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HearIng slated for frIdaySen . Tim Solobay will meet with various parties to dis-cuss local power station closures .

By KatHerIne MansfIeldManaging Editor

The hum of jackhammers that began outside Stewart Hall at the end of last semes-ter played a welcoming tune for returners and newcomers alike when students moved onto campus in August.

Just last week, the scaf-folding that has decorated the building’s exterior for months was taken down, and the building’s elegant new ex-terior is nearly finished.

“It was falling apart,” said Leena Mustafa, sophomore education major, of the sci-ence building. “The bricks make it look new, brand new. The windows are really cool – they’re big, glass win-dows. It’s good for the school campus.”

Renovations to Waynes-burg University’s science building began May 10, but have been in the works for years as part of University President Doug Lee’s plans to beautify Waynesburg’s campus.

“We’ve been working on remodeling it little by little over the last several years,” said Lee, “and now we’ve taken the large approach to

really investing the money and to making it a top-qual-ity building.”

Renovations to the exte-

rior of Stewart Hall, which houses the science, math and nursing programs, will be attractive to prospective

students, said Dr. Wayne Rossiter, assistant professor

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History and music will combine to take the stage Nov. 9 in the Goodwin Per-forming Arts Center for a commemoration of Waynes-burg's involvement in the Civil War.

“With the 150th anni-versary of the Battle of Get-tysburg, [the university] thought it would be a good idea to honor those who con-tributed to the war effort that went to Waynesburg College and lived in Greene County,” said Courtney Dennis, assis-tant director of alumni rela-tions.

When the second Saturday in November rolls around, the Wildcat Regiment Band will perform in the GPAC.

The band is a Civil War brass band, which incorpo-rate information about the time period. The Wildcat Regiment Band will also be joined on stage by local Greene County Civil War re-

enactors.“I think it’s important to

know who we are, we need to know who we have been,” said Doug Lee, university president. “With the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in July, we thought it would be nice to recognize that part of our history at this time.”

The most well-known veteran of the Civil War era from Greene County is James Jackson Purman, whose name graces the run that borders campus.

During the second day of battle in Gettysburg, Pur-man, along with a Confeder-ate soldier, risked their own lives to save a wounded sol-dier that had injuries to both of his legs.

After the gun smoke of battle cleared, Purman was presented with the Congres-sional Medal of Honor for risking his life to save oth-ers, an honor only 62 other soldiers received in the mas-sive battle.

“Our alumni give us these examples on what it means to live a life of purpose,” Lee said.

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Living mission a goal for university's 15th president

University sustains enrollment with large class

By nIcK farrellExecutive Editor

At its annual Matriculation Con-vocation in August, Waynesburg University welcomed one of the largest incoming classes in school history just one year after enroll-ment numbers declined. In total, the university registered 461 new students for the fall semester.

University President Doug Lee said he and his wife Katherine were excited to welcome such a large in-coming class during his first year as

leader of the institution.“It was a really meaningful time

to be able to greet all those new students and their families into our university community,” said

Lee. “Katherine and I both really enjoyed the opportunity to talk to them and meet with them all.”

According to records from the Office of Admissions, the number

of students enrolled during convo-cation week was the second-larg-est tally in school history, but that number has already declined.

“Our numbers fluctuate daily with the first week of classes prior to add-drop being a significant fluc-tuation week,” said Director of Ad-missions Jessica Sumpter. “During convocation we were at 461, which would have been the second-largest incoming class, but during the first week of classes we lost 10 students making the final number 451.”

Based on the adjusted records kept by Admissions, this incoming class is only tied for third-largest since the school became Waynes-burg University in 2007; however, Sumpter says that faculty and staff refer to this incoming class as the second-largest because of the reg-

istration numbers recorded before classes began.

Like many colleges around the country, the number of students enrolled at Waynesburg dipped last fall. Waynesburg registered only 401 students in 2012, down 32 students from 2011.

According to the U.S. Census Bu-reau, many schools experienced the same lack of enrollment as Waynes-burg in 2012. About 467,000 fewer students joined colleges in 2012 than in 2011, ending a five-year period of increased enrollment in high education.

Sumpter said the economy played a role in the decline.

“Students want to make sure that if they’re going to a school they’re

University to recall alumni heroism in Gettysburg battle

Event planned to mark efforts during Civil War

By nIcK farrellExecutive Editor

Doug Lee, president of Waynesburg University, thinks that the institution he now leads is headed in the right direction.

He knows this because of the enthusiasm he senses

from the students, faculty and staff that have returned to campus for the fall semes-ter, and believes that this enthusiasm is the key to a bright future.

“I think we will continue on the same track we’ve been on since at least 1990, the vi-sion that was set by Chancel-lor [Timothy] Thyreen and Mrs. [Carolyn] Thyreen,” said Lee, who succeeded Thyreen as the 15th president of the university. “That is found in the mission statement of the

institution that we have on our website. All those goals and aspirations that we have, I think we want to continue to move in that direction.”

Lee, who is beginning his first year as president and will be inaugurated in the spring, hopes that his term will lead Waynesburg to growth in some areas that the institu-tion already thrives in. The president noted that the Ser-vice Learning program will likely expand and become more visible in every aspect

of campus life. In addition, he hopes to emphasize the importance of global expe-riences.

“Chances are, many stu-dents that graduate here may be working more interna-tionally than my generation. Chances are they may find themselves in other countries dealing with other cultures as their career paths unfold throughout their lives,” said Lee. “I think if we are really wanting to prepare the next generation of leaders, that’s

an issue that we have to look at and have to make sure our students have that type of experience and back-ground.”

These are only a few of the areas Lee hopes to strength-en, because he said that an institution that isn’t growing and improving is one that is surely faltering.

“I don’t think you can ever be compla-cent with anything you

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constItutIon day nearsAn event promising enjoyable activities and events that will help educate and remind students of their Constitution and their rights .

sHepas reacHes MIlestonesHead football coach reaches 50 wins faster then any coach in program history .

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workers continue construction outside Stewart Hall. though the exterior of the building is nearly complete, the entire renovation will continue through 2017.

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Shortly before press time, a search committee unanimously recommended Dr. Jacquelyn Core be named Provost.

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By Carson Fox Sports Editorial Assistant

Interim Director of Christian Life Reverend Donald Wilson believes one person who holds to a strong moral foundation can preserve tradition, the rule of law and the value of an individual person.

In accordance with the Constitution Day perfor-mance in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center, a patriotic Chapel service will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Roberts Chapel.

The service will empha-size those qualities in ev-eryday Christian life in a sermon titled “The Wonder of the American Constitu-tion and the Difference One

Person Can Make.”Assistant Professor of

Ethics and Constitutional Law and Director of the Stover Center for Consti-tutional Studies and Moral Leadership, Dr. Lawrence Stratton, will focus on the influence of one person making an impact in soci-ety during the service.

Stratton believes the ser-vice will provide a context of looking at the impact of the courageous people who brought together the Unit-ed States’ system of gov-ernment. He emphasizes understanding our nation’s law can influence our ev-eryday Christian living.

“We need to note that the political sphere some-what shapes the moral state of our society, going as far back as Aristotle,” said Stratton. “A better understanding of the Con-stitution helps us see the arguments that led to the

Constitution’s provisions, which unfortunately led to blood shed. These historic achievements should be honored.”

Dr. Stratton gave a ser-mon last year titled “That Word Above All Powers” from Martin Luther which focused on the Word of God as an expression and as a witness to Jesus Christ.

This year he plans to historically highlight those persons who have had suc-cess making a difference in the political atmosphere who were faced with ad-versity.

“We can draw inspira-tion from wherever we are,” said Stratton. “If we are faithful to do the right thing, certainly as Chris-tians we aspire to be follow-ers of Jesus Christ and who knows what mountains we can move.”

Two Stover Scholars, ju-nior Gina Robinson senior

and Daniel Czajkowski have been chosen to read scriptures at the service and will be reading from Psalm 33:12 and Acts 8:31.

Wilson believes in tak-ing an introspective look at how we are blessed with our governmental system on Constitution Day.

“We need to realize that God has blessed this nation with the rule of law that preserves and protects he rights of every individual,” said Wilson.

Students are encouraged to join Wilson, Stratton and the Stover Scholars at the service dedicated to Con-stitutional reflection and a celebration of the rights it grants to citizens.

Continuing with the Constitution Day theme, the Stover Scholars will per-form a play they composed in the GPAC at noon.

Students are invited to attend both events.

do,” said Lee. “I think that in-vites mediocrity eventually. I think you always have to continue to work to become a little better every day.”

Along with the help of a committee, Lee is also work-ing on continuing the stra-tegic plan that will improve the current standing of the university.

“For many years we’ve had strategic plans,” said Lee. “This is a continuation of where we’re left off and for moving forward.”

While Lee believes that improving Waynesburg’s strengths is important to bet-

tering the school, he’s willing to leave one of its most well-known strengths alone. The small class sizes that Waynes-burg offers to students are as just as recognizable as the university’s mission state-ment, something that Lee will not tamper with.

“We’re about as large as I think we really want to be-come as an institution here,” said Lee. “If we get too large, we’ll begin to lose the flavor of who we really are here, and that’s something as I said in the beginning that’s impor-tant to maintain and keep.”

Lee was pleased with the 461 students that joined the Waynesburg community at the Matriculation Convo-

cation in August and said that incoming classes in that vicinity will allow the uni-versity to maintain its ability to offer small class sizes and close relationships between faculty and staff.

As Waynesburg continues to grow and achieve its mis-sion statement, Lee said that another part of its identity, affordability, will stay con-sistent.

“We are one of the lower-costing private universities in the state of Pennsylvania,” said Lee. “I think we need to continue to maintain that, so we have to be good stew-ards of the resources we’re given.”

Lee looks forward to lead-

ing the university on a jour-ney of improvement and ful-fillment alongside his wife, Katherine, and the entire community of Waynesburg faculty, staff, students and alumni.

“To me, it’s a real honor and I’m humbled to serve in this office,” said Lee. “Be-ginning with my days here coming to wrestling camp, as a student here, then on the Alumni Council and Board of Trustees, this university has been a part of me for nearly all of my life. To be someone that had been asked to serve in this role is very inspiring, energizing and humbling. Katherine and I look forward to it.”

Lee: New president will keep school on Christian path

Service will offer Constitutional reflectionConstitution Day Chapel preceeds play

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Director of ITS seeks to make improvements

By Katherine MansFieldManaging Editor

Imagine a college campus on which wireless Internet is accessible in dorm rooms; where e-work replaces pa-perwork and students use the school web site, not Amazon, to make computer and soft-ware purchases.

This is the re-a l i t y Wi l l i am Dumire, the new Executive Direc-tor of Informa-tion Technolo-gies, envisions for Waynesburg University.

“There’s a lot of potential here at Waynesburg Uni-versity,” said Dumire, who was hired late this summer to revamp the university’s information systems, poli-cies and procedures. “We’re taking a really close look at all the operations on campus. What can we do to improve our current systems? Are there systems that we sim-ply just need to replace? It’s a very exciting time.”

In his first month at Waynesburg, Dumire has already begun to implement new procedures and policies. The first thing he did upon his arrival to campus was draft both a vision and a mis-sion statement for ITS.

“I don’t think that they’d ever had a vision statement,” said Dumire. “And it’s very hard, I think, to know what your mission is unless you have an overall broad vision for where we want to be.”

Increased emails kept students up-to-date with department changes over the summer. Those emails are just one of Dumire’s at-tempts at making ITS more accessible to users.

“IT can be very daunt-ing,” said Dumire. “It’s sort of hidden and people are not sure, when they have issues, who they should go to for help or even where to start looking.”

One of Dumire’s biggest goals is to increase depart-ment transparency.

“The students, faculty and staff need to be aware of what we’re doing, what the goals and the mission of the de-partment are and how we can move forward together as a university on a lot of these initiatives,” said Dumire. “So you will definitely see increased communication from IT – specifically, my office.”

Communicat ion wi l l be more readily available; Dumire said he and his team

are striving to make IT sup-port available after hours.

He also said that main-tenance to the university’s systems will take place dur-ing off-hours, like at night or on weekends, so as not to disrupt normal operations. Dumire said that, unless it is an emergency, students, fac-ulty and staff will be notified

well in advance of planned mainte-nance exercises.

“There’s another question on the table about print-ers, and students being able to access printers or not ac-cess printers when

they need to,” said Dumire. “Part of that

[solution] is looking beyond the question to say, should we have in place an educa-tional system where printers aren’t even needed?”

While Dumire believes that a paperless, electronic-based education system could very well become real-ity at Waynesburg University someday, his big project right now is providing wireless In-ternet to all areas of campus – dorm rooms included.

“Students can’t have wire-less access points in the dorms. I’m not sure who put the policy in,” said Dumire. “That’s not very reasonable when students are bring-ing iPad devices to campus now that don’t have ethernet ports in them. At the end of the day, if the Comcast pro-vider is okay with you having a wireless device, why should we be telling you that that’s not okay?”

Dumire has posted guide-lines for what Internet rout-ers are appropriate to have in dorms; these guidelines are for the safety and security of all students, he said.

“In the interim of having [a WIFI infrastructure] put in place, we wanted to make sure that you all had options,” said Dumire.

Among other projects in the works at ITS: a one-stop shop for computer software and accessories.

“I’m in discussions now with Dell and some other folks to offer students, as well as faculty, some better dis-counts relative to equipment and software,” said Dumire. “We’re looking at potentially setting up a sort of Micro-soft store where people could go in and buy the software at reduced pricing. We’re in discussions with some other vendors relative to those same kinds of things, so that will be updated on [the web site].”

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Provost Dr. Jacquelyn Core spoke at Chapel Sept. 10. She delivered a message about selfless love, saying one must leave their quarrels behind in order to truly know the meaning of The Golden Rule, which is to love your neighbor as yourself.

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Stover Scholars discuss Syria with Rep. MurphyWAYNESBURG, PA –

Congressman Tim Murphy spoke to the Waynesburg University Stover Scholars at a luncheon regarding the pressing conflict in Syria Wednesday, Sept. 4.

Addressing the steps of ac-tion that will now occur af-ter President Barack Obama asked Congress to approve or deny possible use of force in Syria, the congressman explained that he is watch-ing the various bills going through congressional com-mittees to see if he could sup-port any of the measures.

Dr. Lawrence Stratton, Di-rector of the Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leadership and Assistant Professor of Ethics and Constitutional Law, was pleased with how Murphy

“By engaging the Stover Scholars in his deliberations over the current Syria con-troversy, Rep. Murphy dem-onstrated the thoroughgoing analytical process we should expect from all public offi-cials and to which all citizens should aspire,” said

Rep. Murphy stressed that he is not taking this vote lightly, as he understands that his, or any other con-gressperson’s vote, could be the 218th vote that puts a measure over the top.

With processing such a complicated and crucial deci-sion, Rep. Murphy explained his five influences in making this particular vote in Con-gress, assessing the overall issue in terms of the military, political, geo-political, moral and personal spectrums.

Senior criminal justice major and Frederick, Md., native Daniel Czajkowski observed, “Congressman Murphy’s visit marks an influential moment in our further discovery of the intersection between eth-ics and public policy. Our

discussion with him dem-onstrated the complexity of making well-informed and morally grounded decisions in today’s political arena.”

“We should not base our decisions on our feelings about the President,” he not-ed. “Rather, we should take a balanced approach to de-cision making while taking our own experiences both personally and as a nation into account.”

When asked about the evidence of Syria’s role in the chemical weapons attack,

Rep. Murphy drew upon the advice of former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell, saying, “It’s impossible to make a decision with 100 percent proof; having 80 to 90 percent proof is rare and excellent.”

Freshman communication major Ryan Schwertfeger from Oakland, N.J., said, “I was thankful that we were able to speak with Congress-man Murphy about such a pivotal issue in America to-day amidst his hectic sched-ule. We learned a lot about

his careful decision making and how he casts a vote in Congress.”

Paige Carter, a freshman pre-law major from Coraop-olis, Pa., noted, “Congress-man Murphy is the antithesis of the clichéd politician. He showed through his words an indelible character that assured me that with every political decision he makes, he is solely voting because he believes it to be the best pos-sible option for the general welfare. Rep. Murphy put major political controversies

into a clear perspective and challenged us all to consider beyond what appears to be right.”

John Wicker, a fresh-man business management major from Ambridge, Pa., concluded, “Representative Murphy is a man with keen insight who looks beyond his own personal worldview for the welfare of our nation’s liberty and security. He as-sesses the consequences and makes sure that he is fully aware of the events that may follow, whether he decides

to vote for or against the unmanned strikes in Syria. While he is still undecided, I trust that Rep. Murphy will make a well-informed deci-sion based on the astute dis-cernment that he has already displayed.”

As Rep. Murphy con-cluded in his address to the Stover Scholars, he encour-aged the students that when making a decision to not act upon on an issue, that they should also consider, “If not us, who? If not now, when?”

Photo Courtesy University Relations

Rep. Tim Murphy speaks to the Stover Scholars when he visited campus last week. The group of students had the opportunity to discuss the conflict in Syria with the congressman, who is serving his sixth term representing the 18th District of Pennsylvania.

By Dillon TierneyFor the Yellow Jacket

The Student Activities Board has altered the New York City trip since last year, revamping it for Oct. 11-13.

Two informational meet-ings were conducted, with 40 students showing interest.

Upon reaching a verdict, some things were changed due to the trip being before finals week.

Originally, those leav-ing would depart Friday at 10 a.m. forcing students to miss out on class. The new schedule allows the students to leave at 10 p.m. Friday in-stead.

The cost of the trip for stu-dents, $200, which Pat Bris-tor, dean of Student Services, said is a generous amount for a hotel, a show, dinner and travel expenses that are being paid for by SAB.

“For what we are charging for students, there is no way anybody could travel to New York, spend the night in a ho-tel, have a theatre ticket and dinner at a place like Bubba Gumps for $200,” said Bris-tor. “I chose it because of the cultural mecca and the over-all experience,” Bristor said. “Many people have never been, and probably won’t have the opportunity to go to New York City.”

Once the students arrive, they will eat dinner at Bubba Gumps restaurant, inspired by the critically acclaimed film, Forest Gump. Then they will go see the show Phantom of the Opera on Broad Way.

“To see a show in Pitts-burgh is wonderful, but to see the same show in New York is just – there’s a differ-ence,” said Bristor. “Saturday is a treat, as all students will get an opportunity to roam free in groups around the city, however, no one can go by themselves."

Groups will be based on interest level, in order for students to venture to places they have never gone be-

fore.Groups have multiple

places they can go, includ-ing landmarks such as the Empire State building, which held a record for the tallest building in the world for over 40 years.

Students may also invest time in seeing other well-known sites such as Central Park, and Rockefeller Center on Saturday.

Before Sunday, students will gather Saturday evening from their travels, to see the World Trade Center site, also known as Ground Zero.

After everyone has seen the memorial, students will leave Sunday morning and arrive at Waynesburg around noon.

One student, Kyle Digian-domenico attended the New York City trip during the Occupy Wall Street move-ment, which manifested due to complaints of govern-ment corruption, inequal-ity and greed that begun in the 1970s with the feminist movements.

A junior, Digiandomen-ico even participated in the Occupy Wall Street Move-ment.

“I chose to go on this trip because I wanted to see all of the things I see in movies and on TV for myself,” said Digiandomenico. “It was

worth it.” Bailey Thorn, Resident

Director of Denny Hall, mentioned her love for New York City when visiting for a whole summer at a Presbyte-rian church.

As a southern girl from Tennessee, Bai ley was shocked with the generosity and openness everyone had for religion and beliefs dur-ing here experiece.

“Experiencing a differ-ent culture and seeing how people dress, act and behave, in that culture,” said Thorn. “While it is still America, it’s still different in its own way that people here may have not experienced.”

Thorn has a special place in her heart for the New York City people.

Baily says her family had warned her to stray from the New York Citizens, who are said to be impolite and rude. Bailey had the opportunity to prove this stereotype in-correct.

Being from a small ru-ral area, Bailey enjoyed the myriad of people in New York City and the surprises that came with it.

“I think my eyes were opened to a lot more beliefs and diversity there because growing up in the Bible Belt, things looked black and white,” said Thorn.

SAB plans student trip to New York

Following the war, Pur-man returned back to Waynesburg to finish his fi-nal year of schooling, which was suspended in 1862 due to his efforts to help recruit a company of volunteers.

“I have been in contact with the Gettysburg Muse-um to see if we can display Purman’s Medal of Honor on campus,” Dennis said. “So far, we have been approved to receive the medal on loan, but we are unsure when that will take place.”

Not only did Dennis play

a large role in bringing the performance and artifacts to campus, she also has a large part in researching the his-tory of it, holding a degree in history from Bethany College and a Master’s degree in pub-lic history from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Even though the sound of muskets and shrieks were heard on the battlefield in the eastern part of the state a century and a half ago, the legacy and lessons that Purman and the rest of the Waynesburg alumni created still live on.

Nick Farrell contibuted to this story.

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By Sean SapuToFor The Yellow Jacket

When the sun went down over the pasture last Friday night, many headed in-side. However, quite a few Waynesburg students and faculty members embarked on a journey under the stars while hearing the gallops of horses on the ground.

Over the past few years, horseback riding trips have become a staple for Waynes-burg University students.

This year however, the trip changed a bit of its scenery.

This year, students had the experience of riding under the stars instead of riding during the daytime. This was the first year of the new Moonlight Horseback Ride at Rolling Hills Ranch in Bridgeville. Waynesburg University gave students the option to attend the trip, sponsored by the Students Activities Board.

In previous years, the trip took place during the day

and included horseback rid-ing and a meal. This year, the moonlight trip was com-pletely different.

During the trip, students rode through the tiki torch aligned woods at the ranch. Afterwards, they took a hay ride that eventually were led to a fire pit to continue their experience.

The students had a bar-beque dinner by the camp-fire, said Associate Dean of Students Pat Bristor.

This is only the second

time that the trip took place at the Rolling Hills Ranch.

“Originally it took place at Save A Horse in Rod-gersville,” said Bristor. “But it closed so we found this place [Rolling Hills Ranch]. The student feedback is posi-tive,” said Bristor.

Bristor also mentioned that the trip always sells out. As long as the students enjoy the trip and the demand is there, SAB will continue to provide students with this trip and others like it at least

once annually.This past weekend, 35

Waynesburg students signed up to attend the moonlight ride, one of the first events offered by SAB this fall.

“I feel the trip was a suc-cess,” said student Mark Dami. “My favorite part was getting to ride at night. It was a whole different ex-perience because you don’t know where you are going and where you are.”

The cost per person for the moonlight ride was $50. The

cost for Waynesburg Univer-sity students was $25.

SAB paid half of the cost of the event for the students that attended in hopes of making it more affordable.

“I feel the price was very reasonable, considering ev-erything we received on the trip, it was a good price,” said Dami.

Reser vations for the moonlight rides at Rolling Hills Ranch began in May and currently every week is sold out.

Revised horseback riding event popular among student body

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Matriculation: Waynesburg welcomes largest incoming class since 2010

Stewart Hall: Renovations continue as classes begin

By James Witte Op/Ed Editor

Over the summer, Waynes-burg University’s Depart-ment of Nursing added four new faculty members to its teaching staff.

“We are very excited to have four talented nurse educators, with 28 years of experience between them,” said Dr. Nancy Mosser, Chair of the Department of Nurs-ing. “Our students will reap the benefits of their collective wisdom.”

Amanda Machesky re-ceived her B.S.N. degree from Waynesburg University and her M.S.N. degree from Walden University in Min-neapolis, Minn.

Machesky felt that since she was an alumni of Waynes-burg, it was her “home.”

“After having experience in nursing and nursing edu-cation in various areas, I felt prepared and called to re-turn to Waynesburg so that I would be able to give back to the Waynesburg community through my experiences,” said Machesky.

Machesky’s previous posi-tions include staff nurse the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. and teaching at West Virginia University.

“It wasn’t until my first year as a Registered Nurse that I decided I wanted to teach nursing,” said Machesky.

She teaches Nursing Care for the Childrearing Family and Advanced Scholarship for Evidence-Based Prac-tice.

Danielle McGinnis, who teaches Fundamentals of Nursing and Pharmacology, received her B.S.N. degree from Waynesburg University and her M.S.N. degree from West Virginia University.

McGinnis joined the field of nursing because She want-ed to be able to touch peoples

lives holistically. “I was drawn to Waynes-

burg University because of the mission of the school as well as the excellent reputa-tion of the nursing school,” said McGinnis.

McGinnis said she had al-ways wanted to teach and has taught previously at Fairmont State University, Pennsylva-nia State University Hershey Medical Center, and West Virginia University.

Christina Miser received her B.S.N. and M.S.N. de-grees from West Virginia Wesleyan College.

“I have always wanted to be a nurse,” said Miser. “I grew up around several fam-ily friends who were nurses. I always found the combi-nation of science and care-giving very interesting.”

Before coming to Waynes-burg, Miser worked at Ruby Memorial’s Pediatric In-tensive Care Unit and Mon General’s Emergency De-partment.

She now teaches Orienta-tion to Professional Nurs-ing and Nursing Care of the Adult Patient with Chronic Illness.

Melanie Rush, who teach-es Fundamentals of Nursing and Pharmacology, received her B.S.N. degree from Duquense University and her M.S.N. degree from Waynes-burg University.

Rush believes that fate brought her to Waynesburg University.

“I attended Waynesburg University for my M.S.N. and thoroughly enjoyed my expe-rience here as a student,” said Rush. “I feel very blessed to have the opportunity to work for such an amazing organi-zation.”

She has worked as a Reg-istered Nurse in several units and most recently was an in-structor at the Washington Hospital School of Nursing.

Department of Nursing adds four new instructors

By matt KollFor the Yellow Jacket

As the new school com-menced, the Student Activi-ties Board embarked on its annual trip to Kennywood Park on Sept 8.

This marked the 18th year the university has taken this trip since Associate Dean and Director of SAB Pat Bris-tor arrived in 1995.

Despite Kennywood be-ing a much-anticipated event throughout the year, SAB de-cided to try something dif-ferent to peak the interest in the trip amongst students by

scheduling it on the weekend after Labor Day.

“Usuallly we do it on La-bor Day weekend, to provide something for the kids that are still here, but this year we tried something differ-ent,” Bristor said. “By having it on the Sunday after Labor Day and we exceeded our expectations,”

The change certainly helped as the trip sign-up was cut off at 50 students, its highest number possible.

The SAB provided trans-portation for the students, as well as a discounted price of $10 per ticket, compared to the $39.95 the tickets are sold for normally.

Providing transportation and recreational events for resident students is some-thing Bristor recognized as an important function of the

SAB.“Although the activities

are not planned specifically for resident students, those students that are here on campus are particularly those who do not have a vehicle or live a farther distance away from home,” said Bristor.

SAB strives to provide en-joyable events for the resident students of Waynesburg, giv-ing a taste of the local atmo-sphere to all students.

“I think it is really impor-tant to make sure that we are providing a positive co-cur-ricular environment for our students,” said Bristor.

The Kennywood trip sig-nified many different op-portunities for its students, including time to just have fun.

“I was excited to hang out with friends. I don’t have a

lot of time during the week, so it’s just time to relax,” said sophomore Amanda Still-ings.

For others, the one-day trip was a chance to share the park with friends who had not yet had the Kennywood experience.

“It’s pretty neat to go with a few different people who haven’t been there before and aren’t from the Pittsburgh area so you can show them around,” said freshman Matt McDermott.

This year’s visit to the park was yet another success.

“I definitely would go back next year. You can’t beat the price and I didn’t have to waste gas driving,” said Stillngs I can relax while someone else drives and en-joy the park without spend-ing much money.”

Students start year with a thrillSAB continues annual trip toKennywood

going to want to be able to afford it and that there’s go-ing to be a job available for them after they graduate,” said Sumpter. “Economy and job markets have caused the national trend, and I think that was a result of that small dip within last year’s enroll-ment as well.”

Sumpter added that the economy has improved slightly over the last year, possibly causing more stu-dents to consider an afford-able liberal arts school like Waynesburg that offers small class sizes to its students. Lee believes these small class sizes create a better learning environment for students at the university.

“We wanted to impress on them the importance of what we say as an institution,

that we are an institution that does have a commitment to relationships,” said Lee. “We have a small student-to-fac-ulty ratio which we’ve always been proud of and a commit-ment by everyone to really be as helpful, supportive and nurturing to the students as we can.”

According to Sumpter, there were several other reasons for Waynesburg’s increased enrollment sta-tistics this year. One of the most important factors was how the university more actively recruited students. Admissions counselors kept in contact with prospective students by using social me-dia, email and a new online portal that allowed freshmen to complete the registration process easily.

“There were priority dates set for that, where students could get their class schedule

and their roommate assign-ment early on if they com-pleted it by a certain date,” said Sumpter. “It kind of en-couraged students to enroll and stay enrolled based on ‘I have my class schedule, I have my roommate and I’m feeling confident to go to Waynesburg as well.’”

Waynesburg’s Christian mission statement was a de-

termining factor for many new students.

To Lee, this large incom-ing class of students is an af-firmation that an education rooted in Christianity has real relevance in the world today.

“It signals to me that the continuation of the mission, the vision that we are on, is important,” said Lee.

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Photos by University Relations and Nick Farrell

Above: Renovations on the 49-year-old Stewart Hall began after Commencement last spring and continued through the summer. Construction began as one of the final projects of Chancellor Timothy Thyreen's presidency.Below: The exterior of the academic building now matches the brick and limestone architecture of many other buildings on campus. Projects inside the building, however, are still ongoing, hampering some professors and students who have classes in the building.

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University President Doug Lee and his wife, Katherine, greet a student after Matriculation.

of biology.But it’s the interior renova-

tions that will really sell the school and help Waynes-burg University’s programs to continue their history of innovation and excellence.

“Updated labs – that’s the big thing,” said Rossiter. “We will have better waste management for hazardous waste chemicals. They will have better capacity for ge-netics labs, so we might be able to do things like PCR and sequencing.”

The updated labs and new classroom capabilities will allow Waynesburg’s sci-ence, math and nursing pro-grams to stay up-to-date in the ever-changing world of technology.

“The point is to enhance, to allow the building to be concerned with the types of programs that we’re of-fering there,” said Lee. “The building is being redone to accommodate their growing and changing needs.”

The renovations benefit not only those who spend the majority of their time in Stewart, but they are also useful to students who are required to take courses in the building.

The walls along the stair-wells were painted with the floor number to ease confu-sion caused by the building’s misleading entry point and hard-to-see floor labels.

“Not many people know that you walk in on the third floor,” said Mustafa. “I know I didn’t. Someone had to tell me.”

Mustafa said that the large floor number have helped her navigate the building easier this semester.

When renovations began last spring, they disrupted some of the classes being

held in Stewart.“It’s kind of a pain when

they’re doing [renovations],” said Michael Stroud, sopho-more forensic science major. “It’s a distraction.”

But, he said, renovations will be beneficial in the long run.

Professors agree that there is never a good time for reno-vations.

“Some of the rooms are hung up right now until we get ventilation,” said Rossiter. “During the summer, every-one was out of the building, locked out.”

That posed an inconve-nience to faculty members conducting research or pre-paring for the fall.

“I think everything is working pretty well so far this semester,” said Rossiter.

If construction continues at its steady pace, the Stewart Hall renovations will be com-pleted sometime in 2017.Nick Farrell contributed to this

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After years in limbo, buyer purchases land near Wal-Mart for development

Senator Solobay visits WU to speak about power plants

By matt giardinaStaff Writer

A half-a-decade dispute has finally been put to bed since the land behind Wal-mart was finally sold.

Executive Director of Greene County Department of Economic Development, Robbie Matesic, reassured the fact that the land behind Wal-Mart was recently pur-chased.

“The land that is sur-rounding the Walmart site is known as ‘Waynesburg Crossings,'” said Matesic.

“It is my understanding that it is owned by the presi-dent of Producers Supply, Gary Bowers. However, I believe the owner, per the deed, is Kari Resources.”

Matesic credits the land being sold to Bowers’ exper-tise and ability to seize prime locations.

“It is a great location with good infrastructure in a county that has excel-lent growth potential," said Matesic.

"Those are essential ingre-dients.”

Over the years, Bowers

has been involved in several business endeavors extend-ing out of Pennsylvania.

“Gary Bowers has more than only local business connections, for his business serves customers in many states,” said Matesic.

“Mr Bowers is exposed to and knowledgeable of a wide-range of business prac-tices, and it’s evident that he incorporates best practices in his business ventures.”

Matesic sees Bowers’ in-terest and involvement to be beneficial for the com-munity.

“I think it’s a great ben-efit that a local and very successful Greene County businessman has moved forward to take ownership," said Matesic.

"First of all, a lot of local effort has been invested in bringing that property to the development stage. It took years, and thousands of hours by literally a hundred people, to bring the invest-ment together to create the site.”

The land remained on the

April Bellizio, Yellow Jacket

After half a decade on the market, the land near Wal-Mart in Greene County was finally sold. According to county officials, the land is prime real estate: its good infrastructure lends itself to commercial building.

By nick FarrellExecutive Editor

Coal has played a large role in the prosperity of Greene County for many years.

In a month’s time, two lo-cal coal-fired power plants may go dark, not because of a lack of resources, but be-cause an outside party has intervened.

Rep. Pam Snyder said the loss of these two power stations, Hatfield's Ferry in Greene County and Mitchell in Wash-ington County, will affect a region that has relied on coal for so long.

"This has a huge impact on our dis-trict since coal has had a huge eco-nomic impact, not just in Greene County, but in all of Southwestern Pennsyl-vania," said Snyder.

State Sen. Tim Solobay will visit the campus of Waynesburg University Fri-day for a hearing to exam-ine the effects of the planned shutdowns of Hatfield’s Ferry Power Station and Mitchell Power Station.

Solobay said one purpose of this hearing is to ensure that all negative consequenc-es of these proposed shut downs are avoided.

In July, FirstEnergy Corp. announced it would close the two stations.

FirstEnergy estimates that upgrading these two power plants to meet new federal regulations will cost $275 million, a price the company is not willing to pay.

“The company is trying to say that EPA standards are one of the [reasons for the proposed closures], and I understand that in part, but

they are a compliant facility until 2016,” said Solobay.

“If that’s the case, why now are they deciding to shut down a year or 18 months ahead of the time that they would need to shut down?”

If FirstEnergy does close the two plants, 380 jobs will be compromised, something Solobay believes must be dis-cussed at the hearing.

“It’s more than just 300 jobs at Hatfield’s,” said So-lobay.

“It’s a larger, domino effect that could have effects on as high as 3,000 families. It could be a 10-fold is-sue that we’re not sure of, and while it may not be the primary concern of our commit-

tee, it’s a primary concern of mine.”

Representatives from sev-eral organizations, including the Pennsylvania Public Util-ity Commission, PJM Inter-connection and FirstEnergy, will accompany Solobay, Snyder and the Senate Con-sumer Affiars Committee.

Though this is a senate hearing, Snyder will be pres-ent since the Hatfield's Ferry plants is in her district.

The PUC is in charge of the telecommunications industry in Pennsylvania, while PJM oversees the reli-ability of energy services in 18 states, including Pennsyl-vania.

PJM will be a key contrib-utor to the dialogue since the organization will eventually determine what sort of im-pact these closures will have on the power grid.

“There’s a lot of ques-

A petal for a memory: Greene County plants flowers, walks for a cure

By chelsea dicksArts & Life Editor

Alzeihmers: many people know someone who has suf-fered through this prolonged and painful disease.

Which is why the na-tional Alzheimer’s associa-tion began the Walk to End Alzheimer’s.

The Walk is held in re-membrance of those whose lives have been taken by the disease, those who are still suffering through the disease and for the family members and loved ones who have suf-fered as well.

The borough of Carmi-chaels hosted a walk last weekend to help raise money for the association.

The Carmichaels’ walk has gone on for three years and has now become an annual event.

Creator and head of the Carmichaels division, Jen-nifer Faddis, could not con-strain her joy at the response she received for the walk this year.

“I wanted to start this for my mom. She has had [Al-zheimer’s] for 12 years now,” said Faddis.

“It was just me and my best friend who started this three years ago and we were the only ones on the com-mittee. This year, we have over 15.”

Each year, the event con-tinues to grow, with over 350 people involved in this year’s walk.

The donation goal also continues to climb.

The goal for the walk was

$16,000, which was well ex-ceeded.

One team participating in the race raised $14,500 on their own.

Melissa Cuppet, captain of the high-raising team, said that she had no idea how much money her team would raise.

She was proud of her ini-tiative but admits the fund-raising was a team effort.

“I took it upon myself to get my family together; we have really done all of this together," said Cuppet.

"I cannot take credit for everything because they did

a lot themselves."Within three months,

Cuppet and her team of 40 people raised the largest amount of money by having yard sales, guest bartending, holding 31 other sales and donatations.

Like many others who are involved in the walk, Cup-pet was doing it for personal reasons.

“My grandmother has Al-zheimer’s, so we are all doing this for her,” said Cuppet.

The walk began by the Promise Garden, an area of ground set aside for artificial flowers.

All participants received one flower to place in the garden.

Many people wrote the names of loved ones on the petals of the flowers.

Before they began to walk, everyone placed their mem-ory flowers in the promise garden, signifying that they will never be forgotten and promising that they will do their part to stop the terrible disease.

“I can’t do anything about the disease for the people suffering,” said Faddis. “But I can raise money and aware-ness so we find a cure.”

Chelsea Dicks, Yellow Jacket

Participants were given a flower before the walk began, to write a loved one's name on. Flowers were planted in a plot of land designated Promise Garden.

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Area known as “Waynesburg Crossings” is now a potential retail site

Borough discusses construction under train trestle, budget

By lucas diethornAssignments Editor

At Waynesburg Borough's monthly council meeting Monday, council members discussed more than just the budget.

Members expressed en-thusiasm for a construction project that will soon get un-der way.

The meeting began with the approval of bills and the mayor’s report for the month of August.

The total revenue made from violations this year was $3,194.97, including $853.71 from parking viola-tions alone.

The yearly total revenue at this point is $73,441.74, which is down from last year’s total at this time, which was $79,120.24.

The next topic discussed was the construction under the train trestle bridge by where the old McDonald's was located.

Construction of the new underpass, which is expected to be two lanes each way to help with traffic flow through town, was scheduled to start on Monday.

Franklin Township will be handling most of the ef-forts with the project, but Waynesburg Borough will have to handle the problem of moving the sewer lines in that area.

The project is expected to be finished by late July in

2016. Larry Marshall, a member

on the council, was very ex-cited about the project.

“I’ve lived here my whole life and never imagined any-thing like this happening,” Marshall said.

“I think it is going to be amazing.”

As a result of the work, there may be a period of time that Meadowlark Park becomes inaccessible.

The period of inaccessibil-ity will not begin until after the seasons for the sports that use the park are over.

Another topic discussed was a new cellphone tower for the company Mt. State Community Wireless.

Most were in favor of the project.

The only concern with the project was to make sure that it does not interfere with po-lice communication over the wireless radios.

In the Mayor’s Report to end the meeting, Mayor Berryman requested that the council hire two new park-ing meter agents starting No-vember 1 of this year.

The position will be adver-tised in the local newspapers and will be open to any who wish to apply.

The position is expected to pay no more that nine dollars an hour.

The next meeting is sched-uled for Monday, Oct. 14 at 6 p.m.

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Timely opinionWayesburg unfairly depicted in the Times

Waynesburg recently found itself in the spotlight when the town was featured on the front page of the New York Times in an article about the possibility of in-tervention in Syria.

Citizens of Waynesburg were asked their opinions on President Obama’s push for military strikes.

While it was nice to have our small town featured on the front page of one of the largest publications in the country, was this the best de-piction of Greene County?

It may not have been. What makes Waynesburg

and Greene County – a tiny county nestled in the corner of southwestern Pennsylva-nia – the collective voice of

skepticism for our nation? The county is held by the

Democrats in state and local politics, but when it comes to presidential elections, the county has consistently voted Republican.

While Barack Obama did make the 2012 Presidential Election closer in Greene County than most predict-ed, it was President-hopeful Mitt Romney who received the county's vote.

Coupled by the fact that Greene County is one of the poorest counties in the state, it’s not exactly Every-town, U.S.A.

According to a recent Gal-lup Poll from late May, 49 percent of Americans were not following the civil war in Syria.

If just over one half of the country does not actively fol-low the conflict in Syria, how can interviewing a bartender and a bar patron exemplify the dissent in support of a strike against Syria?

Bumpy beginningsSpeed bumps may do more harm than good

A new academic year brings with it change: build-ing facelifts, new floors in the Fieldhouse and addi-tional on-campus housing.But there is one new addition that may become an issue.

When students returned in August, they were greeted with changes to the parking area outside of Thayer Hall. A set of speed bumps was in-stalled over the summer to slow drivers taking the bend up to the underclassmen dorm a little too quickly.

The big question is why the speed bumps were sud-denly installed. Last year, an incident resulting in a stu-dent crashing their vehicle into the building after losing control of their pickup truck occured. This may be the reason why the speed bumps were put in: to prevent future accidents.

There could be another reason for the speed bump placement. Even if the ac-cident wasn’t a wake-up call for the university, the park-ing lot of Thayer is nearly the only university-owned place on campus wide enough for vehicles to go over the speed

limit. In theory, this is the only place the university could put speed bumps, the other streets are publicly owned.

But with the good, there is a bad. The speed bumps alleviate the speeding prob-lem, but present a new dan-ger. Drivers are now driving around the speed bumps in order to avoid them, which means drivers are now driv-ing on the sidewalks next to Thayer rather than the road. This could become a real is-sue, especially if pedestrians are on the sidewalks at night, in an area, which is poorly lit.

So how is this new issue fixed? Did the speed bumps fix anything in the first place? Perhaps the univer-sity should consider adding poles or some other obstacle next to the sidewalk in or-der to discourage this type of reckless driving. Drivers in a hurry may speed, but the speed bump will make this heavily traveled part of campus safer – but only if additional steps are taken to ensure this solution doesn’t make it worse.

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Don't be the next Internet 'Afroduck'

When The Lamp was pub-lished this year, I was happy to learn that a couple photos of me and some friends made the cut. That’s pretty cool, considering the most recent edition of The Lamp is a com-memorative edition that tells the story of how Waynesburg University changed under President Thyreen’s 22 years of leadership.

Assistant Professor of Communication Lanny Frat-tare gave his copy to me. If he hadn’t, I probably never would have known that somebody liked me enough to use a photo of him and me in the book, which de-votes a few pages to each of the academic departments at the university.

That’s not the only Waynes-

burg publication that I’m fea-tured in, however.

No, I don’t mean the Yel-low Jacket. Nice try, though.

I’m referring to a hand-out that admissions gives to perspective students. I never knew it even existed until someone showed me the other day.

There is a photo on the page behind a quote that I ac-tually said, along with a tweet that I posted a few months ago, which says, “Going through my sports announc-ing archive right now. I called 10 games this year… on TV. Thanks, Waynesburg.”

Notice I didn’t tag the of-ficial Waynesburg twitter handle, @WaynesburgU, in the tweet. Somebody went searching for it and found it.

Nobody bribed me to write that tweet; I did it on my own. What’s strange to me, though, is that some-thing that I tweeted was

published, distributed and potentially seen by many dif-ferent people – and I never even knew about it.

The university isn’t at fault for reprinting my tweet, ei-ther. I wrote it and posted it to a public website. Since my profile isn’t private, anybody could read that tweet at any time.

I’m happy to have com-posed a tweet that somebody at Waynesburg University thought was so fantastically constructed that the world just had to see it, but I’m also a bit concerned that another person – or maybe several people – have seen some of the negative things that I’ve posted in the past, even if they don’t pertain to school.

I know I don’t have any-thing to hide, but the fact that this happened proves the negative power social media has: anything you post could come back to haunt you.

There’s another, more

reckless example of this that’s getting plenty of na-tional attention right now. A guy in New York known as “Afroduck” decided to drive his 2006 BMW Z4 around Manhattan at what he called a record pace while record-ing his joyride with a video camera attached to his dash-board.

According to the New York Times, police found the video, tracked down “Afro-duck,” who is really Chris-topher Tang, 30, and even found the BMW he drove and impounded it.

Oh, and if you’re wonder-ing what “record pace” is, it’s driving about 26 miles in 24 minutes, something that Tang said he does consistent-ly in another video, an inter-view that was also posted to the Internet.

What Tang did was ille-gal, considering he had to

Art innovation 'faces' ethical questions

It’s not so strange a vi-sion until you hear the back story.

At first glance, the faces hanging on the walls at art-ist Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s exhibits resemble extraordi-narily life-like sculptures.

But these faces are more than art.

They’re the product at the latest intersection of art and science.

Dewey-Hagborg’s Stranger Visions is an art project that begins as a piece of trash and ends as a portrait-sculpture

of the person whose DNA was on that trash.

Dewey-Hagborg picks up fingernails, fresh chewing gum or discarded cigarettes on her daily walks through New York and takes them back to a lab, where she ex-tracts DNA from the items.

Once the DNA has been extracted and examined, she creates an image of the man or woman who left their DNA lying around on public property.

Because the DNA samples are anonymous – Dewey-Hagborg has no way of knowing who littered their gum or cigarette, or whose fingernail fell off on the sub-way – the end sculptures may or may not accurately depict

their human being’s face.But the fact that an artist

can pick chewing gum off the ground, extract DNA from that gum and create a 3-D sculpture of its chewer at-tests to how far technology has come and raises ethical questions about public verses private property.

Some may consider Dew-ey-Hagborg’s art an invasion of privacy.

I don’t have the author-ity to make a statement for or against what she’s doing, but as a citizen of the United States, I do have the right to state my opinion.

My opinion is this: as a journalism major, I know that, before publishing a person’s image in the paper,

I must get that person’s per-mission. Yet Dewey-Hagborg collects DNA and recreates a person’s likeness without permission – and then dis-plays that image in art gal-leries across the country, for all to see.

As far as I’m concerned, this is invasion of privacy in action.

Every human being owns his or her DNA. It makes them; it is theirs and theirs alone. Just because DNA is found on a piece of public property does not make the DNA itself public.

And unless Dewey-Hag-borg is asking strangers to use their DNA (she is not),

By the time Congress de-cides whether to authorize President Barack Obama to take a limited military ac-tion against the government of Syria in retaliation for the Assad government’s use of chemical weapons, foreign relations and constitutional law textbook authors will have added pages about the Separation of Powers dynam-ics between Congress and the Presidency.

Most legal scholars agree that under current law, Presi-dent Obama already has the authority to engage in an at-tack.

According to a Washing-ton Post article, “There is little argument that Obama can act alone under both the Constitution and the 1973 War Resolution.”

The headline in the Lon-don Daily Mail last Friday suggests that the former

constitutional law professor knows this fact: “Obama REFUSES to rule out strik-ing Syria without approval of Congress as it’s revealed he faces a huge loss in House vote.”

Although the United States has used military force abroad in over 234 instances of conflict, the U.S. Congress has declared war in only five conflicts. America engaged in military conflict without full congressional war autho-rizations many times.

The proposed resolution which the Senate Foreign Relations Committee nar-rowly approved would per-mit up to 90 days of military action against the Syrian government. The resolution bans the deployment of U.S. combat troops into Syria, but would allow an emergency rescue mission. The resolu-tion would also require the President to send Congress a proposal to end violence in Syria diplomatically within 30 days.

The 60 day-30 day rules in the proposed Syria resolution

are undoubtedly taken from the War Powers Resolution of 1973, which was enacted following the Vietnam War over the veto of President Richard Nixon.

President Nixon argued that the resolution, which sought to regulate unilateral exertions of military force, “would severely undermine the Nation’s ability to act decisively and convincingly in times of international cri-sis.”

Nixon and his lawyers posited that as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, the President retained some residual war power under the Constitution, short of having to go to Congress to obtain a

full declaration of war. The resolution requires

that the president consult with Congress before in-troducing the U.S. military into hostilities, and in the absence of a Declaration of War report on any military intervention within 48 hours to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and presi-dent pro tempore of the Sen-ate.

The President must also estimate the “scope and du-ration of the hostilities or in-volvement.” Within 60 days the Resolution states, “the President shall terminate any use of the United States

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Armed Forces.” The period may be extended for 30 days if the President proves to Congress that the jeopar-dized safety of U.S. forces required their involvement to come home safely.

Since the War Powers Resolution’s enactment, presidents have militarily intervened abroad 16 times. Only the 1991 Gulf War, the 2001 actions in Afghanistan, and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq received prior authorization from Congress.

Missions in Lebanon and Somalia received retroactive approval from Congress.

Eleven were never ap-proved by Congress.

Relying upon the presi-dent’s power as Command-

er-in-Chief and other presi-dential powers, Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clin-ton and Obama have told Congress that their various actions were “consistent with” the War Powers Reso-lution.

President Ford said that he “took note of ” the Resolu-tion in the 1975 rescue of the Mayaguez merchant ship

Whether it was the 1980 Iranian hostage rescue mis-sion, , or the Obama admin-istration’s military operations in Libya, Presidents justified their military actions by ap-pealing to powerful, moral and strategic imperatives.

What will the textbooks say about the proposed future military action against Syria as an expression of the moral imperative of responding to the Assad government’s use

of chemical weapons? Which precedents will

prevail? Stay tuned.

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On August 21, reports sur-faced that the Syrian Army had targeted its own people with chemical weapons in an ongoing civil war in the country.

After various sources, ranging from social media to interviews with doctors at nearby hospitals, it was confirmed that the chemi-cal weapon, sarin, was used to kill hundreds and injure many more.

The Assad government has repeatedly denied responsi-bility for these attacks.

Emile Hokayem, a military analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, explained why Syrian Presi-dent Bashar al-Assad would use chemical weapons on his own people in the New York Times on Aug. 27:

“What makes military and strategic sense to As-sad may not make military and strategic sense to us," wrote Hokayem. "Assad is fighting his own fight on his terms and on the timing of his choosing. He may have made a mistake this time — perhaps he didn’t mean to kill that many, or assumed the international community had become less sensitive — but it doesn’t mean that it didn’t make sense from his perspective.”

The U.N. and world lead-ers debated on a course of action on how to hold Syria responsible for the attacks, notably from the American

and British governments. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke at a news con-ference on Aug. 26 regarding potential U.S. involvement in Syria:

“What we saw in Syria last week should shock the con-science of the world," said Kerry.

"It defies any code of mo-rality. Let me be clear: the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of wom-

en and children and inno-cent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity. By any standard, it is inex-cusable. And despite the ex-cuses and equivocations that

some have manufactured, it is undeniable.”

Though Cameron con-templated British military action, Parliament blocked his request.

He addressed the rejected motion just a few days after Kerry’s cry for American-led intervention:

“I strongly believe in the need for a tough response to the use of chemical weap-ons," said Cameron.

"While the House has not passed a motion, it is clear to me that the British Parlia-ment, reflecting the views of the British people, does not want to see British military action. I get that, and the government will act accord-ingly."

Iran, a staunch ally of Syria in the region, believes that if Syria’s civil war becomes an international conflict, the outcome will result in a war in Israel, said Mansur Haq-iqatpur, through the semi-official Fars news agency:

“In case of a U.S. mili-tary strike against Syria, the flames of outrage of the region’s revolutionaries will point toward the Zionist re-gime," said Haqiqatpur.

When Kerry made an off-hand remark about Assad turning over all chemical weapons, Russian foreign minister Sergey V. Lavrov took the idea and ran with it.

He proposed to Syrian of-ficals that they turn over all chemical weapons.

Officials from Syria, Brit-ain, France and the U.N. all embraced the idea.

The Associated Press re-ported Sept. 10 that these

talks might be headed in the right direction.

“We don’t know whether Syria will agree with this, but if the establishment of inter-national control over chemi-cal weapons in the country will prevent attacks, then we will immediately begin work with Damascus," said Lavrov.

"And we will call on the Syrian leadership to not only agree to putting the chemi-cal weapons storage sites under international control, but also to their subsequent destruction.”

After a mixed response from Congress and the American people, President Barack Obama attempted to clear any skepticism about his intentions by addressing the nation directly on Sept. 10 on national television.

He addressed the nation from his Oval Office.

“My answer is simple," said Obama.

"I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria. I will not pursue an open-ended action like Iraq or Af-ghanistan. I will not pursue a prolonged air campaign like Libya or Kosovo. This would be a targeted strike to achieve a clear objective: deterring the use of chemical weapons and degrading Assad’s capa-bilities.”

Information compiled by

JAMES WITTE Op/Ed Editor

In the news: Ten headlines you need to know this week

1. Congress Delays Vote on Syria

On Sept. 9, Secretary of State John Kerry suggested what Obama said may be-come the most effective plan yet regarding the current Syrian conflict.

The U.S. and Russia have created a proposal to re-frain from a military strike on Syria if Syrian President Bashar Assad agrees to relin-quish control of the country’s chemical weapons. The pro-posal has caused Congress to delay its vote on the autho-rization of a military strike.

2. apple Unviels New iPhones

Apple unveiled both the iPhone 5C and 5S on Sept. 10. The 5C’s main attrac-tion is its plastic cover that will be available in several

colors, along with its more affordable cost. The higher-end 5S, available in silver, gold and gray, will be alu-minum and will also fea-ture a fingerprint scanner instead of a password lock.

3. The BUCs Break the Curse

The Pittsburgh Pirates ended America’s longest historical losing streak – 20 consecutive losing sea-sons. The game against the Texas Rangers on Monday, Sept. 9 clinched the Pi-rates’ 82nd win of the year.

4. hawaii legalize Same-sex Marriage

Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie has called for a vote on legalizing same-sex unions. Abercrombie was pushed to this decision

after the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act last summer. If the bill passes, Hawaii will become the 13th state to legalize gay marriage.

5. visiTor CenTer Added to Flight 93 Memorial Complex

Ground was broken on Tuesday, Sept. 10, for a new visitor center complex (in conjunction with the Flight 93 Memorial) in Somerset County. Secretary of the In-terior Sally Jewell, along with the Families of Flight 93 and National Memorial Park of-ficials, joined together in the ceremonial ground-breaking to begin work on a complex that will tell the story of Flight 93 and include a learn-ing center, parking and other features. The center will like-

ly open in September 2015.

6. wU welComes New Faculty

At the start of the 2013-2014 school year, Waynes-burg University welcomed 11 new full-time faculty members. The newcomers span many departments, including English, Business, Nursing, Athletic Training, Communication and Justice.

7. naDal wins Another Grand SlamRafael Nadal, ranked No.

2 in the world for men’s tennis, defeated the world’s No. 1 player, Novak Djok-ovic, on Monday, Sept. 9, to win the U.S. Open singles title. The win added a 13th Grand Slam to Nadal’s ca-reer, giving him the third most in men’s tennis history.

8. California wilDfire Grows Over Weekend The latest national disas-

ter, a wildfire in San Fran-cisco, grew exponentially this week due to triple-digit temperatures on Sunday.

About 100 homes had been evacuated as of Tuesday, Sept. 10, and evacuation centers are being established as more and more firefighters join the battle against the blaze.

9. foUr ConviCTeD in Indian Rape CaseLast year’s shocking case

of the rape and murder of a young New Dehli woman is finally drawing to a close. Four men were convicted of the crime this week, a breakthrough for those who have been protesting the treatment of Indian women.

10. Congressman leCTUres Stover Scholars at WUCongressman Tim Mur-

phy visited Waynesburg University on Wednesday, Sept. 4, to speak to the Stover Scholars about the impend-ing conflict in Syria.

Although further develop-ments in the situation have occurred since this event, Murphy showed the scholars how to intelligently consider political issues and take into account all consequences before making a decision, advice that the attending stu-dents feel will be important for citizens and government officials alike.

Information compiled by KIMMI BASTON

For the Yellow Jacket

Images courtesy MCT Campus

(Above) President Barack Obama makes his way to the Oval Office, where he delivered a speech about Syria.

(Below) Crowds protest outside of the White House Tuesday night while the President addressed the nation.

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Cheat sheet: Everything you need to know about Syria

have broken the speed limit in several areas, yet he still flaunted his achievement by posting the video to the In-ternet.

What a bonehead, right? I mean, he’s just asking for trouble by posting his dan-gerous stunt on YouTube so the world could cheer him on, right?

The wrong people saw it, and he got caught. Now pun-ishments will surely ensue.

The same sort of thing can happen to you at Waynes-

burg.If staff members here saw

one positive tweet that I posted, then they most likely see all the negative ones that students post everyday.

Negative posts aren’t just ones that insult your school. They make your question-able or daring decisions pub-lic knowledge.

Learn from what happened to Tang and to me. Don’t post pictures or videos of yourself doing things that you know are illegal.

One way or another, a little birdie will tell someone im-portant about it, and you’ll

probably make life miserable for yourself and others close to you. There might even be consequences in the future when dealing with a poten-tial graduate school or a fu-ture employer.

Even if it’s something seemingly harmless or hu-morous, think twice before touching “Tweet” on your smartphone.

Social media is a great thing for college students. It gives us access to all sorts of information. Have fun with it, but use it with care.

Don’t become the first “Af-roduck” of WU.

her art project is unethical.Unethical, but innova-

tive; it paradoxically paves the way for ethical scientific advancement.

The technology Dewey-Hagborg created for artistic purposes could be used in more scientific ways; for ex-ample, the technology could

be utilized at crime scenes to accurately depict an alleged criminal’s face.

The technology could also aid in missing person’s cases.

Like any technology, Dew-ey-Hagborg’s art has the po-tential to cause great harm by intruding into unknowing citizen’s lives for the wrong reasons.

In the wrong hands, it

could potentially lead to Big Brother-esque and genetic survelliance operations.

And, like any technology, Dewey-Hagborg’s art project, in the right hands, could be something miraculous.

But for now, her work re-mains a sort of artistic-scien-tific endeavor that opens the doors to all sorts of debates and possibilities.

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Syria: What legacy will be left?

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market due to financial hard-ship and PNC Bank’s foreclo-sure on the property.

“The previous owners needed to resolve a number of financial and legal mat-ters,” said Matesic.

With past history aside, Matesic still sees potential in what he calls Waynesburg Crossings.

“That land has been pre-viously identified as a great retail site, and many develop-ers have investigated oppor-tunities to develop the site for retail use. I believe that the site is great for retail, and more,” said Matesic. “I think a ‘mixed-use’ oppor-tunity would be successful that could include more than retail – perhaps office space and some residential, too.

But, that’s my idea, without the benefit of a marketing analysis.”

However, plans for the future development of the newly purchased land are not known.

“Greene Countians can have the confidence that whatever Mr. Bowers chooses to do with his property, will be done well and will be last-ing," said Matesic.

"Ultimately, that’s the most important thing. And, for us here at the county, given all the effort that we have invested in that site for the benefit of the entire county," said Matesic, "to know that property is now in trustwor-thy hands is the best thing we could have ever hoped. It’s an answer to my prayer, for sure."

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April Bellizio, Yellow Jacket

Land near Greene County's Wal-Mart was sold recently to Gary Bowers. A county official said the land might be used for both retail and residential ventures.

Wal-Mart: Plans for land in works

Greene County celebrates veterans at seventh annual Heroes Walk/Run

By Jenny SchouppeOnline Content Coordinator

Many Americans have sac-rificed their time and their lives fighting for our nation’s freedom, and Greene County continues to show its appre-ciation for these brave men and women.

The 7th annual Heroes Run/Walk will be hosted by the Greene County Depart-ment of Recreation Saturday, Sept. 21, at 8:30 a.m., along the Greene River Trail.

Participants pre-registered in August, but those looking to run for a cause can pay a $20 registration fee on the day of the race.

Race-day registration and packet pick-up will begin at 7 a.m. at the Greene Cove Yacht Club in Millsboro.

At the conclusion of the race, the top three overall male and female runners and three overall male and female walkers will receive awards.

Additional awards will be given to the top three male and female runners and

walkers in various age cat-egories.

The 5K run/walk and 15K run are held in honor of Army Specialist Gregory Cox from Carmichaels and Marine Lance Corporal Ste-ven Phillips from Spraggs.

Both men were killed in separate Humvee accidents in Iraq.

Cox, 21, was killed in late

2004, and Phillips, 27, was killed in Feb. 2006.

“The race was created when the county was ap-proached with the idea of holding a race in honor of these two men and others who have risked or lost their lives in combat,” said Eliza-beth Menhart, communica-tions/Tourism Director of Greene County Tourist Pro-

motion Agency.Race proceeds will benefit

memorial funds that were established by the Cox and Phillips families in the men’s names.

The Specialist Gregory A. Cox Memorial Scholarship Fund assists Greene County high school graduates enter-ing the Army Reserve Offi-cers’ Training Corps.

It also benefits students pursuing a degree in the fields of public safety or pub-lic service.

The Lance Corporal Steven Phillips Memorial Fund provides support for the computer-aided draft-ing program at the Greene County Career and Technol-ogy Center.

Both funds are being

handled by the Commu-nity Foundation of Greene County.

Race proceeds also cover transportation costs for Greene County veterans receiving treatment at the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System clinic in Pittsburgh.

Last year’s Heroes Run/Walk raised about $15,000; 300 individuals participat-ed.

“Thanks to a partnership with Central Greene School District, many employees and family members reg-istered for the race as run-ners, walkers or ‘sleep-ins,’ in which those individuals paid a registration fee but did not attend the race,” said Menhart.

Menhart said the race’s past successes are due in large part to the sponsors, without whom the event could not be held.

All involved with the he-ros walk/run are looking for-ward another fun, successful year.

“The race was created...in honor of these two men and others who have risked or lost their lives in combat.”

elizaBeth MenhartDirector of Greene County Tourist Promotion Agency

Photo courtesy Elizabeth Menhart

The Greene County commissioners and various sponsers officially broke ground for a new T-hanger that will be built at the county airport last month. The groundbreaking signified the beginning of the first phase of construction for a business development project at the Greene County Airport.

tions; I don’t know if we’ll get answers for them, I don’t know what they’ll say,” said Solobay.

“I hope that we get some direct answers from them [FirstEnergy] from the ques-tions we ask.”

Solobay’s efforts to pre-serve the two power stations will not end with the hearing on campus.

Friday afternoon, he and Snyder will meet with An-thony Alexander, the ECO

of FirstEnergy, to continue the discussion.

Snyder will also hold a Democrat Policy Committee hearing in the fire hall in Jef-ferson Township to discuss energy policies in general.

"In my district, energy is critical, and it plays a large factor in statewide issues," said Snyder.

"I want legislators to get here and see how energy af-fects other areas of the Com-monwealth."

Friday’s hearing will take place on the third floor of Stover beginning at 10 a.m.

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Katherine Mansfield, Yellow Jacket

(Above) At last year’s 50s Fest, a woman stopped to admire an old car kept in pristine shape by its owner.

(Right) A young girl took part in the hula-hoop contest hosted by WANB Radio’s personality Doug “The Greaser” WIlson at last year’s Fest.

This year’s 50s Fest will begin at 10 a.m. Sept. 14 along high street. The Fest will feature games, cars, motorcycles and a live radio broadcast.

Cruise into the weekend at the 12th annual 50s Car and Cruise Fest

Airport groundbreaking takes flight

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by carson FoxSports Editorial Assistant

Waynesburg University head coach Rick Shepas’ belief in junior wide re-ceiver Bernie Thompson’s abilities at Presidents’ Athletic Conference Me-dia Day in August showed Saturday when Thompson caught the game-winning touchdown with seconds left in the contest.

“At PAC Media Day I had men-tioned Thompson as a guy who could step up into [the playmaking] role,” said Shepas. “We were looking for guys who could step up and we saw that Saturday in his role in the kick-ing game and he scored the game-winning touchdown. That’s not a surprise.”

The defending co-PAC Champion Waynesburg University football team avoided a season-opening loss to Muskingum Saturday in a thrilling non-conference match-up. The Jack-ets (1-0, 0-0) defeated the Muskies (0-1) 21-17 on a fourth quarter, 65-yard game-winning drive with just 22 seconds left on the game clock.

Waynesburg quarterback Carter Hill drove the offense by completing

four passes, including the game-winner to Thompson from 23 yards out. With under a minute to play in the game and no timeouts for Waynesburg, Hill hit Thompson on a curl route. Thompson then juked Muskies cornerback Darell Jones and dove into the end-zone between two Muskingum tacklers, giving Waynes-burg the lead.

Thompson’s first catch of the game couldn’t have come at a better time and reiterated Hill’s point that the win was truly a team effort.

“I think [the game-winning drive] just says a lot about our team and how we like to emphasize our two-minute drill,” said Hill. “We think we can move it and it came in handy today.”

Before the Thompson touchdown, Hill completed two-straight passes to

sophomore wide receiver Jake Danks to put Waynesburg in Muskingum territory, but then misfired on two straight passes. On third down with time winding down, Hill connected with junior wide receiver Andrew English for a gain of 25 yards.

English led Waynesburg in receiv-ing with six receptions for 104 yards and a touchdown. His touchdown reception from nine yards out in the second quarter, in which he stole the ball out of Jones’s hands in the end zone, really impressed his quarter-back.

“[English] is a great receiver for us,” said Hill. “He’s definitely our go-to guy. He can extend the play and we made the adjustment at halftime to connect on shorter passes to sustain drives and get momentum back in our hands.”

Prior to Hill’s game-winning drive, Muskingum sophomore quarterback CJ Snider scored a 66-yard touch-down run, giving the Muskies a 17-14 lead with four minutes to go. Snider finished the day completing 14 passes for 157 yards and a touchdown to go along with 141 rushing yards and a touchdown.

Amidst the loss, Muskingum head coach Al Logan believes Snider, who was making just his fourth start at quarterback for the Muskies, has a bright future leading the program.

“He’s just a youngin’ when it comes to game experience,” said Logan. “He made some mistakes early but as the game went on, he made some plays. He provides a spark and teams are going to have to put one man on him all game long to try and stop him.”

Waynesburg’s leading tackler from a year ago, Brian Gary, made his an-ticipated return after an ACL injury, which cost him the final three games of the 2012 season. Gary led the team in tackles in the game with 12, two were for a loss and he also recorded a pass break-up. Gary explained his knee felt back to normal and relished the victory on one hand because he was back on the field with his team-mates.

“It was a very emotional game for me after not being out there for so long,” Gary said. “I teared up a couple times. It was all too familiar of being in a shoot-out in the first

Michael Kabay, Waynesburg University

Junior receiver Andrew English makes a leaping nine-yard touchdown grab over Muskingum senior cornerback Darell Jones during Saturday's 21-17 season-opening victory. The junior receiver finished with a career-high 104 yards on six catches for Waynesburg.

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With 22 seconds left in the game, Hill finds Thompson for game-winning score

Shepas becomes fastest to 50 wins

by c.J. FilippiFor the Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg Uni-versity football team won its season opener against Muskingum 21-17 this past Saturday. Not only did the Yellow Jackets win their sea-son opener, but head coach Rick Shepas won his 50th game as Waynesburg’s head coach.

“It’s always nice to start out with a win,” said Shepas. “Things don’t necessarily go the way you plan. ”

In addition to reaching t h e 5 0 -win mark i n h i s career at Waynes-b u r g , S h e p a s b e c a m e the fast-est coach in program history to reach 50 wins. In his ninth sea-son at Waynesburg, Shepas ranks third in career wins behind Frank Wolf (68) and Hayden Buckley (52).

“It’s all about the play-ers,” said Shepas. “We’ve recruited well the last four years. We’ve recruited qual-ity players, who are quality student athletes.”

Shepas credits his suc-cess to the consistency of his coaching staff. Defensive coordinator Scott Venick, and assistant head coach Jason Falvo have been with Shepas throughout his ten-ure at Waynesburg.

“It was great being a part of his 50th win,” said Falvo. “He’s a great man and a great leader. He has noth-ing but the best intentions for these kids.”

Part of Shepas’ success as a head football coach is his ability to motivate his players.

“He’s a great motivator,” said Falvo. “He gets to know the players on a personal level. He knows all the hot buttons of each player, and knows how to push them to make each player play hard for him.”

Not only does Shepas motivate his players, but he also motivates his coaches.

“He shows constant leadership,” said Falvo. “He pushes us to continue to strive for excellence. He always makes us think, evaluate and sharpen our awareness with our coach-ing styles. He pushes us to always think of the big pic-ture for the program and not just short term.”

After 20 years, the Pitts-burgh Pirates figured ev-erybody could wait another week for win No. 82 – a fit-ting end to the longest los-ing streak for a professional sports franchise in North American sports history.

Waiting, that’s what the city of Pittsburgh has en-dured, so for a week, every-one waited.

On Tuesday, Sept. 3, the Pirates defeated the Milwau-kee Brewers 4-3, to earn win No. 81 and ensure at least a .500 record.

Five games and six days later, the Bucs finally got that magical win on Mon-

day, Sept. 9, shutting-out the Texas Rangers, 1-0.

I am sure many thought that the team was destined to stay at 81 after the Pirates suffered four-straight losses before No. 82.

Many probably thought to themselves, “here we go again.”

After monumental plum-mets in recent years, it would be understandable for some to have their doubts. Up un-til the last month many still didn't take this team seri-ously.

Now that the winning per-centage for the Pirates will stay north of the .500 mark the rest of the season, Pitts-burgh fans can breath a sigh of relief – the wait is over.

Don’t just celebrate the end of the longest losing streak, but appreciate what

the players, coaches and front office personnel have done to raise the Jolly Roger night-after-night in Pittsburgh this summer.

Before the season started, I told one of my friends that I would be surprised if the Bucs even won 70 games. I don’t think I was alone in this thinking.

In March if one scanned the roster of the 2013 Pitts-burgh Pirates, they would have seen Jeff Locke pen-ciled-in to the starting rota-tion, Clint Barmes occupy-ing the shortstop position, a veteran reliever stepping into a new role and a number of no-names in the bullpen.

I could go on-and-on, but there is no need.

The point to be noted is

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Men's soccer off to best start since 2001

by tim neralFor the Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg men’s soccer team improved its re-cord to 3-0 after its comeback win against La Roche on Sat-urday at John F. Wiley Sta-dium. After a sluggish start, the Jackets scored three un-answered goals to win 3-1.

It is the first time the men’s team has played three-straight matches without a loss since 2005.

Offense and scoring chances were prevalent in the first 10 minutes for both teams as Waynesburg failed to establish its possession-based offense. Instead, scor-ing chances were traded be-tween the two teams, which included a few breakaway chances for La Roche that were stopped by second-year sophomore goalie Brandon

Daughtry and the Waynes-burg defense.

After a free kick call, La Roche junior forward Bryan Weimerskirch netted the first goal.

When asked about the call after the game, Waynesburg head coach Carl Griffiths said, “The referee was con-sistent. Maybe he missed a few, but I don’t think that had any impact on the game.”

Waynesburg was on the defensive for most of the first half as La Roche outshot them 10-5.

After halftime, the Jackets seemed reenergized as they

shepas

Win improves Yellow Jackets' record to 3-0.

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By Anthony LAtessAFor the Yellow Jacket

The Waynesburg University volleyball team had an action packed weekend as it played in the two-day long La Roche College Tournament in Pittsburgh.

The action all started on Friday night, when the Jackets started the tournament with a win over D’Youville College 3-0, with set scores of 25-20, 25-15 and a close 26-24 deci-sive set.

Saturday, the Jackets started off play with a 3-0 win against Chatham, winning 25-15, 25-20 and 25-15. Senior Sam Styche led the team in kills with nine. Sophomore Jess Dorazio led the team in digs, tallying up 15. The Jackets were without se-nior Mabel Culp for the weekend because she was involved in a wedding according to head coach Stephanie Benkowski.

Despite the hot start, Waynesburg cooled down. In its next match against host school La Roche, the Jackets lost in straight sets 25-20, 25-12 and 25-20.

In that match, senior outside hitter Amanda Silay led Waynesburg in kills with nine. Dorazio led the team in digs with 23 once again. Benkowski said La Roche has gotten better from last year.

“Overall, we did okay,” said Benkowski. “We were just a little sluggish at the start on Saturday, but we got better as the day went on.”

The Jackets ended the two-day tournament with another straight set loss to Oberlin. It was a close first set, as Waynes-burg lost 27-25. Oberlin went on to win the next two sets 25-19 and 25-23, respectively. A trio of Yellow Jackets led

By MAtt JonesFor the Yellow Jacket

Waynesburg University head women’s tennis coach Ron Christman knew he had to rely on his veteran group of players early on in the team’s non-conference schedule. Off to their best start in three seasons, the Jackets improved to 3-1 af-ter completing a tri-match sweep Saturday against Washington & Jefferson and Mount Aloysius.

These wins come with a few starters out due to mi-nor injuries and Christman said he had to do some ros-ter shuffling to make sure the best players are where they should be.

“Coming into Saturday, we had to really manage the ros-ter,” said Christman. “Some injuries have led to players having to step up.”

Those players Christman noted as having to step up did as the Jackets won their first match against W&J 6-3. Af-ter dropping its first doubles match, Waynesburg bounced back with consecutive vic-tories in doubles. The duo of senior Markie Gustafson and sophomore Sarah Reyes defeated Katy Mioduszewski and Jenna Supp 9-7. Junior Madison DuBrock and soph-omore Amanda Hooker fol-lowed with an 8-1 win over Brianna Morrison and Alexa Gross.

DuBrock knew that com-ing into Saturday having the advantage in doubles play would be crucial.

“The key for our team’s victories is to try and win all three doubles matches,” said DuBrock. “This is our game plan because it helps set the tempo for the upcoming singles matches.”

Momentum stayed on the Jackets’ side throughout the rest of the match, accord-ing to DuBrock. The Jackets picked up four wins from DuBrock, Hooker, sopho-more Rachel Wilson and junior Lauren Cowden.

Cowden, who has been in the lineup due to injuries to starters, has been a standout early on in the season, ac-cording to Christman.

“She’s been working up the lineup the whole season, and she is undefeated, too,” said Christman. “She might end up playing her way into the starting lineup.”

In the second match of the day, Waynesburg kept the momentum from the first match and won in dominat-ing fashion. The Jackets won eight of the nine matches against Mount Aloysius.

Christman admits roster management was the key to this victory, like it was in the first match. With the depth on the team, Christman feels he can bump players around in different spots of the ro-tation so the team is in best position to win.

The team’s depth paid big dividends on Saturday as eight different players recorded wins and three doubles teams picked up victories.

“We have a lot of match experience this year,” said

Christman. “Even [though some of the girls have] played one year, we have been able to gain depth on our roster.”

Depth will be key for Waynesburg this week as it continues conference play in what Christman calls “sur-vival week.” The Jackets play the top three teams accord-

ing to the Presidents’ Athletic Conference preseason poll Saint Vincent, Westminster and Grove City.

Christman feels that if the players that are stepping up so far can continue to im-prove, this week will mea-sure how good the Jackets can be.

Hot start continues as Jacket tennis sweeps weekend tri-match

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Madison DuBrock and her team, fresh off a weekend sweep, are off to their best start in three years.

Volleyball finishes 2-2 at La Roche

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Marisa Fieldhouse receives face-lift

By ZAck MorgAnFor the Yellow Jacket

The Rudy Marisa Fieldhouse is turning heads with its new hardwood flooring in the gymnasium.

With a bold and bright yellow jacket at center court, the new hardwood floor is accented by a border of burnt orange around the court.

“It was just time with how bad the old rubber court was,” said Director of Athletics Larry Marshall. “We have a few little things left to finish in the gymnasium, but the main court project is completed.”

The Rudy Marisa Fieldhouse went under a month and a half renovation process, which began in mid-June and was completed on Aug. 1. The court then sat for a week to air dry before being opened for athletic use. Not only was the new court put down, but also fans may notice that the banners have been redone on the fieldhouse walls.

“Various dates and championships needed to be distin-guished between the PAC and ECAC titles, so we have taken the time to update them,” said Marshall.

Along with the banners, safety straps were added to the

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Weekly AwardsThis week’s recipients

of the Waynesburg Ath-lete of the Week Award both come from the soccer pitch, as juniors Natalie Abraham and James Sneed put forth impressive performanc-es for their respective squads.

Beginning with Sneed, he was named Presidents’ Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week.

In two matches against Pitt-Greensburg and La Roche, Sneed netted a pair of goals in each game. Sneed now leads the Jackets in goals scored with five, which is al-ready more than the three he scored all of last season. The junior forward ranks first in the PAC in goals scored and third in points scored (10).

Abraham was equally as impressive for the women’s side. She scored three goals in a two-game stretch, in-cluding what would prove to be the game-winner against Pitt-Greensburg.

In addition to another goal against the Bobcats, Abra-ham also found the back of the net against Juniata Col-lege. With those three goals, she now leads the team in goals. For her efforts, Abraham was named the PAC Women’s Offensive Player of the Week.

Along with Abraham and Sneed's awards, another Waynesburg soccer player received recognition for his efforts.

Junior keeper Brandon Daughtry, an All-PAC re-cipient from a year ago, earned PAC Defensive Player/Goalkeeper of the Week after tossing his first shutout of the season on Wednesday vs. Pitt-Greensburg. The following match, the junior allowed one goal against a potent La Roche offense.

Daughtry and his defense produced five shutouts last season for the Yellow Jackets. He also allowed a team-best 1.19 goals a game.

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By John Lydic Editorial Assistant

The Waynesburg women’s soccer team put up a valiant effort, which came just short in a double overtime, 3-2 thriller versus Juniata.

The Jackets entered the game against Juniata looking to go over .500 for the first time this year. Unfortunately, Juniata had other thoughts and defeated the Jackets, dropping them to 1-2.

“Juniata was a good team, and the best we have seen all season,” said Waynesburg head coach Carl Griffiths. “We played hard and we played well, but in the end the better team won.”

Waynesburg played a strong game, forcing Juniata to play 120 minutes.

“I think we played well,” said junior forward Natalie Abraham. Everyone worked hard and we never quit fight-ing.”

Juniata opened the scor-ing in the 37th minute when

Emily Green put a header past Waynesburg sophomore keeper Ciara Scott.

“They were a very ag-gressive team and did well with possession, as well as long through balls,” said the Scott.

The score remained 1-0 in favor of Juniata heading into half time. Despite trail-ing, Griffiths felt the Jackets fared well in the first half.

“We were very fit and had a high intensity attack,” said Griffiths.

It didn’t take long for Waynesburg to tie the game up, as the Jackets scored in 47th minute.

“We wanted to wear them down because we knew they

had a lot of opportunities and would be tired,” said Griffiths.

The Jackets took the lead when Abraham took a deflec-tion in the box and banked it off the crossbar. However, Juniata scored three minutes after Waynesburg took the lead, tying it the match back up 2-2.

“The game went back and forth and I wanted us to continue to play our style,” said Griffiths. “We knew they had enough power to put one away.”

The two teams battled to the end of regulation without either team claiming victory. Griffiths had confidence in his team heading into the second overtime period.

“I reminded the team of all the fitness and strength training they had put in had prepared them for this point,” said Griffiths. “I emphasized giving their very best till the end.”

Juniata’s pressure was too much for Waynesburg as the

Eagles scored just 56 seconds into the second overtime.

Waynesburg was not able to score in the remaining 14 minutes of overtime and fell to the Eagles 3-2. Although Waynesburg did not achieve the outcome they were look-ing for, Griffiths thought the game was a success.

“Juniata was a good team, and you must play good

teams to become better,” Griffiths said. “We have an-other tough test coming up in Frostburg and we need to keep improving.”

Players were disappointed but were given confidence by their performance.

“Losing never feels good, but it is encouraging to see us step up and play against a good team,” said Abraham.

After her performance this past week, Abraham earned Presidents’ Athletic Confer-ence’s Offensive Player of the Week.

Abraham and the rest of the Jackets will take a week off and return to action when they travel to Bluffton, Ohio to take on Bluffton Univer-sity. Kickoff is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.

By nAdine LeiShmAn and nick BrommerFor the Yellow Jacket

Waynesburg’s head cross country coach Chris Hardie is proud of the way his team has competed so far this sea-son.

Maybe it’s because al-though only half of the men’s team competed in Saturday’s Bethany Invitational.

The team still took third place out of five teams at the meet.

“In both meets, the team has run shorthanded as we had to split up our teams in order to save their legs,” Har-die said.

“Even though they have been shorthanded, they ran extremely well have com-peted hard.”

Senior Jonathan Blatt led the Jacket men with an eighth place finish out of 40 com-petitors, crossing the finish line with a time of 29:16.

Blatt was proud of his per-formance and eager to begin his final season of running for Waynesburg.

“Bethany has a great course and the competition was really good,” said Blatt.

“I was very excited to get my senior season underway.”

As the season continues, Blatt is excited to run one last year with his teammates.

“We have an opportunity to do some great things this season as a team,” said Blatt. “I can’t wait to get a season of training under us and see what we can really do.”

The next runner to cross the line was freshman Col-lin Day, with a time of 30:00, good for 14th place. Day liked the encouragement he received from teammates all pre-season and has post-season aspirations.

“I’m really looking for-ward to running with the whole team and working towards winning the Presi-dents’ Athletic Conference title,” Day said.

Division II West Liberty took home the team title and was followed by host school Bethany. Ryan Donnelly of Bethany broke the tape at 28:06 and was followed by Washington & Jefferson’s Bradley Hanne, who took home silver.

Waynesburg freshman John Michael Mihalek took 16th place with a time of

30:18. Waynesburg claimed spots 18-21, featuring fresh-man Cody Nail, junior Luke Feldner, senior Matt Giardi-na and freshman Nick Marx, respectively.

Hardie believes his team needs to find some cohesion going forward, but likes what he’s seen out of his team so far.

“This season is a long sea-son, and the team will need to mesh together to accom-plish their states goals,” Har-die said.

“But they have shown the ability to work together and motivate each other.”

Meanwhile on the women’s side, they competed in their second meet of the season, finishing third out of seven teams at the Bethany Invi-tational.

“The team did really well,” Hardie said. “We usually have around 18 runners, but only brought eight or nine to keep the girls fresh for the big Presidents’ Athletic Conference meet at the end of October.”

Freshman Emily Latimer led the Jackets with a time of 25:05.9, which placed her fourth out of 54 runners.

Fellow freshman Katie Latimer was the second Yel-low Jacket to cross the finish line at 25:45.1, which was good enough for 11th place. Two-time all PAC honor-able mention Joy Oster was the Yellow Jackets’ third place finisher with a time of 26:03.2 that placed her 13th overall.

Waynesburg, who finished with a total of 83 points, fin-ished ahead of fellow PAC schools Washington & Jeffer-son, Bethany and Chatham. Waynesburg also finished ahead of Division II Salem International University.

Waynesburg’s top two fin-ishers from Saturday, Emily and Katie Latimer, are twin sisters who hail from Ken-ston High School in Cha-grin Falls, Ohio. Their sis-ter, Olivia, is a sophomore on the cross country team. Olivia placed 27th and was the fourth Jacket to cross the finish line.

Both teams will be back in action Saturday at the Greene County Airport for the annual Waynesburg In-vitational.

The race is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.

Men's and women's cross country teams compete at Bethany Invitational

Zach DiBeradin, Yellow Jacket

Senior forward Taylor Augustine controls the ball against Pitt-Greensburg in the women's soccer team's home opener. The Jackets fell to 1-2 with their loss Friday.

that heading into the sea-son, Pittsburgh had more question marks then most teams.

Heck, the final two spots in the starting rotation were not even nailed down until just a couple days before the regular season began.

While a playoff spot has

not been locked up yet, it seems more and more likely that the 2013 Pittsburgh Pi-rates will be playing come October.

But until then, Pittsburgh and its fan base will continue to do what it has done for the past two decades – wait.

We won't be waiting 20 years this time - hopefully just a few more weeks and October baseball begins.

Women's soccer falls in double overtime

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By AAron AnderSonFor the Yellow Jacket

“The only easy day was yesterday.”

That is the motto of the United States Navy SEALs. From July 5-15, Waynesburg University senior, Anthony Bonaventura spent time at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. as a coun-selor for the Navy SEAL In-tensive Wrestling Camp.

“It was the highlight of my summer,” said Bonaven-tura. “I think bringing what I learned over to our wrestling room will be very positive.”

Each day consisted of four sessions, said Bonaventura. The campers and counselors would wake up at 5 a.m. ev-ery day to go on a run at 6 a.m. for the first session.

The next session would be a combination of techni-cal wrestling and live wres-tling, followed by a hard live wrestling session in the af-ternoon.

The fourth session is when the Navy SEALs took over.

“We did something called ‘BUD/S Training’, which is similar to the workout that it takes to become a Navy

SEAL,” said Bonaventura.According to navyseals.

com, “BUD/S (Basic Under-water Demolition/SEAL) Training” is the SEAL train-ing course designed to test and strengthen physical abil-ity, mental tenacity and true teamwork.

Some of the workouts in-clude: Carrying small boats, log carries, buddy carries,

running and swimming.“The guys who lasted got

a lot out of it,” said Bonaven-tura.

Bonaventura is coming off of his best season as a mem-ber of the Jacket wrestling team. He went 28-14 over-all in the 2012-2013 season, his first season as a regular starter for the team.

He qualified for the na-

tional tournament at the 174-pound weight class and came one match short of receiving All-American honors.

“He had the right frame of mind going into this summer,” said Ron Head-lee, head wrestling coach at Waynesburg University and three-time Presidents’ Ath-letic Conference coach of the year.

Since his freshman year, Bonaventura has improved every aspect of approach to the sport, with his biggest attributes being his leader-ship and confidence, said Headlee.

“It’s one of the reasons that we made him a captain last year,” said Headlee. “He helps organize the practices when the coaching staff is not around.”

“There is no reason he shouldn’t become a national champion,” said Headlee.

Added Bonaventura: “I’m hungry, I want to get on that podium.”

This summer, he got the opportunity to work with Division I wrestlers and be-cause of his hard work, he was invited to come back to the Navy SEALS intensive wrestling camp as a coun-selor next summer.

“There’s always things we can do to get better every-day,” said Bonaventura.

Photo courtesy of Ben Bonaventura

Reigning PAC Most Outstanding Wrestler Anthony Bonaventura trained at the US Naval Academy.

Wrestling with the SEALsSenior spends week at Naval Academy

Pirates: 82 wins in the books

the team in kills-Amanda Si-lay, Rachel Lang and Jordin Faust all had four. Dorazio concluded her wonderful tournament digging the ball with 18 in Waynesburg’s final match.

“There were some things the team was able to learn from during the weekend-long tournament,” said Ben-

kowski. “They really started to

learn how to start playing like a team and it was a great opportunity for the younger players to get game experi-ence.”

On Tuesday, the Yellow Jackets returned to the court against Carlow University out of the NAIA.

By the time the night end-ed, Benkowski and her play-ers returned to Waynesburg

with a loss, having lost by a score of 3-1. With the loss, the Jackets dropped their re-cord to 5-5.Culp put down a team-high 15 kills.

Senior Natalie Ranallo’s 42 assists paced the Jacket attack.

The Jackets return to ac-tion on Saturday when they face Presidents’ Athletic Conference foes Geneva and Grove City College in a tri-match.

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By KYLE OLANDSports Editor

For a second-straight year, the Waynesburg (1-0) foot-ball team will play the Frost-burg State Bearcats (0-1) in a non-conference game. What once was a yearly rivalry be-tween the two schools locat-ed just one-and-a-half hours down Interstate 70.

Entering Saturday’s game at Bearcat Stadium, Waynes-burg holds the series lead, 28-12-1. Under head coach Rick Shepas, the Jackets are 2-1 versus Frostburg, win-ning the last two meetings between the two schools, including last year’s 21-7 victory.

Coming off a come-from-behind victory led by junior quarterback Carter Hill, Waynesburg won its season opener last week against Muskingum, 21-7. Frostburg look to get in the win-column this weekend after falling on the road to Geneva, 47-3.

Frostburg head coach Tom Rogish, in his sixth season, said he wants to see his pro-gram be where Shepas cur-rently has the Jacket football program.

“When I look at Waynes-burg, I no longer ask how I can beat the team,” said Ro-gish. “I ask myself how do I

beat the program. [Shepas] has done a great job and built a program. Our program is not where Waynesburg’s is, and that is where I want us to be.”

While the two teams are on opposite ends of the spec-trum, Waynesburg is fresh off a Presidents’ Athletic Con-ference title and the Bearcats haven’t had a winning sea-son since 2005, Shepas is not overlooking Frostburg.

“They have always been athletic and it will be a test for us,” said Shepas. “There won’t be anyone on the schedule who we can look past.”

Looking ahead to next week’s game, here are a few

storylines to keep an eye on.

Jacket Rushing AttackLast season, the Jacket of-

fense was led by the PAC’s best rushing attack (201.9 yards per game). However, in its first game, Waynes-burg managed only 76 yards on the ground. The Yellow Jackets rushed for over 100 yards in 10 of their 11 games a season ago.

Without its top-two run-ning backs from a season ago, All-PAC backs Ber-trand Ngampa and Dominic Moore, the rushing attack featured junior transfer Jake Forsythe (California Univer-

sity of Pa.). Shepas said the burly back

would continue to see carries this week along with sopho-more Jerry Lawman and ju-nior Willie Leavell.

“Are backs are all pretty inexperienced,” said Shepas. “Lawman is coming off an injury and was tentative at times. Willie [Leavell] and Jake [Forsythe] were just a gap off here or there on the runs. That will continue to improve as their vision im-proves this season.”

Frostburg State’s defense, coming off the Geneva game where it allowed 214 rush-ing yards to the Golden Tor-nadoes, will be focused on stopping the run this week, according to Rogish.

“Offensively, [Waynes-burg] does a number of good things on offense, and its bal-ance makes it a challenge,” said Rogish.

Shepas said the offense is still a work in progress with a number of new players on the field, but he expects the rushing attack to progress as the weeks go by.

Secondary vs. Antonio Wood

Against Muskingum, the Waynesburg secondary had a tough task going against James Washington, one

of the best receivers in the Ohio Athletic Conference. Washington, a player who is gaining notice to play on Sundays, caught nine passes for 122 yards.

According to Shepas, se-nior cornerback Marvin Sampson matched up well against Washington and lim-ited the potential damage by keeping everything in front of him.

“I thought Marv [Samp-son] did a great job in cov-erage against a very good receiver,” said Shepas. “He handled his assignment, and the kid was a tough guy to get down.”

This week, Waynesburg’s defense will again get a tough assignment in junior receiver Antonio Wood. Wood, who had just one reception against Geneva, is the Bearcats top returning receiver. He aver-aged 17.4 yards per catch a season ago, and brings good height (6-2) to the field.

Sampson and Wood faced off against each other in last season’s game with Wood catching three balls for 75 yards. Sampson, who stands at just 5-9, is at a height disadvantage to the lanky Wood.

Two Quarterbacks Last week, Rogish used

two quarterbacks, junior Ken Emmons and sopho-more Teron Tyre, to run his offense.

The two quarterbacks combined to throw for 117 yards and three interceptions against the Golden Tornado defense.

Rogish said he would con-tinue to implement a two-quarterback offense because he likes the different skill sets both players bring to his of-fense.

While both signal-callers stand less than six-feet tall, Emmons and Tyre displayed an ability to run the ball at times versus Geneva's de-fense.

After Muskingum quarter-back C.J. Snider gained 168 yards on the ground a week ago, Shepas said he will look for his team to limit the num-ber of big plays this week.

“[Snider] had some big plays on the ground,” said Shepas. “I left that game happy to see that type of guy early one. It tested our de-fense.”

Kickoff for Saturday’s game is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Bearcat stadium.

Due to press box reno-vations there will be no ra-dio broadcast of the game. Livestats will be available on waynesburgsports.com.

Week two football preview: Frostburg State

game. I’m glad we came out on top.”

After leading the PAC in rushing last season with over 200 yards per game, the Jackets only gained 76 yards against Muskingum. Transfer running back Jake Forsythe led the team with 62 yards rushing on 13 carries and back-up Willie Leavell added

13 yards on five carries. However, Leavell did add

28 yards receiving and scored a touchdown. Shepas admits the run game is a work in progress and a key injury led to some offensive changes.

This game had historic implications for both teams. Coming into the game, the Muskingum football pro-gram was looking for its 500th win.

For Shepas, Saturday’s win

marked his 50th as the head coach at Waynesburg.

He is the fastest head coach in program history to reach career win number 50 as well.

The Jackets return to ac-tion this Saturday when they travel to Frostburg, Md. to square off against non-con-ference opponent Frostburg State.

Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m.

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Michael Kabay, Waynesburg University

Senior defensive lineman Brandon Fedorka pressures Muskingum quarterback C.J. Snider. Fedorka finished the game with two sacks and four tackles for loss.

began a blistering attack on the opposing goal.

“He [Griffiths] was just saying we couldn’t sit back, we needed to pick up the speed,” said junior forward Cody Lemke. “There were a lot of room in the corners and we needed to get a diago-nal ball through.”

Waynesburg took 13 sec-ond-half shots compared to La Roche’s four. In the 60th minute, Waynesburg finally found the back of the net.

Senior midfielder Tim Fields ran down a long ball in the corner and set up junior forward James Sneed in front of the net for the game-tying header.

“I was just hoping I could get it over the keeper and hit Sneed anyway I could,” said Fields.

Less than 12 minutes later, Lemke knocked in a goal off of his own rebound to give Waynesburg a 2-1 lead.

“[Colin] Nelson gave me a great ball and my first shot wasn’t good, but I was lucky enough to get a rebound and bury it home.”

Any doubts in regards to the outcome were silenced in the 84th minute when Sneed scored his second goal of the night on a breakaway.

“The defense was playing an offside trap so when they stepped, I stepped up,” said Sneed. “When the goalie came out, I just tried to poke it past him.”

At the end of the game,

Griffiths said La Roche was the best team his squad had faced all year.

“We never let down or gave up,” the head coach said. “We just kept fighting and fighting, and we played with high intensity a whole 90 minutes.”

Waynesburg was without

senior Anthony MacIntyre, who suffered an AC joint sprain in his team’s previous game. It is unclear whether or not he will need surgery.

Waynesburg hits the road this week to face Me-daille College on Sept. 14. The match is set to start at 6 p.m.

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Zach DiBeradin, Yellow Jacket

Junior Nick Brommer traps the ball near the sideline during last week's game against Pitt-Greensburg

basketball hoops, and the time was taken to make little fixes to the side court baskets and bleachers. Carpeting was also added to the entry way for a more professional look. For Waynesburg supporters, there are a few changes that should be taken notice.

“No food or drinks will be allowed on this court,” Marshall said. “The lobby of the old gymnasium will be used for food and drinks. “ Another change to the new court is that it will only be for the athletic teams of Waynes-burg University.

Intramurals will take place on the older court in the old gymnasium, and student ac-tivities can now take place in the Armory to free up the old gymnasium for student use of intramurals or free time for pick-up games.

The new court also may add a new level of excitement to athletic events.

“I think it brings two things,” said men’s basketball head coach Mark Christner. “One is obviously a little ex-citement, probably because the court is always locked. I think it also shows that the administration is investing in us.”

The court may bring some recruits to games and also get people out to games due to curiosity at first, but women’s basketball head coach Sam

Jones believes something else will bring faithful sup-porters out. “I don’t believe the court will bring people to games, the players do that, people like to see results,” said Jones.

With the men's team coming of its best season in many years, the excitement is building for the coming season.The first chance to see the men’s and women’s bas-ketball teams will be when they open up their respec-tive seasons on the brand new court at home on Dec. 4, against Bethany.

The new court has already been put to use by the volley-ball team, who won the first match on the new floor in a 3-1 victory over the Mount-ies of Mount Aloysius.

The wrestling squad will have its first home match of the year with the Orange/Black Wrestle-offs on Nov. 2.

Soccer: Third-straight win

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Football: First-game stunner

Fieldhouse: Excitement in the air

Volleyball: Two wins over weekend

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“I don't believe the court will bring people to games, the players do that.”

SAm jONESWomen's basketball head coach

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Constitution Day is on its wayby John LyDic

Editorial Assistant

The purpose of Constitu-tion Day is to captivate and inspire Waynesburg students to learn about America’s most important document.

Waynesburg will celebrate Constitution Day next Sept. 17, and those involved hope students will learn about the Constitution and a very con-troversial decision.

“Constitution Day’s goal is to encourage appreciation of the Constitution as an ap-preciation of the charter of liberties,” said Dr. Lawrence Stratton, director of Stover Center for Constitutional Studies and Moral Leader-ship.

The Stover Scholars per-form a play to teach students about the importance of the

Constitution and decisions handed down from it.

“We put on a show to educate students about the United States Constitution,” said sophomore communica-tion major, Nika Anschuetz.

This years play is, “Consti-tutionally Condemned: Su-sette Kelo’s Takings Clause Battle to Keep her Pink House,” describes Susette Kelo’s 5th Amendment Tak-ings Clause battle to keep her pink house.

The main premise of the play is to discuss 5th Amend-ment rights and the issue of Eminent Domain.

Eminent Domain deals with the power to take pri-vate property for public use by a state, municipality or private person or corpora-tion authorized to exercise functions of public character

following the payment of just compensation to the owner of that property.

In this case, Kelo had her house taken by the govern-ment and was not rightfully compensated for it. A pink

house at that.The play recreates her con-

stitutional actions and the role one citizen can play in changing a statute.

Even though the play has a serious meaning, the writ-ers assure that the play will be very entertaining for ev-

eryone.The subject of this play has

been one long in the mak-ing.

“Students got together af-ter commencement last year to read and begin to write the

story for Constitution Day,” said Stratton.

The three writers of the play, Anschuetz, junior Chase Ayers and senior Dan Czajkowski have invested extensive hours into the cre-ation of the play and have gained valuable knowledge

from doing so. “It made me more aware

of a Constitutional issue I could have a role in because I want to go into law,” said Ayers.

The writers learned the significance of understand-ing the Constitution.

“Having written the play, it made me see things that I missed the first time and taught me how to look more critically and analytically,” said Czajkowski.

The Stover scholars will serve as the actors and hope to create a discussion about the play and its meaning.

“Our goal is to create a discussion on constitutional debates,” said Stratton.

“Our goal is for everyone to walk away from this see-ing how they would have been involved or voted in

the case.” “The play wants to help

students understand their liberties as citizens and to question how they can ad-vocate for causes that involve them.” said Ayers.

The play will take place at noon in the Goodwin Per-forming Arts Center.

Following the perfor-mance, students will discuss the play at the student speak on Sept. 20 at noon in Sto-ver.

They want to hear student reactions and discussions about the play and their Con-stitutional rights.

“[It’s]Fun to see dynam-ics of law and courts, and I hope this inspires students to go and read opinions on the case and of other issues that deal with their liberties,” said Stratton.

Day filled with events and performances hopes to raise understanding of the Constitution

“Constitution Day's goal is to encourage appre-ciation of the Constitution as an appreciation of the charter of liberties.”

Dr. Lawrence strattonDirector of Stover Center

Musical brothers to perform at WU

by eric bostAssignments Editor

Ben and Chad Truman have performed in over 100 cities, over 30 states and have played shows with Grammy award-winning artists.

Monday, students can enjoy some coffee when the successful brothers make their return to Waynesburg University for the first cof-feehouse of the semester.

Chad Truman gave some insight on why they decided to come back to Waynes-burg and what attendees can expect from their per-formance.

“We loved playing here last time and love the greater Pittsburgh area in general,” said Chad Truman.

“Students can expect to hear two brothers singing songs they’ve written with no gimmicks, just an overall heartfelt experience.”

The two brothers have played their music on the college circuit since 2009.

In that time they have played in over 60 to 70 cam-puses around the country.

Chad Truman said last year he and his brother moved back to their home-town of Nashville, Tenn.to refocus.

“We moved back to Nash-ville to further our careers as artists and songwriters,” said Chad Truman.

“We decided to make Nashville our focus and now only take shows at schools we really love to play at.”

The country, pop, soul duo formed in 2005 when both brothers attended Brigham Young University.

They performed in the student-voted Battle of the Bands event held at the school, a contest the duo won due to popular vote from the student body.

By winning the contest, the brothers’ music career began.

“Winning Battle of the

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Musicians battle it out in the GPAC

Tyler Wolfe, Yellow Jacket

Above, Matt Johnson, left, and Brian Laakso, right, adapt to Waynesburg University's Christian atmosphere during their musical performances, and talk about faith and the critical role it plays in ones beliefs. Below, the musicians pulled students from the audience to help them with their musical performance.

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World renowned jazz musician to come to university

by cheLsea DicksManaging Editor

In the jazz music com-munity, one name seems to stand out among the rest, Beegie Adair.

Adair, along with her trio and guest Monica Ramey are coming to Waynesburg Uni-versity to perform.

Adair is known for her so-phisticated jazz performanc-es along with complicated, yet intrinsic piano skills that she incorporates into her music.

According to beegieadair.com, she grew up in Cave City, Ky. where she began piano lessons at five years old. Throughout college, she continued to peruse her love for piano and later she moved to Nashville where her career truly took root.

Knowing that she wanted a future in music, Adair be-gan working at WSM-TV and on The Johnny Cash Show where she accompa-nied legendary performers from Dolly Parton to Mama Cass Elliott.

After some time she re-

leased her first album under her own name, Escape to New York. It wasn’t a huge seller but was one step along the road to her success as an artist.

D u r i n g t h e 1 9 8 0 s Adair hosted “Improvised Thoughts” a popular talk and music show on NPR where her music started to gain a following.

Adair can be heard on over 100 CDs and her re-cordings are among some of the biggest sellers in the jazz world.

In 2010, he became the No. 1 sold jazz musician in Japan.

She is also part of one of the most exclusive rosters in the world known as a Stein-way Artist.

This honor is given to only 1,600 pianists in the world and includes artists Lang Lang, Billy Joel and Cole Porter.

Entertainment News stat-ed, “Beegie Adair is one of the finest piano players in the world.” Other jazz greats

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by creg miLkoFor the Yellow Jacket

This past Saturday a pair of dueling musicians took to the stage in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center and shared more than just their music with Waynesburg Uni-versity attendees.

Matt Johnson, one of the two talents performing at the “Dueling Pianos” event ex-plained how much he enjoys playing at Christian colleges such as Waynesburg.

“We really like [playing at] the colleges and the univer-sities, especially wholesome ones like this school that allows Brian (Laakso) and

I to express our faith,” said Johnson.

The pair played the pianos

both solo and together, belt-ing out tunes at the request of the audience.

Even though they were

Christian artist to display unique artby tayLor roebuckFor the Yellow Jacket

Waynesburg University will soon host an art exhibit featuring a Christian artist who represents his religion in a different, yet very cre-ative way.

Beginning on Sept. 16, Ryan Jackson, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, R.I., brings “No Compromise.” According to Jackson, his new collection is based on icons in modern Christian-ity, and those who have had significant impact on the way Christianity is viewed.

In these works, he uses

heavy symbolism that may not be apparent at first glance. This exhibit will mark Jack-son’s first visit to Waynesburg University.

He is a teacher of art in Philadelphia, Pa. Together, they work on art festivals for high school students in Pennsylvania and several other states.

Jackson’s work is constant-ly in transition. It has gone from large pieces to collage like work.

This specific collection is full of one-image pieces, which have several underly-ing layers to them. Students and visitors can expect work that is very different than tra-

ditional Christian art, said Heisey.

“When I talk in a secular environment and I say some-thing is Christian art, they’re thinking of Jesus, praying hands, or hands raised up in the air,” Heisey said. “In [Jackson’s] paintings, it may not always be obvious, espe-cially if you don’t know who some of these people are.”

The displayed pieces are meant to cause the viewer to think about the topic at hand, which can be challenging for an untrained eye, since Jack-son’s subjects may not always be obvious. Heisey hopes to use Jackson’s work to help show his students more

about what he calls ‘reading a painting.’

The Fine Arts Department is encouraging students and faculty from other areas of the university to come to see this exhibit to gain apprecia-tion and understanding of what these pieces can mean.

“I’m really hoping that people look at the work and see something a little differ-ent. It isn’t just a painting. There’s a whole lot behind it,” said Heisey. “I hope that peo-ple from the general Waynes-burg University community come to see the work,”

The Benedum Fine Arts Gallery will feature “No Compromise,” until Oct. 11.

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Off-the-cuff auditiOnsDawson Laabs, left, and Mike Merten using frilly scarves as props during one of their auditions for WU's Line Is It Anyway?, a improv-based comedy sketch show that has become a campus favorite in past years.

Brothers: Duo from Nashville to perform

Bands at BYU is one of my most memorable perfor-mances,” said Chad Truman. “That was our first big show and we were blown away when we won. I was barely nineteen, and I was stoked.”

In the eight years since, the duo has found success both within the United States and internationally, playing shows in the Philippines, Hong Kong and London.

“All the success we’ve had has been a great blessing,” said Chad Truman. “We still have tons of rising to do in the big scheme of things, but we have a following and to those fans, we thank you.”

Chad Truman said he and his brother’s biggest influenc-es have been their parents, who both perform. Their

father, Dan Truman, is the keyboardist for the Grammy award-winning group Dia-mond Rio.

Chad Truman said that his father was the one that inspired them to follow their passion.

“When Ben graduated col-lege with a finance degree he was offered a wonderful job and struggled with the choice of being responsible or pursuing his dream of songwriting,” said Chad Tru-man. “Our dad, knowing Ben had a passion for music, told him to turn down the job. So he did. Not many fathers tell their sons that.”

Students can expect to hear songs from the group’s 2009 debut album “Hold On To Love” when TRUMAN takes the stage and performs on Monday at 8 p.m. in the Beehive.

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such as Helen Merrill said her “inventive jazz sense, her wonderful sense of time and improvised melody.”

Adair’s trio includes Roger Spencer on bass and Chris Brown on drums and special guest Ramey singing.Ramey will be singing to the melo-dies created by the trio.

The trio has been a part of Adair’s journey and is known throughout New York City and Nashville for their mu-sic. The trio recently released

their newest album, “The Real Thing.”

Many of the songs they will perform at Waynesburg will be from this album such as “The Lamp is Low,” “We’ll Be Together Again” and “Stairway to the Stars.”

This is the first time the group will be performing at Waynesburg University. The event will take place Sept. 12 at 7:30 in the Goodwin Per-forming Arts Center.

Admission is $15 for adults, $5 for children under 12 and free for Waynesburg students with a student ID.

Jazz: Trio to put on an entertaining show

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By Olivia latimerAssignments Editor

Four hundred and sixty six is the number of students in the incoming class this year here at Waynesburg Univer-sity.

This is the second largest class in Waynesburg Unver-sity's history.

With such a large class, several new challenges arise on campus. Positive chal-lenges.

“This is a very good thing, a great challenge,” said Kel-ley Hardie, Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Residence Life.

“Some colleges may be struggling just to fill spots. We are blessed to have such a large class.”

One of the challenges this year, due to having the second biggest class that Waynesburg University has ever seen, is a lack of suffi-cient rooming.

Freshmen were therefore given the opportunity to live in the newer apartment style dorms as opposed to just the traditional residence halls.

As a result of the number of students wanting to attend Waynesburg this year, many students were put on a wait-ing list last spring.

By offering more triple and quad rooms to upper-classmen and then to fresh-men, the school was able to completely exhaust the wait-ing list.

There is now a community of freshman girls all living in quad rooms on the third floor of East Residence Hall.

“They [freshmen] are all on the same floor,” said Har-die. “They have developed a very nice community up there.”

In order to accommodate having four girls in one room, two desks are provided per room to share between two girls, and four wardrobes are provided.

New furniture had to be

ordered this year to have enough to go around.

The reason for such a large class this year is due to the variety of ways that Waynes-burg appeals to students

“We just had a lot more students who were interest-ed in Waynesburg this year,” said Hardie.

“You can attribute that to a number of different as-pects.”

Another reason is that this year Waynesburg was able to retain the vast majority of re-

turning students.“This satisfies the need

of many students to have a more financially beneficial option as well,” said Ashley Kelver, Assistant Director of Residence Life and Resident Director of South, West, East, and Pollock (SWEP) Resi-dence Halls.

The residence life staff at Waynesburg University said they really look forward to the adventure that is the great challenge the university was blessed with this year.

Abby Wernert, Chief Photographer

The housing crunch has necessitated the use of "quad" rooms, which makes even the normally spacious suite dorms close-and-comfortable.

Administration embraces challenges of housing large incoming freshmen class

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playing the piano, they beat and pounded on the keys making the environment more intense than normal piano performances.

While playing any song that came to mind, the two musicians battled it out.

Songs from artists ranging from Johnny Cash to John Legend, and anything in-between was played.

The two artists even left out any explicit lyrics, many times replacing them with their own fun substitutes.

Johnson even shared his favorite song with the crowd.

“I like Piano Man, be-cause I like to bust out the harmonica and I also get to mess around with the flute-o-phone,” explained John-son, who was glowing about the support and participation the crowd provided.

“The crowd was very po-lite and receptive. Its nice to have people participate. Sometimes it’s hard to get people to participate, but not here.”

The music was not all the pair shared with the audi-ence.

Before and after the show the two were more than will-ing to talk about their faith openly and honestly.

The duo shared that they were both devout chris-

tians, Laasko a Unitarian Universalist and Johnson a Lutheran.

While on the weekends the pair have played shows anywhere from Missouri to Rhode Island, during the week the two work serving others as well.

Johnson is the executive director of a nursing home and Laasko teaches music at a high school.

Both musicians were educated at Kent State and they’ve been playing for the past 12 years together threw ”Howl at the Moon Saloon”.

The two musicians also ex-plained how much they en-joyed their visit to Waynes-burg.

“We re a l l y e nj oy e d Waynesburg University for hosting us, it meant a lot. We were comfortable enough to keep our doors unlocked. We could tell that by the qual-ity of people we met,” said Johnson.

“It’s a great place when we know we don’t have to lock the van,” Laakso said.

“We had dinner with Russ Schneider (Resident Direc-tor of Thayer Hall) and Sarah Schneider (Russ’s Wife), and everyone is just so polite.”

The two wanted to stay in Waynesburg a little longer but had to leave.

“We wish we could stick around a little bit longer but he’s(Laasko) got church in the morning,” said Johnson.

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By michael dummerFor the Yellow Jacket

Auditions for Waynesburg University’s annual fall play took place Wednesday and Thursday of last week.

This year’s selection, “The Uninvited,” will have a theme of fall as it will open a series of three performances on October 31and will feature a festive plot that fits Hal-loween’s ominous theme perfectly.

“The date of opening night being on Halloween and the spookiness of the plot was a big reason why we choose this show,” said Edward Pow-ers, director of the theatre program.

“The Uninvited,” is a su-pernatural mystery about brother and sister Roder-ick and Pamela Fitzgerald. Looking to escape the hustle and bustle of urban London

due to Roderick’s profession as a writer and purchase what appears to be their seaside dream home.

The plot thickens as there is more to this house than meets the eye as the pair start hearing noises and having experiences that make them

believe the house is haunted by the ghost of the former occupant.

“I feel this was also a good show to challenge the actors and the technical depart-ment,” said Powers.

Due to the nature of the show “The Uninvited” will required the actors to speak in British accents and will

feature special effects to cre-ate an eerie mood.

“I had to watch a lot of the British Broadcasting Corpo-ration channel to figure out phrases and mannerisms that are common with the accent,” said sophomore Austin Orth.

“It also help that the spring musical last year required to everyone who was cast to learn a British accent as well.”

Another challenge some of the students had to face was the inability to find a modern day interpretation of the play.

“There was not too much

on the Internet about it,” said senior John Flanigan. “ I ended up having to buy a copy of the script just to get the gist of it and prepare for my audition.”

Flanigan was selected as one of the first three students to audition and read for the part of Roderick.

“Experience helped a little bit during the audition but you are still nervous,” said Flanigan. “I don’t think that something that never goes away.”

Powers also had some helpful advice for students; “ Don’t worry about messing up and being nervous, every-one goes through it, you just have to make sure you have fun with it and be yourself,” said Powers.

The play will open on Oct. 31 and run to Nov. 2. Free tickets can be reserved by contacting Powers.

Fall play 'The Uninvited' gets under way

“Don't worry about messing up and being ner-vous... have fun with it and be yourself.”

edward POwersDirector of the theater program

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10 There’s potato in Mum’s pudding (4)

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15 Country-loving Irish-man in charge of con-taining disturbance (9)

17 Giving note to terrorists makes one angry (5)

18 One who latches on to another is a sucker (5)

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20 A comment sure upset in due proportion (12)

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250 persons were converted, and became members of the CP Church.

Sept. 11, 1871Waynesburg played against the Eagles Club of Morris Cross Roads in Fayette County. They played for a premium of twenty-five dol-lars, offered by the Greene County Fair Company. Waynesburg played in intercollegiate games as well as games against other

noncollege clubs in the area.

Sept.13, 1879 The Pennsylvania Synod ordered the Waynesburg Board of Trust-

ees to pay A.B. Miller one thousand dollars. The payment was for all the out of pocket money Miller had spent to advertise the

school. Miller and the Board agreed on a payment in December of that year.

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That Students Should

Eric BostAssignments Editor

With the new school year coming into full swing, students have already begun to study for quizzes and tests that will help determine their grades in their respective classes. Some of them have already developed reliable study habits that

they have used most of their lives, but others will need to change their ways in order to succeed in college.

Sources: FoxNews.com via BenchPrep.com, Debra ClarkeDesigned by Megan Potosky

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Don’t study in your dorm rooms or at home. You surround yourselves with all kinds of distractions like watching T.V., playing video games, wanting to eat or constantly updating your social media profiles. Instead, find a nice, quiet place (like a library) that helps you

focus solely on getting work done and keep you in the zone.

Another popular-yet-ineffective study habit is to procrastinate until the very last second and then pull an all-nighter to soak up as much information as possible. By the time the test comes around, students are likely to have forgotten everything they crammed, says Debra Clarke, chair of the Department of English. “The student that pulls the all-nighter goes in and takes the exam and hopes by the end everything they know will [stay in their heads],” said Clarke. “The information is going to start to dribble out, and the student hopes they can get out before it does.” In order to prevent this from happening, students should begin

studying for a big test several days in advance.

Although students try to avoid extra work, one of the best things to do when reading is to set up an outline of the material in the book. It can help the organization of notes and gives

an easy reference to specific information.

One of the biggest study habit controversies is whether or not it’s a good idea to listen to music while studying. Although some students find it distracting, Clarke says that it all depends on the student’s preference. “There are some people who can’t study unless there is absolute quiet, and there are other people that use background music to relax,” said Clarke. If you need something other than music to help you concentrate, try studying in short bursts that are separated by brief breaks. This will help you retain information while not feeling

overwhelmed.

The biggest mistake a college student can make when studying is taking lazy notes or only highlight the text. Revisiting or skimming the concept doesn’t help you learn the subject. Clarke said that students should invest in sticky notes to make reference points back to a certain section in the book. “When you feel the urge to highlight something, think about what question [the reading] answers and put a sticky note with a question on it in your

textbook,” said Clarke. “That way, you create a study guide in your book.”

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