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WCU Students exercise their right to vote

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QUADNEWS@WCUPA.EDUNewsCircle K raises money for

the Eliminate ProjectBy Theresa Kelly

Staff Writer

The Eliminate Project is dedicated to elimi-nating the existence

of maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT). Kiwanis International and UNI-CEF have been working together since 2010 to raise $110 million by the year 2015 in order to com-pletely eliminate MNT from the planet.

Maternal and neonatal tetanus still exists in 31 countries (20 countries in Africa, five Middle East-ern countries, one country in the Americas, and five Asian Pacific countries). It has been eliminated in 23 countries (22 in Africa, one in the Middle East, and five Asian Pacific countries). On Oct. 30, 2012, the World Health Organization confirmed that MNT has been elimi-nated in China.

MNT causes newborns to have painful convul-sions and sensitivity to light and touch. Every nine minutes, approxi-mately one baby dies from MNT. Mothers also suffer from the illness. MNT is caused by tetanus spores from soil. With poorly san-itized equipment for child-birth, the disease is easily contracted. To eliminate MNT, 100 million mothers will need to be immunized. This requires three doses of the immunization, to-taling $1.80 per person.

West Chester Univer-sity’s Circle K, along with the rest of Circle K Inter-national, is working along with the Kiwanis Fam-ily to raise money for the Eliminate Project. By March 13, 2013, the Penn-sylvania Circle K District

hopes to raise $9000 for the Eliminate Project.

WCU’s Circle K is sell-ing wristbands for $3. All the profit from the brace-lets goes towards the Eliminate Project. Victo-ria Spera, the Pa. Circle K governor, said, “Literally, one wristband sold equals one life saved.” Anyone interested in buying a wristband (and saving a life) can contact Victoria at governor@pacirclek.org or (215) 817-1786.

Circle K held several fundraisers for the Elimi-nate Project already. Cir-cle K had a Pita Pit fund-raiser in late September. Around a dozen Circle K members attended a Ki-wanis Club Applebee’s Flapjack Fundraiser on Sept. 29. For $5, mem-bers got all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, and orange juice.

The first Tuesday of the month is Dollar Tues-day at Circle K meetings. Members are asked, at these meetings, to donate money to the Eliminate Project. Other upcoming fundraisers for the Elimi-nate Project include bake sales. For $1, people can also participate in “Buck for a Block”, in which they can have an advertise-ment (a “block”) in the monthly Circle K newslet-ter. WCU’s Circle K has raised around $130-140 for the Eliminate Project so far this year.

For more information on the Eliminate Project, see http://sites.kiwanis.org/Kiwanis/en/theELIMI-NATEproject/home.aspx.

Theresa Kelly is a first-year stu-dent majoring in English litera-ture secondary education. She can be reached at TK780615@wcupa.edu.

WEIRD NEWSAn elderly English woman was at-

tacked by a ferret. She was rid-ing home on her mobility scooter

when the ferret jumped onto and sunk its teeth into her leg. The ferret hung on for several minutes while she beat it with her walking stick until a neighbor came and helped her. “I’m too scared to even leave my home,” she said. “After all, it’s got a taste for my blood now.”

The voting count in Rehoboth, Ma. was significantly hindered by a spider. After receiving reports that

one of the voting machines was malfunc-tioning, the Town Clerk went to inves-tigate and found that a large spiderweb prevented the machine’s scanner from counting ballots.

President Obama elected for second termBy Nicholas Devoe

Practicum WriterOn Nov. 6, WCU stu-

dents cast their votes for our next President. This was most certainly a di-vided topic; who do we choose to run our nation for the next four years? Proactive on-campus stu-dents in the center of cam-pus were able to cast their ballots in the back lobby of Wayne Hall, although stu-dents residing on-campus in such halls as McCarthy and Goshen went to the Lawrence Dining Center to cast their votes based on geographical location.

Last Tuesday, Obama was re-elected President of the United States for one more term, beating Republican candidate Mitt Romney with 332 elec-toral votes to 206. Once re-elected, Obama gave a formal acceptance speech at McCormick Place, in Chicago Illinois.

Obama reflected on Vice President Biden’s contributions as a part-ner and friend through-out the campaigns they have endured together. Of course the first lady, Mi-chelle Obama, and their daughters, Malia and Sa-sha, were acknowledged by the President for their unwavering support. Let us not forget, how repeat-edly Obama thanked the crowd, which cheered ob-noxiously before him with their support.

It was certainly a spec-tacle in Times Square, as wild and of grandeur as New Year’s Eve is at the site. When it was an-nounced that Obama was re-elected the crowd ex-ploded with enthusiasm for our commander –in-chief’s receipt of a second term. New Yorkers oozed with excitement in our un-official financial capital of the world.

Obama continued with a very heartfelt speech about our country as it has grown and healed in

a number of ways over the years, even referencing our colonial roots. In his victory speech the Presi-dent gave these carefully crafted words regarding the election’s outcome:

“Tonight, more than 200 years after a for-mer colony won the right to de-termine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves for-ward. It moves forward because of you… We are an American family and we rise or fall togeth-er as one nation and as one peo-ple. Tonight in this election you, the American people, re-minded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back, and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best has yet to come.”

Despite a battered economy, record high un-employment, and extreme opposition to Obama-care, Barack Obama re-mains our 44th president for four more years. The president was very suc-cessful in defeating Rom-ney in the battleground states, including the most sought-after, Ohio, and our very own Key-stone State. Additionally, Obama won battleground states Florida, Colorado, and Nevada. His defeat of the republican challenger in these arenas was what determined the outcome of the 2012 presidential elec-tion. He was pro-active in utilizing multifront tactics to get the nation’s atten-tion, in contrast to Rom-ney’s insistent confidence in winning the election based on restoring eco-nomic prosperity.

Interviewing WCU students gave a real per-

spective to the youth’s standpoint on the election outcome. I was able to get some WCU students to clue me in on their views of the 2012 presidential election results.

“The landscape of Amer-

ica is becoming more and more diverse each year and the Republican Party is out of touch with many of the demographics that are growing. The Repub-licans have good economic policies, but as long as they remain too stubborn to adapt their extreme stanc-

es on social issues they will continue to struggle in presidential elections,” commented WCU student Greg Scherbak.

“The Romney/Ryan ticket never presented a clear plan on how it in-tended to decrease the deficit, was particularly weak in foreign affairs, and was heavy handed in its approach to sensitive social issues. While nei-ther Republicans nor the Democrats have proven to me that they have the an-swers to the nation’s prob-lems, the Democratic tick-et seemed better suited to face today’s most pressing issues,” said Kelsey Hock-enberger, a WCU commu-nications studies student.

I took the liberty to seek whether or not Romney or Obama’s campaign platform took a better approach to the need of change needed in our tat-tered nation, with much reply:

President Obama delivers his victory speech.

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Good Cause Café book sale benefits charityBy Eryn Aiello

Practicum Writer

Last Tuesday, Sykes ballrooms transformed into the Good Cause Café, providing students with the opportunity to browse through various collec-tions of donated books, with all proceeds of the sales benefiting the lo-cal program, Project One. The used books were do-nated by Second Reading Used Book Stores, Ken-nett Square Resale Book Shoppe, Grove United Methodist Church, and Chester County Library. West Chester University has hosted this event for 11 years, giving students the chance to help local organizations, while also updating their book col-lections with titles rang-ing from political, non-fic-tion, biography, and other various categories.

Project One, a program of Family Service of Ches-ter County, provides ser-vices for people living in

Circle K participates in weekend of service By Theresa Kelly

Staff Writer

On Nov. 2, at 6:30 pm, InterPACK weekend began. Around 70 stu-dents from Circle K clubs throughout the district of Pennsylvania attended the event. The focus of the weekend was com-munity service events, as well as meeting fel-low PACK (Pennsylvania Circle K) members. Over a dozen members from West Chester University’s Circle K made the four hour trip to attend Inter-PACK weekend.

PACK members arrived at Laurel Lodge on Friday night. Members spent the evening at the lodge, mak-ing cards and wrapping gifts for Caitlin’s Smiles, an organization which creates “Bags of Smiles” (filled with coloring books, crafts, games, and more) and cards for chronically ill children. Members also used old T-shirts to create dog toys for local animal shelters.

On Saturday, the Circle K members broke off into groups to do a variety of

projects. One group went to Highland Park and an-other to Tuckahoe Park. At the parks, they cleaned up fallen branches from Hurricane Sandy. At Highland Park, an entire tree had fallen during the hurricane. According to a local resident, the park was closed to children, due to concerns about injuries and liability. Grateful for the help, she and another local resident came back to the park with Dunkin Donuts coffee, hot choco-late, and donuts for all of the volunteers.

At Golden Living Cen-ter Hillview nursing home, a group of Circle K members played card games, chatted with, and helped serve lunch to the elderly. Another group spent a few hours helping Habitat for Humanity. They helped put the fin-ishing touches on a house by painting the doors, windows, and deck.

After returning to the lodge and resting up, the Circle K members contin-ued to make cards and dog toys. Because the week-end had a “Clue” theme,

that night, members of the PA Circle K District board dressed up as Clue characters and led the group in an informative mystery game to find the missing Circle K mascot, Leroy the Rabbit. The board members informed everyone about the vari-ous clubs involved in the Kiwanis family (Builders Club, Key Club, Aktion Club, K-Kids, Circle K, and Kiwanis). Leroy was, in the end, discovered to be helping with the Elimi-nate Project (a Kiwanis and UNICEF initiative to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus) in China. The night winded down with a viewing of the movie Clue.

The next morning, In-terPACK ended with an-nouncements. By the end of the weekend, Circle K members had created over 100 cards and dozens of dog toys. Over 500 ser-vice hours were completed over InterPACK weekend.

Theresa Kelly is a first-year stu-dent majoring in English litera-ture secondary education. She can be reached at TK780615@wcupa.edu.

Chester County who are living with HIV/AIDS. The mission of Project One is to “provide a safe, confidential, warm, and nurturing environment for those facing the chal-lenges of living with HIV/AIDS in Chester Coun-ty.” The program pro-vides care to individuals in the area in ensuring that they understand the medications that they need to take and the pos-sible side effects. It also serves as a safe haven for those infected, as well as their families, to talk to counselors about coping with the disease. In addi-tion, Project One acts as a support system for those with HIV/AIDS and gives people the opportunity to connect with others in the community.

Events like The Good Cause Café make many of the programs that Project One offers to their clients possible, by providing ad-ditional funds for these services and support

groups. The used books ranged in price from twen-ty five cents to one dollar, which made it affordable and easy for college stu-dents to participate and help local members of the community.

Family Service of Ches-ter County helps fami-lies in the community with programs that pro-mote positive well being through counseling and building support systems.

Although the Good Cause Café has ended for the year, Project One and the overall Family Ser-vice organization always accept help from anyone who may need volunteer-ing hours for collegiate clubs or who simply want to act as a powerful force of change in the communi-ty, by providing support to local Chester County residents in need.

Eryn Aiello is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in communica-tion studies. She can be reached at EA694104@wcupa.edu.

“Obama’s plans for the country were much more clear and transparent than Romney’s. Romney was successful in commu-nicating what he planned to achieve, but he failed to explain how he would achieve it. Obama also made himself more visible to voters. He appeared on popular programs, such as The View and The Daily Show, and while he gained criticism from pundits for those appearances, they are certainly an effec-tive way to win over the American people. Many Americans vote without doing any research on policies, and those vot-ers will likely vote for the candidate they feel under-stands them best. Obama was much more successful at making himself appear relatable to the average American,” Scherbak re-

sponded. Regarding our voter

turnout in the surround-ing area, I was able to ob-tain information in East Goshen at my voting site at the Baptist Church on West Chester Pike. When I went to vote I received a warm welcome by Helen McCoy, the Democratic Chair of East Goshen Township. She expressed her views on young voters in East Goshen this elec-tion.

“As for students at the polls, they were not in great numbers because traditionally they are away in college in many areas away from West Chester. The young people I spoke to were all with happy faces and eager to cast their vote for the party of their choice. All appeared to be early and in a hurry to vote and go to class. They went to local colleges, WCU, Villanova,

etc,” McCoy stated. The two rivals’ cam-

paigns were thorough enough to divide a nation on the topic, and their race was very close down to the last few votes. What we cannot forget here is what this election was all about, choosing who would lead our nation for the next four years. The quarreling over who was ‘better’ or more ‘capable’ is irrelevant. What matters now that the 2012 elec-tion has come to a close is that we bridge the gaps between us, put aside our differences and unify as one nation with the new president elect to rebuild this fractured economy and wounded country. As Obama stated, the best has yet to come.

Nicholas Devoe is a fourth-year student majoring in English with a minor in journalism. He can be reached at ND626335@wcupa.edu.

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Faculty negotiations under way for possible strikeBy Joy Wilson

Special to The Quad

In class the past several weeks, students have repeatedly pried into

the minds of their teach-ers with questions about the possibility of a faculty strike here at West Ches-ter University. Students are wondering if the loom-ing strike will become a re-ality, and how it would af-fect their class time, their educations, and for some, even their graduation. Students deserve answers to the questions that dic-tate their futures, but they also need to be informed about the issues behind the strike scare.

Currently, negotiations between PASSHE (Penn-sylvania State System of Higher Education) and the APSCUF (the teach-ers and coaches Union for all 14 Pennsylvania state universities) are still on-going. At the negotiating table, Mike Mattola repre-sents the Chancellor and the PASSHE system Dr. Steve Hicks represents the 6,000 members of AP-SCUF. If the two sides reach an agreement and the agreement is approved between the entire faculty and the PASSHE board of governors, it then becomes a contract. However, the faculty has been working without a contract now since July of 2011, a time period that is the longest the faculty union, in its 30 year history, has ever gone. As teachers get more and more impatient with a contract agreement far from sight, the union be-gins to take measures to push PASSHE to negoti-ate seriously. Delegates from the 14 universities have already approved a strike authorization vote, so the next step is for the full body of APSCUF to vote to authorize a strike. This vote will take place at all the universities this week, beginning today, Nov. 12. However, just because a strike is autho-

rized does not mean one will definitely be called. The faculty has voted to authorize a strike in many negotiations in the past, but so far there has not been an actual strike within the state university system. If authorized, the decision to call a strike would be up to the union’s president, Dr. Steve Hicks, and a strike could be called at any time as early as the week after Thanksgiving break. Even though the faculty have made it clear to students that they do not want to strike, the lack of agreement on key is-sues of the contract might just push the union to do so. According to Dr. Lisa Millhous, West Chester University’s Chapter AP-SCUF president and ten-ured associate professor of Communication Studies at West Chester University, the key issues at hand are teacher input in class size, compensation for develop-ing online courses, health-care and retiree benefits, and adjunct faculty salary.

Class size is a highly valued issue for students when choosing a university to attend. Higher teacher-student ratios means more one-on-one time between students and teachers and more opportunity for stu-dents to request personal-ized help and ask specific questions. The larger the class, the more difficult it becomes for each student to have a voice. Accord-ing to Dr. Millhous, the faculty believe that as ex-perts in their disciplines, they know best when it comes to the size of a class they can best instruct. The Chancellor is not willing to give those faculty mem-bers a say in class sizes, a position many assume will lead to larger class sizes.

Along with larger class-es, the university system is seeing a shift to more and more online learning, but many fear that online teaching may lack quality. Under the current contract agreement, universities of-

fer professors additional incentive payments for developing quality online classes, but the Chancel-lor would like to phase out these incentives because he believes the program has developed sufficiently and that most teachers now possess the skills to create online classes. The faculty argues that this eliminates extra funding in order to create quality videos and websites, and that it will lead to unwill-ing faculty being forced to create online classes when they are unqualified and uninterested. Again, fac-ulty argue that they know best when it comes to cre-ating a learning environ-ment that fosters growth in their disciplines.

Of course the faculty union is concerned with the fair treatment of teachers. The union is ask-ing that the Chancellor allow them to ask health-care companies for open competitive bids as op-posed to the current con-tract with Highmark that Dr. Millhous describes as non-competitive and ex-pensive. The Chancellor refuses what sounds like a simple and honest request, leaving faculty to wonder if the current healthcare contract is because of the presence of a Highmark member on the PASSHE board of governors.

The last and possibly most prominent discrep-ancies over a new contract concerns the compensa-tion for adjunct faculty, temporary faculty who may work full-time but for whom their position cannot lead to tenure. The union believes that faculty members who have taught at the university fulltime for five years should have a possibility for raises, promotions, and job pro-tection. The Chancellor counters this request with “realignment of pay for temporary faculty to bet-ter reflect regional rates at other higher education in-stitutions.” In other words,

he wants to cut adjunct faculty pay by 35 precent, a pay cut that would re-sult in some full time fac-ulty members (375 at West Chester), even ones with master’s degrees receiv-ing approximately $28,000 per year for their work, ac-cording to Dr. Millhous. In addition to the pay cut, the chancellor wants to raise the workload required for faculty to be considered full-time. The result of these proposals would al-low the Chancellor to em-ploy more temporary fac-ulty, likely of less quality, for as cheap as possible. Students should question where this proposal will leave the quality of their educations.

All in all, Dr. Millhous argues that “the proposals the Chancellor has put on the table will destroy the system, reduce our reputa-tion and the quality of our programs, and make in impossible to recruit qual-ity faculty.” As is often the case in contract negotia-tions, both sides seem to have reached a point that they feel they cannot com-promise any further and cannot see how the other side believes their position to be fair. Having reached this point and understand-ing the need for settlement to be reached, the faculty union offered to hand the contract over to interest arbitration. Interest arbi-tration is a growing alter-native resolution meant to avoid strikes and suffering for all members involved. A neutral third party, the arbitrators, steps in to finish a contract. The ar-bitrators take all involved interests into account and make decisions based on what they believe each party would have agreed to if they were bargaining fairly. The union’s offer to the Chancellor on Sept. 25 was to continue negotia-tions until Nov. 9 at which point any issues not yet agreed upon would be re-solved by a three person board of interest arbitra-

tors. The Chancellor re-plied, “We believe it would be improper to delegate those responsibilities to a third party arbitrator who does not have the respon-sibility or duty to consider the financial implications of their decisions and who is not obligated to take into account the interests of Pennsylvania taxpay-ers or the long-term ef-fects of those decisions on the Commonwealth or PASSHE.”

In the same letter the Chancellor continued, “We remain committed to the negotiating process.” Despite the Chancellor’s claims, Dr. Millhous in-sists that “committed” is far from a true description for the Chancellor’s team of negotiators, “We started negotiating this contract two years ago. We have had difficulty getting the Chancellor’s negotiation team to commit to meeting days; when we have meet-ings they often show up and say they have noth-ing to give us. In fact, at the negotiating meeting on Nov. 2, their negotia-tor suggested that there might be nothing for us to talk about at the next scheduled meeting.” The Chancellor’s actions sug-gest that the only thing he is truly committed to is cutting costs. In the face of Governor Corbett’s proposed budget, the at-tention to costs is not un-warranted, and according to the Chancellor, they have achieved cost sav-ings in negotiations with two of the other worker’s unions involved in the universities. However, the portion of the universities’ operating budget that is spent on teacher salaries and benefits has already seen a decline. Last school year, only 38.5 percent of West Chester’s operat-ing budget went toward instructional salaries and benefits (www.nces.ed/ipeds/datacenter). In oth-er words, $61.50 of every $100 was spent outside of

the classroom. According to Dr. Millhous, “There is so much profit being made in large classes at WCU that the institution is able to put some of that money away in a bank account at the end of the year. Over the past 10 years the cash reserves at WCU have grown quite a bit.”

On Oct. 11, 100 faculty from across the system met outside PASSHE’s board of governor’s meet-ing to protest the Chancel-lor’s proposal with signs reading “Be Fair” and “Settle so we can teach,” but faculty futures are not the only ones at stake. Students can have a say by emailing the Chancellor at jcavanaugh@passhe.edu to ask him to negotiate se-riously and get a contract signed. Students can tell West Chester’s President Weisenstein (gweisen-stein@wcupa.edu) about the adjunct professors they have had and how greatly they have affected edu-cation at WCU. Adjunct faculty are also being cel-ebrated at the new WCU Adjunct facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/WcuAdjuncts) where stu-dents and teachers alike can appreciate the job WCU’s adjunct faculty do. Now that election results are in, students and their parents can contact state legislators with concerns about the strike and also tell them how class sizes, online learning, and ad-junct faculty have affected personal learning experi-ences at WCU. Lastly, stu-dents can call the school to make sure the contract has been settled with the faculty before paying their spring tuition. Like Dr. Millhous says, “One of the things faculty are trying to teach students at WCU is that you have to stand up for yourself – stand up for your ideas, stand up for your beliefs.”

Joy Wilson is a third-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies. She can be reached at JW794401@wcupa.edu.

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The QuadNOVEMBER 12, 2012 THE QUAD OP-ED PAGE 5

Thanksgiving is one of our fine nation’s greatest holidays. It is a great holiday for everyone to celebrate, yet sometimes it seems like people do not know that it is the next holiday coming up. Immediately after

Halloween, Christmas music starts blaring on the radio and stores start having their annual Christmas sales. Some people even start putting up their Christmas decorations. Why is this? Well for one Christmas is by far the biggest holiday of the United States of America. Our culture is overtaken by Christmas during its season. This is because Christmas has more noticeable characteristics. There are many Christmas movies, songs, and television specials. Has anyone ever heard of a popular Thanksgiving song, movie, or television special? That is why there is very little to the lead to Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is sandwiched between Halloween and Christmas because they have more media.

That is not to say Thanksgiving is not popular. Of course it is. It is just the single day that everyone celebrates. Like Christmas, Thanksgiving has its traditions, such as a big dinner with special people. I am just hoping people do not exhaust their Christmas spirit by starting the cel-ebration two months in advance! Then again, Americans probably have no exhaust limit to their Christmas spirit. So I will end this reminding everyone to remember that holiday inbtween trick-or-treating and carol-ing. Its that holiday where we eat mashed potates with gravy, stuffing, cranberries and, of course, that delicious bird called turkey. It is fun for the whole family.

Happy Thanksgivng season West Chester!

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Do not forget to celebrate Thanksgivng!

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Thinking of the Pittsburgh zoo tragedyJack Barnett

Op-Ed Editor

Where did Mitt Romney go wrong? That is

the question that many Republicans and other Romney supporters were asking themselves during the long night on Nov. 6 and the days after. Polls showed Romney had a fighting chance to gain the presidency.

He was gaining on Obama in national polls. These polls were mislead-ing. The media loves a close race to keep people glued to their seats, so they keep churning out polls that made it seem like Romney could win. The polls were not wrong, but they did not focus on what was important. Na-tional polls would be akin to the popular vote which does not decide elections, the Electoral College does.

One look at the Elec-toral College before the election and you would see that Romney had an uphill battle that he was not close to winning. Be-fore the election, Obama had a firm foothold in swing states such as Wisconsin and the all-important Ohio. He even outdid himself by gaining Virginia, Colorado, and Florida. The states that were guaranteed to Rom-ney are sparsely populat-ed ones such as Montana, Mississippi, and Kan-sas. The larger states he grabbed such as Georgia and Texas cannot stand up to the combined might of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and the electoral juggernaut California. The odds were never in Romney’s favor.

Part of Romney’s prob-lem was Romney himself. He never showed himself to be a political heavy-weight before the election. If you remember, he had

trouble beating has-beens Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich in the primaries. Santorum lost his senate race by 18 percent and Gingrich was kicked out of the House by his own party. These two were not impressive candidates, yet Romney had to work surprisingly hard to take the nomination from these two.

Of course, he had his fair share of gaffes dur-ing the campaign. There was his “binders full of women” remarks, and his 47 percent remark. Ev-ery politician makes a re-mark that gets media at-tention. Remember when Obama talked of people “clinging to guns and re-ligion?” Ill-spoken words are not enough to sink an election. It did give the Democrats ammo to give Romney a bad image. The Obama campaign struck first and painted Romney as an aloof, rich man. A one-percenter, who is ig-norant to the problems of the middle class. They cited his number of homes and his work at Bain capi-tal as proof of this. Him not giving out his tax re-turns also did not help. By the time the Romney campaign was able to re-spond, the damage was done.

All the blame cannot be put on Romney him-self. He had a good per-formance during the 2012 campaign. In fact he final-ly showed a sense of fight and tenacity. This was a welcome change from the comatose campaigns of John Kerry and Al Gore. Romney really had no chance because of the GOP’s shrinking demo-graphic. The leadership of the party refuses to try and get new voters. They suck-up to Tea Partiers while ignoring potential voters.

The Latino vote has been a reason for the Obama win. Many swing

states went towards Obama because he had Latino support. The fi-nal tally was 71 to 27. George Bush was able to get 44 percent. The GOP has to try and court Lati-nos. That means no more supporting of draconian immigration laws like the one first issued in Ari-zona. Almost immediately after the election, House Leader John Boehner as-sured the public that both parties would make a bi-partisan agreement on the issue.

There is also the youth vote to consider where Obama won 60 to 37. There was a bigger turn-out for the youth vote (18 to 29) than the senior citi-zen vote (65+). The GOP alienates youth with their obsession about gay mar-riage and birth control. The youth simply does not care about curbing these two issues. Gaining the youth goes hand-in-hand with the libertarian vote. Both hold similar social values. The GOP has ig-nored the likes of Ron Paul and Gary Johnson. It may be time to incorpo-rate their liberation views into the party. Many young people have liber-tarain views on drugs and gay marriage. The GOP should look at current so-cial lifestyles and do some important reaching out to do if it wants to survive.

The final reason that Romney lost is that Obama is doing a good job. Explaining this in detail would constitute a whole other article, but the recovery is happen-ing so there is no need to jump ship. Romney made mistakes, but his primary reason for losing was try-ing to appeal against a shrinking demographic and against a successful president.Jack Barnett is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in history and po-litical science. He can be reached at JB723722@wcupa.edu.

Letters to the EditorTo Faculty and Students, This week, WCU professors have an opportunity to vote in favor of a

strike authorization for their union, the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF). I strongly urge my colleagues to support the union in this vote, and I would like to explain to students what is at stake and why this vote is being held.

A strike authorization does NOT mean that there will be a strike. The

authorization only empowers union negotiators to call a strike. A strike is an act of last resort, and we want to assure students and faculty members that the union is doing everything it can to avoid a strike.

The APSCUF union leadership shares the same priorities as WCU fac-

ulty members: We value our students and the quality of higher education. Both of these priorities are at risk, however, because PASSHE refuses to discuss faculty control over issues that are critical to educational quality at WCU, including curricular issues and class size. Each year, Pennsylvania’s governor proposes less and less funding to the state universities, cuts that will inevitably lead to higher tuition, larger class sizes and a reduction in the quality of higher education. A strike authorization can help faculty maintain educational quality here at the university.

Despite the fact that WCU faculty have been working without a contract

for more than a year, PASSHE negotiators have shown no indication that they will bargain in good faith. APSCUF has already agreed with PASSHE on salary for permanent faculty, but many issues remain unresolved, and PASSHE has been unrealistic and intractable.

How unrealistic? The state’s current proposal demands a 35 percent re-

duction in the salary of adjunct professors, some of the hardest-working instructors on our campus. The proposed offer is so low, many of these adjunct professors would qualify for federal assistance if the salaries were approved. The state also proposes a voucher system for retiree’s health benefits – professors who have spent their entire careers teaching students at WCU are being asked to take enormous reductions in an important ben-efit that they have already earned.

How intractable is PASSHE? When unions and management can not

come to an agreement, it is common for both to agree to bring in a third party to break the impasse by determining a fair settlement, a process called binding arbitration. Months ago, the union agreed to participate in this process. PASSHE refused to agree to binding arbitration, which should give you a clear indication of which side is bargaining in good faith.

Without a strike authorization, APSCUF has been unable to convince

state negotiators to move toward a reasonable resolution of these issues. With a strike authorization, the impasse can be resolved. APSCUF recog-nizes that the threat of a strike is extremely worrisome to students, and we know for many of you the continuity of the term is the most important con-sideration. But we ask for your understanding and support, so that you can help us to maintain educational quality at WCU for you and the students who follow you. Please contact to Chancellor John Cavanaugh at jcavana-ugh@passhe.edu and urge him to negotiate a fair contract as quickly as possible. For faculty members, please vote to authorize an APSCUF strike this week, and demonstrate your commitment to your students, your fellow professors, and quality education.

From,Dr. Edward J. LordanWCU ProfessorDept of Communication Studies

Why Mitt Romney lost

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On Sunday, Nov. 4, a 2-year-old boy visit-ing the Pittsburgh

Zoo & PPG Aquarium with his mother fell 11 feet into an African Paint-ed Dogs exhibit and was immediately attacked and killed by 11 of the wild animals. According to po-lice, 2-year-old Maddox Derkosh’s mother picked him up and placed him on a wooden railing so that he could get a better view of the animals, de-spite posted signs warn-ing visitors to stay off of the railings. He lost his balance and initially fell into a safety net but then into the exhibit. Zookeep-ers and police responded immediately and shot darts at the dogs, trying to chase them away. Au-topsy results indicated that Derkosh died from blood loss from the maul-ing by the dogs, not from the fall. The Pittsburgh Zoo has never had a visi-tor death in its 114-year history, and the zoo just successfully completed its 5-year review in Septem-ber, meeting or exceeding all safety standards.

When I first heard about this tragedy, my heart sank. As a resident of the greater Pittsburgh area, I have visited the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium several times, most recently this past June when I took my 3-year-old and 6-year-old nieces. I have a hard time recalling the exact setup of the African painted dog exhibit, but I know the 4-foot wooden railings that surround many of the exhibits. I can also eas-ily picture many parents picking up their small chil-dren to give them a better view of the animals. The backlash that Derkosh’s mother has received is al-most as heartbreaking as the fatal incident itself.

As with all controversial

Thinking of the Pittsburgh zoo tragedyBy Carol Fritz

Staff Writerincidents nowadays, users of social media voiced their passionate, sometimes hateful, opinions about what Derkosh’s mother did wrong. They painted out what she should have done and even called her an un-fit mother. In reality, she is a mother who was caught up in the thrill of the mo-ment and wanted her son to get the most out of his exciting zoo experience.

I believe that Derkosh’s mother merely wanted her son to have a better view of the African painted dogs, (he was said to have poor eyesight). What mother does not make decisions every single day with her child’s life in her hands? What mother has not un-intentionally done some-thing, no matter how mi-nor or major, that has hurt her child? Every time a mother picks up her child, there is a chance of acci-dental injury. Some would say that this case is dif-ferent since wild animals were involved, but I do not think it is. Derkosh’s mother, who cared for him and held him and kept him safe everyday for his short two years of life, was confi-dent that she could do that while helping her son see a little bit better. Unfortu-nately, that tragic mistake cost him his life.

Some people may won-der why Derkosh’s moth-er ignored posted safety signs. Let me be the first to admit that I have missed several crucial signs throughout my life. When one of my nieces was about the same age as Derkosh, my sister, my mother, and I brought her to a lo-cal state park to relax by the river. The water was moving fairly quickly, but we did not think anything of it until a park ranger came up to us and asked us if we saw the sign that said to stay away from the river’s edge. All three of us had missed the sign. We were in new surroundings

and had simply not seen the sign. Derkosh’s trip to the zoo may very well have been his mother’s first time taking him, and she could have easily just not noticed a warning sign. This has not created an opportunity for the public to criticize a mother’s lapse in judgment but instead, a reminder to be aware of one’s surround-ings in order to remain out of harm’s way.

Derkosh’s mother cer-tainly was not the first mother to pick up a small child to help him or her see something better, and even after this horrific in-cident, she will not be the last. As I stated before, I have seen it done a dozen times at the zoo and at practically any other gath-ering involving children. Almost all child caretakers are guilty of it. We want to keep our children safe, but we also want them to be happy and to experience the maximum amount of enjoyment possible, which were probably Derkosh’s mother’s intentions. In any case, this grieving parent does not need any backlash from her community and society saying that she is an unfit mother and that she should shoulder all of the blame. As cliché as it is, we are all humans, and we all make mistakes, so we should all be thankful that most of our mistakes have not taken the life of a child. The last thing that this mother needs is criti-cism, especially after police reported that Derkosh’s parents were both taken to a local hospital for emo-tional trauma treatment. She will live with her mis-take looming over her head for the rest of her life, but I sincerely hope that com-fort, support, and under-standing from the public will aid in her and the rest of the family’s recovery.

Carol Fritz is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies. She can be reached at CF716022@wcupa.edu.

Election season comes to an end

A sigh of relief can now be expressed after an elongated

election season. The con-stant vexatious campaign ads can now be put to rest, and we can look forward to being bothered by product ads once again! We can also expect to stop receiv-ing the obnoxious phone calls that were burden-some to us for a couple of weeks. Both candidates spent a lucrative amount of money to campaign on a national level and state level. This money was more accessible with many loopholes in the Super PAC system. In this partic-ular election, Mitt Romney raised a whopping $1.2 bil-lion, while Barack Obama raised a hefty $1 billion. In the past, Super PACS had a limit that each contribu-tor could give to a can-didate. Now, with these glitches in the system, these Super PACs have been established as a sub-set of nonprofit organiza-tions, where they are able to receive unlimited funds from donors. These con-tributors can now donate anonymously if they wish to do so, but some choose to reveal their identity. For example, Sheldon Adelson was a key contributor to Romney’s campaign, and he donated millions of dol-lars to help fund political advertisements, trips, and campaign headquarters, among other needs. Bill Maher notably announced he was donating $1 million dollars to the Obama cam-paign. The allocation of these funds seem perverse, and perhaps these funds could have been used for charity and other good causes or even towards the treacherous debt.

The race appeared to be close coming into the contest on Nov. 6, as there was a copious amount of vitriol directed at the pres-ident. Despite the harsh

criticism that was aimed towards the president, Obama was able to attain the necessary 270 (and more) electoral votes to re-tain the Presidency. In the final results, Obama was victorious in many of the swing states such as Vir-ginia, Ohio, Colorado, Iowa and Florida. These were essential to ensuring a sec-ond term for the president. There is still a lot to be ac-complished, as Speaker of the House John Boehner made evidently clear. For one, the debt ceiling is an imminent disaster wait-ing to occur in a little over a month. Boehner seemed more willing to compro-mise after seeing the will of the people, as they con-vincingly reelected Presi-dent Obama. He alluded to the fact that there will now be more wiggle room when discussing issues regarding tax codes and the economy. For Romney, many pundits on the right were flabbergasted by the results, as Fox News analyst Karl Rove seemed distraught by the results, claiming that it was still too early to project, sbe-cause Ohio was still in play. Rove helped raise and contribute over $200 million to conservative candidates, all of whom lost. The political fallout from this election had an impact of cataclysmic proportions, as the party seemed in disarray, scram-bling for answers. Donald Trump was so aggravat-ed that he insisted that citizens should march to Washington in protest. In lieu of the loss for Romney, pundits tried to examine what went wrong. Some felt he conformed too far to the right, while others felt he flip flopped too much. Some questioned his vice presidential pick, stating that Governor Chris Chris-tie was a more prominent figure and would have been a better choice. Chris-tie, a strong supporter of

Governor Romney, was criticized by some republi-cans for praising President Obama in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, as they thought it put a damper on Romney’s campaign. Many pundits agreed that the Republican Party needed reform, specifically on social issues. Analysts presume that this election might trigger a civil war within the party, as some republicans will try to be more moderate on social issues, while others think that government should be stringent on social is-sues and see the Tea Party Movement as a better al-ternative. The Republican Party will likely try to at-tract a younger crowd, by picking a younger more diversified candidate. Many pundits speculate that Marco Rubio, a young Cuban-American senator from Florida, would make an adequate selection.

With the demographics changing in favor of more Latinos, minorities, wom-en and younger voters, the question of appeal comes up in the aftermath of the election. The white vote was down 2 percent from 74 percent to 72 percent, while young voter turnout raised by a tick, increas-ing from 18 percent to 19 percent. These numbers will steadily turn in favor of a more diversified de-mographic, which in turn will likely favor the Demo-cratic Party. The social is-sues will be a key factor in the 2016 election, as the Grand Old Party, will have to take this into consider-ation in the next Republi-can primary.

With all of the hoopla around election season fading, we can now sit back and wait another four years to see what strategies each party has in store for 2016.

Evan Smith is a third year po-litical science major, with a minor in communications. He can be reached at es777403@wcupa.edu.

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The Lincoln Room embraces WCU English Club

By Laura WayneSpecial to The Quad

On Oct. 27, before the cold season officially set in

and the crisp fall still lingered, the English Club enjoyed a spot of tea embarking on their first visit to The Lincoln Room in West Chester, Pa. Despite the positive responses and reviews, as well as the personal charm advertized on the room’s website, the club was still vastly unpre-pared for the wonderful, adventure that awaited them. This quaint and old-fashioned tea room

is truly a historic trea-sure of West Chester that offered more than the club’s members could ever have antici-pated.

Part of the charm of this 19th century petite tea room, is its success in greatly capturing the essence of West Chester. Built in the year 1833, The Lincoln Room was originally purposed as West Chester’s first of-fice building, but got its name in honor of the building’s publication of Abraham Lincoln’s first biography on Feb. 11, 1860. Perhaps easily

missed by those aimless-ly passing by, the shop is tucked below street level, and escapes the hustle and bustle of the street life.

With each descend-ing step entering the room, customers pass by a tranquil water foun-tain. The descent into the room invites the cus-tomers to slowly drift back into the 19th cen-tury. The room itself is calm and quiet. It greets its customers with a serene and peaceful at-mosphere mixed with scents of loose-leaf tea, and complemented by soft playing music that

seems to originate from thin air.

“I loved how quaint it was. The Lincoln Room has a really charming feeling,” English Club member Veronica Mat-taboni commened:

“Something that stuck out to me about the tea room was its small, com-fortable feel,” club mem-ber Amy Cavanaugh remarked on her first impressions of the room.

There is an elegant

air about the room that is further upheld by the room’s amiable and charismatic customer service. Enough posi-tive words cannot be expressed to the room’s servers, who greeted new customers like old friends.

The room was taste-fully decorated for Hal-loween and the fall season. “I enjoyed the way [the shop] was dec-orated, especially the candles in the fireplace,” Cavanaugh adds.

This spot, the club was told, is the most picturesque in the room and was a necessary pic-ture-perfect moment for the club. The fireplace is still in perfect working condition but was then being operated by fall

scented candles. The English Club took

advantage of The Lin-coln Room’s special offer, “Tea for Three,” which allowed three members to share two pots of tea, a plate of eight tea sand-wiches for each, and a plate of bite-sized des-serts. As an appetizer, The Lincoln Room of-fered tomato soup and vegetarian vegetable with brown rice.

The club enjoyed sam-

pling two of the shop’s wide array of tea selec-tions, each individually described on the reverse of the menu. The club enjoyed hot cinnamon spice which perfectly suited the cool fall day as well as Jasmine which smelled of honey-suckle and tasted subtly sweet.

The plate of tea sand-wiches included chicken salad and cucumber and the dessert plate includ-ed bite sized brownies, bread pudding, Hallow-een short-bread cookies and cinnamon raisin scones.

“I enjoyed all of the food items I tried, so it’s hard to pick a favor-ite,” Cavanaugh replied, when asked what her fa-vorite item on the menu

was. The English Club’s ex-

perience was memorable and one that they will not soon forget. The Lin-coln Room is the perfect place to sit in peace and enjoy a lovely meal.

In reflecting on the club’s adventure to the room, Mattaboni re-marked “[it] was a won-derful experience” and suggested that the room caters to more than just tea lovers: “lots of people

would enjoy it.” English Club mem-bers intend to make this experience a semi-annual club tradi-tion.

The Lin-coln Room is located at 28 W Mar-ket Street at Wilmont Mews West Chester, Pa. The shop is within easy walking dis-tance from West Ches-

ter’s campus, only a few steps away from The Market Street Grill. The price range is very af-fordable for college stu-dents and can be found on their website. For more information, visit www.lincolnroom-west-cheser.com. The Lincoln Room suggests making reservations in advance (610) 696-2102.

To find out more about the English club and their upcoming events, email English club Pres-ident, Laura Wayne, or you may find the club on Facebook by visiting: facebook.com/groups/wcuEnglishLaura Wayne is a third year student majoring in English literature with minors in Span-ish and business and technical writing. She can be reached at LW738484@wcupa.edu.

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Their first trip to the local Tea Room

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Kiwi Fundraiser supports Hurricane Sandy victims

By Eryn AielloPracticum Writer

As if anyone ever needs a reason to indulge in

Kiwi Yogurt. The yo-gurt establishment re-cently implemented a fundraiser to help sup-port Hurricane Sandy victims by teaming up with the American Red Cross. Last Wednesday, Kiwi Yogurt offered cus-tomers 25 percent off of any cup of yogurt, and in return they donat-ed 25 percent of all of their sales from the day, from all locations, to the American Red Cross, as a way to help victims af-fected by the disaster.

With locations in Cherry Hill, N.J., Colleg-eville, Exton, Haverford, Moorestown, Penn State, Pottstown, University City, Valley Forge, and locally in West Chester, this sense of community

bonding spreads across a wide geographical re-gion in hopes of lessen-ing the trauma of the disaster for East Coast victims. Kiwi’s overall message as being “fresh, flavorful, and fun” sheds a new light on the relief efforts, adding a touch of positivity to a devastat-ing matter.

By donating part of the store’s overall dai-ly profits, Kiwi, along with many other busi-nesses around the lo-cal region, encouraged West Chester residents to become more involved with the relief efforts, or just helped many people become more aware of different projects and organizations who are working in full force to help Hurricane Sandy victims.

The American Red Cross, specifically, has provided a great deal of

assistance to hurricane victims, and still con-tinues to do so as vic-tims slowly reestablish a sense of stability af-ter the disaster. About 5,900 Red Cross work-

ers across all 50 states have worked tirelessly in regions from North Carolina to Rhode Is-land, with a great deal of their focus still being in New York and New Jersey. Providing more than three million meals and snacks, and distrib-uting more than 177,000 items, such as clean-up kits and hygiene kits to victims, the Red Cross is a leader in providing assistance to those in need.

With companies like Kiwi, who are reaching out to these victims, the American Red Cross can receive the necessary funds to make programs

and service projects pos-sible.

With 16 flavors and over 40 toppings, the family-owned business continues to expand to new locations, provid-

ing customers with an enjoyable yogurt experi-ence, separate from tra-ditional ice cream shops. Not only does the outer appearance of Kiwi ex-plode with color and ra-diate a positive energy, but the overall sense of community that the com-pany stresses, especially in a time of devastation, provides customers with yet another reason to visit this yogurt estab-lishment, no matter how cold the weather may be outside.

Eryn Aiello is a fourth-year student majoring in communication studies with a minor in journalism. She can be reached at EA694104@wcupa.edu.

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Slow Cooker Turkey ChiliServings: 4Preparation Time: 8 minutes Cooking Time: 360 minutes

Ingredients: 1 pound(s) Sausage, turkey, raw, hot-Italian variety15 oz Beans, pinto, canned, undrained14½ oz Canned diced tomatoes, with chilies, undrained14½ oz Canned diced tomatoes, with garlic and onions, undrained1 medium Onion(s), uncooked, chopped¼ tsp Salt, table, or more to taste¼ tsp Pepper, black, or more to taste

Instructions:1. Remove sausage from casing and place in a 4-quart or large slow cooker; break up meat with a spoon. Add beans, both cans of diced tomatoes with their liquid and onion; stir.2. Cover slow cooker; cook on low setting for 5 to 6 hours. Stir in salt and pepper; garnish with chopped onion if desired and serve. Yields about 1 1/2 cups chili per serving.

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Youth For Change organization founder personality profile By Rhonda Bartlett

Practicum Writer

Sonia Blount, the founder of Youth for Change stated the mis-sion statement of the or-ganization: “To empower youth through community service, mentoring and ed-ucational enrichment pro-grams, that will impact social, economical, and environmental change through youth leadership and development.”

Blount is a Philadel-phia native, who is pursu-ing her Bachelor of Arts Degree at Temple Uni-versity, majoring in Hu-man Resources manage-ment. Growing up, Sonia worked with a number of organizations; her most recent collaboration was with Bridgeway, Inc. Dur-ing her time spent col-laborating with the dif-

ferent organizations she experienced planning and facilitating youth activi-ties such as professional development, tutoring, and mentoring.

Youth For Change developed through a dance class Blount in-structed and choreo-graphed, at her parents church. She observed the class enlarge from a small group of 15 to 30 dancers. This is when she came up with the idea to increase the proactive programs for youth. She had a con-versation with her best friend that helped put their ideas into action. The idea was to focus on the different activi-ties the youth in the community can do in order to provide posi-tive change.

Blount always en-

joyed helping others when she was a youth; she wanted to be president of the United States. Her goals changed to an entre-

preneur and she wanted to own a restaurant. Now, that she’s an adult, she still wants to be an entre-preneur but she wants to

own a commu-nity center that provides profes-sional and career resources for stu-dents and their families.

Blount’s inspi-ration to create achievable goals and be consis-tent in her life is her former ninth grade teacher, Ms. Fenwick. Her role model remains in her life, helping her realize the full potential and im-pact Blount has on her commu-nity.

The focus

for Youth For Change is youth responsibility. Blount and the others that work with her, want to de-velop youth to be respon-sible for themselves and their community and oth-ers around them. In doing so, they provide members with hands on recreation-al activities. They donate their time to monthly community service days, where the youth are able to share what they have learned with the commu-nity.

Blount’s goal for the next five years is to be able to offer business education programs for teenagers to learn about entrepre-neurship and professional development. She plans to achieve these goals by collaborating with high school and recruiting stu-dents that are interested in learning the field. She

also plans to network and build relationships with organizations and incor-porate them in Youth For Change mission.

Her advice to those that want to start a non-profit is to “be consistent with your passion but be pa-tient with the process. It’s a growing process and not just about starting and getting everything done at once. You must have a focus, create short and long-term goals for your-self that will allow you to make a standard that is measurable and achiev-able. And remember to network with positive people and ask a series of questions.”

Rhonda Bartlett is a fourth-year student majoring in professional studies with minors in theatre and journalism. She can be reached at RB681837@wcupa.edu.

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Twi-hards anxiously await “Breaking Dawn Part 2”Liz Thompson

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In “Breaking Dawn Part 1,” audiences witnessed a beau-

tiful wedding, and an even better honeymoon. Everything was perfect until Bella got pregnant and the local werewolves declared war on the Cul-lens. Oh, and Bella al-most died…several times. It seems that carrying a half-vampire, half-human fetus is a little trickier than a normal pregnan-cy. Every time the baby kicked, Bella broke a rib or punctured a lung. Also, the baby did not like human food. It wanted blood, so Bella drank blood. The blood made the baby stron-ger, which caused Bella to go into la-bor.

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saved her life. She became a vampire and mother to a girl, Renesmee.

In “Breaking Dawn Part 2,” the Cullens will find themselves in the middle of more drama. They will be dragged into another war, but this time it will be against their own kind: vampires. These enemies are not just any vampires, though. This clan goes by the name of Volturi.

The Twilight Wiki, the official Twilight ency-clopedia, explains: “The Volturi act as the unof-ficial royalty in the world of vampires, and are an incredibly influential cover. The Volturi act as guardians, keeping the secret society of vampires hidden from the human

world.” This powerful clan is

after the Cullens because they believe the Cullens have broken the most sa-cred vampire law. The Volturi were tipped off that the Cullens had cre-ated a vampire child.

This law is especially im-portant because children who have been bitten and turned into a vam-pire are dangerous. They are beautiful children with a ravenous thirst for blood and superhuman strength. They are deadly, and have destroyed entire villages in the past. The punishment for creating a vampire child is death.

However, the Cullens did not create a vam-pire child. Bella and Ed-ward’s child, Renesmee, was born, not bitten. She possesses the same quali-ties as a vampire child, like her beauty, speed, strength, and her special talent. The one thing that sets her apart from vam-pire children is that she

can grow. V a m p i r e children, like vam-pires, are frozen in time and do not age.

T h e C u l l e n s have little time to act. They know they must in-vite other v a m p i r e clans to w i t n e s s Renesmee g r o w i n g

so they will be able to stand up to the Volturi.

Unfortunately, these other vampires are not like the Cullens. The Cul-lens only drink the blood of animals and jokingly refer to themselves as “vegetarians.” However,

these new vampires drink human blood, which up-sets the werewolves. The werewolves’ duty is to pro-

tect the people of Forks from vampires. However, the werewolves cannot hurt the newcomers be-cause Jacob imprinted on Renesemee, and they are now obligated to protect her.

Imprinting is an natu-ral instinct for animals. It could be described as love at first sight. Animals will do anything for the girl or the woman upon whom they imprint. They will be anything for them: a brother, a protector, a friend, or a lover. Jacob knows where he stands with Renesmee and he will protect her against anything, even a war.

Taylor Lautner, who plays Jacob, says he had

trouble with imprinting because it is such a com-plicated concept. Howev-er, Stephenie Meyer, the

author of the “Twilight” series was on set during the entire process to help him.

Regarding Meyer’s ad-vice, Lautner said, “She told me not to think about it too much, and to not think about what it could be. She said just to think about it as a lifelong bond between two people and for right now Jacob is her protector, and that’s it.”

“Breaking Dawn Part 2” is the last installment in the franchise. It comes out on Nov. 16. The movie is based on Meyer’s novel “Breaking Dawn.” Bill Condon is the return-ing director, and Mellisa Rosenberg is the screen-writer. Rosenberg has

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been the screenwriter for all of the “Twilight” films and this is Condon’s sec-ond time directing for

“Twilight.”Condon and

R o s e n b e r g have made some major changes with this film, some of which might upset Twi-hards. The most dramatic change will be the ending. They have de-cided to create their own end-ing.

K r i s t e n Stewart, who plays Bella, spilled the beans on the Today Show: “It’s so shock-ing, to be hon-est... Every time I see it or think about it,

I get, like, giddy. It freaks me out,” she said about the new ending.

Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward Cullen, spoke with Ellen Dege-neres about the new end-ing on her talk show. He told fans that it is not a change that will make fans angry or upset. “I don’t think fans will be upset because we don’t change anything,” he says. “The books are their baby, so we can’t touch it too much. But it’s fun, and there definitely is a twist,” he said.

Liz Thompson is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies and minoring in journalism. She can be reached at ET715984@wcupa.edu.

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Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) must deal with parenthood in the second part of “Breaking Dawn.”

Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight series, was on set to help the actors.

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Upon first glance, the thing that jumps out about

Morgan Spurlock is his moustache. Spurlock has sported the horseshoe moustache for as long as he can remember. Over the years it has become part of his identity, serv-ing as more than just a unique style of facial hair. It characterizes a man for whom “normal” is just another entry in the dic-tionary and an excuse for a lack of creativity. His work as a documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, and television producer have demonstrated his willingness to push exist-ing boundaries on a quest to expose the raw nature of controversial issues.

Born on Nov. 7, 1970, Morgan Valentine Spur-lock was raised in the small town of Beckley, in the southern part of West Virginia. He was exposed to music, literature, and

art at an early age by his mother who wanted her children to find their artistic voices. Spurlock g r a d u a t e d from Wood-row Wilson High School in 1989, already set in his in-tention of be-coming a film-maker. After being denied five times to the film school at USC, he was accepted to the Tisch School of the Arts at New York Univer-sity.

The idea for his critically acclaimed doc-umentary “Su-per Size Me,” would not come until al-most 10 years after graduat-ing from NYU. While at his

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tian living in a Muslim home, a homophobe living with a homosexual, and an honest man serving a month in prison were all filmed for the show.

Most recently, Spur-lock’s documentary, “Man-some,” filmed in 2012, was announced as a spotlight for the Tribeca Film Fes-tival in New York City where he resides with his son, Laken.

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QUADSPORTS@WCUPA.EDUSportsFootball coach Zwaan happy at West

Chester after long, winding career

West Chester Uni-versity’s head football coach

Bill Zwaan traveled down a long road before secur-ing his Division II coach-ing job in 2003.

The journey began with Zwaan’s own football ca-reer. After graduating from Archbishop Carroll High School in Radnor, Pa., Zwaan received a football scholarship to the University of Delaware to play quarterback for coach Tubby Raymond. Zwaan had a stand out ca-reer at Delaware, where his team played in two National title games, win-ning one.

While Zwann holds a very impressive resume when it comes to coach-ing, the most inspira-tional connection he has comes within his own family. “One of the things that got me involved in coaching was my dad,” Zwaan explained. Zwaan served as bat boy at West Catholic High School in Philadelphia for his fa-ther’s team, something he says “had a huge im-pression” on him. Later his Dad also coached his baseball team at Arch-bishop Carroll.

During his sopho-more year at Delaware, Zwaan’s father passed away at the young age of 45. A tremendous amount of people who knew his father through coach-ing attended the funeral.

Hearing these people’s kind words made Zwaan realize that. “I obviously had made a difference in their lives. So I thought to myself at the time, I knew I wanted to coach,” Zwaan said.

Being the oldest male of 11 children, Zwaan felt like it was “a real challenge to try and stay in school, feeling like I should be home trying to help with my family.” Al-though it was a challenge for him, Zwaan decided to stay at Delaware and fin-ish his degree in Market-ing. He knew that staying and playing for Raymond would be his first step to accumulating the knowl-edge needed to become the great coach that he is today. Because he was the team’s quarterback, Zwaan got to be involved in the game planning each week. “I really got to learn how to be a football coach as a quarterback down there,” Zwaan said proudly. “Some of the things he did I still do to-day,” Zwaan explained af-ter sharing a story about his playing days under Raymond. While he may not have known it at the time, he was about to be-gin his 35-year coaching career.

After graduating from Delaware with a market-ing management degree, Raymond recommended that Zwaan become a high school coach at Mon-signor Bonner in Drexel Hill, Pa. Since it is a Catholic school, Zwaan was also able to be a part

of the schools’ faculty, teaching math and health classes, while taking classes at night towards his education degree. During his three year tenure at Bonner, Zwaan had to learn how to coach every position. “It really helped round me into be-ing a good football coach,” Zwaan said.

The next stop on Zwaan’s journey was his first college position at the University of Cincinnati. While the job didn’t pay much, and Zwaan slept on a dorm room floor, he was making the moves necessary to getting where he wanted to be. “I knew that was a way for me to get into that level; to meet some guys at that level and try to make an impression and hopefully someday that would lead to something else,” Zwaan said. He was right.

While at Cincinnati, he met Mark Duffner and Kevin Coyle, two guys that Zwaan says were “really significant in help-ing me to then move on to other college level posi-tions.” So significant, that after the entire staff was fired after Cinci’s losing season, Coyle was offered a job at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in New York and asked Zwaan to join his staff.

While in New York he married his wife Rose-mary, and they had their first child, Bill Jr. Zwaan then decided to move back home and landed a job as a merchandise manager at the Spectrum in Phil-

adelphia. After a “very exciting three years,” Zwaan missed coaching and decided to take the opportunity presented to him from a college friend, Bill Cubit. Zwaan moved to Florida to coach, teach, and eventually become the Dean of Students at Martin County High School.

“When I write my book later, 90 percent of the stories are going to come

from being the Dean of Students at Martin Coun-ty High School,” Zwaan joked.f

He remained at Mar-tin County for four years, until once again return-ing home to Pa., and this time it would be for good. Zwaan served as both the head Baseball coach and Assistant Football coach at Weidner University for five years before becoming the head Football coach and Athletic director, where he worked for an-other six years. While at Weidner, Zwaan applied for the West Chester job, and the rest is history.

“I’ve lived in the same house for the past 19 years, and for a college

Bill Zwaan has held a number of coaching positions in his career, but he has settled in at West Chester and does not see himself leaving any time soon.

coach to live in the same house for 19 years is pret-ty amazing,” Zwaan said proudly. He was moved around many times dur-ing his career, so for him it was “very rare to settle down and stay in one area, but it was nice for my kids.” Zwann has held the head coaching posi-tion at West Chester for the past 12 years.

What made coaching at West Chester even

more fulfilling for Zwaan was that he was able to coach his son, Bill Jr. Like his father, Bill Jr. also played quarterback, and currently ranks fifth all-time in school history in career passing yards. Coach Zwaan explained the importance of being able to coach his son, say-ing “he couldn’t imagine getting a phone call ev-ery week telling him how he played.” When recall-ing his best and worst memories of coaching his son, Zwaan says the best was when “he threw five touchdown passes in one game, it was one of his early games and I think he only played a half, and the worst was the last

game he played.”Zwaan has shown the

effect his many years of experience has had on his coaching skills. During his years at West Ches-ter so far, Zwaan has won three PSAC Eastern Divi-sion titles, winning Coach of the Year each time. He has guided the program to the NCAA II playoffs five times while advising the third-most wins in school history and steering the

Golden Rams to the na-tional semifinals for the very first time in just his second year. He mostly wants his players to see him as fair and honest. “I want them to think of me as a good technical coach, I know what I’m talking about I know how to teach it, I treat them fair but not equally,” Zwaan said.

Although he may never achieve his aspiration to someday coach at the Di-vision I level, Zwaan is content.

“I am really happy here. It’s a great place to coach, I had a lot of great kids to play for me so it’s hard for me to not be happy.”

Maggie Jordan can be reached at MJ716717@wcupa.edu.

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Volleyball ready for PSAC playoffs after splitting pair of matches

The table has been set, and the West Chester women’s

volleyball team has their first postseason meeting set for Tuesday at Heiges Field house in Shippens-burg. The team certainly hopes to perform better than they have in the first two meetings with the Raiders this season.

The first match, played back in October, ended in three sets and saw the Rams slip to 3-8 in the PSAC. While their perfor-mance was a great deal better in the final game of the season vs. Ship on Saturday; the Rams were still unable to emerge with a positive result. Coach Kassie Bellaver and the girls will have only a few days to fine tune their strategy against the Raiders or see their postseason venture end in short order.

On paper, the two teams are almost identical in terms of offensive production this season. Ship-pensburg has posted 1,441 kills compared to West Chester’s 1,372. The Rams have a small advan-tage in attacking percent-age (.023) but the Raid-ers have put up 92 more assists at the close of the regular season. Both sides have proven to be more than capable of putting up points, doing so on a consistent basis all season long.

However, on defense, it is very clear who has been more successful. Ship has registered 362 more digs, 29 fewer errors, and near-ly 50 blocks more than West Chester this season. While these numbers are not a conclusive factor in determining the outcome

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of Tuesday’s match, they certainly must be taken into consideration.

When the two sides met on Sunday in Hollinger, the result was more than promising for the Golden Rams. The team was able to match the Raider’s ef-forts on both sides of the ball, a feat they were far from accomplishing in their first meeting of the season. And despite a 3-1 final score line, the close match was ultimately de-cided as a result of a poor performance by the Rams in the 4th set.

The match began with the two clubs trading points until Ship was able to break away for a late 25-21 win. West Chester

took the second set 26-24 after a ball handling error resulted in a set clinch-ing point awarded to Lexi Kegerise. The third set was a bit more one sided as the Raiders were lead-ing 16-10 at one point and did not relinquish the lead once it was in their grasp. Now down 2-1, the Rams fell apart and committed a series of errors which led to a .000 attacking per-centage in the fourth. The set ended 25-19 to seal Shippensburg’s 26th win of the season.

Kegerise’s 15 kills and three block assists in the game led to her surpassing of the 1,300 kill mark on her career. She will leave

behind a legacy as one of the most talented hitters to ever wear the purple and gold ranking 4th all-time in kills. Marina Shar-key was needed to fill the shoes of Cara Reese who is still recovering from an in-jury suffered earlier in the season. This was not much of a problem for Sharkey as she has seen a fair amount of playing time this season. She would fin-ish the match with nine kills and four block as-sists. Tori Hutchinson and Mandy Flynn accounted for the majority of the teams 48 assists record-ing 24 and 21 respectively. Defensively, Dana Markol increased her season to-tal by 14 digs, in addition

to three service aces.

“We played well today but had too many un-forced errors and service errors. Our serve receive passing was very good but we did not work around their middle blockers effec-tively. We will win Tuesday if we can have ball

control and serve aggres-sively. We cannot make the same unforced errors that we did today if we want to get to the semi-fi-nals,” Bellaver said follow-ing Saturday’s loss.

If the team is able to avoid making the same errors that cost them the match on Saturday, there is no reason why they will be unable to advance to the second round. A win in the quarterfinals would pit the Rams against the winner of the Lock Haven Millersville contest also taking place on Tuesday.

Joshua Shapiro is a second-year student majoring in English and education. He can be reached at JS762110@wcupa.edu

Lady Rams still alive in NCAA Tournement after 1-0 win

By Taylor MarenStaff Writer

Senior Kelly Martin and junior Allison Grammer get up high to block a spike attempt.

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Going into West Chester’s second-round game of the

NCAA Tournament, the ladies still had much to prove as they faulted ear-lier last week. The Golden Rams (13-4-1) had a spec-tacular season as they be-gan with 10 straight wins, but faced some bumps in the road towards the end.

After losing their last regular season match, they would be bounced in the quarterfinals of the PSAC Tournament by Slippery Rock. Not want-ing to end their season with a sour taste in their mouths, it was imperative for them to come out fir-ing against West Virginia Wesleyan on Sunday.

Coming into the match, West Virginia Wesleyan had already upset the No. 3 seeded Gannon but it wouldn’t get any easier as they faced No. 2 West Chester. From the on-set of the game, the Lady Rams showed the Bobcats

no mercy as continued to pepper their goalkeeper with shots.

The first blow came in the 23 minute when West Chester’s Dana Hunt scored on Wesleyan’s goal-keeper, Laura Duncan. The ladies would continue to dominate ball posses-sion and took that lead into the locker room.

The second half dis-played what the Lady Rams have been all about this year. Their relent-lessness on the offensive side of the ball and solid defense behind them stood the test against a danger-ous Bobcats team. Goal-keeper Shannon Fedyk held strong in her biggest game of the year so far as West Chester shutout West Virginia Wesleyan, 1-0. Shots on goal told the story of the match as the Rams would out-shoot their opponents by a staggering, 13-6 count and forcing the Bobcats to play on their heels much of the game. Even though West Chester committed twice as many fouls as

Wesleyan, the aggressive-ness shows that the girls weren’t ready for their season to end.

Next up for the Lady Rams is a date with the winner between No. 1 ranked California Uni-versity of Pennsylvania and No. 5 Slippery Rock. Both prove to be tough matches for the girls as they narrowed beat Cali-fornia University earlier this season, 2-1 and Slip-pery Rock’s upset of the Rams that just occurred last week.

Going into the game, West Chester should not need any more motiva-tion with key seniors, Melissa McKeary and Jen Hutchinson, leading the way. At this point, each team knows the other well enough so it’s going to come down to who ex-ecutes most effectively. The ladies next match is scheduled for Friday, No-vember 16 with the time yet to be determined.

Taylor Maren is a third-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies. He can be reached at TM741168@wcupa.edu.

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few days of their winter break, spending time with their family, working, or getting ready for the upcoming spring semes-ter. The 2011-12 men’s basketball team was not enjoying their season up to that point sitting at a very disappointing 6-8 re-cord. They had lost their last four games and were 3-7 against PSAC oppo-nents.

Over the next seven weeks, all they did was win 13 of their final 15 games, losing both to East Stroudsburg, once in the regular season and the other in the PSAC Championship Game. No one wanted any part of coach Damien Blair’s squad, who won their fi-nal eight games of the regular season. In the PSAC Tournament, Bloomsburg would be the ninth straight victim in the quarterfinals as the Golden Rams won on the Huskies home court in a convincing manner 83-70.

In the semifinals, West Chester hosted nation-ally ranked IUP in a match-up that the Crim-son Hawks led for most of the way, although they could never put the feisty Rams away for good. West Chester overcame a 13-point deficit midway through the second half, and pulled off the upset in the final seconds as guard Jon Breeden hit a three from downtown to give the Golden Rams a three point victory. Breeden, who will be returning for his senior year, and the Rams came up just short in the championship game against ESU, losing by five and just missing out on the NCAA Tourna-ment.

West Chester finished with a 19-10 overall re-cord in 2011-12 and were 14-8 in conference play, good enough for third in the PSAC East, behind Kutztown and Blooms-burg.

Two senior starters will not be returning this year for the Golden Rams. Guard Khalif Foster, one of West Chester’s most underrated players last year, and forward Lance McDowell, who did some of everything, includ-ing leading the Rams in scoring, rebounding, and blocked shots.

This year’s squad comes back much more experienced than they

were a year ago, and are sporting the confidence from last season’s strong finish to hit the ground running. Three starters return this year along with multiple difference makers off the bench. Breeden will be joined once again in the back-court by dynamic guard Carl Johnson who is also entering his senior year and forward Corey Blake looks to continue develop-ing into a post threat for the Golden Rams. During his freshman campaign

Blake posted very re-spectable numbers aver-aging over 10 points and six rebounds per game.

West Chester has a number of returning players who came off the bench last year to pro-vide relief for the starters including: Tim Flecken, Troy Hockaday, Jaleel Mack, Harley William-son, and Eric Frans.

Mack looks to continue his offensive production as the sixth man as he av-eraged over 10 points per game last season. Senior forward Williamson can expect more playing time this season following the graduation of McDowell. Junior guard Shannon

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Men’s basketball team ready for seasonBy Riley Wallace

Staff Writer

Givens will be available for the Golden Rams after transferring from Drexel University and sitting out last year. He will pro-vide amazing depth at the guard position for West Chester, giving them four legitimate starters.

There are some news faces on this year’s team consisting of both first-year freshmen and trans-fers. Two freshmen are on the squad this year and could see some time early in the season, while Coach Blair is figuring

out his rotations. Guard Stephon Baker,

from Plymouth Meeting, Pa., has plenty of com-petition in front of him at the guard position. Forward Matt Wisely, from Emmaus, Pa., is the other freshman on this year’s squad. Two trans-fers round out this year’s Golden Rams. Junior center Ryan McKeaney transferred from Ver-mont after spending two years as a Catamount. Forward Tom Sharkey left junior college Cecil College to join the Rams and adds depth at the for-ward position.

The Golden Rams took a big step in the right direction last weekend when they put a scare into Big Ten contender Il-linois losing an exhibition game by only nine points, 75-66. The Rams fell be-hind early and trailed by 24 at the half but never gave in to the Fighting Illini. They battled their way back and went toe-for-toe with their Divi-sion I opponent for the entire second half, out-scoring them 46-31. Their comeback was too little too late, but they gained invaluable experience playing on the big stage of Assembly Hall in front of a crowd of over 11,000.

Entering his fifth sea-son at the helm, coach Blair will be looking to take a very deep and ex-perienced West Chester team back to the PSAC Championship Game and this time bring home West Chester’s first PSAC Champion-ship. His team begins its long journey this upcom-ing Wednesday at home against Chestnut Hill University with the tipoff at 6 p.m.

Riley Wallace is a fourth-year student majoring in communi-cation studies with a journal-ism minor. He can be reached at RW718681@wcupa.edu.

Sophomore guard Corey Blake and the rest of the West Chester men’s basketball team are ready for the 2012-13 season.

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The Golden Rams capped off their 2012 campaign with

a convincing win on the road over PSAC West foe Clarion, 33-12, Saturday afternoon.

West Chester (7-4) scored the first 26 points of the game behind four field goals by kicker Shawn Leo, to put the game out of reach against Clarion (4-7) and finish off the 2012 season with a victory. The Rams outplayed the Gold-en Eagles winning the time of possession battle by nine minutes.

Clarion’s offensive struggles continued Sat-urday afternoon. Coming into the game they had lost four of their last five games with the only win coming against winless

Lock Haven (0-10) by two points. In the first four drives of the game, the Golden Eagles racked up a grand total of 35 yards of total offense resulting in three punts and a lost fumble.

On the opening kick-off, returner and backup running back Brandon Monk took it 56 yards to the Clarion 39 yard line, giving the Golden Rams great starting field posi-tion. Eight plays later, Leo kicked his first field goal of the day from 40 yards out giving West Chester an early 3-0 lead.

That was all the scor-ing for the opening quar-ter, but once again West Chester struck early in the second quarter. Leo hit the mark from 32 yards out in the first minute of the quarter, capping off a drive of 59 yards that lasted over six and a half

minutes.The Rams took further

advantage of Clarion’s in-ability to put points on the board by tacking on two touchdowns before the end of the half. On the first, wide receiver Erick Brundidge caught a 26-yard pass from quar-terback Mike Mattei. The second score was achieved on the ground as running back Rondell White ran 11 yards to put West Chester ahead 20-0 at the break.

The second half started much the same as the first half did, with two Leo field goals. With just over three minutes to go in the third quarter Leo put one through from 45 yards, and with over seven min-utes to go in the fourth quarter, he hit from 36 yards to make it 26-0 West Chester.

Clarion finally managed to get on the board with

under six minutes remain-ing on 64 yard pass, but the two-point conversion failed and the score re-mained in the Rams favor, 26-6. To dispel any hopes of a comeback, Monk ran one in from six yards out to push the lead to 27, 33-6. An Eagles touchdown with 13 seconds remaining made the final score 33-12, but the outcome was never in doubt heading into the final quarter.

White once again starred in the ground game, this time rush-ing for a season-high 227 yards on 38 carries. It was his fourth 200-yard rush-ing game of the season. The game brings White’s rushing total to 1,548 as he broke the school’s sin-gle-season rushing record previously held by Mike Eckmeyer, who rushed for 1,539 yards in 2002. White will need to improve upon

his mark next year, as he stands 1,661 yards from the all-time career rushing record heading into his se-nior year.

Mattei finished the day going 19-for-33 for 202 yards and a touchdown, but also threw two inter-ceptions. He finished the season with 2,552 passing yards and 26 touchdowns, completing almost 60 per-cent of his passes and only throwing 10 interceptions.

Wide Receiver Jim Kelly caught 10 passes Saturday, accumulating 77 yards. Kelly tied with White for the team lead in receptions on the year with 51, with Kelly piling up 712 yards to White’s 624. White caught a team-high seven touchdown passes, giving him 18 total touchdowns on the year.

Now, while 16 seniors will not be returning next season for the Golden

Rams, key players will be returning on both the offensive and defensive sides of the ball. On of-fense, quarterback Sean McCartney, who suffered a season-ending injury in the first game of the year against Delaware, will be returning for his senior season. White will also be coming back and Brun-didge will be back for his junior year. Defensively, Williams will be back next fall as he has two years of eligibility remaining. Leo, who made 13 of his 15 field goal attempts and 48 of his 49 PAT attempts, will also be back for his fourth and final year, so there is a lot of promise for the Golden Rams as they move for-ward to 2013.

Riley Wallace is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies with a journalism minor. He can be reached at RW718681@wcupa.edu.

By Riley WallaceStaff Writer

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Women remain undefeated after 9-0 victory over LibertyKenny Ayres

Editor-in-Chief

West Chester’s women’s hockey team remained

undefeated after a con-vincing 9-0 clouting of the Liberty University Flames on Saturday.

The Rams’ offense came to life as nine of the 13 skaters tallied at least one point in the game. Junior forward Becky Dobson put together as good a game as one can have, scoring four goals and assisting on three more.

In just seven games now, Dobson has 16 goals and 11 assists. She is on pace to shatter last year’s mark of 31 points in 12 games. If she were to continue at the pace she has been scor-ing, she would score 27 goals and 19 assists by the end of the teams’ twelfth game. Her dominance is unmatched.

“She’s so strong and skillful that she can walk through five players. I’m lucky to have her on my team because I would not want to be the goalie she’s shooting against,” goalie Aly Golia joked.

Dobson leads a scor-ing line that has been ex-tremely dangerous early on. Dobson, Kirsten Baron and Colleen Tweedy com-bined for seven goals and six assists against Liberty. The three of them make up the top three leaders in points on the team this year, and combined have more goals (24) than 13 of the other 16 teams in the league that have begun play.

“Our top line is firing on all cylinders,” head coach Dave Japchen said. “We made some changes and moved Colleen up there with Dobson and Kirsten Baron and it’s just worked real well. Becky is just dominant on the ice and

has carried this team on her shoulders in the past and Kirsten came on board this year and has added that extra punch up front. They are just extremely strong skaters and they don’t get knocked off the puck easily.”

The entire West Ches-ter offense was strong on Saturday. They had no easy task against Liberty’s goaltender but still man-aged an impressive show-ing.

“Liberty has a tremen-dous goalie,” Japchen said. “You cannot beat her straight up so we really worked on getting shots from the point and crash the net. We did that and got a lot of redirect and de-

flection type goals. It’s the only way to beat a solid goaltender.”

The goal-scorers were not the only heroes of the game. They also had help on the other end, as the defense corps shut down Liberty, limiting them to only eight shots on goal for the entire game.

“The defense was solid tonight,” Japchen said. “They’ve worked real hard in practice on skill develop-ment as well as gap control and positional responsibil-ity. We have not allowed a lot of shots on net this season and much of that is due to our defense playing so well.”

Not only has the defense not been allowing shots, they have not been allow-

ing goals either. That is not only a testament to the defensive play, but also to Golia, who has been noth-ing but solid in net. There is a reason that West Chester has the highest difference between goals scored and goals allowed in the league. Golia has faced just 96 shots in five games, but she has only allowed seven goals. That makes for an astounding goals against average of 1.4, which is fourth best in the league. The amaz-ing part is, the less shots a goalie faces the harder it is to make the saves. It is tough to fall into a groove and basically every save is made cold.

“These type of games

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where I only get eight shots are so hard for me to stay focused and in the game when the play is down at the other end the whole time. It’s always hard for a goalie to play these type of games,” Golia said.

But she is far from com-plaining about the lack of shots on her, no goalie would prefer a barrage of shots and a porous de-fense.

“All of my defenders do an awesome job at block-ing lanes, moving bodies, and blocking shots,” Golia said. “They make my job a lot easier.”

Oh, and they can join the rush too. The defense contributed two of the goals and five assists to the cause against Liberty,

taking an already talented offense to another level. Having two-way players is huge because they can do whatever the situation calls for. In this case, it was scoring, then shutting down the opposition after scoring.

“I gave the defense a little more rope tonight and allowed them to move the puck up and be a little more offensively orient-ed but at the same time worked on gap control in the neutral zone,” Japchen said.

But regardless of the score and the dominance, a coach will always see something that can be improved upon. Japchen believes if his team can perfect their passing they can be even more lethal. It may sound elementary, but fundamentals come first, and moving the puck is perhaps the most impor-tant fundamental.

“I’d like to see improve-ment in our breakout and quicker passing,” Japchen said. “Our passing has gotten a lot better but not nearly where I’d like it to be. It’s not fast enough. There is not enough one-touch passing and we sat on it a little too long.We’ll work on that though. I’m a firm believer in hard work and that you can never be good enough so we work hard every practice on the fundamentals.”

As of now, despite an undefeated start, WCU sits in second place to Cali-fornia University of Penn-sylvania, who has tallied 16 points in the stand-ings with an 8-1 record. The Rams have 10 points. WCU can gain ground next week as they will be trav-eling for an evening game against the first-place Vul-cans on Saturday. Game time is set for 6:10 p.m.

Kenny Ayres is a third-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies with a journalism minor. He can be reached at KA739433@wcupa.edu.

Aly Golia and Becky Dobson congratulate each other after West Chester’s 9-0 win over Liberty University.

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top ranked West Chester into their second consecu-tive national champion-ship.

“We went down a goal early, but remained com-posed and were able to capitalize on our next scoring opportunity,” Head coach Amy Cohen said following the victory.

Ending Shippensburg’s season for the second year in a row boosted the streaking Rams into the national champion-ship game for a rematch with UMass-Lowell, the opponent West Chester defeated last year to win it all.

West Chester showed they were ready to go as Gluchowski put the Rams ahead only two minutes into the game off an as-sist from Megan Calla-nan.

Before the River Hawks could counter, Lykens tacked on the second goal of the game extending the lead to 2-0 and giv-ing the Rams some nice breathing room early in the game.

It was evident the Rams had come out with a purpose as they contin-ued to dominate the first half. Versak tipped in the third goal of the game off a shot from Stef Pirri, giving the Golden Rams a 3-0 advantage as the first half came to a close.

The first half was all the Golden Rams needed to lock up their second national championship, yet thirty-five minutes remained on the clock. Schrift scored the fourth goal of the game only one minute into the second half, giving the Rams a 4-0 edge.

Cheek was able to add on one final goal as time ran down, giving West Chester a 5-0 victory and the largest margin of victory in the national championship since 2002.

It is also the first re-peat since 2006-2009.

West Chester finished the season on a 10 game winning streak, and fin-ished the season an out-standing 20-2.

Timothy Mulqueen is a third-year stu-dent majoring in marketing. He can be reached at TM734386@wcupa.edu.

The Golden Rams topped UMass-Lowell on Sunday, 5-0, for their second straight D-II national championship.

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Golden Rams cruise to second straight national title

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Baseball’s hot stove is about to get interesting, with a number of top-level free agents available on the market. Recent reports have claimed that the Phil-lies are interested in Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton and Tampa Bay Rays outfielder B.J. Up-ton. Philadelphia may be looking to retool its offense in an effort to get back to the playoffs in 2013.

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The West Chester Golden Rams began the championship

weekend in Lowell, Mass. facing PSAC rival and in-state foe, Shippensburg. Out to defend their Na-tional title from only a

year ago, the Rams were on an impressive eight game winning streak leading up to the national tournament. After win-ning their first PSAC championship, the Rams dismantled IUP for the third time this season, to set up a national semi-final with the Shippens-

burg Red Raiders. Shippensburg jumped

out to an early lead only five minutes into the game, but the Rams kept their composure and bat-tled back.

Alexis Versak was able to tip one past the oppos-ing goalie off a shot from teammate Kelsi Lykens

to tie the game at 1-1. Lykens was credited with the assist. Moments lat-er, Michele Schrift scored her 24th goal of the sea-son off a blast from in front of the net to give the Rams a 2-1 lead. West Chester maintained the lead as both teams head-ed into the locker room

and for the much of the second half.

It wasn’t until the 63rd minute where Shippens-burg was able to sneak a goal past Kristin Arnold on a misplayed ball inside the circle to tie the semi-final matchup at 2-2.

Having the experience of being here just a year

ago, the Rams remained calm and focused as the game was winding down.

With less than 90 ticks remaining on the clock, Kayla Gluchowski was able to convert the game-winning goal off a cross from Kelsey Cheek to lift