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President addresses PHEAA challenges

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President Timothy R. Thyreen addresses both students and faculty during a news conference held at 2 p.m. thispast Monday. The President addressed many subjects including the new Roberts Chapel and PHEAA changes.

WUrejectsdrillingoffer

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By Stephanie LaingAssignments Editor

While collegesthroughout Southwest-ern Pennsylvania startdrilling on their campus-es, Waynesburg Universi-ty turned down an offerfor drilling right in itsbackyard, literally.

When a Virginiadrilling company pro-posed a drilling well inthe old practice fieldsbehind Thayer Hall, RoyBarnhart, vice presidentfor business and financeat Waynesburg Universi-ty, rejected their offer.

“It was my opinion inthat area – that close inproximity to the campusand with the residentialarea looking down onthat – that to have a

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By Arianna GrondinStaff Writer

On Monday Nov. 14,Waynesburg UniversityPresident Timothy R.Thyreen held a news con-ference regarding thePennsylvania Higher Edu-cation Assistance Agency(PHEAA) contributionsfor the coming year andthe completion of thechapel. Thyreen, who ison the PHEAA schoolboard, praised PHEAA forgiving grants to studentswhile allowing them tochoose their university.

PHEAA supports theindependent institutionsall over the state. Presi-dent Thyreen explainedthat before PHEAA, anystimulus given by the gov-ernment had to go specifi-cally to state schools topay bills; it was not to beput toward student aid.Thyreen also said thatGovernor Corbett wantsto fund the students.

Of all the degrees inPennsylvania, independ-ent institutions make uphalf of the students, inde-pendent schools make up41 percent of the state.

These schools receive 13percent of the state fund-ed money.

Last year PHEAAadded $50 million to theoriginal $380 million thatwas given to universitiesfor grants by the state.Thyreen said he is askingPHEAA for a five percentincrease in funding for thenext year. This will com-pensate for the increase ofstudents who need finan-cial aid in the comingyear. It is estimated thateven with an increase offive percent in funding,students will be given

$100 less than what theyreceived this year. Themost a student couldreceive from PHEAA thisyear was $4,348.

The completion of thechapel has been an impor-tant addition to the Uni-versity.

Thyreen talked of theplans that had been madeto build the chapel. It wasdescribed as a building,“that could fill the quadwith its presence.”

Thyreen said it wasmeant to be a “very tradi-

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The Christ and CultureLecture Series premieredNov. 14 and concluded thefollowing day, featuring apair of speakers from NewYork City who presentedthe lecture, “It Sucks to BeUs: Coming of Age inPost-Hope America,” inRoberts Chapel.

Rev. David Kim, direc-tor of The Gotham Initia-tive, spoke to studentsMonday evening whileKatherine Leary Alsdorf,executive director of theCenter for Faith andWorks, spoke Tuesdayduring the University’schapel service and later at7:30 p.m.

Both speakers addressedthe hardships that the cur-rent generation of 18 to 25

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Students collect pop tabs for dogsBy Alex HintonOp/Ed Editor

For Susquehanna Serv-ice Dogs in Harrisburg,Pa. one man’s trash isanother man’s treasure.

Carol Young, nursedirector of Student HealthServices, is collecting thealuminum tabs from sodacans to raise money forthe organization.

“My daughter has aservice dog throughSusquehanna ServiceDogs in Harrisburg,”Young said. “They’realways doing fundraising,because it’s very expen-sive [to get the dogs readyto be placed in homes].We’ve had the dog forseven years, and everyyear we collect the tabs.”

Susquehanna ServiceDogs, founded in 1993,raises and trains dogs to

assist children and adultswith disabilities so theycan become more inde-pendent. The organiza-tion has placed morethan 185 service dogswith people in 23 countiesin Pennsylvania, accord-ing to the organization’swebsite. Collecting largeamounts of pop tabs fromcans can raise funds tosupport the cause.

“I read somewhere thatthe tab is the most con-centrated aluminum inthe can,” Young said. “It’spure aluminum and it hasthe most weight. Theyturn the tabs in for scrapmetal.”

The money from thepop tabs goes into a gener-al fund for SusquehannaService Dogs. There is alot of special care thatgoes into getting a dogready for service, accord-

ing to Young.“It takes a very special

dog. They have to bescreened,” she said.

According to Young, alldogs that are potentialcandidates for servicehave to see several spe-cialists before training can

evenbegin. The dogs have to bechecked by an ophthal-mologist, a cardiologistand an orthopedist.

“The dogs have to havethe right temperament.

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By Matt GiardinaStaff Writer

Ryan Smith never fin-ished college, although itwas where he became aleading wide receiver. InSmith’s last weeks, histeam was preparing for aplayoff game. Smith wasprepared to face the rivalteam, but a silent oppo-nent was facing the ath-lete.

He was admitted tothe hospital the morningof the big game. Laterthat night, when he wasto in the game, Smithlost his life. The silentopponent that tookSmith’s life was an infec-tion called MRSA.

Although this is a

hypothetical circum-stance, it proves all tootrue for many. Methi-cillin Resistant Staphylo-coccus Aureus is aninfection caused by staphbacteria commonlyfound in gyms and fitnesscenters. In an effort toprotect the students ofWaynesburg from theinfection, senior nursingstudents Alissa Boyle andCami Abernethy testedthe University fitnesscenter for staph bacteria.The results were posi-tive.

Boyle feels it is impor-tant to inform studentson how staph is spread.

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By Amanda BellStaff Writer

Reverend David Kimand Katherine Leary Als-dorf were the speakers forchapel last Tuesday.

“God calls you into allkinds of life not justchurch,” said Alsdorf,Executive Director of theCenter for Faith andWord, Redeemer Church,New York.

She talked about herlife from the time she wasin college, all the wayuntil she was standing infront of the student bodyin the Roberts Chapel.Alsdorf talked about howwhen she was in college,she did not think thatlater in her life that shewould be going to churchand owning a business.

In 2000, she was theCOO of the companycalled Pennsary.

Pennsary was a compa-ny that took college busi-ness courses, and putthem up online for busi-ness people that could notgo to school do to com-plete the work.

When Alsdorf went toresign from being a COO,

her boss at the time said,“you can’t resign, I’mresigning first.” A fewhours later she got a callfrom the board asking herto run the business in hisplace.

Alsdorf took over andapproximately six monthslater her business was in amagazine for the top 100hottest companies.

Suddenly, threemonths after the maga-zine was published, hercompany went bankrupt.

“I prayed a lot and

thought I understoodwhat you (God) wanted,”said Alsdorf when hercompany went bankrupt.

Later, Alsdorf got a callfrom a New York businessasking her to come andwork in a more Christianenvironment.

“It’s been amazing howGod pulls this ministrytogether,” said Alsdorf.

Kim also spoke to thestudents.

Rev. Kim spoke mainlyfrom Ezekiel 37. He saidthat, “working is a lot

more harder than they(people) think. Plans arechanging dramatically.”

Kim asked the group,“What should weexpect?”

God and his plan is thathe actually wants to useus to heal the brokenworld, “with armystrength.”

The people that end upcomplaining are the onesthat their, “expectationshaven’t been properlyshaped by scripture,” saidKim.

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High school overnighters attend Upper Room worship service

By Mariah BeauregardStaff Writer

The Upper Room serv-ice on Nov. 13 took placein Roberts Chapel at 8p.m. Many overnighters,high school students whovisit the campus for anovernight stay and toobserve classes the nextmorning attended. Uni-versity Chaplain TomRibar said that this UpperRoom was a good oppor-tunity for overnighters toexperience more of Way-nesburg University.

“Upper Room givesthem an opportunity tosee what we stand for as auniversity,” said Ribar.“Our desire is to honorChrist in all that we do.”

The Upper Room wor-ship team played a varietyof worship songs. Some oftheir song selectionsincluded “Joyful, Joyful,We Adore Thee,” “Not toUs” and “God of ThisCity.” A new song, “AllMy Fountains,” was alsoperformed.

Robbie Schultz, juniorcreative writing major,spoke at the service.Schultz told the story ofstruggles he faced

throughout college andhigh school, including try-ing to live according to hisChristian faith and figur-ing out what he was goingto do in his future.

Schultz was greatlyaffected by the Bible pas-sage 2 Corinthians 1:9-10which says, “Indeed, wefelt we had received thesentence of death. But this

happened that we mightnot rely on ourselves buton God, who raises thedead. He has delivered usfrom such a deadly peril,and he will deliver us

again. On him we have setour hope that he will con-tinue to deliver us.”

These verses encour-aged Schultz that he couldget through the challenges

in his life. Schultz charged the

high school seniors pres-ent to keep themselvesaccountable to their faith,even when they are not ina church. He stressed theimportance of gettingplugged into a church andhaving a group of friendsto keep themselvesaccountable.

“It’s always encourag-ing when I hear some-body’s testimony aboutGod’s faithfulness,” saidRibar. “My guess is that alot of people can relate toRobbie’s [Schultz’s] cir-cumstances, maybe notinto detail, but at least inthat sense of being lostand needing to be found.”

Matt McNeil, UpperRoom worship teamleader, also spoke aboutGod’s faithfulness. It is atheme he found repeatedmultiple times in theNew Testament.

“It blows my mind thatGod remains faithful eventhough humans can beunfaithful,” he said.

This was the last UpperRoom before Thanksgiv-ing. Upper Room serviceswill continue after theThanksgiving break.

Photo by Jasmine Blackwell

Upper Room worship played host to several visitors from high school visiting the University. Upper Room bandmembers (from left) Sam Civitate, Matt McNeil, Megan Carberry and K Scarry help lead the worship.

Junior English major encourages students to rely on God during Upper Room worship

year olds must face whenthey enter the workforce.

“For the first time in along time, this generationwill have it harder thanthe previous,” said Kim.“And the older generationlooks back and says, ‘wescrewed them over.’”

Kim, who received amaster’s degree in theolo-gy from Princeton Univer-

sity, began his lecture byasking the crowd of Way-nesburg University stu-dents how importantwork is to them.

“Some of us might findourselves asking God, ‘doyou even care that I’mstudying biology?’” saidKim. “A lot of peoplenowadays are unhappywith their work, unhappywith their jobs becausethey forget that God caresabout what they do.”

T’Ericka Perry, sopho-more International Rela-tions major, said herstruggle lied in balancing

school work with thesense of purpose Kimdescribed.

“Last year, I was excit-ed for school,” she said.“This year I feel like I’mworking to work, and Ijust want to get to thecareer already.”

According to Kim, thestruggle is part of lovingyour work.

“In order to not losesight of hope, you mustunderstand that your painwill be used to better theworld,” said Kim. “Yourvisions and hopes shouldnot be anchored in this

world.” Alsdorf also began her

lecture by posing a ques-tion to the audience.

“Why does it suck to beyou guys?” said Alsdorf.“The title of the lecturecomes from a New YorkMagazine cover story Iread that listed all the rea-sons why it’s hard to bethe younger generationright now. But I said ‘itsucks to be you’ in chapeland that was a big deal.”

In light of the econom-ic depression, Alsdorf saidsimply, things are bad, butnot hopeless.

“The hope that thegospel provides acknowl-edges the brokenness ofour society,” said Alsdorf.“We have to look at howbad things are andremember the gospel.”

In perspective for col-lege students, Alsdorf saideducation alone is notgoing to change the world,but there must be hope aswell.

“It was good to hearabout hope as a collegestudent close to finalsweek,” said Shelby

Tabrosky, freshmansports broadcasting major.

“Sometimes we forgetGod is there for us.”

Both Kim and Alsdorfrecognized the impact ofthe economic depressionwhen asked to address asense of hopelessness dur-ing a joint Q&A sessionfollowing Tuesday’s finallecture.

“It’s healthy to be sadand depressed,” said Kim.“That means you’re see-ing the world for what itis. Look at Jesus - He weptover Jerusalem. But youhave to remember thispain is leading some-where.”

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Christ and Culture Lecture Series speaker Katherine Leary Alsdorf speaks during theChapel service held on Tuesday in the Roberts Chapel.

Lecture series speakers present during Chapel service on Tuesday

By Daniel HrusaStaff Writer

On Nov. 10, the Unit-ed States Senate votedon a bill that wouldremove theNet Neu-trality regu-lations.

For thecontent on awebsite toget onto ahome com-puter, itneeds to betransmittedthrough theinternet andis brought toa homethrough anInternet serviceprovider and sent to acomputer, where thewebsite’s signal is dis-played on a computermonitor.

The Federal Commu-nications Commissionput a set of regulationsknown as Net Neutrali-ty into effect in 2010,which states that thereshould be no discrimi-

nation done by the ISPsto individual sites onthe Internet.

A vote to overturnNet Neutrality regula-tions, brought up by the

RepublicanParty, washeld on Nov.10.

One argu-ment infavor of theNet Neutral-ity regula-tions is thatISPs couldcreate atiered serv-ice rate, andonly web-sites thatpaid the ISP

would receive good serv-ice, and be sent withoutdelay, sites that did notpay would have a slowerconnection speed andwould have longer load-ing times.

“Net neutrality isnot about a governmenttakeover of the Internet,and it is not about

Net neutrality voteto impact Internet

“Net neutralityand the rules theFCC passed areabout keeping theInternet the way itis today and theway it has alwaysbeen.”

Sen. Al FrankenD-Mass.

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By Kimber Blair Staff Writer

Traveling cross-coun-try from Maryland to Cal-ifornia, through Arizona,Texas, Florida and finallyback to Maryland, itmight sound like ChipHiden and Alexis Irvintook the long route home.

Their craving for some-thing more than just agood-paying job and aninitiative called TheDream Share Project, thecouple made the road trip.They were in search ofdreams, not just theirown, and the secrets toachieving those dreams.

Hiden is a 2009 gradu-ate of Washington Col-lege. Irvin also graduatedthe same year from theUniversity of Maryland,College Park, and bothstopped at WaynesburgUniversity for one of their15 stops on their fallDream Share Project tour.

After showing the moviethey produced together,Hiden and Irvin conduct-ed a small workshop thathelped students thinkabout their own dreamsand ambitions.

Although attendancewas low, the studentswho took part in theevent took somethingwith them after seeingHiden’s and Irvin’s movie.

Senior communicationmajor Amanda Rice said,“I didn’t know what theDream Share Project wasbefore the video started,but I was impressed whenthey began talking abouttheir ambition to createthis video.”

Rice said she wasshocked that Hiden andIrvin decided to just quittheir jobs in order to bedream chasers.

Over a phone inter-view, Hiden said he andIrvin were on the road forabout three months in

late 2010 after savingmoney for about a yearand then quitting theirjobs. Sophomore Financemajor Melissa Yoder alsowatched the Dream Sharemovie and thought themovie was pieced togeth-er well.

“It showcased themeaning behind TheDream Share Project in avery creative way,” Yodersaid. “The Dream ShareProject made me realizethat all my dreams arepossible as long as I worktowards them and never

give up.”Director of Career Serv-

ices Marie Coffman saidwhen Irvin and Hidencontacted her aboutDream Share passingthrough the Pittsburgharea, Coffman said shethought it sounded very

beneficial. “The program itself

had a lot of good points,”Coffman said. “It makesyou think a little bit.”

Rice agreed with Coff-man.

“Too often we let our-selves be limited by cir-cumstances around us,such as money.” Ricesaid. “Yes, money can be abig issue, but if you makethe effort to find a way toachieve your dreams,there will be a way toachieve them.”

After the event, Coff-man was pleased withThe Dream Share Projectspeakers.

“[Hiden and Irvin] justgraduated,” Coffman said,“so they were on the samelevel as [Waynesburg] stu-dents.”

The Dream Share Proj-ect will make a secondpresentation at Waynes-burg University at 11:30p.m. on Feb. 9.

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drilling operation goingon there with all thehundreds of water trucksthat end up coming tothat site and with all thelights associated withthem 24/7, it was justtoo intrusive for theneighborhood to have awell site there,” saidBarnhart. “That is why Itold them no.”

Barnhart, who dealswith any inquiries aboutWaynesburg University’sproperty, didn’t feel itnecessary to discuss hisdecision with outsidesources.

“It was just so intru-sive that there was noway I could see for [thedrilling] to happen therewithout causing greathardship on the resi-dence hall students andon the residents of theborough that we areneighbors with,” Barn-hart said.

According to Barn-hart, the University lieson about 30 acres, but heis not sure how manyparcels the Universityowns mineral rights on.

“This campus was notacquired in one big lot. Itis a house bought here, ahouse bought there,”said Barnhart. “We can’tbe sure without a ratherexhaustive search howmuch we retain mineralrights on.”

However, the univer-sity has drilling on itsproperty, although noton the main campus.

According to Barn-hart, the University has12 acres of mineral rightsin Aleppo Township inWestern Greene County,and after a successful

negotiation finalized lastspring with Dale Proper-ty Services, drillingshould begin within thenext couple years.

“The revenue fromthat particular operationwill provide some finan-cial benefits to the Uni-versity to enable us tomake our offerings to ourstudents,” said Barnhart.“It costs money to makecampus improvements.It costs money to buythe computers and allthe things that we buy,and this helps us to dothat. It will probablyenable us to undergocapital projects that wemight not have under-gone otherwise.”

The University has apending negotiation

with another drillingcompany, according toBarnhart, but he wasunable to provide thespecifics of the negotia-tion.

“I think that anytimean opportunity presentsitself, a calculation hasto be made. What’s thevalue of this versus whatit will cost? Once yougage that, I don’t know ofanyone that would per-sonally object todrilling,” said Barnhart.“I certainly am not[objecting] to drilling inthe appropriate place,but I just feel that place[behind Thayer Hall] wasnot appropriate.”

According an articlein the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, other collegecampuses in Southwest-ern Pennsylvania aretaking advantage of thedrilling opportunities.

California University,West Liberty University,Bethany College andAlderson-Broaddus Col-lege all are using drillingpayments to fund cam-pus programs oradvancements.

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contact. It can be dis-persed through footballequipment, used towelsand of course, exerciseequipment,” said Boyle.“In order for staph toinvade the body, it mustenter through an openwound. This is why peo-ple who have MRSA

must cover the infectedarea with a band aid.”

Boyle describes thesymptoms of MRSA as a“pimple or a spider biteonly it is more painful. Itthen will continue togrow and fill up withpuss.” Before the testcould be done, Boyle andAbernethy had help froma professor in biology tocreate the agar, which isa nutrient enriched plateused for growing bacte-ria.

“Dr. Sethman helpedus mix the agar solutionfor the bacteria to growin,” said Abernethy.“After we rubbed downand swabbed themachines, we placed theagars in the incubatorand waited for the bacte-ria to grow.

The solution starts outred and turns yellow inthe places staph bacteriaexists.”

Although the gymtested positive for staph,not all of the equipmenthad the bacteria on it.

“We found nothing onthe ellipticals, romanchair, or treadmills. Thesample was still com-pletely red with no tracesof yellow,” said Boyle.“However, we foundstaph bacteria on thehand weights, medicineball, and cable crossingmachines with rippedhandles. This allowsmore surface area for thebacteria to grow. Staphwas mostly found on theequipment people touch

with their hands”Abernethy advises the

students and employeeson procedures that canprevent the spread ofstaph bacteria.

“We suggest that allstudents wipe down themachines after they aredone using them. Wealso suggest a monthlycleaning or a nightlywipe down of themachines to occur,” saidAbernethy. “Also, peo-ple should wash theirhands. This is one of themajor ways staphspreads.”

Boyle and Abernethydiscovered the need totest with the fitness cen-ter while they workedout there.

“The idea came to uswhen we realized that forthe past years we’ve beenhere and worked out atthe gym, there were nowipes to clean themachines,” said Aber-nethy. “Because of this,we decided to test thegym for staph bacteria.”

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Some are too excited,”Young said. “A lot of dogshave to drop out of theprogram before they finishtraining. They are trainedfor two years beforethey’re placed with a fam-ily.”

Angelic Wray, a studentworker at the StudentHealth Center, has alsogotten involved with col-lecting for a cause.

“I said in conversationto save the tabs, andAngelic [Wray] said morestudents need to knowabout this, so she made upthe posters to put uparound campus,” Youngsaid. “I just advocate andcollect on behalf of oth-ers,” Wray said. “I justthink it’s important tohelp people who are some-times unable to helpthemselves.”

Wray is getting theword out for students tocollect the pop tabs as

well as plastic bottle caps.The bottle caps are for a

new program called “Capsfor Cancer.” According tothe program’s website, thecaps are the only part ofplastic bottles that cannotbe recycled, because theyare made of a differentplastic, and when the twomix, one contaminatesthe other. The programwas started to recyclepolypropylene, the plasticfrom bottle caps, whichcan be made into gardenrakes, brooms and icescrapers. Money collectedfrom recycling the lidswill be used toward help-ing hospitals and researchfacilities in finding a curefor cancer.

According to Young,students on campus havebeen doing well with get-ting involved. One girlbrought in a garbage bagfull of aluminum tabs, shesaid.

“The response has beenpretty good,” Young said.“I’m happy.”

Donations of tabs orcaps can be dropped off atthe Student Health Cen-ter.

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“I certainly am not [objecting] todrilling in the appropriate place, but Ijust feel that place [behind ThayerHall] was not appropriate.”

Roy BarnhartVice President for Business and Finance

Photo by Amanda Rice

Alexis Irvin and Chip Hiden speak to students this past Monday about the DreamShare project. The pair spoke about the importance of pursing a person’s dreams.

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Lamplighters Choir performs concertBy Kelly WitasStaff Writer

On Sunday, Nov. 13,the Waynesburg Universi-ty Lamplighters TouringChoir held a concert forUniversity students andmembers of the commu-nity focusing on theThanksgiving holidaytheme. The touring choirsampled classical musicalong with traditional reli-gious music.

Approximately 90 peo-ple attended the Thanks-giving themed concert.

The Lamplighters sanga total of 15 songs. Onesong was a solo written bysenior creative writingmajor, Ashley Ritenour.

Ritenour sang andplayed the piano for hersong titled “Fall on YourKnees.”

She asked the audienceto think about all thetimes they’ve felt theywere not good enough forGod’s love.

“God loves us so much,he wants even our bro-kenness,” said Ritenour.“If we breathe in His holi-ness He can make usnew.”

Under the direction ofDirector of Choral Music,Melanie Catana, thegroup sang and dancedgetting the audience intotheir performance.

Since the focus of thenight was about givingthanks, at the beginningof the concert the Lamp-lighters asked members inattendance to write downon the back of their pro-grams what they werethankful for.

Catana especiallythanked James “Fuzzy”

Randolph who foundedthe group in 1961.

Along with Randolph,Catana thanked lecturerof music and percussion-ist Ryan Frost and lecturerof music and pianist Nel-son Fox.

The Lamplighters tooktime out to say what theywere thankful for andasked audience membersto stand and say whatthey were thankful for.

As Catana was thank-ing everyone she realizedhow it affects each person.

“When one personanswers the call we allbenefit,” said Catana.

The event started offwith upbeat songs thenslowed things downhalfway through incorpo-rating the traditionalmusic of God.

Different instrumentslike the flute, horn andguitar accompanied someof the songs.

The group also incorpo-rated a different language:Swahili.

The song titled “Baba

Yetu” was sung in Swahiliand included dancing.The original song “He’sGot the Whole World”,was taught in sign lan-guage by freshman JonMelchert.

Ritenour has writtenmany songs besides “Fallon Your Knees.”

This one was especiallywritten for the Lamp-lighters to honor the gloryof God.

“I especially liked[Ritenour’s] song,” said

freshman Psychologymajor Elysia Beldham.

“It made me feelinspired,” said Beldham.“It reminded me of whenI sang in my youthgroup.”

The Lamplighters nextconcert will be held at theLinway United Presbyte-rian in North Versailleson Friday, Nov. 18 at 7p.m. and at the JeanetteAlliance Church inJeanette at 7 p.m. on Sat-urday, Nov. 19.

Photos by Amanda Rice

(Above) The Lamplighter Choir performs a Thanksgiving themed concert in the Roberts Chapel on Sunday.(Below) Ashley Ritenour wrote one of the songs performed by the choir. The group performed 15 songs total.

tional looking chapelmuch like a church inNew England. It wasmeant to have pews, amulti purpose room, to beon the highest point of thecampus and to have across on the steeple.”Thyreen said they workedhard to have the rightacoustics in both thechapel and the MarshCenter. They wanted tohave enough speakers andsubwoofers for the organ.The piano, a SteinwayConcert Grand, is similarto the piano you wouldsee in Carnegie Hall.

It was important to“never let any building bemore of an impact thanMiller,” said PresidentThyreen of the plans tobuild the chapel. Thechapel was built on thecenterline of the campuswhich lies between Millerand Hannah Hall.

Dr. Roberts, a Universi-ty graduate of 1941, donat-ed 4.3 to 4.5 million dol-lars to the building of thechapel. It was his desire

that the chapel wouldhave the traditionalatmosphere.

The chapel has manyimportant assets to thecampus. The Marsh Cen-ter is a place for the choirand band to practice.Thyreen said he didn’twant to the chapel base-ment to look like a base-ment, but that it wouldhave a purpose. He saidthe chapel has significantengineering to be waterholding. This prevents runoff onto the sidewalk.

It took about $10 mil-lion to build the chapel.Of the $10 million, theUniversity raised $8.5million. When askedwhere the final two mil-lion will come from,Thyreen said from friends,graduates and others.

The University pro-vides donors with a “laun-dry list,” and each donorchooses their priority. Heexpressed that, “when wedo what’s right first andthe money will follow.”

Thyreen said when wereturned to our Christianmission it would happen.Today he said the chapel,“is the most importantsymbol of all the thingswe’ve done.”

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changing anything,”said Sen. Al Franken (D-Mass.).

“Net neutrality andthe rules the FCCpassed are about keep-ing the Internet the wayit is today and the way ithas always been.”

An opposing viewstates that the internethas been growing anddeveloping with noproblems since it wascreated, and it does notneed government regu-lation to continue togrow.

President Obamamade it known that ifthe bill to remove NetNeutrality passedthrough the senate, hewould veto it.

The Democrat con-trolled senate voted 52

to 46 in disapproval ofthe bill, and in favor ofthe regulations. Somepeople still believe thatthe FCC overstepped itsboundaries by puttingthese regulations intoplace, and that they mayeven stifle the growth ofthe Internet.

Others believe thatwithout these regula-tions, ISPs could manip-ulate the content on theinternet based on con-nection speed, makingsome websites fasterthan others, potentiallycausing more people touse that company’s web-site more often due toits speed, causing thecompany to flourishwhile others may strug-gle.

In 2008, the ISP Com-cast Corp. blocked someof their customers fromBitTorrent Inc.’s videodownloading service;the FCC ruled this asdiscrimination againstlegal Internet content.

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Touring group performs Thanksgiving themed concert on Sunday

By Kyle EdwardsRegion Editor

The Rising Creek Bak-ery and Café in Mt. Mor-ris serves hundreds ofhungry customers everyday, all clamoring forone thing: salt risingbread.

Two Mt. Morrislocals, bakery ownerJenny Bardwell and fel-low baker Susan Brown,have been keeping thelocal tradition alive forthe past year and a half.

“What’s so specialabout the bread is thateveryone who has madeit has a story to tell,”said Brown.

Brown’s story beginswith her grandmother,

in the late 1980s.“I’ve been using the

recipe about 20 yearsnow,” said Brown.

“My grandmotherused it all her life, andher mother used it beforethat, so it’s probably a150 year old recipe.”

Bardwell learned howthe make the bread fromher neighbor, PearlHaynes, after moving tothe area from Massachu-setts.

“I already owned abakery, so I asked Pearlhow to make it,” shesaid.

“It’s such a fabulous,unique and distinct tast-ing bread. I met SusanBrown, found out sheknew all about it and

then we talked for yearsabout how we shouldopen up a bakery some-day, and here we are.”

The process of bakingthe bread may soundlike a cakewalk, but it isfar from simple, Brownsaid.

“It takes about 25minutes to actuallybake,” Brown said.

“But overall, it’s avery time-consumingprocess.”

The two women

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Jacket Columnist Amanda Wishner talks aboutnot turning a blind eye towards bullying.Read more on B2

Locked up ‘for good’By Stephanie LaingAssignments Editor

Waynesburg’s DairyQueen owner BarryKovell found himselflocked up Wednesday,Nov. 16, and he was onlyreleased after his bailwas paid.

His conviction:thoughtfulness and gen-erosity. Locked up for“good,” Kovell is one ofthe 80 to 90 business

owners who participatedin the Muscular Dystro-phy Association’s bi-annual lock-up.

Businessmen andwomen from Wal-Mart,Burger King, GreeneCounty School District,Cedar Ridge Apart-ments, American Legionand many more busi-nesses collectivelyhelped raise over$40,000 for families andchildren living with a

neuromuscular disease. When he received a

phone call from an MDAwarden, asking if hewould participate in thelock-up, Kovell saidabsolutely.

“It is a worthwhilecause and anything I cando to help these kids, Iwill do it,” said Kovell.“It is something my wifeand I feel that we wouldlike to do to help kidsand their families.”

Immediately startinghis fund raising, Kovellused MDA resources topromote the event.

MDA only asked par-ticipants to have funwhile raising their bail.

“The more fun youhave, the more success-ful you will be,” theMDA web site said.

Kovell was encour-aged to rally supportfrom his family, friends,business associates andcommunity.

“It is an easy way tohelp out in the commu-nity. We only ask themfor an hour of their time.And we are not asking

Jake brake ordinancedebated at BoroughCouncil meetingBy Amanda WishnerOnline ContentCoordinator

The WaynesburgBorough Council heldits monthly boardmeeting for the monthof November on Mon-day.

The group gatheredin the Waynesburg Bor-ough Council Cham-bers at 7 p.m. to dis-cuss a variety of issuesaffecting the area andthe council’s plans forthe upcoming months.

The meeting openedwith numerous projectupdates, including theMorgan Street bypass,remodeling of thepolice department andupcoming paving in2012.

A hot topic at themeeting concerned theproblems caused by theincreasing number oflarge trucks in the area.

First on the list ofissues was the JakeBrake Ordinance.

“To put the Jakebrake in easy terms tounderstand, most ofthese heavy truckshave a Jake brake,”said Bruce Wermlinger,borough manager.

“It’s just basically abutton they push, andit slows them down,versus down-shifting.But that also makesthat loud Tommy gunnoise, so we’ve hadsome people request[the ordinance].”

Several businessesand residents haverequested the enact-ment of the Jake BrakeOrdinance in anattempt to cut down onthe noise produced bythe trucks.

However, despitethese requests, there is

Just like Grandma used to make: Fiat Lux class holds bake saleBy Sarah BellArts & Life Editor

The Greene CountyHumane Society saved90 percent of the dogsthat they found in 2010.

These dogs wereabused, hungry or alone.

Because it is a non-profit, the Humane Soci-ety strives on outsidedonations from the com-munity.

For this reason, therewas a bake sale held onNov. 8 at WaynesburgUniversity to raisemoney and collect dona-

tions for the shelter. Brianna Griffin, fresh-

man English secondaryeducation major, wasone of the students whoparticipated in the bakesale.

“We’re doing the bakesale to raise money forthe Humane Society inGreene County,” shesaid.

“We either wantnewspaper donations ormoney to help them outand get them the thingsthat they need.”

The students in Pro-fessor Kristine Schiff-

bauer’s Fiat Lux classdecided to host this bakesale to support the localorganization.

Schiffbauer, instructorof communication, saidthat this project coincid-ed with WaynesburgUniversity’s mission offaith, learning and serv-ing.

“Because the Univer-sity is such a big part ofthe community there isan obligation for us insome way to be moreinvolved in the commu-

Photo by Amanda Rice

A Fiat Lux class held a bake sale Nov. 8 in Stover Campus Center. All proceeds fromthe sale went to the Humane Society in Greene County.

Photo by Amanda Rice

Jenny Bardwell, owner of the Rising Creek Bakery showsoff some of her bakery’s specialty, salt rising bread.

‘Rising’ to the challengeMt. Morris bakery strivesto keep local tradition alive

See MDA on B4

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Local church takespart in OperationChristmas ChildBy Amanda WishnerOnline ContentCoordinator

As colorful boxesfilled the first floor ofStover Campus Centerearlier this month, Way-nesburg University stu-dents were given thechance to lend a helpinghand to children in needwith Operation Christ-mas Child.

Along with its parentorganization, Samari-tan’s Purse, the programhas been doing its part tohelp underprivilegedchildren for over 40 yearsby filling shoe boxes forchildren aged twothrough 14 with schoolsupplies, hygiene items

and of course, toys.For those who were

not able to take part inUniversity’s box collec-tion, there is still theopportunity to donatelocally to support theannual drive.

Oak View UnitedMethodist Church,located in Waynesburg,is acting as a collectioncenter for people in theGreene County area.The church has partici-pated in the event forseveral years in the pastand hopes to make thisyear’s drive “the best oneyet,” according to itsmonthly newsletter, TheOutlook.

See CHURCH on B4

Business people lock themselvesup to raise money for the MDA

I have few regrets inlife, but of those I dohave, this one I remem-ber specifically.

I could tell you theday, location and exacttime.

Three years ago, mymother and I sat acrossfrom each other forThanksgiving dinner. Itwas a little after 6:30p.m., and we were allfull.

My mom said she did-n’t want to do all thedishes, and my fatherjokingly – or maybe notso jokingly – said, “Isn’tthis what we had kids

for?” I wanted to forget the

leftovers and go down-town.

“They’ll still be theretomorrow,” I adamantlysaid.

There are so manyhomeless men andwomen in my home-town, and I wanted tohead down with myfamily and take one – or

maybe three – of themout to dinner.

One of my familymembers said, “Thatsounds great, but I amjust so full that I don’treally want to.”

I let that commentkill my idea.

However, throughoutthe night, my motherexpressed how guilty shefelt.

Apparently my ideatugged at her conscience,and it tugged at my ownas well.

No matter how manytimes I sit down and eata meal with a homeless

man or woman, I spendevery Thanksgivingthinking about thehomeless man that prob-ably went without aThanksgiving dinnerbecause I let someone’scomment influence meso heavily.

Thanksgiving – it’sironic.

How often do wespend the holiday gorg-ing ourselves on foodwhen so many people inthe world are hungry?

I don’t believe Godblesses gluttony.

While the selling andpurchasing of fair tradeitems has been a com-mon theme in recentyears, it is becomingcorrupt by large corpo-rations.

Surprised? I’m not.Fair Trade, on the

surface, sounds like acompletely moral con-cept.

What could be wrongwith something thathas the word “fair” inits name?

If we look closer,however, we can seethat businesses are dis-guising their practicesas a charity, while theyare truly dishonest.

I received an emaillast week in my stu-dent account inboxwith an article entitled“Farewell to Fair TradeCertified?”

Dean’s Beans, thesupplier of the fairtrade coffee that Way-nesburg Universitysells for fundraisers,published the article ontheir website, in thenews section calledDean’s Zine, about the

recent corruption ofthe fair trade certifica-tion label.

The main idea of thearticle is that coffeesuppliers that sell fairtrade beans are certi-fied through FairtradeInternational, the glob-al organization thatsets the trade stan-dards.

Some coffee sellersin the United States,however, have ruinedthe entire purpose offair trade by allowingproducts to display the“Fair Trade Certified”logo, when oftentimesonly as little as twopercent of the product

contains actual fairtrade ingredients.

So, basically U.S.corporations don’twant to pay the moneythat it takes to provide100 percent fair tradeproducts.

Fair Trade USA madethe decision to breakaway from FairtradeInternational in orderto create their ownstandards that goagainst the internation-al standards.

Now farmers areupset, and rightfully so.

Fairtrade Interna-tional, the global stan-

Use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to serve

I consider myself a relativelytolerant person.

I’m not perfect, by any means,but I try my hardest to be a decenthuman being, by most people’sstandards.

I like to surround myself with adiverse group of friends. Race, reli-gion, political affiliation, sexualpreference.

They don’t mean much to me.

Honestly, I’m probably one ofthe hardest people to shock oroffend that you’ll ever meet.

But one thing I have absolutelyno tolerance for is bullying.

Two shocking cases of bullyingmade the news this week: one ofa special needs student and theother of a 10-year-old girl. Andboth are equally as disturbing.

First is 14-year-old Cheyanne(last name withheld), a specialneeds student from Ohio. Afterhearing his daughter’s accounts of

being bullied at school, her fatherBrian rigged her with a hiddentape recorder.

When he played the tapes back,they revealed clear and blatantverbal abuse.

Cheyanne’s teacher andteacher’s aide could be heard call-ing the special needs student“lazy” and “dumb.” Theyaccused her of being fat and toldher that it was no wonder she hadno friends.

They even punished her bymaking her run on a treadmill forgetting a question wrong.

And then there’s Ashlynn Con-ner. The Illinois girl was only afew weeks away from turning 11

Jailed for a causeLocal business people get jailed for charity

University turns down drilling offer on property

U.S. corporations: Taking the ‘fair’ out of Fair Trade

Do not ignorebullying inschools

Greene County is becoming more and more wellknown for drilling.

As drilling rigs have become prominent through-out the county, and throughout Western Pennsylva-nia, they have also begun to make appearances onproperty belonging to several different universities.

Recently, a Virginia drilling company approachedWaynesburg University to place a drilling rig on theproperty behind Thayer Hall.

By accepting this offer, the University would havegained a large financial sum. But they also wouldhave lost a significant amount of space on the edge ofthe campus.

The drilling would have taken away the space cur-rently used as the practice fields for several differentsports, as well as several intramural sports.

The University could have said yes. They couldhave taken away the practice fields and some of theopen space that makes Waynesburg Universityunique. They could have gained a significant amountof money from the deal.

But they did not. They chose to keep our space,our campus and our community, free of thesedrilling rigs.

They did not cave to the pressure like CaliforniaUniversity, West Liberty University, Bethany Col-lege and Alderson-Broaddus College all did by lettingdrilling invade their campuses.

And we appreciate it. We appreciate the opportu-nity to be able to enjoy all the space and opportuni-ties we have at Waynesburg University.

Thanks for keeping our campus big and beautiful.

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Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Well, actually, it would be better if you collected

around $3,000 and decided to donate it to charity. On Wednesday, Nov. 16, this is precisely what

local business owners did. They participated in theMuscular Dystrophy Association’s bi-annual lock-up; 80 to 90 local business owners participated in thiscause.

They “went to jail” and had to raise a certainamount of money, that they set themselves, for theirbail. They were not allowed to leave until they raisedthe money.

More people in the community and on campusshould take the initiative to help raise awareness andfunds to support those who suffer from MuscularDystrophy and other serious diseases.

The most important part? The money was donat-ed to children who suffer from the disease.

Each company that participated sponsored onechild who has been diagnosed with muscular dystro-phy. They received a letter of gratitude from the fam-ilies. They made a difference.

Students should be willing to participate infundraisers like this.

Whether it is making a direct donation to a foun-dation, supporting one of the people who participatein the lock-up or volunteering with those who livewith the disease, it is essential for students and com-munity members to make Greene County a betterplace.

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when she hung herself inher bedroom closet.

According to hergrandmother, the bully-ing started when she wasseven. Ashlynn had got-ten a short bob haircut,and students at herschool began calling hera boy. They referred toher as fat, ugly and a slut.

(Isn’t that a prettygrown-up word for afourth or fifth grader tobe using? Kids nowa-days.)

Things only contin-ued to get worse fromthere; bad enough that a10-year-old girl felt theneed to take her ownlife.

The debate continues

over how bullies shouldbe handled, in schoolsand even in the court-room.

Cheyanne and herfather won their civillawsuit and were award-ed $300,000 in damages,and they have requestedthat Cheyanne’s teach-ers be removed fromtheir positions.

However, officials aresaying that bullying isnot yet being ruled outin Ashlynn’s case, butthere is no firm evi-dence.

Unfortunately it canbe difficult, if not impos-sible, to prove that bully-ing was the cause of sui-cide without hard evi-dence.

But there is one thingthat I hope everyone canagree on: Bullying isinexcusable. The lives ofthese children and their

families have beenchanged forever.

I hate to think ofwhat’s happened to ourculture that makes peo-ple – apparently eventeachers and kids in ele-mentary school – thinkthat verbally abusingothers is okay.

There are so manycases like these beingdiscovered everyday. Socan you even imaginehow many that go com-pletely unnoticed?

Bullying has becomeso common that it’ssometimes passed off assomething normal thatteenagers and childrenhave go through duringtheir school years, and Ithink that is a sad reflec-tion on our society.

Just because someoneis different doesn’t meanthat they deserve to bepicked on.

Maybe they dress dif-ferently than you.Maybe they have differ-ent beliefs, or friends orfamilies.

Maybe their skin is adifferent color. Maybethey’re loud, or maybethey’re quiet.

So what? Shouldn’t we accept

diversity instead of pun-ish it?

Even though wemight forget it some-times, we all have atleast one thing common:we’re all human. We allhave feelings, and theycan all be hurt.

Growing up I wasalways told to treat oth-ers how I’d like to betreated, and it stuckwith me to this day.

Can’t we all just try todo that?

For our own sake, andfor others.

dard setter, has madesure to share equalownership betweenproducers and non-pro-ducers, while FairTrade USA, on theother hand, has onlyone producer represen-tative, who works for acooperative that sup-plies much of theirbeans to large corpora-tions.

Sadly, Starbucks,which I and probablymost other college stu-dents love, is part ofthe corruption, accord-ing to the Dean’s Zinearticle.

Nestle, Kraft andGreen Mountain areamong the other corpo-rations involved withFair Trade USA.

What the corpora-tions are doing is allabout business growth,and it’s unethical.

The worst part isthat the consumers,who purposely buy“Fair Trade Certified”products to support themovement, are proba-bly completelyunaware of dilution offair trade ingredients.

I know at least I, forone, had no idea thiswas going on until Iread about it last week.

The best thing wecan do to support thefair trade movement isto get educated aboutwhom we buy our prod-

ucts from. Some sellers are

legitimate, and theprofits even go to pro-vide further aid tothose in developingnations.

Ten Thousand Vil-lages, a fair trade mer-chandiser that current-ly has a shop located inWaynesburg, sellshandcrafted fair tradeitems.

The store’s merchan-dise comes from LatinAmerica, East Asia,South Asia, the MiddleEast and Africa.

Ten Thousand Vil-lages has the right idea.

Their purpose is “tocreate opportunities forartisans in developingcountries to earnincome by bringingtheir products and sto-ries to our marketsthrough long-term fairtrading relationships.”

The profits from cer-tain products in thestore are sent to helpunderprivileged peoplewith things such ashousing, medical aidand education for thedisabled. Others helpfund training for arti-sans with mental orphysical disabilities orgive hope to artisanswith AIDs.

But fair trade is get-ting a bad namebecause of those whotake something meantto help people in needand twist it so onlylarge corporations ben-efit.

So step up, UnitedStates, and keep the“fair” in “fair trade.”

But the majority of us– students and faculty ata Christian university –will spend this Thanks-giving acting in waysthat don’t give anyoneother than ourselves areason to give thanks.

Hungry, homeless andlonely people don’t justexist in my hometown.

They go hungry withno family, plagued bymental or physical dis-abilities.

But don’t worry, yourstomach is full.

And what about yourcrazy aunt?

She will probably eatthe most potatoes andgravy, but she will alsobe the first to complainthe next day of all thosecarbs going to her hips.

And you didn’t say asingle thing.

Instead of keepingquiet and filling yourstomach, do somethingproductive this Thanks-

giving. You don’t have to buy

a dinner for a homelessperson, but I challengeyou to do something.

I applaud those of youwho are doing some-thing.

For example, three dif-ferent mission groups aregiving up a week athome with their familyto serve the world.

One group is going toJamaica, another is head-ed to West Virginia andthe last group is stayingin Greene County work-ing with Habitat forHumanity.

I am not asking you togo on a trip. Do some-thing in your communi-ty.

Visit a senior center,serve at a homeless shel-ter, clean up some trashor volunteer at a youthcenter.

Use your imagination.And don’t forget toencourage friends andfamily to join you.

Learn from my mis-takes, don’t regret whatyou will do this Thanks-giving.

Fair TradeUSA corrupt

Gov. Perry’s ‘oops’ moment could be fatal

Give thanks,give back

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This week in history...

In retrospect, the RickPerry campaign mighthave been wiser to fol-low its instinct to pullits candidate from allthese nettlesomedebates.

If what happened toTexas' longest-servinggovernor Wednesdaynight in Rochester,Mich., wasn't a cam-paign-killer, it was thenext closest thing.

And that mortalwounding came on topof previous odd behaviorand verbal stumbles,when he could leastafford it.

Perry began ticking offthe three federal depart-ments he would abolishas president: Commerce,Education and ... oops.The painful 53-secondpause left Perry twistingon his tongue for a wordhe's spoken hundreds oftimes during this cam-paign: Energy.

Perhaps he shouldhave written it on his

palm with a Sharpie.His campaign imme-

diately knew it had aproblem, sending thecandidate himself intothe post-debate mediaspin room.

Before their longestnight was over, Perrystrategists would blitz anemail to supporters -"We've all had humanmoments" - that citedpast verbal fumbles bytwo actual presidents,Barack Obama andRonald Reagan.

Indeed, we've all hadsuch moments of seizingup in front of an audi-ence.

We're all not runningfor president, and we'reall not trying to resusci-tate a campaign thatopened at No. 1 with abullet but has mostlyshot itself in the footsince.

Do polls matter? Theydo in this GOP primary,in which three-fourths ofRepublicans still search

for a conservative alter-native to nominal front-runner Mitt Romney.How else to explain theresurgence of Newt Gin-grich and the stayingpower of Herman Cain,dogged by multiple accu-sations of sexual harass-ment?

Perry, buoyed by asplashy entry and a $15million fundraising haulin his first quarter, wasseen as the likely not-Romney. On the surface,his stewardship of theTexas economy, histelegenic swagger and,important, his ability toraise money pushed himto the pole position.

What he never had,through decades of win-ning elections, is a graspof policy intricacies solidenough to allow him toexplain and persuade, abalance under pressure.That deficit, no secrethere in Texas, has beenexposed to his lastingdetriment nationwide. It

has been enough tocounter almost everyadvantage he took withhim from Austin.

In conservative Texas,he could steer clear ofdebates and inquisitivenewspaper editorialboards and still win.

In the white-hotnationwide spotlight,with Perry's positivesneutered by his ownmissteps, all he had leftwas his ability to attractcampaign cash. His prob-lem now, perhaps fatal,is that such a debatedebacle creates the kindof YouTube momentthat shakes the confi-dence of any unpledgedmoney.

There are words toexplain blowing a racethat could have been histo win. We hope he canremember them.

___

This editorial original-ly appeared in The Dal-las Morning News.

By Eric FaitStaff Writer

Nov. 15, 1956

“Love Me Tender” featuredElvis Presley in a big-screendebut that premiered in NewYork City at Paramount The-ater.

Elvis played Clint Reno, theyounger brother of a Confeder-ate soldier, who stayed homewhile his brother went to fightin the Civil War.

In the film, Presley sang thebox-office hit “Love Me Ten-der.”

Nov. 14, 1969

Apollo 12, the second mannedmission to the surface of themoon, was launched, from CapeCanaveral, Florida, PresidentNixon was present, and was thefirst president to attend theliftoff of a manned spacecraft.

Thirty-six seconds after takeoff, lightning hit the Saturn 5launch rocket and tripped thecircuit breakers in the commandmodule, causing a power failure.

The rocket continued up nor-mally and in a couple minutespower was restored to the space-craft.

Nov. 13, 1970

A tidal wave hit East Pakistanand killed over 200,000 peoplein what is now known asBangladesh.

Wind speed was between 75to 100 mph.

The wind speed was muchlower than typical hurricanespeeds but the river delta isshaped in such a way that thecyclones were funneled towardland and significantly concen-trated.

Many people in the area hadno warning about the storm, andwere caught unawares.

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explained that the bak-ing process all begins,with the appropriatelynamed “starter” – a mix-ture of potatoes, cornmeal, salt and boilingwater.

“With the starter,you’re primarily captur-ing a certain set of bacte-ria,” Bardwell said.

“In sourdough, you’reprimarily capturingyeast and some bacteria.These microbes grow atroom temperature. Withsalt rising bread, you’recapturing a whole differ-ent set of bacteria thatgrow at 105 degrees.”

The starter must beleft overnight to fer-ment. Once the starterbegins to rise, it willbecome firmer and giveof a distinct smell.

The next step is to cre-ate what is called the“sponge.”

“Once the starter hasrisen, you mix that withflour and water, andthat’s called yoursponge,” Brown said.

“The sponge has todouble in size, whichtakes about two hours.”

Adding more flour andwater to the enlarged

“sponge” comes next,creating the dough.

The dough is thenshaped into loaves andbaked for 25 minutes.

Both women have asoft spot for the bread,and strive to keep thetradition going.

“I could see that itwas a dying tradition.Women weren’t makingit much anymore,because it’s very timeconsuming,” Brownsaid. “I just thought thatit was such a wonderfulbread that I felt that Ishould carry this on.”

Bardwell has donesome research on thesubject and believes thatthe bread was originallymade by pioneerwomen.

“We believe that theywere the one who cameup with the idea, maybefrom seeing some left-over flour rising on theback of the woodstove,”she said. “They didn’thave commercial yeastuntil 1860, so womenwere making it beforethem. It was a way tomake bread and have itrise.”

She believes that thename “salt rising bread”came from the pioneerwomen themselves.

“They would takeblocks of rock salt thatthey would keep neartheir fire, and they

would take that saltbecause it was warm andput it around theirstarter at night,” shesaid.

“So the rock saltwould stay warmovernight, the starterwould bubble up andyou make your breadfrom it. So we thinkthat’s why it was calledsalt rising bread.”

However, neitherBrown or Bardwell hasfound any written evi-dence that this was thecase.

“We haven’t ever seenthat [process] writtenanywhere, and we’velooked a lot,” Bardwellsaid.

“We’re a little lackingon the written history ofit. Maybe women didn’tever write down therecipe, but you’d think it

would be in some diaryor something. You’dthink it would be writ-ten somewhere.”

Their best guess isthat the recipe has beenpast down via word-of-mouth through the gen-erations.

“We’ve done a littlebit of research in Ireland,Scotland and Germany,and there’s no history ofit being made there, sowe don’t believe thatwomen brought it fromthe old country, so tospeak, Bardwell said.

“You find it in thiscountry in western NewYork, western Pennsyl-vania and western WestVirginia. That’s primari-ly Scotch-Irish and Ger-man ancestry. We’revery interested in thestories people have, tofind the history.”

Bakery keepstradition alive

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opposition to the newregulation.

“Carmichaels Bor-ough considered theJake Brake Ordinanceand turned it downbecause of liability,”said Timothy Haw-field, WaynesburgPolice DepartmentChief of Police.

“If there is an inci-dent involving a largevehicle that was notable to use its Jakebrake because of ordi-nance, it may leave theborough open to liabil-ity for any mishaps,and I think the council

should consult withtheir solicitor beforeproceeding with that.”

The council will fur-ther discuss the ordi-nance at its Decembermeeting.

Last Friday’s Veter-an’s Day Paradespurred the next issue.The parade, which last-ed approximately 45minutes, created aback-up of large trucksfrom the council’s

meeting place on EastHigh Street to theMcDonald’s in Way-nesburg.

“Our detour routescan not handle theselarge trucks,” saidHawfield.

“And they’reincreasing in num-bers.”

Although there areno more upcomingevents this year asidefrom the Christmas

Parade, the councilforesees potential prob-lems for 2012.

Alternative routesare already being con-sidered. However, thesheer size of the vehi-cles is posing a prob-lem for reroutingbecause they cannotsafely make the turns.

“You’ve seen [thesetrucks]. They’ve gotthese sections of pipeand double trailers,”said Wermlinger.

“They honestly can’tturn anywhere in theborough where theycan’t mess somethingup.”

According to Davis,this issue will be ongo-ing, and he feels that ifa change is necessary,it should be somethingpermanent.

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nity,” she said. “We need to be more

aware of the needs to useemergent skills and tal-ents for the bettermentof the community.”

The Humane Societyencourages members ofthe county and studentsat the University todonate to the organiza-tion.

“Without ongoingdonations the HumaneSociety cannot stayopen,” their websitesaid.

“[The shelter] is theonly place of refuge forthe abandoned andabused animals in a ruralcounty with a large pop-ulation.”

Griffin said that theclass decided to volun-teer for the GreeneCounty Humane Societybecause animals areimportant to all of thestudents in the class.

“Animals are just asimportant as people.They could be starving,and the Humane Societyis in need of help so weshould help them out,”Griffin said.

“The area has a lot ofstray animals and theyneed somewhere to go;we need to help theHumane Society to keep

animals off of thestreets.”

Autumn Witt, fresh-man exercise sciencemajor, said that all of thedonations collected willbe given directly to theHumane Society.

“[The bake sale] was afun experience. Everyonein the class agreed thatwe liked animals so weknew that we wanted tohelp the Humane Socie-ty in some way, but noneof us could find a goodtime to get together as agroup to actually go tothe shelter,” Witt said.

“We wanted to dosomething that wouldbenefit them in any waythat we could. I thinkeveryone should care alittle bit.”

If students are inter-ested in helping theHumane Society further,they can contact theshelter or purchase a2012 Humane SocietyLottery Calendar.

“All of the proceedsfrom the purchase of thecalendar will assist us inour mission to provideshelter, safety and foodfor the orphaned orabused animals ofGreene County, with theultimate goal of placingthem in loving foreverhomes,” the GreeneCounty Humane Societywebsite said. “Savingone animal may notchange the world, but forthat one animal theworld has changed.”

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This week marked thebeginning of thechurch’s collectionweek, as well as Nation-al Collection Week forOperation ChristmasChild, which began onMonday, Nov. 14, and

will continue throughSunday, Nov. 20.

The Oak View UnitedMethodist Church pro-vided county residentswith 200 boxes and lidsand hopes to see manyreturn, filled with toysand other items.

They also hope to col-lect various items for theboxes and money forpostage. Those interest-ed in filling an entire boxshould first choose the

age and gender of thechild they hope to help.

Age groups includetwo to four years, five tonine years and 10 to 14years. They should thenfill their boxes with ageand gender-appropriateitems. A list of sugges-tions can also beobtained through thechurch.

Boxes should belabeled with the child’sgender and age and

returned to the OakView United MethodistChurch before Nov. 20.

Following the worshipservice this Sunday,members of the commu-nity are encouraged totake part in the church’sbox-filling party on itsfinal day of collection.During this time, theboxes will be double-checked, and all emptyboxes will be filled withdonated toys.

Church takespart in OCC

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Photo by Amanda Rice

Bardwell and fellow baker Susan Brown continue tobake the bread so that the tradition “doesn’t die out.”

for their money specifi-cally,” said Cathy Majka,MDA executive director.“It is a great marketingopportunity, and it isalso an opportunity forthem to work with otherbusiness leaders in thecommunity.”

Once locked up atTom & Amy’s Familyrestaurant in Waynes-burg, the MDA jailbirdshad mug shots taken, atelunch and made anyadditional phone calls tofollow up on any fundsthey raised. At 3 p.m.,after about an hour, par-ticipants turned in theirbail money and werereleased. Each partici-pant’s bail was set at$3,000, although noteveryone met it.

“I don’t have to raisethat much. They set ithigh like that to try toget more donations, but[my wife and I] are prob-ably going to match thefunds we raise,” saidKovell. “The money isused for a lot of differentreasons. There are evensome kids that get to go

to camp.” The MDA hopes to

send at least 60 childrenwith a neuromusculardisease to camp thisupcoming year, a week-long session at CampKon-O-Kwee nearZelienople, Pa.

“They get to do somany different things –they get to go fishing;they get to go horsebackriding. They love thepool and swimming,”said Majka. “They havearts and crafts, a talentshow, a dance and camp-fires every night. It is theone week out of the yearthat they get to over-come all boundaries andreally have fun.”

The MDA funds ongo-ing research at the Uni-versity of Pittsburgh, andsome of the moneyraised will help with thatresearch.

The bail money willalso provide these chil-dren and their familieswith support group ses-sions, clinic visits andrepairs for durable med-ical equipment.

“I think it [was] a greatcommunity event,” saidMajka. “The people inthe Waynesburg com-munity seem very inter-ested in helping out andbeing part of the cause.”

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“If there is an indcident involving alarge vehicle that wasn’t able to use itsJake brake... it may leave the boroughopen to liability for any mishaps...”

Timothy Hawfield Chief of Police - Waynesburg Police Department

By Aaron ThompsonAssistant Sports Editor

Walking off the fieldthis past Saturday atCameron Stadium, thesenior members of theYellow Jacket footballteam had to have thoughtit would be their finaltime wearing the Orangeand Black.

Washington and Jeffer-son kicker Eric Eberlebooted the game-winning34-yard field goal as timeexpired to give the Presi-dents a 24-21 victory overthe Jackets in the Presi-dents’ Athletic Confer-ence’s version of the Back-yard Brawl. That meantanother gut-wrenchingdefeat for a team that hasbecome all too familiarwith close losses downthe stretch over the pasttwo seasons.

However, the Jackets(5-4) received news lateSunday night that they

were afforded one moreopportunity to play thisseason. Waynesburg willtravel to Chester, Pa., thisSaturday to take on Mid-dle Atlantic Conference

runner-up Widener (8-2)in the ECAC SouthAtlantic Bowl.

“To wear this uniformand be with my brothersis great,” said senior

defensive lineman DarrylMoore Jr. “It’s great thatwe get another chance toplay because I know wedeserve it. We have a greatgroup of guys on this team

who put in so much workfor this game and sacrificea lot for each other.”

For the Jackets, closelosses have been all toofrequent over the past twoseasons. In 2010, the Jack-ets lost four games by acombined 15 points,while this season theyhave lost four games by atotal of 13 points.

Saturday’s setback wasperhaps the most difficult.Waynesburg overcame a21-0 halftime deficit to tiethe game against their bit-ter rivals before Eberle’sclutch kick sealed theW&J win. The Jacketswere trying to snap a los-ing streak to the Presi-dents that dates back to2003.

Presidents receiverAlex Baroffio stole theshow in the first half,catching three touchdownpasses from senior quar-

By Kyle OlandEditorial Assistant

The Yellow Jacketmen’s and women’s crosscountry teams concludedtheir seasons this past Sat-urday at the NCAA Divi-sion III Mideast RegionalChampionships in CenterValley, Pa.

The women placed28th in the 47-team field.Johns Hopkins took homethe team title after claim-ing three of the top 10spots. Dickinson took sec-ond, and Elizabethtowncaptured third.

“The women seemedto run out of gas the lastfew weeks of the season

and didn’t run as well asthey would have likedthis weekend,” said headcoach ChrisHardie.  “With a majorityof the women being firstor second-year runners,we found that the longtraining and competitionschedule took its toll on

the young women withthe additional two weeksleading up to regionals.

“But the women com-peted hard and did thebest they could to repre-sent Waynesburg.”

As she has done all

By Nick FarrellStaff Writer

After placing fourth inthe seven-team MessiahInvitational, the YellowJacket wrestlers returnedto the mats this past Sat-urday at the Mount UnionInvitational in Alliance,Ohio. Waynesburg placedthird in the four-teamfield.

The competition fea-tured a trio of victories by125-pound junior grapplerAlex Crown.

Crown, ranked No. 1nationally in his weightclass in Division III as

declared byd3wrestle.com, was theeventual champion at theevent. He won all three ofhis bouts by decision,including a 1-0 decisionagainst Lake Erie’s JustinToth in the championshipbout.

Crown’s performancewas much improved fromhis showing at the Messi-ah Invitational. The juniorwrestled in the 133-poundweight class instead of hisusual 125-pound class andlost in the quarterfinalround to Messiah’s MattDelGallo.

Head coach RonHeadlee was pleased withCrown’s performanceback at his regular weightclass.

By James AllenbyStaff Writer

Over the past decade,the Waynesburg women’ssoccer program hasendured their shares ofstruggles and difficultdefeats.

From 2000-2009, theYellow Jackets managedto post just one winningseason, a 10-9-2 campaignback in 2001. However, in2010, Waynesburg began

to show signs of life as theJackets surged to a 10-6-3record, including a 3-4-1conference record.

As practice began at thestart of the 2011 season,expectations were highand the stage was set forWaynesburg to finallybreak through the pro-gram’s decade-slump. TheJackets delivered on thoseexpectations as they puttogether an incredible sea-son, marked by a 15-5-1overall record, a trulymemorable upset winover rival Washington andJefferson in the Presi-dents’ Athletic Confer-ence semifinals and their

first trip to the PAC titlegame since 2001.

“Coming into the sea-son we knew we couldmake it to the PACChampionship,” said sen-ior forward CourtneyEbersole. “We had a lot ofdepth, and we knew if weworked hard, we couldwin the championship.”

Waynesburg’s impres-sive season began in dis-appointing fashion as theJackets dropped their firstmatch of the season, 3-0,to Mount Union.

“It was a wakeup call,”said Ebersole. “After that

I hate Penn State. I’vebeen a Pitt fan my wholelife; my dad raised me thatway.

The one Christmas myaunt bought my sister andI matching Nittany Lionssweaters was not a goodone in our house.

That’s how serious therivalry runs.

So naturally I thoughtthat Beaver Stadium wasthe last place I’d ever findmyself on a college foot-ball Saturday. I thoughtwrong.

This past weekend Iwas given an opportunitythat most sports fansdream about, working thePenn State-Nebraskagame for ESPN.

I was terrified to go toPenn State after the pastweek’s events. Not tomention I would be work-ing for a media outlet, andwe all saw what the mobdid to the poor news van.

What I experienced onSaturday was nothingshort of a shock to me.

As an avid college foot-ball fan, Beaver Stadiumhas always been on the listof stadiums I’ve wanted tovisit, regardless of my lovefor Pitt.

Initially I assumed thatthe atmosphere in the sta-dium would either be notup to par or that therewould be riots everywhereacross campus.

No riots, no mobs, onlythe early morning bombthreat that completelypassed me by as I nappedin the car before crew call.

ESPN was expectingthe worst as well. Differ-ent producers gave thecrew speeches before thegame about where to go incase of a “situation” andhow to appease a possiblyangry crowd.

I was on the sidelinesfor the entire game andsaw no negative effects ofthe week’s events disrupt-ing the game.

The only mention ofthe Penn State scandalwas a video message frominterim president Dr. Rod-ney Erickson, encouragingstudents to be welcomingto the Nebraska fans andto remember that they“still are and always willbe Penn State”.

The storyline of thegame itself was almost toogood.

Head coach gets fireddays before final homegame, Senior Day withouttheir beloved coach, stu-

Thursday, November 17, 2011

KathrynGhionGuestColumnist

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XC runs in season finaleBre Paul reachesgoal by recordingtop-50 finish

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NCAA MIDEAST REGIONALS

Photo by Pat Jacoby, DeSales University Sports Information

Sophomore Bre Paul (402) helps pace a pack of runnersin Saturday’s Mideast Regional Championships.

Women’s soccer looks back at historic season2011 squad tiedfor most wins inprogram history

Crown, Lombardowin individual titlesTeam finishes inthird at four-teamMt. Union Invite

GOIN’ BOWLIN’Jackets head to ECAC bowl despite another close defeat

W&J - 26, JACKETS - 23 JACKETS @ WIDENER, SATURDAY, 1 P.M.

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Terrin Crist (21) is one of six seniors the Jackets willhave to replace from this season’s 15-5-1 squad.

Senior widereceiverJeff Youngcatches atouchdownpass in thesecond halfofSaturday’sgame.Despitetheir loss atrival W&J,the Jacketsare stillheaded toan ECACbowl game.

Photo by Mike Kabay

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By Darryl MooreStaff Writer

In this year’s Presi-dents’ Athletic Confer-ence preseason poll, theWaynesburg men’s bas-ketball team saw them-selves seated in the sameposition where theyended their campaign ayear ago, as the team waspicked to finish this sea-son in seventh place.

When asked about therelease of the recent poll,second-year head coachMark Christner said:“The poll is based on a lotof different things, such aswhere we finished a yearago. But then again, thepreseason is still the pre-season.”

Last season, the Jacketswere predicted to finishlast in the PAC but gainedsome notice despite fin-ishing 2-12 in conferenceplay. The Jackets endedtheir season on a highnote, as they took down agood Geneva team intheir last game of the reg-

ular season. According toChristner, they hope tobuild off that win and oth-ers within the conferenceas they head into their2011-12 campaign.

“Last year we struggledin the league,” saidChristner. “But we have alot of guys back this year,and we plan to build off oflast year’s win[s] in ourconference.”

The Jackets will bereturning quite a fewexperienced players butonly two starters from lastyear’s squad, senior two-

time All-PAC forward JeffYoung and fellow seniorfrontcourt player JamesAllenby.

Although they do onlyreturn the two starters,the Jackets believe thatthis is the year they returnto the upper echelon ofthe conference.

“This conferenceshould be ready for a per-formance better than sev-enth place,” said Young.“Expectations are high forus, but if we just playwithin ourselves, I knowwe will finish as a top-

seeded team.”Christner agrees with

his All-PAC senior.“This year our goal is

to climb up in the seedingand be a force within theconference,” he said. “Iknow we have the guys todo it.”

The Jackets looked toget their season rollingwhen they tipped off the2011-12 campaign, alongwith the women, Wednes-day with a doubleheaderat Franciscan. Resultswere not available at presstime.

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Jackets react to preseason PAC pollWaynesburg pickedto finish seventhin conference

Photo by Alfonso Ferrari

Freshmen Kenny Klase (left) and Jacob Fleegle fight for a loose ball duringpractice. The Jackets were picked to finish seventh in the PAC preseason poll.

In Brief

SOFTBALLThis past Saturday, the Waynesburg University

softball team held an instructional clinic in the RudyMarisa Fieldhouse for high school players.

The day began at 8 a.m. with registration for pitch-ers, while all other positions began registration at9:30.

“This [was] our fourth year of conducting clinics,”said head coach Lou Giachetti. “The main reason forour clinic is to help younger players develop theirsoftball skill and to promote softball in our area.

“The clinic also gives our softball program goodexposure, which can help lead to recruiting,” headded. “This year we [had] about six recruits come infor visitation on Friday, [stay] overnight and then[attend] the clinic.”

This year there was some special guest instructors.Kaitlin Kenney, who played Division I softball atTroy University held a special session on slap hitting.Also, Don Clarke, who is a well-known travel soft-ball and high school coach, instructed multiple hit-ting drills.

For pitchers, the day concluded around 9:30 a.m.Hitting and fielding then took place at 10 a.m. andconcluded at 12:30 p.m.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Men’s and women’s head tennis coach Ron Christ-man held a one-day clinic this Sunday at the newtennis courts in Waynesburg. The clinic consisted ofChristman and his players demonstrating drillsChristman learned from Pat Etcheberry, who hashelped well-known professionals such as AndreAgassi and Pete Sampras develop into championshipcaliber players.

“In addition to helping junior players develop theirskill, I also want to help put Waynesburg Universityon the map to help out with recruiting,” Christmansaid.

With the building of the new courts, Christmanhopes this will appeal to more junior players whoplay in United States Tennis Association (USTA)tour events.

The recruiting trail is already running long (over800 miles traveled last weekend), so the clinic gaveChristman the chance to see talent closer to home,depending on how far members of the camp traveled.However, with the certification and track record RonChristman has, people should be willing to travelfrom all over the nation to learn a thing or two fromhim and his players.

Women’s basketball picked to finish 3rdBy Aaron ThompsonAssistant Sports Editor

Coming off one of themost memorable seasonsin school history, theWaynesburg women’sbasketball program islooking to build off of thatin the 2011-2012 season.

The Yellow Jackets fin-ished last season 21-9overall and 10-6 in Presi-dents’ Athletic Confer-ence play, good enough forthird place at regular sea-son’s end. The Jacketswent on to win a PACplayoff game for the firsttime since 2005-06 and

then win the 2011 ECACSouth title.

Waynesburg waspicked to finish in thirdplace again in the confer-ence this season, rightbehind five-time defend-ing PAC champ ThomasMore and Saint Vincent,both of whom are nation-

ally ranked. Head coach Sam Jones

returns four starters fromlast year’s team, includingAll-PAC performers Han-nah Hunter and BrittanySpencer. Juniors JessiDrayer and Paige Pearcealso return to the startinglineup.

By Lucas DiethornStaff Writer

Football games areoften decided by a singlepossession. Many timesthey come down to just afield goal or a late score inthe fourth quarter. Othertimes the problem is notfinishing strong or mak-ing a costly turnover latein a game.

That can cause someclose losses to build upand linger with a footballteam.

The Waynesburg foot-ball team has been nostranger to these lategame let downs over thepast two seasons.

Combined, the YellowJackets have lost eightgames by one possession(just 28 points total) thelast two years—four thisyear and four last year. Inthe 2010 season finaleagainst W&J, they lost by

one point in overtime, 31-30. This season, they losttwo games on field goalsas time expired. And thelist goes on and on

Three of those gamesthis season were Presi-dents’ Athletic Confer-ence games, and each wasa significant blow to theteam’s league title hopes.The first two losses came

at the hands of Westmin-ster and Saint Vincent.The last loss, though, mayhave been the toughestone to swallow. Waynes-burg played rival W&J inthe PAC’s version of theBackyard Brawl. After avaliant second-half come-back, the Jackets weredenied on the game’s finalplay for a second straight

year, with a last secondfield goal.

These close losses haveleft a bad taste for headcoach Rick Shepas andthe Jackets, but there are afew signs that they aretaking care of the linger-ing problem. Just a fewweeks back, Waynesburgplayed PAC powerhouseThomas More. It was ahard-fought matchup andlate in the fourth quarterwas tied, 23-23. Waynes-burg stunned ThomasMore, winning with a latefield goal, 26-23.

Despite all of the closelosses, Waynesburgappears to be turning theoutcomes around withvictories like the one atThomas More. A fewclose wins in the next fewseasons could be enoughto give Waynesburg thatelusive PAC crown.

With a strong effort, theJackets may find them-selves in another closeone this Saturday againsta high-powered Widenerteam in the ECAC SouthAtlantic Bowl. Kickoff isset for 1 p.m.

By Aaron ThompsonAssistant Sports Editor

Sophomore wrestler Sam Lombardo was one oftwo Jackets to win an individual title this past week-end at the four-team Mount Union Invitational.

Lombardo put together a perfect weekend, going 4-0 in his first appearance this season and taking homethe 165-pound title. Those accolades helped him earnthe nod as The Yellow Jacket Athlete of the Week.

Lombardo picked up a first-period pin fall and thenadded an 8-0 major decision to advance to the semi-final round at 165.

The Canonsburg native then faced off with fellowsophomore teammate Cameron Fine. Fine, a starterat Division II Seton Hill a season ago, transferred toWaynesburg this fall. Lombardo, who lost to Fine inthe Black and Orange Wrestle-Offs a few weeks back,exacted some revenge this time by defeating him 7-4to advance to the championship.

In the finals, Lombardo faced off with anotherteammate. There he met highly thought of freshmanSam Guidi. Guidi picked up wins by pin and majordecision to advance to the finals on his side of thebracket. Lombardo got the best of the freshman,though, 3-1 in overtime.

The win was a good starting point for Lombardoearly in the season as he looks to build off a 25-11record last year as a freshman.

*Please note that fellow wrestler Alex Crown,defensive lineman Darryl Moore Jr., and women’scross country runner Bre Paul were all considered forthis week’s award.

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Football continues to suffer close lossesJackets have lostfour games by 13combined points

Athlete of the WeekSam Lombardowins crown atMt. Union Invite

Photo by Mike Kabay

Junior tight end Adam Moses catches a touchdownpass in Saturday’s 26-23 loss at rival W&J.

terback Taylor Hockman.Baroffio had 154 of hiscareer-high 207 receivingyards in the first half.

Moore racked up agame-high 11 tackles,including nine solo stops,two tackles for loss, a sackand a forced fumble. Hetalked about the closelosses over the past twoseasons.

“The losses hurt main-ly because they alwaysseem to be by a smallmargin,” said Moore.“Last year we missed outon an unbeaten season by[a combined] 15 points,this year by just 13 points.It just is a constantreminder to play hardevery play. That one playyou take off could be adeciding factor in thegame.”

The Jackets clawed

back in the second half.After forcing W&J into athree and out on the open-ing possession, juniorTyler Fatigante blockedEberle’s punt and set upthe Jackets with terrificfield position at the W&J13-yard line. Senior JustinFalcon took care of therest and eventually scoredfrom one-yard out to cutinto the Presidents lead.

After forcing anotherthree and out, the Presi-dents had more specialteams issues. This time,the snap went over Eber-le’s head. Eberle eventual-ly recovered it, but theJackets started with theball at the W&J 20. Facinga third and nine, Jacketssenior quarterback JoshGraham hit senior receiv-er Jeff Young for a 19-yardtouchdown strike to cutthe lead to just seven.

After the teamsexchanged a few punts,the Jackets tied the con-test on the first play of thefourth quarter when Gra-ham connected with jun-

ior tight end Adam Mosesfor a 14-yard touchdown.

Both defenses took overfrom that point on. ThePresidents finally turnedthe game, though, whenthey made a key specialteams play by blocking apunt and recovering it atthe Jackets 14 with just2:06 to play. Eventually,Eberle hit the game-win-ner as time expired.

The overwhelmingthought was that if theJackets won the gameagainst W&J, they wouldbe assured an ECACgame. A loss, on the otherhand, would end their sea-son. So, it certainly cameas a surprise when theJackets were awardedwith the bowl berth.

“To my knowledge,every senior had said theirgoodbyes to football,received thank yous fromteammates and coachesand started to reflect onthe season and plan forthe road ahead,” said sen-ior safety RyanWilliams.  “When we

gathered for our meetingSunday, [head] coach[Rick] Shepas said thattheir was a chance thatwe would make an ECACbowl, but it seemed veryunlikely. Needless to say,when I received the textSunday night that wewere invited to an ECACbowl, I was very sur-prised.”

Williams reflected onthe emotions of getting toput on the Jacket uniformone final time this Satur-day against Widener.

“As a senior, itundoubtedly means verymuch to me to have achance to be with myteammates one moretime as a team andachieve a goal of making apostseason game,” hesaid. “In my opinion,knowing that this is with-out a question your lastgame ever as a part ofWaynesburg eases theprocess of closure.”

Kickoff between theJackets and the Pride is setfor 1 p.m.

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dent section remains loyaland the home teamalmost pulls off a come-from-behind victory.

Before kickoff I sawsomething I’ve never seenin college football. Bothteams came to the 50-yardline and knelt down witheach other for a momentof prayer.

It gave me chills. In amatter of minutes thesetwo teams would battlingtooth and nail, but nowthey were showing eachother support.

The game itself wasone-sided until the secondhalf when the NittanyLions began to battle backfrom a 10-0 deficit.

You would think thatbeing down by that muchwould cause the studentsection and fans to betaken completely out ofthe game. Not at BeaverStadium.

The more the teamneeded support, the louderthe students cheered.Every few minutes spon-taneous “We are PennState” chants rippledthrough the crowd.

Even more inspiringwere the signs saying “WeStill Are” and a studentbody “blue-out” in sup-port of child abuse.

Early in the day I spokewith a few Penn State stu-dents, also hired by ESPN,about what they’d experi-enced the past few days.They made a good point:the focus needed to betaken away from the foot-ball program and put onsupporting the victims.The “blue-out” wouldeventually raise $25,000for child abuse victims.

When you think aboutschool loyalty and dedica-tion, you can’t get muchbetter than Saturday’sfootball game.

I’m used to attendingfootball games where themajority of the crowdleaves at the beginning ofthe fourth quarter unlessit’s an exceptionally goodgame. Saturday the fansstayed well after thegame.

Stands were stillpacked as the team exitedthe field. After the teamhad gone, the band playedthe Penn State alma materagain before fans finallybegan to leave their seats.

I’ve never wanted tothink anything positivetoward Penn State.

I’ve never wanted toroot for them in any case.

Don’t tell my dad, butSaturday I was pulling forthem.

The players didn’tdeserve to go through theordeal of a fired coach, andthe students didn’tdeserve to feel betrayed bytheir administration.

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year, sophomore Bre Paulpaced the Jacket women,finishing 48th out of the335 competitors with atime of 24:27.

Hardie could not havebeen more proud of theway Paul concluded herseason.

“Bre Paul set a goal fora top-50 finish and com-pleted that task thisweekend,” he said. “As acoach, I couldn’t havebeen happier for her as sheworked very hard toattain her goal. She is avery special athlete, whois now one of the best run-ners this program has everseen.”

Behind Paul was fresh-man Joy Talbott in 101stplace with a time of 25:32.Sophomore Tiffany Oniferrounded out the top three,finishing 159th in a time

of 26:19.The individual winner

was sophomore TaylorLudman from Dickinsonwith a time of 22:33.Rounding out the topthree place winners werejunior Sheena Crawley ofFranklin & Marshall(22:34) and junior EmilyWobb of Carnegie Mellon(22:38).

In the men’s race, Way-nesburg finished 36th outof the 47 teams at themeet. Haverford took theteam title, while Dickin-son and Allegheny tooksecond and third, respec-tively.

“The men ran a solidrace this weekend,” saidHardie. “Our placing isn’twhat we would have liked

it, but the team is youngand has many races infront of them to grow andprogress. The future of themen’s program is verybright, and we are excitedto see the team mature inthe coming years.”

Crossing the finish linefirst for Waynesburg wassophomore JonathanBlatt, who finished with atime of 29:21, good for188th place in the 316-man field.

Hardie was veryimpressed with Blatt’srace and hopes he canbuild off of it for thefuture.

“Jon Blatt ran a superbrace this weekend,” hesaid. “He has progressedall season and has shown

a consistency in his run-ning that we didn’t seelast year. He has shownflashes of brilliance, and itwas his week to shine atRegionals.”

Blatt was followed byfreshman John Allison in211th place with a time of29:47, and fellow fresh-man Brandon Dugan in212th place (29:47).

The overall winner inthe men’s race was juniorBobby Over of Alleghenywith a time of 25:25. Hewas followed by seniorEric Arnold of Haverford(25:26) and senior IanArnold of Susquehanna(25:29).

Hardie said his teamslearned a lot this seasonand will undoubtedly bebetter next year.

“We took a step in thatdirection this season,” hesaid. “And I can honestlysay, these teams willachieve bigger and betterthings in 2012. This teamis in perfect position tohave a ‘dream season’ in2012.”

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“This team is in perfect position to

have a ‘dream season’ in 2012.”

Chris HardieHead cross country coach

game, we knew that noth-ing would be given to us;we had to earn it.”

The Jackets respondedfrom the difficult loss inresounding fashion asthey recorded 11 straightvictories, including animpressive 2-1 overtimevictory over Pitt-Bradfordand a hard fought 1-0 tri-umph over Wilmington.

“The streak showedeveryone that Waynes-burg was a team to watchfor,” said senior midfield-er Terrin Crist. “It gaveour team a lot of confi-dence because we beatsome really good teamsduring our streak.”

The streak came to anend in humbling fashionas Waynesburg dropped a5-1 contest to PAC foeGrove City.

“We moved on from itright away,” said Ebersole.“We knew we were still agood team. We acceptedthe loss in the best waywe could and moved for-ward.”

Once again, the Jacketsresiliently responded asthey posted a 3-1-1 recordthrough the remainder of

conference play to lock upthe fourth seed in thefour-team PAC Tourna-ment.

“We wanted to be play-ing in meaningful gamesat the end of the season,”said head coach SeanMcCarthy. “The girlsreally took to that, and it’sa credit to them.”

In the conference semi-final, Waynesburg wasgreeted by top-seeded,three-time defending PACchampion W&J. Ten daysprior, the Presidents dealtWaynesburg a heartbreak-ing 2-1 overtime loss.However, on one of themost memorable nights ofthe season and possibly ofthe program’s history, theJackets defeated the Presi-dents 1-0 to advance tothe PAC title game.

“We were consideredunderdogs in the game,”said Crist. “No one,including W&J, everthought we would beatthem. After we won, itfelt like we had won thechampionship. It was atotal team effort andamazing to finally beatthem.”

In the PAC Champi-onship, the Jackets foughthard but were unable toovercome a toughThomas More team. Way-nesburg was defeated by ascore of 3-0, thus bringing

their remarkable seasonto a close.

“Getting to the finalswas the highlight of theseason,” said McCarthy.“My father taught me toalways set high goals, andthis season we achievedmany of our goals.”

Waynesburg’s 15 winstie them with the 1999team for the highest sin-gle season win total inprogram history, whiletheir five losses are theleast by any team in pro-gram history.

Throughout the sea-son, Waynesburg relied onthe play and the leader-ship of six seniors. Eber-sole, Crist, Rebecca Syn-der, Katrina Kelly, SarahMarkwardt and JamieWilliamson each played

an important role in theteam’s success.

“We’re going to missthem,” said McCarthy.“They were great leaders,both vocal and by exam-ple. They bought intowhat I was teaching. Theywill all go on to do greatthings.”

The departure of theseseniors will leave largeshoes to fill as the Jacketsbegin to look toward the2012 season.

“I think that SuzieGodwin, Taylor Augus-tine and Toria Shepherdwill definitely step upinto leadership roles nextseason,” said Ebersole.“Suzie and Taylor hitsome crucial game win-ners for us this season,and Toria will continue to

step up and lead thedefense.”

The 2011 Waynesburgwomen’s soccer seasonmarks both an end, aswell as a beginning. It isproof that a long stretch of

disappointing seasons isnow officially a thing ofthe past, and it also servesas evidence that Jacketsoccer is now a force to bereckoned with in thePAC.

By Darryl MooreStaff Writer

The Waynesburg vol-leyball team recently saidgoodbye to four seniors,who ended their careerswith a win againstChatham. Gone are cap-tains Jordan Barton andLauren Wagner, alongwith Carly Schubert andKrysta Stanko.

Throughout the season,these seniors helped keepthe team together, evenwhen the season did notgo as well as they hadhoped.

“These girls gave up alot to play this year,” saidhead coach StephanieBenkowski. “They camein, practiced hard everyday, and I know that theeffort they put into thisgame will help them outlater on in life.”

Each player con-tributed this past seasonin different ways for theYellow Jackets. Wagnerled the team in kills with257, while Barton finishedthird with 157. Bartonalso finished second onthe team in digs with 262,

while Stanko and Schu-bert finished the seasonout with 112 and 106 digs,respectively.

Looking toward thefuture, Waynesburg willbe returning a few impactplayers who will need tostep up and take a bigger

leadership role next sea-son. That may not proveto be a problem, as theteam has high expecta-tions for next year’s fresh-men and returning play-ers.

“I have no doubt in mymind that this team willdo great things next year,”said Stanko. “There is alot of talent left, and I’vebeen told a lot of fresh-men are coming in.”

They do, in fact, havetalent with players likeMabel Culp, PresleyCupp, and Natalie Ranal-lo returning. Culp fin-ished second in killsbehind Wagner with 186,while Ranallo led theteam in assists with 537.Cupp made her claimdefensively, racking up ateam-high 386 digs.

Even though next sea-son is a year away, theJackets looked poised tomove toward the futurewith high expectations,leaving no doubt that theseniors instilled a passionfor the game and left theirmark on the court.

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Sophomore Sam Lombardo enjoyedan impressive debut to his 2011-12wrestling season Saturday at the Mt.Union Invitational. He was rewardedfor his outstanding performance as thisweek’s Presidents’ Athletic ConferenceWrestler of the Week.

Lombardo went 4-0 during his firstaction of the season and took the 165-pound crown this past weekend. Afterpicking up a win by first-period fall and

another by 8-0 major decision, Lombardo beat sopho-more teammate Cameron Fine, a starter at Division IISeton Hill before transferring to Waynesburg, to setup an all-Waynesburg final with talented freshmanSam Guidi. Lombardo prevailed with a 3-1 overtimedecision against his younger teammate. 

The second-year starter and his teammates openedup the dual portion of their schedule last night whenthey traveled to Shippensburg to face the Raiders,who are ranked 20th nationally in Division II. Resultswere unavailable at press time.

All-PAC teamsEarlier in the week, the Presidents’ Athletic Con-

ference released their annual all-conference teams infootball, men’s soccer and women’s soccer.

Twelve Waynesburg football players, five YellowJacket men’s soccer players and three Jacket women’ssoccer players earned All-PAC laurels.

To find out which Waynesburg athletes made it,check out section’s Facebook page. And for a moredetailed account and for player and coach reactions,be sure to check out the upcoming Dec. 8 issue.

PAC awards

Lombardo

Volleyball graduates four seniorsJackets alreadyturning focustoward 2012

Photo by Dave Miller, ADM Photography

Senior Lauren Wagner (left) is one of the four seniorsthe Waynesburg volleyball team must replace in 2012.

“We were really happywith him,” Headlee said.“We met with him, andwe thought he needed towork on a couple things.He had a great week atpractice.

“It always makes youfeel good for him that heresponded that way in thepractice room.”

Crown wasn’t the onlyJacket grappler that tookhome an individual title.Sophomore Sam Lombar-do went 4-0 at the tourna-ment and was the tourna-

ment champion of the165-pound weight class.

The Jackets dominatedthe 165-pound weightclass at the Invitational,owning three of the foursemifinal spots.

Lombardo faced anddefeated teammate andfellow sophomoreCameron Fine in thesemifinal round and thencompeted against anotherteammate in the finals.Lombardo bested fresh-man Sam Guidi in anovertime bout, 3-1.

“We know that [165pounds] is our strongestweight class,” Headleesaid. “The first four or fiveguys in the weight classare as good as anyone else,and we showed that this

weekend.”Senior captain Alex

Evanoff also impressedover the weekend. He fin-ished second at the Invita-tional with a 3-1 recordthat included two wins bymajor decision.

This was Evanoff’s firstaction of the season andhis first chance to com-pete since he suffered aseason-ending injury lastyear.

“[Evanoff] has gonethrough a lot,” saidHeadlee. “He didn’t havesurgery, and he’s just try-ing to get through the sea-son without surgery and alot of pain. That says a lotabout his toughness.

“He never complains;he just goes and does the

best he can, and I was real-ly proud of him for mak-ing the finals in his firsttournament.”

Other notable perform-ers included freshmantransfer Ryan Walters,who took third place aftera 9-1 major decision overOhio Valley’s Seth Jack inthe 174-pound weightclass.

Two other freshmen,Dan Mahon and PatrickJennings, placed at theInvitational, as well.Mahon placed third witha 3-1 showing, while Jen-nings placed fifth. Bothfreshmen weighed in at197 pounds for the week-end.

“I think our freshmenare coming along,” said

Headlee. “They’ve beenworking hard, and wehave to keep improving.They’re going to get somequick action with a lot ofour guys being out.They’re going to have tostep up.”

As Headlee mentioned,four regulars were notactive at the Invitational,including senior GarrettJohnston who was inac-tive because of his“weight-descent plan.”Johnston is trying to dropto 157 pounds. Heweighed in at 159 poundsprior to Saturday’s four-team tournament atMount Union.

“It is frustrating withinjuries,” Headlee said.“This weekend we had

four starters out, and mostof those guys are going toscore 15 or 20 points for[us].

“But that’s athletics;you have to deal with it,and it will make someonestronger down the road.”

The Jackets went outon the road again Wednes-day to battle Division IIpowerhouse Shippens-burg.

Results of the matchwere unavailable at presstime.

Headlee knows thatthe start of the regularseason will pose quite achallenge for his Jacketgrapplers.

“We have a rough roadto hoe here right off thebat,” he said.

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By Abby PittinaroStaff Writer

Today, students gath-ered in the Marisa Field-house lobby at 3:45 p.m.to participate in theWaynesburg UniversityTurkey Trot.

The event started at 4p.m., when studentscould choose to walk orrun the one mile racearound campus.

Students were ran-domly paired up with apartner before the racebegan.

Kelley Hardie, direc-tor of housing and assis-tant director of studentactivities, feels that theTurkey Trot teams werebeneficial to thoseinvolved.

“One partner will runor walk one mile aroundcampus and then their

partner will do the sameafter they finished,” saidHardie.

The Turkey Trot thatthe University spon-sored for the studentbody was free andincluded a winningprize.

Each student that par-ticipated in the TurkeyTrot received a free t-shirt while supplies last-ed. The two winners in

each category won anentire turkey dinner totake home to their fami-lies for the holidays.

“We have been doingthe turkey trot since2005,” Hardie said. “Theevent has become a tra-dition on campus.”

Around 40 to 45 stu-dents competed in theevent. While facultywere allowed to partici-pate as well, only the

students were eligible towin the full turkey din-ner.

Jamie Piotrowski,sophomore sociologymajor, has been involvedin the Turkey Trot forthe past two years.

“I run cross country,”Piotrowski said “Sincemost of the team [partic-ipates in the trot] too, it

By Kyle OlandEditorial Assistant

Instead of spendinghis Thanksgiving breakat home in New Yorkwith family and friends,eating turkey andmashed potatoes, Bren-dan Omicioli, sopho-more Biblical min-istries studies major,will be in Jamaicaworking with MustardSeed Communities.

Omicioli, along withseveral other Waynes-burg University stu-dents, will spend theirThanksgiving breaks onvarious missiontrips.Omicioli will beheading to Jamaica tohelp work with severe-

ly diseased kids andadults.

Tom Ribar, Waynes-burg University chap-lain, will lead theJamaica trip.

Omicioli hopes thetrip brings him a wholenew perspective on theworld.

“I have never beenout of the country actu-ally, so it will be a real-ly good experience tosee another culture,” hesaid.

“It is really easy toread and hear aboutpoverty, but to actuallygo and see extremepoverty and see the dis-ease and junk in thisworld will reallychange my heart I

hope.” One of the other mis-

sion trips will stay inthe Waynesburg areaand work with GreeneCounty Habitat forHabitat for Humanityfrom Nov. 18 to 22.

Sarah Brandstetter,coordinator of BonnerScholars, and Luke

Payson, resident direc-tor of Martin Hall, willlead the group of 15 stu-dents.Over the courseof the week, Brandstet-ter said the group willundertake a number ofprojects.

“We are going to beworking on homes inGreene County,” said

Brandstetter. “We may be working

on a house package,which means buildingthe walls within ourhabitat building to taketo a house site ready togo, building a home ordemolishing a home.”

During the trip,Brandstetter said thestudents will also havethe opportunity to gaina deeper understandingof Greene County andits unique aspects.

The last trip willhead to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area tohelp with the disasterrelief from the recentflooding that took placeearlier in the year.

Dave Calvario, dean

of students and directorof the Center for Serv-ice Leadership, andJason Falvo, assistantfootball coach, will leada group of seven stu-dents in the reliefefforts.

Originally, the tripwas scheduled to go tothe Philippi, W. Va.area, but Calvario saw aneed in the Scrantonarea, and decided toalter the trip.

“I saw what wasgoing on Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area,and the area near theSusquehanna River,”Calvario said.

“I debated whether

By Brooke LarsonStaff Writer

Drum beats packed theMarsh Center as six Way-nesburg University stu-dents pounded away atplastic buckets.

“The piece [Stinkin’Garbage] was chosen byour instructor, RyanFrost,” said Kristina Betts,senior criminal justicemajor.

“I had asked Mr. Frostif we could do a piece withboom sticks or it be

stomp-like, and he chosethat piece for us.”

The II Chamber WorksConcert of the semesterfeatured vocal and instru-mental ensembles fromthe Department of FineArts and the Music Pro-gram.

The Percussion Ensem-ble Personnel includingstudents Alex Goodwin,Kiersha Keller, BethanyMay, Danielle Norris,Jaron Swab, and Betts per-formed “Stinkin’Garbage” by Ed Argen-

ziano.“They were so great. I

had to come see them,”said Bethany May’s fatherThomas May.

“I couldn’t have missedout on something likethis.”

Many came in supportof the ensembles.

“The audience wasphenomenal,” Dr. RondaDePriest said.

“The Chamber Ensem-bles are such a vital part ofthe education of studentmusicians on the Waynes-

burg campus.”The piece took the

team four weeks to pre-pare for.

“It actually went muchbetter when we per-formed it than in all of ourpractices,” Betts said.

The music programhosts two ChamberWorks concert per semes-ter.

“This concluded ourofferings for this semes-ter,” said DePriest. “We’llsee you again in thespring.”

By Chad GreenStaff Writer

Many of the studentswho matriculated to Way-nesburg University’s grad-uate program this year cancall Waynesburg, Pitts-burgh or one of manyother U.S. cities home, butonly one student canclaim his home is over6,000 miles away.

Yerzhan Toktabayanov,31, is an international stu-dent from Kazakhstanwho is improving his port-folio by studying businessadministration in Waynes-burg’s graduate programthis year. He has a family,two Bachelor’s degrees,and experience in thework force back home.

Toktabayanov came toAmerica looking for theopportunity to succeed.He is thankful for havingthe chance to study inWaynesburg.

“I think this is a huge,huge opportunity for me,the chance to get a mas-ters degree from the Uni-versity,” he said. “I am alucky man to have thischance to study and tograduate as successful aspossible.”

Toktabayanov is livingin an apartment in Way-nesburg while he studiesfor two semesters. He isworking on earning a mas-ter’s degree in businessadministration under anaccelerated program.

Toktabayanov said timespent away from his homeis difficult but rewarding.

“I miss my family. Ispend so much timestudying,” Toktabayanovsaid. “It is a hard timewithout family, but it is atime to find somethingbetter.”

Toktabayanov is a hus-

By Molly WintersStaff Writer

Waynesburg Universityheld its 12th annualThanksgiving dinner onWednesday, Nov. 16.

This event was createdby the University to showa sense of community dur-ing the holidays.

This dinner offeredeverything that can befound on the familyThanksgiving table athome.

Carved turkey, mashedpotatoes, stuffing and allof the fixings were on themenu.

Unlike any other mealat Waynesburg University,this meal was served byfaculty, staff, administra-tors and family members.

Tanya Aul, sophomoreearly childhood and spe-cial education major, espe-cially liked being servedby professor.

“It was fun having theprofessors serve us but itwas a little weird askingthem for more foodinstead of just going up toa buffet,” said Aul.

As for the taste of the

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Second Chamber Works Concert ‘phenomenal’

Turkey Trot allows students to share a tradition

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Holidaydinner isserved tostudents

Exchangestudenttravels thedistance

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Thanksgiving break mission trips bound to ‘change’ the volunteers

Music to the ears

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“It is really easy to read and hearabout poverty, but to actually go andsee extreme poverty and see the dis-ease and junk in this world will reallychange my heart.”

Brendan OmicioliSophomore Biblical Ministry Studies major

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The final Chamber Works Concert of the semester was held at noon on Nov. 10. The performance featured vocaland instrumental ensembles from the Department of Fine Arts and the Music Program.

band and father of twochildren.

His wife is a lawyer inKazakhstan. Tok-tabayanov’s oldest son isfive years old, and hisyoungest son was bornwhile he was studying inWaynesburg.

Toktabayanov talkswith his family as often ashe can.

“Every day I Skypewith my family,” saidToktabayanov. “My sonalways asks, ‘when areyou coming home? Whenare you coming home?’”

Toktabayanov and hisfamily live in Almaty, theformer capital of Kaza-khstan.

Toktabayanov grew upin Kazakhstan while itwas still part of the SovietUnion, but said he doesnot remember much ofthat time.

“I was so young, I did-n’t think about politics oranything,” he said.

He did, however, note adifference between thetime of Kazakhstan’sindependence and when itwas part of the SovietUnion.

He said that Kaza-khstan is better thanbefore.

Toktabayanov wantedto point out that Kaza-

khstan will be having it’stwentieth anniversary asan independent countryon Dec. 16.

While studying inKazakhstan, Tok-tabayanov earned twobachelor’s degrees.

The first is in law andthe second is in econom-ics. He then received awork offer from Halykbank in 2001.

“Halyk Bank is one ofKazakhstan’s leadingfinancial services groupsand a leading retail bankwith the largest customerbase and distribution net-work among Kazakhstanbanks,” the Halyk Bank’swebsite said.

Toktabayanov workedhis way through his careerto become the deputydirector of the legaldepartment. He thentransferred to work in alife insurance companythat is a division of Halykbank.

He left this position toearn his master’s degree atWaynesburg.

Toktabayanov filledout the graduate pro-gram’s application online

and researched Waynes-burg on the Internetbefore traveling to visitthe University.

“I said to my wife,‘Look! This is a niceplace!’” Toktabayanovsaid.

Toktabayanov com-pared Waynesburg’s sizeto the village in Kaza-khstan where he spent hisyouth.

“I like Waynesburgbecause it is not too big ofa city like Pittsburgh. It issmall, safe, it has a lot oftrees,” he said.

Toktabayanov does notlimit his time in the U.S.to staying in Waynesburg.

Whenever he has somefree time, he visits localcities. Toktabayanovrecently went to Pitts-burgh to watch a Pen-guin’s hockey game.

“Many people in Kaza-

khstan like the PittsburghPenguins,” he said. “[InKazakhstan] soccer is themain game, and maybethe second favorite gameis hockey.”

Toktabayanov has aformidable amount ofstudying ahead of him,but that does not discon-cert him.

“My main and firstdeal, my goal, is to gradu-ate this program. This is ahuge peak opportunity inlife,” said Toktabayanov.

“I want to improve myskills to use in the insur-ance company. My experi-ence before and after mystudy will be completelydifferent.”

Toktabayanov alreadyhas some perspective jobslined up for whenever heearns his master’sdegree.

A few of those optionsinclude insurance compa-nies in Switzerland andother insurance compa-nies in Kazakhstan.Tok-tabayanov believes thatcompanies need to trustthe people that they hire.

“I hope that they cantrust me to be a goodworker, and to be profes-sional,” Toktabayanovsaid.

is a nice was for us torun again after the sea-son is over.”

For the second timePiotrowski chose tocompete in the runningcategory with a random-ly selected partner. Sheenjoys that the partnersare selected at randomand feels that it adds tothe event.

“I like the randompartner, it makes it morefun,” she said. “It is alsoa good way to know the

event isn’t fixed.”Most of the cross-

country team competesin the trot, according toPiotrowski.

“If one of us wins, weusually make the turkeydinner for the team andend up having threeThanksgiving dinnerseach,” she said.

Winners take home a12-pound turkey, alongwith the other tradition-al Thanksgiving dinnerfoods.

The prizes give thestudents who participatea chance to share withtheir families andfriends during the holi-day season.

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Students SpeakWaynesburg University students gathered in Stover Campus Center on Nov. 11 to discuss abuse of the “R-word.”As of the meeting, 145,025 people had used the word on the Internet. Students feel that this should stop.

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“I think this is a huge, huge oppor-tunity for me, the chance to get a mas-ter’s degree from [Waynesburg]University. I am a lucky man.”

Yerzhan ToktabayanovWaynesburg University graduate student

meal, Aul said, “Themashed potatoes and thestuffing were amazing; itis the best meal that Way-nesburg makes.”

Waynesburg strives tomake the campus as closeof a community as possi-ble, and each year JoeDeSalvo, food servicedirector, brings theThanksgiving dinneratmosphere to the Bene-dum Dining Hall.

“It was fun to sit downand actually enjoy a mealwith true friends,” saidAul.

In order to be a part ofthis experience, the stu-dents had to sign-up inadvance in the dining hallto reserve a spot.

There were two seat-ings for the dinner, one at4:30 p.m. and another at6:00 p.m.

Aul, who went to the 6p.m. seating, said theBenedum was completelyfilled up with studentsand faculty.

Morgan Desmond,sophomore secondaryeducation major, also hada great time at theThanksgiving dinner.

“It was nice to eat ameal that’s traditionallyeaten with your family,”she said.

“It’s nice because it’swith your new familyaway from home,”

Desmond was reallyimpressed with theatmosphere in the dininghall.

“The Benedum lookedvery formal which I reallyliked, and it was decoratedfestively and classy,” saidDesmond.

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we should be helpingpeople in our own areaversus going out there.Those types of disasterrelief trips you can’tplan them; you justhave to be flexible andreact to them. That iswhere God wanted us togo, so that is where weare going.”

Calvario said theteam will be helpingwith the disaster reliefof houses, putting inflooring, drywall orwhatever is neededfrom the various home-owners. Even thoughOmicioli will not behome this Thanksgiv-ing to see his family, heknows that they knowhe is following God’scalling.

“They understandwhat is really impor-tant, serving others inChrist,” he said.

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