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APSCUF offers binding interest arbitration to help settle
contract with state system
Chartwells launches website
Clarion, Pa. - Chartwells at Clarion University created a new website to show nutritional in-formation on the food served on campus.
The website, Dinin-goncampus.com/Clarion, became available Aug. 20. Students are able to use this website to check the menu for each day at Eagle Commons.
The website breaks down nutritional infor-mation to show exactly what is in each menu item including calories, carbohydrates, protein, fat and sodium, said Senior Director of Din-ing Services Jeff Gauger.
“I like that it tells me what food is going to be served. On days I do not have time to check the website, there are signs in Eagle Commons in each of the areas, so I still have
a way of knowing what I am eating,” said Lailah Washington, junior.
A nutritional jour-nal is also located on the website, so that students are able to keep track of what they eat in locations both on and off campus.
“I love the nutritional journal,” said Washing-ton. “It helps track my calories, so that I know exactly what I am eat-ing everywhere I go, on a day to day basis.”
“Students have control of their portions since Eagle Commons is buf-fet style,” said Gauger. “Our employees are al-ways there to help if stu-dents have questions.”
There are also signs with barcodes through-out campus. Students who have smartphones can use the application Barcode Scanner take a picture of the barcode and scan the information
on to their phones; the application automatically bookmarks the website so they can easily and quick-ly refer to the webpage.
Chartwells continues to work toward having nutritional information throughout all of the retail areas on campus and also other techno-logical advancements.
“We would like to de-velop a dining applica-tion for the smartphone so that students would be able to pre-order food, pay, and pick up their food at a desired time,” said Gauger. “We would also like to place a Ki-osk in Eagle Commons so students can look up their food and add direct-ly to their journal there.
“D in ingoncampus .com/Clarion is an excel-lent tool that has helped me take a great step to-ward living a healthy and happy life on campus,” said Washington.
Amanda JacksonSTAFF WRITER
Clarion, Pa. - Clarion edu-cation professors Patri-cia Kolencik and Sheila Hillwig co-authored a book about education.
The book is titled “Teach Who You Are: Developing Your Teach-ing Philosophy and Cre-ating Your Professional Identity” and was pub-lished this past summer.
Kolencik said this book explains what a teaching philosophy is and exam-ines critical components necessary to shape a per-son’s emerging philosophy.
“The book defines the purpose of a teaching statement and presents a basic orientation to the connection between one’s philosophy of life and one’s classroom
practice and how phi-losophy translates into practice,” Kolencik said.
“Teach Who You Are” is academic in nature and meant for those in
the field of education. What makes her book
different from others, she said, is that it simplifies the process rather than using lots of confusing jargon.
“There are books on the market that discuss developing an educa-tional philosophy, but these books concen-trate heavily on the
theoretical develop-ment of an educational philosophy based on ‘ologies’ and ‘isms,’” Ko-lencik said. “Thus, the inspiration for this book
came from the ambitionto write a simple, prac-tical, non-technicalframework for examin-ing one’s motives forteaching in order toshape a personal phi-losophy of educationclearly and concisely.”
This is not the first time Kolencik and Hillwighave worked together.
The pair also co-au-thored a book titled “En-hancing Learning withMetacognition: SupportingLearners Through Metacog-nitive Teaching Strategies”prior to the publicationof “Teach Who You Are.”
Additionally, Kolencik has co-authored three oth-er books about education.
A copy of the bookis available in the Uni-versity Library and canalso be purchased in theUniversity Book Center.
Harrisburg – Today the Association of Penn-sylvania State College and University Faculties offered binding inter-est arbitration to the State System of Higher Education in order to move toward a con-tract resolution for faculty at the 14 state-owned universities.
Dr. Steve Hicks, pres-ident of APSCUF, said that the offer of bind-ing interest arbitration would expedite the ne-gotiations process.
“APSCUF has been negotiating with the State System for over two years, and our fac-ulty have worked with-out a contract for the last 14 months. We re-main hopeful that prog-ress can be made, but we also recognize that
APSCUF and PASSHE re-main far apart on several key issues,” Hicks said.
The two sides have failed to reach agree-ment on temporary fac-ulty workload, distance learning, active and re-tiree health care, and class size. “APSCUF fac-ulty want to settle a fair contract,” Hicks said.
“It is in the best inter-ests of our students and their families to have a faculty contract in place that safeguards quality public higher education in the Commonwealth.”
APSCUF has proposed that the two parties sub-mit any outstanding is-sues as of Nov. 9 to a pan-el of three arbitrators.
While binding interest arbitration is not man-datory for faculty, it is a legislatively approved
process of dispute reso-lution in Pennsylvania.
The offer gives PASSHE until Oct. 15 to accept binding in-terest arbitration.
“APSCUF feels that this is the next step in the process of reaching a fair agreement with PASSHE,” Hicks said.
“Faculty across the State System want to continue to provide a high quality education to the 118,000 students who choose to attend our universities. The mission cannot be met without a settled, fair contract.”
The Association of Pennsylvania State Col-lege & University Fac-ulties represents more than 6,000 faculty mem-bers and coaches at Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities.
Clarion professors co-author book on educationRachel FarkasSTAFF WRITER
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Patricia Kolecnik (left) and Sheila Hilwig (right) co-author and publish book on teaching philosophy.
Justin CostaSTAFF WRITER
Clarion, Pa. - Student Senate held its weekly meeting this past Monday as senators got together to discuss differ-ent topics from around the community.
The Student Senate discussed the recent council of trustees meeting at Venango College.
The Senate reported the budget for the council of trustees unanimously approved Clarion University’s bud-get at the meeting last Thursday.
The Student Senate also announced
a that a new dean for the college of arts and sciences is needed at the university.
“The dean of the college of arts and sciences stepped down two weeks before the beginning of the school year and until they find a permanent dean. Dr. Joyce Overly is filling in as dean for the college of arts and sci-ences,” President Sara Dickson said.
The Student Senate is still searching for one more freshman to join the Senate; the applicant will be under heavy consider-ation by student government, Dickson said.
Student Senate meetings take place every Monday in 246 Gemmell at 7:30 p.m.
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Students, facultyweigh election issues
Changes made to Pa. Voter ID law
HARRISBURG, Pa.— Penn-sylvania state officials on Tuesday once again produced an 11th-hour attempt to salvage a tough, new law requir-ing all voters to show a particular kind of pho-to ID in the hours be-fore a court hearing on whether it will effectively strip some people of the right to vote this year.
Top Corbett adminis-tration officials testified in Commonwealth Court that a newly streamlined process for get a voting-only photo ID card from the state was finalized Monday night in an effort to satisfy a week-old Su-preme Court decision that insisted the state comply with the liberal access to a photo ID that the law seemed to promise.
The new process was supposed to become ef-fective Tuesday morning.
“We’re trying to bal-ance what the act re-quires and direction the court had led us in,” testified Shannon Royer, a deputy sec-retary for the Depart-ment of State, which oversees elections.
As a result, a regis-tered voter will no lon-ger be required to first try to get a “secure” photo ID from the state that can be used for non-voting purposes, such as cashing a check or boarding an airplane.
Also, the person seek-ing the voting-only photo ID will no longer need to show two documents that prove where they live.
However, the per-son seeking the voting-only ID will still need to swear — under penalty of law — that they have no other form of ID that is valid under the law
and give their name, date of birth, Social Security number and address.
The Commonwealth Court hearing is the lat-est chapter in a legal challenge asking to halt the law from taking ef-fect in the Nov. 6 election.
In a 4-2 decision last week, the state Supreme Court ordered Tuesday’s Commonwealth Court hearing to determine whether the state is meet-ing the law’s requirement of providing easy ac-cess to a valid photo ID.
If it is not, or if the judge believes any reg-istered voters will be prevented from casting a ballot, then the judge should halt the law from taking effect in the elec-tion, the high court said.
Lawyers for the plain-tiffs say that registered voters have continued to be turned away from state driver licensing cen-ters without a photo ID.
They cite burdensome, complicated and illegal requirements that are out of step with the law’s promise of a photo ID for every eligible voter who needs one to vote.
They also say that some people who be-lieve they are registered to vote are being turned away without an ID card because state election agency employees can-not find their name in the state’s voter database.
The hastily arranged hearing was expected to continue Tuesday after-noon and on Thursday.
At the start of the hearing, lawyers for the state complained that they knew little about people expected to tes-tify for the plaintiffs.
Witold Walczak, an American Civil Liber-ties Union lawyer who is helping represent the
plaintiffs, responded that they had had little time to prepare affida-vits from people who are complaining about dif-ficulty getting access to a state-issued photo ID.
The Supreme Court asked for an opinion by Oct. 2, just 35 days be-fore the election. The judge hearing the case, Robert Simpson, initially denied the request for a preliminary injunction in August, saying the plain-tiffs did not show that “disenfranchisement was immediate or inevitable.”
But the Supreme Court’s directions to the lower court set a much tougher standard for tolerating voter dis-enfranchisement than the one Simpson used.
Just before the first hearing before Simp-son in July, state offi-cials announced their intention to begin is-suing the voting-only ID card because the law’s opponents had argued that some people were having trouble providing the documentation neces-sary — such as an of-ficial birth record — to get the secure form of photo ID from the state. Pennsylvania’s new law is among the toughest in the nation.
The prior law re-quired identification only for people voting in a polling place for the first time and it allowed non-photo documents such as utility bills or bank statements.
The new law re-quires each voter to show a particular form of photo ID, such as a driver’s license, pass-port, active duty mili-tary identification, nursing home ID or college student ID.
Marc LevyAP EXCHANGE
Clarion, Pa. - When it comes to the upcoming presidential election, sev-eral problems rise to the top of the list as most important to the people of the United States.
Concerns such as the economy, federal deficit and job production lin-ger in the minds of both presidential candidates and those who will cast their vote in November.
Clarion University political science Profes-sor Kevan Yenerall pro-vided a political analy-sis of the election.
In the analysis, Yener-all explained that a wide range of polling data over the past several months has consistently indicated that the state of the economy and access to good jobs is far and away the most important issues for Americans.
“After that, the polls also reveal that we see ed-ucation and other issues such as health care as im-portant. But, the econo-
my is clearly the most cru-cial issue,” Yenerall said.
Barry Sweet, political science professor at the university, said the biggest issue for the candidates should be the economy.
“The economy is still in not very good shape. This has been the weak-est recovery we’ve ever seen after an economic downturn since the Great Depression,” Sweet said.
“Tackling the deficit is obviously a concern for the candidates, but for a citizen, the economy is crucial. If you are out of a job, you are more con-cerned with the economy rather than solving the na-tional debt crisis,” he said.
Clarion University stu-dent Lindsay Brant said she does not think either candidate is a good choice to help the U.S. with the struggling economy.
“Mitt Romney wants to give tax breaks to the richest people in the U.S. He wants to ignore the middle class, and not help them,” Brant said. “On the other hand, Obama had the chance to help out the econ-
omy in his first term. Obama went and made decisions for the coun-try that ended up hurting the economy,” she said.
Social human rights issues such as abortion and gay marriage, may be of concern for some in this upcoming election.
Clarion University student Abbey Streich said she thinks just that.
“My biggest concern is same-sex marriage and relationships. For the people I hang out with, it’s the issue we are most concerned about. Obama has done a good job handling the issue, and I believe that he is the best candidate to handle it,” Streich said.
Whether it is the economy, the deficit, or human rights, sev-eral issues are consid-ered to be of concern of voters in this election.
Americans have a choice, and they have a say as to who will try to solve the issues of America.
Citizens can make an impact and cast their vote for the next president on Nov. 6.
Emily MillerSTAFF WRITER
THE CLARION CALL News 3September 27, 2012
Miss Clarion University Pageant Photos
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Katie Maholic, Danielle Akrie, Christine Henry and Brittany Platz model swimwear. Chantel Peterson, Miss CU 2011, congratulates fi rst runner-up Danielle Akrie.
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Rachel Charles, sophomore, sings during the talent seg-ment of the Miss CU competition.
Shaniyah Thomas, sophomore, displays gown during the evening wear scene of the competition.
Katie Maholic, senior, dances during the talent segment ofthe Miss CU competition.
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Adrianne Gonzalez, “AG” plays an original song on-air at WCUC-FM station.
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Garrison, “Garrison Starr” shares her music with students at Clarion University’s WCUC-FM radio station.
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What’s on your mind: Weather
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Bringing clarity to hazy ALF nights
As September comes to an end, newcomers to Clarion may wonder why it is becoming so cold so fast. Well, welcome to Western Pennsylvania. Any freshmen or out-of-state students who are not from this area may be confused as to why the weather has shifted so quickly.
Many who are used to this area will say, “It’s just Clarion.” Perhaps they’re right. Or, perhaps the weather pattern sim-ply may have changed for reasons we are unaware. Either way, dressing for the weather is important. No one wants to have a cold during homecoming weekend, which is rap-idly approaching, or dur-ing midterms. Studying in between coughing and
sneezing is not fun. Trust me … I’ve been there.
Dressing appropriately for the weather can be done. For starters, check the weather forecast the night before so you can get a sense of how the weather is supposed to be the next day. By doing this, you will already know what type of clothing to choose. In the morning, check the weather again in case of any updates or slight changes in the weather for the day. If you have to be up and out early, try to check the weather through an out-let that shows the fore-cast hourly.
Even if the high for the day is supposed to be 70 degrees, at 8 a.m. it may only be near 45 degrees. By checking the hourly forecast, you will know to pack a sweater or light jacket that can be worn early in the day and tak-en off at a later time. If you know you are a per-son who gets cold easily, try keeping a pair of light gloves or a scarf in your bag so you can put them
on as needed. Now, we all know
sometimes the forecast can range from slightly to completely off, which we can’t help. Sometimes it is best to prepare for the unexpected, especial-ly if the forecast for the week already looks bleak. Keeping gloves, scarves, a small umbrella and/or a jacket handy wouldn’t hurt, especially as we ap-proach fall with this un-usual colder weather.
Whenever you’re feel-ing down about the weather remember this quote by John Ruskin: “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is re-ally no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
The writer is a communica-tion major and member of The Clarion Call.
Alizah ThorntonNEWS EDITOR
COLUMNFocus shifts from “47%” to “14%” for Romney
The writer is a communica-tion major and member of The Clarion Call.
Matt KnoedlerSTAFF WRITER
If there’s such a thing as bad timing, Mitt Romney experienced it last week. First, a video of the former Massachusetts governor was unearthed, in which he said that 47 percent of the elec-torate is already committed to President Obama and that the same 47 percent is “de-pendent” on government. Then it was announced that the Republican presidential nominee paid an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent in 2011. Although Romney and his campaign controlled the latter of these two news pieces, neither did the can-didate any good in terms of making him more likeable.
Do you pay a 14 percent tax rate on $13.7 million
worth of income? I didn’t think so. This is precise-ly why the Romney cam-paign can’t make the for-mer governor’s image and background resonate with voters. Sure, he was a suc-cessful businessman with quite a resume for a presi-dential candidate running during an economic reces-sion. But, as NBC’s “Satur-day Night Live” pointed out in last week’s show, the un-informed voter is unlikely to examine something in-depth, in this case, Rom-ney’s business background, especially when facts and figures regarding his wealth continue to be shown and seemingly demeaning re-marks against half of Amer-ica hog the airwaves.
What will likely stem from the “14 percent” story is the cliché “tax the rich” chant. We’ve seen Presi-dent Obama tout “The Buf-fett Rule” throughout the campaign and this could be a selling point for Obama’s surrogates in the coming
weeks. Romney and his team should tread lightly when discussing wealththroughout the rest of thecampaign given the general nature of the topic and themere acknowledgement thatmost voters aren’t like himin this capacity.
I don’t want to completelydiscredit the timing of Rom-ney’s tax information. It’slikely his campaign releasedthe numbers now in hopesthat the story would quicklydie amidst the hubbub ofthe “47 percent” comment. It doesn’t appear, however, that such is the case.
Romney needs to be near-ly perfect in Wednesday’s debate to rebound from allof the drama that ensued from 47 and 14. If he can, then it’s likely he’ll be able to put all of this behind him.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
There will always be parties, but there can only be one ALF. Delicious fes-tival food, beautiful fall colors and great times with the people that shape your life are my favorite ingredients of Clarion’s Autumn Leaf Festival.
Current students don’t always understand the majesty of ALF I certainly didn’t. To some, ALF is a long weekend that trans-
forms the university into a place, that if only for one weekend, isn’t a “suit-case school.” Being so early in the year, it can be a time where new friend-ships are formed. ALF is when students come to-gether to create bonds that will never be broken. It’s where the hazy memo-ries you can’t quiet recall were some of the best you’ve ever had.
This year will be my sixth ALF, and my second com-ing back as a proud Clarion alum. To me, ALF is now a time and place that symbol-izes the strength of those bonds and to relive those hazy memories. Its a time to remember the joys of col-lege life while rekindling the flames of friendship that of-ten grow cold with distance
and lack of attention. The spirit of the Golden
Eagle always flies the high-est as the leaves turn and the nest fills. On this 59th annual ALF celebration, I encourage you to remem-ber friendship above all else, and enjoy spending time with those who help you soar. Of course this is the biggest party of the year, but without having the people you’ll be par-tying with to laugh about it later, all you’d have is a hazy memory.
As always, act right and hopefully our paths cross.
-Dj Lovey, Class of ‘11
Ryan LoverickCLARION UNIVERSITY
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The writer is a 2011 Clarion University gradu-ate and former member of The Clarion Call.
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With the women’s track and field season approaching fast, the Clarion University wom-en’s track and field team recently held a fund rais-er to help raise money for its upcoming season. On Sept. 24, the women’s track and field second annual Sneaker Sale took place in the Gemmell Multi-Purpose Room.
From 8 a.m. .unti l 5 p.m. , students were able to browse through various sports apparel from some of the top brands avai lable. The sneakers, sweatshirts , T-shirts , hats and oth-er items for sale were al l reasonably priced. Shoes were avai lable for a buy-one-get- one 50 percent off discount.
The prices were set in
order to get students, faculty and others in need of sports apparel to buy the products and support the Clarion Uni-versity women’s track and field team.
Women’s track and f ie ld and cross country head coach D.J . Beve-v ino received an emai l from the company that sponsors the sale . That was when he got the idea to use the event to ra ise money for his teams. Bevevino has been holding this sale s ince Spr ing 2011 and wi l l cont inue to host the event because of the popular i ty .
Money raised at the event will go toward buying training and con-ditioning equipment as well as clothing for both the women’s track and field and the women’s cross country teams.
On Sept. 21 Clarion Uni-versity’s own radio station 91.7 WCUC-FM hosted two independent artists. Adri-anne Gonzalez and Garri-son Starr stopped in Clar-ion on their way to their concert later that evening at Clarion University’s Ve-nango College.
The duo appeared on “The Lunch Line with DJ Friendly” and performed a live set similar to what they would be performing later that evening. The artists also talked with DJ Friendly and DJ Breezy also of WCUC about the perks of being an independent artists and how the internet has affect-ed and continues to influ-ence their fan base. With all of the hype surrounding the event the artists made sure to plug their newest work to the radio audience.
Gonzalez, who performs under the stage name AG, and Starr are in the middle
of a cross country tour to promote their newest work. For AG, that work is a new twist on some old classics by The Beatles. AG says she considers herself “very
lucky” because she owns the rights to the only six songs originated by the Fab Four that are not owned by Sony. She has released her take on the songs on a new
EP. She said “I grew up on the Beatles, and always wanted to play guitar like them, and now being able to put my own spin on things is something I never dreamed I would do.”
Starr, on the other hand, didn’t have a specialty proj-ect but instead brought her newest album “Amateur.” During breaks in the live set, the show hosts played
songs off both albums andthen gave knee jerk re-views to both artists. “I hadnever heard of either artistbefore and I’m not usuallyan indie music type of per-son, but Garrsion and AGmight make me change mymind” said Bre Lehman akaDJ Breezy.
After the duo had fin-ished their second set,the WCUC DJ’s asked about social media andthe effects sites likeFacebook, Twitter andYoutube have on art-ists, Starr said “It’s greatthat [YouTube] can getmy music out there butI think its really messedup that anybody can pickup a tin can and get a mil-lion (expletive) views.”AG also added that nei-ther belong to a big la-bel she feels that socialnetworking is the “bestfree promotion I can get.I pull out my phone, sendout a quick message andeverybody can see whereI’m playing next.”
THE CLARION CALL Features 5SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
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Singer/song writers Garrison Starr (left) and AG (right) perform in the 91.7 WCUC studios
Student group to hold mock car crash
Kyra AmmonSTAFF WRITER
Mike FriendFEATURES EDITOR
Clarion’s Students Against Destructive De-cisions organization will be holding a mock crash, Sept. 27 at 12:30 p.m. in which there will be a staged car collision re-sulting from drunk driv-ing. This is the second mock crash this year and it will serve, as a warning to students of the grave consequences of driv-ing under the influence. The event will be held at 12:30 p.m. outside the Marwick-Boyd Fine Arts Center and Gemmell Stu-dent Complex buildings.
Clarion firefighters, paramedics and police officers participate, too. They will be called to the scene to go through the procedures for a fatal col-lision as if it were the real thing. This includes clear-ing the scene, checking it for those who can still be saved, getting assistance to those individuals and removing the deceased and transporting the in-jured to the hospital. On-
lookers will have the op-portunity to witness the process and see how au-thorities respond to this type of incident.
The mock crash held earlier this year was a success. Many students showed up to watch the aftermath of the crash. The atmosphere was a solemn one, as the dis-turbing magnitude of the situation set in.
S.A.D.D. stresses the seriousness of the event so that the impression can be implanted firmly in everyone’s mind. As the school year progresses and the Autumn Leaf Fes-tival approaches, some students may be tempted to participate in parties involving dangerous sub-stances, which can lead to bad decision making and dire outcomes. The goal is to discourage people from taking deadly risks such as driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and to create a re-minder that fatal crashes and the loss of loved ones or one’s own life can hap-pen to anyone.
Golden Eagle track
team holds fund raiserMarissa Katz
STAFF WRITER
Top 10Words or phrases that
have fallen out of the
American vocabulary
1. “TAKE THAT BACK!”
2. “WAZZZ UP?!?!”
3. “AS IF...”
4. “JINKIES”
6. “WHIPPER SNAPPER”
5. “CATTY WOMPUS”
7. “DANG NABBITT”
8. “O.M.G” AND “JK” AS WORDS
9. “SHENANIGANS”
10. “KERFUFFLE”
Mike FriendFEATURES EDITOR
Many children of the ‘90’s may remember screaming this phrase at somebody on the playground or even at their parents on that one rare occasion. It seems that many fourth graders have forgotten the phrase that was the end-all-be all of any argument.
Modern inflections of this phrase may include “What’s up?” or “Hey, how’s it going,” but rewind just a few years ago and “Wazzz up?!?! was the go to phrase if you saw a friend on the street and mad props to you if you could make it last over five seconds.
This phrase was a staple of the early ‘90’s and beyond, espe-cially to those who fancied themselves as “vally girls.” Often pep-pered in among a multitude of “likes” and “what-evers”
Harkening from the days of Scooby-Doo, jinkies is a word that is used more frequently than other words on the list. However, the only people who probably use it are your grandmother or the arts and entertainment editor of The Call.
Many people don’t use this word or even know what it means. Conventional wisdom says that it means ajar or crooked. However some people use it to mean something is messed up or not as they should be. If somebody should choose to use it, do so responsibly.
Chances are that the only place you’ve heard this word is on television or from somebody’s grandfather when he’s chasing kids off of this lawn. Whipper snappers are a serious thing as they can cause damage to your property or even steal your Christmas lights.
Another “old person” word makes the list in “dang nabbitt.” Commonly used as an old-school alternative to swearing, this word has really fallen out of use due to the rise of more creative “alterna-tives” If a person uses this word in a real life context, watch out.
In this fast paced, tech driven society everybody is always looking for a quick way out. Few remember when O.M.G and JK were actually acronyms.
Not as uncommon as “whipper snapper,” shenanigans is a great word to describe general tomfoolery and is a great alternative to “terrible pranks.”
A kerfuffle is a chaotic situation or mess around a certain area. Although it sounds like a new candy, a real kerfuffle doesn’t have a chewy nougat center.
Indie artists showcase work at university radio station
MADRID — The Bank of Spain warned Wednesday that the country is in a deep reces-sion, a day after clashes in Ma-drid between protesters and the police led to 38 people arrested and 64 injured.
The demonstrations on Tues-day evening against the govern-ment’s austerity drive at a time of mass unemployment put in sharp relief the scale of discontent that’s brewing in a country suffer-ing its second recession in three years and an unemployment rate of nearly 25 percent.
In the wake of the clashes and a warning from the central bank’s that the country’s economy con-tinues to shrink “significantly,” financial markets have grown increasingly nervous. The main IBEX index in Madrid was down a hefty 2.6 percent, while Spain’s 10-year bond yield edged back up toward 6 percent.
On Tuesday, several thou-sand people — 6,000 according to authorities — converged on the national Parliament build-ing in central Madrid. More than 1,000 riot police blocked off access to the building, forc-ing protesters to crowd nearby avenues. Police baton-charged protesters at the front of the march and some demonstra-tors broke down barricades and threw rocks and bottles.
Smaller demonstrations held on Tuesday attracted hundreds of protesters in Bar-celona and Seville.
The protesters are calling for fresh elections, claiming the gov-ernment’s hard-hitting auster-ity measures are proof the ruling Popular Party misled voters when it won power last November.
Leaders of the protests said
on their website that they wouldstage a fresh rally later Wednes-day.
A National Police spokeswom-an said Wednesday that 27 of theinjured were police officers. Shespoke on condition of anonymitybecause of police rules.
The government praised thepolice, saying the protest was anattack on democracy.
“I congratulate the police,” saidInterior Minister Jorge FernandezDiaz. “They did their duty.”
Opposition Socialist partyspokesman Eduardo Madinasaid the government shouldtake note of the popular dis-content, adding that some im-ages of the police charges dis-played “pure brutality.”
The government is expected topresent a new batch of economi-cally painful reforms on Thursdaywhen it unveils a draft budget for2013. Even before enacting thenew measures, the governmentwas predicting a 1.5 percent eco-nomic contraction this year. TheBank of Spain’s warning Wednes-day suggests it may be more.
On Friday, an auditor will re-lease the results of stress testson Spanish banks hit hard bythe collapse of the country’sreal estate sector, which droveeconomic growth until the 2008financial crisis hit. The govern-ment will then judge how muchof a €100 billion loan it will tapto help bail out the banks. Ini-tial estimates say the banks willneed some €60 billion.
But Spain is also underpressure from investors toapply for European CentralBank assistance in order tokeep its borrowing costsdown. Spanish Prime Min-ister Mariano Rajoy has yetto say whether Madrid willapply for the aid, knowingthat such assistance comeswith conditions.
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This Week in History Sept. 27- Oct. 3Mike Friend
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On this day in 1930, Bobby Jones wins an un-precedented fourth major golf tournament in one year after he captures the U.S. Amateur Open title. The win marked the first time any professional golfer had won the “Grand Slam” of golf.
Jones’ accomplishment would come on the same course in Ardmore, Pa. where he had won his first tournament 14 years prior.
In his last professional at-bat Red Sox All-Star Ted Wil-lams belts a home run on Sept. 28, 1960
Williams, who was booed early in his career, swore never to tip his hat to the home fans at Boston’s Fenway Park. De-spite being only one of two men to win baseball’s Triple Crown twice, he never once tipped his cap. Willams was once quoted saying “I want to walk down the street and have everyone who sees me say ‘There goes the greatest hitter ever.’”
Flight attendant Paula Prince becomes the final vic-tim in the mysterious case of cyanide laced Tylenol around Chicago on Sept. 29, 1982.
Several others in the Chi-cago area also died after in-gesting the over-the-counter medicine. The deaths lead to a nationwide recall of all Tylenol products. However testing showed the contami-nation was limited to north-east Illinois.
The mastermind behind the murders was never ap-prehended, but the scare did lead to the tamper-proof medicine bottles that are used today.
On this day in 1955, the “reb-el without a cause” James Dean died in a car wreck on a Califor-nia highway.
Dean was on his way to a race in Salinas, Calif. in his Porsche Spyder 550 when he collided head on with a car driven by 23 year-old Donald Turnaspeed.
Dean was taken to a local hospital where he was pro-nounced dead on arrival. Dean’s mechanic and Turnaspeed es-caped relatively uninjured.
On Oct. 1, 1908, Detroit car company Ford unveils the first Model T motor car.
While the Model T was in production, from 1908 through 1927, Ford pro-duced more than 15 million of the popular car.
President Woodrow Wil-son suffers a massive stroke while at the White House on Oct. 2, 1919.
The stroke was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage that was caused when the president fainted just a few days earlier
In order to express his gratitude for the Union Army victory at Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln declares Nov. 26 as a nation-al holiday of Thanksgiving.
Spain counts cost of anti-austerity protest
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The Music Box is back again this week discussing Beast Patrol’s first EP, “Fierce and Grateful.” The Music Box Pod-cast can be heard Fri-day mornings on 91.7 WCUC-FM at 10:30 a.m. If you have any music related ques-tions, email us at e n te r t a i n m e n t @ c l a r i o n callnews.com, @tweet us at twitter.com/call_ae.
AMERIGO ALLEGRETTO
Beast Patrol’s debut EP, “Fierce and Grateful” dis-plays a great dynamic of spacey 80s dance grooves and catchy driving rock. Even though I’m not par-ticularly a huge fan of 80s music, I can still appreciate its influence in their music.
The first song, “Disbe-liever” gets the EP mov-ing with forceful, yet con-
trolled drumming with the guitar right there along with it. My favorite part of the whole EP is a little past two minutes into this song.
“Plaster,” the second song on the EP, feels like if someone went back in time to around the mid-80’s and played this song in the middle of a playlist at a dance club, they could get away with it without anybody noticing that they have just heard sounds from the future.
The song would blend in perfectly with what was going on musically around that time. There might be some suspi-cion of how clean-cut the sounds are and the vo-cals but everything else resembles the aesthetics
of 80’s dance music. From these songs, I get
the impression that their guitarist draws a heavy in-fluence from U2’s guitar player The Edge and some other 80s guitar players. The guitar parts are re-freshing despite these in-fluences due to the reverb and delay effects used throughout the EP. The drumming is relentlessly straightforward, almost too straight-forward for my liking, though. I feel it could be a bit more spas-modic in some parts. The vocals remind me of a less trembling, more enthusias-tic Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Though to be fair to Beast Patrol, this is only an EP and a blue-print of things to come.
BLAYNE SHEAFFER
The brand-spanking new band Beast Patrol has released their first EP, titled “Fierce and Grateful,” and I don’t hate it.
The band has a surf rock-Brit pop guitar feel with lead singer Vanes-sa Bley’s Gwen Stefani-esque groan. The open-ing track “Disbeliever” instantly reminded this fan of The Kooks.
Beast Patrol sounds like a band a listener would swear they heard before, or had forgot-ten about, and provides for a nostalgic love that can’t be denied. I want to dislike them, but I just can’t.
In an interview with College Music Journal, the band said they met in the Spring of 2011 and began creating mu-sic less than a year later.
When asked where the title for “Fierce and Grateful” came from in the sane interview, Beast Patrol said, “Like anything passionate, there seems to be a dichotomy of urgency with grace. We play hard but with compas-sion and are thankful to do it.”
Two songs on “Fierce and Grateful” provides a whimsical and excit-ing sound, most specifi-cally “Plaster.” The sin-gle is where the EP gets the surf rock feel from the guitar and spins it into a story of hard rock heartbreak with lyrics like, “I watched you fall apart/ and try to clean it up/ you picked up half the pieces/ of the broken heart,” it’s hard not to swoon to Bley’s croon on this track.
But the EP turned
out to be too good tobe true with the song“New Escape.” Some-thing about the toneof Bley’s voice in thechorus just grated mynerves, something likean over-played SpiceGirls song. The only dif-ference being that thisband’s target audienceis not between the agesof six and 10 years old.
The last song on “Fierce andGrateful,”“Rio,” is noteven worth my men-tioning, as it is blandand without any emo-tion worth noting. Eachtime I let the EP playthrough I always miss“Rio,” not realizing ithad just played untilthe last somber note.
Beast Patrol does have some promise toit. If their first albumsends off the samevibes as “Plaster” and“Disbeliever,” theymay just find them-selves with not onlyfans of a respectableage, but also a bettertaste in music.
MARK EMCH
The rising Brooklyn-based pseudo-punk band released their debut EP, “Fierce and Grateful” on Tuesday, showcasing four of their songs.
While the band de-scribes itself as “heavier Cure, lighter Zep,” I’m not sure if Beast Patrol proper-
ly fits that category. “Plas-ter,” the first track off the EP, sounds more like Best Coast if anything, giving off a surf-rock vibe. Robert Granata makes extensive use of the whammy bar while playing airy power chords on his guitar, while lead singer Vannessa Bley sounds like a raspier, more haunting version of Beth-any Cosentino. Still, the song is sweet ear candy. While the intro and cho-ruses scream surf-rock, the verses sound more like dance club music, almost bordering electronica. Bley’s vocals also have a fairly wide range, swing-ing from soft and subtle to surprisingly powerful.
“Disbeliever” delivers a more chord-driven punk sound, with Bley showing off her pipes and not being conservative about it. She even lets loose a shrieking scream before the guitar solo, and again at the end. The song overall sounds kind of like Paramore if Haley Williams had more a Joan Jett kind of voice: simple chord progressions, dynamic voice.
Beast Patrol may want to reconsider which bands they compare themselves to. The Cure were more driven by mel-ody than chords, and Led Zeppelin always had that bluesy metal sound that made them iconic.
Imagine combing the sound of Paramore with that of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, with a pinch of 80’s pop. The resulting concoction would be Beast Patrol, a largely unknown, indie rock trio that formed in Brooklyn, New York, circa 2011. The band doesn’t have a Wiki-pedia page, and only cre-
ated a Facebook fan page a few months ago. Needless to say, Beast Patrol is still in the fledgling days of its musical career, but none-theless has displayed an impressive amount of po-tential in its latest release, “Fierce and Grateful.” Set to rapidly beating drums, the first track of the EP, “Disbeliever,” is primar-ily a good listen thanks to lead singer Vanessa Bley’s vocals. There’s a hint of fa-miliarity in her voice, remi-niscent of Gwen Stefani. And comparisons to the former lead woman of No Doubt is never a bad thing. “Plaster” slows down the manic pace set by “Disbe-liever,” and showcases the depths of Bley’s lyrical abil-
ity. Bley croons an echoing melody over-top of a funky baseline, before break-ing into an enveloping and deeply emotional chorus. I regret to admit that the back-end tracks of the EP, “New Escape” and “Rio,” failed to excite. Wheras “Disbeliever” and “Plaster” displayed a quirky, neo-pop-punk attitude, the fi-nal two tracks of the album sound like canned clones of earlier alternative rock bands. Bley gives her best impression of imperson-ating Paramore’s Hayley Williams’ vocals, and falls short of equal comparison. I commend Beast Pa-trol for their unique to-nality on the first two tracks of their release.
Beast Patrol’s debut EP “Fierce and Grateful” can be described with exactly one example of meta-phoric imagery: the likes of a Clarion rain storm; the unexpected kind that occur in the midst of pure sunshine, yet some-how, you are completely drenched by the time you get to class. Then just as quickly as it starts, it’s over, leaving a vivid trace of itself behind in the form of a happy rainbow. The intense delivery yet delicately paced construc-tion of the four-track EP should leave you with rel-atively the same affect. “Fierce and Grateful” kicks off with an energet-
ic start in “Disbeliever”. Vannessa Bley’s gritty voice will keep listeners on a roller-coaster ride of range, with sultry coos juxtaposed against fast-paced, urgent drums, and high-pitched wails that break up the con-stant upbeat, pop sound-ing melody. “Plaster” takes on a drowsy rhythm in com-parison, as Bley’s voice softens considerably while she sings to an ex-lover of the “last time we were in love.” I couldn’t help but picturing my-self shopping in Forever 21 or H&M and hearing this soft, dream-like tune pumping through the sound system. The sly guitar riffs and groovy chorus of “New Escape” will immerse lis-teners into what could be the theme song for the next big spy movie. If not that, it could definitely be the new anthem for anyone going through a recent breakup or detach-ment from a significant other, with lyrics like “I
need a new escape; I need to stop running away,” and more blatantly “Got to go, I don’t like any-thing about you” drop-ping some big hints of a desired romantic split. “Rio” is the conclusion of the album, and leaving its mark just like the rain-bow after a downpour, it will continually play on repeat in your head long after the track finishes. With the most impressive chorus on the EP and by far the heaviest rock vibe like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, you won’t find yourself fighting to sing along with Bley’s edgiest and most heartfelt vocals yet. While each song packs a different punch, each track on “Fierce and Grateful” seems to en-compass the idea of pas-sion and an energetic fe-rocity as well as a melodic grace that in its brevity will leave you craving a full length production of its sound. A must-hear for lovers of indie rock, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Metric and Phantogram.
The Pittsburgh-based folk band, City Dwelling Nature Seekers, jammed out the night at the local Toby Hill Bar and Grill Saturday, Sept. 22. Their set consisted mostly of songs from their latest full-length album “The Winter Year,” a few cov-ers and improvisations.
At the beginning of the night, the band played
its own songs, including “Autumn Sings,” filled with various Americana mandolin melodies. The song was fitting for this time of year, with lyr-ics like “Summer’s gone and Autumn sings.” During some of these first songs, the drum-mer took the place of an absent steel-guitar player while still man-aging to do percussion accents to contribute to the alt-country style.
A few songs into their set, the audience could identify The Band as one of their main influ-ences. While listening to the drummer, Chris Parker, throughout the night (whether jamming or providing an upbeat verse), the audience could feel a presence of the late Levon Helm.
The lead singer and acoustic guitar player, Mi-chael McCormick, said that just he and Parker played
The Band’s second album. “The Brown Record” in its entirety at The Thunder-bird Café in Pittsburgh. McCormick also said that album, as well as “Harvest” by Neil Young and “Heart-break” by Ryan Adams, are also substantial influences in their music.
The last half of the set was filled with covers and prolonged, semi-improvisational jams of their own folk songs as well as covers that in-
cluded “End of the Line” by The Traveling Wil-burys and “Walk of Life” by Dire Straits.
The jammed-out ver-sion of their song “Half-way Home,” the first song on their most re-cent release, could draw comparisons to a more folk-based Grateful Dead. McCormick said that because Toby Hill Bar and Grill double-booked that night, the band took extreme lib-
erty with their set. Mc-Cormick also said thatthey usually don’t ex-tend their songs for thatlong, even though theaudience seemed to en-joy it immensely.
All night, City Dwell-ing Nature Seekersplayed their own in-terpretation of honest,soulful folk music whilecarrying a melting potof influences that givethe band a relaxed, re-freshing sound.
Clarion art gallery gets contemporary
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Vicky Clark, head of the art department and curator of the Clarion University art gallery says, “Collect-ing is an addiction fueled by desire, my aim as a cu-rator is to bring in a variety of contemporary art and bring an excitement and energy to art.”
The art gallery features a variety of items collected by various people, rang-ing from Pez dispensers to Japanese prints. This series is the first in a yearly series mainly focusing on the as-pects of contemporary art from persona, public and private collections in the region. The collection series will last Sept. 17– Oct. 30.
Elizabeth Donato, a French teacher at Clarion, has a collection of rubber ducks in the exhibit. There is also a collection of paper-weights, vintage cameras,
two Chinese floral water color paintings, various black-and-white paintings and three kimonos in the exhibit. Clark also managed to get a rare Alcoa table and dining tools set made entirely of aluminum. Con-
temporary art is a more up-to-date style of art. These collectors are alive and still collecting items that pique their interest and that they would like others to view.
“Contemporary art is art of the last 10 years,
but I will take art from the 1960’s but not before,” says Clark. “Contemporary art-ists make these practices visual, widening references while also attempting to an-swer basic questions about our existence.”
There are also various black-and-white paintings of different races and na-tionalities. Clark believes in bringing diversity to the art gallery. Furthermore, there is also a set-up of old bricks and a collection
of teapots from the 1860sto the present.
A lot of the art in thegallery is from Pittsburghartists. Dr. Clark previ-ously worked for an artmuseum in Pittsburgh. Forexample, Jeff Schwarz, aPittsburgh native, collectshead sculptures and Clarkhas pictures of those avail-able to be viewed.
The art gallery has threeshows over the course of theyear: the collections seriesSept. 17 – Oct. 30, ClarionUniversity Art Gallery Nov.6 – March 30, 2013 and theBFA Show May 1 – 17, 2013.
The art gallery is notlimited to art profession-als. The gallery hours areTuesdays, Wednesdays andThursdays 2p.m.-6p.m. andFriday 2p.m.-5p.m., Clarksays. Students are welcometo come and assist on up-coming exhibits.
“I believe in cre-ative minds and studentworks,” says Clark.
City Dwelling Nature Seekers take Toby Hill
Clarion students and staff show off their collections in the latest art gallery exhibit.Kelsey Waros/ The Clarion Call
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Swogger sports her crown in this year’s Miss Clarion University Pageant.Brittany Harger / The Clarion Call
Swogger crowned Miss Clarion University
On Sept. 25, The Miss Clar-ion University Pageant took place in Gemmell’s Multi-Purpose Room. Nine stu-dents took the stage for their chance to become Miss Clarion University, but only Emily Swogger left with the crown and the title. Chris-tine Henry claimed the run-ner-up title and Danielle Ak-rie placed third. The event, hosted by the University Activities Board’s Multicultural Activities Com-mittee consisted of seven rounds. After the opening scene, the ladies all correctly answered a Clarion Universi-ty-related question. Next was the swimwear promenade, followed by the talent portion of the competition. The students showed off a varied show-case of talents. The first
competitor, Katie Maholic, danced and hula-hooped to the classic Beatles song “Here Comes the Sun.” Shaniyah Thomas per-formed a step routine, which
was followed by a classical flute performance by Kait Briggs. Next up was Danielle Akrie with a reading of the poem “I Smile.” Rachel Charles performed
“Traveling Soldier” by the Dixie Chicks and Brittany Platz showed off with a hula-hoop dance routine. Chris-tine Henry gave an inspir-ing musical performance of
“Umbrella” by Rihanna, then Chantel McCargo modeled to a medley of popular music. Last up was the night’s winner, Emily Swogger, with an impres-sive tumbling performance.
The evening closed witha formal promenade and thefinal question, giving thestudents an opportunity toweigh in on current issues. “Miss Clarion University willrepresent the university. It’s different than being at other events because these girlshave gone through an entireprocess and worked for it byshowing off their personal-ity, poise and talents,” saysDeBreea Dunston, UAB mul-ticultural chair. “It takes a lot of effort to do what these girls have all done tonight.” As Miss Clarion Univer-sity, Swogger will havethe opportunity to rideon a float with the GoldenEagle during the annualAutumn Leaf Festival pa-rade. She will also havea featured position in anupcoming pep rally, aswell as the holding thetitle until she crowns nextyear’s Miss CU.
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THE CLARION CALL September 27, 2012Sports 10
As the weeks go by in the National Football League, the big thing that has been a problem, and the big topic all around the league is the referees.
All the players and coach-es are ready for the real ref-erees to come back because the replacements just don’t know what they are doing.
On Sunday, Sept. 23 during the Steelers-Raiders game in the fourth quarter, Ryan Mun-dy led with his head and put a hard hit on Raiders wide re-
ceiver Darrius Heyward-Bey.This took him out of the
game and no penalty flag was thrown against Mundy.
If that wasn’t bad enough, this past week’s game be-tween the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers was the latest example of the referees incompetence.
There was a controver-sial call at the end of the game when the referees seemed to have gotten the wrong call on the play.
When the Seahawks’ quar-terback Russell Wilson threw the ball up to his wide receiv-er Golden Tate, the refs ruled
the play to be a touchdown, but to some people, it seemed to be an interception by the Packers’ M.D. Jennings.
This play cost the Packers the game, and stirred up a lot criticism towards the re-placement refs.
The league and fan base are just wondering when the lock-out will end with the regular refs because the replacements are not doing a good job, really don’t know what they are doing or looking for during the games and they are even getting the wrong call or missing a call.
This problem needs to be fixed soon.
The Clarion University football team clashed with Gannon University on Satur-day, Sept. 22 at University Field in Erie, Pa.
The Eagles (2-2, 1-1) defeated Gannon 13-7. “It was raining the whole game, and we
started off on the wrong foot with the in-terception for a touchdown,” said junior quarterback Ben Fiscus. “Our defense did a great job at holding them off and got a shutout even though they didn’t get it on the scoreboard.”
Besides the pick, Fiscus completed seven-of-22 attempts for 62 yards while throwing two touchdowns.
The first came with 2:10 left in the first quarter when Fiscus hooked up with tight end Mike Deitrick for an 11-yard completion, and the second came late in the first half on a 17-yard toss to a wide open Nick Perry.
Fiscus also had 12 carries for 94 yards. Tailback Bobby Thomas chipped in with
106 yards on 33 carries.“We would have liked to have a better
game, but we got the win,” said Fiscus.As a team, the Eagles nearly dominated
every category in the box score. Clarion racked up 272 yards total of-
fense to the Knights 112 yards.
Gannon came out of halftime fighting, driving the ball down inside the red zone and threatening to score.
The Knights decided to go for it on a trick play on fourth and three on the Ea-gles 15 yard line.
Clarion’s senior linebacker Nate Sipes read the play perfectly and stopped the Knights for a one-yard loss.
“They had run a fake earlier in the sea-son off their field goal unit. We told the guys you have to be ready for something goofy. Thankfully, we saw something sim-ilar against Post. When we saw it again, our guys adjusted to it perfectly,” said Clarion’s Head Coach Jay Foster.
Defensively, the Eagles were led by Bri-an Palmiere and Anthony Stimac who had seven tackles each.
Julian Howsare added six tackles and re-corded one sack.
Kyle McWreath and Jacob Heintz chipped in with a sack a piece as well.
“Going in, we talked about how big of a game it was,” Foster said. “Our ultimate goal is to still win the conference. We are a good football team, but at this level an 8-3 season can get you nowhere. We needed this win to stay in the race.”
The Eagles will host East Stroudsburg University on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 6 p.m. at Memorial Stadium.
Mike DeckerSTAFF WRITER
The Clarion University women’s soccer team suffered a disappointing 2-0 loss at the hands of Seton Hill University on Tuesday, Sept. 25.
The Clarion Golden Eagles were com-ing off a heartbreaking loss on Saturday, Sept. 22 against Slippery Rock University which saw the Golden Eagles come back from a 2-0 deficit at halftime to tie the game at 2-2 with the first goal coming in the 65th minute from Kathleen Warner.
The second goal came in the 86th minute when Casey Harsch scored.
Clarion would give up a goal in the 89th minute and lose the game 3-2.
The Golden Eagles faced seven shots on goal with goalkeeper Laura Saussol making four saves.
The Golden Eagles (1-5-2 overall) saved a shot in the sixth minute, and had a shot on goal in the eighth minute that hit off the post.
Clarion had to make another save in the 13th minute.
The scoreless tie was broken in the 21st minute by Seton Hill off a Katelyn Wiater goal.
The Golden Eagles were down 1-0 at the break.
Clarion gave up a second goal in the 46th minute as they trailed 2-0.
No matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t seem to get in a rhythm and pull off a comeback.
“Even though we played well, it was miserable out there. The positives are that we will never play that poorly again,” said Head Coach Robert Eaton.
Just in case coach Eaton is wrong and the team does put on another perfor-mance like that, he isn’t confident that they’ll win another game.
“If we continue to play like that, we won’t win another game. We just physi-cally and mentally have to show up. All I’m going to ask of this team is that they commit to the battle.”
Clarion allowed 15 shots on goal as goalkeeper Saussol allowed only two goals, saving 13 of 15 shots faced.
The Golden Eagles will host Blooms-burg University (3-4) Friday, Sept. 28 at noon.
Clarion comes up short in 2-0 loss
Who will win the second NL wild card?
Every baseball fan always looks for-ward to September ball, seeing the dra-ma unfold in all the division races, and of course, to see who sneaks in as that wild-card team.
When baseball added a second wildcard team to each league effective this season, baseball fans knew that from now on, they would be in for a real treat.
Adding a second wildcard adds more drama, and more hope for those 85 win teams out there.
The race for that second wildcard has gotten wilder, especially in the Na-tional league.
There are still six teams that are math-ematically alive for that second spot.
The defending champion St. Louis Cardi-nals find themselves with that second spot.
Last season, back when there was only one wild-card spot, the Cardinals found themselves 10 and a half games behind in mid August.
We all know what happened from there.The Cardinals went on an incredible
run, just like it says on their champion-ship shirts; they went “from wildcard to World Series champions.”
Looking back at that team, they had the starting pitching, the lineup, the bullpen, and the will to go on the run that they did, giving them their 11th World title.
The 2012 Cardinals have those same qualities to hang on to that final wild-card spot.
At 82-71, with eight games to go, the Cardinals are heading in the right direction to clinch the final wild-card spot.
Their pitching has still remains the focal point of this team.
Kyle Lohse, a solid National League Cy Young contender, is 16-3 with a 2.77 ERA this season.
Don’t forget about former Cy Young winnger Adam Wainwright either.
He hasn’t had the greatest of seasons, but he has pitched well in the postsea-son. I think he’ll do the same thing and bounce back strong from an average reg-ular season. The Cardinals also have a nice lineup, with some well-known slug-gers in the middle of it.
We all know about Matt Holliday, who is having another solid year, with an av-erage of .298, 27 homers and 98 RBIs, and was a big part of the Cards title run last season.
Of course, you have third baseman Da-vid Freese, last year’s World Series MVP.
He has also put together a nice sea-son with a .296 average, adding 20 ding-ers and 79 RBIs. Look for him to step it up again down the stretch, and into the postseason just like he did last season.
But one player to watch out for is Carlos Beltran.
After being traded to the Giants at the trade deadline last season, Beltran was signed by St. Louis in the offseason, and started the season off fast.
He will be a key part of the lineup through the rest of the season and the postseason.
The schedule also favors the Cards.They have two more games against the
woeful Astros, and six games against divi-sion winners who probably will be resting some of their starters, as they host the Na-tionals and Reds.
Their smallest lead is three games, over the Dodgers and Brewers.
That’s most likely not enough time to gain that much ground in the standings.
After all that’s said, it looks good for the Cardinals to defend their title.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are trying to keep a steady pace in the wild card run-ning, and clinch the final National League Wild Card spot.
Although the Dodgers are four and a half behind the St. Louis Cardinals, with much hard work and discipline they can still clinch the final National League wild -card spot.
The Dodgers have to try their best to keep pitching well.
A key component to keep excellent pitching going for the Dodgers is to keep Clayton Kershaw healthy.
Kershaw has been out since Sept.11 because of a sore hip, and hasn’t pitched since.
With the way he played Sunday night in his first game back, you wouldn’t believe it.
Kershaw managed five ragged innings. There are seven games left to play, and
the Dodgers who are 79-75 can’t afford to lose any more games.
The Dodgers are tied with the Milwaukee Brewers at four and a half games behind the Cardinals for the National League’s sec-ond wild-card spot.
On Tuesday, Sept. 25, the Dodgers suf-fered a 2-1 lost against the San Diego Pa-dres at Petco Park.
However, the Dodgers have not lost a series at Petco over the past two seasons.
They have won 10 of 15 games there.The Dodgers need to let the thought of
giving the ball to Aaron Harang go. In no way is he a candidate to pick up a
much needed win in their part. To keep this hope alive, the Dodgers
have to end this season with a surge.Toughing up against the Padres for
these next couple of games, and closing the road series is their last hope.
Again, if the Dodgers can keep Kemp going with him just hitting .167 since his horrible wall collision back in August, the offense chance will be strong.
To put it mildly, the odds aren’t in the Dodgers favor.
Many people are just saying that they have less than a five percent chance to make the playoffs.
However, the Dodgers have just enough power to flip all odds against them.
The Cardinals have an easier job with their next couple of opponents than the Dodgers do.
The Dodgers have to face the Colo-rado Rockies after their series with the Padres concludes.
Both the Rockies and the Padres have been doing excellent at home and on the road.
The Cardinals have a slight advantage taking on the Houston Astros who have a 50-105 record, and the Washington Nation-als who lost their last game.
David Freese of the Cardinals, who has been having trouble with his ankle, could be a major issue in causing this team to end on a sour note.
The Cardinals are going to try with much effort to be aggressive in getting Freese back in the lineup.
With the Dodgers being 39-39 on the road, have a chance to have their first win-ning record away from Dodgers Stadium since 2009 in which they went 45-36.
Establishing this feat gives them all the more encouragement to push and clinch their wild-card position.
This once powerhouse of a team needs to keep faith.
Beating the odds and staying focused is the key for the Dodgers to clinch the final National League wildcard spot.
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Justin CostaSTAFF WRITER
The Clarion Golden Eagles women’s golf team hosted its only home meet of the 2012-2013 season this past weekend at Clarion Oaks Golf Club.
The Eagles finished ninth out of eleven teams with a final overall score of 716.
Kutztown University won the event with an overall score of 662.
Wheeling Jesuit University came in sec-ond with a score of 667 followed by Gannon University with a score of 670.
Morgan Miller of Seton Hill University shot a one over 73 during medal play giving her a two day winning total of 153.
Kasey Frazier of Wheeling Jesuit placed second with a score of 155, and Lauren Smith of Kutztown finished third with a score of 159.
The Eagles best individual performance came from junior Alyssa Gerhart who fin-ished No. 21 overall.
Gerhart shot a pair of 87s for an overall
score of 174.Also placing for the Clarion “A” team
was junior Amanda Orr who placed No. 28, sophomore Ashley Oliver placed No. 39, and sophomore Lindsay Finke finished tied with her teammate, junior Kayla Lavery, for No. 43 place.
“We had an impressive field of competi-tors, and Clarion should have been in the top four,” women’s golf Head Coach Marie Gritzer said.
The Eagle’s “B” squad was led by freshmen Larissa Roberts who tied for No. 39 place.
Also placing for the “B” squad were se-niors Sara Heckman and Ashley Longstreth, who placed No. 55 and No. 61 respectively.
Sophomore Amber Benkoski shot an overall 206, and freshmen Caitlin Webster shot a 216.
Gritzer was disappointed overall with her team’s performance this weekend.
“I was more impressed with the “B” team,” Gritzer said.
The Eagles women’s golf team will play Sept. 29 and 30 at the Vulcan Invite at Ce-darbrook Golf Course.
Clarion places ninth in lone home event
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Sabatose’s dream comes true at the London Olympics
Have you ever dreamed of being a part of the opening cer-emonies at the Olympics?
Well, Clarion University women’s tennis Head Coach and Director of the Student Recreation Center, Lori Saba-tose got to do just that at this past summer’s Olympic Games in London, England.
Sabatose was selected as a professional fellowship from a poll of various profession-als throughout the country, set up by Dr. Bonnie Tiell, the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Tiffin University.
“She [Tiell] sent out an email to everyone she has worked with or has been involved in sports manage-ment and leadership,” Saba-tose said. “I had such a good experienced background.”
As you could probably imagine, the experience of being a part of the opening ceremonies in the Olympics was a great one.
“It was such a great ex-perience. It was my first time ever being at an Olym-pic event and everybody that was there loved it,” Sabatose said.
There are multiple things going on during the Olympics such as the events, sightsee-ing, touring and interacting with the thousands of people who are at the event, some-thing Sabatose took full ad-vantage of during her nine days over in London.
As a former Clarion tennis player and current coach of tennis, her favorite experi-ence was being able to go to Wimbledon, a famous tennis court that many tennis fans would love to one day visit.
“The venue I loved the
most was Wimbledon be-cause it was a dream of mine to get there. That’s where all the tennis greats have played,” Sabatose said.
The first ticket Sabatose got over in London was for beach volleyball.
She described the venue where the volleyball match-es took place as one of the best she’s ever seen.
She said watching volley-ball at the Olympics didn’t compare to watching it on TV because the energetic
crowd wasn’t seen as much as you would think.
Sabatose was part of a crowd of 70,000 people watch-ing the England women’s soc-cer team, where the home team came away with a 1-0 decision.
That crowd set the world
record for most people in a crowd to see a women’s soccer event.
“The whole place wentcrazy,” Sabatose said.
She also got to see Vic-toria Azarenka, the No. 1 ranked women’s tennis player in the world win the gold medal in the mixed doubles event.
Along with seeing that, she also got her ticket signed by Azarenka and got her picture taken with her, which she de-scribed as “pretty neat.”
As a member of the Clari-on women’s tennis team, Sa-batose enjoyed great success.
She helped lead Clarion to three consecutive Pennsylva-nia State Athletic Conference Championships with a career singles record of 51-7 and a 53-11 career doubles record.
“I love my experiences here at Clarion. I won threestraight championships andwent to Nationals my fresh-man year,” Sabatose said.
Her teams have won 10 In-tercollegiate Tennis Associa-tion “All-Academic” honors.
Her most memorable mo-ment as a coach has been in bringing in Lisa Baumgart-ner, who won the 2007 NCAA D-II Sportsmanship Award.
“Bringing her [Baumgartner] was one of the best things for me. She was a great student and athlete. We had such a good bond, so it was nice to see her win that award,” Sabatose said.
(To read the full versionof the article, visit www.clar-ioncallnews.com/sports.)
Eddie McDonaldSTAFF WRITER
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INTERVIEW BY Eddie McDonald
Q How do you feel you’ve played so far this season?
A Well, I’d say I haven’t really played to my full potential so far this year. I’ve
struggled a little bit, but I just have to keep practicing, and keep working. Hopefully as the season goes on I can get the game to-gether and start to play well.
Q What areas do you need to improve the most?
A I’d say with golf, you need to con-stantly be improving in every aspect
of the game. Obviously the short game is crucial, making putts and so far this sea-son, I really haven’t been making any.
Q What’s it like playing with pretty much the same people that you have
been with since you were a freshman?
A It’s great. We have a lot of good friend-ships on the team, and that’s crucial to
have everyone feel comfortable and be a part of the team. We’re hoping that leads to some good play in the future.
Q What is your most memorable moment here at Clarion University so far?
A I would say it would be my first golf tournament as a college golfer. The
feeling of being in a competition is unmatched by anything else you can do. It’s just great.
Q Are there any specific golfers that you watch on television?
A I’m a big Tiger (Woods) fan. I obvi-ously really like Rory (McIlroy) too.
He’s probably the best player in the world right now. Definitely Tiger. If he’s on TV, it’s much more fun to watch.
Q Speaking of Tiger, will he ever win an-other major and pass Jack Nicklaus?
A Absolutely, and if you look, Tiger has 14 right now and needs to get to 18.
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Clarion Tennis Coach and Director of Student Recreation Center, Lori Sabatose poses at Wimbledon in London for the Olympics.
On Tuesday, Sept. 25, the Clarion Golden Eagles women’s volleyball team hosted its first Pennsylva-nia State Athletic Confer-ence home game against Slippery Rock University.
Coming off a three-game winning streak, the Golden Eagles were hun-gry for its first conference home win.
The best of five match ended with Clarion going 3-0 with scores of 25-16, 25-16, and 25-14 to escalate the Golden Eagles to a 4-0 sea-son thus far.
What stood out right off the bat was the team com-munication.
When the block went up, the rest of the team was in perfect position to cover any deflections.
The passing was spot on, and the back row was always
set ready for the dig.The first set was a back-
and-forth game until Clarion jumped out in front with a great hit from Amber Litwil-er to start a three-point run.
Later in the game, Lauren Magalski made an impres-sive dig to Laura Subject who set up Rebecca Webb for a spectacular dig set smash combo.
Emily Stewart ended the first set by splitting the block on a power hit.
The second set was the most impressive where af-ter a slow start, the Golden Eagles jumped ahead with a monstrous hit to center court from Litwiler tying the set, and giving Clarion the start of a four-point momentum run.
Slippery Rock called a timeout to regroup, then took a point stopping the run for Clarion, but the Ea-gles wouldn’t stand for that.
Stewart answered back
with yet another powerhouse hit starting a three-point run.
The Golden Eagles played most of the sec-ond set with a comfortable lead, and were never less than five points ahead of Slippery Rock.
Even with the lead, they played for gold every time one of them touched the ball.
The third set was much like the second where Clar-ion would just pick away at The Rock taking points in small groups and giving few.
Every time Slippery Rock would get possession, Clar-ion would work magic and get it back quickly.
There were some intense volleys where Clarion went on a nonstop attack fighting for the points. The match ended with a fourth touch penalty on Slippery Rock giving Clarion the set and match point.
If the Golden Eagles keep playing like this, there is no doubt of a winning season.
Chris BrownCIRCULATION MANAGER
Clarion opens PSAC play with a victory
The Clarion University women’s cross country team finished seventh out of 12 teams at the Lock Haven Qualifier at Lock Haven University on Sept. 22.
Head Coach D.J. Bev-evino was not particularly thrilled with his team’s performance.
“Overall, I was frustrat-ed with the performanc-es,” Bevevino said.
He continued, “Part of that, what I think, is I had really high expectations based on how we ran at Slippery Rock and how the girls have been perform-ing in workouts.”
Clarion was led by a pair of top 20 finishers
in senior Ciara Shorts and sophomore Milea Schall. Shorts finished No. 10 with a time of 23:03.3. Schall posted a time of 23:27.3 to finish at No. 16.
“Milea ran very solid,” Bevevino said.
Along with Shorts and Schall, Clarion had three runners in the top 40. Junior Megan Toddy fin-ished 38th with a time of 24:18.2.
Sophomore Kellie Wyatt and junior Sarah Loughner finished close to each oth-er for the second consecu-tive weekend.
Wyatt finished in 70th place with a time of 25:42.3. Loughner wasn’t too far behind her as she finished 75th with a time of 25:52.7.
Sophomore Laura Wal-
ter finished in 101st place with a time of 26:14.6.
Freshmen Hannah Bow-man and Susan Timko fin-ished 139th and 140th re-spectively.
Bowman had a time of 30:14.6, while Timko post-ed a time of 30:21.1.
Bevevino says he didn’t take into account before the race that his team went through an “unhealthy week,” with multiple girls either sick or injured.
“We are improving and getting better. The girls continue to work hard. I think we will see much improvement when we go back to Lock Haven for Re-gionals,” Bevevino said.
Clarion will return to action on Saturday Oct. 6 at the Carnegie Mellon In-vitational.
Eddie McDonaldSTAFF WRITER
Clarion cross country places
seventh at Lock Haven Qualifi er