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After 10 months, university launches new website COLIN MCLAUGHLIN Editorial Assistant

For the past 10 months, the Waynesburg Universi ty web core team, along with Ologie, has been working on changes to the university’s website. Last week, their work was f inally complete and the new .edu site was launched.

“We worked closely with Ologie, a Columbus-based firm who has been our partner through the discovery phase, development and into this launch,” said Josh Beppler, integrated marketing coordinator. “We utilized several individual representatives from various offices and departments around campus to form a website core team, and they’ve been instrumental in keeping the channels of communication open while aiding in every step of the decisionmaking process. This entire proj-

ect wouldn’t have been possible without the cooperation of the campus community as a whole, and we’re eternally grateful for that.”

Beppler said he is hopeful that the new website will help to recruit students to the university.

“Waynesburg.edu is one of our most prominent and useful recruiting tools, offering an indepth look into who we are as an institution,” said Beppler. “It’s also a dependable and trusted resource for the campus community and beyond. With our new GROW campaign launching, it was the opportune time to refresh our web presence and launch the all-new Waynesburg. edu.”

Within the new website, several changes have been made not only aesthetically, but also structurally. There are also, of course, some things that stayed

Hurricane affects marine biology students at CCU LUKE GOODLING Sports Editor

Megan Bandi wai ted three years to study at Coastal Carolina University, as part of Waynesburg’s 3-1 marine biology program. Then, three weeks into her f irst semester there, she had to evacuate campus because of a natural disaster.

With Coastal Carolina University only nine miles from Myrtle Beach, Bandi said the school was in the direct path of Hurricane Florence. As the storm approached the East Coast last week, Bandi and one other Waynesburg University student evacuated the campus and traveled

back to Pennsylvania Sept.

11. The school had canceled classes following Monday and Bandi said she wanted to get ahead of everyone else.

“We decided to leave Monday night because we knew it was going to be a bad storm,” Bandi said. “We figured they would evacuate [campus] soon and we wanted to avoid as much traffic as possible.”

During the trip home on Monday night, Bandi said Coastal Carolina University sent an email officially instructing everyone to evacuate campus by Tuesday morning. Bandi said the evacuation was hectic COASTAL >> A3

the same, such as the university’s mission statement and core values.

“Through thorough testing of structure and necessity, we have reorganized much of the information to make it more accessible to prospective and current students, as well as parents and families,” said Beppler. “This new design also integrates so much of our GROW campaign stylings and employs exciting technologies to create a really sharp presentation. The entire site was developed with a mobile-first mentality, so we feel navigation on your phone or tablet will be a much more streamlined and seamless experience. You’ll still see our core values and mission displayed prominently throughout the site, but infused more steadily throughout our content as a whole.”

Beppler is very excited about the launch of what he refers to as

the “all-new Waynesburg.edu."

“I’m personally ecstatic about what we’re seeing, and the response has been overwhelmingly positive,’ said Beppler. “I think we’ve created a really solid user experience that permeates every part of the site; we’ve built everything from the ground up and the results really shine through.”

Even though the new website is off icially out and fully functional, Beppler said that he, along with the website core team, will still be working on some things.

“We are continuing to finetune a few areas with small bug fixes and ever-evolving content,” said Beppler. “A website is never truly “100 percent” complete, but we’re certainly close. I cannot express my gratitude enough for our website core team and the multitude of people who have been involved throughout this entire process."

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Over the summer, Waynesburg University created a new five-year agreement with BSN Sports and Nike as the Yellow Jacket’s official apparel sponsor.

Through BSN Sports, Nike will serve as the exclusive outfitter for all 20 Yellow Jacket athletic teams.

“Waynesburg University is pleased to sign this agreement that strengthens its partnership with BSN Sports,” said Larry Marshall, Waynesburg University’s director of Athletics, in a press release published July 4 by the university. “The quality of the companies we are partnering with will

Marshall enhance the athletic experience for our students.”

In response to the new agreement, Marshall said the university will receive several discounts on Nike athletic apparel and accessories such as banners and pop-up tents for events.

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Bailey excited to On-campus houses infested with bats join WU campus Students report several incidents of pests in university housing ministry for 2018 MATTHEW MANSFIELD For the Yellow Jacket

DYLAN CLELAND Assistant Sports Editor

Following graduation, most former college students look forward to moving back home or heading out into the world to search for a job. But for 2018 Waynesburg University graduate Lauren Bailey, she found that job without leaving campus.

Bailey returned to Waynesburg to take on the position of Assistant to the Center for Campus Ministry, in addition to serving as the residential director for South, West, East and Pollock halls.

“As a student, I experienced a lot of different aspects of campus,” said Bailey. “There are studentto-student relationships that faculty and staff aren’t able to experience. Experiencing how students interact without staff around and thinking about what I would’ve liked to experience [versus] what went really well helped my growth through four years here.”

Bailey said she is excited for the opportunity to join the campus ministry team that also features Rev. James Tinnemeyer and Assistant Chaplain Josh Sumpter who have set forth a vision for faith that has grown over time. She knows that this year will be one for her to grow as part of the staff, but believes she can influence the team as she evolves “Having another person, so having three instead of two allows for more handson work and more face [to face] time,” said Bailey. “This

year I want to understand the dynamics of what [the] Rev. Tinnemeyer and Professor Sumpter are hoping to accomplish through campus ministry which I understand to a degree, but they are both super wise and have a lot to give to the campus.

There are a couple things I have thought about adding or changing but really, it’s about that vision.”

Sumpter believes that Bailey will add a lot to the staff as she embraces the ability to teach students about faith.

“Lauren has a desire to serve, love, and encourage students at WU,” said Sumpter. “She desires to point them to Jesus and goes out of her way to provide intentional care for the students that come her way. As a recent grad, she understands the ministry opportunities that take place on campus and desires to assist students in getting connected as they grow at WU.” Bailey’s , breakthrough with Christianity came as a teenager s, specifically in middle school.

“I grew up in a Christian household and both of my parents professed faith, but it was more of a surface level faith, not actually having a relationship with Jesus,” said Bailey. “It was more stating that I was a Christian.”

Bailey faced some struggles which brought her closer to her faith during middle school First, her parents got a divorce, then she moved across the country from Las MINISTRY >> A4

Waynesburg University students have been driven batty, literally.

Bats have been found in two on-campus houses this school year. The bats have been removed, and other than disturbing students , the winged mammals appear to be harmless, according to Matthew Pioch, director of housing.

Issues like this arise every year at Waynesburg, said Pioch.. Pioch said creatures in university housing isn’t an uncommon event.

Among the animals that get into dorms are mice, snakes and spiders according to Pioch.

“Usually just small animals. We haven’t had anything poisonous,” said Pioch.

Pioch has said that August and September are the most common times of year to get reports of animals in housing. Since the dorms are less occupied over the summer months, animals often manage to sneak in.

Pioch said Waynesburg has a pest control specialist who comes to campus once a week. He sprays repellant and gets rid of any animals that may give students trouble.

The recent incidents wi th bats occurred at two adjoining houses on campus.

Elizabeth Trump, a senior biology major, saw the first bat one evening after getting back from cross country practice.

Trump said she got home

Ashley Hall, The Yellow Jacket

Two on-campus houses, 50 and 54 Franklin Street, have been dealing with a bat infestation. and saw a dark colored creature f lying around.

dents feeling uneasy.

“I feel like I have to

“I feel like I have to check every room in the house when I get home because I cause I don't know if there is a bat in the house.”

ELIZABETH TRUMP

Senior biology major

She realized it was a bat when she turned on the lights.

After calling campus security, she and her housemates left the house and waited for the bat to be removed.

The pest was removed, but Trump said knowing there is a bat infestation has left her house resi-

check every room in the house when I get home b ec au s e I d o n’ t k n ow if there is a bat in the house,” said Trump.

Next door is Josh Miller, a senior nursing major, who also found three bats in his on-campus house in less than two weeks.

Miller opted to take care of the bats on his own.

Miller said he came back from an evening at Hot Rods House of BarB-Que when he saw a bat fly past him. Miller used a broom to swat the bat out of the air and disposed of it in a dumpster outside.

Miller contacted campus security, who arrived at the house to investigate where the bats were coming from. When security checked the attic, they discovered five more bats.

Miller said there was a small opening near a window in the attic that the bats managed to squeeze in through.

Miller and his housemates said they aren’t worried about the bats at all.

“We just walk around.

We t a k e c a r e o f i t ,” said Miller.

Stover Scholars to perform annual Constitution Day play HOLLY HENDERSHOT Entertainment Editor

Supreme Court decisions, no matter how long ago they were decided, influence our modern society more than people may realize.

Every year, students in the Stover Scholars Program write and perform a play to illustrate this fact and to recognize the day the United States Constitution was signed, Sept. 17.

This year, the play will be performed on Sept. 20 in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center.

Five Stover Scholars began working together in December of last year to write and edit the play about the Supreme Court case, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, dealing with the issue of the government requiring parents to put their children in public school rather than private or homeschool.

Dr. Lawrence Stratton, director of the Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership, worked with a committee of students in December to choose the case they would dramatize and to prepare for the production.

“I got some books and articles and gave it to the committee,” Stratton said.

“The students read the case, read the books and read the previous cases… so they came up with a draft, and they divided and conquered, each writing different scenes.”

Stover Scholars Tyler McCoy, TJ DeNofrio, Drew Hreha, Olivia Shultz-Falandes and Ryan Williams were the committee for the event and each wrote different scenes of the play.

McCoy, a senior history and political science major, has been involved with writing the play the past two years and served as chair of the committee this year. He was the main editor, piecing

all the scenes together into a cohesive play.

“I edited them and wove them together to makethem flow better and added narration in as well to kind of glue all the scenes together,” McCoy said.

After putting the scenes together and making edits, McCoy said the script went through multiple processes and people before it was finalized. He said Stratton helped immensely through the process.

“It’s written by the students but anytime we ask for help, he is always there to give assistance and to help us put it together,” McCoy said.

Another individual assisted in a slightly different aspect of putting the production together.

Stratton, McCoy and DeNofrio said the production would not be the play it should be without the help of Theatre Professor Eddie Powers who is directing, helping the case move from the page to the stage.

“I talk to them about being more animated, being more energetic with their characters, and there is some movement [to block] in the early scenes of the story,” Powers said.

DeNofrio, a senior prelaw major, has helped write the play in previous years as well as this one. He said when you actually hear your writing on the stage after typing it out, “it’s a whole different ball game.”

“You have to stress things differently; you have to pause in certain situations,” DeNofrio said.

“While Professor Powers is directing everything, Dr. Stratton is directing information that is going into the play so it’s like this interworking dynamic with the two of them.”

Through the hard work of the Stover Scholar students, with help from Stratton and Powers, McCoy hopes to get the play’s purpose across to

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As a part of last years play, From Farmers to Framers, several of the Waynesburg University Stover Scholars dress the part to sahre struggles of our naions past. This year's play will be performed today, Sept. 20.

students who see it.

“We wanted to show how a case decided almost 100 years ago, that seems to have v ery narrow implications to its ruling, actually has very broad implications,” McCoy said.

“Showing how cases that we might not influence our daily lives actually do have a great influence.”

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Professors add conversations of gun violence to lectures MICHAEL CAPPELLI News Editor

With several cases of gun violence and school shootings within the past year, professors within the education and criminal justice departments have started adding it to the conversation in their classes and programming.

According to Yvonne Weaver, chairperson for the education department, students at Waynesburg University learn about events like school shootings as a part of their class discussions.

“A lot of what we do is integrated into the classes as discussions come up or topics come up,” saidWeaver.

However, the education department does not limit its students to just class discussions about these topics. Students get the chance to be placed in a real classroom where they can talk to working teachers, as well as having guests speakers come in to talk about school safety.

“Every semester we do a session called ‘Voices From the Field,’” said Weaver. “We send students out to the field for field placements to work in various classrooms in the region. But we also bring people in to talk to

Coastal Continued from A1 as they had to determine when to leave and where to go, but it wasn’t unexpected.

“I felt at peace with it,” Bandi said. With all of the recent media coverage on Hurricane Florence, Bandi said she and her classmates were expecting the university to take action.

“We figured they were going to evacuate us.”

Dr. Wayne Rossiter, director of the Marine Biology program, said that this wasn’t the first time students had to evacuate a school in the program.

With only two students embedded at Coastal

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In Criminal Justice classes like Tim Douglas' Corrections Class, professors and students engage in a conversation about school shootings and other current events topics. students about hot topics.”

On the other side of the spectrum are first responders; the men and women who are trained to handle situations like shootings.

For Adam Jack, chairperson for the criminal justice department, the school shootings that occured last year do not necessarily call for an updated curriculum, but rather the changing times

Carolina University, Rossiter said it wasn’t difficult to determine the best course of action to avoid Hurricane Florence.

“We stay in really close contact at the individual level with the students,” Rossiter said. “We don’t have that many that are there so I’m able to literally just call them or text them directly and find out how they are doing and what their plans are.”

As Rossiter and the students determined how they would avoid the hurricane, Rossiter said he also contacted the chair of the department at the university.

“I also reached out to the chair of the department in Coastal Carolina to make sure everything was fine, not just with her personally in the program, but with

call for different scenario training.

“L ast year we got a new state of the art use of force simulator,” said Jack. “We are now utilizing that system to train in use of force tactics, from active shooters to verbal de-escalation and everything in between.”

Similarly to the education department, the criminal justice department discusses these

Rossiter our students,” Rossiter said. “It’s more of a matter of making sure that there is a plan that our students got out on a timely manner.”

Without knowing how much damage would be done to the school, Bandi said she brought most of her belongings home.

“The beds are all lifted, so anything that was on the floor I ended up just putting on my bed,” Bandi said.

events in class as they come up in the news.

“We talk about them extensively,” said Jack. “We talk about not only the incidents themselves but the response.”

Within the school system teachers are put through a training program called ‘ALICE’. The program trains teachers to deal with intruders in the building according to Weaver.

Even though the dangerous conditions have lessened in South Carolina, Bandi said the university has not yet alerted students to the condition of the school or their rooms.

“We don’t know yet,” Bandi said. “I don’t know if they have assessed [the damage] because [on Monday] the only people who will be allowed on campus are essential personnel.”

On Sept. 17, Coastal Carolina University President, David DeCenzo released a statement which said the school had not sustained significant damage during the hurricane. According to the release, an official start date has not been set yet to resume classes, but on Sept.

20 the school will release “final plans for resuming normal operations."

Nike Continued from A1 Marshall said the fiveyear agreement includes numerous incentives in the form of discounts and rewards along with incentives for on-field achievements.

“This partnership is a better relationship for what we need,” Marshall said. “It would be silly not to do it.”

On Sept. 3, nearly two months after the contract was finalized, Nike released a controversial advertisement for their “Just Do It” campaign. The ad featured Colin Kaepernick, a former NFL player who gained notoriety as the first to kneel during the national anthem at a game in protest against police brutality.

Because of the controversial nature of his actions, several individuals and organizations boycotted Nike because of their belief that Kaepernick disrespected the flag and the country, according to reports from Vox. Despite the controversy surrounding Nike, Marshall said none of the boycotts would impact the university’s new relationship with the company. “[The Nike controversy] doesn’t affect anything we are doing here,” Marshall said. “We don’t have any banners that are going up with Colin Kaepernick’s

Paul Hicks, Yellow Jacket

With the new partnership between BSN Sports Nike and the university, athletes are now provided with Nike gear and athletic wear.

face. Individual coaches might be upset about it, but I haven’t heard anything. It’s your personal belief, really.”

Even though the partnership between Nike and Waynesburg occurred months before the advertisement aired, Marshall said it is still something to be proud of.

“Everybody loves the Nike equipment, so the partnership just made it so much easier,” Marshall said.

“Every school in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference has a contract signed with

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BSN Sports and Nike.”

Marshall said his own personal beliefs are torn on the subject. His daughter serves as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy, so he said he has an added respect for those who serve.

However, Marshall said he also respects what Kaepernick has done to make a

statement for something that matters.

“I am proud of the military and what they are doing,” Marshall said. “I respect what Colin is doing, but I wish they would come up with some other way of doing it. I think that’s what most people are thinking.”

“Many school districts conduct ALICE training,” said Weaver. “Some of our students as they have been in the field placements or student teaching have participated in ALICE training. If the student is in the field and the school is doing those types of training on school safety they definitely participate, so it’s another way they get hands on experience.”

According to Weaver

the steps in the program are Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate.

Jack, who has been through ‘ALICE’ training, said that there has been a rise in teachers as well as law enforcement officers in these training programs.

“In this training it’s not just police” said Jack. “ It’s teachers, it’s clergymen, anybody that could potentially be a target to one of these terrible events.”

When it comes to applying what the students have learned Jack believes that students from Waynesburg are up to the challenge.

“I do believe that our students are very well prepared when they step out the door,” said Jack.

“Having an understanding of what responses are like, we are doing those types of hands on things that can benefit them down the road.”

In the case of the Education Department, Weaver said that these terrible events still happen but it's not just in schools.

“Yes the school shootings happen,” said Weaver. “But they happen in any walk of life anymore and we just have to remember that the sky is not falling.”

University accepts several awards within six months JOE SMELTZER

Senior Editorial Assistant

Waynesburg University received several accolades in 2018, with eight awards in just the past six months. The most recent honor came last week when a U.S. News and World report recognized Waynesburg as a top 10 value school among all private and public universities in the northern United States. Due to a “high quality economic programs combined with low costs,” the university ranked sixth in the region.

For Vice President for Enrollment Shari Payne, the ranking is a sign that the university's goal to provide their students with the right value for their education is paying off.

“It’s been wonderful that the university is receiving the recognition that it deserves,” Payne said. “We’ve worked hard over the years to maintain our value proposition, and that’s trying to keep our costs low compared to our competitors, trying to keep it affordable for students. You see that in a lot of different ways.”

Other awards that Waynesburg received this year include being ranked third regionally in MONEY Magazine’s “Best Colleges For Your Money" list and placing as one of the "best colleges for the money" in College Factual’s "best colleges nationwide."

According to Payne, the overall purpose of these rankings is to help students make "more informed" decisions and not just choose schools based on their image.

"It didn’t use to be 10 or 15 years ago that you decided what school to go to based on what kind of value you were going to get," she said. "They’d rank you based on your reputation… Now, with society sort of questioning every dollar, ‘what’s the value of a dollar and what worth am I going to get out of my college education...

So what these magazines and these publications are trying to do is reframe how we measure colleges and universities against one another."

Payne said that Waynesburg's value is measured by a "combination of things."

“It’s that we do keep our tuition as low as possible, and we do that through a very efficient budgeting process," Payne said.

"From the top down, ever ybody is well aware that when we’re spending money, we’re spending student tuition dollars. So we’re careful of how we spend our money here at the university.”

Another factor is how Wa y n e s b u r g ' s a l u m n i fare f inancially after graduation. As of November 2015, graduates earned $5,214 more than expected on average, which placed Waynesburg in the 92nd percentile nationwide according to The Economist.

“The value of a bachelor's degree in a lifetime is well over $1,000,000 in lifetime earnings," Payne said. "So when you start thinking of all these things, and start thinking about what your choices are, Waynesburg is one of the best choices in the Western Pennsylvania area."

While Payne and the university are proud of all the accolades, the goal of Waynesburg having the best value possible is because of the students, with the awards being secondary.

“When we make decisions on how to run the universi ty, what we’re going to charge for tui tion, how we are going to spend the money, we’re not thinking about money magazine or U.S. News and World Report," Pay n e s a i d . " S o w h i l e we’re glad we’re getting the rankings as a byproduct of what we’re doing, we do it because it’s the mission of our institution.

It’s for the betterment of our students.”

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Student Health Services addresses elevated STD rates GRACE HUTCHISON Arts & Life Editor

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention , sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have hit record-high numbers nationally, with the amount of diagnoses of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis rising significantly compared to last year’s data.

Counties within Pennsylvania, some close as an hour away from Waynesburg University, have been labeled “hot-spots” for STDs, including the HIV virus, according to CNN. In Beaver County alone, the number of people with HIV have tripled in the last year.

Jennifer Dean, nurse director of Student Health Services, contributes the spike to the lack of condom use and improved long-term medical care for those with HIV. “With all of the new HIV drugs there seems to be less of a scare,” Dean said.

“As a result of that they’re finding that less people are using condoms. It’s not the fact that people are having more sex, it’s that less people are using condoms.”

Commonly, people correlate a rise in STDs with increased promiscuity among young people, but, according to Dean, that isn’t the case.

“From what I have read the studies have said that the rates of sex are down but the rates of STDs are up,” Dean said.

In actuality, the staggering rise in the number of STDs can be partly contributed to the current opioid epidemic, which, according to Dean, leaves those addicted with more of a “lack

of discretion” about using protection or receiving regular testing.

Young Americans - ages 15 through 24 - seem to be the most impacted by STD’s, making up half of the total 20 million STD cases that are reported annually within the country, according to the CDC. For young people, Dean’s STD prevention recommendations are straightforward.

“We always preach abstinence as the best way,” Dean said. “We do recommend you protect yourself through condoms.”

Students enrolled in college typically fall within that 9 year age-range, though Dean says that students “rarely” tend to come to the health services office for a STD-related issue.

“I think they don’t want anyone to know on campus,” Dean said. “I think they try to find where they need to on their own online.”

The health services office act as a “liaison” for students with STDs, referring them to health clinics in Fayette County and within the Greene County area.Dean refers those few students who come in with an STD to the appropriate place for them and their particular issue.

“Not that we’ve never had a student come in, but, with how high the rates are versus how many students we see its pretty low,” Dean said. “But, if they would come to us, we can get them to where they need to go. It’s all confidential, we don’t tell a soul.”

The 2018 annual Health Fair, hosted on-campus by nursing students and facul-

STD HOTSPOTS

Beaver

422 137 N/A

This data includes chlamydia, gonorrhea and primary and secondary syphilis in 2016, in both males and females, of all races and all ages.

Allegheny

Washington

6,020 2,018 87

Westmoreland

761 133 5

508 106 N/A

Fayette

393

Greene

80 5 N/A

126 0

Chlamydia

Data obtained from: Pennsylvania Department of Health

Primary and Secondary Syphilis

Gonorrhea

Illustration by Ashley Hall

ty, featured the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force and free STD testing provided by the Department of Health.

Also this Fall semester, nursing students are doing

on-campus wellness programs focused on informing students about STDs and prevention.

To reduce the amount of STDs reported

on-campus, and thus nationwide, Dean advises students to test themselves and come to the health office if any symptoms arise.

“It’s best to be safe, get

Two cars on campus broken into Ministry Continued from A2

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The car that was broken into in the Thayer Hall lot had the driver side rear window smashed from the inside out on Tuesday afternoon.

Vegas to Pittsburgh.

“That was a huge moment in my faith where I recognized the Holy Spirit for the first time and that was the moment where I prayed to the Lord and wanted to serve him,” said Bailey.

After choosing to go Waynesburg, Bailey allowed herself to grow the faith she found in middle school.

Now Bailey returns to Waynesburg to serve God through life and the university.

“I’m working for the kingdom of God and I’m a part of it and working to enhance that in my own personal kingdom and glory,” said Bailey.

Sumpter is excited to see what Bailey can bring and share with the students and staff of Waynesburg.

“Lauren has the opportunity to share life with students and to impact others in the same way that others impacted her. She is a bless-

tested and know… I always tell people no matter what it is ‘It is what is and now you just know and you can do something about it,’” Dean said.

ing to our university community,” said Sumpter.

Bailey is busy during the day, and even some nights, but turns to a couple different activities in her free time.

“I like to run, so some people think it’s weird, but I destress by running,” said Bailey. “I get up in the morning and run.I’m also really into podcasts, I think they are really awesome.

I listen to them while I’m running or while I’m making dinner. If I’m doing something mindless I enjoy listening to them.”

As Bailey continues to learn the ministry system at Waynesburg, her impact will be felt immediately through conversation.

“When it comes to faith in general, the classroom or having conversations with people, I’m intrigued to understand so that causes me to ask a lot of questions,” said Bailey. “I think I genuinely care about people. I’m interested in how students are and what they’re doing, what their faith looks like and what they’re struggling with and what makes them joyful.”

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Security: Multiple items stolen, no suspects yet ANTONIO PELULLO Staff Writer

There was a car break in and theft in the Thayer parking lot Monday. The car had the driver side back window smashed.

According to Mike Humiston, director of Public Safety, there is still an ongoing investigation into this car. The items stolen are still waiting to be identified, but include clothes and other personal items.

The perpetrator has not been identified in the robbery, but as the investigation continues security

will review the camera footage to see if there are any possible suspects. According Humiston, because of the combination of the camera placement and the location of the car's parking spot, it will be difficult for the security officers to positively identify suspects.

No other information has been released from Waynesburg University Office of Public Safety as of Tuesday afternoon.

The bough police have been contacted to help with the investigation and any other resources it can provide. No other information has been released as of Wednesday morning.

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Coach's Cafe closed for lack of business MALARIE YODER For the Yellow Jacket

Excited entrepreneurs like Drew Johnson see something special in the town of Waynesburg. When he first moved to town from Tennessee, Johnson said he fell in love with Waynesburg’s small community. He was eager to add his business to the borough.

Although the community and business owners hope their shops will prosper and profit, this is not always the case. For Drew and Laura Johnson, the owners of the former Coach’s Cafe, the Waynesburg experience isn’t what they had expected.

b u r g ,” D r e w J o h n s o n said. “So, in the summertime, when [college students] are on break, or the winter time when you guys are on break, in conjunction with people being on vacation...we just weren’t ready for it.”

After a difficult summer with little foot traffic, Coach’s Cafe has closed indefinitely.

The cafe was open for about a year and was originally managed by Matt Tedrow. In February, Tedrow turned the store over to Drew and Laura Johnson, who owned Waynesburg Coffee Company at the time. At first, the Johnsons tried to keep both res-

“The conversation needs started that we need to diversify our industry.”

DREW JOHNSON

Co-Owner of Coach's Cafe

“We weren’t set up in the way that we were ready for the droughts in Waynes-

taurants open for business, but Drew Johnson said running two businesses led to

Teghan Simonton, Yellow Jacket

Coach's Cafe, which opened last year and changed to new management in a matter of months, closed during the summer due to lack of business. Co-owner Drew Johnson said the restaurant was not prepared for a summer without university student customers.

an accidental competition.

“We were having the same morning customers and we were competing,” he said.“It’s not a large enough scale area for that.”

The owners decided to combine the two businesses into one and kept the name Coach’s Cafe.

Now, accepting that the business is over altogether can be frustrating, Drew Johnson said. University students are only in school can happen to a business 8 of the 12 months, and and the economy of a town.

Drew Johnson said that in With a wide target authe other 4 months, a lot dience leaving campus,

many small businesses end up relying on a different group of people for sales and activity. Drew Johnson

said that he found that the Waynesburg area is a “very COACH'S >> B4

Bridge festival complicated by storm County roads flooded due to persisent rainfall TIFFANY MORGAN Copy Desk Chief

Paul Hicks, Yellow Jacket

While some Covered Bridge Festival locations were closed due to heavy rainfall in the area, others enjoyed a day in complete sunshine, like the Carmichaels Covered Bridge location.

Several locations canceled after flood

FLOODS >> B4

After two years, repairs complete at Fort Jackson

HOLLY HENDERSHOT Entertainment Editor

Community members look forward to the annual covered bridge festivals.

This year, however, the amount of rain that Greene County received in the past few weeks presented a problem for the festivals.

The flooding was too extensive on the grounds of the White Covered Bridge in Garards Fort, Greene County. Because of that, this year’s festival, which was supposed to occur Sept. 15, was canceled.

The water was two and a half feet high on the festival grounds, according to Richard Clark, member of the board for the White Covered Bridge Association.

“I went out and looked at it, and then I called the board members and advised them of what the conditions were,” Clark said.

Pat Walko, executive director for the White Covered Bridge Association,

“Turn around, don’t drown.”

Valerie Peterson, district press officer of PennDOT, said this motto is crucial when driving towards high waters. High waters were present on several roadways throughout Waynesburg Borough last week.

Peterson said, there was more than 80 road closures throughout the entire district. Some closures dealt with the water, while others were due to fallen trees or utility issues.

The areas that were hit particularly hard by the flooding included 10 Mile Creek and its tributaries, as well as Browns Run, said Gregory Leathers, director of emergency management in Greene County.

Leathers said the light rain over the weekend of Sept.

8-9 was all he expected for the region, but the rain the Waynesburg area got Monday, Sept. 10 “did us in.”

Leathers, doesn’t expect the region to get rainfall during the weekend, but will be keeping watch for the weather report on Monday.

“Right now, we’re looking at one to two [inches],” Leathers said. “These three days of dry weather are going to help us immensely.”

Leathers’ main role is to make sure that the correct first-responders are going to the right areas of the region, where people are in need.

Peterson said the flooding in Waynesburg is preventable. She said that a very helpful way for the community

BY ANTONIO PELULLO Staff Writer

Paul Hicks, Yellow Jacket

said the grounds committee made the decision last Monday afternoon to cancel.

“The festival grounds were completely underwater,” Walko said.

White Covered Bridge was not the only festival to be affected by the heavy rainfall: four other events around Greene and Washington Counties were also canceled due to flooding.

Conversely, other covered bridge locations experienced nothing but sunshine, like Henry Bridge in Mingo Creek Park and Car-

michaels Covered Bridge.

With little to no flood damage, vendors set up shop in the park for their annual tradition.

Walko and Clark contacted the venders and those participating in the W hi te Covered Bridge event right away to tell them about the cancellation. The set-up fees the vendors paid will be applied to the vendor’s registration for next year.

“It’s just a safety factor for everybody,” said Clark.

“We’re out in the middle of nowhere and we don’t have

paved roads or anything like that going in and out of the grounds, so if it starts getting flooded, it can be a situation where it’s a battle to get into the place or a battle to get out of it.”

For Clark, informing those who enjoy the festival and travel a long way to see it was particularly disheartening.

“The hardest part was letting everybody know and the disappointment,” Walko said.

Walko said the situation BRIDGES >> B4

The Fort Jackson Hotel legend says it has been around since the Civil War. Although the hotel actually dates back to 1926, Civil War history is prevalent in Waynesburg. So when it came to fixing some problems in the Fort Jackson Hotel, precautions had to be taken to preserve the historic building.

Late in 2016 some problems were noticed in the back of the building. The county had their structure engineer come to see what the problem was and if it could be fixed. By mid-2017, the decision was made to push off construction and just have a temporary fix for

the winter months to ensure the problem wouldn’t get any worse. By construction season in 2018, efforts had begun to fix the problem.

The brick was dispatching from the steel, which led to water damage and a very long process of having to take each individual brick out from damaged spots in the building. Jeff Marshall, chief clerk, helped oversee the repair and the crews working to fix the building.

“What they had to do was go through places throughout the building, remove the brick from the exterior of the building that was loose,” said Marshall. “They removed all that, fixed all HOTEL >> B4

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EDITORIAL

Church corruption

Applying for internships can be stressful.

Just the thought of putting yourself out there is intimidating. Updating your portfolio, growing connections on LinkedIn, making sure your social media is professional - overwhelming to the point the only solution is to bang your head off

a wall.

There are times when you think no matter how often you update your portfolio or add a reference to your resume, it just isn’t enough to spark any interest from a potential employer. But there are also times when the hard work and stress pay off.

During the summer of 2018, I was given an opportunity to intern at The Dominion Post, a newspaper located in Morgantown, West Virginia. This

came as a total shock to me.

I wanted to freelance at the newspaper for the summer, so I reached out to the managing editor, Pam Queen. I emailed her my resume, and before the school year had ended, I received a call. Pam called to let me know how impressed she was with my resume and experience, and she wanted to offer me an internship. On top of that offer, it was music to my college-stu-

dent ears when she said I would be getting paid.

I started the position a week after school let out, and I had 12 weeks to make my impression at the newspaper. I hit the ground running. My summer was unlike any other.

Every single morning I walked into the newsroom, and it was an adventure.

I wrote so many different stories – future moon landing, a feature RESUME >> B3

Journalism changed; Jacket staff didn't TEGHAN SIMONTON Columnist

L ast week, Waynesburg University’s official

Twitter account posted a vintage photograph of The Yellow Jacket staff circa 1968. Students were smiling, gathered around a typewriter, of all things.

As a present-day Yellow Jacket staff member, this

was a delightful image to see: a group of student journalists, bonding over something they all love.

In a lot of ways, nothing has changed. The same camaraderie in the 1968 photo exists with

our staff today, which is why we decided to recreate the photo in our now-updated, modern office. These two photos [picured below] are the JACKET >> B3

Maintaining Christian culture amid allegations This past Thursday, Sept. 13, Pope Francis met with a United States delegation, at which the Pope accepted the resignation of West Virginia Bishop Michael Bransfield and authorized a full on investigation into the Catholic Church allegations of sexual harassment and other misconducts.

This is not the first incident involving a Christian congregation, yet similar harassment claims continue to pop up all across America.

As a private Christian University, this news concerns each of us on campus, both as a campus body and as individuals.

Waynesburg University maintains a focus of faith, learning and service. At Waynesburg, an element of faith permeates everything we do, from Sunday morning chapel to nightly prayer meet-ups, from professors to students. If this were a Star Wars film, we all would be overflowing with the Force (i.e. faith).

As a University, our primary functions are education and experience. Together, they provide a masterful learning environment. Since Waynesburg is a liberal arts school, each student is incredibly well-rounded, meaning each student is presented with knowledge from every field available. We don’t keep them in the dark.

Our community is incredibly passionate about service. Local service, regional service and international service. There are students and faculty sacrificing huge parts of their lives in order to assist others.

When you put these three elements together, you have in front of you one very strong Christian and one very influencial community.

Whether you identify as a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, an atheist, a buddhist, an agnostic or any other religion or spirituality, it is the duty of strong willed people like the ones that make up this community to shine and live by example.

Communities such as these tend to hold people accountable, even if they reside in authoritative positions as ex-Bishop Bransfield was or even political figures in charge of running much bigger organizations, say, America itself This can be done simply, with straight forward guidelines we already utilize: faith, service, learning.

Through staying true to our faith, be it Christianity or other, we enable ourselves to see through any falsehoods thrown in our face.

Through constant learning, we stay up to date with policies, revelations, ideas and procedures that could potentially keep others safer in the future.

Through a dedication to service, we elevate the value of helping our neighbors, thus reminding ourselves of the sort of deeds Jesus Christ himself took upon himself.

Though there are, admittedly, corrupt world leaders and other individuals of power, such as the former U.S. Bishop, the people still have the power to turn things around.

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C O N N E C T I N G C U LT U R E S

Going to a college across the globe Moving into college is stressful enough, but what about going to a college all the way across the globe?.

Junior Jun Young Jang is studying for a degree in Media Convergence at her home college of Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, South Korea.

The first American culture shock Jang encountered was eye contact and interacting with strangers.

“Many people say hello to strange people [here]. In Korea, many people don’t say hello,” said Jang. “Some people think I’m shy, because I hesitate to say hi to people.

But it’s usual in South Korea to just not be so friendly. We don’t make eye contact. People think eye contact is rude. … We can make eye contact with friends, but with a supervisor, it is not good to do eye contact.”

In South Korea, a typical meal revolves around rice, vegetables and spicy food.

So far, Jang says she has yet to eat a dish here at all similar to her home.

“Pizza and pasta is really expensive in my home country,” Jang said. “We have to

go out or get delivery to eat pizza and pasta. Here I can eat it everyday. But after a week, it’s kind of like, ‘help me’. It’s a little more healthy in South Korea, since we eat so many vegetables.”

Besides a startling abundance of cheesy carbs, Jang was taken aback by the Tyedye and Ice Cream Social that occured at the beginning of the semester. Tye-dye doesn’t exist in South Korea.

“There was a tye-dye activity here. My roommate asked if I was going and was shocked that I’d never done that,” Jang said. “It was really fun. Yeah, and interesting to actually make my own t-shirt.

We don’t design [shirts] ourselves, you know, by hand.”

A few days ago, Jang received a welcome surprise during an evening stroll.

“I saw some deer around here,” she said. “I was just walking, and they were eating grass. It was like a fantasy movie. We have to go to a zoo to see animals, but here I can see squirrels, bugs, everything.”

Overall, Jang finds the area “quiet and peaceful,” whereas back home, there were nearly

constant crowds outside the buildings.

“At my home college, there are a lot of people and students,” said Jang. “There are a lot of Chinese tourists. I don’t really know why, but there are a lot outside taking photos.”

Most importantly, Jang says she has an appreciation for experiencing new cultures and new places, contrary to some of the cultural norms she grew up with.

“It’s really traditional [in South Korea],” Jang said.

“It’s really different between generations. The older generation is very conservative and sticks to tradition. The new generations, like 20s or 30s, like to meet other people from other countries, or travel, or experience different

cultures from their own.”

One major characteristic of South Korean culture Jang says she is happy to have not experienced here is sexism.

“In my country, there are strict criteria for women to keep their shape and put on nice clothes and look beautiful to other people. They really don't like ‘fat’ women,” Jang said. “In South Korea, they are really famous for plastic surgery hospitals. Most of women get plastic surgery.

They really want to be seen as pretty women. People have to contour appetite and contour diets. I don’t like that. But here, there is not that strict criteria. People can eat everything and not care about what people are thinking.

That is cool.”

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NEWS

Cheat Sheet: Two kinds of storms rage through America EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a synopsis of a recent topic trending in world or national news.

ANTONIO PELULLO Staff Writer

Hurricane Florence had taken the lives of 20 people as of Sept. 17 while traveling through the southeastern coast. The real threat comes from the flooding, though the winds have slowed, despite the continued downpour.

Florence could leave over 40 inches of rain in parts of North Carolina, and has already shut down large parts of I-95 and I-40 north.

All traffic is advised to go around the Carolinas.

Over 760,000 people are still without power in the Carolina’s, and that is only measuring the household

number, not the amount of people in each household.

Cases of price gouging have also been reported to the North Carolina attorney general office and investigations are already being launched.

The storm’s remnants hit the Waynesburg area by Tuesday night, and the town did not announce any sort of prevention against the storm.

Florence is not the only storm to cause a lot of damage this past week. A typhoon hit mainland China and the Philippines, moving over to strike parts of Japan as well, killing more than 54 people as of Sept. 16. China evacuated nearly 2.45 million people before the storm struck. More than 18,000 shelters have been established, along with shutting down tourism and all con-

struction sites. The storm has been registered as a T10 which is considered a Super Typhoon (the highest level recorded). The largest death toll in a Typhoon came five years ago from Yolanda, which killed 6,000 people.

For President Trump, however, a different sort of storm will be coming for a couple more weeks, as Supreme Court Justice pick Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual assault accuser will testify.

Christine Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of forcing her down and ripping her clothes off when the two were in high school.

Kavanaugh also said he will testify in trying to keep what is a key vote from the Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

Collins told reporters on Capitol Hill that the committee needs to know what

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Capt. Steven Barker with the Spring Lake Fire Department helps evacuate residents from the Heritage at Fort Bragg Apartments in Spring Lake, N.C. on Monday, Sept. 17. happened.

“I want to have both individuals come before the Senate Judiciary Committee and testify under oath,” Collins said.

Collins said if Kavanaugh

did lie about the incident, it would disqualify him from receiving her vote.

All texts between Carter Page and Peter Strzok will be declassified, according to White House Press Sec-

retary Sarah Sanders. The documents and text messages that will be declassified include items relating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on Carter Page.

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.

ANDREW HREHA Editorial Assistant

1) S e n a t e C o n t e mplates Delaying Kavanaugh Vote after Sexual Assault Allegations Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona became the first Republican Senator to suggest a delay to the vote to conf irm Judge Brett Kavanaugh after sexual assault allegations were made against the judge. The senator urged the Senate Judiciary committee not to vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation until his accuser can be heard. Christine Blasey Ford has come forward and alleged that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her as a teenager.

In a letter, Ford detailed the assault, which she claims took place in the 1980’s while Kavanaugh was drunk. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations. Flake said that he would not feel comfortable voting to confirm Kavanaugh until the first hearing from his accuser.

-Huffington Post Sept. 16 2) Florence Kills Five in North Carolina Tropical Storm Florence has killed at least five people in North Carolina, including a mother and an infant. Florence, which was originally projected to be a category five hurricane, landed as a category one and has since been downgraded to a tropical storm. The storm is expected to net

Jacket Continued from B2 perfect depiction of all the ways journalism remains consistent, but also all of the ways our field has evolved.

The obvious changes are technological: we do not produce The Yellow Jacket with a typewriter anymore. But journalism has also experienced plenty of advancements that make our finished content better. We have recording devices for accuracy, the Adobe Suite for efficient and clean design (check out our updated redesign), and the internet for fast, daily news delivery. Journalists

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Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 5. at least 40 inches of rain at its peak and left over 700,000 houses and businesses without power in North Carolina last Friday night. A top wind gust of 105 miles per hour was recorded. The Carolinas were devastated by Florence, with many areas hit multiple times and entire towns flooded.

-CNN Sept. 14 3) Typhoon Mangkhut pounds south China, kills 64 in Philippines On Sunday, Typhoon Mangkhut hit south China, killing two people.

This is after the typhoon

are able to connect with audiences more than ever before through the use of social media, allowing us to produce the content that mat ters most to readers.

The new technology has presented some new challenges for our field.

The internet has granted freedom to the audience to become the producer; blogs and spoof websites are mistaken for news all the time. Fake news is now a genuine concern, as people struggle to decipher which sources are reliable and which are not.

The culture surrounding journalism has changed a lot, too. More than ever before, the very topic of journalism is lousy with partisan

struck the Philippines and killed at least 64. The typhoon, which threatened to be the worst to hit China in over two decades, forced more than 2.4 million people to evacuate the chinese province of Guangdong.

The typhoon first hit land in the city of Taishan with winds up to 100 miles per hour. Authorities issued a red alert in south China, the most severe disaster warning.

The typhoon hit the Philippines at the beginning of its rice and corn harvesting season, sending farmers into a frenzy, trying to save as much crop as possible.

debate. People ques tion our intentions, deny our credibility, attack newsrooms with insults, threats and bullets.

But through all of this, the fundamentals of journalism have not changed.

Both groups in both of these photos are dedicated to the same things: truth, accountability and storytelling. We want to reach people, to empathize with them and to tell real stories about the human experience. To make a difference. This is what we’ve dedicated our careers to, our whole lives after college. And it all starts here, at The Yellow Jacket.

It’s been 50 years, and a lot has changed. But these two groups are one and the same.

-CBS News Sept. 16 4) Ohio State Wins in Last Game Without Urban Meyer The fourth ranked college football team in the nation, the Ohio State Buckeyes, defeated the f ifteenth ranked TCU Horned Frogs 40-28 in the team’s last game without head coach Urban Meyer. Meyer will return from a three game suspension, after he faced heavy allegations that he had knowledge of domestic abuse by one of his assistant coaches and did not take action.

While some were happy

Résumé Continued from B2 on a six-month old baby born with a rare condition and even a feature story on a vegan restaurant. There are always certain stories that go more in depth than others, but each article I had the opportunity to write was another portfolio piece which made them well wor th the investment.

Ben Conley, a reporter for the paper, stood up one morning and said to me, “OK, Tiffany, check this off your bucket list.

You’re going to a county commission meeting with me.”

wi th the suspension, many believed Meyer should have been fired after the speculations.

Meyer has been able to attend team practices, but will be reinstated full time this week for Ohio State’s matchup against Tulane.

-Cleveland.com Sept. 16 5) Border Patrol Agent Charged with Killing Four A border patrol agent is being charged with the murder of four women and the attempted abduction of a f ifth in southern Texas. Juan Da-

Although it was definitely not as interesting as other places I had gotten to travel to throughout the Morgantown area, it was undeniably a good experience.

I was able to see what Ben and others in similar newspaper positions covered each week at the meetings.

After attending the meeting with Ben, I then decided to create a bucket list of things I wanted to do during my internship, the first being a county commission meeting, thanks to Ben’s comment about crossing it off in the first place.

I wanted to be able to write hard news pieces, feature stories and simply grow my skills in each aspect of the newsroom.

vid Ortiz is being called a “serial killer” after being arrested in Texas. All four bodies have been recovered, but only two have been identified. The first murder occurred Sept. 3.

Ortiz was finally caught when he pulled a gun on the fifth woman, and she escaped, eventually managing to contact police. Ortiz originally fled state troopers but was cornered and ultimately arrested in a parking g a ra ge . T h e m u rd e r s occurred in the city of Laredo, which is located directly on the United States-Mexican border.

-ABC News Sept. 16

I got to be a photographer, reporter, videographer, post on social media, cover press releases – it was an interns bucket list full of check marks.

Expect the unexpected. A cliché phrase, but it is definitely one I had in the back of my mind when I accepted an internship at a newspaper this summer. It was a learning experience in several ways, and my internship allowed me to grow so many skills. I became a better writer, interviewer, reporter and person.

So whenever you’re up at ungodly hours, making sure your portfolio is organized, spend some extra time on the quality of your resume – it makes a difference.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Washington Area VFW protests kneeling during anthem Humane Society JOE SMELTZER

funds new building RACHEL MANGAN Web Editor

After decades of hope, the Washington Area Humane Society has finally raised enough money to turn its vision into a reality.

The group will be constructing a new facility through the “New Home, New Hope” campaign.

Kelly Proudfit, executive director, said the new building is coming into fruition thanks to several generous donors, in addition to many fundraisers.

Construction is expected to be completed by next June.

“The new building will be located in the back of the property our current building is on,” said Proudfit. “Once the new building is complete, the old building will be demolished.”

One of the biggest additions to the new building is a larger floor plan that will give the animals space to “thrive and play.” The new facility will also have accommodations for new and improved resources to help rescue abused and neglected animals.

Another one of the facility’s unique features will be the Donor Wall. The wall will be one of the main points of attraction in the “community room” of the building.

According to the WAHS’ website, all donations of more than $100 will be recognized on the wall with animal identification tags.

The tags will be handcrafted by local artisans.

“Each donor name will be inscribed on a tag hung on the wall, much like the tags that help us make sure that a lost animal finds its way back home,” said Proudfit.

There will be three lev-

Coach's Continued from B1 complicated business environment.”

“The conversation needs started that we need to diversify our industry,” he said. “Everyone relied on coal - I don’t want to say a heavy reliance, but there was a job dependency on coal and that’s still running, but it’s not as big of a job provider as it was. The industry needs to be diversified. I don’t know if that’s tech or manufacturing. I think the college could even get involved in that.”

Drew Johnson said he wants “the neighborhood mentality” to come back to the once quaint town where business support each other instead of competing against each other.

As of right now, there are no plans to reopen Coach’s Cafe, but Drew Johnson won’t rule out opening a similar business. “ We are still on the fence and still deciding on what’s going to happen to all that equipment, so not to say there won’t

Floods Continued from B1 to help in the process is not to litter.

When people litter, Peterson said, whether it be a plastic bag or a bottle cap, all of the waste leads to the main pipes, where water is supposed to exit when it rains. When the litter builds up into the pipes, it prevents the water from

els of tags represented by color and the amount of the gift to Washington Area Humane Society. The purple tag, called the “Faithful Friend” tag is for donations between $100 and $250.

The second level of tag is a silver one called the “Loyal Companion” tag which is reserved for donations between $250 and $500. The final tag, the gold tag, is for the largest gifts to the Humane Society, called the “Guardian Angel” tag, which commemorates a donation of between $500 and $1000.

Howeve r, d o n at i o n s aren’t the only opportunity to donors have to get their name displayed in the new facility.

As stated on the WAHS website: “The New Home, New Hope campaign provides a number of ways to create a permanent legacy for yourself or your loved ones by naming a space within the new facility.

With a naming opportunity, your generous gift to this campaign can also be a fitting tribute to a loved one.”

According to Proudfit, the facility will house a maximum capacity of 60 dogs and 60 cats along with the veterinary resources the current building has access to.

“We are so thankful to finally be able to be having this new facility built,” said Proudfit, “and that’s thanks mostly in part to our generous donors.”

There are other opportunities to help support WAHS and anyone interested can reach out to Kelly@washingtonpashelter.org for more information in regards to pledges, matching gifts, gifts of stock, retirement funds and bequests.

be something similar in its place,” he said.” “We don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Drew Johnson fears the closure of his cafe might just be the beginning, with small businesses like his struggling to stay open.

He does believe there are choices out there to save them.

“It just take cooperation between the university and the borough to work together and build Waynesburg,” he said. “There is a big misconception that [students] just want to stay up there. I don’t think that’s true.”

Drew Johnson thinks there needs to be more exposure to things that are happening in the community - instead of just up on the hill where the college lies, he said.

Drew Johnson urges others to provide feedback on ways the town can be more involved with Waynesburg University.

In the end, Johnson pushed for collaboration and open mindedness because, “what’s good for Waynesburg is what’s good for Waynesburg University.”

draining properly and can cause more severe flooding.

PennDOT closely monitors the roadways in these types of situations, and is also preparing for the colder months to come as well.

“Anybody out on the roadways should not litter because any time you throw that empty bottle out of your car, or that grocery bag from the local grocery store, it ends up alongside the roadways and often gets washed into

Senior Editorial Assistant

Sunday afternoons from early September through the end of the year are the same at the Waynesburg Veterans of Foreign Wars as they are at any bar or restaurant in the United States.

Drinks and food are served to the patrons. Music is played, and on TV, an football game is on. But at the VFW, the second a player follows in San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s footsteps, dropping to one knee during the Stars Spangled Banner, the TV goes off, no matter who is playing. Whatever takes place over the next few hours is irrelevant.

“We actually quit showing [the games] here, for a while,” said Terry Hoyle Jr., who served in the U.S. Army from 1994-2000 and was involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

“Once we started to see that they weren’t kneeling, then we started bringing it back. If they kneel, then we shut the TV off. We made a lot of patrons upset. We have patrons that aren’t veterans that come in and do stuff, and I don’t think they understood what it meant to us.”

The national anthem has always been important to Hoyle Jr. His father, Terry Hoyle Sr., had six years of military experience, primarily serving in the U.S. Air Force. Now, both are involved heavily with VFW Post 4793. For Hoyle Jr., the movement that Colin Kaepernick started in August 2016, is against what himself, his father and everybody else at the VFW fought for.

“That flag is our holiness, basically, if that’s what you want to say” he said. “You’re taught that the flag means everything, and that’s what it does. That’s why you serve your country.”

Some at the VFW have almost entirely shut the NFL out of their lives.

“I think in general, as a whole, this VFW really doesn’t care for the NFL anymore the way they used to.

In particular, the Pittsburgh Steelers,” said Surgeon Rick Black, a Vietnam veteran.

“Personally, I don’t watch 1/8 of what I used to watch for that fact.”

Another Vietnam veteran, Director Ron Hamson, used to be invested in the NFL, but now only watches the Steelers “towards the end of the game.”

While Hoyle Sr. hasn’t abandoned his fandom yet, if protests during the national anthem are a part of an NFL Sunday, his interest dissipates.

“I am a fan of the National Football League,” Hoyle Sr. said. “However, if I go to start watching a game, and if the players don’t stand for the national anthem, I’ll shut the game off. I will not watch it then.”

Since August 2016, when Kaepernick announced his intent to kneel during the playing of the Stars Spangled Banner that season to protest wrongdoings against African Americans in the United States, “taking a knee” has become a movement. No Pittsburgh Steelers player has individually protested, but last September, head coach Mike Tomlin announced that his team wouldn’t be taking the field for the National Anthem before an away game against

Joe Smeltzer, Yellow Jacket

Rick Black, a surgeon and Vietnam War veteran, does not have the same love for the NFL, since protests began. who didn’t choose one of these options would face a fine. Plans fell through, however, due to a conflict with the NFL Players Association, who were not consulted on the matter beforehand.

The two sides then entered discussions, and it was reported last week that those talks won’t lead to an anthem policy for the 2018 season.

“The NFL has no backbone.”

RICK BLACK

Vietnam War Veteran

the Chicago Bears.

Most of the team stayed in the runway of Chicago’s Soldier Field, while offensive tackle and U.S. Army veteran Alejandro Villanueva came out of the tunnel alone for the anthem.

Hoyle Sr. was watching the game at home, and almost a year later, still finds it hard to understand why that sequence transpired the way it did.

“I still don’t understand how they could have stood there and let Villanueva come out and do his thing, and just stand there and not support him,” Hoyle Sr. said.

“Because that’s supporting their teammate and their country.”

This past May, the NFL announced a policy that would required players to either stand on the field for the anthem or stay in the locker room, and any player

Black believes the higher-ups in the league offices made a mistake by going back on their original policy change.

“The NFL has no backbone,” Black said. “What I read is they’ve backed off.”

The protests were again in the spotlight shortly before the new season started.

Although Kaepernick, who started the movement, hasn’t played an NFL game since 2016, his name continues to grab headlines. Nike recently launched a campaign centered around Kaepernick, accompanied by the slogan; “believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.”

“I hate seeing Kaepernick on the Nike commercial,” Hoyle Jr. said. “It’s not that I hate him or anything, I just feel that he started a bunch of stuff, and it really to hurts me to see that kids

are looking up to him. Because they’re following him as a role model.”

Hoyle Jr. said that he won’t buy any more Nike products as a result of the campaign.

“I’ll wear generic shoes if I have to,” he said.

Kaepernick filed a grievance against the league last October for collusion, and many feel that he and his former teammate, safety Eric Reid, aren’t playing on Sundays as a punishment for their protests. Hoyle Jr. would be open to Kaepernick playing in the NFL again--as long as he stands.

“If he wants to [play], I don’t see any reason why [he can’t.],” Hoyle Jr. said. “The thing is he still needs to respect the flag and stand for the national anthem.”

Black was less sympathetic towards Kaepernick.

“He should be gone from the NFL,” he said. “No questions asked. That’s my only response.”

For Hoyle Jr., the dominance of social media makes it impossible for NFL players to not know how veterans could perceive the protests— and doesn’t understand those who condone taking a knee.

“They have to know what they’re doing,” he said. “I think it’s all just trying to get their name out their to be another Kaepernick and get more money. If you look at Tim Tebow, he knelt for prayer. That was not ok [for some people]. So why is kneeling for the flag ok?”

Hotel Continued from B1 the steel behind that and then rescued the new bricks to the building and then fixed what was actually damaged.”

Marshall said the repair process was long and exhaustive.

“The investigation took 16 months as far as trying to determine the degree of how much damage there was,” said Marshall. “How much of that brick needed to be removed and put back into place.”

Keeping the hotel intact was important to preserve the memory of the building intact to its original building blocks, Marshall said. No slowdowns or issues arose throughout the process. “ K n ow i n g i t wa s a n older building, we wanted

the grates, where the water is naturally supposed to f low,” Peterson said.

“Our crews are out there to help people – with this kind of a scenario, we know what roadways typically have water runoff, we monitor them.”

Peterson said her team is on close watch as the remnants of Hurricane Florrence passes through southwestern Pennsylvania. They are doing one thing, she said: expecting the unexpected.

Paul Hicks, Yellow Jacket

After beginning renovations in 2016, the historic Fort Jackson Hotel finished repairing its aging masonry this summer. to try to replicate it as much as we could--how the structure was originally designed and how it looked,” said Marshall. “We were able to go and get brick that would match the

Bridges Continued from B1 went far smoother than when the festival was cancelled due to hurricane Ivan in 2004. According to Walko, the floodwaters came the night before that year’s festival, putting many of the vendor’s setups under water.

“There was a lot of loss.

The most positive thing I can see this time is that

design of the brick. We did a really good job restoring the building to the way it originally looked.”

The fund to repair this building was taken out of the gas impact money that

the county collects. For now, the crew is still on site.

Marshall referred to the final touches as “cosmetic,” but he said the job is done as long as no new problems pop up.

we had a few days notice,” Walko said, “So at least there wasn’t any loss of property because we had time to contact everyone and let them know.”

According to Walko, since the festival started in 1998, there have only been two years before this one that it was cancelled: 2004, and 2001, due to the events of Sept. 11.

Clark said that that the board may soon discuss whether to create a backup plan for next year, in case

flooding strikes again.

“We’re going to try for next year, before now and then, to try to come up with a contingency plan in case this happens again, so we’ll have something to fall back to,” he said.

Next year is an important year for the White Covered Bridge, as it marks the bridge’s 100th anniversary.

“We are at this point planning for a really big birthday party for the bridge,” Walko said.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 | WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY | THEYELLOWJACKET.ORG

New helmets sense dangerous impacts TEGHAN SIMONTON Region Editor

The culture around concussions is changing, said Andy Palko, the head athletic trainer at Waynesburg University.

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is all over the news, and athletes and their families are more concerned now than ever about the effects of sustaining regular impacts in the game of football.

That’s why Waynesburg University’s football team is using 24 special helmets to monitor impacts that occur during practice and play, Palko said.

The Riddell InSite impact response system incorporates electrodes in the padding of the helmets, which measure velocity, rotational positioning and the force of each impact. Every helmet is linked to Palko’s desktop computer and a portable device that alerts him when an impact occurs above a certain threshold, notifying

him of a potential concussion.

“It’s an extra tool in my toolbelt to make sure that when I can’t watch all 100 football players, at least I know that there is a back-up system that can notify me if there’s something if I don’t witness the event,” said Palko.

Palko said he has always had an interest in concussions; but the problem is, symptoms vary from person to person, circumstance to circumstance. CTE can’t even be diagnosed in living individuals, he said. The new helmets will provide some “actionable data,” a truly objective way to measure impact, and perhaps provide more clarity to the science of concussions.

“My intention is to extrapolate data, review it, and then begin a case study,” said Palko. “And just kind of look at what our football players are experiencing in the field.”

Palko hopes the

study will provide more “evidence of what is happening in the brain,” even for impacts that don’t register as dangerous on his device.

The potential for the tool doesn’t end there, said Chris Smithley, head football coach. Every helmet is programmed to the specific athlete wearing it, which allows Palko and Smithley to gather statistics about how the player tackles and absorbs hits.

Smithley said he and Palko are able to synchronize the time of impact with practice video, to watch it with the athlete and focus on form and technique.

“Maybe a guy is not tackling the right way, or if he’s taking consistent impacts to the back of his head, we’ve got to figure out why that’s happening,” said Smithley. “It helps us as a coaching staff to teach better technique, to HELMETS >> C4

Ashley Hall, Yellow Jacket

Over the past two years, the football team has implemented 24 new helmets that can detect possible concussions.

Jackets force double OT, finish in a tie Bean named new assistant coach for men's basketball RAY PAQUET

For the Yellow Jacket

After coming off its first loss of the season against Muskingum this past Wednesday, the Waynesburg University women’s soccer team was looking to get back on the winning track when it traveled to Mount Aloysius this past Saturday.

While the Yellow Jackets were unable to grab a win, they battled back from an early deficit and played to a 2-2 tie in double overtime.

“We know Mt. Aloysius is a tough opponent with a lot of confidence behind them with an undefeated record,” head coach Laura Heethuis said. “We knew we had to be ready for the challenge and ready to fight as long as it took. I’m very pleased with the attitudes and team as a whole responding coming off a loss.”

Mount Aloysius (6-01) got the scoring started when the Mounties scored two minutes into the game.

The Yellow Jackets (4-1-1)

tied it up shortly after when sophomore forward Emily Hill scored her team-leading third goal of the season.

The goal was set up by junior midfielder Teagan Jenner, who got the assist on the free kick.

At the end of the 19th minute, Mount Aloysius retook the lead, but once again the Yellow Jackets responded when sophomore midfielder Maddy Manz scored her first goal of the season from 18-yards out in the 30th minute.

“We have come from behind in games prior so we know we can do it,” said Heethuis. “We knew they have a lot of speed up top and they look to play very direct to those players…we scored two great goals [as] Hill finished her chance well and Manz was able to connect on a great shot from distance.”

Neither team could find the back of the net in the final 60 minutes, which sent WSOC >> C4

Teams’ practices affected by floodwaters BRANDON ROSSI For The Yellow Jacket

John F. Wiley Stadium is no stranger to floods.

In the last three years, the field has flooded four times.

Tropical Storm Gordon just so happened to be the latest storm to swamp the stadium used for the Waynesburg University soccer and football events.

As a result, both soccer teams, as well as the football team, had to move their practices to Waynesburg Central High School. Those changes heavily altered normal practice schedules.

For football, instead of its normal practices in the late afternoon during the week, head coach Chris Smithley’s team spent all of last week practicing at 5 a.m. at Waynesburg Central.

“I think it affected our schedule, but there’s no excuse for the way that [the team] played Saturday [against Bethany],” Smithley said. “I thought that we had

Photo courtesy of Melinda Skrbin

After water covered the entire field, the turf had to be serviced before football and soccer teams could practice on it again. our best week of practice all year. Guys that haven’t gotten gassed all year got gassed Saturday, so I don’t know if it was too much time off from practicing in the mornings to playing at night, but we’re evaluating all of those things.”

The football team also

did not practice the Friday before their game against Bethany, so the players could get extra rest heading into the showdown with the Bison.

According to Smithley, the 5 a.m. practices were the best option. The only alternative would have

been practicing for two hours starting at 9:30 p.m.

Smithley said he “100 percent does not approve of the kids not eating for six hours, especially that late at night.”

The men’s and women’s soccer teams also had FLOOD >> C3

Last season, he moved into the associate head coach position at Medaille as the MavGregory Bean has ex- ericks went 19-11 overall, and perienced two dynamics 13-5 in the Allegheny Mounof teams in his 13 years of tain Conference. The team coaching basketball prior to won one game in the AMCC arriving at Waynesburg Uni- tournament before rolling to versity, but his two previous the ECAC DIII championship stints at the high game, where it fell school and colle89-85 to Neumann giate level ended University. in the same result: W hile under winning.

Bean’s guidance, Bean was anMeadville won the nounced as AMCC conference Way n e s b u rg ’s championship in men’s basketball his second year as new assistant an assistant durcoach Sept. 13, ing the 2016-17 replacing Ben AltBean season. The Mavmeyer, who held ericks then moved that title for the previous to the NCAA Tournament, five seasons. where they lost in the first From 2010 to 2015, Bean round. helped build Redbank Val“One of the biggest things ley High School’s basketball that stands out is how hard program from a team that some guys work for their hadn’t reached a PIAA AA goals and how close knit the District IX title game in 23 best teams are,” he said. “It years to one that made it to was a lot of fun to be in the the championship game two gym with our 2017 NCAA seasons in a row, including Tournament team at Mehis 2014-15 team that took daille to see the preparation home the title. it takes to accomplish some “I was fortunate to be able really neat things. Being able to turn around a struggling to see the growth of young program at Redbank Valley,” mean towards a common Bean said. “The commitment goal is one of the main realevel of some of the guys we sons that I coach.” had there was unmatched.

Bean’s experience at the Being able to guide that pro- high school and college level gram to levels it has never is something that Waynesseen before is something burg head coach Mark that I will always carry with Christner said stood out in me.” the search for a new assisFollowing his stint at Red- tant coach. bank Valley, Bean landed his “I think the advantage for first collegiate position as an coach Bean is that he’s not assistant coach at Medaille College from 2015 to 2017.

BEAN >> C4

TYLER GODWIN

Assistant Sports Editor

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Women battle through injuries at meet Sophomore leads Jackets with 79 at golf invitational MIKE TRAX

For the Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg University women’s cross country team competed in the Allegheny Classic in Meadville this past weekend.

They placed in the middle of the pack, coming in fourth out of seven teams in the field.

The Jackets faced strong completion this past weekend that featured Allegheny College, Carnegie Mellon University and Case Western University, who are all nationally ranked, as well as a strong Division II competitor in Gannon University.

With numerous highlevel competitors there, head coach Chris Hardie believed that his team could still place top five at the meet.

“One of our goals was to knock off one of the top teams there,” Hardie said. “If not, at least close the gap on the nationally ranked schools.”

The team was successful in completing that goal.

After sitting out his top seven runners at the previous meet for strategic reasons, Hardie was happy with the individual performances.

“Overall I think that plan worked, they seemed to have fresh legs and they reached their individual goal,” he said.

The fresh legs didn’t last long, however, due to the nature of the course, as well as the weather conditions.

“At the end of the race it seemed like the hills and the heat got to them, making them tired and exhausted,”

OWEN HUGHES

For the Yellow Jacket

Photo courtesy of Patty Kaczynski Scott

Freshman Aubery Wingeart has led the Yellow Jackets in the past two meets. At Allegheny, Wingeart finished ninth out of 121 women with a time of 18:59.

Hardie said.

Since the Westminster meet, where Hardie rested the top seven runners, the Jackets have cut down their spread time, which ranged from the first runner to the fifth runner in the top seven.

As season goes on, Hardie said he is gaining more confidence in his young team.

One athlete that stood out in the meet is freshman Aubrey Wingeart. Wingeart was the top finisher on the team, crossing the finish line with a time of 18:59, putting her in ninth place overall in the event.

“Taking top 10 in a nationally ranked race is really good—it shows us what she’s got,” said Hardie.

Another key first-year performer is sophomore Nicole Shelton. Shelton posted

a time of 19:38, which got her twentieth place. To finish out the top three Yellow Jacket performers, senior Teghan Simonton crossed shortly after Shelton in 23rd place with a time of 19:43.

Despite being a freshman, Aubrey Wingeart wasn’t intimated by the stiff competition.

“The Division II schools didn’t bother me,” Wingeart said. “But I definitely wanted to go out and try to get some of the nationally ranked schools. I stuck with the game plan and decreased time as the race went on.”

This is the second time the freshman led the pack for Waynesburg.

The women’s team has done well to start the season, despite some key runners still finding their rhythm after coming back

from injury.

“Kat Thompson, Megan Studebaker, Mary Beth Cunningham and Becca Volz all competed but are slowly coming off an injury,” Hardie said.

While looking to the future, Hardie reflects on how courses like Allegheny contribute in not just competition, but for practice as well.

“The hills on the course represent our regional course very well,” said Hardie.

With the team’s history, it is important for runners to be prepared for the future and have experience in difficult courses.

The Yellow Jackets will continue their season hosting the Waynesburg Invitational at the Greene County Airport on Saturday, Sept.

22.

The Waynesburg University men’s golf team continued its season this past Saturday with an improved performance during the Penn State Altoona Invitational. The Yellow Jackets finished 10th overall out of 11 teams, but improved scoring-wise by 15 points from its last competition.

Head coach Sam Jones was optimistic about the lower scores in the team’s second match of the season.

“Three of our guys had their best collegiate match in their respective careers,” said Jones. “We had two guys who did not have our best day, but everyone knows that on their day they can play well.”

Sophomore Will Purbaugh led the team with a low score of 79, enough to tie for 15th place out of 55 golfers. Freshman Luke Diel followed up with an 84, and junior Alex Orlandini rounded the top three with an 89.

Also breaking 100 for the Jackets were sophomores Dylan Nowakowski and CJ Sekanick, with Nowakowski shooting a 98 and Sekanick scoring a 99.

Jones was happy about the improvement he saw from his team from its first match to the second, and is confident that the Jack-

ets could improve even further as the season progresses.

“Compared to our first match, we shot an overall 15 strokes better,” said Jones. “Many of our competitors are only freshman, so the more they play, the more experience they have of keeping calm, getting over a bad hole, [keeping a] strong mentality and things like that.”

W h i l e s o m e p l aye r s played well, some didn’t have their best performance, according to Jones.

Overall, however, Jones has a positive mindset going forward.

“Two of our guys did not play their best round,” Jones said. “But both of those players can shoot ten shots better. We’ve seen both of them shoot in the 80’s, and when they do that we already are twenty strokes lower.”

Sophomore Will Purbaugh felt he earned his score, after long hours of work over the summer both on the course and in his head.

“I finally feel comfortable with my game,” said Purbaugh. “We all worked hard over the past few months to improve and I feel my score showed what I personally can do.”

The team will hit the links again Sept. 24. The Jackets will look to improve on their standing as they take part in the Westminster Invitational.

PRESIDENTS’ ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ROUNDUP FOOTBALL STANDINGS Wash. & Jeff Bethany Geneva Westminster Case Western Reserve Carnegie Mellon Grove City Saint Vincent Thiel Waynesburg

MEN’S SOCCER Conf. Overall 2-0 3-0 2-0 2-1 2-0 2-1 2-0 2-1 1-0 2-0 0-1 1-1 0-2 1-2 0-2 0-3 0-2 0-3 0-2 0-3

Saturday’s Box Score

BETHANY 22, WAYNESBURG 13 Bethany 7 9 0 6 Waynesburg 7 0 0 6

22 13

SCORE RECAP

First Quarter: WAY - Jake Dougherty 46 yd run (Garrett Horne kick), 10:50; BET - Raekwon Wright 39 yd pass from Dom Salinetro (Collin Willians kick), 7:15 Second Quarter: BET - Wright 5 yd run (Williams kick failed), 5:43; BET - Sean Cole 22 yd field goal, 0:00 Fourth Quarter: WAY - VaShon Graham 77 yd interception (Horne kick failed), 7:48; BET - Wright 43 yd run (Cole kick failed), 4:49

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

Waynesburg passing COM ATT YDS TD Dougherty................. 8 12 43 0 Perone....................... 8 16 97 0 Waynesburg rushing

ATT YDS TD Walker.................................... 15 72 0 Taylor...................................... 5 43 1 Waynesburg receiving

REC YDS TD Moretti.................................. 8 45 0 Jones..................................... 1 38 0

STANDINGS Grove City Westminster Thiel Wash. & Jeff.

Bethany Waynesburg Geneva Saint Vincent

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Conf. Overall 0-0 5-0-2 0-0 5-2 0-0 4-3 0-0 2-2-1 0-0 2-4-1 0-0 2-4 0-0 1-3-1 0-0 0-7

Saturday’s Box Score

MOUNT ALOYSIUS 4, WAYNESBURG 0 Mount Aloysius 2 2 4 Waynesburg 0 0 0

STANDINGS

Waynesburg Westminster Saint Vincent Chatham Bethany Geneva Grove City Wash. & Jeff.

Thiel

Conf. Overall 0-0 4-1-1 0-0 5-2 0-0 4-2 0-0 3-2 0-0 3-3 0-0 3-3 0-0 3-3 0-0 2-3-1 0-0 1-6

Saturday’s Box Score

WAYNESBURG 2, MOUNT ALOYSIUS 2 (2OT) Mount Aloysius 2 0 0 0 2 Waynesburg 2 0 0 0 2

SCORE RECAP

First Half: MAC - Goal by James Maddison (Assist by Pau Aran), 2:00; MAC - Goal by Ludvig Hegdal, 24:53; Second Half: MAC - Goal by Zachary Herr (Assist by Joshua Devlin), 52:57; MAC - Goal by Joshua Devlin, 74:32 Saturday, September 15: Frostburg State 2, Wash. & Jeff. 1; Wilmington 1, Bethany 0; Grove City 2, Fredonia State 0; Mount Aloysius 4, Waynesburg 0

STANDINGS Conf. Overall Wash. & Jeff.

Westminster Bethany Grove City Thiel Geneva Saint Vincent Chatham Waynesburg

3-0 6-5 1-0 13-1 2-1 7-5 2-1 2-9 2-2 6-7 1-1 7-4 1-1 4-7 0-3 4-7 0-3 1-10

Friday's Box Score

GROVE CITY 3, WAYNESBURG 0 Grove City 25 25 25 3 Waynesburg 15 20 23 0

SCORE RECAP

First Half: MAC - Goal by Kourtney Walls (Assist by Sam Torrenti), 2:46; WAY - Goal by Emily Hill (Assist by Teagan Jenner), 7:00; MAC - Goal by Summer Schell, 19:58; WAY - Goal by Maddy Manz, 30:21

RECENT RESULTS

RECENT RESULTS

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Friday, September 14: Grove City 4, La Roche 0

Sunday, September 16: Muskingum 4, Thiel 0; Stevenson 5, Saint Vincent 0

Saturday, September 15: Geneva 2, Franciscan 1; Saint Vincent 4, Hilbert 1; Waynesburg 2, Mount Aloysius 2; Susquehanna 1, Westminster 0; Case Western Reserve 1, Chatham 0; Wash. & Jeff. 1, Penn State Behrend 0

Monday, September 17: Westminster 2, La Roche 0

Sunday, September 16: Wooster 4, Bethany 0

Friday, September 21: Carnegie Mellon at Grove City - 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, September 22: Hood at Saint Vincent - 1 p.m.; Bethany at Wilson - 1 p.m., Marietta at Wash. & Jeff. - 1 p.m.; Waynesburg at Baldwin Wallace - 3:30 p.m.; Heidelberg at Thiel - 4:30 p.m.; Geneva at Mount Union - 7 p.m.

Bethany passing

UPCOMING GAMES Friday, September 21: Wash. & Jeff. at Carnegie Mellon - 7 p.m.

Saturday, September 22: Waynesburg at Baldwin Wallace - 1 p.m.; Frostburg State at Chatham - 1 p.m.; Heidelberg at Thiel - 2 p.m.; Marietta at Geneva - 2 p.m.; Hood at Saint Vincent - 3 p.m.; Grove City at Mount Union - 7 p.m.

Sunday, September 23: Case Western Reserve at Wash. & Jeff. - 4 p.m.

COM ATT YDS TD Salinetro.................... 9 17 122 1 Bethany rushing

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS (BET)

Proper...........................................................13 Waynesburg Digs

Team

RECENT RESULTS Friday, September 7 HARRY GROVES SPIKED SHOE INVITATIONAL Waynesburg 4th out of 7 teams

Guiser...........................................................10

RECENT RESULTS

Friday, September 14: Wooster 3, Bethany 0; Westminster 3, Pitt-Bradford 1; Wash. & Jeff. 3, John Carroll 0; Pitt-Bradford 3, Bethany 1; Grove City 3, Waynesburg 0; Geneva 3, Allegheny 0; Westminster 3, Oberlin 0 Saturday, September 15: Thiel 3, Chatham 1; Geneva 3, Buffalo State 0; Westminster 3, Marietta 1; Bethany 3, Adrian 1; Saint Vincent 3, Chatham 0; Case Western Reserve 3, Geneva 1; Otterbein 3, Grove City 0; Hiram 3, Wash. & Jeff. 0; Westminster 3, Wooster 1; Thiel 3, Saint Vincent 0; Hanover 3, Grove City 0; Denison 3, Bethany 1; Wash. & Jeff. 3, Albion 2

Bethany receiving

GOALS: Iregui, 9, WES; Mattocks, 6, WES; Oliver, 5, THI

ASSISTS: Grubbs, 334, THI; O'Brien, 300, WJC; Hunsinger, 297, GEN

Saturday, September 22: Geneva at Grove City - 11 a.m.; Westminster at Wash. & Jeff - 11 a.m.; Westminster at Thiel - 1 p.m.; Bethany at Geneva - 1 p.m.; Waynesburg at Earlham - 2 p.m.; Kenyon at Chatham - 2 p.m.; Bethany at Grove City - 3 p.m.; Thiel at Wash. & Jeff. - 3 p.m.; Chatham at Allegheny - 4 p.m.; Central State at Waynesburg - 4 p.m.

RECENT RESULTS

DIGS: Moore, 261, WES; Parker, 217, BET; DeGeorge, 203, WES

Saturday, September 15

Westminster 31, Saint Vincent 14; Bethany 22, Waynesburg 13; Wash. & Jeff. 36, Carnegie Mellon 14; Geneva 27, Thiel 14; Case Western Reserve 49, Grove City 23

UPCOMING GAMES

Saturday, September 22 Geneva at Waynesburg - 1:30 p.m.; Saint Vincent at Carnegie Mellon - 1 p.m.; Grove City at Wash. & Jeff. - 1 p.m.; Bethany at Westminster - 1 p.m.; Thiel at Case Western Reserve - 7 p.m.

PAC W. SOCCER LEADERS

Individual Aubrey Wingeart, 18:59, 9th Nicole Shelton, 19:38, 20th Teghan Simonton, 19:43, 23rd Gloria Reed, 24th Gianna Pugliano, 20:37, 48th Becca Volz, 20:52, 50th Liz Trump, 21:01, 52nd

UPCOMING EVENTS Saturday, September 22: Waynesburg Invitational - PAC Preview

UPCOMING GAMES Friday, September 21: Saint Vincent at PittGreensburg - 7 p.m.

BLOCKS: Buchanan, 34, GRO; Jacques, 31, WJCI; Adelman, 31, WES

Individual Matt Durgin, 22:51, 52nd Nate Jecelin, 22:56, 54th Jordan Payne, 22:59, 55th Mac Colomb, 23:15, 62nd Matt Mansfield, 23:55, 74th Kyle Warmbein, 24:01, 75th Jared Scott, 24:04, 77th

WOMEN

KILLS: Saxton, 157, WES; Sparks, 150, BET; Steward, 130, WES

SAVES: Conrad, 34, THI; Bove, 32, WES; Bohn, 29, SVC

Saturday, September 15 ALLEGHENY CLASSIC 6. Waynesburg, 179 pts

Wylie.............................................................9 Waynesburg Assists

PAC VOLLEYBALL LEADERS

ASSISTS: Five tied at 3 assists

Team

Waynesburg Kills

PAC M. SOCCER LEADERS

REC YDS TD Taylor..................................... 5 50 0 Wright.................................... 2 47 1

RECENT RESULTS

Saturday, September 22: Waynesburg Invitational - PAC Preview

ATT YDS TD Wright.................................... 22 147 2 Mayers.................................... 10 78 0

POINTS: Iregui, 21, WES; Mattocks, 14, WES; Oliver, 11, THI

MEN

UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday, September 17: Muskingum 4, Thiel 1

UPCOMING GAMES

CROSS COUNTRY

POINTS: Chambers, 14, BET; Schoeneweis, 12, GEN; Marsh, 11, SVC

PAC FOOTBALL LEADERS

PASSING YARDS: Adams, 891, WJC; Saxton, 595, CWR; Necastro, 564, WES RUSHING YARDS: Marshall, 557, GEN; Schools, 376, GRO; West, 372, WJC TACKLES: Maines, 36, THI; White, 31, SVC; Smith, 26, WAY; Wagner, 26, THI

GOALS: Chambers, 6, BET; Schoeneweis, 5, GEN; Marsh, 5, SVC

SACKS: Gray, 5, SVC; Gonzalez, 3, WES; Williams, 3, WJC

ASSISTS: Heckman, 3, GRO; Memmo, 3, SVC

INTERCEPTIONS: Cann, 4, GEN; Quattrone, 2, WJC; Liberiste, 2, WES; Jackson, 2, GRO

SAVES: Syfert, 34, WAY; Palmer, 27, THI; Johnson, 26, SVC

GREENE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ROUNDUP Jefferson-Morgan

Carmichaels

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JEFFERSON-MORGAN 0, MONESSEN 55 Jefferson-Morgan 0 0 0 0 0 Monessen 28 27 0 0 55

MCGUFFEY 55, CAMRMICHAELS 0 Carmichaels 0 0 0 0 McGuffey 35 13 7 0

WEST GREENE 47, MAPLETOWN 0 West Greene 33 14 0 0 47 Mapletown 0 0 0 0 0

HOPEWELL 12, WAYNESBURG 7 Waynesburg 0 0 0 7 Hopewell 0 12 0 0

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This game was all Monessen from the start as it rolled to 55 points across the first two quarters of this game. Vaughn Taylor had three rushing touchdowns, while Devin Whitlock had two passing touchdowns and a rushing touchdown of his own. Jefferson-Morgan will look to get on back on track next week against Avella.

Next Game: vs. Avella 9/21 - 7 p.m.

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0 55

McGuffey exploded for 35 points in the first quarter against the Mighty Mikes this past week, as Christian Clutter found paydirt three times in the opening quarter. Carmichaels was shut out for the first time this year, and will look to try and bounce back next week as it takes on Charleroi at home this weekend.

Next Game: vs. Charleroi 9/21 - 7 p.m.

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7 12

Mapletown continued its slow start to the season by getting shutout by West Greene 47-0. The Pioneers put up 33 points in the first quarter, and ran away from there as Ben Jackson rushed for three touchdowns on the night, including an 84-yard score. Mapletown will try and grab its first win of the season this weekend against Bentworth.

Waynesburg Central's comeback attempt came up just shy as the team fell 12-7 to Hopewell. Hopewell jumped out to a 12-0 halftime lead, but the Raiders started to come back late in the fourth quarter. Caleb Shriver conneted with Luke Robinson for a 25-yd touchdown, but Waynesburg Central was unable to score again as it fell for the third straight week.

Next Game: @ Bentworth 9/21 - 7 p.m.

NEXT GAME: @ South Park 9/21 - 7 p.m.

WEST GREENE 47, MAPLETOWN 0 West Greene 33 14 0 0 47 Mapletown 0 0 0 0 0 West Greene dominated from the start of this game as it rolled to a 47-0 win over Mapletown to improve to 3-1. The Pioneers put up 33 points in the first quarter, and ran away from there as Ben Jackson rushed for three touchdowns on the night, including an 84-yard score. West Greene will look to extend its win streak to four as it hosts Monessen this weekend.

NEXT GAME: vs. Monessen 9/21 - 7 p.m.

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Football drops 3 straight: ‘We're all going to face adversity’ JOE SMELTZER

Senior Editorial Assistant

This past week was an unusual one for the Waynesburg University football team.

John F. Wiley stadium, the home f ield for the Yellow Jackets, suffered severe flooding Sept. 10.

Because of that, practices for the next three days started early in the morning at approximately 5 a.m. as opposed to later in the afternoon.

The tumultuous week culminated Saturday night in Bethany, West Virginia with the Jackets (0-3, 0-2) falling to the Bison (2-1, 2-0) by a score of 22-13, and dropping to 0-3 for the third year in a row.

Head coach Chris Smithley didn’t see the scheduling adjustment as an excuse for the loss and felt the team can learn lessons that go beyond football as a result of the circumstances.

“We’re a young football team, and we need to be able to deal with sudden changes,” Smithley said.

“This means more than football. This is life. We’re all going to face adversity, but how we react in those times when we have to face that adversity is vital.”

Waynesburg scored first against the Bison less than five minutes into the game on a 46-yard touchdown run by senior quarterback Jake Dougherty. Freshman Garrett Horne’s extra point made it 7-0, capping a six play, 88-yard drive that lasted 3:07.

After both teams went three-and-out following Waynesburg’s opening

drive, a 21-yard punt by freshman Nik Gibson gave the Bison prime field position at the Waynesburg 39-yard line.

Bethany cashed in one play later as freshman quarterback Dom Salinetro threw a touchdown pass to junior running back Raekwon Wrig ht.

Freshman Collin Williams converted the PAT to tie the game. It was the start of a big night for Wright, who gained 147 yards on 22 carries and scored two touchdowns while adding another touchdown and 47 yards through the air.

The score would stay at 7-7 through the rest of the first quarter. With 7:15 left in the half, Wright scored his f irst of t wo rushing touchdowns to cap a five-play, 68-yard scoring drive. Williams’ extra point was no good, but Bethany now had a six-point lead.

After the Jacket offense we nt t h ree - a n d - o u t — and lost 22 yards in the process—the Bison took over at their own 48-yard line with 3:20 left in the half. Bethany capped off that drive with a 22-yard field goal by sophomore Sean Cole, and the teams went into the locker room with Bethany ahead, 16-7.

Neither team scored in the third quarter, with each punting twice and Waynesburg turning the ball over on downs toward the end of the frame. The Jackets made it a onepossession game wi th 7:48 to play in the fourth, when junior defensive back VaShon Graham’s first collegiate interception went for a 76-yard touchdown.

Horne’s extra point was no

good, but Waynesburg now trailed by just a field goal.

Bethany put the game away less than three minutes later, however, on Wright’s second rushing touchdown and third total touchdown of the day, this one from 43 yards out to cap a five-play, 85-yard drive.

Overall, the Bison outgained Waynesburg 378275. Bethany picked up 256 yards on the ground – 223 of which came from Wright and senior Byron Meyers, who picked up 78 yards – while Waynesburg rushed for a season-best 135 yards, 72 of which came from junior Chad Walker on 15 carries. Salinetro ended the night going 9-17 for 122 yards, a touchdown and an interception, while Perone went 8-16 for 97 yards.

Smithley said he decided to switch the quarterbacks at halftime because Perone’s style of play gave the Jackets the best chance to make a comeback.

“Jake is a more of a threat to run the football,” Smithley said. “The thing that we needed to do is we needed to throw the ball around. Tyler has more success throwing the ball around, so we did what we felt as a coaching staff was the best move for us to try and make a comeback on that team.”

Perone started the game in week two against Westminster before being pulled after throwing an interception on Waynesburg’s first drive. Now, with a larger sample size, he felt comfortable as the starter.

“I felt great,” Perone said.

“I knew what I was looking at, I knew everything that I

Ashley Hall, Yellow Jacket

Jake Dougherty was the starting quarterbacker against Bethany and scored the only touchdown for the Yellow Jackets on a 46-yard rushing play. needed to get done. It’s just when we’re in the game that late and they’re making adjustments, I didn’t get to see them early on.

Other than that, I felt good back there and I knew what I needed to do.”

Waynesburg won the time of possession battle, having the ball for 30:54 to Bethany’s 29:06. Like last week against Westminster, however, the Jackets failed to capitalize on red zone chances. Against the Titans, Waynesburg drove the ball to within the Titans 5-yard line twice, but could only manage three

points out of those two drives. Saturday, the Jackets got the ball to Bethany’s 13-yard line early in the second quarter, but came up empty handed when Horne’s 30-yard field goal attempt was blocked. Early in the fourth quarter, with the Jackets down by nine, Waynesburg drove the ball to the Bison 19-yard line, but a sack and an incomplete pass put the Jackets out of field goal range and set up a fourth-and-17, which Waynesburg failed to convert.

“We are really good at shooting ourselves in the

foot, every chance we get,” Perone said. “That’s just something that we can’t do…we’re not going catch a break, so we have to focus on moving the ball forward and never taking any negative plays.”

Overall, Smithley saw Saturday’s loss as one filled with missed chances.

“We had our opportunities,” he said. “We had some guys open, we made some throws, and we missed the exchanges. That’s a matter of [having to be] on the same page and getting the job done when we needed to."

Men's XC finishes sixth at Allegheny Tennis shut out in first PAC match against Grove City CHARLES POINDEXTER For the Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg University men’s cross country team finished sixth overall this past Saturday in Meadville at the Allegheny Classic in a field of 10 teams at the event. The performance was a considerable jump from an eighth-place finish last season at the same meet.

The Jackets were led by sophomore Matt Durgin who placed 52nd out of 116 runners with a time of 22:51.

Rounding out the top three for the Jackets were sophomores Nate Jecelin, who finished 54th with a time of 22:56, and Jordan Payne, who ran a 22:59 and placed 55th overall.

Head coach Chris Hardie was especially pleased with Payne’s performance during the competition, noting that his pacing strategy worked nearly to perfection considering how early it is in the season.

“He executed the strategy really well,” Hardie said.

According to Hardie, this was a competitive meet with many regionally and nationally ranked teams in the competition. Three other Presidents’ Athletic Conference teams also competed in the match in Washington & Jefferson, Chatham and Thiel.

Despite the stacked field, The Jackets were still able to hit their team’s meet goals.

Waynesburg also edged out

Flood Continued from C1 to change around their schedules. Instead of the normal 6-8 p.m. and 8-10 p.m. practice slots for the women and men, respectively, they have been in the Rudy Marisa Fieldhouse a couple of times and have gone to Waynesburg Central High School. Men’s

GREG FIKE

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Photo courtesy of Patty Kaczynski Scott

Freshman Silas Mays (left) and junior Mason Klopp (right) finished 84th and 83rd, respectively at Allegheny. Overall, the team finished sixth out of 10 teams.

Chatham, who finished seventh, and Thiel, who placed tenth, in the competition.

Three more sopho mores joined the top six for Waynesburg. Mac Colomb completed the race 62nd with a time of 23:15, Matt Mansfield finished 74th with a time of 23:55 and Kyle Warmbein placed 75th with a time of 24:01. Junior Jared Scott finalized Jacket competition for the day finishing 77th with a time of 24:04.

Carnegie Mellon won the team title, while Washington & Jefferson’s Harley Moyer broke the tape in 20:30.

Hardie is enthusiastic about his team’s recent performance as the Jackets continue to consistently progress to their yearly goal to place third at the PAC Championship meet. The goal, he said, is to continue to push each individual runner each week to get them to their full potential at the right time of

the season.

“They are working hard throughout the week and staying focused and motivated,” said Hardie.

The PAC Championships are still a little over a month out, and Waynesburg has three more meets before the first big test of the year Oct. 27. The Jackets will be back in action next week to host the Waynesburg Invitational at the Greene County Airport.

Start time is set for 11 a.m.

head coach Brad Heethuis and women’s head coach Laura Heethuis ran joint practices from 9:30-11:00 p.m. this past week.

“Waynesburg Central is always an option if anything were to happen to John F. Wiley Stadium,” Laura Heethuis said. “The gym here is not ideal because we can’t do things soccer related. Unfortunately, [the floods] have become an all too common occurrence, so we just have to roll with

the punches.”

However, both the men’s and women’s soccer players have remained optimistic about the situations, with both coaches praising their resilience, willing to change their schedules, and ability to bounce back to situations.

L aura Heethuis also said that if Waynesburg Central High School could not accommodate the soccer teams for the 9:3011:00 p.m. time slots, they do

have backups such as Milan Stadium on the campus of West Virginia University.

“Anything with turf is really all that we need,” said Heethuis.

With Hurricane Florence pushing leftover rain into the southwestern Pennsylvania area, there was more fear of flooding.

The three teams have reportedly put backup locations in place in case the field was left in an unplayable condition.

For Waynesburg University head women’s tennis coach Ron Headlee, the 9-0 loss to Grove City on Saturday is just a speed bump on their way to more success this year.

“That’s why [Grove City is] picked to win the conference,” he said. “I liked the overall attitude of our players. They didn’t quit and they didn’t get discouraged.”

The fight that the team showed in the tough shutout loss is something that the Jackets hope to build on moving forward.

“Playing good teams like that shows you what you need to work on,” said Headlee. “We are going to keep working on setting up our shots and being patient. So next time out, [hopefully] you don’t make the same mistakes.”

Grove City’s number one doubles team of senior Maggie Manchester and sophomore Morgan Happe defeated Waynesburg’s number one team of freshman Kyleigh Schmidt and junior Noelle Hughes 8-0. Waynesburg’s number two doubles team of junior Sierra Stevens and sophomore Lauren Wadsworth were able to steal a game during their match with Grove City’s duo of freshman Lillian Jeynes and senior Rachel Ford, but ultimately fell 8-1.

Meanwhile, Waynesburg’s number three doubles team that consisted of sophomore Abby Walbrown and freshman Abigail Stahl were shut out by seniors Melissa Karidis and Leigh-Ann Trepanier 6-0.

Walbrown was able to win two games in her singles match against sopho-

more Hannah Tarolli, but fell 6-2, 6-0 in the match.

Wadsworth also stole a game in her match against Trepanier, but dropped both sets, 6-1, 6-0, respectively.

The remaining four singles matches were 6-0, 6-0 losses.

Despite the loss, Hughes believes the team can take some positives out of the performance.

“After the match I talked to the team and made sure I encouraged them and made sure they knew they did some things well,” she said. “I know in practice we will work on the things we didn’t do so well, so it’s good to take time to look at both perspectives.”

Hughes also said she didn’t sense much discouragement after the loss from the team, saying they are ready to put this match behind them and move on.

“I think ever yone is ready to get back to practice and work on some things and get better,” she said. “They were a good team. We just need to stay positive and build off of the things that we did well.”

This upcoming week is a big one for the Yellow Jackets as they take the court for three matches in a four-day span.

This stretch starts with a Wednesday afternoon match at home against St. Vincent at 3:30 p.m. that finished after publication.

The team has a day off today before hitting the court Friday on the road at Geneva for a 6 p.m. match.

T h e Ye l l o w J a c k e t s then return home for a Saturday non-conference match against Muskingum at 12 p.m. The match with Thiel that was rained out has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 25 at 4 p.m.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 WEEK FOUR FOOTBALL PREVIEW: GENEVA COLLEGE

Defense set to face triple-option threat from GEN LUKE GOODLING Sports Editor

In the first drive of the game against Bethany College last week, the football team did something it hasn’t done all season in an opening drive – score a touchdown.

Despite the positive start, the Yellow Jackets gave up 16 unanswered points to the Bison which led to a 22-13 defeat.

Individually, Tyler Perone and Jake Dougherty both split time at quarterback. Perone completed eight passes for 97 yards despite being sacked three times. On the other hand, Dougherty only managed 43 passing yards, but was second highest in rushing yards with 43. Other offensive leaders in the game included junior running back Chad Walker, who rushed for a team high 72 yards, and junior wide receiver Nick

Bean Continued from C1 [new to coaching], he’s done it before,” Christner said. “… not only does he have the background where he has run his own program, but he has also been around, recently, a team that won a conference championship— and that’s what we’re aspiring to do…I always admire people that have been a few different places that can bring some of that to wherever they are.”

According to Christner, he and Bean had met and established a relationship while Bean was still at Red-

Moretti, who picked up 45 receiving yards on a gamehigh eight catches.

For Geneva, the Golden Tornadoes rolled to a 2714 victory over Thiel for their second consecutive win of the season. Under the triple-option offense, Geneva amassed 326 rushing yards. Senior running back Trewon Marshall led the team with 128 yards on 27 carries and a touchdown. Sophomore quarterback Levi Cook followed Marshall’s performance with 84 yards and a touchdown himself against the Tomcats.

Coming into the Week Four matchup against the Golden Tornadoes, who lead the Presidents’ Athletic Conference in rushing offense, there are a few key areas the Yellow Jackets will focus on.

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volved in the campus community are big draws. It’s an opportunity for me to grow and hopefully make a positive impact on the campus community and our student athletes.”

When it comes to team play on the court, Bean’s coaching style revolves around establishing connections with his players and making sure everyone is on the same page.

“I am much more about relationships than the X’s and O’s,” Bean said. “I think your relationships within the team dynamic determine your outcome much more than your plays. Trust and accountability are big parts of allowing a team to accomplish those things.”

“He has also been around, recently, a team that won a conference championship — and that's what we're aspiring to do.”

MARK CHRISTNER

Head coach

bank Valley, and the two kept in touch over the years. Once the assistant coach position opened up, Bean was immediately a candidate Christner wanted to potentially join his staff.

For Bean, the appeal of Waynesburg didn’t just lie in his friendship with Christner, but also the atmosphere that surrounds the university and its people.

“I think when you talk about Waynesburg, you talk about the people here,” said Bean. “My prior relationship with coach Christner stands out as one of the things that led me to Waynesburg, but also the type of institution and the type of people in-

Going into his first season this winter, Bean is eager to get started at Waynesburg and see if he can help build the Yellow Jackets into a perennial contender in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference.

“Waynesburg as an institution is top notch.

Combine that with the people involved and you have a community that is one of a kind,” said Bean.

“I am looking forward to my time at Waynesburg and whatever path it leads me to…I am focused on making a positive impact to this community and helping elevate the basketball program.”

Waynesburg University Geneva College YELLOW JACKETS GOLDEN TORNADOES Last Game - BET 22 WAY 13 Record 0-3 (0-2)

Last Year 2-8 (2-6)

Last Game - GEN 27 THI 14

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Record 2-1 (2-0)

Last Year 3-7 (2-6)

Last Meeting - October 7, 2017 GEN 35 WAY 14 So far this season, the Yellow Jackets have outpossessed opponents by nearly 10 minutes per game.

While controlling possession gives the offense greater opportunity, head coach Chris Smithley said the offense struggles to complete drives consistently.

“We have been possessing the ball on offense and we got to continue to do that,” said Smithley. “But we have to finish drives and score touchdowns.

That’s where we’re kind of stalling where we get down there and that stuff has to change.”

Stop the Run Geneva leads the PAC in rushing offense averaging 328 yards per game. So far this season, the Golden Tornadoes have gathered 984 yards on the ground, which tops the league.

Smithley said Waynesburg, who is ranked fifth in

the conference for rushing defense, must keep the Geneva offense off the field as much as possible – not just to minimize scoring opportunities, but also to help the defense.

“It takes a toll on those guys, especially if they are having long drives,” Smi thley said. “Like I said, every play when our defense is going against their offense, espec i a l ly o n t h e d e fe n s i ve line and on the

Solidify the Offense In every game so far this season, multiple quarterbacks have taken snaps for the Yellow Jackets. After switching between Perone and Dougherty last week, Smithley said there is no leader yet who will take over as the No. 1 quarterback for the Yellow Jackets.

“These guys are doing what they do well,” Smithley said. “No one is stepping up saying, ‘hey I’m the guy, its clear as day.’ No one is doing that. So we got to do what we got to do to win football games.”

Heading into a week of practice to prepare for the Geneva matchup, Smithley said the offense’s primary focus will be on spread zone scoring and finishing drives.

Kickoff this Saturday is set for 1:30 p.m. at John F. Wiley Stadium.

Basketball announces new schedule ZAC SCHNEGG

For the Yellow Jacket

Men’s basketball teams around the Presidents’ Athletic Conference announced their schedules over the last week for the 2018-2019 season, including the Waynesburg University Yellow Jackets. The Jackets will play a 25-game schedule with 16 PAC games.

“We always try to have a competitive schedule,” said head coach Mark Christner.

“In the last four years, we’ve ended up playing a team that has made the Elite Eight in the national tournament.

We’re excited about who were playing in non-conference play and how that might translate to help be competitive in the conference.”

Junior forward Shane Johnson has the same viewpoint as his coach regarding the schedule and has confidence in his team heading into the upcoming season.

“There’s some challenging games and some great tournaments were going to, but I believe there’s not a game on the schedule that we don’t have the ability to win,” Johnson said.

According to Christner, the Yellow Jackets will face a “regionally strong” schedule, playing all teams on the east coast and in the Great Lakes Region. Waynesburg will open the season in Hamburg, New York in the Hilbert Hawks Against Hunger TipOff Tournament. The men will play Hilbert Nov.16 and either Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) or Utica College on Nov. 17.

“Hilbert will be a great challenge for us,” said Christner. “They won 18 games last

Michelle Keith, Yellow Jacket

Yellow Jackets opened their season last year against No. 1 ranked Whitman College and nationally ranked Whitworth University in Washington state. year and they’re a team in region that’s had a great program for the last few years.”

Waynesburg will also compete in the Mount St. Joseph Tip-Off Classic in Cincinnati, Ohio during Thanksgiving Break. The Jackets will play Mount St. Joseph College Nov. 24 and North Park University from Chicago Nov. 25.

“North Park plays in the CCIW (College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin), which is one of the premier conferences in the nation,” Christner said. “It should be a fun matchup.”

The Yellow Jackets will open PAC play Nov. 28 at home against Grove City and all but four of their games will be in-conference the rest of the way. Three of those four will be played in three consecutive games in late December and early January. Waynesburg will travel to Penn State Behrend, who won 21 games last season, Dec. 18, and then will host Muskingum Dec. 22 and Kenyon Jan. 3.

“We have played great games with Muskingum

over the last five or six years,” Christner said. “The games have always been close and its been pretty even between us over the last few years.”

The fourth non-PAC team the Yellow Jackets will face is a familiar foe in Thomas More, who left the conference after the 201718 season. After the Saints’ departure, all conference teams were left with two open dates and were tasked with filling those openings.

Thomas More also had to create an independent Division III schedule.

“They reached out to other teams in the PAC and I had a good relationship with [head coach] Drew Cooper, so we agreed to play,” said Christner. “It’s pretty much impossible to fill a bye date in February because everyone is in league play. We needed to fill a bye date, so we filled it with Thomas More.”

Due to the departure of Thomas More and key graduating classes around the PAC, Christner is optimistic about the season and ready to get started.

“It’s a new era in the PAC,”

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the game into overtime.

Waynesburg was able to force extra minutes despite Mount Aloysius outshooting the Yellow Jackets 18-4 in regulation.

The Mounties were held much more closely in check in the overtime periods.

Waynesburg was holding just a slim three to one advantage in shots over the final 20 minutes of the game, but none of those attempts was put on net.

Junior goalkeeper Courtney Syfert played one of the bigger roles, making sure the game remained tied by making six saves on the day, including five in the second half. Mount Aloysius outshot Waynesburg 13-1 in the second 45-minute period.

teach better tackling, better blocking, you know, for their safety.”

Palko said the number of concussions on the Jackets football team has decreased over the year, with only a “handful” of occurrences last year, and none during the current season so far.

“It’s kind of atypical, to be honest,” he said.

He thinks the decrease has a lot to do with the vigilance of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which has instilled more extensive precautions in recent years, and greater awareness about the long-term effects of concussions.

The goal of adding the Riddell system to Waynes-

Christian Wilson, Yellow Jacket

The Yellow Jackets began the season 4-0, one of the better starts in team history, before losing 2-0 against Muskingum.

Hill would go on to attempt three of the Yellow Jackets five shots on the day, two of which were on goal.

Waynesburg had the exact same mark of 4-1-1 through its first six games

offense, it is like a car crash.”

last season, but would end up going 3-8 the rest of the way, going 3-6 in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference and missing the postseason for the third year in a row.

Waynesburg’s first confer-

ence game is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 29 against St. Vincent at John F. Wiley Stadium.

Waynesburg will be back in action before then on Saturday, Sept. 22.

Christner said. “A lot of good players have left, so it will be interesting to see how it plays out.”

Johnson sees the PAC as a league that is up for grabs.

“It will certainly be a different look with a lot of seniors graduating last year,” said Johnson. “The league should be pretty wide open and I’m excited to see how well we can compete this year to bring home a PAC title.”

Although the 2018-19 season hasn’t started yet, Christner has already started the scheduling process for 2019-20.

“We usually work a year in advance,” said Christner.

“We’re looking pretty good for scheduling next year.

We already have our tip-off tournament situated and have some returners back on the schedule.”

The tip-off tournament that kicks off the 2019-20 season for Waynesburg will be held in Salisbury, Maryland and will have Salisbury University, Ursinus College and Gwynedd Mercy University competing.

burg’s normal concussion protocol is to be proactive, Smithley said. It all goes back to the changing culture around concussions.

“It’s really good because you know how the concussion thing is and how things are changing with player safety. We wanted to be a frontrunner in this thing,” Smithley said. “And maybe Waynesburg University can get to the front of solving some of these issues with concussions in football.”

Palko said that only one other institution in Pennsylvania, Seton Hill University, is using the Riddell system.

Waynesburg purchased 12 of the Riddell helmets last year as a test run, and has acquired 12 more this year.

The goal, said Smithley, is to keep buying helmets until eventually, everyone on the team will be able to use the new system.

arts & life

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 | WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY | THEYELLOWJACKET.ORG

‘LAUGHTER IS OUR PASSION’

Aspiring royalty apply for court DYLAN CLELAND

Assistant Sports Editor

First Last, Affiliation

Ed DiOrio,sophomore sports broadcasting major, and Dan Kephart, senior English major, participate in a game during the first round of auditions.

Student improv comedy group ‘WU's Line is it Anyway’ hosts auditions COLIN MCLAUGHLIN & GRACE HUTCHISON Staff Report

Waynesburg University’s improv comedy group ‘WU’s Line is it Anyway’ announced their new cast members in preparation for their upcoming shows after holding a series of auditions, beginning on Sept. 11.

Based on the popular 90’s television show ‘Who’s Line is it Anyway’, the performance features improv comedy, games and a director set onstage assigning random points to the cast members.

The group, organized by director Tre Thomas, is comprised of a main and supporting cast, with the main being comprised of 4 members who are selected participate more frequently in the show compared to the 5 members in the supporting cast.

“The main cast are the main characters of our show,” Thomas, junior history major, said. “They always get good laughs.”

Thomas, who “struggled” with the task of selecting those to move forward in

the auditioning process, scored participants by a tally system that marked every joke they told that he considered clever.

The 13 students who initially auditioned for the comedy show had diverse range in years, majors and experience performing in the show. Two of those who received the opportunity of joining the main cast were considered “rookies”, with this being their first year participating in WU’s Line though they are in their senior years at the university.

“They both really brought it during auditions,” Thomas said. “They’re very funny and I am confident that they will make great additions to the cast.”

The two-step audition process narrowed the 13 who originally auditioned to 10, and finally nine were chosen to be on cast.

“I thought that [the auditions] went great, a little too great if you ask me,” said Thomas. “People were a little too funny, which made the decision really hard for me, but in all honesty everyone who came out did an amazing job.”

Nick Burgess, Yellow Jacket

Tre Thomas, the director of WU's Line, enourages actors to put forth their best effort and creativity during performances.

According to Thomas, due to the quality and number of applicants, Thomas had to re-evaluate his desired setup of the cast.

“This is the hardest decision I’ve had to make since I’ve been director. I really wanted to put everyone on cast,” Thomas said.

For Thomas, this is his third year participating in WU’s Line, though, according to Thomas, he

hadn’t considered becoming director till the previous director approached him with the opportunity last year.

“My first year I auditioned for WU’s Line under the guides of being an assistant director, that’s what I wanted to do,” said Thomas. “I wrote prompts and that kind of thing.”

Some games that they play routinely during the

show, including “Scenes from a Hat”, require submissions from cast members, called prompts.

“The prompts will usually come from creative ideas in our heads and we will go off each other to see what seems funny and what doesn’t seem funny,” Thomas said.

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Various reasons draw students to apply for Homecoming Court in their senior year, ranging from success in the arts or athletics to academic achievement.

Seniors Joanna Peters and Josh Sneering each have their own story that hopes will help have themselves crowned queen or king on Oct. 6.

Both Peters and Sneering have thought about applying in their early years of college, but it their was friends that reached out and gave that final push to put the pen to paper and apply.

“It was actually a resolution I made with one of my fellow applicants who is one of my best friends,” said Peters. “We made the resolution last year to run for homecoming court and it is something we decided to do as really close friends.

Her and I had been through a lot and for our last year we thought we’d make it very special and apply together.”

“I actually was asked by one of my friends who helps with [the] Student Activities Board, she said they needed a couple extra males to go in [and apply],” said Sneering. “A lot of the guys I know have all talked about doing it up until senior year and then we kind of got cold feet, so it was a good kick in the pants to actually do it this year.”

Peters has found herself grow in many ways of life while at Waynesburg including faith which have led her to this point.

“Growing in my faith, I grew a lot in my four years that I have been here. I think that in itself has been enough to say that my time in Waynesburg has been wonderful.”

For Sneering, he had a specific moment in his freshman year that has helped shape and define his time as a Yellow Jacket.

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Student Services career provides Woessner an

opportunity to ‘thrive’ TIFFANY MORGAN Copy Desk Chief

“You know where my heart is and you know where my needs are.”

It was a Sunday after communion when Mary Woessner, secretary for Student Services,put her needs into God’s hands. Woessner had been looking for a new job – one that would allow her to be at home with her family on the weekends. It would only take two weeks before she found Waynesburg University.

She was on her way to pick up her son and his friends from a sleepover, when a friend mentioned a job opening at the university.

“It truly was divine intervention,” Woessner said. “I just happened to stop in and visit a friend of mine.”

Woessner has been working at Waynesburg for four and a half years.

She has a wide range of functions within her role on campus, including housing information, meal plans, contact infor-

mation, new student forms and more.

Woessner’s role encompasses working with several organizations on campus, and is a go-to person for students in need.

“We all have new chapters in our lives and it’s nice to have some place to go,” Woessner said.

Woessner is also in charge of reserving rooms in Stover for meetings and presentations. She works closely with Pat Bristor, associate dean of students, as well as Rev. James Tinnemeyer, vice president for Student Services.

Something Woessner holds in high importance is getting emergency contacts from students.

“Information changes and students forget to tell us,” Woessner said. “That’s why we reach out every year – just so we can keep our information up-to-date.”

Woessner said she had the opportunity to work in several different positions SERVICES >> D2

Nick Burgess, Yellow Jacket

SAB HOSTS OUTDOOR MOVIE NIGHT Students gathered on blankets, pillows, grass and sidewalks in front of the Goodwin Performing Arts Center Friday, Sept. 14. The Student Activities Board (SAB) presented the summer blockbuster 'Incredibles II' and distributed snacks to those in attendance. SAB members organized the event, which began at 8:30 p.m.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

New team members rethink upper room as a ministry KADEN HURLEY Op/Ed Editor

This last March, the Upper Room team had their annual graduation of seniors and a welcoming of new members.

Nathan Blake, senior Biology and Secondary Education double-major, accepted the role as team leader and brought with him a plethora of changes.

“It’s always just the same people always showing up to Upper Room,” Blake said. “But this is supposed to be a ministry. People are supposed to be sharing transformational stories and sharing actually examples of the gospel, so how is it that we’re always playing for the same people?”

Though he says he loved how Upper Room was being conducted, there were just a few things he knew he wanted to add.

“Mainly rethinking what upper room is as a ministry, what we’re here to do as a ministry. Taking a stark and honest look at how we’re doing that and being honest with ourselves in how well we’re doing that.”

Olivia Kelley, senior public relations major, has been a singer and team member of Upper Room since spring semester of freshman year “I’m just one small part of the whole ministry,” Kelley said. “I’m just up there willing to use the gift the Lord has given

Paul Hicks, Yellow Jacke

Upper Room, which takes place each Sunday at 8 p.m. in Robert's Chapel, where students lead each other in worship, with testimonials, music and prayers. me.”

Kelley witnessed the team become really “introspective” to find their true ministry on campus, as Blake indicted they should.

“Number one, make sure the gospel is shared in some way shape or

form, meaning we want everyone in attendance to know that Jesus is our hope and our salvation,” Kelley said. “That He’s available to everyone, whether they hear i t t h ro u g h s o m eo n e’s story or if it’s through a song. We also want to be

a community for people to feel comfortable with.

We don’t want it to be you come, then you leave. We want you to come and feel prayed for or meet people in the same place with their faith as you might be and grown with them.”

In order to reach these

goals, Blake started simply with the Bible itself.

“The first thing we did was incorporating more public reading of the Bible and way more prayer, especially during practice and right before Upper Room,” Blake said. “Also, worship is a comprehen-

sive lifestyle. When we worship through song, what’s the manner in which we’re doing that?

What’s our thought process behind what we sing?

Where are our hearts at?”

Usually each week will focus on the theme from the speaker’s testimony, and then the team coordinates songs around what they’re saying so everything flows together.

“It’s through those stories that the transformation available through the gospel is shared,” Blake said. “Hearing the gospel from someone who has actually experienced the gospel is much more useful in actually doing ministry.”

Another new implementation is collaborations with every other campus ministry club or organization.

Specif ically, Campus Ministry Assistance [CMA] had few tables with snacks and lists with summaries of all Bible studies available set up after this past Upper Room.

“We don’t want all the ministries to be segregated,” Kelley said. “If people find a ministry that suits them, that’s fine. That’s not our goal.”

Additionally, there is a group of students who meet to pray every night at 10 p.m., and on Sundays meet in the bottom floor of the chapel, so right after upper room ends, attendants may meet up for prayer.

Singer Steve Everett performs signature ‘Pop'n'Roll’ music RACHEL PELLEGRINO For the Yellow Jacket

Students gathered in the Beehive for Noon Tunes, with their lunch and live music Wednesday, Sept.

12. The show included free snacks, tea, smoothies and iced coffee provided by the Student Activities Board (SAB).

Steve Everett, a singer and songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee, and was the performer for Noon Tunes. This marked his fourth time performing at Waynesburg University’s Noon Tunes and his eighth time performing on campus. He played his guitar and sang many of his songs from his new album Honest Graft, which was released in February 2018.

“My music combines multiple genres; Pop’n’Roll because it’s very pop-rocky with a little bit of modernday Tom Petty,” said Everett.

One of many people that inspired him to become a singer and songwriter was

Improv Continued from D1 The duties of cast members include participating in their shows, which take place twice per semester, writing prompts for the improv games and putting “their best effort” into every performance.

“Even though we’re an improv show it requires a lot of work. A lot of rehearsals, testing jokes and trying new games to always

Services Continued from D1 that interact with people, but the amount of support she’s has at Waynesburg is greater than previous jobs.

“I’ve been blessed to work in a lot of different positions with a lot of different com-

Tom Petty as well as Dave Grohl from Nirvana,but his dad was his main influencer.

Everett said that music has always been a part of his life. His dad sang opera in New York and San Francisco, which interested him in pursuing music himself.

By having a close family member involved in the music industry, Everett had someone to look up to and over time he could grow up to be just like him.Throughout the years, Everett has worked hard to get to where he is.

He can play many instruments including: guitar, piano and drums. One of his favorite memories from being a musician was when he was twenty years old. He opened for Sister Hazel, a band he grew up listening to.

“There was about 2,500 people and everyone was cheering like crazy when the curtain opened.he amount of electricity in my body was crazy, I’ll never forget that moment,” Everett said.

Everett has hobbies out-

side of music..

“I’m basically an old white man because I love golf and cigars,” Everett said.

Early in his career, he started broadcasting himself sitting on his porch,

playing his guitar, and telling stories while smoking a cigar. These broadcasts were started in order to gain loyal followers and build his reputation in the music industry.

It’s been seven years since

be bringing a new element to our shows,” Thomas said.

"Laughter us really our passion."

The group, which originated in 2007, is overseen

by Eddie Powers, professor of theatre. According to Powers, the event has grown in notoriety around campus since its inception over a decade ago.

“There is always different energies with the different casts, and our audiences have gotten larger over the past couple of years,” Powers said. “I think the word has gotten out and we have

a lot of loyalty to WU’s Line now.”

Thomas, who has taken the initiative to increase audience attendance and participation in the show, extends his focus from just the cast and production itself.

“My goals for this year are to get the audience involved as much as possible in the show and to make sure that everyone involved in the show has a great time and really feels like they are a part of what the a WU’s Line experience really is,” Thomas said. “The audience

is the reason that WU’s Line is still here. They mean everything to our show.”

For their first performance of the semester, set for sometime around midterms, Thomas hopes for audience turnout and for the casts’ hard work during rehearsals to pay off on stage.

“We look forward to laughs a plenty these evenings for WU’s Line and again we just want all of the Waynesburg community to support all of the aspects of the theatre program,” said Powers.

panies,” Woessner said. “Now here I am at Waynesburg.

You can have the most challenging in your life, and if you have support from your coworkers, your staff, you can make it happen. It’s the best of both worlds here because not only do I have this amazing support of community but it’s just a great job.”

What helps Woessner flourish in her position is

the Christian roots of the university, while helping students experience the same type of atmosphere.

“I love the fact that it’s a Christian environment; that’s where I thrive,” she said. “I love everything about this Christian environment, we profess it. Hopefully the students experience it because it should be more than just verbal.”

Woessner’s main goal at the end of the day – from the emails she sends to students to the ID’s she replaces – is to help people.

“This is so cliché but I absolutely love helping people, that’s just the way God made me,” she said. “I have this incredible love for people and what drives me is helping them and brightening their day, and I get to do that here.”

Paul Hicks, Yellow Jacket

Steve Everett, a musician from Nashville, played his signature "Pop'n'Roll"-style covers and original songs. he started doing this and he still continues this tradition of Cigar and Song because he “loves it so much.”

Everett is hopeful that his new album will continue to cement his fame, and he fo-

Court Continued from D1 I did the Adopt a Highway around Labor Day or fall break,” said Sneering. “That is actually where I met my friend group that I’ve had since freshman year. We all hung out and just had fun doing community service and it really helped solidify that this was where I needed to be and that this was home for me.”

When looking at the idea of making Homecoming Court, Peters thinks it would be exciting and a positive encapsulation of her time at Waynesburg.

“It would mean a lot and bring joy to me,” said Peters. “It would also show a representation of what Waynesburg University really is [which] is a community of people that are willing to support each other and that is what I feel Homecoming Court really is especially for seniors and

cuses both on his place in the music industry and also his own self-betterment.

“I only compare myself to yesterday’s version of me instead of other people,” said Everett.

graduating classes.”

Sneering on the other hand isn’t sure what will happen but looks forward to the opportunity to try out one more thing in his senior year of college.

“I think it would be really cool, I don’t expect to win and I’m not big into self-gloating so for me it is just a fun thing to do,” said Sneering. “One last check on the box for an attempt at something [new] in college and see how it goes. It’d be really awesome to win, but at the same time, I’m not going to have any hurt feelings if I don’t.”

Homecoming weekend is Oct.5-7, with the queen and king being crowned at the football game. The Jackets will host Carnegie Mellon at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 5 as part of the Homecoming weekend.

“I’m excited to see how it plays out, I know a lot of my dear friends are running for court, so I’m excited to see who all gets on [court] and who is involved in the whole weekend,” said Peters.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS 1. Gulf States prince 5. Macy’s competitor 10. Eucharist celebration 14. See 62-Across 15. Boise’s state 16. Israeli airline 17. Tool for cutting stone and concrete 19. River of Cairo 20. Playing surface surrounded by boards 21. Access charge 23. Chinese menu promise 25. Garden digging, e.g.

26. Abandoned building, say 28. Jules who created the Nautilus 29. Form a union 30. Passé reception aid 34. Love personified 35. Richly upholstered seat 37. Nobel Peace Prize city 40. Toxic substance 41. Snapshot, briefly 44. “SNL” alum Cheri 46. Dancer Duncan 48. Prilosec target 52. Caught with a lasso 53. Old-fashioned printing machine 54. Champagne brand

55. Got on in years 56. Carry on the same way ... and what the ends of 17-, 25-, 35and 48-Across do 60. __ majesty: high treason 61. Diarist Nin 62. With 50-Down and 14-Across, fairy tale opening 63. Newspaper section with many reviews 64. Horizontal graph lines 65. Enthusiastic

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2. 1002, to Caesar 3. Gun carrier’s warning 4. Careless 5. Garden hose obstruction 6. Unmatched 7. Welcomes to the treehouse 8. __ apso: little dog 9. Scattered, as seed 10. Department store section 11. Wing-shaped 12. Port near Naples 13. More streamlined 18. Like an accurate soccer shot 22. Gun, as an engine 23. Just out

24. Santana’s “__ Como Va” 25. __-Croatian: Slavic language 27. Do another stint 31. Here, in Haiti 32. Twain/Harte play 33. Vientiane’s country 35. Becomes rusted 36. Lined up

37. “C’est magnifique!”

38. “The Pawnbroker” actor Rod 39. Least fatty, as corned beef 41. Many a Top 40 song 42. Cork’s country: Abbr.

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By CLARE RAINONE (Continued)

CONTACT HOLLY HENDERSHOT AT HEN5161@STUDENT.WAYNESBURG.EDU TO GET YOUR ARTWORK PUBLISHED

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

5 Tips to Prevent Sickness

Designed by Ela ina Spahmer

By Mattie Winowitch

As the school year kicks into full force and temperatures begin to drop, the chances of getting sick increase. There are several causes behind this, such as spending more time in close quarters, getting less sleep and the wide variety of stress college brings. Here are five tips to avoid sneezes and sniffles this fall.

1. Don’t just sanitize -- WASH your hands.

This one might seem self-explanatory, but it is super important to wash your hands A LOT, especially during cold and flu season. A good rule of thumb is to always wash your hands after using the restroom, before eating or preparing food, after touching something dirty or after coming in contact with someone who is sick. While hand sanitizer is convenient, it is NOT effective against viruses like the stomach flu. Wash with warm water for at least 20 seconds, which is about the same amount of time as singing your ABC’s twice.

2. Wipe down all of your most-touched surfaces.

When you think of the dirtiest things you come in contact with every day, you probably assume it’s the toilet. Think again. According to TIME Magazine, your cell phone is 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat. That said, it is important to keep your phone, as well as all of your most-touched surfaces clean. At least once a week, use a disinfectant wipe or spray to wipe down your desk, bathroom counters, door knobs and light switches. For digital devices such as your phone or laptop, you can use alcohol wipes or spray a mixture of water and rubbing alcohol onto a microfiber cloth.

3. Up your vitamin C intake.

During cold and flu season, you might need to give your immune system an extra boost. This can be accomplished by consuming more vitamin C. You can do this in a variety of ways. Vitamin C is found in many raw fruits and vegetables, especially citrus fruits. You can also add a Vitamin C supplement to your diet in pill form or through drink mixes found in most drug stores. Be sure to consult your doctor before making any major dietary changes.

4. Catch some ZZZ’s.

While college classes and extracurriculars sometimes call for all-nighters, that can take a toll on our bodies. Sleep is very important to make sure the body functions properly. Without enough sleep, you are more susceptible to illness and exhaustion.

A great way to make sure you’re sleeping enough is to manage your time effectively throughout the day. Then, you don’t procrastinate until midnight to study. If you know you’re going to have a busy night ahead, you can work naps into your schedule during the day. Sleep lovers, rejoice.

5. Hit the gym.

In a majority of college students’ schedules, going to the gym is usually bumped to the bottom of the priorities list. However, in order to stay healthy throughout the season, it is important to move your body. Just like scheduling in sleep time, add 30 minutes of exercise to your daily planner. It will hold you accountable and will eventually become a part of your daily routine. Another easy way to exercise more is to choose physical activities that you genuinely enjoy. Instead of forcing yourself to run or lift weights, start by taking adventure walks, joining a sports team or doing yoga or pilates. The more you enjoy it, the more likely you are to keep it going and the less likely you are to get sick!