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SARAH POLANDCollegio Reporter

Like an injury that still hurts years after it was infl icted, many people who were immediately affected by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, still have raw feelings toward Islam. When a plan to build a community center containing a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero was proposed, opposition quickly emerged.

If built, the center, proposed by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and known as Park51, would be 13 stories high and contain a performing-arts theater, swim-ming pool, basketball court, and a mosque with seating for 1,500.

During a controversial meet-ing on May 26, a New York City board approved the building with a 29 to 1 vote. Although Park51, originally called the Cordoba House, has been approved, the site was occupied by the Burl-ington Coat Factory, which had a pending application for landmark status. When the application came before the landmarks com-

mission on Aug. 3, the landmark status was denied. This allowed the building to be torn down and construction on Park51 to begin. Although many are outraged over the project, there are those in favor of it, including President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Although the Pittsburg State University campus is 1,200 miles away from Ground Zero, students are not short on opinions over the debate. Ashley Mestepey, sopho-more in accounting, says she feels the mosque is like a trophy.

“Whenever you look at his-tory it seems like Muslims have

always built something after they attacked a place,” Mestepey said. “It’s like to say they conquered it.”

Andrew Conley, senior in biochemistry, takes the opposite view. He says opposition to the center reveals some bigotry. Al-though Conley says the imam has a right to be build the mosque, he is sympathetic with those on the opposing side.

“If it were Jewish, Buddhist, Christian or Scientology no one would have a problem with it,” Conley said. “It just happens to

BRENNA CHRISTIANCollegio Reporter

Pittsburg State University ranked 22nd among schools in the 12-state Midwest region two weeks ago, according to the U.S. News and World Report’s best col-leges 2011.

Academic programs, graduation and retention rates, admissions standards, peer rankings and the size of university endow-ments are all taken into consideration when a university is named as a top school.

Even though U.S. News and World Re-port has its own criteria for deciding what qualifi es PSU as a top school, some faculty and students think PSU is a top public regional university for other reasons.

Sherie Greenough, senior in commu-nication, says PSU deserves this honor because she feels the instructors genuinely care about their students.

“It’s a smaller campus so the classes are not overcrowded,” Greenough said. “There is more one-on-one time between the instructor and the students.”

Greenough also says that PSU receiv-ing this honor makes it stand out from other colleges and keeps current students in school.

“It makes students proud to know they are going to a great school where their education to going to get them a career,” Greenough said.

Many students agree with Greenough. Kenna Thompson, junior in business man-agement, says she chose to come to PSU because of her interest in the dance team.

“I came to Pitt because I love to

dance,” Thompson said. “I just love the environment here.”

Thompson also says PSU deserves to be named one of the top regional universi-ties because of the variety in classes and departments.

“There is a vast range of scholastic opportunities available for new students at Pitt State,” Thompson said. “This school is a lot different from Division 1 schools because of the student-to-teacher ratio.

PSU snags regional honor

A nation divided

WHITNEY SAPORITOCollegio Reporter

The beginning of a new school year has many students feeling excited and anxious. It may be hard for students to believe, but they’re not alone. Professors are feeling it, too.

“I think my students think, ‘Oh professors, they’ve been doing it forever. They don’t get nervous,’” said Grant Moss, instructor in modern languages and literatures. “The professor’s like, ‘I’ve got to prepare this course for not one per-son, but ten or thirty or however many,’ so there’s a little added pressure there, but the nervousness never goes away.”

Moss, who is beginning his fi rst year of teaching full time, says his situation adds even more pressure to the already nerve-racking fi rst weeks of school.

“The thing for me was getting set up in the whole system of the university,” Moss said. “I felt like a freshman last week as I was try-ing to set up GUS.”

Feeling the pressure of starting a new school year is not limited to new professors.

Mark Peterson, assistant pro-fessor in political science, says he too feels nervous at the start of a

new semester.“What’s that stupid expression?

‘You never get a second chance to make a fi rst impression,’” Peterson

Professors, students share fi rst-week nerves

Controversy surrounds mosque to be built two blocks from Ground Zero

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Grant Moss explains to his students how to format Word documents for his Spanish 254 class in Grubbs Hall on Aug. 31.

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Muslim women pray before they eat at the Islamic Society of Southeast Kansas on Friday Aug, 27.

Muslim women pray before they eat a potluck dinner at the Islamic Society of Southeast Kansas on Friday, Aug 27.

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MADISON DENNISEditor-in-Chief

Pittsburg State University introduced a stricter alcohol policy this semester. The policy affects students in the residence halls, and transfers disciplinary responsibility from the university to law enforcement.

Although the previous policy specifi cally prohibited alcohol in the dorms to all underage students and limited other students to 3.2 percent cereal malt beverages, the initial punishment for violat-ing the policy was discipline through the university. How-ever, the new policy states that before confi scating the alcohol or writing an incident report, the fi rst thing housing employees are required to do when they suspect a violation is to call the police.

“Now, before we do any-thing else, we call 911,” said Luis Aranda, the area coordi-nator for Dellinger and Willard halls. Aranda, along with

other area coordinators for the residence halls, addressed the new policy in hall meetings. Although the area coordina-tors outlined other residence hall policies, the new alcohol policy raised the most ques-tions.

The implications of this new policy go beyond police enforcement in confi scating alcoholic beverages. Underage students caught with alcohol can face a charge of minor in possession. Students 21 years of age or older who are caught drinking in the presence of minors could be charged with supplying to minors.

Yvonne Thomas, a senior in early childhood development, asked Aranda to clarify this point in his hall meeting.

“If you are over age and your roommate is under-age, you cannot drink in your room,” said Aranda in response.

Thomas expressed dis-agreement with the policy.

“In my own room?” she

University introducesstricter alcohol policy

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As Paul Hartfi eld stared into his opponent’s eyes, the real-ity sets in. The time for talking is over and all he can hear is his coach’s instructions and the crowd’s roar. The cage door shuts and the horn sounds off. It’s time to fi ght.

“Fighting is defi nitely the most stressful experience I have gone through,” Hartfi eld, sopho-more in informa-tion systems, said.

Hartfi eld competes in the rapidly growing sport of mixed martial arts, which blends boxing, wres-tling and other martial arts into one competition. Many people recognize the sport as ultimate fi ghting champi-onship, or “cage fi ghting.”

Critics call the sport too brutal, but Hartfi eld says it’s all about the thrill of competi-tion and fi nding out what you’re made of.

“When you’re in the cage or ring, you are completely responsible for the outcome of the fi ght,” said Hartfi eld, who started training three years ago at a title mixed martial arts and jiu jitsu programs.

On Aug. 7, Hartfi eld competed at the Throw Down in C-Town in Clinton, Mo., where he and his opponent battled in a tough back-and-forth match. Hartfi eld ended the fi ght in the second round with a triangle choke.

A fellow martial-arts competi-tor, Steve Davis, sophomore in chemistry, says that despite the fi ghting, Hartfi eld is easy-going.

“If you were to meet Paul on the street, you would never think of him as an MMA fi ghter,” Davis said. “He is one of the nic-est and most modest people that I know.”

And, says fellow fi ghter Marcus Nutting of Fort Hays, Hartfi eld likes to promote his favorite sport.

“He works with everyone from the gym trying to teach them jiu jitsu that he learned from back home,” Nutting said.

Now 2 and 0 as an amateur fi ghter, Hartfi eld has won both fi ghts by submission. He says he tries to use his ground game, but is always looking for other ways to win.

“I originally trained in just jiu jitsu, but as far as my favorite technique, anything it takes to win,” he said.

Hartfi eld trains at the S.E.K. MMA/Boxing Club, off 69 High-way on the edge of town.

The gym has grown from a storage unit to a respectable fi ght-ing gym.

“S.E.K. has made drastic improvements in the last year in the organization and structure of the way it operates as well as the

equipment used,” Hartfi eld said. Members of the program built their own boxing ring, installed mats and all the equipment they need to train.

Nutting says the improve-ments have resulted in per-formances from the fi ghters.

“Not only has the gym im-proved,” he said, “but so have its fi ghters and their performances. We have won multiple awards, two fi ght-of-the-night awards, one super heavy-weight champion and we’ve never lost a fi ght in Clinton, going

6-0.” But, says Hartfi eld, all that

fi ghting brings a lot of stress.“It’s hard for anyone that

hasn’t fought before to under-stand how much stress and anxi-ety you garner while preparing for a fi ght,” he said.

While training for a fi ght, Paul cuts almost 20 pounds from his normal 175-pound frame so he can have as much weight advan-tage as possible.

“Cutting weight is different than losing weight in the sense that all you’re doing is draining all the water out of your body,” he says. “At my last fi ght, the day before weigh-ins I weighed 166 pounds and 24 hours later at the weigh-ins I was 155. The next day before the fi ght and fi ve gallons of water later, I weighed 168.”

Training regimens for Paul consist of working out every day except Sunday for three to fi ve hours. He then has to devote time to his classes and homework. But he says he believes the time spent on the sport is worth it.

“When you’re walking into the cage, all your partners are there to support you, your fi ght is only a few seconds away and you get to display all your hard work.

“There is no better feeling,” he said.

JAKE FABERSports Editor

As coach Ibraheem Suberu opens the door to his car after a Tuesday afternoon practice, the mileage catches his eye. Although the number he sees is higher than the fi gurative mileage his team will see this season, it’s hard to ignore the resemblance.

“When you’re talking about mileage,” Suberu said. “We’re talking about competition. We face a lot of tough teams when we play in our conference, but conference play alone doesn’t get you to the national tourna-ment.”

If the women on the vol-

leyball team had odometers on them, they would read 6,594. The number accounts for the back-and-forth distances of their away matches, which totaled 3,297 miles from Pittsburg. Although it’s hard to imagine traveling that far while keeping up with school work and classes, Suberu says if his team wants to compete in the national polls, travel is a must.

“Our record against national teams when we travel is very good,” Suberu said. “With our strength of schedule, any team that has a national ambition in any sport has to be able to get out and compete against nation-ally ranked teams.”

The Gorillas will travel on 13

occasions this season, with the farthest destination being 1,133 miles away for the season opener at the St. Leo Tournament in Florida.

“Well, we get to fl y on a

plane,” sophomore setter Becca Pearson said. “And we’re play-ing a ranked team that’s not in our conference, so it’ll give us a

JAKE FABERSports Editor

With 35 seconds left on the clock, quar-terback Zac Dickey lines up to kneel down to the ball and run out the clock; and for the fi rst time all night, he breathes a sigh of relief.

“The fi rst time that I actually felt relaxed was when we went into the locker room at halftime,” Dickey said. “Everyone knew that we weren’t ready to lose that game, so after we heard the coaches talk to us I was re-laxed. But taking the knee (to end the game) was defi nitely a relief.”

Although the game against the Bronchos was Dickey’s fi rst game as the clear starter, he said that he looked at it as any other game.

“I wasn’t thinking about it,” Dickey said. “I guess I was just really pleased that as a team we faced some adversity early, but then we regrouped. It shows a lot of character.”

The Gorillas’ fi rst non-conference matchup took them four hours south to Edmond, Okla., where they came away with a hard-fought 31-20 victory over UCO last Saturday.

Although the word from preseason camp was that the competition among three passers was close, Dickey clearly set himself apart with 111 passing yards and 91 yards on the ground during the win at Wantland Stadium.

Jeff Smith also came in to do some relief work in the second quarter and was 4-9 for 36 yards and an interception.

Dickey was second in rushing to only

Terrance Isaac with 92 yards and one touch-down on the ground. Isaac also had four grabs for 22 yards.

Road warriorsTough schedule takes toll on volleyball team

#20 Jon Thomas Junior wide receiver Jon

Thomas was named the MIAA Special Teams Player of the week after racking up 206 all-purpose yards last week against UCO. After fumbling the opening punt, Thomas brought the following one back all the way for an 84-yard touchdown to tie the game. Thomas also had three receptions for 60 yards and a touchdown late in the game.

Winning startDickey sets himself apart in fi rst game

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At the end of the break between the second and third game, volleyball’s ‘halftime,’ the Gorillas put the hands together and pump each other up ready for the third and possibly last game of the match.

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see START page 4B

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Running back Terrance Isaac busts through the Central Oklahoma line. The Gorilla bested the Bronchos 31-20 on their home fi eld in Edmond, Okla., last Saturday night.

Paul Robinson, saftey, celebrates after stopping the Central Oklahoma offense with one of the Gorilla’s fi ve inter-ceptions of the night.

Hartfi eld struggles with one of his opponents during one of his many MMA fi ghts.

Hartfi eld stands behind the cage at one of his fi ghts with his hand raised in victory.

Technology major fi nds success in cage fi ghting

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Muslim groupsdecry hostility

NEW YORK — More than 50 leaders of Muslim organizations in New York City are defending plans by developers to build an Islamic community center near Ground Zero.

Members of the Islamic Leadership Council of Metropolitan New York gath-ered on the steps of City Hall Wednesday to call for a stop to religious intolerance.

They said the notion that Muslims shouldn’t gather or pray near the 9/11 site is “unethical, insensitive and inhu-mane.”

The group was joined by supporters including U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel.

Senator’s defeat marksmajor tea party win

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Backed by the Tea Party Express and Sarah Palin, a little-known conservative lawyer from Alaska became the latest newcomer to the national political stage to take down an incumbent in 2010.

In arguably the biggest political upset of the year, Joe Miller claimed the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate when incumbent GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski conceded Tuesday evening. Murkowski gave up after failing to gain much ground in an count of outstanding absentee ballots.

Miller will be the favorite in No-vember in strongly Republican Alaska

against Democrat Scott McAdams, the mayor of Sitka.

But Senate Democrats moved quickly to see whether Miller’s victory could give them an opening in an otherwise diffi cult campaign season, conducting a poll to gauge the potential competitive-ness of the race. Even before Murkowski conceded, Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Democrats’ campaign committee, said in an inter-view his organization might come into the state behind McAdams.

Obama, Netanyahucondemn killings

WASHINGTON — Opening Mideast peace talks under the shadow of fresh violence, President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday not to allow “extremists and rejectionists” to undercut long-stalled negotiations on creating a sovereign Palestinian state beside a secure Israel.

Standing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Obama condemned the killings on Tuesday of four Israelis who were shot while traveling near the West Bank city of Hebron.

Hamas, which rejects Israel’s right to exist and opposes peace talks, claimed responsibility.

Netanyahu thanked Obama for condemning the West Bank attack, saying the killings were carried out by people who don’t respect human life and who “trample human rights into the dust and butcher everything they oppose.”

Man plunges 39 stories, survives

NEW YORK — A New York City man who plunged 39 stories from the roof of an apartment building has

survived after crashing onto a parked car.Witnesses and police say 22-year-old

Thomas Magill tried to commit suicide by jumping from the high-rise at West 63rd Street on Tuesday.

He landed in the backseat area of a Dodge Charger after crashing through the windshield.

Magill suffered broken legs. Police say he’s in critical condition.

The car’s owner, Guy McCormack, of Old Bridge, N.J., told the Daily News he’s convinced that rosary beads he kept inside the Dodge saved Magill’s life.

Witnesses told police they saw Magill falling past their windows.He isn’t the only New Yorker to survive a high-rise fall. Window washer Alcides Moreno fell 47 stories from the roof of a skyscraper in December 2007.

Taliban leadercharged in bombing

WASHINGTON — U.S. offi cials have charged the leader of Pakistan’s Taliban with planning attacks against American forces in Afghanistan, including last year’s suicide bombing that killed seven CIA employees.

The Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed charges against Hakimullah Mehsud.

The self-proclaimed emir of the

Pakistani Taliban is charged with two counts of conspiracy that could lead to life in prison.

Mehsud is believed to be hiding along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Seven CIA employees and a Jordanian intelligence offi cer were killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan, on Dec. 30.

BP spent $93Mon advertising

WASHINGTON (AP) — Oil giant BP says it has spent more than $5 million a week on advertising since the Gulf Coast oil spill — more than three times the amount it spent on ads during the same period last year.

BP PLC told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that it spent a total of $93 million on advertising from April to the end of July. The company says the money was intended to keep Gulf Coast residents informed on issues related to the oil spill and to ensure transparency about its actions.

The increased spending was largely targeted at TV, newspapers and magazines. A small portion was directed to the Internet.

BP says it actually aired fewer TV spots from April to July than during a similar period last year.

Demonstrators portraying, from left, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, perform a “Peace Charade” on Pennsyl-vania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 1, as President Obama met with Middle East leaders regarding peace talks.

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Anne Felton Hines, a Unitarian Universalist Church minister, speaks during a news conference at the Islamic Center of Southern California in Los Angeles Friday, Aug. 20.

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These students aren’t alone in believing that PSU’s rank was well deserved. Chris Huitt, assistant professor of graphics and imaging technologies, says PSU stands out from other colleges because of the adminis-tration, faculty and facilities.

“The administration’s and faculty’s fi rst and foremost focus is student success in the classroom,” Huitt said. “I just went through my fi rst year of seminars for new faculty. At every seminar the focus was always on how can we improve the students’ educational experience.”

Huitt said PSU is a top regional university because of its quality of education, campus facilities, student success rates, and edu-cational opportunities through the various colleges and tuition costs.

“I would recommend PSU because I

believe it excels at all levels for the stu-dents,” Huitt said. “Both in academics and the personal experience students receive at a smaller institution”

Huitt received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees at PSU. He said the techni-cal skills he acquired through the graphics and imaging program prepared him well for a 27 year career in the industry.

“I truly consider it an honor to be as-sociated with Pittsburg State University and welcome the chance to help students succeed in the same industry that treated myself so well,” Huitt said.

According to the U.S. News and World Report website, the main purpose in rank-ing a school as a top university is to help students and parents choose a school. Paul McCallum, professor of English, said having a resource like this helps students know they made the right decision.

“It provides reassurance to the students that they are attending a good university,” McCallum said. “With this resource, there is no worry about making the right decision.”

McCallum, who has been teaching at PSU for 14 years, said the faculty cares about their individual students and doesn’t have a large student-teacher ratio.

“We get to know every student, watch them succeed, and provide extra help and guidance when necessary,” McCallum said.

When deciding on a school, McCallum said the university should be viewed as a whole.

“A lot of factors are considered when deciding on a university, depending on every student’s needs,” McCallum said. “The real question students should be asking is, ‘Can this school give me the right education and career information to do what I need to do?’”

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be a mosque near 9/11. I want to say they have a right to build it there but at the same time I can understand why people wouldn’t want it built there consider-ing the tragedy that occurred nearby.”

Emily Wilson, undecided freshman, says she thinks the controversy is a racist issue.

“It is like the black rights is-sue all over again,” Wilson said. “Just because some people did some bad things doesn’t mean all people with the same beliefs will do the same things. We shouldn’t punish all Islamic people.”

Islamic student Hani Al-nakhly, freshman in mechanical engineering and English, says he thinks building Park51 is a good

idea even in the face of opposi-tion.

“Some people are angry because they think all Muslims are the same,” Alnakhly said. “They’re not all like the ones that did the bomb.”

Alnakhly also says he is pleased with how Obama wants all Muslims and Christians to work together.

Although some students say that building a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero is not a good idea, almost all agree that it is their right to build it.

“But it’s not necessarily the right thing to do,” Nathan Bolack, senior in electrical engi-neering technology, said. “I think it would be better to fi nd another location.”

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■ NERVES from page 1

said. “You want to establish a certain rapport with the students the fi rst day.”

Peterson, who has been teaching for more than 17 years, says the start of this school year is unique in that he had been away from teaching for 15 months on sab-batical.

“A lot has changed politically in the last 15 months,” Peterson said. “Because I teach politics, I didn’t know what to expect. Also, if you’ve been away from teach-ing for that long it’s like, ‘How do you do this?’”

Peterson says his return to teaching did not get off to a completely smooth start.

“I was making changes up to the last minute even though I had 15 months to do this,” Peterson said. “On the Sunday night before school started, I was in Russ Hall until 4:30 a.m.”

On the opposite side of campus, Greg Murray, as-sistant professor in engineering technology, was also making last-minute preparations.

Murray says the fi rst week of school was spent relo-cating the rapid-prototyping lab to make room for a new faculty offi ce.

“Basically, the fi rst week we’re spending a lot of time here at the KTC, we have a lot of labs set-up that we have to go through,” Murray said. “We’re doing that before classes start, but during the fi rst week is a pretty big rush, too.”

Murray says after three years of teaching, he has conquered the back-to-school nerves. For him, the big-gest challenge is getting to know the new students.

“I have a lot of incoming freshmen in my engineer-ing graphics course. There are a lot of transfer students, too, and you know I have probably 50 or 60 of those type students,” Murray said. “It’s just a matter of getting to know their faces and names. It’s pretty hectic.”

Both Murray and Moss have a positive outlook on the semester, but Peterson says it’s too soon to tell.

“I would say to a certain extent it’s like my U.S. Politics students, not knowing what to expect,” Peterson said. “But that’s exciting in itself.”

said. “That’s dumb.”Students who were accustomed to the

old policy will have to adjust to the new zero-tolerance attitude.

“I mean before, you always knew that if someone was getting in trouble, the RA would be the one getting them in trouble the fi rst time, not the police,” said Thomas.

The policy has always stated that over-age students cannot drink in their room if their roommate is under 21. Previously, the university meted disciplinary action for violations, not law enforcement. Students could be issued a warning, fi ned, made in-eligible for fi nancial aid, or removed from the dorms, depending on the severity and frequency of the violation.

“It’s a pretty big jump, from giving you a warning the fi rst time to calling the cops,” said Nicole Jarrow, freshman in communi-cation who lives in Nation Hall.

The change in immediate discipline has already resulted in several students experiencing the harsher policy. According to the PSU Police report, police have been called on multiple occasions to the Del-linger/Nation building on suspected alcohol violations.

Some students say that the university is being unnecessarily tough.

“I didn’t think of Pitt as a ‘party school’ when I was looking at it,” said Jarrow. “That’s not even close to why I came here.”

Other students say that leniency with alcohol should not exist at a university.

“It’s the law,” said Ashley Delp, a sophomore in business and resident of Na-tion Hall. “It shouldn’t be an exception just because you live on a college campus.”

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Students in Free Enterprise will hold a 5K Fun Run as part of Pittsburg’s Paint the Town Red celebration. Registration for the run will open at 7 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 4, at the Student Recreation Center. Registration is $15 including a T-shirt and $10 without a T-shirt. Age divisions are 18 and under, 19-39, 40-59, and 60 and up. Medals will be given to the top three male and female contestants in each age group. For more information, call 235-4599 or e-mail [email protected].

Biology Clubplans picnic

All students with a biology major are invited to the Biology Club and Pre-Med Club welcome-back picnic. The picnic will start at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, be-hind Carnie Smith Stadium in one of the two shelters. The picnic will also serve as the fi rst meeting of the Biology Club. Fliers will be posted with more details. For more information, contact [email protected].

Int’l gatheringto meet Sept. 10

International Programs and Services will hold a Malaysia international gather-ing from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, at the United Methodist Ministries Center, Elm and East Williams. A free meal will be offered. For more informa-tion, call Cathy Arcuino at 235-4607 or [email protected].

Cow Creek Reviewseeks new members

Cow Creek Review will hold its fi rst meeting at 3:20 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 1, in 312 Grubbs Hall. The staff is looking for new members who want publishing experience. For more information, call Bethany Duty at 704-6784 or [email protected].

SGA senators wanted

Applications to become a senator in the Student Government Association are due by Friday, Sept. 3. Applications can

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PSU phonathonneeds workers

Anyone interested in a part-time, on-campus job may apply for the Pittsburg State University phonathon. Applica-tions are available in the University Development offi ce in 202 Shirk Annex. Deadline for applications is Friday, Sept. 17. For more information, contact Tif-fany Martin at [email protected] or 235-6117 or the development offi ce at 235-6117.

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Study Abroadgrants available

International Programs and Services will hold an information session on Gilman Study Abroad Scholarships for Pell Grant recipients at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 3, in 201 Whitesitt Hall. For more information, contact Megan Corrigan at [email protected].

Debate team plansfi rst meeting

Pittsburg State University Forensics and Debate will hold an introductory meeting 5-6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept 8, in 108 Grubbs Hall. Those interested in joining the speech or debate teams are welcome to attend. For more information, call Deidre Galloway at 235-4707 or [email protected].

Entries acceptedfor intramural tennis

Intramural sports is organizing a ten-nis tournament. Entry deadline is Sunday,

Sept. 5. There will be a managers meet-ing at noon Friday, Sept. 10, in room 216 Student Recreation Center. Matches will begin Monday, Sept. 13. For more infor-mation, call the intramural sports offi ce at 240-6778 or [email protected].

Pitt Cru plans upcoming events

Campus Crusades for Christ will hold worship meetings at 8:30 every Wednes-day night in the Varsity Room of the Overman Student Center. Women’s Bible study will be at 8 p.m. every Monday at 509 E. Jefferson St. and men’s Bible study will be at 8 p.m. every Tuesday at 1804 S. Pine, Apt. 10. Call 785-249-7449 for directions. Call 785-215-5116 for information on upcoming events.

Group schedulesbocce games

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ASHLEY BAILEYCollegio Reporter

Amanda Dunn wanted to prevent getting the human pappillomavirus, so she got the Gardasil vaccine, which has been at the center of controversy since its debut in 2006.

“I think girls should get it because it can prevent cancer and HPV,” Dunn, senior in physical education, said.

An organization called “Little Women” would disagree. According to its Web site, called Truth About Gardasil, the vaccine causes a laundry list of adverse reactions, from strokes and heart problems to autoimmune issues.

But, according to a study published in May by the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration, of the 29.5 million doses of Gardasil given, only .0005 percent (about 16,000) of participants had serious adverse effects.

The CDC says that, based on its current information, it will continue to recommend HPV vaccination, and will closely monitor its effects.

More than 100 strains of the human papillomavirus exist and can infect both men and women, causing genital warts, cancer of the anus and penis, and cervical cancer.

Carrie Farrington, nurse practitioner for student health services, says the clinic talks to all PSU students about the vaccine and always offers the series of shots. The clinic currently only carries Gardasil.

Still, some students say they believe the shot is not necessary.

“I believe our bodies should

be the way they are and fi ght off infections on their own,” Lauren Renfrow, junior in psychology, said.

A PSU sophomore who wishes to remain unnamed says she got the vaccine because of a doctor’s recommendation, but says now she doesn’t think it was such a good idea.

“It caused me to have several abnormal paps after getting the shots, and they think it might be the cause of abnormal tissue growth,” she said.

Another PSU student says she just isn’t informed about the vaccine. Elida Hernandez, freshman in nursing, says she had heard about it from TV commercials, but really didn’t know much more about it.

Currently, two vaccines are available to women and men. Gardisil and Cervarex are available in a three-dose series for about $400. These shots are recommended for persons between the ages of 13 and 26. The vaccines, which have been given for several years, were primarily meant for women, but within the past year, have been deemed safe for men as well.

“I encourage it to anyone,” Farrington said. “I think it’s very important to help prevent cervical cancer and the spread of HPV.”

Farrington says that any medicine has certain risks, and that being aware of those risks is important.

“But we really haven’t seen anyone have serious side effects,” Farrington said.

Farrington encourages anyone who hasn’t been vaccinated to visit the Bryant Student Health Center for more information.

Gardasil helps more than harms

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The desperate quest to fi nd loved ones started just minutes after the earthquake, as cell phones rang unanswered from beneath the rubble of Haiti’s best hotel.

A few hours later, the search went online with a Facebook page dedicated to the Hotel Montana. It was created by three siblings on Long Island, New York, looking for their missing uncle. Strangers immediately began to post names and photographs of their relatives. By the next morning, the site had received more than 50 messages from frantic families.

As the days passed and the death toll climbed, the number of members on the page grew until it reached 17,427 people from around the world. They called themselves “the family.” They vowed to stick together until every last member of their online tribe was brought home, alive or dead.

“Though we’re all ready for this night to end and a faint glimpse of sunlight to illumi-nate the horizon, I’m fairly confi dent from getting to know you over the past several weeks that you’re ready to stand together,” wrote the site’s Tennessee-based modera-tor, Bob Allen, nearly two months after the quake. “Till the last one is home.”

The luxury $200-a-night Montana sat on a steep hill overlooking the capital. A visitor on TripAdvisor.Com compared it to “a vanilla wedding cake cascading down the wooded hillside.”

Over the years, the hotel acquired a repu-tation as a refuge from the country’s chaos. It was where Bill Clinton, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Archbishop Desmond Tutu had stayed.

On Jan. 12, at least 100 people were booked in the hotel, and possibly as many as 100 more were on site for the weekly barbecue as well as a conference on ne-glected tropical diseases. Among them were Siegfried Francisco, head of civil aviation for the island of Curacao, and his colleague, Auxencio “Angelo” Isenia, who were in Haiti for an air safety conference.

It began at 4:53 p.m. with a terrible sound. The mountain started to tremble. The walls rippled. The hotel’s fi ve stories folded like an accordion. In most of the rooms, the ceiling came to rest less than 1 foot off the carpeted fl oor.

In Haiti, the aftershocks continued to compress the Montana’s already crushed fl oors further down. Bodies piled up outside the hotel. The overpowering smell of death permeated the site.

By the middle of February, only eight members of the Facebook family still were missing. Friends began to address them di-rectly and even scold them about not coming home.

They posted pictures of objects and places the missing people loved in an effort to make them ‘homesick.’

On the outskirts of the capital is a rocky

fi eld. Ten feet below the surface is what re-mains of 27 human beings, carefully divided into 27 plots. On a sunny day in May, the forensic team from Houston-based Kenyon International returned with a metal detector, a backhoe and a priest wearing a white cassock.

The team combed the remote burial fi eld with a metal detector. The men counted rows until they found the plot. The priest sprinkled the dirt with holy water.

The backhoe pulled up mounds of earth until they saw the metal box.

In Nashville, Tennessee, Facebook moderator Allen, 47, was walking through the houseware section of a department store with his wife on their anniversary when he got the text.

In the middle of the aisle, he began to weep. Later that night, he posted: “Our fam-ily is complete.”

Facebook page prompts search for loved ones in Haiti

French fi refi ghters arrive to the site where a body recovery operation is un-der way at the rubble of the Montana Hotel in Port-au-Prince.

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ELIZABETH WINDLECollegio Reporter

Janci Wydrick says she would pay good money to get rid of her old electronic equipment. The good news is that for now, the sophomore in chemistry doesn’t have to.

“I believe the benefi ts far outweigh the cost,” Wydrick said. “The offi ce I work at on campus currently recycles our printer toner.”

The Southeast Kansas Recycling center, a non-profi t agency that accepts electronic waste, or e-waste, is working with a $214,000 state grant for electronic waste collections, according to Chuck Delp, the executive director at SEK.

“The contract provided for the shipping, handling and destroying of all the e-waste, making it a free service to the community,” said Delp. However, the grant expires Sept. 15.

Electronic waste, according to Kathy Sanley, interim security offi cer, includes anything with a cord or battery or sometimes neither, such as jump drives, computers, per-sonal refrigerators, TVs, microwaves, toasters and central processing units.

People who are concerned with their privacy and content left on their computers should know that all information is erased before processing the e-waste, according to Sanley.

“My job is to make sure none of the sensitive informa-tion on the computers being recycled is compromised,” Sanley said. She works closely with the physical plant on campus and the SEK Recycling Center.

SEK offers an alternative to disposing of e-waste in po-tentially unsafe ways. Delp warns residents that recycling at home or in backyard bonfi res is dangerous.

“They give off fumes that are harmful,” he said. “Es-pecially since your average desktop contains about eight pounds of lead.”

As long as the computer stays intact, Delp says, there isn’t a problem. If the e-waste is dumped into a landfi ll, lead and other chemicals will leak out.

“We can’t pollute Third World countries anymore with our waste. We have to deal with it now,” he said.

Delp explained that the e-waste is transported from the SEK Recycling to Topeka, where it is processed. The big-ger challenge, according to Delp, is convincing people to take responsibility for their actions.

“The worst-case scenario is that we end up like Picher and Treece. They didn’t realize how much toxic lead they were putting into the water that was carried downstream.”

Picher, Okla. and Treece are both towns that were af-fected by pollution.

Courtney Torneden, undeclared sophomore, says she would recycle if the e-waste would go to a charity.

“If it was reusable, then someone else should be able to get something out of it, not just go in a landfi ll or be re-cycled,” she said. “Between recycling and throwing it away in the trash can, I would recycle.”

The last day for e-waste collection will be Sept. 11. Students who want to recycle their e-waste should go to the recycling center located at 615 S. Joplin. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays. The phone number is 231-8930.

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Lauren Hiatt says she wouldn’t be among the 20 Pearson Prize National Fellows without her parents’ help.

Hiatt, sopho-more in nursing, was

put into foster care as a child and was adopted after several years.

Growing up, Hiatt volunteered at Kansas Foster and Adoptive Children, a non-profi t group in Kansas City that helps foster children. She and her fam-ily collected and distributed clothes, toys and personal items for foster children.

Hiatt heard about the prize while applying for another scholarship. The $10,000 scholarship was awarded by the Pearson Foundation, which owns media groups such as The Penguin Group and Financial Times. The schol-arship is based on merit in community service projects.

Hiatt was selected from more than 10,000 applicants. The candidates were asked to record themselves in a two-minute video about themselves.

“My two-minute video actually took two and a half hours to record,” Hiatt said. “My parents helped me a lot.”

At the beginning of August, Hiatt took a three-day vacation to Boston to meet the board that chose her as a $10,000 recipient as well as the other recipients.

When Hiatt is not busy with school, she’s busy working her two jobs, one of which is at the automotive desk in the Kansas Technology Center. The other is working in patient care at Via Christi Health as a nurse’s aide.

The Pearson board then selected 50 students to receive $500 stipends, 25 from a two-year college and 25 from a four-year university in addition to the top 20 winners.

“It was just a relief to know that you have fi nancial backing and not having to worry about loans,” Hiatt said.

Lauren Hiatt

Jeremy and Danielle Layman have their wedding photos taken near the lake of Pitts-burg State University on Saturday, Aug. 28.

Photos by Yuyang Xiao/Collegio

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WHITNEY SAPORITOCollegio Reporter

The Student Government As-sociation discussed fi lling vacan-cies during its fi rst meeting of the new semester Wednesday night.

Thomas Gregory, SGA vice president, told senators that interviews for the vacancies will be held between noon and 2 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, Sept. 7-9. In fact, Brandon Mills, SGA president, postponed commit-tee assignments because of the number of senate vacancies.

In conjunction with the effort to fi ll vacancies, the student gov-ernment body is holding an open

house at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8, in the Governors Room of the Overman Student Center.

Jonna Fearmonti, public relations director, said the open house is meant to give new students a chance to see the way SGA meetings work.

In other business, a resolution to buy three computers for the SGA offi ce was advanced to sec-ond reading, and then approved unanimously.

Mills stressed the need for the computers.

“I don’t know if you guys have noticed, but we’re short a computer,” Mills said. “Another computer crashing, that would be

catastrophic.”Mills said the old computers

would be disposed of through the e-waste recycling program on campus.

Carson Felt, campus affairs director, asked members to look over changes made to chalk and poster guidelines.

“I have some corrections added, just a few things from last year but they should be pretty specifi c,” Felt said. Student groups and university depart-ments are allowed to post fl iers in buildings and chalk campus sidewalks to promote events, but must follow guidelines estab-lished by SGA.

The vote to approve the guidelines was put on hold until next week to give all members a chance to read the updated guidelines.

Eric Jones, treasurer, said he plans to hold student group in-formation sessions the week after homecoming.

Jones said group presentations to receive SGA funds would be held some time in November.

Jason Bilberry, community affairs director, said the SGA offi ce had been decorated to par-ticipate in Paint the Town Red. Bilberry also urged members to wear red Thursday to observe the day.

SGA moves to fi ll vacancies

Jonna Fearmonti, public relations director for the Student Government Association, asks the SGA senators to pick up a vacancies poster to hang up on the bulletin boards around campus.

Construction workers for the city fi nd and fi x a leak next to Willard Hall on Thursday, Aug. 26.

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With the rotation of Dickey and Smith going smoothly, third-string quarterback Tyler Lawrence did not see playing time against UCO.

The Bronchos also switched up their quarterback a few times with the rotation of redshirt freshman Carter Whitson and Ethan Sharp. Sharp struggled early with four fi rst-half interceptions and was yanked before the start of the third quar-ter. The dual threat running and passing that came from Whitson was almost too much for the Gorillas, as he cut up the middle multiple times for big gains dur-ing man-to-man coverage.

Isaac handled the bulk of the carries for the Gorillas and was instrumental on third down. He racked up a team-high 92 yards on the ground and was also a part of the Gorillas’ offense through the air with four catches for 22 yards.

On the other side of the ball, running back Josh Birmingham was the standout for the Bronchos with 112 rushing yards and seven grabs for 63 yards and the fi rst touchdown of the game.

One new face for the Gorillas was return man Gage McKinnis, who joined the Gorillas about two weeks ago. McKinnis had two kickoff returns for 66 yards during the fi rst game and was an All-American kick returner at Hutchin-son Community College.

The Gorilla secondary had a breakout game with Bryant Sanchez, who had two picks, along with Elijah Olabode, Kendall Davis and Paul Robinson who picked apart the Bronchos’ quarterbacks with three other interceptions.

The Gorillas started the game slowly by going three and out on their fi rst pos-session of the game, which was ended with a sack by the UCO defense. And although the Gorillas were able to hold off Ethan Sharp’s passing attack on the next possession, more problems were in the forecast.

The return game saw the most prob-lems early as Jon Thomas decided not to call for a fair catch on the next play and got hit hard by a cluster of Broncho defenders, who scooped up the loose ball to give the Bronchos prime fi eld position around the 20-yard line.

After a couple of carries by Birming-ham, Sharp connected with his running back on a short screen pass that put the Bronchos up 7-0.

Both teams were relatively quiet for the next few possessions. When the Bronchos were pinned back in their own territory, Thomas found a chance to redeem himself.

After fi elding the ball around the 16-yard line, Thomas broke a tackle, streaked up the right sideline and fol-lowed his blocks all the way to the end zone to knot the score up at seven.

With the hometown crowd on its side, UCO was able to quickly rebound after Sharp connected with wideout Dolphin Davis in the end zone for a 17-yard touch-down pass, putting the Bronchos up 14-7.

Both teams were scoreless in the sec-ond quarter, as the teams traded posses-sion back and forth, including two plays in which Smith and the Gorillas were unable to capitalize in the red zone.

With time to regroup in the locker room and the statistics on their side, the Gorillas came back out in the third quarter fi ring on all cylinders.

True freshman place kicker Jake Craig, who has taken over the fi eld goal duties from Jared Witter this season, nailed a 33-yard fi eld goal within min-utes to make the score 14-10 in favor of the Bronchos.

After another three and out by UCO, Dickey led the Gorillas upfi eld by com-pleting a quick pass to wideout Aaron Sawyer and fi ring the ball 28 yards to a wide-open Jon Thomas on the goal line to give the Gorillas their fi rst lead of the night, 17-10.

The Bronchos threatened on the following possessions with 39-yard and 36-yard fi eld goals by Chris Robbs to put

UCO up 20-17.After lining up in the pistol forma-

tion once more, Dickey ran the option to near perfection, fi nding open space and speeding down the fi eld for a 47-yard touchdown, making the score 24-20.

The Bronchos had a chance to keep their hopes alive on fourth down, but after a pass by Whitson to sophomore wideout Tucker Holland fell to the turf, the Gorillas were set up within the Bron-chos’ 10-yard line.

A couple of quick rushes by Pitt led to a 3-yard burst into the end zone by Isaac, putting them up by 11.

Although they tried, UCO was unable to get the ball down fi eld and the Goril-las were able to take a couple of kneel downs to run out the clock and give Tim Beck his fi rst ever win as head coach.

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different atmosphere to play in.”With 35 matches on its schedule,

the team will play at John Lance Arena only 10 times in the season, a situation that Suberu says is common for his team.

“We have twenty-six dates that we can play matches, with ten of those dates being guaranteed home games,” Suberu said. “So we use those twenty-six dates to get the best conference schedule that we’re allowed. The rest of the schedule we use to play the best competition we can in order to make the national tournament.”

Pearson says that the players are able to travel because of their schedule and study hours. The long bus rides to matches are times for homework, she says, and for catching up on much-needed rest.

“I slept the whole time,” Pearson said. “The farthest we drove last year was eight hours to Texas and I slept for seven of them. I guess I even slept through the study hall part.”

Coming into the season with a No. 19 national ranking, Suberu says that in order to be the best, they have to play the best.

“Obviously, we want to make the national tournament,” he said. “Any team that wants to be competitive has to go play the best teams. The pollsters have to see our team compete year after year, and if we’re going to meet those expectations we have to go outside of our conference.”

But with a long trip to Florida coming up this weekend with multiple matches against ranked opponents, Suberu says that practice is business as usual around John Lance Arena.

“We’ve been focusing on improving our technique, our form and the ability to start cohesively as a team.”

As Suberu looks forward to the rest of his team’s tough schedule, he says that all of the traveling will pay off come postseason play.

“Why do our kids come here? To get an education,” he said. “But in the end, the girls want to play in the national tournament, and to do that we need to have the toughest schedule we can.”

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It’s not about whether Muslims should build a mosque and certainly not about whether they should be allowed to practice their faith, but valid arguments can be made against allowing the Park51 project to be built a few blocks from Ground Zero.

This project will include a mosque. How-ever, to counter the per-ception that it’s catering to only the Muslim faith, three programs are being added to the building: arts and culture, education and recreation. This all sounds great, right? Well, not so fast.

If this building is truly going to be open to all religions and faiths and “give back to our city and help make it a better place,” as the park51.org Web site boasts, then why will it have a mosque only? Why not also a Buddhist temple, a Catholic church, a Jewish synagogue and a variety of other worship places? If the argument is that there were Muslims on the victim side of 9/11, then couldn’t the argument also be that there were Buddhists, Christians, Jews and members of other faiths also killed and injured at Ground Zero?

The media have given this story a lot of coverage, but little mention is made of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church. The 90-year-old church was destroyed in the terrorist attacks, and church members have tried to rebuild ever since, but have been blocked by bureaucratic red tape. The assistant for the archbishop at St. Nicholas has said the Port Authority pulled the deal to rebuild. I, along with many Americans, would like to know why a mosque and Islam seem to be getting much more rec-ognition and backing than other religions and faiths.

The largest debate in this issue is obvi-ously that the building will be near Ground Zero. In a poll conducted by CNN News, nearly 70 percent of Americans said they were against this project. Should we not preserve the area as a place of remem-brance for all races and religions of people who were killed and injured? I agree with Miss USA, Rima Fakih, who happens to be a Muslim herself. She has been quoted as saying she doesn’t think a mosque should be so close to the World Trade Center. She

said that Americans should be more con-cerned with the tragedy of Ground Zero and with paying respect to all victims than to any one religion.

This issue will produce a wider gap between Muslim Ameri-cans and Americans of other faiths, rather than bridge the gap. I do believe that, often, Americans can be afraid of change. However, I also believe that change,

especially in this instance, should be slow. It’s been only nine years since the 9/11 attacks; forcing this issue is like a slap in the face to many Americans.

A third problem is that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, promoter of the Park51 project, has said money for construction would be raised in the United States. However, according to the New York Post, he later told a London-based, Arabic-language newspaper he would seek funds through the Muslim world. If this is true, then the funds could come Afghani-stan or a country harboring terror-ists. That alone should raise some eyebrows.

This is not an issue of right and left wing views. For example, New York Gov. David Paterson has said he supports the project, but, ac-cording to CBS News, even he has tried to persuade backers to move it to another location.

Again, it’s not that we are all against the Muslim faith. It’s that we want to pre-serve Ground Zero and the areas around it. We want to know that the memories of all victims from these attacks will be honored no matter what their race or religion.

Building the Park51 project just blocks from Ground Zero has caused quite a stir, not only in New York City, but across the country. What should have remained a local issue for New Yorkers has turned into a hot topic in national politics.

Both New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Gov. David Patterson said they support the Islamic Center.

The opposition, made up of a majority of Republican politicians with the addition of Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, have said they feel the location of the Islamic

Center is of-fensive.

While realistically, yes, I can see how some may be of-fended, there are three parts to this debate that overshadow the argu-ment.

First is the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an estab-lishment of religion, or

prohibiting the free exercise thereof...” The most important part of that for the sake of this argument is the latter half, the free exercise clause.

In a country founded on religious freedom, it is astonishing that a debate that so clearly interferes with that right is being argued at all.

True, New York is not Congress. And true, opposing the location of the project is not prohibiting the practice of the Islamic religion. However, one

has to ask, would there be this much controversy if it were a Christian church being built? Or how about a synagogue?

Clearly, the answer is no. New Yorkers who wish to practice Islam are at risk of having their right to freely exercise that religion infringed upon.

Many politicians, such as 2010 GOP

presidential prospects Tim Pawlenty and Sarah Palin, who oppose the build-ing of this Islamic community center, are the same who in election years “cling to their religion.” However, when the religion is not their own, it seems they believe the same freedoms should not apply.

What I fi nd most troubling is the stereotyping of Muslims. In the argu-ments against the Park 51 construction, the entire Islamic faith is being held accountable for actions performed by its most radical followers.

What if we applied this same logic to Christianity? How many Christians care to associate themselves with Fred Phelps? Did we blame the entire Chris-tian base for the actions of Timothy McVeigh? No, we didn’t, because com-mon sense tells us that we cannot hold an entire religion accountable for the actions of a few.

Every religion has its radicals. We succeed only in making ourselves as a country look hypocritical when we view the entire Muslim population as an enemy, based on the actions of a few.

The strongest argument against the project is that its proximity to Ground Zero is offensive.

As one of my professors used to say, nowhere is it written that you have the right to not be offended. He was correct. So much so that I believe that, if our freedoms promise us anything, it is the guarantee that we will, at many times in our lives, be offended.

If we want those freedoms, we must allow others their freedoms as well, offensive or not.

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With recent technological advances, students have the abil-ity to download music and fi lms from the comfort of their homes or university campus.

But consequences for il-legally pirating copyrighted material can land students in hot water with both law enforcement and campus authorities.

Curtis Buntain, graduate in psychology, said fi le-sharing isn’t worth the risk.

“Downloading music or mov-ies illegally may be easy in this day and age,” Buntain said, “but that doesn’t make it right.”

According to a 2005 study by the RIAA, a national organiza-tion that monitors and protects the rights of music artists, major record labels lost over $ 5 mil-lion to piracy.

The information management staff at PSU is discouraging students from participating in il-legal “Peer to Peer” information sharing.

According to PSU policy, federal penalties include civil penalties of up to $150,000 and criminal penalties of a possible 1-5 year imprisonment and fi nes of up to $25,000. PSU is re-quired by law to inform network users that illegal downloads are punishable by both civil and criminal penalties.

Angela Neria, PSU’s chief

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“There are a host of ways to monitor such activity,” Neria said. “This illegal activity can be monitored through packet sniff-ers, fi ltering systems, and more. Unfortunately, no monitoring or fi ltering system on the market can catch 100-percent of the activity.”

Neria said that the number of these downloads can fl uctuate.

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Neria said students should also be concerned about the damage a potential arrest for and conviction could have on their job prospects after college.

“This sort of blemish on a re-cord could give recruiters cause for great concern,” she said.

Neria said that there will always be those that choose to break the law, and that PSU will continue to educate students on the consequences of such activity.

“Unfortunately, as long as there are outlets for such illegal activity there will be some that choose to take advantage of them and in turn, break the law,” she said.

BRENNA CHRISTIANCollegio Reporter

To kick-off a new school year and football season, the Pittsburg Area Chamber of Commerce and PSU Alumni & Constitu-ent Relations will be hosting the fourth annual Paint the Town Red celebration, starting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 2.

Other sponsors for the event include Mpix.com, Jock’s Nitch, My Town Media, NPC Inter-national, TH Rogers, Wal-Mart Supercenter and PSU Athletics.

The upcoming weekend will include a number of events, such as a community pep rally, free pizza in Gorilla Village, PSU ath-lete autographs, an outdoor movie on the Jungletron, the balloon launch, a 5K benefi t run hosted by Students In Free Enterprise and tailgating.

Dacia Keller, senior adminis-trative specialist for PSU alumni, said the events are designed for students and businesses to show community support for the school.

“I think it’s great for the kids to see the community behind their university,” Keller said. “This makes the university better overall.”

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“We are hoping the movie on the Jungletron will be the most popular event, but usually the business decorating is huge be-cause that’s what Paint the Town Red started with,” Keller said.

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A Dodge Duster fl ies by the crowd watching from the fence at the Mo-Kan speedway.

The crowd watches as the light turns green to give the race car drivers at Mo -Kan Dragway the thumbs up to step on the gas during the fun run on Friday, Aug. 27.

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Pitt State students got a chance to see drag racing in midseason with the Mo-Kan Dragway holding its Friday Fun Drag event in Asbury, Mo.

Pitt State auto tech students, along with local drag-race enthusiasts, attended the event. Several PSU dorm residents traveled as a group to the Fun Run as a fl oor activity.

The event is open to anyone who wants to race. Cover charge is $7, with an extra cost of $16 to race.

Automobiles of all kinds are welcome, with hot rods, drag cars, motorcycles, four-wheelers, and everyday vehicles participating.

The 45th Annual Labor Day Weekend Classic will be held this Saturday beginning at 11 a.m.

A day at the Dragway

Motorcycles, cars, trucks, and even four-wheelers raced on Friday’s fun run at the Mo-Kan speedway in Asbury, Mo.

BARTHOLOMEW KLICKCollegio Reporter

Taylor Davis was among the more than 30 students who stam-peded onto the Crimson and Gold Ballroom stage, jostling for a seat and ready to be hypnotized.

Michael Anthony, magician and stage hypnotist, talked her and the other students into a trance on Wednesday, Sept. 1, during his 7 p.m show. Within moments, they were all breathing in unison.

“It was really surreal,” said Davis, sophomore in family and consumer sciences education. “Everything he was saying was god-like.”

At one point, the entire crowd of students had collapsed to the fl oor, apparently asleep.

“When he told us to go to sleep, it was like being under anesthesia,” said Carley Perkins, nursing major.

Some students, like Tyler Ki-ister, undeclared freshman, went to see Anthony’s act expecting failure, or else a handful of prese-lected students working on their acting skills. Instead, they saw their friends on stage, working on

their tans.“I came because I didn’t

believe in it,” Kiister said. “But now it’s like, I believe!”

Anthony told the students to imagine that they were on a beach, in the best shape of their lives. All the students began to show off, but JaVon McGee, sophomore in communication, and James Robinson, undeclared sophomore, both took their shirts off and fl exed.

This sort of stage hypnotism has a basis in psychology.

Conni Rush, professor of psychology and counseling, says some people are easier to be infl uenced than others, and that it’s possible to hypnotize people, so long as they trust the hypnotist and aren’t ordered to do some-thing they don’t want to do.

“Literature says you’re not go-ing to quack unless you want to,” said Rush. “I don’t think you can be hypnotized without agreeing to it.”

Hypnotism has had a place in Rush’s life. She says she al-lowed a colleague to hypnotize her before surgery several years ago, and that because of it, she needed less anesthetics. Rush

says she needed to be trained to allow herself to be in this state of consciousness.

“I didn’t believe I was hyp-notized,” Rush said. “I thought I would feel really different.”

Like the students on stage, Rush remembers her periods of hypnosis. While the students in Anthony’s act obeyed their every command, Rush says this needn’t always be the case.

“I wasn’t directing it, but I allowed it,’ Rush said. “If I didn’t want to do what he (her col-league) said, I wouldn’t.”

Rush says that stage hypno-tists get around this phenomenon by giving orders that are less objectionable.

A lot of hypnotists will say, “Pretend you’re naked, rather than saying, “Take off your clothes,” said Rush. “They make suggestions people are more likely to agree to.”

Anthony’s act doesn’t include telling students to imagine that they’re naked. Instead, he tells them to imagine that he’s naked, and then that the audience is naked.

The audience found this riot-ous, and some students played

along, showcasing their not-real-ly-naked bodies for the hypno-

tized crowd.“I saw a bunch of fi ne chicks,”

said McGee. “They got topless for me.”

JEN RAINEYCollegio Reporter

While some students go on vacation for the summer and others stay behind to take classes, some students combine the activities and study abroad.

Jeanine Kunshek, sophomore in communi-cation and international studies, spent July 8 through Aug. 4 touring Melbourne, Mildura and other Australian towns. Kunshek took a pho-tography course, in which she studied technique, contempo-rary artists, theories, darkroom practices, and both fi lm and digital photography.

“All of the photos we shot for the class were taken in the Outback, at various parks like Mutaw-intji National Park and Mungo National Park,” Kunshek said. “After our fi ve-day fi eld trip to the bush, we came back and Photoshopped our pictures and had a gallery show to dis-play our best work.”

Kunshek said Australia’s winter season occurs at the same time as the U.S. summer, so the temperature hovered around 50 degrees during her stay. She says she adored the Outback’s fl at, orange gorges and red clay dirt.

“Australia has a rugged beauty that captures and enchants you,” she said. “We spotted a kangaroo and chased it

for half a mile uphill just to get pictures of it.”She says that the people of Australia share

many similarities with Americans, and that they are fans of U.S. television shows and songs. They also speak English, but with slightly differ-ent lingo. Kunshek says they call peppers capsi-cum, and that ordering lemonade at a restaurant will instead yield a Sprite.

“Aussies are so funny,” Kunshek said. “The ones I interacted with had such crude senses of humor and weren’t afraid to make fun of you in

a good way. They’re very open about their lives and how they behave.”

Tim Spears, sopho-more in communica-tion, headed to South Korea for two weeks with a PSU business delegation.

“My group was hosted by three differ-ent universities that took us to historical sites, awesome res-taurants,” said Spears. “We also toured major Korean-based busi-nesses.”

Spears says there are a variety of differ-ences between the U.S. and South Korea.

“All the women were dressed up. No matter the time or day, every girl was in high heels and a skirt,” said Spears. “Never once did I see a lady wear-ing pajamas while out and about.”

Spears says he found everyone to be exceedingly nice and

that South Korean children were constantly tak-ing pictures with him and his group. Although

everything was written in Korean, Spears says a large number of South Koreans speak English. However, he did have a problem with the Confu-cianist tradition.

“Older guys had no problem chewing out their younger counterparts,” Spears said.

Spears says his experience opened his eyes and made him aware of life outside of the United States.

“I was fortunate to be in a really awesome group,” he said. “We really bonded and had a great time together. I was afraid everyone would be really aloof and uninteresting. It made the trip a million times better to have people to share it with.”

Nichole Brown, senior in human factors psychology, left on June 5 for Kazakhstan with two other PSU students and stayed for two months. There she taught English at an American English summer camp at the Semey Pedagogical Institute.

“I mostly taught and lived with teenagers at the camp and they reminded me of my younger sister and her friends,” Brown said. “Their lifestyle is different, but the things they want are very similar to what we want.”

Brown says that one tradition in Kazakhstan surprised her: The fi rstborn child in a family is

usually given to its grandparents as a gift. Brown also says that people in Kazakhstan consider their cousins to be siblings. Other differences Brown says she noticed include their economy, health-care system and food.

“Horse meat is very popular in Kazakhstan and Kumiss (fermented mare’s milk) is the na-tional drink,” she said.

Brown says that her favorite experience overseas was being out of her comfort zone and being able to stay in a country long enough to witness multiple facets of another culture and environment.

“After I got back to the United States, I went to Wal-Mart and became very frustrated by how easy we have it in America,” Brown said. “I defi -nitely appreciate the lifestyle in America more and am grateful to a greater degree after having been to a developing country.”

Brown’s advice for students thinking about traveling abroad is to do things that scare them. She believes these are the things that are often the most worthwhile.

“Listen to the people you meet because they will teach you more than any museum,” she said. “Ultimately open yourself up to new possibili-ties and be grateful for everything you are lucky enough to experience.”

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Students learn by spending summer overseas

Gorillas abroad

Hypnotist mesmorizes PSU

Nichole Brown, senior in psychology, stands with her English students in Kazakh-stan. Brown taught an English class to Kazakhstani youth through the Semey Peda-gogical Institute for two months this summer.

Tim Spears, sophomore in communication, traveled to South Korea over the sum-mer with a PSU business delegation. Here, he stands with two delegation members in a Korean building.

Tim Spears, sophomore in communication, stands with his delegation members upon arrival in South Korea over the summer.

Jeanine Kunshek, sophomore in commu-nication and international studies, poses in the Australian Outback for her pho-tography class, which she studied abroad this summer.

Photo courtesy Jeanine Kunshek

Photo courtesy Nichole Brown

Photo courtesy Tim Spears

Photo courtesy Tim Spears

Andrew Dodson/Collegio

No hocus pocus:

Trying to stay warm, three Pitt State students are hypnotized to think that everyone is warm and they are cold on Wednesday, Sept. 1.

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