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of the issue on a global,
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was to push schools and
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facilities planning, John Truth" was released in
Crossen of the physical 2005, that some of the
plant, and Danielle Tolton information holds true
as the student representathrough today. The movie
tive.
states since the turn ofthe
Each member of the century, five of the hottest
panel was addressed with years in temperature have
a question regarding the been recorded.
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SCC committees face busy term
Sarah Wojcik
Editor in chief
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The
Student
Cooperative Council, Inc.
(SCC) senators took a long
moment of silence during
their first meeting of the

semester last Wednesday,
Jan. 30, to remember
Julie Hartwich, a sophomore who died last week
her
Evergreen
in
Commons apartment.
As a card circulated
around the room for
Hartwich's family, SCC
president William Dowd
asked senators to sign it

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Keith Haller swears in William Baney for his fourth
consecutive term as speaker of the SCC senate.

as a way to extend sympa-

thy from LHU leaders.
"The idea spawned off
ofthe fact that the student
senators are representatives of the student body,"
said Dowd, "and we wanted to show our sympathy."
Dowd said he did not
know
personally
Hartwich, but those whom
he's spoken to about her
had nothing but good
things to say.
"It's definitely such a
hard thing to have to go
through," said Dowd. "I've
lost loved ones before and
can only imagine how her
family is feeling. I was so
shocked when I heard
about it, honestly."
The remainder of the
evening consisted of elections for semester-long
positions in the senate and
updates about upcoming
events including a statewide service project, SCC
elections and the search
for a new food service
provider on campus.
William Baney ran
uncontested for the position of speaker of the senate and will remain at the
position for his final and
fourth consecutive semester.

Daniel Blackmore once
again took the position of
recording secretary and
Neal Newmark will again
be the senate's parliamentarian.
Seven new senators
have joined the student
senate this semester to
their
conrepresent
stituents.
In order to prepare for
the state-wide Big Event,
Dowd successfully formed
an ad hoc committee headed by William Baney and
Alyssa Hoover.
"The role of the SCC in
this committee," Dowd
explained during the senate meeting, "is for
recruiting students, doing
PR, and also serving as
outlets for students to
apply their clubs during
that day."
Vice President Keith
Haller also spoke of committee work during his
report to the senate. The
elections committee, of
which he is in charge, will
be working on researching
the possibility of online
voting for future SCC
executive board elections.

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LHU receives gift
from Romeo estate
Lock Haven is one of
two recipients of a donation of $1.2 million, along
with the Clinton County

S.P.C.A.
The donation is being
given by the Romeo estate
after the death of Gladys
V. Romeo, a former resident of Lock Haven, in
July of last year. Gladys
wanted the money to go to
two great causes in the
community.
She
wanted
the
Clinton County S.P.C.A.
to receive fifty percent to
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give abandoned pets the
chance to be given a fresh
start and be adopted by a
loving family. Mary Jo
Williamson, the Clinton
County S.P.C.A president,
is very thankful to have
the donation because
organizations like the
S.P.C.A could not function
without support and donations from generous people like this from the community.
Some of the costs that
this donation will be is the
expense of spay and neutering the animals, and
medical treatment that
they might need.

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Up-Write reading series helps
celebrate Chinese New Year
Amanda Alexander
Staff Reporter

Photo courtesy of the English Dept.

Fiona Cheong will be reading selections from her
novels in the PUB MPR on Thursday Feb. 7 at 7
p.m.

Novelist Fiona Cheong
will join LHU in celebrating the Chinese New Year
and read from her some of
her work Feb. 7 at 7 p.m.
in the PUB MPR.
The reading will be the
first of the Up-Write
Reading Series for the
spring semester. Cheong,
an associate professor at
the
University
of
Pittsburg, has written two
novels: "The Scent of the
Gods"
and
"Shadow
Theatre." She is also a
contributor to "Tilting the
Continent:
Southeast
Asian American Writing,"
and "Charlie Chan is
Dead: An Anthology of
Contemporary
Asian
American Literature."
Cheong will meet with
the Fiction Workshop and
Advanced
of
Topics
Creative Writing classes.
Cheong is expected to read
from "Scent of the Gods"
during classroom visits,
and for the Up-Write reading "she will choose a
selection from one of her
novels or short stories,
many of which are set in
Singapore," said Professor

Marjorie Maddox-Hafer.
of the
"Scent
Gods" was described by
Kirkus Reviews as "A richly layered debut-set in
Singapore in the Sixties
and Seventies-that's a
memorable mix of ancespolitical
tral
voices,
intrigue, and rites of passage."
Cheong received her
B.A. in English and
Creative
M.F.A.
in
Writing from Cornell
University. She is originally from Singapore and
is a co-founder of the
Asian American Writers'
Forum, which is "an
organization of graduate
and advanced undergraduate writers of color within the university community," according to the
University of Pittsburg
website.
Cheong teaches contemporary fiction, Asian
American and transnational literature, creative
writing pedagogies and
women's
studies.
"Her rich, evocative prose,
her willingness to meet
and interact with students, and her ability and
skill in discussing cultural
influences make her an
exciting choice to kick off
both LHU's Chinese New

Year Festival and UpWrite Reading Series,"
said Maddox-Hafer.
The Chinese New Year
Festival's activities will
take place from Feb. 7-9.
Washington said it will be
event
at
which
an
"President Miller and
other university officials
recognize and celebrate
the holiday with students
from China." The event
has been organized by the
Students

open to the public, but

tickets
are required.
Tickets can be picked up
at the library, by calling
732-671-3700, ext. 320, or
emailing
Events will also take
place in the PUB multipurpose room on Saturday
from 5:30-8 p.m. by invitation only, due to limited
space.

Thursday is the beginning of the Year of the
Rat. "The Chinese New
Year is determined by the
Events will take place Lunar Calendar. The
on Thursday from 11-1 Chinese adopted the westp.m. in the International ern calendar in the early
office and 7-9 p.m. in the 1900's but still hold festiPUB multipurpose room. vals and celebrations in
Students will also enjoy honor of the lunar new
year. The Year of the Rat
traditional Chinese festivities Friday at Middletown marks the beginning of
Township Library at 3 the 12-year zodiac cycle,"
p.m.
according to the Windsor
"The fast paced proStar.
gram includes a high spirThe Up-Write Reading
ited lion dance, vibrant Series is sponsored by the
English department and
International
Studies
dances, Yo-Yo performances,
ensemble, department and supported
drum
Chinese music, and even a with funds from the LHU
Chinese dragon, all perFoundation and a diversiformed by the talented ty and equity grant from
children of the Jersey the Pennsylvania State
Shore Chinese School," System
of
Higher
according to the Atlantic- Education, Office of the
Herald.
Chancellor.
Admission is free and

Summer classes provide
external experience
Christina Shu man
Staff Reporter
cshuman@lhup.edu

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The time has come
again for students to begin
registering for summer
classes and thinking about
summer programs which
the university offers.
Actual registration began
Feb. 1.
Students should register as soon as possible but
preferably by May 1 at
noon. Although summer
does not
registration
require advisor registration clearance, a meeting
with a faculty advisor is
recommended before web
Before being able to
sign up for classes, students with unpaid bills
must clear their account
first
with
Student
Financial Services. Web
registration is completed
the same way as fall and
spring class registration.
The university offers
three different summer
sessions. The first two
sessions are five weeks
and the third, the 'summer extended' session, is
ten weeks.
The first five-week session runs May 19-June 20,
the second five-week session runs June 23- July 25
and lastly, the extended
session runs May 19- July
25. The extended session
may include field experiences, web-based courses,
physician assistant courses, etc. Students should
check for holidays or days

off during these sessions.
All financial information regarding summer
sessions and classes can
be found on the university's main web page.
Students can find the student billing information
under
the
Student
Financial Services Office.
Along with the summer
sessions offered at this
university, Lock Haven
also has provides many
programs that take place
the
during
summer
months. Many of these
take place off-campus or
abroad.
This summer,
biology students may find
themselves
down
in
Wallops Island, VA or
even in Tianjin, China.
Dr. Thompson, biology
and
professor,
Dr.
Overton, assistant profes-

programs that last 4-7

weeks.
This summer,
there are 4 programs
offered.
The first is Cassino,
Italy with Professor Jason
Bronner (May/June), the
second is London and
Paris
in May with
Professor Philip Huber,
and the third is Zacatecas,
Mexico with Dr. Rick
Goulet and Dr. Patrizia
Hoffman in June and lastly, the fourth is in London,
England (May/June) with
Dr. Stephen J. Hicks.
"Study abroad allows
the student to learn about
the world we live in. Most
LHU students are from
Pennsylvania, often from
small towns, and often
first generation college
students. Many haven't
had the opportunity to see
the wider world and a trip
biology/mycology/plant like the one to London
pathology both hold classopens their eyes to a world
es off-campus during the that does things differentsummer.
ly, even if in the same lanteaches guage," said Hicks.
Thompson
courses, including BIOL
Those
interested
200 Marine Biology, at the should make sure that the
Wallops Island Campus of deadlines for the prothe
Marine
Science grams have not passed;
Consortium in VA along some programs are more
with faculty from various flexible with deposit dates
member universities.
for summer 2008 proOverton is bringing grams. If students are
students to China during unable to make the proSummer Session II to grams this summer, they
study BIOL 101 (Basic should still strongly conBiology); those students sider this option in the
interested should contact future. "The best thing for
Overton for more informastudents to do to learn
tion.
about summer programs
The
university's is to either come to one of
Institute of International the open houses there's
Studies offers faculty-led one again in the fall - or to

look at the website, which
is quite good," said Hicks.
"I studied abroad in
Morocco last year during
the regular class semesters: I think that every
student should consider
going overseas. It is an
amazing experience and
quite a cultural shock in
some respects," said Kristi
Vandervort, junior psychology major.
Students can find all
summer session registration information on the
website,
university
http://www.lhup.edu/summer/. Some may not want
to think about school over
the summer but may find
it beneficial to take classes
during these sessions.
"If students can afford
to take summer school it
would work toward their
have
advantage.
I
advisees who graduated in
less than four years by
taking summer courses. I
am also aware that some
students need to work
during summer to supplement
costs.
college
Students can also take
summer courses in community colleges or universities/colleges and transfer
credits to LHU. These
off-campus courses must
be approved by the LHU
registrar's office in Russell
Hall before enrolling so
that these courses count
toward one's graduation,"
said Dr. Zak Hossain, professor of sociology and

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left, is one of the
locations students
may visit during
summer programs at
LHU. Marine Biology
is one course that will
be taught here by Dr.
Kenneth Thompson.
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Google Images

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No particular program
has been selected to do the
job just yet, but Haller
said he hopes his committee can weigh the pros and
cons to possibly find an
effective one to invest in.
"It's not likely to happen this semester," said
Haller, "We don't know
really know if voter turnout would go up or down."
Around 650 students
turned out to vote for last
year's SCC elections,
according to Haller, compared with nearly 800 for
the Homecoming race.
"We definitely want to
try to increase that turnout," Haller explained.
"The motive is to get more
people out there to vote."
The SCC election committee currently uses the
Scantron technology to
tally votes. An online system would make that
process even less tedious,
said Haller.
Ben Green, the executive board food service
chair, approached the senate with news concerning
his committee's workload
for the semester - the
selection of a new food
service provider.
With Aramark's endof-the-year
departure,
these committee members
will be busy examining
the proposals of other
interested companies.

According to Dr. Linda
Koch, vice president of
student affairs, the proposals were due last
Thursday,
Jan.
31.
Student feedback concerning the next service in
Bentley is one of Koch's
biggest concerns.
"I want as much student input into this as possible," said Koch during
Wednesday's
meeting.
"It's not easy - it's a
daunting task. But this is
what it's all about."
As of last Wednesday,
Koch was anticipating
four or five proposals from
various companies to be
filed with the university.
In other SCC news:
* Greg DiCesare, SCC
information systems task
force chair, announced
that he will be holding a
web site workshop on Feb.
6 at 7 p.m. in Akeley 203
in order to help campus
clubs and organizations
learn the basics of Web
site building.
Senator Danielle
Steinbacher
expressed
concern about the roadway between campus and
the
Health
Science
Building
and
East
Campus during particularly icy mornings like the
one last Tuesday, Jan. 29.
Koch explained that
the university has been
trying to acquire the roadway, but the city has
declined because of the
plans for construction in
the area.
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their own.

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-One main point is that
the new Durrwachter
Alumni Center was built
to meet environmental
standards,
using the
Leadership
Energy
Environmental
Design
(LEED) that has been created to help in the construction of new buildings.
Proctor pointed out
that many recycled materials were used and as
much construction waste
as possible was recycled.
The alumni center is
the first building to be
LEED certified on campus. Lock Haven is also
trying to modify all the
building around campus
to fit the LEED criteria,
though getting all buildings certified will not be a
quick project.
Crossen
mentioned
that one major thing students can do is recycle.
Since 1990, Lock Haven
has been trying to actively
recycle as many materials
as possible, as such cardboard, paper, glass, plastic, cans, batteries, and
even chemicals.
On average, the university is recycling 42 tons
of products a week, but
over the years has recycled as much as 80 tons in
one week.
"We need your help to
get back to 80," said
Crossen.
As a student, Tolton,
was able to throw some
ideas to the students in
the audience on simple
ways to help conserve
energy. Turning off many
major appliances when
they are not being used is
a major issue, and even
something as simple as
taking a shorter shower
can help.
"One little thing can
lead to big things if everyone helps," said Totlen.
She also pointed out
that one of the biggest contributors to using energy
can be something as small
as a hair dryer.
The presentation actually gave students an
opportunity to open themselves to information they

"I never really wanted
to watch this movie
because I never felt is was
an issue. Now my eyes
have really been opened,"
said
junior,
Margot
Patterson. "There are so
many easy ways to 'go
green' but I think that
most people choose not to
because it costs more
money. But would it be
better to spend an extra
few bucks here and there
or to encounter another ice
age? This problem can be
addressed and slowly
taken care of if people take
the time and realize what
they do everyday affects
the world in which we
live."
With major support
from President Miller,
Interim Provost Roger
Johnson, and deans from
both schools, the university has taken their concern
with the environment a
step further by developing
the environmental focus
group, who hosted the
presentation.
The
environmental
focus group consists of
several faculty and staff
members: Dr. Jeffrey
Walsh of recreation management, Professor Lenny
Long of recreation management, Dr. Mohamed
Khalequzzaman of geology, Dr. Robert Myers of
english, David White, the
dean of arts and science,
Tom Ormond, the dean of
education and human
services, John Crossen of
the physical plant, and
Danielle Tolton, the student representative.
"The Environmental
Focus group began this
fall with a series of informal discussions about the
possibility of making the
environment and culture
of central Pennsylvania
part of the LHU's identity," said Dr. Robert Myers,
chair of the committee.
"We hoped that helping
students, faculty, and
staff develop 'a sense of
for
central
place'
Pennsylvania
would
enrich the educational
experience and increase
the feeling of connectedness to LHU."
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know of is the construction," said Koch, "but I'm
hopeful. In the meantime,
please use caution."
Discussion on how to
make the
sometimes
muddy path beside the
Student Rec Center more
navigable also surfaced
and Koch said she would
look into what steps need
to be taken.
*SCC
Treasurer
Donald Amoriello is holding budget workshops
throughout the month for
clubs and organizations
new to the budgeting
process. Meetings will be
held on Feb. 12 at 5 p.m.
in PUB room 2 and Feb.
21 at 4 p.m. in PUB room
2. Budget forms are due in
the treasurer's office no
later than Feb. 29.
Director of Student
Activities Jodi Smith,
filled students in on some
upgrades available at the
LHU Bookstore. Payment
with debit is now available
and this Valentine's Day
will see a sale where merchandise is 14 percent off.
Originally, the deal was to
include anything that is
red, but Smith announced
at the meeting that
"because the bookstore
manager is color blind,
that means everything's
on sale."

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the group had come
together to agree on their
charge.
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"The committee is
charged with promoting
and supporting activities,
experiences, and structures that encourage students, faculty, and staff to
develop a stronger sense of
place for Lock Haven
University and central
Such a
Pennsylvania.
sense of place involves a
stewardship of natural
resources (environmentalism), meaningful outdoor
experiences, and appreciation for the heritage of the
region," said Myers.
The group wants to
work with people on campus who have already
been working in these
areas as well as many others who share an interest
in the topic.
The
future
plans
include the development
of an interdisciplinary
environmental
studies
e-mail
newsletminor, an
ter, and more outdoor
related activities to show
off the beauty of central
Pa.
A survey was also
issued to the audience of
approximately 140 members, asking about their
interest in the minor, the
newsletter, and some of
the outdoor activities the
group plans to pursue.
According to Myers, the
responses showed a high
enthusiasm for the future
projects.
With a limited amount
of time for planning for
the January 31 deadline,
the committee put together a well attended, informative event.
"We thought this would
be a great way to introduce our committee to the
university community,"
said Myers. "Our hope is
that the film and discussion will inspire everyone
who was there to commit
themselves to doing everything possible to confront
this crisis."
To be added to the
mailing list for the environmental focus group, or
to share ideas, email Dr.
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Christina Shuman
Staff Reporter
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The university welcomes overnight guests by
offering them a stay in the
house.
campus'
VIP
Located
behind
East
Campus, the university
this home
purchased
along with the block in
2003 from the Keystone
Central School District.
At the time of purchase,
renovations were done to
the home.
This one-family home,
converted into LHU visitor housing, has four bedrooms all with queen-sized
beds. Mostly guest speakers or persons coming in
from out of town for job
interviews and visitors to

university
campus on
related business stay here.
Approximately 200 people
on average, stay in the
house each year.
"The house is designed
for very short-term stays.
The intent was to utilize
the house before obtaining
a reservation at a bed and
breakfast or hotel to save
the university costs since
there is no charge to LHU
groups and departments
for its use," said Marchal
Rote, facilities coordinator
and assistant to vice president for finance, administration and technology.
After seven days of
staying in the house,
guests will have a charge
of $20 per night per person since the home is not
intended for any long-

term stay. Guests are not
permitted to stay more
than 14 days, unless the
vice president for finance,
administration and technology grants permission.
While
renovations
were being done to the
official president's residence, President Keith
Miller and his family
stayed in the house a couple of nights.
"I think the VIP house
is a wonderful asset. It is
a very comfortable house
for guests of LHU. The
convenience to our campus is terrific. We are fortunate to have a place like
this to serve some of our
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Also, the money will
help keep the facilities
up to date so that the
animals have a nice temporary home until they
hopefully are adopted
into a permanent home.
The other half of the
donation was received by
Lock Haven University
Foundation to help make
it a little easier for students going into the
Physician Assistant field
to pay for their education. The money donated
is to be used to give
scholarships to the students who are going into
the Physician Assistants'
Program.
Dr. Keith T. Miller,
Lock Haven University's
President, commented on
how honored he was to
have
Lock
Haven
University as one of the
beneficiaries of the donation.
"This selfless gift will
perpetually enable students to afford an education and go on to become
physician assistants. It
will give back exponentially as those very graduates
of the LHU
Physician
Assistants
Program will wind up
helping with the medical
treatment of and care of
other," said Miller in a
press release.
Haven

University's Physician
Assistant
Program,
which is ranked nationally, is a graduate entry
program. The mission of
the program is to provide
underserved and rural
areas with highly preand
pared
qualified
physician assistants.
"We hope to utilize
the money to provide
scholarships to students
who demonstrate a commitment to remain in
state providing primary
care to underserved populations," said Walter
Eisenhower, the physician assistant department chair in a press
release.
The donators were
well aware of the need
for physician assistants
in these types of area.
They were also animal
lovers and wanted to see
that all animals are able
to have a loving home.
With these donations
they assured that these
two things would happen
for years to come.

Rec center to get ice-skating
rink for Valentine's Day
Katie Davis
Staff Reporter
kdavis3@lhup.edu

Lock Haven has never
seen a more romantic way

to spend Valentine's Day
than this year's opportunity for student couples to
ice skate hand in hand
right here on campus.
This Valentine's Day,
the
Haven Activities
Council (HAC) is providing students with all of the
ingredients they need to
create a fun, memorable
and romantic evening.
On Thursday, Feb. 14,
an outside agency will be
setting up an ice skating
rink in the Student
Recreational Center here
on campus.

HAC
Coordinator
Heather MacMath hopes
that this event will be,
"...something new and fun
for LHU, especially for
Valentine's Day, kind of
like a date night only
skate night."
Ice skating will be free

of charge and open to all
students between the
hours of 6 p.m. and 10
p.m.

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The answer, MacMath
said, is that, "The ice rink
is synthetic ice, so it is real
but has a chemical in it
that keeps it from melting..."

The agency supplying
the rink will also be providing ice skates which
can be rented for no cost
by students. *
because
However,
there is a limit to the
amount of skaters allowed
on the ice at one time, staff
will coordinate how many
people will be able to skate
at once.
Much of the set up and
for this
organization
unique event is handled
by the providing age
li
therefore any
should, hopefully, n
quickly and smoothly.
Now a
thought that may have
meandered into the
minds of many here
on campus is in
regards to how they
are going to stop tl
wonderful indoor ice si
She further states that,
ing extravaganza from
melting into a big puddle "...normal ice rinks, are in
of frigid, wet, cupid-struck a cold environment with a
students.
ground cooling system,

however the chemical
used in the ice keeps it
from melting and breaking
down from the skates." No
Zamboni needed here.
So, whether single or
attached this Valentine's
Day, bring hats, gloves,
and double-axels and
enjoy the latest HAC
event being held in the
Rec. Center.

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The
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tance that is roughly equal
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Feb. 14 is the deadline
after which a committee
will review the applications and rank the candidates.
Last
semester,
Lyudmyla Sonchak, a senior in business administration, was chosen to represent the university.
She worked in the
Center
for
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Pennsylvania, a legislative agency that deals
with rural issues, and was
responsible for helping
with various researches
concerning the situation
in rural areas.
She also edited the
research
reports
for
release to the agency
newsletter and even wrote

"I really enjoyed it,"
Sonchak said. "I think it's
a
great
opportunity
because you're going to
learn how the state government works."
Sonchak
said this

internship greatly benefited her, as she came from
Ukraine and wasn't very
familiar with the way the
state
government
in
Pennsylvania operated.
having
However,
worked at her agency she
gained a perspective on
the political system of
Pennsylvania, its executive and legislative government.
"It was something new
for me and something that
I thought was complicated, but then I got into it
and I thought it's really
engaging and interesting
thing to do," she said.
After coming back to
Lock Haven, Sonchak recommends everyone to take
advantage of THIS program.
There are so many
placements," she said. "It's
15 credits, and you get
paid about $6,600 for 14
weeks.
If you're a
Pennsylvania
resident,
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College students showing interest in Obama
By Abigail Shaha
The Daily Universe
(BYU)

Saturday February 9, 2008
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Utah - When Sen. Barack
Obama spoke at the
Democratic
National
Convention in 2004, Sen.
John Kerry was the
party's presidential candidate. Though he wasn't in
the spotlight, Obama's
message of uniting red
and blue states stuck with
a lot of voters tired of
party politics and division.
One of these viewers
was Channing Hancock,
who now serves as the
Utah state coordinator of
Students for Obama. Even
Hancock
though
had
heard little from Obama
before 2004, she said his
message of hope and unification stayed with her and
motivated her to get
involved in the Obama
campaign four years later.
Hancock's not alone.
Many college-aged students all over the nation

are getting politically
motivated for Obama's
campaign. For many of
them, this is their first
time taking part in the
political process because of
either age or apathy at
previous elections.
By motivating this historically inactive voting
demographic, Obama has
given himself the image of
the candidate with a fresh
approach and new ideas.
Despite early doubts by
other candidates about
how long this strategy
would last, it's part of
what has carried him
through several primaries
with higher numbers than
his critics expected.
According to Politico, a
joint news venture by the
Los Angeles Times and
CNN, 57 percent of Iowa
voters age 17 to 24 voted
for Obama. In New
Hampshire that number
jumped to 62 percent.
Nevada caucus voters of
this age preferred Obama
to Clinton by more than 26

Of
students
percent.
polled by the Harvard's
Institute of Politics, 18
percent said they were
"enthusiastic"
about
Obama as their choice for
president.
But how does an
Illinois senator motivate
this traditionally apathetic voting demographic?
Many students say it's
his speeches and message
ofhope.
"He just has this energy, especially when he
speaks," said Kenneth
Daines, an Obama supporter from Ogden. "When
I hear him, I believe what
he's saying. He has no outward political motives,
and he sounds like he'll
actually do what he's saying."
Daines
also
said
Obama seemed the most
genuine and honest of the
idea
candidates,
an
Hancock said she agreed
with.
"His ideas follow more
of traditional Mormon val-

ues, like his family life,
and bringing changes and
integrity to Washington,"
Hancock said.
Amaya Smith, campaign spokeswoman for
the Obama campaign in
South Carolina.
said
Obama attracts young voters because of his promise
to unify.
"I think they [young
people] tend to be more
concerned about bringing
this country together,"
said Smith in a news conference. "They are not
involved in the old partisan fights and some of the
old bickering that we have
seen in the past."
Shane Woods, a BYU
student from Hammonton,
N.J., supporting Obama,
said this unity was
appealing to him.
"We grew up with gridlock in Washington and
had no voice," he said.
"But he [Obama] can overcome bipartisanship and
bridge the gap between
blue and red."

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OPINION
Senator drops the ball on spygate

Chris Hoskavich
Opinion Editor

Now that the excitement of Super Bowl XLII
is dying down, the NFL is
going to have to deal with
the aftermath of a
supremely controversial
season.
I'm not talking about
draft picks, salary caps or
scheduling next season.
I'm talking about a crusade by Pennsylvania's
Sen. Arlen Specter to
investigate the Spygate
scandal and its handling
by NFL commissioner
Roger Goodell.
Let me be clear about
this: I do not like the New
England Patriots and I
think everyone involved
with this disgrace got off
with a slap on the wrist.
Having said that, I do
not think the government

has any business involving
itself with the enforcement of rules in the NFL.
It's just not the government's place.
Specter's
principal
argument is that Goodell's
destruction of the Spygate
tapes may amount to a
breach of the NFL's
antitrust exemption.
He is able to make a
valid case for spending
government resources on
investigating the violation
of football rules because
the NFL, in order to operate as it does, had to be
granted a special exclusion from laws designed to
prevent corporate monopolies.
While I don't categorically oppose measures to
limit monolithic corporate
domination of most markets, I do think they
should be the exception to
an otherwise free economy. The NFL, which provides a unique, popular
entertainment service to a

nationwide
audience,
shouldn't be faced with
antitrust issues in the first
place.
A free market, in fact,
provides the best motivation for fair play in professional football.
Given that there are 32
competing football clubs in
the NFL and millions of
fans who would be willing
to turn off their TVs if
their team was routinely
screwed over, there is no
lack of incentive for the
NFL to enforce its own
regulations. Nobody would
buy the NFL product if it
didn't deliver.
The
Arlen
Specter/Spygate mess is a
perfect example of why we
should be wary of government involvement in the
first place. It invariably
leads to more government
involvement.
We are currently seeing this happen with
healthcare. The involvement of governments in

public health has been
increasing for some time
now, and we are living on
the brink of full-blown federal socialized medicine.
While the idea of free
universal healthcare is
undeniably
tempting,
don't forget that it opens a
door for
government
involvement in our personal lives that can never
be closed.
You may wonder what
sort of involvement I am
referring to. Well, let's
start with one of the most
disturbing examples.
Legislation is being
considered in Mississippi
that would ban restaurants from serving obese
people. Repeated violation
of this law would result in
the restaurant losing its
license.
So the government of
Mississippi could soon be
telling its citizens what
they are allowed to have
for dinner.
Talk about a nanny

Appreciate the past
Joe Stender
Staff Reporter
jstender@lhup.edu

something that isn't the
newest, nicest thing out

In this world we live in,
it's all about "how do we
get better?"
We don't take time to
appreciate what we have,
we always want something that is cooler, better
and faster. By the time
that you are able to finally
afford the newest computer or videogame system, a
new one comes out.
Then you're right back
to where you were before,
with an outdated, slower
and not as cool piece of
expensive
equipment,
that's going to take you
forever to learn how to use
it.
With this type of living,
where we don't take time
to appreciate the now, it's
not surprising to hear that
we never learn how to
appreciate the past. It
doesn't matter what you're
talking about, let it be
music, movies or people.
We don't care about

there.
Seriously, think about
it. If there are two rooms,
one with a baby and one
with an elderly person,
which one is going to be
the more popular room?
That's right chief, the
baby is so cute and new.
The elderly person, who
cares, they're old.
But what are you going
to get out of that baby?
Are they going to give you
advice, are they going to
be able to tell you a story?
Nope, they'll give you a
"goo-goo" and possibly a
little
extra
surprise
depending on if they just
had a meal.
But think about what
kinds of things you can
learn from that elderly
person. They will be able
to tell you some things
that you might have never
known, a story that you
would have never heard if
they would not have told
you.
Think about things
that have happened in the
past that we never were a

part of: the introduction of
new technology that we
take for granted like the

They can give you the
real feel of going through
it, and you can get a story
about the same event from
multiple people and they'll
all be different because
everyone has different
feelings and views of the

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The incredible story of
2008 thus far and not likely to be dethroned in
terms of newsworthiness
unless an event of overwhelming
importance
transpires in the next 11
months, presidential candidates Barack Obama
and
Clinton
Hillary
hugged Thursday.
Politicians rarely hug.
As we know, they are not
normal people. And normal people hug quite a bit.
Appropriately in stores
and inappropriately in
church.
These candidates, in
fact, are more like bears.
Both are ferocious, and
both will leave you alone if
you play dead. You could
think of delegates as skittish salmon. (I would be
skittish too if two hunky
bears like Hillary and
Barack were after me.)

Yet again, even as an easy
comparison can be drawn
between these officials
and bears, we see the
same delineation. Bears
hug, politicians don't.
After drilling into my
brain for answers, something told me politicians
embrace for reasons akin
to those of large mammals
that lust after honey, run
at
surprisingly
high
speeds and protect their
families swift-paw.
My understanding of
the academic literature on
bears hugging is admittedly limited. Still, persistent
thought and reading have
led me to three reasons to
share, three reasons that
bears hug.
As we move from reason to reason, I will evaluate whether these are
plausible explanations for
the warm display of these
two politicians.
bears
have
First,
several
surreported in
veys that they hug to
of
crush the bones
researcher,
humans. One

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time you have different
opinions. I've been in the family
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somewhat credible. We
have seen both Hillary
and Barack deface the
other in recent news.
Perhaps they wanted to
crush
human
bones
because
of unfocused
anger. Neither was strong
enough
or unfocusedly
angry enough to do this,
so scratch that possibility.
Second,
researchers
have discovered at least 25
bear religions (as opposed
to bare religions, such as
the Christian Nudists). In
seven of these religions,
hugging is a ritual
believed to build kind
habit and informed doctrine. For a bear, kind
habit is spraying insecticide for the community.
Informed doctrine is defecating into a river.
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full name and a phone number
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argument that it has an
obligation to regulate any
unhealthy behavior, irrespective of whether it
hurts others or not.
The three examples of
government interference I
have mentioned are particularly galling because
they are being spearheaded by republicans.
We hear a lot about the
lack of organization and
unity in the Republican
Party and when we look at
these episodes it's not
hard to see why. If republicans don't stand for limiting the role of government in people's personal
lives and business affairs,
what do they stand for?
The 2007 NFL season
has come and gone. The
issues it has raised however, will last much longer,
and go far beyond professional football.

state.
While such legislation
will likely be obliterated
now, the argument for it
becomes a lot more reasonable when taxpayers are
picking up the tab for the
medical care of unhealthy
individuals.
Similarly,
in
Pennsylvania the state
legislature is considering a
bill to ban smoking in all
public places, including
bars and restaurants.
This law, in my most
humble of opinions, is not
about individual rights
one way or the other. I can
accept that a smoker's
right to smoke doesn't
supersede a nonsmoker's
right to breathe clean air.
Both of these rights, however, are trumped by business owners' right to
determine the nature of
their own business on
their own property.
When the state is
responsible for its citizens'
medical coverage, howev-

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James Cooney

Like many Americans I
sat in front of a television
on Sunday and watched
the Super Bowl. This got
me thinking and I deduced
that super things are really enjoyable.
Just when I thought I
would have to wait an
entire year for more joy
another super day hit,
Super Tuesday.
Again I thought to
myself, super things are
great. I mean 23 states,
hours of coverage and
pundit banter. Super.
By Tuesday night all
the polls had closed and
Eli Manning was already
wrapping up his trip to
Disneyland. I began to feel
as though my life was so
much less super than it
had been.
That's when I was hit
with an ingenious idea. I
want to live a super life.
The first step in my
quest will have to he the

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Billy Watts,

a Montana man who was
arrested for allegedly shooting his fiye-year-old son
with a BB gun.
Police found scabbed wounds on the boy's
to

forearm, back and chest. He told them that they
were from his from his father's shooting him with

the air gun.
When questioned about the incident, Watts
said that he was just messing around with his son.
Shooting your son with a BB gun to "'mess
around" is brainless at best, and heartless at worst.

Don't get me wrong, I
am a big fan of a tender,
juicy steak. A nice turkey

or chicken breast will also
do the trick and I will seldom turn down the
prospects of a succulent
salmon fillet. In other
words, I am no vegetarian.
That being said, I've
begun to rethink my meateating habits.
article
that
An
appeared in the Jan. 27
edition of the New York
Times should be credited
or blamed, whichever you
prefer, with this new perspective of mine.
In "Rethinking the
Meat-Guzzler,"
Mark
Bittman (also not a vegetarian) put a few items on
the table I had never
before considered or gave
a second thought to when I
dug into a piece ofchicken,
pork or beef.
The demand for meat is
growing all over the world,
as more and more developing countries make the
leap into a more industrialized world.
In 1961, the world's
meat supply was about 71
million tons. It was estimated to be about 284 million tons in 2007 and is
expected to double by
2050.
As Americans, we consume twice as much meat
as the global average.

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to Tina Williams, a Florida woman who was

arrested for allegedly driving drunk.
Last week we gave a thumbs down to a man
who allegedly drove a lawnmower while intoxicated, but the circumstances surrounding Williams's
arrest are far more disturbing.
Police say that she was caught driving with
a one-year-old girl unrestrained in the back seat . .
and a case of beer buckled-up in the passenger
seat.
What can you even say about that?

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Adam Roberts
will be transformed by the
sheers at Supercuts. An
affordable price and a stylish hairdo, that is super.
All of this looking good
will probably make me
hungry. So I will need a
filling and monumental
meal. Unfortunately, for

my heart, but fortunately
for my super-needs I will
only be able to wolf down
Super Size meals under
the golden arches of

McDonald's.

I will also have to move
because my current digs
are by no means super. I
will move into a Super8
motel where I will live lavishly.
With a super look, eats
and pad one might assume
that my life will be as good
as it gets, but herein lays
the beauty of super. It
never ends.
Entertainment will by
far be the biggest advantage of my newly invented
and adopted lifestyle.
On a hot sunny day,
when a few friends and I
are in need of cooling
down 1 could break out an
extensive arsenal of Super
Soaker water guns and
blast away the heat with a
refreshing stream of pressurized water. Not only
are Super Soaker fights
invigorating, but they are
really super.
Say I want to go out for
some adventure. Well I
could visit a local motorcy-

cle course and watch some
Supercross.
If I'm not in the mood
for a super day at the
track I could delve into the
unknown and pursue the
supernatural.
For some alone time
my super lifestyle allows
me to catch up on some
excellent cinema. I could
pop in DVD's of moviemagic like "Super Size
Me" and "Super Troopers."
My super entertainment wouldn't be complete
without a little video game
action. I would have to
play some Super Smash
Brothers, but the ultimate
in virtual fun would come
on the Super Nintendo
gaming system. There
would be no doubt that my
favorite game would be all
of the Super Mario series.
So fret no more that we
are now months away
from the next Super Bowl
and years away from the
next
Super
Tuesday
because
with enough
effort life can be super.
This column contains
the word super 36 times.

Responsibility, it's what's for dinner
Sarah Wojcik
Editor in Chief
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purchase of a Superman tshirt. This shirt will keep
me focused on my goals
and more importantly,
show others that I live as
the man of steel does.
Looking super is an
essential part of my journey. The t-shirt will do
wonders, but I will need a
little more. My hairstyle

Bittman breaks this down
in a startling reality: we
as 5 percent of the world's
population consume more
than 15 percent of the
world's total animals.
While we inarguably
eat a great deal of meat,
one might not see the real
harm in all of this. After
all. meat provides us with
valuable proteins and
vitamins, and the USDA
recommends about five
ounces for healthy females
and six ounces for healthy
males. But some dietician
believe that even that recommendation is too high.
So
on
average,
Americans are already
well exceeding their daily
intake for meat. The
tragedy is that this is
affecting much more than
just the consumer.
If the meat on our
plates were the product of
a local farm down the
road, the story would be a
little different.
The reality is, the meat
on our plates comes from
massive "meat farms"
where livestock is stuffed
in disgustingly filthy and
inhumane conditions. The
steak in front of us was
once a cow, forced to eat
grains when its stomach
was designed for grasses.
It was injected with
steroids and growth hormones so it would grow
large quickly in order to
meet the demand for this
country's
insatiable
appetite for beef.
These farms where cattle, chicken and pigs are
grown (raised, Bittman

From

and soy cropping up
points out, is not an accurate description) produce around the planet is
heavy amounts of pollugrown to feed the animals
tion that seeps into air, that will be slaughtered
soil and water in the surfor people, who for the
most part, don't really
rounding area.
Among a generation need it.
Seems like a rather
increasingly aware of our
bio footprint on this earth, twisted irony, don't you
we should know that a think?
chief contributor to enviThere are many overronmental sins is the arching solutions to help
great American animal soothe the results of our
factory, where the work meat addiction, including
going into just 2.2 pounds better farming practices
of beef could power a light and subsidy cut-backs.
bulb for 20 days.
But what we can do on a
The
environmental more personal level touchimpact of mass produced es the problem at its base.
meat does not end at the
I've decided to personfarms, but even the grains ally cut down my meat
needed to feed this enorconsumption to one meal a
mous population of liveday. I've found that it's not
stock is out of control. nearly as difficult as I first
Swaths of rainforest are thought and the small gesdisappearing at alarming ture makes me feel a
rates.
whole hell of a lot better.
The president of Brazil
If everyone made even
announced at the end of this small sacrifice, the
January that emergency U.S. demand would drop
measurements would be significantly. Eating meat
taken to halt the destruconly every other day
tion that in five months would make an even bigdestroyed 1,250 square ger difference.
miles of forest.
For a myriad ofreasons
If animal cruelty and stemming from environenvironmental concerns
mental concerns to plain
are not enough for you to old compassion, decreasrethink your meat-eating ing our meat consumption
perhaps
habits,
the is a worthy endeavor. It
human cost will.
doesn't mean we have to
The grain-fed animals completely forego that
that we consume so much delicious slab of filet
of can be blamed for a mignon, but it certainly
variety of maladies includmakes that eggplant
ing diabetes and cancer.
parmesan look mighty
Somewhere around 800 tasty.
million people in the world
suffer from starvation or
some kind of malnutrition,
but the majority of grain

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Give it up!
With
Ash
Wednesday affecting
many LHU students, it's
a wonder that so many
non-religious students
choose to give up other
unnecessary items in
their lives as well, for
40 days.
Sometimes, it just
goes to show that students, whether adults
want to agree or not, do

have selfless bones in
their bodies.
Ash
Wednesday
does not just have to
be a religious celebration, rather it can be
seen as a way for people to give up, or try life
without modern conveniences, foods that
increase belly fat or
anything that seems
potentially overused in

today's consumer-driven society.
So, take a few
moments today to sit
down and think about
what's not needed in
your life. Think about
what others around you
may not have; think
about what you take for
granted every day.
Can you walk to
school instead of driv-

ing? Can you give up
fast food to better your
body? How about giving up on weekend
night of drinking?
Instead, spend this
time thinking about
what's important to you.
Focus on your goals.
Enlighten your mind
and remember, it's only
40 days to a more powerful you.

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February 6, 2008

Highlight: scuba diving club
Kimberly Wonesky
Staff Reporter
kwoneskytelhup.edu
For students interested
in learning more about
scuba diving and marine
biology, a newly formed
club will give them just
what they need.
Cody Bliss, an LHU
student, is the founder of
the Scuba Diving Club.
He was inspired to start
the club after his scuba
certification in 2003.
Bliss said, "I wanted to
add another part to the
university, something to
capture attention."

And attention is what
he got, with the club growing rapidly with 70 members. Out of the 70, 40 to
50 are active members.
In the club, people can
learn how to scuba dive
and participate in activities in the Zimmerli pool.
When the weather gets
warmer, the club will go to
creeks for some real life
practice.
Aside from scuba diving club members are
learning about marine
biology, snorkeling and
traveling.
They also have speakers come in and share
their insight and experi-

ences
Bliss

with the group.
is planning to
arrange trips to the
Caribbean and Florida.
Next year, they are
planning a trip to scuba
diving with sharks.
It is not a requirement
to have a scuba certification in order to join the
club. However, anyone
interested can earn their
certification through the
club.
Usually the certification would cost around
$600, but only costs $250
through the club. "There
were 10 people last year
(who got their certification) and 3 or 4 people

Photos Courtesy of

Members of the newly formed scuba diving club explore the depths of
Zimmerli Pool until the weather is warm enough to travel to other locations.
have already been certi"I enjoy seeing people
fied this year," said Bliss.
diving and having fun,"
Bliss feels that some of said Fought. "The idea of
the benefits of the club trying to get new events
include: indirectly becomand activities to do in Lock
ing a conservationist, Haven is a great idea
teaching others and expebecause there really is not
riencing something new.
too much to do for college
Nathan Fought, vice students."
president of the club, said
The club has also creata benefit of the club is "to ed and planned the scuba
get certified in diving for a Olympics taking place in
really cheap price."
April which is a charity

"She always thought of
others before herself."

event that will include
scuba
and non-scuba
events.
The Scuba Diving Club
meets
every
other
Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in
Ulmer 201. Their next
meeting is Feb. 14.

"She was so sweet and nice and a beautiful young
lady who had a great life to look forward to..."

David Meyer.

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"Julie was great with
advice. Even if we couldn't
find a solution to a problem, it was just good talking about it with her. She
always made me look to
the positive side of things
in a way that I never
thought. I will always cherish her friendship," Audrey
Ward.

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whose smile would light up
an entire room. She had such
a big heart and a contagious

laugh. There was never a dull
moment when we lived
together. She is missed greatly and I just hope everyone
can work together to keep her
memory alive," Emma
Belcastro.

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"I graduated
with Julie from
QCHS in 06,
and was lucky
enough to have
been friends
with her
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"She had that independent woman thing
going on back then and it never left her. I can
still hear her laugh and see her smile. She was
a strong, determined woman and I admired
her for that, just being who she was... there will
always be a place for her in my heart and I will
keep her memory alive. She was a wonderful
person who was loved so much and will be
missed more than anyone could imagine/ Julie

"Julie is the sweetest person I've ever met. It s hard, once you've met her, to
picture life without her. She always had a joke to tell me or some funny story
of what happened to her that day. She could a\ways make me laugh in the
most tense and serious of situations. Julie was one of the first friends I made
here at LHU and in the five months that I knew her we became good friends.
In the short time we had together she has left me with great memories of our
friendship to look back on and laugh about. Julie was a beautiful girl and will
always hold a place in my heart," Jaleesa Hall.

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Volume 67, Issue 3

Kelshaw hits game winner against EU
The Lady Eagles 65-64 victory over Edinboro was the team's first
Alan Trexler
Sports Reporter
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Junior
Lauren
Kelshaw sank a game winning jumper with 22 seconds remaining to lift the
women's basketball team
to a 65-64 win over visiting Edinboro Saturday.

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The win was the first
conference victory of the
season for LHU and
snapped a five game losing streak.
"We definitely played
more consistent today and
that's been our biggest
downfall this season," said
Jennifer
head
coach
Smith. "We hit some big
shots at some big times
and got some big holds
when the game was on the
line."
Trailing by one with
under 30 seconds to play,
Kelshaw got her defender
in the air, drove the baseline and pulled up for the
game winner. As the shot
went down LHU took the
lead and they would hold
on for the one-point win.

"She read it well," said
Smith. "It was right in
front of me and it was a
great read."
Kelshaw shook of a
slow start to score the last
five points for the Lady
Eagles (6-13, 1-4 PSAC
West) and finish with a
team-high 20 points. She
scored 14 in the second
half, including a 3-pointer
with 1:25 left to bring
Lock Haven within one.
"I get frustrated when
I'm missing but today I
played through it," said
Kelshaw. 'Today I just
kept shooting."
forward
Sophomore
Kristen Kudrick controlled the inside as Lock
Haven outscored Edinboro
(11-8, 1-4) 32-6 in the
paint. Kudrick finished
with 14 points and 5
rebounds.
"The girl that was
guarding me was my
height and I felt stronger
her," explained
than
Kudrick. "We played a lot
smarter in the second half
and recognized that. We
just played smarter overall as a team."
LHU used a zone
defense to hold the
oriented
perimeter

Jump, Johnny, Jump!

Fighting Scots to only 32
percent shooting and
forced them into 21
turnovers. Edinboro made
only nine of 30 three-point
attempts.
"It (zone) gives us less
of a chance to make mistakes defensively," said
Smith. "We've been working on it a lot lately and
when we play it hard and
talk we are pretty good at
it."
Michelle Mitchell came
off the bench to spark the
defense with a game-high
four steals. She added 8
points and five boards
including three on the
offensive glass.
Marissa Elliot added
eight points while Casi
Donelan pulled down a
team high six rebounds.
Samantha Reimer led
Edinboro with 23 points
including five 3-pointers.
She also had a team high
five assists.
Rae Sherred chipped in
with eight points and nine
rebounds.
The Lady Eagles will
look for two in a row at
Fieldhouse
Thomas
tonight at 6 p.m. when
they host IUP.

Everyone has a story to
but
Assistant
Basketball Coach John
Wilson Sr. has a lifetime's
worth that are now
immortalized on the pages
of a new book.

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Men's assistant basketball Coach Johnny Wilson
has lived an interesting life. He has played in the
Negro Baseball League and was a star for the
famous Harlem Globetrotters. His wonderful story
which documents his rising from the poverty-stricken
Anderson, Ind. to his current career of coaching
along side of his son Head Coach John Wilson Jr.,
has now been captured in a book titled Jump,
Johnny, Jump. The book is on sale at the bookstore
on campus and at all home men's basketball games.
Wilson shares his experiences on the road with the
Globetrotters including stories about meeting famous
stars such as Joe DiMaggio and Willie Mayes. The
book was written by author Dick Burdette.

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conference win this season

"Jump, Johnny, Jump!"
by human interest columnist Dick Burdette chronicles the life of "Jumpin"'
Johnny Wilson from his
childhood in Anderson
Ind. to his professional
sports career.
Wilson, Indiana's Mr.
Basketball 1949, played
baseball in the Negro
League and travelled the
world with the Harlem
Globetrotters.
Wilson's
life
and
accomplishments are all
woven through the turbulent and segregated fabric
of the mid-twentieth century.
"Young people from
middle school to college
should see how things
were and that people can
get along together no matter what color they are,"
said Wilson of his past.
The
of
forward
Burdette's book was written by one of Wilson's closest friends Carl Erskine.
Erskine, a white man who

grew up with Wilson in
poverty-stricken
Anderson, went on to a
baseball
professional
career
with Brooklyn
Dodgers where he played
with Jackie Robinson.
In a time when racial
tension ripped through
the Dodgers clubhouse
Erskine
befriended
Robinson and his family,
he says, because of his
boyhood friendship with
Wilson.
"This book reflects on
Johnny Wilson the way
history reflects on Jackie
Robinson," Erskine wrote
in the forward. "Johnny,
like Jackie faced a segregated nation. But they
both rose above that."
In the face of oppression Wilson remained true
to his character.
"During that time I
was the same person I am
said
Wilson.
today,"
"(Racism) didn't affect me.
I had my life to live and I
got along with everybody."
One of the men that
helped elevate Wilson to
his professional sports
career was his high school
basketball coach Mr.
Charles M. Cummings.
While many of his
teammates called the
coach Charlie after graduation Wilson won't refer to
the white, Missouri native
without showing him the
respect of calling him Mr.
Cummings.

"He did more for me
than any other person
besides my parents,"
Wilson said.
Wilson's careers in
baseball and basketball
after he left
began
Anderson College his junior year.
After fruitless tryouts
with the
St.
Louis
Cardinals and the Chicago
White Sox, Wilson got his
the
big break with
Chicago American Giants
of the Negro League. The
owner of the American
Giants was also the business manager of the famed
Harlem Globetrotters.
"In two days I signed a
baseball and basketball
Wilson
contract,"
explained.
Even though Wilson
still contends he was
always a better at baseball
than he was at basketball
he eventually chose to
travel solely with the 'trotters, as he calls them,
because it was a better
option financially.
With the 'trotters
Wilson saw the world,
travelling to Europe. Asia.
Africa and his favorite,
Australia.
The tales of his time
with the storied basketball franchise are filled
with famous friends and
mystical moments.

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Wrestling wins their first EWL match
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Fe bruary 6, 2007

Fittery and Trumbetti:
wrestling's real deals
Kris Glad
Sports Reporter
kgladfalhup.edu

match by a score of 8-2. The tory in the EWL.
other match came from
"It always feels good
freshman John Trumbetti when we beat a team by
in the 125-pound match. many points. It shows that
Trumbetti won his match we all were hitting all
7-0. With his victory cylinders at the same
Trumbetti has not allowed time. It also shows the
an opponent to score on fans that were working
him in four straight matchhard and showing it," said
es, which is how long his Clint Shirk.
current wining streak is.
Out of the 10 matches
With the victories both LHU came away with six
Fittery and Trumbetti wins including three via
extend their wins to 17 and pins.
15 respectively for the sea"We made good on sevson.
eral opportunities by
Both load Lock Haven securing
falls
from
wrestlers in victories. Trumbetti, Mangini, and
While the Bald Eagles did- Hepburn.
Shirk
and
n't end the weekend on a Fittery beat two solid
high note they sure started wrestlers in the Hurley
it on a high note.
Brothers. Cook turned in a
Friday evening the solid win as well. It is
match
got
underway always good to win and
despite the university not defeat a league team
having classes that day. (EWL)," said Coach Rocky
The Bald Eagles soared Bonomo.
against Cleveland State as
won the match 28-13,
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This past weekend the
team
was
wrestling
extremely busy as they
hosted Cleveland State on
Friday and then traveled
down to West Virginia
University on Sunday for
their
fourth
straight
Eastern Wrestling League
(EWL) match.

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The Bald Eagles traveled down to West Virginia
University to take on the
Mountaineers but didn't
have the success that they
had hoped for as the
dropped the match 30-6.
LHU was only able to
win two of their matches.
One match was at the 149pound weight class. Junior
Matt Fittery won the

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Matt Fittery, seen above, continued to roll this past weekend in the match
against West Virginia. Fittery's 8-2 win gave him his 17 win this season.

Wilson recalled one
time in Osaka, Japan
where he met one of his
idols, Joe DiMaggio and
his wife, Marilyn Monroe.
On the court Wilson
also had some memorable
times.
After their games the
'trotters did different
sports skits that included
various trick shots. In the
football skit a player hiked
the ball to Wilson and he
kicked the ball into the
hoop.
One night Wilson's
mother came to a game in
Marion Ind. and when he
got the ball he sunk the
kicked shot. The next
night Wilson hit the same

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shot in Cleveland in front
of the Cleveland Browns'
place kicker.
Wilson's career with
the 'trotters ended on a
promise he made to himself.
"I said if I got married
I'd quit because I couldn't
be a good married man
with all of the temptations," Wilson said.
From there Wilson pursued his childhood dreams
of coaching. He is in his
fifth year as an assistant
to his son John Wilson Jr.
at LHU.
The idea to write about
Wilson's life came to
Burdette when he was
working on a different
book about the heyday of
the Globetrotters.
After an interview with
Wilson for that book

Burdette began work on
"Jump, Johnny, Jump" in
2002.
Burdette
conducted
interviews all over the
country as he compiled
accounts from people who
affected Wilson's life and
those who knew people
like Mr. Cummings.
The book went on sale
on Jan. 18, 2008 through
Author House publishing.
"Jump, Johnny, Jump"
is on sale at the LHU
bookstore and all Bald
Eagle home basketball
games where Wilson will
sign copies of the book.
Aside from his exploits
as an athlete Wilson's
biography shows that with
determination people can
rise above the circumstances that hold them
down.

Brandon Apter
Sports Reporter
bapterfalhup.edu
The Bald Eagles (1-18),
rallied to make the game
close at the end, coming
back from a 13-point halftime deficit but eventually
fell to the Fighting Scots
78-65. The score was cut
to three late in the second
half, but they couldn't get
over the hump.

The Haven would find
themselves in the hole
early, down 8-3 but managed to climb to take the
lead 9-8 thanks to a threepointer from junior standout Billy Arre. The Bald
Eagles managed to stick
around for most of the
first
half but
that
changed.
With Lock Haven leading 13-12, Edinboro went
on an 18-4 run to take a
commanding 30-17 lead
with less than three minutes left in the first half.
The teams would go into
the locker rooms with
Edinboro having a 13point lead, 36-23.
"I think that we just
have to start out the
games at a faster pace,"

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The boxing team uppercutted the competition this past weekend at the Red
Raider Invitational. Five LHU boxers were victorious at Shippensburg.

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Red Raider Invitational
The defending 2007
National Collegiate Boxing
Association (NCBA) Team
Champion Lock Haven Bald
Eagles won five out of six
bouts at the annual
Shippensburg "Red Raider"
Invitational last Saturday,
Feb. 2, in Shippensburg.

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landed 23 points on 10 for
20 shooting from the field
while sealing his doubledouble with 12 rebounds. ;
"Down the stretch, it
was our lack of execution,"
said Head Coach John
Wilson. "We pulled to
within three and we had
the ball and we had a set
play run, and we made a
poor pass for two or three
possessions in a row. After
that, we just couldn't execute well. Down the
stretch, that's what we
needed to do. We did a
great job to get back into
the game, but I think what
we lacked was the ability
to finish."
The Bald Eagles next
face IUP, tonight, in a
Wednesday night match
game.
up at home. Tip-off is slatThat would be as close ed for 8 p.m. The game
as the Bald Eagles would will start immediately folclaw as Edinboro closed lowing the women's game.
out the game with a 14-4 IUP comes in with a
run to pick up a 78-65 win. record of 11-9 overall with
"When we have a large a 3-2 record in PSAC West
deficit we are playing play.
catch up," said Zimmer.
"We all know that we
"Where if we keep it close are a good team," says
through the moments we guard Justin Wilson. "We
struggle, it will benefit us also know that we are getat the end of games."
ting better everyday. We
Billy Arre would score have to stay positive and
a game-high 28 points keep on believing in each
while grabbing seven other and eventually it
boards. Kelvin McLean will show on the court."
said junior center A.J.
Zimmer. "We have proven
that we are a second half
team... we play better in
the second half of games
and don't give up."
The second half would
be just what the Haven
would need to climb back
into the game. Edinboro
would try to pad their lead
to double digits, but it
wouldn't stay there for
long as the Bald Eagles
were getting warmed up.
With the score at 41-28
in favor of Edinboro with
about 16 minutes to play,
Lock Haven went on a 3323 run and brought the
game to within three compliments of a Kelvin
McLean lay-up with about
four minutes left in the

Boxers from LHU,
Maryland, Middle Atlantic
and USA Boxing, along
with host Shippensburg
competed.
The Bald Eagles' "AllAmerican", 132 lb., Addy
Pizarro. (18-7) hung on to
edge Manfield's Jarrel Hill.
In an action packed bout
that kept the SRO crowd on
its feet all three rounds,
team co-captain, Pizarro.
came on strong in the third
round to win the hotly contested bout.
Danny Marrero, 156,
scored a close 2-1 decision

over Maryland's rugged
Russ Williams. Marrero, a
senior
"All-American",
upped his career record to
an impressive 18-7.
Since returning to LHU
from a semester of studying
abroad in Spain, the senior
co-captain continues to pick
up where he left off.
In an action packed
bout, the Bald Eagles sophomore Dave Harper (167),
3-2, looked impressive in
scoring a 3-0 decision over
Adam Martin, an amateur
boxer from the MiddleAtlantic/USA Boxing Club,
Hanover, PA.
Harper out-boxed the
rugged Martin all three
rounds, using good combinations and an affective
overhand right.
Winning his inaugural
collegiate bout was freshman, Patrick Baxter (132).
who scored a split 2-1 decision over Gabe Nelson, of
the U.S. Coast Guard
Academy.
The rangy
Nelson tired in the third
round allowing the aggressive Baxter to finish strong
and pull-out the well

deserved victory.
In perhaps the most
exciting bout of the evening.
John
Shippensburg's
Harahan (167), scored a
close 3-0 decision over the
Bald Eagles' U.S. Marine
Corps veteran, Tom Dando
(Fr. 0-1).

Dando
the
fought
Shippensburg
veteran
boxer on even terms until
the final minute when!
Harahan countered with
several effective body blows'
to pull out the victory.
"I thought Tom actually
won," said Assistant Coach
John Stout. "But both Dr.
Cox and I knew it was very
close. With Harahan boxing
in his own arena, I figured
he'd gain the edge if it was
really close."
Also, Josh Wisniewski,
132 lb. (Sr.. 22-7) was
awarded a "walk-over" vie-;
tory when his opponent
from Mansfield, failed td
make weight at weigh-in.

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February 6, 2007

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19-0? HaHaHaHa
James Cooney
Sports Editor
jcooney#lhup.edu
Well it wasn't 21-20 like I pre-

dicted, but I was pretty close. Yes
ladies and gentle men I picked the
Giants to win and they came
through for me.
People told me I was crazy.
Going against Tom Brady and Bill
Belichick, I must have been nuts.

Well I

was nuts, but I believed and
the G-Men came through in the
end.
People said that they wanted to
see history made. 19-0 was destiny. We may never get to see it
again. Well I am a historian and I
have a passion for history.
Although we did not see 19-0, we
did see history, the first team to go
18-1 and not win a Super Bowl.
The Bears and 49ers both went 18•1; the key difference is they won
the Super Bowl.
I won't go without saying that I
didn't have my doubts. I did.
Brady is one of the best, if not the
best QB to ever play the game. Eli
Manning is anything but consistent and we saw that as he almost
threw a pick on the final drive. I
have watched every Super Bowl
since I can remember and I can't
remember a Super Bowl where I
was rooting for a team to loose so
bad.
I know late night television is as
far from the Super Bowl as possible, but last night (Monday) I was
tuning into Leno when it was a
commercial break so I turned to
I'm not a big
Letterman.
Letterman fan but he said one good
thing that I agree on. Although I
don't remember the quote exactly
he said something on the lines of:
Was I the only one who every time
they showed Bill Belichick on the
TV I wanted to walk up to the TV

and flip him off. My point exactly!
Yes, I know I am biased because
I am a Bills fan but I dislike the
arrogance that this team walks
around with. Are the Patriots a
better team, hell yeah, but that's
the wonderful thing about the
NFL, its rig.
Under dog teams someone
always seems to pull through in
the end. Is it a coincidence that
the Manning brothers are back-toback Super Bowl MVPs? Tom
Coughlin was basically out the
door last year and now he is a hero.
That brings up my biggest point of
the whole Super Bowl.
You can tell you're in New York
when your fans boo their QB and
want their coach fired for 17
weeks, but then once the playoffs
start, they are magically in love
with them all over again. They will
now forever immortalize Eli
Manning as the man. That is until
next year when he is terrible again
and they want him traded. And
what about Tom Coughlin? If the
Giants don't get back in the playoffs New York fans will want him
fired on the spot.
I would like to close with a congratulations to all Giants fans.
Your team won the big one when
everyone doubted you, including
yourselves.. I'm sure I'll be hearing
all about the win when I am out at
the bar and you won't shut up
about. I'll see you wearing your
Giants jerseys all over campus. I
really don't have a problem with it
because at least your not New
England fans and I don't have to
worry about the G-Men being back
in the Super Bowl next year.
And to all you Patriots fans,
have fun with your trademarked
19-0. Maybe someday you can sell
it for money if someone can actually go 19-0. Congratulation on buying the dumbest thing of all time!

Sober Bowl
That was before the greatest
ending we could have hoped for.

Alan Trexler
Sports Reporter
atrexler@lhup.edu
As a Mets fan I was excited at
the opportunity to write about the
trade for Johan Santana this week.
As a Lakers fan I was even going to
mention the trade for Pau Gasol.
Then the Super Bowl happened.
I expected to see an entertaining
game, but I did not think the
Giants could pull it off. So my
friends and I saw an opportunity.
Shots of Cuervo every time the
Pats score. Jager bombs every
time the G-Men score. Chances are
I'd be so drunk by halftime I
wouldn't care about, or even
remember, the end of the game.
But what I remember from
Sunday is possibly the most exciting Super Bowl I will ever watch.
And the most impressive defensive
performance in Super Bowl history
(which kept me sober enough to
write this).
Until the day I die will remember where I was when the Giants
beat the Pats. And when Eli got
free and found Tyree.
My faith in karma is renewed as
the team caught cheating in week 1
has their perfect season ruined on
the world's biggest stage. As the
other Manning removes the smug
look from Belichick's face.
I've never been on the edge of
my seat for every play like I was
for Super Bowl XLII. Never has
every play seemed so critical.
And I didn't even have any
money on the game.
With the Pats up early in the
second half I looked at my friend
and said "this is the most exciting
game I've ever watched, and the
score is only 7-3."

When the Giants received the
kickoff trailing 14-10 I looked at
the same friend, toasted the shot of
tequila and said "this is the stuff
legends are made of." Two minutes
later Eli is no longer the "other"
Manning.
When Eli eluded the sack and
found David Tyree downfield it
seemed destined. A new nominee
for play of the decade was born and
I would have the chance to remove
the Cuervo taste from my mouth
with a tasty Jager bomb.
And the defensive effort? An
all-time great.
I saw a few people bold enough
to predict a G-Men triumph on
Sunday, myself not included. But
not one of them had the Giants
scoring under 20 points.
Tom Brady looked human and
Randy Moss seemed average. The
Giants defensive line however
looked spectacular.
Brady spent the majority of the
game on his back and for the first
time the Patriots clubhouse manager has to worry about the grass
stains on #12.
Now 18-1, not 19-0, has its place
in sports history. And it was not a
fluke.
The better team won Sunday
night. The Giants outplayed, outhustled and outwilled the Patriots
to the unlikeliest of Super Bowl
wins.
Chances are that Pats team will
usually beat that Giants team.
They have more talent, more depth
and more video surveillance.
But for one night in the Arizona
desert none of that mattered. The
Giants are Super Bowl champs.
I'll drink to that.

,

Bobby's World
uarrett uraziano

Sports Editor
ggrazian@lhup.edu

First and foremost I want to congratulate the New York Giants fans
on this campus for keeping the faith.
I never thought it would have
been possible, but your boys did the
impossible. So I will tip my hat to you
guys, but that doesn't mean I hate
the Giants any less.
With that being said, let's get to
my actual topic.
Bobby Knight. Love him or hate
him, he did more for the game of basketball than the general public gives
him credit for.
That doesn't excuse him, however,
for resigning mid-season because he's
"tired" of coaching.
For a man who preached about
things such as hard work, determination, family, commitment and teamwork, he sure as hell went against
his gospel this past week.
This is almost as bad as Bobby
Petrino's mid-season bail on the
Falcons. Listen I know he has 900
wins and three national championships, but even superstar coaches
have obligations.
The kids that comprise that Texas
Tech roster should feel betrayed and
abandoned. What would have Knight
done if they made a commitment to
only half or three quarters of the sea-

.

son?

He probably would have thrown

himself into one of his now infamous
temper
tantrums.
adolescent
Steaming from the ears, and foaming
from the mouth, Bobby Knight would
have punched a hole through time if
he had the ability.
So why is it fair for him to do the

same? It's not. I don't care how good
of a coach he is, you don't leave a
sinking ship first when you're the
captain.
But then again this is just another
scenario that plays to my opinion of
Bob Knight being one of the biggest
scumbags on the face of the earth.
If you're going to teach discipline,
have some yourself. Rather than
punch your players, kick chairs, and
drool uncontrollably on yourself,
maybe you should re-examine your
personal convictions and beliefs.
To save myself the aggravation of
having someone write in and tell me
how wrong I am, and how much
Bobby Knight means to college hoops
I want to reiterate the point of my
first sentence.
I know Bobby Knight had a special knack for taking average teams
and turning them into championship
squads, and I know he's one of the
best teachers in the fundamentals
and disciplines ofbasketball.
But what I don't understand is
how Bobby Knight expects so much
from others, when he lets his own
mangy morals slide without reprimand and repercussion.
I hope Bobby has fun watching a
bunch of kids he was supposed to
shape and mold play uninspired basketball for his son the rest of the season. You talk about killing the mood?
It's sad; I used hate Bobby Knight
as a person, but respected him as a
coach. Now as a coach and as a person I really can't stand anything
about him.
How can he still be alive when his
heart is as absent as his presence in
the Tech locker room?

Photo Courtesy of Sports Information

The swim team got one last chance to get ready for PSAC Championships
this past weekend. The swimmers got ready in two separate meets.

Swim team dives into final tune
ups before PSAC Championships
Alan Trexler
Sports Reporter
The swim team hit the
road over the weekend for
their final tune-up before
the PSAC Championships.

After participating in
Carnegie
the
Mellon
University Invite Friday
night, the Lady Eagles
sent five swimmers to the
last chance qualifier on
Saturday, at Edinboro.
Coach Andrew Waeger
was pleased with his
team's performance over
the weekend.
"These two meets were
utilized as a tune up for
those qualified for the conference meet already, for

everyone else we used it as
their
meet,"
taper
explained Waeger. "We
swam quite well on both
nights."
Friday night the team
traveled to the Carnegie
Mellon where multiple
swimmers posted season
best times.
The Lady Eagles were
most impressive in the
backstroke events. In the
100 yard race Freshman
Amanda
Terray
just
missed a Carnegie Mellon
poll record,
finishing
ahead of the pack in 58.52.
Classmate
Ashley
Gardner was also strong
in the 100, knocking two
seconds off her season best
when she finished in
1:05.22. She also set a
season best time in the
200 yard backstroke with

a time of 2:19.58.

The 200 yard butterfly
also turned out to be a
strong event for LHU.
Amanda
Sophomore's
Palmer
and
Ashley
Lightcap each finished
quicker than they have all
season.
Palmer also set a season best in the 100 yard
freestyle, finishing in
1:00.70.
For the second straight
weekend Becky Fountaine
established a lifetime best
in the 500 yard freestyle.
After a setting personal
best of 5:53.10 last week
at California, Fountaine
took nearly six seconds of
her time this week when
she finished in 5:47.34.

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Morse and Andrews lead track
and field teams Deschriver Invite
Garrett Graziano
Sports Editor
ggrazianCoihup.edu

good performances."
Two Lady Eagles followed Andrews lead as
Kristina
Hamm
and
Alaina Leonard took second and third in the event.
Teammate Megan Wolf
put together an impressive day as well, as she
took home second in the
400 meter dash with a
time of 1:00.05. and sixth
place in the 200 meter
dash with a time of 27.14,
just short of fellow Lady
Eagle Ashley Hartman's
mark of 27.12 which was
good enough for a fifth
place finish.
Hartman also took
third in the 55 meter dash
with a time of 7.65.
Hartman ran a preliminary time of 7.56
Haven runner Alyssa
Douma added to the Lady
Eagles success with a second place finish in the 500
meter dash, coming in at a
timeofl:22.38.
The Lady Eagles would
manage to take home one
more first place finish in
the 4x400 meter relay
with a time of 4:01.37,
while earning another second place finish in the
4x200 meter relay.
For the men the day
was equally as successful.
Paul Martin took home
second place in the 55
meter hurdles in a time of
7.57.
"Martin's run
put
ranked him six in the

This past weekend saw
both the men's and
women's track and field in
fierce competition at the
Deschriver Invitational at
East
Stroudsburg
University.

Setting the bar for the
Haven at the event were
Chelsea Morse and Jen
Andrews. Both athletes
dominated their respective events taking home
titles in three separate
competitions.
Morse beat out Suelyn
of
Pillinger
Essex
Community College to
take first in the high jump
with a leap of 1.67m, while
Andrews took first in both
in the shot put and weight
throw.
With a throw of
12.67m, Andrews easily
beat out Montclair State's
Monique Riddick's throw
of 11.86m for first in the
shot put, while her throw
of 15.15m was more than
enough to give her the win
in the weight throw.
"I'm really happy with
how are kids performed,"
said Head Coach Aaron
Russell. "ESU doesn't
have the best facility, but
our kids still went after it
and turned in some really

Academy to compete while
six other boxers will travel
to Gettysburg with Coaches
Dr. Ken Cox and John Stout
to compete in the Bullet
Invitational.
The always popular 29th
Annual LHU Invitational is

From, Boxing, B3
The Bald Eagles are
back in action this Saturday
with five Bald Eagle boxers
traveling with Coach Ken
Cooper to the U.S. Military

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country,"

said

Coach

Russell. "He's been hungry all season and so far
been coming away with
some really good finishes,
Not to be outdone,
teammate Chris Edelman
placed second in the 800
meter run, clocking in at a
time of 1:58.41.
In the high jump cornpetition, Ivars Lurops finished in second place finish in the high jump with
a leap of 1.98m.
Earning the final second place finish for the
men was AJ Johnson in
the 5K event, with a time
of 15:46.22.
Other Haven runners
to have standout days
were Greg Mock, Justin
Lockley, Nick Hilton and
Tim Getz. Mock and
Lockley took third and
fourth in the 55 meter
dash with Mock clocking
in at a time of 6.55 and
Lockley at 6.59.
Teammates
Nick
Hilton and Tim Getz also
earned third place finishes
in the mile run and 3K
event. Hilton took third in
the mile with a time of
4:28.38, while Getz finished the 3K at a time of
8:54.87.
Both track and field
teams will be back in
action this upcoming
Friday, Feb. 8 for the New
Balance Games at the
New York Armory,

February 6, 2007

From, Swimming, B3
The Lady Eagles continued
to
improve
Saturday at Edinboro.
"The Edinboro meet
was a great day for sprint
events," said Waeger.
Williams
Brittany
posted a career-best 57.31

From, Wrestling, B2
Despite losing the first
match the Bald Eagles
came back and dominated
in the second one. In the
184-pound match sophomore Jeremie Cook was
evenly matched through
the first period leading 32, but as the second period
started Cook just dominated as he scored scored
eight second period point
and didn't look back, as he
eventually won 15-5 major
decision in the match.
Junior Clint Shirk
helped Lock Haven keep
the lead as he won the
141-pound match by the
score of 9-3. Fellow junior
Matt Fittery secured the
Bald Eagles' first conference victory as he won the
149-pound weight class 82 and put LHU up 22-9.
"That was a good win
for me over a pretty tough

scheduled for the Thomas
Field House on Saturday,
Feb. 16. The 12-bout preliminary card is scheduled
for 2:30 p.m., while the 12bout Main Card will kick off
at 7:30 p.m.

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in the 100 yard freestyle
event while Shannon
Wilbur just missed a lifetime best with an impressive 59.80.
With the conference
event just two weeks
coach Andrew
away,
Waeger has his team
peaking at the right time.
"We are now getting

ready for the PSAC championships," said Waeger.
"We will start to re-focus
on all the little things and
get ready to race."
The conference event is
set to begin Thursday,
21st
February
at
Cumberland Valley High
School in Mechanicsburg.

kid so hopefully I can continue to wrestle well and
get better as the season
goes on," said
Matt
Fittery.
Even though the meet
belonged to Lock Haven,
there was still more
wrestling to be had.
Freshman John Mangini
scored one of the LHU's
three pins as he pinned
his opponent in the 157pound match with 51 seconds left in the match.
The Bald Eagles' other
pins came from John
Trumbetti at the 125pound match and Ben
Hepburn in the 197-pound
match. Hepburn was in a
stalemate for the first two
periods of his match and
with 1:35 left in the match
Hepburn finally got the
pin.
While Mangini and
Hepburn got their respective pins in the third periods of their matches

Trumbetti picked his pin
quickly.
up relatively
Trumbetti got his pin 1:35
into the 125-pound match,
helping LHU secure the
victory.
"It was great recording
a pin. The team got to a
slow start and I knew a
pin would get the team
excited as well as scoring
six points instead of three
to increase our lead," said
John Trumbetti.
The Bald Eagles look to
take a break from conference action as they will
travel
to
Bucknell
University on Friday.
After that the Bald
Eagles will return to EWL
action and host one of
their last home meets of
the
year
against
Bloomsburg University on
next Friday, February
15th, and then travel to
Clarion University the
next day.

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Staff Reporter
aalexan3@lhup.edu
Dr. Annik Kerszberg,
who has been a professor
at LHU since 2000, has
two passions in her life:
travel and teaching.
"I love being in the
classroom.
I'm
very
lucky... I do what I value
most," Kerszberg said.
Kerszberg is in her
eighth year of teaching at
LHU and is currently
teaching French 2, French
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Last
semester
Kerszberg was granted an
alternative work leave to
work on a book project and
present her research at
two
in
conferences,
London and France.
Kerszberg's research is
in the areas of French and
francophone (from Frenchspeaking countries) studies.
Kerszberg was born in
Belgium and grew up in a
small French-speaking village of 3000 people called
Spy, near the city of
Namur, that is "surrounded by meadows."
She said, "What I really cherish is the memory of
growing up in a village
where most people knew
each other and you could
almost play in the streets
and walk everywhere."
Kerszberg goes back to her
homeland once a year to
visit her family.
"It's not so much the
country that I miss but the
people I love," she said.
While all of Kerszberg's
relatives live in Belgium,
she lives with her two children, Sophie and Nicolas,
in State College.
Sophie is preparing for
school,
medical
and

Nicolas is a freshman at
LHU.
Kerszberg finds great
value in traveling to other
countries and learning
about different ways of
life.
"When you go to another English-speaking country you find another culture... but when you go to
a country where people
don't speak your language
then you really have to...
be humble," she said.
She said that once students experience that
"feeling of being limited"
by language in another
country, it puts life in a
completely new perspective.
"That automatically
has a direct impact on
what you see and think,"
she said. "You learn not to
accept stereotypes and to
always question people,"
she said.
Kerszberg has experienced this in her own life
through her travels.
She said that through
her time spent living in
different countries, she
has "acquired a way to
always see at least two,
sometimes more, sides to
everything."
While traveling the
U.S., Kerszberg likes to
combine traveling with
attending
conferences.
She often teaches the texts
to her classes before presenting them.
"I really like working
with students and I like to
relate my research to my
courses,"
she
said.
"Sometimes discussing the
texts with students is really very interesting."
Any time Kerszberg
can travel to a new and
interesting part of the
U.S. for a conference, she
is excited to see something

Majors from
Olga Malyavskaya
Feature Editor
omaly avs(" lhup.edu
The biology department here in LHU hosts
many different programs
under its roof, including
such tracks as ecology
and environmental biology, marine biology and
the cellular and organismal biology.
The department also
offers an option to major
in biology as a part of secondary education degree
and even obtain an interdisciplinary degree
According
to
Dr
Barrie Overton, one of the
faculty members in the
biology department, no
matter what program you
choose, there are plenty
opportunities to find a job.
"If you're thinking
the future and thinking
a global economy, doing
biological research or any
kind of scientific research
is going to be where the
job market's at," he said.
Overton explained that
biology has many applications in agriculture, the
biomedical field and biomedical research.
He also pointed out
that if you are choosing a
double major in biology
and chemistry, you could
go to a graduate school for
almost any discipline and

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a researcher, or I could
have gone into education,
and that's what I chose to
do and became a teacher,"
he said.
Surely enough, majoring in biology is not an
easy way to get through
college. In addition to
having difficult science
classes and spending a
lot of time at the laboratories, many biology
majors need to take an

and work under a supervision of a faculty member, as stated in the
department Web site.
"You just have to be
to
prepared
work,"
Overtone warned. "But
[the major] being hard is
not a disadvantage. The
more you study at the
university, the more
focused and specialized
you become. Ultimately,
that can lead to making
more money."
that somebody could go
According to Overton,
into," said Overton.
most of the positions one
He himself got a duel get with a degree in biolomajor in biology/chemgy, from teaching up to
istry, went to graduate laboratory technician or a
school and got a master's researcher, are fairly well
degree in botany and then
As stated by the
a doctorate in plant
Bureau
of
Labor
pathology with an emphasis on mycology, the study Statistics, median annual
of fungi.
earnings of biochemists
"At that point I could and biophysicists were
have gone and kept studyin
$76,320
2006.
ing at a university as a Microbiologists' median
research scientist or I was $57,980 in 2006, and
could have worked for big as for zoologists and

new.
Her favorite city that
she has been to in the U.S.
is San Francisco.

can work on what I like,"
she said.
Although it is difficult
for her to choose a favorite

Brussels to teach high
school philosophy.
"After that I taught for
a year in Belgium, and
then from there I went to
Israel for two years, and I
taught French at the
Alliance Francaise," she
said.
Kerszberg then spent
five years in Australia and
taught French at the
University of Sydney for a
short time before coming
to the U.S. to get her doctorate.
Kerszberg was just finishing up her graduate
studies at Penn State
she
University when
found out about a job
opening for a French
teacher at LHU.
Amanda Alexander/Eagle Eye
"It was perfect timing,"
a
Kerszberg,
professor,
French
she
said. "Since my chilDr. Annik
likes
and
dren
traveling
were attending)
experiencing new cultures.
schools in State College, l'
didn't want to move."
"I like to travel also to book, one that she has
She loves the convendifferent cities and counloved for years is "Jacques ient location of Lock
tries where people speak Le Fataliste" by Denis Haven and finds the drive
French," she said. "I love Diderot, an 18th century "relaxing."
She
also
different accents."
French author from the admits that after a while,
Kerszberg also enjoys Enlightenment period.
the place grew on her.
exploring cities such as
She discovered the
This is her first fulland book as a high school senPittsburgh
time job teaching French.
Philadelphia without a ior and fell in love with it, Kerszberg loves teaching
map, so she can discover but
her " tastes have her students a new lannew areas.
changed with time.
guage and culture.
"Now I really focus on
"I like to kind of get lost
"I think learning a lanand discover places," she contemporary
writing, guage is difficult but it's
said.
from authors from differalso fun," she said. "When
In her free time, ent parts ofthe world," she you learn foreign lanKerszberg likes to spent said.
guages you also learn to
time with friends, and she
favorite put your own life culture
Kerszberg's
is also an avid reader. "I movie is "An Affair of in perspective. It's a gatelove to read as much as I Love" from French direc- way to other worlds... to
can," she said. "I read both tor Frederic Fonteyne.
other people. That's what's
in French and in English."
Kerszberg
always important to me."
In fact, she loves readplanned to teach.
ing so much that she does"After high school, I
n't care if it's a "fun" book went to a training college
or a "scholarly" book.
to be a middle school his"It's very difficult for tory and French teacher,"
me to separate reading for she said.
pleasure and reading for
She then went on to get
scholarly pursuit. I am the equivalent of a
really very lucky because I Bachelor of Science in

to Z: Biology
wildlife biologists, their must, as well as staying
median annual earnings informed
of
current
were $53,300.
research in the field in
Just with a four-year order to remain competidegree you could find a job tive in your area of
as a research technician in research.
many places, and that's
Tenacity,
curiosity,
what Gail Shadle, class of good
communication
'99, did.
skills, ability to work
After graduating from closely with others, critical
LHU
with
bachelor's thinking skills, the ability
degree in biology/chemto analyze data and a love
istry, she found a job as a of learning are some
research associate in the important qualities to pos-

ground knowledge, are
trainable and have the
capacity to learn."
According to her, having this career path has
numerous
advantages,
such as the chance to
share her research with
other scientists, the ability
to utilize both her biology
and
chemistry
backgrounds and the opportunity to work with intelligent, insightful people
from all around the world.
Finally, she
takes
"The more you study at the university, pleasure in performing diftasks and learning
the more
and specialized you ferent
new processes, as opposed
become. Ultimately, that can lead to to an industry job where
you would have to do the
making more money."
same things every day.
Unfortunately, such a
--Dr. Barrie Overton job has also a downfall. As
Shadle pointed out, some
research positions are
Plant Biology Division of sess in the field of funded for a finite amount
The Samuel Roberts Noble research,
of time based on the availFoundation, Inc.
explained.
ability of grant funding.
Sharing the insights on
In addition, she said
Nonetheless, Shadle
her career, she said that that there is always writtruly enjoys her work.
she most enjoyed doing ing involved because you
"My profession means
many different types of must share your research the chance to help the
experiments.
findings with the scientific world in some way," she
"Research in the field of community by publishing said.
biology/chemistry
is articles in journals.
always so interesting and
Shadle also underlined
intriguing. You have so the necessity to learn nonmany opportunities for stop.
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Google Images
she said.
stand that a college degree
According to Shadle, doesn't mean you know
plant biology research, or everything about research
any other type ofresearch, nor have all the necessary
is
competitive. skills you will ever need,"
very
Working very hard and she said. "It simply means
being highly observant is a that you possess the back-

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mercenaries leave a path
of blood shed through the
Burmese country side in
their attempt to rescue
and extract a group of
Christian missionaries.
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say
best/worst
because it all depends on
what you, the viewer, is
looking for.
If you're looking for an
intriguing film filled with
an in-depth plot, mid-war

By definition, the word
"outrageous' means to
greatly exceed the bounds
of reason or moderation.
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"Rambo."

guns and bombs.
Filled with mutilation.
disembowelment and capitation, the art of simply
shooting a man is long
gone.

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removing sections of a person's body in the most
graphic way possible.
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Burmese soldiers are
mowed down in a hail of
gunfire. Arms, legs, heads
and intestines litter the
ground as Rambo and his
team of mercenaries cuts,
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either spent killing someone in some horrifying
manner, or staring at a
mountain side reflecting
on his past.
When I say there is no
plot, I'm not exaggerating.
Sure,
there's
an
attempt, but it's so miniscule in scale to the over-

the-top gore and blood
that viewers easily forget
what Rambo is exactly
doing in Burma in the first
place.
If you are more of a
refined action movie fan,
this film will not please
you a bit. Don't even waste
your time buying a ticket
or DVD.
Now, with all of that
being said, "Rambo" is byfar the most outlandish
action movie I have ever
seen.
Imagine "300" with

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the drama.

making
them
walk
through an open land
mind field or throwing
babies into burning houses, there is no shortage of
moments that make you
cringe, gag and vomit.
But it's the last 20 minutes or so of this movie
that sets a new standard
in the graphic depiction of
battle.
After
sneaking up
behind a Burmese soldier
and slicing his head off
with
a
homemade
machete, Rambo takes
control of a .50 caliber
machine gun that turns
anything that it hits into
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And while the lack of
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Those three artists
among many others make
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Filled with rap, pop,
punk and rock, Timbaland
produced a unique CD to
suit musical tastes.
One of the hottest
tracks on the CD is
"Apologize" by Timbaland
featuring One Republic.
"Apologize" has been
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charts,
to
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The song has a pop.
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again.

Justin Timberlake and
Nelly Furtado also appear
on the CD with their
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Some of the songs have
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Some of the other
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Timbaland shows his
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It is packed with amazing artists and ear-catching tracks that will stick
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Almost all of
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Whether it is going out
to a fancy restaurant or
taking the time to make a
special home-cooked meal,
it's a nice way to spend
time together. And it doesn't have to stop at just dinner.
"I would make her dinner, with music, flowers
and dancing, and maybe
even a small gift of something I knew she wanted."

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Idea #3: Clothes.

Clothes can be risky
because of size issues, but
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your valentine has been
eyeing, it may be just the
gift you're looking for.
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be a good way to go.
Jewelry stores usually role
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specials and items, so if
you know this will be a hit
with your valentine, do it.
Make sure your receiver will like what they get,
whether you have to pry a
little or ask the best
friend. But it's better to be
safe than sorry.
Idea #5: Go outside of
the traditional. When it
comes to Valentine's Day,
the sky is the limit. There
is no binding contract that
says it has to be flowers or
chocolate or heart-shaped,
so the biggest piece of
advice is go to outside the
box.
Buying for girls:
Howtodothmgs.com suggests different ideas, such
as manicures or a trip to

Jessica Muzzin
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••• "jewelry"

the salon or spa.
These may be something your valentine has
wanted, but has been hesitant to spend the extra
money. It will also give her
a chance to get pampered
and dolled up to look nice
for you.
And girls, don't be
afraid to lay some hints.
"A deep tissue massage
would be amazing right
now," might land you just
that.
Buying for guys:
Valentine's Day works
both ways.
Howtodothings.com
suggests tapping into
what they like. If they are
really into sports, try scoring tickets to see his
favorite team.
Or, if he is really into
technology, surprise him
with the latest gadget.
Even asking questions to
try to pull something out
of him may get you started.
For anyone: Try to see
if there is something that
your valentines have been
wanting. Maybe it is the
latest season of their
favorite TV show on DVD.
Or a new CD by their
favorite artist. A new perfume. Whatever it is they
may have been wanting.
"I would buy him
something I noticed he
had seen one day and
wanted, or I would buy

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offers the advice of avoiding the traditional red
roses and going for a more
personal touch instead.
Red roses often see an
increase in price around
Feb. 14, so, unless your
valentine has specifically
stated that she wants red
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valentine shopping and
hint at different items you
like. At least they will
know exactly what you
want.
Idea #4: Jewelry.
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through the holiday, especially if you're stuck on
what to buy for your
valentine.
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n't had the money to buy," to let them know that you
mentioned Erin Crawford, were thinking of them. It
a senior. "I feel that giving shows that you put some
him something that he's thought into it.
had his eyes on means
And
sometimes
much more than someValentine's Day is simply
thing you got him just to about just being together.
show it is Valentine's
"Sometimes you don't
Day."
even need a gift," said senior Leandra St. Pierre. "Go
out to dinner or just
spend some time doing
something together."
Do
something
together that you both
enjoy, whether it is
going rock climbing,
owling or playing video
ames.
One
student,
anonymous in
case her valentine is reading this, said that she got
to him concert tickets so the
their favorite store or two of them can go togethrestaurant. Know that er.
giftcards can be risky, so if
The overall advice that
the relationship is new, should be followed when
aim for a more traditional deciding on that perfect
gift.
gift for your valentine this
Valentine's Day really year is that it should be
allows people to be crepersonal and from the
ative.
heart.
"I don't feel that a
So unless significant
valentine's gift has to be others made it very clear
linked to hearts and candy they want red roses, chocoand all that typical late, or boxer shorts that
Valentine's Day stuff," say 'be mine', try somestated Crawford.
thing that really says "this
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HAC brings laser war to campus

Adam Roberts
News Editor
arobertsfa lhup.edu

Students who entered
the Student Recreation
Center last Thursday
evening, Jan. 31, were met
with a bulbous yellow
blow-up dome on the basketball court.
The dome played home
to the TRON Systems
laser tag game which was
sponsored by HAC and
brought to campus by the
TjohnE Productions.
HAC brought laser tag
to campus as part of an
effort to offer fresh activities to students.
"We are trying to do
different, new events that
we've never done," said
HAC
Assistant
Coordinator
Alyssa
Hoover.
Hoover added that
many of the activities that
HAC brings to campus are
brought to their attention
through e-mails, advertisements and conferences.
The laser tag idea came
them
just like any other
to
event, but there was a

sense of improving on the

past.

"I think we are trying
to be bigger and better,"
Hoover said. "Besides, who
doesn't like laser tag?"
The answer seemed to
be 'no one,' as students
lined up well before the
event's 6 p.m. kickoff time
for a chance to battle
cyber-style.
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When students arrived,
the TRON dome stretched
well across the basketball
court it occupied and
arched above the SRC's
second floor track.
When Hoover and her
fellow HAC members
came earlier in the day,
the dome was in a much
different form.
The playing field was
neatly packed into a
couch-sized cube that
weighed around 2,500
to
pound
according
Hoover.
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Students suit up and await their turn to enter the inflatable laser tag dome in the Student Rec Center on
Jan. 31. HAC brought the TRON Systems laser tag event to campus for the first time ever last week. The
game that pitted friends and roommates against one another was a huge hit.