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Waverly, a labrador retriever, lays down and watches her handler during a puppy training class that took place

in The Snider Agricultural Arena on Tuesday, April 3.

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Rachel Applegate (sophomore-psychology) calls her dog to come to her

during a puppy training class on Tuesday, April 3.

PUPS WITH A PURPOSEBy Lauren FoxTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

For the past six weeks, six students and a new batch of five Labrador puppies have been gathering in the Snider Agricul-tural Arena to prepare for an im-portant job.

Nancy Dreschel, an instructor in animal science at Penn State, is also a volunteer for Susque-hanna Service Dogs, which offers training classes to students.

While the program is not affili-ated with the university, Dreschel has offered students the ability to earn independent study credits in the past, and the class focuses mainly on commands for the pup-pies — such as sit, stay and down.

Because the dogs range from 12 weeks old to 5 months old, many of them are at different lev-els with commands.

Rachel Applegate said her dog Skiff struggles with the down command. After he lays down, he doesn’t want to get back up.

The handlers will also switch which dog they are train-ing in class to get the puppies

accustomed to being around dif-ferent people.

“All these puppies are hopefully going to go and be with other han-dlers in the future” Dreschel said.

The handlers used hand ges-tures, as well as verbal com-mands, to make sure the dogs can understand both.

To teach the dogs to stay, they instructed them to lie down and then walked away. They clap, talk and walk in circles to see how long the dogs will be able to stay in one place before getting dis-tracted.

Along with the general com-mands, the dogs are also working on more specific commands that will help them as service dogs, such as “go on through” for walk-ing through a doorway.

“If a dog is placed with some-one with a balance disorder or is in a wheelchair, it’s important that the dog doesn’t just charge right through the door,” Dreschel said.

“Go on through” teaches the dogs that they must wait until their handler can open the door, and then pause and look back to

check their handler is coming through.

It is important the dogs look back for their handler because sometimes a wheelchair can’t fit through a doorway, and the dogs must be aware that their owner is not with them.

Another command — “recall” — is intended to “get your dog to you right away,” Dreschel said.

For a recall, someone else holds the leash while the handler calls the dog, then letting go of the leash. In a successful recall, the dog runs immediately to the owner. In the training classes, it is harder to get the dogs to the owner’s than at home because as soon as the leash is released they often run straight for the other puppies.

Regardless of where the dogs went after being let off the leash, they are given treats as soon as they get to the owners, which Dreschel said is crucial.

She said many people make the mistake of yelling at their dog, but that makes dogs even less likely to come the next time they’re called.

At the end of Tuesday’s lesson, the handlers had “puppy swap,” in which they trade dogs they are bringing home for the week.

“Dogs in general are very context-specific,” Dreschel said. “They learn to do it at home or in the living room, but they don’t know how to do it when other peo-ple ask them to.”

Dreschel said it is important the dogs can follow through with cues once they are placed in a permanent home.

After the training for the day is over, the puppies’ vests are taken off and they are allowed to play for a little while.

“They learn that when they’re wearing the vests they have to be paying attention to their handler,” Dreschel said.

Once the vests come off, the dogs rush to each other in excite-ment to finally play.

Since the dogs are only in class for one hour each week, Dreschel said most of the training goes on at home.

Gianna Pepoli, a freshman studying occupational therapy at Saint Francis University,

is currently training her third dog, Jamila.

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ROTC cadets juggle college, expectations

By Lilly ForsythFOR THE COLLEGIAN

No walking with your hands in your pockets. No haircuts that touch your ears. No earbuds to listen to your music.

That is just a taste of what Ma-rine Corps, Air Force, Navy and Army ROTC students have to ex-perience while in uniform, These stringent regulations and the stu-dents who follow them are just part of what propelled the Nittany Lion Battalion to getting the Gen-eral Douglas MacArthur Award for being one of the top ROTC units in the country.

A quick skim through the 100 to 300-page documents on uniform regulations alone provided by the respective branches’ websites made it clear there are rules for every minute detail.

The volume, or bulk, of a male’s hair must never exceed two inches — one and a quarter inches for Air Force — from the scalp.

Members of these branches are also prohibited from show-ing public displays of affection while in uniform or civilian clothes. Weddings and gradua-tions are a few exceptions. One rule affecting the students in the Marine Corps specifically is males are not permitted to use an umbrella.

“The reason for [this rule] is the covers that we wear are sup-posed to shield your face from any type of rain,” Marine Corps Captain Duane Blank said. We also issue an all-weather coat but they don’t want to look

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An ROTC uniform is displayed.

Behind the scenes: Take a look inside a theatre set designer’s life

By Chelsea KunTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

When walking into a the-ater to go see a show, the first thing someone sees varies if it’s “Phantom of the Opera” or “Wicked.”

As the show goes on, these visuals will inevitably continue to change. They are greatly in-volved in telling elements of the story that the actors may not be able to. This special aspect of theater is called scenic design.

Scenic design is, simply, the design of the set. By looking at the set, the audience will able to tell where the play takes places and the time period. It also sets the tone of the production.

The set does not just grow out of the ground; the world of theater has professional scenic designers that help make each scene come to life.

Milagros Ponce de León, a scenic design professor in the School of Theater at Penn State, said one thing that interested her about scenic design is being able to “read and translate ideas into something visual.”

Her background is in fine arts, which she said is the foundation of scenic design. She studied drawing and painting at Pontifi-cal Catholic University of Peru and has her masters in both drawing & painting and scenic design from the University of Maryland.

“I found, through practice, that scenic design embodies not one but many different things together, from research to reading, to working in a team,” Ponce de León said, “You also

need to know geometry, and you need to be great at working under pressure.”

She said one of the things she loves the most about scenic de-sign is, while she works with a team, she gets to create and visu-alize her ideas alone.

The set of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” a School of Theater pro-duction in the Spring 2018 season, was designed by Soledad Sanchez Valdez, who like Ponce de León studied in Peru.

She said scenic design, and theater in general, is different in Peru as opposed to America.

“Commercial theater [in Amer-ica] is much bigger,” Valdez said. “It basically depends on budget. There is not much of a develop-ment of commercial theatre in

Peru. While we do have good playhouses for theater, we defi-nitely have a lower budget.”

She said in Peru, there are not many people with the official title of “scenic designer,” but people run the scenic design because they are fine artists or visual art-ists.

“My background is in sculp-ture,” Valdez said. “After several years of being a professional artist, I learned about [scenic design] through a workshop taught by someone from Penn State.”

Both Valdez and Ponce de León developed an interest in scenic design, but what makes scenic design intriguing?

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Part of the moving set of “Kiss of the Spider Woman” is displayed

during the musical’s rehearsal on Monday, April 2.

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Rachel Applegate (sophomore-

psychology) walks with her dog dur-

ing a puppy training class on Tues-

day, April 3.

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By Caitlyn FroloFOR THE COLLEGIAN

Today, there seems to be an app for everything.

Now, there is one that could help Penn State students man-age stress and anxiety, rather than playing games or scrolling through Instagram.

Penn State’s Center for Coun-seling and Psychological Ser-vices (CAPS) offers WellTrack, a relatively unknown self-help option that aims to help stu-dents take control of their lives and learn techniques to combat mental health issues, according to its website.

The desktop and app compo-nent include a “MoodCheck” feature, allowing students to track how they are feeling throughout the day in order to track positivity.

The app also includes courses on stress, anxiety and public speaking, as well as activities like a Zen room, thought diary and a calendar to get students the “right help at the right time.”

Kate Staley, a CAPS psycholo-gist and assistant director for community education and out-reach, said the center chose WellTrack because it had “the most comprehensive models for anxiety and depressions.”

The app also has features which appeal to focus groups, including modules based off the mood tracking component and capabilities to sync information with a student’s therapist or uni-versity.

Staley called WellTrack a “pi-lot project” at Penn State, which

means the app can be updated as students deem features helpful or unnecessary.

“Some people can benefit from thinking of self-help strategies,” Staley said. “Some people may feel uncomfortable.”

It’s up to a student to decide which level of help they feel is needed, Staley said.

However, using the app doesn’t mean people have a “clinical level of anxiety and depression” and users should be sure “not to frame it as a diagnostic tool,” Staley said.

“We want to empower students to be able to get a level of help that they may need,” Staley said. “But, CAPS is always here to help.”

Rebekah Sklute said she would love to try out the app to see if it could help with balancing her busy schedule this semester.

“Coming to school has been a change for me and sometimes it does get stressful, but not to the point that I want to go to therapy,” Sklute (freshman-business) said. “Maybe the app could help me during times I have a lot of tests or assignments.”

Marissa Aranda said she would have used WellTrack if she knew about it.

She said she believes many stu-dents go without seeking any kind of treatment for their anxiety, which could be because of stress with classwork and expectations.

“We all get stressed and it gets hard to deal with it all some-times,” Aranda (junior-nursing) said. “I think having an app is a really good concept that isn’t pro-moted as much as it should be.”

WellTrack app aims to help with stress, anxiety

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Pepoli said she tries to get in some training with her dog ev-ery day.

Applegate’s (sophomore-psy-chology) dog Skiff is the young-est in the class at just 12 weeks old. It’s her first time training a puppy to be a service dog.

Applegate said she finds the training goes much more smoothly at home because there are not as many distractions.

Pepoli shared a similar senti-ment.

“It’s hard in college because

people always want to pet your dog,” she said. “I’ve noticed that Jamila’s actually become over-socialized with all the people pet-ting her.”

When the dogs become over-socialized, they pull more on their collars to go toward people, as well as get distracted much more frequently.

“It does get complicated being a college student,” Pepoli said. “It takes a lot of hard work and patience because it’s not going to happen overnight.”

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Paul Mendoza (freshman-animal science) reviewing his mood

indicator in Warnock Commons on Wednesday, April 4.

Finding her ‘Voice’How a State College native went from a shy high

school student to performing on national TV

Courtesy of Karen Hosterman-Sabel

Stephanie Skipper (nee Smith), a State College native and ‘Voice’ contestant, reads a birthday card with

her grandfather, former Penn State soccer coach Ken Hosterman, on his birthday in November 1987.

By Gabrielle BaroneTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Singing runs in the family. Ken Hosterman, former Penn

State soccer coach and World War II veteran, passed the time while stationed in Italy by singing in a quartet.

Now decades later, his grand-daughter, Stephanie Skipper, has gained national attention for her voice.

Growing up in State College, Skipper was inspired by the voices of her mother, Karen Hos-terman-Sabel, and her grandfa-ther. Now, she’s creating her own legacy, starting with a recent stint on NBC’s “The Voice,” and other career successes.

Even before she could talk, Skipper was making melodies, said Hosterman-Sabel. While food was placed at her high chair, Skipper hummed in pleasure.

In the car, when Hosterman-Sabel put on a cassette tape of Disney songs for Skipper and her brother Matthew Smith, Skipper, then around three, would pick up the tune.

But the floodgates opened, so to speak, thanks to a cartoon mer-maid and dancing crab.

When watching The Little Mer-maid, Skipper, like most girls, wanted to be Ariel, the mermaid with a beautiful singing voice.

“Well, let’s be honest,” Skip-per said. “Every little girl in 1989 wanted to sing ‘Part of Your World.’”

At first, Hosterman-Sabel didn’t realize that Skipper’s talent was that unusual. Her daughter being from a family where every-one sang, Hosterman-Sabel sim-ply thought, “Okay, she can carry a tune.”

What was unusual was that Skipper could hit every inflection of the songs “down pat,” always on key.

As Skipper got older, her love of music and vocalization contin-ued.

While was shy in public, “I didn’t have to prod her to sing at all,” Hosterman-Sabel said. “She always had music on in her room, and she was always singing.”

Smith remembers his sister being a fan of the same music as their mother.

“I distinctly remember her singing a lot of Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey as she was younger,” Smith said. “That’s a lot of the stuff my mom listened to, [Stephanie] would emulate it and sing out loud.”

Since they are close in age, Smith and Skipper spent “a lot of time together” in the car going to school. And, by this point, they weren’t listening to Disney tunes anymore.

“So, I would usually drive, and she would be the DJ, I guess you could say,” Smith said. “We’d put the music on, and she’d always sing along to that.”

Though they were similar in age, the siblings weren’t at all sim-ilar in personality.

Sort of “living in the shadow” of her brother, Skip-per said she was much more of “a wallflower.”

Still, she sang in her youth group and in the choir.

“I could play instruments, but I can’t carry a tune to save my life,” Her brother said, laughing at the idea.

During her freshman year of high school, Skipper mustered up the courage to perform in the school talent show.

There, she again drew on some of her family’s favorite music, choosing to sing The Supremes song “Can’t Hurry Love.”

“The craziest thing is to have this desire inside of you to do something, but then to have this all-consuming, paralyzing fear at war with that,” Skipper said. “I loved to sing, and I was scared to death to get in front of people and do it.”

Still, she decided to conquer her fears.

“At some point,” Skipper said, “you have to make a decision, like, ‘Do I try and love other things? Or, do I face my fears and give it a go?’”

Even though she was “so ner-vous [she] stood in one spot the whole time,” her mom said her rendition was a hit. Skipper made it through and finished with a head bang.

In particular, Skipper remem-bers her grandfather’s pride at the talent show and the flowers he brought her.

“I’ve dried them,” Skipper said, “and have kept them all this time.”

Even after living in the same house as his sister, Smith said he hadn’t realized his sister could sing like that before she per-formed.

“She had always been so shy,” Smith said. “I had heard her sing

a lot in church and everything, but I know that she didn’t really belt it like that or anything. That really kind of showcased her tal-ents there.”

When it came time to apply to colleges, Skipper feared that at such a large school like Penn State she would get lost in the crowd. Penn State also offered

only a classical music major at the time, and Skipper wanted something dif-ferent.

And then the magazine came in the mail.

Right on the cover, Contem-porary Christian Music magazine

offered the solution: “Do you want to jump start your music career?”

The article, Hosterman-Sabel said, highlighted four different colleges with music programs. She and Skipper looked through the article, but Skipper only wanted to visit one school — Greenville College.

Located in Illinois, Greenville College is a Christian liberal arts college with an enrollment of no more than a few thousand students. After visiting, the deci-sion to attend a school 12 hours away was a big “leap of faith” for both of them, according to Hosterman-Sabel.

“And, I wasn’t sure if I could handle her being that far away, and I wasn’t sure if she could handle being that far away,” Hosterman-Sabel said, laugh-ing. “But, we prayed about it, and we both felt like that’s where she was supposed to go. And, when I dropped her off, she never looked back.”

***In college, Skipper honed her

communication and vocal skills, while also taking the opportu-nity to travel to various places across the world.

Just as the magazine had promised, she advanced her music career, landing on the radio and performing in the AgapeFest — a Christian music festival in Greenville.

Hosterman-Sabel said from Skipper’s first re-cording as a freshman in college to her first recording as a signed artist, she “grew by leaps and bounds.”

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and I was scared to

death to get in front

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Former Voice Contestant

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Changes to campus over the yearsBy Maddie Aiken

THE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Anyone who has discussed Penn State with alumni is sure to have heard about its “glory days” — when Shortlidge Road wasn’t split in two and the Creamery wasn’t quite as far away.

As Penn State continues to grow as a university, certain as-pects of campus will inevitably change. Different buildings and sites on campus have moved around or disappeared complete-ly from Happy Valley.

While all of these places may have moved or no longer exist, they still live on in Penn State’s history and the memories of alumni.

Beaver StadiumWhen Penn State was founded

in 1855, the second-largest sta-dium in the Western Hemisphere wasn’t part of the campus.

Harry West, who co-wrote “Lair of the Lion: A History of Beaver Stadium,” said the first Penn State football game was played on Nov. 19, 1887. West said the game was either played on Old Main Lawn or near Old Main.

In 1890, Penn State football would move to a sports complex housed behind Osmond Labo-ratory, where a parking lot cur-rently sits. West described the complex as “crude,” with room for only a couple hundred people.

In 1893, grandstands were built

around the field behind Osmond, and “Old Beaver Field” was born.

The field, which could sit 500 people, was named after James Beaver, a former governor of Pennsylvania and member of Penn State’s board of trustees who was popular with students.

Penn State played football at Old Beaver Field from 1893 to 1908. The football field and grand-stands were then moved to west campus, in an area near the cur-rent location of the Nittany Lion Inn, according to West.

The field, which ran perpendic-ular to Park Avenue, was named “New Beaver Field.” Grand-stands were immediately added to the field to seat 1,000 people.

Throughout New Beaver Field’s history, seats were con-tinuously added to seat more people. In addition, the grand-stands, which were initially made of wood, were replaced with steel in the 1930s.

In 1949, New Beaver Field’s seating capacity increased from 14,700 to 27,720. However, by 1959, as Penn State’s student popula-tion continued to increase and there was no room to expand, Penn State football moved to east campus. Beaver Stadium became Penn State football’s new home.

The last games at New Beaver Field were played in 1959. West, a Penn State alumnus himself, said he remembers attending games at New Beaver Field in the 1950s.

Beaver Stadium was first used

in June 1960 to host graduation.West said when Beaver Sta-

dium was first built its seating capacity was almost 44,000. The stadium has undergone numer-ous expansions; it currently can seat 106,572.

West cited increasing enroll-ment and outside interest as rea-sons for the shift from Old Beaver Field to New Beaver Field to Bea-ver Stadium.

“As Penn State and its football program developed more and more, there was a higher demand for tickets,” he said.

The Berkey CreameryIf you are craving WPSU Cof-

fee Break in 2018, you hike up to the Creamery’s current location at the Food Science building near East Halls.

Anyone who wanted to stop by the Creamery in 1865, the year it opened, would have to stop by the College Barns behind Old Main.

According to Jim Brown, the Berkey Creamery assistant man-ager, the Creamery has been housed at five different locations across campus.

Brown said in 1889 the Cream-ery moved to its first stand-alone location. In 1904, the Creamery moved to the Patterson Building; in 1931, it moved to Borland Labo-ratory, where it would serve dairy treats to the Penn State commu-nity for 75 years.

However, as the Creamery con-tinued to expand, Borland Lab was not large enough to meet the Creamery’s demands for storage space, production abilities and

customers. In addition, many of the labs and classrooms in Bor-land were old, making research and learning difficult for food science students, according to Brown.

The Creamery needed to ei-ther remodel or move. In 2006, the current Food Science build-ing was built, becoming the Creamery’s new home.

Brown said the move has al-lowed for more people to en-joy ice cream and provided the Creamery with more efficient production and storage. In ad-dition, more education and re-search in the food science de-partment can be accomplished.

Simmons Dining HallWith dining commons in North, South, East, West and Pollock Halls, many Penn Staters think Penn State offers plenty of din-ing options for students living on campus.

However, students used to be able to head over to McElwain Hall or Simmons Hall for a bite to eat back in the day.

According to Lisa Wandel, the director of residential dining, the Simmons Dining Hall opened on the first floor of Simmons Hall in 1948. Simmons Dining Hall closed after spring semester in 2011.

Up to its closure, Simmons Din-ing Hall was ranked by students for three consecutive years as the number one dining hall at Penn State.

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like Inspector Gadget. It’s not the best looking thing in the world, but with their cover and their all-weather coat, you don’t need an umbrella.”

These regulations stem from generations of passed-down traditions, but even Blank admitted a few of these rules may seem odd at first. The point to remember was that every rule has a purpose.

“Whenever we are in our service uniforms, we don’t wear backpacks,” he said.

“So, while walking with your 30-pound backpack in your left hand while you are getting rained on isn’t practical at all, you think about the discipline and the adher-ence to the rules.”

“No matter if you are uncom-fortable, you still follow the rules and you do what is right.”

For some, getting used to the rules was easier thanks to fam-ily members who were already in the military.

“It was pretty much what I expected. I have been involved in the military all my life,” Air Force ROTC cadet Lucas Plan-kenhorn (freshman-engineer-ing) said.

“My dad was in the Air Force for 20 years.”

Some, however, were not pre-pared for a few of the commit-ments.

Samuel Woertz, Navy ROTC, said he felt “surprised” when his head was shaved just hours after he arrived at University Park.

“I think we get our heads shaved at the beginning of the year to lose our sense of individualism when we first ar-rive.”

It’s supposed to train us to think as a team where everyone is equal, and it also puts us under intentional stress so we can learn how to handle it,” Woertz (freshman-engineering) said.

Army ROTC Cadet Command Sargent Major Eric Behring-er said the required summer training sessions at Fort Knox really helped candidates pre-pare for the expectations of the Army.

“You really get to practice,” Behringer (senior-engineering) said, “and see what it is like to be in that mindset for a longer period of time.”

Chushi Hu / Collegian

Customers eat ice cream outside of Penn State Berkey Creamery on

Wednesday, March 4.

Chushi Hu / Collegian

Beaver Stadium, home to Penn State football, outside on Wednesday,

March 4.

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NFL cheerleaders deserve better than little pay and scrutiny

Earlier this week, The New York Times published an article about the rules and regulations

of NFL cheer-leaders.

When people in certain careers are treated poor-ly or have strict regulations, most people respond with, “Oh well they knew what they were sign-ing up for.” But,

all people should be allowed to display their bodies and do what they love.

Why should we hold cheer-leaders to such ridiculous and excessive standards?

Somehow, according to the Times, most NFL teams pay their cheerleaders little more than minimum wage. On top of that, they must pay for their own uniforms, which can cost hundreds of dollars. They are also required to work many fun-draising events for the teams — but received no compensation.

Not only is their job demand-ing, but they also must meet extreme physical requirements and conduct themselves according to unreasonable team policies.

Many NFL teams still see cheerleaders as beautiful women primarily marketed for their “sex appeal” and not for

their abilities. This has been a running theme for decades with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerlead-ers, who are known across the nation for their iconic uniforms.

This is why many guidelines from rulebooks across NFL teams revolve around their physical appearance.

The Cincinnati Bengals cheer squad, the Cincinnati Ben-Gals, are required to fall within three pounds of the outlined “ideal body weight.” Similarly in 2009, the Baltimore Ravens cheer-leaders faced regular, mandato-ry weigh-ins and had also had to meet this “ideal body weight.”

Since the cheerleaders have a physically demanding job, they’re expected to be in rela-tively good shape. And, as long as their health habits aren’t hindering their job performance, it shouldn’t be a problem if they gain or lose a little weight.

If anything, frequent weigh-ins can cause more harm than good.

They could lead to eating dis-orders and mental health prob-lems that nobody should have to face at their jobs, no matter their career.

There is no such thing as an “ideal body weight” because it varies depending on what’s best for a person’s health, and perpetuating that idea can be detrimental to their confi-dence, which in turn, could

negatively affect their job per-formance. Not to mention, it’s just not healthy.

But the regulations for cheer-leaders go beyond weight and what they do on the job. Some teams have rules in place to control what cheerleaders do in their private lives.

According to the Times, some NFL teams tell cheerleaders “proper shaving techniques” as well as the “proper use of tam-pons.” In any other career, this would sound even more insane than it does in this context.

Some teams also restrict what cheerleaders can wear in public. Many times, they can’t wear sweatpants, and they can’t be seen nude, seminude or in lingerie. That means no model-ing and the payments that go along with it.

Only a couple of months ago, former New Orleans Saints cheerleader Bailey Davis was fired after posting a photo in a one-piece swimsuit on her pri-vate Instagram account. The Saints deemed the photo inap-propriate and claimed it violated their rules.

Davis has filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claim-ing unfair treatment, according to the Times.

This wouldn’t be the first time an NFL team has been in hot water with cheerleaders. A

group of cheerleaders from the New York Jets sued the team over not being paid for some work events. The women won and were awarded $325,000, according to Fox News.

“It’s an issue of power,” Leslie Levy, a lawyer who represented the Jets’ cheerleaders, said according to the Times. “You see a disparate treatment between the cheerleaders, and the mascots and anyone else who works for the team. I can’t think of another arena where employers exert this level of control, even when they are not at work.”

If women or men in another profession were treated the way many cheerleaders are there’d be an uproar. Not only are the cheerleaders underpaid, they’re scrutinized to the 10th degree — told what to wear how to prac-tice their own personal hygiene.

Many cheerleaders under-stand they’re being treated dis-respectfully and unprofessional-ly. But if they speak up, they are told they can easily be replaced.

As consumers, we cannot just turn a blind eye and judge the industry from afar.

Kara Fesolovich is a junior majoring in history, political science and classics and ancient mediterranean studies and is a columnist for The Daily Collegian. Email her at klf5448@psu.edu and fol-low her on Twitter at @karafesolovich.

MY VIEW | Kara Fesolovich

It’s unfortunate that it takes an anniversary of someone’s death to reflect on all he lived for, especially when it comes to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

But here we are, 50 years and one day from King’s assassina-tion, giving more attention than we otherwise would to the sys-temic racism that still rages in our society.

First, we’d like to clarify this opinion comes from the view-point of our all-white Board of Editors, as is the case with every other editorial we’ve writ-ten this semester. Normally, we don’t explicitly mention this, but acknowledging perspective is important when it comes to any inequality.

Racial injustice in the United States doesn’t take a day off, so the fight against it shouldn’t either.

At some point, though, we lost the motivation King once inspired in us to combat the deep-rooted prejudice that remains so ingrained in our cul-ture. Most of us viewed some of the monumental achievements

in the civil rights movement as finish lines instead of mile markers.

When Barack Obama was elected in 2008 and became our country’s first black president, many of us saw the door open for more people of color to hold some of the most prominent positions in our society.

We believed our work was

nearly done, that racism was suppressed.

We couldn’t have been more wrong.

We failed to understand the prevalence of racial inequality because, no matter how hard we try, we can never be the vic-tims of racism. Because we are white.

The extent of what we know about racism is limited to what we can see. We saw Obama serve as president for eight years, and based off what we observed, we made proud state-ments about progress and inclu-sivity that proved to be prema-ture. We couldn’t experience the racism that still existed, so we thought it wasn’t there.

Realistically, though, we’ll never understand the full scope of racism in the United States because we’re not black.

We’ll never be told we can’t do something because of skin color. We’ll never be questioned for our success because we’re not the group society has tried to keep down for hundreds of years. We’ll never feel the wrath of racism because we’re not its target.

But, just because we’ll never know the true damage of racism doesn’t mean we can’t do every-thing in our power to make sure it doesn’t keep happening. And, the first step to fighting racism is to recognize its existence in areas where we can’t see it.

At Penn State, for instance, there’s been controversy about the lack of diversity in some student organizations. Both THON and UPUA have been criticized for not having more people of color in leadership positions. And, considering The Daily Collegian’s Board of Edi-tors is made up of all-white members this semester, we’ve also faced some backlash.

When groups are called out for not being diverse, they tend to defend themselves. “We’re not racist because…” is the go-to response, followed by whatever evidence supports the claim that they’re inclusive. The Collegian has done this too.

And, it’s true. Most of these groups aren’t racist and are open to more diverse members joining. However, they fail to realize a lack of diversity in stu-dent organizations doesn’t always result from individual racism. More often than not, it’s a broader, cultural flaw that makes students of color not feel welcome.

We all have a tendency to cel-ebrate the inclusivity that exists in society, but we overlook the areas where it is absent.

If there’s one thing we can learn now, 50 years after King’s assassination, is that we — white people — don’t get to decide what racism is and the ways we need to address it. We aren’t the people who suffer from it every day.

So we have to listen to what people of color have to say about racism. We have to under-stand the underlying racism that remains in our culture.

We have to continue to fight for equality until we actually cross the finish line.

White people can’t decide what racism is and how to address it

We all have a tendency to celebrate the inclusivity that exists in society, but we overlook the areas where it’s absent.

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The rectangular space has an obsessive neatness to it. If IKEA were releasing a new desk that featured regularity and bland-ness, the office of Penn State’s men’s lacrosse coach would be perfect for the catalog’s photo-shoot.

Jeff Tambroni’s office is a win-dow into his measured approach. Every word he says to the media is carefully selected and empha-sized. His khakis never have a wrinkle and his dark black hair stays the same length at all times.

Although not readily appar-ent, the office reflects a change. There are no trophies or pictures of memorable wins. The photos and sole degree in the room are about family.

The degree belongs to one of the three players that changed Tambroni’s life and perspective. One of his three players that died. In neat cursive, an unmistak-ably academic print, the name Connor Darcey is scripted on thick paper.

It’s the perfect backdrop for an ultra-competitive coach battling his desire to win with the change that tragedy has forced.

***Lacrosse is immensely popular

in small pockets across the east coast. Even though football, bas-ketball and a handful others are more popular in America’s sport-ing culture, lacrosse has dedicat-ed regions.

Tambroni’s experience with the sport has been one of beauty and brutality. The relationship is all love, but the antagonizing real-ities that bound life keep the two at distance.

A second grader when he fell in love with the sport, Tambroni grew up in a lacrosse hotbed. His house was just miles from Syra-cuse University in upstate New York, one of college lacrosse’s powerhouses.

“Lacrosse was king,” Tambroni said.

He knew he was going to be a lacrosse coach and knew he had the mentors to make it big. The local high school lacrosse coach, Mike Messere, was a legend in the game. He was one of the lon-gest tenured coaches in the histo-ry of the sport and Tambroni was eager to absorb his knowledge.

Tambroni isn’t one for hyper-bole, but, as it so often happens through the kaleidoscope of childhood heroes, his description

of the local high school coach is lofty.

“He was one of the greatest coaches of any sport anywhere in the country,” Tambroni said with-out a quiver of doubt.

Messere knew how to win, and Tambroni was well on his way to adopting the coach’s strategies, techniques and familiarity with victory.

“I don’t ever remember want-ing to be anything other than a lacrosse coach,” Tambroni said. “And I would attribute it to the in-fluence that he had.”

For a $30 fee, Tambroni joined Messere’s summer lacrosse team. The wins came early and often. Over a six-year stretch, Messere lost only one game. To Tambroni, nothing could have surpassed the prized position of being coached by the legend.

“It became a great honor to be a part of the program,” Tambroni said.

Tambroni continued to have success and was heavily support-ed by his father, who encouraged him to take the next step in his playing career. By the end of high school, Tambroni decided to play lacrosse at Hobart.

The Division-III school was not a powerhouse contender, but

it had a respectable history that included a multitude of national championships. Most important-ly, Tambroni liked the coach. The goal was to surround himself with those who prized a winning mind-set and Hobart’s leader fit the bill.

Tambroni quickly became a vi-tal part of the team and one of its leaders. He earned All-American status and made the Statesmen national championship contend-ers.

After returning from a brief coaching experience in Europe, Tambroni began his real coach-ing career. His first few attempts at landing a job were shot down. He interviewed with Michigan State, but was told they gave the job to someone else soon after. The decision to go with someone else turned out to be a blessing for Tambroni, as Michigan State shuttered the program after the following season.

Tambroni’s breakthrough came when an assistant posi-tion opened up at his alma mater. The Hobart coach reached out to Tambroni, who immediately ac-cepted the job.

Even though the game was evolving, the young coach tried to emulate the techniques of Messere. In 1994, Hobart added

another national champion-ship. This time, Tambroni was enjoying it with a clipboard in hand rather than a lacrosse stick.

After a few years at Hobart, Tambroni went to Loyola, where another assistant position had opened up. One day during prac-tice, a player weakly walked up to the coaching staff and asked to go home. He was feeling sick. The staff didn’t know how sick he was until the player died of meningitis in his dorm room.

Tambroni brushed over the de-tails of the death in his pristine office during a snowy Wednesday. When pressed, he didn’t elabo-rate, but there was pain at the mention of the death.

After a short, one-year stint at Loyola, Tambroni took a position as an assistant coach at Cornell and continued to absorb lessons on leading a team.

The opportunity to help Cor-nell was a big step, as the pro-gram was consistently among the best in the Ivy League and usually made deep postseason ef-forts.

A couple years after Tambro-ni joined the Big Red, the head coach at the time left for the same position at Johns Hopkins. Hours

after the news was announced, the athletic director offered the head job to Tambroni.

“I was thrilled,” Tambroni said, “but very intimidated and curious whether I was ready to have the job.”

The uncertainty stemmed from the exact reason that he had pursued the sport so passion-ately. It was a fear of honoring the coaches that had raised him from a lacrosse-obsessed second grader to a national champion head coach.

Almost immediately, Tambroni lived up to the expectations he wished to fulfill. In his second season as head coach, Cornell reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament. The next year, Cornell was named co-Ivy League champions.

The success continued, but a burning question lingered, one that had never hit the coach until well into his time at Cornell.

“Why are you actually coach-ing?” Tambroni asked himself.

Tambroni was practicing a transactional approach to coach-ing. Get the best athletes. Train them. Win.

Anything beyond that was a distraction.

Tambroni’s purpose seemed so clear, until the goals he was accomplishing were lacking com-plete fulfillment. But how could winning, the sole purpose of com-peting, not be completely fulfill-ing?

It required a tragedy — right on the field that had become Tam-broni’s sanctuary of victory — for the coach to change.

In 2004, George Boiardi, a se-nior defenseman and one of Tam-broni’s top talents, jumped in front of a shot rocketing out of the stick of a player from Bingham-ton. Boiardi was trying to block the shot, trying to help his team win.

The 22-year-old collapsed and blood began to slip from his mouth. Boiardi laid motionless on the field as players and spec-tators froze. Medical personnel tried to perform an array of ac-tions to resuscitate the player, but nothing was working.

The game was called off and players and coaches sat in their lockers waiting to hear about Boiardi’s condition.

Boiardi was rushed to the hospital and was soon pronounced dead.

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Head coach Jeff Tambroni instructs his players on the field during the scrimmage against Army at Panzer

Stadium on Saturday, Jan. 27.

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Chris Sabie (25) and Bobby Burns (37) celebrate after a

Penn State goal at the men’s lacrosse game on Feb. 10.

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Connor Darcey (16) attempts to block a shot on goal on

Sunday, March 29, 2015.

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Jake McCaughan (45) attempts to prevent Army attack Sean

O’Brien (32) from advancing up the field on Jan. 27.

Philosophy forged by tragedy

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Head coach Jeff Tambroni reacts to a play during the game at Penn State Lacrosse Field on Sunday, April 2, 2017. Penn State defeated Ohio State 9-4.

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“It took me a little bit longer,” Tambroni said, addressing the question he had asked himself. “That purpose and perspective came in a very tragic sense.”

For all of his coaching ca-reer, Tambroni found an answer. Whether it required more film study or more practices or harder team workouts, there was a game plan for dealing with bad situa-tions. But death is the opponent that doesn’t lose.

“There’s really no manual or a book that will tell you some-thing of [how to deal with] that type of situation like there is on a playbook of offense and de-fense,” Tambroni said. “If I had perspective then, we would have prepared that team by building grander, richer, deeper relation-ships so that if something were to ever happen like that again, there is authenticity in those rela-tionships, enough so that you can support each other, the family, the community and the surround-ing area. That’s what I’ve learned in a very challenging way, three times over.”

After a long preamble, Tam-broni leaned over and placed his hands on the dustless table. He had advice for his younger self.

“Approach each day, approach each season with the purpose of allowing young men to grow, and

base your goals and season-end-ing target more on relationships than winning and losing. I think if I would have done that a long time ago, my day-to-day interac-tions with our guys would have been a lot better. I would have had more of an impact.”

The bond he started to form with his players following Boiar-di’s death gave Tambroni a rein-vigorated sense of purpose. The wins kept coming, but the impor-tance of them paled in compari-son to the importance of his rela-tionships with his players.

***Even though things were going

well at Cornell — a place where he had never had a losing sea-son in the decade that he was the head coach — Tambroni felt a pull to create something new. Penn State’s program had ex-isted for a long time, but its meta-phorical contribution to the book of lacrosse would have been an italicized footnote.

Cornell and Hobart have sto-ried traditions of lacrosse suc-cess. Cornell and Hobart were constantly in the mix for a nation-al championship in their respec-tive divisions. Penn State — a football school — was occasion-ally in the mix for having a win-ning season.

But, in 2011, Tambroni needed to take a risk.

“I felt like it was time for a change,” Tambroni said. “I was really intrigued by the possibility

of building something different in

terms of tradition.”Helping the push to Happy Val-

ley was his wife, Michelle, who had been an All-American field hockey player at Penn State. Moving his family, which had grown with the addition of three daughters, was a big step. State College was the quaint college town, perfect for raising a family.

Not long after Tambroni moved into his new house and got to work, that quaint college town was under fire. Riots broke out in the streets of State College and national media swarmed campus, looking for any angle the athletic department could offer.

“We ran into Penn State at its low point,” Tambroni said.

The Jerry Sandusky child sex

abuse case ripped at the iron-clad name of the school Tambroni had given up so much to join. He had just left a great situation at Cor-nell, a place he truly loved and en-joyed, only to be thrown into the backlash of exposed evils.

The idea of leaving crossed his mind. But only briefly. The play-ers are what motivated him to remain in Happy Valley and build the program of his dreams.

“When we decided to come here, so did so many young men and their families,” Tambroni said. “And as much as we were

so disappointed with all the noise that surrounded our campus and at certain times found it embar-rassing and frustrating…We were very loyal and very proud of the people that decided to come and join us in spite of all the stuff that was going on.”

Only one player on the team decided to leave because of the case. Even though the pain and embarrassment of it was over-whelming, the group’s unity was strengthened.

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PSU welcomes mighty Michigan By Ben FerreeTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Penn State has struggled mightily in its first 29 games this season, and with a ranked team

visiting State Col-lege this week-end, it will not get any easier.

The Nittany Lions (6-23) are set to welcome No. 17 Michigan (28-7) to Beard Field for a three game series this weekend that is set to open at 6 p.m. on Friday.

“This will be a big test for us,” coach Amanda Lehotak said. “We haven’t beaten them in years, and it’s Michigan softball. They have been the standard of the Big Ten for a long time. So, my goal is that if we can just play within our-selves then I think we can take a game from them.”

History will not be on Penn State’s side this weekend, as the Wolverines have dominated every recent meeting between these two teams. Penn State has lost 28 games in a row against Michigan and last defeated the Wolverines in 2007, when they won 5-2.

Last season, the Nittany Lions were outscored 28-0 in its three games against the Wolverines.

In the last 28 meetings of the two teams, 16 of the games have ended before the full seven in-nings have been played.

“Hopefully, we have narrowed the gap versus getting beat 20-0

we are competing with them now,” Lehotak said.

“That hopefully if we keep nar-rowing that they will just become another series, and they will no longer be superman to us.”

This year, Michigan is once again among the best in the Big Ten and is one of two teams in the Big Ten that are currently ranked.

“They are a very talented team, one through nine offensively, very disciplined,” Lehotak said.

“They are just solid. And, the biggest thing about Michigan is they don’t make mistakes, and you can’t make any mistakes against them.”

The Wolverines have a 4-1 conference record following an upset loss to Iowa in their first

Big Ten series of the season. Michigan has also held

opponents scoreless in 17 of its games played so far this sea-son.

“They are strong in the pitching circle,” Lehotak said. “Everybody in the Big Ten was hoping that with Megan Betsa, who graduated last year, they would take a dip in pitching,

and joke’s on us.”This season Meghan Beaubien

has filled the ace pitching role for Michigan. Beaubien has made 22 starts this season with a 0.78 earned run average and has only given up 15 runs in 125.1 innings pitched.

The Michigan pitching staff has a combined ERA of 1.10 this season, which will provide a tough test for an inconsistent Nittany Lion offense that hasn’t gotten much production from anyone besides Tori Dubois.

The two teams have two common opponents in Virginia Tech and Robert Morris.

Michigan split its two games with Virginia Tech, while Penn State went winless in its three games against the Hokies.

The Nittany Lions split a dou-ble header with Robert Morris while the Wolverines defeated the Colonials 14-0 in five innings.

“The adult mind in me is like this is just another game. It’s Michigan, but it is the elephant in the room. And, the kids are so smart that we have to say, ‘Okay this is Michigan so we are going to address it,” Lehotak said.

“But, the culture change and the mindset change for us to be-come a championship team — the conversation is going to be that it is just another game.”

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Madey Smith (18) pitches during the women’s softball game against Robert Morris at Beard Field on

Wednesday, March 28. The Nittany Lions split the double header with the Colonials.

SOFTBALL

Penn State battles UCWV, George MasonBy Giana Han THE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Penn State needs to get its mo-mentum back.

For a while, the team was on a roll, winning five straight games.

Then Hawaii happened.

The three losses there were not devastating — against three elite teams — but since then, Penn State has gone 2-2 against teams that it had the chance to beat.

“We have four more regular season games left, and the play off push just kind of started last week,” outside hitter Frank Mel-vin said. “This is just another op-portunity for us to get ready for EIVAs.”

Forced depthThe most recent loss was hand-

ed to Penn State by Harvard in a game where the Nittany Lions

were missing three of their start-ers.

Outside hitter Aidan Albrecht and setter Luke Braswell were out, and opposite Cal Mende suf-fered a concussion when he took a knee to the head in the Har-vard match. The absent players were not an excuse for the loss because coach Mark Pavlik said the players that came in picked up where the others left off.

“Interesting, because [Mende] was playing really well, kind of scoring at will from the right side,” Pavlik said. “Kyle [Mackie-wicz] came in and just continued that the rest of the way.”

Melvin, who was playing for Al-brecht, had 10 kills with a .500 hit-ting efficiency and setter Nathan Smith had 55 assists.

This is not the first time this season the Nittany Lions have had to work around injuries.

Mende was out with a sprained ankle earlier in the season, and the multiple lineups that were

used gave different outside hit-ters, opposites and middle block-ers some playing time.

Outside hitter Matt McLaren also sat out a game with an injury.

While the team would prefer to stay healthy, there are some ad-vantages to the changing lineups.

“We’ve been forced to develop the depth,” Pavlik said.

“Now, the depth is more expe-rienced than it has been, and it may give us the opportunity to take advantage of some of their strengths and see if we can use it to our advantage.”

Biggest opponentThe loss to Harvard was par-

tially due to how well Harvard played and partially an outcome of the errors Penn State made.

Down 2-0, the Nittany Lions came back to force a fifth set, but they committed seven errors in the 15-point game.

The Crimson only had to score eight points to win the game.

Penn State also came back to force a fifth set against Ohio State and BYU, but it failed to finish

those games as well. To read full story, visit

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Head Coach Mark Pavlik speaks to Calvin Mende (16) during a match

against Mount Olive on Jan. 12.

MEN’S VOLEYBALL

Barratt tasked with being ‘the guy’ for PSU

Most freshmen spend their first offseason fine-tuning parts of their game

to become more important players on their team.

Evan Barratt’s task is more daunting. He needs to take the next step and become the face of Penn State hockey.

For the past two years, when people thought of the Nittany Lions, the first player that would come to mind for most would be Andrew Sturtz — and rightfully so. He has been one of the team’s top per-formers since he stepped into State College in 2015.

But now Sturtz is off to the NHL after signing a two-year deal with the Ot-tawa Senators, so some-body has to step up into that role.

Chase Berger will be a senior and will most likely be the captain, but he has been too inconsistent of-fensively. Denis Smirnov could be one of the team’s top scorers, but he doesn’t bring the same Sturtz energy.

One player who can both produce on offense and supply a lot of enthusiasm is Barratt.

The reason Sturtz was so appreciated was the fact that he did it all.

If the Nittany Lions needed an important goal, a big hit or a strong penalty kill, Sturtz could provide that. He also had an exuberant person-

ality, which showed in his play on the ice.

As the season went on, Barratt was starting to play his best hockey of the season, finishing with 11 goals and seven assists.

Toward the end of the season, he started to show that he could be an all-around forward.

In the final game of the regular season, he showed off his energy, physicality and skill in a span of three minutes. First he showed his personality with some mind games. Then he showed off his physical play.

And in case people got distracted, he then showed off his offensive skill seconds later. That line with Barratt, Alex Limoges and Liam Folkes was the Nittany Lions’ best line for

the last two months of the season, and it was their youngest line with two freshmen and a sopho-more.

“It sure is nice to know that you have three individuals coming back that improved so much, and we hope that continue improving this summer,” coach Guy Gadowsky said.

That line may not stick together at the start of next season, but regard-less, Barratt has all the mak-ings of a superstar. Ac-cording to Gadowsky, his smarts and intangibles are what make him so good.

“His hockey IQ is elite. Absolutely elite. So is his competitiveness.” Gad-owsky said.

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Forward Evan Barratt (17) gets tripped up near the net.

MEN’S HOCKEY

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