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“We will always re-member,” Forster spoke softly into the micro-phone.

I asked students in the crowd what they thought of the event, how they felt about the school sanctioning this sort of affair. “I think

it’s really great and that we should do something like this every year,” WCU student Erica Rosell said.

After her public speaking duties were fulfilled, I pulled Forster aside to get her thoughts on domestic secu-rity after these dreadful attacks 11 years ago.

“I didn’t have an idea of safety at the time it happened. I was so young. I have awareness of how prevalent terrorist attacks

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QUADNEWS@WCUPA.EDUNews WCU holds candlelight vigil

in remembrance of 9/11By Nicholas DevoeSpecial to The Quad

In homage to those lost in the 9/11 ter-rorist attacks, the

Sykes Union Advisory Board orchestrated a candlelight vigil on the evening of Sept. 11. Par-ticipants congregated at the front steps of the Sykes Student Union building around 9 p.m. in anticipation of the planned 9:11 p.m. light-ing of the candles. Not only were candles fur-nished to attendees, but small American flags were given out, too.

The vigil was launched by guest speaker Dave Timmann of Glenmoore, Pa.

“We do not have enough candles, as we did not expect this much of a turnout. But we’re happy you’re here. We brought 250 candles and 250 flags, and they are all gone,” Timmann expressed graciously.

Megan Tracey com-menced the ceremony with a formal recita-tion of the Pledge of Allegiance. Afterward Jasmine Forster, Presi-dent of the Sykes Union Advisory Board, recited “The National Anthem.” Next the infamous stu-dio version of “God Bless the USA” by Lee Green-wood was played.

As each torch was lit, one lighting another, the steps of the student union illuminated to a gentle glow. In remem-brance for all of our fall-en brothers and sisters we lost to terrorism that day 11 years ago, piv-otal moments of silence took place.

The fall air was crisp, the night silent except for the hum of locusts and chirps of crickets. It was a truly peaceful sight of unity, a student body acting as a unit to honor those lost in this tragedy. The entire front lawn and enormous

staircase of the student union were filled with those gathered to pay their respects.

All of the students raised their torches in reverence to those whose journeys ended that day now over a de-cade ago.

are in other countries ... I do not think we have as much to worry about here in the U.S.,” For-ster explained.

Mayor Comitta joined in the vigil for our fallen countrymen and wom-en.

“I am so proud of the WCU students and so moved by this tribute … I like that this is a trib-ute to remember those who were lost, and to honor all of the people who had the courage to help save others … I

think the young people here are the future, to do the things that need to be done, to do the right thing,” Comitta said.

It is vital to acknowl-edge the sacrifice of these American heroes. The board who put this event together should be very pleased, because the event was a huge success. The generous volunteers who spoke and sang at the event gave a real intimacy to the scene.

Most importantly, the students who comprised the real body of the 9/11 vigil last Tuesday should be commended. Whether they are in 400-level seminars, working part time while attending school, or just plain swamped with work, something like this should score high in the priority list. We should all take the time to pay tribute to those who paid the greatest price of all for our free-doms and liberties: their lives.Nicholas Devoe is a fifth-year student majoring in English with a minor in journalism. He can be reached at ND626335@wcupa.edu.

WCU hosts annual Volunteer Fair

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think the young people here are the future, to do the things that need to be done, to do the right thing,” Comitta said.

It is vital to acknowl-edge the sacrifice of these American heroes. The board who put this event together should be very pleased, because the event was a huge success. The generous volunteers who spoke and sang at the event gave a real intimacy to the scene.

Most importantly, the students who comprised the real body of the 9/11 vigil last Tuesday should be commended. Whether they are in 400-level seminars, working part time while attending school, or just plain swamped with work, something like this should score high in the priority list. We should all take the time to pay tribute to those who paid the greatest price of all for our free-doms and liberties: their lives.Nicholas Devoe is a fifth-year student majoring in English with a minor in journalism. He can be reached at ND626335@wcupa.edu.

WCU hosts annual Volunteer FairBy Theresa KellySpecial to The Quad

West Chester Uni-versity held its annual Volun-

teer Fair on Sept. 12, 2012 from 11 am to 2 pm at Sykes Student Union.

Jodi Roth, the director of the Office of Service-Learning and Volunteer Programs, said the Fri-ars’ Society, the Abbe So-ciety, and Circle K were a big help in setting up for the fair. More than 65 agencies were in at-tendance, and several or-ganizations were within walking distance of cam-pus. By 1 pm, more than 400 students had already attended the fair.

Many of the volunteer opportunities include upcoming walks/runs for charity, including Walk Now for Autism Speaks (in Philadelphia), the Light the Night Walk (in Berwyn), the AIDS Walk (in Philadelphia), and West Chester’s Relay for Life Team, a subset of Colleges against Cancer.

Also in attendance was

One Run Together, an organization that hosts runs and other events, with 100 percent of the proceeds going directly towards the medical and living expenses of cancer patients.

Vern Murphy, the CEO and founder of One Run Together, lost his wife to breast cancer in 2009. While many of the events for One Run Together are 5K runs, there are also one-mile walks, so that anyone can participate.

One Run Together’s other upcoming events also include spaghetti dinners, Chili’s Give Back Day, and a Cos-tume Craze 5K. Inter-ested volunteers can sign up for the monthly news-letter.

“I want families to be involved, and I want to help people help us,” Murphy said.

Students can also vol-unteer at a variety of tutoring and educational centers. These commit-ments range from occa-sional to year-long. City Year, an organization

fighting against the stu-dent drop-out rate, has a full-time volunteer po-sition, tutoring students over a 10-month period.

“A student drops out every 26 seconds. That is absolutely unaccept-able,” Kari Sheridan, an admissions coordinator said.

The fair also included services for students at the University. The Learning Assistance and Resource Center, located on the second floor of Lawrence Hall, offers free tutoring services. The Career Development Center, also a free ser-vice on the second floor of Lawrence, helps students build their resumes and find jobs.

Additional volunteer opportunities involved equestrian-based ther-apy, hospice, Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation, Adopt-a-Block, the Peace Corps, and many others.Theresa Kelly is a first-year English literature education major. She can be reached at TK780615@wcupa.edu.

Change in voter ID laws affects student voting

By Colleen CummingsCopy Editor

This past Tuesday in Sykes theater, West Chester Univer-

sity held a presentation discussing the Pennsyl-vania Voter ID Legisla-tion. The Black Student Union, in collaboration with the Political Science Club, shared a slideshow informing students about the effects of the new Vot-er ID Law. Bret Binder, a Chester County Demo-cratic candidate for the Pennsylvania House, also spoke to the student body stressing the importance of knowing one’s rights and the importance of vot-ing.

The Voter ID Law, HB 934, was passed on March 4, 2012. The law requires voters to have a valid, state-issued photo ID. The law also requires that the ID is not expired and is labeled with an issue and expiration date. The name on the ID should match the name on the poll books.

This law affects senior citizens, who may have given up their licenses or have no need for a state ID; minorities; and impov-erished individuals who may not be able to afford an ID.

The slideshow covered how to ensure the abil-ity to vote. First, register to vote by Oct. 6. Second, make sure you have a val-id photo ID before going to the polls, and that your documents match (ID and poll book). Finally, know your polling place.

If a voter does not have an ID, or if there is a ques-tion of eligibility, then the voter would cast a Provi-sional Ballot. The voter would complete and sign

the Provisional Ballot af-fidavit on the back of a ballot envelope. The voter must then return to their legislative office within six days to prove their identity.

Binder argued that Provisional Ballots slow down the voting line and discourage people from voting. He also stated that a provisional ballot is only effective if the voter goes back, and oftentimes the voter does not, and conse-quently the vote does not count.

Binder, BSU, and the Political Science Club all agreed that the law was created to stop certain people from voting. There were zero counts of voter fraud in Pennsylvania last year. The Political Science Club stated that it was a corruption of government, and that the government was “solving a problem that doesn’t exist.”

Binder said the law is an attempt to make col-lege students, poor fami-lies, and senior citizens less likely to vote. These groups are usually Demo-cratic. He also quoted a Pennsylvania Republican legislator who did not pre-tend that the law was cre-ated against fraud, but “to ensure Romney wins.”

Because of this law, ap-proximately 1.5 million people could be disen-franchised. About 758,000 registered Pennsylvania voters lack a state-issued ID card, and 186,830 of those people live in Phila-delphia. That’s about 18 percent of Philadelphia’s population.

Binder, BSU, and the Political Science Club stressed that the law was passed and proposed by Republicans. They ar-gued that Republicans

are attempting to get rid of voters who would vote against them. Binder stat-ed that “they are prevent-ing people from voting. It is not constitutional.”

Currently, 33 states have either proposed or passed a Voter ID Law.

Binder pointed out that $11 million was spent on creating this law when there were zero cases of fraud. At the same time, funding for higher educa-tion in Pennsylvania was cut, as students may have realized when receiving their tuition bill this year.

Binder urged that the student body should not become discouraged by this law, or the corruption that surrounds it, stating, “Regardless of why this legislation was cast ... get that proof of ID, register to vote, and get out there and vote!” He argued that students should not be-come apathetic over this, but become motivated to vote and make a differ-ence.

Binder suggested that students should visit the website Corbetslist.com, where they can enter their name and see if they are likely to have issues with their voter ID.

There will also be vol-unteers around campus handing out stickers that students can put on their IDs that include an issue and expiration date.

For students who are not registered to vote, they will have the oppor-tunity to do so on campus on Sept. 19. There will be Voter Registration tables and booths all over cam-pus.

Colleen Cummings is a second-year student with a major in English and a double minor in journalism and graphic design. She can be reached at CC763510@wcupa.edu.

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WCU works with Chester County to commemmorate International Day of Peace

By Andi HubbardSpecial to The Quad

In recognition of The UN Interna-tional Peace Day on Sept. 21, and to celebrate with other communities

worldwide, the Chester County Peace Movement and the WCU Contemporary Issues Club invite the campus commu-nity, the West Chester community, and friends to unite for a candlelight vigil starting at 7 p.m. at the Chester County Courthouse, Market and High Streets, in downtown West Chester.

On Sept. 23 at 2 pm at West Chester University’s Main Hall, the Contempo-rary Issues group and the CCPM will observe the annual International Day of Peace with a showing of the film “To Catch a Dreamer.” This film illustrates in collage, photography, and narration, the 10 United Nations Human Rights of the Child. Following the film there will be a participatory mural-making activ-

WCU hosts guest speaker Gail Johnson of South AfricaBy Amy Shah

Special to The Quad

On Sept. 13, Gail Johnson, the founder and director of Nkosi’s Haven, visited West Chester Uni-

versity to provide insight about Nkosi’s Haven and to honor the students and alumni that volunteered there this past summer.

Nkosi’s Haven is a non-governmental organization located in Berea, South Afri-ca that provides shelter and care for HIV/AIDS-infected mothers, children, and or-phaned children whose mothers passed away from the infection. Named after Nkosi Johnson, the 12-year-old spokesper-son for the cause, Nkosi’s Haven has been providing care since 1999 and is still going strong, with approximately 30 mothers and 150 children in their care today.

Although Nkosi’s Haven has provided support for many mothers and children since its creation, HIV/AIDS is a virus that has infected over 5.6 billion people since 1999. With limited government sup-port and increases in financial matters, Gail provided a deeper insight into what it is like to continuously fight for hundreds of people every day.

The evening with Ms. Johnson began with a humorous welcome speech from Dr. Kevin Dean, in which he introduced Alex-is Stinson, the current Miss West Chester University. Alexis provided a great deal of background information regarding Ms.

ity and refreshments.Peace Day was established in 1981 by

the United Nations (UN) as an annual observance of global non-violence and ceasefire. In 2002, the General Assem-bly of the UN declared Sept. 21 as the permanent date for International Day of Peace.

“On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a prior-ity, but a passion ... pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.

At the Friday night candlelight vigil, a resolution co-sponsored by Pennsyl-vania’s 19th District State Senator An-drew E. Dinniman will be read, along with the reading of a proclamation signed by Mayor Carolyn Comitta and borough council members. Mayor Co-mitta is a member of Mayors for Peace,

an organization which grew from the second UN Special Session on Disarma-ment on June 24, 1982. CCPM endors-es Mayors for Peace which includes a membership of more than 5,300 mayors in cities across the U.S. and 153 coun-tries worldwide that formally support nuclear disarmament.

The Chester County Peace Movement is a committed group of people who be-lieves simply that human problems can be solved without killing each other. The CCPM holds a weekly demonstra-tion of that belief at the corner of High and Market Streets in West Chester from 11:00 am to noon every Saturday morning. We welcome all “peace people” to join us there!

Additional information may be found at CCPM’s website at www.ccpeace.org.Andi Hubbard is a member of the Chester County Peace Movement who works in the President’s Office at West Chester University. She can be reached at ahubbard@wcupa.edu.

Johnson and her mission and how it has inspired many who have traveled to South Africa with the Honors College to volun-teer their time and effort. She concluded with a video created by West Chester University students that combined statis-tics with an interview with Ms. Johnson. There was not a moment throughout that video that she did not have my attention. She is infectious and, as Dr. Dean said in the video, “There’s no way you can meet Gail Johnson without being transformed by her.”

When the video concluded, Ms. Johnson took the stage. She walked onto the stage and apologized for taking a seat, for she had such severe jet-lag that she did not know where she was going. After giving a small introduction, she invited students up to the front to ask questions. Not sur-prisingly, there were many students with questions ranging from the topics of Nko-si’s Haven to how she felt about it. She talked about how HIV/AIDS is transmit-ted and how some children are born with-out it but then acquire it later or through incidents of rape. She talked about how the fathers were normally never there because the ratio of men to women is so small that the men usually have multiple wives and only act as the biological father, rather than a paternal one. She provided information as to how the Haven began and the time she spent with Nkosi. But the one question I remember from the

speech was regarding her greatest mem-ory of her time in South Africa, and she responded that there were two incidents that she felt fit the bill. The first one was when she broke three ribs and not one nail. The second one was how she felt to practice Nkosi’s speech, the one given at the 13th Annual AIDS Conference in Dur-ban. Nkosi had stage fright before going on, but after telling him that this is what he wanted to do for the longest time, he went out and delivered it perfectly. After that, she described the time that Nkosi re-quested to be taken off of medication. “I’ll see you in the morning, Mummy,” were the last words Ms. Johnson remembers. And I found myself crying somewhere in the back of the lecture hall.

There was so much information and so many stories that I could fill a small novel. But one thing I will say is that I did not know anything about Ms. Johnson or her cause, and I went to the speech thinking I would be bored or that I could not wait for it to end. But every minute was filled with such fun humor and such inspiration that I sometimes forgot to take notes. The Hon-ors College is going to South Africa next in 2014, and that is something I encour-age everyone to look into. To find out more about Nkosi’s Haven, you can visit their website at nkosishaven.org.

Amy Shah is a first-year student majoring in computer science. She can be reached at AS793452@wcupa.edu.

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By Adam FarenceSpecial to the Quad

Voting is a sacred right for those in the United States

of America. The right to vote is constantly sought after around the world. Whether countries are considered free or not can depend on if their citizens have the right to vote fairly.

In the landmark 2008 election, people were said to have flown to the polls to make the historic choice of choosing the first Afri-can-American president. This great flood of people actually came to 56.8 per-cent. Getting barely half the country to vote is not a great accomplishment, but it is still the highest voter turnout since 1968. Compare this to the 2010 midterm elections, where a pathetic 37.8 percent came out to the polls. My point is that voting is not as widely done in this country as it should be.

The government should be doing everything to get the people out to vote more. This is not the case currently. In their infinite

wisdom, the Pennsylvania GOP-controlled legisla-ture under Tom Corbett decided to pass a law to make it even more diffi-cult to vote.

Voter turnout is bad enough as it is, so why make it harder? Is it to crack down on the wide-spread, sinister acts of voter fraud in our state? That’s what Tom Corbett wants you to think, but it is an obvious partisan political ploy to disenfran-chise a certain block of voters.

In Pennsylvania, 1.3 million voters lack the re-quired form of ID to exer-cise their Constitutional right. These people are disqualified because they have to show valid identi-fication such as a drivers license or a passport. The problem is that a lot of people in this state do not have one. That is because they simply do not own a car or travel abroad. These people tend to be poorer than most Penn-sylvanians and are also more likely to be minori-ties. The law even targets students. Bret M. Binder, State senate candidate of

the 156th District, called the law an, “attempt to take away the power of the student vote.” Most importantly these people tend to vote Democrat in-stead of Republican.

There are 33 states that have proposed or adopted these laws. Almost all of them were done with Re-publican majorities. Some

The new voter ID law in Pennsylvania is the real fraud

The crucial need for historians in modern times

of the most important states that have imple-mented these laws (be-sides Pennsylvania) are Ohio and Florida. These states have one important thing in common. That is, they are battleground states that could go either Republican or Democrat in elections. Right now in these states, there is

a Republican-dominated legislator in power. These voter ID acts are being spearheaded by the Re-publicans in order to get their candidates elected by keeping out those who would not vote for them.

If you do not believe me, just ask Republican House Majority leader Mike Turzai, who stated that these laws are “go-ing to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.” That is the Republican agenda.

Republicans are sup-posed to be about limit-ing government except when it benefits them. Now they want people to get government-issued IDs and have people dis-barred by the government from voting. This law en-hances the reach of the government in the worst way possible. The total cost of this law comes to about $11 million of your tax dollars. Instead of in-vesting in jobs or schools, they would rather do this. It is an intrusive law that violates the rights of citi-zens in a discriminatory fashion.

The Republicans still

need a platform to stop these people from voting, so they harp on the enor-mous amounts of voter fraud in this country. Re-ality begs to differ with them.

A study done by the Carnegie-Knight Initia-tive showed that out of 2,068 cases of voter fraud, only 10 related to voter impersonation. Voter impersonation is where someone votes under a dif-ferent name. Former Gov. Ed Rendell commented that in all his years in of-fice, less than 10 accounts of voter fraud came up. Since the year 2004, no one has ever been convict-ed of voter impersonation. These laws are purely partisan tools implement-ed by Republicans. It is disgraceful that it is hap-pening in a country that prides itself on freedom.

The law has been taken to the courts. I, for one, eagerly await the result. It could go either way. We will keep the campus posted on any results.Jack Barnett is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in history and po-litical science. He can be reached at JB723722@wcupa.edu

By Jack BarnettOp-Ed Editor

When most people think of a histo-rian, they think of

someone who sits in dusty libraries sifting through piles and piles of docu-ments, books, websites, and anything else that can possibly provide cred-ible evidence of the past. While that is in part true, historians have a much bigger role than simply compiling knowledge.

Oftentimes, a historian must make decisions re-garding what information to include and what to dis-regard. They are charged with the task of recording what they believe to be the most relevant and im-portant information that they come across.

On the surface, this does not sound bad, but on a subtle level, it has a profound impact. The information included or disregarded, big or small, changes our perception of the past. A person can-not see the past for what it truly was; we only have records left behind from those who were from that time period. A historian constructs a representa-tion of the past, depend-ing on what information they do or do not include. Take the death of Silas Dean, for example. Silas Dean is a little-known diplomat who lived during the American Revolution. Several years after the war, Dean wanted to re-turn to America; however, before his return he died mysteriously. His death left many questions.

Historians offer details of varying importance, ranging from some of his daily activities, mental condition, past actions (both known and specu-lated), as well as his re-lationships with different people. When reviewing this compiled informa-tion, they had to decide what information should be kept.

Because we are human, we make mistakes. We can conclude that we will never have a perfect rep-resentation of the past, due to the fact that histo-rians will over-emphasize some details, under-em-phasize some, and leave some out. This is because a historian did not see the value in the informa-tion because it is biased against a particular group he is researching. It could

also be a result of shoddy workmanship.

Nevertheless, the point is the same: a historian constructs a representa-tion of history from the resources that have been preserved from that time period.

Returning to Silas Dean, even with the in-formation that historians had on hand, is it impos-sible for them to draw a concrete conclusion on his peculiar death? Did he in-deed commit suicide? Or was he poisoned because he knew too many dark secrets?

Historians have been able to construct several different possible sce-narios, each with vary-ing degrees of strength. But nothing absolute has arisen from the piles of evidence.

The ultimate goal of a historian is to create a seamless reconstruc-tion of past events, and to trace their influence throughout time and back to the present day. Yet, this is impossible because records from the past are not 100 percent accurate. Some events were not even recorded at all and some even contradict each other.

To explain this para-dox in a different way, historians aim for abso-lute truth—all facts and evidence recorded with undisputable evidence to support their claims. However, because there is always bias, both in the past and in the current day, this goal becomes im-possible. A perfect rendi-tion of the past is not pos-sible and the best we can

hope for is an imperfect rendition supported by strong evidence.

Historians hold a lot of power in the world; the representations they build influence us im-mensely, and without their representations, we would be in the dark about history’s lessons. Everything that is pos-sible today, everything that happens today, has history at its foundation. We rely on historians to reveal this foundation so that we can continue building.

In conclusion, a histo-rian’s goal is to build an accurate representation of the past, with as little bias, errors, contradic-tions, and with as much fluidity as possible.

Adam Farence is a second-year student majoring in history. He can be reached at AF764146@wcupa.edu

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The crucial need for historians in modern times

need a platform to stop these people from voting, so they harp on the enor-mous amounts of voter fraud in this country. Re-ality begs to differ with them.

A study done by the Carnegie-Knight Initia-tive showed that out of 2,068 cases of voter fraud, only 10 related to voter impersonation. Voter impersonation is where someone votes under a dif-ferent name. Former Gov. Ed Rendell commented that in all his years in of-fice, less than 10 accounts of voter fraud came up. Since the year 2004, no one has ever been convict-ed of voter impersonation. These laws are purely partisan tools implement-ed by Republicans. It is disgraceful that it is hap-pening in a country that prides itself on freedom.

The law has been taken to the courts. I, for one, eagerly await the result. It could go either way. We will keep the campus posted on any results.Jack Barnett is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in history and po-litical science. He can be reached at JB723722@wcupa.edu

In the beginning of ev-ery semester comes the time to buy text-

books. It is always a frus-trating part of starting classes.

You have to wade through your classes, find out what textbooks you need and, worst of all, pay for them. Paying for text-books is always tough on a college student. College students, who histori-cally have small amounts of money to spend, usu-ally find it difficult to buy these expensive text-books.

A student buys an ex-pensive textbook from a bookstore, hoping he or she will be able to sell it back later. Once the time comes, students get a rude awakening when they get about a fourth of what they paid for or, some-times, a new addition of the book comes out that

Cutting down on the high price of textbooksBy Jack Barnett

Op-Ed Editormakes all other editions worthless.

There is a good chance you will find yourself nev-er using the textbook dur-ing the semester. A pro-fessor may only assign a textbook because they get royalties whenever that

textbook is bought. It is always difficult

buying textbooks for a new year. The good news is that there are ways around paying an arm and a leg for a textbook.

Buying online has be-come popular in this

digital age. Buying textbooks is no dif-ferent. Amazon and eBay have person-ally tailored their websites to accom-modate for students’ college needs. You can just type in the ISBN number from a textbook and the site will bring that book up for you. The pric-es on these sites are much better than the bookstore. For ex-ample, the textbook, College Algebra with Trigonometry, sells for $114 used in the bookstore. On Ama-zon, you can buy the book for $61 used.

This is just one instance of how much you can save online. You can also sell back the book online for the same price at which you bought it. So in cer-tain instances, you do not lose any money.

There are downsides to buying online. You have to order a good two or three weeks before class-es start. This is for two reasons: delivery can take weeks, and sometimes the orders can be incor-rect because of a seller mistake.

The pros still outweigh the cons in regards to buy-ing textbooks online. As long as you are prepared when ordering, then no real harm can come from ordering online. I would rather do a little early shopping than pay twice as much for textbooks.

Professors can also help alleviate students’ mon-

ey troubles. They could make sure that the text-books are needed for the class. Books should not be assigned just for the sake of assigning books. A professor should make sure the textbook has per-tinent information for the class that best explains the class’s content. Let’s be honest: many times a textbook has been all but useless in a clsss. If a professor does use a cer-tain textbook in class, he or she should make sure that it is used for in-class or out-of-class assign-ments.

Also, if possible, the professor should post the information online in D2L or on some other site. Many professors have taken this initiative for their classes. Textbooks can be out of stock or lost by a student. This works for the professor, because

it ensures that everyone in the class always has the information to utilize.

Textbooks will always drain students’ incomes. It has been this way for many years and will most likely continue to be this way. But luckily, the dawn of the Internet enables professors to help students and students to help themselves. Now students are not at the mercy of high bookstore prices. Ingenuity in sav-ing money can go a long way. That is the beauty of the Internet. It gives a person the chance to not be forced to deal with a single company. They can now find new oppurtu-nites.

Jack Barnett is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in history and po-litical science. He can be reached at JB723722@wcupa.edu

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A Taste of ItalyBy Nicholas DevoeSpecial to The Quad

West Chester Ge-lato lovers were left to mourn

when Sprazzo Gelato closed in late 2009. How-ever, the popular dessert’s sweet taste is back in the Dub-C with D’Ascenzo’s Gelato on East Gay St. This young gelateria has become a member of our community, participating in a number of local events such as West Chester’s Restaurant Week. Their unique array of flavors are made with authentic Ital-ian ingredients without any artificial fillers.

Following a 1999 trip to Italy, the couple was enchanted with the ‘old world’ style frozen dessert.

“My wife and I had the gelato everywhere we went, but our favorite was the gelateria by the Parthenon ... We enjoyed the experience and the in-tense flavors and thought it was such a beautiful display,” owner Glenn D’Ascenzo said. The gelato from Italy left a memo-rable impression on the owners, and inspired them to get into the business. Owners Glenn and Kristin D’Ascenzo jumped into the gelato business in 2004.

As Glenn and Kristin situated themselves on the entrepreneurial scene, Glenn pieced together a signature recipe for his very own gelato. They started as a wholesaler of the product at a farmer’s market in Chestnut Hill. D’Acenzo Gelato became a regular vendor at events and festivals throughout the Philadelphia area.

They were present at

the Chaddsford Winery Memorial Day Festival, toting their Chaddsford Cabernet gelato. In the West Chester borough, D’Ascenzo uses a portable cart to share their gelato for outdoor events such as Super Sundays, Swinging Thursdays, and the West Chester Restaurant Festi-val. Folks started asking about where to find their gelato. Eventually, the pair set up shop on Gay Street in West Chester to have a central location. The couple decided on a quaint brick row-home to renovate into their small business in April 2010.

The ambiance at their street-side location adds to the entrepreneurs’ niche. D’Ascenzo’s Gelato sits nestled next to West Ches-ter’s Italian restaurants, located on the quiet end of the borough. Wrought iron tables and chairs adorn the welcoming courtyard set on the side of the build-ing. The inviting outdoor dining area is lined with flowers. This gelato shop oozes with charm just from the outer appearance.

The array of delectable gelato flavors immediately hit me upon entering the humble 15-by-20 room of the gelateria. Behind the massive bubble of a des-sert case, the gourmet va-riety ranged from all the different berries to cookie dough-infused creations. One of the most intrigu-ing, the caramel and sea salt, provided a refreshing, complementary flavor.

Kristin D’Ascenzo went into detail about the deli-cious, homemade gelato and the demanding work she and her husband Glenn dedicate to making

their product. “We make it on premis-

es here in the store, every or every other day, keep-ing 24 pans on display. It’s a labor intensive pro-cess. It’s a long process; we gather the nuts, roast them, mash them into a paste and turn them into a variety. If we’re making blood orange gelato, we have to actually squeeze the oranges into the paste. So there’s a lot of work in-volved, but it makes a nice product,” Kristin com-mented.

Her husband Glenn ex-plained the couple’s love for fresh ingredients and emphasis on homemade food, “My grandmother was always cooking and making her pastas. My grandfather who came from Italy also made his own wines and liqueurs. My parents still love to prepare meals for the whole family.”

Their roots of passion for this model continue the old world tradition before preservatives and artificial additives. In fact, gelato is actually healthier than ice cream, making it not such a naughty treat. Made with hormone-free organic milk, all natural fruit and nuts, and far less sugar and fat content than ice cream, gelato is served as a guilt-free treat!

Other than the ‘health-nut’ factors listed above, one can’t help but be cu-rious, why is gelato a step-up from ice-cream? “What’s different about gelato, other than your heady ingredients and disciplined principles of freshness? What is it that sets a gelateria apart from an ordinary ice cream par-

lor like Scoops on High Streer?” I inquired.

“Gelato is made by in-corporating very little air or overrun, creating a dense and creamy product allowing natural fruit/nut flavors to come through,” the owners explained.

Their position in the borough was decisive with the business’s success. The gelateria is right next to the I-pasta Restaurant, and Nonna’s Italian Res-taurant is just a few doors down. Gilmore’s fancy French cuisine is across the street. A parallel can be drawn between the winers and diners of these establishments and sub-sequent trips to the gela-teria. “I think peak times are always the weekends, evenings for sure. Sat-urdays are great! People like to stroll and go to the restaurants in town; there are fabulous restaurants everywhere here. And then they stroll for des-sert, and come to the gela-teria,” Kristen said.

This business holds a niche with one key fac-tor; now they are the only gelateria in West Ches-ter. With all of their ge-lato made from scratch, fresh ingredients, and enchanting story of inspi-ration, Kristin and Glenn D’Ascenzo have paved the path for frozen treat success. The community expects their presence at the various events held in the borough and in Chadds Ford. With their fairly new location on Gay Street, the owners certainly have made their presence known as the after-dinner stop in West Chester’s ‘Little Italy.’ A mission statement or company promise found in their product brochure reads, “We will always let our quality speak for it-self.”

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

Artifact BoutiqueBy Liz ThompsonPracticum Writer

Artifact, which opened in June 2009, is a trendy

boutique located in downtown West Ches-ter. It is marketed specifically toward college students and young professionals. College students from West Chester, Tem-ple, or the University of Delaware make up about 60 percent of all Artifact custom-ers. Lauren Merkel, the owner of Artifact, knew that college stu-dents would be her target audience, and she loves being a part of such an active col-lege town.

“Every year, there are new students, who are all our new potential customers. It also helps that I went to West Chester, so we can relate to a lot of our customers,” Merkel explained, who graduated from West Chester University with a B.A. in Com-munication Studies. Merkel describes her customers as young women, ages 18 to 35, who like to go out on the weekends.

Merkel chose the name ‘Artifact’ be-cause she always dreamed of opening a store with a name that starts with an ‘A’ simply because it’s the first letter of the alphabet. There was really no rhyme or reason to the word “Artifact”; she just liked the way it sound-ed and looked!

Merkel opened her store at age 26 after several tedious office

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jobs. She knew she wanted to open the store because of pre-vious retail and wait-ressing jobs, where she discovered herself to be a ‘people per-son.’ The stars aligned when she found the perfect location, which is 200 West Gay St., after saving her mon-ey for many years pri-or.

“After I got the loca-tion, my biggest ob-stacle was opening the store on such a small budget. I only had a little bit of money to work with. I had to get everything in the store and the merchandise for a low price. It was a challenge finding clothes I could sell for under $60!” Merkel said.

Merkel is well aware of a student’s tight budget. Being an alumna of West Ches-ter, she remembers being on a strict col-lege budget, but still wanting to be stylish and trendy. Custom-ers will never find ANYTHING in the store above $60!

“When I was at school here, the only stores to shop at were high-end boutiques.You don’t have to catch a ride to the mall now to find trendy clothes; you can just take a walk in town!” Merkel proclaimed.

In addition, all the items in her store are up-to-date, trend-wise. Merkel took several fashion mer-chandising classes at Harcum, and is always studying celebrity trends and TV shows to make sure her store

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012 THE QUAD FEATURES PAGE 9Boutiquefrom page 8 Mr. Stuart’s Martial Arts

By Nicole BairStaff Writer

Whoever he may be, Mat-thew Brick-

etto, along with the university, has been sending us emails to warn us of the pos-sible dangers that we may face on a day-to-day basis. Even if you ignore these emails or already have them permanently blocked, they still get you thinking. Robberies, kidnapping, mug-gings, etc. occur on a regular basis.

You typically think: “What if it was me? What if it will be me?” Don’t think like that! Campus and the Borough of West Chester seem like friendly and safe places, and they are, but not 24/7. Take the correct preventative measures to make sure this never hap-pens to you. But if it does, make sure you have the right skills to make sure you can protect yourself.

Why not enroll in a self-defense class? Mr. Stuart’s Martial Arts, Regional Haga-nah F.I. G. H. T. Cen-ter is an organization within walking dis-tance of the univer-sity that offers a full-throttle self-defense class. Here, Mr. Stu-art himself instructs each and every class with the assistance of his fully trained in-structors.

All of the classes of-

fered at Mr. Stuart’s teach you endurance, stance, and self-confi-dence in your ability to protect yourself. Give Mr. Stuart 18 weeks and you will have completed a cycle of his amazing step-by-step classes. Classes range from Haganah F.I.G.H.T. to Israeli Profession-al Tactical Training and everything in be-

tween. In Haganah F.I.G.H.T. class Mr. Stuart trains you how to handle real-life scenarios; this would be your self-defense class. Hand-to-hand combat is simply de-tailed, step-by-step instructions on how to handle yourself in worst-case scenarios.

Different situations range from frontal and rear attacks, to attacks with weap-ons, to attacks by ex-perienced assailants. Mr. Stuart gets you thinking about these scenarios in his gym,

in a safe place, so when you are on your own these actions can be second nature and you will be able to act under pressure. This makes protecting yourself or others a reflex. The goal is to create ‘muscle mem-ory.’

Many of you can re-member the Karate Kid and how old Mr. Miyagi made little

Daniel ‘wax on’ and ‘wax off’ for the entire summer, but at the end of the summer, Mr. Miyagi showed Daniel that he was really teaching him basic karate moves. Muscle memory is somewhat like this; the key to remember is repetition. Combat Fitness or Fit2Fight classes are another common class offered at Mr. Stuart’s stu-dio.

Known for being the toughest workout in Chester County, its name explains it all.

Providing high inten-sity fitness training with high intensity interval training and old school combat exercises, this class gets you in shape, fast. If you are not able to push your hardest and put forth your all, then this is not the class for you. Another high-endur-ance class would be Combat Wrestling.

“Our techniques are developed to break-down the attack, cre-ate damage, and get you up and out there FAST!,” states an online description of the course. In fewer words, this class is a bit more aggressive than your typical de-fense class. You will get down and dirty with step-by-step in-structions on how to take yourself out of the ‘victim’ position. Keep in mind that just because you are tall, a boy, or played field hockey your whole life does not mean that you will not be victimized.

Anyone and every-one can be made a victim by someone who sees you as a benefit or opportu-nity for themselves. Take the right mea-sures to keep your-self safe and knowl-edgeable, before it is too late. Take a self-defense class.Nicole Bair is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in Liberal Studies with a minor in Art History. She can be reached at NB777106@wcupa.edu.

Interested in writing for the Features section? Email quadfeatures@wcupa.edu

jobs. She knew she wanted to open the store because of pre-vious retail and wait-ressing jobs, where she discovered herself to be a ‘people per-son.’ The stars aligned when she found the perfect location, which is 200 West Gay St., after saving her mon-ey for many years pri-or.

“After I got the loca-tion, my biggest ob-stacle was opening the store on such a small budget. I only had a little bit of money to work with. I had to get everything in the store and the merchandise for a low price. It was a challenge finding clothes I could sell for under $60!” Merkel said.

Merkel is well aware of a student’s tight budget. Being an alumna of West Ches-ter, she remembers being on a strict col-lege budget, but still wanting to be stylish and trendy. Custom-ers will never find ANYTHING in the store above $60!

“When I was at school here, the only stores to shop at were high-end boutiques.You don’t have to catch a ride to the mall now to find trendy clothes; you can just take a walk in town!” Merkel proclaimed.

In addition, all the items in her store are up-to-date, trend-wise. Merkel took several fashion mer-chandising classes at Harcum, and is always studying celebrity trends and TV shows to make sure her store

is fully stocked with the latest trends. In fact, the store is now fully stocked with col-ored skinny jeans, the most popular being the mint green color.

The store is also up -to-date social-media wise. While the store does not have a Twit-ter account, they do have a Facebook page, which was made in April 2009. The Face-book page features all merchandise that is in the store, celeb-rity trends which can be found at the store, and exclusive deals. It has a tremendous amount of activity and currently has almost 2,000 likes. Customers can ‘like’ certain out-fits and even put gar-ments on hold. Merkel explains the page as a great way for her to directly communicate with her customers.

The page even has a section for feed-back, as one customer, Missy Bryan, says, “This is an awesome boutique to check out if you are looking for a sassy dress to wear out on the town, a cool shirt to wear with your favorite jeans, or some great accesso-ries. The owner, Lau-ren, couldn’t be more adorable or sweet—al-ways fun to go in and chat and shop with her stylish sugges-tions!” she added.

Merkel plans to ex-pand Artifact’s social media even more. She is currently working on a website where customers can pur-chase things online. This website will ex-pand her audience outside of West Ches-ter and maybe even outside of Pennsylva-nia.

Like many other businesses in West Chester, Artifact is somewhat affected when students leave for the summer. How-ever, the new website will give students the chance to shop at their favorite boutique from their hometown! Merkel is very excited for the new project and has been working on it for a while.

Her favorite part of her job is being able to style her customers and help them pick out cute outfits. Arti-fact has phenomenal customer service. All of her sales associates, most of whom were Ar-tifact customers, must be extremely attentive to all customers in the store. The employees in the store are very close and have been working in the store for several years.

Merkel loves see-ing her customers every day. Owning a boutique is very hard work and Merkel does it all by herself, which makes it even more challenging. How-ever, her customers make all of the hard work worth it. Merkel has built very strong relationships with her customers, and her bubbly personal-ity, dedication, and wicked sense of style makes every custom-er want to come back again and again. In essence, Merkel has seemed to have creat-ed the perfect store—extremely trendy, but also extremely afford-able. Artifact is truly one of the best bou-tiques in the area!Liz Thompson is a fourth-year student majoring in Communi-cation Studies with at minor in Journalism. She can be reached at LT715984@wcupa.edu.

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West Chester University welcomed parents and grandparents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles and other family members to campus for the 2012 Family Weekend, September 14-16.

In anticipation of the start of construction of the South New St Parking Structure, which will eventually provide 450 new parking spaces, F Lot will be taken off -line in mid-October, removing 180 parking spaces from use. In addition, 70 spaces in

K Lot will also be taken off-line in early October in order to drill geo-exchange wells to provide heating and cooling to University buildings.

IIn order to reduce the impact of these temporarily removed 250 parking spaces, the university has added a variety of newly available parking spaces throughout

north campus:

The University’s total parking space count actually increases for Fall semester, even though F Lot and a portion of K Lot will be

taken temporarily offline. As well, typically available spaces can be found at the roof level of Matlack Parking Structure, which is free. There are always an abundance of available parking spaces

on south campus, at Q and R Lot, which has frequent shuttle bus service to north campus. Please seek out these newly avail-able and cuable and currently open parking space locations as we manage to provide an additional 450 parking spaces in the new parking

structure at South New St- OPENING FALL SEMESTER 2013!

Campus Parking Lots Capacity View Cam:

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Campus Shuttle Bus Information:http://wcupa.edu/_INFORMATION/A-

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Rising Canadian band to play show in PhillyBy Eryn Aiello

Practicum Writer

After touring with Kings of Leon and landing the cover

of Rolling Stone (the first and only unsigned band in history to do so), The Sheepdogs can proudly say that they have come a long way from their hum-ble beginnings in small town Saskatoon, Canada.

The band has already gained much success in their native country. In the past year, the band has won three 2012 Juno Awards (New Group of the Year, Single of the Year, and Rock Album of the Year), which are Canada’s version of the Grammy awards.

To say that The Sheep-dogs are rock ‘n’ roll is no overstatement. The long hair, their southern rock-er attire, and wild child headbands worn by band members Ewan Currie (vocals and guitar), Leot Hanson (guitar), Ryan Gullen (bass), and Sam Corbett (drums) exude

pure rock ‘n’ roll style and complement their rootsy-rock sound. Their songs utilize a mix of south-ern rock, blues, and psy-chedelic harmonies that make the band sound as if they recorded this al-bum in the 1970s.

On Thursday, Sept. 20, these Ca-nadian rockers will be showcasing their distinctive rock ‘n’ roll sounds at Johnny Brenda’s, located in the Fishtown sec-tion of Philadelphia. Tickets are still avail-able, although you must be 21 to enter. Johnny Brenda’s is the perfect stage for The Sheepdogs to in-troduce their music to Philadelphia. It has the intimate feel of a small club that lets patrons stand within just a few feet of the band. If the dance floor is too crowded, and you get there early enough, you can lean over the second floor balcony and look down on the band

just 10 to 15 feet away.The band produces

sounds that are similar to “the Allman Broth-ers and the Guess Who,” Currie told Rolling Stone. Although The Sheepdogs

draw from rock ‘n’ roll leg-ends for inspiration, when writing their songs, they still effectively put their own modern spin on their music, which is why their sounds are so authentic.

The Sheepdogs con-vey a distinct sound that separates them from the

pre-packaged, auto-tune-obsessed musicians that have seemed to flood the music industry within the past few years. The band is unquestionably spark-ing attention among the

music indus-try and has already played at festivals like Coachella, Bonnaroo, and SXSW.

All of the ‘70s rockers at heart that truly live for this kind of music (and of course are 21 and over) have no reason to think twice about seeing

The Sheepdogs live this Thursday.

Since Johnny Bren-da’s is a smaller venue, some lucky members of the crowd may even get a chance to meet the band. Who knows, they may be able to impress their friends in five years

by saying they met The Sheepdogs.

Currie tells fans on their website (thesheep-dogs.com), “We want to make killer albums that people really want to lis-ten to, but we also want to have a really reputable live show. When we come through town we want to be the hottest ticket there.”

There is something to be said about a band that makes music for the sole purpose of putting on an amazing live per-formance. The Sheepdogs certainly do not seem con-cerned with making it big for the sake of money or fame.

As far as the meaning behind their name, the band told Canadian news-paper, The Observer, that there really is no intricate story behind the nam-ing of the band. Gullen explained to the newspa-per, “We originally called ourselves The Breaks but found out about 10 other bands had that name. We

couldn’t decide. It was painstaking, so we just took a name that Leot used on his MySpace site.”

Since gaining such suc-cess in Canada, the group has signed with Atlantic Records. The band’s new album was produced by Pat Carney, drummer for the Black Keys.

There is no telling where The Sheepdogs will be in the years to come. They are bringing in a new sound to American clubs and radios. With bluesy lyrics and old-school rock ‘n’ roll riffs, the band will continue to draw fans, as long as they stay true to their musical roots.

Tickets for their show in Philadelphia can only be purchased from johnny-brendas.com and are just $18. The doors open at 8 p.m. and The Sheepdogs go on at 9:15 p.m.

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

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Wells Fargo Com-plex’s newest at-traction, Xfinity

Live! dining and enter-tainment district, hosted West Chester University students at its very first College Night held Thurs-day, Sept. 6.

Xfinity Live! represen-tatives invited West Ches-ter University students to join them at the center

of the sports arena to cel-ebrate the start of anoth-er school year alongside other college students in the greater Philadelphia area. Kelly Ratka, a West Chester undergraduate student of communica-tions and journalism, re-ceived an invitation from the Xfinity Live! market-ing team. She was asked to promote the event as a night dedicated to college students’ well-deserved fun.

Kelly Nicholas, director of the marketing depart-ment at Xfinity, informed Ratka that the night

would consist of drink price specials at the bar and transportation would be provided for students. For just $5 per person, a bus would pick up stu-dents from a convenient location on campus, and return them there at the end of the night.

“We were looking to target schools within an hour of the venue that we felt would have a high at-tendance rate,” Nicholas explained. She also ad-

mitted that it was a risky project; this would be the bar’s first night targeted specifically for college stu-dents.

“I didn’t know what ex-actly the event entailed,” Ratka recalled, “except that it was going to be a night devoted to college students, and that they wanted WCU to be a part of it.”

Using tactics taught by her professors, Ratka was able to notify students be-yond her personal social sphere about the event. West Chester Communi-cation Studies professor

Meghan L. Peirce had suggested that little effort is required with the use of social media, discussed in her Introduction to Social Media course.

“I made an ‘open to the public’ event on Face-book and sent it to all my friends from West Ches-ter,” says Ratka, “and it just expanded from there.” It turned out that the title of the event alone, College Night at Xfinity Live!, was sufficient to attract the in-

terest of over 100 students here on campus.

“We were completely dependent on our contact student from each school to promote the event for us,” Nicholas commented, “yet the Xfinity marketing team was held responsible for overall success of the night.”

Ratka hesitantly made a request for two buses to meet at the E.O. Bull center parking lot that night. “She was nervous that nobody was going to show up,” undergraduate student in communicative disorders, Ellie Salvitti,

said about her roommate. “It was just minutes be-fore the designated meet-ing time and there were only a handful of people there. When 9:30 rolled around, I looked up the hill towards Rosedale and saw a massive crowd of people all walking down.”

Both buses quickly filled as bouncers from Xfinity approved everyone to be at least 21 years of age, and the group of 90 total students departed.

Nicholas expressed her gratitude toward Ratka and the students of WCU not only for producing the highest attendance for any single school, but also for their sophisticat-ed behavior. “We sent a bus to Temple,” Nicholas moped, “and a majority of the people that showed up weren’t even 21!”

West Chester students paraded into the venue together to see smaller groups of people standing separate from one anoth-er. WCU students quickly dispersed throughout the venue, which consists of

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Since gaining such suc-cess in Canada, the group has signed with Atlantic Records. The band’s new album was produced by Pat Carney, drummer for the Black Keys.

There is no telling where The Sheepdogs will be in the years to come. They are bringing in a new sound to American clubs and radios. With bluesy lyrics and old-school rock ‘n’ roll riffs, the band will continue to draw fans, as long as they stay true to their musical roots.

Tickets for their show in Philadelphia can only be purchased from johnny-brendas.com and are just $18. The doors open at 8 p.m. and The Sheepdogs go on at 9:15 p.m.

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

six separate bars that are all interconnected. With-in minutes the previous scene of isolated groups was gone and students from all schools were in-termixed.

In the days following, students raved about what a great time they had. “I had a safe ride, went someplace new, and got to meet people from other schools!” exclaimed undergraduate student of communications, Alyssa LoCoco.

Even Julie Neerland, a recent transfer stu-dent from Millersville, agreed that it was nice to go somewhere outside of West Chester for a change of scenery. Rachel Lewuil-lis, a student who was un-able to attend due to her age, added, “I was hearing about it in all of my class-es the following day. I’m so jealous I couldn’t go!”

Xfinity team members have already made con-tact with Ratka about bringing West Chester out again soon. In fact, they had requested that she

bring people again the fol-lowing Thursday. Ratka refused the offer, but has every intention of going again.

“This was the first col-lege night they had, and Kelly had less than a week to get people togeth-er,” Olivia Murray, fifth-year nursing student, ex-plained. “But I think if we wait another few weeks, especially if people con-tinue talking about it, we will have an even larger turnout.”

As of yet, Ratka has not decided on a definite date for when she wants to set up this opportunity for her fellow classmates again. “There will definitely be another trip in October,” she promises, “and I will do my best to advertise more around campus so everyone gets a chance to participate!”

Kelly Ratka is a fourth-year student majoring in communication studies with a minor in journal-ism. She can be reached at KR676071@wcupa.edu.

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Upcoming EventsGiving it the old college try in ‘Liberal Arts’

Betsy SharkeyMcClatchy Newspapers

The movie “Liberal Arts” is a light and lively comedy of

manners about college, literature and a midlife crisis that hits earlier than expected.

The bookish group at the heart of this talky film—Josh Radnor, Eliza-beth Olsen, Richard Jen-kins, Zac Efron and Al-lison Janney—is having such a grand time trad-ing tart exchanges, their mood proves infectious. The sparring helps offset some of the contrivances that make “Liberal Arts” less buttoned-up than it should be, so an A for effort and a C for execu-tion.

Radnor, who also writes and directs, plays Jesse, a guy caught in a conun-drum. He’s a university admissions counselor in New York City, now 35, but not yet able to let go of a lingering nostalgia for his Midwest college days. That’s clear in the clever opening as he pitches the many virtues of a liberal arts education to some faceless student who doesn’t begin to share his enthusiasm.

But it does put Jesse in the right state of mind to accept an invitation to a retirement dinner for one of his favorite English professors, Peter Hoberg (Jenkins). While New York has been giving him a rough time—he’s just out of a relationship, a laundromat thief makes off with his clothes—Jes-se’s alma mater embraces him.

The occasion allows Jesse to give into, and re-flect on, all those old feel-ings—not of the frat-boy party type, but the cof-feehouse debates over fa-vorite authors. It becomes a crafty way to dissect the way in which nostal-gia can trump the harder truths of the past. When Jesse bumps into profes-sor Judith Fairfield (Jan-ney) and begins gushing about her class on the Ro-mantics, he barely merits an arched brow.

The film shifts from fond memories to a more thorny present when Jesse meets a fetching young student, Zibby (Ol-sen), who also loves the Romantics. There is an undeniable something between them. Just what that something is, or can become, remains uncer-

tain. Zibby is 19, and it has been 16 years since Jesse was that age.

Though Jesse returns to New York, he and Zib-by begin an old-fashioned correspondence—hand-written letters sent via U.S. mail. It’s a lot of lovely getting-to-know-you prose and an occa-sion for nice montages. After a time, she wants the gentleman to actually call and Jesse drives back to Ohio for a date (fear of flying being the excuse). So begins the conspiracy of events that will force Zibby and Jesse to think about growing up before getting together.

Since their flirtation is forcing the coming-of-age issues, there should be a visible attraction. But the filmmaker does a bet-ter job in drawing out the couple’s differences than igniting a spark. When they go back to Zibby’s dorm room to “make out,” it is priceless to watch Jesse’s discomfort as it dawns on him just how absurd the situation is.

Olsen continues to show that her breakthrough in “Martha Marcy May Mar-lene” was not a fluke. She has a gift for finding the right note for her char-acters, and she has made Zibby innocent enough and astute enough to be a compelling, complicating factor. Janney and Jen-kins never hit a false note.

This is Radnor’s sec-ond film and it relies on the same gentle humor to carry it that made 2010’s “Happythank-youmor-eplease” such a festival favorite. It is more of a nudge in the ribs than the biting style of humor that has come to dominate to-day’s comedies and makes for a nice change.www.aceshowbiz.com

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WCU dominates Holy Family for first win

The West Chester men’s soccer team finally found the

back of the net on Thurs-day as they thoroughly dominated Holy Family University in a 3-0 win at the South Campus fields.

After two games in which the Golden Rams failed to score despite controlling the run of play, they found the scor-ing touch on Thursday, putting three goals into the back of the net. And ironically, after having so much possession in these early-season contests, it was on a set piece that the team managed to score its first goal.

In the middle of the first half, West Chester was awarded a free kick on the edge of the Holy Family penalty area. While Holy Family tried to get its wall together, midfielder Neil Gallagher stepped up and buried the free kick past the Holy Family goalkeeper to give West Chester a 1-0 lead.

It was an unusual free kick goal, as West Ches-ter did not even wait for Holy Family to give them the customary 10 yards

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double West Chester’s ad-vantage.

“On Tommy’s goal, we had actually never prac-ticed that set piece be-fore,” Gallagher said. “It’s huge. We know we can win, and it hadn’t come the first two games. Now we don’t have to yell at each other anymore.”

Snyder, one of the se-nior veterans who an-chors the West Chester defense, scored the last goal to put the finishing touches on the win. The

game also saw Snyder and the rest of the de-fense post its first shutout of the season.

“It was definitely much better than it has been the last two games,” Gal-lagher said. “We kind of approached this game a little differently in our preparation. We typically take a more relaxed prac-tice the day before a game and this time we actu-ally had a more intensive practice. We’ll probably end up doing that from here on out, because, I mean, you can see it in the result- 3-0 after not

scoring a single goal in the first two games.”

Now that West Ches-ter is wrapping up the non-league part of its schedule, the team will begin play in the PSAC very soon. After a final non-league game against NYIT on Sunday that was too late for this issue, West Chester then plays Shippensburg in an away game on Wednesday, be-fore hosting Cal. Pa. on Saturday

Joey Samuel is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in political science and Spanish. He can be reached at JS719745@wcupa.edu.

Rams win three of four at RAM FestBy Joshua ShapiroSpecial to The Quad

After opening the 2012-13 season with a lengthy

string of 10 consecutive road games, the women’s volleyball team finally got the chance to play in front of the hometown crowd this weekend as West Chester hosted the third annual Ram Fest tourna-ment. Their win against U n i v e r s i t y of Sciences (25-23, 27-25, 25-23) last Tuesday left the girls with only two days to pre-pare for their first match of the tourna-ment against Philadelphia University on Friday.

However , an unmis-takable air of confidence was evident in their play this weekend as the team is really start-ing to click as a unit, win-ning three of four match-es. It seems the long road stretch to start the season proved to be the perfect opportunity to develop one of the most important ingredients in any win-ning formula: chemistry.

“It’s a good bonding experience. It gives the girls time to get to know each other off the court, which only helps them to work together better come game time,” Coach Bellaver explained. Come game time Friday, the Rams put on a show in Hollinger Fieldhouse, se-curing wins in both games played.

In the first match of the night, the team went toe-

to-toe with a well-rounded Philadelphia University club coached by Mark Magarity (184-77 since joining the team). After losing the first set (17-25), West Chester came alive, taking the next three sets (25-18, 25-23, 25-22) to grab the “W” in their first home match of the year. Outside hitter Lexi Keg-erise had an impressive performance, posting 11

kills, three service aces and 12 digs. Mary Faust and Mandy Flynn com-bined for 41 of the team’s 50 assists and junior li-bero Dana Markol con-tributed in a big way on defense with 16 digs.

The girls did not have much time to savor their first home victory, as their second match against Ohio Valley was under-way less than 20 min-utes later. OVU hoped to avenge a loss in their first engagement to Daemen, but the Rams had other ideas, cruising to a victory in three sets (25-10, 25-15, 25-20). Marina Sharkey had a season-high 12 kills along with two block as-sists for 13 points against

the Fighting Scots. Fresh-man setter Tori Hutchin-son also recorded a season best, setting up her team-mates with six assists in the game. The win would improve the team’s over-all record to 8-4 moving into the second day of the tournament.

Coach Bellaver was very pleased with the way the team has worked to-gether on the court this

preseason. She gives a lot of credit to the two senior captains, Lexi Kegerise and Kelly Martin, for helping the group come to-gether in such a short time. Bellaver expects the same out of every-one regardless of expe-rience.

“Class really doesn’t come into effect once they’re on the court. They’re just all vol-leyball players out there,” Bellaver said. The confidence the coach has in her play-ers definitely makes a positive impact on the team’s performance.

Saturday’s action marked the final day of the preseason for the Golden Rams with

an early start against the only other team still un-defeated in the tourna-ment, the Daemen Wild-cats. The Wildcats would put an abrupt end to West Chester’s four-game win-ning streak, needing only three sets to come out on top (25-20, 25-23, 25-16). The Rams did not let the loss prevent them from ending the tournament with an assertive 3-0 win (25-17, 25-16, 25-18) in the afternoon game over Holy Family, leaving them at 9-5 heading into conference. play next Fri-day.

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

Sept. 17 -men’s golf @ ARI 1 p.m. -women’s golf @ MCFC 10 a.m. Sept. 18 -men’s golf @ ARI 9 a.m.

Sept. 19 -men’s soccer @ Ship 5 p.m. -women’s soccer @ Ship 7:30 p.m. -field hockey v LIU-Post 4 p.m.

Cross country places fifth at D-II Challenge

WCU athletics schedule 9/17-9/23

By Kenny AyresSports Editor

Both the West Ches-ter University men’s and women’s

cross country teams fin-ished fifth in the DII Challenge in Kutztown on Saturday afternoon.

It was freshman run-ner Amanda Eisman and sophomore Zach Mussel-man who led their respec-tive teams in the annual competition.

Eisman, who finished fifth overall in the Lehigh Invitational, placed sec-ond overall Saturday and finished the course with a time of 22:58:00.

Musselman placed 10th overall on the men’s leg with a final time of 26:49:00, which was the fastest time for any Golden Rams runner in

the last nine years of the competition.

Other finishers for the men include No. 15 fin-isher Ed Brittingham at 27:11:00, Sean Sebeck 24th at 27:22:00, Jack Siegel 28th at 27:39:00, Curran Kneebone 34th at 27:57:00, James Vadas 38th at 28:12:00, and both Jack Barnett and Cody Borders finished with a time of 28:15:00.

West Chester’s 105-point finish was beat-en only by Lock Haven (38), East Stroudsburg (46), Wheeling Jesuit (78) and Kutztown (87).

For the women, Eis-man was the highest fin-isher, but the Rams also had Brittany Boyer place fairly high at 21st overall with a time of 24:46:00. To round out the women’s team, Mara Kelly finished

28th in 25:12:00, Leigh Manning-Smith in 32nd with a time of 25:21:00 and Megan Berberich fin-ished with a 25:37, which was good for 35th place.

The women’s team finished behind Blooms-burg, who won with 57 points, Kutztown (62), East Stroudsburg (74) and Wheeling Jesuit (75).

The women’s 117 points outplaced both Lock Ha-ven and Millersville, who were both picked higher than West Chester in the pre-season coaches poll.

The Lock Haven Invi-tational will be the next race for both teams, tak-ing place on Sept. 22 at 10 a.m.

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

Sept. 21-volleyball v PSAC East 4 p.m.

Sept. 22-m/w XC @ Lock Haven 10 a.m.-women’s soccer v Cal. noon-field hockey v MU 1 p.m.-women’s golf @ Clarion 1 p.m.-football @ Kutztown 1:05 p.m.-men’s soccer v Cal. 2:30 p.m.

Sept. 23-women’s golf @ Clarion 10 a.m.-men’s golf @ BEI 1 p.m.

Two West Chester players converge for the first of three blocks in the match.

Photo by Brynn Pezzuti

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with 16 to go. In 2007, they were seven back with 17 to go and still pulled past the Mets. Of course, any team ahead of them could heat up and beat them to it, but as of now, no other team has been even close to as hot.

The Phillies are 8-2 in their last 10 games. St. Louis and Los Angeles are 3-7 and Pittsburgh is 2-8. Those are the teams who are ahead of Philadelphia, and unless they can play over .500, it is going to be a close race until the final few games.

The schedules of the other contending teams, however, may be a cause for concern. The Cardinals will play nine of their final 15 games against the As-tros and Cubs—two teams that round out the bottom of the NL with a combined 103 wins and 186 losses this year. The Dodgers have a bit of a tougher time, playing the first-place Reds, Giants, and Nationals, but also have six against the Padres and Rockies. Pittsburgh, which seems to be falling fast from contention, will play Houston and the Mets in addition to the Braves, Reds, and Brewers. And the Brewers do play three contenders in the Reds, Nationals, and Pirates, but also play Houston and San Diego.

The Phillies, who are behind all of these teams, have the toughest remain-ing schedule. They play two three-game sets with Washington, one against the Braves, and also face the Mets and Marlins to round out the season. It is particularly daunting that, while they have the toughest remaining sched-ule of these four teams, St. Louis—who is leading the race—has the easiest.

But there is some good news: the Phillies are hot. They are playing like St. Louis did last year when

they blasted by the com-petition and snuck into the postseason on the last day. The offense has been getting timely hits and the starters have kept them in mostly every game. But it has been the bullpen, which was the weakest point almost all year long, that has stepped up of late. In the last week, the bull-pen has pitched a total of 19.2 innings and has given up a grand total of three earned runs. Two came from Phillippe Aumont, who otherwise has been spectacular, and the other from Jake Diekman. There is a reason they are still winning games when over the same span the starters have a 4.35 ERA, and they are the reason.

The other good news is that with the way the Phil-lies schedule works, Cole Hamels could be available to pitch a playoff game on full rest, should there be a tie. A playoff against St. Louis would be played in Philadelphia because the Phillies have won the sea-son series. The same holds true with Milwaukee.

Also, Tyler Cloyd, who struggled through his last outing, could feasibly pitch just two more times this year due to the way the off-days fall for the rest of the season. Not to say Cloyd has not been decent in his time in Philadelphia, but having established veter-ans like “Doc” Halladay, Cliff Lee, Hamels, and a resurgent Kyle Kendrick pitch down the stretch could be extremely benefi-cial.

Everything is coming together for this team, and the best part is nobody ex-pected this, so there is no pressure. Everyone is just happy they can watch com-petitive baseball again.

Who knows, with some hard work and a little luck they could go further than any of us might have thought.

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

Philliesfrom page 20WCU dominates Holy Family for first win

Sophomore midfielder John Gabel assisted on the last goal of WCU’s 3-0 win over Holy Family on Thursday.

By Joey SamuelAsst. Sports Editor

The West Chester men’s soccer team finally found the

back of the net on Thurs-day as they thoroughly dominated Holy Family University in a 3-0 win at the South Campus fields.

After two games in which the Golden Rams failed to score despite controlling the run of play, they found the scor-ing touch on Thursday, putting three goals into the back of the net. And ironically, after having so much possession in these early-season contests, it was on a set piece that the team managed to score its first goal.

In the middle of the first half, West Chester was awarded a free kick on the edge of the Holy Family penalty area. While Holy Family tried to get its wall together, midfielder Neil Gallagher stepped up and buried the free kick past the Holy Family goalkeeper to give West Chester a 1-0 lead.

It was an unusual free kick goal, as West Ches-ter did not even wait for Holy Family to give them the customary 10 yards

of space with which to take the shot. That space needs to be asked for by the players, and if it is not asked for, there is no need for the referee to blow his whistle. Therefore, Gal-lagher was allowed to step up and surprise Holy Family with a shot be-fore they were ready. And sure enough, the move worked, as it gave the Golden Rams their first goal in the 2012 season.

In the second half, West Chester doubled their lead, once again scoring off a free-kick play. After Conor Malarney drew a free kick on the edge of the box, Christian Benner took the kick and played a short pass instead of shooting. It went to de-fender Tommy Ryan, who curled a beautiful shot around the Holy Family goalkeeper and into the net to put West Chester up 2-0.

While Holy Family was the team trailing on the scoreboard, West Ches-ter seemed like the team more likely to score for the rest of the second half. With less than 10 minutes left, matters were made worse for Holy Family when striker Aiah Mbriwa was sent off, leaving the side with

only 10 men. Mbriwa had committed a harsh foul on a West Chester player, and he was given a yellow card for it. Then, he com-pounded things for him-self by shouting at the referee and was issued a second yellow, which re-sulted in a red-card ejec-tion.

Moments before the fi-nal whistle, John Gabel set up Brett Snyder with an excellent low cross that Snyder finished to give the Golden Rams a 3-0 lead. Holy Family was unable to respond, and the game ended as West Chester recorded its first win and first shutout of the season.

“It’s great to finally get a win,” said senior de-fender Taylor Eisenhau-er. “It’s what we needed. We have one more non-league game coming up, but we had to get a win before we start confer-ence play.”

While the win was a great result that the team needed, it was the way in which the Golden Rams won that truly impressed. West Chester not only had the majority of pos-session, but most of the “duels” and 50-50 tackles that were taking place kept going West Chester’s

way.“We’ve had lots of op-

portunities throughout the past three games,” said Eisenhauer. “It’s great to have things go our way. We had other opportunities that we should have put away but we finally put one in the back of the net, and any time you get a lead, it’s a lot easier to contain that.”

The first few minutes of the game made it seem as though West Chester’s Achilles heel of finishing was going to affect them once again, but Galla-gher’s perfectly executed free kick changed all that.

“It was one of those kind of quick trick plays in soc-cer where sometimes the goalie sets up before he realigns his team,” said Gallagher. “In soccer, you don’t have to wait for the whistle, so I just kind of took advantage of an op-portunity like that.”

To start the second half, Holy Family came out fairly strong and left fans wondering if West Chester was going to blow its only lead this season, but Tommy Ryan saw to that, scoring a marvelous goal off a free kick play to

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The men’s team huddles prior to Saturday’s match against Holy Family University.

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while leading the Rams to their 10th consecutive vic-tory over Millersville.

West Chester wasted no time in taking control of the game, scoring touch-downs on three of their four possessions in the first quarter. Their first drive consisted of only a minute and a half, cover-ing 73 yards as Mattei hooked up for his first of many touchdowns, this time with Tim Keyser on a 41-yard strike.

Later in the first quar-ter, Mattei led the Golden Rams on a nine-play, 90-yard drive highlighted by a 43-yard touchdown catch by Eric Brundidge with under five minutes remaining in the quarter. Following a three-and-out by the Marauders, West Chester started at Millers-ville’s 32-yard line fol-lowing a 26-yard punt return by Brandon Monk. From there, it took only three plays as Mattei hooked up again with Brundidge, this time on a 31-yard touchdown pass with just under two min-utes remaining in the opening quarter.

Millersville re-sponded with a touch-down of their own early in the second quarter to pull the score to 21-7, but two more touchdowns by the Rams silenced any hopes of a comeback. This time it took only one play for Mattei to show-case Millersville suspect secondary, completing a 69-yard touchdown pass to Brundidge, his third score of the game.

Following a punt by the visiting team, West Ches-ter methodically worked their way down the field, mixing Rondell White runs with Mattei passes, cap-ping off a ten-play, 86-yard drive with a Jim Kelly 18-yard touchdown reception, making the score 35-7 as the two teams headed into

ent and after this week-end, I think they finally believe in themselves. We have a very close team and we are always push-ing one another to com-pete at a higher level.”

The victory at the Hal Hansen Invitational pleased the team’s coach Harry Hammond.

“As their coach, nothing is better than an early win in any tournament we en-ter,” Hammond said. “All five players contributed to the win. Getting the first round lead with a two-un-der-par score for the four players was very impor-tant to the team.”

There is one factor that Hammond believes led to success:

“Good golf”, Hammond said. “The players have been working at practice on certain areas of the game that they have iden-tified in which they need to get better. They gain that information by track-ing their individual statis-tics from previous tourna-ments.”

The Golden Rams’ strong first day was al-most undone by a strong performance by Indiana University of Pennsylva-nia on day two.

“During the second round, the players were not playing as well as they know they can,” Ham-mond said. B”ut late in the round when asked to try to finish as low as possible, they responded, and when the final score was posted, I knew that it would take a team going very low to beat us.”

The team would like to take the momentum from this week’s victory and use it in the next tourna-ment. Hopefully, their confidence will go a long way.

“I’m super stoked about the win,” Lefever said. “It will give the team more confidence moving for-ward.

“The team was really pumped after the win this weekend,” Basehore said. “Especially since it’s the first time we have beaten IUP since last fall. They usually dominate the PSAC. With this vic-tory we believe we are one

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Women’s soccer remains undefeated despite tough early schedule

The West Chester women’s soccer team (6-0) has con-

tinued their dominance as they remained perfect through a tough week of opponents. By keep-ing their record unblem-ished thus far, the ladies have soared up the NCAA rankings from No. 22 all the way up to No. 12. Also, in doing so, they have a share of the lead in the PSAC standings with Edinboro (5-1), but the season is still early. Pre-season coaches’ poll favor-ite California University (3-1) is not far off either, so the Golden Rams had to keep up the good work to maintain their lead.

Last Saturday began their busy week by host-ing Wheeling Jesuit down at South Campus. The girls would not be denied as they out-shot the Car-dinals by a staggering 21-1 count. Senior Me-lissa McKeary struck first for the Rams late in the first half and they would never look back again. Second-half goals by Carly Yost and Sam Ed-dinger sealed the game as West Chester shut out the Cardinals by a 3-0 score. Goalkeeper Shannon Fe-dyk continued her fan-tastic play and the West Chester defense never let Wheeling Jesuit to keep the ball in their half of the field for long.

To make a significant impact come playoff

time, the Golden Rams would need to maintain their level of execution in conference play. West Chester next welcomed in Mansfield on Friday, hoping for results similar to their first few contests. Like usual, the Lady Rams struck first with a goal in the sixth minute by Marie D’Angelo, who also contributed with two assists as West Chester handled Mansfield, 4-0. The second half displayed the balance of the team as three different girls scored within a 12-minute span. By using their tal-ent, the ladies have been amazing in the second half of matches, outscor-ing their competition 12-0. Even corner kicks were controlled by the Rams as

they were awarded five to just one for Mansfield.

Due up next for the Lady Rams was a date with one of their stiffest competitors, Edinboro, which stars PSAC Wom-en’s Soccer Athlete of the Week Meghan Kelly. Kel-ly, only a sophomore, has helped her team have the greatest start Edinboro has ever recorded with 4-0-0 mark. Even with that, West Chester came into Saturday refusing to take no for an answer. Both teams realized from the get-go that scoring would be at a premium as each team sported great defenses entering this match. Cara Deola would finally break through with an 85th-minute goal past Kelly to continue

their six-game unbeaten streak. Kelly would stop five of the six shots sent her way and West Ches-ter’s Fedyk would also be credited with two saves of her own.

To understand why West Chester has been such a powerhouse, credit should be given to their coach, Betty Ann Kempf Townsley. Entering into her fifth season as the Golden Rams head coach, she held an impressive overall record of 67-7-10 and has been nationally ranked as high No. 2 two different times. With ex-perience at Division I Se-ton Hall in the Big East Conference, her presence here has continued West Chester’s superior legacy in women’s soccer. Deal-

By Taylor MarenSpecial to The Quad

step closer to reaching our number one goal, playing in the national tourna-ment.”

Coach Hammond un-derstands just how impor-tant a great season start could be for the team.

“Every tournament we play in is reported to a company called Golf Stat,” Hammond said. “They track our record against all of the schools that we play against in our region and, come next spring, if we finish in the top 10 in the region, West Chester will receive an invitation to the NCAA Regional tournament.”

Before getting into the National Champion-ship, the Golden Rams will compete in the PSAC Championship in October.

“Our team has the po-tential to win every tour-nament in the PSAC,” Lefever said. “It would be awesome if we could win the championship for our team, university, Griff, and Coach Hammond.”

Justin Park is a fourth-year stu-dent majoring in communication studies with a psychology minor . He can be reached at JP727711@wcupa.edu.

ing with under-18 Olym-pic girls teams in Penn-sylvania, she has proved time and time again that she has the knowledge and guidance to lead these girls to where they want to go.

West Chester now must travel out to Shippens-burg to face the Raid-ers on Wednesday for a 7:30 p.m. start time. The Raiders have been up and down so far, so West Chester has a chance to continue to build their lead as they dive deeper into conference play. Af-ter Shippensburg, anoth-er major test arrives as the Lady Rams host Cali-fornia University on Sept. 22 at noon.

Taylor Maren can be reached at TM741168@wcupa.edu.

Senior forward Melissa McKeary dribbles the ball downfield against Wheeling Jesuit. She captured the Rams’ first goal of the game around the 37- minute mark.

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while leading the Rams to their 10th consecutive vic-tory over Millersville.

West Chester wasted no time in taking control of the game, scoring touch-downs on three of their four possessions in the first quarter. Their first drive consisted of only a minute and a half, cover-ing 73 yards as Mattei hooked up for his first of many touchdowns, this time with Tim Keyser on a 41-yard strike.

Later in the first quar-ter, Mattei led the Golden Rams on a nine-play, 90-yard drive highlighted by a 43-yard touchdown catch by Eric Brundidge with under five minutes remaining in the quarter. Following a three-and-out by the Marauders, West Chester started at Millers-ville’s 32-yard line fol-lowing a 26-yard punt return by Brandon Monk. From there, it took only three plays as Mattei hooked up again with Brundidge, this time on a 31-yard touchdown pass with just under two min-utes remaining in the opening quarter.

Millersville re-sponded with a touch-down of their own early in the second quarter to pull the score to 21-7, but two more touchdowns by the Rams silenced any hopes of a comeback. This time it took only one play for Mattei to show-case Millersville suspect secondary, completing a 69-yard touchdown pass to Brundidge, his third score of the game.

Following a punt by the visiting team, West Ches-ter methodically worked their way down the field, mixing Rondell White runs with Mattei passes, cap-ping off a ten-play, 86-yard drive with a Jim Kelly 18-yard touchdown reception, making the score 35-7 as the two teams headed into

the locker rooms.West Chester came out

in the second half and re-mained focused even after a 97-yard kickoff return by Millersville led to a quick touchdown for the visitors. The following possession saw West Chester take four and a half minutes, going 71 yards in eight plays, concluding with a trick play in which receiv-er Kelly completed a 24-yard pass to Sean Beahan for the touchdown.

The Golden Rams were not going to ease up on the gas as the very next time they got the ball back, it was all about the Mattei to Kelly combination. Two consecutive times they found each other, the first for 47 yards and the sec-ond for 11, giving Mattei his sixth and final touch-down pass of the day.

The eighth and final touchdown for the Golden

Rams came via special teams. Dante Devine forced a fumble by Mill-ersville punter Jeff Law-son after an errant snap. Mike Lonergan recovered the fumble and returned it 22 yards for the score pushing the tally to 56-14 with about five-and-a-half minutes remaining in the third quarter. And that is how it would end as nei-ther team could capitalize on red-zone opportunities in the fourth.

Mattei put together four complete quarters on

Saturday, accumulating stats that included fewer incompletions than touch-down passes. He went an efficient 16 for 20 for 358 yards and, of course, the six touchdowns. While the workload was shared among the running backs, especially once the game was out of reach, White did get most of the carries. While he did not manage to find his way into the end zone, he did manage 131 yards on 24 carries for an average of 5.5 yards per carry.

Six different receivers made a reception Satur-day night, but three really stood out for the Golden Rams. Track star Brun-didge had a career day as he caught five passes for 156 yards and three scores. Kelly caught four balls for 95 yards and two touchdowns, while Beahan had five grabs for 88 yards

and a score.On defense, the

Rams used a collective effort and a ball-hawk-ing mentality to shut down Millersville’s offense. Ten different players contributed to the two sacks made by the defense Satur-day night. Sophomore linebackers Mike Cul-breath and Ronell Wil-liams led the way pil-ing up nine and seven tackles respectively. Williams also had a pass break up, and junior defensive back Shawn Krautzel came up with the lone inter-

ception to go along with his six tackles.

Next up for the Golden Rams is a trip to PSAC East contender Kutztown (1-2) for a 1 p.m. show-down. This will be a great test for the Golden Rams if they are to compete at the top of the PSAC East this season, as Kutztown was the preseason favorite to win the PSAC East.

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

Footballfrom page 20

Despite trailing 1-0 for the duration of the first half, the Rams fought back early in the second half when Kayla Gluchowski scored off of an assist from teammate Michele Schrift. Gluchowski’s third goal of the season notched the game up at 1-1.

Megan Callanan scored the game-winning goal on a pass from Gluchowski in the 51st minute, putting the Rams in a position to keep the Huskies down.

The shot totals favored the Golden Rams 17-15, a change of pace from the game before where they were outshot 20-9.

Kristin Arnold per-formed spectacularly in net, saving eight shots.

The game ended with a score of 2-1, giving West Chester an important vic-tory in conference play, and the upper hand early in the season over Blooms-

burg. Looking to continue

their success, the Rams welcomed the Indiana University of Pennsylva-nia Crimson Hawks to town last Friday.

The Rams wasted no time and jumped out to an early lead over the Hawks when Kelsi Lykens knocked home the first goal of the game in the first minute of the game. Michele Schrift added one of her own before half time, giving the Rams a 2-0 lead.

The lead quickly evapo-rated as IUP fought back to tie the game 2-2 with less than five minutes to play.

The Rams remained calm as they charged down the field with just under three minutes to play. Freshman Alexis Versak received a great pass from teammate Stef Pirri and was able to punch in the game-winning goal, giving the Rams a 3-2 advantage.

The goal capped off a

wild last 10 minutes of the game, where two goals were scored and two cards were given out.

Arnold finished the game with seven saves, continuing her dominance in goal.

Wrapping up a tough week of games, the Gold-en Rams welcomed PSAC rival Seton Hill into town Saturday afternoon. The Rams were all over the visitors as they defeated the Griffins an outstand-ing 6-0.

This capped off a suc-cessful 3-1 week, giv-ing them their third straight win and remain-ing undefeated at home. Gluchowski, Cheek, and Schrift each recorded a goal and an assist, power-ing the Rams to victory.

The Rams will face LIU-post and Millersville this week as they attempt to stay undefeated on their home field.

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

Field hockeyfrom page 20

Rams win Hal Hanson InvitationalBy Justin Park

Staff Writer

The West Chester University men’s golf team won the

Hal Hansen Invitational on Monday at the Clari-on Oaks Golf Club. The Golden Rams shot a team score of 585, their lowest two-day score since their performance in the Mercy-hurst Invitational in 2010. The tournament win was the team’s first since win-ning the Dr. Ed Cottrell Invitational in 2011.

As per usual, the tour-nament required the counting of the team’s four lowest scores per day. On Sunday, Ryan Fogel led the field with a career-low 69. This score was combined with Con-nor Lefever’s 71, Austin Mann’s 72, and Eric Slaw-ter’s 74, giving the Golden

Rams a 286 score through the first 18 holes.

On day two of the tour-nament, Griffith Basehore led the way with a round-two low score of 73 and the Golden Rams were able to edge out Indiana University, who finished as the runner-up with a score of 588.

The Golden Rams’ abil-ity to hang on to an early lead may have been an unfamiliar strategy, but surely one they would like to repeat.

“The first day really gave us an edge,” Griffith Basehore said. “We are usually the comeback kids. However, this sea-son I believe we will have more consistent scoring the first day.”

Co-captains Connor Lefever and Griffith Base-hore understand that they are part of a young team and were very impressed

with the Golden Rams’ performance.

“The key turning point was Ryan Fogel firing a three under par, 69 [on Sunday],” Connor Lefever said. “He is a sophomore and the least experienced player on our starting lineup. If it wasn’t for his great first round, we would have finished sec-ond behind IUP.”

The golfers felt they had the ability to win with such a young team, and are thrilled to finally be able to prove it.

“We always tell our-selves we can win if we all go out there and play consistent, and we finally did,” Lefever said.

“We have a very young team, with three sopho-mores in the starting five,” Basehore said. “However, we knew they had the tal-

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Quarterback Mike Mattei hands off to Rondell White, who had 131 yards rushing.

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West Chester rebounded from a loss to Shippensburg to take three straight games, including a dominating 6-0 shutout of Seton Hill on Saturday.

Golden Rams trample PSAC rival Marauders 56-14By Riley Wallace

Staff Writer

West Chester (2-1) cruised to victory Saturday night,

led by senior quarterback Matt Mattei, whose six touchdown passes tied a school record and allowed the Rams to cruise to the 56-14 thumping of Millers-ville.

Millersville (1-2), who

Sept. 15 has passed and the NHL has locked out its players after failing to reach a new Col-lective Bargaining Agreement with the NHLPA. Teams are already sending some of their eligible players to their AHL affiliates, such as the Flyers who have already assigned rising stars Brayden Schenn and Sean Couturier to the Adirondack Phantoms along with several others.

Just over a week and a half ago, it looked like there was no pos-

sibility that the Phillies could make the playoffs. At 65-71, they were nine games back for the second wild card spot with five teams—St. Louis, Pitts-burgh, Los Angeles, Ari-zona and Milwaukee—in front of them. That day, Sept. 4, coolstandings.com gave them a 0.1 per-cent chance at making the playoffs.

In the last week and a half, things have changed dramatically.

As of Sept. 15, the Phil-lies are listed at having a five percent chance at making the playoffs. That might sound slim, but let’s put things into perspec-tive. Last year, on Sept. 1, the St. Louis Cardinals had less than a two per-cent chance at reaching the postseason. Not only did they reach it, they won the World Series. The only team they had to beat was Atlanta. The Phillies have three more teams to pull ahead of, yet their chances are still statistically bet-ter.

It may be unlikely, but it is certainly not impossible. With every passing win, it looks all the more realistic. They are three games back

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Phils playoff push possible

with recent hot streak

Field hockey wins three straight after loss to Ship

The Golden Rams dropped their sec-ond game of the

season Sept. 8 to the Ship-pensburg Red Raiders 3-0, but then bounced back to take the next three con-tests.

In the Shippensburg game, Taylor Bender started the scoring late in the first half, giving the Raiders the lead head-ing into the locker room. Soon thereafter, only min-utes into the second half, Bender added another goal, followed by one from teammate Bre White, ex-tending the lead to 3-0. The Golden Rams strug-gled to recover from the Raiders offensive streak, and the game ended 3-0.

Shippensburg outshot the Golden Rams an out-standing 20-9. Carly Buckwalter and Kelsi Lykens each contributed three shots for the Rams, but no one was able to

convert. West Chester goalie

Kristin Arnold recorded seven saves, while Raid-ers goalie was credited with three.

After the upset, the Golden Rams returned to the field where they won the National Champion-ship not even a year ago. The girls were determined to bounce back after los-ing to Shippensburg the day before, and it was evi-dent as they won 2-1.

“Going into the Bloom game, we tried a new de-fensive formation, as well as a few players in dif-ferent positions. A lot of people played better than they ever did before in that game and it showed on the scoreboard. I can’t explain how proud I am of my team and that we were able to go into that game with our heads held high, knowing we weren’t walk-ing away with another loss,” Gluchowski said.

was coming off a 45-7 de-feat by Mercyhurst at home last weekend, did not fare any better on Family Weekend as the Golden Rams racked up 655 total yards against the Marauders in front of 5,451 fans, most of whom were wearing purple or gold at a packed John Far-rell Stadium. This was the most yards West Ches-ter had recorded in the

teams’ 80-year history and the fourth most overall in school history.

While the offense show-cased their superiority Saturday night, the de-fense stifled the Maraud-ers all night as they were forced into five three-and-outs. Millersville had only one drive of over 10 plays and that was their last of the game, of which the outcome had been decided

long before then. The Ma-rauders, who were picked to finish seventh in the ultra-competitive PSAC East, failed to find any rhythm offensively accu-mulating a rather hapless 233 yards.

Saturday night, Mattei showcased the expertise of the starter he was in 2010, not the backup go-ing into this season, as he connected over and over

again with a variety of receivers. When the few times arose in which no re-ceiver was open, he pulled it down and took what the defense gave him, piling up 38 rushing yards. For the second straight week under center, Mattei took care of the ball, failing to throw an interception,

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