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UNIVERSITY REQUESTS COOPERATIONAn April 12 active shooter training drill will feature emergency vehicles on campus, and university officials are asking students not to be alarmed.

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PERFECT FOR THE JOBWaynesburg alumna Liz Menhart works just a few blocks from campus, promoting the county she calls her home.

beds. �at wasn’t the case, however, for more than 20 Waynesburg students who came out to help give back to the community and work to prevent hunger in Greene County.

Produce To People is a monthly event sponsored by the Pittsburgh Food Banks. Waynesburg stu -dents worked with mem -bers of the community to give out fresh produce and other whole ingredi-ents to residents of Greene County.

Waynesburg’s P R S SA chapter played a big role in this month’s food distri-bution. �e public relations students implemented a public relations campaign on campus through Red Brick Communications for one of their clients, the Salvation Army Greene County Service Center. Their goal was to help raise awareness on campus about the monthly Produce to People event. Red Brick Communication is stu -dent-run nonpro�t public relations �rm that provides services to businesses and organizations in the region.

Hoping to gain volun -teers from the campus and surrounding communities, the PRSSA chapter wanted to take some stress o� Sis -ter Audrey Quinn’s shoul -ders and the other volun-teers who work tirelessly to give back to others. Quinn is in charge of the overall event, from coordinating it to enlisting volunteers to

executing the distribution each month.

�at’s the most impor -tant part: at the March 26 Produce to People, Quinn estimates that 532 house-holds received food, or a total of 1,173 individuals. While that’s a substantial total, it only accounts for

about 25 percent of the population affected by poverty in Greene County.

On average, there are between 30 and 40 peo -ple who volunteer at the monthly event, and with the addition of the Waynes-burg students for the event on March 26, things ran

much more smoothly. Pri -or to the campaign by Red Brick Communication, no more than a couple of students from Waynesburg came out to help.

Jordan Mitri k, junior public relations major and

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By NICK FARRELLExecutive Editor

Wa y n e s b u r g Univers ity has an nou nc e d i t s speakers for the May 3 baccalau-reate service and Commencement ceremony.

The Most Rev. David A. Zubik, bishop of the Dio-cese of Pittsburgh, will deliver the Commencement address , whi le the Rev. Peter J. Paris, professor of Christian Social Ethics at Princ-eton Theological Seminary, will serve as the baccalaureate speaker.

University President

Douglas G. Lee believes these two men will provide graduates with pert inent mes-sages as they con-clude their stud-ies.

“We are pleased to welcome two national leaders of the Christian faith to our campus,” said Lee. “As our 2015 graduates prepare to enter a changing world, they wi l l have the opportunity to be addressed and inspired by a revered Catho-lic bishop and an

esteemed leader of Protes-

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Michael Merten to succeed Josh Dains as body’s presidentBy MATT KOLL

Editorial Assistant

The results are in.Student Senate held its vot-

ing on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last week for its new executive board members and informed its members and the campus of the results Friday via email.

All six positions were up for re-election and there has

been a complete overhaul of board members, as none from this year — at least for now —will return to their positions next year.

The president elect is sophomore Michael Merten; academic vice president elect is junior Derrion May; social vice president elect is sopho-more Anthony Juliani; secre-tary elect is sophomore Ryan Schwertfeger; and treasurer

elect is sophomore Jessica Sassaman.

“I’m really excited to have everyone in house, there’s only going to be one senior on the board next year as of right now,” said current Senate President Josh Dains. “So, it will be a great group of young students that will be able to make great connections and relations with the university and continue them for at least

another year or two.”Unlike last year’s election,

there were no write-in candi-dates for any of the executive board positions, but one posi-tion, executive vice president, was left without any candi-dates.

This is not the first time Senate has dealt with this issue, as the same happened

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Counseling minor added to Social Science selection

MyConnect tab to give faith-related events more publicity

University requests cooperation during mock shooter drill

Two students awarded Vira I. Heinz scholarship

Students honored to travel to South Africa, Jordan this summer

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Sophomores Pagie Carter (left) and Addie Pazzynski will travel abroad this summer after receiving the Vira I. Heinz scholarship.

By ABBY WERNERTChief Photographer

Two Waynesburg Univer-sity students were awarded the Vira I. Heinz scholarship last semester. Paige Carter and Addie Pazzynski, the two recipients of the schol-arship, will travel abroad this summer to learn about different cultures, their his-tories and languages.

Carter, a sophomore pre-law major, will leave on June 13 for Cape Town, South Af-rica. Through the program she will be participating in, Carter will be studying African law as well as post-apartheid history.

According to Carter, she is interested in learning about the current society in South Africa and comparing that to what she knows about the race relations in the United States.

“I want to know what’s underlying in both Amer-ica and South Africa,” said Carter. “I hope to learn what it means to truly move away from dark pasts and move into a fair and just society.”

In addition to learn-ing about law and history, Carter will spend some of her time volunteering in the community.

Carter has heard from past visitors to the country that the people who live in Cape Town are very welcom-ing, relaxed and know what is important to them.

Through her volunteer-ing, Carter is hoping to get a chance to talk to the people there and learn from them, as well as to “gain under-standing of a new part of the world” while letting go of her own.

When she arrives back in the United States, Carter wants to be able to bring back her experiences and what she learned while in Cape Town and teach those around her, including her peers at Waynesburg Uni-versity, an understanding of cultural diversity and re-spect.

“[I hope] to bring a new understanding to the culture that has made racial slurs and stereotypes a normal thing,” said Carter.

While Carter will be learning about history and law in Cape Town, her roommate and the other recipient of the scholarship, sophomore biblical and ministry studies major Ad-die Pazzynski, will be travel-ing to Amman, Jordan, at the end of June.

Pazzynski will be spend-ing a little over four weeks studying at Princess Sumaya University in Amman, where she will take classes involv-ing Middle Eastern conflict and the Arabic language.

The program Pazzynski will be traveling to Jordan through is mostly focused on academics, with the stu-dents studying in class for

four hours a day. However, the program will also take students on day trips around Jordan in addition to longer weekend trips to Petra and Dubai.

According to Pazzynski, she is looking forward to be-ing able to immerse herself in the culture.

“I hope to be able to communicate in basic situ-ations,” said Pazzynski.

Like Carter, Pazzynski is hoping to gain new under-standings and perspectives on topics such as Middle Eastern conflict through the eyes of the Jordanians. Pazzynski is hoping to share this new perspective once she comes back to the Unit-ed States, where she hopes she will be able to educate her peers on leaving behind stereotypes involving the Is-lamic faith, such as the idea of it being a violent religion, as well as addressing preva-lent problems in the United States — such as ‘Islamo-phobia.’

Besides learning about the culture inside the class-room, Carter and Pazzynski are hoping to go out and ex-plore the countries they are visiting on a firsthand basis.

According to Pazzynski, her mentor told her to “ex-pect the experience to be both difficult and exciting.”

During her stay in Jordan, Pazzynski will be living on her own in an apartment, something she said will

be challenging. However, Pazzynski wants to use the experience as a chance to grow, and said that she wants to learn how to prepare some dishes native to Jordan while living there.

Pazzynski said she is also curious to visit a hammam, or a public bath house, while in Jordan.

Meanwhile, Carter is ex-cited to explore all that Cape Town has to offer.

Throughout her trip to Cape Town, Carter said she plans on hiking Table Moun-tain, which overlooks the city, visiting Boulders Beach, where visitors have a chance to see penguins, and going to the markets to learn to trade with the vendors – among other things.

“I’m absolutely most excited to cage dive with sharks,” said Carter.

Both Carter and Pazzyns-ki said they were honored to receive the scholarship and that the whole experience felt very surreal to them.

However, while both Carter and Pazzynski will be having different experiences during their trips, they are hoping to bring back those experiences and teach those they know back in the Unit-ed States.

Pazzynski and Carter said they want everyone to learn how to break down stereo-typical borders and how to be accepting and under-standing of other cultures.

By JOHN LYDIC Multimedia Manger

James Tanda, instructor of Criminal Justice, will lead an active shooter learning drill Sunday, April 12.

This event will include 70 criminal justice majors, Waynesburg faculty and lo-cal emergency responders that will focus on providing an opportunity to integrate the university mission while also allowing an opportunity for students to learn about scenarios in their respective fields from people who work in the field, according to Mary Cummings, vice presi-dent of Student Services.

The event will take place in Buhl Hall and will last from noon to 3 p.m.

Yellow caution tape will be set up around Buhl, and students and faculty not par-ticipating in the event will not be allowed to use the building during the event, according to Cummings.

This event will provide an opportunity for students to gain public safety experi-ence and to take on a learn-ing experience in a practical setting.

Those involved in this event want to make sure students are aware that this is just a test drill and that no actual emergencies will be ongoing during this day.

According to a statement from Tanda, events such as this active shooter learning drill allow for networking opportunities among people that have established them-selves in the field.

“Waynesburg University is fortunate to have strong re-lationships with the various law enforcement and other agencies participating in the drill and is grateful for their

willingness to join the drill,” said Tanda. “This is truly an example of a win-win sce-nario. Our students have the opportunity to learn while the agencies have an oppor-tunity to practice various protocols and cross-agency communication tactics they have already been trained to do.”

Waynesburg students not participating in the event are asked to not become spec-tators, take photos or take videos.

Emergency vehicles will be parked in front of Buhl Hall and near Martin Hall, Thayer Hall and Pollock Hall. This will restrict access to all three of the dorms dur-ing the event, according to Mike Humiston, director of Public Safety.

An E2Campus alert will be sent to students to remind them of this event occurring on April 12, and those who do not have the alert text message system are encour-aged to get it.

In turn, with this event go-ing on, Cummings believes this is a way for the univer-sity to prepare for a scenario that hopefully never arises.

“Waynesburg likes to ap-proach everything with a student centered approach,” said Cummings. “We look at student safety, but create drills in learning that are tied to the student’s area of study.”

By ZACHARY SNIADACHFor the Yellow Jacket

Women’s lacrosse head coach Maria Shepas is ec-static, and it has nothing to do with her team’s current success on the field.

In fact, what Shepas is so enthused about has nothing to do with any of the mul-tiple sports she coaches here at the university.

The former psychol-ogy major and graduate student, who will gradu-ate with a Master of Arts in counseling in May, is so elated because of the Social Science Department’s addi-tion of a counseling minor for undergraduate students at Waynesburg.

“What’s so awesome about this school getting a counseling minor is the op-portunity for students to go take classes before going on to pursue graduate school,” said Shepas.

The Graduate Counsel-ing Program must have felt the same way as Shepas, as they teamed up with the Humanities Department to propose the addition of the minor together. 

The minor was reviewed by university administra-tion, the curriculum com-

mittee and then full faculty for a vote. 

The Board of Trustees then approved the addition of a new minor.

The minor was approved last year, and will begin in the fall semester of next year. 

Two minor counseling courses are offered in the fall and spring semesters. Topics for the courses range from professional issues, multi-cultural, group, addictions and general mental health counseling.

Four courses are specific to counseling, while the re-maining courses are from the existing psychology cur-riculum. 

The Graduate Counseling Program’s doctoral students will instruct many of the courses. 

Dr. Karen Younger, chair of the Humanities Depart-ment, is leading the admin-istration of the counseling minor program.

Similar to Shepas, other faculty and undergraduate students have expressed their zeal toward the new minor.

“This program will pre-pare students for a gradu-

By BEAU WALMERFor the Yellow Jacket

Last fall, senior psychol-ogy major Victoria Kapp and the Rev. Carolyn Poteet, director of International Programs, were brainstorm-ing ways to make faith on campus more accessible to students. After seeing other tabs flourish on the myCon-nect page, Kapp and Poteet found their answer.

“After Kelley Hardie’s suc-cess with the Service tab on myConnect, it seemed like a great resource,” said Kapp. 

As a result, the idea for what will be called the Faith tab began.

Over the course of this semester, Kapp has been gathering information for the tab on various resourc-es, including area churches, bible studies, campus minis-try events, chapel and Upper Room schedules and minis-try volunteer opportunities.

“I am excited about it all in general,” said Kapp. “But I am really excited to just have a place where students can easily find what events or services are available to them that are focused on seeking God’s heart.”

With an important part of her mission for Waynesburg

being community, especially in campus ministry, Kapp said it has been really cool to have the opportunity to strive to  bring more stu-dents together in this way. 

Although Kapp has used the Relay for Life tab for fundraising in the past — when she was a part of Col-leges Against Cancer — this is Kapp’s first time dealing with a project that is almost all resource-based.

While she has not run into any problems thus far, Kapp understands how dif-ficult it can be to promote events.

One of Kapp’s responsi-bilities through her work-study position with Poteet is to make flyers for the events.

“I’ve found that it’s hard to advertise effectively on campus,” said Kapp. “We use social media, flyers, the Toilet Paper and things, but I think in general it’s hard to advertise and also make all of those resources avail-able on social media. Not every student uses social media, but everyone uses myConnect, so it’s readily available.” 

However, for the Rev. Jim Tinnemeyer, university

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tantism. It is truly an honor to host these two lights of the church.”

Ordained a priest in 1975, Zubik has served the Catholic Church in a num-ber of roles before his in-stallment as the 12th bishop of Pittsburgh in 2007. Prior to that, Zubik presided over the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin from 2003 to 2007. He was also the aux-iliary bishop of Pittsburgh from 1997 to 2003.

Zubik serves on a num-ber of committees, includ-ing the Board of Trustees of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.

In addition to his duties at Princeton, Paris is present-ly the visiting professor of Social Ethics at the Boston University School of Theol-ogy. He has also taught at

Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, D.C., Vanderbilt University Divinity School in Nashville and Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Paris has served as presi-dent of a number of na-tional offices, including the following: the Ameri-can Academy of Religion, the Society of Christian Ethics, the Society for the Study of Black Religion and the American Theo-logical Society. In addition, he has logged 17 years on the Board of Trustees at the New York Theological Seminary as chair of its Ac-ademic Affairs Committee.

This year’s baccalaureate speaker is also the general editor of a series called “Re-ligion, Race and Ethnicity,” published by New York Uni-versity Press.

Born in Nova Scotia, Canada, Paris possesses dual citizenship in the United States and Canada.

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an institution, we are hold-ing up those standards.”

Jacobs said if she had to describe the Middle States process in a phrase, it would be “team effort.”

“We couldn’t have done it without the involvement of everybody on campus,” said Jacobs. “The students, the faculty, the alumni, the staff, the dining services, the guys who mow the lawn; every-body played a role in this.”

In both the preliminary

report from just after the site visit and the final report, the university was given both commendations and recom-mendations.

“One of the commenda-tions that we got was for our administration and our senior staff,” said Jacobs. “They said the leadership of the university was very ex-ceptional. They really com-mended us for having vision as leadership.”

Jacobs said the university was given fewer recommen-dations than the last time the university received its reac-

creditation about 10 years ago.

“Part of what we need to do is continue to incorporate assessment, both institution assessment and student as-sessment, into what we do,” said Jacobs. “We already started that work before they came and that’s something we had been moving toward already. We have Assessment Day. Not many schools have Assessment Day; it’s not a very common thing. That’s something that sets us apart, so they liked that we’re do-ing that, but they want us to

keep working on it.”According to Jacobs, the

university is in a great place in regards to its accreditation with Middle States, but the process is ever-present.

“It’s a constant process,” said Jacobs. “It would be nice to take a breather, but I think we already had it, which was waiting for the final word to come out. We work with Middle States all the time with things like As-sessment Day and the way we tie things to our mission and how what we do ties into faith, learning and serving.”

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Health fair and blood drive offered

WCTV submits two TV shows for national broadcast award

By JENNY SCHOUPPEConvergence Editor

Waynesburg University’s WCTV has entered two different television shows into the 36th annual Telly Awards — a national tele-vision award — and the People’s Telly Awards — a new audience-based voting award.

This year, the show “The Journey,” produced by ju-nior sports broadcasting and sports information ma-jor Mitchell Ross, and “The Greene Room,” produced by senior electronic media major Vic Hanes, have been entered into both the con-tests.

This is not the first time WCTV has submitted en-tries to such a prestigious

award competition. Last year, WCTV won its

first Bronze Telly Award for an episode of “The Buzz,” an entertainment based show.

This year, WCTV mem-bers wanted to improve upon last year’s success, but it has not been easy. To enter into the People’s Telly and the Telly Awards, the shows had to be cut down and edited to fit the re-quired format.

“I had to edit down epi-sodes of these shows so they would first fit the require-ments,” said general man-ager of WCTV and junior electronic media major An-thony Conn. “Editing the shows was the most difficult part because we worked so hard on 30-minute shows,

and then having to cut it down to a five minute clip but yet still showing what the show is all about was very difficult.”

Once the editing of the shows was complete, Conn submitted the videos online to the Telly Awards and the People’s Telly’s before leav-ing for spring break. The shows then could be voted upon by the viewers and the judges.

According to www.tel-lyawards.com, the Telly Awards was founded in 1978 to honor excellence in local, regional and cable TV commercials. Non-broad-cast video and TV program categories were soon added.

Today, the Telly is one of the most sought-after awards by industry lead-

ers, from large international firms to local production companies and ad agencies.

The judges of the Telly Awards, who are members of the Silver Telly Council, evaluate entries to recog-nize distinction in creative work. Entries do not com-pete against each other; instead, entries are judged against a high standard of merit.

Judges score entries on a performance scale, and winning entries are recog-nized and awarded as Silver or Bronze Winners based on the combined scoring of the judges who evaluate each entry.

Empowered to uphold the historical standards of the Telly competition, judges may award top hon-

ors to more than one entry or even no entries in a par-ticular category.

Something new to this year’s awards are the Peo-ple’s Telly Awards.

According to www.tel-lyawards.com, entries in the People’s Telly Awards will be posted to the cus-tom voting page for public viewing.

During the rating peri-ods, any registered Telly Awards user was able to view and rate the videos.

Conn hopes that the videos will do well in the competitions, but more importantly he hopes that Waynesburg University stu-dents can support WCTV and vote for the shows.

“Crew members and producers can go online

and vote for the shows that they have worked so hard on,” said Conn. “Hopefully it will allow the station to connect to the campus bet-ter. Students can vote and see all the work that the crew and producers do for the station.”

Voters can vote on a one- to five-star system, and those who have the highest ratings by the end of the competition will win the award for each catego-ry. The voting period ends April 12.

For those who are inter-ested in watching WCTV’s video submissions and vot-ing for the ones they like, go to www.tellyawards.com and click on the People’s Telly Award tab at the top of the screen.

By REBECCA BURCHAMCopy Editor

Are you paying enough attention to your health?

Students and faculty of Waynesburg University will have the opportunity to evaluate their answer to that question on Thursday, April 9, at the annual health fair. The fair will take place in the new gym of the Rudy Marisa Fieldhouse from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

According to Jennifer Shiring, nurse director of Student Health Services, there will be 56 vendor ta-bles at the fair.

“There will be a lot of great information, free screenings, games, prizes and nourishing foods,” said Shiring.

Flyers for the fair, which will soon be put up around campus, emphasize this year’s theme: ‘Health = Wealth.’ This theme will be demonstrated with the activities that the fair will bring to the university com-munity.

There will be several

different types of medical tests available throughout the day, according to Shir-ing, including bone density screenings provided by Ren-du Services and skin cancer screenings by Tri-State Der-matology.

There will also be tables where students can have their blood pressure and cholesterol levels checked by Waynesburg nursing students, get their blood sugar tested by representa-tives from Rite Aid, learn what blood type they have and even make their own stress balls.

In addition to various screening opportunities, the fair will also have sev-eral fun activities available, said Shiring. A few of these tables — most of which are provided by local businesses and organizations — will include activities such as massages, facials, healthy snacks, games and prizes.

All of the activities pro-vided by vendors at the fair, including health scans, are free of charge.

In addition to the events

in the Fieldhouse, several other activities will be oc-curring throughout the morning in the armory.

“We will be offering a free self-defense class in the morning from 9-11 a.m.,” said Shiring. “We will also have a PiYo exercise class at 11:30 a.m.” 

The PiYo — a combina-tion of Pilates and yoga practices — class will be taught by certified instruc-tor Meghan Phillips, while the self-defense course will be led by Chet Buffington from State Farm. Both class-es are free of charge.

Shiring added that stu-dents interested in the self-defense class should watch for an email to sign up, although walk-ins are also welcome pending the capac-ity the armory can hold. No sign up is required for the PiYo class.

The various events the fair — both of the informative and entertainment varieties — should provide an appeal to everyone on the Waynes-burg University campus, ac-cording to Shiring.

“I would absolutely en-courage every student, faculty and staff member

to come to the health fair,” said Shiring. “There will be many vendors there who have valuable health infor-mation that could transform your health now and for the rest of your life.”

Shiring also explained the fair’s theme, and how it is important to invest in a healthy lifestyle sooner rather than later.

“This year our theme is ‘Health = Wealth’, meaning that being healthy is worth its weight in gold,” said Shir-ing. “I always say that many people take care of their cars better than their bodies. You don’t want to be stuck on the highway of life because you didn’t take the time to tune up your health.”

In addition to the health fair in the new gym, there will also be a blood drive and bone marrow drive on April 9 in the old gym of the Fieldhouse, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

To make an appointment to donate, visit central-bloodbank.org, click ‘Make an Appointment’ and search with group code CU21— or contact Jennifer Shiring at jshiring@waynesburg.edu. Walk-ins are also welcome.

ate counseling program and will better prepare un-dergraduate students for bachelor degree positions in psychology, counseling or human service fields,” said Dr. Scott Tracy, direc-tor of Graduate Programs in Counseling. “The minor is offered to anyone, but it is targeted for psychology, human service and social science majors.”

The minor has created such an appeal, however, that even students who are not considering going into counseling are considering the minor.

“Being an aspiring oc-cupational therapist, I feel like this minor is definitely something to consider for anyone who wishes to work with people,” said sopho-more psychology major Tara Rosa. “I know having counseling experience is so beneficial in many aspects

of what I would like to do.”Shepas, although a few

years late for the opportuni-ty, still encourages students like Rosa — and anyone in the field — to highly con-sider this educational op-portunity.

“In terms of my cohort, I know that a lot of us in the field have similar ma-jors, but they aren’t all the same,” said Shepas. “Some of us have been more prepared with curriculum than oth-ers have due to the different curriculums offered at their schools.”

Shepas also feels this mi-nor could be something that will distinguish the univer-sity’s Social Science Depart-ment graduates from others in search of a job in the field.

“If students are choosing to go on into counseling af-ter graduation, [the minor] accelerates their growth and maturity as helpers,” said Shepas. “It will really be a way for students to ease into graduate level classes.”

chaplain – who Kapp also assists in her position – us-ing the Faith tab to advertise these resources and events is a difference from when he was a student in college.

“My campus had a lot of flyers all over the place and the newspaper,” said Tinne-meyer. “But there were fewer ways to get things out there.”

However, Tinnemeyer is looking forward to having the new tab in a central and convenient place where ev-eryone can have access to it.

“The myConnect [page] is easy to get to and is used by students and faculty,” said Tinnemeyer. “You go there for so many things.”

In order to put this tab in place, Kapp has been working with Information

Technology Service’s David Patton, the Applications Training and Support Spe-cialist. Kapp says one of the last things to do is the layout design for the tab.

Once the tab is complet-ed, Kapp said she expects the tab to be updated often. But because she is graduat-ing at the end of the year, Kapp said that whoever takes her position next year will be responsible for man-aging it.

Right now, Kapp’s goal for the Faith tab is for it to be finished before Easter or during the following week. Aside from the upcoming tab, students can stay in the loop on faith-related events and activities on campus by following the @FaithAtWU Twitter page, along with lik-ing the Campus Ministries at Waynesburg University page on Facebook.

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firm director of Red Brick Communication, oversaw the planning and organizing student participation in the recent outreach project. He wanted to stress the impor-tance of service to others and giving back to others.

“It was great to be there the day of the event and see it all come together, ” said Mitrik.

This is one of Quinn’s fa-vorite things about the event because she gets to see a mass of volunteers with a passion of serving. She participates regularly “because Christ says to serve others.”

A part of Waynesburg’s freshman Fiat Lux require-ment is to complete a service

project, and this is another great event that through which the students made a difference.

One volunteer, John Stag-gers, has been helping out at Produce To People for a while. Originally not plan-ning on coming out to the most recent one, his mind was quickly changed when his 8-year-old son Trenton, who was home on a two-hour delay, said, “Hey dad, lets go help out those people.” Tren-ton was bustling around and was full of energy and added excitement while helping other volunteers bag pro-duce.

Staggers was helping fill plastic shopping bags with fresh green beans off the pal-lets, but he knows what it’s

like to be on the other side of the service line.

“I help out when I get the chance because I few years ago, the group helped me out,” said Staggers. “I know what its like to be in their place and this is a way I can repay them.”

After the volunteers were done carefully placing the various produce, ranging from peppers and potatoes to green beans, into bags for those in need to take with them, the doors were opened at the Greene County Fair-grounds.

Walking away with any-where from 35 to 45 pounds

of food, those who visited the fairgrounds left with plenty.

“It’s very fulfilling to be helping those in need,” said sophomore public relations major Cassidy Graham.

Playing a role in helping the campaign between the school and Produce To Peo-ple, Graham helped oversee the students while also help-ing by being the campaign coordinator.

“It’s a great way to give back to the community I go to school in,” said Graham.

Produce to People is again scheduled for April 23 and volunteers are always wel-comed.

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for the social vice president position last year. A particular protocol is followed to fix this problem.

“When nobody runs for an executive board position, the newly elected president [Merten] will be able to nominate somebody for the position,” said Dains. “After that, the newly elected sena-tors will give a majority vote yay or nay; if it’s yay, they are elected to the position, if nay, he has to nominate someone else.”

These nominees must also meet the normal qualifica-tions for an executive board position, including being a sophomore, junior or senior upon year of service, being in good social and academic standing, and having been in Senate before.

Merten is excited for his new position of president and wants to relate to the more Waynesburg University students.

“I’m looking forward to making Student Senate more accessible to the average stu-dent,” said Merten. “I believe that Student Senate is the average student’s conduit to the administration. I feel as though a lot of people think it’s hard to communicate with the administration because there’s a gap between them. So I want people to realize that Senate is there so there can be that communication and it’s not so intimidating.”

Merten believes his experi-ence in Student Services and having worked with admin-istration members like As-sociate Dean of Students Pat Bristor and Vice President for Student Services Mary Cummings, will prepare him

for this position, along with founding the History Club and learning how to lead oth-er people through that club.

Merten does admit he has to learn a few things before being sworn in.

“I need to learn more Robert’s Rules of Order,” said Merten. “The meetings are run by Robert’s Rules of Order; of course, how strictly you follow that is up to the discretion of the president. But, I need to get some of the basic rules down so I can run the meetings smoothly.”

The Robert’s Rule of Order is a book that covers every-thing from voting, holding meetings, speaking privileges and terms.

Schwertfeger, meanwhile, made the jump from sena-tor of the sophomore class to the executive board as well. Schwertfeger has had a pas-sion for Student Senate dat-ing back to high school and is appreciative that he has won elections in each of the years he has run.

“I feel blessed that I have gotten the positions I have run for at Waynesburg,” said Schwertfeger. “I’m three for three here, whereas in high school I was one for maybe five or six. I feel like people are looking at me differently here than high school, and not looking at it so much as a popularity contest but as wanting to have the person who cares and wants to see change.”

Schwertfeger also at-tributes his perseverance, something he has shown his entire life, to his success as a Waynesburg senator, includ-ing his campaign motto of: “Run like you’re behind.”

Schwertfeger has aided and worked for several proj-ects throughout his time as

a senator, such as allocation reforms to different campus clubs, including making sure they are using the money cor-rectly and not hoarding it, al-lowing for that money to be spent elsewhere if a club isn’t using it.

He has also been a part of the Senate recently passing a bill for funding to beautify the garden on the Thayer side of Buhl Hall.

“I want to make the meet-ings more real life,” said Schwertfeger. “I am a frequent attender of my borough coun-cil meetings back home and I feel like some of those aspects could be put toward Student Senate meetings, especially having it open to the public.”

He also would like to see

video and audio recordings posted to the Student Senate MyConnect tab from the Sen-ate meetings.

“I’m excited for a new group of students to come in and get a really unique look at the university,” said Dains. “I’m excited for them to have the same awesome experi-ences that my board has had this year; it’s been a great year with them.”

Currently, Student Senate just approved allocations for a new Sociology and Human

Services club, along with allowing funding for plants and mulch for the Buhl Hall garden over the summer.

Dains will swear in the new Senate executive board mem-bers on April 22.

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advisor for the Leadership Scholar program, which is being discontinued after the class of 2017 graduates. As such, she began working on creating the Service Leader-ship program to serve as an alternative.

“My role was trying to come up with what type of organization might help us advance our goal, which is to increase the amounts of ser-vice that students have the opportunity to participate in and do participate in,” said Cummings.

Kelley Hardie will be the advisor for the new program, and she has recently begun the process of reaching out to current and incoming stu-dents whom she hopes will have an interest in the group.

“I’m in the process of reaching out to students who are not Bonners, but who have signed up for quite a few service projects and service trips throughout the year,” said Hardie. “Obvious-ly they have a huge servant heart and I’m wanting to see if they’d like to be part of the program.”

So far, Hardie said the students she’s talked to have been excited about the pros-pect of the new program, and she has at least one student in particular who is dedicated to service and is very interested in being a Service Leader.

Hardie is also targeting in-coming freshman who fit the qualities she’s looking for in a service leader.

“On scholarship day, we met with students that ap-plied for the Bonner schol-arship, and I mentioned to them as well as the other interviewees that we would be starting the Service Lead-ership program fall of 2015,” said Hardie. “So, if they do not meet the criteria of the Bonner scholarship itself, we would love for them to be a part of the program because their resume is so rich within service.”

Because the number of

Bonner scholarships award-ed is limited, Hardie said the Service Leadership program allows students who want to serve throughout the school year to do so even without becoming a Bonner.

Hardie said students who are a part of the new pro-gram will be implementing and leading service projects on and off campus, and there may be requirements such as a required number of projects per year. More detailed plan-ning of the program will take place this summer.

Cummings and Hardie would like to see the Service Leaders interact with both Bonners and Leadership scholars.

“I already started some conversations with Adrienne Tharp, who is the Bonner co-ordinator, on ways in which we can live out the Bonner High Impact and ways in which [Service Leaders] can help the Bonners fulfill that mission and that purpose of the Bonner High Impact,” said Hardie. “I see that be-ing just great. What both of them are trying to do is to expand outside the walls of Waynesburg University, and that’s definitely a goal of the program.”

She also said she’d like to see students in the new pro-gram attend leadership train-ing and workshops with cur-rent Leadership Scholars, an idea Cummings is on board with.

In the end, Hardie believes the Service Leader program will be beneficial in expand-ing and preserving the uni-versity’s mission.

“The overall goal is to fulfill our mission of faith, learning and serving by introducing a new program outside of the scholarships that we already award to students for students that have just a strong desire and passion to continue to serve,” said Hardie. “What better way to understand that mission but to be the student leaders to fulfill that on cam-pus and hopefully teach that mission and understanding to other students.”

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By KIMMI BASTONManaging Editor

In Greene County, more than many other Pennsyl-vania counties, nonprofit organizations are particu-larly essential.

According to keyston-eresearch.org, Greene is among the three poorest counties in the state, and the work of local nonprof-its helps to bolster the liv-ing conditions of residents considerably.

But because nonprof-its often have less income available than for-profit businesses, their workers have fewer opportunities to attain leadership and busi-ness skills training.

In 2002, a group of indi-viduals and organizations in the county recognized this need and came to-gether to create the Com-munity Builders program of Greene County.

The Community Build-ers program is sponsored by the Community Fou-dation of Greene County

(CFGC), who was involved with the planning stages from the start.

Bettie Stammerjohn, ex-ecutive director of CFGC, said records of old meeting minutes show that a num-ber of people throughout the community were re-sponsible for creating the idea for the program.

“They saw things,” said Stammerjohn. “What they were seeing is that you were seeing the same few people on the boards of organiza-tions, and so they wanted essentially to find a way to encourage new people to become involved and felt that through training that would help.”

To format the program, the steering committee looked at organizations like Leadership Washington and Leadership Pittsburgh, but their curriculums were on a different path than what the Greene County initiators were looking for.

“Those are very differ-

By LUKE CAMPBELL Sports Editorial Assistant

Keith McClure, 60, has announced that he is cur-rently seeking the Republi-can nomination for Greene County Commissioner in the May 19 Primary.

McClure, a lifelong resi-dent of Greene County, graduated from Waynes-burg Central High School in 1972 and later went on to attend California Uni-versity.

For over 30 years, he was the warehouse manager of an oil company, presently known as Fuchs Lubricants. He just recently accepted a position with Elite Logistics in Waynesburg as a logistics supervisor for the gas and oil industry.

McClure knows the im-portance of both industries as he considers them the “lifeblood” of the county. If nominated and elected, he would look to continue the success that gas and oil have

By YURIKA BLEVINSFor the Yellow Jacket

On Saturday, March 28, Greene County’s Histori-cal Society held their fifth annual dinner dance fund-raiser. The event was to cel-ebrate the 90th anniversary of the Greene County His-torical Society.

It was held at the Nation-al Guard Readiness Center, which is located behind the Waynesburg Airport.

The very first year the historical society held their fundraiser, the idea came from Wayne Hart.

Hart and his wife con-tinued to help and organize with the event up until this year.

According to Candace Tustin, vice president of the Greene County Historical Society Board, this is one of the nicer events that the his-torical society holds.

The food is catered, there is swing and ballroom danc-ing, and the men are dressed in suits and ties and the women in dresses.

“It’s just so beautiful,” said Tustin. “I’m personally in-fatuated with the 1940s.”

Also at the occasion was a band called Beaver Bop-Cats.

The band is a classic 18-piece big band featuring full sections of saxophone,

trombone, trumpet and rhythm.

According to their bio, the band typically plays a di-verse book that covers songs from the 1930s to present day, including charts by well-known artists such as Stan Kenton, Glenn Miller, Count Basie and many oth-ers.

The historical society has brought this same band in for every dinner dance they have held.

The proceeds that the band makes all get donated to a scholarship fund back in their hometown.

The fundraising event started at 6 p.m. with a com-mencement.

It then proceeded to a for-mal welcoming by Master of Ceremonies Doug Wilson and a dinner invocation by the Rev. Donald Wilson.

Greene County Histori-cal Society Board President, Mark Fischer, made a public

address following the dinner invocation, and the dinner was at 6:30 p.m. At 8 p.m. there were introductions and acknowledgements, which included the Beaver BopCats, Three Little Birds Catering Company, All Sea-sons Mat & Linen Service, Event Sponsors, Chinese Auction, and door prizes.

The rest of the night con-sisted of the announcement of the winners for the Chi-nese Auction, door prizes and 50/50 raffle.

The board members of the historical society are Fischer, Tustin, Secretary Patrick Fitch, and Treasur-er Cheryl Clark, as well as George Blystone, Steve Bly-stone, Audrey Duke, Joseph Kinney, Linda Rush, Mar-shall Simmons, Carol Tee-garden and Joyce Winters.

Waynesburg University, as well as Brian Tennant, Commissioner Chuck Mor-ris, Community Bank, Cory Grandel, EQT, First Fed-eral Savings & Loan, Green County Tourist, Promotion Agency, Kim & Jeff Grimes, Lou Dayich, McCracken Pharmacy, State Representa-tive Pam Snyder and Tooth-man Dental were sponsors for the dinner dance.

Along with the sponsors, there were roughly 60 do-nors who donated toward the historical society.

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Community gathers to preserve Greene history

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The 5th annual dinner dance for the Greene County Historical Society was once again a hit with over 60 people donating to the society.

Woman who wears many hats By NICK FARRELLExecutive Editor

In the hectic business world, it’s easy to overlook a task in the hustle and bustle of a daily schedule. For Greene County Tour-ism Director Liz Menhart, keeping track of tasks can be made simpler with a to-do list – and she appreci-ates the moments when she takes care of business.

“There’s no better feeling than crossing things off a to-do list,” said Menhart.

The 13-year resident of Greene County finds herself in a unique position: her to-do lists often revolve around the promotion of the town she calls her home and the areas that surround it. Orig-inally from Maryland, Men-hart and her family moved to Waynesburg when she was a sophomore in high school in 2001. She attend-ed Waynesburg Central – and began her sophomore year within days of settling into her new home – before studying communication at Waynesburg University and, ultimately, stepping into the role of tourism di-rector in June 2010.

She says she continues to find irony in her role with the county, but she appreci-ates her work. In ways, it’s her background as both a county resident and an out-sider that makes her so fit for her position.

“It gives you some addi-tional perspective to see it as both an insider and out-sider, to see how you can best market and promote to someone who doesn’t live here, and to someone who does live here but doesn’t know everything about it,” said Menhart. “We re-ally recognized early on that the people living here are almost as important an audience as the potential visitor. The people who are living here are an important segment of the audience to market to.”

Menhart noted an in-stance where coworkers in her office discovered some-thing new about the county in which they’ve resided for years.

“Every area has a unique set of challenges and op-portunities, and Greene County is no different,” said Menhart. “I have to look at challenges and turn them into opportunities. I’ve lived here for a while, but even then my knowledge of what’s here in the county has increased even in the last few years. I was the typ-ical case of someone who lives here but doesn’t know what there is to do here.”

Admittedly, Menhart is constantly learning in her seventh year as an employee of the county, but she has al-ready come to find the true staples of the area that she calls home. One of those is the “family oriented, laid back atmosphere” in Greene County that she says fuels the tight-knit community. In addition, she takes pride in the natural beauty of the county’s landscape.

“The fall foliage is so

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By KYLE DAWSONEditorial Assistant

When the American Legion Veterans office in downtown Pittsburgh con-tacted Pennsylvania State Rep. Pam Snyder about sending a representative to assist Greene County vet-erans in claims processes, she couldn’t pass up the op-portunity.

“The Pittsburgh repre-sentatives contacted me to see if they could send a rep-resentative to my office on the final Thursday of every month to help the veterans with their claims,” said Sny-der. “We had to take this opportunity because it is a huge convenience to the veterans around Greene

County because it saves them from having to drive to Pittsburgh. Instead they can just drive into Carmi-chaels.”

The result of the deal be-tween the American Legion Veterans office and Snyder is an outreach service, pro-vided by the legion service specialists, every fourth Thursday of the month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Snyder’s constituent-ser-vice office in downtown Carmichaels.

The monthly program began last week on Thurs-day, March 26. Snyder said the key thing for the pro-gram is that it is free and membership with the le-gion is not required.

“This service is for any veteran that needs assis-tance,” said Snyder. “There is no registration required. Veterans and their families can just walk in and the rep-resentative will help them with the benefit claims.”

The specialist from the le-gion will be able to explain what benefits the veterans are entitled to and counsel them on how to best use the benefits by assisting them with applying for benefits through the U.S. Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs. The representative will also be able to help veterans file appeals on existing claims and assist some in enrolling into the health care system provided by the Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs.

“A lot of times when a veteran files a claim, wheth-er it’s for their pension or a service connected to ci-vility or something else, it has to go through a bureau-cratic claim,” said Snyder. “So this service will allow veterans to get help in that process. Having worked for a congressman for eight years, I understand the vet-erans’ process very well, so I know how invaluable this service can be for them.”

The county also has an office, and they can help to start a claim; but once the process is started, Snyder said, it is always helpful knowing the representa-tives are available in Pitts-burgh to help them through the entire process as well.

“Any veteran who has served and has any ques-tion about anything he or she is entitled to or any-thing he or she needs help with, they should take the opportunity to visit my of-fice when the representa-tive is there to get the help in what is a lengthy pro-cess,” said Snyder.

Specialists and veterans will meet in a private room in the office, so Snyder said there is no reason to be shy about it if one is a veteran looking for help.

Interes te d res idents with questions can call the Carmichaels office at 724-966-8953 during business hours. The legion special-ist will meet with veterans every fourth Thursday of the month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Snyder’s office in Carmichaels, which is lo-cated at 104 S. Market St.

“I understand the veterans process very well, so I know how invaluable this service can be for them.”

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Reflect on EasterTake time to praise and thank Jesus for His sacrifice

Serve othersService is not just for Bonner Scholars

Service is an integral part of the mission statement at Waynesburg University. While service may not be the reason all students come to Waynesburg, it is a part of the majority of the students’ lives here.

All students are required to do service through their Fiat Lux class and their Ser-vice Learning class. All ser-vice that students engage in is important, and it is special that the university we go to is so dedicated to service that it makes it a requirement to serve.

The university is com-mitted through the Bonner Scholarship to represent the mission statement through service in the community. Some students who are not Bonner Scholars also do ser-vice and go on mission trips and the mission statement is often what drew them to Waynesburg. Other students,

though, wait until later in their careers at Waynesburg to engage in the required ser-vice and are timid to serve afterwards. So many ser-vice opportunities exist in Waynesburg that every stu-dents’ interests and passions can be met through service. The university is showing this dedication to service through the Service Leader Program led by Kelley Hardie.

The new Service Leader Program is an interest-based group for people who are dedicated to service but do not meet the financial re-quirements for the Bonner Program.

The goal is for them to configure, implement and lead new service initiatives.

It is important to engage in service and engage in your passions through service even if you’re not a Bonner Scholar and not in a Service Learning class.

The real question is where did the Easter bunny come from? Think about it, we know where Santa Claus, St. Valentine and the lepre-chauns came from.

Ever y hol iday has a theme and for some reason the holiday of Jesus Christ sacrificing all He had for us and dying on the cross gets the mascot of an Easter bunny.

This holiday for those who believe in God is a big one. Some argue the biggest one. Easter is meant to be a time for us to reflect on the greatest gift God ever gave us – His son.

This weekend is meant to be in memory of Jesus dy-ing one of the most painful and gruesome deaths of all time.

Taking every stab, every whip, three nails and a huge

piece of wood for us. He is someone that never

had to experience death, never had to experience human pain, never had to experience mortality, yet what did he do?

He died for us; for every single one of us.

Even though He saw every time each one of us would lie, even though He saw us in our worst mo-ments, even though He knew there would be a time that we would turn our back from Him.

He still endured it and gave us the amazing gift of mercy and forgiveness.

This Easter, amongst all the bunnies and chocolate and overwhelming portions of candy, take some time to reflect on the grace that you live in everyday, and thank God for it.

Recently, I’ve heard talk among my friends that they just don’t believe in the concept of feminism. This is somewhat shocking to me, as quite a few of the friends that have said this are women.

I understand that every-one has their own beliefs and their reasons for be-lieving in what they do, but I can’t understand why they aren’t willing to stand up for equality.

I often find a lot of people may misunderstand what the meaning of feminism is. Yes, I’m a feminist.

No, I don’t burn bras, and no, I don’t think men should be enslaved.

I simply believe in the idea and concept of equality for all genders, and feminism is precisely that.

Now, some of you may be wondering why you should care. Feminism is important because it works

to break down stereotypes and traditional gender roles. It even helps more than just women.

Men who may not fit completely into the “mascu-linity” role are often associ-ated with “typical” feminine traits.

This is considered by many to be degrading, all because it’s insulting to be a woman.

With feminism, which works to put women on the same level as men, there won’t be any negative con-sequences of not fitting into the traditional gender role you’re assigned, because there is nothing wrong if you don’t fit into said role.

Feminism is important because it fights for women to have an equal right to an education.

In many areas of the world, it is deemed unac-ceptable for a woman to get an education, which pres-ents the woman with less of a chance to make a name for herself and move up in the world.

An education also means women would have the

knowledge they need to stand up for themselves. Some men are afraid a woman with an education will take their positions or not tolerate being pushed around.

Feminism is important because women deserve to have an equal opportunity to be hired for a job.

Of course, the person who deserves the job is the one most qualified.

That being said, most women are overlooked for jobs they could be perfect for simply because they aren’t men.

And when women are in the workforce, on average, they tend to be paid less than a man, despite doing an equally good job.

Feminism is important because it allows for women to not be defined solely on their looks, because women should not be blamed for men forcing themselves on women because what the woman was wearing was deemed a little too risqué, and because women should not be persecuted my men for telling them “no.”

Feminism is important because women should be able to tell a man they’re simply not interested and that be the end of the con-versation, because being called girly or feminine is considered to be an insult, because women are more than just objects and be-cause men are allowed to freely express their sexual-ity but women are not.

Feminism is important be-cause I should not be afraid to walk the short distance to my boyfriend’s dorm, or to the gym, at night, because men are not obligated to my body no matter how nice and friendly they are to me, and because I’m seen as in-capable of handling myself because I like to wear dress-es and heels – I may like to wear dresses and heels, but I can certainly hold my own while doing so.

And lastly, feminism is important because all gen-ders are equal and deserve respect, because we all think and feel and have emotions and dreams and because we’re all human beings and should be treated as such.

Feminism is about gender equality, not bra burningaBBy

werNertColumnist

How much time a day do you spend on your social media accounts? Add up the hours spent on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and any other sites you use, and I can say with utmost confidence what the answer will be: “too much.”

Amazing networking ca-pabilities, innovative ideas and addictive games have led social media to a promi-nent position in our culture. Honestly, this is disturbing to me – and before anyone starts to get too righteous, I’ll be the first to admit I spend way too much time on Facebook looking at pictures of cute animals and rolling my eyes at the drama my friends back home are com-

plaining about.In recent years, social

media has become a fairly common thing to give up for Lent, and as the season comes to a close, I think this is a perfect time to reevalu-ate what it means to give something up.

Think about it. Why do we cut something – any-thing – out of our lives? Usu-ally, because that something is physically, emotionally or spiritually bad for us. Giving up something for Lent holds the same basic principle: you set aside something that is commonplace in your life so you can place your full focus on what Jesus sacri-ficed for us when he died on the cross.

I’ve heard several person-al accounts of individuals choosing to give up social media for Lent this year, and looking back, I realize just how good an idea that would

have been – for myself and everyone else who did not do it.

Social media is a negative influence on our lives in so many ways. Yes, Facebook and Twitter are great ways to keep in touch with old friends from home, new friends who live far away and professional contacts for future job opportuni-ties; but these same sites serve as one of the largest distractions from real life I have ever witnessed.

They constantly bombard you with material things you do not have, but think you need; the life event your friend has that you wish was yours; the relationship you’ve always wanted – the list is endless. Social media, especially Facebook, can make you so discontent that you begin to compare your-self to others.

At the recent Charter Day

concert on campus, singer Jared Anderson mentioned the term ‘FOMO,’ or ‘fear of missing out.’ I think this can be applied as the reason so many people are addicted to social media sites: they are afraid that if they miss just one update from a person they knew back in 8th grade, or a high school nemesis or anyone else in their contacts or friends list, then they will have missed something vital to life.

Hopefully I’m not the first to break it to you, but the world keeps spinning re-gardless of that one update, or tweet, or post.

Put aside the positives of social media for a moment. Other than a great way to keep in touch with others professionally and person-ally, what is Facebook or

Continue cutting back on social media after LentreBecca

BurchamColumnist

Editor's Note: The fol-lowing is an interview with Matthew Stokan, director of financial aid, as part of a series of weekly conversations with members of the campus community about living out voca-tional faith.

By daNielle schuyler Editorial Assistant

Q. When did you first come to Waynesburg?

A. Oh, I’ve been here about 14 years now; I’ve been doing financial aid for over 25 years.

So 14 years ago I was working in a school in New Jersey.

I wanted to get back into the Pittsburgh area because that’s where I was born and raised.

The opportunity came along and matter of fact I was offered two jobs.

One was to work at the Community College of Al-legheny County on their Northside campus, and that same morning I received a call.

T he p e rs on he re at Waynesburg offered me a position here at the univer-sity, at the time Waynesburg College, and I decided to take the Waynesburg Col-lege job primarily because I’d worked at Duquesne University for about 10 years, and the commute to the city of Pittsburgh was not the most appealing thing to do again.

So, I took the job here because I thought it would be an easier commute.

Q. What led you here?

A. I wanted to get back into the Pittsburgh area. To be honest with you, I wasn’t really familiar with Waynesburg College.

I knew a little bit about it, but really had no direct involvement with it. I don’t think I knew anyone who graduated from there, so it was all brand new to me.

The people I had in-terviewed with I was im-pressed with.

I got a chance to meet Chancellor Thyreen, at

the time President Thy-reen, and after speaking to him during the interview process; I must say I was impressed by him and im-pressed by his vision of the college at that time.

So I thought that it would be a wonderful opportunity, and I liked doing financial aid. I liked working with students and helping stu-dents and families, so it was like the perfect place for me

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According to CBS News, prosecutors rested their case against Boston Mara-thon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday, Mar. 30.

Tsarnaev’s lawyer told the jury that his brother was the driving force be-hind the attack. Prosecu-tors believe the brothers were seeking retaliation against the U.S. for wars in Muslim countries, said CBS. Since the prosecutors gave their cases, Tsarnaev’s lawyer will have a chance to present theirs.

CBS a lso ment ioned that the defense has made it clear since testimony be-gan, Mar. 4, that its strategy during the two-phase trial is not to win an acquittal for Tsarnaev, but to save him from the death pen-alty.

Tsarnaev killed three people and injured more than 260 the day the bomb-ing happened.

Jurors viewed different autopsies during the trial.

Tsarnaev’s lawyers did not cross examine any of the victims, but instead fo-

cused on trying to show that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar’s brother, was

more culpable in the attack and in the killing three days later of Massachusetts In-

stitute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier, CBS responded.

CBS News also said, “The reason he won’t testify from the lawyer’s point of view is he’ll get devastated in cross examination,” says Rikki Klieman. “Beyond that fact, what if during the point of cross examination, whether it’s now or whether it’s later, at some point he says, ‘I’d really like you to put me to death, I want to join my brother in martyrdom,’ so if you’re the defense lawyers, you do not want him on the witness stand.”

CBS reported that when the defense’s case is com-plete, the jurors will figure out if Tsarnaev is guilty of the 30 federal charges against him in the bomb-ing, Collier’s killing, and the violent confrontation with police in Watertown.

If he is convicted then the trial will proceed to the second phase and in that phase, the jury will hear more evidence on whether the victim should be on the death penalty or in prison for the rest of his life.

–CBS News, Mar. 30

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Emergency personnel assist the victims at the scene of a bomb blast during the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, Monday, April 15, 2013.

Editor's Note: The follow-ing is a summary of the 10 stories from last week that a college student needs to know.

1. Indiana Legislation still being boycotted

Much progress has been made regarding Indiana’s new religious freedom law, even as lawmakers are at-tempting to clarify the scope and meaning behind the law’s intent. Washington Governor, Jay Inslee, and Se-attle Mayor, Ed Murray, have banned government-funded travel to Indiana.

These statements are the latest outcries in a law that could potentially allow dis-crimination against gay people and other minori-ties. Murray is an openly gay Democrat, and he issued his executive order on the boy-cott over the weekend, while Inslee’s decision came on Monday afternoon.

-Fox News,March 30

2 . M i d d l e E a s t remains under fire

Tensions continue to heat up as Saudi Arabia could place boots on the ground in Yemen in the very near fu-ture. On Monday, a Saudi-led coalition of nine countries continued airstrikes against Shiite Houthi rebels, who have captured parts of Ye-men and ousted the country’s president.

The goal of this rebel group is to spread Iranian influence in Yemen, which is much to the dismay of Iran’s arch-rival Saudi Arabia.

If the coalition places boots on the ground in Ye-men, it could provide for se-rious terroristic movements and guerrilla warfare tactics throughout the entire Middle East.

The main Saudi airstrike hit the Al-Mazeraq refugee camp, near the Saudi border, and it killed 40 people while injuring around 250 more.

-CNN NewsMarch 30

3. More details revealed in deadly plane crash

More details have emerged in relation to the German-wings jetliner crash in the French Alps that killed all 150 people on board. The co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, admit-ted himself for mental help due to “suicidal tendencies.” French officials declared the crash to have not been an ac-cident, but an intentional act on the part of Lubitz.

The co-pilot, 27, had been treated by psychotherapists over a long period of time, but since that time, no documen-tation of suicidal tendencies or aggression towards others had been reported. Investiga-tions continue as to the direct cause of the accident.

-New York Times,March 30

4. Nuclear deal with Iran closing in

The Associated Press re-ports that the United States, Iran and five other world powers have issued a state-ment to continue talks aimed at reaching nuclear advance-ment agreements by the end of June.

The so-called P5+1 na-tions - the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China - were shooting for a mere frame-work of understanding.

After intense negotiations, and some reported progress, obstacles still remain in the areas of uranium enrich-ment, uranium storage and Iran’s limits on nuclear re-search and advancement. Talks have already been ex-tended twice in the decade-long discussions.

-Associated Press,March 31

5 . Ne w te c h n o l o g y provides hope

The trouble with treating cancer is finding a substance that will attack the cancer and none of the surround-ing tissue. Therefore, scien-tists are cautiously optimistic with the new tests that use nanotechnology in treating cancer.

New science has created the manipulation of matter at the molecular and atomic scale to penetrate living cells, and this possesses the prom-ise of fending off diseases

such as cancer and Ebola. The core of the technology is to attach drugs to these ex-tremely tiny robots that will bind themselves to various diseases and problematic cell damage.

-CNN News,March 30

6. Knox released after eight years imprisonment

Amanda Knox announced that she is glad to have her life back, finally.

The eight year legal fias-co that gripped the United States, Britain and Italy has finally come to an end, fol-lowing Italy’s high court rul-ing to overturn the previous guilty verdict. Knox and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were charged in 2007 with the murder of Meredith Kercher, but many questions still linger about the case. Knox had been fac-ing 28 years in prison, but she is now free to pursue a normal life.

-CNN News,March 30

7. Iraqi forces advancing on ISIS

ISIS is losing a little bit of ground recently. Iraqi forces battled the Islamic funda-mentalist group and the forc-es are now in control of all government buildings in the southeastern part of Tikrit, a city that had been under ISIS control since June.

The push into Tikrit came

days after a series of U.S.-led airstrikes paved the way for Iraqi forces to enter. Prime Minister of Iraq, Haider al-Abadi declared the city “lib-erated.”

-CNN News,March 31

8. California soccer player found dead

The body of Eloi Vasquez, a freshman soccer player for the California Golden Bears, was found in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon. Vasquez, 19, had been reported miss-ing over the weekend, as friends told investigators that he had not been seen since a party on Saturday evening.

According to friends, Vasquez told people at the party that he was going for a walk, but he never returned.

He then called a friend who lives in Northern Cali-fornia, hundreds of miles away, saying that he was lost and needed help.

He was eventually hit by a car as he tried to cross the freeway, and he died almost instantly. Police are still in-vestigating the cause of his behavior.

-KTVU Los Angeles,March 30

9. Unemployment rises in Washington and Greene

The unemployment rates in Greene and Washington Counties has risen for a second consecutive month. Washington County’s rate

went up only marginally from 5.1 to 5.2 percent. However, Greene County saw a sharper rise from 4.7 to 5.0 percent. Greene County’s rate has in-creased 1.1 percent over the past two months.

However, both coun-ties are still well below the national average of unem-ployment which currently sits at 5.5 percent, and both counties are below last year’s averages from the same two month period.

-Observer Reporter,March 31

10. Senator accused of accepting bribery

According to CNN, prose-cutors are expected to charge Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez with using his Senate office to cater to the business interests of a friend and donor in exchange for gifts, people briefed on the case say.

The government’s case, centers on Menendez’s re-lationship with Salomon Melgen, a Florida ophthal-mologist who the senator labels a friend and political supporter. Melgen and his family have been generous donors to the senator and various committees the sena-tor is associated with.

-CNN-April 1

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In the news: Ten headlines you need to know this week

at that time in my life.

Q. How do you demon-strate your faith in your position at Waynesburg?

A. As a Christian we demonstrate our faith by helping others.

I’d like to think that my staff, and myself here in the Financial Aid office, help students to realize their full potential.

When I say ‘realize their full potential’ I mean help them to realize the bless-ings and the gifts that God’s blessed them with, the academic gifts and talents they’ve been blessed with, to bring them to fruition, to help them to realize those gifts.

We have some small part in that, and by them real-izing their gifts, we make

the world a better place to live in.

It might sound kind of trivial, but I really think that education is the key to our future as a country, as a world, and by having some small part in enabling students to realize that, is a blessing for me.

By helping them, they realize how important it is to help others.

Q. What do you find yourself needing to be re-minded of?

A. To me when you do something good for anoth-er person, you get more out of it than the person you’ve helped.

It’s like a hidden secret in helping other people. It makes you feel good to know you’ve made a differ-ence; you’ve helped some-one out who needed help.

I do it to help others but I get a huge reward out of it myself.

Q. Have any moments with fellow faculty of stu-dents touched you spiri-tually or affirmed your faith?

A. I’ve always said the greatest part about being here at Waynesburg is the people you work with on a daily basis and the students you work for.

Part of me would do it for free because to be sur-rounded by the quality and the depth of the people we’re surrounded with here is truly a blessing.

That starts with our president, President Lee, and through all the ad-ministration and the stu-dent body. I mean we have great students.

If we need something

from them, if we need them to stop by the office, they will actually stop by the office.

We just have a great en-vironment here.

I like to think that faith, our belief in who we are and what we do, is a large part of that.

Q. Do you feel that you are where God wants you to be?

A. I would hope so. I’d like to think that would be the case. Each morning I say a prayer, “Make me an instrument of Your peace, Your grace, Your love to others.”

I think God works in us and through us to build up the kingdom of God, and if I’m an instrument in mak-ing that happen, then I’m very thankful for that op-portunity.

Faith: Stokan helps students to realize their full potentialContinued from B2

Twitter, Instagram or Pin-terest?

More often than not, it is a distraction from face-to-face interaction with the people in your life, and it steals your precious time away – time you could be spending with family, friends and God in-stead of refreshing Twitter, news-feed stalking or crush-ing candies.

(And addictive games on the internet is an entirely different column, so let’s just stay on track with this one.)

Bottom line: do not let ‘FOMO’ keep you trapped inside your social media ac-counts.

If you were one of the brave few who gave up your Facebook or Twitter account for Lent, I applaud you and also encourage you to con-tinue keeping those accounts

at a distance. If you survived the Lenten season without them, then it can’t be so bad to cut back a little.

As for the rest of us – yes, myself included – we should strongly consider cutting back as well. Those who stepped away from social media for Lent did so in or-der to reset their focus on Je-sus during the Easter season. Personally, I do not think we should even need a reason to strengthen that focus.

Jesus gave his life for us around this time 2,000 years ago. Are we really repaying that ultimate sacrifice by wasting away our own lives scrolling through Twitter or clicking through Facebook?

It does not make much sense when it’s put that way. We can all handle a little sac-rifice in that light.

So put down your laptop, set aside your phone and live – in the real world.

Lent: Draw closer to God Continued from B2

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By CHELSEA DICKSManaging Editor

Most are familiar with the barbecue from Hot Rods, the colors of the one-of-a-kind southwestern Penn-sylvania landscape in the fall and the wooden covered bridges that take you to the past and a simpler time that our area uses to bring in many tourists.

These are the places ad-vertised, pictured and writ-ten about to help showcase the charm and character of Greene County, but the area is filled with a large amount of hidden treasures that could pique the interest of a diversified crowd.

How about a great meal while watching planes land and take off?

The Airport Restaurant located at 417 East Roy Furman Highway with one room and approximately 15 tables, is usually filled to the brim every morning with people drinking from the assortment of unique coffee mugs and waiting for the locally famous breakfast foods.

Pictures of regulars and Little League teams are pinned to a poster board on one of the walls, where the name of a winner of a free meal hangs.

While waiting for break-fast, large windows face the runway, where people can watch planes take off and land.

The hours of the restau-rant are 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For more information, call 724 627 8207.

The crystal blue Monon-gahela River that stretches for miles and miles through Greene County offers count-less fun activities. Boating, water skiing, tubing and swimming are common ac-tivities in the summertime, but another fun and active way to enjoy the river is the Greene River Trail that runs parallel to the Monongahela River.

This 5.1-mile walking, running and biking trail fol-lows the bends of the river, giving anyone who explores the trail a view of the river and landscape at all times.

The trail is covered in sand and is, for the most part, flat with a canopy of native trees covering the trail in shade. Along the way,

there are benches and scenic clears with picnic tables so people can sit back and en-joy the beauty of nature. The trail also includes local art sculptures and signs teach-ing walkers about the local trees.

Remains of the once booming coal industry can also be observed while ex-ploring the trail. Parking is available at the Greene Cove Yacht Club and Rices Land-ing Borough.

The area hosts barbecue cuisine other than Hot Rods. Strangely enough, you can also find barbecue on the side of the road at My Son’s Rib Shack.

An old food cart, picnic table seating and a neon open sign add to the unique-ness of the local hot spot. Located at 416 Washington

Road the famous ribs, pulled pork sandwiches and wings have people raving online about the exceptional place:

“I knew this place was going to be good as soon as I saw it, and it was. Get the ribs, they are phenom-enal,” Mark Bule, courtesy of Google reviews.

To contact the owner, call 724-852-6224 and stop by if the neon sign says ‘open.’

Another portable food cart owner has also become a local hit because of his wacky and unexpected food options.

Moore’s Hot Dogs, a por-table hot dog cart that is an icon for its unique hot dogs; offers a southern dog with barbecue sauce and French fried onions, a tex-mex dog topped with shredded ched-dar and jalapeno peppers,

and even one with chips on top.

The cart can be spotted throughout Greene County during the warmer months.

Open for lunch and din-ner, the cart roams to dif-ferent locations close to trafficked areas so keep a lookout.

“I get a dog off the cart now and then, and enjoy them every time. I love the Maui Wowie, but then I like almost anything with pine-apple on it. It is a fun way to get something off the beaten path, and I like how Moore kind of springs up wherever; it’s like a hide and go seek game.” Melodie Sibanda ur-banspoon.com.

The number to call to find the red and yellow food cart is 724-833-4507.

For a chance to meet

some of the locals and pur-chase some souvenirs, there is the weekly flea market.

Every Tuesday and Satur-day in the summer, the large collection of yard sales is held at the Greene County Fairgrounds.

People come together and set up tables, with items from baby highchairs to old cash registers being sold. Another chance to purchase a souvenir or vintage coun-try décor items is the James A. Clayton Auction.

Held the last Saturday of each month, the auction of-fers a sampling of rare, fas-cinating and even valuable items to a sizable crowd. Many people come to bid on items like tractor parts, old wooden chests and tables. For more information, visit jamesclaytonauctions.com.

Hidden treasures to find in Greene County this spring

Chelsea Dicks, Yellow Jacket

(Left) The small covered bridge at the entrance of the fairgrounds. (Right) A small waterfall along the Greene County trail.

had over the area.“It is an inconvenience

and a convenience at the same time,” said McClure. “It is a ripple effect. With the gas and oil, it also brings in restaurants, stores and stability in housing.”

In a recent press release issued by McClure, he ad-mits his knowledge in the field would make him an applicable candidate.

“I have literally had a lifetime of experience in the gas industry, along with

three decades in manage-ment,” McClure said in the release. “These experiences alone would uniquely qual-ify as a commissioner at this particular time in Greene County’s history.”

Since a young age, Mc-Clure has been involved in sports when he began to wrestle at around four years old and continues to remain involved as the secretary of the Tri-County Wrestling Association. He also served as President and coach with the Waynesburg Baseball Association. He is a mem-ber of the Greene County

Farm Bureau, Waynesburg-Franklin Township VFD, Waynesburg Sportsman’s Association, Waynesburg Moose Lodge, Mason-Dix-on Riders and NRA.

“I am a hard worker and very committed to this area,” said McClure in the release. “I’ve been lucky to make a good living here and my roots are here. Like many people, I want their children and grandchildren to stay nearby. As commis-sioner, I would use what I know and love to focus on creating good, sustaining jobs to keep our families

together.”McClure is married to

Betsy Rohanna McClure, who ser ves as Greene County’s representative to the Republican State Com-mittee. Together they have a son and a daughter, along with a granddaughter.

“I just thought it was time,” said McClure, a life-long resident of Greene County. “I would rather do something about it than complain.”

For more information, contact Keith McClure at 724-833-7752 or by email at bkk8783@windstream.net.

ent programs than what we have,” said Stammer-john. “But that difference is because the leaders, the people who were design-ing Community Builders, looked at a number of dif-ferent leadership programs around the state and they very specifically designed this curriculum. This is re-ally very specifically non-profit.”

As such, participants in the class, which usually numbers 12-15 per year, are often current nonprofit board members looking to expand their skills, or non-profit employees hoping to serve on a board. Stam-merjohn said people in the community who simply have an interest in serving Greene County also take the course.

The program involves a series of courses that begin in August and finish in De-cember of each year.

The participants meet ev-ery other Monday for three hours, where they are pro-vided with a light meal and instruction from a “local expert” on the topic being discussed.The curriculum is comprised of eight ses-sions on topics including strategic planning, financial planning, effective commu-nication and more.

A member of the steering committee is always pres-ent to facilitate the class, but each instructor is per-mitted to choose a tactic for teaching their given skill. Stammerjohn says they al-ways make an effort to in-clude hands-on activities during each class.

For instance, an instruc-tor teaching board devel-opment tactics had the class members sit around a board-style table and con-duct a mock board meeting. Each person was assigned a role, and they practiced working through the issues and situations that arise at typical board meetings.

“It’s really designed to be interactive and engaging and hands-on,” said Stam-merjohn. “I’d like to say most of the sessions are. The facilitators are always open to questions from in-

dividuals.”According to Stammer-

john, more than 150 people in Greene County have completed the Commu-nity Builders program, and many of them have brought about significant change in their nonprofits as a results.

She remembers commu-nity member Cheryl Clark, who was on the board of the White Covered Bridge Association, which was not an official nonprofit orga-nization.

She completed the Com-munity Builders program several years ago and sub-sequently took the asso-ciation from being a loose gathering into an official 501(c)(3) nonprofit organi-zation.

Darlene Bigler, CEO of Community Action South-west, has been a member of the Community Builders steering committee since nearly the beginning. She believes stories like Clark’s are common among the group of Greene County residents who have com-pleted the course.

“I think that the original steering committee’s vision for the program has rung true,” said Bigler. “It’s re-sulted in the engagement of dozens of Greene County residents in the nonprofit sector, and supplied trained board members to help lead nonprofit organizations in the community.”

Community Builders, which is in its 11th year, will open up registration for the 2015 class in April. Any interested persons can visit cfgcpa.org to sign up and provide the $150 fee for the class.

The class, according to Stammerjohn, has made an impressive impact in Greene County during its 10 years in existence. Those who have graduated from the Community Builders program have made count-less Greene County organi-zations thrive with the help of polished leadership and management skills.

“Now you know there are certain things you need to be doing that makes a better organization,” said Stammerjohn. “The health-ier our nonprofits, the bet-ter the community.”

Nonprofit: Creating leaders in all businessesContinued from B1

Election: Man seeking local commissioner seat Continued from B1

Profile: Menhart’s work exemplifies love for area

beautiful. It’s breathtak-ing,” said Menhart. “But in general, the natural beauty of the county where you can see miles and miles of uninterrupted farm land and rolling hillsides that just seem to meet the sky – those are the beauty shots of the county.”

Promoting these and oth-er natural beauties is part of the daily routine for Men-hart, who says her duties as tourism director can change slightly on a monthly basis.

Her work during a given period hinges upon the monthly board of directors meeting. From there, she works with her secretary, Candice Tustin, to add as-signments to her daily to-do lists.

At any given time, one of these to-do lists may include orders to confirm budgets and invoices with local organizations and businesses, finalize details and execute projects within the county or, most recent-ly, work with Crowe’s Nest Creative, the county’s de facto advertising company, to provide feedback and as-sign deadlines.

In the first two years after she took over the position in 2010, Menhart’s to-do lists focused on the devel-opment of a new website and logo for the Greene County Tourism Promotion Agency.

Menhart says she’s been prepared for all the chal-

lenges a to-do list might throw at her because of the education she received at Waynesburg.

When she reflects on col-lege, she thinks she may have pushed herself a little too hard, considering she carried many more cred-its than were required for graduation while simulta-neously taking on the roles of executive editor of the Yellow Jacket and student assistant in the Office of In-stitutional Advancement.

All that extra work has paid off, she believes, as it has led her to a successful career to this point.

“It has been a good mix of pretty much everything I studied at Waynesburg: marketing, advertising, public relations and event planning,” said Menhart.

The member of the class of 2008 credits some of her success to those extra ac-tivities.

She specifically cites her work with the Office of In-stitutional Advancement as something that set her apart from the crowd.

There, she learned gen-eral office duties and pro-cedures, such as answering phones and addressing mail properly and associating with coworkers.

“Those are all valuable things,” said Menhart . “They say people our age don’t know how to properly use the phone, and I think that’s something that put me ahead.”

Though her duties have become a bit more pressing and her responsibilities a bit more important, experienc-es like these have allowed Menhart to forge a success-ful career in the county she calls her home – one to-do list at a time.

“This position is a lot of fun,” said Menhart. “I never have a day that’s the same as the one before.”

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The logo Menhart helped create for the tourist promotion agency.

Entering today’s scheduled game at home versus Thiel, the Waynesburg University baseball team is 5-11-1.

The five wins — two against Penn-State Altoona in Florida, two versus Ge-neva and one against Grove City — have been recorded on the mound by two pitch-ers: junior Brian Resnik, who owns three of those five wins, and sophomore Luke Carter, who is 2-2.

Last season, it was Resnik and Carter doing the bulk of the pitching for Waynesburg, in terms of starts on the hill, as well. Of the 43 games for Waynesburg, the duo com-bined to get the nod in 23 of those contests. Eleven of Waynesburg’s 18 wins overall came from the two aces of the staff.

With that said, there was a strong need for a num-ber-three starting pitcher behind arguably one of the best one-two punches in the Presidents’ Athletic Confer-ence. Carson Fox, in the Yel-low Jacket, documented the need in a column last spring.

Fast-forward to today, and Waynesburg baseball still is faced with the same issue. Fortunately for the Jackets, they may have found their answer after Monday’s games against Geneva.

Jacob Meyer, a sopho-

more, has appeared in four games and started two. His 20 innings pitched have been some of the most effective for the team this season. His earned-run average stands at 4.05, but it’s a strong 4.05.

Take it game-by-game for the Mt. Hebron High School grad. In his first appearance of the 2015 campaign, Meyer relieved fellow sophomore Colton Lippencott in the sec-ond inning of Lippencott’s start against Loras College in the Jackets’ third contest in Florida.

In that game, Meyer was very effective. He tossed five and one-third innings, surrendering five hits and two runs, which, mind you, were not earned as a result of an error. Meyer ended up getting a no decision, after leaving with the lead and the Jackets lost a seesaw affair.

Next time out against Westfield State, Meyer again relieved a struggling pitcher. In three innings of work, Meyer yielded seven hits and three earned runs, two of which came on a two-run home run, which was the hitters’ third of the game. Meyer got a no decision in that game as well.

Up next was Albion, which served as Meyer’s first start. The line: five and two-thirds innings, nine hits, three earned runs. Again, Meyer left the game with the lead only to see it relinquished by the Waynesburg bullpen and

By AUSTIN ANDERSONFor the Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg Univer-sity softball team (7-11, 1-1) was a half-inning away from being swept in Monday’s doubleheader against Thiel (8-6, 1-1), but the bats came alive for the Yellow Jackets in the seventh inning of game two.

After senior left fielder Theresa Soknich reached base on a fielder’s choice, ju-nior infielders Jessica Dora-zio and Demi Lewin reached base on fielding errors. The two errors set the table for se-nior outfielder Emily Sorton. With one out in the inning, Sorton lined a two-run single up the middle to tie the game at three.

“I was very focused,” said Sorton. “When I bat, I just look at the ball. I felt very good about my at-bat. I knew I was going to get a hit. It felt awesome.”

After freshman infielder Cassie Hudson was retired

on strikes, senior pitcher Haley Payne stepped up to the plate.

During the middle of Payne’s at-bat, Lewin was able to score the game-win-ning run via a wild pitch by Thiel’s Brianna Flynn. Lewin had to make a split-second decision in order to score Waynesburg’s clinching run.

“Well, I saw it go by right there at the end,” said Lewin. I was like ‘go for it’. I didn’t think it was going to take that crazy of a hop. It was a closer call than I thought it would be, but I’m glad I made it in there straight.”

Waynesburg head coach Richele Hall was pleased with her team’s perseverance.

“It was just really exciting. I’m just really proud that they didn’t give up. I’m excited that they keep pushing,” said Hall. “Obviously, you don’t want to be behind in the bot-tom of the seventh, but when you have a team like this that works really hard, and they want to win - that’s the big-

gest thing.”Waynesburg had trouble

figuring out Flynn for the first six innings of the game as her fastball was effective and had good control.

Hall emphasized that her team made changes through-out the game to be able to succeed at the plate.

“I thought we didn’t work ahead with her,” said Hall. “I thought we waited a little bit. We made some adjustments throughout the game [by]

trying to not get behind in the count. We don’t want to face her pitches. We want to face our pitches.”

It wasn’t that Waynesburg couldn’t make solid contact with the ball; rather, the Yellow Jacket hitters were producing solid hits right to Thiel infielders.

“It’s always frustrating for the girls when they hit the ball hard, but its right at people,” said Hall. “So I just try to keep them motivated.

They just need to keep that up that mentality if they are hitting the ball hard, then it [the ball] is are going to fall sometime.”

In the first game, the Jack-ets fell 5-4. Each team com-mitted a costly error in the first three innings to allow the other team to score.

Waynesburg junior pitcher Stephanie Kotomski got the start and kept Waynesburg

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For Schubert, strong family roots leads to success at WaynesburgBy ZACK ZEIGLEREditorial Assistant

Growing up in Enon Val-ley, Pennsylvania, senior Travis Schubert has always considered himself a family oriented, hardworking per-son.

“I was raised kind of old-school country,” said Schubert. “I am very close to my family, and I was friends with just about everyone growing up.”

This sense of family has helped Travis in his suc-

cess at Waynesburg Univer-sity as a thrower. His love of track started at a very young age as he was exposed to the sport early on.

“In elementary school,

they always had a track meet once a year,” said Schubert. “I was just a little fella at that point and was really athletic, so I figured I would give it a go.”

A multi-sport athlete at the time, Schubert was play-ing everything including soccer, baseball, football and basketball.

“Having done these sports, they all go in order,” said Schubert. “I spent almost my whole year after school at some type of sport. This kept me in the best shape of

my life.”Throughout his high

school career, Schubert participated in every event from sprinting, jumping and throwing. When he was asked to go do something, he would just go out and do what he did best – perform. However, after three years of doing this, Schubert decided to focus on just one event.

“Going into my senior year my coach asked me to just concentrate on just one [event],” said Schubert. “I picked throwing.”

This choice paid off for Schubert, as he was able to go to the high school state finals in the discus event.

He continued his suc-cess into his freshman year at Waynesburg, as he took home the Presidents’ Athletic Conference champion in the javelin.

“The transition from high school track to college track was not too different for me, other than the amount of work put in in the offseason and even during the season,” he said.

Schubert did not continue his discus career until last season, due to the transition with the new weights of the discs being thrown.

“When I came here, the size and weight changes threw me all off,” said Schubert. “I did not start getting back into discus until last year. Our throw-ing coach my freshman year saw me throw one disc like a duck and told me to stick with javelin.”

Schubert

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Softball splits opening conference doubleheader

Rob Longo, Yellow Jacket

Jessica Dorazio is called out after trying to swipe second base in game one of Monday's doubleheader against Thiel. Dorazio went 3-for-4 at the plate.

Wild pitch in game two helps Jackets avoid sweep

Lewin’s hot bat helps lead softball

By RJ LEISIEStaff Writer

She steps into the batters box as the warm, afternoon sun beats down on the field; the moment is between the hitter and the pitcher.

A 12-inch, red stitched-seam, yellow softball is all the difference between striking out and reaching base.

For Demi Lewin, it is just another part of her schedule at Waynesburg University while majoring in criminal justice and minoring in psy-chology and sociology.

The sophomore from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has always had some connection with the bright-colored ball.

“I have been playing since I was four years old,” said Lewin. “It first started with slow-pitch and in seventh grade I started playing fast-pitch.”

Not only did the Montour High School graduate play softball, but also was apart of the basketball and bowling teams in the winter months.

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Sweep slips awayPitching woes biggest problem for baseball

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Waynesburg's Neal Yakopin scored a pair of runs in each game during Monday's doubleheader at Geneva.

Jackets blow 7-2 lead in final inning; allow walkoff 3-run homerBy KYLE DAWSONEditorial Assistant

The baseball team split a doubleheader against the Geneva College Golden Tornadoes in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, winning 10-0 in game one and falling 8-7 on a Geneva last-inning comeback in game two.

Sophomore pitcher Luke Carter got the nod in the first game for the Jackets and con-tinued his success in the 2015 campaign. The Waynesburg bats also showed up in the day’s opening contest, col-lecting seven hits and taking advantage of several walks issued by Golden Tornado pitching.

“We were able to take ad-vantage of some mistakes by Geneva’s pitchers,” said head coach Mike Humiston. “Unfortunately, we know all too well what happens when you walk guys. We had some timely hitting and were able to score a number of runs.”

Humiston was extremely happy with his sophomore’s effort.

“Luke’s strike-to-ball ratio was better,” said Humiston. “He was able to get out of some tough situations and make pitches when he need-ed to. He pitched very effec-tively. It helps that we played defense and hit for him too. It is much easier to pitch with a big lead.”

Carter credited hitting and defense as contributing fac-tors to his success in his sec-ond win of the season, citing the early lead as a key.

“When I pitch with the lead my mentality changes a bit,” said Carter. “I do not feel the need to pick the corners as much. I just try and throw strikes and if they hit them so be it. I will let my defense make plays.”

In the win, Carter tossed a complete game, registering seven innings pitched, sur-rendering two hits, two walks and six strikeouts.

“We were able to get the momentum early and make plays defensively,” said Cart-er. “Ben Shorthouse and

Justin McPhail both made pretty good plays in the out-field among others.”

Offensively, a couple of hitters paved the way for the Jackets with successful games at the plate.

Junior catcher Tyler Rubasky was 2-2 with a run scored, an RBI, a walk and two hit by pitches.

Sophomore first baseman Jonathan Kletzli collected three hits in game one, scor-ing a run and driving in three runs. The reigning All-Pres-idents’ Athletic Conference first-teamer totaled five runs batted in on four hits.

The damage was done in

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MENRECENT RESULTSTeamSaturday, March 28BOBCAT INVITATIONAL3. Saint Vincent, 56 pts.; 6. Thiel, 42 pts., 10. Bethany, 4 pts.

Sunday, March 29TITAN WINTER INVITATIONAL1. Westminster, 202.5 pts.; 3. Bethany, 101.5 pts.; 4. Waynesburg, 20 pts.

IndividualTITAN WINTER INVITATIONALMEN 100 METER DASH1. Jametrius Bentley, Westminster, 11.47; 2. Umar Moore, Bethany, 11.58MEN 200 METER DASH1. 1. Byrum Louco, Waynesburg, 23.70; 2. Jametrius Bentlety, Westminster, 24.04MEN 400 METER DASH1. Byrum Louco, Waynesburg, 51.12, Waynesburg; 2. Greg Graf, Westminster, 24.04MEN 800 METER DASH1. Kyle Minger, Bethany, 1:59.47; 2. Devin Beggs, PSU-Behrend, 1:59.69MEN 1500 METER DASH1. Dylan Buffington, PSU-Behrend, 4:09.56; 2. Cody Cornell, PSU-Behrend, 4:21.71MEN 5000 METER RUN1. Matt Slagle, Westminster, 17:08.79; 2. Ian Grifith, PSU-Behrend, 17:27.34MEN 110 METER HURDLES1. Doltyn Snedden, Westminster, 16.71; 2. Marcus Haesler, PSU-Behrend, 20.58MEN 400 METER HURDLES1. Taran Sifontes-Lavine, Westminster, 58.69; 2. Dillon Handy, Bethany, 58.72MEN POLE VAULT1. Bobby Monteparte, PSU-Behrend, 4.05m; 2. Bryan Brennan, PSU-Behrend, 3.90mMEN HIGH JUMP1. Kevin Gardner, PSU-Behrend, 1.94m; 2. Shane Long, Bethany, 1.94mMEN LONG JUMP1. Umar Moore, Bethany, 6.71m; 2. Jucqui Taylor, Bethany, 5.95mMEN TRIPLE JUMP1. Ryan Hortsman, PSU-Behrend, 12.36m; 2. Taran Sifontes-Lavine, Westminster, 12.07mMEN SHOT PUT1. Mitchell Obenrader, PSU-Behrend, 15.49m; 2. Paul Yohman, N/A, 14.86mMEN DISCUS1. Paul Yohman, N/A, 46.17m; 2. Mitchell Oben-rader, PSU-Behrend, 43.20mMEN JAVELEIN THROW1. Mitchell Obenrader, PSU-Behrend, 61.06m; 2. Adam Fiorentino, Westminster, 50.79m

WOMENTeamSaturday, March 28BOBCAT INVITATIONAL5. Saint Vincent, 32 pts.; 6. Thiel, 23 pts.

Sunday, March 29TITAN WINTER INVITATIONAL1. Westminster, 196 pts.; 3. Bethany, 93 pts.

RECENT RESULTSIndividualSunday, March 29Individual

PRESIDENTS’ ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ROUNDUP

Brian Resnik, BaseballMakayla Vidosh, Women’s Lacrosse

MEN’S/WOMEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

MEN’S TENNIS

WAYNESBURGATHLETES OF THE WEEK

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PAC BASEBALL LEADERSBatting Average: Vento, .511, W&J; Pogue, .484, TMC; Genco, .467, THI

RBI: Mitchell, 23, THI; Pogue, 22, TMC; Kenning, 22, TMC

Home Runs: Kilkeary, 4, SVC; Waugman, 3, GRO; Mosley, 3, THI

Stolen Bases: Santana, 9, GEN; Rooney, 8, W&J; Metzger, 7, TMC

STANDINGS Conf. OverallWaynesburg 2-0 3-3Grove City 1-0 1-4Saint Vincent 1-1 2-2W&J 0-0 3-7Westminster 0-0 0-3Bethany 0-1 2-4Thomas More 0-1 2-5Thiel 0-1 0-2

Tuesday’s RecapSinglesLeo (FAI) def. Cochran (WAY) 6-1, 3-6, 1-0Hatfield (FAI) def. Harris (WAY) 7-6, 7-6Littlejohn (WAY) def. McMorrow (FAI) 6-4, 4-6, 1-0Moran (FAI) def. Brunnette (WAY) 6-0, 6-0Weber (FAI) def. Phillips (WAY) 6-2, 6-3Bannister (FAI) def. McKnight (WAY) 6-1, 6-3

DoublesLeo/Hatfield (FAI) def. Cochran/Harris (WAY) 9-7Littlejohn/Brunnette (WAY) def. McMorrow/Weber (FAI) 8-5Bannister/Moran (FAI) def. Phillips/McKnight (WAY) 8-5

RECENT RESULTSSunday, March 29Penn State Altoona 5, Wash & Jeff 4; Pitt-Greens-burg 8, Bethany 1

UPCOMING EVENTSThursday, April 2Pitt-Greensburg at Wash & Jeff - 3:30 p.m.

Friday, April 3D’Youville at Westminster - 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 4D’Youville at Thiel - 11 a.m.; Wash & Jeff at Thomas More - 12 p.m.

PAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEKMason Schoonover, Freshman, Bethany

PAC SOFTBALL LEADERSBatting Average: Pehrson, .550, CHA; Duerr, .545, SVC; Noel, .450, SVC

RBI: Fee, 18, GEN; Lineberger, 17, SVC; Noel, 14, SVC

Home Runs: Lineberger, 4, SVC; Payne, 2, WAY; Kelly, 2, BET

Stolen Bases: Hicks, 7, GEN; Beck, 6, GEN; Kelly, 4, BET

TITAN WINTER INVITATIONALWOMEN 100 METER DASH1. Paige Allen, PSU-Behrend, 13.06; 2. Lauren Rao, Bethany, 13.66WOMEN 200 METER DASH1. Paige Allen, PSU-Behrend, 27.09; 2. Kati Piger, PSU-Behrend, 30.28; 3. Shelva Burns, Bethany, 31.20WOMEN 400 METER DASH1. Megan Butler, Bethany, 1:04.71; 2. Hayley Thewes, Westminster, 1:05.42WOMEN 800 METER1. Jess Olson, Bethany, 2:35.40; 2. Elizabeth Timas, Bethany, 2:35.85WOMEN 1500 METER DASH1. Katelyn Morrell, Westminster, 5:17.17; 2. Rebecca Blauch, PSU-Behrend, 6:41.65WOMEN 5000 METER RUN1. Jenny Jones, Westminster, 19:00.20; 2. Rhianna Petrone, Bethany, 20:34.94WOMEN 100 METER HURDLES1. Marisa Toensing, Westminster, 16.92; 2. Ashley Borsch, Bethany, 17.07WOMEN 400 METER HURDLES1. Marisa Tonesing, Westminster, 1:10.28; 2. Rachel Pell, PSU-Behrend, 1:14.29WOMEN HIGH JUMP1. Keilah Ireland, Westminster, 1.33mWOMEN POLE VAULT1. Marissa Kalsey, Westminster, 3.85m; 2. Cassidy Shepard, 3.40mWOMEN LONG JUMP1. Cassidy Shepherd, Westminster, 5.08m; 2. Heather Grinkley, Bethany, 4.89mWOMEN TRIPLE JUMP1. Abbi Papale, PSU-Behrend, 9.45mWOMEN SHOT PUT1. Morgan Widina, Westminster, 9.45m; 2. Rachel Orzechowski, Westminster, 8.56mWOMEN DISCUS1. Morgan Widina, Westminster, 29.88m; 2. Rachel Orzechowski, Westminster, 23.90m

BASEBALL

STANDINGS Conf. OverallThomas More 6-0 13-3W&J 2-0 10-3Thiel 4-2 14-4Waynesburg 3-2 5-11-1Saint Vincent 3-3 8-8Geneva 2-3 8-9Westminster 3-5 9-11Grove City 2-5 6-11Bethany 1-6 5-11

Monday’s Box ScoreWAYNESBURG 10, GENEVA 0Waynesburg 0 0 9 0 0 0 1 10Geneva 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0WP: Carter LP: Rowe S: N/A

Top PerformersBatting

1. Jonathan Kletzli 3-4, 3 RBI, 1BB, 1R2. Tyler Rubasky 2-2, 1R, 1 RBI, 1BB3. Ben Shorthouse 1-2, 2 RBI, 1RPitching

Luke Carter.......................7 in, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 6 K

RECENT RESULTSFriday, March 27Waynesburg 11, Geneva 0; Thiel 8, Grove City 1; Wash & Jeff 6, Marietta 0

Saturday, March 28Thomas More 5, Westminster 4 (8 inn); Thomas More 5, Westminster 4

Sunday, March 29Saint Vincent 5, Bethany 4; Saint Vincent 2, Bethany 1; Thomas More 18, Westminster 5

UPCOMING GAMESThursday, April 2Grove City at Saint Vincent DH - 1 p.m.; Bethany at Pitt-Greensburg DH - 2 p.m.; Thiel at Waynesburg - 4 p.m.

Friday, April 3Thomas More at Geneva DH - 1 p.m.; Wash & Jeff at Westminster - 4 p.m.

Saturday, April 4Thomas More at Geneva - 11 a.m.; Waynesburg at Thiel DH - 1 p.m.; Westminster at Wash & Jeff - 1 p.m.

PAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEKHitter: Ben Kenning, Sophomore, Thomas MorePitcher: Joe Vita, Sophomore, Washington & Jefferson

SOFTBALLSTANDINGS Conf. OverallBethany 2-0 9-5Westminster 1-1 11-5Thiel 1-1 8-6W&J 1-1 8-6Waynesburg 1-1 7-11Saint Vincent 0-0 12-2Grove City 0-0 8-3Geneva 0-0 10-10Thomas More 0-0 8-8Chatham 0-2 3-7

Monday’s Box ScoreWAYNESBURG 4, Thiel 3Thiel 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3Waynesburg 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 4WP: Grimes LP: Flynn S: N/A

Top PerformersBatting

1. Emily Sorton 3-4, 2 RBI2. Cameron Grimes 1-2, 1 RBI, 1 BB3. Jessica Dorazio 1-3, 1 R

PitchingHayley Payne...................5.1 in, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 2 KCameron Grimes..............1.2 in, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K

RECENT RESULTSSunday, March 29Bethany 19, Chatham 3 (5 inn); Bethany 11, Chatham 1 (5 inn); Saint Vincent 17, Penn State Fayette 0 (5 inn); Saint Vincent 36, Penn State Fayette 1 (5 inn); Wash & Jeff 8, Westminster 0 (5 inn); Westminster 3, Wash & Jeff 2 (8 inn)

UPCOMING GAMESThursday, April 2Bethany at Grove City DH - 3:30 p.m.; Geneva at Penn State Behrend DH - 3:30 p.m.; Saint Vincent at Wash & Jeff DH - 3:30 p.m.

Friday, April 3Thomas More at Thiel DH - 1 p.m.; Bethany at Westmin-ster DH - 3:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 4Geneva at Waynesburg DH - 11 a.m; Thomas More at Muskingum DH - 1 p.m.

PAC PLAYERS OF THE WEEKHitter: Kayla Kelly, Junior, BethanyPitcher: Krista McCartney, Senior, Washington & Jefferson

STANDINGS Conf. OverallThiel 5-0 6-4Saint Vincent 5-0 6-6W&J 2-0 4-2Franklin 3-3 3-5Mt.St. Joseph 2-2 3-5Waynesburg 1-2 3-4Transylvania 1-2 2-6Defiance 1-3 2-9Hanover 0-4 1-7Thomas More 0-4 0-5

RECENT RESULTSSaturday, March 28Capital 15, Thiel 9; Wash & Jeff 1, Mt. St. Joseph 5; Saint Vincent 16, Hanover 3; Waynesburg 10, Thomas More 3; Ohio Wesleyan 13, Transylvania 4

Sunday, March 29Thiel 19, Thomas More 3; Franklin 13, Defiance 4

UPCOMING GAMESSaturday, April 4Hanover at Waynesburg - 12 p.m.; Defiance at Wash & Jeff - 1 p.m.; Mt. St. Joseph at Transylvania - 4 p.m.

the third inning when the Jackets scored nine runs.

Game two started off with more success as the Jackets looked for the season and series sweep of Geneva.

Waynesburg jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning on a Kletzli single that scored sophomore Na-than Mori and senior Neal Yakopin.

Geneva scored its first run of the series off sophomore pitcher Jacob Meyer in the bottom half of the frame to make the score 2-1 after the first.

The Jackets scored four runs in the third inning, but left a few runners on base. Geneva would answer by grabbing its second run in the bottom half of the third. Waynesburg plated its sev-enth run in the sixth inning to make it 7-2, putting them in prime position for the win and Meyer in prime position to record his first collegiate win.

Meyer took the hill in the seventh. He surrendered a

single to the first batter and was lifted by Humiston.

“Jacob pitched very well,” said Humiston. “He got out of a number of jams and only gave up three runs, and we had seven when we pulled him. That’s when the wheels fell off.”

Junior Tyler Prevost came in for Meyer and surrendered three straight hits, yielding three runs without record-ing an out. Then, sophomore Colton Lippencott came in and ended up getting the loss on a three-run walk-off homerun by Geneva’s desig-nated hitter Anthony Mon-teparte.

“I talked to Tyler [Prevost] after the game and he said he was hitting his spots, they were just hitting him,” said Humiston. “They were not hitting him hard, but the hits found holes. With Colton [Lippencott], they hit him hard. Our entire pitching staff has to get better if we expect to make a run.”

Humiston also felt for Meyer, whom he said pitched well enough to win, but his team did not help him get his first win at Waynesburg.

“Jacob has been snake-bit 16 times,” said Humiston. “In 16 appearances here, he still hasn’t pitched in a win and that’s terrible. He’s pitched well enough to earn a couple, but his teammates have not helped him.”

Meyer said he didn’t pitch as effectively as he would have liked, but he thinks he battled well in the no deci-sion.

“Well, it’s a team game,” said Meyer. “I can not lie when I say it stinks, but it’s all about the process, not the product. That’s the last thing on my mind, and the rest of my teammates’ minds when we are pitching. As a team, if we continue to focus on the process and not the product, we will look back on the sea-son and be happy with what we see.”

Six Jackets collected an RBI in the loss, led by Klet-zli with the two runs batted in. The other five to knock in tallies were seniors Ben Shorthouse and Eric Crum, juniors Matt Bensinger and Brent Williams and sopho-more Cam Bernhardt.

The Jackets will continue

on this long Presidents’ Ath-letic Conference swing in a three-game series against the Thiel Tomcats, who have hit the ball very well this season and have had early success in PAC play.

“Thiel can hit the baseball and they have some good

pitching,” said Humiston. “There is a lot of parody in our conference this year. We cannot take anyone lightly. This will be a challenge for us and hopefully we respond well after the game-two loss Monday.”

A home, nine-inning

contest is scheduled for to-day, with the doubleheader in Greenville, Pennsylvania scheduled for Saturday.

First pitch for game on Saturday is slated for 1 p.m. Coverage begins at 12:45 p.m. and can be heard on greenesports.net.

Tyler Wolfe, Yellow Jacket

In Monday's doubleheader at Geneva, Ben Shorthouse collected a hit in each game, and was also hit by a pitch in the second contest.

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Baseball: Jackets win their first conference series of the season

defense. Monday served as Meyer’s

second start at Geneva. In six innings, Meyer surrendered ten hits and three runs, all of which were earned and walked one. But again, Meyer left with the lead (7-2), be-fore the Jackets’ pen gave up six runs, culminating with a walk-off three-run home run.

In talking with head coach Mike Humiston, it is conceiv-able that Meyer is penciled in at the moment as the three-starter for the pitching staff with a couple other names in the mix - namely senior Zach Kreke, junior Con-nor Furwa and sophomore Parker Beatty.

I’d argue Meyer has earned the spot, but I’m not the coach.

This year, at this point, I

don’t think the third starter is the biggest issue for Waynes-burg’s pitching staff. Perhaps it’s the bullpen.

Here’s more food for thought, in terms of the third starter, that also addresses the bullpen situation.

In two starts this year, Kreke is 0-1, but in the no decision against Pitt-Greens-burg a few weeks ago, he tossed six innings of two-run baseball, struck out four and gave up seven hits.

Perhaps, if he is going to pitch like that, he can slide into the rotation, which would allow Meyer to slide into the pen and pick up in-nings there.

The problem with the bull-pen this year is sort of new for Waynesburg. Last year, the Jackets got solid innings from numerous bullpen arms, such as then-sopho-more Derrick Zavatsky and then-freshman Lippencott.

Those two players have struggled a bit this season, however. Zavatsky has sur-rendered 20 runs, 13 of which have been earned in six innings. Lippencott has appeared in nine games and pitched nine innings. The Waynesburg Central grad has posted a 10.00 ERA by giving up 10 earned runs and 15 total, while also giving up several inherited runners.

There is a built-in excuse there. It’s not easy to strand inherited runners out of the bullpen. It’s not a simple task. A pitcher comes in with less margin for error. A bloop and a blast, as the saying goes, brings in a few runs and can extend the lead for the opposing team, or cut into the lead for Waynesburg.

The Jackets have tried numerous arms out of the bullpen, but to no avail so far. With that said, outside of Za-vatsky, Lippencott and junior

Tyler Prevost, no pitcher has over three appearances. So you could say it may be time to give some guys chances, and Humiston told me that could happen.

However, there is a prob-lem with that. It’s some-what deep into the season. It’s tough to make drastic changes at this point to the personnel approach.

In the end, change is good sometimes. The bullpen has been a problem. Waynesburg is perhaps still looking for a number-three.

Though, it may be time for change. This may be Waynesburg’s best chance at a PAC Tournament run, and grandfather time is the team’s biggest enemy.

Time is quickly fading away. It’s time to find a fix, and that is needed sooner rather than later, or as they say; ASAP.

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Louco dominates at Westminster

By CHELSEY WITHERSStaff Writer

On Sunday, March 29 se-nior Byrum Louco traveled alone to the Westminster’s Titan Winter In-vitational. Louco competed in both the 200-meter and 400-meter dash, and as the only team member for the Jackets, finished in fourth place of the five teams as his own team in the event.

“My mindset going into the meet was just to compete at the highest level I could,” said Louco. “I wanted to get a good first race in no matter what my place or time was.”

Even though Louco didn’t

have any of his teammates by his side, he was still able to represent Waynesburg with a flawless performance. Lou-co took first in both events in which he competed. He

completed the 200-meter dash in 23.70 seconds and the 400-me-ter dash in 51.12 seconds. Louco’s performance led him to get 20 points, and also a perfect day for Waynesburg.

The meet was Louco’s first performance of the year. The Presidents’ Ath-letic Conference recognized his efforts, as it honored him with this weeks PAC Men’s

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Weekly AwardsThis week's Waynes-

burg University athletes showed dominating performances on the diamond and on the lacrosse field.

Waynesburg women’s lacrosse player junior Makayla Vidosh and baseball pitcher Brian Resnik were named Waynesburg University’s athletes of the week.

Vidosh, a native of Galloway, Ohio, tallied 13 goals for the Jackets in three games last week. To highlight her week, Vidosh netted a school-record 10 goals against Franciscan University back on March 25. The junior midfielder also added an assist in both games for the Jackets this week. Vidosh is the second lacrosse player in as many weeks to receive the award.

The Waynesburg lacrosse team is scheduled to play Ha-nover College at John F. Wiley Stadium at noon Saturday, and they will host a rare doubleheader next Wednesday against St. Vincent. Those games will be at 4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., respectively.

Resnik, who calls Burgettstown, Pennsylvania home, was masterful on the mound in two starts this past week. In 14 innings of work last week, Resnik did not give up a run, while surrendering five hits, walking three and striking out 13. That work earned him a pair of victories against Grove City and Geneva.

So far this season, the junior pitcher has made five appearances, winning in three of those outings. During those outings, Resnik is averaging six strikeouts a game with an earned run average slightly under three, he has been the mainstay in a limited rotation.

The baseball team will play six times in the next week, with the weather permitting. The Jackets will will host Thiel today at 4 p.m. and on Saturday, the Jackets will travel to Greenville, Pennsylvania to play the Tomcats two more times.

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Sticking with javelin has proven to be a strong point for Schubert. At the Amy Ad-ams Memorial Invitational March 21, Schubert qualified for the Eastern College Ath-letic Conference Champion-ships in the javelin event by throwing a meet record 54.64 meters.

Through all the success he has had at Waynesburg,

Schubert attributes all his success to his teammates pushing him to become bet-ter every day.

“On top of all the hard work I put in the last two seasons, the support of my teammates has probably been the number one thing,” said Schubert. "They push for my success this year and I can only hope to do the same for them.”

This being his final season, Schubert is not only looking

for the success in the team, but for everyone to work to-gether towards the common goal.

“I always push for success and the best outcome,” said Schubert. “I really would love to go out with a bang and bring home a championship in my final season. I think it is very possible for us to do, but we just have to stick to-gether and perform like we know how.”

With the success that

Schubert has had through-out the year, he can very well help lead the charge to a PAC Championship for the men’s track team.

The team will be back in action on Saturday as they travel to Bethany to take on the Bison.

“Coach [Falvo] always says ‘you are either all in or all out,’” said Schubert. “And I feel that if they view the team as a family as I do, there is no question it is all in.”

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Schubert: Senior returns to freshman form

Track Athlete of the Week. Now, Louco seeks to keep

his season going the way he started it.

“It was nice taking first in both the races because it gives me a lot of confidence moving forward,” said Louco. “It sets a very good tone for me and it will make me keep working hard throughout the rest of the season.”

Louco will now be com-peting with the track team for the rest of the season as Waynesburg will be back in action on Saturday, when it competes at the Bethany In-vitational. The start time has yet to be announced.

Following Saturday's meet at Bethany, Louco and the rest of the track team returns to the Westminster April 11 to take on the Titains. Start time for that meet has yet to be determined.

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It was not until ninth grade when the decision came to choose either basketball or softball.

“I didn’t really know which way I wanted to go,” said Lewin. “My parents ultimate-ly helped me in choosing to play softball since they were the ones that get me involved with the sport.”

Unfortunately, she did not see varsity time right away. Lewin played on the junior varsity team her first three years. Even though she did not play varsity, the team won two Western Pennsyl-vania Interscholastic Athletic League Championships in 2010 and 2012.

The summer going into her senior year, Lewin did not have a definite choice on where she wanted to go for college, but after attending the Crime Scene Investiga-tion camp at Waynesburg, she had an idea.

“They had the major I was looking for,” Lewin said. “I liked the program as a whole and I knew that my decision was made.”

When her senior year came around, she did not shy away from the starting role. Before the season, she moved around the infield from shortstop to third base. Once the season was underway, Lewin showed she had what it took to perform at the varsity level. She fin-ished second on the team in batting average (.510) behind former teammate and now Robert Morris University third baseman Stacey Capp.

When she arrived at Waynesburg for her first se-mester, Lewin did not know if she wanted to continue playing softball or to focus on her studies.

“It was a difficult decision for me to make once again,” said Lewin. “I used my family again to help me.”

In her first season with the Yellow Jackets, Lewin only saw 12 games of action

while starting in seven of them. During those games, she had 19 at-bats, accumu-lating a .211 average.

Before the offseason, the face of Yellow Jacket softball changed. The team gradu-ated nine seniors, including pitcher Carrie Maier and outfielder Jasmine Blackwell. Along with the seniors, the head coach at the time, Lou Giachetti decided it was his time to leave his position.

Insert new head coach Rachele Hall.

“When [Hall] came in, it was a complete turnaround,” said Lewin. “While [Giachet-ti] was more laid back, [Hall] is intense and is looking to get the most out of us.”

In the winter, the team added some new changes to the way it practiced, es-pecially hitting. During pre-vious off seasons, the team would do more hitting off a tee instead of live pitching. A change was made with Hall as the team did more live

pitching in practices to get hitters ready for the season.

“The returning individuals on the team mentioned that tee work was mostly done over live pitching,” said Hall. “With live pitching, the girls are able to recognize pitches faster and easier while in the box.”

For Lewin, this could be one of the attributing factors to her successful season so far. In the 18 games played so far as of Tuesday, she has started in all of them and her bat has not failed at the plate. With 59 at-bats, she is averaging .373 with a team-leading 22 hits, which is also good for second in the Presi-dents’ Athletic Conference. She also leads the team and is tied for lead in the confer-ence in runs batted in with 13.

“I have just been trying to take it one swing at a time,” said Lewin. “I got a lot of reps in the box and I think it is paying off.”

Another factor could be that Lewin plays virtually ev-ery position, besides seeing time in the pitching circle.

“Being a backup catcher has to have some affect on her performance at the plate,” said Hall. “She has an eye for the different pitches and keeps herself in the box.”

Lewin has proven that she can play nearly every posi-tion.

“With having a hot player like her, I have to find ways to get her into the lineup,” said Hall. “Its nice to know that when I have one player strug-gling, I can put [Lewin] there and she will be comfortable.”

By taking it one swing at a time, day-by-day, Lewin is able to help her team in any fashion she can.

“My family has a big part in my life,” said Lewin. “They help me through all the tough times and give me that extra motivation. Without them, its hard to say that I could ac-complish things that I have.”

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As of Tuesday, Lewin led the Jackets in batting average, runs scored, hits, doubles, runs batted in, total bases and slugging percentage through 18 games.

Lewin: Tough decisions pay off for sophomore

Lacrosse suffers setback at homePreviously winless Lancaster Bible downs Jackets 16-10

By BRENDAN KEANYStaff Writer

The general attitude of players on the women’s la-crosse team heading into Monday’s game against Lan-caster Bible College was that they were the better team.

But despite this confi-dence, the Yellow Jackets helped the Chargers earn their first win of the season, dropping a 16-10 decision at home.

Several Jacket teammates were not impressed with the team’s mindset before and during the game, as many felt LBC represented a simple tune-up game be-fore a Wednesday conference match-up with Washington & Jefferson.

“We came in thinking that we were going to beat them,” said sophomore defender Jess Pecar. “We looked up their stats and saw they were 0-7, and we came in with the mindset that we would blow them out and it would be an easy win.”

Lancaster Bible College re-lied primarily on two players for the majority of its offense.

Sophomore Alyssa Wesner and freshman Myranda Kemrer tallied 14 goals for the Chargers. Wesner picked up eight goals and two as-sists, and Kemrer recorded six goals, while setting up two others.

The game started off on the

wrong foot for the Jackets, as the Chargers tallied two goals in the first 2:18 of play. However, a pair of scores by senior Kelly Mehal tied the game at 2-2. The Waynesburg defense tightened up a little bit, but the team found itself on the wrong side of an 8-6

score at halftime.In the second half, it was

the Jackets’ turn to begin the quick-paced scoring. Waynesburg was able to tie the game at 8-8 with goals by sophomore defender Holly

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Kelly Mehal was one of four Waynesburg players that scored multiple times in Monday's loss to Lancaster Bible College at John F. Wiley Stadium.

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Three's CompanyTrio of women’s basketball players transition to lacrosse

By LUKE CAMPBELLSports Editorial Assistant

As the lights went out in the Rudy Marisa Fieldhouse for the Waynesburg Univer-sity women’s basketball after a 81-63 loss to Washington & Jefferson in their Eastern Collegiate Athletic Confer-ence tournament game, the Yellow Jackets wrapped up their season right before spring break.

However, three Jackets were preparing for another challenge into the spring months. Juniors Lauren Blair and Maura Bobby, along with sophomore Kortlyn Carr, were ready to jump imme-diately into lacrosse season, something all of them were unfamiliar to.

Making the transition was not difficult because of the conditioning.

It was not difficult because of their willingness to com-pete.

It was difficult because none of them have every played the sport before.

Carr, who considered try-ing out for the team prior to this year, initially drew in both Blair and Bobby.

“They knew it was some-what in my head,” said Carr. “We definitely made a group decision, but I planted the seed.”

After talking about it and attending some practices in the fall, prior to basketball coming into full swing, they knew it was something to try.

“We did not really think twice about it,” said Blair.

“We took the much-needed spring break and transi-tioned right into it.”

Those practices in the fall really helped all of them get into the rhythm of throwing and catching, before getting into all of the technical as-pects of the game.

Bobby, who related her defensive position similar to basketball, claims to already

be too physical simply for the fact that she has not grasped all the rules yet.

“When you see cutters towards the net, it is exactly like cutters towards the hoop in basketball,” said Bobby.

That physicality is some-thing that have helped and hindered both Blair and Bobby with only a few games under their belts.

With a grin, Blair admits with pride that she was able to get her first yellow card in Monday’s game against Lan-caster Bible College — a feat that she is clearly proud of.

Unfortunately for Carr, she continues to have to sit due to a stress fracture in-jury that continues to lin-ger from basketball season. The timetable for her injury is six to eight weeks, which could quite possibly keep Carr sidelined for the entire season.

But despite not being able to suit up, Carr plans to re-turn the following season.

“It is definitely different,” said Carr. “It is just a chal-lenge that is fun because it is something new.”

Accompanying the new sport is some difficulties, es-pecially with the intricacies of lacrosse.

“We do not really cradle, we just run,” said Blair.

All three benefit from the willingness and helpfulness from what they can all call now their teammates.

“We were eager to learn and that helped them accept us,” said Carr.

“I think from start the

whole team really welcomed us,” said Blair. “We never felt uncomfortable or out of place.”

Head coach Maria Shepas initially incorporated both Blair and Bobby defensively with the opportunity to move around as they continued to learn. Blair is beginning to see time at midfield.

Shepas initiated the move-ment of getting Carr inter-ested in the sport.

“I really like her work ethic and crazy type of training that she does,” said Carr. “That is the stuff that I am drawn to,”

The competitiveness of both Blair and Bobby on the basketball court converts to the turf at John F. Wiley Sta-dium, especially after seeing losses of 21-1 at the hands of John Carroll on March 24 and most recently, a 16-10 loss to Lancaster Bible Mon-day. With an overall record of 3-4 as of Tuesday, the Jackets have already matched a sea-son high in wins since the program came into existence.

“I really enjoy it,” said Blair. “[Head coach] Maria [Shepas] is just a great coach to play for.”

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Maura Bobby is one of three Waynesburg women's basketball players that have made the transition from the hardwood to the field this season for the Jackets.

in the game, allowing two earned runs in five and two-thirds innings pitched.

“[Kotomski] threw really well,” said Hall. “Unfortu-nately, a couple errors haunt-ed us there, and we couldn’t get enough runs. But once again, we were fighting until the last pitch.”

Kotomski was pulled after giving up her third run with two outs in the sixth. She left a runner on first base. Junior reliever Cameron Grimes al-lowed the inherited run to score, along with one of her own.

“I think they [Thiel] were starting to catch up on her speed, and that’s one of the reasons I took her out,” said Hall. “Unfortunately, they scored a couple of runs be-cause there were runners on. But they were just timing her too much and hitting the ball real hard.”

The Jackets scored three times in the bottom half of the sixth, only to fall by a run at the end of the regulation seven innings.

The two games of this doubleheader were the first that Hall has coached as a member of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference. What made these games extra spe-cial for Hall was that she was opposing a friend in Thiel’s head coach Amy Schafer.

“I’ve known her for years,” said Hall. “She’s been one of my mentors for a little bit now. She’s one of my good friends just through softball,

really. It’s a small world.” After taking on the defend-

ing PAC champion Thomas More Saints in Crestview Hills, Kentucky, yesterday, the Yellow Jackets are back

in action at home today to face the Golden Tornadoes of Geneva in a doubleheader. That doubleheader was origi-nally scheduled for Saturday at 1 p.m.

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Waynesburg's Haley Payne reaches for a high throw at first base in game one of Monday's doubleheader.

Bachman and senior mid-fielder/defender Bre Tyler.

However, a dominating surge by LBC cemented the victory for the Chargers, as they scored eight-straight goals and ended up winning 16-10.

After the loss, junior midfielder Makayla Vidosh said she wants to see a more consistent effort throughout the course of a game moving forward.

“As a team, we really need to work on playing strong all the way through the game,” said Vidosh. “I think this has a lot to do with attitude. We just can’t let ourselves give

up.”Unlike LBC, the Waynes-

burg offense was much more balanced in its attack, as four different players enjoyed two-goal games. Bachman, Mehal, Vidosh and sopho-more midfielder Jess Rains comprised the multi-goal scorers.

According to Vidosh, a balanced attack can certain-ly benefit a team, because a team-oriented strategy is more difficult to defend, as opposed to keying on one or two players.

“I think it’s awesome that - as a team - we are equally participating on scoring,” said Vidosh. “This means that in the future, we will be more of a threat to other

teams, because it’s more diffi-cult to shut down a whole of-fense than just a few players."

However, Vidosh did note the things that need to be im-proved upon if the team is to salvage the rest of the season and especially see success in conference play.

“As a team, we need to work on ground balls,” said Vidosh. “I think this is really hurting us because there are quite a few turnovers as a result, or missed chances for the caused turnover for us.”

After visiting the Presi-dents of Washington & Jef-ferson on Wednesday, the Jackets return to action Sat-urday to host the Hanover Panthers at noon at John F. Wiley Stadium..

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Holly Bachman circles behind the net in Monday's game. Bachman scored twice, which now puts her goal total on the season to 20 goals as of Tuesday.

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Campus celebrates warmer weather with springy athleticsBy JOHN LYDIC

Multimedia Manger

Waynesburg University is giving students the opportu-nity to get spring rolling in a big way by bringing a new event to campus.

When students return to campus on April 7, a new type of soccer will be avail-able to provide some enter-tainment before the start of the final few weeks of classes. Waynesburg University is renting large human bubbles to put on Bubble Soccer, which is being hosted by the Student Activities Board.

The event will take place for four hours on that Tues-day, with the first portion be-ing open to everyone while a competition will take place

during the latter half. The event will take

place down at Purman Run behind Martin Hall.

This event has come together over the past year, according to Pat Bristor, associate dean of students and adviser to SAB. The planning and organizing took some time due to fi-nancial arrangements that had to be worked out to set up the event. For students who just want to have fun, the bubbles will open from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Then at 4:30 p.m., the tournament will begin.

Teams for the tournament can sign up to be involved, with each team consisting of

two males and two females. The games will consist of two five to seven minute halves. The time limit will be deter-mined on how well students can move in the bubbles, ac-cording to Bristor.

The Waynesburg head men’s and women’s soccer coaches, Brad and Laura Heethuis, will be the offi-

cials for the tournament games.

This new activity is something that Bristor and SAB look to pro-vide to students as a way of providing fresh fun events to take away from school rigors.

“We try to mix things up quite a bit. We have our usual coffeehouses and things, which are well attended, but we’re

able to change those up by bringing new people,” said Bristor. “Some of our other fun and fitness events we have tried have had pretty low attendance, such as the Turkey Trot and our Christ-mas run. So we were pur-posely trying to find some-thing that was new and we

have added some things, the craft sessions and stuff like that to pull in more people.”

Junior sports manage-ment major Connor Walsh sees this as an opportunity to try something that he has never done

“I’m excited for it and to be a part of it,” said Walsh. “It’s something I always wanted to try and have seen on TV and the Internet, so I’m look-ing forward to it.”

According to Bristor, the university also tries to incor-porate events that provide ac-tivities for students to break up the week or weekends.

During the event, SAB will set up fire pits and roast marshmallows for students that want to be at the event but not participate in the

bubble soccer tournament. “We wanted to make sure

students had the opportu-nity to do this,” said Bristor. “With events, we have had 15-30 people at a craft ses-sion and are trying to find out interests from students of what they are interested in.”

Bristor just hopes that students find enjoyment through this unique activity.

“I hope they enjoy it,” said Bristor. “Hopefully the weather will be coopera-tive and have a good time outside. When we get back, there are only three weeks left.”

Students interested in creating a team for the tour-nament or finding out addi-tional information can visit Student Services.

BUBBLE SOCCER

WHO: Teams of fourWHERE: Purman RunWHEN: Tuesday, April 7WHAT: Soccer with a twist Sign up with your team in Student Services

WU serves as starting block for ambitious artist

By TYLER WOLFE For the Yellow Jacket

On Friday, March 27, stu-dents filled the Benedum Dining Hall on yet anoth-er snowy spring evening for Wing Night, featuring Austin Moody – a country singer from Nashville, Ten-nessee.

Moody sang original songs and some covers from country artists Luke Bryan, Brad Paisley and Joe Nich-ols, where he had the audi-ence sing along.

“I think he is really talent-ed and I love how interactive he was with the audience,”

said Kayla Goncalves, fresh-man music ministry major. “They played some really cool stuff that I know my friends and I enjoyed.”

Moody is a solo artist, but has a drummer and a second guitarist – both also from Tennessee – that travel with him to some of his perfor-mances, including Friday’s Wing Night.

“I think we had a great concert, I was glad to see so many people came out,” said Moody. “I enjoy what I do, it’s just like playing in some-one’s basement and having a good time.”

There were a few more students at wing night than normal on Friday, as it is normally held in the Bee-hive; but Benedum seemed to serve as a better location.

“I think that the wing nights should be held in the caf more often; it’s a bet-ter atmosphere,” said Cody Hillberry, senior sociology

major.Unfortunately, due to the

higher number of students in attendance, there was a shortage of wings shortly af-ter the night began, though most students where able to get wings before they ran out.

This did leave some stu-dents disgruntled, but the night wasn’t just about the wings; it was about the mu-sic too.

“I was upset that they were pretty much out of wings be-fore the band even started playing,” said Mitch Ross, junior sports broadcasting major. “But he was a great country singer, kind of like a Josh Tuner vibe, which made up for the lack of wings.”

Waynesburg Univer-sity was not the only place Moody and his band played on Friday.

That afternoon, they played for the Waynesburg Chamber of Commerce in

hopes to come back this summer to play at the 141st annual Rain Day Festival on July 29.

“When we come to a town, we love to meet peo-ple and learn more about that town, especially such a small one like Waynesburg,” said Moody. “I really hope we can come back for Rain Day this summer; it’s such a strange thing to celebrate, but it sounds like a really good time.”

Moody has only been per-forming for four years, and said he is at the beginning of his country music career but hopes to make it big one day.

He sold t-shirts on Friday that could serve as backstage passes to any concert he per-forms at for the entirety of his career.

Maybe we will see Moody back at Waynesburg Uni-versity again, or maybe on a bigger stage as a big name country artist.

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Nashville artist Austin Moody and his accompanists performed at Waynesburg University's Wing Night event on Friday, March 27.

Returning alumni dinner to feature theatre production

By BRITTANY SEMCODesign Editor

On April 11, more than 60 Waynesburg University alumni and friends will make their way back to campus for the 2015 annual Alumni Dinner Theatre.

A f t e r g r a d u a t i o n , Waynesburg University alumni are frequently in-vited back to campus by the Alumni Relations office for student-run events, special dinners, campus tours and homecoming.

One such event is the an-nual Alumni Dinner The-atre, which takes place ev-ery spring to showcase the Theatre Program’s Spring musical production.

This year, the Theatre Pro-gram will be debuting “Once Upon A Mattress,” a musical comedy about the famous Hans Christian Anderson tale, “The Princess and the Pea.”

Vikki Beppler, assistant director of Alumni Relations and a part of the planning process for the event, said, “The night consists of a spe-cial dinner in the Benedum Dining Hall, a welcome from President Lee, greet-ings from some of the stu-dents in the show and then a walk to the GPAC for the show.”

The Theatre Program put “Once Upon A Mattress” on

once before in 2003, making this year the second run for the production.

In previous years, the University has showcased other well-known musicals such as “Anything Goes” and “Bye Bye Birdie” for the springtime show.

The popular annual event is planned by Mary Fox, Alumni Relations event planner, and is made avail-able to all alumni who live within 60 miles of campus.

The goal of the event is to “engage our alumni while continuing to support our students,” said Beppler. “It is a pretty well-attended event.”

At a cost of $35 per per-son, al l proceeds from the night are given to the Waynesburg University The-atre Program, according to Beppler.

Once graduated, alumni are asked to give back to the University through a series of different campaigns, while this event provides an entertaining and easy way to contribute and help current students in and out of the Theatre Program.

“Many of the programs at Waynesburg wouldn’t be possible if it wasn’t for the generosity of alumni and friends of the University, and we are so grateful for their continued support,” said Beppler.

The Alumni Dinner The-atre provides a time for alumni to not only enjoy themselves but to interact with current students.

Beppler says the event is “a great way for the alumni in attendance to make an impact on students after they leave the performance.”

New faces to fill the stage during WU Players’ spring musicalBy ADAM KIRASIC

For the Yellow Jacket

On Wednesday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m., Waynesburg Uni-versity’s most talented actors will take the Goodwin Per-forming Arts Center stage for this year’s spring musi-cal, “Once Upon a Mattress.”

The musical will be per-formed on Wednesday through Saturday at the sime time each day.

The show is a comedy, with music written by Mary Rodgers, which tells the clas-sic fairytale of “The Princess and the Pea” in a slightly dif-ferent way as an overbearing queen devises a nearly im-possible task for the princess that her son wishes to wed.

Edward Powers, fine arts professor and director of the

musical said he chose the musical based on last year’s “Little Women” and is lead-ing the WU Players in creat-ing this year's production.

“Last year’s musical had some somber moments,” said Powers. “I wanted to do something very light hearted.”

According to Powers, the choice was also based on the number of featured women

in the show as the cast is fe-male dominated.

The cast consists of 22 ac-tors, many whom have never worked with Powers.

“It’s a new experience for a lot of us,” said Powers. “It’s made for some interesting re-hearsals, but we are looking forward to a great opening night.”

Senior forensic science major and choreographer

for the spring musical Jor-dan Totty said the dancing side of the musical is always interesting.

“It’s always a challenge because not all the cast are at the same level,” said Totty. “It’s always an adventure to see what’s going to happen in rehearsals with all the talent that we have.”

The musical is said to have a mix of a lot of different dance types that are sure to be comedic.

Practices for the cast have been going well according to many members of the cast, including freshman nursing major Denise Branthoover, who plays the Jester in the show.

“I feel really good about it all and how it’s been coming along,” said Branthoover.

“At this point in the mu-sical process we’re all pretty burnt out but I still come into to these practices really eager to be here,” said senior cre-ative writing major Abigail Hancher, the Minstrel in the show.

Having a good amount of practice time left, the cast and crew will undoubtedly be ready for their opening night.

However, Powers sticks by his mindset of, “there’s always room for improve-ment.”

With these students work-ing to complete exhaustion, Powers hopes that their fel-low students will come out to support them.

“Theatre is for everyone and some people don’t think so, but it is for everybody

because we all like a good story,” said Powers.

Powers says that the hard work of the 32 cast and crew members over the course of eight weeks is why students should see the show and is “something that we cannot take lightly.”

When asked why students should see the show, Hanch-er and Branthoover both agreed that the best reason is the show’s humor and the talent of the cast.

“It’s something new that we haven’t really done be-fore,” said Totty, promoting the uniqueness of the show.

To get tickets for this year’s musical, “Once Upon a Mat-tress,” go online to waynes-burg.ticketleap.com. Show dates are Wednesday, April 8 through Saturday, April 11.

Wednesday, April 8 - Saturday, April 117:30 p.m.

Reserve seats on myConnect

The Waynesburg University Players present

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS

Country artist hopes for the big stage after playing WU’s Wing Night

Staff of Alumni Relations invites former students to enjoy spring musical

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Denny RAs help girls learn to ‘love their flaws’

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Sophomore Resident Assistant Kathryn Romanchuk leaves her mark at the ResLife Growth event on Tuesday. Students gathered in Roberts Chapel for a time of silent prayer and spiritual reflection.

GROWTH IN GOD AND CAMPUS

By YURIKA BLEVINSFor the Yellow Jacket

On Wednesday, March 25, sophomore psychology ma-jor Torre Remish and junior sociology major Madison Perreta held a book study in Denny Lounge.

Becky Hotek, a senior ath-letic trainer major, and fresh-man Kendall Kuykendall also helped Torre and Madison with the book study.

The book study was called ‘Love Your Flaws.’ Peer Edu-cation sponsored the event.

Peer Education is a group on campus said to answer to

anyone’s needs. A few weeks ago they held

a drunk driving awareness event, and last week there was a body image event – which the two girls led.

Peer Education sponsors their own programs. They will also be at the upcoming health fair.

The event started at 9:15 p.m. with an icebreaker game.

The icebreaker was to get a partner who you did not know and sit back to back with them.

Once everyone had a part-ner, Hotek explained the game, where one girl had to be the listener and the other the drawer.

Hotek then proceeded to show the listener a simple picture and they had to ex-plain to their partner what to draw.

After the icebreaker, Rem-ish then explained another

task, which the girls did on their own.

The event called for jour-nals, so every girl had either their journal or just a piece of paper. This was for when the girls had to draw a heart and put three horizontal lines in it. On the lines, they had to write down three words that described them or told a story.

While they were doing this, Remish played the au-dio of the book “The Gifts of Imperfection” by Brene Brown, Ph. D. The book is about how Brown tells the story of what she learned from a decade of research on the power of wholehearted living. The book was a New York Times number one bestseller in 2010.

After they listened to a part of the book, the girls went in a circle and shared one word they had written down and gave the story be-

hind it.“It turned out really well,”

said Remish. Remish was impressed

with how many girls showed up considering the fact a lot of students are quite busy. There were roughly 20 girls who attended the group study. Remish also men-tioned that it was nice seeing people open up and interact with others.

The purpose of the event was to teach girls to love their flaws. The girls dis-cussed many topics while enjoying coffee or tea and writing or drawing in their journals. There was a second session on April 1, also held in Denny Lounge.

“You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging,” Brene Brown once said. This quote was included on the flyer for the event.

Waynesburg students fill void at Youth in Action programsBy DANIELLE SCHUYLER

Editorial Assistant

Across the wooden floors of what used to be a bar, young people army-crawl to catch plastic balls with large serving bowls. Their friends grab them by the ankles, pulling them back to their designated home bases. This is just another Saturday game night at West Sides.

The memories of high school are still fairly fresh for many college students. For some Waynesburg Univer-sity students, this is a reason to help the next generation. These students volunteer through the Greater Waynes-burg Christian Outreach program with a ministry called Youth In Action.

The program meets at West Sides on Monday, Thursday and Saturday nights. Mondays are called “drop-in nights” where the teens just come to relax.

Sometimes there will be a question bowl where they have the opportunity to ask the leaders things about the Bible or life in general. This night tends to be the most popular one.

Thursdays are more geared toward Bible study and attract a handful of teens. Saturdays, referred to as “Saturday Night Live,” have structured activities that vary every other week between game nights, movie nights and whatever else the volunteers decide to plan.

This past Saturday was a game night.

“I just love any and every opportunity to interact with the youth in Waynesburg,”

said Becca Shindelar, senior human services major. “It is incredible to have fun and relax with the youth, with my friends from the univer-sity, in a Christ-loving atmo-sphere.”

Shindelar is a Bonnor Scholar, student leader and West Sides site coordinator.

“We got to play the human version of ‘hungry, hungry hippos’ and plenty of other great games, and it was awe-some to just see everyone so comfortable with being themselves and having a great time,” said Shindelar. “I love seeing college stu-dents embrace their youth-fulness and get competitive with games. You are never too old to enjoy great games with youth.”

While volunteers find it a lot of fun to work with the teens, there are challenges. It has been recognized that the staff is lacking in out-reach and advertising abili-ties. Youth In Action leaders aspire to change this.

“We can always improve on our outreach and adver-tising aspects,” said Shinde-lar. “We also can improve on our outreach to the student body, and helping them to be a part of the work that we do. We have struggled in the past with having enough students from the community and finding ways to fit leaders into the gaps appropriately.”

Youth In Action has in-spired teens to make bet-ter choices and change the courses of their lives. To continue this tradition, they need more Waynesburg Uni-versity students that have a passion for helping others.

“Other Waynesburg stu-dents should volunteer to serve the community that isn’t well known to the col-lege campus,” said Youth In Action mentor and junior creative writing major DeR-on Scott.

According to Shindelar, the youth in the surround-

ing areas have few options for healthy and productive recreation. Through the Youth in Action program, the volunteers from the university hope to use the resources available to invest in the lives of the youth and help them overcome some of the difficult experiences they

might be going through.Shindelar says that anyone

interested in volunteering does not have to be a youth ministries major to help with the program.

“If they want to put their faith into action and men-

tor youth in the area, they should certainly look into playing a role on our lead-ership team,” said Shindelar. “We are seeking new leaders, and are looking for individu-als who want to share their love for God with the youth.”

“If [students] want to put their faith into action and mentor youth in the area, they should certainly look into playing a role on our team.”

REBECCA SHINDELARBonner Scholar

Capstone exhibit completes senior’s art education

By ANNA ARTKOWSKY For the Yellow Jacket

On Monday, senior art major Jason Propst started his last final project as a col-lege student.

Jason is putting on a se-nior art exhibition until April 10th in the Benedum Fine Arts Center (BFAC).

Everyone is welcome to visit the BFAC anytime throughout the day this ex-hibit goes on for. Professor Andrew Heisey has all of his senior art major students put on an exhibition before they graduate. It is called the cap-stone project.

By putting on the exhib-its he holds in the BFAC throughout the year he is hopeful people will learn something.?

“I chose this project to be the senior students' final be-cause art needs to be shown or else it is just a pretty pic-ture, same as theater,” said Heisey. “They do so much preparation and work to create a show and if no one knows about it or doesn’t show up it isn’t a show, the same applies to art.”

Students are required to learn how to put on an art show, get their own frames and hang everything up themselves. It is a very time consuming project. For Propst, art was always a part of his life and he got even more familiar with it has time went on.

“When I was younger, I had a big family so they didn’t always have the mon-ey to buy toys,” said Propst. “They would buy clay instead and I would make my action figures out of that.”?Propst always enjoyed art, to him it was fun. Eventually he real-ized maybe he could make some extra money in college off of the things he created.

Once junior year came around, he took one art class with Professor Heisey he fell in love and couldn’t imagine doing anything else. From working so hard and learning so much over past few years there will be much to see at this exhibit.

Everything including oil

pastels, drawings, paintings, acrylics, sculptures, ceram-ics, people figures made out of clay and jewelry he made that will be on sale at the show.

Propst’s favorite piece that will be on display are the life size Minotaur, which is a man with a head of a bull made out of clay. He also fa-vors his drawing of the Three Samurai which is based off of the movie “The Last Samu-rai.” Propst has not only been impressing people at school, but other places as well. Great opportunities have crossed his path outside of Waynesburg University.

He was offered an intern-ship at Light of Life in Pitts-burgh, for art therapy and taught some classes.

His interview was sup-posed to be non-profit but once they saw Propst’s pas-sion for art they made the internship work for him.?

Professor Heisey has watched Propst grow im-mensely over the years at Waynesburg University.

“I appreciate seeing he has an idea and does whatever he has to do to get it done,” said Heisey. “He pushes himself to do things that are above normal. He likes things ex-tremely complicated.”

Jason had a few encourag-ing words to future art stu-dents or majors who have a passion for the art like he does.

“If it is something you ac-tually truly care about and put time into it, you will get results, but if you don’t love it, don’t do it,” said Propst.

After graduation Propst will be returning back to Light of Life to continue his art career.

“If it is something you truly care about and put time into, you will get results. If you don’t love it, don’t do it.”

JASON PROPSTSenior Art Major

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T H E B A C K P A G E

Easter is on a different date each year, and no it’s not just to throw you off.

In 325 A.D, the Council of Nicea determined that Easter would be the Sunday following the paschal moon, which is the moon that falls on or after the spring equinox. The paschal moon bears significance because it was the date of the Passover and The Last Supper.

Easter eggs are a sign of fertility, creation and rebirth which is also closely associated with springtime. In 19th century Germany, eggs were used as a form of a birth certificate. Eggs dyed with names etched into them were accepted as a legal form of identification. Try bringing an inscribed egg next time you need a form of ID.

The name “Easter” is derived from Eostre which was the mother and the goddess of the Saxons in Northern Europe. She was honored at pagan festivals to celebrate the beginning of spring.

It’s no surprise that the Easter bunny isn’t mentioned in the Bible. Where did we get such a tradition? There’s no clear consensus about the origin of the Easter bunny. However, some believe that the Easter bunny traveled to America through German immigrants who held on to a German tradition in which an egg laying bunny called “Osterhase” would lay eggs. Children would make “nests” where they rabbit could lay their colored eggs. Americans adapted and expanded this tradition to include other gifts.

Americans spend approximately 1.9 Billion dollars on Easter candy. Easter is the second top selling candy related holiday. Easter is a more profitable candy seller than both Valentine’s Day and Christmas.

In 1878, President Rutherford B. Hayes started the annual tradition of the White House “Easter Egg Roll” which takes place

on the front lawn of the White House.

Peeps, a big commercialized Easter favorite, originally were made by hand and they took almost 30 hours to make. According to USA Today, “It took the women 27 hours from start to finish to make the Peeps mostly because it took the marshmallow a long time to cool before it could be packaged for consumers.” They’ve increased production since their first production run making a total of 5.5 million Peeps per day.

In 2007 9,753 children participated in the largest Easter egg hunt with a total of 501,000 eggs. Children searched for eggs at Cypress Gardens Adventure Park in Winter Haven Florida.

Regardless of your faith, Easter is a fun time to spend with family and friends. Hopefully we can all agree on one thing: warm weather is on its way.

Springtime has officially arrived. Whether you get up early for a sunrise Easter service celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ or you spend time with family, these little known Easter facts are sure to be conversation starters.

SOURCES: International Business Times, Huffington Post, Dosomething.org, History.com, Birminghammail.co.uk, Vecteezy.comDESIGN BY: Megan Potosky

BY NIKA ANSCHUETZNEWS MULTIMEDIA EDITOR

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