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Snow, snow and more snow appears to be this month’s weath-er forecast as the local community gears up for round three.

The National Weather Service reported that several more inches of snow may fall in the Indiana area between Monday and Tuesday.

This potential snowstorm comes days after the second snowstorm hit the area, which dumped several inches of snow on the community.

The second storm followed shortly after the first storm, which dumped more than a foot on Indiana.

The previous two snow-storms prompted officials to can-cel classes and campus events, close several local businesses and force crews to work overtime to clear the sidewalks and streets for com-muters. The storms also affected parking on campus.

Michelle Fryling, IUP’s media relations director, said the snow crews did a “fantastic job” clearing off the sidewalks and roads.

“Several employees have sent all-campus e-mails of appreciation for their hard work, and I would wholeheartedly agree,” Fryling said Monday evening.

“The facility’s crews worked literally all shifts and around the clock to get the campus ready for employees and students Friday,” she said.

Fryling said that cancel-

lations for Wednesday and Thursday happened based on recommendations made by several campus groups to IUP President Tony Atwater.

“We looked carefully at the National Weather Service fore-cast, consulted with PennDOT and considered how long it would take us to clear roads and sidewalks,” Fryling said.

She said the university can-celled classes to ensure the safety of students, faculty and staff.

Fryling said the university will be monitoring the weather conditions at IUP before any action is taken.

“We are always watching weather forecasts and stand-ing ready to make the appropriate recommendations,” Fryling said.

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Alcohol violations• At 2:25 a.m. Sunday, Derrick Hemphill, of Johnstown, was charged with

DUI, driving under suspension and periods for required lighting after he was found intoxicated while behind the wheel in the 500 block of Philadelphia Street, according to borough police.

• Borough police reported that at 11:28 a.m. Saturday, Chelsea E. Rowe, 19, Gibsonia, was cited for underage drinking after she was found intoxicated at 933 Wayne Ave. following a verbal argument with a man.

• At 3:08 a.m. Saturday, James J. Lamonaca Jr., 23, Johnstown, and Angeline V. Yimin, 20, Elizabeth, were found intoxicated at 723 Gompers Ave. after Lamonaca was found kicking and punching the entrance door and screaming at a nearby woman, according to borough police. Lamonaca was cited for public drunkenness and Yimin was cited for underage drinking, police reported.

• Borough police reported that at 11:44 p.m. Friday, Justin M. Carrington, 18, Philadelphia, was cited for retail theft and underage drinking after he was found attempting to steal merchandise from Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave. while intoxicated.

• At 1:08 a.m. Friday, Kurt J. Moore, of Dubois, was cited for underage drinking and retail theft after he was found intoxicated while trying to steal $20 worth of merchandise from Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave., according to borough police.

• Someone attempted to purchase alcohol with a false ID at 11:22 p.m. Thursday at Uncle Sudsy’s at 860 Wayne Ave., according to borough police. Police reported that the person fled and shoved an employee when the store called police. He is described as a medium to heavyset man wearing a red hooded sweatshirt. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724-349-2121.

Criminal mischief• Someone kicked the rear end and damaged a vehicle parked along the 700

block of Gompers Avenue sometime between 4 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, according to borough police. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

• Someone threw an icicle through a rear window of a residence at 854 Wayne Ave. at approximately 1:30 a.m. Saturday, according to borough police. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

• Someone broke the glass out of the first-floor entrance door at the Maple West Suites sometime between 1 and 2:30 a.m. Saturday, according to campus police. Anyone with information is asked to contact campus police at 724-357-2141.

Disorderly conduct• Borough police reported that at 4:18 a.m. Sunday, Calief I. Williams, 18,

Philadelphia, was charged with disorderly conduct, retail theft, harassment, assault and underage drinking after he was found fighting with security at Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave. following a retail theft investigation.

• At 12:15 a.m. Sunday, Keon Greer, 18, Lexington, Miss., was arrested and charged with false identification to law enforcement, retail theft and disorderly conduct after he provided a false identification to officers after attempting to steal from Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave., according to borough police.

• Borough police reported that at 3:39 a.m. Saturday, Moncure Vaden, 20, and Monique R. Anderson, 22, both of Philadelphia, were cited for disorderly conduct following a verbal argument at 1344 Locust St., which disturbed several neighbors in the area.

Hit and runSomeone hit a tan/gold Dodge Caravan parked in the parking lot at 531

Philadelphia St. sometime between 8:15 a.m. and 5 p.m. Thursday, according to borough police. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

Items burgledAt 1:57 a.m. Saturday, Dustin Beck, 22, Greensburg, was cited for retail theft

after he was found trying to leave Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave. without paying for a bag of chips, according to borough police.

– compiled from police reports

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Brock Fleeger/The PennIndiana County may be facing a possible third snowstorm after the previous two cov-ered the area in more than a foot of snow last week.

Michigan State University student Nichole Wickens never imagined standing in line to get staples from a food pantry.

But that’s what the 21-year-old is doing at MSU’s Olin Health Center, where the student-run food bank has seen a 25 percent jump in need from the 2007-08 school year.

In three bags, Wickens carries away boxes of instant mashed potatoes and dried pasta, a loaf of bakery bread, applesauce and a box of shredded wheat cereal.

At retail, it’s only worth about $20, but it makes a big difference to Wickens.

“My student account was in stocks, and stocks were hit hard,” Wickens said. “And I’m the oldest of five.”

She has a part-time job on campus as a night receptionist, and gets some financial aid for tuition.

“But I’m paying for a car, phone, computer, rent and everything else,” she said, “so coming here really helps. It’s a resource to students.”

College campuses aren’t plac-es where you expect to find a food bank. But students are turn-ing to college-sponsored food banks for help because of ever-increasing tuition costs, the loss of financial aid programs like state scholarships and financial support from home being cut-off or diminished because parents have lost jobs.

“This perception that students, because they’re going to college, have money isn’t accurate and never was,” said Dennis Martell, the MSU health education services coordinator and the food bank’s faculty adviser.

Grand Valley State University in

Allendale, Mich., opened a food pantry last April, following a suggestion from student Susana Villagomez Barajas.

“One of the girls I worked with told me she never had food - that it was either eat or pay bills,” said Villagomez-Barajas, 20, of Grand Rapids, Mich., who is majoring in clinical lab science. “I heard my friends talking about the same thing and students in my classes, so I came up with that idea.”

Villagomez-Barajas talked to the director of GVSU’s Women’s Center, who put together a task force of school counselors and financial aid officials, who confirmed that a food pantry would be beneficial to students. The GVSU food pantry has helped more than 200 students since it opened, said Rachael DeWitt, who runs the food bank while pursuing a master’s degree in social work and public administra-tion.

“Students feel the brunt of tough economic times,” said DeWitt. “Their parents were able to support them before, but now their parents have lost their jobs.”

The GVSU pantry is supported by cash donations and food that’s donated.

DeWitt posts items she needs on an electronic bulletin board.

“If I say we’re in need of toiletries and peanut butter, people respond to that,” she said.

While other large Michigan schools don’t operate food banks, many are reporting a surge in students asking for more financial aid.

The University of Michigan has experienced an increase in students showing demonstrated financial need, said school spokes-woman Kelly Cunningham.

“We occasionally see a stu-dent who is in need of emergency funding. In those cases, we provide an emergency grant to cover immediate needs like food, money to move into an apartment, purchase medication, etc.,” Cunningham said.

“If the student comes forward, we can help them.

“We always reserve funds for emergencies, and we can disburse emergency funds as quickly as the same day the student asks for help,” Cunningham said.

“Students can apply online and receive up to $500 the next morning.”

In Marquette, Mich., Salvation Army director of operations Walter Sleeter said about 100 students a month from Northern Michigan University pick up donated boxes of food, and four or five come to a weekday free lunch program.

On Saturday, its Salvation Army Thrift Store offers a 20 percent discount to college students.

At Wayne State University of Detroit, there are no food banks specifically for students.

But there are safety nets and food programs throughout the city, offered by nonprofits and church groups, said Kami Pothukuchi, a Wayne State associate professor of urban planning.


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College tuition and fees have gone through the roof as government fund-ing has dried up. This comes at a particularly bad time as college-saving accounts have toppled.

At the same time, supplemen-tal work for students has dried up as older American’s, laid-off from career-track jobs, willingly accept minimum-wage jobs just to bring in some cash. College endowments also continue to shrink, making it more difficult for colleges to offer grants and scholarships.

Finally, private student loans are harder to obtain, with a drop in about 30 percent of loans as banks raised lending standards.

In response, our federal govern-ment has broadened loan programs for students by offering more loans, more money, and better rates while increasing tax breaks for parents. An expanded tuition credit for house-holds with up to $160,000 in adjusted gross income could trim as much as $2,500 from your tax bill.

Still, the economic downturn means many families need to rethink how and how much they’ll need to borrow. Here are five public and pri-vate types of college financial aid.

• Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)

Your first step is to fill out the FAFSA form colleges usually require before awarding aid, from merit schol-arships to need-based grants and loans.

The Department of Education begins accepting the application Jan. 1 of each year.

Applicants who have filled out a FAFSA in previous years are able to fill out a renewal FAFSA, but information on taxes and savings, for example, must be updated annually.

The form includes numerous questions regarding the student’s finances, as well as those of his or her family, if the student is a dependent.

The answers are entered into a formula that determines the Expected Family Contribution (EFC).

• Federal Perkins Loan ProgramLow-interest Perkins loans of up to

$4,000 a year goes to students with the greatest financial need.

Perkins Loans carry a fixed interest rate of 5 percent for the

duration of the 10-year repayment period.

Borrowers begin repayment in the tenth month after graduation, falling below half-time student status, or withdrawing from college.

Interest doesn’t begin accruing until the borrower begins to repay the loan. The Perkins Program should balloon to $6 billion a year, from $1 billion, under President Obama’s pro-posed 2010 budget.

• Stafford LoansStafford Loans are the most com-

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These loans may be subsidized, in which the government pays the inter-est while the student is in school, or unsubsidized.

Twelve percent of students from families with adjusted gross incomes over $100,000 received subsidized-Staffords in 2008-09, and the interest rate will decline from 5.6 percent to 3.4 percent by the 2011-12 academic year.

Unsubsidized Stafford loans, which any student can receive, are getting more generous, too. You can add $2,000 to the former limits of $3,500 for freshman year, $4,500 for sophomore year, and $5,500 there-after. Loan terms will remain at 6.8 percent; your college can provide a list of lenders.

• PLUS Loan ProgramPLUS loans allow you to borrow for

the full cost of a dependent child’s college education, minus any financial aid. For the 2009/10 school year, the interest rate is 7.9 percent for loans that come directly from the govern-ment, and 8.5 percent for those in which a financial institution is the intermediary. The fees run from 3 per-cent to 4 percent of the loan.

• ScholarshipsStudents needn’t always have a

4.0 GPA to qualify for scholarships, although it certainly does help. The Department of Education provides a searchable database for college schol-arships based on degree area and location.

• Private LoansLeave private loans until last.

Before the credit crunch, you could cosign a private student loan with a credit score as low as 620. Now, banks require credit scores of 680 to 700, or even 730.

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IUP groups continue to do all they can to help the Haiti victims after the Jan. 12 earthquake.

The latest fundraiser at IUP is called “Hai Tee Shirt Day,” which began Feb. 4 at the HUB across from the fitness center.

The sale is sponsored by the Graduate Society for Human Resource Management.

The sale has been extended into next week, according to David Piper, adviser to SHRM and of the industrial and labor relations department.

It was planned to last until Feb. 12, which was the month anniversary of the Haitian earth-quake.

But the event has been post-poned until Friday, due to cancellations on Feb. 10 and 11.

Although the original date of Hai Tee Shirt Day, Feb. 12, is printed on the shirt, the SHRM encourages all students who have purchased a shirt to wear them this Friday instead.

Shirts will continue to be sold for $10 each across from the fitness center through Monday and Tuesday, according to Piper.

The SHRM table will be open

from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day or until supplies last, according to Piper.

About 100 t-shirts remain unsold, according to Piper.

All proceeds from the sale will be donated to the IUP joint Haiti relief fund, which is through the Office of Service Learning located at Pratt Hall.

Students of SHRM designed the shirts, which are orange screen-printed on black.

The front shows an outline of Haiti, while the back bears a Haitian proverb: “Men anpil, chay pa lou,” which translates as “many hands make the load lighter.”

Kristi Kisiel, a graduate student of employment and labor rela-tions, said that the early part of Friday did not begin busy, but sales picked up as the day went on.

“The goal of the shirt is to remember the victims of the quake and to provide much needed money to help rebuild Haiti,” Piper said.

More information on Hai Tee Shirt Day can be found by contacting Piper at 724-357-4471 or by e-mail at [email protected].

For information on IUP’s joint Haiti relief fund, contact the Office of Service Learning at 724-357-2235.

With warehouses full of donated supplies and no way to get them to Haiti, a startup relief agency thought it had found its solution on the Miami River.

The nonprofit Haiti Life loaded a 200-foot steamer that usually hauls used trucks and bicycles to the minor ports on Haiti’s southern coast with 900 tons of donated food, medicine and assorted survival gear. The ship was called the Sea Flower.

The loaded ship sat for five days in the Sea Terminal on Northwest North River Drive, as representatives from Haiti Life wrangled with ship owners Gladys and Jacob Chemaly.

The nonprofit “just started collecting aid without really think-ing about how they were going to get it down there, and they dis-covered they couldn’t get it there,” said Doug Lofland, who was hired to handle logistics for Haiti Life. With the Port-au-Prince seaport in Haiti largely destroyed and its interna-tional airport clogged, few shipping options remain.

Haiti Life posted cryptic Web site messages about “distress-ing negotiations,” but refused to discuss the details. The Chemalys did not respond to several inter-

view requests.The Sea Flower and its needed aid finally arrived Friday morning at the port of Les Cayes in southwestern Haiti.

When the relief mission started, the Miami River seemed a logical launch pad for shipping. It’s a well-beaten track to Haiti. Freight rates are low and the cargo lands not only in the congested capital but in outlying areas, where it’s off-loaded and quickly absorbed in the local economy.

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For decades the conflict in Northern Ireland virtually defined the term “intractable.” A civil war that broke out in the late 1960s but reflected centuries of discrimination against Catholics cost more than 3,000 lives.

Beginning in the 1970s, Britain and the Republic of Ireland tried to bring about reconciliation, but were repeatedly sabotaged by sectarian-ism and petty bickering.

And yet, as two developments in recent days remind us, the patience and ingenuity of the peacemak-ers — including the United States, which midwifed the 1998 Good Friday Agreement — have produced an end to widespread violence and the beginnings of a pluralistic political system.

Last week, British, Irish and Northern Irish politicians reached an agreement on an issue that had threatened to end power-sharing: police and judicial systems that could command the support of both communities. And on Monday, the Irish National Liberation Army and two other splinter paramili-tary groups announced that they had disarmed to the satisfaction

of international observers.Any breakthrough in Northern

Ireland must be accompanied by the caveat that the situation could still deteriorate. But, thanks to the cour-age of successive British and Irish governments and, yes, the consent of “hard men” with blood on their hands, an uneasy consensus has been established. Britain and Ireland agree that the people of the North have the right to decide whether they will remain part of Britain or join a united Ireland; meanwhile, Protestants and Catholics will share power. Terrorists have been released, and groups such as the Irish Republican Army have been rewarded for disarming.

Perhaps most important, the peacemakers recognized that it wasn’t enough to enlist moderates in the cause of compromise. The result is a coalition government in Belfast presided over by a “first minister” from the Democratic Unionist Party, long led by the demagogic Protestant preacher Ian Paisley, and a deputy first minister from Sinn Fein who was once an IRA officer.

Whatever lessons the peace pro-cess can teach others, it has rescued the people of Northern Ireland from violence and created at least the pos-sibility that ancient grudges will yield to common progress.

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Potential peace in Ireland serves as lesson in diplomacy

For decades, political reform in the United States has largely meant cam-paign finance reform. It is a focus the political mainstream prefers, despite the fact that it is akin to addressing an engine with a design defect by regulating the fuel.

Many of our current problems are either caused or magnified by the stranglehold the two parties have on our political system. Democrats and Republicans, despite their uniformly low popularity with voters, continue to exercise a virtual monopoly, and they have no intention of relinquish-ing control. The result is that “change” is often limited to one party handing power over to the other party. Like Henry Ford’s customers, who were promised any color car so long as it was black, voters are effectively allowed to pick any candidate they want, so long as he or she is a Democrat or Republican.

Both parties (and the media) rein-force this pathetic notion by continu-ally emphasizing the blue state/red state divide. The fact is that the place-ment of members on the blue or red team is often arbitrary, with neither side showing consistent principles or values.

The Supreme Court’s recent deci-sion to strike down restrictions on cor-porate campaign giving has prompted some members of Congress to call for a constitutional amendment to rein-state the restrictions. But that would merely return us to the same status (and corrupted process) of a month ago.

We can reform our flawed system, but we have to think more broadly about the current political failure. Here are a few ideas for change that would matter:

• Remove barriers to third parties. Independent and third-party candi-dates currently face an array of bar-riers, including registration rules and petition requirements, that should be removed. Moreover, we should require a federally funded electronic forum for qualified federal candidates to post their positions and material for vot-ers. And in races for national office, all candidates on the ballot in the general election should submit to a minimum of three (for Congress) or five (for the presidency) debates that would be funded and made publicly available

by the government.• End the practice of gerryman-

dering. We need a constitutional amendment requiring uniformity in districts to end gerrymandering, in which politicians distort the shape of districts to link pockets of Democratic or Republican voters. Districts should have geographic continuity, and should be established by a standard formula applied by an independent federal agency.

• Change the primary system. The principal reason incumbents are returned to power is that voters have little choice in the general election. Incumbents tend to control their pri-maries, and in many districts electing the candidate of the opposing party is not an option. Under one alterna-tive system that could be mandated in a constitutional amendment for all states, the two top vote-getters would go into the general election regardless of their party.

• Abolish the electoral college. The college’s current role in our system is uniformly negative and dysfunctional. It allows someone to be elected presi-dent even if his or her opponent gets more popular votes, as happened with George W. Bush in the 2000 elec-tion. This leads to serious questions of legitimacy. More important, it helps the two parties control entire states, because in states that are solidly red or blue, the opposing parties and can-didates rarely invest much time or money campaigning given that they are clearly not going to get the elec-toral votes in the end.

• Require a majority for presidents to be elected. If no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the vote, there should be a runoff of the two top vote-getters — as is the custom in most other nations. This would tend to force candidates to reach out to third parties and break up monopoly control of the two parties.

The current anger and outcry will mean nothing unless we can har-ness and channel it toward serious reform. Simply seeking a constitution-al amendment on campaign finance reform would do little to truly reform the system.

Though it may require a third party to seek such changes, it can be done. We have to accept that the leaders of both parties are unlikely to solve this problem.

They are much of the problem. The framers gave us the tools to achieve real change in our system.

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With the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili Friday during prac-tice for the Olympic Games, it leaves us to wonder if the Olympics has pushed aside concern for its athletes in lieu of entertainment and ratings.

Kumaritashvili even told his father that he “really fear[ed] that curve,” according to an article on nbcolympics.com, but that he had come to the games “to try to win” and insisted on competing.

It wasn’t until after his death that officials decided to change the course and pad the steel poles like the one he was thrown into when he lost control of his sled. And even then the International Olympic Committee and luge officials said they were making the changes “not to make it safer but to soothe the emotions of the athletes,” according to the article. Why wouldn’t they want to make it safer for the athletes? Have the Games become merely just for show and ratings and how much money can be spent on the venue?

According to the Web site Olympics FanHouse, the course cost $105 million with dangerous turns and a 152-meter drop – “the world’s longest.”

Kumaritashvili’s accident wasn’t the only one that occurred on the course. According to the site, there had been more than 12 crashes last week, before the Games even began.

More than 12 crashes. That alone should have thrown up a red flag and alerted officials to make changes and take considerable precautions for those athletes. It shouldn’t have taken the death of a young, spirited athlete for the IOC to take action.

“I will either win or die.” Those were Kumaritashvili’s words to his father when telling him he was worried about the track being too dangerous.

When athletes fear for their safety during a time when they should be expressing feelings of excitement and pride for their sport, then it’s not a game anymore. When they have to concentrate on staying alive or not becoming seri-ously injured, then it’s no longer fun.

Had the IOC and luge officials used their heads and taken precautions ear-lier, Kumaritashvili might still be around to make his father, and his country, proud.

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Maybe it’s just me, but it seems ironic that the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and Spay Day fall within the same month.

Westminster, which is held Feb. 15 and 16, is arguably the world’s biggest advertisement for purebred dogs. One week later, on Feb. 23, the organizers of Spay Day, a nation-al effort to promote spaying and neutering by offering low-cost and free surgeries, will be scrambling to stanch the flow of homeless animals — many of whom are purebreds and their offspring.

People spend a lot of money on purebreds — sometimes thousands of dollars — so it would seem to fol-low that they would consider them to be more “valuable,” or at least less disposable.

But it is estimated that at least a quarter of all dogs entering animal shelters are purebreds.

PETA’s caseworkers also regularly come across purebred dogs who have been ignored and neglected for years. One such dog, a sweet, gentle golden retriever named Tripp, had been ban-ished to a junk-filled backyard, where

he had endured a lifetime of bitterly cold winters and scorching summers.

By the time PETA’s staffers dis-covered him during a routine straw delivery, years of neglect had taken their toll.

Barely able to stand, Tripp was stiff and arthritic, nearly deaf and blind, and his frail body was riddled with softball-sized tumors.

Most purebred dogs are also pur-chased as puppies — so not only do they take away homes from dogs in shelters, they can also add to their numbers when the buyer realizes, too late, that their new companion is a lot of work.

Puppies chew, they whine, they bark, they dig, they require lots of exercise and entertainment and, per-haps most significantly, they require training.

Whenever I meet someone with a new puppy, I always ask how the housetraining is going — and I get perverse delight in telling them that my shelter mutt, who was estimated to be about 2 when I adopted him, came “pre-housetrained.”

Unfortunately, once puppies reach that awkward adolescent stage between 6 months and 1 year old — the age at which they’ve outgrown their puppy cuteness but still have all

that puppy energy and destructive-ness — many people throw up their hands and give up.

The new survey also revealed some interesting facts about peo-ple’s perception of the companion animal overpopulation crisis.

While most people are aware that animals are euthanized at shelters for lack of a good home, most also wildly underestimate the scope of the problem.

The majority of respondents esti-mated that animal shelters eutha-nize fewer than 1 million animals annually; 28 percent put the eutha-nasia number at 100,000 or less. In reality, approximately 3 to 4 million animals are euthanized every year, or roughly half of those who enter animal shelters.

If the key to conquering animal overpopulation is education, Spay Day is definitely the underdog, if you’ll pardon the pun.

More than 3 million people, on average, tune in to watch televised Westminster coverage, while Spay Day is lucky to get an occasional mention in a community newspaper.

Maybe if these numbers were reversed, we’d see more dogs win-ning the biggest prize of all — a lov-ing, “forever” home.

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IUP experiences ‘Fireflies’ as Owl City performs

The Owl City concert Friday was played to a full house at the HUB.

Those intending to purchase tickets at the door were more than unlucky, as the show had sold out within 24 hours several weeks prior to the show.

Concert goers formed a line that stretched across the HUB from the box office to the far corner of the building across the sky bridge.

The Owl City concert, which was sponsored by The Entertainment Network, attracted a large num-ber of female attendees and many younger fans eager to see Adam Young live, including Emma McDonald (10th grade, Kiski), who explained why she liked his music: “He has cute sayings.”

According to Mog.com, Owl City is the electronic brainchild of Adam Young, who launched the project in 2007 while living at his parents’ home in Owatonna, Minn.

Their latest album, titled “Ocean Eyes,” which was released last year,

consists of tracks such as “Fireflies.”The opening band, Alpha Rev,

performed a selection of their more upbeat tunes before the main event, including a new song called “Colder Months.”

“A lot of people haven’t heard our music before,” said Casey McPherson, lead vocalist of the Austin, Texas-based group.

“New Morning” is their new sin-gle on the album bearing the same name, which is scheduled for release on April 13. They will also appear on the television series “Greek” in March, McPherson said.

Alpha Rev landed a solid debut with a vigorous performance and sev-eral well-written tunes.

They are a band worth the time to check out at AlphaRev.com. They can also be found on Facebook and MySpace.

Many fans came prepared with their iPhones in hand, ready to tweet the news of the show to their less fortunate friends.

“[I’m just] here for the crowd,” said Corey Ingram (sophomore, diatetics).

What is it about the music of Owl City that causes their shows to sell

out? “It’s positive,” said Maryann Sleasman (grad student, education). “It’s happy.”

In addition to upbeat elec-tronic “synthpop” music that can be described simply as hop-scotch and cotton candy, the performance showcased Young’s Billboard hit “Fireflies,” the one song that most fans knew by name.

“It’s very different from what’s out there now,” said Angeline McGraw (freshman, business management).

Young’s performance was quite lively compared to the other musicians of Alpha Rev, who joined him on stage for the show.

“He reminds me of a young Ben Gibbard [from Death Cab for Cutie]” said Joe Nelis (senior, English).

Owl City is following up its performance at IUP with several contiguous sold-out shows in Great Britian, including Oxford and London.

For more information about the band, visit the official Web site at owlcitymusic.com, where comments, music, blogs and Owl City tweets can be found. Additionally, more official news about Owl City can be found at MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.

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Dave Biblis/The PennFrom left, Owl City backup members Matthew Decker (drums) and Laura Musten (violin), and lead singer Adam Young drew in a large crowd as they performed their latest song, “Fireflies,” Friday in the HUB Ohio Room.

The chemicals within: Just how safe are they?

What’s in your body? A number of chemicals are becoming more wor-risome.

Even as the chemical industry and manufacturers tell us we are safe, the evidence against several widely used chemicals keeps mounting.

In December, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson gave testimony before the Senate committee on environment and public works. She said that while it’s the EPA’s job to ensure that chemicals used in products are safe, “under existing law, we cannot give that assurance.”

Of the 80,000 chemicals used in the United States, the agency has been able to require testing on only about 200 and limited use of only five. “We’ve only been able to regulate a handful of chemicals, and we know very little about the rest,” Jackson said.

Later that month, the agency announced a new “chemicals of con-cern” list and immediately added two — phthalates, used to make plastics flexible, and PBDEs, which are fire retardants.

Other high-profile targets include perfluorinated compounds, used to make nonstick cookware, and bis-phenol A (BPA), found in hard plas-tics, baby bottles, sip cups and the linings of some food cans.

Those chemicals and more have all made their way into our bodies, according to an annual biomonitor-ing project by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Its fourth report, looking at 212 substances, said BPA was in 90 per-cent of the 2,400 people sampled.

There’s a reason “toxic” chemi-cals are called that. Phthalates are suspected of disrupting the forma-

tion of male genitals. Animal tests suggest PBDEs can alter brain devel-opment and thyroid hormones. A recent study faulted them for reduced human fertility. BPA has been linked to infertility, early-onset puberty and cancer — all in animal tests. A recent study of humans found it appears to cause erectile dysfunction in men.

PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid), given in large amounts to lab ani-mals, affected their development and reproduction and injured their livers.

In a report released last month, the nonprofit Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition concluded that giving the EPA more clout to regulate toxic chemicals and pre-sumably restrict them would reduce chronic diseases enough to save $5 billion in annual health care costs.

What can you do? PFOAs are easy. Avoid nonstick cookware, wrinkle-free clothing and stain repel-lents, said Elizabeth Salter Green, an endocrinologist and co-author of the book, “The Toxic Consumer: Living Healthy in a Hazardous World.”

As for phthalates, it’s getting eas-ier to find plastic products touted as phthalate-free. Check the labels of cosmetics and personal-care prod-ucts. Avoid plastics marked with a “3” in the recycling code on the bot-tom.

Some government officials are trying to address BPA. Some states have introduced legislation to pro-hibit the sale of baby bottles and other child-care items or toys that contain BPA.

The Food and Drug Administration has switched from saying BPA is safe to saying more research is needed.

Meanwhile, Marc Smolonsky, associate deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recommends mini-mizing infant exposure.

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IUP gains steam after 70-53 victory over Mercyhurst

The IUP men’s basketball team defeated Mercyhurst 70-53 Saturday night at Memorial Field House, sweeping the Lakers on the season and creating some momentum it will need to be successful over the next two weeks.

The Crimson Hawks play six games in 12 days. The victory over Mercyhurst was the first battle in this long jour-ney.

“The focus this week was getting back to our identity,” Head Coach Joe Lombardi said.

“We are trying not to look at the whole picture right now, but look at it more as three-game increments. Hopefully we can stay healthy and stay excited to play. We have to keep our edge and it will test our level of maturity, and I’m confident our guys can handle that.”

IUP, ranked No. 11 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches Division II Poll, is in first place in the PSAC West, followed by Clarion (15-8, 7-3) and Gannon (11-11, 6-4).

Leading scorers for IUP were Akida McLain with 23 points and 11 rebounds, and Julian Sanders with 18 points and four rebounds.

Darryl Webb scored 14 points, snatched eight rebounds and dished out five assists.

“I tried to stay intense the whole game,” McLain said.

“I need to stay aggressive. I don’t like having my number called all night, but I just need to stay active.”

Leaders for Mercyhurst were Heiden Ratner with 11 points and six rebounds, and Christian Cornelius with 10 points and six rebounds.

Nnamdi Nnadili scored 11 points

and grabbed two rebounds.Despite the Crimson Hawks having

20 turnovers, they had 21 total assists on 53 good baskets, and they shot 51 percent from the floor as a team.

McLain led the Hawks in the first half, shooting seven-for-seven from the floor.

None of the Lakers’ starters scored in the first half, and they only shot 38 percent from the floor before the break.

“We have been focused,” Sanders said.

“Every time one of their guards tried to drive, we stepped into the gaps. We had a lot of help defensively tonight.”

IUP started the game off on an 18-4 run and never looked back, taking a 39-19 lead into halftime.

IUP next plays at Cal-U Wednesday at 8 p.m.

Since the Crimson Hawks defeated the Vulcans in their first matchup, Cal-U has gone 4-0, and sits at 4-6 in the PSAC West.

Leading scorers for Cal-U are Andrew Young, averaging 14 points per game and five rebounds per game, Kelsey Williams (12 ppg, 5 rpg) and Jerial Nixon (12 ppg, 4 rpg).

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Brock Fleeger/The PennGuard Thomas Young dished out four assists during IUP’s win over Mercyhurst Saturday.

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Crimson Hawks split weekend

The IUP Crimson Hawks came up short in their final home game against the Youngstown State Penguins Friday, losing 6-2, but were able to rebound the next night and beat Slippery Rock by a score of 11-5.

These three teams are familiar with each other, all being in the College Hockey Mid America (CHMA). The last time the Crimson Hawks played them, they beat Youngstown State by a score of 5-2 and lost to Slippery Rock by a score of 4-3.

The future of the teams has already been set. Typically, only one team from the CHMA makes it into the national playoffs, which will be Slippery Rock as they lead the CHMA with 50 points. Slippery Rock, West Virginia, Duquesne and IUP (being the top four teams in the CHMA) will be participating in the CHMA playoffs just before the national tournament begins. Youngstown State, is near the bottom placed in seventh place with 23 points just above John Carroll, who remains in last place with 10 points.

Overall, the Penguins seemed to be playing with more intensity, managing to outshoot the Crimson Hawks 29-18. Goaltender Padraig Carey was able to play as best as he could, stopping 23 of those 29 shots.

One of the issues in this game for the IUP Crimson Hawks was the pen-alties. There were technically a total of 33 penalties, and only 12 of those were

against Youngstown State. However, minus the multiple calls on a few players, IUP still led in the penalty department 19-9.

And seeing how four of the six goals Youngstown State was able to get were power plays, it showed how penalties killed any chance of a win for the Crimson Hawks in the first game. The puck seemed to stay in their own zone the entire game, which didn’t help their offense much.

However, the second game proved that IUP’s offense was not dead, and can very much be productive when needed. They were able to put up 11 goals against the No. 1 team in the CHMA. The Crimson Hawks made a lasting impression as they ended their regular season with a huge win.

The regular season for the Crimson Hawks might be over, but there are still two more open slots for the CHMA playoffs.

Possible contenders include Washington & Jefferson, Pittsburgh and Youngstown State.

For the CHMA playoffs, only four teams have officially made it. On Feb. 26, Duquesne will play whoever ends in sixth place. After that game, the Crimson Hawks will play whoever is in fifth place.

On Feb. 27, Slippery Rock will play the lowest seed remaining and West Virginia will play the highest seed remaining. The CHMA championship game will be on Feb. 28. All of these games will be hosted at S&T Bank Arena, which will give IUP a slight edge over the rest of the competition.

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Crimson Hawks light up Mercyhurst, prep for tough stretch of games this week

IUP used hot shooting and good defense to pull away from Mercyhurst late 62-36 to open a stretch of four games in eight days with a win.

The 26-point margin would indicate that IUP dominated Mercyhurst throughout, but the score does not tell the entire story.

Mercyhurst made things interesting, even holding a seven-point lead at 17-10 with 10:45 left in the first half despite turning the ball over on numerous occasions.

After that, IUP went on a 20-6 run to close the half with a 30-23 advantage.

Freshman forward Brianna Johnson led the way with 10 points in the first half and finished with a game-high 16. Johnson took a more proactive role and was IUP’s main source of putting points on the board.

“It’s the end of the season. I’m not considered a freshman anymore. It’s time to step up my game,” Johnson said.

“We’ve all kind of been wait-ing for a breakout game from Bri[anna], and she’s kind of been on the cusp of it a few times,” Head Coach Jeff Dow said. “Hopefully that’ll be a good sign of things to come in the very near future.”

At the 15:29 mark in the second half, the game was still competitive with IUP leading 36-30, but in the blink of an eye, the Crimson Hawks turned a competitive game into blow-out.

Guards Lacy Claar and Eryn Withers, who were having pedestrian nights until this point, caught fire and hit six 3-pointers as part of a 20-4 run to put Mercyhurst firmly in IUP’s rearview mirror.

“It was good to see them get off the snide,” Dow said about Withers’ and Claar’s improved performance.

In front of IUP is a prover-bial litmus test to see where it stands in the grand scheme of things in the PSAC.

After Saturday night, IUP (14-7, 7-2) is in second place in

the PSAC West — three games behind powerhouse Gannon, who IUP plays at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Memorial Field House. IUP is one game ahead of Cal-U, whom IUP travels to play Saturday night.

“When you’re playing four games in eight days, you’ve got to be fresh,” Dow said.

After those two games, IUP will either be in great position to be in the top eight in the region or will have some more work to do.

E i t h e r way, Dow is comfort-

able with where his team is, given that the team lost three 1,000-point scorers a year ago.

“If you had told me on this date that we would be 7-2 and alone in second place, I would have definitely taken it,” Dow said. “Knowing the two losses were a loss to Cal and a road

loss to Gannon, I definitely would have taken it for sure.”

In order for IUP to come out of this tough stretch unscathed, it will need its depth to be a factor, which makes Johnson’s performance all the more important, with fellow freshman Sarah Pastorek having a bit of an off night against Mercyhurst.

Pastorek only scored six points and went two of seven from the field.

“Sarah [Pastorek] has really carried the load for us these last few weeks, so it was great to see other people step up, namely Brianna,” Dow said.

Despite the daunting task set before them, Dow believes his team will handle it the same way they have handled things all season.

“This team has handled so many things extremely well and with a lot of maturity,” Dow said.

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“No matter how quickly first responders arrive, they simply won’t be there within the first 10 minutes — when most casualties occur.”

Stivi is saying this to a crowd of about 300 in a UC Irvine class called Violence and Society, taught by Ray Novaco, a professor of psychology and social behavior.

Novaco invited several educa-tors and law enforcement officials to hear Stivi present an overview of his

new online defense course. The class teaches school officials what to do before, during and after a violent inci-dent.

Called ACT Cert, for Attack Countermeasures Training Certification, the 25-hour course is tailored to faculty, school staff and school security. It launches nation-wide next month, and typically will cost $2,500 per person.

Stivi has consulted with schools for years on safety issues, but believes a standardized online training program is long overdue.

“Schools need to think seriously about security and the millions of dol-lars that could potentially be paid out in damages and increased insurance rates [if serious violence erupts],” Stivi said.

Cowering under tables, the stu-dents are sitting ducks.

Make that, dead ducks.When the gunman bursts through

the doors, he methodically walks around the room — picking off victims

one at a time. It’s a massacre.In a demonstration following a

recent lecture, Stivi shows what not to do — sit and cower. He also shows how to survive — to act as a group and apply the tactics he terms “collective resistance.”

“You are trapped,” Stivi said. “There’s a shooter between you and a safe area. What do you do?

“There’s strength in numbers,” he adds. “You have the element of sur-prise.”

The UCI classroom has two doors. Stivi shows students to crouch low while running out the back door after making sure the coast is clear. He shows them to stand against a wall, body low, to knock the shooter over when he enters the room.

He shows them how to use a table to disrupt a shooter’s line of sight, and he teaches other ways to distract a would-be killer — even for a few seconds.

“Sometimes,” Stivi said, “a few seconds is all you need.”

Training course shows students how to handle violent situationsBy GreG hardesty

The Orange County RegisterMCT

“With the techniques I teach, you don’t have to be a martial artist, a soldier, a policeman or policewoman to protect yourself.”— Alon Stivi, expert on violence prevention and guest lecturer

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