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Tensions were high among some of the IUP faculty over possible plans by PASSHE to change the state sys-tem’s curriculum.

PASSHE Vice Chancellor James Moran addressed the faculty’s concerns over the curriculum Wednesday at Eberly Auditorium.

“I am aware of the heightened concerns about these issues,” Moran said.

The main issue brought up by Moran at the meeting was over low enrolled programs in the department curriculums throughout the state system.

He said there are programs in the curriculum that are not meeting the departments’ expectations.

“What we found was that 20 percent were well below projection,” Moran said. He added that there is low enrollment in 43 percent of the state system’s curriculum.

“I thought the number was too high,” Moran said.

He also said the number does

not make for good PR in the state system.

Moran said the curriculum in the state system would be reviewed this year and possible cuts could be made to departments or curriculum that did not meet the targeted goals.

But he did not go as far as to say the curriculum would be cut if it did not meet the departments’ tar-get.

“It’s going to take a while,” Moran said.

He said PASSHE is not looking at the curriculum to make cuts for saving money.

“I expect some programs to go under revision,” Moran said.

IUP faculty expressed concern and had questions about what PASSHE wants to do with the cur-riculum.

Willard Radell, an economics professor, said he was concerned that the universities are not involved in this process.

He also said he thought that PASSHE was changing the curriculum without the involvement of university departments.

“It is possible that the university

makes a recommendation and the board makes a different decision,” Moran said.

He added that they have extended the process for more interchange.

Moran said the purpose of this process would be about how they invest their resources.

He added that he hopes they are able to do it in a five-year process.

Moran said that they need to make sure the way they classify things is consistent.

“The major purpose is that we look at portfolio offerings we have,” Moran said.

“No student chooses which of the 14 [state schools] they are going to apply to because of what majors are offered,” Peter Broad, the University Senate presi-dent, said.

Moran admitted that was true and the reviews have been a tough process.

He said the goal is how they serve the students of the commonwealth.

“At the end, we will have programs that will emerge stronger,” he said.

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Police blotter

Alcohol violations• At 2:22 a.m. Saturday, Benjamin P. Yoder, Indiana, was arrested and cited for

public drunkenness after he was found intoxicated in the 900 block of Oakland Avenue, according to borough police. Police reported that he was running down the middle of the street and refused to move for a marked police cruiser and yelled profanity at the officers, police reported.

• Borough police reported that at 11:49 p.m. Friday, Andrew J. Butler, 19, Erie, was cited for public drunkenness, underage drinking and retail theft after he was found intoxicated while attempting to steal merchandise at Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave.

• At 6:13 a.m. Friday, Jacob D. Whiteskunk, 29, Fruitland, N.M., was arrested and cited for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct after he was found trying to enter a residence in the 1500 block of Philadelphia Street while intoxicated, according to borough police. He was placed in the county jail on a temporary detainer.

• Campus police reported that at 12:50 a.m. Friday, Haley N. Williams, 19, Greensburg, was arrested and cited for public drunkenness and underage drinking after she was found intoxicated near the IUP parking garage. She was released to a sober adult, police reported.

Criminal mischief Someone threw a beer bottle through the rear window of a silver Chevrolet

Silverado truck in the 00 block of South 10th Street sometime between 11:30 p.m. Friday and 6:30 p.m. Saturday, according to borough police. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724-349-2121.

Disorderly conduct• Campus police reported that two to three men tackled a man in the Oak

Grove at 1:15 a.m. Saturday. Anyone with information is asked to contact campus police at 724-357-2121.

• At 11:49 p.m. Friday, Jonathan T. Flanagan, 18, Kailua, Hawaii, was cited for disorderly conduct after he was found throwing snowballs at passing vehicles at the intersection of South 13th and Maple streets, according to borough police.

• Borough police reported that at 3:12 a.m. Friday, Robert Rizzitano, 21, and Michael McGlumphy, 20, both of Gibsonia, were arrested and charged with criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness after they were found attempting to fight with members of the Sigma Phi fraternity where they did not belong. McGlumphy was also charged with underage drinking, police reported.

HarassmentAt 1:41 a.m. Friday, Joshua H. Miller, 23, Johnstown, was arrested at his

residence after he allegedly hit a woman at Wolfendale’s Bar at 560 Philadelphia St., according to borough police. Police reported that Miller threatened to get into a physical altercation with the officers after he was taken into custody. He was charged with assault, harassment and making terroristic threats, police reported. He was placed in the county jail.

Hit and runCampus police reported that someone driving a light blue Chevy Lumina hit

another vehicle parked at the HUB parking lot and took off sometime between 7:30 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. Friday. Police reported that the Lumina’s registration is DCL-3005. Anyone with more information is asked to contact campus police.

Items burgled• Someone stole a Dell laptop, Kodak digital camera and a Zune HD media

player from a residence at 31 S. 10th St. sometime between 12:30 and 4:30 a.m. Sunday, according to borough police. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

• Borough police reported that Khalif E. Dickson, 20, and Latifah Scott, 19, both of Philadelphia, were arrested and charged with theft, receiving stolen property and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle Friday after they confessed to providing false identification to the employees at Monro Muffler at 1336 Oakland Ave. and taking off with a vehicle. Both were transported and lodged in the county jail on a $15,000 bond, police reported. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 15.

– compiled from police reports

Faculty voices concerns over curriculumBy SeAn BrACken

News [email protected]

The leaders of the nation’s histor-ically black colleges and universities breathed a sigh of relief last week when they learned that President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2011 bud-get includes a $30 million funding increase for their financially strug-gling schools.

Last year, many black educators were shocked by what they consid-ered to be substantial cuts to black colleges and other educational insti-tutions dedicated to select minori-ties, such as Native Americans, in Obama’s first budget proposal.

“The United Negro College Fund and the entire community of minority-serving institutions were disappointed at last year’s budget proposal, which recommend-ed a decrease from previous fund-ing levels,” fund President Michael Lomax said in a written statement analyzing Obama’s latest budget.

For the fiscal year that will begin on Oct. 1, Obama proposes $279.9 million for historically black colleges

and universities, $30 million more than he proposed for fiscal 2010 and $13 million more than Congress appropriated, according to the United Negro College Fund.

Administration officials said the funding request reflects the premium it places on minority education institutions, which they say will play an important role in helping to meet Obama’s goal of the U.S. having the world’s highest college graduation rate by 2020.

The U.S. ranks 15th among 29 developed countries in college completion, according to the most recent National Report Card on Higher Education.

“I said from day one we desper-ately need historically black colleges and universities not just to survive, but to thrive,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent television interview with syndicat-ed columnist and talk show host Roland Martin.

“So, we want to support the institutions. We’re going to make sure many more students can go through.”

The weather outside was frightful for some and delightful for others after a snowstorm hit the area this weekend.

The snowstorm began Friday evening in the Indiana area and lasted throughout the night and into early Saturday morning.

The storm canceled classes on campus, as well as other campus events, which were scheduled for Friday and Saturday. Classes resumed normally Monday.

The decision to have classes Monday caused anger among the IUP community, but IUP stands by its decision to hold class.

Michelle Fryling, IUP’s media relations director, said the admin-istration wanted to leave it up to students or faculty to decide accordingly about whether or not they would not be able to make it to class.

“It is our personal responsibility to be careful and prudent to best make sure students are safe,” Fryling said in a telephone interview Monday.

The snow also closed many places, such as Folger Dining Hall and the HUB eating facilities.

According to an e-mail sent out by Bill Montgomery, director of public safety, parking lots after 5:30 p.m. Monday.

The storm ended up dumping more than a foot of snow, which covered the ground, sidewalks and

roads, which proved to make shoveling, walking and driving difficult for many people.

Another snowstorm is in the forecast for Tuesday and into Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.

The storm is expected to dump several more inches of snow on the area.

Fryling said IUP will be planning in the event of another major snowstorm happening.

She said a meeting will be held Tuesday morning to further plan out the possible snowstorm.

“We will be monitoring it very closely,” Fryling said.


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Brock Fleeger/The PennFriday’s snowstorm buried parked cars and made roads nearly inaccessible, putting Indiana County under a state of emergency Saturday.

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“It is our personal responsibility to be careful and prudent to best make sure students are safe.”

— Michelle Fryling, IUP media relations director

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Congressman John P. Murtha (D-Johnstown) died Monday at age 77 in Arlington, Va.

His death followed complica-tions from gallbladder surgery, according to a statement on his Web site, murtha.house.gov.

Murtha is well-known in the IUP community for a lot of different projects he helped the campus with.

One of those projects Murtha was involved in was to help secure funding for IUP’s KCAC project.

IUP President Tony Atwater provided a statement about Murtha’s death at approximately 5 p.m. Monday.

“The nation and the common-wealth have lost a tremendous leader and public servant,” Atwater said.

“Congressman Murtha was always about helping those in need and maintaining the security and strength of our nation,” he added.

Atwater went on to recognize Murtha’s achievements in helping the IUP community, such as the John P. Murtha Center for Education and Workforce Development.

Murtha also visited IUP in 2007 to be the featured speaker at the opening of IUP Cares, which advocates diabetes education and awareness,

according to Atwater.“He will be deeply missed, but

revered for his passion, leadership and devotion to others,” Atwater said.

“I was sorry to hear about the passing of Murtha,” said David Myers, IUP criminology professor and interim director at the John P. Murtha Institute for Homeland Security.

“My condolences go out to the family.”

IUP dedicated the institute to Murtha in 2003, according to Atwater.

IUP also presented Murtha with an honorary doctorate of law degree in 1996.

Murtha nationally is most known for his opposition to how Operation Iraqi Freedom was being handled by former President George W. Bush.

Murtha called for an exit strategy from Iraq, which attracted criticism from the opposition for his position.

Critics, mainly Republicans, said Murtha wanted to “cut and run” from the comment.

In addition, he came under criticism from Republicans for com-

ments he made that U.S. soldiers were killing Iraqi civilians in “cold blood.”

He was a supporter of the 2002 resolution to enter Iraq.

Murtha also stirred controversy for earmarks he received through the years as a congressman.

He was investigated in 1980 for the Abscam corruption probe. No charges were filed.

Murtha represented the 12th U.S. Congressional District of Pennsylvania, which included IUP’s

main campus. He also represented much of

the county and surrounding areas.Michelle Fryling, IUP’s media

relations director, said Murtha’s death will have no impact on funding for the KCAC project.

“We are working to secure all avenues for funding,” Fryling said in a telephone interview.

She said that IUP is looking for private money, in addition to state and federal funds, to help fund the

project.Murtha was a representative in

the 12th district since 1974, according to his Web site. Murtha became the commonwealth’s longest-serving U.S. Congressman Feb. 5, according to the Web site.

Only 79 other members served lon-ger than he did.

Murtha was also a Marine who fought in both the Vietnam and Korean wars.

He was the first Vietnam veteran elected to the U.S. Congress, according to the Web site.

Murtha was responsible for bringing thousands of jobs to his district and for his leadership in health care reform and military funding.

He also provided defense and foreign policy leadership.

Murtha was the winner of many awards.

He won the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award and the Congressional Medal of Honor Society’s National Patriots Award, according to the Web site.

In addition, he also won the commonwealth’s top honors of the Distinguished Service Medal and the Meritorious Service Medal.

Murtha was born June 17, 1932, in New Martinsville, W. Va., according to the Web site congress.org.

Attempts to contact both his offices in Johnstown and Washington, D.C., were unsuccessful.

IUP community responds to Congressman John Murtha’s death

By Sean Bracken News Editor

[email protected]

MCTJohn Murtha spoke to members of the press in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 2007, about a timetable to bring home American troops from Iraq.

“[John Murtha] will be deeply missed, but revered for his passion, leadership and devotion to others.”

— IUP President Tony Atwater

John P. Murtha, the powerful dean of Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation who survived scandal and seismic political shifts to become the longest-serving U.S. House member from the state, died today from complications following gallblad-der surgery. He was 77.

Presiding over what became “the Murtha Corner” in the House, he wielded power quietly, working deals for his party’s leadership, advising members on everything from defense spending to how to line up money for their districts. His 36 years in Congress were marked by extraordinary access to presidents of both parties. He was a confidante of the late Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill.

Republicans and Democrats alike sought his advice on defense mat-ters and, from his perch on the House Appropriations defense subcommit-tee, he personally dispensed billions of dollars in federal funds, steering much of it to his economically wracked 12th Congressional District.

Revered in his district, never winning by less than 55 percent in a general election since he first went to the House, Murtha became famous

initially as the first Vietnam com-bat veteran to serve in Congress, then as one of the kings of congressional pork. He was a perennial target of reform groups, a hero to lob-byists for his defense of their role in shaping legislation, and he created an elaborate and subsidized defense industry in his hometown of Johnstown, Cambria County.

His prowess in securing pork brought scrutiny, including wide-spread theorizing that he was the ultimate target of a criminal probe into a prominent lobbying firm, PMA, run by Pittsburgh native Paul Magliocchetti, a former staff member at defense appropriations. Murtha was never charged in that or another probe,

this one into Kuchera Industries, one of the dozens of defense contrac-tors to spring up in the 12th District. Murtha was first hospitalized with gallbladder problems in December.

He had surgery Jan. 28 at the National Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. He went home, but was hospital-ized two days later when complica-tions developed. According to a source close to Murtha, confirming a report in Politico that doctors inadvertent-ly cut Murtha’s intestine during the laparoscopic surgery, causing an infec-tion.

Murtha died surrounded by fam-ily at the Virginia Medical Center in Arlington, Va., at 1:18 p.m., according to a spokesman.


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Over the past four years, I have been a very active (and very inactive) student on the IUP campus. I appre-ciate the successes of this institu-tion and her students, but am deeply aware of her shortcomings as well. Our university has previously cancelled classes rarely. The incredibly few num-ber of cancellations could easily be correlated to the fact that inclement weather has been limited in the past number of years. The reality of this past weekend, however, is that bad weather has happened and it has hap-pened to IUP. Did the university rise to meet the challenge and protect her students? It would seem that the answer is no.

Looking back at radar maps, it seems obvious that the snow was inevitable. The community of Indiana, Pa., stocked up on food and prepared for the worst. Salt supplies went low at stores and shovels became rare on shelves. At 4:38 p.m. Friday, the university community received an e-mail from Terry Appolonia, interim dean of students, declaring that the remaining classes were canceled. This also applied to any courses that met on Saturday. The snow began to fall shortly after. About two feet later, Indiana began to remerge.

Clearly, the university had warning of the seriousness of the impend-ing snowstorm. Students stayed away from campus and the snow began to slow. Given the quick shift in weather on Sunday, most students began to wonder about the state of Monday classes. Yes, it stopped snowing. No, it was not extremely cold. Are the roads clear though? Are the sidewalks made of ice? Will campus be safe? An e-mail from Vice President of Student Affairs, Rhonda Luckey, was issued to allay our fears. As we all began to pre-pare for classes and feel the frustra-tion of the weather, Monday morning brought us just enough snow to leave a fresh cover to hide the ice. It seemed to be a sign of doom for all those ready

for the early trek to campus. IUP, perhaps in an effort to com-

plement the borough’s treacherous roads, has poorly prepared for the influx of student drivers and poorly considered the difficulty that our com-muter students would have traveling in from their own snow-covered areas. To compound the issues for student drivers, our iced parking lots closed at 5:30 p.m. Monday. Many campus roads have only one drivable lane, if that. This presents a serious danger to campus drivers and the students choosing to utilize the IUP Indigo bus system.

Roads aside, let’s talk about the sidewalks. The area in front of Foster is an ice slick. Students have been more successful in traversing the cam-pus by walking in the middle of the road. Eleventh Street, a commonly trafficked area for pedestrians, is a horrible combination of hidden ice and deadly bog. Clearly, our safety has become secondary to putting extra salt onto the sidewalks. Across cam-pus, students have reported fender benders, falls resulting in a range of problems from slight bruises to seri-ous leg injuries and issues making to classes.

How did other universities, schools, and institutions handle their activi-ties today? KDKA.com’s school closing page lists approximately 445 entries for institutions that were closed or delayed for Monday. These include universities such as Point Park, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, and Chatham. The fact of the matter is that if your campus is not safe for commuters or pedes-trians, you need to close. IUP has failed the students (not to mention the faculty and staff) by putting us all into a dangerous position. Over the course of the next week, they will have an opportunity to redeem them-selves. There is currently a forecast for between 6 to 12 inches of further accumulation. Will IUP finally protect its students and make the appropri-ate choice that so many other schools have already made?

Let’s wait and see.

Snow days: when clean up falls short of safetyBy Sarah Morrow

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France is a militantly secular state that is determined to remain cultur-ally homogeneous.

While holding dear the ideals of equality and human rights, the coun-try also widely embraces assimila-tion — the belief that to be French, immigrants and nationals alike must adhere to the language, customs, values and all-around French way of life.

That is why France banned reli-gious head scarves in public schools in 2004, and why lawmakers now want to prohibit women from wear-ing burkas or full-face veils in public places such as city halls and post offices, and possibly even parks and subways.

Although we understand that France wants to protect its secular national identity, such a ban would undermine fundamental religious liberty as protected under its con-stitution.

Moreover, we believe that the lat-est effort to restrict the dress of Muslim women is unlikely to achieve its goal, and could have the opposite effect instead.

After six months of deliberations, a 32-member parliamentary com-mission last week urged the National

Assembly to pass a resolution con-demning the full veil and draft a law banning it.

“The wearing of the full veil is a challenge to our republic. This is unacceptable,” the commission said. It suggested that veiled Muslims be denied access to public services such as buses.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister Francois Fillon favor a ban, which is expected to become law this year. That would be a shame.

Other justifications for the ban — to protect women from oppres-sion, to push back against religious extremism or to facilitate identifica-tion for security — don’t convince us that it is necessary.

Like Switzerland’s vote in November to outlaw construction of minarets, a ban on veils would provide further evidence of religious discrimination to those who believe the West is an enemy of Islam. In fact, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner called the Swiss vote a show of “intolerance.”

The way to counter reli-gious extremism and oppres-sion is not to respond with addi-tional repression but to encourage moderation and tolerance.

The French Catholic Church rightly

condemned the proposed ban this week, warning that it would be per-ceived as a direct attack on French Muslims and would make it more difficult to demand that Islamic countries respect the rights of their religious minorities.

About 6 percent of France’s nearly 64 million people are Muslim, and only a few thousand women are believed to wear a burka or full veil.

Although we agree that a full-face cover is degrading to women — particularly when it is not worn voluntarily — it isn’t a violation of the rights of others or a threat to the secular state.

We believe in gender equality and protection of women’s rights. But we fear that the surest way to increase the number of women wearing a full veil is to tell them they cannot.

France has misguided plan to ban burkasMCT We believe in

gender equality and protection of women’s rights. But we fear that the surest way to increase the number of women wearing a full veil is to tell them they cannnot.

Brock Fleeger/The PennSnow covered the HUB parking lot Saturday and continues to plague campus.


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Snow — you have to love it and hate it at the same time. For high-school kids, snow days are the best thing that’s happened since cell

phones and Facebook — well, at least it’ll give them more time to dabble with the two time-consuming devices, if you ask us. But, for college students, it’s a completely different story.

Of course, as college students, we are adults, which means that we should be able to still go to work, go to classes and get done what we really need to do.

However, when it snows to the point where it is up to our knees and the temperatures are low enough to freeze our snot, we have to draw a line some-where.

Teachers understand — and if not yet, they will when their cars get stuck on Oakland Avenue in the entrance of Regency Mall. We still have the responsibility of getting our work done and to stay on top of our A-game, no matter what the weather is.

Trotting through 30 inches of snow and risking getting buried in a snow grave should not be an option for students.

It is believed that IUP has not had a snow day in a few years— there was a snow day last year due to the temperature dropping six degrees below zero — ZERO!

On top of the fact that Indiana had turned into a countywide icebox, you couldn’t make two steps without slipping on a sheet of ice that remained throughout campus.

Based on what we are expecting of the weather’s doing in the next few days, we may face the same predicament. Time will tell whether or not we’ll be trudging through additional inches over the next few days, but meteorologists are calling for

Whether the crazy weather prevents us from stepping out into the frozen havoc or dooms us to act like pioneers trying to stay alive through the snow, we shouldn’t have to face the risk of breaking our ankles, but it shouldn’t give us the chance to slack off, either.

Snow, while picturesque, causes problems for community

Banks can only improve economy if we can tell it’s changed

Is the recession about over? Could it happen again? One in every 366 U.S. households has received a fore-closure. The recession has plunged 2.6 million more Americans into pov-erty — including almost one in five children under age 18. People without health insurance are also up to 46.3 million. Folks in prime earning years, between ages 45 and 54 earned 7 percent less in the last two years (others took a 2 percent cut). That doesn’t sound good.

But wait Batman, what about the data dots from last week? Stocks reached a 15-month high, and the Commerce Department announced that fourth quarter GDP was 5.7 per-cent — the fastest growth in six years — up from 2.8 percent in the third quarter. The number of consumer loans that are going bad started to level off. Job losses slowed signifi-cantly. Nobody is declaring full-scale recovery, but most economists think things are looking up. What’s one to think about the future? Where does that leave us?

First, sure we want the economy to improve, who doesn’t? However, until we feel it personally, individu-

ally, in our daily lives, the statistics don’t really mean much. Therefore, we will all wait, do the best we can and try to get by. In the meantime, we hope and expect government and business to do good job of not only getting us out of the mess, but as important, ensuring that we don’t’ go down this rough road again.

So, how’d we get here anyway?In 1999, with Republicans and

Democrats alike, banking laws were relaxed to allow expansion into non-traditional areas. Bankers were already assured of relatively low-cost money, and the government guaranteed deposits. With the law amended, they got into things like unconventional mortgages. In 2000, another law was changed, which increased the use of “dark” over-the-counter markets — those markets totally, completely and thoroughly unregulated by the government.

In the years that followed, there was a party — and a big one. Banks and other traders used markets as private playthings, sometimes put-ting customer money at risk like never before. For example, credit default swaps (CDSs) — bets upon bets that bundled exotic mortgages would fail — were in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. These were traded without any government regula-

tion. Taxpayers bailed out American International Group to the tune of $180 billion due to AIG’s imprudent use of CDSs.

They weren’t alone, nope, 22 banks also took the cash. Since then, banks reported 2009 record profits. Bully for them. What did they do with those profits: lend to individuals or businesses? How about reducing credit card rates? Nah, none of the above. They flowered roughly $40 billion on executives in the form of bonuses. In fact, they decreased their small business lending by 4.3 percent ($11.6 billion).

When loan and credit lines tight-en, businesses have difficulty initiat-ing, expanding and funding opera-tions. While we helped the banks survive, they haven’t been part of the recovery like many think they should. Maybe that is changing. Maybe we are moving out of the recession.

As we go forward, it is hoped gov-ernment will do all it can to ensure that we don’t travel over that rough road again. A surefooted start would be to ensure banks return to the basics: making loans for individuals and businesses and getting them out of the perilous trading that puts customers’ funds at risk — not to mention the entire economy.

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Going vegan creates healthier choices for consumers

From using energy-efficient light bulbs to driving hybrid cars, there has been an ever-growing emphasis placed on going green, such as on cleaning products and an even stronger emphasis on recycling and protecting the environment.

Obesity and heart disease have been plaguing our population for decades.

What if there was one simple solution to both go green and live healthily? Well, there is: Go vegan.

Veganism is a branch of vegetarianism in which no animal products, such as dairy-based foods and eggs, are consumed and neither leather nor fur is used.

There are numerous advantages for choosing to go vegan, including benefits to animals, the environment and your overall health.

According to GiveUsAHome.co.uk, reasons for becoming a vegetarian include avoiding the risk of getting food poisoning, the fact that meat contains nothing that the human body cannot obtain perfectly from a vegetarian diet, and that “meat” can include the tail, head, feet, rectum and spinal cord of an animal. This “meat” could then find its way into your food.

By deciding to “veganize” your life, you will be saving hundreds of animals from meeting a brutal demise at the hands of the food industry, cutting back on the amount of animal waste that mixes with water supplies and decreasing your intake of unhealthy fats and cholesterol, which lead to heart disease and obesity.

At this point, you may be saying to yourself, “Sure, going vegan sounds like a good idea, but there’s just no

way that I’ll be able to cut meat and dairy out of my diet. Where would I get my protein? How could I replace meat in my diet; I eat it at every meal.” Well, going vegan may just be easier than you think.

Oatmeal, cereal, peanut butter and jelly, French fries — These are all vegan foods, and most of us eat them regularly.

If you are having trouble giving up meat and dairy, look no further than Boca-style veggie burgers and other soy products.

Made from grains, vegetables and soy, veggie burgers deliver a deli-cious alternative to animal products, leaving you one happy vegan.

Soy-based dairy products can help fill that void in your cereal bowl.

By pouring some soy milk over your Frosted Flakes, you will be enjoying a healthy substitute to the hormone-filled milk that has occupied your fridge for years. Foster

offers an array of these soy milks near the salad bar. It may seem difficult to maintain a vegan diet on a col-lege campus, but if you know where to look, the task becomes fathoms easier.

At the HUB, you can use your meal plan to order salads at the Salad Garden.

Or if you find yourself at Fosters, be sure to check out their delicious vegetarian section between where they serve pizza and breakfast.

Another good place to con-sider would be Pita Pit, located on seventh and Philadelphia streets, which, according to its Web site, PitaPit.com, offers a good variety of vegetarian options.

If you have been planning on going vegan for a while, or if you have just decided to, there is no better time to start than now.

For more information on going vegan, including some wonderful recipes, visit goveg.com.

By KEITH VISLAY Staff Writer

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MCT‘Going green’ is appearing everywhere, causing many to turn toward greener, healthier lifestyles. Veganism is a good way to turn eating habits in a ‘greener’ direction.

Food waste becoming big issue in environment

Food waste is a huge issue in America, especially in light of the growing divide between the profligate rich and the hungry poor.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Loss Project, we throw away more than 25 per-cent — some 25.9 million tons — of all the food we produce for domestic sale and consumption.

A 2004 University of Arizona study pegs the figure at closer to 50 percent, finding that Americans squander some $43 billion annually on wasted food.

Lead researcher Timothy Jones reported that on average, U.S. households waste 14 percent of their food purchases. He estimates that a family of four tosses out $590 per year in meat, fruits, vegetables and grain products alone.

Once this food gets to the landfill, it then generates methane, a greenhouse gas 23 times as potent as carbon dioxide in trapping heat within our atmosphere.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, landfills account for 34 percent of all methane emissions in the U.S. — meaning that the sandwich you made and then didn’t eat yesterday is increasing your personal — and our collective — carbon footprint.

Furthermore, researchers at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases concluded in a 2009 study that each year a quarter of U.S. water consumption and more than 300 million barrels of oil (4 percent of U.S. oil consumption) go into producing and distributing food that ultimately ends up in landfills.

They add that per-capita food waste has increased by half since 1974, and suggest that the “U.S.

obesity epidemic” may be the result of a “push effect” of increased food availability and marketing to Americans unable to match their food intake with the increased supply of cheap food.

In spite of all this, environmen-talists are optimistic that Americans can reduce their food waste.

For one, restaurants and markets are increasingly finding outlets — including soup kitchens feeding the poor and farms looking for cheap animal feed — for food they would otherwise toss.

Some communities now pickup and centrally compost food waste from commercial and residential buildings and put the resulting nutrient-rich soil to use in municipal projects or for sale to the public.

An extreme reaction to the food waste issue is “freeganism,” a movement of people who live on the food cast off by others.

These “dumpster divers” share, in the words of movement founder Warren Oakes, “an anti-consumer-istic ethic about eating” and not only avoid creating waste but live off that caused by others.

Going freegan might be a bit much for most of us, but we can all take action to minimize food waste.

The University of Arizona’s Jones suggests more careful pur-chase planning, including devising complete menus and grocery lists, and knowing what foods are lurking in the fridge and pantry that should be used before they go bad.

And don’t forget that many foods can be frozen and enjoyed later.

Jones contends that if we as a nation were able to cut our food waste in half we’d extend the lifespan of landfills by decades and reduce soil depletion and the application of untold tons of fertilizers, pesticides and herbi-cides.

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PRSSA to hold Relay for Life Kickoff event

IUP’s PRSSA (Public Relations Study Society of America) is hosting a Relay for Life Kickoff in the HUB Susquehanna Room from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday.

The kickoff will provide students with the opportunity to learn about the American Cancer Society, learn about the relay and sign up for a relay team.

There will also be sign-ups for the survivor lap and ceremony that take place during the relay.

Attendees of the kickoff will be provided with pizza and snacks, as well as door prizes.

This year’s Relay for Life will be held from 5 p.m. April 9 to 10 a.m. April 10 at IUP’s Miller Stadium.

The cost of signing up for a team is $50 a team or $10 an individual.

PRSSA also participated in Relay for Life last year.

Thea Petrigac, (sophomore, journalism) Chairwoman of PRSSA’s Relay for Life committee, said, “We dropped the ball, but we’re coming back even stronger this year.”

The association’s goal is to raise $20,000 for the relay.

“I’m going to try my best and do

everything in my power to meet and exceed that goal,” Petrigac added.

The first Relay for Life was held in 1985 when Dr. Gordy Klatt, a colorectal surgeon in Tacoma, Wash., walked and ran around a track for 24 hours to raise awareness and money for the American Cancer Society. Relay for Life is now the world’s largest movement to raise money to end cancer.

Petrigac said PRSSA is involved in Relay for Life because “there are so many people who have been affected by cancer, whether it is them[selves] personally, a family member, friend, classmate or col-league, and it is important to show our support for these people and let them know we won’t stop fighting until there is a cure.”

For more information about Relay for Life or to ask questions about sign-ups, visit relayforlife.org or call 1-800-227-2345. There are three ways to sign up — to start a team, to join a team or to participate as a survivor. Sign up today!

By AMBER GRADY Staff Writer

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“I’m going to try my best and do everything in my power to meet and exceed that goal.”

—Thea Petrigac Chairwoman, PRSSA Relay for Life

‘Idol’ justice: Who should replace judge Simon Cowell?

This season of “American Idol” is one for the books, and we’re not talk-ing about the “Pants on the Ground” phenomenon.

Personnel shake-ups have turned attention to the judges. Paula Abdul is out, Simon Cowell is making his way toward the exit and Ellen DeGeneres makes her debut Tuesday as Abdul’s replacement. With her appointment, it’s time to wonder whether the show has jumped the shark.

Despite a decline in viewers over the past couple of years, “American Idol” still easily wins the ratings race every week.

And while there’s no question that DeGeneres is hilarious, her lack of music industry expertise makes her contribution to the show more fluff and punch lines than anything con-structive.

She proved when she was a guest judge on “So You Think You Can Dance” last season that she’s no judge.

At least judges Randy Jackson, with his painful, repetitive hip-speak, and Kara DioGuardi, still struggling to find a personality, have real music industry credentials as record producers.

With Cowell’s days numbered — he announced last month that this is his last season on “Idol” — the judge

table is vulnerable. The show needs someone with his bite, honesty and knowledge.

Here are some names — some rumored to be under consideration, some just suggestions — who might make a better judge than DeGeneres:

PAST FINALIST OR WINNERFormer champs Carrie Underwood

and Kelly Clarkson are too deep in their own projects to return as a full-time judge, but Kris Allen would be a respectable choice, and so would a runner-up such as Bo Bice or Clay Aiken.

HOWARD STERNHoward Stern is being eyed as

a new “American Idol” judge, and frankly, the no-holds-barred radio host could make a better Simon Cowell than Cowell. But we can’t imagine Stern even being remotely interested in such a family-friendly gig except as a goof, or as a tactic in renegotiating his radio contract.

KATHY GRIFFINIf you’re going to go for a comedi-

an, go with someone with unabashed gusto, some teeth. Griffin would be sure to tell contestants the brutal truth.

LATOYA JACKSONLaToya Jackson’s off-the-wall

wackiness would be a nice homage to Abdul, and maybe we’d even get a performance of her 80’s song “Heart Don’t Lie.”

WENDY WILLIAMSIf you’re going to go with a talk

show host, why not Williams? She spent more than 20 years on radio and helped a number of stars break through.

ELTON JOHNImagine the costumes, sunglasses

and bitchiness he’d bring.

KATY PERRYOf all the guest judges who have

filled Abdul’s spot, we think Perry has been the most constructive and enjoy-able. If her career weren’t so hot, she’d probably sign up.

By KEVIN C. JOHNSONSt. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Save energy, reap great rewards

You maneuver the controls on your thermostat, hoping for a few more degrees of warmth.

But wait! What if there were a reward for leaving the setting right where it is — or, better yet, for lower-ing it?

What if putting up with a little chill got you a price break on a butter pound cake split three ways and filled with lemon curd and blackberry and raspberry puree from a local bakery?

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Perks like those are part of a growing list from businesses in the Philadelphia area hoping to improve their bottom lines by promoting a greener lifestyle.

Rewards for households that recy-cle through RecycleBank (Recyclebank.com), which got its start in the city in 2005, are already well-known and popular in the area.

Now comes what is believed to be a first: a rewards program for saving energy.

Earth Aid, a Washington, D.C., start-up, enables U.S. residents to track their electric, gas and water usage online and, by cutting back on it, earn points that can be redeemed at local businesses.

Launched in September, Earth Aid (Earthaid.net) will not disclose how many members it has or the com-pany’s financials.

Ben Bixby, its cofounder and chief executive officer, said membership was “in the thousands and our rate of growth is doubling monthly.”

Though the program has not yet had a formal introduction in Philadelphia, the city is home to some of its largest reward partners, Bixby said: Of the more than 100 businesses that have signed on, 25 are from Philadelphia or its suburbs, “with many more on the way.”

That could be a barometer of not only the growing influence of the

sustainability movement, but of just how eager recession-impaired busi-nesses are for a chance to boost sales, said Maria Cain, sales manager at Bredenbeck’s Bakery in Philadelphia, where a few more sugar addicts would be welcome.

Linking with Earth Aid, Cain said, “really puts our name out there to the entire Philadelphia region.” Said Stephen Falvo at Philadelphia’s Manayunk’s Art+Science Salon & Spa, where Earth Aid participants can redeem 300 points for a 60-minute massage: “I think people need to real-ize that just by supporting local busi-ness, they are helping to reduce their carbon footprint and, in turn, keeping the supply chain local.”

Earth Aid has developed propri-etary software that makes it possible, with consumer permission, to retrieve household utility data everywhere in the country, Bixby said.

Once people sign up, their energy use is reviewed and a baseline estab-lished.

Then the company provides cus-tomized advice on how to become more energy-efficient and which rebates and tax credits are available to make the changes.

Participants receive monthly state-ments from Earth Aid showing how much energy they used and how that compared with the same month in the previous year.

Reward points are based on reduc-tions achieved.

“We just want to make it easier for people to save energy, and infor-mation does that,” said David Burd, Earth Aid’s vice president of business development.

Sign-up for households is free “and will forever be,” Bixby said. There is also no charge “at this time” for small and regional businesses to offer one reward, he said.

Larger rewards-program partici-pants must pay a promotional fee, depending on their size.

Earth Aid also makes money from sales it helps arrange between mem-bers and providers of energy-conser-vation services and products, such as oxygenating showerheads and pro-grammable thermostats.

By DIANE MASTRULL The Philadelphia Inquirer

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From workout to workplace: New styles to transition from gym to office

In Sara Walther’s closet, only one pair of jeans comes anywhere close to getting as much wear as her yoga pants from Lululemon and Athleta.

“I have suits, and I look at them, and I wish I could get my money back for them,” said Walther, 35, who converts much of her early morning yoga attire to daylong office wear. “My black Lulus, I wear them at least two times a week, sometimes with a yoga tank to class and then to work with a J. Crew cardigan and scarf, or a piece of jewelry and Brazilian leather riding boots.”

Fitness brands are acknowledg-ing the delicate workout/life balance. More than ever, yoga attire, in particu-lar, is cross-training with fashion to gain flexibility.

It’s the next step in the evolution of workout-apparel-as-weekend-wear — it’s also becoming weekday worthy and night-out ready. It helps if you don’t sweat profusely.

“There are some people who are dripping after class, and they have to — I hope to God they do — take a shower,” said Walther, who has been practicing yoga for 15 years. “Unless it’s Bikram yoga, where they have it up to 108 degrees, I’m OK with myself after my workout. There’s no way I could go home from the studio, shower and change. I have a very demanding job.”

Walther serves as financial controller for the Carbon War Room, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit working to raise awareness about industrial carbon and climate change.

“I’m in a very entrepreneurial setting,” an office culture where Walther feels comfortable dressing less formally most days. If she still worked for a private equity firm, her suits would be in business. “This is

the setting” — and the clothing — “I prefer,” she said.

A STEP BEYONDThis season Lululemon Athletica’s

popular Wunder Under work-out leggings are available with limited-edition embellishments like ruching, ruffles or nonchafing zip-up sides, which pair equally well with ballet flats and yoga mats.

These aren’t the flare-leg pants traditionally associated with yoga.

The tighter legs make them easier to layer with street clothes.

For yoga, the closer fit prevents toes from catching in hems, Walther notes.

Liz Miersch, Self magazine’s fit-ness editor, calls these hybrid leggings “apres-gym leggings.”

“Right now I’m wearing my Zobha yoga workout leggings with a dress I wore to work today,” she said from New York during a recent weekday phone interview. “On Saturdays, I’ll put on leggings, a sports bra and top, and I’ll be doing errands, and when I can sneak out to the gym I’m ready. The boot/legging thing, thank God that’s in style. That’s an easy way to disguise your workout wear.”

Zobha yoga and fitness apparel released a survey last year in which about two-thirds of the 1,000 women surveyed had scaled back financially in their workout routines (exercising at home or outside instead of at a gym, for example).

But nearly all who currently exercised said they would continue. Seventy-five percent of women sur-veyed said they are more likely to work out if they are already wearing fitness clothes; 32 percent choose fit-ness apparel as their primary casual day outfit.

NEW YOGA LOOKSIf you’re on track with your 2010

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ing yourself with fashion-conscious gear to go the distance.

Lululemon Athletica’s best-selling women’s pants are the Groove (a reversible flare leg),

Wunder Under (a tight leg) and Still pants (a wide leg popular for travel and pregnancy).

For men, the wide-leg Kung Fu is the hottest seller. Wunder Under ruffled pants, $92 at Lululemon stores and at LuLuLemon.com

In February, Zobha is introducing a trendy harem pant style and is launch-ing loungewear. Harem pants, $70 at zobha.com

New for spring, Athleta’s convertible Rain Forest top has a shirred empire waist and removable

halter straps for different looks. An internal double-layer shelf bra offers low-impact support for A-C cups. $59 at athleta.com

The brand Beyond Yoga is true to its name with versatile styles such as the organic cotton scarf jacket — with scarf built in so you never leave it behind. $176 at IAmBeyond.com

Bebe has launched PH8 — pronounced “fate” — its active-in-spired sportswear collection with a hint of Bebe’s sexiness.

Designed to extend beyond the gym, the clothing, bags, shoes and jewelry range from $19 to $139. A cowl neck jacket with shirred mesh is $89; leather leggings are $69; a stripe top is $36. See Ph8stores.com.

By wendy donahue Chicago Tribune

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‘Filla’ up!Kierstin Filla hits layup with seven seconds remaining to complete comeback over Clarion, 84-83

Guard Kierstin Filla’s game-win-ning layup capped off a miraculous comeback against Clarion by a score of 84-83 Sunday afternoon.

Filla’s shot was not the only head-line she made Sunday, as her five assists moved her into second place in school history.

Despite the cold, brutal conditions outside Clarion’s Tippin Gymnasium, the action inside was hotly contested, especially in the last 10 minutes of the second half.

Clarion had built an 18-point lead with the help of hot shoot-ing, making 50 percent of its shots in the first half, 46 percent from the 3-point line.

While Clarion was having a productive night from the field, IUP was in the middle of a nightmarish evening as it shot only 33 percent from the field.

That all changed after Clarion pushed its lead to 63-45 when IUP went on a 11-2 run to close the gap within double digits at 65-56 with a little over nine minutes remaining.

IUP and Clarion reversed roles in the second half, as it was IUP who got hot from the field and Clarion who was ice cold.

IUP shot 48 percent in the second half and 44 percent from beyond the arc, whereas Clarion made 25 percent of its shots in the second stanza.

For the rest of the half, IUP got closer and closer to Clarion, but the Golden Eagles fended IUP off until 26 seconds left in the game when forward Hillary Shope hit two of her nine free throws to put the Crimson Hawks on top for the first time with

the score at 82-81.Clarion’s Janelle Zabresky hit two

free throws of her own to put Clarion back on top 83-82.

On the ensuing possession, Filla drove the length of the court and put it in to give IUP the lead for good. Despite looking, Filla just took the ball up the court on her own accord, apparently just following Head Coach Jeff Dow’s orders.

“It’s something we practice a couple times a week,” Dow said dur-ing an interview Monday afternoon. “Because she’s left-handed, we hand it to her on the right side of floor with the idea that she’s going to cross over.”

Clarion, opting not to call a timeout, drove down the floor and missed three attempts at the win, falling to 11-10 and 2-6 in the PSAC West.

“That was certainly one of the great comebacks I have personally as a coach have been associated with,”

Dow said.“To be down 18 with less

than 14 minutes to go says a lot about our team,” he added. “Just the mental toughness we have and the resolve that we have to find a way to win that game.”

The win for IUP (13-7, 6-2) was its fourth in a row and moved it up into a tie for second place with Cal U, who lost to first-place Gannon over the weekend.

The win also put IUP in comfortable position for the PSAC tournament.

With the recent winning streak, Dow expects his team to be some-where in the Atlantic Regional Rankings sometime soon.

“I think we got to be close. I’m just throwing that out there,” Dow said. “From a strength of schedule

perspective, I can’t imagine there’s anybody in the region that has played a tougher non-league schedule and then combined with the fact that we have to play Cal [U] and Gannon twice. West Liberty, who’s probably going to move up to No. 2 or stay at No. 3, played them twice. Charleston, who’s in the top 10 [and] Millersville who’s in the top 10.”

Dow admitted that the loss to Shippensburg earlier in the season hurt his team, but does not believe they should be punished for it.

“That’s the good and the bad about having Cal and Gannon in your division — your strength of schedule goes up, but man, you got to play those teams four times,” he said.

Though Filla made the most impor-tant shot, she did not make the most. For the second game in a row, guard Eryn Withers and freshman forward Sarah Pastorek led the Crimson Hawks in scoring again.

Withers led the way with 22, one point short of tying her career-high, and Pastorek followed with 21. Both nearly had double doubles as Withers grabbed nine rebounds and Pastorek grabbed eight. Pastorek also dished out four assists.

The Crimson Hawks had three other players in double figures with Lacey Claar (15), Filla (12) and Shope (11).

IUP kept a lot of streaks alive after its win over Clarion, but the one that stopped was its string of games with 20-plus turnovers. The Crimson Hawks only committed 14 of them.

“When you don’t turn it over and you shoot 49 percent from the field […] that helps you get to 53 points,” Dow said about the team’s scoring output in the second half.

IUP will have a two-game home stand beginning at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday night when they host last-place Lock Haven (5-14, 0-8).

By vaughn johnson Sports Editor

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Ilya Kovalchuk a Devil? Yes, Pens fans, it is a fact now

that the former Thrashers captain has signed with the New Jersey Devils.

But Kovalchuk isn’t the only big player being moved around these days.

Dion Phaneuf was traded at the beginning of the month to Toronto as part of a seven-player deal with Calgary.

Matt Stajan was a player part of the deal and went to the Calgary Flames.

“It was good to get out there,” Stajan said in an interview on the

Flames’ Web site following the morn-ing skate in Calgary.

“It was a little different wearing red, but it was good to get out there because there are some nerves and things, which is only natu-ral.”

The Flames not only made a large deal with the Leafs, they also made a deal with the New York Rangers.

Olli Jokinen went to the Rangers, making them the sixth

team he has played for in 11 seasons in the NHL.

This trade should make Pens fans a little nervous. Teams like the Devils and Rangers are becoming more worthy opponents, more worthy than they are now.

The biggest effect on the Penguins will be the addition of Kovalchuk to the Devils.

There were lots of rumors surrounding Kovalchuk during

this trade season. One of the largest rumors was that he would be moving to the Flyers. The Flyers’ general man-ager, Paul Holmgren, preferred not to comment on his discussions with Atlanta.

Keep in mind center Jeff Carter is one of very few Flyers forwards who doesn’t have a no-trade clause within his contract, but it’s assumed Carter isn’t going anywhere. With multiple teams on the hunt for the Thrashers’ captain, it ended with the New Jersey Devils being the winner, but the trade wasn’t easy for General Manager Don

Waddell. With the Devils’ new player, this means the Eastern Conference just got a little tougher for the Penguins. The next matchup between the Pens and Devils is Friday, March 12.

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Clarion avenges early season loss, snaps IUP’s seven-game winning streak

IUP suffered its second loss Sunday night at Clarion by a score of 71-62.

Though IUP has been dominating teams as of late, Clarion has been right behind the Crimson Hawks all season and with the win, moved into a tie with IUP for first place in the PSAC West.

A lot of things contributed to IUP’s first loss in more than a month. One thing in particular was Clarion’s 7-2 run at the end of the first half.

IUP was up 36-29 with 2:05 left in the half when Clarion ripped seven straight points to tie it up at 36.

Guard Thomas Young hit a layup to give the Crimson Hawks the slight advantage before time expired, but the momentum was clearly in favor of the Golden Eagles at intermission.

Clarion carried that momentum into the second half.

IUP built a lead as big as 4 early in the second, but spent the better of it fending off a Clarion charge that led to five ties in the second half.

Clarion took its first lead at the 11:42 mark in the second half after guard Jamar Harrison made good on a layup at 48-47.

Exactly three minutes later, Harrison hit two free throws to give the Golden Eagles the lead for good. Harrison finished with a game-high 19 points.

IUP tried to get the lead back on a number of occasions in the second half, but was turned back every time by Clarion, who avenged its loss in the PSAC West opener.

Harrison was one of four Golden Eagles in double figures.

Guard/forward Shameel Carty scored 17, fellow guard Lloyd Harrison scored 14 and forward Paul McQueen scored 11.

IUP, on the other hand, only had two players score in double figures in guards Ashton Smith and Young, who scored 18 and 17, respectively.

Both were very efficient from the field as Smith hit seven of his 11 attempts from the field and Young shot 50 percent.

While Smith and Young had good shooting nights, the rest of the team did not.

The Crimson Hawks collectively shot 29.9 percent in the second half compared to shooting a very good 58.6 in the first.

Usual double figure scorers Akida McLain and Darryl Webb were held to 17 points combined on the night.

The next time IUP steps on the floor will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when it opens the first of a two-game home stand against Lock Haven (6-13, 3-5).

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Major programs not living up to expectations

We are about a month away from March Madness.

I think it would be a good time to look at the teams that were sup-posed to be good, but have so far laid an egg.

North Carolina, 13-10 (2-6), Preseason rank: 4

This has been the biggest fall from grace this season.

UNC have fallen out of the top 25 for the first time since 2006 and is on its way to missing the tournament for the first time under Head Coach Roy Williams.

If it is going to make a run at the tournament, it will need to win some big games coming up.

It has Duke (2) and Georgia Tech left.

If it can somehow finish with 20 wins, it has a chance to make the tournament.

I think that North Carolina will miss the tournament and will finish the year under .500.

Connecticut, 13-9 (4-6), Preseason rank: 14

UConn took advantage on an easy schedule to start out the season, but when it had to play ranked teams it started to lose.

In its two toughest games during out-of-conference play, it lost to Duke and Kentucky.

When UConn finally started to play Big East teams, it appeared grossly overrated.

Coach Jim Calhoun had to take a medical leave of absence in early January, and it seems that the team hasn’t fully recovered from that.

It still has a chance to make the tournament, but I think it will miss out and finish the season tied for eighth in the Big East.

Michigan 11-12 (4-7), Preseason rank: 15

Michigan was supposed to make

the jump this year as one of the best teams in the Big Ten, but has fallen so far that it won’t even make a tourna-ment at the end of the season.

We should have seen it coming at the start of the season, when it couldn’t beat anybody out of confer-ence besides Creighton. I don’t think anybody knows who Creighton is or where to find it on a map, because I know I can’t.

With the fall of not only Michigan, but also Minnesota, it looks like the

Big Ten is a two-horse race between Purdue and Michigan State.

Ohio State and Wisconsin will make sure that the con-ference receives four bids, but other than that I don’t see more coming.

Oklahoma 13-9 (4-4), Preseason rank: 16

The Sooners almost didn’t make this list

because they had a big win over Texas, but I have to look at their body of work.

Oklahoma didn’t beat anybody out of conference and until the win over Texas, its only win was over the bot-tom teams of its league.

I didn’t expect much from a team that lost the player of the year from last season (Blake Griffin), but when a team is ranked in the top 20 to start the season, it should be more than .500 in conference play.

I still think it has a chance to make the tournament, but it will have to win the conference tournament to do so.

Louisville 15-8 (6-4), Preseason rank: 23

Just like fellow Big East member UConn, Louisville hasn’t done enough to make the tournament. But unlike UConn the Cardinals have more time to make up for it.

Louisville lost an early-season game to Kentucky, but what hurt it more was losing three games in a row to Villanova, Pittsburgh

and Seton Hall. There is nothing wrong with losing

to Pittsburgh and Villanova because they are two of the best schools in the conference, but if you want to be a tournament team you have to beat a team like Seton Hall.

The Cardinals do have Syracuse twice and if they can win one of those games and win a couple in the Big East tournament, I think they will make the NCAA tournament.

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MCTNorth Carolina has won only 13 games so far this season.


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Crimson Hawks get measure of revenge over WVU, 2-0

After losing to West Virginia on the road in the final seconds of overtime, the IUP Crimson Hawks managed to shut out the Mountaineers at home 2-0 Friday night.

This game was full of action and very fierce. Both teams took the same amount of shots (25), but there were two big factors in this game: penalties and IUP goaltender Padraig Carey.

Carey, in for Matesevac as his return is still questionable, was able to step up big in this game and stop all 25 shots that the Mountaineers attempted.

As for penalties, there was a total of 18 — eight penalties for the Mountaineers and 10 for

the Crimson Hawks. With the number of penal-

ties, IUP was unable to take advantage of any of them, coming away with nothing on six chances.

On the other end of the spectrum, the Crimson Hawks’ penalty kill was perfect, turning the Mountaineers away all nine times. The first goal came with 6:21 left in the first period.

The Crimson Hawks took a 1-0 lead with a goal by defen-seman Seth Feldman with Joe Ford getting the assist.

The goal was Feldman’s sec-ond of the season and Fords 27th assist of the season.

The second period had noth-ing to show as far as goals on the board since both teams were unable to put it in the back of the net.

However, the intensity of the

game got out of hand with 3:36 remaining. With a few minutes left in the second period, there was a fight that broke out and sent a few people to the pen-alty box.

Crimson Hawks defenseman Corey Beers was put in the box for both cross-checking and fighting. Center Casey Stern also went to the box for fight-ing. West Virginia winger Kris Anderson went in the box as well for both slashing and fight-ing, along with winger Bret Hart for fighting.

After that giant scuffle, the rest of the game was pretty much smooth, at least for the Crimson Hawks.

While both teams only suffered one penalty, the Mountaineers came up short, attempting to pull their goalie in the final moments of the game.

While down a man because of the pulled goalie, defenseman EJ Stepano was able to get an empty-net goal, his second of the season.

With the loss to West Virginia last week, IUP saw its chances of making it into the NCAA tour-nament slip away.

However, with the recent wins, they were one of the four teams to advance in the 2009-2010 CHMA playoffs along with Slippery Rock, West Virginia, and Duquesne.

The Crimson Hawks are in another CHMA game at home against Youngstown State at 8 p.m. Friday, hoping to improve their standing in the CHMA.

This is their final home game before they travel to Slippery Rock to finish off the regular season before the CHMA play-offs.

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