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Waynesburg University 51 W. College St. Waynesburg, Pa. 15370 See B1

Power Plants set to closeGreene County residents are worried about changing times with the upcoming closing of the Hatfield's Ferry power plant .

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Men's soccer keePs rollIngThe Yellow Jackets brought their win streak to four games Tuesday against Ohio Christian University .

wU Idol wInner naMed After three weeks of high anticipation, the winner of the 2013 Waynesburg Idol

competition was an-nounced Friday night .

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by nIck FarrellExecutive Editor

Waynesburg University graduates are hot commodi-ties on the job market, ac-cording to new statistics re-leased by the institution.

The Career Services and Placement Office recently released its graduate career

path analysis, proving that 96 percent of the Class of 2012

who provided career place-ment information to the

school were either working professionally or continuing their education.

According to these same statistics, 77 percent of that year’s graduates responded to the survey.

“I think if we’ve got basi-cally three-quarters of stu-dents that we have data on and that the vast majority of them are on their career path, it says that we’re doing a good job of preparing them to go

where they want to be,” said Mary Cummings, vice presi-dent for Student Services.

Cummings said the term “graduate ca-reer path” is a more accu-

rate way of describing these statistics than job placement, the traditional name of this type of analysis.

Marie Coffman, director of Career Services and Place-

Annual survey shows career path stats reach five-year peak

Czajkowski, Barr crowned Homecoming king and queen during halftime ceremony

Megan Potosky, Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg football team prepares to take the field during a stoppage in play during the Homecoming football game against Thiel. The game was the culmination of the events that took place Friday and Saturday.

Second annual JacketFest allows alumni to meet with students, recall college life

by nIck FarrellExecutive Editor

As is customary during the Homecom-ing festivities at Waynesburg University, two students were named Homecoming king and queen during the football game.

Daniel Czajkowski, a senior criminal jus-tice major and Stover scholar, and Anastasia Barr, senior communication major, put their personal stamp on Waynesburg history when they were named Homecoming king and queen at halftime of the Yellow Jackets’ 35-21 victory over Thiel College.

Douglas G. Lee, university president, and Mary Cummings, vice president for Student Services, crowned this year’s winners during

the ceremony. It was Lee’s first Homecoming as president.

Czajkowski said receiving this sort of recognition from the student body is a true honor.

“There were a lot of phenomenal individu-als on the court this year, and I really believe any of us could have won,” said Czajkowski. “I was really pleased to have some friends out there on the court, and it made me proud to stand there beside them today.”

Barr, who was a member of the homecom-ing court at her high school, had similar feel-ings, saying she was a little emotional after hearing her name called.

by shelby tabroskyFor the Yellow Jacket

George Lewis laughed as he picked up the Oct. 3 issue of the Yellow Jacket newspa-per, reading the headline “History Returns Home.”

“I am the history,” said Lewis, a 1952 grad-uate of Waynesburg College. “It is part of my life to return here whenever I can.”

On Saturday, people of Waynesburg’s past returned to campus for the “Take Me Back, Orange and Black” JacketFest, an event in Johnson Commons where alumni interacted with students and shared memories.

Abby Pittinaro, junior public relations major, said the alumni’s favorite parts of the

event were interacting with the students and hearing what has changed with the univer-sity from student organizations. She added they enjoyed hearing about the history that transformed over the decades through the students.

This was the first time students were in-volved in JacketFest by displaying booths for their clubs or organizations. Pittinaro coordinated the event and found it best that students were there so alumni could “pick their brains.”

“Inviting the students to come down al-lowed for more interaction, laughter and re-lationships,” said Pittinaro. “Also, the tables of

Unlikely visitor causes campus stir, media attention

homecoming: a tradition continues

See HomEComing on A4

by chelsea dIcksmanaging Editor

Monday classes were ut-terly disturbed by a moving object spotted on campus. No one went the day with-out hearing about the unex-pected visitor who was seen venturing through Johnson Commons and near the girl’s dormitories.

Security messages reached students’ phones, alerting them of the visitor and warn-ing them not to approach it.

A few students were brave enough to travel close enough to snap a picture of the 400-pound, black and white beast.

Within minutes, two pic-tures of the monster circu-lated throughout social me-dia sites such as Facebook,

Twitter and Instagram.On Twitter, the event was

trending within ten minutes of the security alert mes-sages.

On the Waynesburg Uni-versity MyConnect homep-age, a big, bold, red sentence warned campus and students

of the security breach and assured the police were on their way to handle it.

The photos and event were portrayed on KDKA-TV, 96.1 Kiss' blog and even on the front page of Tuesday's Observer-Reporter.

The beast even became national news.

People all the way in Okla-homa heard about it and contacted friends at the uni-versity to learn more about

*Editor's note: This is not the actual #WUcow.See CoW on A4

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96 percent of alumni hired, in grad school

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For more Homecoming photos, see A4.

Can you find the three cow images hidden throughout this newspaper? (The one at right doesn't count.) Tweet your findings with #WUcow to @WUYellowJacket.

For more on the new process of placement data collection, see full story on A3.

new year, new method results in big gains

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Students give new email mixed reviewsBy JacoB Meyer

For the Yellow Jacket

Changes to the student email system have caused differing opinions among Waynesburg University stu-dents.

On Sept. 30, the new changes were implemented to the student email, includ-ing easier navigation and new features for mail and personal settings.

The changes to the email system also include easier access to find messages and drafts more quickly, refine search results smoothly and a more user-friendly inter-face.

For students, the main dif-ficulty with the new platform is becoming acclimated with the new interface.

“It took me five minutes just to figure out how to send

a new email, and icons are just located in different areas on the web page,” said junior psychology major, Erin Kern. “It will take me a while to get used to this new email.”

One of the main focuses for the email system chang-es was to make it more ad-vanced.

Senior criminal justice ma-jor Steven Snow agreed with Kern about the difficulty of adjusting to the changes, but ultimately, he understands the changes.

“I believe they [Micro-soft] are trying to be more futuristic as well as more user friendly,” said Snow.

While some students struggle with the changes to the email system, others are glad they were made.

“I like the changes to the email because it is up to date with the current technologi-

cal user interfaces. The colors schemes, the fonts and even the look and process of send-ing/reading/receiving emails have changed,” said junior psychology and sociology major, Kyle Digiandomeni-co. “I like that it looks much more professional. The new email fits in with the direc-tion technology is moving. It is sleek and professional.”

Matthew McDermott, freshman communication major, also likes the update.

“I really like the new email because it is a simplified ver-sion of the old version and is easy to navigate,” said Mc-Dermott. “Specifically, I like that there is a mobile version of the site that I can access on my smart phone.”

Even though students dif-fer in their opinions about the changes to the email sys-tem, most hope the changes

stop here. “I feel like if they change it,

people will get confused even more,” said Kern. “Since it is in the middle of the semester, most people are already get-ting used to the new version and it would be pointless.”

Changes to something as essential as email are ex-pected to cause distress, but there appears to be a consen-sus within the student pop-ulation that as the semester continues, students will be-come more familiarized and more comfortable with the changes.

Students with any ques-tions or suggestions about the changes to the student email are encouraged to con-tact William Dumire, execu-tive director of Information Technology Services, or the Information Technology De-partment.

JacketFest: Event successful again in reuniting alumni

clubs and organizations were important to have because there were activities to keep the alumni in the commons before the game.”

Each table had a theme that informed alumni of various campus changes.

For instance, the Mad An-thony yearbook showed the historical changes the school has undergone.

“Our theme is branching from the past, so it is cool to see the yearbooks change in progression and marketing,” said freshman Mad Anthony member Sara Carpenter.

The men’s club lacrosse team, design club and PRSSA booths all had fun activities including face painting, col-oring and goal shooting.

Junior public accounting major Theresa Butler led the Colleges Against Cancer booth.

She appreciated how alum-ni shared thoughtful stories about their college experienc-es and a loved one’s encounter with cancer.

“It goes to show everyone shares something in com-mon, no matter the age,” said Butler.

Some organizations were new to many alumni, such as the Forensic Science Club. Jeffrey Strider, Vice President of the club, said the group is

misunderstood by many, so he introduced alumni to the research-based club.

“It not only brought us to-gether with the Waynesburg University community as a whole, but it helps bridge the gap between the public and our field of study,” said Strider.

In addition, Pro-life Ad-vocates, Peer-Education and Student Nurses’ Association of Pennsylvania were all at JacketFest to inform and pro-mote their organization.

Tom Lewis, the brother of George Lewis, a 1954 Waynesburg College gradu-ate, said JacketFest made this Homecoming experience stand apart from all previous reunions.

“I love this place and what a beautiful experience it was this year to interact with stu-dents,” said Tom Lewis.

Students like Butler and Pit-tinaro also enjoyed interact-ing with alumni. One reason Pittinaro loves Waynesburg is the friendly atmosphere and the personalities of people.

“The students and I that work the JacketFest are even-tually going to be alumni,” said Pittinaro. “We as students can strengthen relationships with alumni and see how impor-tant Homecoming is to them now. Then, we will realize when we come back, we can appreciate the students' work, just like the alumni did."

Dillon Tierney, Yellow Jacket

chapel speaker: evangelists neededGreg Heisey, Pennsylvania's coordinator of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, was the speaker at Chapel on Oct. 8. Heisey invited the congregation to join Graham on Nov. 7 during his final evangelical broadcast and read passages from Matthew to underscore the importance of sharing God's Word.

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By olivia latiMerAssignments Editor

For the second year in a row, Waynesburg University’s Residence Life staff will host a yearlong series of events.

Each of the events in the ResLife Growth Series is designed to provide educa-tion and learning outside the classroom setting, according to Kelley Hardie, Director of Residence Life.

In years past, the Resi-dence Life staffs have always assembled programs within their own halls. The unique-ness about this new series of events is they are directed to-ward the entire campus, in-cluding all of the residents.

This series includes six dif-ferent events, and each Resi-dence Life staff is responsible for one event that will incor-porate their assigned theme.The six different themes are community development, diversity, vocation, service, faith, and wellness.

Each hall will have the same theme as it did last year.

“The event series was very successful last year,” said Hardie. “By repeating the themes for each Residence Life staff, we are hoping to create a tradition. We hope that year after year, students will look forward to all of these programs.”

This year, the first event will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 15. The event will be held by Martin Hall under the theme of community development.The second event will be held

Nov. 15 by Burns and Ray Halls, with the theme of di-versity. On Jan. 30, Willison Hall will present its program with the theme of vocation.

“Last year, Willison Hall’s event was very successful,” said Hardie. “Their theme was vocation and they hosted Ryan Devlin.”

Denny Hall will present its service-themed program on Feb. 17 and South, West, East and Pollock Halls will pres-ent their faith-themed pro-gram on March 26. For the last event, Thayer Hall will present a wellness-themed program.

“This event first came to be last year when we decided that we wanted to include the whole community,” said Hardie. “This was a great way for the Residence Life staff to work together to produce a program for the entire cam-

pus.”For these programs, the

resident assistants work along with the help of their resident directors to educate and inform the students who take part in each event.

“It creates awareness of the importance of residence life,” said Hardie. “Our goal is to educate outside the classroom and also to create educational and meaningful programs outside the social events.”

These events are some-thing that will be very en-lightening and meaningful to students and faculty at Waynesburg University, ac-cording to Hardie.

“I’ve really enjoyed attend-ing the different events,” said Hardie. “They are meaning-ful to the students and I am really looking forward to the events they plan this year.”

ResLife Growth Series to begin next week

By roB longoAssistant Sports Editor

During tough times of economic depression, job seekers have one of two op-tions: contact employers or wait to be contacted.

The latter doesn’t happen very often, so employees to-be must go out and cre-ate those opportunities. It is quite difficult to beat a place where over 110 companies are in one place, willing to hire graduating students.

On Oct. 16, the Western Pennsylvania Career Services Association will hold its an-nual Western PA Collegiate Job & Internship Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Mon-roeville Convention Center.

“Going to a job fairs helps build confidence,” said Marie Coffman, director of career services and placement. “It all comes down to network-ing. You never know what might happen.”

Only a few hours of one’s time is all it takes to build a successful networking port-folio. Registration is free until Monday, Oct. 14. Job seekers can still attend the event if they are not registered for a fee of $10.

Transportation will also be provided to the job fair by the university. As of now, there are only enough attend-ees to fill a 12-passenger van, however, Coffman would like to see that change.

“I would love to see that number rise to a number where I would have to reserve a bus rather than a van,” said Coffman.

So far, there are six to seven current students signed up to attend the fair, but there are

18 to 19 people total, which includes recently graduated alumni who are still looking for jobs. According to Coff-man, there are normally 25-30 future employees that at-tend the event.

Even though 44 other col-leges and universities will al-low students and alumni to attend the job fair, Coffman said there are success stories waiting to happen.

“Absolutely, there’s a ben-efit of attending a job fair,” said Coffman. “The employ-ers have to pay to attend the event, so they are all serious in hiring people.”

Once at the job fair, Coff-man cautions to not attempt to reach every employer.

“When you enter the job fair, you will receive a di-rectory,” Coffman said. “Go through the directory and map out every employer you really want to see and talk to.”

With the evolving land-scape of the job world, job fairs are becoming more and more common. Previously, people that were searching for jobs could potentially walk into a company's office with a resume in hand and apply for a vacant position on the spot. With today’s technology, that is becoming less common, making job fairs more im-portant to starting a career by earning an entry-level po-sition or some other form of employment. Keeping these changing times and methods in mind, Coffman said that the applier shouldn’t be dis-couraged if an employer asks for an online application.

Additionally, Coffman suggests bringing 15-20 re-sume copies on resume pa-per, which can be printed at the Career Services and Placement Office. Attendees must also dress professional-ly. If a person does not meet dress requirements, they will not be allowed to enter.

Opportunities await students at upcoming job fair

Topics this year include service, faith, wellness

Service in Pittsburgh grants new mindsetBy paula Bittner

For the Yellow Jacket

On Oct. 5, a group of Waynesburg University stu-dents gave back to the Pitts-burgh community during a work day for The Pittsburgh Project, a non-profit com-munity development orga-nization that has served the city’s vulnerable residents for over 25 years.

The Pittsburgh Project provides after-school and summer programs for chil-dren and offers free home re-pairs for elderly homeowners in Pittsburgh.

During the work day, Waynesburg University stu-dents performed home re-pairs. Dave Calvario, dean of students and director of the Center for Service Lead-ership, emphasized the im-portance of the workday and what students learned.

“The workday at The Pitts-

burgh Project underscores the need for us to care for those who may not be able to care for themselves,” said Calvario. “Through The Pittsburgh Project, we will be helping individuals who are not able to care for their homes for a variety of rea-sons. The workday will show us, in person, the needs of Pittsburgh. This is part of putting your education into action.”

Rachael Brown, sopho-more sociology major, at-tended because she is in an Urban Sociology class. She said this trip allowed her to take the time to combine theory with practice, while seeing the need in the Pitts-burgh community.

“Sacrificing one Saturday will not only change your outlook on the Pittsburgh community, it will also impact your homeowner,” Brown said. “To show love

to a complete stranger is ful-filling and you have no idea the impact you may leave. The Bible calls us to love our neighbors as ourselves and going on this trip was a direct way to do so.”

Brown’s favorite part was building a relationship with her work team, comprised of her fellow students and the homeowner. She said she helped with many tasks such as picking up trash, building a part of a fence and cleaning out gutters.

“As we spent the day to-gether not only did we per-form physical tasks to help re-pair the home, we spent time getting to know one another,” said Brown. “Spending time with the homeowner and let-ting them know you care was the most important part of this work day.”

Erin Kern, a junior psy-chology major, also took part in the work day. Simi-

lar to Brown, she also en-joyed building relationships throughout the day. Kern said she was able to bond with the group even though they were split up working on different projects such as trimming shrubs and mow-ing the lawn.

“I had a great experience with it in the past and I wanted to see what this year would have in store for me,” said Kern. “Every time I go, I always have a different ex-perience, but I always enjoy it. I learn something different each time I go.”

Kern said the workday connects to Waynesburg University’s mission state-ment of faith, learning and serving and is valuable to her education.

“The Pittsburgh Project is a Christian organization and they are spreading the love of Christ through volunteers,” said Kern.

Pros say fairs help find first employment

October 10, 2013 Yellow Jacket Page A3

Detailed career path statistics compiled through revised processOne-year plan uses new steps for better results

By Nick FarrellExecutive Editor

Much like its high results, the process of Waynesburg’s graduate career path analysis for the class of 2012 varied from the process of prior years.

Marie Coffman, director of Career Services and Place-ment, said this revamped graduate evaluation has made a difference in the fi-nal numbers the Career Ser-vices and Placement Office published.

“The concerted effort we made all year made the dif-ference,” said Coffman. “We didn’t have three different surveys we were trying to do. We were able to just focus on that group.”

In past years, Coffman said the graduate survey would take place over a two-to-five year period. This year, however, all information was complied in a one-year sur-vey of graduates.

Mary Cummings, vice president of Student Servic-

es, said this recipe for track-ing graduate career paths was successful in its first year.

“Of the key changes in the process, one is that we really tried to say ‘how do we go about defining what we’re go-ing to measure.’ There aren’t any guidelines out there,” said Cummings.

In May, each member of the Class of 2012 received a one-year alumni survey through both mail and email. The information compiled from these surveys served as the first form of data in the overall evaluation.

From this information, Coffman and her coworkers created a non-response list of students that didn’t reply to the first mailing. Cum-mings said this was an im-portant step, especially after only 30 percent of graduates responded to the survey in 2011, adding that students who are busy with their ca-reers and family life may put a survey off to the side, even if it isn’t time consuming.

To compensate for non-responders, the university became more proactive in its research of how gradu-ates faired in the job market. Coffman, Cummings and others made phone calls to

non-responders and also tried to gather information from the graduates’ LinkedIn and Facebook profiles. This part of the process occurred in July.

If those steps didn’t pro-vide information, faculty and staff members were notified of graduates still on the no-response list in August. Coff-man said some faculty mem-bers keep contact with their former students and might know if a few non-respond-ers had been hired.

“What we do is send out an email to faculty and staff saying [which] graduates we hadn’t heard back from, do you know what they’re do-ing?” said Coffman. “We got a good response, too.”

After this final step, the an-nual report was finalized and made public in October.

Waynesburg University chooses to call this data "ca-reer path" numbers instead of job placement numbers, the traditional title for this type of analysis, in order to best identify which students are continuing on the path they began in college.

For example, a student now attending graduate school is considered on a career path since he or she is continuing

to receive an education in a specialized field.

Additionally, anyone who is employed in any capacity also makes the list, even if the employment does not match the graduate’s field of study. If a student graduated with a business degree but works as an electrician, it still counts positively toward that gradu-ating class’ figures.

“It counts because there aren’t any rules as to what to count,” said Cummings. “Our attempt is to best reflect real scenarios using the tools we have available to us.”

If a graduate did not re-spond to the survey or phone calls and did not list employ-ment on an accessible social media profile, Coffman said they were entirely exempt from the survey.

According to Coffman, this new one-year analysis is the way of the future and is much more effective than the two- and five-year plans of the past.

“I think it really helped to focus on that one year,” said Coffman. “We were able to focus on this group and this group solely, and we were able to get some good infor-mation by being able to do that.”

Careers: Statistics show grads are in demandContinued from A1

ment, said the fact that these numbers are Waynesburg’s best in the last five years proves students are more diligent, are utilizing every resource available to them in college and are working harder to get hired.

“We keep hearing about unemployment and that there’s not very many jobs out there, but I agree and don’t agree with that. A lot of jobs eliminated were high-end jobs, and they’re still looking for entry-level

positions,” said Coffman. “As far as our students working, it was a good year. I think it’s the effort students are put-ting in.”

Coffman added this in-crease is a sign the univer-sity’s reputation is improving and a Waynesburg degree is becoming more valuable.

“I have employers seeking us out now. Before, I had to call employers,” said Coff-man. “I think our alumni are more aware that they can contribute back, so that’s helpful as well.”

The data gathered from the class of 2012 is a large improvement from data compiled the previous year. In 2011, only 81 percent of responding students were working or continuing their studies.

Between 2008 and 2010, Waynesburg’s career path numbers were 69 percent, 89 percent and 91 percent, respectively.

Cummings said these im-proved findings are mean-ingful for several reasons.

“This is an important number to people that are prospective students, but it’s also one of our key outcomes if you think about what we are really trying to do as a

university for the students when they come here,” said Cummings.

“We’re helping you to get to where you want to be when you graduate. It’s a pretty good indication that 96 percent, based on the data we have, are where they want to be heading or are on path toward it.”

According to Cummings, a presenter at a recent semi-nar said most schools only expect to receive responses from about 17 percent of recent graduates when con-ducting a job placement sur-vey, so Waynesburg’s results in that category are above average.

Cummings said the re-vamped process of determin-ing career path information aided Waynesburg’s high re-sponse rate.

“To me, this type of in-crease in data available re-ally exemplifies how this small community campus can come together to really achieve much more than the Career Services office alone,” said Cummings. “Those close relationships that hap-pen between faculty and staff in a small community such as Waynesburg University make a big difference, and

so it really is a team effort, not just an individual depart-ment effort, to try to pull this together.”

The class of 2012 has set the bar high for future grad-uating classes, according to Cummings, but believes achieving a perfect career path score is nearly impos-sible.

“I doubt that we would ever get to 100 percent, and I can say that honestly based on my history here of only one year during senior grad-uate interviews,” said Cum-mings. “When I’ve talked to students about being ready to graduate and what they’re looking to do, what are their next steps, some of them aren’t looking for jobs or grad schools.”

C of f m an , w h o s a i d networking has assisted Waynesburg’s career path score, hopes future alumni will take the time to share their work history with the school.

“We love success stories, so we can pass them on to [current students] and so we can have those alumni con-nections,” said Coffman. “If we get those connections, that makes it better for our future graduates.”

By eric BostAssignments Editor

Beginning on Oct. 14, Waynesburg University stu-dents will not be expected to wear the school colors of orange and black.

Instead, a sea of pink will emerge as the university chapter of Colleges Against Cancer holds its annual Think Pink Week in honor of breast cancer awareness month.

Ever y year, Col leges Against Cancer takes a week in October to raise money to support breast cancer re-search.

“I think one of the rea-sons that breast cancer gets so much attention publicly is because it has touched so many women,” said Kel-ley Hardie, assistant dean of Student Services and advi-sor of the university chapter of CAC. “One out of three women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime and a lot of people here on campus had a family member that was touched by that specific cancer.”

The money that is donated throughout Think Pink Week will go toward the college’s Relay For Life general fund. Last year CAC raised over $600, according to Hardie.

This year will feature the same events and fundraisers as last year, including Cheer for a Cure and Quack for a Cure.

Theresa Butler, president of CAC, said this year the organization is focusing on raising students’ aware-ness rather than just raising money.

“We decided that our goal this year is to raise more awareness other than our normal fundraising, which is Relay [for Life],” said But-ler. “We thought it would be easier this way, but we are holding a fundraiser during the football game that Sat-urday.”

Next Tuesday, Oct. 15, CAC will hand out ribbons and balloons after chapel to help raise breast cancer awareness.

Wednesday is “Wear Pink Day,” where students are encouraged to show their

support by wearing pink throughout the day.

The annual Quack for a Cure race will take place Fri-day, Oct. 18, at Purman Run Creek. Ducks are currently on sale every day in the Bee-hive for $5. The owner of the fastest duck will win tickets to the Nov. 17 Pittsburgh Steelers game against the Detroit Lions.

To cap off the week, CAC will be at the Think Pink football game selling deep-fried Oreos to raise money. Players and cheerleaders will also be wearing pink to help support breast cancer aware-ness for Cheer for a Cure.

In addition to the multiple events, CAC will have breast cancer awareness informa-tion posted all over campus.

Hardie said on Oct. 24 the Relay for Life captains kick-off meeting will take place. She said students can get involved with Think Pink Week in various ways, in-cluding forming a team for this years Relay for Life.

“Students can get involved by just supporting the events, either by wearing pink or

showing up for Cheer for a Cure by wearing pink,” said Hardie. “We will be handing out pink ribbons throughout the week as well and obvi-ously for the Relay for Life kickoff meeting a great way to show support is to form a team.”

Hardie said CAC incor-porates all three phases of Waynesburg University’s mission: faith, learning and serving.

“With faith, we pray and honor those that have either lost their life to cancer or are currently battling can-cer. With learning, we’re just constantly promoting aware-ness about the cancers and ways that students can either become involved in the orga-nization or prevent in the fu-ture,” said Hardie. “Through service all of our money goes to the American Cancer So-ciety so everything that we organize is done through volunteered staff and all the things we do on campus, whether it be through the events that we host or the balloons that we hang on campus, are donated.”

CAC looks to raise student awareness for Think Pink Week

By carsoN FoxFor the Yellow Jacket

Assistant Professor of Nurs-ing Melany Chrash recalls reconnecting with a friend from college.

Chrash's friend had come from a good family and had a husband and a child, but Chrash noticed the signs of domestic violence in the rela-tionship. The turmoil was so bad the husband was forced to leave the home or the child would have been taken into custody. Their marriage end-ed soon afterwards.

“One in every four women experience dating violence,” said Chrash. “I have a class of 27 and when I look around [and consider] six girls in that class probably experi-ence [dating violence], that’s a lot of people.”

According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the statistics are staggering when it comes to the number of people, es-pecially women, who are in abusive relationships.

In Pennsylvania last year, 141 fatalities, including both victims and perpetra-tors, occurred directly be-cause of domestic violence. 73 percent of those fatalities occurred from shootings or stabbings. Of the deaths, 79 victims were women and all but one of the 31 perpetra-tor fatalities were men. The fatality count in 2012 was the lowest since 2008.

Between June 2006 and July 2007, 91,545 victims received services from local programs in Pennsylvania. Even though those numbers are from over five years ago, they reveal that domestic violence is a prevalent is-sue in our society from an economical and social stand-point. Chrash believes a per-son’s home environment has an impact on future dating relationships.

“Men see what goes on in their home between their fa-thers and mothers, and they think that’s the way they are supposed to treat a woman while dating,” said Chrash.

“If a daughter is brought up in a family that acts similarly, they are going to think that’s how they are supposed to be treated.”

Chrash believes that soci-ety needs to be made known of the correct form of respect, because respect in a relation-ship can be misunderstood. A person in a relationship could be being abused in a different number of ways and not even realize it.

The challenge becomes overcoming the awkward-ness of acknowledging one is in an abusive relationship and sharing his or her story with others.

Senior nursing students, Katy Jo Kramer and Katelyn Blaich think domestic vio-lence is something that goes on everywhere, but unfortu-nately, no one wants to talk about. Their mission is to explain to anyone who is in an abusive relationship how to get help.

They held an event in the Stover Campus Center to pass out pertinent informa-tion and talk to bystanders who may or even may not feel they are in an abusive re-lationship or see abuse hap-pening. Kramer and Blaich believe a positive impact to lower the domestic violence statistics will be made.

“I’m hoping that more peo-ple realize that there is help out there,” said Kramer. “If it’s happening, they shouldn’t let it go and not talk to any-one about it. They should do something and they have op-tions, so our ultimate goal is for people to reach out and get help.”

With October being Do-mestic Violence Awareness Month, which is represented by the purple ribbons hang-ing around campus, Kramer and Blaich believe now is the time for those who are involvd in abusive relation-ships to act. While it may seem like a difficult issue to address, the two seniors feel it is their duty to prevent others from becoming new statistics.

“It’s not good to be si-lent about it,” said Blaich. “Whether it is you or some-body that you know, you can help yourself or someone else by being there for someone. There is help out there.”

Violence awareness center of focus for nursing instructorMajors join with Chrash during to inform others

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the situation.What was this beast that

created such uproar not only at Waynesburg University, but on almost every media outlet available?

It was a cow.A 400-pound, black and

white, presumably local farmer’s cow, was the creature that created pandemonium all throughout the area.

“Everyone was talking about it,” said Alyson Wer-nert, junior political science major. “I really wanted to see it and pet it, it looked so cute.”

Even though the cow was

on campus for less than a half an hour, students and the community took advantage of the uncommon event.

#WUcow was trending on Twitter, and parody accounts were eventually created. At press time, @WU_Cow had over 230 followers.

Campus security notified the police; due to the cow

wandering off campus all on its own before they could do anything about it, the cow was a problem for the borough police rather than campus security.

“You know things are pret-ty mild if a cow on campus goes out on the emergency alert,” said Richard Waddell, instructor of history.

In the 16 years that Wad-dell has been teaching at Waynesburg University, he says that this is the first time a cow has ever ventured on to campus.

“I was amused that we had a dire warning about it. I never saw it but I heard the news of the cow, and was told not to approach it,” said

Waddell. “And I thought well is this a mad cow; in which case how do we know about his emotional state?”

According to campus secu-rity, the cow was seen leaving campus within a few minutes of setting off the uproar.

It was reported yesterday that the borough police had yet to find the cow’s owner.

Continued from A1

Cow: Bovine becomes media, Twitter sensation following brief campus visit

“I thought it was a true blessing to just be on court,” said Barr. “To actually have my name called, I was so overwhelmed with excite-ment. I actually think I just made a blank stare and kind of looked at everyone and tried to take it all in.”

The women in the 2013 Homecoming Court includ-ed Barr, Jasmine Blackwell, Kimber Blair, Elaine Hasek and Kylee Horvath. Accom-panying Czajkowski as male escorts were Aaron D’Amore, Spenser Sargent, Steven Snow and Dominic Zappa.

Barr was surprised that she was selected as queen, saying each other member of the court was worthy of the crown.

“To be completely hon-est, I thought it was going to be somebody else,” said Barr. “We all work so hard to help Waynesburg’s mis-sion of faith, service and learning, and all of us have

[made] a wonderful impact in the community and in the school, so to be on court with them was such an honor.”

Czajkowski said each member of the court repre-sented a different aspect of Waynesburg University, and was thankful that so many of his classmates and peers thought highly enough of him to vote for him.

“I don’t think it’s a popu-larity contest; it’s a lot more meaningful to me than that,” said Czajkowski. “When I was first asked why I ran for Homecoming king, it was because I was asked to, but what I later viewed it as was an opportunity for me to represent Waynesburg to alumni. I think, most person-ally, this indicates to me that I’ve earned the respect of my peers – that I’ve made a lot of friends while at Waynesburg – and that’s what I’m going to appreciate for a really long time.”

Last year’s Homecom-ing king and queen, Bran-don Karabinos and Jaclyn

Colquhoun, returned to the university to crown their successors. Czajkowski said Colquhoun’s presence at the ceremony was significant since the two became friends during college.

“It was really nice, I re-ally appreciated that,” said Czajkowski. “She came up to me afterward and gave me some other personal con-gratulations. It was really meaningful to me to have a friend there to say ‘I’ve come through Waynesburg, I’ve graduated but now I’m pass-ing things on to you.’”

Czajkowski and Barr are both excited to watch future generations of the Waynes-burg community enjoy their college experience and to crown next year’s king and queen.

“I actually transferred to Waynesburg University from another school, but I’ve come to love Waynesburg so much that I don’t think I’d go any-where else,” said Czajkowski. “I’m looking forward to com-ing back next year.”

Czajkowski said the at-mosphere surrounding the Homecoming festivities is a sign of how evident Waynes-burg pride is among current students, alumni, faculty and staff.

“So far as Waynesburg University goes, I think it really shows we’re a close-knit family,” said Czajkows-ki. “Large universities have a lot of people come back for sporting events, but when you have people coming back to Waynesburg for a sport-ing event and Homecom-ing, you can really sense this atmosphere of camaraderie and appreciation for what Waynesburg did for them.”

Barr elaborated on how all Waynesburg University students remain connected as alumni, comparing them to a family.

“No matter where you [current students] go or where you’re going to be in the next five, 10, maybe even 50 years, these people are still your family no mat-ter what.”

Homecoming: New king and queen crownedContinued from A1

By Ryan HaRRFor the Yellow Jacket

Being an interactive de-sign major was the plan for one of Waynesburg's current biology students prior to tak-ing an anatomy class in high school.

After taking anatomy, the goal changed to wanting to study science and become a doctor after college gradu-ation.

Now the s t u d e n t ' s goal is to at-tend gradu-ate school as a biochem-ist and earn a Ph.D. in molecular biology.

C arolyn Highland, a junior biol-ogy major and chemis-try and Eng-lish minor, conducted summer research during her time as an Under-graduate Research Associate at Miami University as part of a prerequisite by Waynes-burg University.

Each of the biolog y and chemistry students at Waynesburg University are required do some sort of re-search either on campus or elsewhere.

“Chemistry students will work with a current faculty member and the student will pick his or her instruc-tor based on the interest of the student,” said Dr. Evonne Baldauff, chair of the Depart-ment of Chemistry & Foren-sic Science. “Biology students must pick their own research topic and get advice from faculty and staff.”

Highland compared this research to graduate school, saying she was earning this type of experience much earlier than most college students.

“It was like a graduate school experience, but in the summer,” said High-land. “I was taking a class with students who were ju-

niors [going to be seniors in the fall] while I was the second youngest student as a sophomore. I was scared at first because I was one of the youngest students in the class, but I found out that I had as much knowledge as the other students.”

Highland’s research fo-cused on a plant that pro-duces a biomolecule called tannins. The tannins are in several species of Juniper plants.

“I took the data I found and looked for correlations of ruminant animal browsing habits with the tannin con-centration,” said Highland.

“Because the tannins have many ant i-nutritional ef-fects, tannins are thought to be produced by plants as a defense mech-anism against herbivores.”

W h e n conduc t ing her research, H i g h l a n d learned that tannins have

positive antioxidant effects on the animals that consume the plants that produce tan-nins.

“The sometimes good and sometimes bad difference is what makes them so inter-esting to biochemists,” said Highland.

Waynesburg University helped Highland realize what she wanted to do with her life post-graduation.

“The biology and chemis-try programs here at Waynes-burg University helped me narrow down what I want to do with my life,” said High-land. “Dr. Lacount’s Organic Chemistry class got me to recognize that I want to go to graduate school for bio-chemistry with a focus on macular chemistry.”

At the end of the summer, Highland gave a presenta-tion on her findings in front of the entire Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at Miami University.

She hopes the Research Experience for Undergradu-ate program will continue to study her findings and even-tually publish her work.

Student's research experience prepares her for grad school

“It was like a graduate school experience, but in the summer...I was scared at first because I was one of the young-est students in the class, but I found out that I had as much knowledge as the other students. ”

CaRolyn HigHlandJunior biology major

CRown tHe king and queen

Tyler Wolfe, Yellow Jacket

Megan Potosky, Yellow Jacket

(Above) The Homecoming court awaits the announcement of Homecoming king and queen at halftime.

(Far Right) Dan Czajkowski and Anastasia Barr pose together after they were crowned by President Douglas G. Lee and Mary Cummings.

(Near Right) A student shows support for Barr, the eventual Homecoming queen.

Megan Potosky, Yellow Jacket

Science field now a clear fit for Highland

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Union workers take last stand

Hopefuls rally for Hatfield's Ferry, Mitchell power plants to stay open, despite FirstEnergy's announement to close this months

Abby Wernert, Yellow Jacket

A sign posted outside of Hatfield's Ferry coal-fired power plant in Greene County calls for FirstEnergy to keep the plant open. Workers rallied Monday near the plant's entrance.

By John Lydic Editorial Assistant

The closings of the Hatfield Ferry and Mitchell plants will leave people out of jobs and leave legislators wondering if this is a sign of changing times.

Operations at the two lo-cal coal power plants stopped on Oct. 9. When the power plants officially close for good on Oct. 18, an estimated 380 people will be left jobless.

“This is devastating,” said House Representative Pam Snyder. “These closing are leaving some 400 families without jobs.”

The employees are still working on contracts with FirstEnergy to determine how they will be compen-sated, but not many jobs at other plants are available.

“They are offering jobs to some of the management positions, but as far as the union workforce, there is only contract negotiations,” said Snyder.

“I don’t think they have any idea where they might land. I think everybody is go-ing to be on their own to try to find a new path in life.”

Allegheny Power upgrad-ed the Hatfield plant in 2009, adding a $750,000 scrubber to reduced sulfur dioxide emissions.

This left many questioning why the plant was closed.

“I was very surprised when they announced the closing and I was very disappointed,” said Snyder.

“I do think coal has to be a part of the national energy portfolio. We need every-thing on the table to be self-sustaining in this country.”

By closing the two plants, some concerns have arisen

about the supply of energy to the area.

“I’m still not convinced that our safety, security and power production in our region will not be affected,” said State Senator Tim So-labay.

“When you look at the maps, all the plants seem to be closing in the southwest region of the state Pennsylva-nia, Ohio and West Virginia. With the transmission lines, I’m not sure if there is the ca-pability of transmission com-ing from other areas of the state and country that will be able to reach us.”

PJM, the power grid op-erator, stated earlier that the power production to the area would not be affected by the

plant closings.Greene County economy,

however, might be. “The closings of these

power plants will definitely have an economic impact on this region,” said Snyder.

“This will affect our coal mines, this will impact the companies that supply to the coal mines, this will impact our restaurants and gas sta-tions and this will have a lo-cal economic impact.”

The impact of these clos-ings could have a major effect on other plants in the area.

“FirstEnergy is looking at this as an economic thing in their minds,” said Solobay.

“With other low-cost gas being present, they could run gas instead of natural coal and depend on those. A lot of other plants are being closed that run on coal-fire and it is a little bit frustrating.”

The closing of the two plants could be a sign of things to come.

Blue ribbon for water poster awarded to local

By Beau waLmerFor the Yellow Jacket

Every child has a goal they want to achieve, whether it’s to walk on the moon or to win an Olympic medal.

For Janvi Patel, an eighth grader attending Margaret Bell Miller Middle School, that feeling of accomplish-ment became a reality.

Last month, Patel placed first in the state in the sev-enth through ninth grade category for the “Where Does Your Water Shed?” poster contest.

Upon receiving the good news, Patel was speechless.

“I was in Mr. Layton’s room at the time,” Patel said. “I was very excited.”

The national contest, cre-ated by the National As-sociation of Conservation Districts was designated to illustrate the relationship be-tween watersheds and com-munities.

“I wanted to show that in order to save water, as humans, we are the ones re-sponsible,” Patel said.

The contest was first of-fered to the school through the National Juniors Honor Society.

“NJHS contacted me because they hadn’t had a contest in a while,” said Jil-lian Mcgowan, advisor of the National Juniors Honor Society. “They offered it to us and the science teachers promoted it.”

Students from across the nation were separated into five categories ranging from kindergarten through 12th grade.

“I required students to participate because I thought it was a valuable assignment after discussing about PA’s watersheds,” said Dave Fowl-er, seventh grade life science teacher.

The poster for the class be-came more than just home-work to Patel, who later de-cided to enter the contest.

“Janvi’s design gave more of a global look – that every-one has a contribution to this problem, and not just those in Green County or Waynes-

burg,” said Fowler. “Her artwork shows that

everyone has a role of re-sponsibility.”

Patel’s parents responded with emotions similar to the enthusiasm of her teachers.

“I was very thrilled be-cause she was one of the first Patels to win something like this in Waynesburg,” said Janvi’s mother, Digna Patel.

Patel’s recent achievement symbolizes the potential that the students from Margaret Bell Miller are capable of reaching.

“We have intelligent stu-dents who can compete with any across the state,” said Ja-mie Moore, seventh grade reading teacher.

Teachers at the school think that Patel's achieve-ment speaks volumes to the educational value of the school, which oftentimes is overshadowed by bigger districts.

Likewise, faculty members acknowledge the students' ability to compete with oth-ers in the state is because of the school’s involvement in the community.

“It showcases both our participation in the com-munity and our students' willingness to get out and make a difference,” said Joey Lynn Smith, seventh grade math teacher.

Set aside from other stu-dents at the school, the work ethic and personality of Patel has been characterized as in-describable.

“Janvi is a very well-rounded and unique stu-dent,” Fowler said.

“She is always happy, car-ing, concerned for others and when it comes to her work, she is very precise.”

As the national competi-tion heats up in January, Pa-tel, in addition to the students and staff, will be hoping for another overwhelming ac-complishment to add to the school’s long resume.

“Thanks to the staff, we have a lot of good things go-ing on both now and as we look ahead here at Margaret Bell Miller,” said principal John Lipscomb.

Trivia pays the way to college for locals Rotary Trivia Contest held at high school aims to fund scholarship

By James witteOp/Ed Editor

The Central Greene Education As-sociation and Central Greene Raiders Scholarship Trust will host the first an-nual Trivia Contest on Oct. 12 at 6 p.m. in the Waynesburg Central High School cafeteria.

The trivia contest will have teams face off in 10 themed rounds with five questions per round.

There are 150 possible points, and questions are set at random point val-ues.

“The idea of hosting our own trivia contest came from the group of current and former teachers [at Waynesburg] who participate in the Washington Ro-tary Trivia Contest,” said Mike Camilli, one of the event's organizers, who is a math teacher at the high school and a member of the faculty trivia team.

The Rotary’s contest, according to Camilli, has grown leaps and bounds since its inaugural contest and Waynes-burg had been looking for a fundraiser for a scholarship.

“After doing a quick calculation of how much money they were raising in one night, we felt that if we could host our own, we could potentially offer a second scholarship,” said Camilli.

The teams competing are playing for the charity of their choice.

The top three teams will win $1000, $500 and $250, respectively, for their chosen charities.

All additional proceeds of the benefit will go toward the CGEA Scholarship fund.

The belief, according to the CGEA, is that “all students deserve the opportu-nity to attend college regardless of cost. The goal of the Central Greene Raiders Scholarship Trust is to provide this op-portunity to more students.”

Waynesburg’s faculty trivia team will organize and run the event.

A team of Waynesburg students will compete in the event.

One of the event’s judges and trivia team members, William Kelly, a world cultures teacher at the high school, has been involved in trivia competitions for some time now and realizes that some questions need to be answered in certain ways.

“With trivia questions, the quiz mas-ter’s intent is important,” said Kelly.

The master and other organizers are eager for the event to be underway.

“The organizers are ecstatic,” said Camilli.

“For the first year, we were hoping to

at least break even.”

Wit h t he help of co-sponsor Com-munity Bank, a n d o t h e r a d d i t i o n a l s p o n s o r s , CGEA hopes to be able to provide even more schol-arships to the g r a d u at i n g class of 2014.

“We hope that it goes smoothly, everyone has an enjoyable time and everyone will be excited to do it again next year,” said Camilli.

Camilli said that while he hopes the trivia event does break even and profit enough to aid students in paying for college, he doesn't expect the first year to be overwhelmingly successful.

“The first year is about building a tradition,” said Kelly.

The contest currently has 12 teams registered, but teams may sign up right before the event, according to Camilli.

“Next year I hope that we will have double [the number of teams],” said Kelly

“And double the sponsors, so we can offer more scholarships.”

For more information or to enter a team, contact Camilli at 724-557-8201 or Jim Caruso at 724-366-1690 or email cgrsttriviacontest@gmail.com.

Katherine Mansfield, Yellow Jacket

Parking meters in the lot at the Morris Street and High Street intersection were vandalized on two separate occasions last month. Waynesburg Borough police are still searching for leads in the case. To read more about the parking meter vandalism case, see B4.

Parking meters vandalized, money stolen downtown

See FirSTEnErGY on B4

“This will effect our coal mines, this will impact the companies that supply to the coal mines, this will impact our restaurants and gas stations and this will have a local economic impact.”

Pam snyderHouse representative

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Safety mattersStudents' safety is an individual responsibility

Of course, nothing can be flawless when there is a change. It's almost expected that with change, something will go wrong.

Change challengesCampus overcoming issues with new email

When you walk onto the Waynesburg University cam-pus, you likely feel safe.

Being able to stand on one side of campus and still see the other gives one that small, private university feel.

Many don’t think about the dangers that are pres-ent in the Waynesburg area. Even with security making its rounds and protecting the campus, students should take safety precautions.

During the day, students should lock their car doors to ensure nothing will be sto-len or vandalized. Make sure to never leave backpacks, purses or wallets unattended. Contrary to popular belief, things can get stolen on this campus.

After dark, make sure you have a friend or someone to walk with if walking through campus or through town. Be-ing alone is never good after

dark.Also, pepper spray is suf-

ficient in adding to a sense of personal security and may protect you in a bad situa-tion.

Waynesburg University strives to have a safe cam-

pus. Security routinely does its

rounds all over campus, even all the way up to the univer-sity’s tennis courts, but they can only do so much. Stu-dents need to do their own part to ensure their own safe-ty on and off Waynesburg’s campus.

Good things come to those who wait.

The latest t rend on Waynesburg’s ever-changing campus is a new version of student email. The new email has a lot of great qualities – but at the same time, it also has some not so great ones that could be problematic.

Email is a vital form of communication for most people on campus. It is how

students communicate with faculty to schedule meet-ings or request some extra help on an assignment; it’s how students are notified if classes are canceled. Email is crucial to keeping the cam-pus running smoothly on a daily basis.

When the new email first debuted on Oct. 1, it had its share of problems. Attach-ments wouldn’t appear or

download. The link to type a new message was nowhere to be found unless the page was refreshed multiple times. It was nearly impossible to find the button to sign out.

Of course, nothing can be flawless when there is a change.

It’s almost expected that with change, something will go wrong. With the change to the email, this theory is proven true.

Don’t be discouraged, though. Within the next week or two, hopefully all issues will be resolved.

If the new system doesn’t improve, then there will be real issues. The students and faculty of Waynesburg can-not rely on the new system if it remains inconsistent. It cannot slow the sharing of information and ideas much longer without risking ma-jor miscommunications that may include students miss-ing deadlines on an assign-ment.

Right now, it’s okay that there are issues.

But if the problems per-sist, then the university has downgraded, rather than upgrading.

Even with security making its rounds and protecting the campus, students should take safety precautions.

Pumpkin spiced latte. All across America, pump-

kin spiced latte has become a sign of October and the beginning of Fall.

Even the Bee Hive offers the flavor in Starbucks dur-ing October and Noveme-ber.

A pumpkin spiced latte is what Alyssa O’Neill wanted when she texted her par-ents on Sept. 4 about going to Starbucks the next day, according to NBC’s Today Show.

She never got the chance to get that pumpkin spiced latte with her parents.

O’Neill, 18, of Erie, Pa, died that night of an epileptic

seizure just a year after being diagnosed with epilepsy, ac-cording to the Today Show.

Two days after her funeral, Alyssa’s parents, Jason and Sarah O’Neill, decided that they would go to Starbucks and buy 40 pumpkin spiced lattes for people and put the hashtag #AJO – which stands for Alyssa Josephine O’Neill – on the cups.

Starbucks baristas were so touched by the O’Neill’s story they decided to buy an additional 50 cups for people.

That’s when the story and the hashtag went viral.

#AJO started popping up on signs in Erie and on Twitter.

Eventually, it went inter-national, with people from as far away as England and Australia posting pictures of Starbucks cups they received

with the hashtag on it. The whole thing started

on the concept of “paying it forward,” where one person pays for something for the person behind them in line, in the hopes that they’ll ei-ther do the same or do some other generous act.

These are the types of things we, as the human race, should be doing. One act of kindness in the hopes that it’ll spread.

I believe this for two rea-sons.

One reason is that ever since MTV’s Video Music Awards, everywhere you look, you see what Miley Cyrus is doing, with tweets and hashtags relating back to her performance. Honestly, what is the point? Cyrus’ es-capades won’t go away.

Meanwhile, stories like Alyssa O’Neill’s fade into

America’s memory quicker than they should.

Today, we idolize celebri-ties and watch their every move and we shouldn’t.

We should admire stories like O’Neill’s. Through the hashtag #AJO, we can keep alive the memory of an 18 year old whose life was cut short.

The other reason I believe this is because in today’s so-ciety, we’re rather selfish. We run around at 100 miles an hour, dealing with everyday problems, thinking about how bad we have it, never thinking about the world we live in, the bigger picture.

One act of kindness could go a long way.

It can be as simple as hold-ing the door open for some-one, or buying a coffee or a

Spicing up the holidays with kindness

Hugo Chavez’s funeral was a show: thousands flocked to his open casket, which was paraded around the city, to pay their last respects to him after he passed away in March of this year.

The media coverage, pho-tographs and the eyewitness accounts by everyone from the country’s poorest to the internationally famous to world leaders – these should serve as proof that Venezu-

ela’s controversial president is dead.

And yet, one disconcert-ing audio clip that recently surfaced on the Internet has many questioning whether or not the former president is really dead and, perhaps more importantly, whether we can, in the Age of Tech-nology, ever know some-thing for certain.

A recap of events: An audio recording of Hugo Chavez’s voice claiming the Venezuelan leader was kid-napped and is now recover-ing from chemotherapy in a safe place was widely circu-lated on social media sites

earlier this month. In the recording, Chavez’s voice says, “Today, Sept. 16, I am more alive than ever.”

The recording accuses those Chavez had trusted – whom he appointed to take his place upon his death – of kidnapping him so they could take over the govern-ment.

The person accused of betraying Chavez is current President Nicolas Maduro.Elections are just a few months away.

Some say Maduro created the audio recording to bring himself to the forefront of the presidential race with a

valid excuse to call his op-ponents underhanded.

Others believe Maduro’s opponents spread the re-cording to make Maduro look like the bad guy.

Many don’t know who is to despise. They know only they believe that, after all this time, their presumed-dead former president has resurfaced, alive and (al-most) well. But these Hugo Lives Hopefuls saw Chavez’s body in a casket. They watched his funeral. They saw him, dead.

But was he? Is he?

james witte

Columnist

katheriNemaNsfieldColumnist

Today's tech makes truth a flexible concept

I am not an alumnus of Waynesburg University, but that didn’t stop me from en-joying the festivities offered to former Yellow Jackets this weekend.

I completed my under-graduate degree in 2006 from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

I skipped IUP’s homecom-ing weekend to participate in Waynesburg’s.

Spoiler alert: I made the right decision.

The reason every high school and university hosts a homecoming event is simple: we enjoy reflecting on the past and seeing old friends.

However, my past at Waynesburg University en-compasses just two years and my old friends aren’t that old. Thus, I obviously enjoyed this past weekend’s events for reasons that are different than most attendees.

This weekend, I was given the task of photographing Department of Communica-tion students as they worked on the radio and TV broad-casts of the football game. While it was great to see how involved students are, it was

even better to hear the sto-ries shared between different generations of alumni.

During the game, alumni talked with former profes-sors about changes in their field, new technologies that make the job easier and how some things feel new while others feel very familiar.

Instead of missing my own opportunity to reflect on my college experience, I reveled in the opportunity to learn more of the history of a university that I’ve been enamored with since joining the faculty in 2011.

At halftime of the foot-ball game, I was invited to the alumni picnic at Wiley Stadium.

While I enjoyed my hot-dogs with off-brand ketchup (my only complaint), I was a fly on the wall amongst con-versations between former roommates, married couples that met on campus and for-mer students that graduated decades apart.

All of the conversations focused on one thing: the joy they had on campus in the past and on the present day.

The experience this past weekend was in no way simi-lar to those I had at my own alma mater’s homecoming events.

There were approximately 15,000 students at IUP when

I attended and about 3,500 graduated during the 2006-2007 school year. When I at-tended homecoming events, the turnout was incredible.

But, outside of my close friends, it was hard to find someone from my graduating class in the crowd. When you did, there was a slim chance that you knew them or even shared a class together.

It was made apparent this weekend that the alumni in attendance all shared in the collective spirit that has set Waynesburg University apart for more than 150 years.

It was evident in every conversation.

The alumni talked about small class sizes, their Chris-tian faith and their service to the campus, community and world.

Waynesburg does a lot of the little things right and made that obvious this weekend. This is a testament to the work of Waynesburg’s

Alumni Relations staff in In-stitutional Advancement.

Way ne s bu rg a lu m n i showed me a different type of homecoming.

It is expected when you re-turn to your alma mater that you’ll meet with old friends to talk about the great times you shared.

This was certainly true of Waynesburg alumni.

But what was really special about this weekend was how instantly I felt like a part of the history of Waynesburg University. I saw that I am currently participating in many of the old traditions that make us, “us.”

To current students, you’ll eventually see the same things I did this weekend if you haven’t already. Speak with an alumnus or with a long-tenured faculty. You’ll learn what Waynesburg was in the past and how you’re a big part of the continuing tradition.

chad shermaN

Guest Columnist

Homecoming shows WU does it right

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Death is the most certain thing in this life. How is it that today, we can question something so unquestion-able?

Today, faking death isn’t some fantastical sci-fi movie plot. Imagine how easy it would be for an expert to create a dummy that looks deceptively realistic. How easy it would be for eyewit-nesses to report that the person who the dummy looks like has passed away. Imagine how easy it would be to execute a funeral; how convincing, an open casket funeral with the dummy as a stand-in for the person who isn’t actually dead.

Is that a tad far-fetched? More far fetched than an ex-

pert collecting audio clip-pings of a recently deceased person and mixing those files together so that a new message, claiming the dead man is, actually, alive and well, can be played seam-lessly on radios and com-puters worldwide?

In an age where you can print things in 3D and make eye contact with someone halfway around the globe, an age where the equally outrageous faking of death and faking of life are both possibilities, can we ever truly know anything, for sure?

It’s easy to become over-whelmed at the notion that nothing we know is ever 100 percent certain. Rumors run wild; if we listen to every ru-mor, we will be driven mad by the amount of things we

could doubt.Sometimes, in a world

where seemingly nothing is as it seems, logic must prevail.

In order to make an in-formed decision – in order to know the truest version of a story – we must research. To be best informed, we must check facts, use the most respected, trusted sources and be careful what rumors we allow ourselves to hear.

Not everything is a con-spiracy; not everything isn’t a conspiracy, either.

But by researching, using common sense and piecing together a story from vari-ous, legitimate sources; we can come to know Truth.

Or as much of the truth as third parties can possibly know.

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

1. Terror Suspect being held on U.S. Navy ship

Accused al-Qaeda opera-tive Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by the alias Abu Anas al-Libi, was seized by U.S. special forces in Libya last weekend and is being held and interrogated on U.S. Navy vessel the U.S.S. San Antonio. According to the New York Times, officials decided to question al-Libi without a lawyer based pre-vious terrorist cases where suspects were interrogated for intelligence purposes without legal representa-tion. Al-Libi was previously accused of conspiring in the U.S. Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya; he is believed to have over two de-cades of information on Al Qaeda that will prove useful to the U.S.

–The New York Times, Oct. 6

2. China expresses concerns over U.S. debt ceiling

According to the BBC News, Chinese Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao fears that if the U.S. defaults, it will spell disaster for the entire global economy. China is a huge investor in the U.S. treasury, a fact that Guangyao said makes the two countries “inseparable,” and as two of the most important nations in the global economy, a de-fault means economic dif-ficulty for countries every-where. Unfortunately, House Speaker John Boehner has again stated that House Republicans will only raise the debt ceiling if a measure to reduce spending is also passed. The decision must be made by Oct. 17.

–BBC.co.uk, Oct. 7

3. Debate over a “clean”

spending bill continues Congressional Democrats

have been asking for a “clean” spending bill that will leave the Affordable Care Act untouched. In an interview airing Sunday, Oct. 6, House Speaker John Boehner in-sisted that there were not enough votes in the House to pass such a bill. According to CBS News, Democrats doubt the truth of this based on a number of House Republi-cans who have said they’ll vote with the Democrats if it ends the government shut-down. Many Democrats are now pushing to simply put the bill on the floor and vote to see if Boehner is right.

–CBS News, Oct. 6

4. Nobel Prize in medi-cine awarded to three Americans

Dr. Randy W. Schekman, Dr. Thomas C. Südhof and

Dr. James E. Rothman won a joint Nobel Prize in medicine after discovering how cells transport molecules to the right place at the right time. Their combined research de-termined the intricate pro-cess by which small packages called vesicles move materi-als and keep cells running. According to the New York Times, the research helps ex-plain diseases like diabetes and neurological disorders, which are apparently caused by disruptions in the detailed process of cells.

–The New York Times, Oct. 7

5. Obama makes pick for Fed chair

President Barack Obama will nominate Janet Yellen as the chair of the Federal Re-serve. Yellen will have to be confirmed by the Senate, but if approved, she will become

the first women to grace the seat in the central bank 100-year history. She is a current vice chair of the Federal Reserve and has pushed for the central bank to stimulate the economy to address high U.S. unemployment.

-CNN News, Oct 8

6. Drug overdose leads to countywide anti-drug movement

Rachele Morelli, mother of Jonathan Morelli, was moved to spread awareness about drugs after her son overdosed on heroin and died in February 2013. Accord-ing to the Pittsburgh Tri-bune Review, North Shore Productions in Pittsburgh produced a film documen-tary that Morelli funded to tell her son’s story. The film will be shown at Ferrante’s Lakeview in Hempfield on Tuesday, Oct. 8, and schools

throughout the entire state of Pennsylvania have been invited to bring their stu-dents in an effort to spread awareness about the dangers of drug addiction.

–The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Oct. 7

7. Site of the Sandy Hook shootings to close

After a vote among the residents of Newtown, Conn., it has been decided that Sandy Hook Elemen-tary School will be closed forever. The town will build a new school for the chil-dren of the town. Officials expressed the belief that do-ing so will help the residents of the town to move on after the tragic shooting last De-cember, rather than seeing Sandy Hook as a constant reminder of the death that occurred.

–The Daily Beast, Oct. 7

8. Penguins off to hot start

The Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Carolina Hur-ricanes 5-2 on Oct. 8 to im-prove to 3-0 in 2013. For-ward Jussi Jokinen recorded his second career hat trick, and Marc Andre Fleury made 32 saves to help se-cure the Pens third straight victory to open the season. The Penguins start 3-0 for the first time since the 1994. This win also improved the Penguins record to 6-0 at the Consol Energy Center against the Carolina Hurri-canes. The Penguins will look to continue their hot start when they travel to Florida to take on the Panthers Fri-day night.

– Post Gazette, Oct. 8

9. Waynesburg University ensembles prepare first concert of the semester

On Thursday, Oct. 17, Waynesburg’s Chamber Orchestra, Woodwind En-semble, Brass Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Beauty Shop & Barber Shop Quartets and the Lamplighters Touring Choir will each perform in the Marsh Center at noon. The concert is free and open to students and the public.

–Waynesburg.edu, Oct. 3

10. Passages of record heights found under Antarctic ice shelf

UK researchers using satellite imaging on the Flichner-Ronne ice shelf in West Antarctica discovered channels reaching heights of 820 feet. According to the Daily Beast, water flowing over land and underneath the ice toward the ocean caused these gaps, as tall as the Eiffel Tower, to form.

–The Daily Beast, Oct. 7

Information compiled byKIMMI BASTON

For the Yellow Jacket

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

meal for the person behind you in line.

Then if that person “pays it forward,” it’ll keep going

and going and going, and one day, it might even come back to you.

Ten years from now, who will care what Cyrus or Jus-tin Bieber did today? But, in 10 years, who knows what

a simple act of generosity may do?

It could change your life. You may be “paying it forward” every day for the rest of your life, making the world a better place.

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Cheat Sheet: The U.S. Special Forces Raid in AfricaEditor's Note: The following is a synopsis of a recent topic trending in world or national news.

On Friday, Oct. 4, United States Navy SEALs conduct-ed a raid in Somalia at the seaside home of one of the leaders of the terror group al-Shabab, according to U.S. officials that spoke with the Washington Post.

Al-Shabab has been linked to al-Qaeda and claimed responsibility for the recent attack on a shopping mall in the neighboring country of Kenya.

The goal of the raid, ac-cording to a U.S. official that spoke with the Washington Post, was to take a high-val-ue al-Shabab militant into custody.

But the SEALs were un-able to apprehend the mili-

tant. “U.S. personnel took all

necessary precautions to avoid civilian casualties and disengaged after inflicting some al-Shabab casualties,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of ano-nymity to discuss a covert operation. “We are not in a position to identify those casualties.”

According to the New York Times, the Navy SEAL team emerged from the In-dian Ocean and exchanged gunfire with militants at the home of the al-Shabab leader.

The SEAL team was forced to withdraw before they could confirm if the al-Shabab leader had been killed, according to the NY Times.

Coincidentally, on Sat-urday, Oct. 5, a U.S. Delta Force raid successfully cap-tured a suspected Libyan al-Qaeda figure in the city of Tripoli.

According to the Wash-ington Post, Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias, Abu Anas al-Libi, was accused by the U.S. of involvement in the 1998 bombings of the U.S.

Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, an attack that killed more than 220 people.

According to the New York Times, Ruqai had a $5 million bounty on his head and his capture ended a 15-year manhunt.

A U.S. official speaking to the Washington Post stated that Washington intends to bring Ruqai to the U.S. to stand trial.

Meanwhile, the Libyan government wants clarifi-cation from the U.S. on the kidnapping of one of it’s citizens and believes that he should stand trial on Libyan soil, according to the Wash-ington Post.

U.S. officials believe that his capture is a “significant blow,” according to the Washington Post, to al-Qaeda, which has lost sev-eral key leaders since 2001 –

including Osama bin Laden, who was killed in 2011.

It remains unclear wheth-er Ruqai had a major role in the current terror organi-zation because his alleged role in the 1998 attack was to scout one of the targeted embassies, according to the Washington Post.

In addition, Ruqai was not believed to have played any role in the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Beng-hazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, but Ruqai may have been attempting to recruit militants in Libya into al-Qaeda, according to the New York Times.

Ruqai’s brother, Nabih, in an interview with the Asso-ciated Press, stated that just before dawn prayers, three vehicles full of armed men had approached Ruqai’s

home and surrounded his car. The men smashed his window, seized his gun and sped away with him, accord-ing to the brother.

No U.S. casualties were reported in either operation, according to reports by CBS News.

Libya’s government, since the removal of dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011, has remained weak and armed militias hold power in many places throughout the country.

Libyan authorities have been unable to move against the militants, including those responsible for the Benghazi attack, according to the Washington Post.

Courtesty MCT Campus

(Above:) Dr. Randy Schekman, professor of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley, right, receives his Nobel Laureate's parking pass from UC Berkeley's Chancellor Nicholas Dirks. (Left:) Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) speaks to the media after meeting with President Obama.

U.S. officials beleive that the capture of the al-Shabab leader is a "significant blow" to al-Qaeda, which has lost several key leaders since 2001, including Osama bin Laden.

Information compiled by JAMES WITTE Op/Ed Editor

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Bob Wilson, the operations manager of Bruce Mansfield in Shippingport, PA, said by 2016 only 30 percent of pow-er plants would be coal.

Another local power plant, NRG Homer City, spent $800 million on two scrubbers just to prevent closure.

The Shawville coal plant in Clearfield is being closed after being the largest em-ployer of coal in Clearfield since 1951.

The change from coal-fired plants to other natural resources could be com-ing faster than most people think.

“PJM is going to play a big part to ensure that enough power is being supplied here locally and whether it is coal, gas or renewables to make that available,” said Solobay.

“We will do everything we can do minimize closures.”

FirstEnergy: Union workers rally to keep plants open

Abby Wernert, Yellow Jacket

Union members gathered near the entrance to Hatfield Ferry's coal-fired power plant Monday to protest the closing of FirstEnergy's local power plants.

Despite unusually wet summer, farmer's market a successKatherine Mansfield,

Yellow Jacket

(Left) Sue Seargeant of Sue's Bakery packages a baked good for a customer.

(Below left) Kay Collins makes change for Norma Humble, who makes a purchase at the Farmer's Market every Wednesday afternoon.

(Below, right) Homer Harden bags apples for a customer. Workers from Harden Family Farms make the drive to Waynesburg every week to sell produce at the market.

Loosed change: Downtown parking meters vandalized

WAYNESBURG, PA – As the fall baking season gets underway, the Greene County Department of Rec-reation will offer a fall cake decorating class on Wednes-day, Oct. 23.

Instructor Yvonne Lee of Carmichaels will lead the class from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on the lower level of the 4-H Building at the Greene County Fairgrounds.

The cost to attend is $25, and the pre-registration deadline is Tuesday, Oct. 22.

The class will focus on creating cakes and cupcakes for fall and Thanksgiving events.

The class will feature demonstrations and hands-on instructions for using buttercream and fondant.

Because the colors of fall are deep reds and oranges, the class attendees will more than likely learn how to decorate baked goods in the season's hues.

Attendees will decorate cupcakes to take home, so an adequate container should be brought.

Attendees are able to take home whatever baked goods they decorate to show off to and indulge in with family members

Supplies will be provided, although bringing an apron is optional.

Attendees should also wear comfortable shoes – there will be much stand-ing.

For more information, or to pre-register for the fall cake decorating class, call the Department of Recre-ation at 724-852-5323.

Next Wednesday marks the last day of the Waynesburg farmer's market season

Sweet classes for locals

By Katherine MansfieldManaging Editor

Waynesburg Borough police continue to search for the vandals who broke into and stole cash from seven parking meters earlier this month.

Parking meters in the Morris and High Street parking lot were vandalized on two separate occasions: Sept. 18 and Sept. 30.

"The guys on patrol saw some people out and about in the area; we've had a couple phone calls already," said Robert Toth, chief of Police for the Waynesburg Police Department. "We?re still checking surveillance tapes that are in the area."

Though police are pursu-ing these eyewitness accounts and phone calls, Toth said that the department has no solid leads in the case.

However, the vandals left

evidence near the scene of the crime.

This evidence was col-lected and sent to labs, and police are waiting for the results to come back.

"We're still processing the evidence; it doesn't happen in 60 minutes like you see

on CSI," said Toth. "Hope-fully we'll get a match and go from there."

The Waynesburg police department is accustomed to dealing with car break-ins, but this is the first parking meter incident that the po-lice have dealt with in years,

said Toth.The vandals broke into a

total of seven parking meters over the course of the two crime nights. They vandal-ized meters only in the bor-ough's parking lot three and took cash from the broken meters.

Police said that the park-ing meters will need to be replaced, and the missing money will need to be ac-counted for.

"Damage wise, we're still waiting for an estimate to come back," said Toth. "It's going to be pretty high, though; it's going to be sub-stantial."

The crime might have been drug related – quick cash for drug dealings – but police are only speculating that this is a motive.

Toth and his force are asking that anyone with any information contact police at 724-627-8113.

“Damage wise...it's going to be pretty high, though; it's going to be substantial.”

roBert tothChief of Police

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Homecoming kingsby carson Fox

Sports Editorial Assistant

It took Waynesburg less than nine minutes in the first quarter to score as many points as Thiel did in the entire game, as the Jackets cruised to a 35-21 victory.

Thanks to another prolific performance by quarterback Carter Hill, who accrued 365 total yards and three touch-downs without an intercep-

tion, the Jacket faithful cel-ebrated the team’s second conference win on Home-coming.

The Yellow Jackets im-proved their record to 4-1, 2-1 in Presidents’ Athletic Conference play. It was the fourth-straight win on Homecoming for Waynes-burg. The loss dropped Thiel to 0-5, 0-3 in the PAC.

On the first offensive drive

of the game, the Waynesburg offense, led by Hill, scored a touchdown after just four plays. Junior Willie Leavell scored Waynesburg’s first touchdown in the back cor-ner of the end zone after beating the Thiel secondary and receiving the connection from Hill.

After going up 7-0, the Waynesburg defense forced

two Thiel three-and-outs and the Jacket offense scored two more touchdowns thanks to two catches from junior wide receiver Bernie Thomp-son. Thompson believes he and the receiving core have formed a rapport with Hill, which has led to success on both the passing and receiv-ing statistics sheet.

“We go over countless reps at practice,” said Thompson. “We’re definitely always on the same page because the whole receiving group has great chemistry with [Hill].”

The Jackets led by the a three-score margin through-out the second quarter and kept three potential Thiel points from being scored be-cause of a Brandon Fedorka

If you haven’t noticed, football is not the same game as it was 10 years ago. I would even go as far as to say that it is not the same game as it was five years ago.

The days of football being a rough-and-tough, smack-you-in-the-face game is of-ficially gone. Not just at the professional level, but even in the high school level.

With offenses evolving from traditional pro sets to up-tempo, spread offenses, the game of football has changed.

As we near the mid-way point of football seasons, of-fenses are putting up astro-nomical offensive numbers.

According to an article by ESPN, the 122 schools of the FBS are averaging 420 of-fensive yards gained and19 teams average at least 500 yards per game.

The numbers get even more absurd when you in-clude all football teams from the other three NCAA divi-sions (FCS, Division II and Division III). 69 schools from these divisions average more than 490 yards of total offense.

To paint a better picture, compare the Denver Bron-cos to these teams. Through five weeks of the NFL season, Denver averages 46 points per game and are on pace to score 736 points this season, which would easily shatter the NFL season record of 589 points.

The Broncos average 490 offensive yards per game, putting them on pace to gain 7,840 yards this season, a mark that would break the league record of 7,474.

On Sunday, Denver and Dallas combined for 99 points and 1,039 yards of of-

fense. Then compare the college

football teams previously mentioned, and we find that over 80 college teams are gaining more offensive yards then the great Peyton Manning and his juggernaut offense in Denver.

Over the weekend, this evolution could not have been more obvious.

At the DI level, the explo-sive Oregon offense tallied 59 points and 630 yards.

Impressive, yes, but Bay-lor delivered an even more incredible stat line Saturday. The Bears, who average a mind-blowing 71 points and 780 offensive yards per game, gained 617 yards in just the first half of their game Sat-urday.

Baylor rushed 65 percent of the time on Saturday, com-pared to Denver’s 60 percent pass ratio, which may elimi-nate the idea that offenses only throw the ball now.

The aspect of football which has changed the most in recent years is the speed at which teams run plays.

Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly, known for the introduction of the up-tempo offense in Oregon and now with the Eagles, relies on the philosophy of running more plays than the oppo-nent.

This past offseason when Kelly was hired by Phila-delphia, the coach said he wanted to run a play every 12 seconds. To get a better idea of the speed of Kelly’s offense, look at the numbers during his final season at Oregon.

In 13 games last season, Oregon ran 1,077 (82.8 per game). That total would have ranked seventh in the NFL last season, despite Kelly’s team playing in three fewer games than NFL teams.

kyLe oLand

Sports Editor

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Men's soccer continues win streak

Carter Hill and offense score early and often against Thiel en route to Yellow Jackets fourth-straight Homecoming game victory

by tim neraLFor the Yellow Jacket

The men’s soccer team extended its winning streak to four games as it shut out Presidents’ Athletic Confer-ence opponent Grove City 1-0 Friday, and Ohio Chris-tian University 4-1 Tuesday. With the wins, the Jackets improved their record to 8-1-1, 1-0 in the PAC.

Ohio Christian came into its match against Waynes-burg having lost its last three games. Waynesburg soon got into its possession-based style of offense, but did en-counter some adversity in the middle of the first half.

Senior midfielder Tim Fields helped get the jack-ets on the board in the 34th minute, when he ran down a ball at hit a cross, which deflected off the Trailblaz-ers’ keeper to sophomore forward Victor Browne for an open net goal.

A little over a minute later, Fields scored a goal of his own, drilling one into the back of the net from over 25

yards out to put Waynesburg up 2-0.

The Jackets went into half-time having outshot Ohio

Christian 10-4.“[Coach Griffiths] told us

to keep working at them,” said Browne, who had his

second multi-goal game of the year. “As we continue to

Zach DiBeradin, Yellow Jacket

Senior captain Tim Fields battles for possession during Waynesburg's game against Baldwin-Wallace. The Jackets are in the midst of a four-match win streak.

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by matt Jones For the Yellow Jacket

The streak is at five.The women’s tennis team

added to its win streak with a sweep of a tri-match Saturday against Geneva College and Marietta College.

Junior Alyssa Daniel and the team haven’t been focus-ing on the streak, but more on the individual matches at hand.

“We didn’t even realize we were on a five match win-ning streak,” said Daniel. “We just take [it] one match at a time.”

Head coach Ron Christ-man has credited his team with the mantra he has used all year; stepping up.

“The difference in winning and losing throughout the win streak has just been different players hanging tough,” said Christman. “They have been coming up with wins for the team. “

The Yellow Jackets started the day with a 5-4 victory over Geneva. The win marked the first victory against the Golden Tornadoes since 2008. The match started off much like many of the matches this season for the Yellow Jackets – strong doubles play.

Waynesburg took two out of the three doubles matches, thanks to Daniel and sophomore Rachel Klemash, who picked up an 8-1 win over Julie Kline and Christine Bullock. The tandem of senior Markie Gustafson and sophomore Sarah Reyes won the second doubles match 8-5.

Five and countingWomen's tennis continues winning ways over weekend

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Junior running back Willie leavell eludes a tackle attempt by Thiel senior safety Walt litwin on his way to a 31- yard touchdown catch. leavell finished with five catches for 65 yards in the Waynesburg's 35-21 victory.

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blocked field goal. Fedorka had a team-high eight total tackles, two for a loss, a sack and two passes deflected to go along with his consistent pressure on Thiel quarter-back Andrew Smith. He credited the quality of prac-tice the team put in during the week before that led to his success versus Thiel.

“It was a hard tempo practice all week and we kept our players straight on focusing on their positions,” said Fedorka. “[If we] keep the tempo up at practice, get after it and play our game, [we’ll have success].”

In addition to recording his third 300-plus passing yards performance, Hill also had success running the ball, which is uncommon to his playing style, but he said he will run if he has to. Hill led all Waynesburg rushers with 51 yards and included a rush-ing touchdown in the third quarter to make the score 28-0.

He believed his dinks and dunks in the passing game opened up running lanes and his touchdown provided the Thiel’s final blow.

“Anytime somebody’s down more than three scores, it’s definitely a back breaker,” said Hill. “We should’ve put it in a few more times [af-terwards] and we’ll only get better from here.”

After this weekend’s action, Hill leads the PAC with 14 passing touchdowns, while ranking second in passing yards with 1,484.

According to Thiel head coach Kurt Reiser, Thiel’s starting quarterback An-drew Smith was replaced by sophomore Ryan Radke at the end of the third quarter because Smith suffered an injury. Radke orchestrated three Thiel scoring drives in the fourth quarter, which

led to 21 points. Radke fin-ished the game completing 11-of-19 passes for 91 yards and two passing touchdowns to go along with 123 rush-ing yards on 11 carries and a rushing touchdown. While he did admit there was very little pressure on Radke after being down 28-0 and he did not name Radke next week’s starter postgame, Reiser is excited for Radke’s future in the program.

“I knew it was a big fall for the offense when Andrew Smith went down,” said Rad-ke. “But my thought was we have no touchdowns on the board and we have to score. I could have played better [though].”

Until Radke came into the game for Thiel, it only recorded 143 yards of total offense. Like Ken Emmons of Frostburg State and CJ Snider of Muskingum, a mo-bile quarterback had success against the Jacket defense. But Waynesburg head coach Rick Shepas believes it was a matter of his defensive start-ers being tired after playing into the fourth quarter, rath-er than his defense breaking

down.“There’s no doubt about

it, he made some plays,” said Shepas. “We had a spy on him but he had fresh legs and they were in a different mindset at that point in the game.”

Sandwiched between Thiel’s first and second touch-downs, junior Jake Forsythe scored a rushing touchdown from one yard out. Forsythe is last amongst PAC starting running backs in the catego-ry of rushing yards per game. Shepas bodes that Saturday’s touchdown should do well for his confidence going for-ward.

“When I look at the tem-peraments of some of the other backs in the conference, I’m sure [Forsythe] would like to see some things go a little it better,” said Shepas. “It’s going to happen in time, it’s just not going to happen in the time that he wants it to happen."

With the victory and con-ference losses by both Geneva and Washington & Jefferson, Waynesburg currently is in a tie for second place in the PAC standings.

By John st. laurentFor the Yellow Jacket

Homecoming weekend was as important to the Waynesburg baseball team as it was for alumni returning to campus.

Every year, the baseball team has an alumni game in which a team made up of alumni play against the cur-rent baseball team. This year, however, the message was a little different for the Yellow Jackets.

“This is it,” said manager Mike Humiston “you need to show us what you’ve got.”

The alumni game was the final event of the fall season for the Waynesburg baseball team and so it was the final look that Humiston and his assistants got of the upcom-ing squad.

Things were done differ-ently this year when it came to the alumni game; instead of having a squad team face an alumni team, the alumni were interspersed between two different teams and an inter-squad game was played.

Humiston wanted to do it that way so he and his coach-ing staff could get a better look at the players.

“We’re better today than we were yesterday,” said Humiston. “I feel a lot better about the team now than I did at the start of fall.”

He also said that he be-lieves that the team is very balanced on offense, defense and pitching. While he does

admit that the pitching is far-ther along than the offense, he noticed that the hitting had been catching up, and believes that is this balance is a strength for the season to come.

According to Humiston base running is the weakest aspect of his team’s game so far, and they spent a signifi-gant amount time this week working on it.

Humiston noticed that pitchers and catchers were getting easy pick-offs, due to overextended leads, and were catching the runners stealing due a bad jump, read or lack of lead.

To help with the issue, Humiston put his players through situational drills to not only improve the base running, but to help along the hitting.

“If [base running] is the only thing we have to work on, I’m pretty happy,” he said.

Heading into the winter months, Humiston wants his players to get as much indoor work and spend time in the weight room, both with the team and on their own.

“A number of the players need to be bigger, stronger and faster.” said Humiston “They need to hit the weight room.”

The manager also expects the players to continue to

work over the upcoming Thanksgiving and Christmas break and that is exactly what freshmen second baseman, Francisco Torres plans to do.

While second base is a po-sition that has two returning upperclassmen in junior Neal Yakopin and senior Andrew Rose, Torres believes he will see some time.

“It all depends on my per-formance” said Torres “I will practice every day.”

Torres already saw some game-time action when he played in the Wheeling Jesuit double-header last Friday night and faced Division II pitching.

“It’s baseball, it wasn’t a whole lot different,” said Tor-res. “[I was prepared] thanks to a combination of my past playing and the current coaching [at Waynesburg].”

Torres may not be wrong in his thoughts about playing this season.

“Some of the freshmen are going to get some innings,” said Humiston.

Third base, shortstop, first base, catcher, and spots in the outfield are spots that had a senior graduate and are open for more competition.

Humiston gave the base-ball team the week off as he reviews his notes and talks to his coaching staff to evalu-ate each player’s performance this fall.

He said he will have to cut some players, but he will also be communicating with his players on aspects of their game to refine over the win-ter.

Though cuts are never easy, Humiston eyes a Presi-dents’ Athletic Conference championship for his team this season.

Baseball finishes fall practices with annual alumni gameCuts expected before spring season begins

“A number of the play-ers need to be bigger, stronger and faster. They need to hit the weight room.”

Mike huMistonBaseball manager

Football: Offense leads the wayContinued from C1

Michael Kabay, Waynesburg University

Junior wide receiver Bernie Thompson makes a cut during Saturday's game against the Thiel Tomcats.

October 10, 2013 Yellow Jacket Page C3

Weekly AwardsAfter leading their

respective teams to winning Homecoming weekend performanc-es, senior tennis player Markie Gustafson and junior football player Carter Hill have been named Waynesburg University Athletes of the Week.

On the gridiron, Hill quarterbacked the Yellow Jackets to their fourth-straight Homecoming victory. The junior quarterback ranks offensively as one the Presidents’ Athletic Conference’s best signal-callers at the midway point of the season.

Hill played an efficient game in the Jacket offense, completing 31-of-40 passes for 314 yards and three touchdowns through the air, while adding 51 yards rush-ing on five carries and a rushing touchdown. Saturday marked the third time in five games this season that Hill has surpassed 300-plus passing yards in a game. The team’s overall record improved to 4-1 and 2-1 in the PAC.

Gustafson was a key part of the women’s tennis team extending its winning streak to five matches in a row after picking up a pair of 5-4 victories this weekend. Gustafson picked up two wins in the team’s conference victory against Geneva on Saturday. She first teamed up with sophomore Sarah Reyes at number-two doubles to win 8-5. The veteran followed that up with a vic-tory at number-three singles by the scores of 6-1 and 6-1. Gustafson included another win at number-three doubles against Marietta.

After logging 135 shutout minutes over two Waynesburg wins, junior goalkeeper Brandon was honored by the Presidents’ Athletic Conference for his stellar play.

The all-conference keeper was named the latest PAC Defensive Player/Goalkeeper of the Week on Monday. This is second time he has picked up the weekly award.

Daughtry went 2-0 in net for the Yellow Jackets last week and picked up his second clean sheet of the season in a historic 1-0 victory against Grove City on Friday.

He made five saves against the Wolverines to secure Waynesburg's first win against Grove City since 2002.

The junior also played 45 minutes without a goal al-lowed in the Jackets' 7-1 win over Cincinnati Christian on Sept. 30.

HillGustafson

Daughtry

By JoHn LyDic Editorial Assistant

The Waynesburg women’s soccer team opened Presi-dents’ Athletic Conference play Friday, with the offense falling short once again.

Waynesburg (3-6, 0-1) traveled to Grove City (4-6-1, 1-0), to face off with the Wolverines, but only scored one goal, while its opponent scored four.

Grove City opened the scoring in the 11th minute of the game, marking the sec-ond-straight game in which Waynesburg allowed a goal in the opening 12 minutes.

“In the past, some of our issues have been just our in-tensity and our inability to win balls in the box,” said Waynesburg head coach Carl Griffiths. “This goal was just a good goal.”

After the goal, the game seemed to even out, with Grove City outshooting Waynesburg 6-4. Corner kicks were pretty close as well, with Grove City holding a slight 4-3 advantage.

“Overall [Grove City] had a run of play, but it was a pretty even half,” said Grif-fiths. “We emphasized the need to play to feet and con-nect so we were not chasing balls so much.”

In the first half, Grove City recorded nine shots on goal, giving sophomore goalie Ciara Scott an active half.

“[Grove City] was a fast

and strong team that worked well together in the box,” said Scott. “They made smart de-cisions and executed when possible.”

Although Grove City had multiple opportunities, Griffiths was happy with his team’s first half defense.

“I thought we played tough,” said Griffiths. “De-fensively, we were more physical in the midfield. We were more physical in the de-fensive end and that is one of the reasons we limited them to one goal in the first half.”

However, the Jacket of-fense continued to struggle finding a way to score.

“We had a lot of good op-portunities offensively,” said sophomore forward/mid-fielder Karleigh Murphey. “Unfortunately we just had some trouble finding the back of the net.”

The score at half favored Grove City 1-0.

“We talked about our de-fensive shape and a couple issues [at halftime],” said Griffiths. “We talked that we needed to take shots more often, and we just needed to shoot more, even from distance because we felt we could get one in past the keeper.”

The halftime adjustments seemed to work, as Waynes-burg controlled play in the

first 20 minutes, and in the 61st tied the game at one on a Murphey goal.

“I do think in the begin-ning of the second half we had the run of play,” said Griffiths.

“We executed something we had been working on all along. We won the ball in the middle of the field and Taylor Augustine was able to hold it and give it off to [Murphey] to create a shot.”

The score did not last long, as Grove City scored three goals in a span of four min-utes. Fatigue was a contribu-tor, according to Griffiths.

“I think fitness became an issue,” said Griffiths. “They have very good depth on the bench and we had some players that were struggling fitness-wise.”

Waynesburg was unable to find any more offense and the Yellow Jackets fell by a final score of 4-1. This loss dropped Waynesburg to 3-6 overall and 0-1 in the con-ference.

Griffiths wants to find a more consistent game than just a 20-minute stretch as PAC play picks up.

“I think what we need to do is what we did in the first 20 minutes of the second half,” said Griffiths. “If we play like that we are going to beat up on a lot of teams in the conference, but we know we are going to have to play like that longer than just 20 minutes out of 90.

The team returns to action Saturday at John F. Wiley Sta-dium when they face Thiel College at 1 p.m.

Jackets can't keep pace with WolverinesWomen's soccer outshot by Grove City

Zach DiBeradin, Yellow Jacket

Senior defender Toria Shepherd (13) pursues Baldwin-Wallace midfielder Hanna Cavalier.

McAuley leads cross country team at Lehigh UniversityBy naDine LeisHmanFor the Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg men’s cross country team finished in 22nd place out of 42 teams in the Lehigh Paul Short Run at Lehigh University in Beth-lehem, Pa. Saturday.

“We were very happy with our performance against some really tough competi-tion,” said head coach Chris Hardie. “We were proud of our team for staying hydrat-ed and staying cool prior to the race.”

The team was led by soph-omore Ben McAuley, who placed 25th overall out of a 333-man field with a time of 27:33.

“It was kind of crazy find-ing out [where] I finished,” said McAuley. “I really had no idea where I was, but I just kept running and ended up where I did.”

McAuley was followed by freshman Brendan Keany,

who crossed the line in 60th place with a time of 28:12.

“I honestly had no idea where I finished until two hours after the race,” said Keany. “I was not really concerned about my place because I just wanted to fin-ish strong and healthy in the crazy heat.”

The next runner to finish for the Jackets was another freshman, Josh Voight, who finished in 146th place with a time of 29:42.

“It felt amazing to be part of the top three on the team,” said Voight. “I’ve been work-ing hard all season trying to get to this spot. Now I am just hoping I can keep it.”

The Jackets had been led by mostly underclassmen this whole season. Hardie knows that this team is a young program, but believes in his runners.

“[Keany] and [McAuley] have really taken the next step the last few weeks,” said

Hardie. “They are both train-ing at a second level and have deserved all of the accolades that they have achieved. Both are very young and could have slipped under the pres-sure this week, but both rose to the occasion, and because of that, the coaching staff re-mains optimistic that the fu-ture is bright for this team.”

At the meet, the team had to overcome the heat as the temperature was past 80 de-grees, which is unexpected for this time of year.

“The meet was a great educational moment for the younger runners as this was the biggest race of many of our young runners careers,” said Hardie. “They not only had to battle the other teams, but they had to battle through the heat and lack of shade. The team responded well.”

This meet gave the team a chance to preview the course before the Division III Mid-east Regional Champion-

ships Nov. 16.“The course is going to be

much better come Novem-ber,” said Keany. “It will still be very quick without the overheating. I am extremely excited to see how we do as team having run the course already with much friendlier conditions.”

Only the top 10 runners go to regionals, which the team is already striving for.

Voight believes the team’s physical conditioning pre-pared them well for this race and will help them going for-ward.

“I feel the team did an out-standing job dealing with the heat and staying hydrated,” said Voight. “Not one of our runners had to drop out of the race because of dehydra-tion or overheating, and I feel that says a lot about the strength and determination of our team.”

The Jackets will be back in action Oct. 19.

Megan Potosky, Yellow Jacket

Junior Brandon Dugan runs during the Waynesburg Invitational. The Jackets placed 22nd on Saturday.

put pressure on them, we’ll get more chances and more goals.”

In the second half, the Jacket offensive success con-tinued. Junior forward Cody Lemke headed a goal home off a corner kick less than two minutes into the second half, and Browne netted his second goal four minutes later. The Trailblazers would add a goal late to make the final score 4-1.

“We were able to stay composed and move the ball safely and effectively,” said head coach Carl Grif-fiths. “I’m pleased with our performance, our ball move-ment and composure. We minimized mistakes and played smart.”

However, all is not well for the Jacket squad. Inju-ries have plagued Waynes-burg over the last week, and the team is running out of crutches.

Junior midfielder Ray Mel-one and Matt Kopp both suf-fered knee injuries in a Sept. 3 match against Cincinnati Christian University and have not played since.

Junior defenseman Justin Barylski replaced Melone in the match against Grove City, only to fracture his knee. Barylski may be out for the rest of the season.

Additionally, junior mid-fielder Colin Nelson suffered a severe ankle sprain Tuesday in the win over Ohio Chris-tian.

The four players have combined for seven goals and three assists for 17 points this season.

Nelson is tied for the most goals and points on the team with six and 13, respective-ly.

Despite the obstacles, the team is undeterred from ac-complishing its goal of win-ning a PAC title.

“We have a lot of depth,” said Griffiths. “I think the young guys are ready to play. Every good team battles with injuries and you expect to play without your starters at some point of the year. If you can’t play through injuries, you won’t be successful. It’s just part of the battle.”

Waynesburg currently sits atop the PAC standings, thanks to its big 1-0 win over Grove City Friday. It was the

first time Waynesburg beat Grove City since 2002.

“We were very excited with the win,” Griffiths said. “It was a huge improvement. A grass field, the rain and the wind, it was a battle for us. It was good to come away with a win.”

Despite being outshot 25-12 and allowing 14 corners, Waynesburg was able to come away with the win. Shortly before halftime, freshman Dimitri Arvanitopulos net-ted his first collegiate goal, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.

Waynesburg struggled of-fensively in the second half, but was able to edge out the Wolverines.

Waynesburg remains at home Saturday when it takes on Thiel at Wiley Stadium. Match time is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.

The Tomcats's record sits at 5-7, 0-2 in PAC action. Last season's contest between the two schools ended in a draw after two overtimes.

The match against Thiel will be the first of seven straight conference matches for the Jackets.

Soccer: Historic season continuesContinued from C1

Page C4 Yellow Jacket October 10, 2013

By RoB LongoAssistant Sports Editor

After defeating Thiel 35-21 to cap off Homecoming festivities, Waynesburg (4-1, 2-1) looks to string back-to-back wins together this week-end when it takes on Grove City (3-2,1-2) Saturday.

The Jackets jumped out to an early 21-0 lead in the first quarter Saturday, but allowed sophomore quarterback Ryan Radke to rush for 123 yards in the second half, with 93 of those yards coming in the fourth quarter alone.

“There’s no doubt [Radke] made some plays,” said head coach Rick Shepas. “Our guys were on the field for a long time all day. I don’t know how much I read into that fourth quarter perfor-mance.”

On offense, Waynesburg’s day was highlighted by junior quarterback` Carter Hill. Hill completed 31-of-40 passes, including three touchdown passes, which all came in the first quarter. Hill also added a rushing touchdown in the third quarter.

Two of Hill’s touchdown passes found the hands of Bernie Thompson, who

ended the day with four re-ceptions.

For Grove City, it bounced back after two straight loss-es on its Homecoming day against Westminster, edging out the Titans 24-21. The Wolverines raced out to a 24-7 lead early in the third quarter, but Westminster fought back, before a 26-yard field goal attempt was blocked with 42 seconds re-maining.

“We’re always happy to get a [win] on Homecoming, but we anticipated it not being as exciting as it was,” said Grove

City head coach Chris Smith. “Once we got the win, it was okay. Westminster did a good job fighting back. I thought we could have made the day a little easier. We got a hand on a field goal and that’s all she wrote.”

With both teams coming off of Homecoming victories, here are a few story lines to look for Saturday.

Rock Solid?Even though Waynesburg

has given up 49 points twice this season, Smith believes Waynesburg still has a solid

group of defenders. Thiel re-alized that the hard way, as Waynesburg collected eight tackles for loss and three sacks on the afternoon.

“They have a rock solid de-fense,” Smith said. “You know they’re going to be good.”

However, Waynesburg has had difficulty in the passing game, giving up big gains. Once again, size could pose a problem for the Jackets. Grove City’s leading receiv-ers Khalil Ervin and Anthony Ritchie stand at 6’1” and 6’5”, respectively.

Additionally, the Jacket defense has had trouble stop-ping mobile quarterbacks. Wolverine quarterback Bri-an Pell is the second leading rusher on the team, crossing the goal line six times on the ground this season.

“We had a spy on [Radke],” said Shepas. “I think the big-gest thing was Thiel was in a different mindset when he came in, so I think that fac-tors in. The biggest thing is fresh legs.”

It’s ChemistryIf size wasn’t a big enough

issue for the Waynesburg secondary, the camaraderie between Pell and Ritchie

goes beyond the four years of playing with each other at Grove City. The two at-tended Wheaton Academy in Streamwood, Ill. together.

“They’ve been teammates now for about eight years,” Smith said. “As a college coach, having the luxury of having kids that have played with each other is great. There aren’t too many mis-fires because they’ve done it so often and they both are on the same page.”

Shepas also recalls Pell’s ability to lead a team.

“I remember how [Pell] finished the game against us last season,” Shepas said. “He’s a very confident kid. I remember him speaking at media day and talking about his relationship with [Ritchie] since high school.”

If It Ain’t Broke…Don’t fix it. Heading into

Saturday’s matchup, both coaches want to continue what their respective teams have been able to accomplish this season.

“You know Waynesburg is going to be good,” Smith said. “Focus on the things you do. We can’t beat them on trick plays. We have to do what we

do and try to be better.”And for Smith, those

things that Grove City has to focus on keeping constant mostly fall on the offensive side of the ball.

“I think the big thing is for our offense to not get off track and then having to manufacture things out of our personality,” said Smith. “As long as we can run our offense we can be okay. We have to make sure the pres-sure doesn’t get to us.”

On the opposing sideline, Shepas believes in his game plan just as much.

“There are lots of match-ups that I’m looking at,” said Shepas. “We have to continue to execute like we have been. There are situations that ex-cite me, like throwing the ball. I’d still like to run the football better than we have been.”

Coincidentally, the last time Grove City defeated Waynesburg was back in 2009 at home, when it beat the Jackets 35-24. Waynes-burg will look to continue its winning streak against the Wolverines on the road at Robert E. Thorn Field.

Kickoff is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.

Week six football preview: Grove City

Quarterback on pace to shatter single-season recordsBy CJ FiLippi

For the Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg Univer-sity football team sits with a 4-1 overall record at the mid point in the season.

After a surprising week-end, which featured Geneva getting trounced by Thomas More and Bethany beating Washington & Jefferson for the first time in 30 years, the Jackets are in second place in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference.

Not only does the team rank second in the PAC, but so does junior quarterback Carter Hill. The Jackets sig-nal-callers statistics rank him amongst the PAC’s best at the quarterback position.

Hill continues to impress, as he currently ranks second in the PAC with 1,484 pass-ing yards. He also boasts a 68.3 completion percentage with 14 passing touchdowns, which both lead the confer-ence. Despite attempting 208 passes, the junior has thrown just one interception.

Hill also is second in the conference in passing aver-age at 296.8 yards per game and has a passing efficiency of 149.4.

The junior transfer’s num-ber not only rank among the PAC’s best, but Hill is also among the nation’s statistics leaders at the quarterback position.

Nationally, Hill ranks sixth

in passing yards, 17th in passing yards per game, tied for fourth in passing touch-downs, 19th in completion percentage and 42nd in pass-ing efficiency.

“Hill has been playing awesome,” said head coach Rick Shepas. “He is pretty ac-curate with his passes and is seeing the field well.”

The quarterback is on pace to throw for 2,968, which would shatter Waynesburg’s single season record of 2,534 set by Jeff Dumm in 2004.

He is also on pace to throw for 28 touchdowns, breaking John Huntey’s 45-year-old record of 25 set in 1968.

According to Shepas and his teammates, Hill has yet to reach his ceiling.

“I did expect [Hill] to play this well in the season,” said Leavell, “He worked hard during the spring and sum-mer. I didn’t expect anything less from him.”

Leavell had a great per-formance Saturday against Thiel in which he had five receptions for 65 yards and a touchdown.

Leavell said Hill continues to improve in his perfor-mance due to his preparation for each game.

“I think it’s his preparation during the week that helps him perform so well,” said Leavell. “He watches film and breaks down our oppo-nents’ strengths and weak-nesses which translate onto

the field.”Shepas said that part of

Hill’s success is his ability to make the necessary plays on each drive.

“Hill does a great job of making the plays needed,” said Shepas. “He tries to make the open read quicker. He will run more depend-ing on what he sees on the field.”

Shepas also said Hill offers input into the game plan dur-ing the week of practice and the game itself, which shows the maturity of a player in his first full season as starter and the trust between coach and quarterback.

Leavell has the back of his quarterback as the Jackets hit the meat of their conference schedule, starting this week-end with Grove City.

In the final stretch, Hill will be counted on to fin-ish on a strong note, with Thomas More controlling the conference so far.

“You can expect to see him continue to get better as the season progresses,” said Leavell. “He just has to con-tinue to make the right reads and play with confidence.”

Hill and the Jacket football team return to the gridiron this weekend when they travel to play Grove City. The Wolverines are coming off a victory over conference foe Westminster College.

Kickoff is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.

Michael Kabay, Waynesburg University

Junior Carter Hill and head coach Rick Shepas talk during the Frostburg State game. Hill is on pace to break a number of Waynesburg's passing records.

The trend of offenses putting up video-game like numbers seems to be the same in the Presidents’ Ath-letic Conference as well.

Through this week, the nine PAC schools are averag-ing 397.7 offensive yards per game. Six teams (Bethany, Geneva, W&J, Thomas More, Waynesburg and Westmin-ster) average more than 400

offensive yards per game.The numbers get even cra-

zier as three teams (Bethany, Geneva and W&J) average more than 450 offensive yards per game.

To make a comparison, in the prior five seasons (2008-2012), a mere five PAC schools (Geneva, ’12; W&J, ’11 and ’08; Waynesburg, ’09; Thomas More ’08) aver-aged more than 400 yards per game.

Numbers don’t lie and the scoreboards in football sta-diums across America show that the game of football has evolved.

The norm of 17-14 scores seems to be a thing of the past and the basketball-like scores seem to be the new norm in football.

As we get ready for anoth-er week of football, buckle up because the points and yards are coming.

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Christman said that dou-bles play was a main reason for the victories on Satur-day.

The Strong doubles play helped soften the load for the singles matches that followed. Waynesburg only needed to win three of the six matches and it did so. The Yellow

The match against Mari-etta started of identical to the

earlier match. Waynesburg won two doubles matches in which Daniel and Klemash claimed the first win, and ju-niors Madison DuBrock and Lauren Cowden teamed up for the second victory.

The Jackets had to do some work in unconventional sin-gles play. Because of the tri-match, singles play was for-matted in a pro-set format, just like doubles matches. The Pioneers picked up two quick

victories to extend their lead 3-2. Waynesburg went on to win the next three matches thanks in part to Gustafson, Reyes and sophomore Ra-chael Wilson strong single play. Waynesburg won the match 5-4.

The two wins improve Waynesburg’s record to 9-3 overall, and 5-3 in the Presi-dents’ Athletic Conference. Their next match is against Goucher College.

Tennis: Win streak at five matchesContinued from C1

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And the winner

is...

Katherine Mansfield, Yellow Jacket

(Left) Judges speak with Anna Kelley after her last performance. Following the four performances, the audience took out their phones and voted on who they believed should be the next WU Idol.

(Below) The competitors wait to hear the results of the final round.

Popular singing contest crowns Dan Hayes ninth 'WU Idol'

Katherine Mansfield, Yellow Jacket

(Above) Dan Hayes accepts his prize of $200 as winner of this year's competition.(Left) Anna Kelley performs her last performance in front of a full house for the final round of WU Idol. She chose the song "ROAR." During her performance, she tried to interact with the crowd and make them feel like they were involved in the performance as well.

by Jenny schouppeOnline Content Manager

The 2013 Waynesburg Idol has been chosen. Senior Dan Hayes captured the title Friday, Oct. 4 at

the ninth annual Waynesburg Idol competition in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center.

The biology/pre-physical therapy major was surprised and honored to take home the title and the $200 check.

“I am lost for words,” said Hayes. “It’s good to know that I’ve done something worthwhile during my four years here.”

Before Hayes was crowned, the show began with the revealing of the semi-finalists’ fate. Sophomore Megan Bayles and seniors Dan Buzzard, Rebecca Perlmutter and Toria Shepherd did not receive enough votes to continue into the finals.

The remaining four battled it out for the title. Freshmen secondary education major Sheryl Sesay started the show off with a ballad. Sesay decided to go in a different direction and slow down with “Clarity” by ZEDD.

“I thought this song would bring out the emotional side of me,” said Sesay. “I wanted the audience to see that though I have a fun personality, I can also be calm and serious.”

The judges appreciated the change in pace and the simplicity of the performance.

“The nice part about that song was that it showed off her voice perfectly,” said judge and Education Professor, Frank Pazzynski. “It was subtle yet still powerful.”

Freshmen international studies major Emily Mielcarek tried to pick up the tempo with a performance of “Roar” by Katy Perry. Mielcarek sang despite suffering vocal nodules – cysts on the vocal chords – and tried not to let it affect her performance.

“I think I performed well considering how sore my throat is,” said Mielcarek. “Being sick caused me to learn

Students to explorethe great outdoors

Growing WU art department to host event to encourage careers in the arts

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by Kimmi bastonStaff Writer

The Fine Arts Department at Waynesburg University is growing more with each passing year.

This prompted the depart-ment to plan its first ever Fine Arts E3 Day for high school students and their parents.

The Fine Arts faculty is looking for an avenue to al-low alumni of the Fine Arts program to share their in-sight with students looking to enter career fields in the arts.

“We’ve graduated a couple of really fine classes in the past few years, and they’re all either in graduate school or in the field,” said Dr. Ronda DePriest, Fine Arts Depart-ment chair and director of the music program.

“We wanted a place for them to present the impor-tant information they’ve learned about entering the field."

Students can sign up for the event through Nov. 1 by accessing the Waynesburg University website.

The event is to be held at Waynesburg University on Saturday, Nov. 9.

The program is centered on the three E’s: explore, en-rich and excel.

Brochures printed for the event boast three goals for the attending students: to

“explore the ways to make yourself marketable in the arts after graduation, enrich your life and the lives of those around you by pursuing your passion in art, music or the-atre and excel by engaging with experienced educators as you learn to present your-self as a skilled actor, artist or musician.”

Brochures have been dis-tributed to high schools in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania that are within a few hours’ driving distance of Waynesburg.

They have also been mailed to students who have previ-ously visited the university and expressed interest in the arts.

Both students and parents are welcome to come to this event.

The department is hoping to appeal to sophomores, juniors and seniors in high school.

They hope that by inviting them, they will learn more about Waynesburg Univer-sity and how to prepare for

future careers and job pros-pects.

“Our goals for the day are to have [the students] meet Waynesburg Fine Arts fac-ulty, to learn how to prepare themselves for college au-ditions and how to present themselves in a professional manner,” said DePriest.

The day will kick off with movement activities to in-crease excitement and in-clude two student sessions in four different areas of the arts: theatre, visual art, vo-cal music and instrumental music.

Finally, the students and their parents will attend a session called “Creative Ca-reer Paths.”

At this session, faculty members and alumni will speak about planning for success in the future.

In addition to helping high school students prepare for careers in the arts, the pro-gram is a way to promote Waynesburg’s Fine Arts De-partment.

“Our department services

the general education kids quite a bit, and people don’t realize that there are actu-ally majors that are involved in leading co-curricular ac-tivities around campus,” said DePriest.

DePriest hopes more stu-dents will realize the ample career opportunities in the arts and be more inclined to major in a fine arts area that appeals to them.

He also hopes that the growing department will gear students to realize the program Waynesburg of-fers.

The program is also de-signed to help recruit students to Waynesburg University. The Fine Arts Department and Admissions have worked together to make the event an attraction for potential students.

Admissions will be offer-ing campus tours at the end of the program for anyone interested.

In addition to DePriest, faculty participating in the E3 program include Mela-nie Vaccari-Catana, direc-tor of choral music; Andrew Heisey, director of art; and Edward L. Powers, director of theatre.

The officers of the large en-sembles on campus will also be assisting with the event to make it a welcoming and worthwhile day for the high school students.

by ZacK ZeiglerStaff Writer

The great outdoors, a place where you can relax and un-wind.

A tranquil place where you can become at ease with yourself.

But, soon it will be the next destination Waynesburg University will be making for its next trip.

The Student Activities Board has planned an Out-door Adventure trip to Crest-field camp near Slippery Rock, Pa.

“Students have been asking to go on a zip line adventure for a while,” said Pat Bristor, associate Dean of Student Services.

This is the reason behind the upcoming outdoor ad-venture trip, scheduled to take place on Sat., Oct. 12.

The trip is to Crestfield Camp near Slippery Rock, Pa., and will feature a climb-ing wall and zip lining.

“I would like to bring in a portable zip line that can be set up on campus,” said Bristor.

“But that would be too ex-pensive for the university.”

The zip lining trip has been something that students have been anticipating for quite some time.

“The idea came from Steve

Snow, the director of athletic fun and fitness, wanting to go on a zip line trip and push-ing for it for a while,” said Bristor.

Now the Student Activi-ties Board has listened and is finally making the trip possible.

Bristor added that former resident director Amiee Spi-cuzza is a camp director at Crestfield.

This connection allowed the university to make the trip.

“During Waynesburg’s stay, they have scheduled to do a night hike, campfire, ar-chery, climbing wall and zip line,” said Spicuzza.

The camp can be as adven-turous as the person wants it to be, according to Bristor.

“Crestfield always uses the challenge by choice ap-proach,” said Bristor.

“Challenge by choice means it is up to the person to challenge themselves as much as they want. We en-courage people to step out of their comfort zone.”

Bristor hopes the students find teamwork skills while at the event and also have a great and safe time.

“I want the kids to get a sense of team work, team building, and the fun of a

“Our goals for the day are to have [the students] meet Waynesburg Fine Arts faculty, to learn how to prepare themselves for college auditions and how to present themselves in a professional man-ner.”

ronDa DepriestDepartment of Fine Arts chairman and director of music program

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my song only two days ago, but I tried my best and that’s all I could do.”

The judges noticed that Mielcarek was sick, but they said she had heart to sing through her illness.

“I know she had a sore throat,” said resident director Anne Schrock. “I’m happy she still came out to perform, because she rocked the song and the audience was able to see her passion to sing.”

Freshman Anna Kelley was the last of the girls to perform. The nursing major performed “Summertime Sadness” by Lana Del Ray for the audience and her mom.

“I wanted something up-beat that would get the au-dience involved,” said Kel-ley. “I feel I made my mom proud.”

The judges appreciated Kelley’s progression through-out the competition.

“I felt you were coming out of your shell during the performance,” said 2012 Waynesburg Idol Christy Ritter. “It was a good change from the ballads you’ve done the past two weeks.”

The only upperclassman, senior Dan Hayes, took the stage to perform “Mirrors” by Justin Timberlake. Hayes was humbled to even be giv-en the chance to perform in the finale.

“The competition is ridic-

ulously good this year,” said Hayes. “The top three girls are so talented and all three of them have the ability to be very successful.”

Though Hayes was in awe of his fellow contestants, the

judges were noticing the amount of females who were left in awe of Hayes’ perfor-mance.

“Dan, you are the man,” said Waynesburg Alum Peg-gy Ketchem. “You make so

many girls scream for you.”After the finalists per-

formed, it was left up to the audience. While the votes were tallied, the audience enjoyed performances from the 2009 Waynesburg Idol

Megan Peebles and judge Frank Pazzynski. The night ended with the presentation of the prize money checks to the three winners, followed by an encore performance by Hayes.

zip line,” said Bristor. “Teamwork looks different

in every situation and during the students’ time at Crest-field, teamwork will play a role. Taking a step outside of a person’s comfort zone is often easier with the support of their community.”

The students are encour-aged to help each other out to create a worthwhile trip.

SAB is dissapointed by the small amount of people who have signed up for the event.

“As of now, only ten kids are signed up for the trip,” said Bristor.

This means that there is space available for students wanting to go on the trip. The deadline for signups is Thursday, Oct. 10.

“It’s a fun time and I be-lieve the kids will enjoy it,” said Bristor.

Spicuzza feels confident as well that the students will enjoy the day.

“They will be able to spend time relaxing away from the busyness of campus life and enjoy creation and fellow-ship with fellow students,” said Spicuzza.

Competition: 'WU Idol' crowns winner, ends 2013 season

By Austin AndersonStaff Writer

Local talent Adam Brock brought his voice to Waynes-burg University this past week.

On Oct. 5 at 8 p.m., fans from around Washington County packed the Good-win Performing Arts Center to hear the 2011 "American Idol" semi-finalist’s perfor-mance.

While on "Idol," Brock said he enjoyed being in the same atmosphere with peers who were similarly talented to him.

“My favorite experience was getting to work with a bunch of other vocalists who all get me,” says Brock. “It’s nice when you are with people that understand what you do for a living and what you do for fun. It’s a neat at-mosphere to be around.”

Brock brought a big band that enhanced the perfor-mance. Kevin Moore was on piano; Paul Thompson was on both string and electric bass.

Mike Berry was on drums, Mike Tammeril was on the saxophone, and Dr. Kevin Clark was on trombone.

“These guys are some of the hardest-working mu-sicians in the Pittsburgh-Washington area,” said Brock of his band. “They are of huge talent, and it’s an honor to get to play with them and call them friends.”

The most important player in the band, though, is the trumpet player by the name of Doug Brock, who is Ad-am’s father.

He loves sharing the stage with him.

“It is phenomenal, it’s so much fun,” said Brock. “[We both] get excited.”

Since being on "Idol," Brock said his life has changed from the growth of his fan base to the growth of his music career.

“It’s been a lot busier. I sing a lot more. I sing [in] a lot of different places. I can’t go to the grocery store without somebody stopping and talk-

ing to me,” Brock noted. “I’m still doing what I’m

doing. It’s just doing it in front of new people, and pos-sibly a bigger audience.”

Idol contestant Brock and large band rock the GPAC

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Katherine Mansfield, Yellow Jacket

Alumna of Waynesburg University and 2009 Waynesburg Idol winner Megan Peebles gave a closing performance while the audience voted for their favorite performance of the night.

Tyler Wolfe, Yellow Jacket

Adam Brock performs and also talks about his times and experiences while on American Idol, and also about his life since the competion.

By dAnielle schuylerStaff Writer

Gru’s little, yellow minions are invading the Johnson Commons on Friday, Oct. 11.

Students are invited to an outdoor screening of “Despi-cable Me 2.”

In this sequel to the Illu-mination Entertainment and Universal Pictures animated blockbuster “Despicable Me,” ex-villain Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to assist in capturing a super-miscreant that plans to use mutagen PX-41 to take over the world.

Gru must stop this mystery antihero all while taking care of his three adopted daugh-ters and keeping hundreds of crazy, yellow minions in

line.As the voice of Gru, Steve

Carell proves once again that his comedic talent can shine through in animated features.

While the movie is being projected onto a screen in front of the Goodwin Per-forming Arts Center, guests will be treated to water, soda and popcorn.

If it rains, the film will be to the BeeHive.

From minions to musi-cians, Waynesburg Univer-sity will not be short of ex-citement this month.

On Monday, Oct. 14, re-cording artist J.D. Eicher returns to Waynesburg Uni-versity.

J.D. and his band, The Goodnights, describe their music as pop rock.

J.D. Eicher and The Good-nights' music can be thought of as a cross between John Mayer and One Republic.

The sound fits very well with the artists that are hold-ing spots on the top music charts right now. If you en-joy discovering smaller, more indie artists, J.D. Eicher will not disappoint.

Director of Student Ac-tivities and Associate Dean of Students Pat Bristor be-came acquainted with Eicher when she attended an event for the National Association for Campus Activities, where Eicher was one of the per-formers.

Bristor and her colleagues decided he would be a good fit in the lineup of artists to perform at Waynesburg Uni-versity.

Eicher was invited to hold a concert during one of Waynesburg’s Coffee Houses.

The first show was such a success that he was welcomed back multiple times.

“I have played at Waynes-burg University in the past and had a really great ex-perience,” said Eicher. “I’m honored to be invited back, and excited to play for the students again.”

Oct. 14 will be an acoustic concert and cookout.

J.D. Eicher will showcase his musical talent while guests enjoy roasting marsh-mallows and making moun-tain pies.

Kick off the fall season with fellow students will in-clude great music and free food.

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GPAC to show "Despicable Me 2" and host artist J.D. Eicher

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ACROSS8 Lord who made 100 batting skilfully after call for quiet (8)9 Travelling model held in ‘igh esteem (2,4)10 Extreme type omitted milk stout perhaps (6)11 Australian bounder finds all are docked in court (8)12 Russian city king takes21ac - no U-turn (4)13 Be content? I might be doubly shy as a result (4,6)14 Cloaked ruler dug up the coal (7)16 Ukrainian cavalryman needing a bag for his lettuce? (7)19 Tying the knot: somehow 10 twigged (7,3)21 Traditional tussle in Tokyo adds nothing to the total (4)22 People again on the other end of the line from Carlisle? (8)23 Unionist engaged in turning radio frequency band against Russian general (6)24 Just yours truly changing money with student (4,2)

25 Burn with a little white lie to begin the thread (8)

DOWN1 Ukrainian city zone has you thinking of maximising your resources initially (8)

2 Take the barb from a foreign pirate (6)

3 Ardour fazes them to some extent (4)

4 London location of a dis-placed Clwyd hospital (7)

5 Like Rousseau’s savage initiate in an upper class vein? (5,5)

6 Old World Sky supporter holds up ITN (8)

7 Primitive golfer’s warning without a fuss (6)

13 Mutually exchange a note on her (3,7)

15 Classic catcher here at home: they’re out! (2,3,3)

17 In general maybe Green-ham lady’s without puff (8)

18 Pole with little back-up makes not a sausage (5,1,1)

20 One splits Japanese cur-rency for example without looking (6)

21 Non-American academ-ic workshop (6)

23 Ox from Zambia begin-ning to break into Brussels (4)

MCT CaMpus Daily CrossworD puzzle

worDsearChThis weeK iN wu hisTory

OCt. 9, 1886An editorial by the Waynesburg Messenger echoes the sentiments of townspeople regarding the failures of the Waynesburg and Rice’s Landing Turnpike. “Main Street, in the present condition, is a disgrace to the town…continuing to be an eyesore for all good citizens.” All the macadamized toll roads under the company’s charge were blasted by outraged citizens who were upset that local roads could be so terrible, yet still charge a toll for usage.

OCt. 12, 1886Natural gas is struck at Donley Well 2,050 feet under ground. Pittsburgh Native E.M. Hukill discovered the reserve as part of a $150,000 endeavor over 30,000 acres at both the Greg Well at Whitley Creek, and the farm of D.L. Donley, Esq. in Mt. Morris. Oil would be discovered two weeks later.

OCt. 6, 1925End of the first golf championship to include handicaps among all players took place at the Greene County Country Club. Scotland native George Bathie replaces R.B. Hillis as the club’s golf professional. The eventual victor was C.B. Stryker.

Source: History of Greene County Pennsylvania by G. Wayne Smith

MusiC DowNloaDsWeek ending Oct. 12

"Yours Truly” by Ariana Grande

1. “Royals” by Lorde 2. “Roar” by Katy Perry3. “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus4. “Hold On, We're Going Home” by Drake5. “Wake Me Up!" by Avicii

tOp SONgS

#1 Album

Top five besT selliNg booKs

1. “Doctor Sleep” by Stephen King2. “The Longest Ride” by Nicholas Sparks3. “Deadline” by Sandra Brown4. “The Husband's Secret” by Liane Moriarty5. “Never Go Back” by Lee Child

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B a c k P a g e

The interview process is the start of the quest to obtain a job or internship, but receiving an interview for a position isn’t always easy. Putting in the time during college to gain valuable experience in your field will make you more marketable, but that alone won’t guarantee a job or internship in the future. The best way to earn an interview with an employer is to tell them exactly why you are qualified for a job before ever speaking to the employer in person. A well-written resume and cover letter is the key to making the employer recognize your qualifications and encourage them to schedule an interview with you. These tips will help put your qualifications on paper in the form of strong resumes and cover letters:

FormattingThe goal of a resume is to introduce your work history, skills and accomplishments to your future employer on one sheet of paper. In most cases, this one sheet must allow the employer to understand why you’re the perfect candidate to fill a job opening or internship in five seconds or less. In fact, employers could receive hundreds of applications for every one job opening. Thus, formatting is a key to creating a strong resume.

Draw the reader’s eye to the important parts of your resume by using bullets and headings. Headings denote exactly what each section of the resume is about, while bullets allow the writer to provide a detailed description of each job.

Action wordsWhen constructing each bullet point, use assertive action words and phrases that best describe what you accomplished in each of your previous endeavors. Keywords like “managed” and “developed” are better than weaker words such as “led” and “made.”

When using these action words, try to maintain parallelism throughout the resume. If the first bullet point in your resume is a past-tense verb, then each ensuing bullet should begin with a past-tense verb. Making these improvements to a resume will help set yours apart from many others.

Update and editMake a habit of constantly updating your resume. Anytime you do something new or noteworthy, take the time to create a write-up for it that is consistent with the format of your current resume. Keep in mind that each job description will require a resume that is tailored to that specific position, so resumes require constant revisions.

Proofreading and editing are keys as well, because an employer will disregard a resume that is ridden with grammatical and spelling errors.

cover letter writing

QualificationsA cover letter is another introductory document that will teach the employer a bit about you. In this document, which should be no longer than one page, present yourself as someone with the specific skills listed in the job posting, even if it means restating parts of the job posting in your cover letter.

Discuss your most applicable qualities and how they relate to the job opening. The cover letter allows you to be more detailed in your descriptions of past job experience. Use this opportunity to state exactly why particular experiences make you qualified for a position.

ResearchJust as each resume must be tailored to the job description, a cover letter must include similar qualities. Align yourself with the goals, values and vision of your perspective employer, all of which can be found through a little bit of research or by simply viewing the company’s website. Showing an understanding of what a company stands for will create goodwill with the employer and make you a more appealing candidate.

LayoutTraditional cover letters follow a uniform layout. The first paragraph is an introductory statement about yourself, the body paragraphs are for describing what makes you qualified for a job and the closing paragraph is a chance to reiterate important information and thank the employer for his or her consideration. A formal writing style is imperative to a successful cover letter as well.

Resume & Cover Letter writing

By nick farrellExecutive Editor

Resume

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