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‘Boro crosscountry hostsannual rag relay.See more on Page15.

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Many pay itforward afterlocal teen’sdeath. See moreon Page 4.

Student learnswomen’s role inleadership atPASSHEinstitute.See more on Page9.

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Kaytlyn SmolenNews Editor

Edinboro University announced the 2013 homecomingcourt during the presentation of candidates on Monday,Sept. 23 in the Louis C. Cole Auditorium.In this year’s competition, 13 individuals are running for

the title of Homecoming Queen and 11 for the title ofHomecoming King.Some of this year’s candidates expressed different things

that they were looking forward to about homecomingweekend.“Homecoming is such a great time of year at Edinboro. I

just love the atmosphere and who doesn’t love a little‘Scotland the brave?,’” said senior Grace Johnson who isrepresenting the women’s ultimate frisbee team.Tyler Wheeling, who will be representing Phi Sigma Pi

on the homecoming court, stated that he enjoys the socialaspect of homecoming. “It’s just kind of great to see all these generations of

people coming back for the same reasons (that) we’re herenow,” Wheeling said. “It’s just a great time to meet peopleand see people that you haven’t seen in a while and that’sthe best part about homecoming.”Junior Jamie Mccartney stated that she is looking forward

to the whole homecoming experience because she has neverattended homecoming before. She added that she hopes

Students rally in protest of proposed cuts, retrenchment

Jessica CourterStaff Writer

In honor of ConstitutionDay, Edinboro Universityheld a panel on Sept. 18 at theFrank G. Pogue StudentCenter to discuss theNational Security Agency(NSA) and, particularly, theirspying. According to moderator

James Fisher, of the politicalscience and criminal justicedepartment, the universityorganizes this type of eventevery year to discussconstitutional issues and tocelebrate the Constitution, asmandated by the federalgovernment. Four university professors,

with diverse information andperspectives of ourConstitutional rights, spokeat the panel in order to shedlight on the NSA. The panelfeatured Joe Conti, formerdistrict attorney and expertin legal and constitutionalissues; Baher Ghosheh,

expert in international affairs;Rhonda Matthews, expert inthe intersection of politics,culture and society; andGerry Gendlin, expert innational security issues. The underlying issue that

the panel expressed was ourloss of privacy and the NSA’sspying measures, such ashow far they go and whythey go so far.One of these security

methods, according to Contiof the political science andcriminal justice department,is the telephone mega datasystem. This data consists ofinformation that is beingcollected by the NSA in bulkthrough telephone calls. “I’m talking about billions

and billions of pieces ofinformation being collectedby the NSA,” Contiexplained. “That mega dataconsists of telephonenumbers…the date thosephone numbers place calls,the time of day and the actualduration of those telephone

calls.”The content, names,

addresses and identities ofpeople making phone calls isnot included in this bulk datacollection, however.In relation to this issue is

President Obama’s whitepaper, which was released inAugust 2013. According toConti, this documentdescribes the telephone datacollection process andexplains the protocols forretrieving that data as well asthe legalities of what they aredoing and reasons why it isstill constitutional. “The program itself has a

principle goal: the preventionof terrorist activity and aterrorist attack,” Conti said. Although the primary goal

is the nation’s safety andsecurity, the telephoneinformation that is retrievedis usually too broad,according to Matthews,chairperson of the sociologydepartment.

‘Boro announceshomecoming court

Professors discuss NSA leaks

Kaytlyn Smolen News Editor

"B-O-R-O, our teachers will notgo" was just one of the many chantsthat could be heard outside of theLouis C. Cole Memorial Auditoriumon Thursday, Sept. 19 as studentsrallied together in protest ofproposed program cuts and facultyretrenchment. About 100 students and some

faculty members turned out to theevent that featured various studentspeakers that were both past andpresent students from variousmajors. While the event was toprotest all proposed cuts, there wasa heavy emphasis on the proposedplans for the music and musiceducation programs.The rally, which was meant do a

peaceful protest, was organized bysenior music education major EthanPieper within days of the proposedcuts being announced.“Whenever I heard that

everything was happening, I justdecided that I’d do my part to atleast raise awareness if nothing else,”Pieper said.

Students gathered outside of Cole Auditorium on Thursday, Sept. 19 to protest proposed cuts.

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One concern that was expressed by bothspeakers and students in attendance was theloss of family that these cuts would create.“Music up here has become my family. I’m

from three hours away (and) when I camehere I knew two people, who were bothupperclassmen, and that was it,” saidsophomore band member and brother of PhiMu Alpha Neil Brett. “When I came here, Ifound a family within a week because ofband camp. “Chantel Adkins, a junior music education

major and sister of Sigma Alpha Iota, saidthat the loss of family will not only affect thestudents but faculty as well.“To me family and sisters are my life and

to take both of those away is just taking awayfrom somebody’s life and that’s not fair to(any) of us, let alone all of the faculty becausethey don’t deserve that, either. They’re partof our family,” Adkins said.Assistant professor of theatre Sharon

Taylor attended the rally to support thestudents and her fellow faculty members.“I know exactly what it’s like and the arts

all rely on each other.. You can’t separate theparts out ... it’s all connected and I’ll do allthat I can to support the music department,”said Taylor, whose program underwentchanges similar to those that are currentlyproposed for the music program.The rally was filled with more than just

music students. Junior nursing major AshleyPeters stated that she came to the rallybecause her fiancée was a music major beforehe had to recently take a short leave fromschool.“Music is his life and just the idea that he

can’t come back to it is just heart breaking,”Peters said. “I hope that more opinions arebeing expressed and I hope that(administrators) realize that yes it may be asmall group of people that want this but it’simportant to everyone on campus.” Throughout the rally, student speakers

expressed their feelings about the cuts andmore importantly how students should directtheir concerns about the cuts to GovernorTom Corbett. The speakers placed most of the blame on

the cuts that Corbett has made to highereducation as opposed to the cuts the

administration at Edinboro has made. Manyof the students in attendance stated that theywant to work with administration to findways to help fix the problem without makingthe proposed cuts.“I hope that (administrators) see that we’re

respectful … This is our family and we’rewilling to work with them,” Adkins said. “Weunderstand that money is an issue (and the)economy is an issue but we’re willing toaccommodate … We just want to keep ourfamily together.”Music professor Allen Howell stated that

he is proud of the way that students wentabout the holding of this rally.“I am very proud of our students for

resisting the urge to buy into ouradministrators' rhetoric that would have usall believe that the placing of our musicdegree programs in moratorium is a donedeal,” Howell said. “They see the truth: themoratorium is a recommendation and it hasnot been carried out. I admire our students'courage and their willingness not to just rollover and let something precious be takenaway without vehemently resisting thatchange.”

University officials also commended themanner of the students at the rally.“The demonstration (last week) was well-

organized, orderly and energetic. It providedan outlet for students to express themselves,which is important and the universitysupports that expression,” said Director ofCommunications Jeffrey Hileman.

Hileman added that students withquestions or concerns about the budget canattend the president’s listening hour or anyof the budget forums that she will be holdingthis semester. Students can also share ideas through the

online suggestion forum using the link on themyEdinboro log-in page.Pieper stated that he hopes that this is not

just a single event but that it turns into acampaign.“My goal is to have continued rallies

throughout the semester (and) maybe eventhe year,“ Pieper said. “ The first part of thecampaign ... would just be to raise awareness,to get people involved, get the facts straight… and once that’s taken care of we’d try tothink of new policies and new ways to takecare of the problem.”

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“FBI profilers indicate to us that wide sweeps for any datararely yield any good information,” Matthews said. “They arequick to point out that profiling…is what provides the mosteffective form of identification capture.”However, while untargeted sweeps of data collection are

unlikely to produce results, this telephone data is now beingstored for future reference, Matthews explained. As this isgoing on, many U.S. citizens, particularly youngergenerations, are not concerned, as long as it keeps them safeand they feel that they have nothing to hide.“People college age and younger do not have an

expectation of privacy,” Matthews said. “Those of us inmiddle age have a different relationship with privacy than(those younger) do. We did not grow up with these thingswhere you present your information that is immediatelyaccessible to other people.”Internet shopping is a commonplace example of offering

our personal information when in actuality it is not knownwho is seeing the information.“We so willingly give up our email, address, phone number

and credit card information for websites and products likegames that knowing the NSA can see who we call and howlong might not seem as daunting as it would to people of theolder generations,” said Lauren Pierson, a freshman political

science major.The technological enhancements and the impact those

enhancements have on our culture relates to how people viewtheir privacy. Matthews related this issue with the XboxKinect, a 3D camera that allows you to play the consolewithout a controller, and Microsoft’s potential plans for it. “There were actual plans to market to consumers of Xbox

using the Kinect,” Matthews said. “They were going to lookthrough the Kinect and see what kind of stuff you had in yourhouse and then they were going to send you ads based on thekind of stuff.” Methods of spying, whether it’s from the NSA or Microsoft,

are forever upgrading, even as technology upgrades, intoways that some consider alarming and others considerinteresting. By using this technology, one essentially assumesthe risk of losing more and more of their privacy.“I’m concerned about the same issues that my colleagues

are, but one of the problems is that I find that technologythat’s able to do this stuff really cool,” said Gendlin of thepolitical science and criminal justice department. “That’s aproblem I think that we face is that some people like me don’tcare as much.”However, Gendlin said that the only reason we know about

the NSA’s capabilities is because of the Edward Snowdenleak. He said his biggest concern is that those who are beinglegitimately tracked are now seeking other ways of privatecommunication.

“They know they’re being spied upon and they know nowhow(the NSA) is spying on them so they will do the best theycan now to avoid that,” Gendlin explained. Snowden’s leaks are not completely harmful, though,

according to Gendlin, who believes it is unethical of the NSAto spy on innocent people.“There is a line and the NSA has crossed it,” Gendlin said.

“In that sense, the revelations of Snowden that occurred havetold us something important that we need to know.” This was, after all, what caused concern for Brazilian

President Dilma Rousseff, who postponed a visit toWashington, D.C. recently because information was leakedthat the NSA was spying on Brazil and monitoring Rousseff’semails and telephone calls.Ghosheh, of the geosciences department, explained

Rousseff’s fears of “economic espionage,” as Braziliancompanies were also being targeted. Ghosheh said that thewar on terror must not mean encroaching on the public’srights of privacy in the name of security, as is the way in othercountries such as Russia and Egypt. “We need to find the balance between protecting us and

protecting from future terrorist attacks and also preservingand protecting our rights and liberties,” Ghosheh said.The panel concluded with a question and answer session

that allowed students to ask questions about anything thatwas discussed during the presentations or any questions theymight have related to national security.

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that representing Alpha Phi Omega on the homecoming courtwill be a way to have more people become acquainted withher organization.“Not many people in this university know what Alpha Phi

Omega is, so it’s nice to get the word out through somethingthat is so big,” Mccartney saidThe king and queen will be announced on Friday, Oct. 4 at

7:30 p.m. at Sox Harrison Stadium.

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Sept. 24 through Friday, Sept.27 and Sept. 30 through Oct. 2.

Photos by Morgan SasserJoseph Lavadie, Thomas Sovisky, Jeremy Long, Tyler Wheeling, Luke Geer, Philip Thomas, David Vaughan,Dakota Cohen, Kevin Caldwell, Micah Reed and Ernest James.

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Noon until 8 p.m.

Campus Life Office, thesecond floor of the Frank G.Pogue Student Center.

Jacklyn Schnauber, Brittany Witt, Grace Johnson, Miawna Johnson, Jamie Mccartney, Colleen Wonderling,Meagan Nazario, Meghan Riley, Amber Jackson, Amanda Morrish, Megan Corrigan, Chelsea Hajdu andKaitlin Rudolph.

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