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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2010

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THIS ISSUENews:Congress Sestak Rally p. 3

Op Ed: The Wonders of Group Work p.4

Features: Texting in class p. 6

ET: Daniel Tosh p. 9

Sports: Women’s Basketball 63-61 p.16

Twelfth Annual Miss WCU CrownedElizabeth Toal comes out on top

By Jenn RothsteinNews Editor

When asked during the on-stage questioning portion of the Miss West Chester Uni-versity competition what song would be the soundtrack to her life, Elizabeth Toal responded that it would be “Let Me Fall,” by Josh Groban, because of the lyric “there’s a moment where fear and dreams collide.” For Toal, that moment existed on the evening of Feb 6, when she was crowned the twelfth annual Miss WCU.

Toal, a third year education major, ran on the platform of fighting tobacco use on college campuses and performed a piece from a German operetta as her talent.

As Miss West Chester Uni-versity, Toal plans to enlist the help of organizations such as the American College Health Association and the American Cancer Society to advocate “the destructive effects of tobacco and promote alternatives across West Chester University’s campus.” Through preventive educa-tional programs, she hopes that smokers will realize the unmis-takable winner in the battle between tobacco and life.

As part of her prize package, a portion of the ticket proceeds will be donated to this cause.

Miss WCU features a talent portion, casual wear, evening wear, and on-stage questioning, as well as an off-stage interview which, at 40 percent of the total score, is the most important part of the competition. The talent portion is worth 25 percent, with casual wear and evening wear worth 15 percent each. The on-stage question rounds out the competition at 5 percent of the total score.

Toal said that the reason she chose to participate in the Miss WCU competition because it gives women a chance to better themselves, and to help them learn to “define yourself for you.”

The runners up in the compe-tition were Julianne Spadine, a third year elementary education major, Laura Hoover, a third year communicative disorders major, Courtney Dean, a third year English education major and Kristin Neel, a second year phar-macutical product development major.

Jenn Rothstein is a third-year English education major. She can be reached at [email protected]

Pro-life Superbowl Ad Sparks National ControversyControversy has erupted

across the entire nation, because CBS has decided to air an ad that stars the Florida Gator’s quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother. The controvercial commercial that will be airing during the Super Bowl has a pro-life message.

The Super Bowl commercial has a personal story where Tim’s mother Pam, tells a story about her fifth pregnancy, and the ad is paid for by a conservative Christian group called, “Focus on the Family.”

In the commercial Tim’s mother talks about how she was a missionary in the Phil-lipines when she found out she was expecting her fifth child. She goes on to explain that she contracted an illness while in the country. When she found out that she was ill, the doctors had advised her to have an abortion, because they believed the medical treatments would harm the unborn child.

Pam Tebow decided not to have the abortion, despite the doctors advice and warning. In August, 1987 she gave birth to a baby boy.

According to Fox news a pro-life group calls the ad, “un-American hate, that does not deserve to be aired during an American pastime.” Also, the group claims that the group, “Focus on the Family,” is “homo-phobic” and “anti-equality.” Many are speaking out against the commercial, but there are those who do support the ad.

At West Chester University students have mixed feelings about the commercial. The com-mercial has some people talking. When asked, the students gave their honest opinons on whether or not the commercial with the pro-life message should be aired during Sunday’s game. A 21-year old female student of WCU said, “My answer to that is yes, I defi-nitely believe it should be aired during the Super Bowl! What better time to reach an enormous amount of people about a message about family! Appar-

ently the word ‘abortion’ does not even appear in the ad, and as Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, has said, ‘Our message is about family and if we’re saying family is political, I think we’ve got deeper issues in this country.’ America needs to hear the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts. But this is the home of the brave, and kudos to Tim Tebow for being brave enough to speak out about the gratitude he has for his mother who chose life for him. It’s sad that people are trying to silence his voice, just as the doctors wanted to silence him even before he was born.”

Another 21-year old female student of WCU said, “I don’t think this ad should be aired especially with Tebow’s carrer on the line and the fact that it’s during the most watched game of the year.”

A male 19-year old student gave his feedback on the issue and he replied the question by saying,“I think it absolutely should be aired...if you can air birth control and contraception pill commercials why shouldn’t

you be able to advertise what you might be missing out on if you use those things....a human life, a person who can change the world. It’s only fair, and it’s only being considered contro-versial because so many people are complacent with accepting that abortion and birth control is okay.”

If a questionaire was taken of the entire WCU campus asking each students’ opinion on the topic, the person taking the ques-tionaire would get a variety of answers, and replies would come from both sides of the spectrum.

As millions watch the Super Bowl and the commercials that go with it, many won’t be focused on the pro-life ad, they’ll be focused on cheering on either the Colts or the Saints and downing hot wings. Once the ad aires, the ad will either spark pro-life pro-choice debates, both on campus and on the news, or people will make the ad a thing of the past.

Kory Barnas is a third-year history major with a minor in journalism. She can be reached at [email protected].

By Kory BarnasSpecial to The Quad

Left, the top three, Courtney Dean, Elizabeth Toal and Kristin Neel, await the final decision as to who would be crowned Miss WCU 2010. Right, Elizabeth Toal, a third-year education major, is crowned Miss WCU 2010 by Rosemary Kolmus, the outgoing Miss WCU.

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NEWS FEBRUARY 8, 2010

“I think every day should be a day of ro-mance. Then, on Valentine’s Day, you should get to tell whoever you hate that you cannot stand them. There would be one day of hat-ing, and 364 days of love.”-Ashton Kutcher, on reworking Valentine’s Day.

“To be honest, I’m lured by the acting.” -John Travolta on why he buys products he sees on infomercials.

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“I once dated a guy who was like, ‘Holy sh--, I just made out with Harriet the Spy!’ And that’s messed up. Don’t say that. I was 10, you’re 30, it’s just weird.” -Michelle Trachtenberg on the problems that come from being a child actor.

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SGA clarifies bylaws, discusses upcoming

elections The Student Government

Association focused on possibly adjusting both their bylaws and meeting schedule at their second session of the term this past Tuesday night.

In his first meeting since being elected Parliamentarian, Brad Moyer presented three changes to the SGA bylaws, centering on Senator and officer removal. The changes had been worked on by Paul Tamke, the previous Parliamentarian.

“We wanted to be more restric-tive,” SGA President Anthony DiJiacomo said of an alteration focusing on reduced senator absences.

The reason for the changes was to “clarify” several existing bylaws according to Moyer. The senate eventually voted to table all three proposals after several senators where confused by errors in the typed versions which were handed out.

Later on in the meeting, Vice President Lauren Prudenti laid out a plan to overhaul SGA’s current meeting schedule which consists of a senate meeting on Tuesday in addition to individ-ual committee meetings which are held separately throughout the week.

“We want to make sure that we’re doing things in the most efficient way possible and not wasting your time,” Prudenti told the senate.

The new schedule calls for senate meetings to be held every other week with committee meetings held on the off weeks. Prudenti pointed out that the new meeting schedule was based off of similar schedule used by Slippery Rock, Millers-ville and Mansfield.

“I brought this up in order to save time,” she said of the proposal, which was not voted on, but merely discussed to “gauge interest,” as Prudenti noted.

Senator of the Month

Len Altieri, the Senator for Academic Affairs was named the “Senator of the Month” for both December and January. DiJiacomo praised Altieri for his “commitment to make a dif-ference for SGA.” Later on in the evening, Altieri announced his candidacy for SGA President next term as part of a ticket called “The Main Event.”

Election UpdatesMark Jackson was elected

By Colin McGlincheyEditor in Chief

to the Special Assignment position on the University Safety committee. As a result of his win, Jackson vacated his previously held role as Senator representing West Goshen Township. His former seat was not immediately filled, ending SGA’s one week run with a full senate.

Election Updates part two

“I was absolutely thrilled to be chosen as Senator of Off Campus Housing,” said Ben Secka who was elected during SGA’s first meeting of the term.

“The SGA looks like a really tight-knit group and the com-munication skills between the committees are astounding. I am going to be making a 110% effort to help the students of West Chester University with off-campus housing. I really look forward to hearing the ideas of the student body as well as applying many ideas of my own and doing everything in my power to get the job done to the best of my ability.”

Colin McGlinchey is a fifth-year student majoring in English with a minor in journalism. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Research Day 2010

Tuesday, April 13

Sykes Student Union Bldg.

Request for Application for the Student Research & Creative Activities Awards

(The SRCA Awards)

The Student Research and Creative Awards (SRCA) Committee announces the 2010 competition for West Chester University students. A maximum of 12 awards, of $500 per proposal, will be presented to student scholars at the April 13, 2010 University-wide Research Day.

Application Deadline: Friday, February 26, 2010 at 5:00 PM

to [email protected]

Office of Sponsored Research, Suite 101 Old Library Building

Please visit the Student Research & Creative Activities (SRCA) Committee website for

complete application guidelines at http://www.wcupa.edu/srca

For additional information about the 2010 SRCA Awards, please contact

Dr. Xiaowei Zhu, Chairperson, SRCA Committee ([email protected]) or

Dr. Mike Ayewoh, Associate Vice President, Sponsored Research ([email protected])

Majority of the funding for the 2010 SRCA Awards is provided by the

Office of the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs

Partial funding is provided by the

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Hello West Chester!

This past Friday night, I walked across town from my fraternity house to the Sykes After Dark program and back in the snow with a small group of friends. As always, I was amazed by how many of our students would pass by, unresponsive to a friendly hello. I can’t tell you how disappointing I find this after spending the best four years of my life at West Chester.

With this in mind, I am challenging you to be friendlier, not only to your fellow human beings, but especially to your fellow WCU students. Smile, say hello, and go out of your way to help others. On Saturday, I got stuck in the snow and another student came run-ning over to give me a hand – that student truly holds the values of WCU in his heart. I hope you find the same in yours.

This Friday night, Sykes After Dark is sponsoring with the Black Student Union the Sadie Hawkins Dance for Valentine’s Weekend. From 9 p.m.-10 p.m., there will be a formal, free dinner in the ballrooms with dancing to follow until 1a.m. Also, between 9 p.m. and 1 a.m. are Xbox360 and Wii gaming, karaoke, build-a-bear, and a New Moon photo shoot. Come out for a great time this Friday night!

WCU’s 24th Annual Leadership Experience is this Friday night with the theme Mission I’m Possible: Detecting the Secrets of Leadership. The program begins at 4 p.m., lasting to 9 p.m. with several breakout sessions and dinner – all provided free by State Farm. Signup forms can picked up in Sykes 218 – the leadership office - and are due back by this Wednesday.

SAC is premiering ‘New Moon,’ the second installment of the Twilight Saga in Sykes this Thursday through Sunday. The movie is free of charge on Friday night at midnight if you attend the Sykes After Dark programming.

Congratulations to the Women’s Basketball team as they beat Shippensburg 63-61 last Wednesday night. Come see the women and men play Cheyney this Wednesday night at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. in the Gym. It promises to be a high-scoring game!

Congratulations to all of the women who competed in Miss WCU this past Saturday night! Each of you were amazing! Enjoy the snow!!

Anthony DiJiacomo, Student Governement President

A letter from the SGA President...

On Sunday afternoon, Representative and Senatorial candidate Joe Sestak (D) held a campaign rally in Sykes Student Union. Sestak outlined his platform, which includes a focus on improving educa-

tion and providing aid to small businesses. Sestak, who is running for Arlen Spector’s seat, described himself as being neither liberal

nor conservative, but practical.

Senatorial candidate Joe Sestak visits WCU

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Let us choose how to work! Wow! Was that a Super Bowl or what? I can’t believe it’s already over. Somehow it feels like it hasn’t even happened yet as I sit here and write this. My favorite part was when that guy caught the ball and then ran towards the end zone. And then at the end, when the coach got the Gator-Aid dumped on him? Hilarious. Almost thought they weren’t going to do it this year. Of course, The Who were great at half time with Pete Townshend doing the windmill and all that. And what about the commercials? They were so funny! Like that one that aired this year. You know, the one for the thing when the guy was all like “Woah! You should all buy this good/ service!” Compelling. Yes sir, we can all learn a thing or two from the team that won that momentous game. I won’t mention the name of the team that won, of course, because it would only be insulting your intelligence to do so… or something. Of course, the lesson that I’m talking about here, boys and girls, is the wonders of team work. Now, this may shock you, coming so fast on the heels of my quasi-needy bus-rant from last week, but I’m not much for the team work, at least not as far as classes are con-cerned anyway. It wouldn’t be quite accurate for me to refer to myself as a “lone wolf” due to my passive, lethargic nature and overall lack of anything resembling a killer instinct. I think my true counterpart from the animal kingdom would be a sea gull. I’m kind of interesting and funny at fi rst, but things quickly switch gears into painfully irritating the longer I hang around. Eventually it gets to the point where you just throw your French fries off into the distance for me to chase while you run screaming in the opposite direction. Yeah, lone seagull, that’s me. Irritating and sort of useless. Like a Disney Channel star once they hit seventeen. Bird tangents aside, let’s get back to my original point about team work, or as it’s called the classroom: group work. If you’re anything like me--- I wouldn’t wish such a thing on anyone--- a lightning bolt tore across the sky and the lights fl ickered on and off as you read that sentence. Group work is the bane of my educational career. I’m not talking about sitting in a circle and hashing out the day’s lesson in the class room, but the really sinister kind that you get graded on. I’m not sure if the professors out there actually believe that this nonsense creates less work for students, because in my own humble life experiences, it always goes one of two ways. Group Project Option A: One person does all the work, while the rest of the group sits around idling, twiddling their thumbs and talking about the previous night’s “Jersey Shore” episode. Not a fan of that option? Well, let’s check behind door number two! Group Project Option B: One person does absolutely nothing to the extent where they may have dropped the class without telling anyone while the rest of the group does everything. There are a few other options, but they can mostly be summarized as a delightful blend of chaos and anarchy with a pinch of mass hysteria sprinkled on top. Every single solitary group project has fallen into one of these categories. Now, maybe I’m just unlucky. Or maybe it is I who is the problem. I’m open to both of those possibilities. I’ve been on every possible side in the scenarios, playing both the role of studious worker and that of out-of-place drifter. If you are a professor and you are reading this then please for the love of God or Charles Dickens or Mr. Feeney or whatever deity it is that you scholarly types worship, make the group in group projects optional. If someone wants to lone wolf (or seagull) it, let them. If you’re one of those social creatures who enjoys the mental strain caused by working in a large group, by all means do so. But please don’t take away my option to spurn social conventions and strike out on my own path to glory… or more likely a mid-level B. That’s all I ask.

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I find that as an art major, I tend to have a rather different perspective than most people. Take this example: I was hang-ing out with some friends in the park one day over the summer and it was a beautiful day- sun shining, not too humid, and not a cloud in the sky. I made the comment that I didn’t like pure blue skies and one of my friends asked me, “What do you mean? Are you a pessimist or something?” I went on to explain that the pure-blue-no-clouds-to-be-seen sky was just boring. There was no variety,

no interest; just a large ceiling of blue. This made, and still makes, perfect sense to me; but my friends still think I’m a pessimist. I want to back away from the clouds and the sky to come back down to Earth for a mo-ment if you will.People don’t seem open to the world any-more these days. I tend to see the majority of people either talking on their phone, texting, listening to music or a combina-tion of the above as they make their daily Mecca to and from classes. This demeanor creates an imaginary wall around the individual and prevents outside interaction from occurring. Now I understand that it isn’t exactly necessary to become a social butterfly as you wander the campus from class to class, but the mentality can

be extended to dorm living as well. As I walk down the hallways of my dorm to do laundry or brush my teeth, I will see that a vast majority, if not all of the doors, are closed. This is a di-rect parallel to the music/phone point I made earlier. Now I understand how people like their privacy or are doing work and don’t want to be bothered, but I swear I hear more people saying “but I just don’t know anybody” more often than I can count. I used to leave my door open when I moved onto campus last year and people would stick their head in and go

“Oh hey, my name is so and so. It is nice to meet you!” A fair amount of these people became my good friends and I still hang out or talk to them regularly. The point I’m trying to make is, people have erected such strong barriers around themselves these days that it becomes harder and harder to freely interact with others. Ask yourself, when was the last time you ever went out to meet new people? Now ask yourself if someone you know knew who you were going to hang out with? Are you having difficulty? As a society we have become so reliant on others to initiate new interaction and relation-ships that I often wonder if we are even self reliant anymore. Kyle Bishop is a student at West Chester University. He can be reached at [email protected]

When I came to this uni-versity four years ago, overly confident and remarkably naïve, joining a fraternity was the last thing on my mind. It’s not that I was opposed to the idea, like the select few university students who view Greeks as the unfortunate pawns in society’s great push towards universal conformity. Nor was I gung-ho about it, ready to skip merrily into the first house with letters and an open door. Rather, I was luke-warm on the idea. Indifferent. My sights were focused on the freedom, challenge, and op-portunity that the university would provide. Plus, I had come to West Chester with a strong group of high school friends, so I felt no need to introduce myself to a mysteri-ous group of lettered twenty-somethings. But that feeling would soon change. Within a few days of moving into Tyson hall I met several fraternity men, each from a unique back-ground. They were approach-able, amiable, and genuinely interested in what I had to say. Curiously enough, none reminded me of the hoity-toity WASPs that antagonize tri-Lamb geeks or the heavy

drinking protagonists of Ani-mal House fame. It was these personal connections that eventually led me to join the fraternity system. I entertained their in-vitation to rush (a term of unknown derivation, at least to the author, synonymous with the recruitment). Here, I built on these relationships. In the whirlwind process that followed, I encountered a bounty of new faces. Through formal meetings at Sykes and less formal off-campus events, I met the men who would become my best friends. I was introduced to the charitable and scholastic values that drive West Chester’s Greeks, and became familiar with the fraternity system. The relationships I estab-lished during the recruitment process drove from me the remnants of my detached view of fraternity life, and cement-ed my entry into the Greek system of which I am proud to call myself a member. To get involved, check out this week’s rush meetings in Sykes, Tuesday and Wednes-day night between 7p.m. and 9p.m. Kevin Stepp is the Vice Presi-dent of Communications for the Interfraternity Council at West Chester University. He can be reached at [email protected].

Whats the rush?By Kevin Stepp

Special to The Quad

Look around you WCU

What’s with all the pres-sure for Valentine’s Day? Often times, it is thought that the people that criticize Valentine’s Day are the people without valentines. In my at-tempt to fight this generaliza-tion, I made fun of Valentine’s Day to some girls that I knew were in relationships. To even my surprise, several of the girls agreed that it is a little silly that Valentine’s Day receives so much hype while other girls held on to their right to be pampered and feel like princesses. While the recognition of St. Valentine is great, the day has almost become a 24-hour commer-cial for Hallmark. It seems far more impersonal than romantic to be buying gifts, going out for dinner, planning getaways, and so on when practically every other couple in America is doing the same thing. It would seem sensible to put aside a different day to shower each other with gifts and express feelings of love on a day that is special or unique. It would be a day in which the girl could actually feel like a princess rather than one of a billion prin-cesses. While girls seem to build up so much hype about this Hallmark holiday, guys are pressured to please their part-ners whether they like it or not. They are forced to dish

out money to impress the girl, her friends, her family, her co-workers, and anyone else that she may be in contact with

that day. That’s a lot of pres-sure! If a guy were to send flowers to his girl on another day it would be meaningful and thoughtful. However, on

February 14, the biggest day for florists of the year, the ex-citement and thoughtfulness of flowers, gifts, kisses, what-ever it may be, is lost. It is not thoughtful, but expected. Don’t misunderstand this though, expressing love and showing him or her one’s feel-ings through material objects is not a bad thing. It just seems that the timing is too planned, too perfect, and too

prevalent. It seems that it must be argued that the thrill and emotions associated with an

anniversary, for example, are far more real and heartfelt than the feelings conveyed through ‘heart-shaped choco-lates’ day. Maybe this is too

much of an opinion for one day out of the year, but the stress, planning, and hints make this day of love seem much longer. Walking into red-painted stores for almost two months certainly does not help with this either. Think about that, every drug store, jewelry store, card store, and department store is consumed by the color red, the color of love. It is programmed, advertised, and relied on that people will show a lot of green, which is of course money, in order to show their love. Sarcastically, I must ask, are we buying love? According to a column written by Heather Ticotin of MTVU, an estimated 188 million Valentine’s Day cards are sold by Hallmark alone. That’s just cards and just Hallmark! I won’t lie, I myself will probably be pressured into purchasing one of those cards, but it won’t be entirely personal. One might argue that the words on the card are personal, but those cards are mass produced and someone else will probably opening the same card at the same time. Guaranteed, the words ‘I love you’ forming on your very lips trigger more feelings of love than a card that says them for you. Jillian Barton is a Sophomore at West Chester University major-ing in English. She can be reached at [email protected].

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If one understood the previous line, please put down the cell phone and listen up.

Many students and professors on our campus consider texting in class to be bothersome and ill-mannered. Also, it can get students thrown out of a class if done repeatedly after a profes-sor’s warning.

The student code of conduct at West Chester includes a provision against engaging in conduct that unnecessarily disturbs others. This includes conduct through electronic means. The punish-ment for such an offense is left to the professor’s discretion and can lead to removal from the class roster.

Texting in class might even get you arrested for disorderly conduct, as it did for a young lady in Wisconsin last year. So, why do some students continue poking buttons under their desk during class?

A second-year student with an English major, responded to this query. Her retort was that she

Students texting during class is distracting By Joshua Vaughan

Special to the Quadfeels out of touch when her phone is out of reach. She said that she needs it on so that she won’t miss a call, and that she pays tuition which she thinks has an appended right to text if she feels it’s necessary.

Charles Bauerlein of the journalism department disagrees. “Students should not have the expectation that just because they pay tuition means they have a right to maintain constant contact with their friends,” Bauerlein said.

The English major also said that she doesn’t think her texting is wrong as long as she doesn’t bother anyone else. She said this is not the case because her phone is always set to silent. However, even if a phone is set to silent, fellow students sitting near still a person texting can still hear the clicking sound of fingers rapidly pressing buttons.

“When I hear that sound I just want to grab their phone and

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The snow must go onSending text messages during class can distract classmates and professors.

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throw it out the window. It’s a disservice to both the professor, and the students,” Nicole Landon

said, a graduate student. Art student Becca Lee

said, “It doesn’t really bother me, if they don’t want to learn that’s their issue.” Paul Maltby of the English department said that he catches a student texting in class roughly six times a week, and that it is, “Discourteous to the professor, and distracts other students.”

The conflict continues. However, the

problems related to the medium of texting are not solely annoyance. A study conducted by University of Florida researchers revealed a correlation between com-pulsive text messaging and anxiety. The inves-tigators enrolled 183 individuals, 36 percent of them students. They found that self-reported anxiety significantly cor-related with cell-phone

dependence scores and cell-phone abuse scores.

At Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, studies are showing that students’ language proficiency is on the decline and that texting is one of the contrib-uting causes. Emoticons, smiley faces, and the term “cuz” are just some of the writing horrors being handed in, professors and admin-istrators at Simon Fraser said.

“The words ‘a lot’ have become one word, for everyone, as far as I can tell,” says Paul Budra, an English professor and associate dean of arts and science at Simon Fraser.

Joel Postman, author of “SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate,” says that he thinks it’s quite possible that cell phone texting and social networking are contributing to the corruption of students’ writing skills.

Perhaps in class texting can be reconciled in a positive way if students and professors work together with their minds open. Or perhaps, it’s just another bad habit that college students will have to do less or professors are going to have to get used to.

Joshua Vaughan is a student attending West Chester University.

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Valentines Day can usually be thought of as a day when people celebrate the affection they have for their significant other. However those who identify with the single status this year should not be left out. There are plenty of activities one can do to enjoy the day instead of focusing on their relationship status.

An article on the funtimes-guide.com suggests going to a movie alone this Valentine’s Day. West Chester Student Activities Council (SAC) hosts movies every Thursday through Sunday in Sykes Theater. Val-entine’s Day weekend SAC will be showing the second install-ment in the “Twilight Saga New Moon.”

According to Collegelife.about.com if a person is not the type who enjoys going to movies alone they can invite their other single friends over for a movie marathon.

Thefuntimesguide.com also suggests pursuing ones passion this Valentine’s Day. At WCU, getting involved in one or more of the countless organizations is a great way one may do this. Check out the school website and the many locations filled with fliers for more information on what activities WCU has to offer.

Collegelife.about.com also suggests cooking yourself and your friends a nice dinner. All of the residence halls are equipped with full kitchens so groups of friends can cook together. Col-legelife.about.com also suggests singles should focus on bettering themselves in all aspects. They suggest getting more

Since February of 1926, when the American historian, Carter G. Woodson also know as the “father of Black History” launched this month to be commemorated until this present day and the future which is to come, Americans far and near have recognized February as National African American History Month.

This month long event of obser-vance is a time to honor and celebrate with great exuberance the remarkable contributions and achievements of African American pioneers of the past, present, and forgotten.

Booker T. Washington said, “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which were overcome while trying to succeed.”

African Americans have con-tributed much to the shaping and molding of this country and continue to play important roles that go above and beyond the common areas of education, engi-neering, and entertainment.

In this month long jubilation, people of all color, race and creed have an unprecedented opportu-nity to expand the approach to African American History and usher in a new cycle that encour-ages we as a people to reflect on the struggles and triumphs faced by African Americans as our nation presses toward its difficult transition from slavery and infe-riority to the genuine-ness of social equality.

In February 1895, West Chester University was the home where Frederick Douglass, the former abolitionist, journalist, author and orator gave his last public lecture. This is also the month of his birthday coincided with Abraham Lincoln. Among Mr. Douglass and so many other distinguished African Americans, this month that is filled with 28 days is a celebration of the life

Tiger Woods is no longer just one of the greatest golfers of all time. John Edwards is no longer just a former presidential candidate form North Carolina.

With their recent philander-ing occupying headlines over the past few months, these two men have become poster boys for infi-delity. However, they are not alone. As long as there has been media coverage there have been high profile cases of infidelity. The divorce rate has consistently been over 50 percent for the past decade.

Taking these facts into con-sideration, as well as observing the actions of students around campus, is it safe now to beg the question: are monogamous rela-tionships still a legitimate and achievable ideal in American society?

According to research by Dr. G.A. Schulling for the Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology, humans are one of just 3-5 percent of the 4,000 total mammalian species that still practice monogamy. His research also includes data stating that within the human species only about 15 percent of cultures are monogamous.

Studies on relationships question infidelity in couples

By Joshua VaughanSpecial to The Quad

The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy has found that 15 percent of wives, and 25 percent of husbands have experienced extramarital intercourse. Research conducted by Michael Wiederman and Catherine Hurd from Ball State University found that of over 600 test subjects, all 19-years-old, 75 percent of men and 68 percent of women had engaged in at least one case of infidelity.

The aforementioned research suggests that human beings, especially those of college age, have a hard time staying with just one partner. With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, and all of this monogamously ominous data on the table it seems prudent to ask the student body what they think about marriage, dating and infidelity.

Elementary Education major Michael Barbee suggests that infidelity is a matter of physical greed, “People cheat because people are greedy and want everything they can get their hands on,” he said.

West Chester University student Brandon Banks thinks many marriages end before they begin. “Lust if often the downfall of marriage. Some couples get married because of physical pleasure even though they may

not have compatible personali-ties, and then may cheat because they’ve gotten bored,” Banks said.

Some students think it’s an issue of lure of the flesh. “There is too much temptation and some are too weak to ignore it,” Psy-chology major Mallorie Bannan said.

It should be noted that of the 20 West Chester students who returned their questionnaire, 17 had cheated on a lover at least once and 19 knew someone who had cheated.

Only one participant is actually engaged to be married. Ryan Frisco said that, “Monogamy is not dead!” Still, he did acknowl-edge that these days it seems that marriage has become more of a “phase people go through” than an actual genuine commit-ment.

Is monogamy dead? The jury is still out, however, it sure is not as strong as it once was and it’s becoming weaker with every frivolous liaison we’re privy to.

So, as one sits down to a romantic candle lit dinner with one’s significant other this Val-entine’s Day, just remember how lucky it is to be in an honest, loving and loyal relationship. Right?

Joshua Vaughan is a student at West Chester University.

By Ronni CainStaff Writer

and legacy of African American leaders, men and women of valor who all had a vision and helped pave the way for many to overcome test and trials for a promising tomorrow and an even brighter and greater future.

When asked what does Black History Month mean to some West Chester students of various nationalities, some responded: “Overcom-ing the iniquities and pain to exceeding the expectations of the oppressors for opportunities and inalienable rights that were handed from God and not from man.”

“It’s a reflection of how far we have come and a provision to where we are heading as a culture and a nation.”

“It is a time to learn from the past, to reach for an even better future in that to collectively go beyond color lines, and connect with the soul of others.”

“It is a chance to give thanks for who you are, recognize where you’ve been and envision what you will eventually become.”

Throughout this month of observance and future months to come, Black History Month is a measure of how fully or accu-rately the story is being told and a constant reminder of the work that is yet to be done. Within this Obama era, this month is a representation that “every great dream beings with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the stars to change the world,” Harriet Tubman said.

As each day is taken, take time to reflect on the continu-ing journey towards true civil equality and justice for all. It is time to reflect on the past and assess and analyze the present to prepare for a better future.

Ronni Cain is a fourth-year student majoring in English with a minor in journalism. She can be reached at [email protected].

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organized by planning ahead for future assignments and exams, updating your calendar, doing laundry and complet-ing assignments one may have been avoiding. One could also better themselves physically by taking a walk around campus or working out at one of the two fitness centers at WCU.

One can also go out to dinner with friends. The borough of West Chester has a variety of restaurants from Italian to Japanese so it is very likely that it will be easy to find a place to satisfy everyone’s taste buds. If a person is short on cash they can certainly enjoy a meal with friends at one of the many places to eat on campus.

For sports fans, many WCU teams will be hosting, home games during Valentine’s Day weekend. On Saturday February 13th the Women’s Basketball team will be playing Bloomsburg at 1:00 p.m. in Hollinger Gym. The Men’s Basketball team will also be playing Bloomsburg shortly after the women at 3 p.m.

These games are being held as part of the WCU Pink Zone basketball games to raise awareness about breast cancer. Fans showing up to the game wearing pink they will get a free gift while supplies last. There will also be raffles with prizes that include a pink iPod shuffle and $50 gift cards to Barnaby’s.

In addition there will be educational displays to raise awareness about the disease. All donations made that day will benefit the Kay Yow Foundation.

Samantha Greenberg is a third-year student majoring in English. She can be reached at [email protected].

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FEATURES FEBRUARY 8, 2010

With 19 women competing for the title of Miss WCU, one was crowned at the end of the night

The top three contestants hold hands while the runner-ups are announced.

Elizabeth Toal was crowned as Miss WCU 2010.

Kristin Neel is the runner-up of Miss WCU

Photos by Amanda Warren/ The Quad

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‘The Quad’ talks to Daniel ToshComedy Central Tosh.0 comedian holds nothing back

By Al DeSanteSpecial to The Quad

Most people wouldn’t mind bunking up with a celebrity if they had to.

In fact, most people would probably be enthralled, lest that celebrity happened to be Christian Bale.

Since his 2008 on-set blow up during takes of Terminator Salvation, Bale has been viewed by many throughout the enter-tainment following as a hothead or a time bomb waiting to go off.

However, comedian Daniel Tosh thinks he and Bale would get along just great.

When asked what viral video star he would choose as a roommate, Tosh dropped Bale’s name, “because I like my house dark, and apparently he seems to get upset when lights are turned on,” referring the aforementioned freak-out over the lighting on set.

“Plus, you know, he is Batman.”In a conference call with Tosh,

the South Floridian commented on his fast-tracking television show “Tosh.0.”

Each “Tosh.0” episode features a collection of viral videos, primarily taken from YouTube, targeting a web-based audience. YouTube hits are at an all-time high and provide cheap laughs, gagging gross-outs and other types of unbelievable videos.

Tosh takes internet video favorites and brings them into the spotlight on his live audience show.

Tosh provides sarcastic com-mentary during the videos with shots on celebrities and general pop culture.

The show premiered in the summer of 2009 and has continued to pick up steam. The second season airs on Comedy Central Wednesday nights at 10:30 p.m.

Throughout the conference call Tosh showed no reservations, answering questions regarding all aspects of life.

While most people stuck to questions regarding Tosh.0 and

the comedian’s career, one writer joked, “So Daniel, what kind of tooth brush do you use?”

Tosh hilariously snapped back, “That would be the Sonic Care,”

as if he knew the question was going to come.

As the conversation turned back to his career, Tosh elaborated on his initiation into comedy.

“It was just being in college, you have that whole moment of life. It got to a point where I didn’t want to work. I figured now is the best time to experiment,’” Tosh said.

“It seemed like a ridiculous pro-fession, but I was poor and it’s not like I was giving up a job because open mic’s are just that, open, for whenever is convenient for you.”

Tosh continued by stating how following college and doing gigs at

local places in Florida, he hopped in his Honda Civic and started driving around the country doing stand up wherever would take him in.

When asked about his social life, Tosh admitted that his favorite comedian to hang out with was, “without a doubt,” Dave Chappelle. He also claimed to be very good friends with fellow funnymen Nick Swardson, Dave Attell and Louie C.K.

Tosh also holds a soft spot for Philadelphia native and comedian

Dom Irrera. Tosh recalled a story from a few weeks ago when Irrera took Tosh and [Tosh’s] girlfriend out to eat.

“It was a great night, food was great, Dom was great,

laughs were flowing, and then I get a call the next day,” he said.

“It’s Dom: ‘Yeah, Daniel I had a good time the other night I’m just a little put off that I had to pay for your girlfriend on top of paying for you, what is that?’”

Tosh’s advice to young comedians spares no reserva-tions: “You just have to try it, get on stage, and don’t worry. No big decisions.

“I don’t get heckled anymore, and you know what, I miss it. When no one knows you, they’ll hassle you. But when you keep at it and keep working, that’s when you’ll see positive results.”

Alex DiSante is a third year student majoring in communication studies. He can be reached at [email protected].

photo courtesy of comedycentral.com

“Tosh.0” takes a look at popular internet videos from Tosh’s point of view. One highlight of the show is “Web Redemption,” where Tosh visits stars of viral videos to allow them a second chance to redeem themselves.

“I don’t get heckled anymore, and you know what, I miss it. When no

one knows you, they’ll hassle you.”

By Rae DunbarFeatures Editor

Critic’s Corner: The Lovely BonesIn “The Lovely Bones,” based

on the novel by Alice Sebold, Susie Salmon (Saorise Ronan) makes it a point to talk about how she was murdered when she was 14 years old.

Her grandmother predicted she would live a long life since she had saved her brother’s life. Instead, her life would be taken without warning.

The movie cuts out showing Susie’s murder, making her seem like she didn’t know she had died.

Viewers that had read the novel were aware of the series of events that lead to her murder. These viewers were able to realize Susie’s murder did occur, but at first movie viewers were left clueless on how her death occurred.

In the scene after Susie realizes she has been murdered by an unsuspect-ing neighbor, it becomes real to Susie that she’s dead, by allowing her to see her murderer clean up the evidence.

The feeling of Susie’s murder is real to her and the audience. The movement of the camera was a technique used to make the viewers feel like they were moving with Susie, running with her, in panic with her.

The novel describes Susie’s brutal murder and assault, but for a PG-13 rated movie, the play out of the movie doesn’t imply a brutal murder.

The murderer cleaned the

blood off of his clothes and any blood or mud found in his home; however, there was enough blood found at the location of the murder, a cornfield, to convince the detective on the case that Susie was not likely to be alive. Later in the movie, the murderer carries a pocket knife with him, leading the audience to believe it as the murder weapon.

The neighbor cleaned up and disposed of any noticeable

evidence of Susie Salmons’ murder.

He does, however, keep

one ‘trophy’ of the murder, Susie’s charm bracelet. He pays partic-ular attention to the charm of a house, since his character has a hobby of making houses and other forts. His hobby allowed him to lure Susie into a place where he could carry out his plans of taking her life.

Susie’s father also had a hobby, one that he wanted Susie to help him with. Mr. Jack Salmon (Mark Wahlberg) teaches Susie how to build ships inside of glass bottles. In a fit of rage he threw the glass bottles, destroying the projects he worked on with his oldest daughter, his daughter who was no longer alive.

Mrs. Abagail Salmon (Rachel Weisz) copes with her loss by telling people she has a daughter, Lindsey, and a son, Buckley. She never mentions having a 14-year-old daughter that was murdered.

Mr. Salmon copes by keeping the last ship he worked on with

Susie and lighting a candle on top of the glass bottle. Susie, as “daddy’s little girl,” understands that her father’s love for her would keep him searching for her murderer.

Susie watched her family cope with her loss. She was in a place she described as her heaven. She

believed heaven was how you believed it to be.

Her brother felt Susie’s presence among them on Earth, describing the place as the “in between.” She had left Earth, but was not in Heaven yet.

Susie’s character seemed naïve, perhaps because of how young she was when she died.

The novel did a better job in describing this place Susie is in after she dies. The description of her heaven is so vivid in the novel that the reader is able to imagine what it looks like, whereas the movie limits the viewers imag-ination by showing the world around Susie while she is in the “in between” worlds.

The scenes throughout the movie show a happy family raising three children in the 1970s. Lighting was used as an effect to show how the Salmons were living a normal life until the day that Susie never came home. Her ‘lovely bones’ were buried by her murderer and never to be dis-covered. The lighting dimmed to show when Susie was unhappy as she watched her family live each day without her.

Susie would also watch Ray Singh (Reece Ritchie), an older boy who she had a crush on. She would watch him sit and think about her. How he missed her, wanted her to be alive, thought she was beautiful and how he would have to live without her.

The movie does show Susie’s world crumbling down. Her safe place is a kuzbo, which falls to the ground. Susie doesn’t quite understand what is happening,

but this event prepares her to learn how to move on.

The movie, already being two hours long, had to cut details written in the novel. Many of the storylines within the main story line of Susie’s life and death did not make the final cut in the movie.

It’s typical for readers to enjoy the novel more than when they view the movie. The movie follows the storyline of the novel, but for anyone who wants to get the full story of Susie Salmon and her family, it is recommended they read the novel.

Susie’s story is not based on true events, although the authors’ description of her murder, along with several other murders committed by the same man, proves to be a chilling story that viewers may believe to be a true story. The murder descriptions sound so familiar that viewers would believe it was possible they have read or heard about one of the murders beforehand.

Director Peter Jackson and screenwriters Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, had their work cut out for them to take this story from a novel form to the big screen.

When movies are produced from novels, not all descriptions can be portrayed in movie form. Whether seeing the version of this story on screen or in writing, it is a very real piece of work that may hit home for many people.

Ginger Rae Dunbar is a third-year student majoring in English with a minor in journalism. She can be reached at [email protected].

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WCU wins nail-biter against Williamson Trade School

West Chester track team gear-ing up for PSAC Championships

By Ryan FriscoAsst. Sports Editor

The Golden Ram wrestling team is on a season high, espe-cially after their nail biting victory over Williamson Trade School last Wednesday night.

In a home meet that came down to the meet’s final match, West Chester’s 184-pound wrestler Abe Brooks took the decision to give WCU the final, 26-21.

Brandon Banks led off the bout strongly for West Chester, as he recorded a fall in the second period. It was Banks’ sixth pin of the season.

Williamson Trade tied it up after a forfeit at 235 pounds, and Brian Nicholson gave West Chester the lead again with a major decision. Williamson Trade then came back to take the lead, as they scored three wins in a row.

With five matches left in the meet, West Chester found them-selves down 18-10. The heart of the lineup was up for the Golden Rams, and as usual, they came through. Cody Carrigan was the next up at 149 pounds, as he closed the gap to 18-14 with a major decision.

Dillon Evans gave West Chester the lead again with an early first period fall.

The next match was the greatest match of the evening. Dustin ‘Tank’ Tancredi met one of his toughest, if not the toughest, opponent yet this

season. After the three period regulation, Tancredi and his opponent were locked up in a

1-1 tie. The duo traded escapes in

the upcoming overtime periods, making the score 3-3 after five overtimes. Finally, in the

match’s sixth overtime, Tank scored the deciding point with his 18 seconds of riding time,

By Jillian MorganStaff Writer

The West Chester Univer-sity Golden Rams are off to a promising start this season. They have come through with good performances at The Ursinus Collegeville Classic, the Orange and Maroon Classic and recently at the 12th annual Bison Open inside Gerhard Fieldhouse on the campus of Bucknell University. The meet consisted of seventeen schools, including four Division I Universities and eight PSAC teams, as well.

Previous to the meet at Bucknell, distance runner John Hedrick mentioned, “he was excited to see how the team would do during the weekend. This meet will give us a preview for what to expect at PSAC’s.”

Hedrick ran a 9:50.00 in the 3000m as well as clocking in at 17:04.01 in the 5000m. Along with Hedrick, Mike Malejko ran both the 3000m and the 5000m, with times of 9:26.25 and 16:15.03, respectively.

“Overall our goal this weekend is to qualify people for PSAC’s,” Malejko mentioned before the meet. “Between good teams and good athletes, this meet is definitely going to be exciting. When athletes go into a meet expecting a challenge, we run faster and try even harder. Hopefully that will help when it comes to making the cut for PSAC’s.”

As if Malejko could predict the future, many athletes returned from Bucknell with

heads held high and school records under their belts. Prior to the meet, captain Matt Houser made it known that he had some personal goals for himself.

“I broke two new schools records at the first meet of the season in the 60m dash and 300m dash,” Houser said. “I would love to add onto that by dropping my times in the 200m dash and the 400m dash.

“It would also be a blessing if I could own those two records as well.”

Based on Houser’s perfor-mance this weekend, he is close to reaching one of his goals. Houser recorded the fourth-best time in history at WCU in the 400m clocking in at 49.86 seconds. His time is also the second-best in the PSAC so far this winter, which also qualified him for the indoor championships next month. Houser was also a runner up in the 60m with a time of 7.08 seconds.

Finishing right behind teammate and fellow captain Matt Houser, Craig Espen-shade finished second in the 400m with a time of 50.03, which is the fourth-best time in the PSAC this winter. Also running the 400m, Tim Thiry clocked in at 52.17 and Kyle Perry at 52.56.

The men’s 4x400m relay team finished with a time of 3 minutes, 22.21 seconds, which is the third-best in recorded history at WCU as well as the second-best time in the confer-ence so far this winter. The members of the 4x400m relay

team are Espenshade, Perry, Houser and Thiry.

Leighon Johnson finished first in the 200m with a time of 22.39, which is the third best time in history at WCU. Johnson also placed fifth in the long jump with a distance of 21 feet, 10 ¾ inches.

Captain Matt Langdale qualified in the 800m with a time of 1:57.81, which put him in third place. He also received ninth in the mile with a time of 4:27.32.

Tyler Real placed second in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.47. Before the season, Real seemed very eager for the season to start.

“Our team is very high spirited and we believe we are as good as all the other teams in the conference,” Real said. “We really don’t have many weaknesses. As a team we just need to stay strong and healthy throughout the season.”

The women’s track and field team did an outstanding job at the Bucknell Heptagonal as well. Captain Melinda Wentz

finished sixth in the pentath-lon which earned the Lady Rams 3,000 points, which is the third-best point total for the women in the PSAC this winter. Wentz also finished the 60m hurdles in 9.59 seconds, as well as clear 5 feet 1 inch in the high jump. Wentz qualified for the PSAC’s in all of her events.

Along with Wentz, teammate Katie Butler placed fifth in the high jump, clearing 5 feet 1 inch, which qualified her for PSAC’s

Also qualifying for the PSAC’s was Jess Joseph. Joseph ran the 3000m with a time of 10:48.70 and received seventh place. Teammate Lyndsey Ratasiewicz ran the mile with a time of 5:23.29 and placed eighth.

Mary Gawbill ran the 800m, clocking in at 2:25.24, which bettered her PSAC time along with Sam Smarkola who ran the 200m in 22.87. Smarkola finished sixth in the 60m dash as well, clocking in at 8.20. Smarkola was also part of the fourth place 4x400m

relay team. The team, which consists of Smarkola, Danielle Howell, Brigid Gallagher and Lyndsay Nygren, clocked in at 4:06.66.

Kamber Schrann tied for seventh place in the pole vault receiving a height of 9-10. Miriam Hughes jumped 35-3¼, which put her in sixth place. Junior Liz Jackson threw the shot put 37-6.

Both the men and women’s track and field team had an eventful weekend at the Bucknell Heptagonal. The athletes put up major points for West Chester Univer-sity that helped represent the Purple and Gold proudly.

The Golden Rams hope to continue their strong season on Feb. 19 as they participate in the Keough Invitational at Havertown. This is the final meet before the PSAC Champi-onships at the end of the month taking place at Edinboro.

Jillian Morgan is a third-year student majoring in communica-tion studies. She can be reached at [email protected].

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giving West Chester a 23-18 meet lead.

After Ryan Rozniakowski fell at 174 pounds, the score was 23-21 going into the final

match. That is when Brooks sealed the deal, sending a shock through the gym as West Chester went to 15-3 on the season, an impressive record, especially being only the team’s second season together.

The weekend before, West Chester Univer-sity also competed

in one more match in the dual weekend. That match was against the University

of Central Florida, where the Golden Rams suffered only their third loss of the season in a hard fought 30-21 meet.

West Chester started off in the hole, as the first two matches resulted in a decision and pin for Central Florida. WCU’s always-strong middle of the lineup came on strong once again as they always do after that.

Steven Armour and Tancredi each recorded pins. Kevin Bacci won a 7-2 match at 174, and Evans made quick work of his opponent with a pin only 26 seconds into the match. After seven matches, West Chester was up 21-15.

That was the end of the scoring for the Golden Rams. In an unfortunate turn of events, the next four matches went to Central Florida, giving them the final nine point victory.

West Chester is now in the process of preparing for the upcoming States and Nationals tournaments. There are many members of the team who have huge potential to go far into the postseason, and could possibly bring home individual champi-onships.

Ryan Frisco is a third-year student majoring in Communica-tion studies. He can be reached at [email protected].

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WCU gymnastics finish third in meet last weekend

By Amy FestaStaff Writer

D-3 ice hockey team fighting for playoffsBy Whitney PetersSpecial to The Quad

Through sweat, hard work, and dedication, West Chester University’s D3 men’s ice hockey season is coming to an end. Their record as of Feb. 6 is 13-2-0. Their goal from the get-go was to make it to ACHA regionals in Rochester, New York. They hoped to make this dream attainable.

With one game left to be rescheduled due to the snow storm over the weekend of Feb. 6, the Rams still have a shot of making it. So far, they have had an admirable season proving to be a strong competitor worth noticing.

The first half of the season showed full potential for winning the majority of their second-half

games. Beating teams such as Stockton, Widener and Alvernia at the beginning of their season, legitimized their newfound debut in the DVCHC (Delaware Valley Collegiate Hockey Confer-ence).

West Chester’s confidence was definitely at an all-time high after their multiple victories. They were completely unstoppa-ble, except for the fact that Tim Chubb, Levi Jekel and Tony Bor-nascella suffered injuries during the Widener game. After some time, the players healed and were ready to compete again. The team continued to practice every Wednesday night to hone in their skills.

In the second half of their season, West Chester beat teams such as Rutgers, East Strouds-

burg, Neumann and Widener, just to name a few. These team’s skills were somewhat matched to those of the Golden Rams.

They only lost two games the whole season against Penn State-Brandywine. The Rams put up a good fight against Brandywine in both games, but just could not end up with those victories.

The team’s spirit was not brought down one bit. Although the team had that slight halt in their winning streak, the rest of their games resulted in well-deserved wins. They continued to play up to their ability. The Rams had two shut outs against Shippensburg on Nov. 11, and against Penn State-Berks on Jan. 30.

The entirety of the three

twenty-minute periods of every game have been full of frantic fights for the puck and quick skating for domination. The Ram’s team members had each other’s backs no matter what the circumstance.

In multiple instances there have been fights that broke out in response to cheap shots towards West Chester. The Golden Rams did not have to think twice about sticking up for each other and have received their fair share of suspensions in result from this pride.

West Chester has obviously made their mark as an intense competitor. This power-house team has proven themselves time and time again that they are highly skilled and eager to fight for each earned win.

West Chester’s opponents were not as comparable with their skills as their own’. Throughout the entirety of the season, each player has stayed committed and willing to work hard. The Golden Rams have tried to take the tenth seed from Siena for regionals in Rochester, but due to the weak teams scheduled to play them, this goal has not been achieved as of now.

Hopefully the team gets shifted to that one seat up to continue to compete. Time will only tell the success of this season if they make regionals or not.

Whitney Peters is a sophomore student majoring in Elementary Education with a minor in Business and Technical Writing. She can be reached at [email protected].

The West Chester Gymnastics team competed last Saturday at the Brockport Invitational that is held at SUNY Brockport’s campus in New York.

SUNY Brockport hosted West Chester along with Southern Connecticut State University, Wilson College and MIT.

There was more than a 30 point difference between the first place team and the last place team. West Chester finished third in the meet with a score of 177.650. Southern Connecticut State Uni-versity and SUNY Brockport were in a league of their own.

SCSU won the invitational with a score of 187.275 which gave them the slightest edge over SUNY Brockport who scored a 187.225. Wilson finished the afternoon with a 165.800 while MIT finished in last with a 154.575.

West Chester is continuing to expect more out of their younger competitors. Freshmen Kaley LaFleur and Rachel Pearson have performed well and been essential assets to their team. Their veterans have also been strong competitors and moti-vators which supports their team chemistry, which has thus far been evident through their success.

LaFleur just missed the top three after finishing fourth in the all around competition with a score of 36.550. Alli Aquila, who is another all around competitor for West Chester, finished sixth, posting a score of 35.050.

LaFleur posted her highest score of the season on the vault with a 9.35, which placed her in fifth place at the invitation. She also finished in ninth place on the floor and twelfth on the uneven bars. LaFleur fell only slightly to the first place all around compet-itor, Rebecca Brady from SCSU, who scored a 37.150.

West Chester has continued to perform well on the floor routine, finishing the event with a 46.600. The score was their highest of the season. Freshman Rachel Pearson tied for fifth on the floor with a score of 9.5. The floor routine was West Chester’s saving grace in their past meet against SUNY Cortland, which pushed them to their win.

West Chester travels to Phil-adelphia on Wednesday as they face Penn. The Golden Rams have two home meets remaining on Feb. 20 against Rhode Island College at 11:30 a.m. and on Feb. 26 against Temple with Spring-field at 6 p.m.

Amy Festa is a third-year student majoring in English with a minor in Journalism. She can be reached at [email protected].

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WCU blows golden opportunityBy Amy Festa

Staff Writer

After losing two conference games on the road last week, the West Chester men’s basketball team was relying on the energy from their home crowd in their game Wednesday against Ship-pensburg to pull them out of their slump.

West Chester had lost three of their last four games before their meeting with Shippensburg, who had the worst record in the PSAC East.

West Chester ultimately lost to Shippensburg in a heartbreaking 63-61 game. The first half was neck and neck as Shippensburg could only bring the lead to five points. Towards the end of the first half West Chester was com-manding the floor and went into halftime leading 27-24.

The Rams had the momentum going into the second half and continued to extend their lead. West Chester came out firing as Ralph Hegamin made a jump shot to begin the second half that sparked West Chester’s offensive success in the second half. Kenny St. George added a three-pointer and Kehinde Roberts contributed to West Chester’s lead.

They held Shippensburg off as they worked towards, what looked like, as a definite tally in the win column. With ten minutes left in the game, West Chester had a nine-point lead over Ship-pensburg.

Shippensburg began to carve into West Chester’s lead and slowly began reducing the Golden Rams lead. West Chester saw their lead dwindle and their efforts weren’t enough to hold off the Raiders. With only 1:18 left in the game, Shippensburg’s Jordan Stasyszyn drained a three-pointer that gave the Raiders a one-point lead; their first lead of the second half.

West Chester had opportunities to regain the lead from Ship-pensburg, but a missed layup by Elie Daniel followed by a missed jumper by Kenny St. George gave Shippensburg the leverage they needed to secure the win.

With seven seconds left in the game, Shippensburg’s Will Royal had two free throws to make to force West Chester to make a three-pointer to send the game into overtime. After Royal made the first and missed the second, West Chester had a few seconds to get up the court and take a shot.

Harley Williamson grabbed the defensive rebound after the missed free throw and led a fast paced rush towards West

Chester’s offensive end that resulted in a missed lay-up and another conference loss.

The loss brings West Chester to 13-7 overall and 2-5 in the PSAC East. West Chester is now locked in a three way tie for last place in the conference with Bloomsburg and Millersville.

Hegamin was West Chester’s leading scorer with 19 points. He also tied a career high with 19 rebounds. Kenny St. George con-tributed 12 points for the Rams and went seven for 11 from the free throw line.

Will Royal was Shippensburg’s leading scorer with 13 points, seven of which came from the free throw line. Craig Van Scyoc and Jordan Stasyszyn added 12 and 11 points respectively.

West Chester struggled from the free throw line and went 17-30. Their field goal percentage wasn’t much better as they only made 34 percent of their shots.

Prior to the game, former West Chester basketball star, Kevin Givens, was honored in a ceremony that celebrated him being the all time leading scorer in West Chester men’s basketball history.

Givens played for West Chester from 1980 to 1984. Two of those years, West Chester was a Division I basketball team.

His freshman year, Givens was ranked 11th in the nation for field goal percentage. He was also named rookie of the year for the East Coast Conference.

In West Chester’s final season as a Division I team, Givens helped to lead the Rams to an ECC West Division Champion-ship.

Givens finished his career at West Chester University being named a Division II All-Ameri-can. He finished the season with an average of 22.1 points and 10.9 rebounds per game. After graduating from West Chester, Givens played professional bas-ketball in Ireland for two seasons. His jersey will be hanging in Barnaby’s of West Chester.

West Chester will play two times this week against PSAC East teams. They will rematch Cheyney on Wednesday at 8 p.m. after losing to them at home earlier in the season. They will also play Bloomsburg on Saturday at 3 p.m. in Hollinger Field House. The game against Bloomsburg will be an important one for the standings as they are tied with the Huskies in the league standings.

Amy Festa is a third-year student majoring in English with a minor in Journalism. She can be reached at [email protected].

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SINKING THE SHIPWCU shows character in win over Shippensburg

By LJ HarrellSports Editor

Entering Wednesday’s game against Shippensburg Univer-sity, only 13 females in West Chester University basketball history have amassed 1,000 career points in a Golden Ram uniform. But on a night when the University recognized two of the very best players in school history and the two leading scorers in the men and women’s history, Keisha Mack (1,556 points) and Kevin Givens (2,054 points), another player joined the ranks of top Golden Ram players.

Senior forward Janelle Garber scored her 1,000th career point with 4:46 left in the game after con-verting a layup which helped West Chester come from behind to defeat the Red Raiders 63-61 at Hollinger Field House. With the win the Lady Rams improved their confer-ence record to over .500 for the first time this season.

“I wanted to win,” Garber said about her reaction to her teammates mobbing her after scoring her 1,000th career point. “The game was so close. It was nice they came out to congratulate me but I was just in the moment of the game.”

“It was real exciting,” junior guard Megan Stewart said about her teammate’s accom-plishment. “We had the balloons and a card as a surprise so she had no idea.”

The game started well for West Chester (14-6, 4-3 PSAC East) as they scored nine of the first 11 points to hold a seven point advantage over Shippensburg within the first four minutes. Junior guards Dominique Adams and Stewart got it started for the Lady Rams as they scored the first seven points for West Chester.

But the Red Raiders fought back and stretched their lead to 10 points over the next 10 minutes in the first half. Kasey Gardner, who picked up two quick fouls, helped spark the run for Ship-pensburg as she hit two three-pointers in the first half.

Shippensburg senior

forward Lauren Beckley, who is second in the PSAC in scoring (20 points per game) and second in PSAC history for career points scored (2,209), scored 10 first half points to lead the Red Raiders to a 32-21 halftime lead over West Chester.

The Lady Rams shot 32.1 percent from the field in the half and only 33.3 percent from the free throw line. Adams had a team-high eight points at the break. West Chester forced 15 Red Raider turnovers in the half.

Shippensburg shot 43.8

percent from the field and out-rebounded the Lady Rams 26-15. Beckley also grabbed eight rebounds in the half.

In the second half, Ship-pensburg continued to hold to double-digit lead for the first five minutes before West Chester got on a run. Garber sparked a 10-0 run for West Chester in a three minute span to close the Red Raider lead to one point. Garber, Adams, and Keefer each scored in the run.

Shippensburg continued to hold the lead for the next four minutes before the Lady Rams

regained their first lead since early in the first half. Garber continued her dominant night, including scoring her 1,000th point, in the run which allowed West Chester to regain the lead.

“We were down at halftime but we knew the game wasn’t over,” Stewart said. “So we came out and tried to go on a run. When Jill [Keefer] and Natalie [Winters] came in off the bench they did a great job at giving us a spark and we went on a nice little run then.”

“I think our defense played better in the second half,”

Garber said. “We went to a different press and we got a couple steals off of that. We didn’t turn the ball over and we scored on transition.”

Trailing by four with less than two minutes left, sophomore Erin Varley hit a three-pointer for Shippensburg to cut the Golden Rams lead. The Red Raiders than regained the lead with 1:06 left as Gardner converted a layup.

But West Chester got the lead right back as Garber scored with 46 seconds left to give the Lady Rams the lead for good. Clutch free throw shooting down the stretch by Stewart and Renata Neal sealed the deal for West Chester.

“We definitely came up with the big plays when we needed them,” Stewart said. “We came out and executed and did what we needed to do to get the win.”

Garber scored 16 of her game-high 22 points in the second half. Adams (11 points) and Keefer (10 points) also scored in double-figures on the evening. Garber and Neal grabbed a team-high seven rebounds. Stewart finished with nine points, four rebounds, nine assists and four steals.

The Lady Rams shot 39.3 percent from the field for the game and 30.8 percent from behind the arc.

Beckley finished with 21 points, 13 rebounds, four assists and three steals, while Gardner finished with 20 points. Ship-pensburg shot 37.5 percent and 30 percent from behind the arc. The Red Raiders won the rebounding battle 42-33.

CLEARING THE NOTEBOOK

PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Megan Stewart. The junior guard filled up the stat sheet once again as she scored nine points, dished out nine assists, grabbed four rebounds and recorded four steals. Stewart became the seventh player in school history to dish out 300 or more assists in a career.

UPCOMING GAMES: This week West Chester travels to Cope Hall to face cross-town rival Cheyney University on Wednesday at 6 p.m. On Saturday, the Lady Rams host Bloomsburg University in their annual Pink Zone game beginning at 1 p.m. Both games can be heard live and exclu-sively on 91.7 WCUR-FM.

WHERE THEY STAND: West Chester sits in fourth place in the PSAC East behind Millersville, Kutztown and Bloomsburg.

LJ Harrell is a fourth-year student majoring in Marketing. He can be reached at [email protected].

Lukas Jenkins/ The QuadSenior forward Janelle Garber became the 14th female in West Chester University history to amass 1,000 career points in a Golden Ram uniform last Wednesday against the Shippensburg University Red Raiders. Junior guard Megan Stewart also became the seventh player in school history to dish out over 300 assists in a career. She also passed assistant coach Keira Wooden with the feat.

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