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[email protected] strike still possible

By Nicholas DevoePracticum Writer

Throughout this se-mester, WCU’s fac-ulty has endured

an ongoing process of negotiating a contract to meet the needs for both the APSCUF (the teach-ers and coaches Union for all 14 Pennsylvania state universities) and PASSHE (Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education). The staff has been working without contract for 18 months and counting. In the most recent talks of negotia-tions, it appears a strike next semester is possible.

“Last week, faculty in the 14 state univer-sities across Pennsyl-vania overwhelmingly approved a strike autho-rization vote. Over 86 percent of faculty across

the state voted, and 95 percent of them approved the strike vote,” English Professor Dr. Cheryl Wanko commented in a mass email to WCU Eng-lish majors. With how involved she has been with keeping everyone informed, Dr. Wanko can be described as the infor-mal PR representative for the union with this struggle.

The teachers have ex-pressed that this does not indicate that they definitely will be going on strike. There likely will not be a strike until next semester if things are still unresolved, and it will not be at the begin-ning of the semester.

“They will have more power over the PASSHE system once the semes-ter starts,” commented

Mr. Bauerlein, advisor for journalism minors. Wanko was simply stat-ing the numbers for our current situation, and of course preparing us for the worst. Unfortunate-ly, even though students need answers because a strike could greatly af-fect students’ anticipated graduation, this article does not have any con-crete news of a decision one way or another.

The faculty is trying to get a contract that is fair for everyone. They invest a great deal of their time and energy into educa-tion, so in turn, they de-serve a solid contract. As all WCU students know, many teachers here spe-cifically offer devotion to education above and beyond the average by taking the time for each

and every individual stu-dent with their issues, whether it is academic or personal matters. This is a definite reason why the faculty should get what they truly deserve.

On Nov. 27, APSCUF issued an open letter ex-plaining everything to the students across the 14 state schools involved. It states that there is definitely no chance of a strike this semester. It thoroughly explained the issues the faculty has with the Chancellor, some of which must be noted to give the students perspective: the Chancel-lor wants a different pay scale for temporary fac-ulty. He is still proposing to increase payments for faculty on reduced health care benefits.

“He wants to cut our

retirement healthcare and stop offering it to new faculty,” stated Steve Hicks, APSCUF President.

What the union simply wants is what is fair, and at all costs faculty wants to avoid a strike because of the detriment it can have on the students’ ed-ucation. On the other side of things, the Chancellor is making very differ-ent proposals. Faculty in the APSCUF is making a strong and must-needed stand. Hicks mentioned in the letter that they did not even mention the idea of a strike for over a year because of several attempts to put the ball in the Chancellor’s court and give him the oppor-tunity to draw up a fair contract. Hicks empha-sized that on the staff’s side of this dispute, they have been more than willing to compromise.

“We have done our best to try to avoid a strike. We gave the Chancel-lor several opportunities to settle a fair contract, including a two-year ex-tension proposal and the offer of binding arbitra-tion. We offered to pay more for health care and suggested ways for Chan-cellor to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in health care costs. He rejected them all,” Hicks explained.

Most importantly, what does a strike mean for students? It appears a strike will really make the campus quite stag-nant. Dr. Wanko expand-ed on this, spelling out specifically what will be stopped during a strike.

“Since a strike is a

work stoppage, your teachers do not teach classes. You may see them outside on picket lines. If someone is teach-ing in your classroom, that means that either s/he has crossed the picket line and is not supporting the strike, or has been put there by the adminis-tration. Usually, classes simply will not occur: you will not be supervised in student teaching or other internships; no advis-ing happens; no grades get posted; no gradua-tion clearances are pro-cessed; no clubs or other activities have faculty in-volvement. Faculty work stops, and faculty are not paid,” Wanko explained via mass e-mail to all English majors.

The staff clearly has demands that must be met, and the Chancellor of the school system is limiting a resource that students need: an educa-tion. Tuition dollars go towards a bigger entity than just that diploma to be framed at Dynamic Books. Students need the tools to go out and excel in this world, and it appears on an admin-istrative level that the PASSHE system is po-tentially holding stu-dents back. The ability to get these skills needed is going to be hampered by ‘cutting costs’. Readers should send an email to the Chancellor, at [email protected], and share thoughts with him on this process, such as why he should finally cut a deal with faculty. Nicholas Devoe is a fifth-year student majoring in English with a minor in journalism. He can be reached at [email protected].

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News Students Actively Moving Forward restarts WCU chapterBy Theresa Kelly

Staff Writer

Students Actively Moving Forward is a nonprofit na-

tional organization that helps college students to cope with their grief over an illness or death of a loved one. At West Chester University, four students have been working towards re-starting the WCU chap-ter of Students Actively Moving Forward.

West Chester Uni-versity’s chapter of Students Actively Mov-ing Forward will be a network of support for grieving students, run for students by stu-dents. It will also be a

community service orga-nization – with students working on projects that can directly relate to their passions. West Chester University used to have an active chap-ter of Students Actively Moving Forward. With the months of hard work and dedication of sopho-mores, Lauren Leonard (president), Brandon Messick (vice president), Ezekiel Ottemiller (sec-retary), and Zachary Wooten (treasurer), the WCU chapter of the or-ganization was officially approved by the Student Government Association to restart next semester.

According to Zach Wooten, treasurer, they

are not psychologists, “just students who have experienced the loss of a loved one in a profound way and therefore want to be there for each oth-er, as well as members of the campus communi-ty.” According to Balk, Walker, and Baker (2010), in the past two years, one in three col-lege students have lost a loved one. Wooten stressed the importance of getting the word out about AMF, because even if a student has not personally experienced loss, they probably know someone who has.

AMF was founded in 2006 by David Fajgen-baum and Benjamin

Chesson. In 2003, two weeks before Fajgen-baum’s freshman year at Georgetown Univer-sity, his mother was diagnosed with brain cancer. Two weeks be-fore she passed away in 2004, while visiting his mother, Fajgenbaum thought of the idea for AMF. His mother, who had been worried about how he would deal with his loss, approved.

He formed the first chapter of AMF with ten of his classmates. This quickly expanded to over four hundred people at Georgetown. AMF, at the time, stood for Ailing Mothers and Fathers, as well as his mother’s ini-

tials. With the help of his

best friend, Benjamin Chesson, Fajgenbaum turned National Stu-dents of Ailing Mothers and Fathers Support Network into a national nonprofit in early 2006. In 2009, the organiza-tion changed its name to National Students of AMF (Actively Mov-ing Forward). Over the years, there have been over 170 chapters of AMF on campuses across the country. To-day, there are 44 official college campus chapters of AMF. Over 2,000 students have been in-volved with AMF in the past six years.

West Chester Univer-sity Students of AMF will meet on the first and third Tuesdays of each month next se-mester. They will also do “various volunteer service projects in an ef-fort to actively move for-ward in a positive way,” Zach Wooten said. If any students are inter-ested in getting involved with the service group or the support group, contact Lauren Leonard ([email protected].) For more information on National Students of AMF visit http://www.studentsofamf.org/.Theresa Kelly is a first year student majoring in English Literature Secondary Education. She can be reached at [email protected].

Reinstated organization serves as both support group and volunteer opportunity

Humans are no longer as intelligent as in 1000 B.C.

By Rhonda BartlettPracticum Writer

“The immense capacity of the human brain to learn new tricks is un-

der attack from an array of genetic mutations that have accumulated since people started since peo-ple started living in cities a few thousand years ago.”

Leading geneticist Dr. Gerald Crabtree, a pro-fessor at Stanford Uni-versity, put the idea out that rather than becom-ing brighter, human in-telligence has reached its peak several years ago and from then on has been a slow decline in our intel-lectual and emotional abil-ities. Crabtree explained that human intelligence and emotions depended on thousands of genes.

“I would wager that if an

average citizen from Ath-ens of 1000 B.C. were to appear suddenly amongst us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions, with good memory, a broad range of ideas, and clear-slighted view of important issues,” Crabtree said in a paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics.

Crabtree bases his ar-gument on the fact that, for more than 99 percent of human evolutionary history, we have lived as hunter-gatherer com-munities, which has led to big-brained humans. Since the development of agriculture and cities, however, natural selection on our intellect has effec-tively stopped and muta-tions have accumulated

in the critical intelligence genes.

Crabtree continued by saying, “Furthermore, I would guess that he or she would be among the most emotionally stable of our friends and colleagues. I would also make this wager for the ancient in-habitants of Africa, Asia, India or the Americas, or perhaps 2,000 to 6,000 years ago.”

Between the genomes of parents and children has revealed that on aver-age there are 25 to 65 new mutations occurring in the DNA of each generation. Crabtree say that this analysis predicts about 5,000 new mutations in the past 120 generations, which covers the about 3,000 years.

“The basis for my wager comes from new develop-

ments in genetics, anthro-pology, and neurobiology that make a clear predic-tion that our intellectual and emotional abilities are genetically surprising-ly fragile,” says Crabtree.

The life of hunter-gath-erer was probably more intellectually demanding, Crabtree explains.

“A hunter-gatherer who did not correctly conceive a solution to providing food or shelter probably died, along the with his or her progeny, whereas a modern Wall Street execu-tive that made a similar conceptual mistake would receive a substantial bo-nus and be a more attrac-tive mate.”

Rhonda Bartlett is a fourth-year student majoring in professional studies and minoring in the-atre and journalism. She can be reached at [email protected].

WEIRD NEWSAveterinarian believes that she

can prove the existence of Bigfoot through DNA testing. She has

tested some hair from an alleged Bigfoot encounter, and apparently the research team has concluded that the hair came from a hybrid between a human and a primate that developed somewhere around 15,000 years ago - but they need more evidence to be completely sure.

Recently, South Korea has built “the world’s first toilet theme park.” The park features a history

of toilets, from Roman-style loos to an-cient Korean flush toilets. Facts about human waste are also displayed around.

Detectives are looking for two men who were caught on surveillance tape stealing about 300 pairs of

panties from a Victoria’s Secret store in downtown San Diego.


WCU hosts famous journalist, Roya HakakianBy Nicholas Devoe

Practicum Writer

On Nov. 27, nation-ally acclaimed Iranian-American

writer Roya Hakakian held a craft lecture and discussion at the WCU Poetry House. Located on the furthest edge of east campus, the poetry center was packed with students and teachers excited to hear the illustrious author speak of her works.

Hakakian was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She lived through the Ira-nian Revolution in 1979 as an active supporter for the liberals. During the Iran-Iraq war she unwill-ingly immigrated to the United States in 1985. Her entire family has left Iran since the revolution, and are scattered around the world. The writer set-tled in New York, studied psychology at Brooklyn College and received a Masters in Social Work at Hunter College.

Hakakian is credited with two collections of po-etry written in Persian. She is a former producer for 60 Minutes, and col-laborated with other jour-nalists for hours of other broadcasts such as ABC specials with Peter Jen-nings, Discovery, and The Learning Channel. Most important to the content of her discussion, she is the author of two non-fiction books. Journey from the Land of No is her memoir of living as a Jewish teen-ager in revolutionary Iran. Also she published Assas-sins of the Turquoise Pal-ace, an account of the 1992 shooting of four Kurdish and Iranian activists in a Berlin restaurant.

The journalist held two separate one-hour presen-tations Tuesday, one at 4:30 p.m. and another at 7:00 p.m. She focused on

different literature in each session but thoroughly ex-plained how to craft char-acters when constructing a book. To aid in creating characters for her non-

fiction books she utilizes very extensive tactics to ensure she lives through that person. She empha-sized the importance of ex-haustive research in order to prevent writer’s block or the blank page.

“With the two books mentioned, I have taken at least one year each to organize my research, to get a handle on the mas-sive amount of material

that I possess… At the end of both of these proj-ects I could also start a museum on my subjects. I have enough documen-tation, photos and other

material that I can prob-ably take a space like this [poetry house], or prob-ably larger than this, and turn it into a museum on each of the subjects that I wrote about. So what becomes really beautiful, and in a way inevitable, is that once you have this much material and once you own in your mind that much material, is that there’s nothing that is

blank. Because there’s so much that you can grasp at. There’s so much mate-rial that’s at your finger-tips at any moment. And you can simply decide,

rather than having the question be what you’re going to write about, the question becomes how it is that you can insert this material... The question becomes of all this mate-rial that you have, how is it that you want to piece it together. So it becomes more of a question of engi-neering than of creating. It becomes almost a me-chanical decision,” Hakak-

ian said. The writer specifically

referenced her memoir, Journey from the Land of No. The story is a decade of Hakakian’s life, half-way through the Iranian Revolution. She wrote of her struggles as a Jew-ish girl in Iran. Iran was an Islamic state and af-ter the revolution, things changed for the worse. In particular, racial and gen-der issues pervaded the country.

As result of this, she did not simply take an account of what she saw. Rather, Hakakian took the advance on the book and went all around the world to interview the characters of her memoir that experienced it with her.

“I’m interested in the truth. I’m genuinely curi-ous as to what it is that other people experienced even as I was there. I’m interested in the notion of writing being something much bigger than myself,” she said.

When asked what it was like to grow up as a Jewish girl in ‘70s and ‘80s Iran, Hakakian said, “ B e i n g Jewish was a disadvan-tage…Being a woman was a disadvantage…It was an intolerant bureaucra-cy. Being Jewish we had less access to better edu-cation, higher education, business opportunities… We were encouraged to jump ship and become the norm… There were more rewards for being Muslim. It’s based on apartheid: a general apartheid, a divi-sion between male and fe-male. There is no freedom of speech. There are no civil liberties and no di-versity to political parties. I’m hoping for democracy to take root in Iran. And for women to be granted equal rights.”

In all of this talk about liberty, civil rights, and proper allowance of po-litical diversity, it would be difficult not to wonder what the writer’s goal was with her other mentioned novel, Assassins of the Turquoise Palace, which vividly created the scene for the assassinations in a Berlin restaurant and showed the story of solv-ing who was responsible for these killings.

“I wanted to talk about how terrorism is terror-ism. Iranians themselves have been a target same as the U.S. Victims are not targeted by national-ity. Victims are targeted by the values we share; like the U.S. for being a democracy, it’s the same for those Iranian men who were killed,” she ex-plained.

Through her discussion of her writing during the two presentations, and education of the craft of character creation laden throughout the evening, Hakakian’s audience was bestowed with a gift that evening. Hakakian pre-pared a fully seated po-etry house with how to truly avoid blank page or writer’s block. In particu-lar she took the time to talk about technique in book writing. It was very generous for such an esteemed journalist, novelist, and poet to visit West Chester’s campus and share her methods for success. The education in book writing she offered was more than anyone could have asked for. Ad-ditionally, the information she presented about life abroad in Iran and what needs to change gave true perspective on current events.

Nicholas Devoe is a fifth-year stu-dent majoring in English with a minor in journalism. He can be reached at [email protected].

Iranian-American author Roya Hakakian visits WCU’s Poetry House to discuss her work as a writer.

Photo by Nicholas Devoe


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BLUER hosts pollution summitKelly Graham Bocich

Special to The Quad

Local groups with an eye toward emis-sions reduction

gathered Saturday Nov. 3 at the West Chester Mu-nicipal Building to share goals, accomplishments, and challenges at the first Greenhouse Gas Pollution Summit.

West Chester BLUER (Borough Leaders United for Emissions Reduc-tion), an ad hoc committee formed by Borough Council to reduce greenhouse gas pollution 10 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2015, hosted the first of what is planned to become a quarterly event. Nearby townships, schools, and re-gional groups were invited to share both their suc-cesses and challenges to encourage new ideas and collaboration to reach mu-

tual goals of sustainability and reduced carbon emis-sions.

In addition to BLUER, participants included West Vincent Township Sustainability Commit-tee, Westtown School, Downingtown West High School, West Chester Uni-versity, Chester County Planning Commission, Chester County Citizens for Climate Protection (4CP), PennFuture, and the Delaware Valley Re-gional Planning Commis-sion.

A common theme that emerged was concern over the intersection between the environment, public health and the economy. “We have engineered physical activity from our environments,” said Wes Bruckno of the Chester County Planning Commis-sion. This means not only

are we increasing pollu-tion with our dependence on cars, but has severe public health implications as this lack of physical ac-tivity means an increase in obesity. “The economy and society exist within the en-vironment,” said Dianne Herrin of BLUER. “With-out the environment, there is no economy or society.”

Important conversations were started at the first Greenhouse Gas Pollution Summit, and to continue to grow these relation-ships, planning for how to move forward with future Summits are already in the works. We invite all community-based emis-sions reductions groups to join the conversation by emailing [email protected].

Kelly Graham Bochich is a mem-ber of BLUER. She can be reached at [email protected]

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Reformed Neo-Nazi T.J. Leyden speaks to WCU students

By Carol FritzStaff Writer

On Monday, Nov. 12, reformed Neo-Nazi Tom “T.J.”

Leyden spoke to WCU students in an event called “Escape the Hate” in the Asplundh The-ater. Sponsored by Con-temporary Issues, the Philosophy Department, LGBTQA, CALYPSO, AFRISA, Sisters United, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, BSU, Associa-tion for Women’s Em-powerment, SAC, Greek Life, Men In Action, and Hillel, the event was brought to campus by Leyden’s business STRHATE Talk Consult-ing.

Leyden told his life sto-ry to students. He grew up in an Irish-Catholic family in Fontana, Calif. His parents divorced and at 15 years old, he moved to Redlands, Calif. There he became involved with white supremacists and attended many punk rock, slam-dancing con-certs, which he said were “strictly about violence,” and he formed his own group of skinheads. His parents’ divorce allowed him to easily lie and sneak around with his new group of “friends.” He described the skin-heads’ mantra by saying, “We hate everybody who isn’t white,” although he said that 90 percent of his victims that he assaulted were “white kids” and “rich fags.”

“I was taught hate. I was taught prejudice. Violence, to me, was love,” Leyden said.

Leyden described the skinheads’ “tear down

and rebuild” method in which members would belittle, make fun of, and abuse each other but then provide posi-tive reinforcement and a sense of belonging to keep them in the group. Leyden noted that this method is also used in the United States mili-tary.

In his young adult life, Leyden was in and out of county jail numerous times. At 21 years old, he joined the United States Marine Corps, which allowed members of hate groups to en-list at that time as long as they were “passive members.” (Later in the lecture, Leyden talked about his transgender brother wanting to re-enlist with the Marines, but he could not. “My brother couldn’t re-enlist because he is transgen-der. I, as a racist, could,” Leyden said.) While in the Marines, Leyden be-came a more active mem-ber of the white power movement. He was in-fluenced by reading ma-terials such as Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and “The Turner Diaries” by Wil-liam Luther Pierce, the latter of which Oklaho-ma City bomber Timothy McVeigh had read while he was in the United States Army at the same time Leyden was in the Marines.

Leyden said that while he was in the Marines, he was, “drinking as much as I weighed and fighting constantly.” He was eventually sent to a treatment program in Rhode Island but left shortly after.

He began recruit-ing children in middle schools for the white power movement be-cause before puberty, children are easier to mold. Leyden explained that media with white power messages also influences youth. He provided the following statistics about media and white supremacy: The white power move-ment targets children as young as nine years old with video gaming; In 1995, there was one racist hate-group web-site on the Internet, but there are over 14,000 websites today; there are more than a dozen white power clothing lines in the United States. He added that Geraldo Ri-vera’s “Skinhead Brawl,” which first aired on tele-vision on November 10, 1988, recruited many white surpremacists. He also explained that even after many complaints, iTunes still sells music with racist lyrics.

“And music is the most powerful recruitment tool in the world,” Ley-den said.

Leyden told a story about when two of his five sons were young, and one of his sons shut the television off because there was a black man on it. Although he was proud at first, Leyden began to wonder what his sons were going to be like when they grew up. He said that his two old-est sons had “turned the lights on” for him, and he eventually began to change his views.

“Your outside life per-meates inside your fam-

ily,” Leyden said. The first person Ley-

den told that he was changing his lifestyle was his mother. He di-vorced his white suprem-acist wife, who was le-gally allowed to take her sons to any white power events as long as she su-pervised them, and he turned over all of his rac-ist propaganda and was debriefed by the United States government for two and a half weeks.

After 15 years of pro-moting racism and hate, Leyden left the white power movement. He worked for the Task Force Against Hate at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, was invited by former President Bill Clinton to speak at the White House, has trained thousands of professionals and stu-dents on hate crimes, and has been featured on several television shows and thousands of publications. In 2008, he co-authored his au-tobiography, “Skinhead Confessions: From Hate to Hope,” which is avail-able at strhatetalk.com.

Leyden advised stu-dents to be positive men-tors because that was something that his life had lacked. He also told students to be active an-ti-racists, which includes not telling any seeming-ly harmless racist jokes.

“Any joke that per-petuates hate or bigotry feeds into the system, feeds into racism,” Ley-den said.Carol Fritz is a fourth-year student majoring in communication studies. She can be reached at [email protected].

Greek organizations elect 2012-2013 executive boards

By Jenny BowersSpecial to The Quad

On the evening of Nov. 29, the Pan-Hellenic Council

(PHC), the Inter Fra-ternal Council (IFC), and the Black and La-tino Governing Council (BLGC) held elections for their 2012- 2013 execu-tive boards. These gov-erning councils serve as the governance structure for 25 chapters on WCU’s campus.

PHC organizes the fall formal recruitment pro-cesses, schedules month-ly educational speakers, organizes service out-reach initiatives, and in the spring organizes a week of education and networking for the over 500 sorority women.

Newly elected presi-dent, Alexis Townsend said, “I have no doubt that the women on the new executive board will excel and provide great leadership to our Greek community.”

IFC is to promote the highest standards of gentlemanly behavior and good taste as well as facilitate and increase positive relationships be-tween fraternities.

In an interview with Mitch Paulinho directly after his appointment as IFC President, he said “The newly elected men of the Inter-Fraternal Council will inspire posi-tive change with deter-mination and passion.”

BLGC strives to pro-mote unity and coopera-tion amongst the minor-ity Greeks on campus. All of these organizations will surely improve the Greek life community

on West Chester Univer-sity’s campus.

The executive board of the Inter Fraternal Council is comprised of President Mitch Pau-linho, Vice President Internal Jared Epstein, Vice President Exter-nal Ted Schnitzler, Vice President of Recruitment Kevin Hammond, Vice President of Communi-cations Evan Booth, Par-liamentarian Jeff Bruhn, Vice President of Schol-arship John Scheck, Vice President of Finance Kyle Gallagher, and Vice President of Risk Management/ Standards Mike Dattalo.

The new PanHellenic Council executive board is made up of President Alexis Townsend, Vice President Internal Kirst-en Cirelli, Vice Presi-dent External Shelby Martin, Vice President of Membership Ashley Stone, Vice President of Recruitment Angelina Reiher, Vice President of Scholarship Emily Britt, Vice President of Communications Georgy Weber, Vice President of Programming Elizabeth Murdoch, Vice Presi-dent of Finance Rachel Goodwin, and Student Government Association representative Olivia Gi-larde.

The executive board of the Black and Latino Governing Council is President Richard Gon-zales, Vice President of Operations Sonia Vasquez and Vice Presi-dent of Service- Kevin Mcfisher.Jennifer Bowers is a second-year student majoring in business marketing. She can be reached at [email protected].


WCU hosts second annual Sleep Out to End Hunger and Homelessness

On Nov. 16, West Chester University hosted the second

annual Sleep Out to End Hunger and Homeless-ness on the residential quad. The event lasted from 6 p.m. on Friday night until 6 a.m. on Sat-urday morning. The Sleep Out was a part of Resolve to Fight Poverty and Na-tional Hunger and Home-lessness Awareness Week, which lasted from Nov. 12-20.

“The Sleep Out was definitely a success,” said Dawna Jones, the Resi-dent Director of Wayne Hall and part of the Sleep Out Planning Committee. “We had over 300 par-ticipants. Our goal was to have at least 50 more par-ticipants than last year [when we had 250], and we exceeded that goal.”

The mission of the Sleep Out was to raise aware-ness as well as donations for the homeless shelters and food cupboards of

Chester County. Partici-pants, who registered in teams, were asked to do-nate items or find sponsors for their teams to donate one item per hour spent outside. For example, three hours on the quad in the cold translated to three canned goods, $3, or three scarves. Among the list of suggested donations

were scarves, hats/gloves, grocery gift cards, canned vegetables and healthy nonperishable foods. Ac-cording to Dawna Jones, the Chester County shel-ters and food cupboards were thrilled about the in-coming donations.

“The representative from the food cupboard, after hearing how many

donations we were expect-ing to bring, was so sur-prised by the quantity that she told us that we would need to make an appoint-ment to drop off the dona-tions so that they would be prepared,” Jones ex-plained.

The Sleep Out Plan-ning Com-mittee began preparations for the Sleep

Out very early. “The plan-ning committee met most Sundays in October and November to plan for the Sleep Out. Subcommit-tees would meet outside of the meeting time to pre-pare as well,” said Leah Coan, an-other mem-ber of the committee. “It required a lot of orga-nization and making sure everyone was on the same page. Since this was the second Sleep Out at West Chester, we were able to learn from last year and make the necessary improvements.”

When the time came for the actual event, setup began for the Planning Committee at 4:30 p.m. Following that, team lead-ers were encouraged to

come out and stake out their spaces either with cardboard boxes, cots, or tents at 5:30 p.m. By 6:00 p.m., the Sleep Out was in full swing. There were speakers from both Safe Harbor, a Chester County homeless shelter, as well as from the West Ches-ter Food Cupboard. After listening to the speakers, participants were encour-aged to eat soup or drink hot chocolate while near the archway of Univer-sity Hall, a laptop played music for participants to dance to. Throughout the course of the night, the committee also played two movies with a theme of homelessness: Pay it For-ward and August Rush. However, after the movies were over, it was time for participants to settle down and try to keep warm as the temperature contin-ued to drop as dawn ap-proached.

Sleep Out participant

Katie Lyons said, “It was really cold outside and it was so heartbreaking to know that homeless people have to deal with that ev-ery day, and some of them don’t even get tents to sleep in. They just have to

sleep out there in the cold. And we took advantage of the fact that we could come back into Wayne when it was over to get warm.”

The donations from the Sleep Out continue to keep coming in. For students who are interested in mak-ing a difference, the Com-mittee is still collecting do-nations at the Wayne Hall front desk up until the university closes for win-ter break, but the dona-tions have already reached almost 300 food items, 65 clothing items, and $300 in monetary donations, much to the delight of the Sleep Out Planning Committee.

“What’s most important is that people remember the plight of the home-less in Chester County,” explained Jones. “It may have seemed like a fun dance party from the out-side, but in truth, through our donations as well as the overwhelming partici-pation in the Sleep Out, we

succeeded in our mission: to raise awareness and to make a difference for the less fortunate in Chester County.”

Clare Haggerty is a second-year stu-dent majoring in English. She can be reached at [email protected].

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WCU students work to establish FeelGood chapter

By Paige WolstSpecial to The Quad

All throughout my life I have often wondered, how

can I better myself? Although not many college students nec-essarily think about this, most students do indeed want to better

themselves. After tak-ing multiple social work classes here at West Chester University, I am often taught, as well as practice, what we, in the social work major, call “Self-Awareness.” In each class, we focus on knowing who we re-ally are so we can have self-awareness to help others. Like most peo-ple my age, I am work-ing on my self-aware-ness; after all, how am I really supposed to know who I truly am at 19 years old? So I have discovered that the an-swer to my question is

that I can better myself through others. And in my opinion, one of the best ways to do this is through volunteering. In high school, I volun-teered in various clubs, in my church, and through a mentoring program in my school district. When I came

to college, I just did not feel as if I had the time to be as involved in all the clubs on campus, which led to a feeling of emptiness in my life. I needed something to fill this void in my life.

One summer night, my best friend from col-lege, Blair Campbell, who was currently liv-ing in Washington D.C., called me and told me she wanted to talk to me about something. Blair then informed me of this organiza-tion called FeelGood. Of course, I had no idea what this organization

was about until she told me, and I was immedi-ately hooked! FeelGood is a non-profit organiza-tion that works towards ending world hunger by the end of our lifetime. In order to do this, Feel-Good has chapters on college campuses across the country sell grilled

cheese sandwiches and donates 100 percent of the proceeds to sus-tainable organizations that not only help, but will also provide people struggling with star-vation the skills and tools necessary to pro-vide their own food. Blair then asked me if I would like to be a part of this youth movement and help start a chapter on WCU’s campus. This seemed like the perfect way for me to fill the void in my life and have a blast doing it!

A few months later, when Blair and I were

back on campus, we be-gan the process of be-coming recognized as a student organization on campus. Blair and I were in contact with some people in charge at the FeelGood nation-al headquarters, and one night I was offered a free ticket to attend the Hunger Summit 2012 in New York City. I could not pass up the amaz-ing opportunity and within just two days’ time, I was packed and ready for an adventure. Traveling by myself to a city and meeting all new people was a brand new experience and I was a little nervous, but beyond excited. On Oct. 12, I went to NYC and my life was completely changed by the Hunger Summit. I learned how to refine money and

how money is not nec-essarily a dollar value, but rather a personal value. I was informed on how to be completely invested in FeelGood and various techniques to make our chapter better. I attended the Hunger Project’s Sym-posium on how they achieve ending world hunger and the Hun-ger Project’s Gala. Au-thor Charles Eisenstein gave a speech on the Psychology of the Gift, which essentially led to the explanation that the expansion of your-self onto others shows that you care about something beyond your-self, and that our en-tire universe is based on giving: true wealth comes from generosity rather than money.

When I came back

to West Chester, I was beyond ready to make a change! FeelGood is currently in the process of becoming a recog-nized student organiza-tion. If you are inspired and interested in join-ing the movement to end world hunger one grilled cheese sandwich at a time, please join our OrgSync page or contact Paige Wolst at [email protected] if you have any further questions.

I’ll leave you with the quote by Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”Paige Wolst is a second-year student majoring in social work. She can be reached at [email protected].

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By Eryn AielloPracticum Writer

Finals week is here - a guide to overcoming the stress and

making it to winter break

It’s that time of the se-mester again…finals week is slowly ap-

proaching, leaving many students in a state of stress. Often times, stu-dents, especially fresh-men who are about to experience their first set of college finals, feel that studying for such a wide range of subjects seems almost impossible. Although some refer to finals week as “stress

week,” this does not al-ways have to be the case. With the right approach, preparing for finals may not prove to be as stress-ful as many students like to make them seem.

One of the most neces-sary steps in ensuring that one does not stress out when studying for their exams is to make an organized schedule as a way to divide how much time they want to allot to each subject. Without a proper organized schedule to help them understand specifically what will be

covered on the exam, they will become entirely overwhelmed by the mass volume of papers and chapters that each of their classes entail. A recent article from the Health Education Services at Georgetown University suggests using calendars, notepads, and bulletin boards to keep everything organized. Also, mak-ing sure that one’s study environment is neat and organized is also recom-mended in order to create a less stressful, cluttered atmosphere.

Experts from Health Education Services also insist that students take a break every once in a while, in order to give their brains a rest. Taking a walk, talking to a friend, calling someone from home, getting something to eat, or anything else that will get their mind off of studying for a short pe-riod will keep them calm and focused.

Another suggestion would be to sit quietly

and meditate in between studying. Deborah Schoe-berlein, author of “Mind-ful Teaching and Teach-ing Mindfulness” explains that when people have too many mental tasks to focus on, it decreases the brains rate that it can process information, which leads to frustration and the dreaded six let-ter word… stress. This is what often happens when students study for their fi-nals, so in order to avoid

this, set aside 10 minutes in between studying to focus on breathing and to keep a calm state of mind.

Remember to keep these tips in mind when studying for finals next week because those who do will be more likely to come out mentally focused and prepared for their ex-ams.

Eryn Aiello is a fourth-year student majoring in communication studies with a minor in journalism. She can be reached at [email protected].

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Sparkling Champagne CupcakesServings: 18 cupcakesPreparation Time: 30 minutesCooking Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients For cupcakes: • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour • 3 tsp baking powder • 1 tsp salt • 2/3 cup butter • 1 1/2 cups white sugar • 3/4 cup champagne • 6 egg whites

For frosting: • 3 1/4 cups powdered sugar • 1 cup butter, at room temperature • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract • 3 tbsp champagne, at room temperature

InstructionsTo make cupcakes:1. Preheat oven to 350° F. Prepare cupcake pans with liners.

2. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until very fluffy. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together, and blend into creamed mixture alternately with champagne.

3. In another large clean bowl, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold 1/3 of the whites into batter, and fold in remain-ing egg whites. Fill the cupcake liners to about 2/3 full.

4. Bake at 350° F for 20 minutes.

To make frosting:1. With an electric mixer, beat together sugar and butter on low until blended and then on medium for two minutes.

2. Add vanilla and champagne, and beat on medium for one min-ute.

We made these cupcakes last week for our friend’s 21st birthday, and they were a huge hit. Everyone loved them, especially the super sweet frosting! Enjoy!

Campus Cooking English Club’s Literary

MagazineBy Colleen Cummings

Copy Editor

The English Club at WCU is a student-run organization

that focuses on literature and art. They meet Mon-days at 7:30 p.m. in Sykes 209. Here they read and discuss short stories, watch films, critique dif-ferent pieces of literature, and participate in writ-ing prompts. The Eng-lish Club holds open mic nights in the Sykes ball-room the first Tuesday of every month. They also participate in off-campus events such as visiting the local Lincoln Tea Room and Baldwin’s Book Barn - a five-story book-store. The club is always open to new students who are interested in the events and meetings that they hold.

The upcoming events of

the English Club include an open mic night on Dec. 4 at 9 p.m., and “The Mid-night in Paris” dress-up night, also on Dec. 4, in Sykes’ ballrooms from 6-9 p.m. hosted by Alpha Mu Gamma. In February, the English Club is going to Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre to see Os-car Wilde’s “The Ideal Husband.” They are also in the process of writing a proposal for a grant on a trip to Washington, D.C. which would be open to the student body.

The English Club is currently working on a lit-erary magazine titled “Li-terati.” The magazine is written by WCU students and edited and published by the English Club. The club is accepting any po-ems, prose, short stories, and artwork from stu-dents until April 1. “Lite-

rati” is sold on campus in late April until the end of the semester. It is a good opportunity for students to be published and add onto their resumes.

As the semester comes to a close, it is a great time for students to sub-mit the works that they created in their classes.

Students can submit their work, or any ques-tions they may have about the editing and publish-ing process, to [email protected].

If interested, students can attend the meetings, or join the club on Org-sync. The club can also be reached on facebook, face-book.com/groups/wcuEng-lish.Colleen Cummings is a second-year student majoring in English with minors in graphic design and journalism. She can be reached at [email protected].

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By Eryn AielloPracticum Writer

Reputation Changer looking to hire WCU students

Calling all writers! Reputation Chang-er, a local West

Chester company, located right on North Church St., is looking to hire up to 20 West Chester col-lege students who excel in writing. Prospective applicants should be in the journalism, English, or communication stud-ies departments. This job opportunity heavily em-phasizes writing, which is why anyone interested in this position should be passionate about writing and hoping for a future ca-reer in public relations or the news. As a writer for Reputation Changer, one will focus on writing for the company’s news and blog network.

Some may wonder, what is Reputation Changer?

This three-year-old com-pany focuses on improv-ing clients’ online reputa-tions and helps to manage their online presences. The company does not erase online information, but instead buries nega-tive press by controlling search results and contin-uously monitoring their clients’ names to avoid any future implications. Anyone from a multi-tude of professional fields utilizes their services in avoiding negative press, fake reports, social media attacks, forum posts, or any other search results that may cause one to be viewed in a negative light.

Decades ago, a company like Reputation Changer would have never really existed, yet in today’s internet-crazed society, businesses like this flour-ish. Anyone can find just about anything about a

person or business from searching on the Web, which is why people enlist companies, like Reputa-tion Changer, for their professional help in online reputation management.

Everyone makes mis-takes, but Reputation Changer wants to make sure that their clients’ mistakes do not ruin their careers and reputa-tions forever. As the No. 1 ranked online reputa-tion management firm, working for such an es-tablished company would look impressive on a re-sume and will surely be an interesting topic of discussion during job in-terviews with potential businesses because of the nature of the company.

Eryn Aiello is a fourth-year student majoring in communication studies with a minor in journalism. She can be reached at [email protected].

Holiday scents motivate buyers during the season

By Rhonda BartlettPracticum Writer

For years, unknow-ingly the stores’ secret to motivate

shoppers to spend more during the holidays is the sense of smell. While shopping this holiday season, you might want to take notice of how the stores smell while visit-ing. Some usually think the lighting and music are the major role players in getting you to spend, but current research says otherwise.

The smells are simple, as opposed to more com-plex mixture of scents that are potent when it comes

spending, it was reported by researchers at Wash-ington State University. Scents like citrus or pine are simple smells, less processing for the brain of the shoppers, and it helps them focus more on shop-ping. “what we realized was that simple scents were more effective” said Eric Spangerberg, one of the study’s authors and dean of the Washington State University College of Business.

During the study, re-searchers developed dual scents; orange, which is considered a simple scent, and a more complicated scent, orange-basil com-

bined with green tea. Re-searchers observed more than 400 customers in a home decorations store, with the simple scent, the complicated scent and no scent at all; they did this for 18 days. What they found at the end of the research was that the 100 customers that shopped in the presence of the simple scent spent on average 20 percent more money than those with the complicated scent or no scent at all.

In a series of experi-ments, researchers and some students solve word problems with the dif-ferent scents in the air.

In the end of the experi-ments, students solved more problems, in less time with the smell of the simple scent, compared to the complicated scent or no scent at all. Spanger-berg said “ most people are processing it at an unconscious level, but it is impacting them.” “The

important thing from the retailer’s perspective and the marketer’s perspec-tive is that a pleasant scent isn’t necessarily an effective scent.”

Recently published in the Journal of Retail-ing, the study was co-au-thored by Andreas Her-rman from Switzerland’s

University of St. Gallen; David Sprott, a Washing-ton State marketing pro-fessor; and Manja Zidan-sek, a marketing doctoral candidate.

Rhonda Bartlett is a fourth-year student majoring in professional studies with minors in theatre and journalism. She can be reached at [email protected].

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A reminder for finals week:get organized!

Finals week is soon to be upon us. We have all been there before and in case you have not, get ready to do some work. A cliche piece of ad-vice would be to relax and do not get stressed out. The truth is that

this is most likely the most important week of your academic semster. So I am going to take the opposite route and tell you to get stressed and not relax. Organize, starting now, to do well on your exams and papers. A little stress can go a long way. Also, a little stress can be the motiva-tion you need to do that outline or get that paper done. I know too much stress will lead to a breakdown, so you should find a middle route. Stress yourself just enough to get things done. Stress happens to be a very good motivator. If you are getting things done in a timely fashion then you will stress less when it comes to the actual week of finals.

A good decision to first ready yourself for finals is to see what the final for the class actually is. If you did not check yet, go to your syallabus and find out what your final is. It could be an exam or essay, or it would be cummulative or just on recent subjects. Also find out when your exam is. It is best to check the academic schedule that the university posts. The time is usually on the syllabus, but the syllabus is made before the se-mester begins so it is subject to change. It could possibly be in a different room than the class’s normally. Remember if you have three finals on the same day you can have them moved. That is always a helpful tidbit of ad-vice to know. The more you organize and prepare the better you will feel about the upcoming finals. So stress enough to get yourself started and then you will do fine come finals week.

Good luck on finals week!

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New York Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey, a name

that is synonymous with a knuckleball, was cemented into base-ball history on Nov 14. Dickey became the first knuckleball pitcher to win the Cy Young Award in the sport’s long his-tory. He also became the third oldest player to win the award at the age of 37. Dickey posted a career best 20 wins, with a 2.73 era and a stellar 230 strikeouts. He led the league in strikeouts, while com-ing close to being first in wins and era. Winning 20 games on a losing team is a phenomenal feat within itself. Dick-ey pitched five complete games, with three shut-outs, which included back-to-back one-hitters and a stretch of 44 one-third consecutive score-less innings, coming close to Orel Hershiser’s span of 59 consecutive scoreless innings. This is particularly interest-ing because Orel Hersh-iser and Buck Showal-ter were the people who reinvented R.A. Dickey, as they turned him from a less than mediocre sinkerball pitcher, into a reinvigorated knuck-leball pitcher. However, the knuckleball wasn’t always the dominant weapon it is today. In fact, in Dickey’s first major league appear-ance with the knuckle-ball, he let up a whop-ping six homeruns to the Tigers. This put Dickey’s major league career in serious jeop-ardy, leaving many to question if he belonged in the majors. However, Dickey remained resil-ient, sticking with the pitch, working on it day in and day out in the off

By Evan SmithSpecial to The Quad

A great season for R.A. Dickeyseason.

Dickey was a journey-man, which in baseball refers to a player who remains in the minors for an extended period of time, traveling from different levels, where it is seldom a player in this circumstance makes it to the top ech-elon in the majors.

However, he was re-silient, never giving up, and he gives credit to his wife for allowing him to continue his dream. Dickey started out as a top prospect coming out of the University of Ten-nessee, where he earned the reputation of a flame thrower, topping out at 95mph. He was later drafted in the first round, with the 18th overall pick, which is a supreme honor. He had an initial $810,000 sign-ing bonus offer, which was later nullified when a picture of him play-ing for team U.S.A on the cover of Baseball America revealed an awkward positioning of his arm. The Rangers made him take a trip to the doctor, where it was discovered he was miss-ing an ulnar collateral

ligament in his right elbow. The Rangers sub-sequently revoked the offer, but later made a new offer of $75,000. After signing with the Rangers, Dickey was up and down AA, AAA, and the Majors. His arsenal of pitches was just average compared to the rest of the major

leaguers; he wasn’t good enough at the time to make a substantial im-pact and be guaranteed a spot in the majors. His repertoire of pitches consisted of a high 80’s fastball, a sinkerball (his main pitch at the time), a curveball and a forkball. Later, Dickey would find out that his forkball was actually a hard knuckleball, which prompted Buck Showal-ter and Orel Hershiser to have Dickey reform his style of pitching. They suggested that he throw at least 80 per-cent of his pitches as knuckleballs, which was a challenge for Dickey because he was not used to this. The Rangers or-ganization sent Dickey down to work on the pitch in Triple A ball, where he grew familiar with the pitch, eventu-

A guide to dining out in West Chesterally getting a better feel for it. With guidance provided by prestigious knuckleball pitchers Charlie Hough, Phil Niekro and Tim Wake-field, he was able to get various perspectives on the knuckleball. He was then cut by the Rang-ers in 2006, and subse-quently signed a minor league deal with the Milwaukee Brewers, not making it up to the ma-jors in 2007. However, he had such a good year in Triple A in 2007 that he was offered a chance to play for the Seattle Mariners. He was cut by them at the end of the year, which opened the door for him to sign with the Minnesota Twins. After a short stint with the Twins, he was once again cut, which led the Mets to finding their diamond in the rough. The Mets signed him in 2010, as he put up two solid years for them in 2010 and 2011, but it wasn’t until 2012 that he found his groove.

Dickey was able to constantly throw strikes with one of the hardest pitches to control, re-sulting in an excessive amount of strikeouts. Dickey’s pitch is unique because he throws the knuckleball harder than anyone has thrown be-fore. His knuckleball sits at around 85 mph, while he can mix in an average fastball that will throw hitters off.

Dickey’s amazing journey through hard work and perseverance, combined with his re-markable year, has earned him the ultimate pitcher’s honor, the Cy Young Award.

Evan Smith is a third year student majoring in political science with a minor in com-munication studies. He can be reached at [email protected].

Weekly CommentsIs it me or is it cold? The weather hit WCU at full

force this week. Just walking to classes seems like a trek through Siberia. I would suggest that every-one bundle up because it does not seem like it will get any warmer.

Looks like when it comes to presidential elec-tions, Pennsylvania is no longer a swing state. It was always a fairly overrated swing state. In the last five presidential elections (including this one), it has gone Democrat. The Romney campaign spent $1.3 million on 1,057 spots and allied super-PAC Restore Our Future spent $1.8 million to run 822 ads. In the end Romney got only 46.8% of the state as opposed to Obama’s 51.9%. That money and en-ergy should have been put towards Ohio or Florida.

What to do about this fiscal cliff? It is a tough question and Washington is certainly scratching their heads thinking of what to do. The fiscal cliff is happening now because certain spending cuts and the Bush tax cuts are set to expire. A good start would be to let the Bush tax cuts expire. An esti-mated $2.48 trillion in revenue was lost because of these tax cuts. These tax cuts are very unpopular with the American public and rightfully so. They have shown not to enrich the economy, but only the pockets of the elite 5 percent of the rich. Also if there are spending cuts to be made it should be for the military. The amount we spend for defense is far too high.

The situation in the Gaza Strip does not look promising. There was a ceasefire signed, but noth-ing has changed. Neither side is edging towards an agreement. There has even been violence on the border since the ceasefire has been signed. Hamas is the party that is responsible for the attacks against Israel. Israel has blockaded the Gaza Strip since they elected Hamas into power. The Israeli govern-ment sent troops in reaction to missiles fired close to Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel. The attacks on the Gaza Strip have not weakened Hamas. In fact they are more popular with the Palestinian people than ever. Perhaps a different method should be used in dealing with Hamas.

President Mahmoud Abbas recently had Pales-tine recognized as a state by the United Nations. This is mostly symbolic, but it may make a differ-ence. Abbas is a rival to Hamas, so perhaps he will be able to pull support away from Hamas and to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). If the PLO pushes for true peace is not known. For the sake of peace I hope a treaty is made with Israel.

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By Evan SmithSpecial to The Quad

A lesson from Nozick

In my philosophy class we discussed an idea proposed by Robert

Nozick, regarding a ma-chine that would allow an individual to live out their wildest fantasies, but the consequences would in-volve leaving your family and friends behind, while growing out of shape. The machine would simulate any ideas that a person came up with and feel like reality.

The “experience ma-chine” proposed by Rob-ert Nozick has many pros and cons, but ultimately I would choose to utilize this extraordinary invention. I would find this technology fascinating, as I would be able to achieve my ambi-tions. While it may not be reality, the very thought that it would feel like re-ality is enough to tempt me to use it. Think about why we read books, watch television, listen to music, watch movies, etc. The ob-vious answer being that it is a great escape to a place where we can enjoy ourselves and forget about the real world, even if it’s only for a short period of time. With this machine we would be able to fulfill our wildest dreams. Our imagination creates in-finite opportunities and ideas that cannot be con-ceived with just knowledge and work. In this world we could achieve the pinnacle of pleasure, with a stress free environment. Every-thing would go our way, never a bad day, or a dull moment. Work seems like an endless burden, that we must drag out for the rest of our lives, until we are too old to accomplish what we really want to do. What is our purpose in life, our meaning? We don’t know, there is no guarantee, but at least in the machine we can do what want without having to worry our pur-pose. I am personally a

huge movie fan and I know I’ve always wanted to live out a role or a whole film. For example, what if I could be a superhero, “protecting a city”? What if we could go to back in time and relive these events or alter them to the way I wanted them to turn out? The possibilities seem endless, there is just too much to accomplish, that would be too enticing to hold back. “Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are for-ever” (Walt Disney). This quote shows that we can live through our dreams and our imagination, and let them run wild.

The implications are ap-parent for going the route of the machine. For one, I would feel empty without my “real” friends and fam-ily. The thought of them could possibly hinder the experience of the machine. They are an important part of my life that helps moti-vate me to move forward in life. I understand that the machine may provide few challenges, which in turn could create boredom. Challenges and competi-tion motivate us to do great things in life, with obstacles to help us overcome adver-sity. “Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream a vision” (Muham-mad Ali). Ali epitomized why people should work hard, it is the resilience of an individual that sepa-rates him/her from others. Another reason not to go in the machine is the fact that you would be fat and out of shape, which could lead to health problems in real life. The machine could also feel fake and artificial. The ulti-mate decision would come down to you, after carefully weighing the pros and cons.

Would you go for the ex-perience? Or miss out and stay in the real world?

Evan Smith is a third year student majoring in political science with a minor in communication studies. He can be reached at [email protected].

It becomes apparent very quickly that West Chester has

plenty of restaurants and other food outlets. It is actually a daunt-ing task to eat at all of them. There are some local favorites students frequently attend, but it would be a disservice to not explore all of the places around you. This is a large town and it pays to adventure out to new places. The best thing about trying new places in West Chester is that there is diversity. You will find many pizza places, nice restaurants, Asian cuisine, Mexican food, and much more. In my three going on to four years here I have dined at many places, but there are more out there.

Pizza is always a pop-ular food destination for college students. When-ever a college student thinks to go out and eat, pizza is ually the first thing to pop into their heads. West Ches-ter is no exception with a pizza place on almost every road around cam-pus. Riggtown Oven is one of the most popular destinations for pizza and for good reason. The specialty slices in Rig-gtown are some of the best in town with honey mustard and barbecue flavors being among the best. While they are most well known for pizza they have a great breakfast selection. I would recommend get-ting the breakfast meal on the twelve inch roll (for only $3.75). Chris’ Pizza is also a popular destination and boasts a good menu of pizza and other food. Amore’s Pizza and Restaurant is another big spot to get

Jack BarnettOp-Ed Editor

A guide to dining out in West Chesterfood. If you would get anything there it should be the Six Pack. The Six Pack consists of two plain pizza slices, two bread sticks, and two garlic knots for only $6.39. This is a deal you cannot beat. Even if you do not feel like eating the whole thing there, pizza makes great leftovers. If you are craving cheap takeout you should order from Pizza U where they have a ten inch pizza for $4.99. They also have their fa-mous bakewiches. These are fifteen delicious sandwiches. The best is

the Golden Ram which consists of chicken, ham, honey mustard, and moz-zarella cheese. Another great deal is New Haven Pizza with a personal piz-za for only $3.25. Saucey is great place because of its unique specialty piz-zas including the 420 pizza with chicken fin-gers, mozzarella sticks, and french fries on top of it. If it is upside down pizza you’re craving you should head to America’s Pie which makes the best one in town. It is a bit of a hike, so ordering delivery would most likely be the best option. If it is pizza you crave, West Chester

has a great selection.There are a great

amount of Asian cui-sine joints around here. King’s Garden Express is quick and affordable. If you can stomach the prices, Kooma is great for its sushi. It is a bit on the pricey side, but you get a lot of bang for your buck. I must admit that I did not try out a great amount of the vast Asian restuarants around West Chester. Nooddi-Thai Chef is one that I have heard great things about but have yet to make. A trip will most likely be to

there in the near future.

If pizza or Asian food is not your food of c h o i c e there are p l e n t y of res-taurants s e r v i n g different f o o d s . M o ’ s G r i l l s e r v e s food hail-ing from J a m a i -ca and Georgia.

The pulled pork sand-wich is delicious. If you like a variety of food to choose from then the Three Little Pigs Res-taurant and the Pita Pit are great choices. The Three Little Pigs is a nice little restaurant boast-ing a diverse selection of great sandwiches. What I most enjoyed about the restaurant is the relaxed atmosphere and friendly service. The Pita Pit is similar to the Three Lit-tle Pigs in selection ex-cept as the name suggests it serves pitas instead of sandwiches. Both of these places are great for dining in or getting

delivery. If it is pub food you are interested then you should head over to Kildares or Ryan’s Pub. They are both great res-taurants with great ser-vices. You should make sure to head to each pub’s wing nights. Kildares’ wing night is on Monday where they have .50 cent wings with many dif-ferent flavors. Barbecue and teriyaki are my per-sonal favorites. Ryan’s Pub has wings three for a dollar on Wednesday. They only serve buffalo, but they are probably the best Buffalo wings in town. If pub food is not your thing and you prefer a different atmo-sphere, you are in luck. Teca is a great Italian restaurant which special-izes in its wine selection. Another fantastic Ital-ian restaurant would be Limoncello Ristorante. I would recommend the veal or pescatore. Also if you are of age they have a great wine selection. Doc Magrogan’s Oyster House is the best seafood place in town. Oysters are your best bet but any seafood is still a good choice. It seems silly to go to an Oyster house and order something you could get at your aver-age restaurant. If you’re interested in breakfast then I would have to pick Nudy’s Cafe as the best place to go. They do serve lunch there, but their breakfast menu is un-beatable

With all these places to eat you can keep your-self very busy. Although I listed many places there are more to be found. The best advice I could give would be try these places out for yourself. Never go to the same place twice and always be ready to try something new.

Jack Barnett is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in history and po-litical science. He can be reached at [email protected].

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fans should not expect the new series to be a to-tal continuation of “Boy Meets World.”

“GMW is a new show. It isn’t BMW brought back to life but in current day. It will have familiar faces, familiar themes, and familiar messages. It will also have new faces, new themes, and new messages. BMW never spoke down to the audi-ence and we are going to do our best to never do that with GMW,” Fishel said.

As for whether other beloved characters such as Shawn Hunter, Mr. Feeny or Eric “Mr. Plays With Squirrels” Mat-thews will also be ap-

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“Boy Meets World” sequel series in developmentBy Carol Fritz

Staff Writer

After years of try-ing to get their own personal lives

to live up to the Cory

and Topanga pedestal romance and after thou-sands upon thousands of wishes for a cast reunion, “Boy Meets World” fans were given an early holi-day present last week—confirmation of a sequel series.

Speculations started to rise in mid-November of a “Boy Meets World” spin-off in the works called, “Girl Meets World.” Much to the re-lief and excitement of practically every single child alive in the 1990s, Ben Savage, who played the role of Cory Mat-thews on the 7-season-long series, tweeted on Nov. 26, confirming the rumors.

“I’m going to be a fa-ther! Well, on TV at least. The “Boy Meets World” sequel is officially hap-pening!”

Along with Savage,

Danielle Fishel, who played Topanga Law-rence, the other half of one of television’s most iconic couples, was also confirmed to reprise her role in the new series.

According to The Huff-ington Post, Disney has reported that “Girl Meets World” will focus on Cory and Topanga’s 13-year-old daughter Riley, a character whose role has yet to be cast. The show will follow Riley’s strug-gles with teenage life, including her relation-ship with her 14-year-old brother Elliot and her “edgy” best friend, Maya. Additionally, Cory will be his daughter’s history teacher as well, fulfilling

a prophecy that popped up in the eighth episode of the first season of “Boy Meets World” when Cory switched places with his teacher Mr. Feeny and

declared that he might, too, be a teacher one day.

The series will air on The Disney Channel, much to the dismay of many fans, who think that Disney might make the series too childish. However, the creator of “Boy Meets World,” Mi-chael Jacobs, will also be working on “Girl Meets World,” and Fishel di-vulged in a Tumblr blog post that she has com-plete faith in him.

“I promise with the en-tirety of my heart that we will make GMW with the same honesty, innocence, and intelligence that you learned to expect from BMW,” Fishel said.

She also stressed that

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pearing in the new series, fans will just have to pa-tiently wait and see.

“I do not know how many BMW cast mem-bers will be returning for GMW, or how often they may appear if and/or when they do appear,” said Fishel.

In a blog post on Nov. 28, actor Rider Strong, who played the role of Cory’s best friend Shawn Hunter on “Boy Meets World,” expressed his gratitude for what the show and its fans have given him.

“I am extremely happy for Ben and Danielle to be able to continue the sto-ry. At this point, I have no official involvement in

The original cast of “Boy Meets World,” including Rider Strong, Daniel Fishel, Ben Savage, and Will Friedle, provided 90’s kids with plenty of laughs and life lessons.

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‘Girl Meets World.’ There might be a chance to see some of the BMW cast in a guest spot, and I think it would be nice to find out where our characters have been all these years. But ‘Girl Meets World’ will be, and I think it should be, it’s own show. It will be about Cory and Topanga, their daughter, and a new set of charac-ters. It’s the next genera-tion. And I, for one, can’t wait to see it evolve,” said Strong.

It seems that the rest of this nostalgic nation cannot wait either.

Carol Fritz is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies. She can be reached at [email protected].

Today, Savage and Fishel are excited to be a part of the “Boy Meets World” sequel series, “Girl Meets World,” which will focus on their fictional daughter.

its presentation of “A Year With Frog and Toad,” in March.

Molly Herbison is a second-year student majoring in English and minoring in Spanish. She can be reached at [email protected].

“The Mousetrap,” or those wished they had gotten to enjoy it, will be pleased to learn that the Department of Theatre and Dance has much more in store. Look forward to

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New MTV reality show proves downside to social media

Department of Theatre & Dance presents “The Mousetrap”

By Liz ThompsonStaff Writer

MTV’s new hit show “Catfish” is the craziest reality

show out there. Unlike other reality shows, “Catfish” is actually real, and still manages to be completely insane. The show portrays how scary social media can be. It seems that texting and emailing are now replacing face-to-face conversation. Technology is changing how young people date and fall in love. The show follows the stories of numerous young people who fall in love over the internet. Nev Schulman, the creator of the show, helps them to meet their online lovers in person.

The show is based off Schulman’s real life. He fell in love with a beautiful model and

songwriter who went by the name Megan Faccio. They met on Facebook and quickly developed a romantic relationship over the internet.

Schulman’s f r i e n d s started to d o c u m e n t the couple’s long-distance relationship. Their footage showed all sides of the s t r a n g e relationship: the phone calls, texts, emails, and i n s t a n t m e s s a g e s . His friends started to b e c o m e s u s p i c i o u s when they discovered that songs Megan had sent were stolen from other

artists on Youtube.Schulman and his film

crew traveled to Michigan to confront Megan, but found someone completely different.

They met a middle-aged woman named Angela who confessed to making

everything up. She stole the pictures of “Megan” from an unrelated woman. Angela claimed that she invented Megan as a fantasy to imagine

what her life could have been like. A n g e l a ’ s husband and sons had no idea about her online relationship.

After his experience, S c h u l m a n decided to create a show where he could help people who may be in the same s i t u a t i o n . T h e s e

hopeful romantics will finally be able to meet their online lovers. They

will get the chance to discover if the object of their affection has been honest with them. Unfortunately, most of them, like Schulman, may find that they have been fooled.

The first episode centers around a pretty blonde named Sunny from the midwest. She met her current boyfriend, Jamison King, also known as RJ, through Facebook. King claims to be a model, a writer for E!’s “Chelsea Lately,” and a student aspiring to become an anesthesiologist in Los Angeles. Sunny instantly fell for his good looks and charming personality. The two became closer when King told Sunny about the death of his three sisters and his job writing queue cards at “Chelsea Lately.” However, Schulman and his team soon find out that

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the women that Jamison claims to be his sisters are actually alive and healthy, and that “Chelsea Lately” does not use queue cards. They also discover that a Jamison King or RJ King has never worked at the studio. Things start to seem suspicious and similar to Schulman’s heartbreaking story. Schulman takes Sunny to meet her long-distance love, but discovers something very different on the way to Los Angeles.

This new reality series shows the darkside to social media. It is entertaining, cringe-worthy, and unlike anything else on TV. Tune in to MTV on Mondays at 11 pm to watch.

Liz Thompson is a fourth-year student majoring in communication studies and minoring in journalism. She can be reached at [email protected].

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Cu r r e n t l y celebrating its 50th

A n n i v e r s a r y season, the West Chester U n i v e r s i t y Department of Theatre and Dance is hauling out all the stops for its lucky patrons.

Most recently, the hard working s t u d e n t s and faculty presented its rendition of “The Mousetrap.”

Much like the Theatre D e p a r t m e n t , Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap,” is celebrating an

anniversary this year; it has been running in London since 1952. Such an amazing a c c o m p l i s h m e n t

distinguishes “The Mousetrap,” as the

longest running show of the modern area.

A murder mystery with a surprise twist ending, it is easy to understand why

the show has enjoyed such success. And WCU’s Theatre D e p a r t m e n t treated the show no differently than the players of the London stage. Their rendition had the audience members on the edge of their seats as they followed a group of s t r a n g e r s strapped with the task of d e t e r m i n i n g who among them was

the murderer. All of this intrigue took place

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to stay true to the show’s theme, “This Is Not A Dream.” For Brenden Sams, a Precise board member, the best part about coordinating the show was “…the prac-tices and bringing it all together into one show

when it came close to the day of the show. It was just cool to see what it looked like all together.”

This show revealed the great fashion sense that the students at West Ches-ter have, not to mention the outstand-ing creativ-ity and work ethic that they possess. Hopefully, we will be able to see an entire week devoted to fashion at West Chester

University in the future.

Catia Rembert is a second-year student majoring in communica-tion studies. She can be reached at [email protected].

er,” done Ram-style. Girls were on their way to a party in true West Chester fashion, and de-cided to take a short-cut through the graveyard. The show ended with all of the models and board members doing the fa-

mous “Thriller” choreog-raphy.

Overall, I really en-joyed the show. It was playful but still managed

for Scene 4. This scene was my favorite because it had the most exciting choreography. At one point, the entire group fell into an impressive death drop. This scene ended with board mem-bers killing each other off. One of my favorite looks from this scene was the gold biker shorts paired with the red quar-ter sleeve shirt and a cropped leather biker jacket person-alized with gold studs on the collar. The look was to die for.

Scenes 5 and 6 were among the darkest scenes of the show. Scene 5 featured a skit r e e n a c t i n g scenes from the Paranor-mal Activity movies. The clothing in the scene was very dark, mostly ranging from black to darker shades of blue. Scene 6 was “Thrill-


Precise fashion show “thrills” West Chester’s campusBy Catia RembertSpecial to The Quad

This year’s edition of the Precise fall fashion show was

a smash. With over 400 people in attendance, the runway show was a step above and beyond last year’s. The murder theme was ever present throughout the show. The whole show was full of vogue influence.

The first scene kicked off the show with runway-style choreography. The spins of the model in a black, sheer maxi skirt paired with black ban-deau reminded me of a high-fashion dreidel. My fa-vorite look from this scene was the beautiful model in a black leather skater skirt with a black quarter-sleeve shirt and black feathered cape.

The second scene, inspired by Beyonce’s

“Jailhouse Confessions,” was phenomenal. After girls from scene one were killed by assassins in scream masks, in waltzed the homicidal girlfriends.

The first woman killed her husband in the bath-

tub because she was tired of tending to his every need. The second girl killed her ex-boyfriend at his wedding to play on the “death do us part”

mantra. The third woman killed her boyfriend because she found out he was cheating on her in every city she took him to. This scene also featured hom-age to Beyonce’s memorable “Ring The Alarm” per-formance at the 2009 VMA’s. My favorite look from this scene was the tan blazer with gold shimmering sleeves, paired with this year’s extremely popular black bandeau, and gold glitter hot pants.

Scene three was rather short, and it featured an ex-orcism.

After the inter-mission, which featured the Ad-dictive dance

team, the board members of Precise stepped out




true to the show’s theme, “This Is Not A Dream.” For Brenden Sams, a Precise board member, the best part about coordinating the show was “…the practices and bringing it all together into one show when it

came close to the day of the show. It was just cool to see what it looked like all together.”

This show revealed the great fashion sense that the students at West Chester have, not to mention the o u t s t a n d i n g creativity and work ethic that they possess. Hopefully, we will be able to see an entire week devoted to fashion at West Chester University in

the future.

Catia Rembert is a second-year student majoring in communication studies. She can be reached at [email protected].

clever weapons that Bond carried on his person ex-cept a gun that only shot when held in his hand. Aside from that it was missing the life-saving gadgets that are so well known to the James Bond films.

Overall this movie was more than worth the price of a ticket. Though it runs for almost two and a half hours, it feels like half as much. The movie is so captivating and thrilling that it flies by before you know it. The only thing thing going through your mind when it ends is when the the next one will come out, because if it is anything like Skyfall it will make for an incredible story and even better action film.

Kenny Ayres is a third-year student majoring in communication studies and minoring in journalism. He can be reached at [email protected].

away the viewer had an urge to hate him, which grew stronger as the mov-ie progressed. He truly played a great villain, al-most up there in my opin-ion with the likes of Heath Ledger as the Joker in “Dark Knight.”

The action, which was intense and thrilling, was another strength of the movie. Bond, as he always does, finds himself of the worst of predicaments with a slim chance of surviving. The fight sequences are realistic and heart-pounding, especially the final scene in which Silva and his men confront Bond, M, and Bond’s old friend Kincade. The action was carefully filmed and the effects were superb.

One criticism of the movie, however was the lack of the classic James Bond gadgets. There was no laser technology or

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Agent 007 comes back from the dead (or so his colleagues thought) to try to save his his boss M (Judy Dench), and the British Secret Service from a former agent who is out for revenge.

Javier Bardem plays Raoul Silva, a former M16 agent under M’s direction who uses his vast knowl-edge of computers to car-ry out terrorist attacks across the world, and now also on his former employ-er. After Silva blows up M16 headquarters, Bond, who was presumed to be

dead after being shot by his own agent, shows up just in time to pursue Sil-va and try to stop him be-fore he kills M and wipes out the entire British In-telligence.

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Winter wonderland: Holiday music in West Chester

Winter has seemingly come early here at

West Chester, with the first recorded snowfall of the season in November. The music department has embraced this winter, bringing the joy of the holiday season to campus with its nonstop fervent caroling and seasonal music. On Dec. 1, there were performances from the university’s percussion ensemble, baroque orchestra, and the Criterions jazz ensemble.

The highlight of the night, however, must have been Men’s Choir joining

with Cantari Donne to give an enthralling performance of Ralph Vaughn Williams’s “Fantasia on Christmas Carols.” Dr. David P. Devenney conducted this group of more than 100 students with senior voice major Dominick Matsko as the featured baritone soloist.

As a freshman, and also as a new member of the WCU Men’s Choir, I felt like we had a fantastic performance. I was able to connect with the spirit of the holidays through singing its music, as the piece itself ventures through a wide array of emotions, from dark to joyous.

In the many

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rehearsals leading up to the performance, Dr. Devenney has stressed that this concert is the biggest one of the year; it is played on local television stations and has a higher student turnout than any other performance. He specifically said that once students get into the holiday mood, they turn to the West Chester music program to hear their favorite carols live.

Overall, it was a terrific night. The music program at West Chester features hundreds of industrious students dedicated to their craft and is worth checking out.

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on “It’s Showtime at the Apollo,” at the Apollo Theater in New York City. She continued to pursue comedy full-time while also venturing into acting. Her role in the UPN sitcom, “The Parkers,” led to future movie roles in titles such as “Soul Plane,” “Shadowboxer,” and “Precious.” However, she never gave up on comedy and was quoted saying: “With TV and movies you have to wait for the numbers to come in to see what happened at the box office. With stand-up, it’s right there, that night, in your face.”

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It all started with a dare. One night, at the Comedy Factory

Outlet in Baltimore, Mo’Nique’s brother challenged her to go up and perform on stage. She did. What resulted was a hugely successful career in the entertainment industry. But her success did not come as a surprise to her. She had always known she possessed something that separated her from everyone else. In fact, she added the apostrophe to her name to symbolize her belief that she is “more unique” than one might think.

The youngest of three children, Monique was born on Dec. 11, 1967 to Steve and Alice Imes. She grew in up in Baltimore

and attended Milford Mill High School before moving on to Morgan State University, a historically A f r i c a n A m e r i c a n i n s t i t u t i o n . While still an undergrad at Morgan State, Mo’Nique made her debut p e r f o r m a n c e at the Comedy Factory and was asked to host her own show at a local beauty parlor the following week for $25. Audiences were drawn to the way she celebrated her womanhood in a way

that inspired others to do the same, and she began taking the stage at every chance she could.

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and has promised her fans there will certainly be more stand-up comedy to come. As a person who has never been afraid to laugh at herself, Mo’Nique has shown people that life is just a game, so you might as well have fun playing it.

Joshua Shapiro is a second-year student majoring in English and education. He can be reached at [email protected].

Scan the QR code to watch clips from Mo’Nique’s most famous appearances.

more interested in sharing the work of others than gabbing with fans about his latest projects. He introduced each collaboration with a beaming grin that revealed his immense pride for everyone involved. Some animated shorts, like “Mademoiselle Noir,” which was made for a Levi’s campaign, entranced the audience with their heartfelt messages and somberly beautiful soundtracks. Other short films, like “Strawberry Bootlaces,” just made the audience laugh.

Not content to have a stagnant audience, Gordon-Levitt constantly encouraged us to record the events of the night and share the footage on the hitRECord site. Additionally, he brought audience members up on stage to dance, sing, and discuss tweets that they had sent him (@hitRECordjoe) during the show. It was a unique concert-like experience


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Since he was a child, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been

charming millions with his earnest grin and undeniable talent. He snagged me as a fan with his portrayal of Tommy Solomon in NBC’s “3rd Rock from the Sun,” and as Cameron James in the quintessential ‘90s chick-flick, “10 Things I Hate About You.” His later roles, including those in “Mysterious Skin,” “(500) Days of Summer,” “Inception,” and “50/50,” cemented his title as a passionate and versatile player in Hollywood.

However, Gordon-Levitt is not a person who lets his massive fame get to his head. In a 2007 article from the San Francisco Chronicle, Gordon-Levitt stated, “Even back then [in the ‘90s], I really didn’t like the whole idolatry that goes on with actors and found the celebrity thing distasteful. I still do.”

In 2000, he took a small break from acting to study history, literature, and French poetry at Columbia University. After leaving Columbia, he founded the website hitRECord, which was originally a place for him to share videos and short films that he had made. Eventually, he opened the website up to the public to encourage artistic collaborations. Today, the site has over 10,000 members and has allowed those members to publish their short stories, screen their films at Sundance, and present other collaborations in venues all across the world. HitRECord works so that half of all money made from the collaborations

goes to the company and the other half goes to the collaborators--regular people like you and me.

Most recently, hitRECord embarked on a tour across the east coast to share these collaborations. On Nov. 19th, Gordon-Levitt made his last stop of the hitRECord tour in Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center’s Merriam Theater. The ground floor and both balconies were filled to capacity with a pleasant mixture of hitRECord users and people who have had a crush on Gordon-Levitt since they first saw his cute mug in the ‘90s. As the lights in the theater dimmed to signal the beginning of the show, a short video reminded all audience members to turn their cameras and cellphones on. Yes, that’s right. ON. Anyone caught not recording the

performance would be frowned at personally by Gordon-Levitt himself. Probably.

Those recording devices shortly came in handy, as Gordon-Levitt made his highly-anticipated

e n t r a n c e . Camera lights flashed and shrieks echoed t h r o u g h o u t the hall as a u d i e n c e m e m b e r s realized that the actor is just as adorable in person as he is on screen. S o m e o n e even yelled out, “I LOVE YOU.” Ever faithful to his anti-celebrity v i e w s , Gordon-Levitt r e t o r t e d , “Thank you, now shut the f*** up.”

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that ended up inspiring more artists and creating more works of art than were present before the show.

Toeveryone’s delight, Gordon-Levitt also ann-ounced that hitRECord is in the process of being made into a television show. He claims that it will be along the lines of “The Chapelle Show,” with a host and original skits.

Those looking to be a part of the fantastically creative hitRECord community need only to visit www.hitRECord.org. There, they will be greeted by a video of Gordon-Levitt explaining how the site works. He encourages writers, singers, animators, and all other creators to jump in and start collaborating. But those who are shy don’t have to worry: “If you feel like lurking around for a while, I won’t fault you for it,” he assures.

Molly Herbison is a second-year student majoring in English and minoring in Spanish. She can be reached at [email protected].

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the mind behind hitRECord.org, a website for people to collaborate on different artistic projects.

Fans came out by the thousands to support Gordon-Levitt and hitRECord for the website’s “On the Road” tour.

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Women’s hoops coach Kane finds success with unusual approach

When Grinnell College sophomore guard Jack Taylor rose to the top of the NCAA record books by scoring 138 points on Nov. 20, the national sports spotlight shone down on a small school in Iowa, and the radi-cal offensive system they employed. While people around the country had to learn secondhand about Grinnell’s hockey-style line changes, barrages of three-pointers, and inces-sant full-court press, fans of the West Chester Lady Rams basketball team had a firsthand look at a disciple of the Grinnell

West Chester returns three starters from last season’s team, which was eliminated from both the PSAC and NCAA tournaments by a very strong Edinboro team.

school of thought.Deirdre Kane, head

coach of the West Chester University women’s bas-ketball team, is a lifelong student of the game of basketball, and is one of the original benefactors of the Title IX initiative

to give women equal op-portunities in sports.

She was the first wom-an to receive a scholar-ship to the University of Dayton in Ohio, and considers herself, “for-tunate to live through that transition.” Having seen firsthand the evolu-tion of women’s sports, Kane could be considered a credible expert on the sport she has coached since the late ‘70s.

Coach Kane’s resume is filled with success. As the holder of five Coach of the Year awards, as well as numerous playoff berths, PSAC titles, and NCAA tournament ap-pearances, her achieve-ment list is long enough

that Kane could rest on her laurels as her coach-ing career winds down, content to slowly coast into retirement. But last season, she did the unthinkable and made a radical change to her pro-gram by switching to the

Women’s basketball head coach Deirdre Kane enters her 25th season at the helm in 2012-13.

frenetic Grinnell system. The Grinnell system is

two pronged; its stated of-fensive objective is to put up at least 100 shots per game, with 50 to 60 per-cent of those takes being three point field goals. Though the system was originally designed to be implemented on both ends of the court, the sys-tem’s influence is most evident in Kane’s defense and substitution pat-terns.

The Grinnell system is predicated on a full court press of your opponents for the entire length of the game, as well as sub-stituting entire lineups of players at a time, similar to line changes in hockey, in order to keep fresh legs on the court and wear down your opponents. It is a far cry from a tradi-tional eight-man rotation, and for a coach to impose a quirky new system af-ter 25 successful years at one school is almost un-heard of. Kane had been laughed out of the gym earlier in her career when she talked about the idea with the men’s coaches at West Chester, and shied away from making the jump. Kane herself even admits that, “coaches don’t really hang around 25 years if they’re not do-ing something right.”

So why did the Lady Rams make the switch? Kane believed that this new system better fit the type of personnel she was able to recruit, explaining that, “It was just natural selection, survival of the

fittest.” Describing West Chester’s home gym Hol-linger Fieldhouse as a “prima donna repellant”, Kane thought the type of hard-nosed, blue-collar players she was recruit-ing would be the perfect fit for a system that was designed to wear down the opponent. Taking advantage of the media timeouts that come every four minutes during their games, Kane thought that playing 10 women fairly equal minutes would give her girls a leg up on the competition. Without the major money to recruit blue chip recruits, depth is Kane’s most precious commodity, and one she thought she could manip-ulate to her advantage.

Junior guard Paige Elliot, a Lady Ram who was the benefit of ex-tra minutes as a result of the new system last year, spoke glowingly about Kane’s switch to the Grinnell. “It’s hard to beat us when we’re all on the same page,” said Elliot, who went as far as to say, “at the end of the day, it was a perfect fit

for me.” Paige’s excite-ment for the system was reflected on the court for the Lady Rams, as they put together their second straight 20 win season in the last three years.

This monumental shift was not without contro-versy, however. As a result of the “line shift” substitution pattern adapted by Kane, the 10 girls who played on game day would practice to-gether in groups of five, often scrimmaging their counterparts and battling the other group in drills. Although the competition brought a level of inten-sity in practice that most coaches would love, it also served as a divisive force. “It kind of made it in our heads where we were two different teams,” said El-liot. “We had to get that out of our heads.”

Kane also talked about the common issue of tak-ing players out of the game who were playing well on the court because of the sub patterns. The proverbial “hot shooter” never wants to come out of the game, but Kane

found that often times that same player would be so tired as a result of the extra minutes that it did not benefit the team.

Despite the issues that Kane and her team faced following the switch, on the whole the experiment should be considered a rousing success to add on to the resume of one of the finest coaches in the history of the PSAC. As the winningest coach in WCU’s history and a pioneer of women’s bas-ketball, Kane’s achieve-ments may go unnoticed on a national scale, but her illustrious career is an example of what flex-ibility and a can do at-titude can do for you. “Reach for the stars, and even if you miss you still have a chunk of the sky to take home,” says Kane. Indeed, Kane’s story re-inforces the ideal that we are all capable of freeing ourselves from the shack-les of tradition in order to create our own unique, successful identities.

Kyle Neubeck is a WCU student majoring in English. He can be reached at [email protected].

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West Chester continues recent dominance in swimming and diving

A dominant perfor-mance by the West Ches-ter men’s swimming team highlighted an action-packed weekend for the university’s swimming and diving teams at the Golden Rams Classic.

After winning six of nine events on Friday, including the 200-yard medley relay, the 800-yard freestyle relay, and the 200-yard freestyle re-lay, the men’s swimming team was even stronger on Saturday, winning all nine of the events. That in-cludes two wins by Tommy Rhoads, who won the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard freestyle. Alex Corbett won the 50-yard free, while Phil Let-cavage won the 200-yard butterfly. Connor Murphy won the 200-yard back-stroke and Bogdan Gre-benyuk won the 200-yard breaststroke.

The women’s swim-ming team performed just as well, winning three of

nine events on Friday and sweeping the top six spots of the 400-yard individual medley. Then, on Satur-day, they won five of nine events to finish off Ursi-nus and Albright and win the Golden Rams Clas-sic. Mia Barone won the 1650-yard freestyle, while Emily Stang won both the 50-yard and 100-yard free-style races. Amelia Buck-ley won the 200-yard but-terfly and Kendall Somer won the 200-yard back-stroke.

Meanwhile, freshman Tim Cenjia won both the 1-meter and the 3-meter diving competitions to cap a strong showing by his team at a diving meet at the College of New Jer-sey on Friday and Satur-day. Teammates Leonard Swett, Zach Burns, and Jonas Raider finished sec-ond, third, and fourth be-hind Cenjia in the 1-meter. In the 3-meter, Cenjia was followed by Swett, Raider, and Kurt van Mol to round out the top four.

WCU’s women div-ers fared well at the Col-lege of New Jersey also. In the 3-meter on Friday,

Kelsey Tennett took third while Michelle Murphy and Michelle Heinemann placed fourth and fifth, re-spectively. On Saturday, Heinemann finished thrid in the 1-meter, while Ten-nett took fourth and Mur-phy fifth.

WCU has performed well so far this season, which started all the way back on Oct. 5. The men and women’s teams are each 6-0 through their first six meets, and they have frequently beaten the oth-er schools at those meets by comfortable margins. Their victims include Rut-gers, Lehigh, Bloomsburg, and Shippensburg. Last week, junior David McCor-mick was named PSAC male swimmer of the week after winning the 100-yard breaststroke and the 200-yard individual medley.

The swimming and div-ing teams are now off un-til Jan. 11, when they face off against Johns Hopkins and the College of New Jersey in a tri-meet.

Joey Samuel is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in political science and Spanish. He can be reached at [email protected].

Athlete of the Week: Alex LennonThis week’s honors go to women’s basketball’s Alex Lennon. The senior forward has averaged 13.8 points per game through four contests, including 22 points on Saturday against Cal. She also broke the school’s career record for blocked shots.

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Cal hands Lady Rams first loss of season at Hollinger

WCU athletics schedule 12/3-12/30 Dec. 8 -women’s hoops vs. Mansfield, 1 p.m. -men’s hoops vs. Mansfield, 3 p.m.

Dec. 9-17 -no sports scheduled

Dec. 18 -women’s basketball @ Slippery Rock, 5:30 p.m. -men’s basketball @ Slippery Rock, 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 19 -women’s basketball @ Edinboro, 5:30 p.m. -men’s basketball @ Edinboro, 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 20-29 -no sports scheduled

Dec. 30 -women’s basketball vs. Holy Family, 1 p.m.

Dec. 3 -no sports scheduled

Dec. 4-no sports scheduled

Dec. 5-no sports scheduled

Dec. 6 -no sports scheduled

Dec. 7-men’s and women’s track & field @ Lehigh, 6 p.m.

Despite Alex Lennon scoring 22 points and breaking the school’s ca-reer record for blocked shots, the West Chester women’s basketball team lost its PSAC opener, 78-66, to California (Pa.) at Hollinger Field House on Saturday afternoon.

It was the Rams’ first loss of the season, end-ing a winning streak that had spanned the team’s first three games. Cal also entered the game at an identical 3-0.

West Chester came out

with intensity, and led the game 7-6 after a few minutes. But when Cal took the lead from them shortly thereafter, they never looked back and the Rams failed to mount a successful comeback.

In the second half, WCU managed to trim the deficit to 14 points, after being down by as much as 21. Cal didn’t

let them get any closer, though, playing excellent defense and answering West Chester with big shots of their own.

Lennon, a senior for-ward, led the Rams all game with her accurate shooting and stifling de-fense. She went 9-for-15 for 22 points, and record-ed nine rebounds, four assists, and four blocked shots. Those four blocks brought her to 216 in her career, moving her past 1999 graduate Gina Tophoney for first place all-time.

Freshman guard Jas-men Clark, who has start-ed each of West Chester’s first four games, scored 14

points, the most for her so far this season. She add-ed three assists as well. Senior forward Ambree-linne Ortman registered six rebounds in addition to her nine points.

California’s top two scorers, Stephanie Mi-chael and Ashley Hines, were too much for the Rams to overcome. Mi-chael went 8-for-17 and

scored 21 points, includ-ing 3-for-7 from three-point range. Ashley Hines scored 18 points and grabbed an astonish-ing 14 rebounds off the bench. Emma Mahady added 15 points, shooting 7-for-14 from the field.

Even though they dropped their first PSAC contest of the 2012-13 season, it still promises to be an intriguing year for the Lady Rams, who re-turn three starters from a team that made it to the first round of the NCAA Tournament a year ago, where they were elimi-nated by Edinboro, the same team that had beat-en the Rams in the PSAC

semifinals.Lennon, an experi-

enced forward from Lans-downe, Pa., will be a key force on both sides of the ball. Also returning from last year’s starting lineup are Ortman, a powerful interior presence from Millville, Pa., and senior guard Meghan Kerrigan from Downingtown, Pa., who led the entire PSAC

with a 2.6 assist-to-turn-over ratio last year and led the team in minutes played.

Making up the rest of the starting lineup are Clark, a top prospect from Temple, Pa. who has impressed in her first four games, and junior guard Paige Elliot, a tal-ented scorer from York, Pa. who scored 21 three pointers and averaged 6.4 points per game last year despite not starting a single one.

Before losing to Cali-fornia (Pa.) on Saturday, the Rams had started the year with a modest three-game winning streak. They swept the Carol Eckman Memorial Tour-nament, defeating W. Va. Wesleyan, 90-72, on Nov. 17 before beating Phila-delphia University, 73-59, a day later. The fol-lowing week, on Nov. 26, WCU traveled to Philly to face the University of the Sciences, and true freshman Clark nailed a three-pointer at the buzz-er to seal an exciting 62-59 win which at the time had preserved the team’s undefeated record.

The Lady Rams played again on Sunday in a game that ended too late for this issue. Look for re-sults on the university’s athletic website to see if the team managed to cap-ture its first PSAC win.

West Chester will then host Mansfield next Sat-urday in yet another in-conference matchup.


Joey SamuelSports Editor

Senior forward Carly Strickland plays tough defense against Wesleyan. Strickland will be a key contribu-tor off the bench for the Lady Rams this season.

West Chester hustles to gain possession of the ball agaisnt West Virginia Wesleyan. The Rams defeated Wesleyan two weeks ago.




Cal hands Lady Rams first loss of season at Hollinger Women’s soccer playoff run comes to an end with quarterfinal loss

The West Chester wom-en’s soccer team’s season (15-5-1) unfortunately came to an end with a tough loss to Saint Rose in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament on Nov. 18. Saint Rose tallied three of their four goals in a four-and-a-half minute stretch, something that West Chester could never recover from. By half time, WCU was in a 4-0 hole, but they would not give up, ap-plying pressure which led to multiple opportunities. Erika Schrock scored off a header in the 62nd min-ute to put the Rams on the board, but it wouldn’t be enough, as West Chester fell 4-1.

The Lady Rams had reached the NCAA quar-terfinals by winning the Atlantic Regional portion of the tournament, which they hosted here at West Chester. After beating W. Va. Wesleyan on Nov. 11, the team edged Slippery Rock on a Jen Hutchinson header with just four min-utes left on Nov. 16.

Though not accomplish-ing their main goal, the Lady Rams still had a lot to be proud of as four play-ers made it on the All-Con-ference Squad. Seniors Melissa McKeary and No-elle Harner were named to the first team All-Confer-ence, thus displaying the type of year West Chester had. Another star that should be recognized is the play of our goalie, Shan-non Fedyk, who is only a

sophomore and came up huge countless times for the Rams. With her and many other key players re-turning, WCU, as a school, has much to look forward to in the upcoming season for this promising squad.

Recognition has to be given to the seniors and what they have been able to accomplish this year, as well as their whole careers here at WCU. Though some might have their names called more than others, it is important to appreciate all of their hard work. Congratulations to the Lady Rams on a great season and we look for-ward to another deep run next year.

Taylor Maren is a third-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies. He can be reached at [email protected].

Senior midfielder Rachel Miller looks on as junior forward Brianna Hires looks to maintain possession against Saint Rose. West Chester lost, 4-1, and was eliminated from the NCAA tournament.

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West Chester hustles to gain possession of the ball agaisnt West Virginia Wesleyan. The Rams defeated Wesleyan two weeks ago.


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Golden Rams rebound from rocky start with trio of winsRams swept by Stony Brook, lose fifth straight

West Chester’s DI men’s hockey team lost its fifth straight game Saturday with a 5-2 loss to Stony Brook. The penalty-ridden contest was a microcosm of the Rams’ season, in which many of their losses were winnable games but were marred by infrac-tions.

West Chester allowed Stony Brook to have a power play nine times in the game, almost an entire period’s worth of time shorthanded. The Seawolves capitalized too, scoring on three of those power plays to put the game out of reach.

Like previous games, the penalties were not those caused by aggres-sive and physical play,

but by undisciplined and sometimes retaliatory ma-neuvers.

“Penalties are killing us,” head coach Mark Gon-salves said. “The stick pe-neatlies, they’re just lazy penalties, they’re selfish.

If you don’t move your feet and you use your stick, you’re in the box. It’s just been bad and it’s been bad for a few weeks now.”

Stony Brook’s first goal came on the power play with just 36 seconds left in the first period. Though outmatched in the speed and puck-handling de-partments, the Rams were able to stave off Stony Brook’s balanced and fero-cious attack early on. For that, give credit to backup goaltender Will Parra, who got the nod Saturday after relieving Randy Jap-chen in Friday’s 6-1 blow out.

Parra faced 20 shots in the first period alone, and an even 50 for the game. He did allow five goals but three of them were power play goals—hardly his fault. He made quick and assertive decisions, both playing the puck out of

the crease and when fac-ing a barrage of shots, and kept West Chester within striking distance for most of the game.

“Parra did step up. He made some tremendous saves,” Gonsalves said.

“You can’t constantly save the team and expect stay in the game often, but we did. He made some great saves and really helped us out.”

In addition to constant-ly facing the power play, Parra did not receive ad-equate help from his de-fensmen or his forwards when it came to stopping Stony Brook’s attack. The Seawolves are a fast and disciplined team, and the only way to disrupt a fast-er team is to wear them out by being physical. There was little physical-ity in this game after the first period.

The Rams made some good hard hits, but for the most part, shyed away from contact. The space they gave the Seawolves’ forwards was all they needed to use their puck-handling skills to open up an easy pass or shot

in front of the net. A lot of the time, they had the Rams off-guard and reach-ing out with their sticks.

“We are not physical enough and we don’t move our feet,” Gonsalves said. “If you want to stick check

in this league, it’s not go-ing to work. You have to move your feet and drag your body through theirs and take them off the puck.”

“We’ve been strug-gling defensively, our defenders are not aggres-sive enough. There’s too much watching and our forwards aren’t helping out in the defensive zone properly either. We have

a system in place but we still collapse, still run around. We are doing too much looping instead of starts and stops and going directly at the guy with the puck. There are a lot of missed jobs. People are not taking care of their as-signments.”

The Rams offense was just as spotty and lazy as the defense in this game. They managed just two goals, and again, most of their shots were taken from poor angles, long dis-tances, and right into the goalie’s pads. They had trouble setting up even on the power play, and with a man advantage in the sec-ond period they saw more

action in the defensive zone than in the attack-ing one. The passes were sloppy and forced and sometimes the passes did not come at all. Players would walk the puck in by themselves, shoot, and retreat without pursuit. It was certainly an offense out of sorts, especially during the power play.

“The quality of shots are weak,” Gonsalves

said. “We cant’ finish, we leave rebounds, we miss the net. It’s just been the story week after week. We always preach get-ting aggressive, getting dirty, getting hungry in front of that net. When we leave pucks in front of our goalie, they are going in the net, we need to do the same. [On the power play] we need to move the puck quicker and get more quality shots. We had six power play opportunities when we played Delaware [last week] and didn’t get one goal, and they had four and got all four. Special teams are not our strong suite.”

West Chester’s two

goals came in the second and third periods. Senior Tim Higgins scored first, on a four-on four. The goal, his 10th of the year, tied him with captain Steve Meade for the team lead in goals and gave him the team lead in points with 19.

Chris Gentile turned the tables on a Stony Brook man advantage in the third period when he

West Chester’s Steve Meade looks to win a faceoff against Stony Brook. Meade, like the rest of his team-mates, struggled to create much on offense in the series.

Billy Pellegrino brings the puck down the ice against Stony Brook. West Chester was swept by the Sea-wolves and has now lost five straight games.

Kenny AyresEditor-in-Chief

intercepted a pass, beat the defender, and buried the shot stick side for his fourth goal of the season.

With the loss, West Chester pulls even with a 9-9-1 record. After win-ning six straight games from late October to mid November, they have now lost five in a row.

The Rams are off for more than a month before they host Rhode Island for a pivotal two-game set on Jan. 4 and 5 at 9:15 p.m. and 4:45 p.m., respective-ly.

Kenny Ayres is a third-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies with a journalism minor. He can be reached at [email protected].

Senior guard Carl Johnson dribbles the ball against California (Pa.). Johnson scored 13 points in 16 minutes on the court.

Photo by Lukas Jenkins

Photo by Lukas Jenkins


Golden Rams rebound from rocky start with trio of wins

After winning their first two road games of the year, West Chester (3-2) came home to Hollinger Field House and defeated the Vulcans from Califor-nia Saturday afternoon, 83-78.

The Golden Rams opened up their season on Nov. 18 against visit-ing Chestnut Hill Col-lege. The Griffins, who are coming off a 18-12 campaign last season, lost their opener on the road to Stonehill by 19. This was a game that the Rams expected to win af-ter finishing last season

strong. The entire game was close as neither team led by more than five points for the entire 40 minutes. With 53 seconds remaining, West Chester found itself down five, but

the six free throws made by senior guards Jon Breeden and Carl John-son, paired with three straight defensive stops, put the Rams in front by one with 13 seconds to go.

Unfortunately, they were unable to make it four straight, as Chest-nut Hill scored a put-back layup with under a second to play, defeating the Golden Rams, 62-61.The two teams combined to commit an astounding 43 turnovers, with West Chester committing 22 of their own. Sophomore for-ward Corey Blake led the team scoring 10 points, the only Golden Ram in double figures, and pull-ing down nine rebounds.

Next up for West Ches-ter was a visit from the Bears of Shaw University on Nov. 17. Last season, the Bears advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, so

they were expected to re-ally challenge this West Chester team at home. One of the things that the Rams could not afford was falling behind early and that is just what hap-pened. The Golden Rams came out shooting blanks as they went scoreless in the first eight minutes of the game, missing their first eight shots. The Bears took a comfortable 11-point lead into the half, 33-22 but West Chester was not packing it up just yet. They opened the sec-ond half on an 11-2 run to cut the lead down to just two, but that would be the closest the Rams came as Shaw’s offense came back to life and held off West Chester, handing them their second loss of the season, 63-55. Once again, turnovers were an issue for both teams, with West Chester committing 21 turnovers while accu-mulating only 12 assists. Blake once again led the way, scoring 13 points and grabbing seven boards.

West Chester’s first road tilt would come against winless Wilming-ton University (Del.) on Nov. 20. After taking a 41-30 lead into the half, things got a little too in-teresting for the Golden Rams in the second half. The Wildcats used a 7-0 run to cut West Chester’s lead from 12 to five mid-way through the second half. The Rams bent, but never broke, as they took everything the Wildcats threw at them, and pulled away late for their first victory of the 2012-13 season, 83-72. The Gold-en Rams put five players in double digits as scor-ing was not a problem on this night. As he did in the first two games, Blake led the team in scoring with 16 points. Breeden scored 14 to go along with

West Chester’s Steve Meade looks to win a faceoff against Stony Brook. Meade, like the rest of his team-mates, struggled to create much on offense in the series.

By Riley WallaceStaff Writer

eight rebounds and six assists. Reserve guards Troy Hockaday and Jaleel Mack registered 12 and 10 points respectively. John-son was the other Ram to reach double figures, scor-ing 10 and dishing out three assists. The Golden Rams out-rebounded the Wildcats 41-31 and came up big on the defensive end, snagging nine steals and blocking four shots.

In their second game away from Hollinger Fieldhouse, the Golden Rams faced off against the University of the Sci-ences Wednesday night. The Devils controlled the game much of the first half, but West Chester hung around and went

into the half trailing by only one, 31-30. With un-der 10 minutes remain-ing, the Golden Rams began to take control and with under seven to go, stretched their lead to eight. The Devils fought back, but clutch free throw shooting by Blake and Breeden down the stretch helped the Rams pull out the three-point victory, 71-68. Blake led the way for the Rams pouring in 16 points and grabbing seven rebounds.

Breeden and Johnson were the other two in double figures record-ing 15 points apiece. Of-fensively it was a tale of two halves for the Golden Rams against the Devils. In the first half they shot a mediocre 35 percent going 10-for-28 from the floor, including just one for seven from three. In the second half, they shot 50 percent and went an impressive five for eight from beyond the arc.

Saturday, the Rams were home for the first of their three straight home games taking on California (Pa.) (1-3). Be-ing West Chester’s first PSAC game of the sea-son, it was important for

them to get off on the right foot. They controlled the tempo, as well as the scoreboard, in the first half, going into the locker room with a nine-point lead, 37-26. The second half saw the Golden Rams stretch their lead to 13, but with eight and a half minutes remaining, the Vulcans had it down to two. With just over three minutes remaining, Cal took their first lead since the 14-minute mark in the first half. West Ches-

ter took the lead back and seniors Breeden and Johnson took over from there, scoring eight of the Rams’ last 11 points and keeping the lead for good. Blake scored a sea-son-high 19 points and recorded his first double-double as he grabbed 10 rebounds. Four other Rams reached double fig-ures with Johnson and guard Tim Flecken scoing 13. Senior forward Harley Williamson and Breeden had 11 each with Breeden dishing out a team-high five assists.

After facing off against visiting Indiana (Pa.) (4-1) Sunday at home, the Golden Rams will be off until Saturday when

they host Mansfield (1-2) at Hollinger Fieldhouse with both games tipping off at three. Last season, the Rams pulled off an incredible upset victory over the highly favored Crimson Hawks in the Semifinals of the PSAC Tournament after losing to them earlier in the sea-son.

Riley Wallace is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies with a journalism minor. He can be reached at [email protected].

Senior guard Carl Johnson dribbles the ball against California (Pa.). Johnson scored 13 points in 16 minutes on the court.

Sophomore guard Corey Blake gets up high to grab a rebound against Shaw. West Chester fell to Shaw but have since rebounded with three straight wins.


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