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• Tuesday, February 2, 2010 • www.thepenn.org

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More than 50 countries, accounting for nearly 80 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, have signed on to an agreement brokered in Copenhagen late last year to curb climate change.

Their combined efforts, if they came to pass, would dramatically reduce the emissions scientists blame for global warming, but not enough to hold global temperatures to levels scientists say are needed to minimize risks of catastrophic drought, flooding and other effects.

Still, the number of nations signing on, along with the amount they pledged in reductions, buoyed many environmentalists in the wake of the raucous Copenhagen talks, the two-week summit in December that ended without an official pact among the 193 nations present.

Instead, they reached a voluntary accord, brokered by President Barack Obama and a group of major emitters including China and India, that requires each nation to sign on and pledge to reduce carbon emissions.

Critics questioned how many nations would sign onto the voluntary accord.

“What we now know that we did get out of Copenhagen was clarity of what countries are going to be doing to fight climate change,” said Keya Chatterjee, director of the World Wildlife Fund’s

Climate Change Program.The situation for climate activists,

she added, is “much better than we had a couple months ago.

But it’s still not where we need to be.”

The countries who met a Sunday deadline to formally join the so-called “Copenhagen Accord” include the United States, China, India, Japan and the nations of the European Union, the United Nations announced on Monday.

Each nation set its own emissions-reduction pledge.

Fast-developing countries such as China promised to limit emissions as a share of their growing economies, while wealthy nations such as the United States pledged reductions from historic levels.

The limitations of the Copenhagen outcome were on display on Monday. The accord is not legally binding.

It has no enforcement provision, though it does require countries that sign on to allow international scrutiny of their emissions reduction progress.

In addition, many of the pledges are contingent.

The United States, for exam-ple, refuses to set a concrete target until Congress passes a climate bill, and Canada’s pledge is linked to America’s.

Even at their most strin-gent, the pledges do not meet the accord’s own stated goal of holding warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-

industrial levels.The list of countries not signing

onto the accord includes OPEC nations such as Saudi Arabia and Iran, which environmentalists do not expect to join.

Some mid-size nations are widely expected to eventually sign on, including Turkey and Malaysia.

One of the biggest questions raised by the accord is what happens next.

The countries still have major issues to hash out, including how to handle the billions of dollars to be funneled from wealthy nations to poorer ones to help them adapt to climate change and develop low-emissions energy sources.

Participants came back from Copenhagen wondering how to turn a broad political accord into a plan of action, said Trevor Houser, who was a special adviser to the U.S. climate envoy in Copenhagen and is now a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

“I think you’ll see better thinking on that in the weeks and months ahead,” Houser said.

As part of its contribution to those efforts, the Obama administration asked Congress on Monday to allocate $1.4 billion in the 2011 budget for international climate efforts.

Over the long term, the administration has pledged to help raise up to $100 billion annually by 2020 from public and private sources.

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Veterans who attend IUP that served or are serving in the military can now receive additional assistance from the campus.

IUP announced in January that they opened the Veterans Student Liaison Office for all students serving or have served in the military.

The office is located at room 104 Pratt Hall.

The liaison office is partnered up with the Center for Student Success, located in 107 Pratt Hall.

According to the IUP Web site, the office will provide resources to IUP military veterans to help them succeed.

Some of the resources will include succeeding academically and personally in their college career with a personalized approach, according to the Web site.

In addition, the liaison office will offer individual consultations, peer mentoring and extended orientation, information sharing and information about academic workshops that are for veterans.

The office will also assist vet-erans in scheduling for semes-ter courses or by adjusting their schedules. It will also survey and assess the needs of IUP’s veter-an community and assist in col-

lecting enrollment and veteran data for the university veteran’s database, according to the IUP Web site.

Finally, the Web site said the office will coordinate with the university’s Veterans’ Outreach Community.

The office will use the community to share comments and concerns held by the student vet-erans.

The liaison for IUP’s veterans

office will be Richard Wentling, a criminology graduate student.

Wentling was a 2009 graduate from Slippery Rock University and is an U.S. Army veteran, according to the Web Site.

He is now in the Army reserves as a sergeant until October 2012.

The liaison office encourages veteran students to visit the Veterans Affairs Web site, which is linked on their page.

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Police blotterAlcohol violations

• At 5:59 p.m. Saturday, Alex C. Flood, 18, Jenkintown, was arrested and charged with underage drinking, false ID and misrepresentation of age to secure alcohol after he was found trying to purchase alcohol with a false ID at Uncle Sudsy’s at 860 Wayne Ave., according to borough police.

• Borough police reported that at 2:52 a.m. Saturday, Scott Broge, 21, Ellwood City, was arrested and cited for harassment, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness after he was found intoxicated in the 00 block of South Eighth Street. Police reported he allegedly pushed down two women. He was transmitted to Indiana Regional Medical Center for observations, police reported.

• At 1:38 a.m. Saturday, Shannon N. Ackerman, 20, Morgantown, W.Va., and Joshua Bolyard, 20, Clearville, were cited for underage age drinking after they were found intoxicated in the 00 block of South Fifth Street, according to borough police.

• Borough police reported that at 1:05 a.m. Saturday, David M. Lewis, 18, Belle Vernon, was arrested for public drunkenness and underage drinking after he reportedly entered the police station at 80 N. Eighth St. and fell on the floor. Lewis was lodged in the county jail on a public drunkenness detainer, police reported.

Criminal mischief• Someone damaged two gate arms to the Indiana Parking Garage at

650 Water St. sometime Sunday, according to borough police. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police at 724-349-2121.

• Someone threw a propane tank on the hood of a gold Chrysler Sebring parked in the rear parking lot of 246 S. Seventh St. at approximately 2 a.m. Saturday, according to borough police. Police reported damage to the hood of the vehicle. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

• At 7:29 p.m. Jan. 20, Yolanda T. Hendrix, 22, Indiana and Khalif E. Dickson, 20, Philadelphia, were both charged with disorderly conduct following an incident that took place at the Carriage House at 1300 Oakland Ave., according to borough police. Police reported that Hendrix was also charged with false reports toi law enforcement and Dickson was charged with trespassing.

Disorderly conductAt 1:57 a.m. Saturday, Thomas Blair III, Indiana, was arrested for public

drunkenness, harassment and disorderly conduct following a fight in the 00 block of South Taylor Avenue, according to borough police.

Hit and runBorough police reported that someone driving a gold vehicle lost

control of their vehicle and hit a red Mitsubishi Eclipse parked in the driveway of a residence at 45 S. Fifth St. at 10 a.m. Friday and left the scene, according to borough police. Police reported the accident occurred when the person attempted to pass another vehicle. Police describe the driver as a man in his late 20s or early 30s with facial hair. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

Items burgled• Borough police reported that at 3:11 a.m. Sunday, Jason R. Hinchberger,

Sarver, was cited for retail theft and underage drinking after he was found trying to steal a pack of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups from Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave.

Borough police reported that at 1:45 a.m. Saturday, Kellen Leach, 18, Chesterland, Ohio, was cited for retail theft and underage drinking after he was found intoxicated after attempting to steal two iced teas and a cigar from the Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave.

• Someone stole a Nintendo Wii, several controllers and the console from a residence at 964 Philadelphia St. sometime between 10:30 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday, according to borough police. Anyone with information is asked to contact borough police.

– compiled from police reports

IUP veteran liaison office opensBy SeAn BrACken

News Editor [email protected]

Dave Biblis/The PennRichard Wentling will act as liaison for the Veterans’ Student Liaison Office located at Pratt Hall.

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Most college students get their first hard lesson before setting foot in class: a crash course in economics delivered by the campus bookstore, where textbooks cost hundreds of dollars.

Now, students at California State University, Fresno, can catch a break. Through a new program, at least 80 percent of textbooks at the Kennel Bookstore are available for rent. Campus officials say students could save as much as 75 percent off the cover price, a more budget-friend-ly option for those struggling with col-lege costs.

The partnership between the book-store and chegg.com, an online textbook rental company, is a sure sign of change within the market. Beyond buying new or used textbooks, today’s students can rent textbooks or buy “ebooks,” electronic versions, downloaded to a computer. Experts say “ebooks” aren’t in widespread use; Fresno State offers only about 200 titles. But rental programs are growing online and on campuses.

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, which runs more than 600 college bookstores, announced it will expand a pilot rental program to more cam-puses, including the College of the Sequoias in Visalia. Follett Higher Education Group, which operates more than 700 bookstores, said it will broaden its rental program to hun-dreds of campuses for the 2010 aca-demic year.

Students figure out the books they need for the semester, then pick up rentals at the bookstore or place an

order through an online company. Those companies ship the books to students, who send them back at the end of the semester. A spokesman for the National Association of College Stores, which represents more than 3,100 collegiate retailers, said rentals are an emerging trend.

“Students are getting increasingly creative in their purchases of course material,” said Charles Schmidt, a spokesman for the association based in Oberlin, Ohio. “There are more

options out there and competition.”Schmidt said about 200 of the

association’s retailers offer rent-als.

For bookstores, the drawbacks to rentals have been the cost of

buying and storing books and the prospect that a professor could drop a title before the upfront cost is recovered,

Schmidt said. Today, stores often rent only a

fraction of their inven-tory. Last semes-

ter, Fresno State’s Kennel Bookstore had four textbook titles for rent,

said Susan Bartel, book department man-

ager.Bartel said 80 to 85 percent of

its 2,500 textbooks are available through chegg.com, a Santa Clara-based company named for the classic chicken-or-egg conundrum. Through the partnership, chegg.com gets more direct access to Fresno State students. The bookstore gets a small commission from chegg.com and stu-dents get another option for text-books.

Nathan Schultz, chegg.com’s vice president of supply chain management, said the program allows the bookstore to offer rentals without sinking millions of dollars into inven-tory. On average, Bartel said, students should save about half the price of a new book.


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CBS News correspondent Byron Pitts had a dream just like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. did.

He said his dream was to appear on television.

“I knew in college that I wanted to be a “60 Minutes correspondent,” Pitts said.

Pitts said that he had to overcome many obstacles before he became a correspondent on CBS.

Pitts, who was raised in east Baltimore, said he had a stuttering problem and didn’t learn to read until he was 12.

Experts told his mother he was mentally ill and should be in an institution.

Pitts gave this speech at IUP’s 20th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative program, which was held at 7 p.m. Thursday at Fisher Auditorium.

Students, faculty and Indiana community residents gathered to hear his speech.

Pitts is now the CBS News chief national correspondent and the contributing correspondent to “60 Minutes.”

Pitts has won multiple Emmy awards in journalism.

The theme of the event was

“Stepping Out On Nothing: The Future Meets The Present.”

The theme of the program was to go along with King’s message of non-violence and of the civil rights movement.

The evening of events featured musical performances from IUP Voices of Joy choir and dance performances from the African Dance Ensemble.

There was also poetry, prayer and speeches from members of the community and individuals at IUP.

The crowd was engaged and encouraged by Roger Briscoe, educational and school psychology department.

When thinking about the legacy of King we don’t always have to look into the past, said Pitts, who spent time at a hospital in Haiti, while covering the disaster.

“Stepping Out On Nothing,” is the title of Pitts’ 2009 book, which is about his life and how he has dealt with his struggles.

He said he was told by

teachers at college that he was a waste of the university’s time and money.

Pitts said he tearfully began to fill out withdraw papers when he was told that he could not be in college.

He said a teacher witnessed the tearful scene and stepped up to help him.

“My stuttering and limited

vocabulary was difficult to overcome,” Pitts said.

Every day he would learn to spell and say a new word in a sentence with his roommate, he said.

Pitts said he followed his dream of being on television after he graduated from school.

“If there’s a shortcut to success, the only one I know of is hard work,”

he said. Pitts said that the only way to get

strength is to struggle.He encouraged students to have

faith in themselves and what they want to do.

He also said for students to dream big, but plan small.

A question session from the audience followed Pitts’ speech.

Attendees were also welcomed to a reception and book signing in the Fisher mezzanine.

Pitts said America is a good country despite all of its problems.

“Be good to her and she will be good to you,” he said.

“I believe in the power of dreams, the power of faith, and the power of hard work, to step out on nothing,” he said.

The event was sponsored by IUP’s African American Cultural Center.

The office is located in Delaney Hall.

The cultural center’s goal is to enhance the multicultural awareness and racial sensitivity experienced on campus from students, faculty and staff, according to the IUP Web site.

Their next event will be the Black History Month Opening Program: Community Service Collection Drive.

The event will be held between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday at B-23 Delaney Hall, according to the Web site.

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CBS News reporter speaks at MLK commemorative programBy Alex Rudowski

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Dave Biblis/The Penn— CBS News Correspondent Byron Pitts spoke about overcoming his hardships to audience in Fisher Auditorium, Thursday.

“If there’s a shortcut to success, the only one I know of is hard work.”

— Byron Pitts, CBS News chief nation-al correspondent and contributing

correspondent for “60 Minutes”

The Department of Developmental Studies will be hosting the College Success Workshop Series, beginning this week and lasting through April.

These workshops will begin at 8 p.m. Wednesday in 313 Pratt Hall, according to the IUP Web site.

Each workshop is expected to run for about 50 minutes and will cover a different topic related to finding success as a college student.

Many of the techniques and strate-gies taught can be applied to the career environment after graduation.

The first workshop, which is tomorrow, will discuss time management.

The second, which is Feb. 10, offers suggestions for good reading and note-taking.

All attending students will

be advised on student-professor interactions Feb. 17. The last work-shop in February will cover advice for exam preparation.

In March, the fifth workshop falls March 17, where attendees will play “bingo for campus resourc-es.”

The sixth workshop will be March 24 and will discuss self- evaluation of students’ midterm sea-son.

The workshop will help students understand different learning styles March 31.

There will be a workshop dealing with stress management, which will be April 7.

The following week’s work-shop will warn students against “spring fever” and help them stay motivated for the second half of the semester. The last work-shop of the semester will help students prepare for their final

exams.All workshops will have space for

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Students wanting to participate are advised to arrive early because the workshop will be determined on a first come, first serve basis.

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Around this time last year, U.N. leaders decided that the best way to cut rampant corruption in its ranks was to aggressively ... stop looking for it.

They yanked funding for a spe-cial anti-corruption task force that the U.N. created in 2006 after the infamous oil-for-food scandal. They promised that they were just consoli-dating the task force into an existing U.N. division, not killing its investiga-tions.

Move along, folks! Nothing to see here!

But we suspected the U.N. task force had been too successful, that it had mightily embarrassed U.N. lead-ers and member countries.

Remember, the task force had exposed about $630 million in alleg-edly tainted contracts. Its work led to criminal convictions of a U.N. employee and a contractor, and dis-ciplinary actions against 17 other U.N. employees. It triggered the sus-pension or banishment of more than 45 private companies from the con-tracting process. There were scores more investigations in the pipeline. So what has happened since then?

Exactly what we feared. The Associated Press reported recently that the U.N. has “cut back sharply” on corruption and fraud investiga-tions, including five major cases in Afghanistan, Iraq and Africa. It dismissed most former task force investigators and the highly regarded leader of the unit.

And then there was this astonish-ing paragraph:

“Over the past year, not a single significant fraud or corruption case has been completed, compared with an average 150 cases a year investi-gated by the task force.

The permanent investigation division decided not to even pursue about 95 cases left over when the task force ceased operation, while another 80 unfinished cases have languished.”

Not a single significant case.U.N. officials insist — insist! — that

their commitment to root out corrup-tion is undiminished.

“The investigations division, I am convinced, is doing a very good job, and is continuing the good work,” U.N. management chief Angela Kane told the AP.

Not a single significant case, Ms. Kane.

Here’s what else that AP investi-gation found:

• Several task force reports involv-ing accusations of major theft or embezzlement by U.N. staffers lan-guish on the desk of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

• The few investigators who remain are hamstrung, using a stan-dardized form to interview witnesses, rather than relying on case-specific examination techniques and pointed questioning.

• Officials changed guidelines so that U.N. staff members can get away with fraud, embezzlement or theft, simply by quitting their jobs.

For years, U.N. leaders snoozed while Saddam Hussein skimmed money and shoveled out kickbacks to U.N. officials and 4,700 compa-nies worldwide. That was embarrass-ing to the U.N., but apparently not as embarrassing as all those future cases of bid-rigging, bribery and cor-ruption that the special task force would ferret out. So it’s nap time again.

U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice told the AP that the loss of the task force “remains a source of concern to the United States.” It’s a lot more than that. It’s a worldwide disgrace.

‘A world-wide disgrace’: U.N.’s anti-corruption task force disbanded

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South Carolina’s lieutenant gov-ernor has likened government assis-tance to poor people to the feeding of stray animals.

In each case, the handouts will cause recipients to “breed,” Andre Bauer told a conservative audience, because “they don’t know any bet-ter.”

Bauer’s remark could be chalked up as just another bizarre pronounce-ment by another nutty Palmetto State politician. They’re having quite a run of the mouths down there.

But wait. It’s not just South Carolina.

Missouri legislator Cynthia Davis last year denounced summer nutrition programs for impoverished children.

“Who created a new rule that says government must make up for any lack at home?” Davis asked in a news-letter. “The problem of childhood obe-sity has been cited as one of the most rapidly growing health problems in America. People who are struggling with lack of food usually do not have an obesity problem.”

Besides revealing herself as heart-less, Davis had her facts wrong. Food insecurity is linked to obesity. Researchers theorize that people who lack steady access to nutritious food consume too much cheap, high-calo-rie, high-fat food.

It would be nice to discount Davis’ rant as another wacky pronouncement by the Republican from O’Fallon, Mo. But this business of demonizing the poor isn’t limited to a few screwy public figures. It is rampant in political debate and in public policy.

We see it in attempts to make recipients of government aid take drug tests. Missouri lawmakers have filed no fewer than five bills this session demanding tests for at least some aid recipients.

We saw the poor demonized last year in Missouri when Republican members of the House shouted down a proposal to increase Medicaid eli-gibility limits to 50 percent of the poverty level, using extra taxes that Missouri hospitals volunteered

to pay the state.“Plunderers,” one House member

called the would-be recipients, while others denounced their lack of “initia-tive.”

Who are these people? Mostly sin-gle parents who earn less than $11,025 a year for a family of four.

The way lawmakers talked, you’d think Bernie Madoff had spawned a legion of offspring to pull off a giant scam on the people.

In fact, most of them are the work-ing poor. They prepare and serve our food, clean our offices and direct us to the proper aisle in the discount stores.

Stories abound of their conniv-ing, lazy ways. Some are doubtlessly true. Some mothers who receive pub-lic assistance have substance abuse problems. Some give birth to children just so they can stay on aid.

But much more typical are the sto-ries politicians don’t tell when they demonize the poor. The mother who receives a pink slip because she’s missed too much work waiting at the free health clinic to deal with her child’s asthma. The family knocked deeper into debt with every unplanned car repair or broken furnace.

South Carolina’s Bauer, who, it turns out, benefited from free school lunch programs when he was a kid, blathered on about parents who receive similar aid and don’t attend parent-teacher conferences or PTA meetings. Never mind that low-wage employers often won’t give workers time off to attend school functions.

Davis of Missouri opined that low-income parents have a responsibil-ity to serve their children nutritious meals. Very true, but has she tried taking multiple buses to get to and from the supermarket because they’re few and far between in urban neigh-borhoods?

Our goal should indeed be to have as few people as possible on public assistance. But you don’t get there by demonizing the poor or giving them drug tests. You get there by provid-ing health care, child care subsidies and other supports that help people become self sufficient. There’s far too little discussion about that in the hall-ways of power these days.

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Class warfare: politicians often seem eager to blame poor for lot in life

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In case any of you haven’t heard, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is urging Punxsutawney to replace their mascot groundhog, Phil, with a robotic look-alike. According to the Associated Press, they feel that “it’s unfair to keep the animal in captivity and subject him to the huge crowds and bright lights that accompany tens of thousands of revelers each Feb. 2.”

We at The Penn are a bit torn on the subject. While the festivities are entertaining, being held aloft in front of excited humans and flashing cameras is certainly far from the natural habitat of the ground-dwelling rodent.

Groundhog Club President, William Deeley, dismisses PETA’s stance, stat-ing that Phil is “being treated better than the average child in Pennsylvania.” Dismissing the unfortunate truth of this statement, it must be noted that past incidences wherein the groundhog has attempted to escape his home in the Punxsutawney Library do point to signs of possible distress, as does the inci-dent where another mammal meteorologist bit New York City’s Mayor, Michael Bloomburg, during the city’s Groundhog Day celebrations. Clearly, while well cared-for, the groundhogs lack the ability to comprehend the publicity, and may very well be more content with their natural environment. Is it really worth an antiquated tradition to subject another living creature unable to consent to their treatment to a day of stress? On the other hand, it is plausible that given the probability that groundhogs don’t have a great long-term memory, the traumatic nature of Groundhogs day for the critters is probably forgotten within a few weeks. Whether this justifies the situation, we’re not sure. It is important to make up one’s mind based on the facts. It’s no secret that PETA is prone to using extreme and controversial methods to spread their agenda regarding ani-mals’ rights, but that’s no reason to disregard arguments for animals entirely.

And quite frankly, while we are hard-pressed to find many people who will agree with PETA’s methods, we must say it is admirable to be so dedicated to a cause. Perhaps if we took the lesson and applied enthusiasm to working for the welfare of — say — the average children of Pennsylvania who live more difficult lives than a paparazzi-shy groundhog, we really could make some improve-ments to our country and our world.

Lessons could be learned from PETA, groundhog rights groups

You just lost the heart of your citi-zenship, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission, five justices asserted: “By taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others, the government deprives the disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to estab-lish worth, standing and respect for the speaker’s voice.” The “disad-vantaged person” they reference is, unbelievably, the corporation. In law-speak, this means that as “persons,” corporations now wield constitution-al protections against government regulation of elections.

Justice John Paul Stevens stated the obvious in writing for the four jus-tices who dissented: “Corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires ... [and] are not themselves members of ‘We the People’ by whom and for whom our Constitution was estab-lished.”

Corporations aren’t persons. They are creations of government. They also consolidate wealth. They are among the greatest concentrations of power ever known. For these rea-sons, throughout American history, the public has pressed the govern-ment to keep a tight control over corporations. Now that control is decimated.

If corporations are truly “per-sons” protected by the Constitution, decades of rules protecting consum-ers from unsafe working conditions, unsafe products, harmful pollution and other ills are likely to be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court or be undone by politicians afraid of provoking corporate attack ads. Those laws were enacted to “promote the general welfare” at the request of “We the People.”

What can be done? Some mem-bers of our sadly dysfunctional Congress are calling for a new cam-paign finance fix. But we’ve had a century of campaign finance fixes, and look what the Supreme Court has systematically done to them. Against the court, corporate money and corporate lobbyists, Congress

has proven ineffective at best and an accomplice at worst.

Beyond Congress and the Supreme Court, there is one remaining high-er power, the power from which all authority in this country derives. This is the power of the American people to amend the Constitution and alter our form of government. Five guys on the Supreme Court do not respect the real people. It’s time to, in the words of Thomas Paine, “begin the world again.”

Within one day of the ruling in Citizens United, 25,000 Americans from across the country launched MovetoAmend.org — a movement to renew the Constitution with a series of democracy amendments, begin-ning, first and foremost, with over-turning this decision and ending the growing reign of the corporation.

Constitutional amendments are achievable, and yet we know they are not easy. But then neither is it easy to live in a country owned and controlled by a tiny few. Take your citizenship back. Reclaim your destiny. Help right the wrong the Supreme Court has done. Amend the Constitution.

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‘I need a break!’: Ways to relax, avoid stress during semester

A semester can seem like a very long time. Trying to juggle classes, sleep and finances can be difficult.

Why not take a break from the grueling pace? Taking a break doesn’t mean you have to wait for that spring break trip to Cancun.

It can be as simple as doing something you enjoy, free from the stress of homework and due dates.

Here are a few tips from students on how to treat yourself during that hectic schedule this term.

Rebecca Voris (senior, elementary education) said, “I listen to music generally and drink coffee or tea while finding time to read a book that is totally unrelated to school. Or I go to a coffeehouse with a few friends and just hang out.”

Taking a moment to move around, stretch and keep the blood flowing can be helpful as well.

“Stretching or doing a little bit of yoga helps to wake you up, especially if you have been in class for a long time,” Voris added. “It gets your blood moving and circulating, which in turn helps you to become more alert again. Especially after a long and boring lecture where you sit the whole time.”

According to healthguidance.org, even conducting breathing exercises

will help you unwind and recharge. Make yourself comfortable and

inhale to the count of three, breathe in deeply and exhale for a count of six while allowing your stress to leave your body.

Repeat ten times slowly to feel mentally and physically rejuvinated.

Power naps are also beneficial, according to increase brainpower.com. “Napping benefits cell repair, heart function and hormonal mainte-nance,” according to Dr. Sara Mednick from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, on the site.

“A power nap maximizes these benefits, by getting the rejuvinative effects in as short a time as possible.” According to a NASA study, power naps improve memory

functions. Other activities can be done in your dorm room, apartment or at home.

“For me, just inviting friends over to watch movies is very good,” said Theresa Shoff (freshman, art education).

Scheduling time to spend with friends is a good way to break your work load each week.

“I go home and see my friends,” said Zach Harms (freshman, computer science). “I check campus e-mail sometimes,” he added.

There are many activities on campus that can be rewarding and get you out of the dorm and away from the books for a while. Just remember: there is a balance between work and play.

By SEAN CAREY Staff Writer

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The Devil Wears Prada touches top of Billboard Chart, continues with tour

After releasing a new album in May and spending the summer on the Vans Warped Tour, The Devil Wears Prada is about to embark on a 26-city nationwide head-lining tour in support of their new album, “With Roots Above and Branches Below.”

The record is heavier and grit-tier than their previous releases. “We’re really excited for this album,” said lead singer Mike Hranica prior to the release of their new album. “It’s definitely going to be darker, heavier and more epic Expect amuch heavier, more metal record.”

The excitement wasn’t only coming from behind the microphone; the fans went crazy over the record, sending it to the top of the Billboard Top Independent Album, Top Christian Album and Top Hard Rock Album charts.

It also sold 31,000 copies in its first week. For the majority of the record, it is non-stop, throw-everything-at-you metal.

Surprisingly, the biggest standout track on the record was track No. 10, “Louder Than Thunder.”

The addition of “Louder Than Thunder” shows you how much depth and diversity The Devil Wears Prada can bring to the table.

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Pride Alliance gets intimate, hosts art exhibit for LGBT community

The Pride Alliance hosted The Intimacy Project in the HUB Monongahela Room Jan. 25-29 from 12 to 8 p.m. each day. The Intimacy Project is an art exhibit featuring a display of about 26 photographs taken by Pittsburgh-based artist Dawn Hartman.

According to the artist’s statement, The Intimacy Project is a collection of images by and for the LGBT community.

Having the exhibit at IUP was the idea of Sarah Fritz, an IUP alumna and former member of the Pride Alliance.

After seeing Hartman’s exhibit in Pittsburgh, she thought it would be great to have one at IUP, Fritz said. “I wanted to do The Intimacy Project here because I wanted LGBT stu-dents to have a positive image about how they view themselves.”

Fritz said another reason she wanted to do The Intimacy Project is

because it “expands everyone’s mind as to the definition of intimacy.” She stressed that this exhibit was for “all sorts of people” to come to, not just the LGBT community. The Intimacy Project at IUP was free and open to the public. In addition to viewing the exhibit, attendees also had the opportunity to purchase Hartman’s work.

Hartman spoke at the HUB Susquehanna Room Jan. 25 at 4:30 p.m. about her art and experiences.“IUP has shown me a lot of hospitality and has made me feel

like I’m doing in life what I set out to be doing,” she said.

Jovana Ramos (freshman, the-ater/Spanish education), vice-pres-ident of the Pride Alliance, said, “I think it was a good opportunity for people who might not be comfort-able with LGBT.” Fritz, Hartman and Ramos all think the Intimacy Project was very successful and hope to have more exhibits in the future. Hartman said. “I absolutely felt it was success-ful. The numbers didn’t matter. The people who were here were really excited and that’s all that matters.”

Nageena Johnson/The PennIUP students came and supported The Intimacy Project, hosted by The Pride Alliance, an art exhibit to beautifully display photographs for the LGBT community.

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Sororities, fraternities give students chance in ‘going Greek’

Students are getting acquainted with their new classes and signs are placed around campus to keep others in the “loop” of happenings around campus.

Some of those signs raise awareness for sorority and fraternity rush.

According to IUP’s Web site, they have moved to a deferred recruitment system, meaning that students can participate in the recruit-ment process only if they meet a certain criteria.

Students must be enrolled as a full-time student, must have at least a 2.25 cumulative grade-point average and have already earned a minimum of 12 credit hours at IUP.

With the many different types of Greek organizations here at IUP, each student is bound to find at least one that they are interested in.

In order for a student to really find

what they are looking for, they must balance out the pros and cons of why they are joining that Greek organi-zation. According to Fastweb.com, deciding to join a fraternity or sorority will have a big impact on a student’s college experience.

Weighing down the options of which house to pledge before making the leap is most important.

The benefits of joining a Greek organization can be the leadership that a student gains from it, the community service that they can provide to create a better area, and most importantly, the academic support those other members of that organization to help you push forward into success.

According to Fastweb.com, a student will have to dedicate time and money into joining a Greek organization.

The Web site also suggests that members of fraternities and sorori-ties form an almost family-like bond, hence the use of the terms brother-hood and sisterhood.

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Pastorek scores 25, Crimson Hawks snap two-game losing streak against SRU

IUP rebounded figuratively and literally from its two-game los-ing streak after a 65-51 victory over Slippery Rock Saturday night.

“It’s always big to win on the road,” Head Coach Jeff Dow said during an interview Monday. “It’s big to be able to win games against the teams below you in the standings.”

Not only did the game put IUP back in the win column, but it also served as freshman-forward Sarah Pastorek’s coming-out party. Pastorek posted her first double double with career-highs with 25 points and 13 rebounds.

Pastorek’s 13 rebounds helped IUP to dominate Slippery Rock on the glass 45-23 — a vast improvement over IUP’s last performance against Cal U.

“There’s nothing really too flashy about it. It’s really simple moves, but she’s very efficient around the bas-ket,” Dow said about Pastorek’s style of play.

“A big thing that we emphasized going into this game was that we really felt like we could be productive

by getting the ball inside to our post players,” Dow said.

“We felt that [Slippery Rock was] a little young in the post. It isn’t to say that we’re not, but we thought we could get some damage done inside.”

That extra emphasis on getting the ball in the post helped fellow forward Hillary Shope post 17 points against Slippery Rock.

Despite having the overwhelming advantage in the rebounding category, Slipper Rock (4-15, 1-5) managed to keep the game interesting throughout due to balanced scoring.

The Rock posted three players in double figures, with guard Julie Molloy leading the way with 15.

One thing that led to Slippery Rock’s downfall, however, was poor free-throw shooting.

Slippery Rock shot only 50 percent from the free-throw line in both halves. While IUP shot a pedes-trian 68 percent from the charity stripe, it did shoot 71 percent in the second half and hit clutch free throws late to put The Rock away once and for all.

“It’s not only just the percentage that we made, but something that we always stress all the time is if you can make more free throws than the

opponent even attempts, pretty rarely you’re going to lose,” Dow said.

IUP made 17 free throws while Slippery Rock attempted only 14, making only seven.

“That goes back to obviously being disciplined defensively and not giving them a lot of free throws, but also […] we got [the ball] inside and we drew a lot of fouls, too,” Dow said.

Another reason why Slippery Rock hung around throughout was because IUP had yet another 20-turnover game — totaling 85 over the last four games. IUP has had more turnovers than its opponents three of the last four games.

“That continues to baffle me,” Dow said. “Just a little bit of care-lessness and hopefully we get that cleaned up.”

The win for IUP improves its record to 11-7 and with 4-2 mark in the PSAC West, is currently in fourth place in the division.

IUP returns home at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to host Edinboro, who sits one spot behind the Crimson Hawks in the PSAC West sporting a 3-3 record inside the division and a 12-7 record overall. The last time these two squads faced was Feb. 25, 2009, which was an IUP victory, 66-55.

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For the fourth time in the past five weeks and the fifth time overall this season, IUP junior forward Darryl Webb has been honored as the PSAC West Player of the Week by the con-ference office.

Webb shared the award this week with Clarion’s Shameel Carty.

Webb averaged 18.5 points and 11.5 rebounds per game in leading ninth-ranked IUP to wins over California and Slippery Rock.

He added four steals, three assists and three blocked shots, hit 12 of 25 field goal attempts and 11 of 15 from the free throw line.

Webb posted his 11th double-dou-ble of the season and 31st of his career with 22 points and 15 rebounds in an 83-74 victory at Slippery Rock on Saturday that kept IUP undefeated

through its first six PSAC West games of the season.

He had 15 points and eight rebounds in a 71-59 home win over California on Wednesday. Webb leads the PSAC and ranks ninth in the nation in rebounding with an average of 11.3 per game, and also stands fifth in the conference and first among Western Division players in scoring at 17.7.

He is eighth in the PSAC and 49th in the country with a .564 field goal per-centage and leads the Crimson Hawks with 28 steals and is second with 20 blocked shots. Webb has moved into 16th place in school history in scoring with 1,163 points, and is 12th with a career scoring average of 15.3 points per game.

IUP is 17-1 overall and is ranked No. 1 in the NCAA Atlantic Region. The Crimson Hawks host Edinboro on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. to end the first half of their PSAC West sched-ule.

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Who’s going to the NCAA tourney? Penn columnist Anthony Scherer thnks he knows

In the middle of conference play, teams are trying to put themselves in position to make the tournament.

With the amount of confer-ences, it will be hard for the elite conferences to have a lot of teams make it.

Here are the teams from the six power conferences that I think will be in the tournament and the amount that I think it will take for them to go to the dance come March:

Big East - The Big East is the top conference in basketball and will annual-lyput eight or nine teams in the tournament, but this year the conference is too balanced and might only receive seven bids. Only Villanova and Syracuse have the talent to make it to the Final Four.

Teams that should make it - Villanova, Syracuse, West Virginia, Georgetown and Pittsburgh.

Teams that need help - Louisville, Notre Dame, South Florida, Connecticut, Marquette, St. John’s, Cincinnati and Providence.

ACC - The ACC is carried by two of the best programs in the country with Duke and North

Carolina, but they have become a con-ference that might put the most teams in the tournament this year.

North Carolina is in an interesting posisition, if they can

make it to 23 wins, they might make the tour-nament.

I don’t think there is a team in the confer-ence that is good enough to make the Final Four. A lot will change in the ACC before the selections and some teams that should be in might miss out.

Teams that should make it - Maryland, Duke, Virginia, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech and Clemson.

Teams that need help - North Carolina and Miami (FL)

Big 12 - This conference has two of the best teams in the country with Texas and Kansas, but after that is hard to find another team that can com-pete.

Either Texas or Kansas will

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Teams that should make it - Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M and Baylor

Teams that need help - Texas Tech, Iowa State, Oklahoma and Nebraska.

SEC - Carried by the best team in the country (Kentucky), the SEC might be a conference to keep an eye when the tour-nament starts up. Vanderbilt and Tennessee are two other teams to watch in this confer-ence. They can run the floor with any team in the country.

Teams that should make it - Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi and Mississippi State

Teams that need help - South Carolina and Alabama

Pac-10 - This might be the worst of the power conferenc-es.

There is a good chance that they might receive only one bid

to the tournament. California is the only team that is worth talking about. The rest are a waste of time.

Teams that should make it - California.

Teams that need help - Arizona State, Washington, Washington State, Arizona, Oregon and USC.

Big 10 - A good conference that has the ability to put a lot of teams in the tournament, but this year it has only one team legit enough to make a run at the Final Four. Michigan State might be the one chance that this conference has to make the Final Four.

I am hoping they are since I picked them before the season started.

Purdue is a good team, but I can’t see them making it pass the Elite Eight.

Teams that should make it - Michigan State, Purdue, Wisconsin and Ohio State.

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