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IUP students and local residents join abortion protest in Wash-ington, D.C.

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The time is approaching for when people celebrate Black History Month and look back at some of America’s famous black leaders.

One of those famous black leaders is Martin Luther King Jr., who played a big role in bringing civil rights to the nation.

IUP will be holding a Martin Luther King Commemorative Day to remember his accomplish-ments in bringing civil rights. The event will include films, a luncheon and reflection workshop throughout the day.

The event will conclude at 7 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium when keynote speaker, Byron Pitts, will speak to the audience. Pitts is a CBS News correspondent and contributing correspondent to the show “60 Minutes.”

A student leaders’ reception with Pitts will be held prior to the keynote address at the multipurpose room at Wallwork Hall, according to the IUP Web site. The reception will begin at 5 p.m. and is expected to last about an hour, according to the Web site.

The event will begin at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Criminson Events Center in Folger hall with the Martin Luther King film fest. The film fest is expected to last until approximately 12

p.m., according to the IUP Web site. The morning film will be followed

by a Martin Luther King luncheon and reflections workshop.

“Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness,” will be the featured film.

The film is scheduled to begin at approximately 12 p.m. at the Crimson Events Center in Folger Hall and is planned to end at 2:30 p.m., according to the Web site.

The luncheon and reflections workshop will be followed by a special film showing, “Precious.”

According to the Web site, the film is about a 16-year-old Claireece “Precious” Jones who was offered a chance to transfer to an alternative school, after being abused at home.

The film won many awards at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, according to the Web site.

The African American Cultural Center will also be kicking off Black History Month with a community service drive Feb. 1.

The drive is looking for every-thing from toasters to staplers to volunteer time, but wouldn’t turn down a cash donation, either.

All items and money collected by the drive will go to the Eastern Orthodox Foundation. The drive will be running from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the AACC. The AACC can be found on the ground floor at Susan Delaney Hall.

The community service collec-tion drive is the most recent in a series of events sponsored by the African American Cultural Center. Other events this year include the Kwanzaa Celebration and Halloween’s pumpkin decorating contest. The AACC can be contacted by visiting during their normal hours, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1-4:30 p.m., or calling 724-357-2455.

The Eastern Orthodox Foundation, located in Penn Run, is a charitable organization founded in 1966.

In the last 44 years, it has provided food, shelter and general aid to people in need in the surrounding area. For more information about its activities, the Eastern Orthodox Foundation can be contacted at 724-349-4821.

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Two people were arrested and charged with multiple crimes after allegedly assaulting a police officer, according to borough police.

Police reported that Anna Kwaczala, 19, Greensburg, and Ryan Steele, 19, New Alexandria, were found fighting at 11:21 p.m. Friday in the 900 block of Oakland Avenue.

Kwaczala and Steele both led

police on a short foot chase before they were shortly apprehended, police reported.

Police reported that Steele allegedly began to fight with officers and actively resist arrest.

As police were attempting to subdue Steele, Kwaczala allegedly went over and began assaulting the arresting officer to try to free Steele, police reported.

Police said that both were arrested and were taken to the police station. Both were charged with several offenses, police reported.

Steele was charged with disorderly conduct, public drunken-ness, underage drinking, possession of marijuana and paraphernalla, police reported.

Kwaczala was charged with aggra-vated assault on a police officer, disorderly conduct, public drunken-ness, assault, harassment, under-age drinking and obstruction of of administration of law, police reported.

She was lodged into the county jail where she was given a $10,000 unsecured bond, police reported.

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Police blotter

Alcohol violations• At 1:38 a.m. Sunday, Brent M. Lidwell, 19, Bladburg, was found intoxicated

in the 600 block of Washington Street after he was observed falling on his face, according to borough police. Police reported that Lidwell assaulted an EMT and resisted arrest. He was arrested and charged with assault, resisting arrest, harassment, disorderly conduct, public drunkenness and underage drinking, police reported.

• Borough police reported that at 5:37 a.m. Saturday, Christopher A. Yutzey, 19, Brush Valley, was cited for underage drinking after he attempted to start an altercation and suffered cuts to his arm after breaking out a window at his residence at 429 S. Fisher Ave. He was treated at the scene for his injuries, police reported.

• At 2:22 a.m. Saturday, Kyle T. Marshall, 19, Conemaugh, was arrested and cited for underage drinking and public drunkenness after he was found stum-bling back and forth on West Avenue near the HUB, according to campus police. Marshall was lodged in the county jail after the person who arrived to pick him up was found intoxicated also, police reported.

• Campus police reported that at 12:05 a.m. Saturday, Casey R. Jones-Ponder, 18, Kittanning, was arrested and cited with underage drinking and public drunkenness after he was found intoxicated in the main lobby of the Pratt Suites. He was taken to Indiana Regional Medical Center after he became ill and began to vomit, police reported.

Criminal mischief Someone damaged the driver’s side front window of a 2002 Hyundai Santa

Fe at 12:30 p.m. Sunday in the 400 block of South Seventh Street, according to borough police. Anyone with information should contact borough police at 724-349-2121.

Disorderly conduct• Borough police reported that at 1:51 a.m. Sunday, Colvin Smith, 20, Carlisle,

was charged with disorderly conduct and underage drinking after he was found leaving the scene of a fight in the 800 block of Wayne Avenue.

• At 1:20 a.m. Friday, Joseph Lloyd, 34, Oak Creek, Wis., was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, unlawful restraint, disorderly conduct, harassment and public drunkenness after he was observed shouting profanities as he was being escorted from Wolfendale’s Bar in the 500 block of Philadelphia Street, according to borough police. Lloyd became combative with officers while they attempted to arrest him, police reported. Police reported that an officer was injured during the arrest attempt and that a second altercation happened inside the bar when he alleg-edly pinned a woman up against a table and restrained her. Lloyd was lodged in the county jail, police reported.

• At 12:48 a.m. Friday, Damon Boykiw, Indiana, was charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, harassment, assault and public drunkenness after he was found unconscious following an altercation with another man, according to borough police. Police reported Boykiw attacked a medic that was assisting him and also fought with police. He was taken to IRMC and was released to a sober adult, police reported.

HarassmentBorough police reported that at 2:53 a.m. Saturday, Terrance Sample,

Philadelphia, was charged with harassment following an altercation with a known woman at 633 Philadelphia St.

Items burgled• At 3:18 a.m. Saturday, Michael Coleman, Pittsburgh, was cited for retail

theft after he was found attempting to steal a Reese’s Peanut Butter Egg and potato chips from Sheetz at 768 Wayne Ave., according to borough police.

• Someone stole a laptop computer, text books, a book bag, DVDs and a Nintendo Wii sometime between 10 p.m. Friday and 3 a.m. Saturday from a residence in the 300 block of South Sixth Street, according to borough police. Anyone with information should contact borough police.

– compiled from police reports

Indiana police officer assaulted Friday nightBy SeAn BrACken

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One person was charged and many others were cited for multiple crimes after borough police broke up a large party at 5:37 a.m. Saturday.

Police reported that a man was found trying to force him-self into the window of a resi-dence at 429 S. Fisher Ave. Police reported that he made his way into

the residence. Police reported that there were

several people jumping from the second story window of the residence when police surrounded it.

A person, later identified as Rochele Justus, of Etters, was found unconscious in the basement of the residence, police reported. Police reported that she was transferred to IRMC for treatment.

Police said they identified the host of the large party as Eric Skedel,

20, Homer City. Skedel was charged by police with

underage drinking, furnishing alco-hol to minors, disorderly conduct, corruption of minors, recklessly endangering of another person and for violating the borough’s dis-orderly gathering ordinance, police reported.

In addition, police reported that an additional 27 people received citations for underage drinking as to what resulted at the party.

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Rebuilding Port-au-Prince could take a decade or longer and ultimately completely reform the way Haiti is organized, foreign leaders said at a conference Monday.

Haiti’s prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, told envoys from 19 other countries and international organizations that the Jan. 12 earthquake crippled not just the city of Port-au-Prince, but the entire country. In the future, he said, Haiti’s authority and its resources must be decentralized.

“In 30 seconds, Haiti lost 60 percent of its GDP [gross domestic product],” Bellerive said. “We need to review the whole country.”

Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper, urged his colleagues to stay committed to Haiti’s reconstruction.

“It is not an exaggeration to say that 10 years of hard work at least awaits the world in Haiti,” Harper said.

While the conference is focused on long-term reconstruction, Bellerive also passed along a more urgent appeal for immediate assis-

tance from Haiti’s president, Rene Preval.

Bellerive said his country needs at least 200,000 tents to provide shelter to those left homeless by the earthquake.

He also stressed the need for medical care, saying hospitals and clinics in other regions of the country are nearly filled with patients.

And he asked for prosthetics and orthopedic specialists to treat the thousands of people who lost limbs to injury.

“I could continue on all of these emergencies, there are many,” Bellerive said. “It is very difficult for me to talk reconstruction when we do not take these other matters into account.”

In Haiti, the Preval government said there was a dire tent short-age in the country before the year’s first rainy season begins in about 10 days.

It issued an urgent interna-tional plea Monday for tens of thousands more six- to eight- person tents to shelter Haitians in and around the capital of Port-au-Prince.

Meantime, the International Organization for Migration, the intergovernment group coping with

the homeless crisis, said it has only received about two-thirds of the $30 million it sought in a Jan. 15 appeal for tents and other aid.

By Monday morning, IOM estimated, some 692,000 peo-ple were living in 591 scattered settlements tent cities set up, many spontaneously, to shelter people left homeless by the 7.0 earthquake that destroyed many communities on Jan. 12.

“It is likely that this figure is much higher, even though many people have left the capital to seek shelter in other towns and villages,” the IOM said.

In other developments, Monday:The United Nations said it

had so far hired 5,000 Haitians in quake-torn areas, at $4 a day plus food rotations, to sweep roads and crush debris into smaller pieces.

About 40 percent of the workforce was women. The U.N. planned to hire another 5,000 by week’s end.

Aid continued to flow to the country. A pair of Miami Herald reporters headed to the Dominican Republic Monday morn-ing spotted a steady flow of food and other goods coming into Haiti in containers stacked on semi-trailers.


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Haiti’s plea: We need tents now, long-term aidBy Jacqueline charles

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If you run a news business, stay-ing fairly clean used to be fairly easy. What you published was produced, by and large, by journalists who worked exclusively for you.

You didn’t accept material from outsiders apart from freelancers you knew or bona fide news agencies. PR firms and advocacy groups routine-ly offered you articles, but no self-respecting news outlet would sim-ply publish them, even if the authors wore the sackcloth of public-spirited philanthropy.

No longer. Today’s media, keen to save money, are deepening their reli-ance on part-time contributors, main-ly because freelancers come cheap. And established media are keen to “partner” with a new breed of stand-alone journalism initiatives affiliated with high-minded foundations bank-rolled by retired big-shots who want to be remembered for something other than the industries they pillaged.

So you have more and more jour-nalism produced by people who are financially dependent on shadowy offstage entities. The 300 bucks that freelancer gets for a story that took her a week obviously doesn’t pay her bills; so who does? The nonprofit that funds those in-depth stories on health reform — its backers really have no agenda?

The result is a potent new challenge to traditional safeguards against con-flict of interest, which, it’s becoming increasingly obvious, are either too weak, too harsh or flat-out misdi-rected. Consider two cases in the past month.

The New York Times halted a monthly column on corporate inno-vation written by a Harvard Business School faculty member because her December column was based in part on a visit to a 3M Company facility that 3M paid for.

Times policy prohibits contributors from accepting anything of value from the subjects of coverage.

The paper sacked two other free-lancers too, one of them, curiously, for

taking a corporate-paid trip to Jamaica for a project unrelated to his Times work.

On the lenient end of the spectrum, The Washington Post stirred up a flap on New Year’s Eve by publishing an article produced by something called The Fiscal Times. That’s a startup funded by Peter G. Peterson, a bil-lionaire investment banker, former chairman of Lehman, one-time U.S. commerce secretary under President Nixon.

The article described, approvingly, efforts to create a bipartisan deficit-reduction commission, a cause reput-edly dear to Peterson’s heart.

It didn’t mention, according to a subsequent protest letter, fierce opposition to the proposal from 40 national organizations that fear the commission would gut Social Security and Medicare.

Now, I don’t know whether the Harvard professor was corrupted by an all-expense-paid trip to St. Paul, Minn., or whether what the Post claimed was its “complete editorial control” was enough to neutralize Fiscal Times’ policy bias, if any.

But that’s exactly the problem with conflict of interest: You never know. The best you can do is to identify offstage influences — invisible con-stituencies — that seem reasonably likely to have a discernible effect on the journalism that’s produced.

The upsurge in so-called nonprofit journalism is just as problematic.

It seems unreasonable to think that these backers — who unlike tra-ditional advertisers are funding jour-nalism explicitly to pursue civic, not commercial, goals — are then going to be divinely indifferent to the actual coverage that their money engenders.

Regardless, what’s undeniable is that the cumulative influence of this burgeoning source of journalism is to ensure that the topics these nonprof-its favor get a first-class ride aboard the few channels capable of com-manding public attention in a signifi-cant way.

As the saying goes, even if they’re not telling you what to think, they’re telling you what to think about. And that’s power.

Special interests write ‘news’ at readers’ expenseBy Edward wassErman

McClatchy NewspapersMCT

Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 by assembling a broad coali-tion of Democrats and independents, but since the summer, independents have been deserting Obama’s cause, and not only in Massachusetts.

That’s what has White House strategists and Democrats in Congress most worried about this fall’s elections: Independents, the country’s most fickle voters, are in the driver’s seat.

They’re unhappy about the econ-omy, worried about the potential costs of the Democrats’ health-care bills and disappointed that Obama’s promises of bipartisanship didn’t come true.

And they’re quick to fire a party that isn’t delivering the goods — as they did in Massachusetts’ special Senate election last week.

“They are the least loyal voters to a president of any party,” Democratic pollster Mark Mellman said last week. “That’s why they’re called indepen-dents. They took George W. Bush down too.”

Since 2006, there has been a massive “dealignment” from party allegiance, with more voters call-

ing themselves independents today than at any time since the invention of modern polling.

In recent months, independents’ sentiment has started to swing away from the Democrats. Over the course of 2009, the share of independents who said they “leaned Republican” grew from 31 percent to 40 per-cent; those who leaned Democratic dropped from 47 percent to 38 per-cent.

Many of those independents voted for Bush in 2004 and Obama in 2008, but they didn’t turn into liber-als along the way. The independents’ underlying ideology has actually been fairly stable, even if their voting pat-tern hasn’t.

“They’re conflicted centrists,” said Andrew Kohut of the nonpar-tisan Pew Research Center, which did a major study of independent voters last year. “They are closer to the Democrats on social issues, but they’re closer to the Republicans in being skeptical about big govern-ment.”

That last factor is part of what’s hurting Obama and the Democrats now. Independents are “leery of government control of health care,” Kohut said, “even though they say they favor healthcare reform.”

For months, Republicans have charged that Obama’s health care

proposals would raise costs to mid-dle-class taxpayers without giving them much in return, and polls show that the charge has stuck. Most voters who identify themselves as Democrats continue to support the healthcare bills, but most indepen-dents now say they do not.

Another thing that unifies inde-pendents is their anger. They were angry about the federal government’s bailouts of Wall Street banks — a big-government policy Obama endorsed, even though it was launched by his predecessor.

Obama’s first reaction to the Massachusetts election was to unleash his inner populist, proposing tougher measures to regulate banks and telling voters that he’s every bit as angry about the economy as they are.

But that could be a tough sell. Obama campaigned on hope, not resentment.

He’s famous for being cool — the opposite of angry. Can the unflap-pable Obama turn himself into a credible rabble-rouser by pounding the podium in his State of the Union address on Wednesday? Not likely.

In any case, most independents — contrary to claims from the “tea party” camp — are looking for bipar-tisanship and centrism, not bloody-shirt populism.

Independents are calling electoral shotsBy doylE mcmanus

Los Angeles TimesMCT

Today’s media, keen to save money, are deep-ening their reliance on part-time contributors,

mainly because freelancers come cheap.


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Civil rights. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, civil rights is defined as the nonpolitical rights of a citizen; especially the rights of personal liberty guaranteed to United States citizens by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution.

These are freedoms that most of us take for granted, things that we expect to be in place for us. Yet it seems astounding that no less that 50 years ago, all people we not treated equal and that civil rights were segregated to a select few.

How is it that we Americans – land of the free – were capable of being so cruel and ignorant to those of different races, sexes, languages and colors? And isn’t it amazing how far we’ve come since then? And how far we have yet to go?

But despite what we still need to accomplish, we have come a long way from the 1960’s, mostly because of legendary and amazing people like Martin Luther King Jr.

He personally helped pave the way for nonviolent activism and was one of the forefront leaders of the civil rights movement. His efforts, his actions, his words and his assassination have left a resonating effect on society as we know it today. In short, Martin Luther King Jr. helped to make the world a more equal and compassionate place and, anyone who can accomplish such a feat, is most certainly worthy of remembering.

January is a month to remember and celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. and his existence, for which so many people in the United States and around the world owe thanks. As for the students of IUP, we should all take a page out of King’s book and be more compassionate to others. We need to volunteer and try to benefit society by making things a bit more equal. Most importantly, we need to throw away our prejudices and be more welcoming to everyone, no matter who they are, where they are from or what they look like. Get involved with activities and celebrations this month on campus that raises awareness about King and his contributions. In doing so, you might just make a difference and emulate the great man who you are honoring.

Martin Luther King, Jr. events time for remeberance, reflection

letter to the editor

On several issues, Obama has done little to change policies set by President George W. Bush.

Just ask members of Alaska’s environmental community, who have been trying to get Obama’s adminis-tration to back off Bush-era plans to drill for oil.

The Alaska Wilderness League recently sent out alerts that noted five recent oil spills in that state, the latest involving roughly 126,000 gal-lons of diesel oil spilled a week ago

from an underground storage tank as a ship was off-loading the fuel on Adak Island.

Another spill occurred Dec. 23, when a tugboat struck Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound and breached two of its fuel tanks, carrying 33,500 gallons of diesel.

Bligh Reef, you might recall, was what the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit in 1989, spilling 11 million gallons of oil.

Environmental and American Indian groups have accused the Obama administration’s Interior Department of following the same

weak permitting process they saw with Bush. Interior’s Mineral Management Service has approved drilling in the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Sea.

Noting the potential harm if there is a spill, Rebecca Noblin of the Center for Biological Diversity in Anchorage said:

“If polar bears are to survive into the coming century, we must reject this kind of rushed, poorly planned oil drilling in favor of a more precau-tionary approach.”

Wonder if the polar bears think Obama’s different from Bush.

Obama’s policies for environment mirror that of predecessorsMCT

I am writing this letter in a confused and frustrated state. In today’s society obesity is finding itsself to be the norm and on the rise.

Sure, one can blame it on one too many Big Macs, or too many carbs on Thursday night.

But I feel that there is more at play, at least on IUP’s campus. As the majority of IUP students know, there are not many places to go to work out on campus; the

few places that are available are grossly overcrowded and the hours that they are open are disgustingly short.

Let’s face it: Closing at 8 p.m. on Friday night

and only being open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends is insulting, to say the least.

So I must ask, each student pays an activity fee every semester and a portion of that goes toward the fitness center.

So why aren’t more places open for student use, such as Zink, or why is the HUB not open longer?

It’s understandable that in today’s economy a budget is important, but at what price is a student’s body paying for this?

Standing in line for more than 20 minuets does not count toward your workout!

—Nick [email protected]

During the winter season, it can be quite difficult for one to be fashionable. Thanks to freezing tem-peratures and relentless winds, we are forced to hide under multiple

layers. However, amidst these lay-ers remains ample room for style and trend. On the other side of the spectrum, this also indicates that there is equal room for fashion mishap and error. With that said, provided below are five fashion dos and five fashion don’ts of this winter season:

• DO wear long, “puss-in-boots” type and over-the-knee boots. According to glamourvanity.com, many fashion experts predict these boots to be an essential accessory that goes with all types of clothing.

• DO go back to the retro look with French chic by wearing cinched-waist, belted coats.

• DO accessorize with scarves. Use of embellishments will high-ly rise this year, and what better way to carry out this trend than to wear a decorative scarf? After all, necklaces can’t be seen under thick layers or keep you warm.

• DO steal from your boyfriend’s closet. Anastasia Barbieri, fashion edi-tor in chief of Vogue Homme, issued the idea of women wearing tailored menswear as being this week’s “most wanted trend.” Wearing his blazer, cardigan or even his trench coat can be transformed into something sexy, unfussy and utterly feminine.

• DO mix and match. In a 2010 trend report on Style.com, you can

find that when it comes to prints, more is definitely more this season.

It stated that, “If designers like Dries Van Noten and Donatella Versace have their way, you’ll be mixing and matching from head to toe ... tribal motifs and Givenchy’s digital

designs were engineered for maxi-mum impact.”

• DON’T wear stilettos this winter. “It is never

in style or glam-orous to slip and fall on your behind

while walking on the icy ground that

winter so kindly pro-vides,” said Justine

Woytowish. (junior/communications

media)• DON’T make the

mistake of sporting a too-short, mid-riff-exposing jacket.

“Experts say this winter is all about strong silhouettes and sophisticated glamour,” according to glamourvan-ity.com.

Keri Weaver (junior, environmen-tal studies) said, “It’s definitely not sophisticated to bare your midriff and even worse, it’s not sophisticated to

be dumb. There’s no chance a person with their stomach hanging out can possibly be warm. Thus, it is a very impractical choice.”

• DON’T spend more money on a scarf than you did on your entire ensemble. “Sure, designer cashmere scarves and pashminas are incred-ibly soft and adorable, but we’re in college,” said Laura Dail (freshman, health/physical education). “So don’t waste so much cash on something that is merely an accessory.”

• DON’T go overboard with vol-ume and appear slouchy. The rule of thumb is, of course, balance. “The most voluminous piec-es should get tempered with some bare skin — pleated trousers with a bitty camisole” according to the article “How Much Volume Should I Go For?” on Elle.com.

• DON’T wear real fur. Although prints are very ‘in’ this season, there is no need to exhibit a winter jack-et made entirely from an animal. “Personally, I don’t think it’s ever a trend to promote the killing of animals,” said Maureen Morsek (senior/hospitality management). “If you must opt for this look, at least go for faux fur.”

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Starbucks supports stronger recycling standards, goes green

Starbucks has a strong commit-ment to the environment and corpo-rate sustainability.

In the past year, the company became a member of the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Volume Certification pilot program, host-ed a Cup Summit to increase coffee cup recycling, and revamped its food menu to offer healthier alternatives to customers. Now the company is support-ing stronger recycling measures on a national level. Jim Hanna, director of Environmental Impact at Starbucks, spoke Friday at the U.S. Conference of

Mayors. Hanna encouraged commu-nity leaders to assess current recycling programs and find ways to improve them. For those who lead a community without an organized recycling

system,Starbucks encourages them to get a

recycling program in place.Starbucks has more than 11,000

locations in the United States, and the company is finding that the incon-sistency of recycling capabilities is

proving to be a challenge. Speaking about the issue, Hanna said in a press release, “Mayors are uniquely posi-

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more broadly recyclable in form and in practice.”

Starbucks is committed to do its part, as well.

In 2006, Starbucks launched the first paper coffee cup that was made with post-consumer recycled fiber.

In 2008 they announced several coffee cup-related goals including making paper and plastic cups recy-clable by 2012, serving 25 percent of its beverages in reusable cups by 2015, and having an onsite recycling station at Starbucks locations by 2015.

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Artists often carry the burden of trying to create something new or in a that hasn’t been done before. Daniel Kuhn (graduate studies, art) has done this with his M.F.A. thesis exhibi-tion entitled “Containment,” which was presented at the Kipp Gallery in Sprowls Hall from Friday to Sunday.

“You have to consider the fact that if you’re going to do something, you have to make it yours. You have to make it original,” Kuhn said.

According to the artist’s statement, which was available at the exhibition, “Containment” is “a body of work that ties a personal history to the layering of images on vessels.”

Several pieces were displayed at the gallery beginning Jan. 19 and ran through Saturday, with an opening reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday.

“I grew up in a highly educated household,” Kuhn said. “Growing up in a blue-collar town, all of my friends and neighbors were just different. I had to figure out who I was, [and learn to] contain myself.”

Having a fascination with the pan-oramic image, Kuhn utilized his skills to create a work that reflects giving up control to the material, and letting that material react.

“The work is meant to reflect certain environments,” Kuhn said. “It can be broadly attached to the environments of the working class

and also to the environments of isolation. Isolation is where I felt the most free, whole.”

Materials used included porce-lain and stoneware, which are two different types of clay, shino glaze and photo decals that were fired in the kiln to become permanent.

“The show consists of 35 pieces and I made the majority of them in the past 40 days,” Kuhn said.

“Because it’s a thesis show, it’s an intellectual project,” he said regarding the audience he had in mind.

Kuhn estimated about 50 people attended the opening reception Friday night, including local artists and faculty as well as family and friends.

“Regionally, the work is extremely approachable,” he added.When asked about his experience as an artist at IUP, Kuhn said, “This department goes above and beyond.”

For further information about the artist and his work, visit kuhnclay-works.com, the artist’s Web site, which contains samples of Kuhn’s ceramics, photography and other creations.

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Gillespie changes face of pop rock music, proves it in new album

In modern popular rock music today, Aaron Gillespie is on the top of the talent curve.

With his knowledge of every instru-ment you can think of, he could join any band on any instrument and have no problems.

While his main band, Underoath, was writing their album Define the Great Line, Gillespie began writing and working on music for The Almost.

For The Almost’s first record, all of the music and lyrics (except for a few

songs featuring Kenny Vasoli, bassist of The Starting Line) were written and recorded by Gillespie. The album was a great success and the fans loved it.

For the next year, fans would be waiting in wonder as to whether or not The Almost would be putting out any new music.

During that time, Underoath was touring and recording extensively and Gillespie was in dispose.

But their waiting would soon be over when, in May 2008, Gillespie announced that The Almost would be returning to the studio to record a fol-low up to their first re-cord.

In November, they had a minor

setback, losing their drummer, Kenny Bozich, due to personal reasons.

That was followed by an announcement on a Tooth and Nail podcast.

Gillespie announced on the podcast that “the new album will be more of a com-plete band effort.”

The Almost entered the studio in May 2009 and in 5 short months they released Monster Monster.

While they recorded, Gillespie had to play drums because of their lack of drummer. The record

starts off right where the previous one left off with the title track

“Monster Monster.” It is a fast-paced, catchy rock song

that starts off strong and doesn’t stop.

From there, the record dips into many

different genres and even has some

bluegrass feelings in some of the songs.

The album’s seventh track, Hand Grenade, is the main

ballad on the record. It is a well-written acoustic love

song that has some of the best-writ-

ten lyrics of the album. The record itself isn’t as aggressive

as their previous release, but what sets it apart from its predecessor is its maturity and deep, meaningful lyr-ics.

Overall, the album has all of the qualities of the record before it, and then some. It is a giant step forward, both musically and lyrically, for the band.

They have made a culturally relevant album that can relate to many people, and will be relatable for many years to come. For more information on The Almost visit their Myspace page at myspace.com/thealmost.

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Hair talk: What’s new in

hair in this season?

While we’re excitedly looking forward to the new trends in shoes, dresses and pants, let’s not forget to update our most important accessory — our hair.

We recently chatted with celebrity stylist Philip Pelusi — who has upscale salons in Pittsburgh and New York and employs hundreds of stylists — about the biggest trends in hair for 2010.

Color: Pelusi likens hair color’s role in personal style to that of fabric — essential and able to make or break a look. And this year, he sees things getting a bit warmer.

“I’m seeing a very strong trend with what I’d call honey hair,” he said, “getting away from the brassy and really bright, white blondes.”

He sees the trend as something women of many hair colors can try.

“Nice honey colors [can work] for people with medium brown or blond,” he said. “And if they’re a medium brown to brunette, it’s more like a cin-namon color. They need a richer tone, and when you get that cinnamon on a darker head, you get a nice, honey-tone look.”

Another trend in color may have some in need of a touch-up breath-ing a sigh of relief. That’s right, roots are in.

Style: Pelusi says haircuts are going shorter this season, with more volume and natural waves, a departure from the long, stick-straight styles that Jennifer Aniston and other celebrities have made famous.

“I think we’re getting away from flat irons, without question,” he said. “Straight hair is out. We’re going with a little more volume but not like the ‘80s.”

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The Crimson Hawks were dealt their first loss in four games at the hands of a powerful Gannon squad by a score of 75-59.

Outside of the first five-and-a-half minutes of the game, the contest was never really in doubt as Gannon continued its undefeated season in a rather dominating fashion.

IUP had tied the game at 9 after a layup by freshman Sarah Pastorek. From that point until the end of the half, Gannon outscored IUP 31-16 and saw its lead get as large as 20.

IUP didn’t do itself any favors during Gannon’s first half by turning the ball over 12 times, leading to easy buckets for Gannon.

In the second half, IUP took better care of the ball and shot 50 percent from the field and from 3-point range, but it was not enough to even pull the deficit under 10. Gannon didn’t have

a tremendous second half, only out-scoring the Crimson Hawks 35-34, but did just enough to keep the Crimson Hawks at bay, as the first half barrage from Gannon was too much to over-come for the Hawks.

“[Gannon is] a very good team,” Head Coach Jeff Dow said during an interview Monday afternoon. “We knew that going in.”

“It seemed like any little mini run that we went on, they answered with one of their own,” he added.

The balanced offensive attack IUP usually has was not there against Gannon, as only two players scored in double figures (Eryn Withers and Hillary Shope).

The Golden Knights had a balanced offensive attack of their posting four players in double figures, with junior forward Shanna Thompson coming off the bench to lead the way with 18.

The win for Gannon puts them at 20-0 and gives them sole possession of first place in the PSAC West. The win also gives Gannon 30 consecutive

regular-season wins. Ironically, the last team to beat the Golden Knights in the regular season was IUP more than a year ago on Jan. 24, 2009.

The loss for the Crimson Hawks puts their record to 10-6, 3-1 in the PSAC West and into a three-way tie for second place with Mercyhurst and IUP’s next opponent Cal U (5:30 p.m. Wednesday at Memorial Field House).

No matter what the records or the rankings, Cal U is always a tough opponent for IUP and this coming Wednesday will be no different, as the Vulcans are riding the momentum of a three-game winning streak and are currently ranked No. 21 in the nation.

Dow hopes that his team’s effort in the second half against Gannon could carry over into the contest against the Vulcans.

The last time these two met in the regular season was Feb. 25, 2009, a game in which Cal U handed IUP a one-point loss.

IUP did, however, hold a victory

the last time these two squads met on Mar. 7, 2009, when IUP clinched its third consecutive PSAC conference title.

One thing that could play into IUP’s

hands is guard Amber Dubyak. A former Vulcan, as she transferred

from Cal U after last season and may be able to give some insight into the Cal U players.

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An impeccable force: Manning, Colts await Saints in Super Bowl

It’s doubtful that in the massive pile of humanity on the Louisiana Superdome turf following New Orleans’ dramatic overtime victory Sunday, Saints players were thinking about whom they were

going to face in two weeks.Maybe they should have

been. If the Saints are going to have a chance against the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV in Miami on Feb. 7, they’re going to have to start prepar-ing for quarterback Peyton Manning right now.

At the same time the Saints were benefiting from five

Minnesota Vikings turnovers in the NFC Championship Game, the New York Jets were on their way home wondering what they could have done to stop Manning.

All the Jets came with was the No. 1 defense in the NFL, and they left Lucas Oil Stadium bruised and battered to the tune of 461 yards and 30 points.

If the best defense in foot-ball can’t hang with Manning, how will the Saints’ 25th-ranked defense?

“It’s hard to play a guy like Peyton,” Jets safety Jim Leonhard said. “He’s at the top of his game. When you’re the MVP, you’re playing good foot-ball. I think he really steps up in big games. You have to take advantage of every mistake he makes because he’s not going to make very many of them. He’s really playing well.”

The matchup many people wanted to see — Manning vs. Brett Favre — didn’t material-ize.

In fact, this could be the best Super Bowl quarterback matchup since Favre and John Elway faced each other after the 1997 season. In the first duel between two No. 1 seeds since 1993 (Dallas vs. Buffalo), it will be the NFL’s most valuable player (Manning) against the NFL’s top-rated passer (Drew Brees). All Brees did against a formidable Vikings defense Sunday was complete 17 of 31 passes for 197 yards and three touchdowns.

It wasn’t the best game he has had this season, but the kind of fortitude he showed in leading the Saints to a dramatic overtime victory mirrored Manning’s perfor-mance against the Jets.

Looking at common oppo-nents won’t give you much material on how these two teams match up. They had five regular-season opponents in common — Buffalo, the Jets, Miami, New England and St. Louis. The Saints went 5-0 in those games; the Colts went 3-2.

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