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OAKS campaign aims for impact
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University recently named 2017-18 College of Distinction By MATTIE WINOWITCH Executive Editor
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After being unveiled on Sept. 22, the Opportunity and Knowledge Strengthened (OAKS) campaign has already gone into effect as those in Institutional Advancement begin planning.
Goal to double university endowments in five-year period By HARRY OAKES
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The unveiling of the Opportunity and Knowledge Strengthened (OAKS) campaign on Sept. 22 marked the beginning of an initiative announced at the right time, according to Stacy Brodak, vice president of Institutional Advancement. The five-year OAKS campaign is seeking to establish relationships with potential donors during “a critical time in our history,” as the campaign’s informational brochure states.
“It’s the right time for us because of all the good things that are happening: all the great things our students are doing,” Brodak said. According to Waynesburg University President Douglas G. Lee, it is the right time for the campaign because of the great story the university has to tell. “The impetus for moving this campaign at this point is the great story that we’re able to tell right now,” said Lee. “There is a great story to be told, and when you have a great story to tell, people want to support that
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Zac Yonko and Marla Holland were crowned at halftime during the football game Sept. 30.
story.” According to Lee, the campaign’s goal is to double the number of the university’s endowments within this five-year period. An endowment is a financial gift to an institution. The university currently manages over 92 endowed funds. Thus, the university hopes to manage at least 184 endowed funds by the end of the five-year campaign. The brochure defines an endowment of at least $20,000 as OAKS >> A3
Waynesburg University was recently named a national College of Distinction for the second consecutive year, as well as a Christian College of Distinction and a Pennsylvania College of Distinction. The Colleges of Distinction website and guidebook have recognized and honored schools throughout the U.S. for excellence in undergraduate-focused higher education since 2000. According to Jacqueline Palko, director of Admissions, this recognition is a testament to the culture of excellence at Waynesburg. “While the students and staff of Waynesburg University recognize they are changing the lives of Waynesburg students, this recognition reaffirms our work and emphasizes our success to the community,” said Palko. According to the College of
Distinction guidelines, institutions that are honored must demonstrate results in the “Four Distinctions, which include engaged students, great teaching, vibrant community and successful outcomes. For faculty and administration at Waynesburg, Palko said a great deal of work went into achieving the title of College of Distinction the first time, and that amount of work carried over to receiving the second title. “The entire campus must work diligently to assure we are fully devoted to the future of our students,” said Palko. As admissions director and a representative of the institution, Palko feels proud of Waynesburg for becoming a College of Distinction two years in a row. “As an employee, I am proud and honored to work for a university that nurtures and develops its students,”
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Yonko, Holland named King and Queen By TEGHAN SIMONTON Managing Editor
For Zac Yonko, senior English major, and Marla Holland, senior psychology major, being crowned Homecoming king and
queen was a perfect capstone to their experiences at Waynesburg University. Yonko and Holland were honored at the Homecoming football game against Grove City College Saturday, Sept. 30. They were chosen from a court of 10 potential candidates. “I was super excited just to represent Waynesburg,” said Holland. “Because I love Waynesburg, and I love participating in all the events that we
have here, and I love being really spirited.” Even as a member of Homecoming Court, Holland spent the morning before the game doing what she has always done: helping out with various student activities. Fully adorned in her black and orange gown, knowing she wouldn’t have time to change, Holland assisted the Psychology Club at JacketFest, attended an alumni festival for track & field, helped load the equipment truck for
pep band and made it down to the field in time to w ar m up and p l ay i n g i n the band. “Everyone was like, ‘Are
you going to play the tuba in that dress?’ and I was like, ‘Of course, I am,’” said Holland. Holland said her activities are especially important to her, and the opportunity to get involved on campus was one of the driving forces that brought her here. “It’s just part of the tradition,” she said. “Part of what really got me excited to be at Waynesburg was being in pep band and taking part in the events and the friends that I’ve made.” For Yonko, being on Homecoming Court was just another example of the love and support of his friends at Waynesburg University. He said that, over the past four years, as he explored and tried several majors to find his path, he relied heavily on the relationships he made. “My favorite memory is definitely just meeting the different students and professors. Growing in my faith, too. I thought I was going to be a sports broadcasting major when I first came in, and now I’m going to be a pastor. ROYAL >> A3
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LAS VEGAS SHOOTING AROUSES THOUGHT IN NATION
Hundreds of people gathered this weekend to see the traveling Vietnam memorial at the Greene County Fairgrounds.
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FIRST LOSS TO GROVE CITY SINCE 2009
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On Homecoming weekend, the football team was unable to snap its losing streak, which has now reached five games.
Chrystal Brown, a motorcycle-riding, nailpainting mother-of-three stays late each night preparing desserts in Benedum Dining Hall.
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Student Senate welcomes five new members in ceremony By JOE SMELTZER
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Waynesburg University’s Student Senate welcomed five new members Tuesday, Sept. 26, in a ceremony on the third floor of Stover at 5:30 p.m. Sophomore psychology major, Mikayla Haggerty, along with freshmen Holly Ludvigsen, Andrew Hreha, Claire Wherthey and Daniel Booth, were sworn in by Student Senate President Nick Cordova. Haggerty, the sophomore of the group, was sworn in first. After that, the four freshmen were sworn in by Cordova, after reciting an oath. Ludvigsen, who came to Waynesburg from Fremont, Nebraska, was heavily involved in extracurricular activities while in high school. Some of her activities included President of Key Club, Vice President of Athletic Letter Club and President of National Honor Society. Ludvigsen said that her experience in high school, as well as her
involvement as a Stover Scholar at Waynesburg University helped convince her to run for Student Senate. “I had a lot of leadership positions in high school, so I was kind of used to that,” Ludvigsen said. “A lot of the [Stover Scholars] are also in Student Senate, and they were super nice, and I want to be a part of something that’s helping to make Waynesburg University even better than it already is.” More specifically, Ludvigsen looks forward to working with Operation Christmas Child, which is a project Student Senate partners with. Hreha, a journalism major, was involved with student council for all four years at Apollo-Ridge high school and was president of student council his senior year. Hreha said that this experience helped lead him to Student Senate at Waynesburg. “I always try to take a leadership role wherever I am,” Hreha said. “In high
school, I got on the student council, and that really started to get me interested in leadership, so much as the student organizations, so things like Student Senate really caught my eye when I came to Waynesburg and made me want to pursue that.” Hreha said one challenge of being in Student Senate is the size difference of Waynesburg University compared to his high school. “Because I’m representing a larger number of people than I was in high school, I think it’s going to be a little more difficult to represent and act for the people that I’m representing,” Hreha said. “Apollo-Ridge is a smaller high school, so if someone wanted to have an idea presented or had anything that they wanted to see student council do, they could come to me and talk to me about it. I’m just worried that here, people will be a little more hesitant if they don’t know me to come up and
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that I am a freshman, so I am not in charge,” Ludvigsen said. “It’s different from senior year of high school, but I just need to make sure I remember to speak up when I do have opinions about stuff.” Student Senate is currently planning for events
such as Harvestfest, which will be held Oct. 26, as well as working with the Beautification Committee. Hreha said that one of his goals is to be someone that students will be comfortable talking to about suggestions he can share with the Senate.
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Five new members of Student Senate were sworn in by President Nick Cordova Tuesday, Sept. 26.
say ‘Hey, I want to see this happen’.” Ludvigsen is currently on the budget committee, which she says might turn into a budget and social media committee. For Ludvigsen, understanding her role with the Senate without being afraid to give input will be important as she adjusts. “I need to remember
WU hosts 21st annual Homecoming 5K Chamberworks Community, students, staff and alumni participate in race By SHANE JOHNSON
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The 21st Annual Homecoming 5K race took place this Saturday, Sept. 30. It was an early morning with the race time set for 8:30 a.m. It only took Waynesburg University alumni, Emily Latimer, a time of 19:35 to place first in the race. Latimer, who graduated last year from the nursing program and ran cross country during her time at Waynesburg, said the 5K was an opportunity for her to have fun racing with her former teammates. “I love Waynesburg, and it made it so much more fun being able to run with my old teammates,” said Latimer. “This was my first time running the Homecoming 5K—I’d never gotten the chance when I was an athlete here. I look forward to many more years of running it with my teammates.” Waynesburg University alumni, John Allison, won the men’s bracket with a time of 19:50. According to Pat Bristor, dean of Student Services, Homecoming weekend serves as an opportunity for students to raise money for their mission trips. “It is also a fundraiser, so if we can attract a few more people it allows us to raise
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Waynesburg University President Douglas Lee was one of the many participants in the race running along fellow staff, students, alumni and community members. more funds,” Bristor said. The funds raised from the 5K will help students pay for upcoming university mission trips. Latimer said that the fact that race fees would go toward mission trips made it an even more meaningful experience. “You can pay money to run any 5K you want,” she said. “But obviously its better if its going to the school and going to people to benefit a good cause.”
The race this year had 77 participants, one of which was first year runner and Admissions Counselor, Kyle Digiandomenico. Digiandomenico has been fantasizing about running this race, and this year he turned that fantasy into a reality. “I did the race mainly because I want to start doing more of these races,” said Digiandomenico. “Plus, I knew some of my friends were coming back to run it
and I thought it would be fun to run it with them.” Although he has participated in many other races before, Digiandomenico believes this is one of the hardest courses he has faced. “This course, I can say with confidence, is one of the hardest courses I have ever ran,” said Digiandomenico. “Over half of the course feels like you’re RACE >> A4
Classroom assessments show progress By MICHAEL CAPPELLI For the Yellow Jacket
Last spring, the Chemistry Department implemented a new change in classroom assessments. According to Department Chair Evonne Baldauff, who has been a professor at Waynesburg University for 10 years, the department now employs a technique called “Specifications Grading.” “This [specifications grading] is where you identify the concepts in your class that are fundamentally essential for students to master,” said Baldauff. Baldauff said that the change is intended to help students grasp and understand the different topics that they will need to know for their future classes. “In chemistry, you learn things your freshman year and you continue to use them sophomore year, junior year, senior year and so on,” said Baldauff. While not being imperative to the program, Baldauff hopes that this will help students understand and succeed
to feature several groups of performers
The Chamber Works band, composed of students from a variety of majors both in and outside of the Fine Arts Department, is performing its first concert of the year Oct. 5 at noon in the Marsh Center. Chamber Works, which is overseen by Director of the Music Program Dr. Rhonda DePriest, has 10 small ensembles within it, made up of students from diverse educational focuses. “The reason we started the Chamber Works program was that there were a lot of student musicians on campus that wanted to be a part of the large groups, including the symphonic and the concert choir, but their schedules won’t allow them,” DePriest said. The students meet once a week for 50 minutes at a time to rehearse songs and prepare for the two concerts they do each semester. DePriest says that the smaller time commitment allows students of all majors to be a part of Chamber Works. “They’re nursing majors, criminal justice majors, just about everything under the sun,” DePriest said. For the Oct. 5 performance, the music performed by the band and choir will be from a variety of composers and backgrounds. “We really don’t do themes for Chamber Works; it’s really eclectic,” DePriest said. “People are always amazed when they come to the concerts because they see a mix of genres and varying amount of people in the small groups.” Some members of the smaller ensembles are music majors, as it is part of their curriculum to take a private lesson and to be a part of a small and large en-
semble setting, according to DePriest. “We have our majors be a part of an individual, small and large music ensemble to see the different sides of what a musician has to be,” DePriest said. The Chamber Works band includes mostly current students, but some alumni continue to participate a s w e l l . Me g a n L e i t er, a sophomore nursing major, plays flute for Chamber Works. “Being in a small ensemble is a very different feel from performing in a large group," Leiter said. "Being part of a small group has really given me the chance to grow as a musician." DePriest recognizes the difficulty associated with being a part of the smaller ensembles as opposed to the larger symphonic band. “When you’re in a large ensemble there might be three or four people playing the same part, so there is more comfort in numbers,” DePriest said. “But in Chamber Works, it’s one to a part. So, if they don’t bring their part, it’s pretty tough.” The first performance will include the wide variety of music, as well as a small reception including light appetizers. According to DePriest, soon after finishing its first concert, the Chamber Works ensembles will begin preparing for the next performance, Nov. 16. DePriest is also organizing a Performing Artist Series organ recital for Nov. 5. She said the schedule of performances for the band and choir “keeps everyone busy.” “People don’t understand the scope of what we’re doing here in the department,” DePriest said. “It’s pretty massive.”
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Topics that chemistry students learn their freshman year will be used continually throughout their college careers.
in the department. Initially, the specifications grading system was intended for beginning level classes. After using it for the more basic classes the staff decided to implement it in more of the upper level courses. “This is something that students will see across the cur-
riculum,” said Baldauff. As a part of this grading system, students will take independent assessments on vital skills and they will have five attempts at passing it. “If they haven’t learned it the first time, they can
study it some more – if they still haven’t passed it the second time they can study it some more until they have mastered it,” said Baldauff. “That’s kind of the key mastery of these essential skills.
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Students to volunteer throughout East Coast during Fall Break By MATTHEW MANSFIELD For the Yellow Jacket
While many Waynesburg students will be heading home for fall break in the near future, some students will be volunteering with the university’s four different service projects. The trips will have students staying within the county as well as traveling distances as far as Atlanta, Georgia. The four trips include the Greene County Immersion Project, Greene County Habitat for Humanity, a service trip to Gettysburg and the Dream Center in Atlanta. Waynesburg University recently adopted two different battlefield monuments in Gettysburg. Students will be going to Gettysburg in order to help restore those monuments. Not only will they help restore the statues, but they will be given the opportunity to volunteer at a local farm that was once used as a Civil War hospital. The group of 16 students will also have the chance to take different tours and check out local museums. Students staying for the Greene County Immersion
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Instead of going home to relax during Fall Break, some students will have the opportunity to serve local communities or travel to serve over the week-long university break. will be helping volunteer at 12 different local non-profit organizations. Kelley Hardie, assistant dean of student services, said the goal is to expose students to local service organizations. “The goal behind that is to hope they fall in love with one of these organizations, and continue as a volunteer,”
said Hardie. Some of the local organizations include The Historical Society, Corner Cover Food Bank, Cherry Door, Saint Anne’s Good Neighbor Dinner Program and the Bowlby Library. Students had to pay $20 in order to help out with the charitable cause. Students will also be stay-
ing on campus to spend the week working for the Greene County Habitat for Humanity chapter. Adrienne Tharp, coordinator of the Bonner Scholar Program, was responsible for the idea of this project. Students will be busy helping out with home restoration and home construction. Since
the service project is located in the university’s backyard, a $20 fee is all that was required to lock down a spot on the trip. Some students will be making the long trip to Atlanta, Georgia, to work with the Dream Center, a non-profit organization that hosts mission groups on a weekly
basis. Anthony Jarrell, resident director of Martin Hall, proposed the trip idea. He became involved with the organization three years ago when visiting the original Dream Center, located in Los Angeles. “I thought it was fascinating,” said Jarrell. Through the organization, Jarrell has helped found a church in Morgantown, called the Foundry. From his experiences in the organization he knew it would be an ideal trip for students. The students will be working with several nonprofit groups in the Atlanta area. The organizations they will be working with focus on food insecurity, homelessness and sexual assault victims. The trips are selected based off ideas given by faculty and staff. Hardie, who is in charge of organizing all service trips, said she has already sent emails for trip ideas for next year. Next fall’s planned trips will be released before students leave for winter break. The selection process for trips is simple, as faculty who are passionate about a specific cause can propose an idea for a service trip and it can be implemented.
Pittsburgh Zoo CEO coming to campus Wi-Fi expected in Stewart Science Hall early Spring 2018 By MATTIE WINOWITCH Executive Editor
In alignment with the “Glenn A. and Jane L. Crosby Lecture Series,” Waynesburg University will be hosting Dr. Barbara Baker, President and CEO of the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. in the G o o dw in Per for ming Arts Center. Admission for the event is free, and students, faculty and members of the community are welcome to attend. According to Genna Steele, academic projects and grants coordinator, Baker is the perfect fit for the Crosby Lecture S er ies. Honore d as a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania, one of Pittsburgh’s Most Admired CEOs and Top Executives and the 2015 Pittsburgh Business Woman of the Year, Steele said Baker fits the ideal
Baker speaker’s persona. “She is a really good fit for us here, especially when you look at her leadership, business, accolades, and everything she has done from the zoo in general,” Steele said. It was University Provost Dr. Dana Baer who originally came up with the idea to host Baker for the event, but Steele said everyone involved in the planning process agreed Baker would be a nice fit. “We have a great staff here too that has connections and make great
suggestions,” Steele said. “Sometimes they can be the person who makes the connection between them and the university by contacting them first.” As someone who has wor ke d w it h v ar i ou s Crosby Lecture Series speakers in the past, Steele said she is greatly looking forward to Baker coming to speak on campus. “I think she’s a really good fit for the university and our students here,” Baker said. “I think everyone will be able to garner a lot of information from her.” The Crosby Lecture Series typically seeks to bring distinguished scholars who are distinguished in their disciplines. It is funded by 1950 Magna Cum Laude graduates of Waynesburg University, Glenn A. and Jane Lichtenfels Crosby. For Steele, the Crosby Lecture series is a way for students, faculty and
me mb e rs of t he su rrounding community to immerse themselves in knowledge they might not be able to get inside the classroom. “I think it’s wonderful that students get to hear from professionals who are in the field currently doing what they are talking to us about,” Steele said. “Sometimes they share with us certain trials or other hardships that they have gone through, and the students can see and learn from those things.” The speaker will also get a chance to not only teach others, but to have an opportunity to learn and gain perspective from students and other audience members as well. “I think it’s a win-win where we have a speaker come and they are sharing their knowledge, and they are giving back to those who are just getting started,” Steele said.
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a major gift but donors can contribute in other ways, too, such as short term non-endowed gifts and in-kind gifts which are non-conventional gifts such as works of art and books donated to the university. To Brodak, the process by which these funds will be acquired involves research, reaching out and telling others about the university’s story. “Something our Institu-
tional Advancement team does all the time is looking at our alumni list and trying to connect people with businesses.” Brodak anticipates that the university’s ongoing strategic planning efforts can be useful in informing others about the institution. “The goal really is to inform them about the institution, to begin with,” Brodak said. “It really is a wonderful thing that it [strategic planning efforts] is occurring at the same time because it’s a power-
ful tool to allow us to talk about the needs of the institution and the plan and the vision for the institution. And donors want to give to clear vision.” The previous strategic plan was being replaced by a new one at the time of the campaign’s unveiling. “The fact that the strategic plan is happening, I think, makes sense that they’re both coordinated and dove-tailed together, but, it’s more each one had evolved independently,” Lee said. “There’s some relationship, but it isn’t
100% related.” The last in-person strategic planning session for faculty concluded Wednesday, Sept. 27. The enthusiasm of students for supporting their school may also be an inspiration to potential donors. “Last fall, we had a day of giving, and our goal was 250 gifts, and we went over 600,” Lee said. “I think that’s reflective of the type of pride, enthusiasm, and support we have at this moment. It is a great moment to begin a campaign.”
Royal: King and Queen feel ‘Waynesburg pride’
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So, the Lord leads you in different directions, but in the end, He uses everything for His glory. And he really intertwines people’s stories in your life,” Yonko said. “I wouldn’t be where I’m at if it weren’t for the people here on campus
that actually care about me as a person.” Yonko sees the title as a way to represent all that Waynesburg stands for as a community. “…Being Homecoming King means that you’re representing the school and representing the student body,” he said. “I was
really honored to receive that, but in the end, I’m just happy to be part of a student body that cares about other people. And I always want to be genuine, I don’t want to be fake, and I’m glad I can represent that here at Waynesburg.” Like Holland, Yonko was excited to be “immersed in
Waynesburg pride” Saturday. “It was just a blessing to be on court, a blessing to be elected Homecoming King and to represent Waynesburg in that way and I just appreciate all the love and support I’ve gotten from this whole weekend,” he said. “Just really blessed to be here.”
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Palko said. “And, the relationship with students continues even after they earn
their degree.” With no doubt that the institution will continue to carry out excellence, Palko believes that Waynesburg has the potential to achieve this
title and similar titles in the future. “Waynesburg University is truly a special place,” Palko said. “I am positive it will continue to maintain its high
standard of student service well into the future.” For more information or to view Waynesburg’s profile, visit www.collegesofdistinction.com.
By JOE SMELTZER
Editorial Assistant
At the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, Waynesburg University's Department of Information Technology Services (ITS) made campus-wide Wi-Fi available for Waynesburg University students and faculty in many areas. One of the last steps to installing the Wi-Fi is expected to wrap up by the beginning of the Spring semester, and that is the new network infrastructure in the Paul R. Stewart Science Hall. “Stewart is just one of the last pieces that we have to complete, specifically the first and second floor," said Joshua Starsick, director of Information Technology services. Stewart Hall, built over half a century ago, experienced significant renovations that began in 2012. According to Director of Network Security and Systems, Aaron Seymour, the recent overhaul is a factor in why the infrastructure is not complete. “Some of the timing of this change comes from the fact that Stewart was in the process of a pretty large-scale renovation over the last several years," Seymour said. "There was some uncertainty about exactly the timing of the different changes that did take place – given some of those constraints, we held off on deploying equipment there until some of the time line had been worked out. So that’s why we ended up focusing on some of the other buildings throughout the campus and then coming back and addressing these last few floors of Stewart." Starsick said that, aside from Stewart, there are no other main campus buildings that are currently being worked on. Off-campus locations, such as John F. Wiley stadium, do not have the same infrastructure as the university buildings do. Seymour said that this is because the off-campus sites are not connected to the necessary fiber-optic network. “Part of the technical distinction there comes down to whether those buildings are currently connected to our campus fiber network," Seymour said. "Without fiber connectivity to those places, it’s really not possible to deploy the wireless [access points]." The network infrastructure in Stewart is expected to be completed by January
of 2018. According to Seymour, the process is still being planned out. “We’re really more in kind of the planning stage," Seymour said. "At this point, we need to identify locations and where we’re going to place equipment, and that’s going to involve discussions with the departments that are currently located in that space, and all of that has to kind of get worked out before the equipment is going to be put in place." Stewart is home to classes in the Science, Nursing and Mathematics departments. Starsick said that the departments in Stewart would appreciate having a wireless connection. “We are aware that [Wi-Fi] is something that [the departments] would very much like to have," Starsick said. "The nursing department has reached out to us, but they were also aware that this is the way in which the project was being phased." For Seymour, meeting with the departments in Stewart is an important aspect of the network infrastructure. “The biggest challenges really come from the effort in coordinating the schedules with the departments [in Stewart], so it’s not to impact their operations, classes and things that they are trying to conduct," Seymour said. ITS finished a survey of wireless coverage a few years ago, when an independent group provided an estimate of coverage, assuming that the access points were placed in certain locations. They created a map, which gave a projection of how much coverage there should be on campus. Seymour said that the actual coverage was fairly consistent with the estimates. "That projection is really based on physical impediments, things like that, and those don't change much at all," Seymour said. "Even though the survey was done a couple of years ago, the floor plan of [the bottom floors of Stewart] was essentially like that." Seymour does not expect to run into any kinks when the network infrastructure is installed on the bottom two floors of Stewart. “I would say [there probably won’t be any issues,] because, at this point, we have deployed so much of the same type of equipment throughout campus that we essentially have a system down," Seymour said.
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BMS students attend Pittsburgh youth ministry conference By KYLA WOLPER
For the Yellow Jacket
N i n e Wa y n e s b u r g University Biblical and Ministry Studies (BMS) students traveled to the Nor th Way Christian C ommunit y in Pittsburgh for a day-long youth workers conference Sept. 29. At t h e c on f e re n c e , Waynesburg University students had the opportunity to worship, network and learn about the field of youth ministry. The day-long event included two main sessions, complete with worship, games and discussions hosted by keynote speaker Mark O est reicher, who has been involved in ministry for most of his life and is currently on the leadership team at Zondervan, a Christian media and publishing company. Along with large main session meetings, participants were given the opportunity to attend a number of small group breakout sessions. Senior Children and Youth Ministr y major Andrew Brunette was one of the students that attended the event. One of the sessions he attended focuses on suicide awareness. “The things that we
talked about at the conference were very practical,” Brunette said. “I think the number one thing this prepared me for was to actually realize that these discussions are going to happen in the future and that it’s because there is sin in this world, and there are horrible things that happen every day and we have to be prepared to deal with things like that and to handle the aftermath of some of these things.” Other breakout sessions included, “Your first two years in youth ministry,” “Taking students from the mountaintops and through the valleys,” ‘Pornography and purity,” and “Creating messages that will powerfully impact your students.” One of the sessions that senior Public Relations major, Audrey Domasky attended focused on race and identity in the United States. “[The session] got me interested and excited about looking more into our roots as Christians,” Domasky said. “Not a change of perspective, but a reminder of who we are and that it’s our job as Christians to bring justice.” According to Brunette, t he Pittsburg h Yout h Workers conference al-
lows BMS students to t a ke t he infor mat ion they learn in the classroom and learn how to apply that knowledge to practical youth ministry, giving future youth leaders the tools that will lead them into their future careers. Waynesburg University was also a sponsor of the event. Sponsoring basically entails a partnership of support for the event, both in the ministry of those in the region and financial support. This event is a yearly conference, open for all youth ministers in the Pittsburgh area. Ju n i o r Ps y c h o l o g y m a j o r Ta ny a Ve c e r e shared that she enjoyed being a part of that family of believers and ministers. “I think it was really cool to just see all these youth workers in the Pittsburgh area coming together to learn more about how to love teens well and how to stay relevant with the culture changing,” Vecere said. “It was just a really special picture of the kingdom.” Joshua Sumpter, Assistant Chaplain and Biblical and Ministry Professor at Waynesburg has attended the Pittsburgh
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Several BMS students learned from youth ministry professionals at a day-long conference last week. Youth Workers Conference for three years and shows great support for the event and the impact it has on future youth leaders. “We want to provide training, both in our classroom and out of the classroom on our campus but also in the region,” Sumpter said. “And so if we can get our students conne c te d wit h lo ca l youth pastors, people that are in the trenches doing ministry, maybe that will have a profound impact not only on their educa-
tions but to network and connect with people that are in the position that they want to be in one day. That will have endless fruit for them.” Anyone interested in learning more about
faith on campus or the BMS Department can find more information on the “Faith” tab on MyC onnec t or by e-mailing Josh Sumpter at jdsumpte@waynesburg.edu.
Prospective nursing Constant use putting strain on printers majors get day to experience WU classes By DAKOTA KEEFER
For the Yellow Jacket
By HOLLY HENDERSHOT Convergence Editor
Waynesburg University hosts its annual “Nursing as a Career Day” Oct. 5, open to all high school students who may be interesting in going to college for nursing. The registered students will meet in the Center for Research and Economic Development on campus at 9 a.m. High school students who attend the event will learn what the career of nursing entails and what t he y c an exp e c t as a nursing major. They will also receive a tour of the Nursing Department and meet with faculty so they can see what Waynesburg University has to offer to nursing students. D r. Na n c y Mo s s e r, chair and director of the D epar tment of Nursi ng an d profe ss or of nursing, is heavily involved in the planning of the event. “Nursing as a Career Day is an important recruitment event that not only highlights the nursing program, but also allows prospective students to interact with faculty in the lab and ask questions to current students,” said Mosser. Sherr y Parsons and Eve Weaver, instructors of nursing, are alumni of the program and are excited to show the attending students what the nursing major is all about. “The purpose is to bring the students in with their family members to educate them on what nursing is… and also what they can expect to be doing when they enter our program—if they choose our program,” said Parsons. Parsons said that students will be given educational materials about the nursing major. They will also receive a sheet that shows them the program, outlines what courses they would be taking and shows what the requirements within the program are in or-
der to prepare them for what they will experience if they decide to go to college for nursing. “We give them a little bit of a background about what the program entails, what we do and what they would be doing as a freshman, because when [the high school students] come in, they are just exploring the nursing major,” said Parsons. After listening to Mosser and upperclassmen speak about the nursing program, students will
“The purpose is to bring the students in with their family members to educate them on what nursing is...also what they can expect to be doing when they enter our program...”
In response to student’s frustration with campus printers the Information Technology Services urge students to report the issues to them so that appropriate action can be taken. There are a number of different computer labs on campus. The most popular one being the Knox lab, but there are ones in Stewart Hall, Hanna Hall and also the Mac lab in Buhl hall. The Mac lab and Stewart Hall are often used for class during the day, so most students have to resort to using the Knox lab. The Knox lab and its printers are heavily used every day, so that can
put a lot of wear and tear on the printers, according to Joshua Starsick, director of Information Technology Services. “Printers are especially difficult to deal with,” Starsick said. “Printers are rather complex, there are lots of moving parts, and sometimes outside venders have to come in to fix them.” The Knox lab is open every day of the week, including Saturdays and Sundays, unlike the other labs. This means the printers are generally used every day. “The number of pages printed is astronomical,” Starsick said. “The printing is usually truly legitimate. Sometimes students do print off five or six drafts of a project and end up scrapping them. I ask
those students only print what is necessary.” When printers do go down, s ome students take it upon themselves to try and fix them, which can be problematic, according to Starsick. “Students should never attempt to open up a printer,” Starsick said. “If there are ever any problems, students should call the ITS help at (724) 8523413, and report that there is an issue.” Another popular lab on campus is the newly renovated Mac lab on the fourth floor of Buhl hall. It is the only lab on campus with Macs, hence the name. The Mac lab is also the only lab on campus that has colored ink, which can be especially beneficial when printing out
PowerPoints. The Mac lab does have class in it during certain hours of the day. “Handling the Mac lab is very different,” Starsick said. “It requires a different skill set. Macs don’t lend themselves to be managed as well as PC’s.” If there are ever any issues with those labs and their printers, Starsick encourages students to use the Hanna Hall lab, which is open to the public. This is important because most students may not know this, because, according to the Waynesburg University website, the Hanna Hall lab is for classroom use only. Starsick wants students to know that there is always another option for printing and computer lab use on campus.
SHERRY PARSONS
Instructor of Nursing
experience what Weaver said is the highlight of the event: the simulation lab. Weaver said that they will do a demonstration for the students with their three-year-old high-fidelity simulator. T h e s i mu l at or i s a mannequin that acts as a patient. When it is on, it moves and sounds as though it breathes, blinks, has a pulse and other realistic movements. “It’s a good opportunity for them to touch him, and if they want to, they can listen to him, and they usually think that is phenomenal,” said Weaver. “They usually are very involved when we ask if anybody want to take his pulse, especially when we turn him on and he’s blinking and looking at them, and they really interact with him.” This year, students will also be given the opportunity to speak with student representatives of Waynesburg University’s Student Nurses Association of Pennsylvania.
Michelle Keith, Yellow Jacket
STUDENTS RELAXED AT HOMECOMING PICNIC DINNER
Jamie Stanny and Liz Sible took part in the Homecoming Picnic Dinner where there was a pep rally for the upcoming football game against Grove City, along with free yearbooks and live entertainment.
Race: Hilly campus course poses challenges Continued from A2
running uphill. This is a course you would really need to train on to run an accurate time. Anyone who finishes the race deserves a ton of credit.” The course has been the same route every year. It
was created and designed by Professor of Biology Dr. Bryan Hamilton, and is now a certified course. Although this race is primarily Bristor’s responsibility with planning starting in the summer, she does have members and students volunteer to help. Waynesburg University
student, and senior captain on the men’s basketball team Jon Knab was one of the members who donated his time to the cause. “We encouraged the runners and walkers and let them know where they were to run,” said Knab. “It was a meaningful morning and a very awesome experience.”
Bristor was ver y appreciative of the students and members who volunteered to help at such an early time. “The race would not happen if it were not for the 35 students or so who volunteered their time Saturday morning,” Bristor said. “I am very grateful for them.”
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Remembering the fallen
Mitch Kenda, Yellow Jacket
Senior exercise science major Tyler Windsheimer kneels to find his great-uncle's name among those inscribed on the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall last weekend.
Greene County residents touched by traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall By MITCHELL KENDRA Associate Editor
The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall made its way to Greene County this past week, after an escorted drive from Morgantown, West Virginia. Hundreds of people gathered Sept. 28 at the Greene County Fairgrounds for the opening ceremony, beginning at 6 p.m., with the posting of the colors. The ceremony included a speaker, Donnie Martin, Vietnam veteran and Purple Heart Recipient, as well as the retrieval of
the colors and folding of the American flag. Following the folding of the flag was a benediction and a performance of “Taps” by Gerard and Livia Schleicher. After the ceremony had ended, many people stayed afterwards to pay their respects to those on the wall. One of them was Stephanie DeHaas of Clarksville, DeHaas said she came to pay her respects to her uncle. “‘Brent A. McClellan’ – he was one of the [several] Greene County men that were killed,” she said. DeHaas said it was im-
portant that Greene County hosted the wall because of the difficulty of elder people traveling. “A lot of people can’t make
ington, D.C.] – it’s much more emotional – this is nice for people.” DeHaas said her aunt would be joining her the next
“[There were lots of ] memories here this weekend, and there will continue to be [at its next locations] as it keeps traveling.”
TYLER WINDSHEIEMER
Senior exercise science major
it to Washington, D.C., and it’s easier for them to come here,” DeHaas said. “Although I’ve been to the one in [Wash-
day. DeHaas’ mother died two years ago, and was never able to make it to see the real wall. Her mother was able to see
the traveling wall once before, years ago at a different location. “I wish [that] I was here with my mother,” she said. “But my aunt is coming in tomorrow and we’ll be here tomorrow, so I’ve got her to hold onto.” DeHaas, like a countless number of others, shaded the name of her loved one and took pictures. No ceremonies were held Sept. 29, because this day marked the 118th birthday of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). However, people still made their way to the fair-
grounds to see the wall. Tyler Windsheimer, a senior at Waynesburg University, visited the memorial wall Friday evening. “I thought it was a really cool experience,” Windsheimer said. “Being able to not only look at the traveling wall but to also look at all the names – about 58,000 names are on that wall – and all of those soldiers that fought for us, to give us freedom.” Windsheimer said he also came to the wall to visit a fallen family member – his MEMORIAL >> B4
Coach's Café opens ‘Warriors Rock in Concert’ honors veterans on High St., hopes to attract WU students By JOE SMELTZER
Editorial Assistant
By COLIN MCLAUGHLIN Convergence Editor
Coach’s Café recently opened on High St., taking the space of what was previously Carlisle’s Coffee and Sandwiches. Matt Tedrow, owner of Coach’s Café, officially opened the shop's doors to the community Sept. 21 at 6 a.m. “It was a good opportunity at the right time: after Carlisle’s closed, due to their own unfortunate circumstances at their other location, and it was something that we felt the town still needed,” said Tedrow. According to Tedrow, business has been steady and they are working to bring some of the college crowd to the Café. Coach’s Café has options for breakfast, combos, a house menu, subs, deli sandwiches and sides options. “Right now, we do not
have many specials out, but we are going to be working on some daily specials coming out,” said Tedrow. “We are working basically on our standard combo menu for the specials right now and we do have a soup of the day Monday through Friday.” Tedrow said that Coach’s Café will have some standard specials in the near future. Tedrow wants more college kids to come down to the café to get food and enjoy social events too. “We are looking to bring back some of the music like what was here before—but that is still a couple of weeks away—as well as some other different activities like a trivia night,” said Tedrow. “We are open to any feedback from any of the college students about what would interest them and what they would like to see.”
CAFE >> B4
To mark the closing ceremony of the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall in Greene County, a concert was performed Sunday, Oct. 2 at Waynesburg Central High School. Gary Racan and his wife, Kim, founded “Warriors Rock in Concert” four years ago. For the past several years, “Gary Racan and the Studio-E Band” have traveled to different areas to perform patriotic sets for military veterans. Sunday’s concert was put on to honor Greene County veterans, many of whom served in the Vietnam War. Nine veterans were featured in video messages that led into songs of their requests. At the end of each video package, the soldiers featured mentioned a song from that time that related to their experience in the war. The performance was split into two sets, with a short intermission in between. Sunday was the second time that the Studio-E band has been to Waynesburg. Kim Racan, who co-founded “Studio E Entertainment LLC.,” was
Mitch Kendra, Yellow Jacket
The "Warriors Rock in Concert" event, in conjunction with the Traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall, took place Sunday, Oct. 2, to recognize local veterans. thrilled with the experience . “I think [Waynesburg] is a wonderful community,” Kim Racan said. “They bond to-
gether for things. To not have the financial advantages of a big city, and to do what they just did just bringing the sup-
port of the community, I think it’s overwhelming. I think CONCERT >> B4
Clarksville Festival a free event for Greene County kids By TIFFANY MORGAN Associate Editor
As Halloween approaches, the sixth annual Clarksville Festival is, as well. The event will run Oct. 6 to 8 at the Clarksville Volunteer Fire Department. This annual event was originally celebrated during the month of August, but according to Vice President of the Clarksville Borough, Sherry Forman, the event was shifted to October to
allow more people to attend the festivities. “We changed it from August because we ran into the fair and other venues,” Forman said, “We wanted to try [the event] in October to see how well it goes over.” There will be different activities each day for the event. The kick-off will begin Friday night at 6 p.m., with several food and craft vendors and DJ Mickey D. The event will continue, Saturday, with a pumpkin
decorating contest. Forman said 127 pumpkins were picked for the contest, which will be broken up for kids and adults. Later in the evening, the band, Long Shot, will perform from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday will be the final day for the event, and there will be a car show, which will be hosted by Hoyles Auto Salvage. Motorcycles and trucks are also welcome to the car show event. For the enjoyment of children,
free face painting and a strolling magician act will take place. The Clarksville Volunteer Fire Department will be hosting vendors as well as DJ Dusty Joe. Forman said the festival relies on local donations each year. This year, small donations from EQT, the office of Pennsylvania State Representative Pam Snyder and Chess Farms made the event possible to plan. “They allow us to be able
to have a band – to afford to have some form of free entertainment,” Forman said. Forman encourages people to contact her by calling (724) 377-0155, as she is still planning more kidinteractive events. “We try to do as much for kids and free activities, however, I have not been able to confirm our kid’s games,” Forman said. “We’re always trying to make it something fun for the kids.”
Forman hopes the event to have a good turnout, but it will be dependent upon the weather. She wants people to be able to attend a local event at little to no cost. “I’m hoping to have a really good turnout, I hope the weather holds out for us and it allows us to have a better crowd, just because we want people to enjoy the area and have something to do locally that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg,” Forman said.
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Paying your respects is always important MITCH KENDRA Columnist
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EDITORIAL
For those who didn’t visit the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall over the past couple of days, shame on you. If you had a relative on the wall and you didn’t go to lay a flower near their name or even to simply spend 10 minutes to pay your respects, that’s unbelievable. If you didn’t have a relative on the wall, that’s still unac-
ceptable. There’s over 58,000 names on the wall, representing every single individual who died fighting for us to have the freedom that we do. I didn’t have any family on the wall, and although I was covering the wall for The Yellow Jacket, I had planned on stopping by the fairgrounds to pay my respects to the veterans, both on the wall and those present. I ended up going to the wall on three different occasions – Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Every time I went to the wall I saw people
coming together. Whether they came with family and were embracing as they remembered a loved one or they were helping a random stranger find the name of a relative on the wall, people were there for one another. When I was at the wall, I was a reporter covering an event. But my professors taught me there are times we need to step back, to take a step away from our job and be human. This weekend I found that to be important when I was
at the wall. People didn’t want to turn around and be heckled by “the media,” especially with all the recent events in the news today. Not everyone would be willing to talk to me on the record: I knew that going in. I brought my tablet and camera, took notes and pictures and reported what I observed. But I also put my notes in my backpack and my camera in my bag and just started talking to people. Nothing secretive about it, RESPECT >> B3
Networking through alumni is eye opening TYLER GODWIN Columnist
As I get older, I am starting to truly value the relationships that I build with those around me -particularly those that I have met through Waynesburg Universit. Homecoming this past weekend was another reminder to me about how
important those I have met are to me and my future. When it comes to those people impacting just me specifically in the present day, I am more so referencing the friendships that I have with people that have graduated in recent years and how awesome it is to reconnect and spend time with them. It’s cool to see where people fresh out of Waynesburg University end up, whether they move far away or stay close.
It’s refreshing to see a lot of familiar faces returning to campus as new classes continue to come in each year. That familiarity is comforting and makes the weekend fun as you meet up with all these people that are able to come back for all the festivities. Another aspect that is extremely valuable is getting to meet alumni that you did not know already. Meeting people who graduated well before you is significant
because a lot of them love meeting people that are in the shoes they were in years ago. Many older alumni have steady jobs and work for big name companies and many have met dozens of people in the work world and have built relationships with important people all over the country. That’s one of the biggest things alumni can provide to you—networking oppor-
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What can be done?
Conversation can drive meaningful change During a country music concert Sunday, Oct. 1, yet another mass shooting took place in the United States. In Las Vegas, Nevada, a gunman broke the windows of his high-rise hotel room and fired on a crowd of 22,000 spectators below. Today, it is estimated that the shooter killed no fewer than 59 people and injured an alarming 500 more. Newsrooms and late-night talk shows are calling it the worst shooting in American history. Until the next one. In the aftermath of this horrifying act, voices across the country are attempting to analyze and make sense of the tragedy. The gunman, 64-year-old retiree Stephan Paddock, was found to have an arsenal of 47 guns, some of them automatic rifles with scopes and stands used to steady aim, between his hotel room and two Nevada homes. This suggests that the attack was planned, but none have been able to articulate why. Even Paddock’s family members have expressed their utter confusion—blindsighted by his actions. In light of these events, the conversation for gun control in the U.S. has been reopened for the umpteenth time. We have seen similar narratives stemming from the massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary and a Miami nightclub—critics berating the availability of automatic weapons and other guns to the general public. Social media is riddled with debate and falsehoods, media outlets are being harangued for their coverage and lawmakers have done little in terms of change. As an unbiased news source, The Yellow Jacket does not take a stance on these issues. However, we would like to encourage readers, students and all American citizens to take stock in the conversation. The topic of gun control is a deceivingly complex issue. There are several points of view and no clear sides. For many, the main issue is the availability of these weapons to those who are mentally ill, yet, many would like weapons to be restricted across the board. As the U.S. moves forward from its most recent calamity, it is important for every person in the discussion to not only participate, but to develop an informed opinion and contribute in a respectful way. Our country today is incredibly divided. Jumping to conclusions or discrediting opposing points of view will only fuel this division and, in the long run, will prevent any positive change from occurring. But that does not mean that we should stop the conversation from happening. It is never too soon after a tragedy to begin evaluating, analyzing or planning preventative measures. Whether that means gun control, increased security in public places or some other new law, it is nonsensical to not at least pose the question. It is not about criticizing media outlets or arguing with your neighbor. It is about having a reasonable, heartfelt discussion about opinions and the state of our country. As news sources, the job of journalists is to keep the public informed with the most accurate information that we can provide, to keep those in power accountable and to preserve the rights of everyday people. Now, it is up to the public to take the next step.
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STARTING THE CONVERSATION
History always has something to teach us
The following is an interview with Rea Redd, Director of the Eberly Library, as part of the Starting the Conversation series. By MATTHEW SHINKLE
Q: What is your kind of background in history like throughout your life? A: "My wife says I was born with a Civil War gene, she's from California and didn't even know that Gettysburg was in Pennsylvania. "I'll give you a short story – I'm in fourth grade and my dad, I was raised on a dairy farm, goes to town once a month with a milk check. One day he comes home with something that he's never bought before, it's a Life magazine, a fold out, and I still have this copy. "It's a fold out of the Civil War for the centennial, we're talking about 1961, and I look at that and all the pictures and say 'Mom, can you read this to me?' "She spends every night reading the history of the Civil War out of Life magazine to me. Two weeks later, three weeks later, a month later another one comes out and I have my parents read them to me again."
Q: Why is history so important for students at Waynesburg University to learn?
A: "Well, you'll find that there's very little new under the sun, that all these decisions have already been made at one time or another. "History doesn't repeat itself, a person said, but history rhymes a whole lot. There's enough stories from back in the day that should teach you something about whats happening today and how the responses can change. "The idea is not to repeat history, but to get a better story out of it. Critical thinking and the idea that you're reading eye witness documents is important. "I talk to criminal justice majors and when I assign them a book I assign them true crime murder books from 1850, and they're like 'this is great stuff,' and it is, because they're reading eye witness testimony from history who went through that." Q: What do you think people that look back into history can therefore learn to apply in the present? A: "The voices - if you just listen to the voices. When you actually hear the voices
of the people that have been gone for 150 years and they have your job, whether it be criminal justice, education, nursing, poiticans, lawyers, you can really get to the voice of the people that lived that." Q: We have a disconnect in society today between seperate sides in politics that can't compromise - do you see a parrallel between the Civil War era and now in terms of politics?
A: "Sure, when you read history you try to look for your story in it. If you're a literature major what were the writers saying? If you're a communication major, what were the journalists saying? If you're a nursing major, what were the nurses saying? "It's difficult in the sense that our story in the history of the country, we are relatively pretty young. We've gone through 200-some
years, and to try to get all that history in 14 weeks of college is hard. "The idea is that somewhere in that story, though, you'll find someone doing what you do now. You've got to find your story in the past." Q: What are your thoughts on the monuments issue currently going on in the country? A: "People make up stories and then read them in the past, and to a degree, that's what the monuments issue are about. "All the monuments are different, and they're all on different people's land and there are public monuments, so look at what is the story that the people that created those monuments were trying to convey? "Some monuments are very appropriate and are on national battle fields or are public sculptures."
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Cheat Sheet: Largest massacre in recent US history kills 59 Editor's Note: The following is a synoposis of a recent topic trending in world or national news. By MICHAEL CAPPELLI For the Yellow Jacket
What was supposed to be a fun concert turned into the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history this past Sunday night. Thousands of fans were drawn to a music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, as they came to see country music star Jason Aldean. What they didn’t expect was to be running for cover as shots were fired into a crowd of approximately 22,000 people. The gunman killed a total of 59 people and injured more than 500 others. “I could see a guy with a bullet wound right in his neck, motionless, from there on… people just started dropping like flies,” said witness Taylor Benge. The Las Vegas police identified the shooter as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada. “We had no knowledge of this individual,” said Clark County Sherriff Joseph Lombardo. Authorities also reported
Tribune News Service
Concertgoers at a memorial set up for the victims of the mass shooting, days after a lone gunman opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel, killing 59 and wounding 527 people, on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, in Las Vegas. that Paddock had several pounds of ammonium nitrate in his car, a chemical used to make explosives. In his hotel room, he had at least 10 weapons, including several rifle, which were equipped with scopes. The FBI has determined no connection with an international terrorist group. “We have to establish what
his motivation was first,” said Lombardo. The investigators believe that the rifles were purchased legally, but the suspicion is that the firearms were modified to function as automatic weapons. What is odd about this case is that nothing in his background stands out as unusual about the shooter, as of the
printing of this paper. Investigators are attempting to piece together what led such an "ordinary" man to open fire on a crowd of people. Naturally, an event such as this brings up the on-going debate over gun control. At the end of February, President Donald Trump signed a bill into law that rolled back an Obama-era
regulation that made it difficult for citizens with mental illness to purchase firearms. The Obama administration predicted that it would have added 75,000 names to the database for background checks, had the rule fully taken effect. The rule was opposed emphatically by advocates for gun rights who said that it infringed on Americans’ Second
Amendment rights. On the opposing side, gun control advocates gave praise to the rule for making it difficult for firearms to be available for those who may not use them with the best of intentions. The National Rifle Association praised Trump for his actions. “Marks a new era for lawabiding gun owners, as we now have a president who respects our arms,” said Executive Director of the NRA Chris Cox. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a leading gun control advocate, called out Republicans on their move. “Republicans say we don’t need new gun laws, we just need to enforce the laws already on the books,” said Murphy. “But the bill signed into law undermines enforcement of existing laws that Congress passed to make sure the background check system had complete information.” The Las Vegas suspect had 23 rifles, a handgun, and a stockpile of ammunition in his hotel room.. Being the widely debated topic that it is, gun control will surely be brought up again after this tragedy.
In the News: Five headlines you need to know this week
Editor's Note: The following is a synopsis of a recent topic trending in world or national news.
cold blood and efficiency," tweeted Macron. France has been dealing with a large amount of terrorist attacks by Islamist militants in the last two years. The attack in Paris in November 2015 left 130 people dead. The attack last Bastille Day, where a man drove a truck into a crowd of people, left 86 dead.
1) President Trump and North Korea feud still brewing in war of words The tension between North Korea and the United States seems far from over, as this weekís new batch of tweets from President Donald Trump makes it appear that he has no intentions of deescalating the situation. "I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time negotiating with Little Rocket Man," said Trump. Kim Jong Un was not the only person criticized by President Trump via social media this past week, as Trump also attacked San Juan Puerto Rico Mayor Yulin Cruz, who was critical of the hurricane relief efforts in her country. Also in the past week on Twitter, President Trump returned his focus to Kim and North Korea's progress on a nuclear arsenal. Trump was criticizing the way this will affect North Koreaís economy, and the sanctions that are already against that nation. North Korea has been attempting underground bomb tests and trying to launch intercontinental missile tests for months. They have also made public their intentions of launching a nuclear bomb towards another country. As North Korea continues to test nuclear weapons, the verbal war between Trump and Kim Jong Un has become more and more intense. In recent weeks, Un has called him "deranged" and Trump has continued his barrage of insults. The United States military is considering all options while they decide how to handle this situation. -Fox News Oct. 1
-NBC News Oct. 1 4) Catholic Church controversy brings Pope Francis to the front Tribune News Service
Catalan activists sing the Catalan anthem on Oct. 2, 2017 while they gather at Barcelona's Catalonia Square after a silent march to protest police violence. 2) 30-year-old man injures multiple people in attack An investigation has opened up after two attacks happened in Edmonton, Canada, this past week. A man drove a truck into a police officer and stabbed him, then crashed a truck into a group of pedestrians, injuring at least four. The suspect has been taken into custody, and identified as Abdulahi Hasan Sharif. The incident occurred Saturday night, when Sharif crashed into the officer, then into the officer's cruiser. Later in the night, the driver switched from a Chevrolet to a UHaul truck before crashing into the crowd. Found inside of the Chevrolet was an ISIS flag, but authorities are not sure if he is connected to the terrorist organization. The driver crashed the truck into the crowd, and then fled the scene. The chase ended when the truck flipped on to its side, and the driver was detained. Sharif faces charges of dangerous driving, criminal flight causing bodily harm and possession of a weapon
for a dangerous purpose, according to Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superintendent Stacey Talbot. "The government of Canada and Canadians stand with the people of Edmonton after the terrorist attack on Saturday," said Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada. The crowd was in that location because of their attendance to the Edmonton Eskimos football game. As Canadians unite together against terrorism, Trudeau has had more words speaking out against the events. "We cannot, and will not, let violent extremism take root in our communities," said Trudeau. -CNN Oct. 2 3) Potential terrorist attack in France leaves three dead French soldiers and police killed a suspect of a knife attack in the city of Marseille this past week. The shots were fired by a soldier who was on patrol in a train station. The man died soon after the incident. They blocked off the area immediately
and told other authorities the suspect was "neutralized." The suspect stabbed two women to death during his attack. The first stabbing occurred in the square of a train station. After the initial attack the suspect ran away, but attacked another woman, leaving her dead. While attacking the second victim the soldier took action and shot the attacker. A witness said the man was screaming "Allahu Akbar," which translates to "God is great" in the Arabic language. Police have said that this is a likely terrorist attack. "An odious attack. A cowardly and despicable crime. My first thoughts go to the families of the victims of this tragedy," tweeted French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb. French President Emmanuel Marcon also offered his condolences for those dealing with loss while also recognizing those who helped save lives. "Deeply outraged by this barbaric act, my thoughts are with the families and loved ones of the victims of Marseille. I salute the military Sentinel and police officers who responded with
A controversy is brewing within the Catholic Church. Pope Francis, who has been focused on making many reforms since his papacy began, has been accused of heresy. Some Catholic scholars and clergy believe the Pope's reforms are out of line. Although the letter does not specifically call the Pope a heretic, they do say he takes a "heretical position" on some subjects, including marriage, the moral life, and the Eucharist. The Vatican declined to comment, and the Pope has not spoken out about the accusations. The clergy believe he has promoted seven heresies, one being allowing divorced and remarried church members to take communion. Many members that have brought forth these charges against the pope are from a group who have already broken away from the Catholic Church. The group who wrote the letter said that they would like the Pope to answer the charges. Some people believe the Pope is trying to change rules from the Bible. Many Francis supporters believe he isn't changing the bible, but updating the rules. -CNN Sept. 26
5) Citizens of Catalonia rioting to gain independence from Spain Riots in Spain have been getting increasingly dangerous, as the people of Catalonia are trying to hold a vote to secede from Spain. Many people showed up to voting stations in the country, but police also arrived in order to attempt to put a stop to the voting. To overcome police efforts to stop the people of Catalan, officials said people could vote from anywhere, and even use ballots they had printed at home. Tensions have grown between police and the eager voters, causing many to fight. The number of people injured is north of 760. The police have used rubber bullets and charged crowds with batons. There are videos of police beating people while taking away ballots and ballot boxes. Not only have protestors been hurt, but according to the Spanish Interior Ministry, 11 police officers have been injured as well. The Spanish police were told to stop the voting process. Many Spanish officials are defending the actions of the police, and blaming this on the Catalonians, saying their actions have caused this. It took less than an hour of polls being opened for the clashes to begin. Important officials who helped orchestrate this vote have been arrested. "I have come to vote to defend the rights of my country, which is Catalonia," said one voter. -Fox News Oct. 1 Information curated by Matthew Mansfield For the Yellow Jacket
Respect: Veterans are due our thanks Key: Alumni can be key to success Continued from B2
I wasn’t going to quote these people I talked to because I also wanted to be there as a normal civilian. I talked with people about why they came to the wall, where they were from and what thoughts were going through their head at the time. I listened to the memories
they were willing to share in the few minutes of our interactions. There’s many things that Waynesburg University has to offer its students, such as discounted Pittsburgh Steelers’ tickets, speeches by published authors and free concerts with mugs. But there’s somethings like visiting the traveling memorial wall that I never knew I’d have the chance to do.
But would you skip an opportunity to thank a veteran for their service if you knew you wouldn’t make it to see tomorrow? I know I wouldn’t, which is exactly why I took advantage of this opportunity. If I never have the chance to visit the actual Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., then I’ll be satisfied knowing I went to see the next closest thing.
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tunities. This is a category where it does not really matter how recent the person graduated from Waynesburg University, people know people. As s omeone who is looking for a career in the sports industry, it is nice to know that I have made countless friends and met
many people that are in the sports industry currently through my experiences in my two-years-and-counting at Waynesburg. Those types of people can and will provide you opportunity to further your career if you have built a solid relationship, whether that be a friendship or working partnership, with them. Just having that connection to other people that
have gone through Waynesburg could pay massive dividends down the road. Make as many relationships with other students, of all years, and professors as possible. You will be surprised and thankful for the opportunities you get years down the road when some of those people have moved on from Waynesburg and come back to reflect of their time at the university for Homecoming.
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October 5, 2017
Local art event to Touch-a-Truck educates local children provide activities to seniors citizens By CHACE JOHNSTON Staff Writer
By DYLAN CLELAND
For the Yellow Jacket
The Greene County Senior Arts Fair will be held at the Greene County Fairgrounds Oct. 6. The fair will be featuring four hours of information, prizes and food. Nancy Riggle, Greene County supervisor of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Area Agency on Aging, helped to coordinate the event for senior citizens around the area. “It’s like a one-stop shop for older adults so that any issues or concerns that they have, whether its [needing] information on Alzheimer’s disease or dementia or about businesses,” Riggle said. “There is just so much information and the best thing about it is that it is all in one place.” The fair has increased in size throughout the years, and Riggle expects the biggest turnout yet this fall. The event is for senior citizens, but all elders are invited to attend. Admission is free and it is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. “We have [more than] 80 vendors this year, that [will come] display their programs, services, things of interest to older adults in our county,” said Riggle. “Everything from healthcare to cruising to flu shots and we have additional health screenings as well. This year, fair officials are teaming up with Corner Stone Care, which will be present to provide flu shots.
Additionally, their mobile unit will be on the fairgrounds to help with other health related issues. At the event, there will be raffle baskets, prizes and food, which were all donated or sponsored by local agencies and businesses. This allows everyone an opportunity to take something home from the fair, said Riggle. The grand prize will be a flat screen television donated by Wal-Mart. In addition, the raffle baskets will be donated by the vendors. Riggle said the event will be sponsored by the offices of Pennsylvania State Representative Pam Snyder, Pennsylvania Senator Camera Bartolotta, Greene County Commissioners and the Southwestern Pennsylvania Area Agency on Aging. “When the seniors arrive they get two tickets, one to put in for the TV and one in for a door prize. This way everyone has a chance to win but there won’t be anybody that wins three things,” said Riggle. “One and done.” As far as food, a light breakfast will be available and lunch will also be served. In previous years, the event was well-attended and popular amongst local residents. “There will be entertainment, lunch, drawings, flu shots and were really hoping for a good turnout. It should be a really good day. This promises to be the biggest fair in Greene County that we’ve had yet,” Riggle said.
The First Baptist Church of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania held its seventh annual ‘Touch a Truck’ event Saturday, Sept. 30, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event was created in 2011 for the families of the community to come together and spend the day exploring different vehicles: fire trucks, police cruisers and dump trucks. Each year, the event has been held, the number of people to attend has expanded. Last year, the event had more than 800 children and their families attend to explore all of the vehicles. At the Sept. 30 event, that number grew to more than 900. “Over the last few years, the event has grown bigger and the number of people has been going up, which excites me to see that this event means so much to the community,” said Dawn Mankey, events coordinator for the First Baptist Church of Waynesburg. Other attractions at the event included a Chinese auction, face painting, piñatas and a scavenger hunt. Additionally, a free lunch was provided for each person in attendance. The main attractions were the fire trucks, buses, construction vehicles and police cars for children and their families to explore. According to Man ke y, ‘Touch a Truck’ is centered around giving kids the opportunity to be interactive with the vehicles. They were allowed to touch and climb into the vehicles, as well as
Michelle Keith, Yellow Jacket
The annual Touch-aTruck event, hosted by Waynesburg's First Baptist Church, attracted children and their families from around the county.
honk the horns. Around each of the vehicles, there was someone there to make sure that the child was safe while they explored the vehicles. The ‘ Touch a Truck’ event was free of charge and was open to the public. Each child that attended the event was given a free t-shirt and a Bible from the staff working the event. “The kids love this event,” said Mankey, “just because they get to do almost everything other than driving the vehicles.” “ This whole event is all about equality for the community,” said Mankey. “Each child gets the exact
same amount of tickets to win [prizes].” The sponsors that join the event are what made the whole event possible, according to Mankey. Those sponsors included Rice Energy, Heartman and Heartman Construction, Apex Energy and the American
Red Cross. “If the consistent growth of attendance is any indication, the community will continue to have this event for many years to come and allow it to further pursue its mission to bring the community together as a whole,” said Mankey.
Wall: Traveling memorial a healing experience for county Café: New
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great-uncle, Richard Lee Windsheimer. Windsheimer’s grandfather and his great-uncle both served a tour together in the Vietnam War. After returning home, Windsheimer’s grandfather wanted to stay but his great-uncle decided to return for another tour. “When he got there, my pap said he never heard from him again,” Windsheimer said. Having the opportunity to visit the wall was a special moment for Windsheimer. He called his parents to inform them of his stop at the wall. “It was nice to lay down a flower to honor his name, as well as all the other names that are on the wall that fought for us during the Vietnam War,” Windsheimer said. Windsheimer said it was special that the traveling wall was able to make a stop in Waynesburg. As university students visited throughout the weekend, Windsheimer said the wall was a way of uniting the community. “[The traveling] wall brought everyone together,” Windsheimer said. “[There were lots of] memories left here this weekend, and there
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Mitch Kendra, Yellow Jacket
Stephanie DeHaas, above, uses a pencil to trace the letters of her uncle's name on the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall. Right, visitors leave flowers, cards and flags by the names of loved ones. will continue to be [at its next locations] as it keeps traveling.” Windsheimer said the environment gave him chills. He commented on the community’s support towards the wall. “The wall was just spectacular with all of the decorations they had, all the memorial plaques – it just brought everybody together in a way to honor the fallen soldiers that gave us freedom today,” he said. A recognition ceremony was held Sept. 30 at 1 p.m., including a flyover and the posting of colors. Mitchell provided the invocation again
and was followed by the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance. Tom Stokes, a Clinical Social Worker for Operation Strong Mind, spoke to the crowd. After Stokes’ speech, was a reading of fallen heroes, honoring the local heroes from Greene County who served in the war and lost their lives. There was a 21-gun salute and Gerard and Livia Schleicher once again provided the playing of “Taps.” Following Sunday’s ceremony, Kenneth Ray Ward, who served in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1970 as a member of the United States
Army, was amongst those shading names onto paper. Ward, who is from Washington, Pennsylvania, will be a 50-year veteran next year. He shaded the name of a close friend from when he was young and was looking to help others. Ward came to the wall alone and volunteered his time – nearly 40 hours by the end of the wall’s time in Greene County. Ward, knowing he wanted to volunteer a majority of his time this weekend at the wall, had one thing
to say when he first signed up to volunteer. “I’ll be here every day,” he had said But the emotions caught up to him. “I took a rest – it’s just too emotional, you know, crying every day,” Ward said. Despite this, he said having the wall in Greene County was a healing experience. “It’s very emotional,” Ward said. “I’ve cried every day I’ve been here…Young men lost and gave their lives for our freedom.”
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that’s what so great about ‘small town USA.’” Gary Racan sang lead and first tenor for the Vogues, who are from Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, from 1983 to 1986. In 2001, he was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. He was pleased with how the concert went. “I think it’s awesome,” Gary Racan said. “We had a nice turnout today. It’s so much fun to bring back the patriotism in everybody, and the excitement we see in everybody. They leave here so inspired about being a true patriot and loving our country and our veterans.”
The event concluded with every veteran in attendance being invited to come up to the stage, while others waved mini American flags. For Gary Racan, the most important thing is recognizing and respecting the veterans in attendance. “The veterans seemed so inspired,” Gary Racan said. “Especially after the concert, they were shaking our hands. Some of them had tears in their eyes because a lot of our veterans don’t get the respect that they deserve... they’re not used to that, and they’re just so very touched by that.” The Master of Ceremonies for the show was Rod Shrower, who served two tours of duty
in Vietnam in 1967 to 1968 and 1970 to 1971. Shrower was the first person to speak at the event. As a veteran, the concert struck a chord.
cases dying on the battlefield, it brings back memories that you’d like to forget, but you can’t forget. Being choked up, I would say, it comes from the
“This is an opportunity for people who are nonmilitary like myself to share what our veterans have experienced, and to say, 'Thank God for them, their service and this country.'”
LINDA SHEARER
Founder, Connellsville Area High School Patriots
“Doing things for veterans, we have emotional ties, especially combat veterans,” Shrower said. “When you see your brothers suffering on the battlefield, and in some
heart. Not only me but all the veterans in this place. It comes from the heart, our emotions, they are our brothers and sisters in the military, serving in more time, and there are no
greater patriots than our men and women in uniform.” In addition to two trips to Waynesburg, Warriors Rock appeared at Connellsville Area High School last November. Linda Shearer is the founder of the Connellsville Area High School Patriots, which is a volunteer group to support deployed troops, as well as veterans. For Shearer, Warriors Rock was a positive experience for veterans and civilians. “This is an opportunity for people who are non-military like myself to share what our veterans have experienced, and to say, ‘Thank God for them, their service and this country,'" Shearer said.
Tedrow, a lifelong Greene County resident, graduated in 1995 from West Greene high school and went onto graduate from Slipper y Rock University. He shows his school spirit within the café’s decorations. “Some of it is my old gear from when I was in sports,” Tedrow said. Waynesburg University also donated some of the decorations according to Tedrow. Most of the decorations are focused on Greene County sports history and other memorabilia that impacted Tedrow. “One is the Jefferson Morgan picture of [softball player Cameron Dugan] pointing to the sky is Cameron Dugan,” said Tedrow. “She hit a game-winning home run to seal the WPIAL championship a day or two after her father had passed away. She was pointing up to the sky at him and I think that it is a pretty neat thing.” Other decorations in the café include a picture of the West Greene softball team after a championship win, as well as pictures from the first televised college football game, when Waynesburg faced Fordham in 1939. “There is a little bit of everything, all of the areas high schools are represented as well as the universities,” said Tedrow. Coach’s Café, which is located on 78 W. High Street in Waynesburg, has found their “niche” according to Tedrow. “The biggest thing that makes us different from everybody else is that we don’t just have the standard subs and burgers, we have some of the traditional style deli sandwiches on the thick cut bread and right now those are actually pretty hard to find,” said Tedrow.
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Top five runners excel for women's cross country teams at Waynesburg University, head coach Chris Hardie and his coaching staff have had dozens of races to learn
By MATTHEW SHINKLE Associate Editor
The Waynesburg University women’s cross countr y team placed fourth out of the 17-team field this past weekend at the 2017 Dickinson Long and Short Invitational. The race was not a traditional cross country race, as the day was split into two races for the women, that being a six-kilometer race, the typical distance for collegiate women’s races, and a four-kilometer race, a shorter race for more speed-based runners. In his 8th year of coaching the men’s and women’s cross country
a stronger scoring team. “We did the race, it might have been five years ago, and at that point it was Grove City
"If we look at our top five really...they stepped up and did what they needed to do to secure a lot of the front points which helped us be successful."
CHRIS HARDIE
Cross Country Head Coach
from, in terms of strategy and racing. Hardie brought his team to the race years ago, and thanks to that trip, was able to strategize the race much more effectively going in, thus creating
and Waynesburg were the top two PAC scores there,” said Hardie. “We really failed in strategy during that race, so I think we learned a lot in recent years about races like this how we need to
place our runners.” This year, Hardie and his coaching staff split the top several runners up to divide them between the four-kilometer and sixkilometer race. In doing so, the team was able to create a sizeable gap of 52 points between itself and the fifth finishing team, while also pulling relatively closely to regionally and nationally ranked teams in the nation that also ran in the meet. “If we look at our top five really…they stepped up and did what they needed to do to secure a lot of the front points which helped us be successful,” said Hardie.
“Then I think we also had some that were out of that top six, more like seven through 12 range for women, that really brought out their best race.” The Yellow Jackets were led by senior Angie Marchetti in the 6,000-meter race, who placed 13th out of the 190 runners with a time WXC >> C4 Photo courtesy of Patty Kaczynski Scott
Angie Marchetti finished 13th out of 190 runners.
Homecoming heartbreak
Football injuries underline defeat By LUKE GOODLING Associate Editor
ing continued on the next drive as Grove City sophomore running back Wesley Schools scored on a 3-yard touchdown run to give the Wolverines the lead back. As mentioned, Perone found Walker before the end of the half to keep it tied at 14. Grove City answered with its marathon drive to take the lead, Waynesburg struggled to get the offense rolling the rest of the way. After scoring a pair of touchdowns in the first half, the Yellow Jackets never found the scoreboard again for the remainder of the game. The Yellow Jackets final four drives of the game ended in disappointing fashion: turnover on downs at the Grove City 23-yard
Some Yellow Jackets could only watch, with no opportunity to contribute, as Waynesburg University lost to Grove City for the first time since 2009 this past weekend. Midway through the season, Waynesburg University’s football team is not at full strength, missing a few key athletes due to injury – one of which is season-ending. Junior running back Ben Ciero started the season on the sidelines after an injury during fall training camp. After missing the opening two games of the season, Ciero saw game action for the first time against Carnegie Mellon University in Week Three. Against CMU, Ciero contributed with 15 carries for 41 yards. With an offense pivoting around a successful run game, Ciero was one of the few running backs who brought experience to the position this year. Now, Ciero will only be able to contribute from the sidelines, as according to interim head coach Chris Smithley, he has suffered a season ending injury. “[Ciero] has a Lisfranc [injury],” Smithley said. “[Ciero] is going to have surgery Thursday and is going to be out of the season.” The injury involves dis-
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Ashley Hall, Yellow Jacket
Trailing by one possession in the fourth quarter, the Jackets were quieted with three consecutive interceptions by the Grove City defense.
With 21-14 defeat, football starts 0-5 for first time since 1993 season By TYLER GODWIN
Sports Convergence Editor
Heading into the third quarter, tied 14-14, the Waynesburg University football team got the ball to start the second half coming off a 3-yard touchdown catch by sophomore running back Chad Walker from sophomore quarterback Tyler Perone. Momentum had swung in the Yellow Jackets favor, but Grove City had different ideas. On the ensuing Waynesburg drive, the Wolverines forced a punt after five plays. Grove City then ate up 9:24 of clock in the third quarter on a 19-play, 86yard drive that was topped off by sophomore quarterback Randall Labrie, who took the ball in himself for a 1-yard rushing touch-
down. The score gave Grove City a 21-14 lead that they would not relinquish. “That was a [19-play] drive that really took the wind out of our defense,” said interim head coach Chris Smithley. “Within that drive, there was a fourthand-seven that they converted. Those are just things that we can’t let that stuff happen. We can’t let those drives go. That fourth-andseven, we should have had that stopped…That was an opportunity that we had and we let that one get away from us.” For Smithley, however, the turning point was not the scoring drive, but something that had plagued the Yellow Jackets during this game – penalties. “The turning point in the game was that there was a time in the
third quarter – it was the second time we had a false start on first down, and it came just after they scored to take the lead,” said Smithley. “I could feel the change in the game on their sidelines. On the false start – they got all excited about our false start, and that’s when I felt there was a big momentum shift because they were like, ‘hey, we can win this football game.’” The Wolverines (2-3, 2-1) opened up the scoring in the game with Labrie connecting with freshman wide out Cody Gustafson for 18-yards with 5:15 left in the first quarter. Waynesburg (0-5, 0-3) responded as Perone found junior running back Austin Wilson for a 7-yard touchdown catch early in the second quarter. The scor-
Men's soccer overcomes 2-0 deficit to clinch the victory By JOE SMELTZER
Editorial Assistant
For the first 20 minutes of an eventual 4-3 victory over Westminster College Oct. 3, at John F. Wiley Stadium, it appeared as if everything was going wrong for the Waynesburg University men’s soccer team. The Yellow Jackets were down 2-0 in the same game. They were facing an offense that came into the night leading the Presidents’ Athletic Conference in most statistical categories. Making matters worse, they lost their goalkeeper, junior James Snyder, to a knee injury less than seven minutes into the contest, leaving freshman Adam Dolan to try and hold the fort for the Jackets in just his second game of the season against the Titans’ high-powered attack. With a little over 20 min-
utes gone in the first half, the Jackets started to chip away when freshman forward Daniel Hott scored his first college goal. F or he ad co ach Brad Heethuis, cutting the lead in half was a huge boost for both Hott and the team. “It was massive to get some momentum back on our end,” Heethuis said. “It was really good for [Hott] individually to get that first collegiate goal. So all the way around, it really gave us that jolt of energy to start the comeback.” With this jolt of energy, the Jackets drew level less than six minutes later, when sophomore midfielder Justin Buberl scored his third goal of the campaign, assisted by junior defender Tyler Sisler. At the half, Westminster had 12 shots to Waynesburg’s three, and managed four corner kicks, while Waynesburg
did not have any. Both teams were even in shots on goal with four each. Less than ten minutes into the second half, Buberl scored his second goal of the night to give the Jackets a 3-2 lead. Once again it was Sisler who got the assist, this time with a cross inside the 18yard box. With his two goals on the evening, Buberl currently leads the team on the season with four. For Buebrl, being on the same page with his teammates is essential to his individual success. “It’s just connecting with the guys,” Buberl said. “It’s all teamwork; it’s not an individual performance. Tyler Sisler did a great job of serving me in-balls, and I was able to put it away.” With a little less than 18 minutes to play, Waynesburg MSOC >> C4
Ashley Hall, Yellow Jacket
This season, senior defensive player Bryan Sontag, pictured in a game earlier this season, has been in nine games out of the 10 games played so far this season.
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October 5, 2017
Women lose 9-0 for fourth straight match Women's soccer By BEN NORMAN
For the Yellow Jacket
After three consecutive matches ending in 9-0 sweeps, the women’s tennis attempted to break the streak on Saturday against Thomas More. With a conference opponent, the Yellow Jackets struggled to earn any points and ultimately lost 9-0 against the Saints. According to head coach Ron Headlee, the head coach for Thomas More has built a strong lineup. “Thomas More has a very nice lineup. [Head coach Chris Eilerman] continues to keep bringing in players from his club which makes for an easy transition,” said Headlee. Thomas More featured the returning PAC singles
drops first PAC match by one goal
champion in sophomore Brooke Warden. Warden blanked senior Wendy Wall by consecutive sets of 6-0. Headlee said that Warden continues to be the best player in the conference. Sophomore Noelle Hughes scored two points in the second set and fellow sophomore Brooklyn Shoup scored one in the first. As for the rest of the singles play, Waynesburg was held to zero points. Waynesburg struggled in doubles play, as well, being held scoreless in two of three games. The duo of seniors, Wall and Liz Ensminger, were able to put up three points in doubles as they were paired together for the first time in a few matches. For Waynesburg, it was senior day, which Ens-
By LUKE GOODLING and CHACE JOHNSTON Staff Report
Patience Yobp, Yellow Jacket
Wendy Wall is just one of two seniors on the women's tennis team this season. minger said brought an additional element of excitement to the matches. “Senior day was a lot of fun and it was great to
play with Wendy,” said Ensminger. Waynesburg has been TENNIS >> C4
Men's XC races at Dickinson Invitational By MATHEW ZERFOSS For the Yellow Jacket
The Waynesburg University’s men’s cross country team traveled to the Dickinson long-short invitational Saturday, Sept. 30. The men’s cross country team performed in their fourth meet of the season where 22 out of 24 runners participated in the event for the Yellow Jackets. The Jackets traveled to Newville to participate in the 4,000 and 8,000-meter races. Waynesburg ended up finishing 9th out of 14 teams, which Head Coach Chris Hardie said he was pleased with.
Photo courtesy of Patty Kaczynski Scott
The men's cross country program has two more meets before the championship. “I thought they did really well and I was really happy with the performance. We kind of had a game plan with
how we went about with this race which was a two race format in itself,” said Hardie. “The goal for us was to hold
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After starting the conference schedule undefeated following a shutout victory against Saint Vincent, Waynesburg University’s women’s soccer team continued PAC action last Tuesday night against Westminster. Over the 90 minutes, the Jackets ended up on the short end of the stick, losing the match by a 3-2 score. Senior forward Melanie Byler said the focus for the team going into the game was constructive passing. “We knew it was going to be a rough game physically and that we would have to have our passing game on,” said Byler. “Our plan going in was just to out pass them and make the ball do the work.” In the opening minutes of the game, Byler said it was some of the stronger minutes put together by the Yellow Jackets. “We started out strong – the first 10 minutes of the game was very excellent with our passing,” said Byler. “As we got tired and our minds got tired and our bodies got tired – we had to figure out how to stay mentally strong.” After 20 scoreless minutes, the Titans got on the board in the 20th minute and went on to double the score just over 10 minutes later. Waynesburg was able to break up the shut out before halftime with a goal by sophomore Emma Gozzard putting the score at 2-1 at the
half. After Westminster jumped out to a 2-0 lead, Byler said it brought a sense of urgency to the team. “I would definitely say there was a sense of urgency [following the first two goals,]” said Byler. “There was a feeling if we don’t take control of this game, we’re going to lose so there was a loss of momentum at first, but the new were able to get control.” Into the second half, senior Melanie Byler tied the game with her 5th goal of the season. But with 21 minutes left in the game, the Titans moved ahead when a shot got through sophomore goalkeeper Courtney Syfert with just over 21 minutes remaining in the contest. The Jackets kept even with the Titans through the evening, but were ultimately outshot 22-12 and lost their first conference game of the season, 3-2. Ahead on the schedule for the Yellow Jackets, according to Byler, is one of the harder conference opponents in Thomas More. “Thomas More is one of the tough teams in the conference, we have to go in with the mentality that we’re not going to give in,” said Byler. “We’re going to have to come out strong and play to our best of our abilities and know that its going to be a hard game – but not a game we can’t win.” The women’s soccer team returns to action on Saturday, Oct. 7, when it travels to Thomas More. Start time is scheduled for 1 p.m.
PRESIDENTS’ ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ROUNDUP PAC FOOTBALL LEADERS
FOOTBALL STANDINGS
Carnegie Mellon Case Western Reserve Wash&Jeff Westminster Grove City Geneva Saint Vincent Thiel Thomas More Bethany Waynesburg
Conf. 3-0 3-0 2-0 2-0 2-1 1-1 1-2 1-2 0-3 0-3 0-3
Overall 5-0 4-0 4-0 3-1 2-3 2-2 2-3 1-4 1-4 0-5 0-5
Saturday’s Box Score
WAYNESBURG 14, Grove City 21 Grove City 7 7 7 Waynesburg 0 14 0
0 0
21 14
PASSING YARDS: Rowse, 1286, W&J; Cuda, 1180, CWR; Navarro, 1157, SVC RUSHING YARDS: Marshall, 839, GEN; Pitts, 729, TMC; Barca, 725, THI TACKLES: Gatling, 50, BET; Jaszcar, 46, GRO; Davis, 45, WAY SACKS: Hansel, 5, TMC; Pierce, BET, 4; Armbrecht, GRO, 3.5 INTERCEPTIONS: Williams, 3, TMC; Williams, TMC, 3; Jeter, WES,2 Murgo, 2, W&J
MEN’S SOCCER STANDINGS
Thomas More Waynesburg Geneva SCORE RECAP First Quarter: GRO- Cody Gustafson 18 yd pass from Randall Labrie Thiel (Mitch Causer Kick) 5:15; Wash & Jeff Second Quarter: WAY - Austin Wilson 7 yd pass from Tyler Perone Bethany (Garret Guthrie kick) 14:53; GRO - Wesley Schools 3 yd run (Mitch Westminster Causer kick) 9:42; WAY - Chad Walker 3 yd pass from Tyler Perone Wash & Jeff (Garret Guthrie kick) 0:20 Geneva Third Quarter: GRO - Randall Labrie 1 yd run (Mitch Causer
Tuesday's Box Score
kick) 2:26
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Waynesburg passing COM ATT YDS TD INT Tyler Perone................. 16 34 173 2 3 Waynesburg rushing
ATT YDS Jeremiah Doswell-Hardric........ 10 54 Austin Wilson............................ 8 28 Waynesburg receiving
REC YDS Cole Booth .............................. 4 63 Chad Walker............................. 4 34
TD 0 0 TD 0 1
Conf. 2-0 2-0 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-1
Overall 6-4-1 4-4-2 7-2-1 3-5 7-3 6-6 5-5-1 4-4-3 3-7-1
WAYNESBURG 4, Westminseter 3 Westminster 2 1 3 Waynesburg 2 2 4
SCORE RECAP
First Half:WES -Goal Peter Mattocks, 7:23; WES - Goal Pater Mattocks (2), 18:49; WAY - Goal Daniel Hott, 20:21; WAY - Goal Justin Buberl, 26:09 Second Half: WAY- Goal Justin Buberl (2), 54:47;WAYGoal Sam Almeter, 72:09; WES - Goal Fedja Smajic, 73:01
RECENT RESULTS
Thursday's Box Score
WOMEN’S SOCCER Thomas More Chatham Bethany Waynesburg Westminster Thiel Grove City Wash & Jeff Geneva Saint Vincent
2-0 1-0 1-0 1-1 1-1 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-1
7-3-1 7-2 3-8 5-4-1 6-5 3-6 5-4 5-4-1 3-6 0-8-1
Tuesday's Box Score
WAYNESBURG 2, Westminster 3 Westminster 2 1 3 Waynesburg 1 1 2
SCORE RECAP
First Half: WES- Goal Alexandria Applin, 20:06; WES- Goal Keely Birsic, 31:46; WAY- Goal Emma Gozzard, 35:51 Second Half: WAY- Goal Melanie Byler, 55:32; WESGoal Jocelyn Gillette, 68:28
RECENT RESULTS Friday, September 29: Waynesburg 4, SaintVincent 0; Bethany 3, Geneva 2; Westminster 0, Chatham 2 Saturday, September 30: Alfred 1, Bethany 0; Thomas More 1, Grove City 0 Tuesday, October 3: Wash&Jeff 1, Thomas More 2; Westminster 3, Waynesburg 2
UPCOMING GAMES
Saturday, September 23: Waynesburg @ Thomas More - 1 p.m.; Geneva @ Westminster 3:30 p.m.
Grove City receiving
REC YDS Cody Gustafson......................... 5 72 Matt Pennypacker.................... 2 14
TD 1 1 TD 1 1
RECENT RESULTS
Saturday, September 30: Westminster 24, Thomas
More 21; Case Western Reserve 35, Saint Vincent 14; Grove City 21, Waynesburg 14; Carnegie Mellon 45, Bethany14 Monday, October 2: Thiel 3, Wash&Jeff 55
UPCOMING GAMES
Saturday, October 7: Westminster @ Saint Vincent- 1 p.m.; Bethany @ Case Western Reserve - 1 p.m.; Wash&Jeff @ Carnegie Mellon - 1 p.m.; Thomas More @ Grove City; 2 p.m.; Waynesburg @ Geneva - 3 p.m.
UPCOMING GAMES
Friday, October 6: Grove City @ Wash&Jeff - 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 7: Geneva @ Westminster - 1 p.m.; Waynesburg @ Thomas More 3:30 p.m.; Sunday, October 8:Thiel @ Saint Vincent - 1 p.m.
PAC M. SOCCER LEADERS
POINTS: O'halloran, 20, GEN; Iregui, 19, WES; Lujan, 13, BET GOALS: O'halloran, 8, GEN; Iregui, 8, WES; Sallah Mohammed, 6, BET ASSISTS: Fallen, 5, WES; Sisler, 4, WAY; Oliver, 4, THI; O'halloran, 4, GEN SAVES: Conrad, 48, THI; Antonoplos, 48, SVC; Bove, 46, WES
Friday, September 29 W&J Invitational
Waynesburg Assists
2. Westminster, 58 pts.; 3. W&J , 66 pts.;
Olivia Zuchelli.............................................................21 Rachel Lemay.............................................................20
GOALS: Grimm, 6, WJC; Byler, 6, WAY; Neinaber, 6, TMC; Meyers, 6, BET ASSISTS: Ruzzini , 5, WJC; Grimm, 4, W&J; Mapples, 4, TMC SAVES: Page, 65, WES; Vazquez, 57, BET; Palmer, 46,THI
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL STANDINGS Thomas More Westminster Bethany Geneva Grove City Wash & Jeff Saint Vincent Thiel Chatham Waynesburg
Conf. 10-0 6-2 5-2 5-2 4-3 5-4 3-4 1-7 1-8 0-5
Overall 16-4 14-4 12-7 6-14 7-11 7-7 10-8 7-12 7-8 1-14
Saturday, September 30: Dickinson Long-Short Invitational
Waynesburg Digs
6. Grove City , 60 pts.; 8. Geneva, 212 pts.; 9. Waynesburg, 270 pts.;
Cassidy Guier...............................................................21 Alyssa Proper ..............................................................21
Chatham - Eden Hall Invitational
Mount Aloysius Kills Jessica Bressler.............................................................10 Machala Gibbons.........................................................10 Mount Aloysius Assists
2. Chatham 66 pts
Greater Louisville Classic (8K) 13. Thomas More, 416 pts
UPCOMING EVENTS
Emma Pevarnik........................................................28 Jessica Bressier.........................................................17
Saturday, October 7:Carnegie Mellon Invitatiional (8K)
Mount Aloysius Digs
WOMEN RECENT RESULTS
Kylee Clawson............................................................17 Machala Gibbons.......................................................12
RECENT RESULTS
Saturday, September 30: Baldwin Wallace 3, Grove City 0; Bethany 3, Geneva 2; Pitt-Greensburg 0, Westminster 3; Grove City 3, D'Youville 0; Bethany 0, Thomas More 3; Buffalo State 1, Westminster 3; Thomas More 3, Geneva 0; Wash&Jeff 3, Chatham 0
UPCOMING GAMES
13, CHA
Tuesday, October 3:W&J 0, Thomas More 3; Grove City ,Buffalo State ; Westminster ,Waynesburg
Hannah Colvin...........................................................12 Cassidy Guiser............................................................11
Tuesday, October 10: Westminster @ Thiel - 7:30 p.m.
Grove City rushing
MEN RECENT RESULTS Team
Sunday, October 1: Thomas More 3, Chatham 0
Saturday, September 30: Penn State New Kensington PAC W. SOCCER LEADERS POINTS: Grimm, 16, WJC; Byler, 14, WAY; Vernail, 0, Bethany 6; Thomas More 2, Grove City 1
CROSS COUNTRY
Waynesburg Kills
Sunday, September 24: Thiel @ Saint Vincent - 3 p.m.; Bethany @ Chatham 4 p.m.
Grove City passing
ATT YDS Wesley Schools........................ 33 171 Randall Labrie.......................... 10 76
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Friday, September 29: Westminster 2, Allegheny 3
Friday, September 22: Grove City @ Wash&Jeff - 5:30 p.m..
Friday, September 29: Waynesburg 2, Saint Vincent 0; Bethany 0, Geneva 4
COM ATT YDS TD INT Randall Labrie...............8 16 93 1 1
Mount Aloysius 3, WAYNESBURG 1 Mount Aloysius 25 25 17 25 3 Waynesburg 11 16 25 20 1
Tuesday, October 3: Thiel 0, Westminster 3 Friday, October 6: Webster @ Thomas More - 6 p.m.; Thiel @ Bethany - 7 p.m.; Fontbonne @ Thomas More 8 p.m. Saturday, October 7: Waynesburg @ Geneva - 10 a.m.; Saint Vincent @ Bethany - 11 a.m.; Waynesburg @ Westminster 12 p.m.; Thomas More @ Washington (Mo.) 12 p.m.; Grove City @ Saint Vincent 1 p.m.; Westminster @ Geneva - 2 p.m.; Wash&Jeff @ Franciscan - 2 p.m.; Central @ Thomas More - 2 p.m.; Grove City @ Bethany - 3 p.m. Sunday, October 8: Wash & Jeff @ Thomas More 1 p.m.
PAC VOLLEYBALL LEADERS
KILLS: Hughes, 232, GEN; Sparks, 219 , CHA; Yoho, 218, WES ASSISTS: Scott, 532, BET; O'Dell, 522, SVC; Fessler, 498 TMC BLOCKS: Muhammad, 26, BET; Yoho, 24, WES; Buchanan, 15, GCC DIGS: Parker, 410, BET; Sweeny, 321, THI; Bronner, 295, W&J
Team
Friday, September 29 W&J Invitational 1. Westminster, 29 pts.; 3. W&J , 62 pts.;
Saturday, September 30: Dickinson Long-Short Invitational 4. Waynesburg, 134 pts; 11. Geneva, 351 pts; 11. Grove City, 126pts
Chatham - Eden Hall Invitational 4. Chatham 116 pts
Greater Louisville Classic (8K) 29. Thomas More, 744 pts
UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday, October 7:Carnegie Mellon Invitatiional (8K)
YELLOW JACKET ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Austin Zurik - Men's Soccer Melina Byler - Women's Soccer
On The Air 99.5 The Hive: Saturday at 3 p.m. Waynesburg @ Geneva College Pregame: Greg Finley & Paul Zalakar Game Call: Drew Brown & Mitch Montani
GREENE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS ROUNDUP Jefferson-Morgan
Carmichaels
Mapletown
Waynesburg Central
Football
Football
Football
Football
JEFFERSON-MORGAN 40, Avella14 Jefferson-Morgan 7 13 13 7 40 Avella 0 0 8 6 14 Jefferson-Morgan had big plays, including a 35-yard pass from Jacob Broadwater to Zack Gamble in the first quarter and a 55-yard run from Gamble in the third. Jefferson-Morgan is right now fifth in the TriCounty South Conference (1A) with a 2-4 record. .
CAMRMICHAELS 31, Mappletown 8 Carmichaels 0 8 16 7 31 Mapletown 8 0 0 0 8 Jacob Lowry scored twice, once in the second quarter and another in the third. The Mighty Mikes are sitting second right now in the Tri-County South Conference (1A) with a 4-1 record on the season.
MAPLETOWN 8, Carmichaels 31 Carmichaels 0 8 16 7 31 Mapletown 8 0 0 0 8 Fresh off his record setting game last week, Dylan Rush scored the Maples only touchdown this week from a 31 yard run in the first quarter. The Maples are currently sixth in the Tri-County South Conference (1A) with a 2-4 record.
WAYNESBURG 36, Southmoreland 14 Southmoreland 7 0 0 7 14 Waynesburg 22 0 0 14 36 For Waynesburg, this was a big night for their offence including a huge 61-yard run in the first quarter by Caleb Shriver. With that win, Waynesburg goes now 1-4 this year.
Friday’s Box Score
Next Game: vs Mappletown 10/6- 7 p.m.
Friday’s Box Score
Next Game: @ California 10/6- 7 p.m.
Friday’s Box Score
Friday’s Box Score
Next Game: @ Jefferson-Morgan 10/6 - 7 p.m
NEXT GAME: vs South Park 10/6 - 7 p.m.
West Greene Football
Friday’s Box Score
WEST GREENE 6, Fort Cherry 32 West Greene 6 0 0 0 6 Fort Cherry 7 6 13 6 32 The Pioneers take only their second loss this season, losing to Fort Cherry 32-6. West Greene only scored once off of a 56-yard run by Zach Pettit in the first quarter. West Greene now drops to fourth in the TriCounty South Conference (1A) with a 4-2 record. NEXT GAME: @ Leechburg 10/6 - 7 p.m.
October 5, 2017
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Volleyball wins first set in four games against Mount Aloysius By ANTONIO PELULLO Editorial Assistant
Volleyball has won their first set over their last 12 sets last Thursday, but were defeated in four total sets by Mount Aloysius. The Jackets were led by freshman middle hitter Hannah Colvin who had 12 kills in the match, a season high for her. Head coach Stephanie Benkowski was going into the season lacking the middle hitter position and Colvin stepped up and through the long road of the season she has been able to improve. “She volunteered herself as a middle so she started to learn a new positon at the beginning of the year, I think she had finally bought in [and] realized that we’re going to keep her [at] middle,” said Benkowski. “Her wanting to do better has made a big difference for us.” For Colvin, it was adjustment going from outside to middle and she has finally felt she has hit her stride. “It was definitely a little bit frustrating because it took a lot, it’s a different set you have to be a
lot quicker,” said Colvin. “[Benkowski] said in two weeks I would get the hang of it and I’m just starting to get the hang of it and I’m still adjusting and learning new things every day.” Thursday night marked the first time the Hagerstown, Maryland Colvin broke double digits in kills for the season. “She was moving a lot our passes were good but that helped set the middle but she was on,” said Benkowski. “She was hot on Thursday I mean it really worked for her.” Overall, it was a strong passing night that helped the setters get better passes to the young hitter that led the offense. “If you don’t have the best pass, you can’t really set the middle so we were having a pretty good passing night allowing the setter to distribute the ball to all of our hitters,” said Colvin. “My teammates were calling out spots that were open so I was trying to be smart where I placed the ball.” Through the season, Benkowski’s team has been the subject of a lack of meeting the constancy required.
“It’s a rollercoaster ride, if I’m happy or not, I mean that’s the honest truth like yes when we play to our potential,” said Benkowski. “I see a huge amount of improvement happens but then when we walk onto the court and we’re not playing to our potential, I wonder why we took five steps backwards.” This match also marks the beginning of the second half of the conference schedule for the Jackets, which is an important half for a team that has not won a single set in PAC games. “We have half the season left, we’re in the second half now, we got to show up for every practice and every game,” said Benkowski. “For us, we have a lot of strides we’ve made we have to start believing we can do it and I think in this moment we question a lot of things.” Next Saturday, volleyball has a double header against Geneva College (12-7, 5-2) who is fourth in the PAC. Then they take on Westminster College, who is ranked second in the PAC (14-4, 6-2), both teams defeated Waynesburg in the first matchups of the year.
Mitchell Kendra, Yellow Jacket
Pictured here in a game earlier this season, Cassidy Guiser attacks the ball from the outside. So far this season, Guiser has started every single game.
Men's and women's golf compete in PAC championships By DYLAN CLELAND
For the Yellow Jacket
The men’s and women’s golf teams traveled to Ohio Oct. 2 and Oct. 3 for the first two rounds of the 2017-2018 Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships. The men took five golfers to Squaw Creek Golf Club and over the 36 holes of golf the Jackets currently sit in 7th place out of 8 teams – falling ahead of just Beth-
any. College. The tournament will conclude in the spring with one final round. Freshman Will Purbaugh led the way for the Jackets, shooting an 89 on Monday and an 86 on Tuesday. Purbaugh, who currently sits tied for 28th place with a total of 175, said the team came together during the tournament and put together competitive golf. Falling behind Purbaugh, was senior Alex Orlandini, with a 181 over two days
and sits at 32nd. Seniors Aaron Hill and Ivan Li finished with a 183 and 198, respectively. The final finisher for the Jackets was freshman CJ Sekanick, who withdrew with a 97 due to injury after just one round. Head coach Sam Jones has watched the team grow throughout the season, and said he believes the team is making improvements. “I was very pleased with their efforts. [The] numbers weren’t exactly where
we wanted them to be, not that I was disappointed,” said Jones. “I just think the guys were disappointed, they had a little bit of higher goals for themselves, but almost everyone had a better day on day two than day one so we improved.” Thomas More leads the tournament with a team score of 610 for 34 over par. Before putting the clubs away for the winter, the men will compete in a PAC tri-match Oct. 11, at the
Southpointe Country Club when Thiel and Westminster visit the Yellow Jackets. On the women’s side, freshman Andrea Mellinger was the lone participant in the PAC Championship Tournament at Avalon Lakes Country Club in Warren, Ohio. In her first collegiate golf tournament, she shot a 271 through 36 holes. Due to the fact that she was the only Yellow Jacket on the course, she competed as
an individual rather than entering as a team; after two rounds Mellinger sits at 26th place. Jones said he was impressed with Mellinger making the trip. “[Mellinger] did a nice job, it’s been a while since she has played golf,” said Jones. “It was pretty brave to show up at a conference championship not having played [competitively] in over a year. I was very proud of her for coming out and playing.”
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line, Perone interception, Perone interception and another Perone interception. With multiple chances to potentially tie the game up, as the team only trailed by one posession, Smithley felt his young quarterback was trying to force the ball too much in the fourth quarter. “We had guys open and I think that [Perone] tried to force the ball down the field more than he needed to, instead of sticking to the plan…,” Smithley said. “We thought we were good in the first half, we were on the same page. When things started flying at him a little bit and we needed to score, he tried forcing the ball a little bit more than he needed to…” For Smithley, the game truly ended up being a taleof-two-halves in terms of overall team play. “We just didn’t play a
burg with 52 yards rushing on 10 carries, the vast majority of which came in the first half. Perone wound up completing 16-of-34 passes for 173 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions. His favorite target on the day was freshman Cole Booth, who posted team highs in catches, four, and receiving yards, 63. In regards to the rungame, Doswell-Hardrick’s effort led a rushing attack that finished with 121 yards on the ground, this was the first time all season the group has gone over 100 yards rushing in a game. With some of the highest numbers of the season coming in the game against Grove City, Smithley was enthusiastic ab out the freshman’s performance and the overall unit as a whole. “These guys are working their butts off. Jeremiah ran like that in a JV game
"Everybody in that locker room knows what we need to do and where we need to go and what it's going to take. They know it's a process; we're in that situation.
CHRIS SMITHLEY
Interim Head Football Coach
complete game,” he said. “In the first half, I thought offensively we could have done and been positive with it. Then our mentality, for whatever reason, I feel like the attitude we had in the first half wasn’t there in the second half. That’s just part of having an inexperienced team and a team that once they win some games, we’re going to be fine. We’re good enough to beat a bunch of teams here.” Freshman Jeremiah Doswell-Hardrick led Waynes-
this year, and my communication to him over the past three weeks has been that he needs to run like he did in the JV game,” said Smithley. “This is no different. I think that he was just young and timid and trying to get his feet wet in the deal. Saturday was the first day that he came out and really showed what he can do here.” From a defensive standpoint, junior linebacker John-Glen Davis and senior linebacker Tristan Sandro-
sky paced the effort with 12 tackles a piece, while Davis added two pass breakups as well. Sophomore defensive back Deondre Marable had an interception in the fourth quarter as well. However, for Smithley, this game was more a matter of what didn’t get done on defense than what did happen. “I think it just comes down to our guys tackling better,” said Smithley. “There were a lot of times where we had good positioning on the guys and we didn’t get them on the ground. That’s something – we haven’t had a game where we missed tackles like that. That’s something we have to get back to this week more and into the next opponent.” Smithley said that the biggest thing right now for the team is continuing to grow in its process as it looks to find its niche as a football team. “We have great kids. This isn’t going to affect them,” Smithley said. “Everybody in that locker room knows what we need to do and where we need to go and what it’s going to take. They know it’s a process, we’re in that situation.” As the Yellow Jackets look towards an away game with Geneva this Saturday, Oct. 7, at 3 p.m., finding a way to limit the Golden Tornadoes’ triple-option offense is going to be the forefront of the game plan. “Those guys have to be disciplined,” said Smithley. “Against the triple-option you have to play disciplined football, you have to play assignment football and you can’t miss hits this week. We’ll continue to get better, and the goal is to have an opportunity to win a football game and we have that opportunity.”
Ashley Hall, Yellow Jacket
In the game against Carnegie Mellon University earlier this season, Ben Ciero ran for 41 yards on 15 carries.
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placement of the metatarsal bones from the tarsus and, according to Smithley, Ciero will be able to return to football in the spring and will serve as a coach throughout the remainder of the fall schedule. “He’ll be back for spring [ball], but [the injury] is something that will definitely take some time to recover just because he needs surgery,” Smithley said. “We’ll look to do the right thing by him and look and see what we can do with a medical red shirt and try and save him a year.” Another running back who has missed game time is sophomore Jarves Crews. Since Week Four against Case Western Reserve University, Crews has been dormant – seeing no game time. However, according to Smithley, Crews should return to full operation this week after missing time with an ankle injury.
Junior safety Andrew Brncic has also missed multiple weeks due to an injury suffered earlier this season, though it isn’t season ending. During the game against CMU in Week Three, Brncic suffered a collapsed right lung and was pulled partway through the second half of the game. Before the injury, Brncic had played in every game this season with six total tackles, four of which were solo, had a broken-up pass against Westminster and against CMU he also had a blocked punt. After missing the past two games, Smithley said Brncic’s return to the field is right around the corner. “[Brncic] should be back [this week],” said Smithley. “He’s not that far off – I know he [was] only a few weeks out with his [initial injury].” With a defense that has given up 77 points across the past two games, Smithley said having Brncic back in the rotation will bring back another dimension. “It adds some experience
[when Brncic returns], a guy that’s played a little bit in some packages last year – a guy that has played really well this year,” said Smithley. “He tackled really well in the games that he played…he’s a guy that we’d love to have back sooner rather than later.” Finally, another integral part of the defensive comes in the form of senior linebacker Brent Blacharczyk. Starting in Week Four against Case Western Reserve University, Blacharczyk has been limited in his playing time due to, according to Smithley, a combination of injuries. “[Blacharczyk’s] got like a turf toe type of deal, and then on top of that he has a high ankle sprain on the same foot,” said Smithley. “He’s got a lot of things going on with that. He’s getting treatment and doing the best that he can do to keep it right.” Midway through the season, Blacharczyk is second on the team with 43 total tackles, 22 of which were solo takedowns.
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October 5, 2017 WEEK FIVE FOOTBALL PREVIEW: GENEVA COLLEGE
Yellow Jackets tasked against Geneva's tricky triple option By DONALD CHEDRICK For the Yellow Jacket
A 0-5 start is something Waynesburg University football program is not used to. After a 21-14 Homecoming loss to Grove City on Saturday, that is where the Yellow Jackets now stand. Waynesburg is now tied for last in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference with Bethany College, which is a team the Jackets will not play in 2017. This weekend, the Yellow Jackets have a chance to pick up their first victory of the season when they play Geneva College and its triple option attack. A year ago, Waynesburg bested Geneva, 10-9, to pick up its second win of the season, but this year, Waynesburg is still looking for that first win. Grove City and Waynesburg went back and forth last
Saturday with Waynesburg eventually tying the game at 14 heading into the half following a 3-yard touchdown pass from sophomore quarterback Tyler Perone to sophomore wide receiver Chad Walker. Grove City controlled the clock in the second half of the game, with a 19-play, 86yard drive that took nearly 10 minutes off the clock and ended with a rushing touchdown from sophomore quarterback Randall Labrie. The extra point gave the Wolverines the lead again, 21-14. In the fourth quarter, Perone had a pair of interceptions that iced the game for the Wolverines, giving them just their second victory since 2013. Waynesburg now moves on to face the Geneva Golden Tornadoes who are coming off a bye week. Looking to halt the losing
streak, t h e Yellow Jackets will be turning to a few keys to victory, a n d with t h e triple option attack, interim head coach Chris Smithley knows the main focus. Stopping the run
After rushing for 429 yards against Thiel a few weeks ago, the Golden Tornadoes rushing attack, led by running back Trewon Marshall, looks primed for another big performance. Smithley knows it all falls upon the defense when it comes to shutting down the run game.
“This is probably one of the m o s t physical games that our defense will play all year,” Smithley said. “[Geneva] will be running dive after dive after dive – so defensively, stopping the run is the number one priority.” To stop the run, any team has to be able to tackle and Smithley concurs that the Yellow Jackets are facing that challenge this week. “We just have to get back to the basics and be all about tackling,” Smithley said. “We have to play disciplined football and can’t miss our assignments defensively.”
Spread the ball around
The Waynesburg run game has been looking for a spark all season and one of the things that Smithley has gone to is a ‘running back by committee’ mentality. Between juniors Ben Ciero, who is now out with a season ending injury, and Austin Wilson, sophomore Jarves Crews and freshman Jeremiah Doswell-Hardrick, Smithley has looked to each of them to contribute significant ground work at some point this season. Smithley said that it will be a strategy of his going into Geneva as well. “We are going to continue to split carries this week because I feel it gets the most out of our runners,” Smithley said. “We have the guys that we can spread it out, and that’s something we will continue to do until someone
proves that they deserve all 35-40 carries.” Get healthy Though staying healthy is an underlining goal each week during the season, Waynesburg has suffered specific losses due to injuries. Missing players on both offense and defense, Smithley said the team could be getting some players back this weekend. One of the playev s close to returning is junior defensive back Andrew Brncic. Smithley said Brncic will bring experience to the Waynesburg defense once he returns. “He brings experience. He’s a guy that has played quite a bit,” Smithley said. “He makes an impact not only on defense, but in special teams too. He is a guy we would love to have back sooner rather than later.”
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added insurance when junior midfielder Sam Almeter put a cross from freshman forward Thomas Drake in the back of the net to make it 4-2. That insurance goal proved to be vital when Westminster senior Fedja Smajic cut the lead in to one less than a minute later. Despite that scare, Waynesburg held on for the final 17 minutes for a 4-3 win. For over a half hour, the Titans played with nine men on the pitch. A little over 12 minutes into the second half, sophomore Ahmed Cisse and senior Kornel Foremski both received red cards. Considering the two man disadvantage, Westminster head coach Girish Thaker was not discouraged with the performance from his team despite the loss. “We played with nine players pretty much the whole second half,” Foremski said. “I think that considering that we were playing with nine players against 11, we had a good effort coming back [making it a one-goal
game] and it was right there, we were in there. Credit to Waynesburg for [getting back into the game]. I think my guys gave everything they had today. Really they couldn’t give any more.” Formeski said he saw no major differences in Waynesburg’s tactics later in the game as opposed to the first 20 minutes. “No, there wasn’t much [different],” Formeski said. “We knew what they were going to do…when we came in the game we were thinking that we were going to have to work hard.” Formeski cited Westminster’s only converting two of its 12 first-half shots as a reason for Waynesburg having a chance to get back in the game. “We had chances in the first half that could have probably opened the game up into three or four goals, and we just didn’t do it,” he said. “That’s what happens in soccer. You don’t take your chances, and anything can happen.” Heethuis noted the combination of Buberl’s finishing and Sisler’s attacking as big
parts of Waynesburg’s offensive success. “[Tyler Sisler] did really well on the wing,” Heethuis said. “He has a lot of creativity and a lot of skill out there, and we tell him to use it, to take guys one-on-one, and to either get one himself or whip a ball in for somebody else…we’ve struggled with some finishing during the year, and tonight our guys, Justin [Buberl] included, when we got in the right situation, we were able to put balls away.” Tuesday was a big night for Dolan, who picked up his first collegiate win in goal. “For a goalkeeper, it’s a really tough position to be put in, coming off the bench pretty much ice cold,” Heethuis said. “Especially for him, facing some shots pretty much after he got in. He was able to kind of calm down a little bit, and settle in, and did enough for us to get a win.” For Dolan, the experience of playing a role in the come-from-behind win was thrilling. “It feels great,” Dolan said. “I hope [Snyder] feels better
Ashley Hall, Yellow Jacket
In the opening two games of the conference schedule, the men's soccer team has scored a combined six goals while only giving up three. soon. The defense did super well. They bailed me out a lot. Just a great team win.” With the win, Waynesburg is now 4-4-2 overall and 2-0 in conference action, while Westminster is 5-5-1 overall and 0-1 in PAC play. Waynes-
burg’s next game will be in Crestview Hills, Kentucky Saturday, Oct. 7, against Thomas More (6-4-1, 2-0). Start time is 3 p.m. For Heethuis, although the win over Westminster was not perfect, the result is what
counts. “The boys did enough,” Heethuis said. “The boys did enough to get the three points…We’ll take it, and tomorrow we’ll get back to practice in training and get better.”
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runners, and the 4,000-meter race gave us more options, and overall they executed the strategy very well.” Freshman Mac Colomb led all Waynesburg runners in the
"The goal for us was to hold our own...and overall they executed the strategy very well."
CHRIS HARDIE
Cross Country Head Coach
8,000-meter race with a time of 27:50 which was 46th out of 142 runners. Freshman Matt Durgin finished second out of all the Waynesburg runners, clocking in at 28:02 and landing him at 52nd place. Junior Joel Kuzminski rounded out the top three of Waynesburg runners in the 8,000-meter race, finishing 84th place with a time of 29:24. Colomb said he felt comfortable with his performance in the 8K. “Overall, I think I did really well,” said Colomb. “I like the longer distances better than the shorter distances, so I held on pretty well and the back part of the course was really hilly so it was kind of back and forth for awhile with me and Matt Durgin, but in the end, we helped each other out.” The 4,000-meter race
which was led by freshman Nate Jecelin, who finished 33rd overall out of 148 runners, clocking in with a time of 13:12. Freshman Jordan Payne finished 41st with a time of 13:25. Jacket freshman Matt Mansfield finished 57th with a time of 13:39, which rounded out the top three runners for Waynesburg. Jecelin said he was pleased with the combination of pace and endurance. “I think I did really well,” said Jecelin. “I’m better at shorter distances because my speed and endurance mixed together blends together well, so during the race I was feeling very confident and I was trying to keep my mile pace evenly throughout the whole race.” Hardie said assistant coach Laurel Rush was crucial to preparing the men’s cross country program in the previous week to prepare for the invitational. “Men’s Assistant Coach Laurel Rush was vital this past week about talking strategy and getting this team ready for the meet,” said Hardie. “She puts out a great training workout for the week and her strategy for the runners was really good.” The Waynesburg men’s cross country team will travel to Schenley Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the Carnegie Mellon Invitational next. This event is scheduled to take place Saturday, Oct. 7 at 11 a.m.
of 23:17 on the course. Junior Teghan Simonton finished in 16th place and sophomore Malarie Yoder finished in 25th place to round out the top three scoring individuals for the women in the first race of the day. In the 4,000-meter race, sophomore Taylor Clarkson crossed the finish line first for Waynesburg in 18th place, with senior Elinore Loch finishing closely
behind in 25th scorer in the four place. Sophomore [kilometer race], Mary Beth CunI don’t know if ningham finished I would have in 49th to be the thought that going women’s third and in,” said Hardie. “I final scorer in the knew she could second race for the run fast and at women. that level, but she Looking at the maintained a 6:11 Clarkson results, Clarkson pace through that stood out to Hardie after race and that’s really fast.” the race for being the first Clarkson admits she felt orange and black represen- good during the shortened tative to finish the four-ki- race and is excited to return lometer race. to the course in a few weeks “To actually be the top when the area hosts region-
als for the Mid-East Region. “It was fast, it was really fast,” said Clarkson. “We didn’t have the hills either that the 6K did, so I’m looking forward to adding in the hills when we run regionals. But it was definitely my type of race this weekend.” The Jackets are back in action when a select few of undetermined women runners will travel to Carnegie Mellon University for the university’s invitational meet. Start time is scheduled for 11 a.m.
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struggling this year to replace the void left by junior Aubree Brown who is out for the year after sustaining a shoulder injury. Although Brown has been sidelined all year long, she said she has remained positive and has been able to help the team. “This is just a bump in the road that all athletes have during their athletic careers,” said Brown. “I try to give the other girls advice on players that they’re playing, who I have played in the previous two seasons.” Brown has remained vital to the team, despite her injury, by offering advice
to players on various opponents, something which Headlee has noticed. “Aubree still continues to support her team,” said Headlee. T he l o ss to T homas More drops the record of the Jackets to 1-8 and 0-6 in conference. The season is coming to a close for the Jackets, as they have three matches left with two on the road. To round out the season, the Jackets will travel to play Bethany on Wednesday, past publication date, then travel to play Pitt Greensburg on Saturday. Next week, they will be back in action when they take on Geneva at Waynesburg on Monday, Oct. 9, at 4 p.m.
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WU IDOL
WINNER ANNOUNCED Tiffany Morgan, Yellow Jacket
Competitors embraced after host Tessa Masula, pictured above, announced that Freshman Journalism major Jonah Philipp, below, won the $200 first-prize check Sept. 29.
Freshman Jonah Philipp sings Sinatra's ‘Come Fly With Me’ for the win By EDWARD BOICE
For The Yellow Jacket
Last Friday night, students, parents and faculty packed into the Goodwin Performing Arts Center once more for third and final round of Waynesburg Idol. The audience had the opp or tu n it y to re c om me nd songs for each of the contestants, from which they were to pick their final performance song from. While this week’s theme might have seemed like it was giving contestants a break from the burden of choosing songs, the opposite was felt by some of the participants. Thomas Faye, sophomore Music Ministry major, had a difficult time picking the right song with the lack of choices. “It’s really hard choosing from songs that are suggested,” Faye said. “Rather than just picking any song, it really narrows your choices down.” A wide range of genres were
represented in the songs from the final four contestants. An indie-rock song called “Cosmic Love” by Florence + the Machine was performed by Megan Leiter and a soft love song from Kayla Coughlin, which was “Better Place” by Rachel Platten. The song “Come Fly with Me” by Frank Sinatra was selected by Jonah Philipp from the list of suggestions because it “fit with his voice style.” “Personally, I love Sinatra and Bublé,” said Philipp, “I have always thought my voice works with Bublé, and I love watching them perform.” Emily Haywood, a resident director and a judge for Waynesburg Idol, approved of the song selection. “I was a little skeptical at first when the theme of audience pick first was made public. I was nervous as to whether students would take it seriously or just submit silly, inappropriate songs,” Haywood said. “However, from what I
gathered, people put a lot of thought into picking songs that were best suited for the singers and their voices.” Contestants, tried to place something spectacular besides typical singing into their performances. Kayla Coughlin brought her boyfriend onto the stage and sung her song as a personal tribute to him. Thomas Faye brought his roommate onto the stage, to everyone’s surprise, including his roommates. “It was a last-minute thing,” Faye said, “Originally, I did want to take someone and point to them or stand them up or give them a twirl, but I couldn’t find anybody. Connor was the first one I saw, so I went with it.” After the four finalist’s performances, the audience could only choose one to be the winner. After the votes were tallied up, it was reported that first, second and third place were
only separated by one vote, the closest results ever in Waynesburg Idol history. In the end, freshman Jonah Philipp ended up winning it all. “There were a lot of talented people, they did amazing. I am very thankful for winning, but again, they did amazing,” said Philipp. While the 13th season of Waynesburg Idol has come to a close, there is always next year for the rest of the runnerup contestants. T h om a s Fay e believes that if you love singing, then joining Waynesburg Idol is a necessity. “Definitely do it if you’re passionate about singing,” Faye said, “Do it because you want to have fun, not just to win.”
Campus photo contest to showcase WU Students to visit
Warhol museum in Pittsburgh
By HOLLY HENDERSHOT Convergence Editor
This fall brings a new event to Waynesburg University’s campus. For the first time, students, faculty and staff are invited to participate in a photo contest dedicated to showing what life on campus is all about. The contest will run for the entire month of October and will showcase the best photos of Waynesburg’s campus in the fall. Joshua Beppler, integrated marketing coordinator, is in charge of managing the photo competition event. Beppler said he believes that students, faculty and staff can photograph Waynesburg University in a way that other photographers cannot. “We’re hoping they can capture what campus looks like through their eyes and how they experience it,” said Beppler, “highlight what Waynesburg is all about in a way that we can’t capture… in ways that really gives you a more intimate look on Waynesburg University as a whole.” One winner will be announced at the end of the contest and will receive Fitbit as their prize. Although there will be a official winner picked from the photographers, additional prizes may be announced for other pho-
By KADEN HURLEY
For The Yellow Jacket
Kyla Wolper, Yellow Jacket
Those who submit photos in the contest by e-mailing social@waynesburg.edu are entered in a chance to win the FitBit grand prize. tographers who do well in the competition. Beppler said many of the photos taken for the competition will, with permission from the photographers, potentially be used for other purposes, such as university advertisements and social media pages “I think it will be fun and a nice engaging campus activity, especially showcasing some of the stuff on social media, just to help really paint that picture,” said Beppler. Beppler said the idea for the competition started when
he and some coworkers were talking about the Waynesburg photo catalogue, which they are currently working with photographers to update. “There have been so many changes recently,” said Beppler. “We want to make sure we are capturing what life looks like inside and outside of the classroom, and we just thought the best way to gain insight into Waynesburg as a whole is through the eyes of the students and people who experience it daily.” Beppler said he and his coworkers feel that the timing
for the contest was aligned well with the season, with the nice weather and fall colors. Beppler also believes there is a good likelihood that they will have this event again in the future, perhaps during different seasons. Beppler said he is eager for everyone to be involved with this event. “We want participation that just really captures the essence of Waynesburg. Students have such a better opportunity to really show us what Waynesburg really looks like,” said Beppler.
The Student Activities Board (SAB) is sponsoring a trip to the Andy Warhol Museum on Oct. 8. The museum features the largest collection of Andy Warhol’s work in the world. According to the website, the museum is “one of the most comprehensive singleartist museums in the world and the largest in North America.” Andy Warhol was among the original creators of pop art that became popular in the 1950s. Warhol’s cre at ion of “Campbell’s Soup Cans” pushed him into the mainstream, though most people connect Warhol’s name with his work featuring Marilyn Monroe. The museum’s seven floors each represent a different aspect of Warhol and his works. Floors seven through four breaks down each era of Warhol’s work, from his early pieces all the way through the 1980s.
An additional floor stands as a temporary exhibition gallery. Two floors in the museum are dedicated completely to archiving, restoring and preserving his work. On predesignated dates and times, the underground offers visitors an educational experience of what the factory would have been like. To non-art majors, Warhol’s art “sparks interest no matter where you’re from” and has “something for all people.” Though unique in itself, this is not the first visit Waynesburg University has made to this museum. In fact, the previous Arts and Culture committee head Mary Beth Cocchi said SAB makes a trip to the Warhol every year, as its such a distinguished museum as well as a top Pittsburgh destination. “It’s just one of those significant Pittsburgh landmarks. Everyone has heard of Andy Warhol in some capacity,” said C occhi. “Seeing that awesome proWARHOL >> D2
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The woman working to make campus sweet: Chrystal Brown by MATTHEW SHINKLE Associate Editor
When strolling through the Benedum Dining Hall, students are greeted to a multitude of food options for all three meals throughout the day. Many student’s favorite section is the dessert island in the back – often filled with pies, cakes, cookies and many more baked snacks. To Waynesburg University students, they are simply there for the taking. Why think of how they got there? Of course someone makes these assorted goodies, however, few students take the time to put thought into where such snacks come from. It is past midnight as students sleepily saunter past Benedum. Through the silver double doors of the rear dining hall entrance is the creator of all that tastes sweet at Waynesburg University: Chrystal Brown. *** Brown is known as the baker of the family. Growing up, her great grandmother was the cook, always baking snacks and treats. As Brown grew up, she was able to memorize a few recipes on her own, and also get her hands on a majority of the other recipes, after her great grandmother’s passing. In a little file folder, her great grandmother possessed hand written notes about 300400 recipes that Brown now has in her arsenal of culinary delights. Such recipes include gravies made from scratch, her now famous chicken salad sandwiches and, of course, a plethora of desserts that are now shared with the university students throughout the year. “Much of what the students get are old family recipes,” said Brown. “I try to do some different things every now and then, otherwise if you get the same thing day after day, it’ll get boring.” Brown has been baking for around 16 years now, and her expertise is certainly noticed around her family. In the past, she baked cakes for plenty of birthday parties, cookies for her friend's last day of Chemotherapy and a cupcake bouquet that looked
so real that her mom thought they were real flowers. “I’ve just always been that kind of way,” said Brown. “When there was a party at my house or something, there were always cupcakes or cookies.” ***
A West Greene alumna, Brown originally went to Greene County VocationalTechnical School for building construction, due to her innate love of designing. As one of her projects, she helped put the roof on the concessions stand, placed next to the Waynesburg Central High School football field. After leaving and returning to be a nail technician, it was apparent to her that she was very artistically talented. Brown has approximately 16 tattoos, many of which she has put on herself. On her right calf sits a cross that she finished herself, and on her left forearm are dozens of stars going up the stretch from her wrist to her elbow, a project which has taken seven years and is not yet complete. Such creativity and passion has carried over into her baking life as well. Next to the silver baking table in the kitchen sits a big black box, labeled, “Chrystal’s Cake Kit – Hands Off.” Just to get her point across, the case is triple locked to ensure no one can break in. “There’s roughly $600 of cake supplies in here,” says Brown with a smile. “So yeah, I’m going to keep it locked just to be safe.” The box contains dozens of cake instruments for smoothing out icing and creating intricate designs and patterns. Different food colorings are all in a plastic bag for later use, with Russian piping tips off to the side, as well as multiple knives and other contraptions that look as if they could also be used for surgery. *** Last Thursday, Brown was invited to officially join the "Patriot’s Dream Rider’s Association," a Christian riding group she’s joined a year ago after being introduced to the by her fiancé.
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Chrystal Brown, a lifelong baker, works from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday creating the desserts served in Benedum. Other than her job, she is a motorcyclist, mother of three, and enjoys being creative.
Just this past July, she purchased her own bike, one of the few requirements in order to officially be in the group. At the end of September, the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall came to Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, for thousands of citizens in the local area to come visit and pay their respects to the wall and those who gave their lives in the war. Brown, as well as many of the over 200 members of the Patriot’s Dream Rider’s Association, escorted the wall into town from Morgantown on Tuesday, Sept. 26 at 11 a.m. with a row of bikes. Although the year is now moving into the typically chilly month of October, Brown still plans to ride her motorcycle outside. Some nights she’ll even ride her bike into work. Coming in at 10 p.m., she’ll end her shift at 6 a.m. and ride home just in time to
get her three little girls ready for school. Having finally been officially invited to join the group as a member, Brown is incredibly eager to get the process started to join the group. “Once its goes up for vote and after my application is in,” said Brown. “I’ll be getting my patch for being a member.” *** In just 15 quick minutes, Brown can whip up a cake, iced and ready for the next afternoon’s lunch rush at Waynesburg University. It all starts with two layers of cake. First, she ices the bottom layer fully with a dollop of vanilla icing before placing the second one on top and slathering another heaping of icing on top of the circular cake. After the entire surface of the cake is iced and the sur-
faces are smoothed out on the top and the sides, comes the decorating of the soon to be eaten treat. Brown uses a flower pedal tip with white icing to go along the base of the cake and along the top to make swirls along the edges. Brown individually mixes green, yellow and purple food coloring to create the three colors she will use for the flowers on her creation. First, she puts green icing in a bag and purple in another. After struggling to find her scissors, because they’re always disappearing throughout the night, she snips a tiny hole out of one corner of each bag, and takes another tip to use with the purple icing. Brown draws two purple pedals in icing at the top of the cake. She then switches to the yellow icing with a simpler tip of a dot, to add yellow dots on the flowers in the center.
Lastly, she grabs the green icing with a flower tip, and draws three leaves on each pedal, before throwing one last pedal on the base of the cake. “Just for the heck of it,” says Brown with a smile. After some last-second careful edging and checking of the cake, Brown has created a cake for tomorrow’s lunch. All the colored icing is hand whipped by herself, with the cake having been baked earlier that day. Although such a process could seem monotonous to some, after 16 years of baking, Brown has a portfolio of her art to show friends and family from her creations back home in her spare time. After all, her work is coveted. Being the baker of the family, her own mother has already put in an order for a cookie tray for Christmas.
Wing Night to no longer feature musical artists at the event By SHON MEADE
For the Yellow Jacket
The Waynesburg University Student Activities Board (SAB) is removing a traditional component to it’s always popular Wing Nights. Starting later on this fall, students will start to notice that Wing Nights will be a bit quieter now, as musical artists will no longer accompany the late night snack. “We decided to stop bring musical artists to campus due to the fact students started to
not show too much interest in the actual artist,” said Brad Gillespie, senior psychology major and Co-Chair of the Music/Entertainment Committee in SAB. This comes as the result of members of SAB noticing that during events like Wing Nights, students only come for the free things and leave. In this case students arrive for the wings and leave when they are done eating, ignoring the fact that a music artist was even there to begin with.
Gillespie mentioned that at the start of any Wing Night event, close to 100 students would be present, however, at the end only 15 would stay for the entire allotted time. “We as SAB pay a lot of money to bring musical artists to campus and seeing that students are only coming for the free things such as wings and not paying attention to the artist and not interacting with them and leaving once they get what was free is not in the best benefit of what we are using
our money for,” said Gillespie. The idea for removing the music artist from the event was brought to a vote during an SAB meeting and according to Gillespie, the majority of those present were in favor. Gillespie was the one who originally proposed the idea to remove the artist and was happy to see it come to fruition. This vote did not impact Coffeehouse events that also feature guest artists in addition to free coffee mugs to those who come out.
“Our goal isn’t to get rid of artists but we have to do what is best with the money we have,” said Gillespie, “and we could put that money towards other things. If you’re saving so much money on Wing Night performers you can put that money towards other events or other trips that SAB can offer.” Gillespie mentioned that there will still be music at the events, as they are looking into having the campus radio station, 99.5 The Hive, provide the music.
The decision to remove music artists will not be put into effect until later on in the semester, as some artist have already been booked. “I encourage students to come to the events and stray the whole time,” said Gillespie. “We want students to stay the whole time and take a break from studying and enjoy the artist.” The next Wing Night will be on Nov. 3 and will feature returning artists Ball in the House.
SAB plans trip to Flight Trampoline Park Warhol: Art museum “This was something that we just wanted to try, but ever since we did this event, the students The Student Activities loved it so we continued to go to the park at least Board is sponsoring a trip once a year or once every semester.” By CHACE JOHNSTON Staff Writer
to Flight Trampoline Park in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania, Saturday, Oct. 7. According to the trampoline park's website, it offers “cutting-edge entertainment, fitness and sports facility unlike anything you have ever experienced.” Over the last three years, the SAB has consistently organized a trip to a trampoline park due to the positive turn out. “We have been doing this event since I was a freshman here and I’ve went every year since then,” said graduate assistant Erin Kern. Jumping on trampolines is not the only thing Flight has to offer, but while bouncing around students can help their own wellbeing by getting some ex-
MICHELLE KEITH
Secretary of SAB
ercise. Flight also has a laser course that patrons can go through, which is a relatively new addition to the trampoline park. It’s an experience that people of all ages can enjoy, according to Michelle Keith, a junior middle level education major. “It’s a really fun experience,” she said. Keith is one of the few dozen who consitently attend the annual event. “Last year, I wore my Fitbit and I gained over 20,000 steps and while you are there you are usually getting chased by little kids but
that’s okay because they’re allowed to do that,” Keith, who is also the Secretary of SAB, said of the event. Some other activities that people can partake in at Flight are trampoline dodgeball, basketball or just jumping around. When playing basketball, there are trampoline ramps that lead up to the hoop so that almost anyone can dunk. According to Flight’s website, all of the dodgeball games are “pick-up form,” meaning that people can gather anyone they like for their teams and play against their friends.
Flight Trampoline Park also has a Ninja Warrior Course, which, according to Flight's website, is “just like the one on TV and is a one-of-a kind obstacles course.” SAB encourages any student interested in a day of fun and cool experiences to sign up and come out for the trip to Flight this weekend. “This place has only been open for the last few years and this was something that we just wanted to try, but ever since we did this event, then the students loved it, so we continued to go to the park at least once a year or once every semester,” said Keith. A bus will be leaving Stover Campus Center at 7:30 p.m. to Bridgeville. The cost for students is $10, and usually roughly 20 to 30 Waynesburg students attend to jump and let loose at the park.
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gression of his work is something I know is just very well liked and appreciated about the museum.” Cocchi herself is a nursing major currently working through her clinicals, but she, too, enjoyed her trip to the Warhol museum. Pat Bristor, associate dean of students, described the trip as pretty laid-back and not overly structured. The students who attend will be encouraged to explore at their own pace and via their own interests. Bristor estimated that their return to the university will be around 5:30 p.m. The group will stop for dinner on the way back to ensure
everyone gets to eat, just in case their arrival back at the University does not coincide with Benedum’s Sunday hours. Cocchi added that the included dinner stop could make the trip into a nice date night with a group of friends or a significant other. “Art speaks to so many different people and backgrounds and kind of cuts through those divides of major and interest because it just kind of speaks to who you are and you can just interpret it yourself,” said Cocchi. Oct. 6 is the last day to sign up, via a form on MyConnect. The cost of attending is only $10, which includes lunch and can be paid with a card directly from the form or in cash to the Student Center.
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5 Ways to Fill Up Your Fall Break Written by Mattie Winowitch
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