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Public Safety officers see drug trends on campus

SGA aims for drug-free student activities

Public Safety officers are seeing new and old drug trends reappearing on West Chester University campus.

“I have a zero tolerance for drugs,” Sgt. Matthew Paris said, a criminal investigator of Public Safety Police Department. As long as a drug is illegal, Paris said he will keep enforcing the law. He said he will continue doing his job of confiscating drugs on campus as well as making arrests of drug dealers and persons in possession of an illegal drug.

“Every August is like a reset button,” Paris said.

Every year new students arrive to campus, not realizing the boundaries; these new students contribute to arrests being higher in the beginning of the school year.

Occassionally, students moving out of their residence halls on move-in day in August as they got caught in possession of drugs or of using drugs. Paris said every year about five or six students will withdraw from the University after being arrested for intent to deliver.

Students who were removed

from the University grounds for a drug arrest are told not to return to the campus. If they do return, they will be arrested for criminal trespassing. For this reason, Paris said only a few students are repeat offenders of drug possession as students are removed from campus grounds without being allowed to return.

WCU is “a learning environ-ment” in which students who are arrested for taking part in illegal drug activities will “throw it all away for something stupid.”

One year, Paris arrested a first-year student for selling drugs to a minor. Such drug charges will obstruct college students from obtaining the degree they want and from “getting the career job you want” with a criminal record.

“Every year is like a roller-coaster,” Paris said, as there are always new incoming students. Most students think they won’t get caught for drug possession, dealing or underage drinking. In the few months of the school year, the number of arrests and citations is higher than the number at the end of the academic year.

Every semester, about 30

pipes and five bongs are confis-cated. Confiscated for evidence, one bong has a picture of President Obama on the front. Paris said the police have con-fiscated all sizes of bongs and all colors of pipes.

The plain smell of burnt marijuana is probable cause that an illegal drug is being used. Neighbors typically call Public Safety [610-436-3311] to report an odor smell of marijuana use.

First year students are “not aware of what we [as Public Safety officers] do here,” Paris said. New students repeat the trends the officers see on campus. During freshman ori-entation, Public Safety officers speak to students about patrol-ling the campus and discuss that Piper is the K-9 unit on campus.

In residence halls, people watch the K- 9 unit take action, or see Public Safety officers patrolling the buildings. Students see this as they begin to understand that the officers are protecting them as the public. When police are being reactive to a situation, it is possible that seeing people in handcuffs may deter others

from violating University policies or state laws.

According to Paris, drug investigations are a “50 / 50” percentage of proactive and reactive. Police are on foot patrol on south campus and the residential quad.

At the Village and South Campus Apartments, students commit a fire hazard by duck taping their door as an effort to block the smell of marijuana. Students may place cups on smoke detectors, another fire hazard. These fire hazards and attempt to conceal the odor of

the drug gives police enough probable cause to enter the apartment.

“It’s all about how you talk to people,” Paris said. “Usually we get more consent [to search] that way.”

About 85 percent of people give their consent to the police to search their rooms after being suspected or seen violating a drug law. The others demand a search warrant. Paris said it’s like playing a game and police officers are good at their

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Student Government Association [SGA] wants to encourage students to attend programs they think will deter underage drinking and drug use on campus.

“People don’t realize that there’s a drug problem until it’s in their face,” Jason McKairnes, a fourth-year SGA senator said.

McKairnes noticed an increase in drug usage in the fall 2010 semester compared to the year before, which was mostly due to alcohol-related incidents. McKairnes is concerned as the “affects of drugs” could likely be “worse than” alcohol affects.

Bicking and McKairnes analyze the annual crime report at the beginning of every

semester for increases and decreases.

“Once I did a ride-along and saw it happening,” McKairnes said, “This was something that I wanted to address and fix.”

SGA hosts events such as “Sykes After Dark” on Friday nights from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in hopes that a drug free and non-alcoholic activity will keep students from getting into trouble. SGA thinks that “programs like this help” as it “gives students something to do” on a Friday night. While they recognize students will still choose to drink underage, they hope the programs will “drop the problem” to a degree.

“It doesn’t hit people until Public Safety is knocking at their doors,” McKairnes said. “It breaks my heart to see an 18- year-old in handcuffs.”

First-year students may not “understand the consequences” such as “losing scholarships” for underage drinking or having a drug-related charge.

Originally doing one ride along a month since 2010, McKairnes is now doing two ride alongs a month after he noticed an increase in drug arrests. Riding along on a Friday night, McKairnes notes “who the students are that are being arrested,” as a note of which students are partaking in drugs and alcohol.

SGA is working with Public Safety officers to question the reason why students are drinking and “instead of cooper-ating with the [drug] problem” they are trying to “counter act”

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job. Finding drugs on campus is

also in part due to having trained new police officers, security guards and Reslife staff members. Training included informing staff members of what to look for and which questions to ask students. In training, Paris said discus-sion included drug trends and paraphernalia such as grinders, whip it crackers, digital scales, pipes, bongs, needles, and how drugs gets packaged in baggies. Police can seize anything people use to store drugs in. Vehicles have been “forfeited” as people transported drugs in their car with the intent to deliver.

College students use pre-scription drugs to stay up studying. Paris said prescrip-tion drugs are a nationwide trend on university campuses. Piper can detect adderall. Students who are illegally in possession of the drug are removed from the University.

Other pharmaceutical drugs found on campus include oxycontin, oxycondone, percocet and suboxone [N8].

PCP was “big” two years ago. Cocaine, m e t h a m p h e t -amine and ecstasy are coming back to WCU campus. Beginning in the fall 2010 semester, WCU college students have began using morphine to get high. Paris said people usually crush the pills to bypass the safety features of the drug in order to get high faster.

People are ripping off labels on medicine bottles; this is considered possession of drugs. Other people are putting their prescription drugs in baggies, which is also illegal. Pharmaceutical drugs have become a trend on college campuses as they are “easy to conceal” and “easy to get a hold of” when taking them from home.

“Once we see something [illegal],” Paris said, “We charge them.”

“Needing a correlation” Paris understands who is using personal marijuana verse dealing. People arrested for

possession of an illegal substance can give up the dealer, Paris said. The district attorney would determine a deal in exchange for informa-tion.

Dealers take the money in exchange for marijuana in little baggies. Anyone arrested with the intent to deliver will have to forfeit any property that can be proved to have been used in setting up a drug deal. Arrestees may have their cell phones con-fiscated as evidence of making a drug deal. The cell phone is forfeited to the police depart-ment and later donated.

In other cases involving alcohol, students have tried putting vodka in water bottles. Paris recalls stopping students to ask what was in their water bottles. After having consent to smell the liquid, it was deemed to contain alcohol.

“The more knowledge you have, the more you pick up,” Paris said. Public Safety police officers and security guards patrol the residence halls on north campus. When Public Safety is “out and about” they “come across more [investiga-tions] frequently.” In residence halls, Public Safety officers have a chance to interact with

students. Policing is about being

proactive and reactive. Community policing allows for Public Safety officers to do so. These officers find trends on campus. Paris said it’s possible that “college kids set the trends.”

A new drug trend that college kids brought to campus is suboxone. Also known as N8, a drug that is claimed to be adhesive. Public Safety officers came across N8 and shared information about the drug with the High Intensity Drug

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www.uk.ibtimes.comThe Drug Enforcement Agency [DEA] is working to ban Salvia, legal marijuana. Public Safety officers have seen Salvia three or for times this year, compared to only one case last year. Officers will confis-cate Salvia as Paris said it is a “legal substance used for illegal purposes” and then destroy the substance.

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College students have made blow tubes to smoke marijuana, as they attempt to hide the odor. Fabric softener is used on one end. Police can still detect the odor when people exhale.

Trafficking Area [HIDTA]. Along with trying to elimate

drug trafficking, HIDTA aims to “reduce or eliminate the pro-duction, manufacture,

t ransportat ion , distribution and chronic use of illegal drugs and money launder-ing.” [www.whitehousedrug-policy.gov]

HIDTA sees pounds of marijuana and handheld pipes while the campus police see blow tubes and other devices people make in order to smoke marijuana.

“Some of the stuff we come across, they’ve never seen before,” Paris said.

Blow tubes are made from an empty toilet paper

roll and fabric softener tied to one end. Paris said that marijuana still has an odor when people exhale. Fabric softener is used to hide the odor of the drug, however Paris and Piper can still detect the odor.

Public Safety officers under-stand that trends change on campus, and they train police officers, RAs [resident assis-tants] and RDs [resident directors] to be better adapted to situations they encounter involving drugs.

One change in trends is the

location of drug use. Paris describes finding the location that college students use as a spot to use drugs as a “cat and

mouse chase.” Some students smoke in their rooms, allowing officers to detect the odor.

At south campus, students leave their blinds open and illegal activities can be seen through the windows. Paris has seen students sitting in their living rooms in their south campus apartments, smoking from a pipe or bong. Others smoke in parking lots at south campus, or parks, some drive

around and smoke. Paris said smokers call the park off of New Street, “little Jamaica.” Paris said after a while, students will

decide to go off campus to smoke marijuana.

Officers look for, in plain sight, anything illegal or anything that violates the univer-sity code of conduct. In previous cases, cigar shavings and “dime bags” may be viewed in plain sight of a trash can.

“We’re pretty thorough in our invest igat ions , ” Paris said. “We don’t leave any rock unturned.”

Paris began as a part time police officer for Public Safety in 1998. In 2003 he become involved in drug investigations on WCU campus. In 2007, after discuss-ing with the president of the

university, to have a drug dog, Paris got approval. Paris was given Piper, the K-9 unit, in August of 2007. Paris is on call 24/7, taking any investigation involving drugs.

“I like it here [at WCU],” Paris said, “We see new trends.”

Ginger Rae Dunbar is a fourth-year student majoring in English with a minor in journalism. She can be reached at RD655287@wcupa.edu.

the problem. McKairnes questions “why

are these dealers on campus?” in the first place.

“I hope we can decrease the problem,” McKairnes said. SGA would like to have programs that deter students from underage drinking. The problem is usually with first-year students that “don’t know the boundar-ies” at the university.

From the student aspect, McKairnes finds it “amazing to see why people would be risking” their education and careers to drink. For the senate seat of the Department of Public Safety, McKairnes finds ride alongs with police to be “beneficial” as he reports back an “eye opening” experience to SGA.

“It hits you that students shouldn’t be doing this. They’re not here to drink or smoke,” McKairnes said. “I think it takes away from the college experience.”

First-year students attend

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orientation includes a program to educate students of how Public Safety officers operate. Students learn of Sgt. Paris and his K-9 unit, Piper.

McKairnes thinks it is up to other students to set an example. Students may “under-stand the consequence” of drug or alcohol charges, but they don’t understand the “affects or dangers” of drugs and alcohol.

“The key thing is having

students teach other students,” McKairnes said.

By passing the knowledge, student influence will be more effective. McKairnes is working on a peer program that involves

upperclassmen talking to first-year students about decisions they make involving drugs and alcohol. McKairnes is trying to get this program to be official before he graduates. McKairnes’s last term on the senate ended this past fall semester.

Fraternities and sororities and athletic teams can be the “positive face of the campus” McKairnes thinks, especially as

such organizations have a “sense of b e l o n g i n g . ” Having a peer to look up to is the “mindset the campus would need” in order to have a better influence on students.

“Students as a whole . . . could make friends who are not involved in [illegal activi-t i e s ] , ” McKairnes said.

S t u d e n t s have a “sense of

freedom” that can “mentally hurt” themselves through college, “even if they don’t get caught” underage drinking or using drugs. Students need a “positive

outlook” on their campus as “it’s what students can do for them-selves.”

Students that live on south campus have “more freedom” as people are still choosing to “smoke or drink.” The drug arrests on campus “could be linked to influence” or freedom of first-year students, however there is “no definite answer why it’s increasing.”

The Department of Public Safety has added four patrols

this year. The increase in the number of officers on patrol accounts for the increase in arrests or citations.

McKairnes said a Friday

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www.facebook.comSGA will continue Friday night events such as Sykes After Dark, in order to have a free event for students to partake in.

night ride along is also an opportunity for him to “keep tabs on the police themselves.” This includes any filed “com-plaints against police officers.”

SGA “faces all of the problems” of the university that “affects all the students.” SGA is willing to “join up” to decrease students from underage drinking and drug use.

The SGA senator on the Department of Public Safety must have an “understanding

of the burdens of the students and policies” of the uni-versity. They must also want for students to obtain their education.

M c K a i r n e s ’ replacement on the senate will have many “responsibil-ities” to maintain.

“I wouldn’t want to see students failing out [of college] because of alcohol/ drugs,” said McKairnes. “Even if I wasn’t on the senate.”

Ginger Rae Dunbar is a fourth-year student majoring in English with a minor in journalism. She can be reached at RD655287@wcupa.edu.

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OPINION

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Hello there everyone, and welcome back to campus!

We’ve already felt the effects of winter this semester - in the first week of classes, nearly every day has experienced some sort of delay. With even more wintry weeks ahead, I have to wonder if the weather will hold any more cancel-lations.

That being said, I feel as though the semester was also leery of coming off of winter break, and procrastinated itself with a little help from Mother Nature. I’m certainly also feeling a bit of academic drowsiness, as I try to get back into the scholarly mindset as classes begin and homework starts to flow.

However, all of us at The Quad have been working to bring you a new and improved publication for our 100th issue - Spring 2011. With this change, as you can see from the paper you’re holding or our on-line viewer, we’ve changed to a squarish shape, and have modified our front page to hold more of a general over-view of the weekly issue, as opposed to being the first page of our news section.

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With this new format, our staff has also been brainstorming several new ideas. Our new Features Editor, Angela Thomas, will be starting a sort of “Teacher Feature,” highlighting professors nominated by their students. In February, we also hope to have a Valentine’s note corner for students to publish small messages to friends and loved ones (for our Feb. 14 issue).

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Being aware of surroundings

Ginger Rae DunbarNews Editor

It’s great advice to tell someone to be aware of their surroundings, especially when they are going to a place where there will be alcohol served and people they don’t know. Yet the advice can only be taken well if you know how to actually be aware of what’s going on around you and what could be going on in the night. This includes whether or not you’re drinking any alcohol.

Write down your best friend’s name on a piece of paper and fold it in half; I remember doing this during my new member process of joining a sorority. I wrote down my best friend’s name, a girl that I’ve been friends with since I met her in third grade. I folded the sheet of paper and waited to find out why we were doing this.

During this part of the new member process, we were talking about risk management and behaviors. Some scenarios included alcohol being present, while others did not.

The sister told us to imagine we were at a party where alcohol was available and that our best friend had come with us. She told us the story as: your best friend hasn’t been to many college parties, and tonight she’s had a lot to drink. You never tell her to stop drinking. Later that night, another friend tells you they saw her hit her head and that she has a headache. You ask her if she wants to leave, but she insists on staying. You keep an eye on her, but you start to think she’s fine once you see her get another drink.

You’re ready to go home, and she stays at the party with a few of your friends. The next day your friends tell you she passed out on the couch and they left her to sleep it off. As you go to find your friend at the place of the party, you see the police outside the house, taping off the perimeter with crime scene tape. Someone standing by you in the crowd tells you that someone died of alcohol poisoning.

This story is similar to what happened to Sam Spady, a college student. My sorority sister told us to open our folded papers and said what if this happened to your friend? I couldn’t even begin to imagine what it would be like to lose a close friend of mine like that, especially to lose someone to

something that could have been prevented. I was a sophomore in college when we did this activity and heard about the death of a college student. Now, in my senior year, I think far back to the name that I wrote down on that paper, someone who is still my very best friend. I have so many plans with my friend, a girl who is planning out her wedding for next year. Life would be so different without her.

After discussing how it could have happened to anyone of us or one of our friends, we watched a video on Spady and her alcohol-related death. I would hear her story again at a Greek life event. At this event, in a room full of new Greek members, I once again heard of Spady’s story. This time when I heard the story, it explained how many people were involved or interacted with Spady the night she died. It would have taken one person to help save her life, a life she lost at 19.

Being aware of your sur-roundings should allow you to be more conscious of the strangers around you. For starters, you should realize that if you are drinking an alcoholic beverage, then you’re impairing your judgments, meaning you’re impairing your understanding of your surroundings.

Your surroundings are not limited to the area you are in, or the people you are with. Spady had a concussion and a high BAC (blood alcohol content). She wasn’t turning blue, nor did she have clammy hands. She was passing out, and it’s possible that someone tried to wake her, but was unsuccessful. These are a few factors that could show signs of alcohol poisoning. Signs of alcohol poisoning are not always bound to be the textbook signs.

If one person had taken her to the hospital, or called an ambulance, her life could have been saved.

The group of friends you go out with, and the people you choose to allow into your social life, can ultimately decide a level of safety in a time of crisis. You can still go out and have fun with or without drinking, as long as you are making sure you or your friends are not drinking too much. They should do the same for you.

Ginger Rae Dunbar is a student at West Chester University majoring in English with a minor in journalism. She can be reached at RD655287@wcupa.edu.

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For some students, January 17th was just an ordinary day: a day to mentally prepare for the start of classes. Other students considered it a day to purchase the textbooks they needed, to explore the campus, and to move into and get settled into their residence. Most enjoyed that extra day in order to gather our thoughts and m a t e r i a l s , b u t why did we have it off? What was the purpose?

January 17 is a United States federal holiday known as “Martin Luther King” day. The holiday is held every year on the third Monday of January to celebrate and honor the achievements of the most famous and successful civil rights leader of our time, Martin Luther King.

Martin Luther King Jr. was

a pastor at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. King was one of the biggest and most brave civil rights leaders of his time. King was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored

People, where he held an executive position. Martin Luther King’s mission in life was to end the segregation between all people. He is most famous for his “I have a

dream…” speech that was given during his peace march in Washington, D.C. He was also famous for his non-violent protests, often using boycotts as a way to protest the inequal-ity that was segregation.

He was once arrested for leading a bus boycott that lasted for approximately 380 days, which was to protest against the seg-regations of whites and blacks of the buses. It was after this boycott that the United States Supreme court announced that the segrega-tion of whites and blacks was going against the constitution. King also won the Nobel Peace Prize at the young age of 35, making him one

of the youngest people to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Martin Luther King was assas-sinated on April 4, 1968 while standing outside of his motel room in Memphis. The

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following day, he was supposed to have leaded a protest for mistreated garbage workers who were currently on strike.

How did a holiday dedicated to one of the most inspirational leaders in our world come to be? On Nov. 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill, declaring Martin Luther King Day as a federal holiday. It was not an easy road to pass the bill promoting a holiday for Martin Luther King. The man respon-sible for helping with the holiday was Congressman John Conyers.

John Conyers brought forth the idea of Martin Luther King Day in the early seventies but it was not until the early eighties that the holiday was actually being considered and even then, the House of Representatives argued that the holiday would be too expensive because of the loss of productivity. The bill was finally passed and on Jan. 20, 1986, after years of struggling to get the bill passed,The United States of America finally celebrated its first Martin Luther King Day.

Angela Thomas is a fourth year student majoring in English and with a minor in web technology. She can be reached at AT683005@wcupa.edu.

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WCU welcomes new students

As many returning West Chester University students start to unpack their bags, meet their new classmates and pro-fessors, and once again dive into the college life, many other students are beginning their journey at WCU as either a first year student or a transfer student.

As a transfer student coming from a community college, I can definitely say that, when I first stepped onto the campus, it was a little overwhelming. It was the first time in my life that I was living away from my parents and left to create a journey of my own. There was the worry of getting along with roommates, what I was going to get involved in, who were going to become my best friends, and how difficult the classes were going to be. There was also the fear that I wasn’t going to find my place at WCU. Well fellow transfer and first year students, your journey begins now.

There are many reasons why WCU makes a brighter future.

West Chester University is the fourth largest university/college in the Philadelphia area. Recently, WCU was announced as Kiplinger’s top 100 best value colleges, ranking with Penn State main campus and the University of Pittsburgh. WCU has over 80 majors to choose from in five separate colleges. The college has approximately 234 organiza-tions in which students can get involved including 26 Greek organizations, six publications and media-based organizations, and different special interest, academic, religious, service, etc. groups. West Chester University also has 24 accredited women’s and men’s sports teams.

The University also provides students, faculty, and staff with different services. WCU provides LGBTQA services for all students, faculty, and staff and also provides a very strong and wonderful Ally program, where students can train to be LGBTQ allies. LGBTQA was created to help students with topics pertaining to sexual ori-entation and gender identity and to provide a safe space for

students who are having sexual orientation and gender identity questions. WCU also has a Career Development Center where students can receive help with creating their resumes, preparing for interviews, or to figure out what they are inter-ested in majoring in. The Counseling Center is another resourceful tool for students to take advantage of. The Counseling Center provides personal counseling, group therapy, psychiatric services, as well as drug and alcohol abuse counseling.

The Learning Assistance and Resource Center provides students with free tutoring in different subjects. The Writing Center is a resourceful place to go when you just want someone to look over a paper and help you with your writing skills. W e s t C h e s t e r University also is home to the Frederick Douglass Institute .The institute brings forth the intellectual ideas and values of Frederick Douglass as well as advances multicultural studies in curriculum. Frederick Douglass gave his last speech at

WCU on Feb. 1, 1895. Not only does West Chester

provide many opportunities to reach out to the community, get involved, and succeed, WCU also has a beautiful campus. When students step out into the academic quad, look around. The buildings that are listed in the National Historic Register. And once the temperature gets warmer , the quad is packed with students enjoying the warm weather and taking breaks in-between classes.

As students begin your first week, hopefully you will come to see the magic that West Chester University holds. Get involved, do your best in your classes, make everlasting friends, and gain experiences

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student majoring in English and with a minor in web technology. She can be reached at AT683005@wcupa.edu.

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In "Portlandia," a funny and charming new six-episode, sin-gle-camera sketch comedy from IFC (Independent Film Channel), Fred Armisen, of "Saturday Night Live," and Carrie Brownstein, formerly of the band Sleater-Kinney and now of Wild Flag, come together to gently lampoon life in what has repeatedly been proclaimed one of America's, and even the world's, most livable cities, Portland, Ore.

The series is a better-heeled, better-paced and, within the bounds of its own Portland-ish modesty, a more ambitious extension of the occasional videos that Armisen and Portland resident Brownstein have posted online over the past few years under the name ThunderAnt.

If there's an overall theme here, it's that heaven contains its own portion of hell, that right living takes work, relax-ation causes stress, and that a thin line separates responsibil-ity and rage. ("Cars, man! Why?" fumes Armisen's "bicycle rights" guy as he navigates the city streets.) Their Portland is a place where your chicken dinner may come with a pedigree ("His name was Colin; here are his papers") and where your vegan pastry tastes like sand because it is made with sand.

Yet the tone remains affec-tionate. Armisen, who is 44, and Brownstein, who is 36, are experienced enough to regard their targets with a little dis-passion, yet not so remote as to

grow cynical about them.It all begins with Fred (as

"Jason from L.A.") coming to tell Brownstein, as if he's just back from Narnia, that he's seen a place where "the dream of the '90s is alive."

"Remember when people were content to be unambitious, sleep to 11, hang out with their friends?" he reminds her. When they just wanted to form bands, he asks, or go to clown school?

"I gave up clowning years ago," Brownstein says.

"Well, in Portland, you don't have to." It is, he says, "a city where young people go to retire."

There is a long a tradition of musical comedians and comedic musicians, but over the past 15 years or so, common cause has been made increasingly between them. Yo La Tengo regularly shares the stage with stand-up comics (Jim Gaffigan and Kristen Schaal, recently). Aimee Mann, who'll appear in an upcoming episode of "Portlandia," has used profes-sional comedians to deliver her onstage patter. Patton Oswalt, Eugene Mirman and Flight of the Conchords release records on Sub Pop, home of the Shins and Nirvana.

David Cross has appeared in videos for the Strokes and Superchunk (whose drummer, Jon Wurster, also does comedy). And Armisen himself drummed for the Chicago-based punk band Trenchmouth (and was married for several years to Sally Timms from the Mekons, which is its own kind of heavy, underground cred).

The leads have a lovely, light way with one another this is not

By Robert LloydLA Times

the comedic equivalent of Sleater-Kinney's riot grrrl rock _ and as an actress, Brownstein is ... a really good actress.

They easily inhabit a variety of characters: a couple experimenting sexually (each player takes the opposite gender), tournament hide-and-seek players, craft mavens who insist that the way to improve any object is to "put a bird on it."

In the show's best bit, a recurring holdover from ThunderAnt, they play the co-proprietresses of a feminist bookstore. Armisen's question, "That's a top-selling author do we want that in here?" and his assurance to a customer (Aubrey Plaza from "Parks & Recreation") that "We could order that for you, it'll take a year to get here," sum up their passive-aggressive approach to business.

As Fred and Carrie, they meet the mayor, played by Kyle MacLachlan. actual Portland Mayor Sam Adams plays his assistant who displays an award for "best official website for cities with populations under 700,000 in the Pacific Northwest area," a certificate he had printed himself, and sets them to write the town a theme song. ("Portland Community College/They sent me a reminder," Fred suggests. "Community garden workshop/Teach me to rake and hoe-oh-oh," Carrie sings.)

"Just one thing," MacLachlan warns. "Don't make it sound like it's coming from Seattle. Go, Portland!"

New 6-episode comedy pokes fun at Portland

hulu.comFred Armisan and Carrie Brownstein star in the new sketch-comedy on IFC

There is nothing more demo-cratic in this country than network television. Regardless of taste, artistic merit or critical response, the shows that no one likes enough to watch vanish, while popular shows return. On cable, the size of a show’s audience is often inversely related to the number of Emmys it wins, but on the networks it’s the people’s choice.

With awards season upon us, I bring this up because much of

the response to Ricky Gervais’ acerbic perfor-mance as host of last week’s Golden Globes, which like most award shows appeared on network televi-sion, struck a single chord. Some reviews, many blogs and my e-mail box (I reviewed it n e g a t i v e l y ) rang with vari-ations of: “These celebri-ties with their long, boring and ridiculous self-congratula-

tory awards shows are so rich and self-satisfied that they deserve whatever they get. Thank you, Ricky.”

The irony, of course, being that all these celebrity and award-show haters spent three hours of their inarguably finite lives watching the Golden Globes. Instead of, say, figuring out a way to cheaply mass-produce an electric car or shooting some hoops.

Here’s an insider’s tip on how to put an end to these long, boring and ridiculous self-c o n g r a t u l a t o r y award shows: Stop watching them.

Also stop talking about them, even in a negative way; Hollywood lives on buzz, espe-cially when it’s negative. Just

look at Gervais’ pal Charlie Sheen.

Celebrities are not, in fact, royalty; they are not born to positions of great wealth and power, we put them there.

Without a seemingly insa-tiable demand for pictures and stories about her, Angelina Jolie would be just a working actor who broke up a marriage and now has a bunch of kids. I cannot be the only person who counts at least one woman, or man, of similar description among my personal and nonfamous friends. It happens.

Film actor or even movie star is a job description, celebrity is a status that we, the people, bestow. We do so with our eyeballs, with our dollars and lately with our tippity-tap typing on the Internet. Certainly, we have been a bit more profligate, or democratic, with the term. There are times when I console myself with the thought that the emergence of Snooki et al. is part of a highly orchestrated and secret campaign to end celebrity culture by rendering it patently absurd, that the rise of the Kardashians is the work of a creative anarchist under-ground.

But that seems overly opti-mistic if for no other reason than so many people are watching the Golden Globes.

Every year, my colleague Patrick Goldstein, bless his heart, dutifully points out to whoever is listening that the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. is a small group of foreign jour-nalists with varying degrees of

professional integrity who have managed to leverage their little ceremony into national impor-tance.

By Mary McNamaraLA Times

See Awards page 12

If You Don’t Watch Award Shows, They’ll Go Away

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Local MusicLocal MusicELECTRIC FACTORY:

Jan. 29 - Umphrey’s McGeeFeb. 3 Robyn

Feb. 4 - Girl TalkFeb. 11 - Dr. Dog

Feb. 23- The Pink Floyd ExperienceFeb, 25 - Flogging Molly

March 8/9 - Flogging MollyMarch 10 - A Day to Remember

March 25 - DeVotchKaApril 21- Iron and Wine

April 26- Coheed and CambriaMay 10 - Deftones

THE TROCADERO:Jan. 22 - The Tokyo Police Club

Jan. 30 - Less Than JakeFeb. 14- Joshua RadinFeb. 19 - Underoath

Feb. 24 - Beach HouseMarch 25 - The Cold War Kids

March 31- Cut CopyApril 5- Amos Lee

April 7- Screeching WeaselMay 4- Protest the Hero

June 3- The Script

THE TLA:Jan. 29- 12th PLanet

Feb. 8- Ms. Lauryn HillFeb. 9 - Excision with Downlink & Antiserum

Feb. 10- SOJA with Mambo SauceFeb. 19 - Plain White T’s

March 14- Crystal CastlesApril 29 - Of Montreal

April 30 - Skrillex

THE NOTE:Feb. 5- Roots of Creation

By Angela ThomasStaff Writer

Students for Sensible Drug Policy is an international grass roots organization dedicated to the effects of the drug war and drug war policies, specifically policies which harm students. The focus of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) is treating drug offenses, and drug policies primarily as a health concern verses a criminal matter, while also teaching students about activism and how to be politi-cally involved. WCU SSDP is helping to promote many of these policies to our local community here in West Chester. One of the many policies and pillars of SSDP, as well as a focus of WCU SSDP, is harm-reduction education. These are practices that, when applied, will help

reduce the harm of drugs and alcohol in our community while still providing a safe and fun learning environment. In an effort to provide a safe and entertaining option to the normal weekend party scene in West Chester, SSDP will be hosting an 18+ show at The Note Saturday, Feb. 5. Doors at

8p.m. and the show begins at 9p.m. The show will include a local West Chester band, Your Electric Instinct, to provide “thumping electric drum and bass rock.” They will open for Roots of Creation: “The Reggae-Rock Dubtronica Hybrid.” This show will help educate students about harm-reduction practices

and ways they can help to educate the rest of the WCU community. Tickets are currently on sale online for $8 at www.thenote.tickets.music-today.com, or in person. Contact wcussdp@gmail.com for tickets and more informa-tion. Tickets will sell for $10 at the door. Come enjoy a great night of dancing, music, crazy light shows, and education with SSDP and Roots of Creation at the Note, Saturday Feb. 5.

By Josh MererSpecial to The Quad

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We've seen classic first-per-son shooters get reissues with slightly sharper graphics and slightly modernized controls. But "Goldeneye 007" represents the first time a publisher has brought a cherished shooter through the nostalgia wall and fully into the present, and the result is an extraordinary mix of old and new that feels star-tlingly fresh.

For starters, let's be clear: This isn't a simple cleaning up of the classic Nintendo 64 game. The new "Goldeneye" is a new game that adds new layers to the storyline (now starring Daniel Craig instead of Pierce Brosnan), parlays those layers into new environments, and uses the old set pieces as inspi-ration for new mission designs rather than for purposes of copying and pasting. Modern amenities, destructible envi-ronments, regenerating health on lower difficulties, the customary visual improve-ments and all they bring make their presence felt, but its the way the game spins revered levels into new experiences that shines brighter.

At the same time, "Goldeneye" does not forsake its roots. Dispatching enemies stealthily, a game-changer back in 1997, remains fun in 2010, in no small part because of

"Goldeneye's" immense gun selection and multilayered level design. But at no point does "Goldeneye" punish players who would prefer to recklessly run, gun and punch their way through. Most modern shooters do, and "Goldeneye's" ability to retain its old-fashioned values while modernizing most every-thing else is perhaps its most impressive achievement. Other little touches; neutralized enemies fade away here the same way they did out of technical necessity on the N64 provide undeniable winks without running interference on players who have no connec-tion to the original game.

Technically speaking, "Goldeneye" looks good for a Wii game and certainly covers its bases in terms of controls. The remote/nunchuck combination works terrifically, very rarely confusing the need to adjust the gun's aim with the need to turn, and the game includes a variant that caters to the Wii Zapper accessory. But those who want to play "Goldeneye" a little more traditionally (albeit with dual sticks, something the N64 lacked) can use the Classic or Gamecube controllers to do so.

"Goldeneye's" campaign runs roughly twice as long as most of its contemporaries, a nod, intentional or not, to the days when first-person shooters pri-oritized length and elaborate

level design over cutscenes and corridors.

But "Goldeneye's" legendary status was built on the back of its multiplayer, and Eurocom's successful replication of that will ultimately define this game as well.

True to form, "Goldeneye" includes four-player splitscreen, and the playable characters (Oddjob, Jaws, Julius, No), modes (deathmatch, team deathmatch, Golden Gun) and modifiers (melee only, tiny players, paintball, invisibility) return from the original.

But "Goldeneye's" online multiplayer (eight players) elevates this to the arguable top of the Wii's first-person shooter heap. The lack of voice chat support for Nintendo's neglected Wii Speak peripheral is disap-pointing, and the welcome ability to form four-player parties is still hampered on the ground floor by Nintendo's clumsy friend code system. But players who want to just jump in and play some lag-free online "Goldeneye" finally can do so, and Eurocom rewards those who do with an experience points system that doles out better weapons and gadgets as players level up. Online multi-player also takes advantage of the higher player count to add some new modes centered around team and objective-based play.

By Billy O’KeefeMcClatchy-Tribune

Same Goldeneye, better graphics, new system

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“Got a secret, can you keep it?” is the first line of ABC Family’s hit show, “Pretty Little Liars.” The TV show is based off of Sara Shepard’s book series, “Pretty Little Liars.” The series includes eight books so far, with a rumor of a plan to extend the series to 12 books in total to complete the series.

The television series, creat-ed by Marlene King, has been argued to be one of the best adaptations of a book series brought to the small screen. Besides a few changes to the looks of the characters and the fact that some of the plot lines are mixed from the first four books, ABC Family has done a great job at creating these characters and bringing the audience to their knees in anticipation of what the myste-rious “A” is going to do next.

The book series follows four best friends while they cope with the sad disappearance and death of their friend, Alison. All four friends have deep secrets that they each have shared with Alison. Believing that Alison took their secrets to the grave, the four

friends are surprised and fright-ened when a mysterious “A” starts harassing them with text messages, emails, and hand

By Angela ThomasStaff Writer

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written notes, taunting them with their individu-al secrets.

But it is not just the great adaptation that has made this TV series one of the most watched on Monday nights (the last episode as of 1/17/2011 was the number one epi-sode on Hulu), but also the fact that the show deals with real life issues. “Pretty Little Liars” has joined other popular “teen” shows such as “Glee” and “90210” in showcasing LGBT story lines.

The executive producer of “Pretty Little Liars,” Oliver Goldstick, com-mented to Time magazine that fans have not been offended or shocked by the LGBT issues that have been brought forth in the show. If anything, the diversity of the characters has made the show an even bigger hit than many of ABC Family’s TV series.

Angela Thomas is a third-year student majoring in

English and minoring in web technology. She can be reached at AT683005@wcupa.edu.

This year, Patrick gave Gervais a pat on the back for ridiculing the Golden Globes, but as he also pointed out, Gervais took the gig (twice) and cashed the check (also twice). Just as he took the Globe he won for “The Office” in 2004 and the nomination for “Extras” in 2008.

Here’s another Hollywood “secret”: No one hates award shows more than celebrities. But what are nominated stars supposed to do? Not show up? Woody Allen got away with dissing the Oscars for years, but these days a star boycotting even the Globes would be labeled a snob, like Jonathan Franzen dissing Oprah.

If everyone is sick of the Golden Globes, let’s stop investing them with so much importance. If everyone is tired of big-salary stars, then for heaven’s sake start going to smaller movies.

If you actually saw Gervais raising a banner for revolution, then revolt. Talk about politics, science, literature and theater, follow the lives of humanitari-ans and great thinkers, of real social provocateurs and artists. It’s your culture; take it back.

Awardsfrom page 10

Pretty Little Liars airs Monday’s at 8/7c on ABC Family.

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The Quad CrosswordAcross1 Finalize, as a deal6 “Let __!”: “Start the ball

rolling!”11 Sleep attire, briefly14 Honolulu hello15 NFL’s winningest coach

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2010 film20 Building wing21 Photographed22 Brownish-green eye

color24 Coming-out gala28 Forever and ever30 Rolled grain31 Clark’s love32 “Me, too!”34 NFL six-pointers37 Demand accompanied

by a banging gavel41 Casual shirt42 La Virginie et la Caro-

line du Sud43 La __ Tar Pits44 Karate blow45 Restrain47 Illegal lottery52 Tibetan capital53 Bedouin, ethnically54 Eyjafjallajökull residue57 Get stuck for, as a cost58 Lateral epicondylitis

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If your birthday is this week: over the next 12 weeks new love affairs need to expand or include family celebrations, short-term travel and revised home schedules. If, however, serious progress is stalled or delayed, expect sudden

MYSTIC STARSby Lasha Seniuk

Birthday Week Horoscope: January 24romantic change by mid-April. Passionate decisions and new social invitations will vie for your attention throughout the summer months. Remain cautious and wait for powerful feel-ings of acceptance to arrive.

After July 21st financial spec-ulation will be misleading. Ask key officials for reliable information and avoid risky investments or large pur-chase over the next four months.

The Philly Sports Corner was compiled by the editors of the sports section.

Philly Sports Corner The Eagles: hillies: The Flyers:

Where do the Philadelphia Eagles go from here? The 2010 season ended with a Michael Vick interception in a 21-16 wild card loss to the Green Bay Packers. This past season was supposed to be a rebuilding year for the birds. Instead they ended up winning 10 games and took home yet another NFC East title.

Clearly this team needs to be revamped along the defensive side of the ball. But, before they can do that, they need to hire a Defensive Coordinator. Sean McDermott was made the scapegoat for the Eagles 2010 defensive breakdowns. Yes, he had a big hand in the poor play of the defense, but it would be a challenge for any coordinator who was forced, due to injury to start two seventh-round rookie draft picks.

The Birds are set to meet with Saints secondary coach Dennis Allen. Although he is a possible candidate the Eagles have been linked to two coaches that are still in the playoffs. Green Bay defensive line coach Mike Trgovac, who coached in Philadelphia under Ray Rhodes, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he loves his job and has to consider his family before leaving for another position.

The other name that has been tied to the birds is Jets Defensive coordinator Mike Pettine.

Former Eagles beat writer Mike Sielski of the Wall Street Journal and Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer have both reorted that Pettine is not leaving the Jets.

One coach they have added was Jim Washburn, a long-time defensive line coach with the Tennessee Titans. Washburn is recognized as one of the best D-Line coaches in the business. It was Washburn who was respon-sible for being able to motivate DT Albert Haynesworth.

Could Haynesworth join the Eagles and play for his old D-Line coach? It’s possible but incred-ibly unlikely. If you’re a Hanyesworth fan or think it’s time to replace Mike Patterson

or Brodrick Bunkley then keep your fingers crossed.

Now, how can the Eagles upgrade in personnel? First they need to solidify the offensive line. Hopefully Jammal Jackson can stay healthy and play center for an entire year. Todd Herremans and Jason Peters are by far the best two linemen we have. Yes, Peters will commit a false start penalty from time to time but he does a great job on a lot of great pass rushers.

The Eagles should spend their first-round pick on offensive tackle Gabe Carimi from Wisconsin. Carimi comes from a program that runs the ball a lot. He is listed at 6 foot 7 inches and weighs in at 330lbs. If the Eagles add Carimi to their offensive line, suddenly it could become a strong suit for this team. Perhaps with an improved offensive line the Eagles will attempt to the run the ball more.

Clearly they need to find a cover corner on the opposite side of Asante Samuel, but the defensive front needs to get bigger. Ernie Sims, Trent Cole and Darryl Tapp are all under-sized. It was evident that in the playoff loss to the Packers the defensive front got pushed around: Pushed around by a team that was starting two rookie offensive linemen. They were gashed by a running back that had little to no NFL experience. The remaining four teams in the NFL playoffs all have something in common. They have attacking style defenses.

The Eagles do not currently have the personnel to play attacking defense and be success-ful. It will be interesting to see over the off-season how the team makes personnel adjustments through free agency, trades and the draft.

The Philadelphia Phillies are getting a lot of attention these days, and deservingly so. Their starting pitching rotation is perhaps the best ever put together, on paper. On paper they should run away with National League East title. On paper they should represent the National League in this year’s World Series. On paper they should win their second World Series title in four years.

Unfortunately the game of baseball is not played on paper. As a Phillies fan I am nervous about the upcoming season. Are the Phillies taking a page out of the Yankees book by buying players at any cost to win championships? If you’re not a Yankees fan then you probably despise them. Everyone enjoys watching the Yankees lose because they pay so much money for the best players, and when they fall short of a World Series championship baseball fans love it.

In 2008 the World Series victory was very sweet. It had been decades since our last world title, but it was special because it was unexpected. Think about it. Cole Hamels was our ace, followed by Brett Myers. Our rotation has been better ever since and yet they have not won another ring. The expectations for this upcoming season are so high that the only gratifying ending for Phillies fans will be another World Series championship.

Yes, the pitching should be great, taking for granite that they all remain healthy. The bats need to come alive. Quite a few times last season both Halladay and Hamels pitched great games but took the loss in a 1-0, or 2-1 loss. The expectations have two or more Phillies pitchers each winning 20 games. Is it possible? Yes it’s possible but again unlikely.

The bullpen is still a work in progress. Closers blow saves; it’s just what happens in baseball. Bullpens blow a lot of games for starting pitchers. If you look at our starting pitching, our offensive fire power and our bullpen, it is the bullpen that still has everyone scratching their heads. Brad Lidge is good, but not great. He will NOT have another season like he did in 2008 when we was perfect in save opportunities.

The Phillies will make the playoffs but will it be the bullpen that holds them back from a World Series championship in 2011?

Through 48 games the Philadelphia Flyers season is going as planned. They currently lead the entire Eastern Conference with 31 wins and 67 points overall. Away from the Wells Fargo Center they have the NHL’s best road record at 16-5-3.

The offense has been prevalent each and every night it seems for the orange and black. They have eight players all in double digits with goals which leads the league. They also have four players with 40 or more points.

Why are the Flyers so good? They have three lines that can score on you at any given moment in the game. It is extremely hard for opposing teams to shut down all three lines in a game. Danny Briere is having an All-Star season and is on pace for over 40 goals. Claude Giroux has followed up a memorable 2010 post season and has all ready surpassed his career high in goals in one season. Overall they have scored 165 goals thus far which is the most in the NHL.

Fortunately, the Flyers have been healthy so far this season. Chris Pronger just returned after missing 14 games with a broken bone in his foot. In Pronger’s absence the team posted a 9-4 record. With Pronger or without Pronger the Flyers can get it done.

For the first time in years the team is rich with reliable defen-semen. Kimmo Timmonen continues to play solid defense, and if there is one guy on this team that does not get the credit he deserves, it’s Timmonen. The third line defensive pairing of Andrej Meszaros and Sean O’Donnell has made a big differ-ence in preserving the legs of guys like Pronger and Timmonen.

Meszaros is a plus 29 for the season and has recently been putting pucks in the back of the net. In order to win games they need to k e e p pucks out of their own net, and they f i n a l l y h a v e e n o u g h blue-lin-ers to do just that.

T h e goaltend-ing has been phe-nomenal up to this

point. Brian Boucher and the rookie Sergei Bobrovsky have combined for 30 wins and just 12 losses. It does not appear that head coach Peter Laviolette and his staff are in any hurry to make a decision on who is their no. 1 goalie. That’s fine; keep them both fresh and playing well, but when it comes playoff time the coaches will have to put their faith in the hands of just one goalie.

With everything going so smoothly, is their room for improvement for this team? Through the first three months of the season the Flyers were averaging 5.6 penalties per game. In the last month the Flyers have been averaging 3.4 penalties per game. They need to stay disci-pline and not commit “dumb” penalties.

Prior to the 3-1 loss to last place New Jersey Devils, the Flyers had won their previous four games. One factor of that four game winning streak was that they were able to stay out of the penalty box. Last season the Flyers led the NHL in minor penalties.

If they want to continue on their winning ways, they need to keep their penalty numbers down heading into the playoffs.

Another area of their game that needs improvement is their power play. With Pronger back on the blue line that should boost the numbers, but they were struggling even before Pronger was injured. As of now they are converting at 16.8% on the power play. Despite them being the best in the East the power play is ranked 20th in the NHL.

The Flyers are right where they want to be heading into the All-Star break. If they want to stay atop the Eastern Conference standings they will need to improve their discipline and power play percentage.

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Although the West Chester gymnastics team lost a couple key seniors from last year’s team, they also saw the return of some

of last season’s strongest competi-tors.

After an exceptional freshman season that included a trip to USAG Nationals, Kaley LaFleur is hoping to pick up where she left

off last year. LaFleur’s road trip companion

to Nationals was junior Alli Aquila. Aquila has been strong for the Rams in the all-around competition for the last two years

and continues to be one of the most reliable and consistent members of the gymnastics squad.

“We have strong leadership on the team this year starting with

our captains Lindsey Britt and Aquila,” Cordova said. “Alli will compete all-around again this season and will be a strong com-petitor on the team. Lindsey is very strong on the floor exercise.”

This season saw the debut of six new freshmen that were added to the roster in the off season. Newcomer Paige Griffin made her presence known for West Chester in the team’s season opener; a quad meet with Southern Connecticut State University, Springfield College and Ursinus College. She finished second overall with a score of 36.100 and was only edged slightly by teammate LaFleur who scored a 36.975.

West Chester has also been anticipating the arrival of freshman Emily Seigel, who signed her National Letter of Intent to compete for the Rams back in June. Seigel was the level 9 bar, beam and all-around state champion back in 2009. In the past couple of years, West Chester has struggled in their perfor-mance on the uneven bars and hopes to be able to rely on gymnasts like Seigel to make them a more dynamic and all-around competitive team.

“We saw a huge improvement on bars in our first meet scoring a 45.175,” Cordova said.

Amber Miller also returned to last year’s form, finishing in first place on the balance beam with a score of 9.525.

West Chester started the season exactly how they wanted to. They finished second in the meet with a score of 181.450, just shy of Southern Connecticut State University who finished in first place with 182.275. West Chester topped both Ursinus College and Springfield College, who scored a 176.625 and 175.625 respectively, by substantial margins.

Two seasons ago, West Chester set a goal of achieving a team score over 180; a feat they were unable to reach until the following season. Early on in this year’s campaign, West Chester has shown that they can set new goals and aim higher than they have in past years.

With the first and second overall score winners being Golden Rams, West Chester grabbed the momentum and con-fidence that they will need to carry them throughout the season.

Their second match of the season proved to be just as close. For the second meet in a row, West Chester was barely edged by the first place finisher. Host

By Amy FestaSports Editor

WCU gymnastics sets the bar high

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Lady Rams suffer first PSAC East loss

Coach Murawski’s ideal season What is the Golden Rams’

New Year’s Resolution? The men and women’s track and field teams have the potential to be strong competitors this season. They have a new head coach, a lot of talent, and determination that will help them achieve their goal for the New Year: to do their best and live up to their high expectations.

New head coach Mike Murawski is busy training the Golden Rams for their upcoming outdoor season. Coach Murawski said, “I am very excited for the opportunity to coach both the men’s and women’s teams. Being an assistant coach last year allowed me the opportunity to learn about West Chester, the PSAC Conference, and the ins and outs of coaching at the col-legiate level. With that said, there is a lot of work that needs to be done in order to compete for a championship in this confer-ence! I am very confident in my abilities as a coach as well as the

team’s abilities and their thirst for a conference championship.”

As the Rams compete in their last few indoor track competi-tions, the pressure is starting to build for the outdoor season. The men and women’s teams just competed in the Golden Bear Invitational at Kutztown University on Jan. 14. Freshman, Adam Heath placed second in the long jump with a leap of 22 feet, 5 inches. One of the women’s competitors, Kamber Schrann placed third in the pole vault, clearing 10 feet, 9 ¾ inches. The Golden Rams have a lot of individual talent that will help the team place high at their meets this season.

Not only does Coach Murawski want his athletes to outshine their competitors, he has other goals in mind.

“I strongly believe the women’s team has the ability to go from 13th in the conference to 6th or 7th this year. I believe the returners have a better mindset coming into this season and the newcomers have a strong possi-bility of having an impact right

By Jillian MorganStaff Writer

away. I believe the men’s team can stay in the middle of the conference this season while pos-sessing the talent to bump into the top five. We lost some key pieces on the team due to gradu-ation, but brought in some freshmen who have the ability to help out right away. Our young returners from last year have matured and look to start advancing their individual times/distances/and heights within the conference.”

Coach Murawski is aware of the potential the team has as a whole and he also feels as though he is going to be a positive aspect to the upcoming season. “As a new young coach, I feel I bring a whole new outlook to the art of coaching. I bring ideas to the table while listening to the ideas of athletes. Clearly, these athletes were successful at the high school level in order to compete collegiately. Therefore, I ask the kids what kind of training they did while in high school. I then try to devise workouts which corporate these methods into their training

regimen.” So far Coach Murawski has outshined himself by assessing the team’s individual talent and showcas-ing it in their indoor meets.

The Golden Rams have the ability to reach their goals, as well as Coach M u r a w s k i ’ s , throughout the season. Come support the men and women’s track and field teams at their next meet in Collegeville at the Collegeville Classic on Jan. 21 at 1:00 p.m.

Jillian Morgan is a fourth-year student majoring in communi-cation studies. She can be reached at JM652349@wcupa.edu.

Throughout the non-confer-ence portion of their schedule and the first three games of the conference schedule, the 2010-2011 West Chester University Lady Rams basket-ball team got off to its best 15-game start in a decade. With 12 wins, two of which were over nationally ranked Bowie State and Gannon University, the Lady Rams have put them-selves in prime position in the early portions of the season.

On Saturday, West Chester (12-4, 3-1 PSAC East) traveled to arch-rival No. 23 Millersville University (13-3, 3-1 PSAC East) and suffered their first conference loss 81-59. With the loss, the Lady Rams saw their four-game winning streak come to an end. West Chester had a chance to take an early stran-glehold on the division, but instead fell into a four-way tie for first place.

The Lady Rams’ largest lead of the game came with 13:55 left in the first half as senior guard Megan Stewart nailed one of her two three point shots to put West Chester up 11-7. After the three point field goal, both teams battled back and

forth for the next six minutes before the Marauders pulled away. Led by guard Mashira Newman, Millersville pulled ahead to a 15-point halftime lead.

The Lady Rams shot 6-33 (18.2 percent) from the field in the first half. Uncommon of this West Chester team, they shot 41.7 percent (5-12) from the free throw line. Junior guard Jill Keefer led the Lady Rams with six points in the first half. One bright spot for West Chester was that they forced 15 Millersville turnovers.

The Marauders shot 43.3 percent (13-30) from the field and outrebounded West Chester 31-17 in the first half. Forward Aurielle Mosley had four points, 11 rebounds, two assists, two blocks and one steal in the first half. Newman led all scorers with 11 points in the half.

In the second half, the Marauders continued to pour it on as they shot 46.7 percent (14-30) from the field en route to a 45 point explosion. Millersville scored the first nine points of the half, extending their lead to 24 points. The Marauders led by as many as 29 points in the second half, while the Lady Rams got as close as 20 points.

West Chester’s explosive backcourt tandem of junior guard Allison Hostetter and Stewart were held in check. They combined for nine points on 3-17 shooting. The Lady Rams shot 30.4 percent from the field during the game. Junior guard Shamyra Hammond led West Chester with a season-high 10 points. Freshman guard Paige Elliot scored a career-high nine points. Senior guard Dominique Adams also added nine points. Sophomore Alex Lennon finished with six points, four rebounds and three blocks.

Millersville put five players in double figures led by Newman’s 19 points. Mosley added 12 points and 17 rebounds. Forward Gabrielle Styles finished with 14 points and nine rebounds. Guard Domonique Stroman added 13 points and 10 rebounds. Off the bench, Carrie Sheffey added 10 points. The Marauders finished with 52 rebounds, compared to 37 for the Lady Rams.

On Wednesday, West Chester used a huge second half to defeat the Kutztown University Golden Bears 75-67 in come-from-behind fashion. With the win, the Lady Rams ended a personal four-game losing

streak against Kutztown.“Beating Kutztown is huge,”

head coach Deirdre Kane said. “We have two entirely different styles of play and they certainly have stymied us the past two years. We’re glad to win the home game, and know it will be tougher at their place.”

The Golden Bears jumped out to a 38-25 halftime lead. Guard Ashley Wood led all scorers with 17 points as Kutztown shot 40.6 percent from the field.

Stewart led West Chester with 10 points as the Lady Rams shot 32.1 percent from the field.

In the second half, West Chester got red hot. The Lady Rams went on a 25-11 run to take their first lead since the early moments of the game with 8:21 left in the game. All five starts for West Chester contrib-uted into the run as they were able to overtake the Golden Bears.

Sophomore guard Meghan Kerrigan and forward Ambreelinne Ortman nailed big three pointers during the run to help the Lady Rams take the lead and never relinquish it. West Chester outscored Kutztown 50-29 in the second half.

Stewart finished with a game-high 22 points and nine assists. Hostetter finished with 13 points and 14 rebounds to record her sixth double-double of the season. Keefer added 13 points, six rebounds and three steals. Lennon finished with 10 points, nine rebounds, five blocks, three assists and two steals.

“We have a tough stretch the next two games,” Kane said in reference to the games at Shippensburg and at Bloomsburg this week.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Alex Lennon. The sophomore sensation, who has been selected the PSAC East Player of the Week three times this season, leads the Lady Rams in scoring (14.1 points per game), blocked shots (42) and is second in rebounds (7.6 rebounds per game).

UPCOMING GAMES: This week, West Chester hits the road for two matchups against the Shippensburg University Red Raiders on Wednesday at 6 p.m. and against the Bloomsburg University Huskies on Saturday at 1 p.m.

LJ Harrell is a graduate student majoring in communications studies. He can be reached at LH639694@wcupa.edu.

By LJ HarrellStaff Writer

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New faces spark club hockey The West Chester University

men’s club hockey team had an awful start to their season. After going 6-14 in their first 20 games, many wondered what the team could do to turn their season around. They tried a different defense, different goalies and different modes of attack but nothing seemed to help pull the team out of the slump. As the first part of the season wound down, the Rams quickly realized the problem was not who was on the team, but who was not.

During the break the organi-zation added quite a few new players to help fortify some thin spots in the lineup. The biggest problem addressed was size. Before the break the Rams had not been playing a very physical game because they were often at a size disadvantage.

This was something that was fixed very quickly. Almost imme-diately after the first part of the season ended, eight new faces showed up on the ice. These players are not just a talented mix of speed, scoring ability, defense and goalkeeping; they bring size and strength to help stabilize the physical play the Rams needed.

Starting with the offense, the Rams added forwards Chris Doyle, Chris Gentile, Harrison Welch, Mike Kozza and Bob McLaughlin. According to Coach Dorsey’s scouting reports on these players, they bring a tre-mendous amount of leadership, speed, scoring ability and quick hands onto the ice. With these five new forwards alongside guys like Meade, Scocozza, Margadonna, Coll and Baer, the talent along the front increases to a dangerous level. On defense, the six-foot-two-inch defensemen Marc Buccellato and Gordon Nicholson add tremendous size and strength to the defense. Both of these players play a very physical game and really break up the rush nicely. When added to guys like Jones, Reitz,

McInerny, Dugan and Ahle, the defensive pairs suddenly become a mix of strong, physical players and defensemen who can also score. The last addition to the team may be what was most needed. In the first part of the season goaltending was a major problem. The lowest goals against average for any goalie that played was over 5.6. Giving up over five goals a game is a hard obstacle to overcome. Over the break, goaltender Randy Japchen was added to the roster and made an immediate impact. Allowing just over three goals a game in his first three games, he has really kept WCU in the contests. Early in the season, Japchen and Parra have really made it quite a task for opponents to put the puck in the net.

These new talents, along with the already skilled players on the team, have come out strong and eager for wins.

On Jan. 7, the Rams began a home-and-home series with the University of Rhode Island, a team that had beaten them 9-0 and 6-4 already this season. After goals early on from Adam Ball and the newly acquired Welch, the Rams thought maybe they would finally beat the number seven-ranked team. However, URI fired home four unanswered goals and took the game 4-2. WCU could have accepted URI as the better team as all the statistics have proved, but they did not.

On Saturday URI took the lead early in the first. That quickly changed when Joe Mango scored after receiving a tape-to-tape pass from Jones. That goal would hold the game at a tie score until the second period when Welch and Doyle assisted Meade on his eleventh goal of the season. The game remained to the Rams’ advantage until the third when URI scored once to

tie, and then again on a contro-versial goal. Japchen in goal had corralled the puck but he received no whistle. After a long wait the puck was jammed at by URI and pushed over the line.

After review, it was deemed a good goal and gave URI the lead yet again. Rhode Island could have easily pulled away, but a

terrible penalty for head-butting Meade put the Rams on the man advantage and it proved deadly. The red-hot Jones scored to tie the game at three while on the power play. With just over a minute left in regulation, Meade received yet another assist from Doyle that was centered from behind the net. The goal was Meade’s second of the game and twelfth on the year. WCU took the contest 4-3.

The winning did not stop there. West Chester played Drexel the following Friday and it proved to be another thriller. WCU played a solid game early as they went into the first inter-mission tied at one. In the second, WCU put 18 shots on net but managed just one goal and allowed two.

Trailing into the third, WCU

really put their foot on the gas. Adding another fifteen shots and one goal, the game was tied at the end of regulation and was sent to overtime. With around two minutes left in the extra period, Jones buried the puck behind the Drexel goalie, winning the game 4-3. WCU’s other goals were scored by Gentile, Mango

and Doyle. When asked about the

play of his new goalie, Dorsey said, “Japchen has been flat out great. He is a big body that moves well, and his biggest asset is that he is so calm in stopping the puck. He doesn’t get rattled. He’s been stellar.”

WCU outshot Drexel 50-28 but Drexel’s goal-tender made the game much closer than it should have been. Nonetheless, WCU walked out with a win. It was their second in a row. The last two-game winning streak the Rams put together was their first and second games of the season. The players know how important this is better than anybody.

“We have a whole new team now and it was important to start strong with a couple wins,” Jones said. Although our record doesnt show, last season is done with and our team has moved on. The Rams did not want to end the streak at two.

The following day WCU hosted Towson. There was much concern with this game because of the huge brawl that erupted early in the season. Both teams showed class as they let old feelings go and played clean hockey. Staying away from penalties and continuously attacking the net quickly gave the Rams the edge and they never looked back.

After goals from Coll, Margadonna, Jones (2), Doyle, Welch, Scocozza and a hat trick from Gentile, the Rams took the game 10-1 for their third win in a

By Kenny AyresStaff Writer

row. Will Parra got the start and was lights out in goal as he stopped all but one of the 25 shots he faced. This game was a very convincing victory for WCU and it truly looks like they are turning things around.

Many positives can be taken from the last two weekends aside from the wins. First of all, the new players alongside the veterans have been absolutely phenomenal. When a player is not scoring he is making everyone on his line better. The defensive pairs shut down the attack, and the goalies are stopping every-thing. But most importantly, the team is working well together.

This brings up the next positive, which is the leadership of the captain. Jones is not only an incredible defenseman, but he scored four goals in the last three games including an overtime winner. He has even begun to make a run at the WCU point record for a defenseman (49) and it is likely he will get there. He is really setting an example for how everyone should be playing and they are following his lead. When the Captain plays well, the team plays well, and nobody recog-nizes this better than Coach Dorsey, who speaks very highly of his captain.

“He leads by example,” Dorsey said. “Jones is the kind of guy who puts his team on his back in crucial situations. He wants the puck, he wants the pressure. He is so competitive and that kind of thing rubs off on his teammate. As a coach, he makes my job a little easier because I know that when I need something done I don’t even have to ask. Jonesy is going to step up and get it done.”

With the addition of new players, leadership of Jones and the continued solid play of the core of this team, WCU has really turned it around. Over the last few weeks they have proved what Coach Dorsey has been saying all year, “They can play with any team in the country.”

Kenny Ayres is a first-year student majoring in communications. He can be reached at KA739433@wcupa.edu.

Freshmen gymnasts shine early onSUNY Cortland finished with a score of 184.35, which proved to be just enough to top West Chester, who finished with an impressive score of 183.775.

Yet again, West Chester stole some of the top honors in the

match, but fell just short in the all-around team score. Miller had an incredible meet on the balance beam and got the overall best score for the event with a 9.725. Aquila was in the top five in three events. LaFleur had West Chester’s best all around score with a 37.250, the second best of both teams.

West Chester’s success is

coming under the supervision of Barbara Cordova, who returned for her third season as the Rams’ head coach. In every year that Cordova has been backing the gymnastics squad, they have continued to improve and build on prior success. Her recruiting classes have been strategically selected to fill in the gaps or thin areas in the team’s performance.

With the exponential success over the last couple of seasons, she has set high expectations for her team which she can reasonably expect them to meet.

“I expect our three all around competitors to have excellent seasons this year being led by LaFleur who finished as the top all-around gymnast for West Chester in our first two meets,”

Cordova said. “Aquila and Griffin are also strong all around com-petitors.”

West Chester will return home next weekend on Jan. 29 when they host an Alumni Day in the South Campus Gym.

Amy Festa is a fourth-year student majoring in English with a minor in journalism. She can be reached at AF649219@wcupa.edu.

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Basketball shooting blanksWCU trying to pull out of three game slump

The West Chester men’s bas-ketball team has started their conference play and their season is beginning to closely mirror their 2009-10 campaign.

Last year the Rams started out their season going 11-2 in non-conference play and had what appeared to be the makings of a playoff contending team. However, once conference games began, the Rams quickly found themselves ultimately finishing out the season with a 16-11 record and slipping enough in the standings to miss the playoffs.

With last season resulting in a less than expected finish, the Golden Rams had their eyes set on the 2010-11 season as a chance to earn back their repu-tation as one of the strongest teams in their conference.

Conference games started out exactly how they intended with a win over a tough Mansfield team.

Mansfield started out this year being one of the favorites to win their PSAC division after they accomplished the feat last season.

After a tough first half that saw eight lead changes, West Chester went into their locker room with a four point lead over their hosts. However, coming out of halftime, the Rams went on a 23-7 run to jump out to a commanding lead. The Rams led by as many as 19 points at one point and secured their lead enough to prevent Mansfield from getting within single digits for the remainder of the game. West Chester ultimately ended up upsetting the home team by a score of 86-74.

Shannon Givens led the Rams in scoring with 16 points in the victory, but had help on offense with four other players winding up in double figures. Elie Daniel posted 13 points for the Rams while Lance McDowell and Harley Williamson added

By Amy FestaSports Editor

12 points. Khalif Foster rounded out the double figured scoring with 11 points off the bench. The loss to West Chester stands as Mansfield’s only conference loss on the season thus far.

With the convincing win over Mansfield, West Chester got the confidence boost they needed for

their upcoming conference games.

However, the momentum was halted almost as quickly as it began when the Rams hosted East Stroudsburg only three

days later. East Stroudsburg’s numbers from the field were not that impressive, but they took

the lead with their first basket a minute and a half into the game and never relinquished. Their field goal percentage was only 42 percent, and their percent-age behind the arc was an

embarrassing 9.1 percent.

The Rams struggled just as much with their field goal per-centage and also had a tough time from the free throw line. They only converted 65.4 percent of their free throws.

East Stroudsburg’s strength came from the free throw line where they found themselves a lot. Their 39 converted free throws were enough to put them over the top and give them the 82-69 win.

West Chester did get to utilize the strength of their bench who scored 32 points for the Rams.

Last Wednesday the Rams welcomed Kutztown to their home court to take on the team with the best numbers in the PSAC East.

West Chester continued to struggle from the floor and dropped to only shooting 33.3 percent from field goal range. The Rams only trailed Kutztown by four points going into halftime, but ulti-mately dropped the contest 73-62. Kehinde Roberts, who was sidelined through the non-conference games with a shoulder injury, led the Rams in scoring with 17 points.

On Saturday West Chester traveled to Millersville to take on yet another top-half-of-the-

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Lukas Jenkins/ The QuadKehinde Roberts’ team leading 17 points was not enough to lift the Rams past Kutztown.

standings team. In their four conference games so far this season, West Chester has played the top four teams in the PSAC East.

Millersville was coming off of the high of upsetting Cheyney only three days earlier before their game against West Chester. The momentum seemed to carry forward as Millersville came out firing against the Rams. They took the lead only five and a half minutes into the game and held onto it until the end.

In the second half Millersville was able to pull away with a 20 point lead. West Chester got within seven with just over two minutes left, but was unable to close the gap enough. Millersville added a tally to their win column with the 82-70 win.

Again, West Chester struggled in their field goal per-centage. They shot 36.7 percent from field goal range and only 56.8 percent from the free throw line.

If the Rams are going to keep this season from too closely resembling last year’s confer-ence collapse, they are going to have to work out their numbers from the floor. The bench has been putting up the biggest numbers. On Saturday, the bench was able to contribute more points than Coach Blair’s starting line-up. The Rams have depth, but that depth should be utilized as a strategy to put the Rams over the top, not to just barely keep them in games.

West Chester will hit the road for their next two matches when they travel to Shippensburg on Wednesday and Bloomsburg on Saturday.

The Rams come back home on Wednesday Feb. 2 when they host Cheyney in what is practi-cally guaranteed to be a spirited match.

Amy Festa is a fourth-year student majoring in English with a minor in journalism. She can be reached at AF649219@wcupa.edu.

Flyers forwards Claude Giroux and Danny Briere are headed to the NHL All-Star game this weekend in Raleigh, North Carolina. Briere leads the team in goals with 25 while Giroux is third on the team in points with 42. The game will be played this Saturday at the RBC Center.