottom of the bay
and ocean. Mackerel is
commonly used as bait,
and students pull in a
wide variety of salt-water
life.
Some common finds
include Lined Seahorses,
Clear Nosed Skates, squid,
Atlantic Moonfish, Black
Drum, Atlantic Sharp
Nose Shark, Scalloped
Hammerhead
Shark,
Dusty Shark, Butterfly
Ray and different species
of
crabs
including
Horseshoe Crabs.
The specimens also
range in size from fitting
in the palm of a hand, to
over five feet wide such as
a Butterfly Ray caught in
2005.
When the trips are over
and the students are back
to Lock Haven, the learning doesn't stop quite
there.
Thompson, who is the
only LHU professor who
teaches at the WIMSC
during the summer courses, incorporates many of
the students' discoveries
into his lectures.

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favorite," said Thompson,
who teaches Ichthyology
courses. "We bring everything home we can and
then we also study our
findings here in the classrooms."
Dr. Joseph Calabrese,
LHU professor of biology,
is also another Wallops
Island enthusiast.
Calabrese
was
approached by Thompson,
arguably for his experience in marine microbiology. Calabrese has in fact
taught similar courses in
Woods Hole, MA.
"I jumped at the opportunity to get back to the
ocean," said Calabrese.
"One of the dimensions I
add
to
(Thompson's)
Ichthyology trip is sampling sediment from both
marine and estuarine
sites, doing some simple
microbiological culturing
and observations with the
students."
With such great faculty
guidance, students are
able to focus on maybe the
most rewarding aspect of
these trips: the personal
growth they achieve and
the experience that can
jump-start their careers.
"For me personally my
experience at Wallops
Island was very important
in earning me a job with
the
National Marine
Fisheries Services, not
only for the course work it
provided but for the field
experience," said Marin.
Recent graduate Luke
Zechman agreed with
Marin.
"As a student I found
Wallops Island to be very
inspirational, because it
exposed me to some first
time experiences, like collecting specimens from the
ocean. It can be very helpful to help one decide if (he
or she) has an interest in
marine science," he said.
Even from an administrative perspective, the
experiences at Wallops
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Interim Provost of
LHU, Roger Johnson,
"...students
said,
at
Wallops Island must, by
the nature of their courses
and labs, take an active
role in their own learning—studying hard and
putting the new knowledge to immediate use.
Under the careful guidance of an expert scholarteacher, they become
scholars and researchers
themselves."
Thompson also added
that LHU is hoping to add
a new course to the summer
lineup,
program
which will allow students
of any major to participate
in classes at Wallops
Island.

Calabrese is also hopeful of teaching a course at
Wallops Island someday
soon.
"(Thompson) and I
have discussed the possibility of me teaching a
marine
microbiology
course down at Wallops
during the summer,"
Calabrese said. "(I) probably would take a sabbatical in order to develop a
course like this."
To which Thompson
added, "Sometimes people
wonder what you can
study (related to marine
biology)
in
central
Pennsylvania, but we have
Wallops Island for that,
and hopefully soon, we'll
be able to get others
involved."

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Volume 67, Issue 8

Wednesday,April 2,2008

www.lhueagleye.com

Erb pitches perfect game
Kristin Erb pitched the first perfect game of her career against
Clarion while preserving LHU's 49-game home winning streak

Photo Courtesy of Sports information

.

Kriten Erb, seen above,
Alan Trexler
Sports Reporter
atrexler@lhup.edu

If

Chelsey Morse, seen above, won two events in
the high jump. Morse is an Indoor All-American.

Track and Field
dominates meet

Mr-

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Photo Courtesy of Sports Information

hurled her first perfect game of her career on Sunday.

Pitcher of the Year, PSAC more games than get indiRookie of the year and most vidual awards."
Erb has the Lady Eagles
notably the Honda Award,
given to the top female athwinning plenty of games as
they currently sit at 23-5
Junior pitcher Kristen lete in all of Division II.
Afterreceiving
her
most
overall and 4-0 in PSAC
Erb added another award to
recent
award
the
LHU has been espejunior
play.
her already lengthy resume
hurler
took
her
to
hot
cially
recently and are
game
last week after being named
another
level.
On
Sunday
riding
an 11 game winning
Division II National Player
Erb
the
first
streak.
pitched
perfect
of the Week.
The Lady Eagles are
The National Fastpitch game of her collegiate
Clarion.
ranked fourth in
against
currently
Coaches
Association career
She
sat
down
all
batDivision
II. LHU was the
21
(NFCA) awarded Erb for
ters
faced
national
dominating
in a
runner up last year
her efforts after she went 4the
mound.
after
the national
performance
taking
on
0, all complete games, at the
Erb
has
not
Currently
given
championship
in 2006.
Salem Tournament in
earned
her
last
And
all of her
despite
in
up
an
run
Va.
28
innings
In
Salem,
51
innings
pitched.
personal
accolades, there is
the LHU ace struck out 46
Erb
to
Erb would much
happy
thing
win one
was
batters.
the
award
but
knows
ittook
rather
receive.
In her two-plus years at
"Any individual award is
Lock Haven Erb has been a team effort.
"It's
nice
but I'd rather get team
accomplishgood
a
recognized for her stellar
ment
but
can't
justlook
you
awards," said Erb. "Like
performance on many occaat
one
said
Erb.
another
national champiplayer,"
sions. The list includes first
'You
have
to
look
at
the
onship."
team All-American, PSAC
team aspect. I'd rather win

Lady Eagles continue to
soar past the competition
Brandon Apter
Sports Reporter
bapter@lhup.edu
The Lady Eagle softball team had yet another
successful week, sweeping
doubleheaders from East
Stroudsburg,
Slippery
Rock and Clarion.

The games against the

Clarion Golden Eagles
were especially memorable for junior standout

Kristen Erb as she pitched with a run scored and an
her first perfect game of RBI.
her college career. The
The offense should not
Haven now has a 49-game be underrated though, as
home winning streak.
Amanda Roosa who was 2The Bald Eagles would 2 in game one with two
prevail in games against bombs over the fence. She
Clarion, 6-0 and 4-2. Just also contributed with
one year ago, Erb teamed three RBI's and two runs
up with Steph Kinch to scored.
Amanda
pitch a perfect game but
Gutmaker
she had no help in this also helped out with a
homerun in game one.
one.
She baffled eight
Clarion
batters
and
See, Softball, B2
helped her own cause by
going 3 for 4 at the plate

Garrett Graziano
Sports Editor
ggrazian@lhup.edu
from
Competitors
schools such as Mansfield,
Bloomsburg and Penn
College packed Hubert Jack
Stadium for the track and
field team's first ever
Elliston Early Bird meet
this past weekend.

Named in honor of former LHU coach Mark
Elliston, both the men's and
women's teams turned out
strong performances on the
day.
"I was impressed with
the way our kids stepped
up," said Head Coach Aaron
Russell. "We were originally
supposed to have two more
teams compete, making it a
little more competitive, but
our kids really went out
there and performed."
Chelsea Morse, already
a
2008 Indoor
AilAmerican, set the barfor all
Haven competitors with
two wins; one in the high
jump with a leap of 5-07.00,
a NCAA provisional qualifying mark, and the other in
the long jump with a leap of
18-00.50.
Following Morse's lead,
Jen Andrews had herself a
day as well, with a first
place finish in the shot put.
With a mark of 13.22m,
Andrews just missed a
NCAA qualifying mark.
Lady Eagles, Theresa
Gould and Alexis Patrick,
would dominate the 1500
meter run finishing 1-2
with times of 5:08.38 and
5:13.75, respectively.
"Considering the competition Gould and Patrick did
really well," said Coach
Russell. 'They ran hard and
didn't settle in and get overly comfortable."

,

•

In the 100 meter dash
the Haven's Cassie Snider
held of Mansfield's Ryan
Kelley to take home first in
a time of 12.89.
On the men's side, Tim
Getz and Jed Yeatts finished 1-2 in the 1000 meter
run, just missing NCAA
qualifying marks. Getz finished in a time of 31:39.72,
while Yeatts finished just
behind him with a time of
31:52.34.
Haven runner, Greg
Mock, also had a standout
day with two first place finishes in the 100 and 200
meter dash. In the 100
meter dash Mock's final
time was 10.98, while his
200 time was 22.29.
Not to be outdone,
Brandon Pomerantz took
home first in the 1500
meter run in a time of
4:01.20, while teammate,
Chris Edelman, ran away
with a first place victory of
his own in the 400 meter
dash at a time of 49.69.
Another Bald Eagle to
have a productive day
include Ben McConnell,
who took first in the 800
meter run in a time of
1:57.99, just beating out felrunner,
low
Haven
Pomerantz.
"Right now I think we
are ahead of where we are
supposed to be," said Coach
Russell. Tin really happy
about that, but the season is
still young and we have a
long way to go so we will
still be working hard week
in and week out."
Both the men's and
women's track and field
teams will be back in action
this upcoming weekend at
the PSAC West Challenge
at
Rock
Slippery
University.
Ryan Blood will also be
out in California after he
was invited to compete in
10,000 meter run at the
Stanford Invitational.

INDEX
LHU Sports B1-B4
Editorials

B3

Lacrosse wins battle of ranked teams
Features

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See, B2

Geology becomes art in new exhibition
See, B8

B2

April 2,

Baseball team's offense
clicking despite losses
Kris Glad
Sports Reporter
kglad@Ihup.edu

Baseball has a lot in
common with other sports
out there and one such
sport is bowling. If you
think about it, it makes
sense, you try to get as
many strikes as possible,
both involve distinctive
equipment and no one
wants to split.

Unfortunately for baseball team, a split in the
final two games of the
weekend series against
California Saturday at
Foundation field is what
they got.
"California is a very
good baseball team and we
won one offour games. We
know as a team we were in
a position to win all four
games,"
said
Coach
Smokey Stover. We didn't
play defense as well as we
are capable and the result
was a few loses. I am very
proud of the way we are
playing baseball right
now. We just have to play
defense a little better and
we will be off and running."
This was the first
series
against
a
State
Pennsylvania
Athletic Conference west
foe of the season for Lock
Haven.
In the first game on
Saturday, LHU displayed
some fantastic hitting to
back up their solid pitching, as they won the game
9-4.

Sophomore Evan Petro
was 2-for-3 and fellow
sophomore Mark Strouse
was 2-for-4 in game one.
Junior Matt Palko
went for l-fcr-3 in game,
including a grand slam,
which would turn out to be
huge in LHU's win.
Palko's grand slam gave
the Bald Eagles a lead
that they would not let go.
Freshman
pitcher
Jordan Yohn pitched the
entire game for LHU and
gave up four runs on seven
hits. He walked five and
struck out five more.
"We didn't make any
mistakes in the game we
won," Said Coach Stover
In the second game
LHU tried to repeat the
efforts made in game one,
but unfortunately they
couldn't get it done, falling
10-5.
Senior Tim Bremen
went 2-for-3 with one RBI
and
freshman Brain
Kochik was 2-for-4 with
three RBI.
On Friday the Bald
traveled
to
Eagle
California to take on the
Vulcans in the first of a
two game series.
The first game was
close but the Haven fell 64. Senior pitcher Patrick
Young had a solid outing
going 5-1/3 innings of
action. He gave up eight
hits
and
six
runs.
he
allowed
only
However,
three walks while striking
out six.
The second game ofthe
series was even closer, but
LHU fell once again to the
Vulcans 6-5.
On the defensive side,
sophomore pitcher Josh

2008

Rote also went 5-1/3
innings in the day, while
giving up five runs on nine
hits. Rote walked four batters and struck out three

others.
On the offensive side
LHU put forth a strong
effort with three batters
doing equally well at the
plate.
Junior Teddy Stake,
freshmen
James
Zimmerman and Brian
Kochik all went 2-for-3,
Zimmerman and Kochik
both recorded a pair of
RBFs.
'This team is very dangerous and if we play
defense a little better we
will finish the season on a
good note," said Coach
Stover.
At the time of this
printing LHU had a record
of 10-16, 1-3 in PSAC
West action, putting them
within one victory of tying
last season's total victories
of 11.
The next game for the
Bald Eagles will be on
Tuesday April 1, at noon
as they host Mansfield
University.
The next series after
that will showcase LHU
against fellow PSAC-West
rival Indiana University
of Pennsylvania.
"Every team will be a
challenge but if we play
how we are capable we can
win a lot of games," said
freshman second base/outfielder James Zimmerman
The first set of games
will be on Friday at
Foundation Field at 1:00
p.m. and then the series
will conclude at IUP on

Brian Kochik, seen above, drove in three runs for the Bald Eagles against
California. Kochik has seen some playing time early in his freshman year and
has taken full advantage of it.

Saturday.

From, Softball, Bl

In game two of the twin

bill, the Haven found them-

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Leigh Titus, seen above, dribbles the ball down field against #7 ranked
Gannon. The #6 ranked Lady Eagles defeated Gannon 15-8.

selves trailing 2-0 early in
the game. The Lady Eagles
would quickly score two
runs in the bottom of the
inning to tie it up at two.
The fifth inning would be
the one Lock Haven would
take to their advantage as
they put two more runners
across home plate to seal
themselves a 4-2 victory to
improve their 2008 record to
23-5.
"We have a well balanced team that is based on
strong pitching, defense and
an explosive offense that
can score in a variety of
ways," said Head Coach
Kelley Green. "We have 20
student-athletes and coaches who are 100% committed
to do their best each day on
the field and love being a
part of LHU Softball."
A few days prior to Erb's
stellar perfect game, the
Haven swept a doubleheader away from Slippery Rock,

Both
games
were win.
shutouts, 6-0 and 8-0. As
Erb struck out six batthe scores show, the Lady ters in game one.
Eagles went ahead early
Game two would be the
and never looked back.
same as Sarah Norris was
Kristen Erb pitched a the offensive weapon hitting
five-hit shutout while strika bases clearing double to
ing out eight SRU batters.
score two runs.
Erica Eisenbise helped
The two Amanda's,
out the Haven cause by Roosa and Gutmaker, hit
scoring three runs while homeruns to help the
Nancy O'Connor drove in Haven cause.
three.
Kristen Erb struck out
Game two was much of five batters in her win. Julia
the same as the Haven Popovich who finished the
exploded for eight more game out mowing down
runs.
three ESU batters relieved
Erb pitched the second Erb.
half of the game, striking
The Lady Eagles are
out six batters in the back in action April 4, as
process.
they play host to California I
The Lady Eagles home University. The first pitch is
opener would show East scheduled for 2:30 pm.
Kristen Erb's performStroudsburg as the Haven's
next victim as they swept ance last week was good
the doubleheader with enough to earn her Division
scores of 4-0 and 6-0.
II player of the week by the
In game one, Erica NFCA.
Eisenbise would play a big
"This team has a ton of
part as she hit a double to talent and as long as we
drive in two runs.
stay healthy and hungry, it
A sacrifice fly and a sin- could get very exciting in
gle would be the result of May," said Coach Kelly.
the other runs in the 4-0

Lacrosse tramples Gannon and
Millersville after WCU loss
Alan Trexler
Sports Reporter
atrexler@lhup.edu
The women's lacrosse
team went 2-1 this week
including a 15-8 win over
ranked
nationally
Gannon at Charlotte
Smith Field Monday
night.

After falling to West
Chester
20-8
last
the
Tuesday,
Lady
Eagles (5-2, 2-1 PSAC)
responded with a 25-13
win over Millersville
afternoon.
Saturday
Playing their most complete game of the season,
LHU built on their
momentum by shutting
down #7 Gannon in a
battle of two of the
nation's top programs on

Monday.
Under the lights and
in front of an enthusiastic crowd, #6 Lock Haven
controlled the game from
start to finish.
The
Lady
Eagle
defense set the tone
early by holding Gannon
scoreless until less than
a minute remained in
the first half. By then
Lock Haven had built a 7
goal lead that they would
not relinquish.
Head Coach Kristen
Selvage was impressed
with the way her team
held down the Gannon
offense.
"We were talking, we
were on our toes and just
working well together,"
"It
Selvage explained.
was complete teamwork.
It was awesome."
Selvage was particularly pleased with the

play of Senior Caitlyn
Watts who drew a tough
defensive assignment.
"I think a big part of
it was Watts," said
"She was
Selvage.
matched up with their
leading scorer and she
really denied her, especially in the first half."
Watts kept Taryn
Millerd, Gannon's leading scorer, scoreless
until the second half and
to only two goals on the
evening.
"Our defense was the
best that I have seen all
season tonight," said
Watts. "Everyone was
talking, helping each
other out, and making
amazing plays."

See, Lacrosse, B4

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homeruns. She also is number one in RBIs with 24.

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Garrett Graziano

Sports Editor

ggrazian@lhup.edu
Football, futbol, soccer, I could care
less what you refer to the game as, but I
feel we as a country vastly under appreciate this sport.
Could it be that I have become bored,
like a "40-something" married couple,
with American sports, maybe. But, I'd
rather attribute my new found infatuation with soccer to my encounter with a
varying degree of international students
this past academic year.
At the risk of sounding cheesy, or
uncultured I will admit my first real runin with the sport came through the silver
screen.
Green Street Hooligans was the first
in a series of many events that attracted
me to soccer, and in particular, the
Barclays Premier League. And as stereotypical as it sounds that I came to learn
about this league through a movie, I cannot say I'm sorry about it. If it weren't for
films like GSH or Football Factory I
would be forced into watching the NCAA
tournament right now.
For those of you who may be in the
dark, the BPL is England's showcase
league. Clubs such as Manchester
United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool
(some of Europe's elite) all belong to the
BPL. all of which, not only compete in
the BPL, but also compete against
best clubs in UEFA's
Europe's
Champions League, but that's a different
story all together.
Back to the topic at hand, I really
started watching matches this past year

= soccer
or so. I really can't say who I favor,
because according to a history lesson
divulged by an Irish friend of mine, most
of these teams represent more to the fan
base that support them, than our mostloved sports teams mean to us.
Take a diehard Yankees or Red Sox
fan from birth and multiply the intensity
of their infatuation by at least a 100.
• Sometimes I feel bad being an
American sports fan. We rarely, if ever,
match the energy felt in the stadium on
match day. Yeah, OK, we'll occasionally
do the wave, maybe scream at an official
or two, hell, even some teams have their
own jingles and chants, but when it
comes down to it, we are a lame contingent of sports fans.
Watch one match, that's all you'll
need to 9ee to understand what raw emotion is.
I said that some sports teams have
their own chants and jingles here
before...well, all their clubs have chants,
and most have multiple chants. And on
match day, supporters, numbering in the
tens-of-thousands chant in unison. All
game long.
I've never seen something of that
magnitude matched by any sporting
event here, with maybe the exception of
some rival college basketball games.
As Americans, we're not known for
our patience, but soccer, as a game
requires such a virtue. That's why I
think the sport never caught on here, but
I plead with all ofyou, give it a chance. If
you can, watch a match or two; just make
sure it's not from the MLS. I don't care if
David Beckham is playing or not. He is
past his prime, and the league is mostly
garbage.

Mets v. Phillies (round
Alan Trexler
Sports Reporter
a trexler "lhup.edu
Even the best things in life get boring.
That Jessica Alba poster in your dorm
room just doesn't have the same affect it
did when you bought it two years ago.
Such is the case with the YankeesRed Sox rivalry. As much as I like the
BoSox and despise the evil empire, it just
isn't 2004 anymore.
The luster is gone now that both
teams are recent champions.
With that in mind it is time to focus
the 2008 season on a rivalry not found in
the Bronx and Boston, but rather in
Flushing and Philly.
Just when it seemed the Mets were
going to stick it to the Phils for the second straight year last season the
unthinkable happened. The big bad
bully with all the money to spend fell
apart.
The Mets monumental collapse last
year laid the framework for this year's
rivalry. Considering the Phillies helped
them blow a huge September lead by
winning the last eight meetings, it is reasonable to assume the Mets have a bit of
a chip on their shoulder.
The Mets and Phillies hate each other
just as much as the Yanks and Sox do,
and they are even more willing to
announce it.
Despite the collapse in last year's
pennant race, the Mets took the first
shot this season. Carlos Beltran, normally qne of the more reserved superstars in the league, fired the first jab.
"With Santana, I have no doubt we
are going to win our division. I have no
doubt about that," said Beltran. "So, this
year, tell Jimmy Rollins we are the team
to beat."
Take that reigning NL MVP!
This was clearly a response to the
x-emarks made almost exactly one year
ago by the aforementioned Rollins. After
finishing well behind the Mets in 2006,

Nature Boy
Sports Editor

jcooney@lhup.edu
Sunday one of the greatest athletes in
all of sports retired. He didn't hit a ball,
he didn't shoot a ball, and he wasn't trying to tackle the other team, at least not
all of the time. Anyone know who he is...
His name is Ric Flair. He styled and
profiled for 37 years in the world of
"sports entertainment". Yes I know
wrestling is fake. I know they sometimes
don't hit each other, but these athletes
and yes I mean athletes, are in the ring
for about half an hour, on average, running around. Watch a "Money in the
Bank Latter Match" and tell me that
these guys are athletic.
But back to Flair, show me any other
professional athlete that could last
almost 40 years in his or her sport. Flair
made his wrestling debut in 1972 in the
AWA (American Wrestling Association).
He captured his first title just two years
later in the NWA (National Wrestling
Alliance).
The legendary career of Ric Flair
almost never happened. In 1975 at the
age of 26 Flair broke his back in three
places. He was told he would never
wrestle again. Flair was determined to
get back in the ring and went through
rigorous physical training and was back
in the wring in just six months. I can't
think of another athlete that broke his
back and was playing his sport in six
months. I know the mat is padded but
you still have to land on your back all the
time.
In baseball a pitcher needs his arm.
If it even hurts a little he gets put on the
DL. In basketball if a player hurts his
ankle or knee they either only play a lit
tie or don't play at all. I give props to Ric
Flair for his heart and determination.
In 1981 the wrestling world saw "the
Nature Boy" capture his first World
Heavy Weight Championship in the
NWA. He defeated fellow Hall of Famer
Dusty Rhodes for the title He would lose
the title and within the next five years in
the NWA he would capture the Heavy
Weight Title seven more times.
Between 1986-91 Flair wrestled
under the new company that had combined most of the NWA affiliates together. The name of the company was WCW
(World Championship Wrestling). While
in WCW he fought for both the NWA title
and the WCW title.
In 1991 he left WCW for the WWF

3)

Rollins stated that the Phillies were the
team to beat in 07.
So for the second straight season, the
losing team has proclaimed themselves
better. Am I missing something?
Clearly l am. Last year what looked
like a foolish statement by an immature
young athlete turned into a self-fulfilled
prophecy.
An MVP trophy and division championship later Rollins was on top of the
world. Even after his baseball career is
over he has a career reading fortunes at
$3.99 per minute.
While Rollins' prediction took psychic
powers and the biggest collapse in baseball history to come true, Beltran thinks
one man will make the difference this
year: Johan Santana.
With the games best pitcher now
residing at Shea Stadium, hope is
renewed for the Met faithful. Suddenly
one of the leagues worst pitching staffs is
considered of the leagues best.
But we have seen this before. The
past rosters of these two teams are littered with stars who were supposed to
bring glory to their respective teams.
But players such as Curt Schilling,
Mike Piazza, Darren Daulton, Lenny
Dykstra, Al Leiter, and Mitch Williams
have failed to bring a title home.
Instead the glory has belonged to
names like Joe Carter and Yadier

Molina.
Which is what makes this rivalry so
great. They are both underdogs, that
arid the fact that both teams are
absolutely loaded with talent and have
no excuse for not making the playoffs.
Yet despite neither team ever winning anything significant on the field,
they love to talk about what they are
going to accomplish.
The Mets think 2008 is their chance
to reclaim what is rightfully theirs. The
Philkes don't see it that way.
Luckily for us they have 18 chances
this year to prove their point.
I know I'll be watching.

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He won
titles
there
and
had
feuds
with
more
like
Hulk
and
the
Hogan
Randy
guys
Savage. When he won the WWF title he
became only the second person in
wrestling history to hold both the NWA
title and the WWF title.
In 1993 he returned to WCW were he
wrestled until he returned to the new
WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment)
in 2001. Throughout the final eight
years of WCW Flair had feuds with many
people but the one that sticks out in my
mind is his rivalries with Sting.
Sting and Ric Flair first met in 1998.
The two fought in a 45 minute match
when time was finally called. 45 minutes of doing any physical activity is
hard. Doing it with a bad back is even
harder. Most of my early childhood
memories are sitting in front of a television and watch Flair and Sting go back
and forth. Watching those two was like
watching poetry in motion.
I know I have given a lot of wrestling
brand names and some history but for
those of you who do not know much
about professional wrestling I wanted to
show you that this man has dominated
his sport for 35 plus years in three different companies. Officially the WWE
recognizes him as an eight time NWA
champ, six time WCW champ, and two
time WWE champ. He also won the 1992
Royal Rumble.
Monday night the WWE had a special
night for Flair, accumulating at the end
with a special thank you ceremony. I
have never really been a Ric Flair fan
but watching that ceremony and watching how much emotion poured out ofthat
man and all the fans in the arena, I
almost got emotional.
Whether you liked him or hated him
one thing was for sure, Ric Flair poured
his heart and soul into what he did. You
can say what you want about professional wrestling but there is one thing for
sure, wrestlers are athletes. They do a
job that most of us couldn't even imagine. Every night the get bumps and
bruises but they g o out and do it again.
The wrestling world will miss "Naitch"
and there is probably no one that will
ever be able to live up to his dominance.
Certainly no one will be able to have a
career that spans almost 40 years.
So here's to you "Nature Boy".
Thanks for all the memories. You will be
missed And I couldn't end a story about
"Naitch" without letting out a big ol'
WOOOOOOOOOO!

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The
defending
National
Collegiate
Boxing Association team
champions, the LHU Bald
Eagles, had four of their
top boxers win Eastern
Collegiate
Boxing
Association (ECBA) titles
last week in Ocean City
Maryland. Boxers from 10
eastern schools competed

in the 3-day competition
including University of
USMA,
Maryland,
USCGA, FSU, Gettysburg,
Shippensburg, Salisbury
Mansfield, VMI, and LHU.

Boxing
Leading the Bald Eagle
delegation was defending
national 125-lb champion.
Josh Wisniewski, who
took top honors in the 125lb class. Winning his semi-

final bout with an impressive 3-0 decision over
PSU'S Jake Winowich,
Wisniewski went on to
score an exciting 2-1 split
decision win over USMA'S
(ARMY) Danilo Garcia to
gain the title. One of just
seven four -time Eastern
(ECBA)
Champions,
Wisniewski's career is
now 24-9.
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Wisniewski, is 22 years old
and stands 5'6" at the 125lb weight class. He has
been boxing for the Eagles
for the past 3 Vt years
four eastern
earning
regional championships
and one national championship.
school
high
In
Wisniewski was a three
sport athlete playing football, basketball, and baseball. He received four letters during his football and
baseball careers and two
letters in his basketball
career.
"Josh has a very
aggressive boxing style,
lying on non-stop pressure
and throwing his punches
in bunches," said Coach
Ken Cooper. "He is going
to be a tough kid to beat"
And rightfully so, working to be a four time AilAmerican boxer. In 2005
and 2006 Josh Wisniewski

took home the bronze
metal from Reno, Nevada.
Then in 2007 he stepped
up and brought home the
gold and this year he is not
expecting to do anything
less.
The fast improving
Addy Pizarro (Sr. co-captain) has an outstanding
21-3 career record. Pizarro
is projected to be a finalist
in the 1321b division.
Last November (2007)
at the NYAC Pizarro
scored a major upset, RSC
(Referees Stops Contests),
over defending national
champion David Schacter,
UN-Reno, and has not suffered a defeat since the
NYAC competition. The
Bethlehem, PA, native,
Pizarro is ready to win his
first title.
Also co-captain Danny
Marraro the popular senior, from the Virgin
Islands, with a 21-7 career
record is one of the
favorites in the 1561b class.
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defeated
Eagles
Millersville 25-13. After
falling behind by two
Watts kept Taryn goals early, LHU scored
Millerd, Gannon's leadeight of the next nine
ing scorer, scoreless until goals to gain control.
the second half and to
Titus had a huge
only two goals on the afternoon for LHU as she
recorded a game-high
evening.
"Our defense was the nine goals. She added an
best that I have seen all assist for a ten-point
season tonight," said game.
Watts.
"Everyone was
Blickenstaff also had a
talking, helping each big day, scoring seven
other out, and making goals and an assist.
Watts rounded out the
amazing plays."
Senior
Rachel potent offensive attack
Williams sparked the with a career best five
offense early, recording goals.
three goals in the games
Amber Hoch had a
first twenty minutes.
good day setting up her
"Today the offense teammates and finished
showed up and you could with four assists and a
tell we were all working goal.
hard for each other,"
Last Tuesday the
explained Williams. "It Lady Eagles traveled to
was the biggest team West Chester and fell 20effort all over the field 8. The Golden Rams, the
that I have seen all year.
This shows everyone
what we are made of."
Jessica Blickenstaff
paced the LHU offense
recording a game-high
five goals. Blickenstaff
added two assists to finish with seven points,
including a great pass off
a free position to set
Watts up for a goal to
seal the outcome late in
the second half.
Leigh Titus and Kari
Sielski also recorded hat
tricks on the night as
both players finished
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with three goals.
Kira Nuttall was spectacular in the goal, stopping 12 shots on the
evening. Nuttall allowed
only two first half goals
while LHU built their
lead.
Coach Selvage knew
this game was a key to
LHU's season.
"It was a really important game for us to come
out on top," explained
Selvage. "It had to happen. We had to win this
one and we were ready."
DEALERS
On Tuesday the Lady
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top ranked team in
Division II, jumped out to
an early 11-1 lead and
held off the Lady Eagles
for the rest of the game.
Blickenstaff led LHU
with four goals while
freshman Jamie Uzialko
finished with two.
The Lady Eagles are
back in action tonight as
they hit the road for a
PSAC
contest
with
Shippensburg. They are
back at home Saturday to
host Bloomsburg at 1
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War in Iraq, escalating gas prices, health
care crisis, failing economy and a wealth of other
problems riddle our society today.
The problems were
obviously different hundreds of years ago in our
country, but they were
still situations that
needed solving on a
national scale.
The
difference
between the time periods comes in the degree
with which citizens handled and reacted to their
respective problems.
The Heisey Museum
in Lock Haven hosted a
speaker
guest
on
March
Sunday,
30,
whose lecture related to
this difference.
The
Alan
guest,
and
storyteller
Irvine,
of
sociology
lecturer
at
of
the
University
discussed
Pittsburgh,
four historical incidents
of reaction to problems
in America.
His program is called
Rabble
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Tales of
Revolution:
Protest and Dissent."
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presentation by inviting
listeners "to think about
the issues that come up
in the stories."
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of Pittsburgh, visits Lock Haven to deliver his inspirational program,
"From Rabble to Revolution: Tales of Protest and Dissent," at the annual
meeting of Clinton County Historical Society.
the back of the audience's mind.
"As you are listening
to the stories of these
four events, if they were
occurring today, where
would we draw the line?
As to which one do we
say, well that's alright,
they can do that and
which one do we say, no,
that's a little bit too far,"
he said.
His first story was
from the colonial era
and
called
"The

Lawrenceville Down."
other people of the city.
It gave an account of
Their concern resultcitizen
from ed in a huge town meeta
Pittsburgh whose curiosing and promises from
ity led him down to the their representatives to
of
the impact government regbanks
Monongahela River and ulation.
to finding out that the
A week later, the
federal soldiers were president's cabinet had
loading a ship with guns a split and a new secrefrom the arsenal in tary of war was named.
Lawrenceville.
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time building up to the his first orders were to
Civil War, he made a rescind the arm ship.
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the
following
In
weeks, the situation in
the country worsened,
and the Southern states
seceded.
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actions of the people of
125 canPittsburgh,
nons, 125,000 rifles and
other various arms did
not end up in Southern
arms,
but ultimately
armed the regiments
forming
in
Irvine
Pennsylvania,"
said as he completed his
first story.
The visiting storyteller's second story was
about a riot over paper
money policies in colonial Philadelphia.
Government during
this time period was
wary of printing money
because it had to be
backed by gold, and the
inflation was one of the
main concerns that were
voice by the citizens.
Irvine described the
situation by saying,
of
"The
citizens
Pennsylvania
finally
had enough.
They started to petition in forceful terms to
the assembly.
They met in the
streets and by March,
the protest was getting
more and more heated,
and finally busting out
into anger. It wasn't too
long before the insults
turned to rocks and mud
and
bricks
being

thrown,"
The third story of the
afternoon was told in
first-person narration.
This added element
brought an interesting
turn, as Irvine put on a
hat, appropriate to the
era, to give him a look of
the character he was
portraying.
The character's name
was Jimmy Smith who
discussed his fellow
frontier vigilantes protecting their lives and
families.
To
conclude
the
event, Irvine told a story
of John Brown's raid on
The
Harper's Ferry.
story was from the era
prior the Civil War and
talked about each state
having its own law on
slave ownership.
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law resulted in fights
over individual's freedom as determined by
location and origins.
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Students and faculty
gathered in the Meet and
Greet room of Stevenson
Library to read from published authors or their
material
original
on
March 27 for "Let Her
Voice Be Heard," the event
the
co-sponsored
by
English Club and the
Women Studies Program
in expression of Women's
History Month.
With the room completely filled with an audience, the event began with
Amanda Sportelli, a senior.
Sportelli, who was chosen as the English Major
of the year, read four
poems that consisted of
two works from published
writer, Lucille Clifton, and
two poems of her original
work.
Javon
Freshmen
Thrush and Kelly Monks
who followed her also read
from published writers.
After the student portion of the event had concluded, it was the faculty's
turn to share their
thoughts and readings.
Dr, Tracey Cummings,
assistant professor of
English, read a couple of
experts from "Journal of a
Solitude" by May Sarton.
According to her, poetry readings play a significant role in expanding students' horizons.
"Spending time listening to very powerful words
written by some great
writers is time well spent,"
she said. "I'm very excited

Kimberly Wonesky/Eagle Eye

(Top) Attendees of the poetry reading "Let Her Voice Be Heard," organized in
celebration of Women's History Month gather in a circle to continue the discussion of women authors. (Bottom) Senior Amanda Sportelli was chosen as the
English Major of the Year.
to see students want to
talk about writing that
moves them and/or writing that they were moved
to write."
Sportelli pointed out
that we rarely hear about
female poets, and that's
what makes an event like
"Let Her Voce Be Heard"
so important.
"It's a way for someone
to expand their author
selection," she said.
If you would like to join
the English Club in their
celebrations of great writers, contact Dr. Cummings
at tcummin2@lhup.edu.

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Professor Profile: a family man
Christina Shuman
Staff Reporter
cshumanfalhup.edu

The birthing went well

and everything was good.

Q: If you had a free
ticket/trip to wherever
you wished in the
world, where would
you go and why?
A: I have no idea.
Maybe get on a boat and
go around the world.
That sounds like fun.

Christina Shuman, a
at the Eagle
Eye, had an opportunity
to sit down with Dr.
Gregory Walker, an associate professor from sociology,
anthropology,
social work and geography department, and discuss with him his hobbies,
tastes and life outside
being a professor.

staff reporter

Q: Where did you
grow up?
A: Central Illinois. I
experienced four different
schools in my first four
years of school. I also was
in California for a bit, it's
a long story.
Q: What brought you

to Lock Haven?
A: My job. I came here
because it was a great fit
for being a professor for
sociology.

Q: What do

Christina Shuman/Eagle Eye

Dr. Gregory Shuman finds his happiness in raising his two kids and spending
quality time with his family.
position to see what needs
to get done. You can't see
that in a factory, you can't
make decisions there.

you like

Q: What are your
hobbies?
A: My hobbies are just
raising my kids; I used to
fish a lot. I have a 4-yearold son and a 10- monthold daughter.
Repairs to my home
and car take up a lot of
my time usually, but I
don't mind because I was
not raised to have a
hobby.
All anyone ever wanted me to do was mow
Q: What do you like lawns and shovel gravel.
I learned to get pleasure
most about your job?
out
of doing these things.
The
independence
A:
that
do
whatever
in
I can
Q: What did you
I want. I do what needs
to be done and I am in the want to be when you
were a kid?
most about the area
and the university?
How long have you
been here?
A: I like that the university is small, and the
students here have a lot
of potential.
It is very pretty
here, and I like the woods.
My ancestry is in the
Appalachian Mountains.
I have been teaching
here since fall of 2004.

A: I wanted not to be
poor. I could see the economy failing and did not

want a blue collar job, so I
left for education out of
sheer fear.

Q: Where is your

favorite place to be?
A: At home with my
family - the wife and
kids.

Pork is my favorite vegetable. My wife is a really good cook so I like
everything she makes.
She used to own Java
Therapy.

Q: What is

your

favorite movie?
A: Probably "My Name
is Nobody." It is about a
cowboy with an identity
disorder; it's just funny in

Q: If you could live a way.
where
anywhere,
It is completely charwould that be?
acter driven and there
A: My wife's favorite really isn't much of a plot.
town is Eugene, Ore., so It was Sergio Leone's last
I'd have to say that I movie of his westerns. I
would follow her there. I also liked the music in the
never really thought that movie.
I would have much of a
choice.
Q: Describe the best
moment of your life.
A: When my children
Q: What is your
favorite food?
were born; that would be
A: I eat anything. my two best moments.

Q: What is your
favorite class to teach
and why?
A: I like to teach my
upper level classes: industrial sociology, urban
rural patterns, and next
year I am looking forward
to teaching sociology of
organizations.
Students are more
mature in the upper levels and they are so
mature that I can receive
input from their papers
that they write, and it is
like an extension to my
research. Typically, they
read about six books for a
400 level class; they get a
lot out of it.
Q: If you could give
one piece of advice to
LHU students, what
would that be?
A: To get your formal
education while you can.
There is not a lot of time
to learn abstractly.
In the workplace, it
becomes factory-like, and
there is part of you that
dies.
Students may come
here just for credit and
nothing else.
They do not realize the
benefits of learning a subject for their own purposes.

Majors from A to Z: Criminal Justice
Olga Malyavskaya
Feature Editor
omalyavs'" lhup.edu

Patrol, New York City
Police Department to
name a few."
According to her, the
reason behind the CJ
graduates being able
to work in so
many areas is
that all students in the

First offered to students in 2000, criminal
justice is one of the
youngest departments
Am
here at LHU, yet its program
Am
are
popularity is growing
required
with every year.
mmnm
take
to
According
Dr. to
numerous
Tamson Six, the departcourses
in
ment chair, there are
criminal
jusabout 385 criminal jusand
tice majors
at
the tice
sociology.
moment, with 10 percent of them enrolled
through
Clearfield
Campus.
Unique features of
the criminal justice
(CJ) degree at LHU
,
include its wide- #fp
spread employment 17
opportunities
for -H
interngraduates,
ships in a range of
professional settings
and variety of guest
To meet the requirespeakers who come to
ments
of the program,
talk to students about
students
are taking
their jobs.
classes
dealing
many
"The CJ degree prewith
issues
law
in
pares students for a
enforcement,
criminal
wide variety of entry
level
positions
in law, criminal procenumerous professions," dures, race and ethnic
relations, social probSix said. "Recent graduates have successfully lems, juvenile delingained employment in quency, drug abuse and
the
Department
of many more.
Such a background
Defense,
Pa.
State
can
"provide them [the
Police,
Clinton Co.
CJ
with a well
majors]
Probation and Parole,
from
rounded
base
Mifflin Co. Probation
their
which
to
launch
and Parole, The Border
careers," Six explained.

The seekers of the CJ
degree can then apply
the knowledge obtained
through those courses to
professional settings, as
they are engaged in
various internships
offered in the
program.

.

"Internships
also
afford
students
the
opportunity to learn
about various jobs first
hand to determine if
that is what they really
want to do," Six said.
students get
"Many
their first job as hires
right out of their internships!"
Interpol, Clinton Co.
Prison,
the
Central

Counties

Youth

Detention
Facility,
Cornell
Abraxas,
Moshannon Correctional
Facility,
the

Philadelphia
District
Attorney's office and
many other local level
police departments, probation and parole offices
are some of the locations
where the CJ interns
are getting their first
professional experience.
In addition to internships, the program features many guest speakers who come to classes
and provide students
with an insight on the
nature of their work.
This year alone, the
CJ majors had a chance
to talk to Sean Nedd,
who provides security to
Condoleezza Rice, the
just keep up on
members of the Pa. or
things.
State Police, Pa. Liquor
There are also times
Control Board, Game
when as soon as you
Commission, the U.S.
walk in the door you
Border
Patrol
and
could just start answermany others.
ing calls for service and
those
However,
who plan on pursuing dealing with search
warrents, raiding or
their careers in crimimaking arrest and such.
nal justice field must
This may lead to being
be ready for certain sacrifices, as a Patrolman tied up for the whole
First Class Jeff Fritts, shift or more.
"We work lot of time
of Lock Haven, warns.
for seven days straight
"Make sure that's
what you want to do," he before we get couple
days off," said Fritts.
said. "There are sacri"You
might come in to
fices. You have to give
and you might
work,
up hours of normal
have
to
stay for another
activities and sleep in
shift. It's hard to see
the day because you
your family when you
work nights."
According to him, no work those shifts."
Constant risk factor
day is typical with this
connected
with law
type of work, as there
enforcement
occupation
are times when you
is another thing to concome in to work and
sider.
may have several calls,
"It's dangerous, but
follow a lot of old cases

there are other jobs that
are dangerous also. You
can be a farmer and you
could be hurt by your
tractor, and you can be a
police officer and you
can be shot by somebody," Fritts said.
To him, working in
police is a change to do
something right for
humanity and to keep
the community clear
and safe.
"I would say that the
best part of my job is the
satisfaction you get by
taking someone off the
streets who is a menace
to normal hard-working
people of the community
who want to be able to
walk down the street
and feel safe," he said.

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Beyond LHU: Movies, Music, More...
Katie Holmes may be
taking a new role on
Broadway.

stated
on
Holmes
yahoo.com,
may be starring in a
revival of Arthur
Miller's
"All My
Sons." Right now,
there are only discussions of Holmes joining the production.
As

...

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No Doubt is finally back in the studio together working on their next album, as stated on
yahoo.com. Their last album, "Rock Steady,"
was released in 2001. All of the members
have been busy since their last album.
Stefani has had two solo albums with one
son and another on the way, and all other
members have been working with other
artists on various solo projects.

Photo Courtesy of Google Images

Cursed with a pig snout, Penelope, who was played by Christina Ricci, struggles to accept herself
and find happiness.

From searching of identity
to finding beauty within
Amanda Alexander
Staff Reporter
aalexan3(a lhup.edu

Fairy tales have always been a
popular form of storytelling, but
the plot is always the same: a
damsel in a distress is saved by a
handsome prince.
"Enchanted" was the first fairy
tale to have a slight twist in the
formula, but the happiness of the
princess still seemed to come only
from a relationship with that perfect guy.
It was "Penelope" that has
finally broken the mold.
In the year of the first general
election to ever seriously consider
a female candidate for president of
the United States, someone finally
came up with a fairy tale that
allows a girl to save herself.
Rather than basing the fate of
the heroine on a prince, the producers of the movie presented the
main character whose true freedom comes from her self-acceptance.
Penelope, played by Christina
Ricci, has been born into a cursed
family.
Thanks to the indiscretions of
her ancestors, Penelope, the first
female Wilhern, is born with a
pig's snout instead of a human
nose.
The curse can only be broken if
she gets "one of her own kind" to
love her.
While the whole idea of the
curse is pretty ridiculous and
unrealistic, Ricci does a great job
of portraying the emotions of
someone who wants to be herself
but can't accept her looks. The
nose is also incredibly realistic
looking.
In reaction to Penelope's birth,
the media goes crazy.
Reporters hide in the Wilherns'
home and jump out of drawers to
take photos.
Penelope's overprotective and
vain mother, played by Catherine
O'Hara, holds a fake funeral for
baby Penelope and then keeps her
locked in the house for the rest of
her life, hiring private tutors and
trying to keep her occupied
indoors.
Penelope's mother is convinced
that she will be ridiculed and broken down by society if she were to
ever leave the house, but she
wants her daughter to find a

wealthy man to love her so the
curse can finally be broken.
She decides to hire a private
matchmaker to lure men to the
house to meet her daughter.
As prospective husbands stand
in the drawing room, Penelope
hides behind a two-way mirror
and watches them while she
speaks with them.
Sometimes the men seem
promising, and she decides to
meet them in person.
But every time she reveals herself to the men, they run away as
fast as they can often leaping
through the plate-glass window
just to escape.
Penelope wants to give up on
finding a man to fix things and try
to live life on her own, but her
mother begs her to continue looking for the right man so she can
finally be "normal."
O'Hara's over-the-top acting is
perfect for this selfish and completely insensitive character.
Every time Penelope is rejected
and watches her potential future
husband throw himself out the
second-story window to get away
from her, she has to comfort her
mother rather than herself.
The blue-blood bachelors her
mother brings home never have
anything
in
common
with
Penelope, nor do they seem to care
about anything other than money.
But Penelope doesn't really
care abou;. falling in love - she
just wants to catch "one of her own
kind" long enough to marry him
and break the spell.
Unfortunately for Penelope,
love catches her by surprise, and
she finds someone she actually
wants to be with: a down-on-hisluck card shark named Max, who
also happens to be spying on her
to make a little extra cash.
Max
is
distracted when
Penelope reveals herself and doesn't actually see her, but he keeps
coming back to talk to her until
she reveals herself to him.
But when Max realizes he loves
Penelope and tries to quit his
undercover work, her mother
catches him in the act and throws
him out.
Max's betrayal of Penelope ultimately causes her to run away
from home and try to make it in
the real world.
Tired of being cooped up in her
parents' house, she covers the
lower half of her face with a scarf,

swipes her mom's credit card and
runs off to the city.
Penelope finally gets to be a
grown-up: she checks into a hotel,
goes shopping and has her first
beer on tap.
She even makes friends with a
girl named Anne, played by Reese
Witherspoon.
She tells Anne, ironically, that
she is wearing the scarf to cover a
"bad nose job."
Anne is the perfect person to
introduce Penelope to the real
world.
She drives a vespa, talks nonstop about her ex-boyfriends and
seems to know everybody.
Penelope is having the time of
her life until she gets caught.
Penelope's moment of redemption comes when she realizes she
will be okay on her own, and she
likes herself exactly the way she
is, with her nose and all.
This leads to a chain of events
that liberate her from everything
that was holding her back and
cause her family to finally accept
her as well.
Only then can Penelope finally
be with her true love.
But Max is just the icing on the
cake - Penelope already has
everything she needs.
"Penelope" shows girls that
they really can have it all; they
can be happy and fulfilled on their
own, and they can fall in love
while still remaining true to themselves.
Stone Village founder Scott
Stenderoff said of the film, "Today
everyone's so concerned with how
they look, it's interesting to develop a story where a young woman
overcomes the prejudice about
how she looks and proves her
strength of character and eventually triumphs, finds herself and
finds true love."
The producers of "Penelope"
feel that anyone can relate to her
insecurities and identify with the
frustration she feels that no one
really sees her for who she truly
is.
Producer Jennifer Simpson
says, "This is about a woman coming to terms with who she is and
what she looks like and feeling
comfortable in her own skin."

Photo Courtesy of Google Images
'Movies, Music, More' blurbs were written by Feature Editor Jessica Horbach.

Anna Nicole Smith's son died from a drug
overdose. As stated on yahoo.com, a
Bahamas jury ruled that the son had a drug
overdose that caused his death. The jury
found that there were no criminal charges in
the death of Daniel Smith.
Jessica Simpson is
recovering from a
kidney
infection
after being hospitalized in Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center on
Friday.

As

stated

on

yahoo.com, Simpson
is also working on

her

new

country

album.

Karina Smirnoff from "Dancing with the
Stars," is dating her ex partner Mario Lopez
and has been found kissing her new dancing
partner Mario, as stated on yahoo.com.
Smirnoff denied being with Mario, saying
that their relationship was strictly professional.

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April 2, 2008

ISA offers free language & culture lessons
Adam Guerra
Staff Reporter
aguerra@lhup.edu
The Hall of Flags in

Robinson Hall has been

the place to be on
Thursday nights if your
interests lie outside the
borders of the United
States. The International
Student Association (ISA)
has been running a series
on learning foreign languages. They have covered
Chinese and Spanish so
and more waits on the
horizon.
Each of the discussions
centered on a power-point
presentation.
Vivian Xu, the president of the ISA, led the
presentation on Chinese,
and Francisco, an international
student
from
covered
Spanish.
Mexico,
However, language was
only the beginning of the
curriculum for the meetings.
The main focus of these
student-run classes is to
spread information about
cultures. While covering a
handful of phrases for each
language, primarily the
basics of 'hello' and 'thank
you', each presentation
devoted a considerable
amount time to understanding the culture of
Chinese and Spanish
speakers.
"A very important part
of Chinese culture is
Dragon culture," explained
Xiang Hui, freshman from
China.
Tianjin,
"We
believe that we are
descended from dragons,
so dragons are very important to us."

PBP

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instruct.
"It helps to have a word
to associate with (when
learning
Chinese),"
explained Wang as she
taught everyone how to
say hello in Chinese. She
point to her knee, "Knee."
She shrugged, "How?"
When the two words
were run together, they
formed the Chinese word
for hello, 'Knee-How'.
Both discussions also
described the importance
of intonation in languages.
How a sentence is said
greatly impacts what it
means.
In Chinese, this is true
even for individual words.
and
Hui
Wang
explained that there are
four tones to each word in
Chinese, and four meanings for each depending on
which tone is used.
Chinese and Spanish
presenters alike stressed
the importance of trying to
speak the language if you
visit their respective counAdam Guerra/Eagle Eye tries.
(From left to right) Kaimei Wang, a junior in communication ofTianjin, China; Xiang Hui, a freshman in
They both agreed that
business, of Tianjin; Ying Wang, exchange teacher, of Tianjin; Yan Xu( Vivian), a senior in business and the to say only a few words
ISA president, of Tianjin; and Joshua P. Reynolds, a senior in business and the ISA vice-president.
would still be greatly welcomed
and would make
To further give the
"If you are invited the end of a meal is polite. write Chinese characters.
traveling
in these counaudience a glimpse of somewhere by a Mexican
When it came time to "Then top to bottom."
tries
easier.
Chinese culture, a brief and you do not want to go, instruction of the lanProfessor
Valerio
The presentations can
video clip of the Peking do not say you won't be guage, the presenters had showed his linguistic abilia participant a new
give
Opera was shown as well, there. Agree and say you plenty ofhelp. Many of the ty by reciting a Spanish
on the complexity of
grasp
and
some traditional will, and then don't show students who had come to tongue twister for the stuChinese and
learning
Chinese music was played. up," he said. "It is not con- watch the presentations dents. He also spoke
as
well as the
Spanish,
Mexican culture, and to sidered rude."
were members of the ISA, briefly on differing dialects
realization
that
the lana lesser extent, that of
He also explained that and they helped to teach of Spanish.
is
half as
guage
only
other Spanish speaking showing up right on time others and answered some
"All Spanish is the
as
the
culture
important
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New exhibit reveals beauty of nature
Joe Stender
Staff Reporter
jstender@lhup.edu
Presenting a new way
oflooking at the subject of
the
geology,
exhibit
"Geology: Materials of the
Earth as Seen in Art" will
be on display at the top
floor
of
the
new
Durrwachter
Alumni
Center from March 25 to
April 4.
The exhibit was the
idea of both Dr. Melinda
Hodge of the art department and Dr. Loretta
Dickson ofthe geology and
physics department.
"Melinda Hodge is a
fantastic artist and has a
special talent for making
unique pieces of jewelry
using natural stone and
metals, and she has
always had an appreciation for geology and geologic materials," said
Dickson.
Dickson herself is a

geologist who focuses on
landforms, rocks and minerals, but she has always
had a great appreciation
for art as well.
Both Dickson
and
Hodge agreed that the
combination of the two
fields would make for a
great exhibit and also
would put a new twist on
geology by making it artistic.
The goal of this exhibit
is to open the eyes of the
viewers so that they too
can see how beautiful the
geological forms around
them are.
Dickson explains, "We
hope that LHU students,
faculty, staff and the community will enjoy the
artistic pieces that depict
some of our geologic surroundings and at the same
time learn how these geologic features form and
why they are important."
In order to get the art
that was to be put of dis-

play,
the
organizers
accepted submissions from
Lock Haven students, faculty and local artists.
After they had received
the submissions, the students from the departments of art, geology and
physics helped to set the
exhibit up.
"Rocks and minerals
have fantastic colors and
textures. Rivers move over
great spans of time and
carve out the landscape.
Delicate stalactite and stalagmite cave deposits form
from the constant dripping
of water," Dickson said,
explaining what you can
expect when visiting the
exhibit.
Though this exhibit
will focus on geology, it is
not the last that will collaborate with another
department on campus.
This presentation is only
the first of an art exhibit
that is named, "Natural
World Exhibit Series."

The series gives any
department on campus the
opportunity to have its
subject presented to the
public in an artistic way.
Thus, in the fall semester of 2008, Dr. Joseph
Calabrese and the biology
department will team up
again with Hodge and the
art department to offer an
artistic outlook on the biological sciences.
So whether you are
interested in art or science, this exhibit is sure to
not disappoint. It just
goes to show you that you
can always look at anything, even science, a different way.
So, think hard and
remember to send in your
submissions for next fall's
biology exhibit.

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(From left to right) 1. Alabaster, the fine-grained
massive variety of the mineral gypsum, is widely
distributed in sedimentary rocks;
2. Various rocks and minerals of different shapes
and colors are displayed at the exhibit;
3. Sculptural vessel (hand built clay, raku fired with
crackle glaze) was submitted to the exhibit by Matt
Cooper.