49 15 4132 https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/5af5cdce5af3cc5d070f1825fed8fa15.pdf c3d9b05149f9e2ecc747ba193b9d9bf9 PDF Text Text w T ~ ~IHIIE ~ B5IEACC(O)N HE B EACON The Beacon - October 2, 2018 Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 72, Issue 05 Wilkes University - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania FREE Take one The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. World record attempted at the River Common Upcoming Annual By Maddie Davis Internship, Career & Professional School Fair Co-News Editor By Catie Lally Staff Writer The Beacon/Steffen Horwath Taylor Hubiak, a sophomore business management major, contributed to the chalk drawing. education through this larger committee. The River Front Parks Committee is an environmental education organization. They teach the general public through these public, and fun events to attract a lot of people. Their “classrooms” are set in places along the Susquehanna rive like Kirby Park, the River Common and many others. At a typical ChalkFest, Maday had said they average about 400 to 500 people to Theatre Department changes musical following controversy, page 4 attend the event. This year they expected anywhere from 1,00 to 1,500 people to help break the record. “We also see value in engaging the community in these types of events,” said Maday. “There is so much acrimony in the world especially in this hotly contested political season,” which he hopes to set aside SEE CHALK, Page 5 Wilkes University’s annual fall semester Internship, Career and Professional School fair is this Thursday, Oct. 18 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be between 60 to 70 companies attending, as well as approximately 20 graduate programs that will provide students with valuable information and resources. The fair offers students a valuable experience: “The paper just doesn’t get you the job anymore, you have to do it yourself with your personality,” said Sharon Castano, the Director of Internships at Wilkes. Castano aids students with making resumes, writing thank you letters and developing interview skills. Castano mentioned that her favorite part of her job is the reward of seeing students be successful in their interviews even if they do not end up with the highest paying job. SEE INTERNSHIP, Page 7 Self Care with Sarah, page 9 The Beacon/Kyle Kraemer The Beacon/Madi Hummer Submitted by Mmachi Dimoriaku On Saturday, Sept. 29, Wilkes-Barre, with the help of the ChalkFest and Hydromania organizers, attempted to break the Guinness world record for the longest chalk pavement drawing. Greely, Colo. currently holds the record with a three and a half mile drawing, and the City of Wilkes-Barre and the volunteers are hoping to beat it. Taylor Hubiak, a sophomore in business management at Wilkes, volunteered at the event through her internship at City Hall and expressed her feelings about the world record. “I am very excited,” said Hubiak, “I think we are [going to break the record]. We have some pretty competitive people here. “Whether the public helps us make it or just the coordinators we are going to make it at the end of the day,” added Hubiak, “no matter what.” More than two dozen volunteers helped pass out more than 3,000 boxes of chalk to all their registered participants to help facilitate the breaking of the world record. All ages from all over the greater WilkesBarre area participated at the River Common to work together in a common goal, to break the world record. John Maday, Executive Director of the River Front Parks Committee, is one of the organizers of this ChalkFest, and the eight others he has held to promote environmental IsLargest world peace first-year an attainable class in ideal?, history,page page155 MSOC: Colonels bounce Largest first-year class in back and beat history, page 5 Scranton, page 20 �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 News News 2 Have a breaking story or a press release to send? Contact either news editor: Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu or Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu Student Government notes: Sept. 26 weekly meeting By Sean Schmoyer Staff Writer This week’s Student Government meeting began with the introduction of the new freshman members. After each student accepted their position the board moved to have this week’s fund requests presented. The NSO (Nursing Student Organization) was the first group to petition to Student Government. The group requested a total of $5,000 to cover their trip for their NCLEX Bowl in which nursing students would partake in a tournament that will help prepare students for the NCLEX. The event will also consist of other events and votes that the Wilkes branch of the NSO wishes to partake as it offers useful knowledge that can be shared throughout the nursing class. Next on the agenda was the Spirit Committee’s fund request of $680.60 to help put together their yearly Marts Madness event that will be held on Thursday, Nov. 1 at 9 p.m. They discussed the games and competitions that will be held at the event such as a set of Minute to Win it games. The final fund request was from the Fall Event Committee who proposed a budget of $5,824.47 for their upcoming event October event. The event will be held on Oct. 19 from 3 to 7 p.m and it will be held in the MAC in UCOM. It is planned to include inflatable activities such as races and extreme laser tag among other activities such as bubble soccer and a slime activity. After each fund request, the board split into groups and discussed opinions on each proposed budget. No formal decisions will be made on how much money each proposal will receive until next week’s meeting. Student Government President Hunter Hughes went over the etiquette policy for the newer members of the board and then brought up the old business and petitions from last week’s meeting for further and final discussion. Committee reports and closing comments ended the evening and included the following. Reminders that the Commuter Council’s trip to Niagara Falls still has available seats available for students. Wilkes University’s Programming Board has a poll up on its social media, on Wilkes Today and website regarding the potential act for the Spring Concert for students to fill out and decide who will perform. The potential acts now are R&B artist Nelly, country duo Dan & Shay, electronic duo Matt & Kim, and DJ Steve Aoki. Wilkes’ Resident Hall Council will hold a voting poll for their dorm room contest on Oct. 9 from 1 to 3 p.m. in the SUB to decide the winner. The members of all groups encouraged students across all years to come out and participate. @wilkesbeacon Sean.Schmoyer@wilkes.edu Beacon Briefs: The happenings on campus -- Oct. 2 to Oct. 8 Compiled by Madelynn Davis Volunteer at the Sordoni Art Gallery Students, faculty and staff are welcome to share their appreciation of art and volunteer at the Sordoni Art Gallery. In order to apply, follow the link on Wilkes Today for the application. Please contact Nicole Lewis at Nicole.Lewis1@wilkes.edu for further details. Catherine H. Bone Lecture to be held on Oct. 17 Dr. Geraldine Richmond will speak at the Bone lecture on Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. in Stark Learning Center room 101. Her lecture is titled “Mulling over Emulsions: molecular assembly at complex liquid surfaces.” Campus Halloween Party seeks Participants Campus clubs and organizations are invited to host a table at the Annual Community Halloween Event. Space is first come, first serve. Each table is expected to bring their own food and/or activity. The party will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct 28, in the Henry Student Center. Anyone interested should contact Kristin Osipower at Kristin. Osipower@wilkes.edu or ext. 5904. Indoor Rock Climbing Adventure Education Club will be hosting indoor rock climbing sessions every Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. in the UCOM. Equipment is provided and students of all skill levels welcome. Chamber Orchestra welcoming new members If you have an instrument and are looking to participate in an extra-curricular activity, the Wilkes University Chamber Orchestra is welcoming members. For any questions or for more information please contact Mr. John Vaida through email at John.Vaida@wilkes.edu. Upcoming Events: 2018 Fall Semester October 4 - Homecoming Pep Rally 5 - Homecoming Dance 6 - Homecoming Game vs. Albright 17 - Catherine H. Bone Lecture 18 - Fall Fest (WUPB) 19 - SG Fall Event 22 to 26 - Freak Week (WUPB) 22 - Monster Social Monday (WUPB) 23 - Zombie Bar (WUPB) 24 - Mobile Escape Room (WUPB) 25 - Bingo (WUPB) 26 - Scary Place (WUPB) November 1 - Cupcake Wars (WUPB) 6 - Casino Week: Texas Hold ‘Em (SG) 7 - Casino Week: Bingo (SG) 9 - Casino Night (SG) 15 - Wing Wars (WUPB) 21 to 25 - Thanksgiving Recess 29 - Bingo (WUPB) December 6 - Holiday Party: PJs and Pancakes (WUPB) 10 - Final Exams Begin WUPB denotes Wilkes University Programming Board SG denotes Student Government Flu shots available at Passan Hall The Wilkes University Health and Wellness Department has a limited number of flu shots available for students. The flu shots will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. The office is located on the first floor of Passan Hall and is open from 8:30 a.m. to noon, or 1 to 4:30 p.m. Flu shots will cost $20 and can be paid to the University through cash or check. For any further questions or concerns please contact the Health and Wellness Department. @wilkesbeacon Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu Table of Contents News.................2 Life, A&E............7 Want your event featured in the calendar? Spread (LA&E)..12 Email Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu Opinion............14 Sports..............19 �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 News Director of Sordoni Art Gallery recognized by Tanne Foundation By Sean Schmoyer Staff Writer Wilkes Director of the Sordoni Art Gallery Heather Sincavage was recognized by the Tanne Foundation for artistic achievement. One of seven artists across the country recognized Sincavage received a monetary award which she put towards her performance piece “The Burden of This” over the summer in London. The award also is going to developing of her new work. Sincavage’s performance “The Burden of This” involves Sincavage carrying her body weight in manure as she goes through public areas. “It is a piece about how we are always contending with our trauma, we walk around with it, we may not be talking about it or advertising it, but it is something that is very much apart of us.,” said Sincavage. “It is a part of who we are, how we act, how we interact with others and that trauma becomes formative in who we are and how we act. I want to bring attention to that we may try to keep that trauma private, but it is very much apart of our lives.” Sincavage grew up in a family that valued the arts from visual to theatre to all kinds. Her father was a graphic designer and a painter as well. “I had always wanted my work to look like his when I was younger and would get mad when it did not,” said Sincavage. Art became a part of Sincavage’s life, she would go with her family to art museums in New York on the weekends and art became like another family member to her. “It was never really a question. I always knew that that is what I was going to do. It was never going to be anything else. If I wasn’t an artist I would teach English. My parents realized that and made me very aware of programs and I ended up at Tyler’s School of Art in Philly,” said Sincavage. Sincavage later went on to recieve her MFA at the University of Washington. She later served as director of the Reed Fine Art Gallery and University Collections at University of Maine at Presque Isle. “[The art gallery] is like the best playground ever. This is probably two and a half times larger than the art gallery I worked in Maine. We’re established, the space is just amazing to work with and I love the fact that we can be flexible and show many different kinds of art. The show we have going now is winding down and the next one will be completely Submitted Photo Heather Sincavage performing her performance piece, “The Burden of This.” Sincavage carries her body weight in manure to signify the way living with trauma feels. Submitted Photo Sincavage has performed her piece in various places, including London. different,” said Sincavage. Sincavage hopes to be an extension for programs on campus and allow for them to see the curriculum of their courses in a non-traditional classroom, as well as provide exposure for students who have not been to an art gallery. She hopes students will be able to learn more about the communities around, topics they might not know, and get more involved with things they are apart of. Jessica Morandi, a sophomore DDMA and Marketing major who works at the Sordoni Art Gallery spoke highly of her experiences with the gallery. “Honestly, I love working at the gallery. It is enriching me with lots of knowledge and experience in many fields,” explained Morandi. “Heather is an amazing boss, I would not want to work for anyone else. She is kind, encouraging and inspiring, especially as a strong female role model. I have definitely picked up on putting a lot more thought into the meaning behind work. Heather was helping me come to a fuller understanding of not only my art, but also art around me.” Sincavage hopes to see the art minor at Wilkes grow and hopes that her recognition and award will help bring notice to the work Wilkes help her create. Sincavage did not start off as a performance artist, her degree is actually in metalsmithing. From there she believed there was more potential that she could do with the art she was making 3 and wondered what she could do in other forms. Nikki Hart, a junior environmental engineering major who works at the Sordoni Art Gallery spoke about the knowledge she gained from working with Sincavage. “Working with Heather has been amazing. I come from a side of campus that has very few women so Heather is a female role model to me. I love working at the gallery it makes me feel like I am a part of something big and exciting,” said Hart. “I learned from Heather that art does not have to be necessarily beautiful. Art can be made from everything as long as it has meaning. I also learned that not everyone is going to love and appreciate your art and that is okay.” Sincavage hopes that the gallery will inspire people to create more art. “I love being in this role as an advocate for other creatives it is amazing. Art is a hard field, you are told no more than yes. You can take many routes to get to where you want to be as long as you believe in what you are doing and your form of expression. It is staying true to your vision, my biggest thing is to not give up. Keep on the path because what you know in your heart of hearts is what the right path is.” Students and community members interested in the art field or the Sordoni Art Gallery should feel comfortable asking or contacting Sincavage for more information or advice about the field and events going on. The Tanne Foundation was created in 1998. “..the Tanne Foundation has interests in filling cultural voids, enriching the artistic experience and broadening horizons for artists and their audiences,” says the organization’s website. The award given to Sincavage is a special award given to individual artists which recognizes their achievements despite limited financial resouces. The next exihibit goes from Oct. 23 through Dec. 16, titled ‘Loud Silence: Expressions of Activism.” The exhibit will feature more than 40 artists, including Judy Chicago, Kara Walker, Faith Ringgold, Ana Mendieta, Kiki Smith and Jenny Holzer. @wilkesbeacon Sean.Schmoyer@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 News Theatre Department changes musical following student concerns By Cabrini Rudnicki and Maddie Davis Co-News Editors The theatre department at Wilkes University was scheduled to present the musical “Evita” in Fall 2018, but it was met with backlash from the students of the department. “Evita” is set in Argentina and follows the life of Eva Perón an Argentinian political leader. It focuses on her early life, rise to power, as well as her death. When the musical was announced to the musical theater students, as all musicals and plays are, it was met with negative feedback because the students were not comfortable with primarily white students starring as Latinos. The musical has since been replaced. According students in the department, after the students deliberated with each other in person and through private group chats, they decided to approach the heads of the department in a professional, but effective way: by drafting a letter and petition to not perform “Evita.” The four-page letter, which was sent out June 15, two days after the announcement of the musical, shared the select students concerns were addressed to “Wilkes University Theatre Department” and included the following: “As actors, it is true that the art requires us to portray characters and people who differ from our everyday selves,” wrote the students, “However, it is completely different to portray someone of a race or ethnicity that does not match our own. “Being that Wilkes University Theatre is a predominantly white institution, we don’t feel it is appropriate for nonLatino actors to portray characters of a different ethnicity, as would be required for Evita. “...Students in the department of Latino heritage have made it clear that they would not be comfortable with students who are not of Latino descent portraying these roles,” added the select students. “Our fellow Latino actors would be offended by our participation in this show, which would be another example of the whitewashing of raciallyinfluenced roles in modern theatre.” The students also commended the department for its efforts to avoid cultural appropriation with the spring production of “Chorus Line.” In the musical there were some roles that were altered to fit the cast of the production, which the students were appreciative of. However, they believed there was no altering “Evita” without losing the Argentinian-driven culture of the story. The petition also included a statement saying that the petition was not from a singular student, but rather written collectively as a whole. While the students boycotted auditions, they did not boycott working behind the scenes. In the department, students are required to work on every production for a grade; however, they are not required to audition. The first day of the fall semester, the students were met with a department meeting discussing the issue. After the meeting, the department continued to run auditions for the musical. According to the students, only seven people auditioned. After that, the musical was changed. Brianna Schunk, a former musical theatre major and now English major, was one of the students who signed the petition. “The (initial) plea fell on deaf ears,” said Schunk about the petition to drop the production of “Evita” from the fall line-up of production, noting that the department continued with the auditions. Schunk was also involved in multiple productions after she had left the department a year ago, such as “Pippin” and “A Chorus Line.” Theresa Fallon, director of theatre, declined to comment on the student boycott and the department’s decision to cancel “Evita.” Josh Shepard, one of the students who signed the petition, spoke about the feelings of some of the students. “We didn’t feel comfortable portraying a culture that we knew we had no business portraying,” Shepard said. The petition sparked a debate over the difference between ethnicity and skin color. “The first time Evita came out, it was the 1960s, and it was an all Caucasian cast. I am saying Caucasian, because Evita is white, but she is also Hispanic,” he explained. “That is one thing we were trying to clear up, was there was a difference between color and race. There are white people who are AfricanAmerican, there are white people who are Indian, and on the other hand there 4 Submitted by Mmachi Dimoriaku Joshua Shepard starred in “Pippin,“ part of Wilkes University’s 2017-2018 season. He took on the role as the “Leading Player“ of Pippin and put his own spin on the character. are black people who are German. Color is not the only factor, it is also the ethnicity and race.” After the petition, the students and the faculty of the department had a back and forth conversation about the issue. One issue brought up was Lin Manuel Miranda’s, take on non-latino students portraying characters in his predominating latino cast of “In the Heights.” Miranda is a famous and respected theatre director, “He feels that it is OK for high school students to do ‘In the Heights’, because they are just learning about the arts and who they are,” explained Shepard. The interview was brought to the students’ attention as a way of supporting the department’s claim, but Shepard says it actually supported their petition further. “That’s high school; we are not in high school anymore. We are now at a a stage in our career where we’re building our character, we are establishing who we would play in musicals and in plays. Evita just didn’t feel appropriate.” Evita was announced to be replaced with a Tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer of Evita, as well as many other famous musicals including Cats, Phantom of the Opera and Jesus Christ Superstar. The first six songs from the performance are songs from Evita. “I guess it feels like a compromise,” said Shepard. The boycott led one student, Mmachi Dimoriaku, to audition for a musical at King’s College, Ragtime. The musical, which has a racially diverse cast, was opened up to nonKing’s students in order to portray a properly diverse cast. “I am really happy that they opened up auditions to the community. I feel like if Wilkes had opened up Evita to the community, the response would have been just as great, if not a bit more than Ragtime.” Dimoriaku plays a role in the Harlem Ensemble. Isaiah McGahee, a Wilkes University communication studies and political science junior, plays a principal role in the musical. “If there was one musical I wanted to do, I wanted it to be Ragtime. When they finally opened the musical to the public, I auditioned.” This is McGahee’s first time in a musical, but he says he wants to participate in Wilkes musicals as well. Ragtime opened on Sept. 27. The next performances are Oct. 4, 5, 6 at 7:30 p.m at King’s Widmann Gallery, SheehyFarmer Campus Center. The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber runs Nov. 15 through 18 at 8 p.m. with 2 p.m. matinees on Nov. 17 and 18. @wilkesbeacon Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 News Wilkes-Barre Chamber Spotlight holds Women’s Entrepreneurial Series By Cabrini Rudnicki Co-News Editor The Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber held the Women’s Entrepreneurial Series on Wednesday. Wilkes-Barre Connect and Penn State Wilkes-Barre sponsored the event, which was held in the THINK Center. The event was part of the Wilkes-Barre Connect’s Spotlight series. Dr. Dale Jones, Chancellor of Penn State Wilkes-Barre, opened the night by recognizing the importance of the series. “Spotlight is our version of TedTalk, featuring an entrepreneur from outside of the area focused on inspiring our students and local businesses,” said Jones. Featured speaker was Kim Kaupe, cofounder of the Superfan Company. Kaupe was previously on Forbe’s 30 under 30 list, Advertising’s 40 under 40, and Inc’s 35 under 35 list. Kaupe’s marketing company, Superfan Company, was started eight years ago. After introducing herself, Kaupe spoke about the importance of internships and connections. CHALK, from front page with this community-building event. “What you’re going to see today is people coming from everywhere and enjoying themselves,” said Maday. When the committee first started ChalkFest, they realized if you put people together, they would come together and converse. In all following ChalkFests, Maday had purposely designed the layout of the available concrete space to get families and other participants to interact with each other. “It’s that kind of harmonious event that we are putting forward,” said Maday. Aside from the main event of the world record, the event had different exhibits set up to help further educate volunteers and participants. There were many environmental exhibits and tables held at the event to further drive this goal of environmental education among the public. There was also a voter registration booth from Luzerne County to get people signed up to vote in the upcoming mid-term elections in November and a table for a a local food drive for the Weinberg Food Bank in Pittston, Pa., was stationed by the chalk table. Participants, volunteers and supporters are the reasons Maday says an event at this “Your GPA does not matter, your test scores do not matter,” she said. “For me, my internships were imperative. It truly is about who you know and the resources that you are connected to. “ “Where can you learn more, that is imperative,” she explained. “If I could go back in time to college, it would be to utilize my resources more effectively, because those networking skills are invaluable, and something you should absolutely take advantage of as much as possible.” After graduating from the University of Florida with a business degree, Kaupe moved to work for Conde Nast in New York City. “I thought of myself as the Chief Solution Officer,” she said. “I was going to solve any problem that came my way. Big problems, small problems, anything that came in front of me I was going to solve it.” After telling a story about walking her boss’ dog in order to decrease her boss’ stress, Kaupe asked the audience to think of problems in their life. “My question to you is: What problems are you not solving?” she asked. “I caliber would go on today. Maday compared the three components of ChalkFest to the three legs of a three-legged stool. Each one of these legs are essential to keep the structural soundness of the stool. Without even one of these, the stool will not stand. The stool’s legs resemble the components as with none of these, said Maday, ChalkFest would not be able to succeed and break this record. They would not be able to educate the public of the environment much like they were able to on Saturday. “We will continue to do this as long as we have those components,” added Maday. Nicole Wilson and her daughter from Plymouth also joined the communal crowd for the world record at the River Common for their first ChalkFest. “It sounded exciting because of the potential to break a world record,” Wilson said about her interest in the event. Wilson had seen the event advertised on Facebook where they were asking for volunteers to help and thought it would be a fun event for her and her daughter to be apart of. They especially hoped they would become apart of history. She was especially suprised that the event was up for a world record, mainly because of how obselete and hidden Wilkes-Barre is to challenge you to take on those problems. No one has ever said we want less solution.” Kaupe continued her speech by discussing more tips for entrepreneurs, including educating onceself as much as possible. “Before your idea can take off, you have to make sure people want your idea.” Kaupe described how she kept a full-time job while also beginning her company at the same time. When her company gained enough tracition, she left her full-time job. “We hesitated six, seven, eight, nine times, before we realized that there is never the right time to quit your job or to go into entrepreneurship because it’s really scary.” Kaupe recommended asking one’s self, “What’s the worse that could happen?” before jumping into a big decision. “As long as I was able to stomach the final outcome, go for it. If you can’t stomach the final outcome, do your best to prepare. Always be prepared for the worst case.” Other women entrepreneurs visited the event via video. Michelle Lehman, founder of Rae Sleeves, discussed how her invention solves 5 common everyday women’s problems Rae Sleeves are tights-like material to be worn under sleeveless tops in order to help women with upper arm insecurity. Lehman, who went to Wilkes University for her undergraduate studies, spoke about her journey to starting her business. “After studying in Dublin, Ireland, for my senior year, I came back with a crazy idea to start a fashion line. One year later, Rae Sleeves is my entire world.” Other speakers include Zubeen Saeed, President of Building Blocks Learning Center; Natalie Lynn, owner of Counterpart Kombucha; and Lisa Urbanski, president of Brighter Journeys. The WBC Spotlight series is a quarterly event dedicated to being an opportunity for industry leaders in NEPA to meet and discuss potential partnerships. The entire event was livestreamed on the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce Youtube, and is avaliable for viewing at any time under the name ‘W/B/C Spotlight Women’s Entrepreneurial Series Live!’ @wilkesbeacon Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu The Beacon/Steffen Horwath Joanne Rayanis of Plains, Pa. decided to draw a blue herron and a portrait of a younger girl. others within not only the United States, but the world. “There aren’t usually big things that go on here [in Wilkes-Barre],” said Wilson about the event, “and now you’re talking about a Guinness world record, which is very popular.” The decision and ruling by Guinness will not be decided until later next week as the judges have to assess the length of the chalk drawing and many other factors involved with the event. @wilkesbeacon Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 News Marsy’s Law PA holds presentation on campus safety By Cabrini Rudnicki Co-News Editor Marsy’s Law PA held a tele-townhall on Sept. 21 for National Campus Safety Awareness Month. The event was a call-in press conference for college journalists. Two speakers, Jennifer Storm and Jennifer Riley, spoke about the importance of Marsy’s Law and its relationship to National Campus Safety Awareness month. Marsy’s Law PA hopes to elevate victims’ rights to the state constitution. After creating the law in 2008 in California, efforts were spread to other states including Kentucky, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Idaho, Oklahoma, Maine and Pennsylvania. “While criminals have more than 20 individual rights spelled out in the U.S. Constitution, the surviving members of murder victims have none,” says the Marsy’s Law for Pennsylvania website. Jennifer Storm, the Commonwealth Victim Advocate, works to represent the rights of crime victims before the Board Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 72, Issue 05 of Probation and Parole as well as the Department of Corrections. “What most people don’t realize is that when [criminals] become incarcerated, the victim still has a lot of rights that they are required to receive and afforded to receive by law,” explained Storm. “What’s so amazing about Marsy’s Law is that it is going to take the rights of those victims and codifying them in the Constitution, which for us is just going to strengthen those rights and make sure all victims understand and appreciate the ability to engage those rights.” Jennifer Riley, Director of Marsy’s Law for PA, spoke about the importance of National Campus Safety Month. “From a Marsy’s Law perspective, every time someone is assaulted, that is a crime, and that is when Marsy’s Law comes in.” Marsy’s Law organizations hope to eventually extend the law to federal jurisdiction. “Here in Pennsylvania, we are one-third away from changing our Constitution,” she said. “We need to pass the next legislative session.” The constitutional amendment was Staff Writer you want to make friends,” explained Riley “That’s one of the reasons the first six weeks are called the red zone, because you are surrounded by people you don’t know. This is the first time you are living on your own, and you may forget to lock your door.” “The other factor that really impacts the college environment is alcohol,” continued Storm. “Most college freshmen are only 18, so they are not of age to drink in Pennsylvania, but that doesn’t mean alcohol is not available to them.” Sergeant Edwin Weidow, of Wilkes University Campus Public Safety, explained specific tips for Wilkes. “Being aware of your surroundings is the most important thing,” he explained. “Walk in pairs or in a group, especially later at night.” Public Safety is putting together campus-wide Safe Training, a situational awareness class. Contact Edwin.Weidow@ wilkes.edu for more information. @wilkesbeacon Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu IHIIE B 8IEA CC(O)N T,._ _ _, HE EACON Wilkes University - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania By Your Name Here voted on unanimously in June by the state House and Senate. The next legislative session begins in January 2019. In November of 2019, if the law passes the next two legislative session, the law will be on the Pennsylvania state ballot for voters to vote on. “Similar to the Miranda Rights, a victim of crime is given their rights as well by law enforcement,” said Storm. “You have the right to be notified on everything happening in this case, you have the right to know if/when your accused are arrested, incarcerated, make bail. You have the right to be at any court events.” Also included is the right to a victim advocate, or as Storm puts it, “the right to not be alone.” “[Victim advocates] are there as navigators, to answer questions, and to explain the confusing jargon that happens in court cases.” The speakers then went into analyzing campus safety. “You think back when you are growing up and you are told don’t talk to strangers, but then you are thrust into a college environment and it’s all you do because This could FREE Take one The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. on a passi e v a h or If you be you! design , g n i t i for wr phy, join us! ra photog THE BEACON HIRES: WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, EDITORS Contact: Managing Editor Nick Filipek Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu THE BEACON Freshmen and all majors welcome! 6 THE BEACON �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 7 Life, Arts & Entertainment Life, Arts & Entertainment Have a story or want your event to be featured? Contact the Life, Arts & Entertainment editor: Sarah.Matarella@wilkes.edu INTERNSHIP, from front page Her main goal is to see students grow in confidence, allowing them to have successful interviews and receive job offers. It is also an opportunity for professional development. “Professional development is a very important part of the whole collegiate process because, if you can’t do that when you’re ready to graduate, you can’t get the job,” said Castano In addition, all students can gain something from attending the internship fair. For first year students, this is an opportunity to practice creating a resume and learning how to ask professional questions. For sophomores, the fair allows you to do research on different companies for potential internships. For juniors and seniors, this event even allows you to further look for and apply for internships, careers, and Graduate schools. Caitlin Brossman, a sports management major, interned at WBRE and WYOU. “I helped with planning out their shows on a daily basis. I helped plan some dinners and events that they were doing as well,” said Brossman. In the future, she hopes to plan events for places like hotels or casinos. Brossman stated that her internship “gave me more of an insight of how things are operated and how things should run.” This real-world experience allowed her to develop a better insight into her future career and will aid her in the transition to working life. Brossman recommends the fair “because you meet a lot of interesting businesses or companies that could potentially help you further your future.” Tobias Mintzmyer, a sociology major with a minor in women’s studies and a concentration in anthropology interned at Minor’s Medical Addiction treatment facility in Ashley, Pa. He ran counseling sessions, typed notes, and did paperwork. His internship “It gave me a taste of what the job is going to be like and what kind T... I of duties the job is going to entail,” said Mintzmyer. He said enjoys working with people in addiction because they often have cooccurring issues with mental health. Due to this, he has working experience that would fit most counseling positions. As his internship was ending, Mintzmyer has hired to work there, he stated that his internship eased the transition into a paid position. Dylan Farrow, a business administration major with a concentration in marketing interned at Keystone Automotive Operations working in sales and account development. “I would absolutely recommend the internship fair to other students. You gain valuable, real world knowledge while working an internship. More importantly, you expand your network and meet a lot of new people! Even better, in cases like mine, you can secure a job that will allow you to live anywhere in the country after graduating,” said Farrow. Castano has several tips for people attending the fair. First, make sure to eat before attending, when you are hungry you have trouble focusing. Second, bring 20 to 30 resumes to hand out to companies or schools and bring a notebook so you can take notes and remember what people said. Third, make a list of organizations you would like to talk to, start with your least favorite and work your back to your first choice. This allows you to practice your pitch and work out some nervousness you may be feeling. Fourth, follow up with companies after you give them your resume you should email them thanking them for attending. For more information regarding the internship, career and professional fair, contact Sharon Castano at Sharon. Castano@wilkes.edu or Jordan Adkins at Jordan.Adkins@wilkes.edu. @wilkesbeacon Catie.Lally@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 8 Life, Arts & Entertainment The begining of the holiday movie season; movies to see during fall semester By Nicholas Filipek Managing Editor As October officially begins, so does the holiday movie season. Luckily for students, as we head deeper into the fall semester, we can rely on plethora of good movies to release during this time.This is that special season where major hollywood studios tend to release their more heartfelt and thought provoking films, not to mention more family friendly flicks. Though a few action packed movies might slip in there every now and again, generally speaking, the start of October brings an end to the “summer blockbuster” season. This holiday season may be one of the best that the industry has seen in a while, with several major titles hitting the silver screen over the next few months. These are the movies everyone should try to go see, assuming they can pry themselves away from their library chairs long enough to find themselves into a cinema seat. Halloween- Oct. 18. Directed by David Gordon Green, written by David Gordon Green & Danny McBride & Jeff Fradley. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Will Patton, Halik Bilginer and Andi Matichak. Believe it or not, Michael Meyers will be making his way back to the big screen again, and no, we are not talking about a chance for another Austin Powers movie, wrong Michael Meyers. Instead, the man in the white mask will once again be slowly chasing teenagers around with a knife, while bumping that haunting techno music beat the world has come to associate with this classic horror film character. This will mark the eleventh time the psychopathic serial killer has been featured in films, while also marking Curtis’s fifth time playing the character Laurie Strode. When news of this movie first broke into the mainstream media, it was stated that that it would not be a “remake” or “reboot”, but since then the direction of the film has shifted course and is now said this is going to be a direct sequel to the original 1978 Halloween, erasing the continuity of the aforementioned 11 movies, and starting a new series from here. The Hate U Give- Oct. 19. Directed by George Tillman Jr., screenplay by Audrey Wells, based upon the novel by Angie Thomes. Starring Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, Anthony Mackie, Issa Rae, Common and Algee Smith. Starr Carter (Stenberg) is the only witness to the murder of her childhood best friend, who was shot by a police officer, and now must find her voice in order to stand up for what’s right and honor the memory of her friend. The book, which the movie is named after, was published in February of 2017 where it debuted at number one on The New York Times young adult best-seller list. Even more impressively, the title held that spot for the next 50 weeks. The book has also had some controversy surrounding it due to its depiction of drug use, profanity and other offensive languages that has left some to deem it as “pervasively vulgar”. This has led to The American Library Association listing it as one of the most challenged books in 2017. In a world where the synopsis of this movie can be easily interchanged with a news headline, it is important to keep stories of this nature in the forefront of everyone’s mind so we never forget that instances like the ones depicted in this story happen everyday. Bohemian Rhapsody- Nov. 2. Directed by Bryan Singer, screenplay by Anthony McCarten, story by Anthony McCarten and Peter Morgan. Starring Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Aiden Gilen, Lucy Boynton, Tom Hollander and Mike Myers. Right now, I am going to tell you to do the one thing a good writer should never do. I realize that this comes with a high risk, but in telling you to follow the next bit of advice, your life will become more enriched. Stop reading this article, and go look at the trailer for this movie, because it is a masterpiece. As the trailer plays, showing you the small bits and pieces of the movie, the music accompanying the scenes, is a character itself. It moves the trailer along so seamlessly and extraordinarily that by the time it is over, you have the urge to go back and watch it again. Freddie Mercury (Malek) and the rest of Queen are brought to life so beautifully by the cast, and with the soundtrack behind them, it just brings the entire vision to life in a truly awe inspiring fashion. This was all done despite having some major controversy during the production of the film. According to the BCC, Malek had grown tired of Singer’s erratic behavior, which saw him routinely showing up late to set or disappearing altogether. Singer was gone so often in fact that cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel stepped in on the days where Singer was a no show. Let’s hope that whoever got us to that beautiful trailer is in charge of the final product being delivered because anything less at this point would be a travesty. The Grinch- Nov. 9. Directed by Yarrow Cheney and Scott Mosier. Screenplay by Michael LeSieur and Tommy Swerdlow, based on the book by Theodor Geisel aka Dr. Seuss. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Rashida Jones, Kenan Thompson, Pharrell Williams, Cameron Seely and Angela Lansbury. The grumpy ol Grinch is back for another bite at the onion in this new look brought to you by Illumination Entertainment. This will be the studios second time coming to bat with a Suess film after their 2012 film, The Lorax. Most folks remember the Ron Howard directed, 2000 live action version of the story, starring Jim Carrey. This version of the film is still played as often as the 1966 animated classic, and probably wouldn’t suffer from a “sprucing up”. So far the only real information known about the plot of the movie is pretty standard for the retelling of the classic Dr. Seuss story, but I am sure this ultra creative movie giant will find a way to spin a new tale with these characters while paying homage to the original legend. Holmes & Watson- Nov. 9. Directed and written by Etan Cohen, based on the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Starring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Rebecca Hall, Kelly Macdonald, Ralph Fiennes, Steve Coogan, Lauren Lapkus and Hugh Laurie. It’s quite surprising that it took Hollywood this long to produce a humorous take on this famous duo, but now that is has come to fruition, in no way could it have been cast any more perfectly. Ferrell and Reilly are the classic comedy couple of the 21st century, the Laurel and Hardy for some readers, and have a massive comedy following after similar team ups in Step Brothers and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. The pair will now transform into the the best detective duo of all time in order to solve a new crime, a murder in Buckingham Palace. If they do not solve the crime in four days, Holmes nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Fiennes), will kill the Queen of England. This is a Village Roadshow Pictures’ production, the same studio that brought us the last two Sherlock Holmes movies starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law. They know how to make a good Holmes story, and the boys know how to be funny, almost certainly making this a smash hit at the box office. That’s not all coming to the big screen for the rest of the this fall semester however, with plenty more titles to be discussed coming soon. However these titles will be revealed in 2 weeks for the next edition of Nick’s Flick Picks is could be a little... venomous. @wilkesbeacon Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 9 Life, Arts & Entertainment Self care with Sarah: Effects of sleep deprivation By Sarah Matarella Life, Arts & Entertainment Editor With busy work and school schedules, pulling an all nighter can seem like the only option on nights that you have a lot of work to do. However, the amount of sleep that you get can impact your body and your brain, especially if those all nighters become a common occurrence. Sometimes there is no way to avoid having to stay up late to study or finish assignments because tasks can pile up. However, staying up late or all night can be detrimental to your health and your GPA. According to the Amherst College Campus Mental Health and Wellness Center, getting one or two nights of poor sleep can affect mood, weight, immune system and more. In sufficient sleep results in irritability, decreased motivation, and overall mood. If sleep is neglected long term, it can lead to depression, anxiety and increased stress. Having an altered state of mind can make necessary daily tasks much harder, let alone studying or doing tasks required for success in school and work. Food cravings can also increase due to the fact that your brain is trying to make up for the energy lost from staying awake. Therefore, you are more susceptible to weight gain and above average BMIs. “Inadequate sleep on a regular basis is associated with long term health consequences including diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and heart disease,” according to Amherst College. In addition, a sufficient amount of sleep helps with memory, learning and mental performance. When you are well rested, you have a better ability to focus and retain what you are learning. Better sleep increases your ability to recall previously and recently learned information which will help with tests, class discussions, and learning in general. In correlation, you will have a higher GPA since studies show that students who do not get an adequate amount sleep had lower grades overall. “...and new research shows that sleep and dreaming play an important role in the consolidation of memory, which is essential for learning new information. Therefore, sleep provides benefit both before and after engaging in a learning activity,” according to Amherst College. Tips for better sleep: Schedule a bedtime Set a time that you will go to sleep at every night and try to keep up with this on the weekend. Make sleep another task on your planner and do not neglect it to do more work. Your body will naturally adapt to this schedule and even start doing it for you after awhile. then you should return to your bed. Unwind before bed Things like showering, meditating, doing breathing exercises, and stretching are all examples of activities that you can engage in to unwind before going to bed. These practices aid in clearing your mind prior to getting in bed. This can help avoid being stuck laying in your bed trying to fall asleep because you are thinking about the day you just had, what is in store for tomorrow, or anything you are worrying about. Limit electronic use before bed Use your bed for sleeping and According to Amherst College, “TV relaxing and video games can be over-stimulating, Try doing your homework at your desk or even in a separate room rather than doing it on your bed at night. If your brain is used to doing homework and exerting energy while you are in your bed, it will be harder for you to fall asleep at night. Your bed will solely be associated with sleep and relaxation and it will ultimately be easier for you to sleep. Amherst College recommends that if you have insomnia, you can get up and leave the room to do other things until you feel tired, making it difficult to fall asleep. In addition, the glow from electronic devices can inhibit natural sleep cycles.” Therefore, try to put your phone and other electronic devices away at least a half hour before you go to sleep. Reading is a great alternative to fill the void in your hands and to give your eyes something to look at as it can be hard to not hold onto your phone before bed. @wilkesbeacon Sarah.Matarella@wilkes.edu Wellness at Wilkes: Six tips to help boost your energy- without coffee By Natalie Stephens Asst. Life, Arts and Entertainment Editor Many people think that coffee is one of the only ways to get their energy fix, but there are a handful of other things that will help get you going in the morning and stay energized throughout the day. High-protein breakfast Having a breakfast high in protein is important for everyone because it helps you to start off full and ready to take on the day ahead. One high protein, breakfast option that you can have is a protein shake. Not only are they high in protein, but most of them are also low in carbs. It is an alternative to eating eggs in the morning, as eggs only contain about six grams of protein, while many protein shakes can offer you 25-60 grams of protein depending on what type of liquid you use to mix it with. Some other options that are also high in protein include protein bars, greek yogurt, and cottage cheese. All of these foods are relatively easy to prepare and quick for any one on the go. Energy gum Energy gum is chewing gum that does not have added sugar, only caffeine, which can provide you with energy. The motion of chewing gum engages your jaw muscles and increases blood flow to the brain, increasing brain function efficiency. Energy gum can also help reduces cravings for other stimulants, like coffee, because of the added caffeine in it. For companies that make energy gum, 1 piece is equivalent to half a cup of coffee, which is roughly 40 milligrams of caffeine. Avoiding Sedentary Lifestyle Many people sit at desks throughout the day so it is important to remember to move your body in order to help keep energy up. Whether that be taking a short walk or practicing yoga out in the sunshine, it is important to move. Ergotron, a company based in St. Paul, found that sitting at desk for to long caused workers to be restless and also have decreased productivity. They also found that when workers had an hour of standing they were more focused and felt more productive. Sitting at a desk causes your muscles to become fatigued, so getting up and stretching can decrease your discomfort and increase your energy. Some people found that getting a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise a day increased their energy and overall mood. Something as simple as going on a 10 minute walk during the day could benefit your health and boost your energy. A solid playlist We all know music can be very energizing, especially first thing in the morning or if we start to feel fatigued during the day. It can help to draw away the negative aspects of the day and therefore boost mood and energy. Europe PubMed Central conducted a study that looked at various tempo music and how it affected the person listening. They found that high-paced music did increase pulse and breathing rate, similar to an adrenaline boost. Many music apps, like Spotify have playlists such as, Energy Boost, which might be worth listening to when you need a little extra energy in the morning or throughout the day. Water first thing in the morning Drinking water before anything else in the morning can help jumpstart your body and get it ready for the rest of the day ahead. Drinking water first thing helps your body flush out toxins, and speed up it’s metabolism. A study was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and stated that by drinking water first thing in the morning could boost metabolism by 24 percent. Upon waking human bodies are very dehydrated and drinking water can help replenish what was lost overnight while also help in waking you up. Drinking water before anything else can also help with overeating. Our bodies can mistake hunger for thirst so by drink water in the morning that can help eliminate the threat of overeating. Most studies recommend drinking between eight and 16 ounces of water first thing in the morning to receive the full benefits. @wilkesbeacon Natalie.Stephens@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 10 Travel, learn and help others with the Alternative Spring Break Program By Anna Culver Staff Writer Alternative spring break is an option open to students of every major to take a trip to domestic and international locations to complete various projects. The trips give students the opportunity to experience a different culture, while doing volunteer work or gaining an educational experience. Possible domestic locations for this year include Kentucky and North Carolina and international locations are Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. The applications for alternative spring break 2019 were sent out this past week and are due Oct. 5. Some trips contain a class component like the trip to Costa Rica, which is about ecotourism and wildlife and taught by Dr. Andrew Miller, associate professor of political science and Dr. Jeffrey Stratford, associate professor and director of biology at Wilkes. Other trips are designed for students to have the opportunity to help the community. The trip to Puerto Rico is specifically for students to help with the effects of Hurricane Maria on the local communities. Furthermore, the trips to Kentucky and North Carolina are service trips for rebuilding and environmental issues. Alternative spring break is curated every year to give students a more active role in the domestic trips as they are fostoring those relationships through student led initiative. The students who are coordinating these trips, have gone to a civic engagement camp over the summer to learn skills to bring back to campus. These trips are coordinated in country with local residents that are willing to open up their homes to the students both domestically and internationally. Erica Acosta, the associate director of diversity at Wilkes University, has spent seven years with the program and is an advisor for the group that goes to the Dominican Republic.“It is exciting to teach students about my culture and see the before and after. So like the before, we are doing the prepping, planning, fundraisers, introducing them to different types of food, and then seeing the transformation seeing what happens in country. I like that, that is beautiful,” said Acosta. There are alot of different options with trips ranging in prices. Domestic trips range from $300 to about $500 to go, not including fundraising efforts. International trips cost more because of airfare, transportation and housing so that ranges from $1,800 to $1,900, also not including any fundraising efforts that students are willing to put in. “Experiences are different because each group is different. These experiences allow students to take on more social justice role. When students fill out their application, there are no choices for destination so students can focus on just what type of service and activities that they want to do,” said Acosta. Students spend working days doing service while on their trip. The hope is for student to come back more openminded and grateful for what they have. These trips are designed so that students can learn to become more aware about the social, political and economic issues of the places they are visiting. Students will be able to learn about various rights domestically and internationally while also appreciating the freedom that we have and using it to help others. “Our big mission is like speak for those that can’t have a seat at the table. How do you do that through is either community service, getting to know their communities, getting to know the people. We just want students to help and understand the community. These trips are transformational depending on the students mission,” said Acosta. Before going on each trip, there are meetings for students to learn about the community and the various customs that they will encounter. They will also have a chance to try the traditional foods of the community before going on the trip. Students will have the chance to talk with their advisors and ask any questions they have regarding the community that they will be working in. This gives students the chance to become more comfortable before going on the trip. Caroline Rickard, a communication studies major with a concentration in strategic communications and a minor in marketing, went on the alternative spring break to Costa Rica where they worked with local coffee workers to learn about fair trade. She said it was a humbling experience for her as they worked with local coffee farmers and did community service at the local community center. The community service that they did was painting the handball court, playground, wall outside of the soccer field and side of their recreational building. Rickard had always wanted to do a service trip because it was something that she was always very passionate about. “One of the main things that I got out of going to Costa Rica is understanding the life in a different country as this was the first time ever outside the United States and seeing how people live and their culture was so incredible and humbling. It taught me how to be humble and not take things for gratitude. It showed me a different way of life and a different culture,” said Rickard. Lyndsey Shay, a double major in political science and international studies on the pre-law track, also attended the trip to Costa Rica. She mentioned that she had always wanted to do an international community service trip. Students got to pick coffee while also learning about the process by which it is sent to other countries and how it affects the economy. “This trip was super eye opening for me for multiple reasons. Personally, I learned so much about myself and working with other people. It is hard to explain but so much happened on the trip that just made me realize like this is an awesome feeling being able to give back and have these people be so excited about something,” said Shay. For more information about the trips, keep an eye on wilkes today or email Erica Acosta at erica.acosta@wilkes.edu or civicengagement@wilkes.edu. @wilkesbeacon Anna.Culver@wilkes.edu ~ Interested in writing for Life, Arts and Entertainment? Contact Sarah Matarella at Sarah.Matarella@wilkes.edu ll - @WilkesBeacon Facebook.com/WilkesBeacon �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 11 Life, Arts & Entertainment DIY Foam cactus decor Supplies Needed: • • • • Sheet of foam Terracotta pot Scissors Hot glue gun Instructions: 1. Cut preferred cactus shape out of foam 2. Cut a slit down the center of each piece of foam 3. Slide the two foam pieces together 4. Glue the foam pieces to each other so they lay straight 5. Glue the cactus to the bottom of the terracotta pot 6. Decorate your new waterless plant with colored rocks, flowers, etc. By Jordan Fritz, Staff Writer @wilkesbeacon Jordan.Fritz@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 News 12 Becoming Kareem By Madelynn Davis Co-News Editor On Sept. 30, Wilkes University welcomed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the campus as apart of its Max Rossen Lecture in Law and Humanities. Abdul-Jabbar’s lecture was titled “Becoming Kareem” and chronologically captured his life as not only an athlete, but as an activist, author, philanthropist, etc. Abdul-Jabbar was the 37th speaker in the lecture series. The Max Rossen Lecture is in remembrance of the Honorable Max Rosenn who was a Senior Judge in the United States Court of Appeals. Rosenn was born in Plains Township, Pa., and throughout his career played a key role in the restoration of the Wilkes-Barre area as apart of the Flood Recovery Task Force for Wyoming Valley after Hurricane Agnes in the 1970s. He received an undergraduate degree at Cornell University and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania before serving the United States in World War II. His former law clerks wanted to remember Rosenn in a significant way by raising funds to forever endow him through the Wilkes University Lecture Series. Wilkes President Patrick Leahy acknowledged the seven of the eight former law clerks presence as he applauded and thanked them for coming. In the past, this lecture series has brought Supreme Court Justice John Stevens, Senator Paul Simon and Novelist Norman Mailer. This year’s lecture series featured a more personal question and answer between Leahy and Abdul-Jabbar with submitted questions. The questions outlined AbdulJabbar’s life from growing up in Harlem to being the well-rounded person he is today. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is known most notably for his outstanding NBA career on the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers where he has won six NBA championships, he has recorded the most points in NBA history and before that, he was a three-time National Championship with his college UCLA. The lecture, however, featured a more behind the scenes look of Abdul-Jabbar’s life, that took a look at how he has become to be such a well-rounded former-athlete who has published 15 books, set up the Skyhook Foundation among other prestigious titles he has received. Abdul-Jabbar was born in Harlem, NY. in 1947. His mother, who grew up in the Jim Crow era sparked his interest in athletics, specifically in baseball then later in basketball. It was in elementary school where Abdul-Jabbar said he realized he was black because of a school picture that was taken, that being the most shocking experience he had recalled. The focus of the questions then moved to his high school career and experiences at Power Memorial Academy where he recalled another disturbing experience. His team was facing a significantly worse team, but at half-time, they were only winning by a few points. His coach was extremely frustrated with the team, specifically Abdul-Jabbar, and called him the N-word which shook him to his core. This experience helped him learn an important life lesson about people: everyone makes mistakes. Abdul-Jabbar moved to talk about why he chose to go to UCLA and what he had gained from his experience and career there. UCLA was most appealing to AbdulJabbar because he believed he would fit in the system. He continually praised Coach John Wooden for his wisdom but specifically admired him for his part in the civil rights movement, which he specifically didn’t tell Abdul-Jabbar about to avoid him coming to UCLA for that reason alone. Wooden was invited to the biggest game in college basketball with his Indiana State basketball team but rejected the invitation because they wouldn’t allow him to bring his sole black player. The following year, he received the same invitation, but this time the director invited his black player, and from that point on, black players were allowed in the NAIA game. His reasoning for rejecting the first offer was that it was what he was supposed to do, and this attitude clearly stuck in Abdul-Jabbar’s career as he has used his platform to shed light on social and political issues. The decision stemmed from the unequal treatment of black Americans in the United States, leading him to feel unpatriotic. During his talk, Abdul-Jabbar discussed about how Dr. King, Malcolm Photos: The Beacon/Kirsten Peters X, Jackie Robinson and other civil rights Page Design: The Beacon/Madi Hummer activists were his heroes and helped shape President Leahy and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar both sat on stage for a question and answer styled lecture. Each question chronologically following his life’s events. He mostly focused on the behind the scenes to his highly publicized career. �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 News 13 Abdul-Jabbar spoke about his life, revolving around his record-settng athletic career in the NBA and the more academic and activist work he has completed. After the conclusion of the lecture, Abdul-Jabbar was met with a standing ovation and was helped off of the stage by President Leahy to sign books. his involvement in standing up for black Americans. Jabbar also openly supported the current NFL protests led by Colin Kaepernick against the ongoing issue of police brutality against black Americans. “I have all the respect in the world for Colin and for the fact that his protest is peaceful,” said Abdul-Jabbar. “Police brutality is a problem in the black community and we have to keep continuing to have this discussion.” Abdul-Jabbar also talked about his conversion to the Muslim religion and his decision to change his name from Alcindor to Abdul-Jabbar. He also cleared up any misconceptions about the Muslim faith as it is very similar to christianity. “I think that the greatest misconception about the Muslim faith is that it is strange or off the wall,” said Abdul-Jabbar. “Islam is in the Judeo-Christian religion,” nature through this foundation. Abdul-Jabbar ended his lecture by thanking the audience and was met with a standing ovation. “Hopefully you learned something, I am always learning,” said Abdul-Jabbar. “Thank you for having me.” Senior criminology and sociology student Giuseppi Durso gained a lot of insight from Abdul-Jabbar’s longstanding and well-developed career. “Me watching him as a 21 year old gives me hope that I can be like him one day, to become more well-rounded [like AbdulJabbar],” said Durso. “It gives me hope, and hopefully it gives the other college students here hope that they can be more like him; be more open-minded, be more well-rounded as an individual and understanding of other people.” Dr. Terry Zipay, who was the chairperson in the Department of Visual Americans predominantly are Christian or Jewish added Abdul-Jabbar. Abdul-Jabbar moved to talk about his more recent work after he retired from basketball in 1989. He has written many books ranging in topics from history to children books. One book in particular, he hopes helps black children understand they all don’t have to be Beyonce or Lebron James to be successful: “Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement.” He wants young children to realize they just need to study science and math to be successful which lead to his “Skyhook Foundation.” His Skyhook Foundation takes children and gives them a place to complete STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) experiments. They also get hands-on experience with animals and After the lecture, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar signed copies of the more than 15 different books that he has written which were up for purchase for the event. and Performing Arts, attended the lecture with Kris Cross, a faculty member at Wilkes University who teaches dance. Both talked very highly of not only AbdulJabbar but with the running messages of his lecture. “I didn’t hear anyone whispering; he had the full audience engaged,” said Cross. “He gave us so many things to think about,” said Zipay, “I was intrigued at what a gentle man he is. “He has dealt with racism elegantly, giving you really valuable things to think about and ways to manage yourself in this crazy polarized time we are living in,” he added. @wilkesbeacon Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Opinion Editorial Staff 2018-19 MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Luke Modrovsky Managing Editor - Nick Filipek Adviser - Dr. Kalen Churcher SECTION EDITORS News - Cabrini Rudnicki Maddie Davis LA&E - Sarah Matarella Opinion - Savannah Pinnock Sports - Ben Mandell Kirsten Peters ASSISTANT EDITORS News - Available LA&E - Natalie Stephens Opinion - Parker Dorsey Sports - Available DESIGN EDITOR Madison Hummer Interested in joining The Beacon? 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The political battle for the next seat on the United States Supreme Court is overshadowing one big thing: Alcohol and consent do not mix well. The Rape, Abuse & Incent National Network (RAINN) defines consent as “an agreement between participants to engage in sexual activity.” The law states that there is a lack of consent “if a person engages in a sexual act with another person by forcible compulsion or with a person who is incapable of consent because he is mentally defective, physically helpless or mentally incapacitated.” It is the latter two which relate to alcohol. The mentally incapacitated portion refers to someone incapable of controlling one’s conduct due to a intoxicating substance. Physically helpless could mean someone unconscious, or unaware that sexual activity is even occurring. Obviously, and no one should suddenly be learning this, alcohol is not an excuse for someone being sexually assault, but it is however, also not an excuse for someone to sexually assault someone. Alcohol clearly inhibits the body. With consent, both parties have the right to change their mind at any time. Consent “no-nos,” according to RAINN include: refusing to acknowledge “no,” someone being incapacitated because of drugs or alcohol and assuming you have permission to engage in a sexual act because you’ve done it in the past. Think about it. A man could be drunk when the assault occurs, but because he is drunk, it’s seen as a “mistake” and it shouldn’t be seen as his fault because he couldn’t control his actions. If a woman was drunk during the incident, it’s suddenly her fault for being assaulted because she was intoxicated. Her memory, and her character become questioned. The He and the She of both roles could be switched or replaced. Sexual assault knows no gender or sexuality. What matter is that a double standard exists for alcohol. According to RAINN, positive consent is communicating with phrases like “Is this OK?” Other positive consent factors include “explicitly agreeing to certain activities, either by saying ‘yes’ or another affirmative statement, like ‘I’m open to trying,’” as well as physical cues “to let the other person know you’re comfortable taking things to the next level.” There isn’t a clear answer to when the line of consent exists when alcohol is involved. Pretending no one wants sex when they are drinking is absurd, however, if there is ever any doubt on whether the other person wants it or not, don’t do it. Is the person coherent? Can they communicate clearly? Are they sober enough to know what is going on? These are all questions we must ask ourselves. In a study on alcohol and sexual assault published by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), it suggested that on a conservative estimate, out of the 25 percent of American women who have experience sexual assault, including rape, that approximately one-half of those cases involved alcohol consumption by the perpetrator, victim or both. When Ford said she had a beer at a party 36 years ago, many discredited her. When Kavanaugh admitted to kegers and extreme intoxication, the public opinion became “he was just a kid and he didn’t know what he was doing.” While we may never know what happened for certain on that night many years ago, one thing is for sure: alcohol and consent don’t mix. @wilkesbeacon thewilkesbeacon@wilkes.edu Letter to the editor policy: The Beacon welcomes letters to the editor from differing viewpoints. Letters must contain contact information, including name, city, state and phone number. Phone numbers will not be published but may be used for verification purposes. All letters to the editor must be sent using one of the following methods: Email: thewilkesbeacon@wilkes.edu Phone: (570) 408-5903 (Voicemail: 30 seconds or less, please.) Mail: 84 West South Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766 Attn: The Beacon �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 Opinion Is world peace an attainable ideal? The scientific perspective By Zarqua Ansari Staff Writer As a science major, this question interests me on many aspects: Is world peace possible? A question that has riddled many people both optimistic and not, the idea of world peace has always been a pleasant one. A world where conflict does not reside and everyone gets along is one that every sentient being wants. However, exactly how attainable is world peace, really? In order to answer this question we must define the word peace. If peace is defined as order, then from a physical science perspective, peace is not attainable. The universe prefers entropy. The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of the universe is constantly increasing. Entropy is defined as the measure of disorder in a system. This means the universe is inclined to become more and more chaotic as time passes. Peace can be defined as resolution. This would mean mutual concurrence throughout the world (i.e. no competition). As biology defines it, natural selection is the “survival of the fittest.” There will always be competition because not all species are equal. Much the same way, not all people have equal opportunity (e.g. some are born wealthy, some are born with defects, etc). Competition arises when there are variations within a group, whether it is for resources, shelter or security. By this principle world peace would also not be attainable. If peace is defined as harmony then it too cannot be achieved. In order for there to be harmony, there must be no disagreement, no conflict, no entropy. To assume no disagreement is to say that there is a definitive right and wrong way of thinking. If a society seems to have the same mindset displayed in every member then it is likely that the ones that differ in mindset are merely being suppressed. The entropy in the system is hidden and will eventually explode forward. There is no way to get every person to think the same way about everything. Even identical twins (who are genetically identical) cannot think the same way. If all members seem to agree, it is not peace, but rather oppression, which, as history shows, has lead often to war. War is primarily defined as the opposite of peace. During war, death and destruction, the total entropy of the system, is acclimating exponentially. However, not all that comes out of war is bad. Many scientific discoveries, technological advancements and social breakthroughs have been coaxed out of wartime. For example, during World War I, women were taking over jobs that their husbands formerly worked at. When the war ended women were granted the right to vote; one of the main arguments was that they helped keep the country’s economy running during the war. Additionally, when the men returned, they had “shell-shock,” which was soon discovered to be PTSD. If peace and war are opposites, then during peace, a society would not make progress. For example, if a student that attended every class and was attentive and studious, ended up getting the same score as a student that never showed up to class, the hard-working individual would not be inclined to put in the effort anymore. Peace by definition is a utopian ideal, one that can not ideally be achieved. Despite humanity craving and wanting peace, it is not backed scientifically or logically. There is always going to be competition because there will always be someone that has something better. There will always be chaos in the world because it is not possible to make people agree on things. However unattainable peace may seem, it does not mean we should stop trying. Making world peace may be an impossible task, but making it a better place isn’t. One small change at a time certainly wouldn’t hurt anyone. Go out there and be kind to someone today. Add a little positive chaos to the entropy of this chaotic world. What do you think? Is world peace an attainable ideal? Follow us on our social media platforms and let us know. Facebook: The Beacon Twitter: @wilkesbeacon Instagram: @wilkesbeacon 15 @wilkesbeacon Zarqua.Ansari@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 Opinion Which is more essential: Having a high salary or job satisfaction? By Isabella Sobejano Staff Writer There is not one person who doesn’t need or want more money. Whether it’s for a vacation or a new car, everyone appreciates a few extra dollars. However, is having a job that pays well but doesn’t offer anything else really the key to happiness? While the term “happiness” differs from person to person, I would say job satisfaction has more meaning. Yes, good wages can lead to job satisfaction and earning enough to make a living is important, but they aren’t the only reason employees find satisfaction in their jobs. It’s important to pursue a field that gives you personal happiness because if you can obtain a good pay, but you are not happy, then there’s no point.   While money is a satisfaction factor in a job, it shouldn’t be the only factor driving a person to pursue a specific career. Nonetheless, it’s not to say that a good salary isn’t important because for some people it’s essential since they have a family to take care of or several bills to pay. However, according to Alisa Wolfson, writing from the New York Post, “Getting a raise won’t make you hate your job any less.” Essentially, if salary is the only motivation behind performing a job, then it is not a good match for you or your skills, which can eventually lead to poor performance. This domino effect can continue, which may lead to career termination, which would result in little to no salary and no job satisfaction. Additionally, job satisfaction is ultimately more important than a high salary because if employees are happy at work, they will put their best foot forward, which is less likely to happen if one pursues a career that does not satisfy them. During the college application process, I often heard peers sayin they were planning on majoring in a specific subject in order to obtain a career with a hefty salary in the future. While it’s understandable that a high salary is enticing, I couldn’t imagine driving to work every single morning to a job that I didn’t enjoy performing. In fact, Wolfson said, “Making more money doesn’t always mean you’ll be happier at work.” Pursuing a job that makes you content is crucial because it’s a part of your life forever. Job satisfaction doesn’t only pertain to the work environment, but it helps you to be both personally and professionally content as well. At the end of the day we are working to lead our life peacefully. It’s possible to argue that one can travel overseas or buy several luxurious goods with a high salary job in order to be satisfied. However, if you pursue a field or job that you enjoy, then you don’t need money to satisfy your wants because you are already happy. Additionally, according to a study done by two economists from the University of Basel and published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization revealed that wage increases do not have a persistent effect on job satisfaction. It was found that job satisfaction was positively influenced by wage increases, but it was only temporary, typically lasting four years. This was due to the fact that people adapt to their new wage level over time and end up desiring more money. Another side to this is that sometimes rewarding jobs may not always pay well at the beginning. Although, over time, the worker’s enthusiasm and dedication may lead to potential promotions, which can ultimately make the job a lucrative career. Overall, job satisfaction has more weight and meaning than pursuing a job that offers a high salary. When thinking about the long run it’s important to be happy in your personal life, and that should never be based off a quantity or sum of money. After all, salary typically comes once a month, but job satisfaction stays with you every minute of the day. @wilkesbeacon Isabella.Sobejano@wilkes.edu 16 Well it’s not Vheissu, but it’s pretty darn close By Parker Dorsey Asst. Opinion Editor Californian rock band Thrice just released their brand new album, and tenth studio album overall, Palms, over two weeks ago via Epitaph Records. It is a good one. Celebrating their 20th anniversary, Thrice is one of few bands who can say they have had the same lineup for their entire career. It is Dustin Kensrue on vocals and rhythm guitar, Teppei Teranishi on lead guitar, Eddie Breckenridge on bass and Riley Breckenridge on drums. This whole album is an adrenaline ride, and gives a slight nod to some of their earlier material such as The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II and Vheissu. Thrice have been around for as long as they have because they manage to craft a unique identity with each album, but each remains consistent enough to know that it’s the same band. Teranishi and Kensrue are truly a dynamic duo. Their songwriting once again compliments each other’s parts beautifully. The song “The Grey” is the first single from the album and the second song in the tracklist. The wailing guitars will grip your attention immediately, and Kensrue’s vocals are among the catchiest of his career. The second single and opening track, “Only Us” begins with an electronic piano and beautiful vocals from Kensrue laid out on top. This sound continues through the whole song even after the guitars and drums kick in, but it provides a nice complement to the song as a whole. SEE RHYTHM, Page 18 �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 Opinion Meet the Majors 17 This week’s major: History Photos and Interviews by Abigail Tarway Staff Writer Every week, The Beacon will offer a chance for majors to be placed in the spotlight. Each student that gets chosen will have a few words to express why they chose the major and how they feel it will benefit them in the future. Robert Petrovich Junior Robert Petrovich is a junior here at Wilkes University majoring in history and minoring in political science and secondary education. Petrovich was inspired to choose his major due to his passionand drive for it. He states that “I (he) live(s), breathe(s) and sleep(s) history, so it just felt right in choosing this as a career.” Additionally he states that he “also had some great teachers in high school up at the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R) which made me (him) want to teach history even more.” In the future Petrovich believes his major will help him by making him “happy, being able to do something that I (he) love(s)”. Benjamin Pierce Senior Benjamin Pierce is a senior here at Wilkes University. He is a history major who is currently hoping to pursue a Spanish minor. Pierce was inspired and drawn to his major as a result of his affinity for it. He states that he has always “enjoyed History as opposed to other subjects like math or science. I (he) enjoy(s) thinking about the meaning that the past has on us and how individuals who are just like us lived”. In the future Pierce is “thinking of going into missions work and am hoping that I (he) can employ these previously stated skills there.” He believes that his major has provided him with a great skill set such as writing, “research”, and “extracting meaning” from things. He believes that this has prepared him to achieve his academic goals. �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 Opinion 18 October: Breast Cancer Awareness Month is upon us By Tonya Creasy Opinion Writer The month of October is significant for a great deal of reasons. Within the United States it marks the start of Halloween festivities and brings in the autumn season. It is aslo significant because it marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Every October, awareness based initiatives such as the Susan G. Komen Foundation pay extra attention to this sometimes life-threatening disease. Breast cancer is a malignancy that affects millions of people around the world. It is important to be aware of this disease so you can inform others about it. It can allow an individual who may not be aware that they have this disease to get treatment. In simply understanding breast cancer, you have the power to potentially save someone’s life. Being aware of breast cancer may seem unnecessary or redundant as it’s a widely known disease. However, it is necessary to be aware of it because it is an issue that affects many people. Unfortunately, it may continue to do so until we can find a cure. It is important to continue to spread awareness to help save lives. So with all of this in mind, what is breast cancer? According to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, “breast cancer occurs when cells in the breast divide and grow without their normal control”. RHYTHM, from page 16 The third track is a slower song called “The Dark,” and it begins with a hauntingly beautiful stacatto guitar. The song is slower and Kensrue provides an excellent vocal performance here. Next up is “Just Breathe” and has a very catchy guitar riff with excellent drum work behind it. “Everything Belongs” is the ballad of the record, and kicks off with a phenomenal piano piece, with excellent vocal melodies from Kensrue that really showcase his range. “My Soul” has outstanding descending guitar arpeggios throughout the track, and has beautiful solo vocal performances from Kensrue. “A Branch In The River” is my personal ductal carcinoma (IDC), tubular carcinoma of the breast, IDC Type: medullary carcinoma of the breast,. There is also IDC Type: mucinous carcinoma of the breast, IDC Type: papillary carcinoma of the breast, IDC Type: cribriform carcinoma of the breast, invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC), inflammatory breast cancer, lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS), male breast cancer, molecular subtypes of breast cancer, paget’s disease of the nipple, phyllodes tumors of the breast and metastatic breast cancer. The most common form of breast cancer is IDC. IDC is sometimes known as “infiltrating ductal carcinoma”. About 80 percent of breast cancer cases are IDC. It is then clear to see that breast cancer is a heinous disease that manifests itself in a wide range of forms. Also, breast cancer is more likely to be to be found within women between favorite of the record. It is a frentic paced song that almost sounds like a holdover from The Artist in the Ambulance. Teranishi does his best punk impression and also has an impressive guitar solo in the middle of the track. “Hold Up A Light” has a bit of a heavier indie rock sound, with more tasty guitar leads from Teranishi. “Blood On Blood” is a bit of an experimental track, with fast-paced yet soft guitars, more piano and a powerful vocal performance from Kensrue. The final track is “Beyond The Pines,” and it is probably the most beautiful song on the album. Kensrue’s vocal performance here is his strongest of the album and the Breckenridge brothers do a fantastic job as a rhythm section. The drums and bass work as a great complement to the soft guitars. Overall, this is yet another fantastic release by Kensrue and the boys and is a very worthy follow-up to To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere. That in itself is an accomplishment, as that album contains quite possibly the catchiest song on the planet in “Black Honey.” While the highlights of this album are by far Kensrue’s outstanding vocal performances and Teranishi’s catchy guitar riffs, the rhythm section does a great job of keeping everything together. Parker’s Picks: “A Branch In The River,””The Dark,””Hold Up A Light,” “Only Us” According to breastcancer.org, there are many different forms of breast cancer. These forms consist of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), invasive the ages of 55 to 64. However, it is possible for males to get breast cancer as well. It is estimated in 2018 that roughly 300,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer have been diagnosed in women and about three thousand invasive cases have been found in men. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death in women within the United States. As a student body, we are connected to individuals who sustain this disease in one way or another, it’s important to know as much as one can about this disease. Cancer affects way too many people. Cancer itself is just horrible. Cancer has affected a fair amount of people even within my family. Some were fortunate enough to win their battle with cancer, and others, not so much. My grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer years ago. She fought and won her battle. Unfortunately, toward the end of last year, she was diagnosed with a glioblastoma or brain cancer. I also lost my best friend to cancer in March. Cancer takes away so many lives and affects so many families. That is why it is important to go for checkups regularly and be aware of the signs and symptoms. If you catch it early enough, there’s a better chance of getting the treatment you need to beat it. @wilkesbeacon Tonya.Creasy@wilkes.edu @wilkesbeacon Parker.Dorsey@wilkes.edu �19 Sports The Beacon - October 2, 2018 Sports Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the Sports Editors: Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu or Kirsten.Peters@wilkes.edu Sports world reacts to Gritty Wright calls it a career By Nick Whitney Staff Writer The Philadelphia Flyers unveiled their new mascot Sept 24, and it sent the city on an emotional rollercoaster over the next few days. The Flyers released this biography on Monday, detailing the origin story of their new unsettling mascot, Gritty. “Get To Know Gritty: His father was a “bully,” so naturally he has some of those tendencies - talented but feisty, a fierce competitor, known for his agility given his size. He’s loyal but mischievous; the ultimate Flyers fan who loves the orange and black, but is unwelcoming to anyone who opposes his team. Legend has it he earned the name “Gritty” for possessing an attitude so similar to the team he follows.” Standing seven feet, Gritty is like an orange version of the beloved Philly Phanatic, sans iconic nose, and has full orange mane encircling his terrifying, googly-eyed face. The Flyers haven’t had a mascot since the 1976-77 season, when the previous mascot Slapshot was retired after a single season. Needless to say, Gritty was an unexpected and seemingly unwelcomed arrival in Philadelphia. Wilkes University students have been reacting all week to this new addition to the Flyers squad. Senior Jerome Hannon said of the new mascot “this abomination is the result of Philly trying to be like Vegas. I would cringe and plot an escape route if I saw this drug-fueled cross between Grimmace and Cousin It coming towards me.” Not all are that horrified though. Senior Caitlin Klinger thinks “having a mascot is a really great thing for the fans, just like the well beloved Philly Phanatic, but maybe he could have been designed a little better.” Klinger went on to describe her theory on the timing and intentions the Flyers organization had behind this mascot. “I also feel like they knew exactly what they were doing by announcing this mascot at this time because it brought a spotlight onto the city of Philadelphia and became national news almost instantaneously.” All across social media, Gritty became the big hockey meme of the preseason, and not in a good way. Many refer to him as a drug addicted cousin of the Philly Phanatic, some have called for him to be euthanized and others photoshop him into images likening him to It and even Kim Kardashian. Not all the reactions are negative. In typical fashion for the residents in the City of Brotherly Love, some Philadelphians have taken to this weird, orange thing and have fallen in love with him. Gritty tattoos have already been etched into the skin of many Philly fans, and despite the fact that he still is quite terrifying to some children (and many adults), the mascot knows how to win over a Philly crowd. In his first week, Gritty has managed to hit many of the right buttons to sway Philly fans to his side. Even before his first game Gritty was doling out savage responses to his haters on Twitter, including a veiled threat to the Pittsburgh Penguins, telling them to “Sleep with one eye open tonight, bird.” In his first game, Gritty found a way not only to fall on the ice like any first time mascot, but his “bully” side came out later when he shot a worker on the ice in the back with his T-shirt launcher. At the Thursday night game vs. the New York Rangers, Gritty dumped an entire bag of popcorn on top of a fan wearing a Rangers jersey. The new mascot made it clear that Philly is Flyers country and that enemy fans will be dealt with accordingly. It’s not just in Philly that Gritty has been making waves. After Philly took their collective questioning of just exactly what Gritty was, so did the nation. And that is all it took for Philly fans to come to their new mascot’s defense. As Twitter user @ BroadStreetHockey described the day after Gritty was unveiled: “Philadelphia 24 hours ago: ‘What is this abomination of a mascot? What were they thinking?’ Philadelphia now: ‘I would take a bullet for Gritty.’” In typical Philly fashion, the fans came to the defense of their own. The new mascot may be criticized by the fans, but they are the only ones allowed to do it. It remains to be seen how well Gritty will fare this season, but Philadelphia sure will have its hands full with their new orange, fuzzy friend. @wilkesbeacon Nicholas.Whitney@wilkes.edu By Ben Mandell Co-Sports Editor On Saturday, Major League Baseball and the New York Mets said goodbye to an icon. David Wright, the captain of the Mets took the field at third base next to Jose Reyes at shortstop one last time. Wright broke into the league in 2004, where he played 69 games hit .293 and had 40 RBI’s. The Mets knew they had the third basemen of the future with Wright, but they did not yet realize the impact that he would have on the organization. Wright was instrumental in New York’s playoff run in 2006, where he was named to his first of seven all-star games. Wright proved to be a staple in the Mets lineup where he finished in the top three in all of the team’s offensive categories in a year where they scored more runs then all but one team. After tremendous success and playing competitive baseball in his first few seasons, the Mets went into a tailspin, where Wright seemed to be the only bright spot on a team that continued to live up to its disastrous reputation from 2009-2013. Wright gave Mets fans hope while he won two Gold Glove awards, 2 Silver Slugger awards, and being named to the 2013 team USA World Baseball Classic team where he earned the nickname “Captain America”. After sticking it out with the Mets through thick and thin, The Mets decided to show showed Wright the same commitment he showed them. Wright was officially named the team captain in 2013. When the Mets rebuild was finally over, and it appeared that the Mets were going to be able to compete for a World Series again, Wright went onto the disabled list a few weeks into the season. Wright was later diagnosed with spinal stenosis, which is the thinning of the spine. The rest of his career was now in jeopardy as many questioned whether or not Wright could still play. Wright returned in late August that season and helped the Mets make a push for the post season and later make a run to the World Series. In the 2015 World Series, Wright had one of his most iconic moments, where he hit a two-run first inning home run that put the Mets on top. Even Though Wright returned in 2015, his career had already entered the twilight. On June 3rd, Wright went onto the DL with a herniated disc in his back and it appeared he would not be able to ever play again. Wright continued to fight as he received surgery after surgery as he tried to make a comeback, but after a season and a half on the shelf, Wright and the Mets made got together to decide their futures. On September 13th, Wright and the Mets announced that Wright would play in one final game for the Mets on the September 29th. After this game, the Captain would officially retire. Mets Fans from all over showed their love and support for Wright, including Utah Jazz rookie of the year runner-up Donavan Mitchell. Mitchell tweeted a picture of a poster he had of Wright, saying “This photo was the first picture i had on my wall! I looked up to you for years… as a kid to be able to learn from you and you to allow me to learn meant a lot! Thank you for all you have done for the game and for me. Finish it strong!” On Saturday, the Captain took the field one last time, the same day where New York City mayor Bill de Blasio said that Sept. 29, 2018 would be known as David Wright Day. As Wright took the field, his teammates stayed back in the dugout, letting the fans show their captain the love he deserved for all of his dedication and commitment to the organization. Wright’s daughter Olivia Shea was able to throw out the first pitch to her father, which truly helped magnify that this really was the captain’s night in front of a thunderous crowd at Citi Field. David Wright received two at-bats where he walked and popped out. H also had one play in the field where he fielded an groundball and made the routine throw to first. Heading into the fifth, Wright came out for warm-ups before being switched out of the game, where he received cheers and ovations from the fans at Citi Field and all of the players on the field. Wright shook hands with the umpires and his manager Mickey Callaway as this not only marked the end of Wright’s night, but also his career. @wilkesbeacon Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 Sports MSOC: Colonels bounce back and beat Scranton 3-1 By Ben Mandell Co-Sports Editor EDWARDSVILLE, Pa. -- The Wilkes University Colonels edged out the University of Scranton Royals 3-1. The Colonels win was the first against Scranton since 2007. Wilkes came into this game following a heartbreaking 2-1 loss to Stevenson, where the Colonels gave up two late goals and were unable to recover. “We have a tough history with Scranton. We really wanted to play our game and not theirs,” Colonel defender Hunter Maxwell said. “We needed to come out strong after Saturday.” The first half started slow, as both teams tried to avoid any mistakes. It took until the end of the 29th minute of play for either team to make that first mistake and it was junior Kyle Bentz and the Colonels who were able to capitalize. Bentz danced around a Royal defender to the middle of the field. He used the time he had to send a perfect pass to Camry Huff who sprinted up the sideline, beating his defender. Huff was left with just the Royal goalkeeper Blake Hammert to beat and he was able to chip the ball by him with ease. The Colonels were able to keep their 1-0 lead heading into halftime, but their morale was lifted. Wilkes flew around for the rest of the first half heading into halftime. “It’s always good to get the first one and really get some momentum going,” Huff said. “It was good to put us in a spot to keep Cross Country (Men’s and Women’s) 8/31 @ Misericordia Invitational Men’s 5th, Women’s 4th 9/8 @ Stevenson Invitational Men’s 5th, Women’s 8th 9/15 @ Cougar Classic Men’s 4th, Women’s 4th 9/29 @ Mount Saint Mary Men’s 4th, Women’s 5th 10/6 @ Desales Invitational 10/13 @ Inter-Regional Border Battle 10/19 @ LVC Last Chance Run Fast 10/27 MAC Championships (Stevenson) 11/10 NCAA Mideast Regional (DeSales) coming after them.” The Colonels picked up in the second half right where they left off in the first as the continued to fly around and dominate the ball. It paid off quickly in the second half as Colonel defender’s pocket and sprinted down the field. Luchansky sent a shot that was blocked but bounced right to the foot of Michael Castaldi who wasted no time finding the back of the net and cutting the The Beacon/Kyle Kraemer Senior Alvaro Fernandez-Maldonado heads a ball in an attempt to start another Colonel offensive attack. Huff sent a shot off the far post from the left side that was buried by a sliding Bentz. The 2-0 allowed the Colonels to take their foot off the gas a bit, as they attempted to bleed the clock out. Once the clock ticked down under 16 minutes it was the Royals who were able to capitalize on a Colonel mistake. Andrew Luchansky picked a Colonel lead down to one. Scranton appeared to catch a second wind as they looked to claw their way back into the game. The last 15 minutes of the game was intense and very dramatic. Colonel goalkeeper Tim Gallagher did everything in his power to keep the Colonels on top. Jarred Corbett sent a shot towards Gallagher in net Fall Sports Schedules Women’s Volleyball 8/31 @ PSU-Hazleton, W 3-0 9/1 @ Clarks Summit, W 3-0 9/1 @ Lycoming, L 0-3 9/1 @ Penn College, W 3-0 9/4 @ PSU-Brandywine, W 3-0 9/6 vs. Lancaster Bible, L 1-3 9/8 @ PSU-Harrisburg, W 3-1 9/8 @ Shenandoah, W 3-2 *9/12 vs. Manhattanville, L 3-2 9/15 vs. Cairn, W 3-0 9/15 vs. Wesley, W 3-1 *9/18 @ FDU-Florham, L 3-1 9/20 vs. Clarks Summit, W 3-0 9/22 @ Brooklyn College, W 3-0 9/22 @ Rutgers-Camden, W 3-1 *9/26 vs. Delaware Valley, W 3-0 9/28 @ RIT, L 3-1 9/29 @ Morrisville State, L 3-1 9/29 @ SUNY Cortland, L 3-0 *10/2 @ Eastern, 7 p.m. 10/4 @ PSU-Berks, 7 p.m. 10/6 vs. New Jersey City, noon 10/6 vs. PSU-Altoona, 4 p.m. 10/8 @ Keystone, 7 p.m. *10/10 vs. King’s, 7 p.m. *10/16 @ DeSales, 7 p.m. 10/18 vs. Bryn Athyn, 7 p.m. *10/24 @ Misericordia, 7 p.m. 10/27 vs. Marywood, 10 a.m. 10/27 vs. Rutgers-Camden, 2 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Marts Center 20 but he dove to his right making a fantastic save. “The team just needed to make sure that we regrouped and came back after the goal,” Gallagher said. “We needed to make sure we got back to what got us the two goal lead and that was possessing the ball and continuing to move it forward.” The Colonels wasted no time following Gallagher’s effort and cleared the ball out of danger. Instead of sitting back and being content with th clear, Huff sprinted down the field and delivered a beautiful set piece to Bentz in the slot. Bentz was unable to corral the pass immediately, but he recovered shortly after and sent a hard shot to the bottom right corner of the net. The goal was good for Bentz’s second of the game and left the Royals in a two goal hole with just under two minutes left. “Bentz’s goal was huge. It really came at a good time after (Gallagher’s) huge save,” Huff said. “The goal put the game out of reach for them and put the last nail in the coffin.” The Colonels now hold a 4-3-1 record heading into conference play where they start with Delaware Valley University. “Hopefully we are building some momentum heading into conference play,” Colonels Head Coach Michael Piranian said. “I’m excited but it’s going to be tough. There are tough tems we need to play starting with Delaware Valley. @wilkesbeacon Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu Field Hockey x-8/31-9/1 @ Susquehanna L 3-1 9/5 @ Keystone, W 3-0 9/8 vs. Widener, L 5-4 (SO) 9/13 vs. Cedar Crest, W 3-1 9/15 @ Alvernia, L 2-0 9/19 @ Moravian, W 3-2 *9/22 vs. Eastern, W 6-3 9/25 vs. U. of Scranton, L 3-1 *9/29 @ Manhattanville, W 3-2 10/3 @ Elizabethtown, 4:30 p.m. *10/5 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. 10/8 vs. Arcadia University, 7 p.m. *10/12 @ Delaware Valley, 7 p.m. *10/18 vs. King’s, 7 p.m. *10/20 @ DeSales, noon *10/24 @ Misericordia 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom x-Connie Harnum Classic Home games @ Schmidt Stadium �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 Sports 21 FH: Colonels give up three unanswered goals in 3-1 loss By Tyler Aldinger Staff Writer EDWARDSVILLE, Pa. -- Wilkes University Colonels field hockey was back in action on Tuesday night, as they faced off against the Scranton University Royals at Schmidt Stadium. The Colonels were not able to answer Scranton’s three goal run in the second half as they came up short 3-1. The Colonels stand at a 5-4 record after losing this non-conference matchup. The first half of play showcased a lot of back and forth action, as there was several scoring opportunities for both teams. The first opportunity for the Colonels first came 20 minutes into action. Maddie Kelley was looking for her fourth goal on the season, when she sent a shot towards the net, but was denied twice by the Scranton goalkeeper Claire McAllister. Amber Grohowski also had a late opportunity with the scramble in front of the net, but once again the McAllister stood strong and made three saves, preventing the Colonels from burying the rebound. This run for the Colonels did not last too long, as Scranton was able to get their fair share of scoring opportunities in the first half of play as well. Even with the all of the scoring chances for both sides, neither team was able to find the back of the net. In the first half, the Royals had six shots, to the Colonels three. Dallas Kendra had four saves for Wilkes while McAllister the game 1-1. A little over a minute later Scranton had two. Scranton also had five penalty struck again, this time an unassisted goal corners, as the Colonels had just three. Coming out of halftime, the Colonels from a quick burst of speed by Megan started off on the right track. Just two Gallagher. Gallagher was able to beat the minutes in, the Colonels broke the ice Colonels defense with her speed and sent a shot on goal as Grohowski got that Kendra a deflection from was unable to Kelley, and was able stop. to put the Colonels The third on top. goal for the This scoring Royals was chance developed once again from a penalty contributed corner given to from Keale, the Colonels, and as she made Haley Gayoski who a precise pass got the pass and was to Elizabeth able to take the shot Tolley who before two Colonels was able to got deflections to finish off the score. scoring run for With this, Scranton. Grohowski tallied As the her second goal of The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani C o l o n e l s the season. attempted to This 1-0 lead for Senior Haley Gayoski scans the field as she regroup as a the Colonels would team from this not last long as a looks to kick start the Colonels attack barrage of shots and goals minutes later sudden two goal deficit they almost found a way to bring themselves back into the by the Royals would stun the Colonels. The first goal for Scranton came from contest with great effort from Mackenzie a penalty corner just a few minutes after Sweeney. Sweeney almost certainly had a goal for the Colonels broke the tie, and the Royals were able to capitalize on this opportunity. the Colonels until a Royal defender made Nicolette Keale took advantage of the a great defensive play and prevented the costly penalty by the Colonels and tied ball from crossing the line. WW Women’s Soccer The Colonels and Scranton went back and forth after this attempt with just over 20 minutes remaining, but the Colonels were unable to come back from the two goal deficit. Despite the inability to come back, some of the Colonel faithful were still positive about the outcome of the game. “I think they did a great job as they always do,” said Moustafa Almeky, an avid follower of the Colonels field hockey team. “They finished hard though and I think they have a very tough team.” Looking ahead for the Colonels field hockey team, they look to rebound from this loss this Wednesday, Oct. 5 on the road in Elizabethtown. After that, they take on Fairleigh Dickinson University on Friday night in MAC Freedom play a Schmidt Stadium for senior night. Scranton 3, Wilkes 1 Scranton`0`3`3 Wilkes`0`1`1 First half- None. Second half- 1. WILK, Amber Grohowski (Maddie Kelley), 36:31; 2. SCRAN, Nicolette Keale, 38:38; 3. SCRAN, Meghan Gallagher, 39:47; 4. SCRAN, Elizabeth Tolley (Keale), 45:22. Shots- SCRAN 14; WILK 11. SavesSCRAN 5 (Claire McAllister); WILK 6 (Dallas Kendra). Penalty cornersSCRAN 9; WILK 8. @wilkesbeacon Tyler.Aldinger@wilkes.edu Fall Sports Schedules 8/31 @ PSU-Berks, POST 9/5 @ Ithaca, L 1-0 9/8 vs. Marywood, W 3-2 9/12 @ William Paterson, W 1-0 9/15 @ Bard, L 3-1 9/19 vs. Susquehanna, L 2-1 9/22 @ Arcadia T 2-2 9/25 @ U. of Scranton, L 2-0 *9/29 vs. Delaware Valley, W 1-0 10/3 vs. Kean, 7 p.m. *10/6 vs. DeSales, 4:30 p.m. *10/10 @ King’s, 5 p.m. *10/13 @ Eastern, noon *10/16 vs. Misericordia, 7 p.m. *10/20 vs. Manhattanville, 3:30 p.m. 10/23 vs. Oneonta, 7 p.m. *10/26 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home games @ Schmidt Stadium Football 9/1 vs. Hartwick, L 28-24 9/8 @ Lebanon Valley, W 30-27 *9/15 @ Delaware Valley, L 21-10 *9/22 vs. Misericordia, L 47-45 *9/29 @ Alvernia, W 34-14 *x-10/6 vs. Albright, 1 p.m. *10/12 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *10/20 @ Stevenson, noon *10/27 vs. Lycoming, 1 p.m. *y-11/10 vs. King’s, noon *MAC x-Homecoming y-Mayor’s Cup Home games @ Schmidt Stadium Men’s Soccer 8/31 @ PSU-Berks, T 1-1 9/3 @ Marywood, W 2-0 9/8 vs. Moravian, L 4-1 9/12 vs. Clarks Summit, W 4-0 9/15 @ Keystone, L 2-1 (OT) 9/19 @ Susquehanna, W 1-0 9/22 @ Stevenson, L 2-1 9/26 vs. U. of Scranton, W 3-1 *9/29 vs. Delaware Valley, W 3-1 10/3 @ Lancaster Bible, 6 p.m. *10/6 vs. DeSales, 7 p.m. *10/9 @ King’s, 7 p.m. *10/13 @ Eastern, 3 p.m. *10/17 vs. Misericordia, 7 p.m. *10/20 vs. Manhattanville, 1 p.m. 10/24 @ Penn College, 7 p.m. *10/27 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home games @ Schmidt Stadium �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 Sports 22 Getting to know... Luke Betancourt Freshman Soccer Player The Beacon: Male Athlete of the Week Sept. 22 - Sept. 28 Why Luke Betancourt was selected: Betancourt recorded his first career goal in the 79th minute of play against Susquehanna to give the Colonels the late 1-0 victory. Name: Luke Betancourt Year: Freshman Major: Business Administration Hometown: Easton, Pa. High School: Easton Area HS Position: Center Attacking Midfielder Favorite thing to do during practice? My favorite thing to do during practice is to have fun with the team, whether we are doing drills or joking around with each other. Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? I didn’t have one driving force for coming to Wilkes, rather it was a grouping of multiple factors. I happened to like the school a lot, the fact that it was not too far from home and the how I also wanted to play soccer here. If you had to choose one thing about your program that you could improve, what would it be? N/A Post-graduation plans in terms of a career? In terms of post-graduation plans, I am currently undecided at the moment, however, as a business major I will be looking into all of the avenues I can pursue with that degree. Favorite building on campus? My favorite building would have to be UCOM. What came first? The chicken or the egg? The chicken. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? As a team, I hope that we can make the playoffs this season. Editor’s note : Athlete of the Week s elec tions are deter mined by the spor t s staf f each week. At the e nd of the acade mic year, we w ill post a reader poll on Tw itte r @ Wilkes B eacon to c row n an “Athlete of the Year." The Beacon/Kirsten Peters When/Why did you first begin playing? My father was born in Colombia and loved the sport of soccer. He taught me how to play soccer from a young age and I just continued playing from there, which led me to where I am today playing for Wilkes. Coke or Pepsi? Coke. Favorite Professor? Mrs. Pekala. Favorite meal to eat on campus? Definitely a beef sandwich from Grille Works. Other interests or hobbies off of the field? Off of the field, I enjoy playing video games and hanging out with all of my friends. A quote you live your life by? “Live everyday like it is your last.” What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? To me, “Be Colonel” means being a positive person in any aspect of life, being willing to help one another and those around you, and having good sportsmanship on the field. -Compiled by Kirsten Peters, CoSports Editor �23 Sports The Beacon - October 2, 2018 Getting to know... Mackenzie Sweeney Freshman Field Hockey Player The Beacon: Female Athlete of the Week Sept. 22 - Sept. 28 Why Mackenzie Sweeney was selected: Sweeney registered both her first and second career goals in field hockey game against Eastern to help the Colonels win 6-3. Name: Mackenzie Sweeney Year: Freshman Major: Sports Management Hometown: Millville, Pa. High School: Millville Area HS Position: Forward Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? As soon as I stepped onto campus, I knew that I loved the atmosphere and everything the campus had to offer while not being so far from home, but still far enough. After meeting with Coach Myers about field hockey, I knew I wanted to play for her. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? I have no idea what career path I want to go down, but hopefully Wilkes will help lead me to what I want do. Favorite building on campus? The SUB because I spend a lot of my time there when I'm not in my dorm. What came first? The chicken or the egg? The chicken. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? As a Colonel, I hope that Wilkes makes a name for itself in academics and athletics by setting new goals and getting recognized for student, faculty and staff accomplishments. When/Why did you first begin playing? I began playing field hockey in seventh grade and have played every year after. My mom played in high school and I wanted to follow in her footsteps. Favorite thing to do during practice? Play competitive games with my teammates because it’s fun yet productive. Coke or Pepsi? Definitely coke. Other interests or hobbies off of the field? Taking naps, hanging out with my friends, hiking, hunting and, most importantly, playing with my dogs. Most influential person in your life? My parents would have to be the most influential people in my life because I’ve always worked hard to make them proud. They always give me their all, so it’s only fair that I give them my all. Favorite professor? My favorite professor is my English professor, Thomas Hamill. Favorite meal to eat on campus? Which wich. A quote you live your life by? "Full send." - Derek Schneider What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? Having school spirit and taking pride in my school. Anyone to give a shout-out to? I would like to give a shout out to my whole field hockey team for supporting me, my coaches for getting me to where I am today, and to my parents and family back home for staying by my side throughout everything that I’ve been through. -Compiled by Kirsten Peters, Co-Sports Editor Editor’s elec tions are mined by ts Editor's note: note: Athlete Athlete of of the the Week Week sselections are deter determined by the the spor sports staff each year, we ill post post aa reader poll lstaff each week. week . At At the the end end of of the the academic academic year, we w will reader poll on it ter @WilkesB eacon to n an on Tw Twitter @WilkesBeacon to crow crown an “Athlete "Athlete of of the the Year." Year." The Beacon/Kirsten Peters �The Beacon - October 2, 2018 Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 72, Issue 05 24 IEACC(O)N THE BEACON Wilkes University - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania By Your Name Here Staff Writer This could FREE Take one The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. assion p a e v a If you h g, design or be you! tin for wri phy, join us! ra photog THE BEACON HIRES: WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, EDITORS Contact: Managing Editor Nick Filipek Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu THE BEACON Freshmen and all majors welcome! THE BEACON � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2018 October 2nd Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 October 2 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/4ed30f4269e61924c861ce5cc7dff8db.pdf 1136d7410a674a9117efcf0bebc362db PDF Text Text w T ~ ~IHIIE ~ B5IEACC(O)N HE B EACON The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 72, Issue 04 Wilkes University - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania FREE Take one The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. Panamanian students celebrate culture on Square Sordoni Art By Cabrini Rudnicki Gallery hosts Art in Context lecture Co-News Editor By Sean Schmoyer Staff Writer The Beacon/Seth Platukis Maria Giron and Jair Mendoza perform El Punto, a dance symbolizing the love a couple has. Draw the Lines hosts gerrymandering event, page 5 SEE PANAMA, Page 4 SEE SORDONI, Page 4 IsLargest societyfibecoming rst-year class softer?, in history, page page 14 5 The Beacon/Kyle Kraemer The Beacon/Breanna Ebish Family Day photos, page 12 & 13 has to block him. In the original dance, there are three guys trying to kiss her, so she has to be very careful which one is coming towards her, and she has to cover her face pretty much the whole time.” The second dance was called ‘punto.’ “The dance is very romantic,” he said. “It’s when a couple is showing their love. They On Sept. 18, Professor Diane Wenger presented her lecture, In Their Own Words: Recovering The History of Slavery Through Slave Narratives, in the Sordoni Art Gallery to help inform the campus about the history of slavery that was presented through William Earle Williams’ art in the gallery. Wenger is a professor of history and the chair of Global Cultures: History, Languages and Philosophy. In her lecture Wenger presented to the audience the different ways the history of slavery had been viewed by historians. Wenger explained that until the mid 20th century, historians focused on the accounts of wealthy plantation owners and slave masters to view slavery. This was due to society’s focus on white men and the lack of care to explore other viewpoints from women and men of other races. This meant that the personal stories of slaves were not The Beacon/Savannah Pinnock “We performed one song about Panama, the Teacher’s National Anthem and another song about the importance of Panama to it’s citizens.” The first dance featured was el congo. “[El congo] is an African-descent dance,” explained Bonilla. “It involves three dancers and a queen.” “The object of the dance is to ‘kiss the girl.’ Everytime the guy approaches her, the queen The Beacon/Steffen Horwath The Panamanian exchange students of Wilkes University had a chance to showcase their country’s charms to the Wilkes-Barre community. On Sept. 20, MEDUCA Cohort 9 students performed traditional Panamian songs and dances on Public Square in Downtown Wilkes-Barre. The event, which was free to the public, also featured information tables on Panamanian culture, cuisine and art. Vendors and other members of the city’s weekly Farmer’s Market also participated in the event. The event served as MEDUCA’s final project before leaving Wilkes. “We divided the entire group into different sections,” explained Tania Flores, a member of MEDUCA.“Every section was in charge of something, from the food stand to the performers, to the decorations.” Carlos Bonilla, another student of MEDUCA, was proud to have the opportunity to share his culture. “The initative of this event was to promote Panama as a country,” he said. “Who better than the students who come from Panama to represent this country?” The students performed three songs and five dances. Students lined the stage to sing along to Spanish-language traditional Panamanian music. WSOC: Colonels drop Largest first-year class in non-conference battle to history, page 5 Susquehanna, page 20 �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 News News 2 Have a breaking story or a press release to send? Contact either news editor: Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu or Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu Student Government notes: Sept. 19 weekly meeting By Sean Schmoyer Staff Writer Student Government came together for its weekly meeting. To begin this week, a member of the Wilkes branch of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers spoke to the board describing what the club does on campus. The PSPE Wilkes chapter here on campus brings professional engineers in to speak to students interested in engineering about getting their engineering license, ethics, and many other topics through panels. The club also does different community service activities such as visiting local middle and high schools to host math based competitions to stress the importance of math in the field of engineering. The club’s major purpose is to serve as a resource for engineering majors on campus. Next the board split into grade levels to briefly discussed plans for the year, until President Leahy arrived to speak about campus happenings and take questions. Leahy began with an update about the renovations to the campus. The work on the Mark Engineering Center, and mansion landscaping project (which involved restoring the outside of the mansions on campus to their original appearance) are both complete, while the Gateway project is very close to completion. Leahy addressed concerns of where the money for these projects was coming from, stating that almost all of the renovations on campus were paid for through outside money state grants and alumni contributions. He then went on to state that in the future there will be continued work on Stark for pharmacy, a major renovation on the Ralston Athletic Complex, and a renovation across from Weckesser Hall. Leahy then addressed concerns relating to the overcrowding of freshmen and reminded Student Government of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar visit to campus on Sunday Sept. 30, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the lobby of the Sordoni Art Gallery to meet and take pictures, and then to listen to a lecture with him at 2 p.m. Finally, Leahy stated that any concerns or questions from students can be formally emailed to him, and that he will gladly through email plan a time for students who wish to speak with him to do so. Announcement from committees included a reminder from Operations to stay off of the greenway for now and to please stay out of construction areas. It was also announced that on Sept. 28 and Oct. 10 the student body should expect a loss of internet due to maintenance. The Commuter Council still may have upwards of 20 seats available for the Niagara falls trip. Next week, the new freshmen representatives will attend their first Student Government meeting. @wilkesbeacon Sean.Schmoyer@wilkes.edu Beacon Briefs: The happenings on campus -- Sept. 25 to Oct. 1 Compiled by Madelynn Davis Chamber Orchestra welcoming new members If you have an instrument and are looking to participate in an extra-curricular activity, the Wilkes University Chamber Orchestra is welcoming members. For any questions or for more information please contact Mr. John Vaida through email at John.Vaida@wilkes.edu. Flu shots available at Passan Hall The Wilkes University Health and Wellness Department has a limited number of flu shots available for students. The flu shots will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. The office is located on the first floor of Passan Hall and is open from 8:30 a.m. to noon, or 1 to 4:30 p.m. Flu shots will cost $20 and can be paid to the University through cash or check. For any questions please contact the Health and Wellness Department. Homecoming tickets on sale now Homecoming tickets will be on sale every day until Oct. 1 in the Henry Student Center from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tickets are $5. This year’s theme is Welcome to Hollywood. The dance is from 6 to 11 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 5 at Genetti’s. Pep Rally is Thursday, Oct 4 from 5 to 8 p.m. in the MAC. The game is Saturday, Oct. 6 at 1 p.m. against Albright. Anyone with questions can contact Caitlin.Brossman@ wilkes.edu. Campus Halloween Party seeks Participants Campus clubs and organizations are invited to host a table at the Annual Community Halloween Event. Space is first come, first serve. Each table is expected to bring their own food and/or activity. The party will take place from 4 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct 28, in the Henry Student Center. Anyone interested should Upcoming Events: 2018 Fall Semester September 25 - SG Ballots closed 26 - New SG Members announced 27 - Bingo (WUPB) 28 - Homecoming Ballots round two 30 - Rosenn Lecture: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar October 4 - Homecoming Pep Rally 5 - Homecoming Dance 6 - Homecoming Game vs. Albright 18 - Fall Fest (WUPB) 19 - SG Fall Event 22 to 26 - Freak Week (WUPB) 22 - Monster Social Monday (WUPB) 23 - Zombie Bar (WUPB) 24 - Mobile Escape Room (WUPB) 25 - Bingo (WUPB) 26 - Scary Place (WUPB) November 1 - Cupcake Wars (WUPB) 6 - Casino Week: Texas Hold ‘Em (SG) 7 - Casino Week: Bingo (SG) 9 - Casino Night (SG) 15 - Wing Wars (WUPB) 29 - Bingo (WUPB) December 6 - Holiday Party: PJs and Pancakes (WUPB) WUPB denotes Wilkes University Programming Board SG denotes Student Government contact Kristin Osipower at Kristin. Osipower@wilkes.edu or ext. 5904. Indoor Rock Climbing Adventure Education Club will be hosting indoor rock climbing sessions every Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. in the UCOM. Equipment is provided and students of all skill levels welcome. @wilkesbeacon Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu Table of Contents News.................2 Life, A&E............7 Spread (LA&E)..12 Want your event featured in the calendar? Opinion............14 Email Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu Sports..............19 �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 News Impact of Supreme Court appointments discussed in Constitution lecture By Madelynn Davis Co-News Editor On Tuesday, Sept. 18, Dr. Kyle Kreider of the political science department held a talk titled “Supreme Court Appointments and the Battle for the Constitution” by Widener University Commonwealth School of Law professor Michael Dimino. Dimino graduated from State University of New York- Buffalo with a degree in history and political science. Dimino then earned his JD from Harvard Law School. He is considered an expert in election law, and has published articles on questions pertaining to judicial selection. A Constitution Day-themed event is held every year on campus to commemorate the adoption of the U.S. Constitution and the singing of the constitution by the 39 delegates on Sep. 17. This year, professor Dimino focused his talk on the history of the Supreme Court through the present nomination and appointment processor of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh is President Trump’s nominee to fill the vacant seat left by retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. There is controversy surrounding around Kavanaugh’s appointment regarding an alleged sexual assault when he was in high school, which Dimino touches on during his talk. Dimino started his talk around the topic of Supreme Court appointments and constitutional meaning. He stated that the Senate and the president care about the Supreme Court appointments, and their views, because of the power they have to interpret the law. “Who the interpreters are makes a difference as to what the legal interpretations will be,” said Dimino. “Liberal and democratic justices tend to approach matters of legal interpretation and in particular and most importantly, matters of constitutional interpretation differently than Republicans do.” Everyone knows this said Dimino, from academics to the president. “Presidents when they are appointing justices, senators when they are deciding whether to vote to confirm justices or not, do so with the knowledge that the appointees will have an effect on what interpretations the constitution will prevail over the next couple of decades.” He then began to talk about the differences of interpretations of the law: originalism and those who view the Constitution as a living document. Those with the originalist view of the Constitution see the Constitution for what it is. They do not find it necessary to amend as society evolves, but to only view, the document as the original framers of the Constitution would. This view is mostly seen in conservative judges, academics, and lawyers. Those that view the constitution as a living document understand that the evolution of society should be addressed by the constitution. They believe that the justices have the power to look at the law as it affects society today, not to think back to how framers would react to the law. This view of the law is preoccupied with mainly liberal judges. These views resonated through the rest of Dimino’s talk as he explained how the politics play into the appointments. He specifically ended with how the Senate will use different tactics to not confirm a potential justice because they do not agree or have the same views of the constitution that the majority does. Dimino then directed towards the audience for questions. Dr. Thomas Baldino who attended the event as a professor in political science inserted his own views of the appointment process when he asked Dimino a question. “It strikes me that one of the things that definitely changes… was the concern with age,” said Baldino reflecting on the lack of term limits of the Supreme Court Justices. “The younger the appointee the longer that person sits on the bench… that person could be there for even longer.” Kreider, the person in charge of Constitution Day at Wilkes, decided to bring Dimino in to talk about Supreme Court nominations because of Kavanaugh. “I knew that he studied judicial law,” said Kreider. “He is a law professor at a school that a lot of our students go to. “I asked him, given the Brett Kavanaugh nomination, whether he would focus on that process. “I thought he was excellent, he explained the process, he explained the politics of it, the legal part of it as well.” @wilkesbeacon Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu 3 The Beacon/Madelynn Davis Professor Dimino talked about the importance of the appointments of Supreme Court justices regarding their views on how the Constitution should be read. Essential Supreme Court Facts: -There are currently eight Supreme Court Justices on the court. There has been one vacant seat left by retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. -Although the justices wear black to symbolize their unbiased decisions, the President and the Senate affirm the judges that closely resemble their political views. -Four justices are considered to be liberalleaning: justices Ginsburg, Kagan, Sotomayor and Breyers. -The other 4 justices are considered to be conservative-leaning: Chief Justice Roberts and justices Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas. -Judge Kavanaugh is now in the confirmation process by the Senate. �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 PANAMA, from front page dance with beautiful, loving faces.” The dance is traditionally done at Panamanian weddings. The third dance, called ‘bullereunge’, told a story about a man trying to impress a woman. The woman steals his hat, and in order to win her love he has to steal it back without using his hands. The fourth dance, called ‘La Espiga’, features a love triangle. “It is a fight betwen two guys for the love of one girl, but through dances” explained Bonilla. “Each of them have their own dancing time, in front of the stage. At the end, she choosing which one she wants to be with.” The fifth dance, called ‘denesa,’ is Panamanian ballroom dancing that comes from the country’s Spanish era. Bonilla participated in many of the dances. “It felt amazing,” he said. “Being able to represent my culture here at Wilkes-Barre, is like bringing Panama with me.” Tania Flores was in charge of decorations, which featured Panamanian flags, as well as a table wtih free gifts for visitors. “Several weeks ago, we planned how News everything was going to go,” said Flores. “We planned things like the fans and the bookmarks.” The bookmarks featured Panamanian recipes, while the fans featured pictures of traditional Panamanian dresses. MEDUCA features academics and social interactions as part of it’s program. “I know there will be more students coming to Wilkes to study in the future,” said Bonilla. “This college provides different programs, for being coming to learn English , for people learning teaching techniques, as well as some people coming for cultural experiences.” MEDUCA Cohort-9 is a group of public school teachers brought to Wilkes in order to be immersed in the English language and American culture. Other Panamanian programs include IFARHU, which featured students sponsored by Panama to be prepared for academic course work in the United States. “To be at the Square, introducing Panama to the Wilkes-Barre community, it’s nice because we are introducing all of the Panamanians that will come in the future.” @wilkesbeacon Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu The Beacon/Seth Platukis Carlos Bonilla and Reina Barria dance the first dance, el congo, which is inspired by African culture in Panama. The dancers wear colorful, patchwork clothing. SORDONI, from front page published, or looked at, until much later. “I think the legacy of the question of the assumed black inferiority is still coloring our society today. The experiences of Jim Crow and segregation impacted education. Today that still impacts people of color,” said Wenger. This method of viewing history through a bias lens was problematic and caused a lasting impact on the history of slavery and the growth and position of people of color in the Americas. “The study of history is an ongoing process that is shaped by the perceptions and interpretations of historians writing and working in a particular context. Despite the good faith effort of most historians to be as objective as possible, it is still important to take into consideration how the historian’s viewpoints may be shaped by their situation and beliefs. I think this is very important to keep in mind in the current climate of doubt about the trustworthiness of our information and news sources,” said Dr. Jonathan Kuiken, professor of history and global cultures. Wenger then focused on the history of slavery, focusing on the transition from indentured servants to slavery, to the conflict between the north and the south’s The Beacon/Maddie Davis Dr. Wenger discussed the importance of reading slave narratives. views on slavery. Wenger quotes a historian who describes the southern way of life as “Not as a society with slaves, but a slave society.” Wenger went into detail about how the 19th century brought a wealth of reform movements to the United States. Years after the narratives of slaves began to be written down in books by those who managed to survive slavery or escape from it. These personal accounts from freed blacks slowly shifted the view on slavery giving it a new perceptive. Wenger details one of these accounts of a women who used the pen name Harriet 4 Jacobs. The stories details the horrors of how Jacobs was assaulted by her slave master and her masters wife who was even harsher. Jacobs’ account details how she had children with a local white man, and how she survived her enslavement by hiding herself in a small crawl-space in an attic, an experience that left Jacobs crippled. In the end, Jacobs’ story is one in which she struggled and had to leave behind her children to escape the horrors of slavery. This particular account garnered the interest of Dr. Mia Briceño, assistant p rofessor of communication studies. “I study communication and gender, and, for me, that means examining and analyzing the role that communication plays in the social construction of gender and also drawing conclusions about why that matters. Sitting in Dr. Wenger’s gallery talk, I began to think about the intersections of gender and race within the institution of slavery in the United States and the ways in which gendered expectations contributed to the material experiences of people who were enslaved, as relayed in first-person narratives of those individuals. “The exploration of a topic like this can help us better understand how society is stratified, how shared cultural ideas and ideals have real consequences for or impacts on people’s lives, and perhaps, ultimately, how we can improve social institutions in the United States,” said Briceño. Wenger also covered many other slave narratives and reliable historical books throughout the lecture. “[The history of slavery, through a slave’s eyes] is not taught in history books. If we do not know our own history, we cannot work to better our present,” said Wenger. The Stirring Song Sung Heroic exhibition will be at Sordoni Art Gallery until Oct. 7. @wilkesbeacon Sean.Schmoyer@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 News Draw the Lines Pennsylvania Holds ‘Eat Pizza, Save Democracy’ By Freddy Del Rosario Staff Writer Last Wednesday, Sept. 19, Chris Satullo, civic engagement leader, project director of Draw the Lines Pennsylvania and former journalist, hosted a presentation as well as several fun activities to raise awareness about gerrymandering in Pennsylvania. The presentation, entitled “Eat Pizza. Save Democracy,” is the first of numerous presentations planned for this fall by Satullo. Satullo took this opportunity to explain to students, faculty and community in attendance why it is crucial for Pennsylvanians, in particular, to take part in the ‘redistricting’ competition we currently face. Gerrymandering is the practice of redrawing congressional districts in order to group all of an opposing party’s voters into a few large districts while grouping all of the controlling party voters in many smaller districts. Every state has a series of congressional districts depending on the states’ population-Pennsylvania has 18--, every two years voters in those districts elect a single representative to Congress; every ten years the boundaries may be redrawn to represent the change in population. Since each district gets a single representative regardless of size, many believe there is drastically unequal representation in Congress. Many believe, including Saluto, that the popular vote would not necessarily matter when gerrymandering occurs. Instead of voters choosing their representatives, representatives end up choosing their voters. This problem isn’t unique to a particular party, as it has been seen that different states are controlled by different parties, he said. “In 1986, the Supreme Court announced the practice could potentially violate the 14th Amendment on equal protection, however, they could not come to a resolution because they could not agree on what exactly constitutes gerrymandering, or even arriving at an alternative solution,” he explained. “Although in 2015 the popular votes were roughly the same, though Republicans were behind by a small percent, democrats representatives were only a quarter in relation to Republicans.” Draw the Lines understands gerrymandering as standing in the way of true democracy, while helping partisan politicians consolidate power. “It is very difficult to function as a fully democratic government when these kinds of things are being done deliberately by some of our leaders.” Geraldine Ojukwu, a political science senior, said. “One can see gerrymandering in practice if we see North Carolina 2012 House elections: the results showed 50.5 percent voting democrat and 48.7 percent voting Republican, yet, only four Democrats were elected as opposed to nine Republicans,” Satullo mentioned. “I think gerrymandering is very bad and discriminatory thing, and that we should proactively fight to see a decrease in The Beacon/Steffen Horwath Chris Saluto, project director of Draw the Lines PA, explained ways to get involved in redrawing the constitutional map. 5 The Beacon/Steffen Horwath Students, faculty participated in activities to highlight the importance of gerrymandering, including drawing lines on a map of Pennsylvania. gerrymandering,” said Christopher Smith, a sophomore majoring in political science, history and international studies. The event drew attention to how people can fight against gerrymandering. Raising awareness and getting more people involved in what’s being done with our state’s political system is what people in Draw the Lines, Pennsylvania, are trying to achieve. Satullo also encouraged the audience to draw a map that reflected our “values and common sense,” so they can participate in the first statewide redistricting competition, and will have the chance to be entered in the “Draw the Lines” mapping competition, a competition that runs every semester between now and 2021, and promises the winners a first place prize of $5,000 dollars. After the presentation, the audience had a chance to solve a jigsaw in the shape of Pennsylvania, get creative with drawing within shapes and solve gerrymandering puzzles, among other activities, along with eating lots of pizza, salad, and soft drinks. All these games, Satullo affirmed, will help us in understanding the different aspects gerrymandering entail. Dozens of representatives from Draw the Line are all around Pennsylvania doing the same thing as Chris: going to high schools, colleges, and community centers to spread the word. On Feb. 15, the Supreme Court ruled that Pennsylvania’s congressional map is unconstitutional, and the map will be redrawn in 2021. “Pennsylvanians have a unique opportunity to put the redistricting process in the hands of the people and end gerrymandering,” he said. “Working together, citizens can learn how they can make a difference by creating a process that produces better maps and a renewed sense of civic engagement among Pennsylvanians.” Draw the Lines PA is a Pennsylvanian education and engagement initiative, led by three regional committees as part of Committee of Seventy. The organization’s purpose is to, in a nonpartisan way, be a resource for Pennsylvanians who want to end gerrymandering and help democracy work better. @wilkesbeacon Freddy.DelRosario@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 News Profile of a professor: Dr. Amy Hnasko, Education By Brandon Belfonti Staff Writer Focused, dedicated, and childcentered. These are the three words that Dr. Amy Hnasko said described her best. The last word, came with some deep thought and even more background. The word should not be a surprise because Hnasko, originally from Ewing New Jersey, has just joined the Wilkes education faculty as an assistant professor in the undergraduate education program. “My specialty is children from birth to third grade because I can make such a connection with them. If I am at a party or family gathering, the children will gather around me and I love that,” added Hnasko Hnasko completed her undergraduate studies at Bloomsburg University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in education and has served as the early childhood program coordinator at Rowan University for the past year. She also served at William Patterson as an adjunct for nine years, received her Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 72, Issue 03 master’s at La Salle University, and her Doctorate from Rutgers. “When I interviewed here I felt that this was a good staff with a great sense of collaboration,” said Hnasko. “My initial feeling was correct because that it is exactly what it is now.” Hnasko talked about her intersts outside of education and childcare. “I love being outdoors. I love the mountains and that is something great about this area,” said Hansko. “I have three children at the ages of twentythree, nineteen, and seventeen – two girls and a boy. We have two dogs named Roxy and Lila. They are Yorkipoos.” Hnasko is a part designing the new onlne TEACH (Teacher Education And Compensation Helps) program of Pennsylvania. Only Wilkes and Drexel University are currently involved with. “[TEACH] works with early childhood providers, colleges and child care staff to offer scholarship programs and support systems that improve the education and compensation of child care workers.” She ended the with why she likes Staff Writer Wilkes in particular. “Pennsylvania has a different vibe than New Jersey. I like it. This is my first semester at Wilkes and I am still learning This could Submitted about the campus, but am excited to work here”. @wilkesbeacon Brandon.Belfonti@wilkes.edu IHIIE B 8IEA CC(O)N T,._ _ _, HE EACON Wilkes University - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania By Your Name Here Dr. Amy Hnasko FREE Take one The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. on a passi e v a h or If you be you! design , g n i t i for wr phy, join us! ra photog THE BEACON HIRES: WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, EDITORS Contact: Managing Editor Nick Filipek Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu THE BEACON Freshmen and all majors welcome! 6 THE BEACON �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 7 Life, Arts & Entertainment Life, Arts & Entertainment Have a story or want your event to be featured? Contact the Life, Arts & Entertainment editor: Sarah.Matarella@wilkes.edu The Campus Interfaith Office Hosts the House of Worship Tour houses of worship from different religions and denominations. Visits typically last 45 minutes to an hour. Wilkes University’s Interfaith Office There is also a lot of flexibility with these encourages students, faculty, and staff visits because there are several different to learn and interact with various faith churches and houses of worship to visit. groups in the local area, in order to enrich, “I’m welcoming going to all different strengthen and even learn more about a houses of worship,” said Osipower. Many particular faith. times we walk by these places and now There are a variety of services, faith- here’s the chance to go inside and see what based events, information sessions and they are all about, whether it be a temple celebrations that are always taking place or a church. throughout campus. However, recently, Another added benefit to these visits is the Interfaith Office at Wilkes University that students who live on campus have an is offering House of easier opportunity to attend Worship Tours. They because Osipower tries will occur throughout to pick churches close to September and the first campus, so transportation week of October, which won’t become a problem. are being led by Kristin If a student or faculty Osipower. member is already active in Those who wish to their own faiths, then this attend do not need to be gives them the opportunity part of a specific religion to still go to the church of or denomination. their choice, or to broaden The purpose for these The Beacon/Isabella Sobejano and learn more about visits is to give individuals Kristin Osipower, campus another faith. an opportunity to The tours are open interfaith coordinator enrich their faith while to everyone, including also learning about different faiths and families of students and those that attend religions. It also allows students to see do not have to practice a religion. “I’m the beauty and architecture of some of hoping that people step outside their these Houses of Worship since they are an comfort zone a little bit and attend some integral part of our community. of these because it’s really meant to engage The tours are relatively new, as they and encourage student to explore the issues started two weeks ago and it’s the first of religion and spirituality. It’s not meant time they’ve been introduced to Wilkes to convert or be preachy in any way,” said University. They will take place each week, Osipower. and for those interested will visit an array of This also gives students the possibility By Isabella Sobejano Staff Writer to not only interact with their clergy and learn about the place of religion in their own lives, but it also allows students to explore their communities. The first visit was to First Presbyterian and students were invited to celebrate the kickoff to the new school year and they celebrated with a barbecue social afterward. “They opened it to our community to participate,” said Osipower. Also, last spring, the baccalaureate service was held for the First Presbyterian. This service received a great response from the public, “The response was incredible, both in turn out and how people felt and responded to being inside in a sacred space. Because of the warm reception I received from baccalereate, I thought this was something our community would respond to,” said Osipower. These visits can also be inspirational for people. Osipower mentioned that when she was in college she was required to attend different houses of worship for a religion class. She found it intimidating at first because she needed to step outside of her comfort zone spiritually. By doing this she realized that she was wrong on so many levels about how that faith practiced and they’re much more welcoming than she had thought they were. “It was very eye-opening to me about how much people of faith have in common and that I can use the differences not to create diversity but rather to build myself and to affirm what I believe,” said Osipower. It’s this personal experience that drives Osipower to make these visits accessible to students and faculty throughout campus and encourage students to step outside their comfort zone spiritually. While these visits are a new addition to the Interfaith Office at Wilkes University, Osipower hopes to follow up with these visits in the future because it’s a way for students and faculty alike to learn more about various faiths and “grow as an individual,” said Osipower. Overall, this is a way for Wilkes University students and faculty to continue to build relationships with various places in the local community because they can help to enhance campus life. Ms. Osipower mentioned that there are already students who teach religious education courses at some of the churches, and they’ve gotten involved in music ministry at these various churches. The Interfaith Office is also working on a pregame service for the football team. This is meant to not only to include prayer but also motivational words for our athletes. Going forward, it seems that these visits have a positive response and it’s important to spread the word in order for students to step out of their comfort zone spiritually. In fact, four other churches have contacted Ms. Osipower asking to be placed on the tour list in the future so that students may visit those as well. While these visits are relatively new, the next one will be this coming weekend at Parker Hill Church, 667 N River St. The service will be in the afternoon on Sunday. @wilkesbeacon Isabella.Sobejano@wilkes.edu Interested in writing for Life, Arts and Entertainment? Contact Sarah Matarella at Sarah.Matarella@wilkes.edu @WilkesBeacon 11 Facebook.com/WilkesBeacon �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment Movies celebrating 25-year anniversaries in 2018 : Conclusion By Nicholas Filipek Managing Editor Last week, Nick’s Flick Picks took a look at five movies that premiered in 1993 and are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. As it turns out, 1993 just happened do be one of the best years cinematically, and five titles were just not enough for Nick’s Flick Picks so there are five more to add to list to round it out on an even 10. Just in case you missed the last issue with the first five picks, here is a quick recap. If you want to find the full list, be sure to stop by The Beacon office in The Karambelas Media and Communication Center to pick up last week’s issue, or go to www.thewilkesbeacon.com The first five titles were, Groundhog Day, The Sandlot, Jurassic Park, Hocus Pocus and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Now let’s get back on the nostalgia train and look at five more incredible movies turning 25 in 2018. Dazed and Confused- Sept. 24. Written and directed by Richard LInklater. Starring Jason London, Joey Lauren Adams, Mila Jovoich, Shawn Andrews, Rory Cochrane, Adam Goldberg, Anthony Rapp, Wiley Wiggins and Ben Affleck. Though this movie is celebrating its 25th anniversary, it feels like it could be celebrating its 42nd based on its realistic 1976 look and feel. The film follows a group of high school kids on their last day of school in ‘76, and it captures all the wild shenanigans that would not be possible in any capacity in today’s society. The truly all star cast brings this story, that is basically about nothing, to life and really has you caring about these kids on their last day of school. It’s a throwback to a time you may not have been alive for, but somehow still feels familiar. This is the movie that launched Matthew McConaughey into stardom and gave him his most iconic line to date, “alright, alright, alright”, which he works into the dialogue of nearly every character he plays. A Bronx Tale- Oct. 1. Directed by Robert De Niro, screenplay by Chazz Palminteri, based on his play. Starring Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lilo Brancato and Taral Hicks. By 1993 Robert De Niro was already a big player in Hollywood, having starred in films like The Godfather: Part II, Taxi Driver, and Goodfellas, but this was the year he also showed the world that he knew what to do behind the camera debuting as a director rather than actor. A Bronx Tale is one of only two movies De Niro has ever directed, the other being 2006’s The Good Shepherd, and it is a perfect directorial debut film. The story is a great mix of heartfelt kid-next-door and wise guy-on-the-corner, that follows a young boy’s journey growing up in The Bronx, who is torn between listening to his straight laced, hard working father (De Niro) and the real muscle of The Bronx, Sonny (Palminteri) a known gangster. Mrs. Doubtfire- Nov. 24. Directed by Chris Columbus, written by Randi Mayem Singer and Leslie Dixon, based on the novel by Anne Fine. Starring Robin WIlliams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Lisa Jakub, Matthew Lawrence and Mara Wilson. What could be the late great Robin Williams most memorable work, and that is saying a lot considering his obscenely wide range of hits, Mrs. Doubtfire is a true family story that still hits you right in the feels even 25 years later. After his wife asks for a divorce, Daniel Hillard (Williams) has limited time to spend with his kids due to a court mandate. In order to get around the legal mumbojumbo, Hillard disguises himself as a female housekeeper, gets hired by his wife, and works within his former home to stay close to his children. Schindler’s List- Dec. 10. Directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Steven Zaillian, based on the book by Thomas Keneally. Starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes and Caroline Goodall. Based on the critically acclaimed bestselling novel, which tells the true story of how Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews than any other single person during World War II and the Holocaust. This may very well be the toughest film on the list to actually sit down and watch, due to some of it’s graphic imagery, but after viewing, it is impossible not have a sense of gratitude for the life you live. Even more, the depictions of the sacrifice, and willingness of characters to do whatever to help his fellow man that Neeson brings to the “character” Oskar Schindler, will leave you with the hope that maybe the human race is not as horrible as we may fear. The movie is set in German- occupied Poland during WWII where Oskar Schindler becomes worried for his Jewish workforce after witnessing some of the attrocities that the Nazi’s were capable of. He then works to secretly sneak as many of his workers out of the country as he can. Spielberg brings his mastery of directing to really honor this story and bring it the respect it deserves to showcase a true hero. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm- Dec. 25. Directed by Eric Radomski, Bruce Timm, Kevin Atieri, Boyd Kirkland, Frank Paur and Dan Riba. Written by Alan Burnet, Paul Dini, Martin Pasko and 8 Michael Reaves, based on the story by Alan Burnett. Batman created by Bob Kane and Bill FInger. Starring Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Loren Lester, Melissa Gilbert, Robert Hastings, Stacy Keach and Dana Delany. What might be the best Christmas gift the world has ever recieved, this classic, animated Batman movie still holds up brilliantly to entertain an entirely new audience of Bat-Fans. Batman must go up against a new masked vigilante that has come to Gotham, but this Phantom will take his enemies to the one place Batman will not, the morgue. It is up to The Dark Knight to figure out who this Phantom is and why they’re trying to permanently punish Gotham City’s rogue gallery. Do you think Nick forgot a serious pick? Let The Beacon know by reaching out on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram by following The Beacon on social media. @wilkesbeacon Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 9 Life, Arts & Entertainment Self care with Sarah: Sexual Health Awareness By Sarah Matarella Life, Arts & Entertainment Editor Sexual health is a topic that is often overlooked due to the stigma that has developed around it. September is Sexual Health Awareness Month and it brings forth a lot of information that is not normally addressed. According to the American Sexual Health Association (ASHA), “Sexual health is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality; it is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction or infirmity.” Therefore, sexual health does not just encompass protecting oneself from sexually transmitted diseases and infections, but also from sexual misconduct and harassment. Furthermore, sexual health applies to every single person no matter their gender, sexual orientation, race etc. Sexually transmitted diseases tend to be the first thing people think of regarding sexual health. Despite this, STDs are still often depicted in society as indecent. As a result, nobody talks about them and more people are continuously being affected by them. “Sex still is primarily seen as a set of risk factors that we counsel against. I am convinced that this perspective on sex and sexuality as “risk” legitimates the stigma associated with sexually transmitted infections and contributes to our society’s p o i s o n o u s intolerance of sexual diversity,” says J. Dennis Fo r t e n b e r r y, MD, ASHA Board member and professor of pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine. Just because this stigma exists does not mean that you have to hide any concerns about your own sexual health. Wilkes University offers free and confidential STI and STD testing through Caring Communities conducted on campus at Wilkes University’s Health and Wellness Services in Passan Hall. Furthermore, sexual misconduct and harassment are also issues related to sexual health. This is a widespread problem not only in colleges and universities, but all over the world in every demographic. Wilkes University offers several types of services for sexual assault victims. They include but are not limited to accompaniment to the hospital (if desired) and access to ongoing information, support, and advice from counselors. Academic support services are also offered in addition to assistance with reporting the incident to the local police department (if desired) and accommodations to minimize contact with alleged assailant and protection from retaliation. local stores to help with personal hygiene. Even a simple google search can help you figure out more about hygiene habits to consider. Use your resources There are several services offered by Wilkes University and also in the local Wilkes-Barre area that are available. Normalize it There are several products available in “The prevalence of these negatives in many people’s lives tells us how far we are from achieving a just and equitable society. But I think that sexual health ultimately requires much more active involvement from all of us, and it seems quite insufficient to hope that sexual health will arise on its own if coercion, discrimination, and violence are finally conquered,” said Fortenberry. For more information regarding health services, contact anita.burns@wilkes.edu, call 570-408-4730, visit the first floor of Passan Hall or go to https://www.wilkes. edu/campus-life/student-affairs/healthand-wellness-services/index.aspx. @wilkesbeacon Sarah.Matarella@wilkes.edu problem solving and overcoming your fears. Adventure Education also offers weekend trips throughout the school year. One of these trips is the State Park Hiking Series which offers students a chance to experience the outdoors and will help contribute to their overall health and wellness. The State Park Hiking Series begins on Sept. 29 at Ricketts Glen. The hikes will take place at a different park each month thereafter. The Adventure Education program emphasizes a community oriented atmosphere. “We practice and preach inclusion,” said Price. “We want students to take part in activities but students do not have to attend every trip or meeting. The meetings are more informational and directed to a specific trip. You can do one thing with Adventure Education in your four years and still say that you were apart of Adventure Education.” When you think about going on trips with a school program one of the first questions might be, what would the cost be? With Adventure Education most of the costs are included. “Cost is kept ridiculously low so that students can try things that they might not normally be able to,” said Price. In regards to having gear for trips, such as the hiking series, Adventure Education provides almost all of the gear that students will need. The only thing students have to provide themselves is clothing, shoes and any other extra items they might want. Adventure Education gives students the opportunity to get outdoors and enjoy new local experiences. The program offers a fun, educational opportunity that also challenges students to enhance their communication and social skills. Adventure Education can help contribute to health and wellness during the busy school year. If you are interested in this program contact, Jill.Price@wilkes.edu. @wilkesbeacon Natalie.Stephens@wilkes.edu Get checked STDs are also caused by oral sex, sharing razors, unregulated tattoos, sharing needles and kissing not just by sexual intercourse. Getting checked is normal to ensure that you do not devlop any prolonged issues. Use protection Using available forms of protection when you are sexually active helps to prevent unwanted pregnancy and STDs/STIs to an extent. Keep up with personal hygiene Wellness at Wilkes: Get active with Adventure Ed By Natalie Stephens Asst. Life, Arts and Entertainment Editor Adventure Education is a Wilkes University program where students can seek adventure but also learn from their experiences in the process. The program offers a wide variety of activities that focus on teamwork, communication, problem solving, group bonding, and leadership. “It is introducing students to things that will enhance their college life and beyond,” said Jill Price, the Adventure Education Coordinator. “The focus of this program is for people to get outside and play. In the seriousness of an academic education sometimes the play is last on the list and Adventure Education combines playfulness with the purpose of gaining awareness of experience”, said Price. Adventure Education regularly offers three activities that are available to all students, a yoga series, bike rentals, and the step-up rock wall and ropes course. Yoga Series The yoga series takes place at Melt Yoga in the Gateway Shopping Center in Edwardsville. At a normal yoga studio, you would typically have to pay around $10 for a single class but with Adventure Education it is only $10 for five classes. The shuttle picks students up at 6 p.m at the SUB or you can also drive and meet everyone there. Bike Rentals Another program offered by Adventure Education is the bike rentals. Students are provided the bike, helmet, lock, and a total of four hours riding. This serves as an opportunity for students to get outside and get some exercise while also being able to see the local area in a way they might not normally get to do. The dates, locations, and times for when the bikes will be available will be announced in the near future on Wilkes Today. Rock Climbing Adventure Education also offers rock climbing every Friday from 6 to 8 p.m at University center on main (UCOM) that is free for all students, staff, local high-school students and the Wilkes-Barre community. The stepup rock wall and ropes course encourages students to challenge themselves with either the high and low ropes course or the 30-foot indoor rock climbing wall. This program encourages teamwork, communication, trust, �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment The NeuroTraining and Research Center opens for the semester health and well-being by reducing stress. The NTRC is designed to assist clients Staff Writer with their stress and time management The NeuroTraining and Research Center and focus levels. Their perspective goals (NTRC) has officially opened for the can be achieved through three types of semester on Sept. 11. It is feedback, audiofree for all students and visual entrainment faculty on campus to use (AVE), muse, and and Wilkes University is neurofeedback. the only university in AVE consists of Pennsylvania that has flashing lights and this type of facility. sound. Muse tracks Although the your meditation in NTRC is accessible on real time where the campus, many people goal is to have the are still not aware of The Beacon/Catie Lally client stay in a state it or are intimidated of meditation longer by the idea of going NTRC Interns Lauren Hine and and neurofeedback there. According to Dr. Morgan Burton in the facility. controls brain waves. Schicatano, co-director and co-creator of It trains you to produce the ideal brain the program, “Neurotraining means we are wave associated with your goal. Each using neuroscience techniques to train the technique aids your brain to understand brain to perform better.” what it is trying to achieve. Essentially, neurotraining is a way to “They are always trying to raise client’s change and improve the brain’s functioning sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) brain waves by teaching it how to produce certain brain and lower theta waves. Clinicians find an waves. The technologies that are available ideal threshold for these waves to be in at no cost to students have been shown for each client and use a reward system to enhance academic, athletic and artistic to encourage our brains to reach those performance, as well as promote better thresholds. A movie, song or game plays By Catie Lally when the ideal amount of each wave is reached. Your brain then figures out how to keep the music of the movie going and it will automatically adjust itself,” said Lauren Hine, an intern at the center and neuroscience major. To become a client, anyone can fill out a client intel form available in Breiseth 214 or, go online to Wilkes University’s website and search “neurotraining and research center” to fill out the form online. Schicatano and Bohlander will then proceed to review the from and assign a type of feedback that they believe will be beneficial based off what the individual is trying to achieve. Sessions can range from 15 to 25 minutes depending on the technique being done. It can also take several sessions to see your desired results, so it is encouraged to stay motivated if the results are not immediate. In addition, it is not necessary to have difficulty managing time, focus or anxiety in order to become a client. This process can be beneficial to those who get test anxiety, procrastinators, athletes or people who simply want to become a better version of themselves. While Schicatano and Bohlander are the co-directors, most of the work in the office 10 is handled by interns and volunteers. Each semester there are approximately five interns and two volunteers. They work as receptionists and clinicians. Schicatano and Bohlander prescribe the treatment necessary, but the clinicians perform them on clients. Last spring, four interns were offered jobs in the field to be NeuroTraining practitioners directly out of college, in part because of their involvement with the center. Intern Morgan Burton, neuroscience major, was actually a client her freshman year. She often found herself drifting to sleep during classes and became a client to improve her focus. She serves as a firsthand example of the positive effects of this program. “I found it really helpful,” said Burton. Not only did she benefit as a client, but she is now benefitting as an intern. According to Burton, she is receiving quality job experience and is able to apply her knowledge is a hands-on way. For more information on the NTRC or if you are interested in becoming involved with the facility, contact Schicatano at Edward.Schicatano@wilkes.edu. @wilkesbeacon Cathryn.Lally@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 11 Life, Arts & Entertainment DIY WHITEBOARD CALENDAR Supplies Needed: • • • • • Craft paper Scissors Glue 16x20 frame Dry erase marker Instructions: 1. Cut 35 squares out of the craft paper 2. Arrange colored squares in rows of seven 3. Glue colored squares to the back of the 4. paper that already in the frame 5. Place paper back into frame with the colored squares pressed on the glass 6. Close frame 7. Using the dry erase marker, fill in the days and month accordingly 8. Add events, assignments, birthdays and test dates By Jordan Fritz, Staff Writer @wilkesbeacon Jordan.Fritz@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 12 Life, Arts & Entertainment Wilkes Family Day 2018 osing with his rp Evan Stolicke Stolicker. mom Michelle A student posing with her fam ily for a caricature drawing at Ralston Field. Students in line to make walking taco s with their families tailgate lunch. at th e Bertz, bers, Richard m e m ily m fa r ith he lan smiling w el brunch. Courtney Do ertz at the bag B in m ja n e B d Pam Bertz, an Photos: The Beacon/Seth Platukis The Beacon/Breanna Ebisch Page Design: The Beacon/Madi Hummer �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment Getting photo read y fo r the family photo 13 booth. parents brunch with his joyingthe bagel football game. Seth Hanchett en chett before the ett and Pam Han Douglass Hanch Morgan DeAngelo , Kr ist in O sip ow er an d Debbie Scheible resent in g at th e r repco m m uter council table at the SUB. un alking tacos at the All smiles for the w ~ iversity’s tailgate te nt. @wilkesbeacon Sarah.Matarella@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Opinion Editorial Staff 2018-19 MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Luke Modrovsky Managing Editor - Nick Filipek Adviser - Dr. Kalen Churcher SECTION EDITORS News - Cabrini Rudnicki Maddie Davis LA&E - Sarah Matarella Opinion - Savannah Pinnock Sports - Ben Mandell Kirsten Peters ASSISTANT EDITORS News - Available LA&E - Natalie Stephens Opinion - Parker Dorsey Sports - Available DESIGN EDITOR Madison Hummer Interested in joining The Beacon? To learn more about what you can do, contact: Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu or Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu 141 S. Main Street Clayton and Theresa Karambelas Media Center Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 Phone - (570) 408-5903 www.thewilkesbeacon.com Want to advertise in The Beacon? Contact: Nick Filipek at Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu The Beacon Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member THE BEACON Opinion 14 Have an opinion or want to write a guest column? Contact the opinion editor: Savannah.Pinnock@wilkes.edu The desensitization of Millennials and Gen Z By Savannah Pinnock Opinion Editor The 21st century is a century marked by radical technological changes, progressive ideals, and relative equality. While it may be remembered for a series of revolutionary changes, it may also be recognized for the desensitization of its society. The nation has grown to truly become “the land of the free, and the home of the brave”. America has overcome a series of injustices such as slavery, as well as the disenfranchisement of women and people of color. We have also witnessed the increased acceptance and inclusion of marginalized groups such as those who have disabilities and sexual minorities. The keyword within our analysis of the progression of society is the term relative. In other words, the positive changes in which the United States has undergone are easy to see in comparison to how negative society once was. It leads one to wonder if this a sufficient measuring apparatus that we should be using? Also, if something is relatively better, is it good? Paying close attention to the concept of relativity, one will quickly come to find that relativity is defined by a gradient. If one looks at the past as the residence of negativity and the present as the residence of positivity, it is clear to see that as a society we have already been in our worst state. Collectively we have already dealt with the negative end of this equilibrium of relativity. This is an important observation as it allows one to see the underlying mechanisms that contribute to the desensitization of society. In order to truly understand how this works, it is imperative to understand the process of desensitization. By definition, desensitization is “the diminished emotional responsiveness to a negative, aversive or positive stimulus after repeated exposure to it”. Within the case of 21st century America, this negative stimulus is our exposure to adverse situations and phenomena. At the turn of the century, America underwent the emotionally deleterious effects of the Ground Zero terrorist attacks. Within this century alone, the nation has faced a wide range of disheartening events such as The Boston Marathon Bombings, the Pulse nightclub shooting, and much more. As a result of these events, society has grown weary and we have collectively underwent a sensory overload of sorts. Our nation has simply experienced a shock to our collective system that has now rendered us unfeeling. With this being said, it leads one to wonder how this manifests in Millennials and Generation Z. The answer is quite simple, this desensitization comes as a result of cultural immersion. Millennials and younger generations share one thing in common. These generations were born near the turn of the century and after. In the first year of the millenium, one of the biggest tragedies America has ever witnessed occured, 9/11. During this time, America’s philosophy of rugged individualism was traded in exchange for one of collectivity. This event also acted as a massive shock to our nation’s system. On a psychological level, it may have prompted society to become subconsciously numb. It is also important to note that the attitudes of the former generations will inform the attitudes of future generations. With the influx of technologies such as computers, cell phones, and digital media, a subtle air of numbness manifested within younger generations. These generations found an outlet to escape the negative phenomena occurring around them. These technologies were also created by those who witnessed the 9/11 terrorist attacks when they were old enough to understand it. Subsequently, gaming is often primarily centered around tragedy, gore, and violence. One of the most successful games, Call of Duty which is a first person shooter game with a military based framework has been played by millions of people. It appears as if these games are made in an effort to allow people to feel more powerful. These people are often part of younger generations. Sometimes these games can act as a catalyst for our cultural numbing. Michelle Renee writing from the Huffington Post reflects on this phenomenon of cultural numbness stating that she feels “a sudden surge of sadness at the thought of just how desensitized society, and especially our youth, seem to have become to violence, abuse, death and trauma.” While older generations may have been subconsciously desensitized with the events at Ground Zero, younger generations are being affected by a more violent and less PG culture. Older generations are more privy to watch the news which often displays a host of tragic events. Younger and older generations scroll through their feeds via various forms of social media and see the horrible events that can and have occured. As a consequence, society has become numb to disaster. In class it is not uncommon to hear someone say “Oh wow, another person got shot,” after scrolling or “I didn’t know about that, I don’t really watch the news.” These comments are often said in a nonchalant way as a result of a cultural desensitization. While it is true that society has become desensitized to close to home and broad phenomena, the effects can be reversed. In order for this to happen, it is important to reflect on the importance of things that appear to be trivial on a similar level as things that appear to be significant. The idea of appearance must be stressed as a subject’s importance is subjective. It is this subjectivity that makes a murder horrific to one person and relatively minor to another person. So next time you hear of a tragic event, make sure to allow yourself to react. Everyone’s life is important and everything matters to a degree; do not underestimate that degree. @wilkesbeacon Savannah.Pinnock@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Opinion 15 Can traveling enhance your quality of life? allow us to have a richer and more fulfilling life. Staff Writer Travel is beneficial for a variety of According to the U.S. Travel Association, reasons. Nearly three-fourths of domestic in 2017, Americans spent more than $1 trips are taken for recreational purposes. trillion toward travel. With numbers this These travel experiences are shown to help staggering and the idea of wanderlust improve an individual’s mental health. cementing itself in our collective Traveling can also allow one to develop consciousness, there must be something skills that can improve relationships, the uniquely beneficial to packing a bag and ability to adapt, and a person’s confidence setting out for new parts of the world. levels. From authors and celebrities to religious In other words, the more you travel the figures, everyone has something positive to more comfortable you will become in say about the benefits of travel. Even I can handling new situations and surroundings. personally attest to the wonders of travel During my trip to Italy, I had the opportunity as this past July, I went on a 10-day tour of to book it myself. This pushed me outside of Italy. my comfort zone and forced me to be more It was my first time overseas and I independent and responsible. can easily say that the trip was the best I had to adapt to whatever could have experience I have ever had. It was exciting potentially happened on the trip. When I to see the sites and taste authentic Italian landed in Italy and met my fellow travelers, food. The people I met and the memories we I quickly connected with them and formed made along the way were also life-changing. friendships with people I never would have Travel is such an influential experience met in everyday life. because it increases your quality of life. Whenever there was a bump in the It can greatly affect the way you view the road, and there were plenty, we all adapted world and in turn, it “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, together and made can allow you to grow but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, the most out of as a person. laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce every situation. I felt The concept of the idea that if we try and understand each renewed and reformed “quality of life” is after my trip because other, we may even become friends.” very subjective as of these experiences. -Maya Angelou individuals have This experience is different values and priorities. However, one that is true for myself and many others. in an article written for Europe’s Journal Traveling can allow you to become a more of Psychology, Professor Marta Elvira of independent and cultured person. the IESE Business School in Spain gives Experiencing a new culture is the only an excellent definition for quality of life by way to truly understand a culture and defining it as a mixture of “multidimensional its people. You also gain a new level of factors” that include a person’s physical, empathy and a connection that only travel mental, emotional, environmental and and experience can provide. spiritual health. Maya Angelou summarizes this idea Professor Elvira ultimately concludes that best, she states, “(P)erhaps travel cannot one’s quality of life is whatever they decide prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating to make it. This essentially suggests that on that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and an individual level, we have the power to die, it can introduce the idea that if we try enhance our quality of life. and understand each other, we may even Our decision to eat healthier, exercise, become friends.” read more, and last but not least travel can Along with the cultural benefits of By Jennifer Boch Have you ever traveled before? Where have you traveled to? Follow us on Twitter or Facebook and let us know. @wilkesbeacon travel, traveling has also proven to be a phenomenal method of language learning. Learning a new language through the means of traveling to a country is known as language immersion. In fact, language immersion has even proven to be a means of truly developing the dialect of that language. This is often highly dependent on one’s age. The younger a person is, the easier it is to develop an accent. It is also much easier to learn a language when you’re younger. In understanding that youth is a relative term, it is important to note that the window of language learning is said to span the age of five to 14. As a consequence, it is an excellent idea to start your language learning journey at a young age. However, absolutely anyone can learn a new language regardless of their age. When you see other culture’s daily life unfolding before your eyes, it changes how your perspective on other cultures and your life. My advice is to go and increase your quality of life; travel and don’t waste time. The world is far too vast and magnificent, and it will not wait for you. Make it a goal of yours to see a new place. Experience a new culture. Try a new food. As a Wilkes student, you have so many opportunities to do all these things and so much more. Our clubs and organizations such as our alternative spring break and study abroad initiatives are a perfect place to start. All in all, if you take advantage of travel, no matter where you go, you will become richer both in quality of life and quality of character. The Benefits of Traveling - Did you know that traveling can be a stress reducer? According to a study, a minimum of three days of vacation can lead to a drastic reduction in anxiety levels. - Traveling has also proven to be a great way to stimilate innovative thinking. According to Adam Galinsky, a professor at Colombia University, “Foreign experiences increase both cognitive flexibility and depth and integrativeness of thought, the ability to make deep connections between disparate forms.” - Traveling is also a great way to escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life. It allows you to have an oppurtunity to unwind and find yourself. - It is also an excellent conversation starter. It makes you seem a lot more interesting. It is an excellent way to develop or enhance your language skills. - Traveling is also a great way to decide where you’d like to live in the future. -So what are you waiting for? Travel the world and grow. @wilkesbeacon Jennifer.Boch@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Opinion What’s more important: A life of luxury or practicing humility? By Breanna Ebisch Staff Writer People in America and around the world aspire to achieve their dreams for the sole purpose of leading a wealthy lifestyle. The ideas that “living in luxury” is pure happiness and that you must go into a good paying job to earn a certain status, are extremely toxic. Our society has twisted what it means to live a happy life which leaves a lot of us wondering, what’s more important? Luxury or humility? Since the birth of the social media, the quality of life, and what we value as human beings, has dramatically changed. With just a few taps on our cell phones, we are able to pull up pictures of posh houses around the globe, watch celebrities on their extravagant vacations and shop for clothing items that walk the runways. Everyone wants the new Supreme shirt, or the fanciest Mercedes model, or decides to work for their whole life so they can eventually buy the most expensive house on the market. But what is so special about leading a life full of luxury? The aesthetically pleasing Instagram feed you’ll have? Showing off the gadgets and clothes that are unnecessarily costly? There is no true benefit to living in luxury but there is in living in humility. Our society has truly lost sight of a simple but rewarding lifestyle. In today’s world, humility is so important. Being down to Earth and staying humble is a personality trait that is so uncommon to find in people nowadays. Because of the new infatuation with having the very best items, people have learned to be rude to others who seem “below” them due to the way they are living. Having a mid-sized house, a car that is a few years old or clothes that didn’t cost you a fortune, is often looked down upon today. But in reality, those people are living a happier and healthier life than those who chose to live in luxury. Fancy clothes, big ticket items and over the top vacations are not need to be happy. Sure, these things are nice but they certainly aren’t necessary to feel content or successful. In a world where people feel the need to be better than everyone around them in every way, it is more important to be yourself and stay down to Earth no matter what level of success you reach than ever before. We often forget what it’s like to simply be nice to others around us and we are slowly losing the value of kindness because luxury has become more important. Sadly, all people seem to care about now is how others perceive them and they will do the unimaginable just so they are see in a certain status. But that is not all there is to life. You do not have to spend thousands of dollars on anything to live a life full of happiness and humility. By simply picking a job in a career you enjoy, living modestly and kindly and never letting success or other life factors get to your head, you are already making an important decision. The lifestyle you choose may be looked down upon by the millions of people on social media who share every moment of everyday in their lavish houses, cars, and travels. Just think of how many posts you scroll by in a single day that are just of a person showing off their luxurious lifestyle. There are too many to count. From YouTubers to movie stars to singers, social media is polluted with the “perfect” lifestyle. But it is very rare to come across a post or a person that doesn’t fit in that category. Humility is so important not just to our society but to our well-being and the way we live. So the next time you think about switching your major to get a higher paying job doing something you don’t love or you are thinking about purchasing a new Gucci watch, consider the options. What will those choices and items mean in a few days, weeks, or years? A lifestyle of true luxury or just a symbol of money? Just remember to always stay humble no matter what. Humility is what the world needs. I (they) listened to a lot of inspiration music. It helped me (them) realize that it was okay for me to be who I am (they are) and love who I love (they love), no matter what anyone thinks. Coming from a Catholic family, it wasn’t easy, but I (they) definitely believe music has made everything easier.” Unfortunately, today’s rap music now primarily focuses on sex, drugs and violence. Even though everyone has the ability to make a difference, musicians have a greater chance to make a difference in the world because of the platform they have. It is easier to get your voice heard when you’re already in the eye of the public. Music affects everyone. Take the feud between Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly for example. Machine Gun Kelly released a song earlier this month called “Rap Devil”. The song was made to be a diss track towards Eminem mocking Eminem’s song “Rap God.” After the song “Rap Devil” was released, Eminem stated in an exclusive interview with Sway about how he was contemplating on whether or not he should respond to MGK’s song. Eminem didn’t want to respond because he knew it would make MGK “bigger” in the music industry. On the other hand, he felt like he had to respond. Many celebrities and fans joined in on the feud by recording diss tracks of their own. They also joined in by voicing their opinions on social media. Relevance is a big part of why rap artists bash on another. When they begin to lose fame, they will do anything to stay in the limelight. According to Dr. Rob Bruno, assisttant professor of communication studies, “This ties into public relations. These days, staying out there can affect an artist’s strategy.” Celebrities might not have control over what is released, but they have the most influence. This has always existed. What’s new is that every fan can interact with the artists due to social media. We can become part of that mass conflict, which hasn’t existed for more than 25 years.” Music should bring the world together, instead of tearing it apart. Social media plays a huge role in how people today communicate. Communication is done mostly behind a screen and people today spend hours on Facebook watching videos instead of getting to know those around them. Music is big on social media. Some artists are more focused on gaining followers rather than actually spreading a positive message. Wilkes student Kylie Dillon states that she believes “the feud between MGK and Eminem is very childish. They both have large audiences and can be very influential; instead of using that platform to stand for something or to help a good cause, they are wasting time and abusing their platform to see who can diss who better,” Music is impressionable, especially among the younger generation. They believe the messages spread by their idols and want to be just like them. Unfortunately, social media has invoked hate instead of love. How can we address this problem? There are artists who focus on love and peace, and yet they have millions of less followers than those rappers who spread drama and promote hate and division. It’s more about how the celebrities look and dress instead of their message. The good thing about social media is that anyone can change this. If enough people stand up and refuse to listen to the hate, then there would be no point in doing it at all. The choice to listen to music with loving content is ours and always will be. @wilkesbeacon Breanna.Ebisch@wilkes.edu Music’s influence: Is the integrity of rap music on the decline? By Tonya Creasy Staff Writer Music has such a great influence on people in today’s society. It has been a way for people to connect with one another. It has also been a way to help people express their feelings. Rap music has always been a musical genre that people use to share their story. Most people look at celebrities as role models. However, are celebrities really spreading positive messages? Alongside music, social media has been a great influence on society. It has the power to influence a wide range of our views and we often depend on it as a means to stay updated on social changes. With that being said, is it making our views on rap music better or worse? One genre of music that is very popular today is rap. Rap artists used to write songs about their struggles. Hearing how someone has overcome hard times can inspire a lot of people when they’re struggling. A significant amount of these individuals also rely on music as an escape. The significance of rap music is truly astounding. In fact, according to one Wilkes student, “When I (they) decided to come out, 16 @wilkesbeacon Tonya.Creasy@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Opinion 17 Meet the Majors This week’s major: Psychology Photos and Interviews by Abigail Tarway Staff Writer Every week, The Beacon will offer a chance for majors to be placed in the spotlight. Each student that gets chosen will have a few words to express why they chose the major and how they feel it will benefit them in the future. Isabel Cali Sophomore Isabel is a psychology major and a minor in sociology. “I picked my major because I like getting to know people. I just wanted to learn about other people and what their emotions and why they feel this way and that way.” She plans to work with kids, most likely as a social worker. Isabel believes her major will help her help others. “It will help me understand how others think. My hope is that I can help understand and be able to help people. Things won’t be as difficult if there’s someone there to help them. Kristie Swetts Senior Kristie Swetts is a psychology and a sociology and women’s and gender studies minor. She states that she chose to be in the field of psychology because “psychology is the foundation of how people think, feel, and behave, so I want to help children and adolescents create a positive relationship with themselves and others with support from clinical psychology in order to promote a happier and healthier future generation”. Kristie believes psychology will help her in the future by allowing her to be a “passionate and effective social worker or counselor”. Laura Kessler Senior Laura Kessler is a psychology major and a art, Spanish, and women’s and gender studies minor. She chose to specialize in her field because “throughout my [her] high school experience I [she] lived with and helped to care for my [her] grandmother”. Her grandmother suffered from dementia and due to wanting to “to understand the brain and its connection to the body and overall health and well-being”, she chose to major in psychology. In the future she plans to “attend a Doctor of Physical Therapy program. She desires to help “people recover from physical injuries and be able to work through their own mental barriers”. Makayla Sarnosky Senior *Re-run of Sept. 18 with proper photo identification. Makayla Sarnosky is a psychology major with a minor in women and gender studies. She states that she “first started Wilkes as an undeclared major and then found the field of Psychology. My [her] first semester of freshman year, I had PSY 101 with Dr. Tindell”. After taking her psychology courses she found them to be “the most interesting and also where I [she] was able to learn the most. The psychology professors here at Wilkes are great and have been so helpful.” She states that in the future psychology can help “with being better able to understand individuals and the world around me [her]”. �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Opinion 18 When groove metal goes... country? Volume one By Parker Dorsey Asst. Opinion Editor Dez Fafara has officially pushed the envelope to an extreme. When he was the vocalist of Coal Chamber in the 90s, he patented a unique blend of metal which combined nu metal with gothic elements. As if that wasn’t unique enough, this past summer Fafara threw a massive curveball with the release of a country covers metal album called Oulaws ‘til the End. Fafara formed DevilDriver after the demise of Coal Chamber. In his new band he adopted a more mature groove metal sound in the vein of Machine Head and Chimaira. There were hints of Fafara’s country love when DevilDriver covered the 16 Horsepower songs, “Black Soul Choir,” on their 2011 album Beast. The album begins with Hank Williams III’s “Country Heroes,” with the son of Hank Williams Jr. doing his best Ozzy Osbourne impression alongside Fafara’s growls and Austin D’Amond’s hyper- fast drumming. Randy Blythe and his Lamb of God bandmate Mark Morton are featured on Willie Nelson’s “Whiskey River,” with Morton’s black metal-style staccato riffing providing the darkest sounding song on the album. Next up, is a heavy rendition of The Eagles’ “Outlaw Man,” which has a pedal steel being played alongside distorted guitars to create an extremely unique sound. Blythe also appears on Stan Jones’ “Ghost Riders In The Sky,” which has beautifully dynamic melodies and also features Johnny Cash’s son John Carter Cash and John’s wife Ana Cristina. Johnny Paycheck’s “I’m the Only Hell Mama Ever Raised” has to be the fastest and heaviest song on the album. George Jones’ “If Drinking Don’t Kill Me” features goth rocker Wednesday 13 and is particularly brutal. Both songs feature exceptional drumming performances from D’Amond. Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around” has a blackened atmosphere and guest vocalist Lee Ving’s chilling vocals perfectly complement the song. Dwight Yoakam’s “A Thousand Miles From Nowhere” is the most country-sounding song, with Western-inspired guitar leads and clean vocals from rhythm guitarist Neil Tiemann laid on top of Fafara’s shouts. Steve Earle’s “Copperhead Road” has guest vocalist Brock Lindow from 36 Crazyfists and very impressive guitar work. Richard Thompson’s “Dad’s Gonna Kill Me” has guest vocalist Burton C. Bell from Fear Factory, but aside from funsounding guitar leads it is probably the weakest track on the album. Hank Williams Jr.’s “A Country Boy Can Survive” has poor lyrics, but it has the most classic sounding DevilDriver riffs, almost as if they came straight from Winter Kills. The last song is David Allan Cole’s “The Ride,” which has Lee Ving returning to deliver a strong clean vocal performance that complements Fafara well. This is a bizarre idea that’s executed surprisingly well. The highlight of this album is by far D’Amond’s drumming. He’s sending out blastbeats at the speed of light and has extremely interesting off-beat drum fills that really accentuate Spreitzer’s blistering guitar leads and Tiemann’s harmonies. Bassist Diega Ibarra lays down a solid groove and Fafara’s signature barks are as powerful as ever. This is a great album if you want to listen to a fun and fresh idea. Parker’s Picks: “I’m the Only Hell Mama Ever Raised,” “The Man Comes Around,” “If Drinking Don’t Kill Me,” “Whiskey River.” want to help out, my opportunity to learn the language was lost completely - that is until I discovered reading. Reading was always a skill that people could do but chose not to go out of their way to actually do. I picked up a few books and found that there was a whole world inside each story. As George R.R. Martin said, “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… The man who never reads only lives one.” I found this to be very true. Even if it was a simple book like “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,” reading got me thinking. I felt inspired to be creative and clever with my words, both in speech and in writing. I began to read more and more. My nose was always in a book. I was clumsy at first, lugging around a pocket dictionary for the times I didn’t understand a word. A teacher noticed me flipping page after page in the dictionary when the word was defined with more words I didn’t understand. She introduced me to the thesaurus to learn similar words in one go. Soon, my vocabulary exceeded that of my peers. My language turned fluent. I learned that I could speak, and with that I learned I had a lot to say. I made friends by talking, but the closest friends I made were by talking about books. I exchanged books with others that read as much as I did. I joined book clubs, finding great comfort in knowing that other people also found the universes embedded in the pages of a book as fascinating as I did. We talked about topics from the books, like racism, sexism, stereotypes and abuse. Reading helped me make friends but also helped shape me into the person I am today. I learned a lot about worldly issues that we don’t learn in school. One book specifically that comes to mind is “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson. This book follows the story of a freshman in high school who was raped at a party the summer before. She had called the police in her panic, and went down as the girl that called the cops on a party. She had depression, was traumatized and had lost all her friends. This book talks about hard topics like sexual assault, PTSD and depression. The moral from all of my years of struggle was a simple, yet pressing one. Reading is your best friend. I had reading when I had no friends. I have reading when I need to escape the stresses of life. Reading provides companionship when boredom strikes. Reading imparts wisdom whether it be a textbook or a novel. Reading helped boost my vocabulary, my willingness to learn and my self esteem. All in all reading was a critical aspect of my life. @wilkesbeacon Parker.Dorsey@wilkes.edu Benefits of reading: The undervalued importance By Zarqua Ansari Opinion Writer People are often shocked to hear that English isn’t my first language. It is in fact my third language. I speak English with just as much fluidity, speed and complexity as just about anyone in America. Furthermore, I don’t have an accent. However, it didn’t always used to be that way. Growing up as an Indian immigrant child and living with parents that spoke less-than-average to no English at all meant that I struggled in America. I didn’t have the words to convey my thoughts. This often led to me being dismissed as an unintelligent child. I frequently asked classmates to slow down their speech and define the words they utilized in everyday conversation. Most people responded with a “nevermind” and thus I was eradicated from the conversation entirely. The dismissal from conversation led to feeling unwanted and I ultimately isolated myself. With parents that couldn’t quite help with the language and classmates that didn’t @wilkesbeacon Zarqua.Ansari@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Sports 19 Sports Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the Sports Editors: Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu or Kirsten.Peters@wilkes.edu FB: First year head coach Jon Drach rings in new era By Tyler Aldinger Staff Writer Classes are well in session this fall and that means one thing - Colonel football is back. During the football team’s offseason, several changes were made to their roster and coaching staff. The big story for the Colonels this past offseason was the change of their head coach. Jonathan Drach, the new heach coach, came to the helm this year determined to make a difference and get the Colonels back on track with a winning team. With this change, came a variety of responses from the team. For junior linebacker Bud Moyer, the team has a different feel with a new head coach and way of doing things. “The biggest change to Wilkes football this year is the new culture the coaching staff has brought with them; they demand the best out of each and everyone of us in everything we do. From practice, the weightroom and academics, you can really see that reflected in our preparation throughout the week and then on the field on Saturdays,” said Moyer. With the changes to the coaching staff, it is no surprise that there are changes happening on the field, as the team put in a lot of hard work this past spring and during the summer offseason. This hard work is paying off on the football field, as the Colonels clinched their first win of the season 30-27 on the road against Lebanon Valley College in overtime. During the offseason, the players noted how managing the hard work with classes was difficult. But, with the season underway, the Colonels are starting to show that the hard work is paying off, as junior lineman Mike Osayi detailed their rigorous practice schedule. “Well, the spring ball practices started at five thirty in the morning, so it was an adjustment to wake up early and start the day off on the right foot,” said Osayi. In addition to this, the Colonels needed to learn the new plays and different coaching style that Drach would implement, making the spring practices imperative for their success. On Sept. 15, the Colonels began their strengths for the Colonels this year, as Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) play Osayi notes, “The team is playing better against ranked Delaware Valley, falling than ever before as a whole. During practices and in the weightroom, Coach 21-10. Although the Colonels are not having Drach keeps us together and keeps us a winning season yet, they are making focused.” For the most part, the Colonels have significant improvements. They have a been relatively great deal of close to potential to win winning, which every game, but is due largely in have seemed to part to the team’s come up short commitment to in a few of work together these contests. and pick each For Moyer, other up. one of the The players biggest things camaraderie the Colonels coupled with the have to work on commitment is closing out of the coaches and finishing has formed a close games. unified, tight “One thing knit attitude we need to between the improve on is coaches and winning every their players. close game. We “We talk have proved a lot with to everyone our coaches, now that we whether it be can hang with in meetings or any team you in study hall. put in front us, Sometimes they but the next The Beacon/Kirsten Peters joke around in step for us is meetings and closing out and Coach Drach gives instruction on the sidelines winning the after not executing a play against Misericordia. we spend a lot of time with them games every in study halls as well,” said Osayi. time,” said Moyer. For Osayi, it’s the little things that allow Overcoming these struggles is a long process and certainly easier said than the coaches and players to bond, such as done. Miscues and mistakes are always a getting to know the coaches on a personal possibility, as well as mental mistakes that level. This season has been exciting from are always liable to occur for almost any both a coaching standpoint and playing player. These several areas, unfortunately, have standpoint. With dominating performances from been tough for the Colonels to overcome. Despite this struggle, the season the junior quarterback Jose Tabora and wide Colonels are having so far has provided an receiver Jeff Steeber, the Colonels have electric atmosphere at Schmidt Stadium been displaying the excitement from the for the fans, as well as on the sideline for players. Tabora has had several standout the Colonels, creating a closeness and performances, earning him the MAC togetherness amongst all the players. This has been one of the biggest player of the week honor. So far for the season, not including this weekend’s matchup against Misericordia, Tabora has had over 700 passing yards and six touchdowns in three games. Passing the ball has become a little easier this year, with help from Steeber and other solid receivers. Steeber has 290 yards catching and two touchdowns while junior Derek Nelson and sophomore Nick Yanik have over 300 hundred yards receiving and two touchdowns combined. Running the ball for the Colonels has not been one of their strengths, as Tabora has rushed the ball himself more than the actual running backs. To this point, Tabora has 202 yards rushing and one touchdown on the ground this season, making the team reliant on the arm of Tabora. Running the ball is one area where the Colonels look to improve, which is why Drach definitely has motivated the running backs to make more plays. Looking ahead for the Colonels, they will face Alvernia on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. in Reading, Pa. in a MAC matchup. “Each opponent we face is going to be very tough, considering the MAC this year is extremely competitive and any team can beat one another every week,” said Moyer. “There are teams right now who weren’t projected to do that well sitting at the top of the conference, and I think the MAC is going to start to be a free for all for the title from now on instead of the usual two or three teams every year competing at the top. As a player and a fan, I’m really excited.” Moyer elaborated on this, noting that the Colonels have one common goal, which is to win the MAC. However, to do this, it will not be easy for the Colonels. They will more than likely have to win out the rest of the season to have a chance. The Colonels are currently 1-3 with the rest of their season opponents being MAC teams. Drach and his Colonel football team are more than ready to take on their opponents and unleash their full potential. @wilkesbeacon Tyler.Aldinger@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Sports 20 WSOC: Colonels fall 1-0 in physical contest to River Hawks By Ben Mandell Co-Sports Editor EDWARDSVILLE. -- The Wilkes University Colonels fell to the Susquehanna University River Hawks 1-0 on Wednesday, Sept. 19. Following the tough loss, the Colonels fell to 2-3 on the season. Early on in the game, it was clear to see that Susquehanna was a faster team. The Colonels head coach John McNichol and company came up with a solid game plan to try and create offensive opportunities with a lot of passes towards the perimeter to open up the slot. Wilkes created a couple of good opportunities early on when freshman Karyna Vargas found herself with an opportunity inside the box. Unfortunately for the Colonels, her shot was grabbed out of mid-air by River Hawks goalie Madison Welliver. After a strong start for the Colonels, Susquehanna found their rhythm and used their speed to take control of the rest of the half. The first half concluded in a tied with a 6-4 shot advantage in favor of the River Hawks. The first half also saw the refs set the tone for this game, showing that they were going to let each team get away with a fair amount, as each team was only called for one foul and neither side had a corner kick with the way the first half was played. After Susquehanna flexed their muscles in the first half, the Colonels came out determined to do the same. Wilkes came out of halftime like they were shot out of Cross Country (Men’s and Women’s) 8/31 @ Misericordia Invitational Men’s 5th, Women’s 4th 9/8 @ Stevenson Invitational Men’s 5th, Women’s 8th 9/15 @ Cougar Classic Men’s 4th, Women’s 4th 9/29 @ Mount Saint Mary 10/6 @ Desales Invitational 10/13 @ Inter-Regional Border Battle 10/19 @ LVC Last Chance Run Fast 10/27 MAC Championships (Stevenson) 11/10 NCAA Mideast Regional (DeSales) (More schedules on page 21) a gun. Emily Wirth had an opportunity in front of the net, but her shot was blocked and gave the Colonels the first corner kick of the game. Jessica Egan sent the corner kick to the middle of the field, setting up goal but Susquehanna’s Samantha Chillis made a defensive save to prevent Gregoire’s header from finding the back of the net. The River Hawks immediately started the other way, sending the ball towards the The Beacon/Kyle Kraemer Senior Nicolette Towlen attempts to work the ball towards a good scoring area for the Colonels in their 1-0 loss Wednesday night. Haley Evans with a great opportunity, however, her shot attempt was blocked and the River Hawks stopped the Colonel attack. The Colonels continued to put the pressure on and the best opportunity to score came when J. Egan sent another corner kick in at the end of the 64th minute. Catherine Gregoire headed Egan’s corner towards the Colonels’ end. Anna Werner sent a shot off the cross-bar for Susquehanna, which later resulted in a Colonel foul inside the box. The officials signalled for a penalty kick, allowing Emily Sullivan to line up and send the ball past Samantha Cecere. Following the penalty kick, the game continued to get more physical and the Fall Sports Schedules Women’s Volleyball 8/31 @ PSU-Hazleton, W 3-0 9/1 @ Clarks Summit, W 3-0 9/1 @ Lycoming, L 0-3 9/1 @ Penn College, W 3-0 9/4 @ PSU-Brandywine, W 3-0 9/6 vs. Lancaster Bible, L 1-3 9/8 @ PSU-Harrisburg, W 3-1 9/8 @ Shenandoah, W 3-2 *9/12 vs. Manhattanville, L 3-2 9/15 vs. Cairn, W 3-0 9/15 vs. Wesley, W 3-1 *9/18 @ FDU-Florham, L 3-1 9/20 vs. Clarks Summit, W 3-0 9/22 @ Brooklyn College, W 3-0 9/22 @ Rutgers-Camden, W 3-1 *9/26 vs. Delaware Valley, 7 p.m. 9/28 @ RIT, 6 p.m. 9/29 @ Morrisville State, 11 a.m. 9/29 @ SUNY Cortland, 1:30 p.m. *10/2 @ Eastern, 7 p.m. 10/4 @ PSU-Berks, 7 p.m. 10/6 vs. New Jersey City, noon 10/6 vs. PSU-Altoona, 4 p.m. 10/8 @ Keystone, 7 p.m. *10/10 vs. King’s, 7 p.m. *10/16 @ DeSales, 7 p.m. 10/18 vs. Bryn Athyn, 7 p.m. *10/24 @ Misericordia, 7 p.m. 10/27 vs. Marywood, 10 a.m. 10/27 vs. Rutgers-Camden, 2 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Marts Center intensity picked up. Players continued to use their bodies to gain leverage and try to move the ball. The Colonels continued to press, trying desperately to tie the game up. The penalty kick would stand as the game’s only goal though, leaving the Colonels disappointed after a tough battle. “It was an exciting game to be a part of. Both teams played well,” said Colonels team captain Aislinn Speranza. “It was a shame that it came down to a penalty kick decision.” The Colonels next game is Saturday, Sept. 22 against number 14 ranked Arcadia, then they take on the University of Scranton Wednesday. The Colonels will look to right the ship and get their record back over the .500 mark heading into conference play. “We have a competitive schedule this week that will help prepare us for success in conference play,” said Speranza. “Wednesday’s game was another building block for us to get where we want to be.” Susquehanna 1, Wilkes 0 Susquehanna`0`1--`1 Wilkes`0`0--`0 Second half-- 1. SUSQ, Emily Sullivan (Penalty kick) 64:39. Shots-- SUSQ 9; WILK 11. Saves-- SUSQ 7 (Madison Welliver); WILK 2 (Samantha Cecere). Corner Kicks-- SUSQ 0; WILK 3. Fouls-- SUSQ 6; WILK 4. @wilkesbeacon Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu Field Hockey x-8/31-9/1 @ Susquehanna L 3-1 9/5 @ Keystone, W 3-0 9/8 vs. Widener, L 5-4 (SO) 9/13 vs. Cedar Crest, W 3-1 9/15 @ Alvernia, L 2-0 9/19 @ Moravian, W 3-2 *9/22 vs. Eastern, W 6-3 9/25 vs. U. of Scranton, 7 p.m. *9/29 @ Manhattanville, 1 p.m. 10/3 @ Elizabethtown, 4:30 p.m. *10/5 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. 10/8 vs. Arcadia University, 7 p.m. *10/12 @ Delaware Valley, 7 p.m. *10/18 vs. King’s, 7 p.m. *10/20 @ DeSales, noon *10/24 @ Misericordia 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom x-Connie Harnum Classic Home games @ Schmidt Stadium �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Sports FB: An interception, multiple fumbles cost Wilkes the win By Tyler Aldinger Staff Writer EDWARDSVILLE -- The Wilkes University football team battled backand-forth with the Misericordia Cougars on Saturday afternoon, but fell short in a tough loss 47-45. This loss causes Wilkes to fall to a 1-3 record and 0-2 in Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) play. The Colonels had an electric start to the game, as they held the opening drive of Misericordia to a three and out. When the Colonels got the ball for the first time only three minutes into the first quarter, they rolled out a trick play. Wide Receiver Derek Nelson got a toss from quarterback Jose Tabora, and Nelson threw the ball deep to senior wide receiver Jeff Steeber, who came up with the catch. Freshman running back Jason Wiley fought his way into the endzone, rolling over a players back and earning his first career touchdown. Misericordia wasted no time and answered right back with a 37-yard touchdown. But the extra point attempt was no good, leaving the Cougars trailing behind 7-6. On the next drive, Tabora showed off his passing ability, as he connected with Nelson for 31 yards to the Misericordia one-yard line. Tabora finished the drive with a one-yard run into the end zone, extending the Colonels lead to 14-6. Misericordia would answer back before the first quarter ended, making the score but Tabora made a costly mistake in the 14-13. Going into halftime the Colonels trailed fourth quarter, throwing an interception 20-17, only putting up three points in the on what seemed to be another scoring drive for the second quarter. Colonels. In the third Misericordia quarter, the took several Colonels running minutes off the game came out clock in the strong, as Wiley fourth quarter found the end following this zone for a second interception, time, putting the and eventually Colonels back on found the end top 24-20. zone with their This Colonels running game. lead would not With only six last long, however, minutes left, as Misericordia’s the Colonels receiver Sam faced a nineGillison scored point deficit of on a 68-yard 40-31. touchdown, giving Wilkes would them the 27-24 not be denied lead. and refused Tabora started to go away the fourth quarter easy. Tabora off on the right foot, led the team as he continued to down the field display tremendous with several throwing talent. He The Beacon/Kirsten Peters c o m p l e t i o n s , dropped a perfect eventually pass into the arms Junior Derek Nelson fights for yards with finding Steeber of Nick Yanik for a under a minute left in the first half. with less than 16-yard touchdown catch, providing yet another lead change two minutes to go, closing the gap to only two points at 40-38. and putting the Colonels ahead 31-27. The Colonel faithfull was hopeful for Wilkes seemed to be in good shape, 21 a comeback, until Misericordia’s Gillison took the breath away from the Colonels, as he got another long touchdown completion for 77 yards. Misericordia capitalized on another opportunity and regained control of the game 47-38. With time running out, the Colonels were able to score late, but that was just not enough, as Misericordia won the contest 47-45. Although the second half of this game was plagued with fumbles and an ever so costly interception which seemed to give the edge to Misericordia, the Colonels showed their resiliency and determination to battle back time and time again. However, this loss stings as Wilkes has struggled to come out on top in close games this season. Despite the loss, Tabora and the Colonels offense put up some strong numbers. Tabora himself had 410 passing yards, three passing touchdowns and one rushing touchdown. Besides the fumbles, their running game helped contribute a great deal, as Wiley led the team in rushing yardage with 100 yards on the day and two touchdowns. The Colonels air attack by Tabora allowed Yanik, Steeber and Nelson to have over one hundred receiving yards on the day and one touchdown apiece, giving the Colonels confidence. The Colonels continue their MAC play against 1-2 Alvernia this upcoming Saturday on the road in Reading, Pa. @wilkesbeacon Tyler.Aldinger@wilkes.edu Fall Sports Schedules Women’s Soccer Football Men’s Soccer 9/25 @ U. of Scranton, 7 p.m. *9/29 vs. Delaware Valley, 3:30 p.m. 10/3 vs. Kean, 7 p.m. *10/6 vs. DeSales, 4:30 p.m. *10/10 @ King’s, 5 p.m. *10/13 @ Eastern, noon *10/16 vs. Misericordia, 7 p.m. *10/20 vs. Manhattanville, 3:30 p.m. 10/23 vs. Oneonta, 7 p.m. *10/26 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home games @ Schmidt Stadium *9/22 vs. Misericordia, L 47-45 *9/29 @ Alvernia, 1 p.m. *x-10/6 vs. Albright, 1 p.m. *10/12 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *10/20 @ Stevenson, noon *10/27 vs. Lycoming, 1 p.m. *y-11/10 vs. King’s, noon *MAC x-Homecoming y-Mayor’s Cup Home games @ Schmidt Stadium (More schedules on page 20) 9/26 vs. U. of Scranton, 7 p.m. *9/29 vs. Delaware Valley, 1 p.m. 10/3 @ Lancaster Bible, 6 p.m. *10/6 vs. DeSales, 7 p.m. *10/9 @ King’s, 7 p.m. *10/13 @ Eastern, 3 p.m. *10/17 vs. Misericordia, 7 p.m. *10/20 vs. Manhattanville, 1 p.m. 10/24 @ Penn College, 7 p.m. *10/27 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home games @ Schmidt Stadium �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Sports 22 Getting to know... Camry Huff Senior Soccer Player The Beacon: Male Athlete of the Week Sept. 15 - Sept. 21 Why Camry Huff was selected: Huff recorded his first two goals of the season in Wilkes’s 4-0 victory over Clarks Summit, scoring both of them before the 13:43 mark to give the Colonels an early 2-0 lead. Name: Camry Huff Year: Senior Major: Electrical Engineering Hometown: Waynesboro, Pa. High School: Waynesboro Area Sr. HS Position: Midfielder Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? Soccer, the engineering program, size of the school and the overall atmosphere. made it feel like Wilkes was the school for me when I first visited. Post-graduation plans in terms of a career? I am currently looking around for job, as I’m not sure what field of electrical engineering I’d like to go into just yet. Favorite building on campus? Stark, especially with the renovations. new Hopes for this season as a Colonel? Win the MAC Championship. When/Why did you first begin playing? I started playing when I was 5. My parents weren’t going to let me sit around, so they made me choose a sport and I chose soccer because my brother played. Never looked back since. Coke or Pepsi? Make it a Cherry Vanilla Pepsi and I’m sold. Editor’s note : Athlete of the Week s elec tions are deter mined by the spor t s staf f each week. At the e nd of the acade mic year, we w ill post a reader poll on Tw itte r @ Wilkes B eacon to c row n an “Athlete of the Year." The Beacon/Kirsten Peters Most influential person in your life? My soccer coach growing up. He always pushed us to do and be our best on and off the field. He taught me many lessons that are valuable in all aspects of life. If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Alexander the Great. I don’t know why. Favorite Professor? Probably Dr. Lucent. He always made class fun and related the material in his classes to other classes. He made it much more enjoyable to come to class. Favorite meal to eat on campus? Southwest chicken wrap from Greens to Go. A quote you live your life by? “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky” – Michael Scott.” What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? To represent my school in the best way that I can in the community and on the field. Anyone to give a shout-out to? I’d like to give a shout-out to my parents for traveling to every game, home or away, and for the love and support no matter what. I wouldn’t be where I am today without them. All the guys on the team since we’re winning the MAC this year and there’s no one that can stop us from achieving our goals. Lastly, I’d like to give a shout-out to my friends Aislinn, Marisa, Bri, Julie (and many more) and my girlfriend Kae for all the love and support. -Compiled by Kirsten Peters, CoSports Editor �23 Sports The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Getting to know... Karlye Huffman Freshman Volleyball Player The Beacon: Female Athlete of the Week Sept. 15 - Sept. 21 Why Karlye Huffman was selected: Huffman provided 30 assists in the Colonels' matchup against Clarks Summit on Sept. 20, directing the Wilkes offense to a season-high .233 hitting percentage. Name: Karlye Huffman Year: Freshman Major: Business Administration Hometown: Sugar Run, Pa. High School: Wyalusing Valley HS Position: Setter Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? The distance was one of the major components when it came to me making my decision. Once I met the team and talked with some of the professors, it just felt like this was the right campus for me. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? To be working on the business side of things in a hospital or care unit. Favorite building on campus? UCOM. What came first? The chicken or the egg? The egg. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? I know, for many of us on the team, our goal is to make the conference playoff by the end of the season. When/Why did you first begin playing? My mom and dad were both coaches at my school, with my dad coaching football for 25 years and my mom coaching volleyball. So I was constantly in the gym or on the football field, but always had a volleyball in my hand no matter what. I started playing when I was five and I've watched and looked up to my two sisters play through their high school careers. Favorite thing to do during practice? “Queen of the Court.” Coke or Pepsi? Pepsi. Other interests or hobbies off of the field? Kayaking, paddle boarding, camping, fishing, hunting, or anything outdoors. Most influential person in your life? My mom. If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Betty White. Favorite professor? Dr. Edmonds. Favorite meal to eat on campus? Chicken patties at late night after practices. A quote you live your life by? “Forget the mistake, remember the lesson.” What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? To work together and always have eachother's backs. Anyone to give a shout-out to? I would like to give a shout-out to my friends and family who are continuously supporting me in everything that I do. Also, to my teammates for all the support and encouragement that they give me on and off the court. -Compiled by Kirsten Peters, Co-Sports Editor Editor’s note: Athlete of the elec tions are mined by the spor ts the Week Week sselections are deter determine staff each week. At the end of year, we ill post post a reader poll of the the academic academic year, we w will on Tw it ter @WilkesB eacon too crow n an crown an “Athlete "Athlete of of the the Year." Year." The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky �The Beacon - September 25, 2018 Sports 24 YOUR SCHOOL SPIRIT HEADOUARTERS! 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2018 September 25th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 September 25 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/70ac3eab8ed83a6c0c19368804b417ec.pdf 0b96ac38004c31528cc6a44d984bc7fc PDF Text Text w T ~ ~IHIIE ~ B5IEACC(O)N HE B EACON The Beacon - September 18, 2018 Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 72, Issue 03 Wilkes University - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania FREE Take one The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. Studying Abroad with Wilkes University By Catie Lally Staff Writer Wilkes University values scholars that are well-rounded critical thinkers and skilled communicators. The Study Abroad Office works to organize a program that provides all students with opportunities to have experiences abroad. Dr. Jeff Stratford is the Director of Study Abroad at Wilkes University. The ultimate goal of the study abroad office is to develop programs that make studying abroad more accessible and allowing students to create their own discipline specific goals for their trips while increasing the international footprint at Wilkes University. Studying abroad “forces you to reflect on who you are,” said Stratford. Jacee Yorks and Raeva Mulloth, two Wilkes University students who previously studied abroad gave similar testimonies. Both expressed learning to rely more on themselves especially when traveling to local areas in the countries they traveled to. The programs offered at Wilkes University, especially those including internships, give students experience in the real world that most organizations search for on resumes. “The world is ever becoming more interconnected and if you’re going to succeed in that landscape you’re gonna have to understand those connections,” said Stratford. The two main ways to go abroad are through curated exchange programs or through providers. Providers are companies that coordinate with universities and other organizations to help students find places to study or work abroad. Stratford explained exchange programs as direct linkages between universities. Wilkes University creates the program with a university in another country to allow students pay the standard tuition to study in that particular country. The only amenities excluded from the ROTC commemorates 17th anniversary of 9/11, page 3 Global coffee hour kicks off, page 7 Engineering Center dedicated to Randy Mark By Madelynn Davis Co-News Editor Submitted by Raeva Mulloth Raeva Mulloth, pre-med neuroscience major in Amsterdam, Netherlands on her study. tuition cost is airfare and rent, but students can fundraise or obtain scholarships to cover those costs. Wilkes University offers two internal scholarships, the Bierly Fellowship and the Stephens Scholarship. The Bierly Fellowship is for experiential learning for students who are studying abroad for an internship or research. SEE ABROAD, Page 10 Is feminism a benefit Largest first-year class in or a detriment to history, page 5 society?, page 14 On Sept. 14 the newly renovated engineering center of Stark Learning Center was dedicated to Randy and Robin Mark. Students, faculty, and family joined together to celebrate the dedication and official opening of the Mark Engineering Center. The Marks are also local business owners of Pulverman in Dallas, Pa, and have been on the board of trustees since 2013. Randy Mark is a Wilkes alumnus who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1981. This gift helped booster the 16-month, $8 million renovation to the engineering department of Wilkes University. Stark now contains high-performance computing research labs for all types of engineering students. As the demand for engineers continues to increase in the United States, Representative Eddie Pashinski believes this edition to SEE MARK, Page 4 Largest FH: Myers first-year earns class 100thin victory, history,page page21 5 �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 News News 2 Have a breaking story or a press release to send? Contact either news editor: Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu or Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu Student Government notes: Sept. 5 weekly meeting By Sean Schmoyer Staff Writer On Sept. 12, the university’s Student Government met to discuss items previously discussed last week. The topics at hand were fund requests for homecoming, both from the committee and from the Alumni Association, the Marching Colonels, and the Spirit Committee. After roll was taken and the minutes were approved, Student Government began discussion on the Alumni Association’s request for $500 dollars to provide tickets to students for homecoming events. The tickets purpose are to allow students with the same majors as returning alumni to attend events and socialize with alumni who were once in a similar position. The motion to approve the $500 dollars passed unanimously. Next on the table was the motion to provide $1,000 to the Marching Colonels. This money would allow the marching band to purchase new songs and increase the school’s pride at games. The motion to approve the $1,000 passed unanimously. Then, the Student Government heard from the Spirit Committee. Following up from last week Spirit Committee informed Student Government that they received permission from administration to create a student section. Spirit Committee requested $1,550 to add to the $2,000 budget they have. The motion to approve the $1,550 was approved with a majority in favor of allocating the money. Finally in terms of fund requests Student Government unanimously approved the motion to allocate $25,717.61 to homecoming. This money will cover the game and the dance and will account for a possible food truck. After all of the fund requests, members of Student Government reported on committee meetings. The IT Committee urges all students to start switching to the Colonel wifi as it is more secure than the guest wifi. They also want students to be aware of email scams going around and encourage students not to give out important information over email. Operations wants the university community to know that events will not be allowed on the greenway nor will students be allowed on it until later in the year, most likely around spring. They also want to remind students not to use the side doors to leave the SUB due to the ongoing construction. Commuter Council has a Niagara Falls trip, though tickets are on sale they are limited. RHC plans to have a room contest for students on campus and encourages the student body to keep an ear out for more information and to participate in the event which will end on Sept. 24. Finally, the freshmen class will soon have voting up for class officers. @wilkesbeacon Sean.Schmoyer@wilkes.edu Beacon Briefs: The happenings on campus -- Sept. 18 to Sept. 24 Compiled by Madelynn Davis Intramural players and workers needed for the fall season If you are interested in either working or playing for an intramural sport, the fall signup deadline is Friday, Sept. 21. The fall sports include flag football, indoor soccer, 3-on-3 basketball, and more. The intramural department is also taking suggestions for sports. For any further questions or if you want to sign-up please email Scott.Robinson1@ wilkes.edu for forms. Chamber Orchestra welcoming new members If you have an instrument and are looking to participate in an extra-curricular activity, the Wilkes University Chamber Orchestra is welcoming members. For any questions or for more information please contact Mr. John Vaida through email at John.Vaida@ wilkes.edu. Family Day set for Sept. 22. Wilkes University will hold its annual family day on Saturday, Sept. 22. The day will provide fun activities for visiting families and students including a home football game against Misericordia University. There will be lunch provided, photo booths, bingo, and more. All students, family, faculty, and staff are welcome on the spirit-filled day. Please check out the Family Day’s Wilkes page for further information and to register for the events. Flu shots available at Passan Hall The Wilkes University Health and Wellness Department has a limited number of flu shots available for students. The flu shots will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. The office is located on the first floor of Passan Hall and is open from 8:30 a.m. to noon, or 1 Upcoming Events: 2018 Fall Semester September 19 - SG Petitions due 20 - SG Ballots open 20 - General Board bonding (WUPB) 21 - Homecoming Ballots round one 22 - Family Day 25 - SG Ballots closed 26 - New SG Members announced 27 - Bingo (WUPB) 28 - Homecoming Ballots round two 30 - Rosenn Lecture: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar October 4 - Homecoming Pep Rally 5 - Homecoming Dance 6 - Homecoming Game vs. Albright 18 - Fall Fest (WUPB) 19 - SG Fall Event 22 to 26 - Freak Week (WUPB) 22 - Monster Social Monday (WUPB) 23 - Zombie Bar (WUPB) 24 - Mobile Escape Room (WUPB) 25 - Bingo (WUPB) 26 - Scary Place (WUPB) November 1 - Cupcake Wars (WUPB) 6 - Casino Week: Texas Hold ‘Em (SG) 7 - Casino Week: Bingo (SG) 9 - Casino Night (SG) 15 - Wing Wars (WUPB) 29 - Bingo (WUPB) December 6 - Holiday Party: PJs and Pancakes (WUPB) WUPB denotes Wilkes University Programming Board SG denotes Student Government Want your event featured in the calendar? Email Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu to 4:30 p.m. Flu shots will cost $20 and can be paid to the University through cash or check. For any questions please contact the Health and Wellness Department. Red Cross Blood Drive The American Red Cross will be holding a blood drive in honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The drive will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sept. 20 in the Henry Student Center. Appointments can be made at redcrossblood.org. @wilkesbeacon Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu Table of Contents News.................2 Life, A&E............7 Spread (LA&E)..12 Opinion............14 Sports..............19 �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 News 3 ROTC holds commemorative event on the anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks By Madelynn Davis Co-News Editor On Sept. 11, Wilkes University’s ROTC Detachment 752 and campus members came together to commemorate the lives of those lost in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. On this infamous day in 2001, an estimated 2,996 people died from the terror attacks and more than 6,000 were injured. These attacks targeted both the North and South towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Somerset County, Pa. The ROTC led event started with the Honor Guard’s presentation of colors and the playing of the national anthem. Cadet Wyatt Sebring led the crowd with a prayer in remembrance of those lives that were lost 17 years ago to the date. He thanked God for His presence throughout these times of need for guidance. Cadet Brian McKenna served as master of ceremonies for the commemoration who first introduced Major David Suszko, Operations Flight Commander of the detachment, who talked about what the events of 9/11 meant to him. At the time of 9/11, Major Suszko was a junior at Indiana State University and had just returned from a 28-day training camp at an Air Force Base in Texas. He was getting ready for the day after a morning run with his fellow cadets. As he was getting his dress blues on his mother had called him to inform him that a plane had crashed into the North Tower. He instantly learned from one of his professors that this meant the United States were going to war. Suszko reflected on the result of this attack on the future of America. “This event led my generation to the global war on terror,” said Suszko, who served a year and a half in Honduras after 9/11. Retired Lt. Col. Mark Kaster spoke next about what the United States learned and what we should reflect upon from 9/11. Kaster was serving in Washington D.C. at the time of the attacks on Sept. 11. Kaster was less than a mile from the Pentagon and was preparing to got to a meeting there later on that day. “I was there, I saw it, I felt it, I smelt the smoke,” recalled Kaster. Kaster went into depth about the expenses the military goes to for United States citizens to be free back home. He acknowledged the ROTC students for their willingness to sacrifice their lives for our freedom. He further encouraged the audience to thank veterans and their families for their sacrifices for the United States of America. “They deserve your respect, they earn that respect,” said Kaster. Kaster continued to urge the audience to honor the over seventy Wilkes veterans and dependents of veterans by quoting and relating part of the movie “Saving Private Ryan” to what we should do as a Wilkes community for our veterans. “Earn what has been done for us. Not to let the lives of so many people go to waste,” Kaster told the audience. “I ask you to live your lives better today knowing the sacrifices that have been made to you.” Kaster finished by telling the audience The Beacon/Madelynn Davis The ROTC Honor Guard folding the Flag of Honor after presenting it at the event. to learn from 9/11 and to become better citizens by being humble, respecting one another, and making wrongs rights. “9/11 was a terrible day, don’t let that day become a page in the history book.” He finished with a quote from Saving Private Ryan, one that he believed everyone should follow to become a better citizen. “Earn this, earn it,” finished Kaster, referencing the sacrifices of our veterans. President Dr. Patrick Leahy was the last speaker who came to the podium who spoke personally about the Sept. 11 attacks. “When I see the flag of honor I always go up to that flag and I trace the names until I find one,” said Leahy. That name is Thomas Galvin, Leahy’s classmate at Georgetown University who worked on the top floor of the North Tower as a bonds trader with Cantor Fitzgerald. Leahy also talked about his other former classmate and Hollywood producer James Whitaker who decided to launch “Project Rebirth” after visiting Ground Zero during a mutual friend’s wedding. Whitaker’s “Project Rebirth” became a 10-year project where 14 cameras took pictures every five minutes until the Freedom Tower was built. He also interviewed a select few every year asking them how they felt about the events that took place back in 2011, simply because he wanted to showcase the emotional rebuilding of individuals, according to Leahy. “He found that time heals, that grief can, in fact, soften over time,” said Leahy. “Out of the very worst of situations, people can be reborn.” Leahy finished with a suggestion for the audience before the commemoration ended. “Hold the embrace of those we love a little bit longer, hold the embrace of those we love a little bit tighter. Today, yes, but hopefully every day,” ended Leahy. While Leahy talked about his personal connection to the attacks on 9/11, the Air Force ROTC Honor Guard presented Wilkes University and Leahy with a Flag of Honor. This flag consists of every name of those whose lives were lost from the infamous day. Leahy said this flag will be framed and hung in the ROTC offices in UCOM. “[This flag] will be a constant reminder to all of us of that fateful day in 2001,” said Leahy. A similar flag flies at the Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama where Wilkes ROTC cadets go for their field training. One of the flags at the base was also flown in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., apart of the “Healing Fields” ceremony the city held years after 9/11. McKenna ended the event by holding a moment of silence for those who lost their lives on this infamous day in history. He then played “Taps” on the trumpet, a song famously used to conclude military memorials. “May we never forget the loss that deeply affected us that day, and continues to do so,” added McKenna. “May we always remember those who give their lives so we may live ours. And may God bless the United States of America.” @wilkesbeacon Madelynn. Davis@wilkes.edu The Beacon/Madelynn Davis Major David Suszko opened the event by discussing where he was on Sept. 11. �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 MARK, from front page Wilkes University showcases our belief and investment in the future engineers that come to Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The Mark’s gift was matched with a three million dollar redevelopment grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where Senator John Yudichak and Pashinski attended the dedication ceremony as a friend of the university and on the Commonwealth’s behalf. Sen. Yudichak began to specify what this Engineering Center means not only to Wilkes University, but to the city of WilkesBarre, and why he himself found it necessary to give the money to Wilkes. “To the critics who lament that this is just another capital college project I must emphatically tell you, you are missing the bigger picture,” continued Yudichak. “Today’s dedication of the Mark Engineering center continues a pattern of investment in a visionary long-range plan that is transforming Wilkes into one of the best small research universities in the country.” Yudichak compared the Mark’s investment and turn-around of the Pulverman company for Northeastern Pennsylvania to the investment Wilkes University has on their students and for the city of Wilkes-Barre. “When we all work together behind a great vision… this is the result,” added Pashinski, who is also a Wilkes alumnus. Margaret Steele, master of ceremonies, accredited the accomplishments of the News university to the leadership of the faculty and the dreams of the students. After Pashinski and Yudichak, Steele invited two members of the Wilkes campus to the podium who both shared their experiences from The Beacon/Madelynn Davis Wilkes University’s e n g i n e e r i n g Mr. and Mrs. Randy Mark, President Leahy, Senator John department. Yudichak and Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski unveil the new Mark Dr. Carole Engineering Center. Baddour, the first speaker, is a mechanical-engineering “The state-of-the-art collaboration rooms professor who has her own lab regarding along with the added laboratory rooms is a nanomaterials. She talks specifically about key role in enriching the educational and how the advancement of research labs at the vocational opportunities [for students],” said university will help students be successful in Liss. “As engineering students, [laboratories] the rapidly changing world of engineering. allow us to compare theoretical data that “This renovation shows Wilkes’ we’ve learned in class and compare that to commitment to the future,” said Baddour. experimental data. This hands-on learning “One of the things I quickly found experience gives students a tangible aspect at Wilkes was that I was truly able to in our engineering fields.” make a difference,” said Baddour. “The Wilkes President Patrick Leahy was next atmosphere at Wilkes fosters close academic to the podium and shared his dreams of relationships with students and faculty.” Wilkes University before initiating projects Second Jeffrey Liss, an engineering that allowed old and rustic mansions to student pursuing his bachelor’s degree coexist with state-of-the-art academic in mechanical engineering, came to buildings, much like the campus does now the podium to talk about what Wilkes with the new Stark Learning Center and University has taught him. other newer additions to the campus. 4 “We tried to enlist other people who might see [our vision for the Wilkes campus] the way we saw it,” said Leahy. “Today we take another huge step in the direction of meeting that vision for this campus with the official dedication of this space.” “What I like most about this place, is that we can put engineering on display right in the heart of the campus,” Leahy said. “Few people have been more supportive in the last few years than Randy,” added Leahy. “I am so pleased to announce today that this engineering innovation center that you are in...will be forever known as the Mark Engineering Center.” Dr. Leahy then introduced Randy Mark who shared a brief history about how he came to be the successful businessman of Pulverman that he is today and why he has invested into the Wilkes campus. The theme of all of Mark’s stories was to take action and not settle for mediocrity. “In some way create excellence every day,” added Mark. “That’s our vision for the Mark Engineering Center. Robin and I are humbled that life has afforded us the opportunity to be part of the center for innovation. We truly hope that this magnificent facility will inspire innovation and encourage success among Wilkes students for years to come.” @wilkesbeacon Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu w T ~ ~IHIIE ~ B~IEACC(O)N HE B EACON FREE Take one Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 72, Issue 03 Wilkes University - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania By Your Name Here Staff Writer This could The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. on a passi e v a h r If you esign o be you! d , g n i t for wri phy, join us! ra photog THE BEACON HIRES: WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, EDITORS Contact: Managing Editor Nick Filipek Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu THE BEACON Freshmen and all majors welcome! THE BEACON �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 News Family Business Alliance holds presentation on sexual harassment By Cabrini Rudnicki Co-News Editor On Sept. 13, the Family Business Alliance held a seminar titled ‘Sexual Harassment Awareness: Myths & Reality.’ The event covered the legal and human resources perspective of sexual harassment. The Family Business Alliance held the presentation at Penn State Scranton the same day. James P. Valentine, partner of Rosenn, Jenkins & Greenwald LLP, covered the legality of sexual harassment in the workplace. Valentine represents employers in the defense of employee termination action suits. Valentine uses the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) and PHRC (PA Human Relations Commission) definition of sexual harassment which states, “unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature.” Sexual harassment in the law is then broken down into two separate types: quid pro quo and hostile environment. “Quid pro quo is basically a supervisor saying to an employee ‘engage in this sexual act or you are fired,’ he explained. “Employers out there need to recognize that your supervisor’s actions define you as a company. Even if you policies and trainings, if in fact your supervisor engages in this kind of conduct, you as an employer can be held responsible.” The second type of harassment, hostile environment, refers to when employee conduct interferes with an individual’s work performance or create a hostile or offensive working environment. “This kind of conduct has to be severe or pervasive,” Valentine explained. “Is one dirty joke in the workplace sexual harassment? No, it could be, but probably not. If everyday I am confronted at the workplace by a coworker [telling me a dirty joke], it comes to the point that maybe I don’t want to come to the workplace. This is when it becomes severe.” Valentine continued by explaining that all individuals involved in a business can commit sexual harassment, including vendors. Valentine gave an example of a client sexual harassing his secretary. “In the position I have, I have written letters on behalf of clients to vendors and customers to tell them to cut the nonsense.” Sexual harassment could include all individuals regardless of gender or sexual orientation. Harassment could also take place outside of company hours at work-related activities, he explained. As well as the morality and legality of sexual harassment, the issue also can cause workplace satisfaction to go down, resulting in a less productive environment, he explained. “Who wants to come to work if they are being sexual harassed? Who is going to work their hardest in that environment? Absenteeism goes up, morale goes down,” Valentine said. Other reasons include negative publicity and liability for the employer under federal or state law. “The EEOC doesn’t sit back, there were 75,000 cases last year in which employers paid $46 million.” Valentine also spoke about the action of retaliation, or adverse action taken against an employee because of their complaint. Even if a charge is seen as not viable, employers can be charged with workplace retaliation laws. The rest of the presentation dealt with the creation of an effective anti-harassment policy. Various characteristics of effective anti-harassment policies were displayed. The training of employees and supervisors was also discussed. “The EEOC has guidelines now that make it mandatory for employers to have training programs,” he explained. “If they do an investigation of your company, if there is a complaint, one of the first things they ask for is [proof of training].” In regards to the investigation of a sexual harassment complaint, Valentine says that the investigations must begin promptly, and the appropriate investigator must be chosen. Kimberly Wylam, the president and managing partner of Baker Tilly Vantagen, spoke about the shift in sexual harassment awareness after the #MeToo movement came about last year. Wylam showed brand logos which have had sexual harassment issues in the past. “If you leave with anything today, know that it can happen anywhere, anytime. This is not just a construction worker’s issue any longer, this can happen in corporate level with the highest level employees.” Wylam discussed reasons for why sexual harassment still occurs despite training and laws protecting employees from it. “One issue is that high performers get away with it,” she explained. “They make a lot of money for themselves and for the company. The top salesperson may be making jokes that offend everybody but no one is saying anything because we are all making a living off of what he is doing on the other side. We turn a blind eye to that behavior.” Another issue is the idea that bullies make better leaders. 5 The Beacon/Maddie Davis Kimberly Wylam, of the Family Business Alliance, discussed the building of a successful sexual harassment policy in the workplace. “There is usually a trend that someone more aggressive, more in charge, usually got to be a leader. They might not have been the best leader, but that behavior led to promotion rather than counseling,” she explained. Other issues include not paying attention to statistics, as well as not addressing problems as soon as they arise. “Many of these cases could have not ever become an issue if somebody said something at the first offense, but they don’t because it’s awkward. We need to get rid of that awkwardness.” Wylam also discussed technology and social media’s role in sexual harassment claims. “Many of these claims happen on social media, or social media is being used to talk about what is going on in the office, thus becoming evidence.” Wylam finished off the presentation discussing the impact of millenials in the workplace on sexual harassment claims. “[Millenials] come from a shock value of ‘I can’t believe this is even something we are talking about,’ because it would never happen to them,” she said. “They are the tattle-taler generation. If they don’t like something, they are telling someone about it. Not only will they tell someone, they are expecting results.” The Family Business Alliance (FBA) is a local organization dedicated to providing services to locally-owned businesses and the community. The FBA is sponsored in collaboration by Wilkes University and Penn State Scranton. What is considered ‘sexual harassment’? Including, but not limited to: - jokes or stereotyping about gender-specific traits - possession, display, or exchange of sexually explicit items - staring, leering, winking, or making other suggestive looks - sexual propositions or advances - sexual gestures or sounds - repeated requests for dates - unwanted attention or gifts - sexually oriented notes, telephone calls, e-mails, or faxes @wilkesbeacon Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 News Profile of a professor: Dr. Jane Blanken-Webb, Education By Freddy Del Rosario Staff Writer Music. Education. Philosophy. Each of these items hold a special place in the life of Dr. Jane Blanken-Webb, an assistant professor of graduate education specializing in the philosophical and social foundations of education. Blanken-Webb is originally from Illinois and did her undergraduate studies at Northern Illinois University. She earned a masters, and later a Ph.D., at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For years she was passionate about both music and education, so she majored in music education with a minor in philosophy. However, the course of her studies took a slight turn. “I have had a love for music before I even started my undergrad,” Blanken Webb said. “Music was the most profound thing I knew at the time, and to be able to give that amazing gift to people was the ultimate skill. I couldn’t think of doing anything better than that. “I taught high school band for four years while I worked on my master’s degree, and while doing so I got the chance to take a course in the philosophy of education. Blanken-Webb enjoyed the suject matter so much, she decided to take her education even further. “It was a difficult change, but it was definitely worth my while,” she said. Besides her passion for education, Blanken-Webb is quite fond of the study of philosophy. This allows her to expressher interest in the subject’s ability to discern big, complex concepts and ideas. Apart from her specialization in the philosophy of education as a whole, Blanken-Webb is a John Dewey scholar and is very interested in cybersecurity education as well as social justice education. John Dewey was a prominent philosopher and psychologist, known for his work with education. “A lot of my research is grounded of the works of John Dewey, his work on aesthetics, education, ethics, and the intersection of them all,” she said. Before joining the Wilkes community, she held a postdoc at the at the University of Eastern Finland, where she worked on a grant which involved citizenship education. More recently, she completed additional Dr. Jane Blanken-Webb postdoctoral research at the Information Trust Institute in the University of Illinois. Here, Blanken-Webb’s research contributed to the developing of the cybersecurity ethics curriculum for the students at the university. She is also one of the newest member of 6 The Beacon/Steffen Horwath Wilkes University flute ensemble and has been an avid flute player for years. @wilkesbeacon Sean.Schmoyer@wilkes.edu Profile of a professor: Lisa Reynolds, Integrated Media By Sean Schmoyer Staff Writer Lisa Reynolds has a passion for design, one that shines through thanks to her years of experience in different parts of the field. Reynolds earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from Kutztown University and then a master of fine arts degree from Marywood University. “After college I worked at ad agencies, but found I was more interested in an inhouse position,” Reynolds said. “I worked at Wyoming Seminary not to far from here. I loved being able to help connect students to education. There is no better investment to make than in education.” Wyoming Seminary is a local k-12 prepschool only a few minutes away from Wilkes in Kingston. Moving from her position at Wyoming Seminary to working at Wilkes University was not far nor hard for Reynolds. In fact, it made the most sense. For the past decade, Reynolds worked for Wilkes, but not as a professor. “I worked at Wilkes for the last 10 years in marketing as the director of creative services; that job was as a staff member. The pace of the Marketing Department was very fast, while the work load here is different. “Here I am in the thick of it in terms of student interaction. The biggest challenge for me was that I thought I was going to lose my voice the first week,” said Reynolds. Reynolds had help easing herself into the position however thanks to her time spent teaching as an adjunct professor in digital design and media art since 2011. Now she teaches graphic design, design concept and thinking, theory, and practice. Reynolds’ love for design comes from the distinction she makes between designers and artists, as well as the passion she has for the field. “Designers are artists, I believe that. The difference between fine artists and designers is that fine artists have a message in their art that is their own interpretation based on how they experience something, while designers always have to send a message and tell a story with their work. I think design impacts culture so significantly. Being able to use design to communicate is something I love,” she said. Reynolds’ welcome here to Wilkes was one that felt natural, and one that greeted her as a caring and welcoming community. That caring attitude is something that professors here at Wilkes share, and another trait Reynolds possesses. Professor Lisa Reynolds “I am an enthusiastic person, so I am excited to share with my students the new work coming out in design, and share the reason why I am excited about it,” she said. “I am looking forward to seeing where students can and will go. I love hearing from students who have graduated. I want to help The Beacon/Steffen Horwath guide them and teach them, and I hope that I am jealous of the work that they are creating.” @wilkesbeacon Sean.Schmoyer@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 7 Life, Arts & Entertainment Have a story or want your event to be featured? Contact the Life, Arts & Entertainment editor: Sarah.Matarella@wilkes.edu Office of Global Education and Diversity presents Global Coffee Hour of the hispanic culture. The theme for the American holiday. Many global coffee first global coffee hour highlighted the hours will also not have any theme at all, Dominican Republic, Puerto On Sept.12, the Office of Global Rico, and Cuba. Global coffee Education and Diversity held this hour allows students from semester’s first global coffee hour from 2 to these particular countries 4 p.m. Global Coffee hour invites students or students interested in the from all cultures to come and take a break culture of these countries from studying or to have the chance grab a snack. get together and talk Currently, global about the respective coffee hour is being cultures and societies held weekly on while enjoying a cup Wednesdays from of coffee in a friendly Students pose together eating their empanadas 2 to 4 p.m. in the environment. Savitz Room. This “I just like the organic with locking arms. year is the 10-year conversations that anniversary of happen across cultures. It gives the encouraging students to come together Savitz Room and opportunity to have conversations and take a break. the dedication of the The hour welcomes everyone and if you organically without being afraid to flags that currently ask the tough questions,” said Erica are looking to take a break for twenty hang in the center Acosta, associated director of diversity minutes, you can stop by. It creates a of the student union space where international students and at Wilkes University. building.All of the Next Wednesday, the theme is American students, even students from flags that hang in President of Wilkes University’s SOL, Danay Rosa, taught students scheduled to be Venezuela, Colombia, underrepresented cultures, have a chance the student union how to dance the Bachata. The Bachata is a dance style originating and Panama. Consequently, each to come together and discuss issues and building were from the Dominican Republic, one of the countries highlighted coffee hour will be themed after beliefs that may be different. “People see hung during the during the coffee hour. countries from each continent. With the same things differently,” said Georgia flag ceremony on each continent and country, coffee Costalas, executive director of the center International Day. International Day is a “Students can come to practice their hour is going to have themed foods that are for global education and diversity and day that is dedicated to worldwide peace. English or take a break from their English,” traditional to those countries. During this director of international student services Since 2008, Wilkes University has been said Summer Rivera, an intern at the Office week’s hour, empanadas were served along at Wilkes University. hosting Global Coffee Hour once a week. of Global Education and Diversity. For more information about global coffee with coffee and tea. Global coffee hour offers an opportunity Coffee hour also incorporates American hour, contact Erica.Acosta@wilkes.edu or The Office of Global Education and for international students to get together, Diversity is honoring Hispanic Heritage cultures and traditions in the mix. It is a Georgia.Costalas@wilkes.edu. socialize, play games and drink coffee. Month and relating the theme of global space that is created for everyone that Wilkes University houses about 250 coffee hour to various countries that part welcomes different ideas. Global Coffee @wilkesbeacon Hour gives international students the Anna.Culver@wilkes.edu chance to learn about different aspects of American culture like acronyms and slang words. O n e Wednesday in October, coffee hour will be themed after Halloween and give international The Beacon/Maddie Davis students the chance to learn Alfonso Merelo builds his own jenga tower after finishing a Students pose together while enjoying their beef and chicken empanadas. more about an game with fellow students. By Anna Culver Staff Writer international students that come from places ranging from Saudi Arabia to Kuwait to Colombia, and more. For many of the international students, English is not their first language. Thus, coffee hour was designed to provide them the chance to interact with people from similar cultures. �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment Movies celebrating 25-year anniversaries in 2018 By Nicholas Filipek Managing Editor It turns out that 1993 was one of the best, if not the very best, years in cinema. Most of the classics we love today came out during ‘93, and the list of top hits is so long, that it seems like this countdown will have to be a two parter. So, strap yourself in for a nostalgia overload as we look over 10 films that are celebrating their 25th anniversary over the next two issues of Nick’s Flick Picks. Groundhog Day- Feb. 12. Directed by Harold Ramins, written by Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin. Starring Bill Murray and Andie Macdowell. What would you do if you were trapped inside the same day over and over? Well that is exactly what Phil (Murray) finds out when his job as a weatherman takes him to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day festival. There is no magic wish, shooting star, or real rhyme or reason why this happens to Phil, other than the possibility that he was just the one person who needed to learn the value of life the most. Ramis once said Phil was trapped in Groundhog Day for 10 years, but an astute observer did the math to find out that he actually spent eight years, eight months, and 12 days stuck reliving the same day over and over. This movie really makes you think about the value a day can offer while also showcasing Murray’s ability to make anything funny. Don’t own it, or can’t find it for rent? Just be patient, for AMC replays it, over and over, on February 2nd every year, just for the special holiday. The Sandlot - Apr. 8. Directed by David Mickey Adams, written by David Mickey Adams and Robert Gunter. Starring Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Patrick Renna, Chauncey Leopardi, Marty York, Brandon Quinton Adams, Grant Gelt, Shane Obedzinski, Victor, DiMatta, Dennis Leary and James Earl Jones. The mere mentioning of this film is going to have certain adults reading this, feel like a little kid again. Since it’s release, it has become an instant classic among, baseball fans, kids, and the young at heart. The Sandlot perfectly romanticizes the most perfect summer, even if you never played a game of baseball. The story follows a group of friends over the course of a summer, who get themselves into the deepest pickle of their lives, forcing them to do the one thing they do not want to do, mess with the beast who lives next door to their beloved baseball diamond. No matter how old you get, watching the Sandlot makes you a kid again. The movie is a perfect metaphor for the simple times that every non-child reminisces about while facing the duties of adulthood. That amazing feeling of having your very best friends right at your side ready to follow you into greatness, or talk you into the dumbest thing you’ve ever done. This movie is so good, it’s a guarantee that it will be one of the greatest movies around for-ev-er. Jurassic Park- June 11. Directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Michael Crichton and David Koepp, based on the novel written by Michael Crichton. Starring Sam Neil, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Samuel L. Jackson, Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards. What could very much be one of the most important movies of the 90’s, Jurassic Park is also turning 25 this year. Why the importance you might ask? Well this film is one of the pioneer flicks to say “maybe these computer graphics could work”, and they did, maybe too well in fact. Nowadays, if you see behind the scenes photos from movies, there are lots of green screens everywhere, or people with dots all on their faces for motion capture. In the past two decades the film industry has taken computer graphics to the max, over using it sometimes to help filmmakers bring their life to art. Jurassic Park is so amazing because it used computer graphics to do what practical effects could not get done. Before turning to computers to help though, all routes were exhausted in trying to make certain scenes work practically. It is the melding of the two styles that make this movie look good, even 25 years later. If you have somehow gone this long without seeing it, or its four sequels, Jurassic Park is the story of John Hammond (Attenborough) who invites archaeologists and other science professionals to a preview tour of his new amusement park/ zoo. The twist here being, the exhibits are filled with “extinct” predatory creatures from the past, dinosaurs. As for the aforementioned sequels, if you get done watching the original, and need some more dino-action, “Jurassic World” would be a good follow up; the other sequels fall a little short, though. Hocus Pocus- July 16. Directed by Kenny Ortega, screenplay written by Mick Garris and Neil Cuthbert, story by David Kirschner and Mick Garris. Starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch and Vanessa Shaw. Though it may seem weird to celebrate this films “birthday” in the middle of the summer, by the time you are reading this, it will be the perfect reminder on how to start your October. This movie may very well be this writers favorite Halloween movie of all time, and Hocus Pocus is still as good as it was back in 1993. At this point in time, it’s safe to say that it is a Halloween staple, becoming just as important to the holiday as candy and costumes. Would it really be Halloween without at least one viewing of this classic? The horrific trio of witches, The Sanderson SIsters (Midler, Parker and Najimy), have returned from the beyond, to finish what they started in the late 17th century, draining the life force from the youth of Salem, to ensure they can stay young forever. Though it sounds pretty hard-core, it’s still a Walt Disney Films production, so it’s safe for kids to enjoy. On the flipside of that, being a 90’s Disney film, there is enough adult humor, which flies like a witch on a broom, right over the kids heads, making it enjoyable for adults, too. Robin Hood: Men in Tights- July 30. Directed by Mel Brooks, screenplay written by Mel Brooks & Evan Chandler & J.D. Shapiro, story by J.D Shapiro & Evan Chandler. Starring, Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Mark Blankfield, Dave Chappelle and Megan Cavanagh. Mel Brooks has taken comedy to a new level for the better part of 51 years. Since his directorial debut of The Producers in 8 1967, Brooks has gone on to popularize the “spoof movie” genre by taking whatever current hot Hollywood genre is, and poking fun at it in a way only he could. When westerns were hot again in Hollywood, Brooks gave us Blazing Saddles. He next tackled horror with Young Frankenstein, and then moved on to thumbing his nose (respectfully) to space operas, with Spaceballs. His second to last time in the directors chair, Brooks delivered a masterpiece with Robin Hood: Men in Tights, giving the world one of the absolute funniest films it will ever see. Though this classic takes swings at all the previous incarnations of the man who robs from the rich to give to the poor, the movie takes its biggest swing at 1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. This is all done with love though, for Brooks does not mean to insult anyone with his spoofs. After returning home from the crusades, Robin of Locksley (Elwes) must fight the tyranny of Prince John (Lewis) to save the people from being overtaxed and over ruled while the King is away. Pro tip: Watch Prince John’s mole during the movie, and watch it move from scene to scene. The movie has more one liners, gags, and just over all silliness that still plays well for today’s audience, and is sure to bring a smile to everyone’s face. Be sure to pick up the next issue of The Beacon to continue the list of ten awesome movies celebrating their 25th anniversary in 2018. @wilkesbeacon Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 9 Life, Arts & Entertainment Self care with Sarah: Getting back to the grind By Sarah Matarella Life, Arts & Entertainment Editor While self-care may involve things like eating well, personal hygiene and mindfulness, it also encompasses your relationships with others. Relationships have a significant impact on how you think, act and feel and thus, affect your overall well-being. Relationships allow people to form bonds and learn about oneself. However, they can also directly affect your health both positively and negatively. According to an article by Erin McHenry published by the University of Minnesota’s Academic Health Center, relationships are linked to reduced stress levels, but can also be mentally taxing if they are not maintained properly. “Healthy relationships enable us to be who we are. They nurture us and they help us grow. They help us become better people.,” said Mary Jo Kreitzer, Ph.D., R.N. and the Director of the Center for Spirituality & Healing who was interviewed by McHenry. When someone is in a healthy relationship, they are more often than not the best versions of themselves. Feelings of euphoria can arise when people who love you and support you surround you. Feeling great can further lead someone to be more productive, get better sleep at night, and be more optimistic overall. Therefore, people in healthy relationships generally have a better quality of life. Since healthy relationships help us grow and allow us to be our best selves, toxic relationships often do the exact opposite. When you become intertwined in an unhealthy relationship, you can become depressed, anxious, and even lose yourself to an extent. Stress caused from strained relationships can even go as far as affecting your body if it becomes worse enough. “When couples are in a constant state of conflict, it is detrimental to their health and wellbeing. Their blood pressure rises, and they suffer emotionally. That affects your body,” said Bean Robinson, Ph.D. These negative effects can arise from relationship strains with friends and family members. With this information in mind, here are somebasic steps that someone can do to maintain healthy relationships across the board: 1. Be mindful in times of stress First and foremost, everyone is going through something whether they choose to express it or not. Therefore, it is important to show grace not only for yourself, but for the other person. While they cannot always be perfect in every moment of the relationship, neither can you. In addition, we all have jobs or school work (or both) and it is completely normal to get stressed. 2. Adopt the give and take mindset Not only should you be there for your friend, but they need to be there for you. One person should not be completely reliant on the other all the time. Also, do not be afraid to reach out to the other person if you need help. We all need to talk things out sometimes or just have someone there to lean on. Just do not forget to do that for others too. 3. Provide reassurance Let the people in your life know that you love them, care about them, and appreciate that they are there with you. Sometimes great relationships, whether they are friends or significant others, are few and far between. If you are lucky to have special people in your life, let them know and nourish that relationship. 4. Communicate It is imperative to communicate about what is going on in your head. The other person is not a mind reader and is not able to realize how you are feeling about a particular situation unless you tell them how you feel. Your feelings are important and you are thinking them for a reason, so let someone know how you are feeling to alleviate your own personal stress and stress within the relationship as well. 5. End toxic relationships This is arguably the most important step out of all of them. Everyone can develop their own ways of having healthy relationships that works for them, but ultimately, if you are in a relationship situation that is not ideal for you, end it as soon as possible. Life is too short to have people in your life that only bring upon negative energy surrounding you. @wilkesbeacon Sarah.Matarella@wilkes.edu Wellness at Wilkes: Feel the burn in under an hour By Natalie Stephens Asst. Life, Arts and Entertainment Editor With busy schedules it can be difficult to find time to get a good workout in. These highintensity workouts might be just the thing to help you get and stay healthy, all in less than an hour. Cycling Soulcycle is the the company that jump started the indoor cycling craze several years ago, also known as spinning. An average spin classis 45-60 minutes long and is a high intensity workout where you can burn between 300-600 calories. In a gym setting, the lights are off, there is high tempo music playing and an instructor is leading the class. Each rider gets to pick their own resistance so someone just starting off can choose a lower resistance, while an experienced cyclist may prefer a higher setting The workout typically starts off with a warm up, which is low intensity, and then shifts to more intense hills and a faster pace, ultimately ending with a cooldown and stretch. The mixture of sharp bursts of hills and sprints are aimed at burning calories while still building muscle. The great thing about indoor cycling is that you can change the resistance on the bike to whatever you are comfortable with. It mixes seasoned cyclers with beginners so both groups can still get a great workout. It may be the perfect cardio workout to throw into your gym routine a few times a week. HIIT Many people don’t have a lot of time in their schedule for long workouts so HIIT, highintensity interval training, can be the perfect alternative to spending hours in the gym. HIIT is a mixture of workouts that have short resting times in between exercises. A HIIT workout usually lasts around 30 minutes, it may be the most time efficient way to exercise in terms of burning a lot of calories. A typical workout involves sprinting on a treadmill, biking, jumping rope and using various weights. Each type of workout is done for about 20-30 seconds with about 10 seconds rest for 4 to 6 rounds repeating each exercise. Sounds like a lot, but it only totals 30 minutes of your time. This can be done in a gym or even outside, so it is convenient for those with busy schedules can fit it in. HIIT has also been found to help reduce heart rate and blood pressure in many individuals. This type of exercise may also increase your metabolism, which means that you will still burn calories even after completing the work out. If you have 30 minutes try this workout anywhere, anytime. section is timed so you are not only focusing on the exercises, but also competing against the clock. After doing any type of exercise, it is important to let your body cool down and recover.Stretching, the final section, will aid in decreasing the effects of delayed onset muscle soreness while also increasing flexibility, CrossFit involves a which can help prevent variety of movements injuries. done at a high intensity. In many CrossFit with }fat ~lit. Stt. ht.nS It’s goal of this style of gyms they write on the workout is to build strength and conditioning walls what the workouts of the day are and the through various challenging workouts in a 45 times that people completed them, so this may minute time span. be an additional form of motivation. If you are Most CrossFit classes have the daily looking for a community based workout where workout separated into four sections: dynamic you have coaching and support, CrossFit just warm-up, skill, strength, workout of the day, may be what you have been looking for. and cooldown. The workout typically starts off If you live in or near the Wilkes-Barre area, with functional movements like jump roping, you can find versions of these workouts at the lunges, squats, or push ups. The goal of this local YMCA. If not, you can find videos online first section is to get your muscles warmed that depict these workouts or create your own up and to increase heart rate in order to get workout from the comfort of your own home. ready for the rest of the workout. The skill and @wilkesbeacon strength section is all about strength-based Natalie.Stephens@wilkes.edu movements, like deadlifts and squats. The third CrossFit ~ \Ut.llnt.SS 1uWILKES �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 ABROAD, from front page 10 Life, Arts & Entertainment go abroad and have that educational experience but also the fun part of being abroad,” said Mulloth. One of the hardest parts of studying abroad, according to Mulloth was grocery shopping and making her own food. She stressed the importance planning out your money before traveling and taking advantage of scholarships, she claims “if you really want it, there are ways to make it happen.” Mulloth proves that study abroad can be completed by more than just liberal The Stephens Scholarship is for traditional study abroad programs. Most students see the price tag attached to studying abroad and decide that it is too expensive because they are not aware about these scholarships. Stratford mentioned that because of this, only two or three students study abroad each semester. Furthermore, he approximated that only 20 percent of Wilkes students go abroad for educational purposes. Most of those students go over spring break, or for shorter academic faculty-led trips. Raeva Mulloth, a pre-med neuroscience major, decided to do research over the summer instead of missing a semester at Wilkes. She worked for six weeks in a neuroscience research lab that is affiliated with the University of London. She knew for some time that she wanted to study abroad but was worried that her credits would not be able to transfer. However, after speaking with Stratford, she worked with Arcadia University, because of their extensive study abroad program, to find her desired internship. Mulloth spoke fondly of Submitted by Raeva Mulloth her time in London, she was able to learn about topics Raeva Mulloth in the neuroscience research lab at interesting to her that she the University of London. would not have been able to do here. She was also able to work in a lab arts and business majors. Jacee Yorks, a business major, worked that had different equipment and protocols than those she previously worked in at with CAPA, a study abroad provider, to go to Sydney, Australia. When traveling Wilkes. “I thought doing research would through an organization like CAPA, be something different, and I can still they set pre-planned excursions for they specialized in planning events that allowed children with disabilities to play sports. Yorks addressed the culture difference that she found most shocking: Her work environment was extremely laid back. She even stated the catchphrase where she worked was “no worries.” Whenever you finished work you could leave, and if you did not finish your work they would tell you to continue it some other day and to go home. Her advice for those who want to study abroad is “plan, plan, plan.” She urged that students think about what they want to do and places they would be interested in going ahead of time. She also stressed that students start applying to scholarships early. “Honestly I think every student should study abroad... get out of your comfort zone, be Submitted by Jacee Yorks brave,” said Yorks. On Sept. 27 in the Henry Jacee Yorks hiking the Blue Mountains in Student Center there will be Sydney, Australia. four study abroad providers visiting. These providers will be you.“We could go on them and they were able to provide many more details about all inclusive” said Yorks. She was able to their specific organizations and financial attend a river cruise, “glamp” overnight at aid opportunities. Anyone interested in the zoo and hiked the Blue Mountains. As study abroad is encouraged to attend. she “glamped” she was able to see all the Wilkes has study abroad opportunities nocturnal animals as well as watch rescued in a plethora of locations, including but elephants be fed. not limited to: Colombia, Costa Rica, Yorks added that her public transport England, Ireland, Wales, Germany, Italy, was also included through CAPA, she Switzerland, Italy, London, England, was simply given a card to use instead Malaysia, Poland, Germany, Czech of buying individual tickets. This made Republic, Hungary, Spain, Tanzania it much easier for her to travel around and Uganda. Working with providers the city at her leisure. She took one class adds even more countries to this already that met twice a week and worked as an extensive list. intern for the remainder of the week. She interned at New Sport South Wales and @wilkesbeacon Cathryn.Lally@wilkes.edu Interested in writing for Life, Arts and Entertainment? Contact Sarah Matarella at Sarah.Matarella@wilkes.edu @WilkesBeacon Facebook.com/WilkesBeacon �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 11 Life, Arts & Entertainment Craft Corner: Lace-Up Shirt • • • • • Supplies Needed: T-shirt Hot glue gun or needle and thread Scissors Polyester Ribbon Eyelets (unless you can find ribbon with eyelets already attached) • Ruler • Shoelace, ribbon, or string Instructions: 1. Lay your shirt out flat and cut a large triangle out of the center of the chest starting at the neckline 2. Measure the sides of the triangle so you know how long to cut your ribbon 3. Attach your eyelets to your ribbon using an eyelet tool or hot glue. Set the eyelets about an inch and a half apart. 4. Once your eyelets are attached, sew or glue the ribbon onto your shirt where you cut the triangle out 5.Lace your shoelace, ribbon, or string through the eyelet holes NOTE: Hot glue will melt in the washing machine. Hand wash your shirt if you used hot glue. By Jordan Fritz, Staff Writer @wilkesbeacon Jordan.Fritz@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 News 12 Multicultural Parade and Festival By Cabrini Rudnicki Co-News Editor A Wilkes-Barre diversity themed festival gave Wilkes students the opportunity to celebrate their culture, as well as their talents. The second annual Multicultural Parade and Festival was held Saturday in Downtown Wilkes-Barre. The parade started at 11 a.m. on South Main Street, and continued into Public Square, where the festival portion was held. The event was sponsored by Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies, Islamic Association of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Metro, Nardone Brothers, Navient, Times Leader, as well as Wilkes University. The festival featured food stands from local businesses including Letts Eat, which featured Indian cuisine, and Thomas’ Middle Eastern Food, which featured Lebanese cuisine. Local restaurants and businesses, including El Zocalo Mexican Restaurant, Istanbul Grill, Marquis Art and Frame, Shawermajy Halal Gyros, Tazza Shawarma Grill, Thomas C. Thomas Co., and Vesuvio’s Wilkes-Barre offered day long specials to festival attendees. Also featured were information stands for different local organizations such as Action Together, St. Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church, and Downtown Residents Association. Dance and musical performances filled the day on the main stage from noon to 9 p.m. Along with dance groups and musical performers from around the area, Wilkes students from different student organizations participated in the event. Wilkes University IFAHRU students performed traditional Panamanian dances. IFAHRU is part of many students sponsored by Panama to attend Wilkes for IFAHRU features students sponsored by Panama’s Institute for Training and Development of Human Resources for English education. Towards the end of the performance, other Panamanian students joined IFAHRU on stage. “The performance was based upon Panamanian culture,” he explained. “We are representing Panama,” explained Carlos Bonilla. Bonilla is a student of MEDUCA Cohort 9, one of the Panamanian student groups which brings public school teachers to the states for English language immersion. “[The festival] is important because it allows us to show our culture,” said Public Square featured a variety of businesses on Saturday, all celebrating multiculturalism. Bonilla. “One of the most interesting aspects is dancing. It is important because it introduces Panama culture to the Wilkes-Barre community.” IFAHRU’s dance featured tamborito, a traditional Panamanian dance which serves as the national song and dance of the country. The dance features performers in couples, dancing in a circle while stomping their feet and banging drums. Female performers wore long traditional dresses called pollera with ruffled fabric and pom-pom detailing. Male performers dressed in long-sleeved, white collared shirts and long pants. Also participating at the event was Student Organizations of Latino, also known as SOL. The club, which started last year, celebrates and empowers the Latino community at Wilkes University. The beginning of the performance was marked by the club chanting “We are SOL” before transitioning into traditional Items representingmany cultures were on display during the Latino dances. “We performed two dances: bachata and multicultural festival merengue,” explained Summer Rivera, a senior education major. “They originally Photos: The Beacon/Seth Platukis come from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.” Page Design: The Beacon/Madi Hummer Attendees of the festival could also shop as they took in the sights and sounds. �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 News 13 • M. Multicultural International Club Mission Sammy’s Caribbean Grill serving authentic Caribbean food providing a southern taste at the festival. Owner Samual Manning stands in his truck awaiting orders. The Multicultural International Club from neighboring King’s College displays various information about their club at a table during the parade. Rivera took pride in the dance’s ease and accessibility. “Bachata is easy three steps, merengue is easy two steps,” she said. The group’s second performance was a tribute to Latino culture featuring ‘step’ moves. “People need to know our roots and our culture. Not many are educated when it comes to other cultures and other ethnicities.” WACA, Wilkes African Cultural Association, participated by dancing traditional African dances but with a modern flair. Imani Calubine, a senior marketing student, performed the dance with other members of the club. “I like the fact it is bringing cultures together, especially in Wilkes-Barre,” said Calubine. “It is a brilliant idea for all of us to learn about other cultures.” Mmachi Dimoriaku, a junior theatre and dramatic arts major and acting club leader, edited parts of her hometown’s dance group’s choreography for the performance. “I choreographed the second part,” she explained. “Just to spice the dance up and make it my own, because while I really enjoy [the original choreographer’s], I wanted to change it up and add more flare local universities,” she explained. “This is something that really means a lot to me as a diversity officer at Wilkes University.” “It is encouraging others to celebrate our cultures,” she continued. “We can get everybody can come and celebrate who they are, despite what is going on in our political climate. I think if we celebrate one another, we can definitely come together and understand each other.” The Office of Diversity Initiatives in the Center for Global Education and Diversity provides support for minority and underrepresented student groups. to it.” Dimoriaku has plans to bring African dance classes to Wilkes, inspired by her dance at the festival. “I added afrobeat elements from all over New York City, from a lot of different class dances. I’m a big dance class person, and I hope to bring one to Wilkes-Barre very soon.” The group only rehearsed six times, according to Dimoriaku. “I really put in my all for this, with the help of other people. I hope for this school year to be the president of the club. As president, I hope to bring more performances, more events, and more dance classes.” Elijah Hayes, a junior mechanical engineering major, loved performing on stage. “It felt really good,” he said. “A lot of hard work went into those practices. To be able to share our culture and our dances to everyone is a real inspiration.” Also participating in the event is the Multicultural Student Coalition. Erica Acosta, the associate director of Diversity Affairs, spoke about how the university got involved in the festival. “We got involved last year when Patty Hughes, the coordinator of Public Square, got in contact with all of the The office assists students in personal, academic and career concerns. The office is holding a second annual Diversity and Inclusion Conference on Saturday, Oct. 20 with a Dr. Vicky T. Sapp serving as keynote speaker. The conference’s theme for 2018 is “Challenging our Unconscious Bias.” @wilkesbeacon Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu The Rockology Music Academy Student Band performs on stage. �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 Opinion Editorial Staff 2018-19 MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Luke Modrovsky Managing Editor - Nick Filipek Adviser - Dr. Kalen Churcher SECTION EDITORS News - Cabrini Rudnicki Maddie Davis LA&E - Sarah Matarella Opinion - Savannah Pinnock Sports - Ben Mandell Kirsten Peters ASSISTANT EDITORS News - Available LA&E - Natalie Stephens Opinion - Parker Dorsey Sports - Available DESIGN EDITOR Madison Hummer Interested in joining The Beacon? To learn more about what you can do, contact: Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu or Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu 141 S. Main Street Clayton and Theresa Karambelas Media Center Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 Phone - (570) 408-5903 www.thewilkesbeacon.com Want to advertise in The Beacon? Contact: Nick Filipek at Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu The Beacon Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member THE BEACON Opinion 14 Have an opinion or want to write a guest column? Contact the opinion editor: Savannah.Pinnock@wilkes.edu Is feminism a benefit or a detriment to society? By Savannah Pinnock Opinion Editor The question of whether feminism is a benefit or a detriment to society is one that has often been received by the public as a touchy, and taboo subject. Within modern-day America, and our campus community as a whole, there are a myriad of feminist movements and programs such as #MeToo, The Vagina Monologues, The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, International Women’s Day, etc. With that being said, it appears that regardless of one’s gender, society feels uncomfortable addressing this question. In an effort to provide society with an answer to this unsaid but often thought of question, writer and lawyer Ephrat Livni offers her personal insights on feminism. In response to the rise of feminism, Ephrat asserts that she is “already equal and was born that way in 1972. No need to fight about it now”. In stating that she feels as if she is “already equal” Livni speaks for a growing population of women who believe that they are not marginalized in any way, shape, or form. Livni suggests that in contrasting her abilities to her male counterparts, men “never seemed inherently better at anything but hauling hay”. As a consequence of the prevailing attitudes in the feminist movement, she states that she is “impatient with discussions about gender premised on the assumption that I’m [she is] struggling at an imaginary starting line”. This statement is powerful as it reveals that Livni finds the “women are lacking” notion within the movement to be a disservice to women. As a healthy alternative, Livni recommends that another approach to being a feminist is “to just be powerful”. She understands that gender based injustices are a reality yet, it shouldn’t be the prevailing concern of feminists. Instead, believes that they should address injustice as it comes instead of looking for it. As a response to Ephrat Livni’s perspective on feminism, Patrick O’Leary writing from Hercampus.com offers his views toward the subject. O’Leary states that “there are women who claim to not believe in feminism because they do not experience any type of discrimination, but this is clearly not the situation for the majority of the female population”. In this statement, it is clear that his stance on the feminist movement is undoubtedly positive. O’Leary believes that the movement is an overwhelming benefit to women as a whole. He subscribes to the belief that feminism is “equality”, “empowerment”, and a movement that “every woman should strive to be a part of.” Such a statement is undeniably powerful yet, with Ephrat Livni and Patrick O’Leary’s strongly opposing views towards feminism, it begs the question, which view is accurate? On one side of the spectrum, there is a population of men and women who believe that feminism is an extremist movement. These men and women find that feminism proves to be more harmful to society as a whole. In fact, there are many who believe that feminism is an ideology centered around the hatred of men. This belief is grounded in a common misconception that circulates throughout society. Although it is a misconception, it is still widely believed and affects the credibility of the feminist movement as a whole. On the contrary, men and women like O’Leary, Lady Gaga, and many others feel that feminism is beneficial to society as a whole. In order for society to reach a consensus on the previously aforementioned question, it is essential to understand what feminism truly is. According to Sandra Kim writing from Everydayfeminism.com, “Feminism strives to end the discrimination, exploitation, and oppression of people due to their gender, sexual orientation, race, class, and other differences and supports people in being free to determine their own lives for themselves”. In other words, feminism is not a movement centered around hating men or re-victimizing women in a “women are lacking” sense. Feminism is simply an effort to provide equality for those who believe that they are marginalized. It is a movement that allows one to have experience the concept of power in number when they feel vulnerable otherwise. Personally, I believe that feminism is a powerful tool that should be used when it is truly necessary. If a man or woman does experience sexism (and yes, men can experience sexism), they should feel comfortable enough to find resources and support groups that will aid them in finding their own power and strength. I feel as if feminism is for everyone, and yes, at one point Sandra Kim asserts that in the history of feminism it “ overly represented issues of white, upper class women”. As a consequence, it has grown to include men, women, and everyone from all demographics. With that being said, as most tools such as the power of the pen, feminism is sharp and can be used in an excessive and disconcertingly oppressive manner. So yes, in my opinion, feminism is a benefit to society as long as it’s used for its intended purpose, to uplift and liberate everyone. @wilkesbeacon Savannah.Pinnock@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 Opinion 15 Majority age: Should the age be raised to 21? human brain fully develops around the age of 25. In an interview with the Staff Writer National Public Radio in 2011, a leading To most college students, the question neuroscientist, Sandra Aamodt, explains above is a phrase of the past, reminiscent that the prefrontal cortex, “the part of the of high school forms and permission slips. brain that helps you to inhibit impulses Being in college brings independence, and to plan and organize your behavior new friends, different experiences and to reach a goal,” is not fully developed unfortunately a lot of paperwork. until the age of 25. However, because most college students Aamodt states that maturity does seem to are over the age of 18, they do not need a correlate with beneficial life experiences, parent’s signature. This is due to the age which many individuals can lack at age of majority. 18. Overall, a younger, less mature mind The age of majority is a legal term that does not have fully developed cognitive acknowledges a person’s responsibility reasoning that enables critical thinking for the majority of their actions. In other and understanding. words, you become a legal adult with full Thus, some policymakers theorize legal rights and responsibilities. Upon that raising the age of majority will be reaching this age you do not need your beneficial to younger criminal offenders, parent’s consent for anything you decide who as previously explained, still do not to do. have proper cognitive reasoning to help You can legally move out of your fully understand their actions. Once they parent’s house or sign up for as many reach the age of majority, young adults no sweepstakes as you desire. Most of the longer receive rehabilitation services that age of majority’s implications deal with are helpful in developing these skills. how a person is handled in the legal Therefore, a higher age of majority system. would lead to a Crimes can now “...the part of the brain that helps you decrease in repeated receive harsher to inhibit impulses and to plan and offenses. However, punishments there little to no organize your behavior to reach a evidence that this compared to the previous juvenile goal,” is not fully developed until the would be the case. age of 25. system treatment. A study published Most states in February of recognize the age of 18 as the age of 2017 from the American Society of majority. This is likely due to the other Criminology, looked at the effects of important milestones that come with Connecticut raising its age of majority turning 18. These consist of privileges from 16 to 17 in 2010, and 17 to 18 in such as receiving the right to vote under 2012. the 26th amendment, or having to register The study showed that there was no for the draft. noticeable change in juvenile offending However, some policymakers and or reoffending due to the legal age researchers believe the age of majority changes. However, the change still should be raised. Some states have been could be helpful as Aamodt notes in her advocating “raise-the-age” policies that interview, “Obviously some 18-year-olds increase the age of majority to 21. This are competent to go out into the world idea comes from several psychological and handle things by themselves and and legal perspectives. some of them aren’t. It would be nice if we Recent research has shown that the had a little more flexibility to distinguish By Jennifer Boch What do you think the age of majority should be? Follow us on Twitter or Facebook and let us know. @wilkesbeacon the two in the legal system.” The age of majority also has some significant connections to the foster care system. Currently, the foster care system supports young adults until they “age out” at 18 (in most states). Many individuals are left with little or no guidance after leaving the foster system and one in five will become completely homeless (Center of Public Justice). If the age of majority was raised, then perhaps these young adults would be able to have more of the support they need to secure a promising future. All in all, I think the age of majority should be left at age 18 but some reforms should be made to the foster care and prison systems, that allows for better life transitions and rehabilitation. Although people mature at different rates, maturing is a constant and consistent experience in young adults’ lives. Receiving the rights and independence that come with the age of majority is a part of this process. Raising the age to 21 would make young adults lives more constricted, as we would still need our parents’ consent for roughly three years after high school graduation. The age of majority throws us out into the real world and it gives us the wheel that steers our fate. We decide what to do with our lives, not our parents during the transformative years of 18 and 21. These years are truly precious; its a time to come into your own. It may be terrifying and difficult for young adults and their developing minds, but in the end, the only way our minds will truly grow is if we are the ones to think critically about our futures and decide our path for ourselves. Facts Surrounding the Age of Majority • • • • • • • • • • • @wilkesbeacon Jennifer.Boch@wilkes.edu On Jan. 1, 1970 the Age of Majority was reduced from 21 to 18. Did you know that in Iran and Saudi Arabia, the age of majority is 15? In Cuba, the age of majority is 16. In North Korea, the age of majority is 17. On a religious level, within Judaism, the age of majority is said to be 13 for males and 12 for females. Within humans, the area defined as the frontal lobe isn’t fully developed and thus decision making is not at its peak. If the age of majority was not contingent on one’s sexual development or level of maturity, the age would likely fall somewhere between 25-30 years old due to the frontal lobe. In the early 1970s, the voting age was 21. Due to the 26th Amendment, it has changed to 18. The slogan “old enough to fight, old enough to vote” was a prevailing sentiment in the 1970s. Reducing the drinking age from 18 to 21 was done in an effort to reduce car accidents by approximately 20 percent. Perhaps this gives us an insight as to why a majority of 18-year-olds do not quite feel like adults. They’re not adults in, they’re still growing. �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 Opinion 16 Movie Review: To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before By Zarqua Ansari Staff Writer A modern marvel of summer time film is the abundance of romance movies. These romantic films target anyone from teens to adults allowing the viewers to freely live outrageous and fun love lives from the comfort of a screen. From box office hits like Crazy Rich Asians to Netflix masterpieces like the Kissing Booth, people are given a form of entertainment that captures their hearts and minds alike. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is certainly no exception to this rule. Susan Johnson’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is a beautiful film which includes many of our favorite young hollywood actors. Taking a look at the film, one will begin to notice quite a few familiar faces. These faces consist of X-Men: Apocalypse’s Lana Condor playing Lara Jean Covey, The Fosters’ Noah Centineo playing Peter Kavinsky, and The Bling Ring’s Israel Broussard playing Josh Sanderson. This movie’s plot holds a particular focus on the protagonist Lara Jean Covey. Within this movie, we’re sent on a journey with Lara who writes secret, unsent letters to all of her crushes. In a surprising turn of events, these letters get delivered to those they were written for. Each of the boys confronts her about her deeply emotional and quite personal letters. One of these recipients happens to be her older sister’s boyfriend, Josh. When confronted by Josh about the letter, Lara Jean panics and kisses Peter. This is comical as he was also confronting her about the letter he received. She kisses Peter in an effort to convince Josh that she was actually with Peter. Things escalate and soon, Peter and Lara Jean find themselves in a contractually agreed upon fake relationship. This relationship consists of watching movies, no kissing, and attending parties. Lara Jean is desperately trying avoid confronting Josh, and Peter attempts to make his ex-girlfriend jealous. The last deal on the contract is the ski trip. Within the movie, this trip is notorious for being the highest rate of lost virginities for the school. Lara Jean agrees to this because there is no way the couple could last that long… right? The movie shows promise by talking about divorce, racism, sexism, love- platonic, romantic and familial, and even death in light, humorous ways. It effectively humanizes the characters to make them relatable. By making the characters relatable, the story becomes a more personal experience. When the characters cry, the viewer feels the need to cry. The actors’ portrayals of their characters is also impeccable to the point that it seems the character was written for the actor, rather than the other way around. This movie also has the capacity to make an individual wonder if the romantic sparks that ensue within this film are exclusive to the film. This story is perfect for a night in with friends or a solo adventure. It touches base on heavy topics and displays an array of colorful characters, personalities, and emotions. I have a strong feeling that this movie will be an addition to the timeless canon of movies that we all adore. This canon consists of Dirty Dancing, Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Pretty Woman and more recently classics such as Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, The Notebook, and many more. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is one of the best movies I’ve watched in a long time. This movie is essentially a cute addition to the “Chick Flick” genre. However, this does not mean that one has to be a woman to appreciate it. It’s a movie for sentimental hearts and reignites one’s belief in romance. @wilkesbeacon Zarqua.Ansari@wilkes.edu Do you have opinions? Do you wish you had a platform to share them? Contact Savannah Pinnock to write about it and get it off your chest. savannah.pinnock@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 Opinion 15 Meet the Majors This week’s major: Psychology Photos and Interviews by Abigail Tarway Staff Writer Every week, The Beacon will offer a chance for majors to be placed in the spotlight. Each student that gets chosen will have a few words to express why they chose the major and how they feel it will benefit them in the future. Kristie Swetts Senior Kristie Swetts is a psychology and a sociology and women’s and gender studies minor. She states that she chose to be in the field of psychology because “psychology is the foundation of how people think, feel, and behave, so I want to help children and adolescents create a positive relationship with themselves and others with support from clinical psychology in order to promote a happier and healthier future generation”. Kristie believes psychology will help her in the future by allowing her to be a “passionate and effective social worker or counselor”. Laura Kessler Senior Laura is a psychology major and a art, Spanish, and women’s and gender studies minor. She chose to specialize in her field because “throughout my [her] high school experience I [she] lived with and helped to care for my [her]grandmother”. Her grandmother suffered from dementia and due to wanting to “to understand the brain and its connection to the body and overall health and well-being”, she chose to major in psychology. In the future she plans to “attend a Doctor of Physical Therapy program. She desires to help “people recover from physical injuries and be able to work through their own mental barriers”. Makayla Sarnosky Senior Makayla Sarnosky is a psychology major with a minor in women and gender studies. She states that she “first started Wilkes as an undeclared major and then found the field of Psychology. My [her] first semester of freshman year, I had PSY 101 with Dr. Tindell”. After taking her psychology courses she found them to be “the most interesting and also where I [she] was able to learn the most. The psychology professors here at Wilkes are great and have been so helpful.” She states that in the future psychology can help “with being better able to understand individuals and the world around me [her]”. �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 Opinion 18 Is this the best album of the William DuVall era? By Parker Dorsey Asst. Opinion Editor When Layne Staley passed away in 2002, many thought that it was the end of Alice in Chains. The haunting dual vocal harmonies of Staley and guitarist Jerry Cantrell were the band’s hallmark; could it truly be replicated by anyone else? Three albums into the William DuVall era, and the answer is a resounding yes. Rainier Fog sounds like a return to vintage Alice in Chains, specifically 1992’s Dirt. The twisted riffs, haunting melodies and bluesy undertones are back in full force. Two of the singles, “The One You Know” and “So Far Under,” sound as if they can immediately fit in as lost B-sides to their earlier material. While The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here was not a bad record by any means, it was short on true Alice in Chains highlights and sounded almost like a doom metal album. Many of the tracks were too bloated or unremarkable. Black Gives Way to Blue, while a phenomenal comeback album, always seemed as if it had something missing. It didn’t feel like an Alice in Chains record. With Rainier Fog, the band finally seems to be comfortable with their own style. With the lead single “The One You Know,” Cantrell said that he wrote the song around the time David Bowie died, and was inspired by Bowie’s 1975 hit “Fame.” The title track “Rainier Fog” is a tribute to the Seattle grunge scene that launched not just the band themselves but also their contemporaries such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots. Cantrell took the title from Mount Rainier, which overlooks the Seattle area and is the highest mountain in the Pacific Northwest. The emotional lyric, “With you here we shared a space that’s always half-empty,” is about Staley and deceased former bassist Mike Starr. “So Far Under” was written by DuVall, who said in an interview, “It’s about feeling completely up against it – outnumbered, surrounded, facing seemingly unbeatable odds and being really [ticked] off about it. It was inspired by personal circumstances, as well as events in the wider world.” “Never Fade” is DuVall’s major composition in Rainier Fog. He wrote the lyrics and said they were inspired by the deaths of his grandmother, Soundgarden lead vocalist Chris Cornell and Staley. “Drone” is a fun Zeppelin-esque jam song, with Cantrell’s blues influenced riffs ringing throughout the song. “Red Giant” has a particularly monstrous guitar riff that will appease any doom sludge lovers who prefer the band’s heavier material “Maybe” has stunning vocal harmonies, particularly during the isolated vocal tracks, with DuVall channeling his inner Staley. “Fly” has a very catchy chorus, and while it is a typical Cantrell ballad, it is possibly the smoothest track on the album with exceptional guitar arpeggio work. The album closes with the beautifully somber seven-minute track “All I Am,” peppered with Cantrell’s trademark eerie, hypnotic droning riffs. Sean Kinney’s drums sound very natural and Mike Inez’s bass isn’t buried under sound. The production is great, and it accentuates Cantrell’s thick guitar tone and incredible songwriting. This is a dark album that will certainly hold up to their legacy, and is a must-have for any Alice in Chains fan or hard rock fan in general. Parker’s Picks: “Red Giant,” “Drone,” “Rainier Fog,” “Maybe” @wilkesbeacon Parker.Dorsey@wilkes.edu September marks National Drug Addiction Awareness By Tonya Creasy Opinion Writer National Drug Addiction Awareness month is held to bring awareness to the disease of addiction. It is recognized during the month of September and provides knowledge to those either suffering from addiction currently, or those in a rehabilitation program trying to maintain sobriety. One of the main focuses of the month is the use of synthetic opioids and other drugs such as heroin, alcohol and fentanyl. Most people know at least one person that suffers from addiction. That person may be a member of the family, a close friend or even a celebrity. Drug addiction is a growing crisis. According to CNN Health, heroin and drug overdoses contributes to 49,068 deaths a year, and it still continues to grow. According to Lauren Rossen, “The most striking patterns at the national level are the recent increases in the numbers of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids.” Between 2002 and 2017, overdose deaths became 22 times greater, reaching nearly 30,000 overdoses related to opioids. The type of drugs used at the time of overdose varies state to state. For example, in Oregon, Nevada and Washington the main cause of death is methamphetamine. On the east coast, the leading cause is heroin and opioids. The current debate is whether small time drug offenders should be sent into prison or be placed in a rehabilitation center. The addiction crisis ranges across the socioeconomic spectrum. Fortunately, law enforcement is beginning to treat it as a public health crisis. Since then, there have been changes made and they have proven to be successful. For example, small level drug users may not have to serve a mandatory prison sentence. Instead many courts and officials see that it is a health crisis and offer the option for treatment. There are also new protocols for physicians as well. Prescription opiates are used as a last resort for doctors. Incarceration is expensive to maintain and reducing the prison population can be beneficial financially as well. Attorney General Josh Shapiro has focused on adding regulations for doctors who are prescribing opioids and have focused on rehabilitation for non-violent drug users. The solution could be very successful with Narcotics Anonymous and other programs that help the addict realize that they have a problem. Without believing they have a problem, it is most likely it will have no effects. These programs teach the addicted person new ways to cope with addiction. Governor Tom Wolf recently requested $34 million to expand drug treatment in the face of this crisis. Around 2,500 people in Pennsylvania died due to drug overdose in 2014, which is a 91 percent increase since 2004. Unfortunately, the state Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs has the smallest budget of any department in state government. The yearly budget is less than 2 million. This makes it difficult for most users to receive treatment. There have been techniques used that are proven to help many overcome their addictions. The increase in drug overdoses is leading to more deaths across the United States. Although there are many factors that contribute to this epidemic, there are a few ways to address this problem. The funding is so low that more than half of the people that are struggling with addiction are unable to receive treatment. With increased funding, many of those who are in poverty have a chance to overcome their addiction. Another solution would be to offer recovery programs in prisons to help lowlevel drug offenders. Those programs can be used to help those trying to recover, maintain sobriety so they don’t fall back into using when they get released. If you know someone that is suffering from an addiction, reach out. There are ways to get help. Remember, recovery is possible. @wilkesbeacon Tonya.Creasy@wilkes.edu �19 Sports The Beacon - September 18, 2018 Sports Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the Sports Editors: Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu or Kirsten.Peters@wilkes.edu Student-run Town Hall creates Riot Squad cohort Students look to increase school spirit at sporting events, create a stronger Wilkes community Staff Writer Riot Squad. The independent, unofficial group of students ready to scream their voices into oblivion in the name of school spirit. This new group on campus is targeted at promoting school spirit. The students who founded the Riot Squad got together and noticed that, despite everyone seeming to have friends on different Wilkes University sports teams, there was no student section in the stands cheering on their peers. Hoping to change that, they came together to form the Riot Squad, an independent group of Wilkes students who prepare easy-to-learn chants, make signs, and go to the games in support of the Colonels. At the football games, the Riot Squad student section will be situated right next to the band. This location was chosen for a few reasons. The Riot Squad’s 1uad's proximity proximity to the band allows the twoo of of them them to work together, with thee band band having the ability to respond to some of the different chants the Riot Squad will prep. In preparation for the next football game, the Riot Squad will be having a sign-making session in the first floor lounge of the Henry Student Center on Friday, ay, Sept. 21. Anyone is welcome :!come to come and help make signs signs for for the the game. In addition, this game ame will will be be aa white out, so Colonel fanss are are urged urged to to show up in their white outt attire. attire. Not only is the Riot Squad making 1uad making game signs, but tee shirts :s are are in in the the works as well. Currently, y, there there are are several design options in1 the the works. works. But instead of deciding onnone one of of the the options themselves, the Riot Riot Squad Squad will be modeling the designs ;igns at at the the game to get input from the the student student body on what they would like like to to see see as the official Riot Squadd tee tee shirt shirt design. Images of threee possible possible designs are pictured in conjunction :tion with with this article. Keep an eye out for for future future updates as to learn when, where and how to get shirts. As for some background information on the Riot Squad, it is a subdivision of an overarching independent organization on campus known as Town Hall. Like the Riot Squad, Town Hall was developed in an attempt to address the lacking community feel around campus. The goal of Town Hall tll is is with all all to build stronger relationships; with Wilkes students and to get individuals 1dividuals interacting and talking with peers •eers they they otherwise would not in their day-to-day lay-to-day schedules. “We are a group of students who who saw saw room for improvement in campus 1s culture. culture. We talk about diversity, club involvement, olvement, RIOT SQIIAD Submitted Designs By Nick Whitney student interactions, academic experiences and school spirit,” said Town Hall founding member Geraldine Ojukwu. “Our options w, to sit there and complain about were it it or or do something, so we decided to find aa way wa· to make the experience we wanted from from a four year university a reality.” La, semester, Town Hall got together Last and and handed out ice-pops to anyone walking outside of the Henry Student walk Center, Cent and later moved onto the quad for aa game gar of kickball. They also organized a game gamt of “Truth or Kale,” which grouped attendees randomly and had them atten answer answ a wide array of questions about themselves. When a question got too them personal, a person was obligated to drink pers, aa mixture of lemon juice, kale and other mi healthy food products which combined healt for for aa truly horrid drink. This This year, year Town Hall is looking to host more more events even like these and introduce new new ideas idea that were discussed over the summer and the early parts of this semester. Among these ideas are water balloon events and Frisky Feud (a risqué twist on Family Feud), as well as a special spirit week for Homecoming. While the spirit week would conclude with a Wilkes apparel day, themes for the other days are still being brainstormed. Ideas include brai Disney, Disney, Formal, Pajamas and Twin. The The current curren plan is to come up with a list and send them out to the list of of options opti< student student body bo, to vote on. There should be updates later in the month. updates coming cor “We activities designed to "We create en 1) 1) try try to to !get students to have genuine conversations conversatio with people they’ve never met met before, before 2) have leaders in different clubs clubs find find a way to co-host events in order for more cooperativeness order to to push p1 instead instead of of competition between groups, 3) take the necessary steps 3) help help students stw to to formally formal! report their experiences with with faculty facult or staff, and 4) try to bring consistently consistent! high energy to sporting events, whether we win or lose,” said Ojukwu. “I’ll be satisfied, if not by the end of this year, but a year or two down the line, if there is a sense of Colonel Pride.” If you are interested in getting involved in Town Hall, or the subdivision of Riot Squad, the group meets in the first floor lounge of the Henry Student Center on Mondays at 5 p.m. and Fridays at 3 p.m. Attend the Riot Squad sign-making session in the first floor lounge of the SUB on Friday, Sept. 21. @wilkesbeacon Nicholas.Whitney@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 Sports MSOC: Colonels shut out Defenders with 4-0 victory By Ben Mandell Co-Sports Editor EDWARDSVILLE. -- The Wilkes University Colonels team topped the Clarks Summit University Defenders 4-0 on Wednesday night. The men’s soccer team benefited from quality games by midfielders Kyle Bentz, Camry Huff and Gabriel Nieves to dominate on the field. Huff showed off his talents early in the first half, creating some great scoring chances. With some help from Bentz, Huff was able to score the game’s first goal. Although Huff scored the goal, Bentz deserves just as much credit, as he split two defenders and delivered a perfect pass to his winger Huff to pick up the assist. After taking a 1-0 lead, the Colonels offense broke open. Shortly after scoring the first goal, Bentz successfully worked the ball to Huff in the low slot. Huff ’s first shot rang off the crossbar, but he was able to ensure that the opportunity wasn’t for nothing, as he buried his second chance and put the Colonels up 2-0. “I just try to play hard and play with a chip on my shoulder,” Bentz said when asked about his performance. “I attack every play like it’s my last.” With the 2-0 lead, the Colonels continued to pressure the defense of the Defenders. Although the Defenders were able to get a flurry of shots off towards the end of the first half, they were completely outmatched for the duration of the game. The second half played out very similar Cross Country (Men’s and Women’s) 8/31 @ Misericordia Invitational Men’s 5th, Women’s 4th 9/8 @ Stevenson Invitational Men’s 5th, Women’s 8th 9/15 @ Cougar Classic Men’s 4th, Women’s 4th 9/29 @ Mount Saint Mary 10/6 @ Desales Invitational 10/13 @ Inter-Regional Border Battle 10/19 @ LVC Last Chance Run Fast 10/27 MAC Championships (Stevenson) 11/10 NCAA Mideast Regional (DeSales) (More schedules on page 21) to the first, as the Colonels continued to control play. This half showcased Nieves, an impressive freshman. Nieves was all over the field when he was in the game and made his presence known before he even got on continued to create openings in the middle of the field. Nieves’s control on the field lead to the Colonels’ third goal, as he tracked a ball down the right sideline and sent a beautiful set piece to Bentz inside the box The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani Junior midfielder Ed Lukowski tries to take advantage of a scoring opportunity with a corner kick. the scoresheet. The freshman appeared to be the most athletic player on the field, for either side, and his play drew comparisons to the impact Kylian Mbappe had on the French National Team in the 2018 World Cup. Like Mbappe, Nieves used his athleticism to force turnovers and create plenty of opportunities for his teammates and himself. Nieves appeared to be on another level, in terms of athleticism. Being the fastest player on the field, he forced turnovers and all by himself. Bentz, one of Wilkes’s best goal scorers, finished the highlight reel goal by heading it in. “Gabe [Nieves] chipped in a great ball, I just headed it in,” remarked Bentz. Nieves wasn’t done leaving an impact in this game, as he found himself with a tremendous opportunity in front of the Defenders, where he buried the Colonels fourth goal of the game. Wilkes spent the last 30 minutes of play in cruise control with the 4-0 lead, and even Fall Sports Schedules Women’s Volleyball 8/31 @ PSU-Hazleton, W 3-0 9/1 @ Clarks Summit, W 3-0 9/1 @ Lycoming, L 0-3 9/1 @ Penn College, W 3-0 9/4 @ PSU-Brandywine, W 3-0 9/6 vs. Lancaster Bible, L 1-3 9/8 @ PSU-Harrisburg, W 3-1 9/8 @ Shenandoah, W 3-2 *9/12 vs. Manhattanville, L 3-2 9/15 vs. Cairn, W 3-0 9/15 vs. Wesley, W 3-1 *9/18 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. 9/20 vs. Clarks Summit, 7 p.m. 9/22 @ Brooklyn College, noon 9/22 @ Rutgers-Camden, 2 p.m. *9/26 vs. Delaware Valley, 7 p.m. 9/28 @ RIT, 6 p.m. 9/29 @ Morrisville State, 11 a.m. 9/29 @ SUNY Cortland, 1:30 p.m. *10/2 @ Eastern, 7 p.m. 10/4 @ PSU-Berks, 7 p.m. 10/6 vs. New Jersey City, noon 10/6 vs. PSU-Altoona, 4 p.m. 10/8 @ Keystone, 7 p.m. *10/10 vs. King’s, 7 p.m. *10/16 @ DeSales, 7 p.m. 10/18 vs. Bryn Athyn, 7 p.m. *10/24 @ Misericordia, 7 p.m. 10/27 vs. Marywood, 10 a.m. 10/27 vs. Rutgers-Camden, 2 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Marts Center 20 though they pulled their starters from the game and slowed down the pace, they still controlled the ball. “I hope [this win] does great things for us. We have some great competition coming up and it was important to get back into a winning way,” said head coach Michael Piranian. “I’m happy with the outcome. Everybody was out there hustling and it was a great team effort.” Following their exciting win against Clarks Summit, the Colonels were set to take on Keystone on Saturday, Sept. 15. However, they fell to their host 2-1 in overtime, with their lone goal coming from forward Cole Hefner. Wilkes will follow up this match-up with a trip to Susquehanna University on Wednesday, Sept. 19. Although they lost to Keystone, Wilkes is looking to use the next three games to build momentum going into conference play. The Colonels begin their MAC Freedom schedule on Sept. 29 against Delaware Valley. “I feel pretty confident, we’re getting better,” said Bentz.. “We’re expecting to do well this year.” After defeating Clarks Summit 4-0 and only falling short by one goal in overtime against Keystone, Wilkes will continue to look towards Bentz, Huff and Nieves to help lead the team to future success. @wilkesbeacon Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu Field Hockey x-8/31-9/1 @ Susquehanna L 3-1 9/5 @ Keystone, W 3-0 9/8 vs. Widener, L 5-4 (SO) 9/13 vs. Cedar Crest, W 3-1 9/15 @ Alvernia, L 2-0 9/19 @ Moravian, 7 p.m. *9/22 vs. Eastern, 5 p.m. 9/25 vs. U. of Scranton, 7 p.m. *9/29 @ Manhattanville, 1 p.m. 10/3 @ Elizabethtown, 4:30 p.m. *10/5 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. 10/8 vs. Arcadia University, 7 p.m. *10/12 @ Delaware Valley, 7 p.m. *10/18 vs. King’s, 7 p.m. *10/20 @ DeSales, noon *10/24 @ Misericordia 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom x-Connie Harnum Classic Home games @ Schmidt Stadium �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 Sports 21 FH: Myers earns 100th win after defeating Cedar Crest 3-1 By Tyler Aldinger Staff Writer EDWARDSVILLE -- The Wilkes University field hockey team displayed a dominating performance last Thursday night, Sept. 13 against Cedar Crest College. The Colonels won the contest 3-1, with goals scored by Haley Gayoski, Maddie Kelley and Ali Dunn. The Colonels fell behind early in this contest 1-0, only seven minutes into play, with a goal scored by Cedar Crest freshman Deserea Dayton. This would only fuel the Colonels momentum, as they regrouped from this early deficit and proved to be more resilient between the two teams. After the Cedar Crest goal, the Colonels dominated the pace of play and controlled the ball in the defensive zone for a majority of the first half of play. This pressure against Cedar Crest was thanks to experience from seasoned players, as well as some of their younger talents in midfield and on offense. “I think they all stepped up, especially the ones that get into the game, but I think they all really have made a big improvement since preseason,” said Gayoski about the underclassmen entering the game. The Colonels had many opportunities to score, especially with several corner chances in the first half. But Cedar Crest goalie Cassandra Reijgers was blocking shots and acted as a brick wall that the Colonels could not seem to penetrate. In the 26th minute of play, Kelley scored the first goal for the Colonels with help unable to score a goal in the second half, from Kayla Gronkowski, who earned an leaving them in a two-goal deficit until the assist on the play. This was Kelley’s second clock hit zero. goal so far this season. After this, the goal scoring seemed to be contagious for the Colonels, as they took advantage of another opportunity in the first half of play, coming from their constant offensive pressure against the Cedar Crest defense. Gayoski put the Colonels ahead 2-1 with just over The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani a minute to spare in the first half, Haley Gayoski scored her second goal of the season with gaining her second just under two minutes remaining in the first half. goal of the season. The Colonels improved their record to The second half proved to be similar to the first half of play, where the Colonels yet 3-2 coming off of this victory. Reflecting on the win, head coach Sara again displayed a greater will to win the Myers said, “I think that from tonight’s battle. This determination and effort that game we learned to encourage each other carried over into the second half paid off to fight hard for 70 minutes. We took for the Colonels in the 48th minute of play, control in the second half, but we shouldn’t as sophomore forward Dunn got her first be in that situation in the first place, so goal of the season. This put the Colonels we just need to take advantage of every opportunity to play hard for 70 minutes.” ahead 3-1. More importantly, Myers earned her The scoring barrage for the Colonels ended after this point, but Cedar Crest was 100th career win Thursday night. This Women’s Soccer accomplishment electrified the Colonel faithful and the entire field hockey team, as the team presented the head coach with flowers and a cake to celebrate her accomplishment. “It’s emotional for me, I feel like when I think about 100 wins, two things come to mind - the first thing are my players, and all of the wonderful players that I have had the opportunity to coach, and the second thing is our staff because I have the best and most hardworking staff that I enjoy working with every day, so it’s emotional and exciting for the program,” said Myers after her accomplishment. Thursday night’s victory and achievement for the Colonels field hockey team was a confidence boost, and exactly what the Colonels needed coming off a tough 5-4 loss against Widener in a shootout. “I think there was definitely a difference in heart and intensity; it was a really big loss and I think we really stepped up our game after that,” said Gayoski. “We definitely worked on our team passing and scoring, and a big win like this with our coaches 100th win, makes us all want to work together to get a win.” Looking ahead for the Colonels, they will be on the road this Wednesday, Sept. 19 to face Alvernia in Reading, Pa. The Colonels will return home to face Eastern University this Saturday, Sept. 22 at Schmidt Stadium for their first MAC Freedom contest. @wilkesbeacon Tyler.Aldinger@wilkes.edu Fall Sports Schedules 8/31 @ PSU-Berks, POST 9/5 @ Ithaca, L 1-0 9/8 vs. Marywood, W 3-2 9/12 @ William Paterson, W 1-0 9/15 @ Bard, L 3-1 9/19 vs. Susquehanna, 7 p.m. 9/22 @ Arcadia 9/25 @ U. of Scranton, 7 p.m. *9/29 vs. Delaware Valley, 3:30 p.m. 10/3 vs. Kean, 7 p.m. *10/6 vs. DeSales, 4:30 p.m. *10/10 @ King’s, 5 p.m. *10/13 @ Eastern, noon *10/16 vs. Misericordia, 7 p.m. *10/20 vs. Manhattanville, 3:30 p.m. 10/23 vs. Oneonta, 7 p.m. *10/26 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home games @ Schmidt Stadium Football Men’s Soccer 9/1 vs. Hartwick, L 28-24 9/8 @ Lebanon Valley, W 30-27 *9/15 @ Delaware Valley, L 21-10 *9/22 vs. Misericordia, 1 p.m. *9/29 @ Alvernia, 1 p.m. *x-10/6 vs. Albright, 1 p.m. *10/12 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *10/20 @ Stevenson, noon *10/27 vs. Lycoming, 1 p.m. *y-11/10 vs. King’s, noon *MAC x-Homecoming y-Mayor’s Cup Home games @ Schmidt Stadium 8/31 @ PSU-Berks, T 1-1 9/3 @ Marywood, W 2-0 9/8 vs. Moravian, L 4-1 9/12 vs. Clarks Summit, W 4-0 9/15 @ Keystone, L 2-1 (OT) 9/19 @ Susquehanna, 7 p.m. 9/22 @ Stevenson, 4 p.m. 9/26 vs. U. of Scranton, 7 p.m. *9/29 vs. Delaware Valley, 1 p.m. 10/3 @ Lancaster Bible, 6 p.m. *10/6 vs. DeSales, 7 p.m. *10/9 @ King’s, 7 p.m. *10/13 @ Eastern, 3 p.m. *10/17 vs. Misericordia, 7 p.m. *10/20 vs. Manhattanville, 1 p.m. 10/24 @ Penn College, 7 p.m. *10/27 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home games @ Schmidt Stadium (More schedules on page 20) �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 Sports 22 Getting to know... Jose Tabora Senior Football Player The Beacon: Male Athlete of the Week Sept. 8 - Sept. 14 Why Jose Tabora was selected: Tabora earned the MAC Football Offensive Player of the Week award after leading Wilkes to a 30-27 victory over LVC by scoring the game-winning touchdown in overtime. Name: Jose Tabora, Jr. Year: Junior Major: Criminology Hometown: Egg Harbor Township, NJ High School: St. Augustine Prep HS Position: Quarterback If you had to choose one thing about your program that you could improve, what would it be? If I could improve one thing, it would be the nutrition that we consume. I feel like we could benefit heavily from it. Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? Wilkes gives me the perfect environment to enjoy every day on and off the field. Most influential person in your life? My mother. I don’t know where I’d be without her in my life. Post-graduation plans in terms of a career? I plan on going to law school, but I am still looking at what interests me. Favorite building on campus? Karambelas Center - everything is so new and the bathrooms look like spaceships. What came first? The chicken or the egg? The chicken came first ... I think. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? My goal for this season is to win every game, but that sounds crazy to people, so my goal is to just be dogs on the field. Editor’s hi s week’s en by ts Editor's note note:: T This week's Athlete Athlete of of the the Week Week was was chos chosen by the the spor spo rts staf f. Future elec tions w ill eentail ntail the t s staff mining ttwo wo candidates taff. Future sselections will the spor sports staff deter determining candidate for elec tion who ill the n be pee rs uusing sing aa Tw it ter poll poll or sselection who w will then be voted voted on on by by peers Twitter @ Wilkes B eacon .. @WilkesBeacon Additionally, nd of mic year, year, we ill post post aa reader poll to Additionally, at at the the eend of the the acade academic we w will reade r poll to crow n an crown an “Athlete "Athlete of o the the Year” Year".. The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani When/Why did you first begin playing? I first started playing football because scoring touchdowns looked like a lot of fun - and it is. Favorite thing to do during practice? Make fun of all my friends. Coke or Pepsi? Is that even a question? Coke 100 percent. If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Mac Miller, Lil Peep, and XXXTentcion all at once. Favorite Professor? Professor Wilczak. Favorite meal to eat on campus? The mozzarella sticks. A quote you live your life by? “Travel the road less traveled upon.” What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? It means to just be a good person and be apart of the family that is being built around us. Anyone to give a shout-out to? Shout-out to the whole student body; the football team loves everyone’s support. Thank you for coming to our games and if you come to the games, you won’t be disappointed. -Compiled by Kirsten Peters, CoSports Editor �23 Sports The Beacon - September 18, 2018 Getting to know... Jamey Mikovich Junior Volleyball Player The Beacon: Female Athlete of the Week Sept. 8 - Sept. 14 Why Jamey Mikovich was selected: Mikovich had a .258 hitting percentage, 3.38 kills-per-set and 4.19 digs-per-set, leading Wilkes to a 3-1 week and earning her the MAC Freedom Player of the Week award. Name: Jamey Mikovich Year: Junior Major: Pharmacy Hometown: Nesquehoning, Pa. High School: Panther Valley HS Position: Right Side Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? I really wanted a place that allowed me to continue playing volleyball while also studying to become a pharmacist. I loved Cohen when I toured here for the first time and knew I could really see myself going to school here. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? Possibly working in pediatrics for pharmacy, although I haven’t decided what I want to focus on in my major yet. Favorite building on campus? UComm. What came first? The chicken or the egg? The chicken. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? My hopes for this seasn are to make conference playoffs, improve our record and improve our overall level of play from last year. When/Why did you first begin playing? I began playing in elementary school. I was always pretty tall and I wanted to play another sport, other than basketball, while I was growing up. My mom signed me up for a volleyball camp that was run by the high school team at the time, and I fell in love with the game of volleyball. Favorite thing to do during practice? My favorite thing to do during practice is "Queen of the Court," and other competitive 4 vs. 4 or 5 vs. 5 games. Coke or Pepsi? Coke. Most influential person in your life? My mom. If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Walt Disney. Favorite professor? Dr. Kuiken! A quote you live your life by? “It always seems impossible until it's done." ---- - 'P.11 rlJ. . . , What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? “Be Colonel” means always being the best possible version of you. Whether that would be in the classroom or on the court, I always want to be the best version of myself. . ~ tl~~':-. , . ..... -. ./. . ·~ Anyone to give a shout-out to? I want to give a shout-out to my roommates for always supporting me in everything that I do, on and off the court. As well as my friends and family who are always coming to my games to cheer me on. •.. _...._ r··· • ,.,• I ~ _,1 -' 'P-- :- -._.j: •• .. .. ~ ~ , note: Editor’s en by ts Editor's note: Thi Thiss week’s week's Athlete Athlete of of the the Week Week was was chos chosen by the the spor sports staff. s elec tions w ill entail ts staff staf f deter mining two taff. Future Future selections will entail the the spor sports determining two candidates candidate for elec tion who ill then peers uusing sing aa Tw itter poll poll or sselection who w will then be be voted voted on on by by peers Twitter @WilkesB eacon. @WilkesBeacon. year, we w ill post a reader poll to Additionally, at at the the end end of of the the academic academic year, -Compiled by Kirsten Peters, Co-Sports r 11 Additionally, ccrown row n an an “Athlete "Athlete of o the the Year”. Year". Editor 9 - The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani �The Beacon - September 18, 2018 Sports New Era for Wilkes Football? Make sure to check out the next issue of The Beacon to see how Wilkes football has changed under the leadership of new head coach Jonathan Drach. 24 Wilkes Athletics/Warren Ruda � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2018 September 18th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 September 18 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/b890ed2fd7895d944c4910d2ce1b6de1.pdf 09c30a0b9ff35ec6d4cad0666cc38e64 PDF Text Text w T ~ ~IHIIE ~ B5IEACC(O)N HE B EACON The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 72, Issue 02 Wilkes University - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania FREE Take one The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. Sordoni Art Gallery hosts artist lecture for William Earle Williams “My hope is that when you come in contact with the work, it can bring something out of you, that you may not have noticed before” said Professor William Earle Williams, as he started his lecture at the Sordoni Art Gallery on Sept. 5. Williams is a professor of fine arts and curator of photography at Haverford College in Haverford, Pa. and Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in the Humanities. He has been affiliated with the college since 1978, soon after receiving his M.F.A in photography that same year from the Yale University School of Art. His photographic works, as well as other pieces, invite recollection of the age of slavery. Thus his art, alongside related historic artifacts, attempts to depict the often unknown journeys from slavery to freedom in the United States. Further, it is presented to encourage conversations about citizenship, while broadening our knowledge on the participation of blacks in the Civil War. He accurately showcases his work in a deeply personal way. His lecture, as well as the exhibition at our gallery, gave way to historic events that spanned from 1619 to 1865--and beyond-to unravel at the audience. Williams opened the lecture with a photograph captured at a deceiving angle: one can see a lone tree, erected in the exact middle of the plane, rather slim at the trunk, yet seeming to branch out, with many leaves. The photograph actually shows two two trees. His intention, though, was to bring attention to location of the photo: Jamestown Island. This exact location is one of the first recorded places where people of African descent first stepped into the North American soil. It also happens that this particular spot later became a Civil War fort that was later built by enslaved people. “Free” slaves also made use of this fort, but this time as participants of the Civil War. The were indentured into fighting the war, and it was an extension of their enslavement. On May 22, 1863, the Department of War of the United States established a Bureau of Colored Troops, so to organize and recruit African American soldiers to fight for the Union Army. All regiments designated for African Americans were termed as the United States Colored Troops (USCT). Specific battle sites, some of which were captured by Williams as apart of his work, were built with the sole intention of being utilized by these black soldiers. “I find that the primary artifacts I use in my work, such as an 18th century map, are perhaps as revealing as photographs can be,” Williams said. The map that Williams was referring to is a map that was made in 1730, detailing slave trading areas from central Africa. “[The map] is so detailed that it tells you the exact different tribal peoples, and their vernacular languages,” he added. One can only get so far by looking at photographs, so, in addition, to further understand visual culture of the slave epoch we have to have some familiarity with its Largest first-year class in history, page 5 Sordoni Art Gallery’s latest exhibit, page 10 By Freddy Del Rosario Staff Writer The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky William Earle Williams gave a lecture on the process of curating his exhibit. roots in the West Indies. The agriculture tradition and its use of slave labor in Britain, seem perpetuate the practice of owning slaves worldwide. Largest Meetfirst-year the Majors: class in English, history, page page 17 5 SEE SORDONI, Page 3 Football Largestpicks first-year up first class win inin Drach history, era,page page521 �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 News News 2 Have a breaking story or a press release to send? Contact either news editor: Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu or Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu Student Government notes: Sept. 5 weekly meeting By Sean Schmoyer Staff Writer On Sept. 7, the university’s Student Government held its second meeting of the semester. The first item addressed was a survey for those present that outlined two potential ideas for on campus. The surveys were to see whether there was any interest in banning all smoking on campus, and making all study rooms on campus available for all students. Neither of these proposals were voted on, but the opinions of the board were taken down to see if interest in either proposal was present. Next, Student Government approved the budget proposal for Capital Projects. This included a work study position which would have a student work with Student Government, a new set of speakers to be used at a variety of events and restocking of supplies. The total budget was $12,339.76 which came out of the account for Capital Projects. Also approved was the proposed budget for Club Day which totaled to $6,750. Both of the budgets were proposed at the Student Government meeting held last week. Next, the members of Student Government listened to two fund requests. The first was a request from the Alumni Association for $500 to help pay for 50 student tickets that would be used throughout Homecoming weekend to allow students to interact with Alumni at numerous different events. The second fund request was presented by Romeo Rosario, head drum major for the Marching Colonels. Rosario proposed $1,000 in funds be put toward the purchase of new music for the marching band. Rosario’s hopes are that with new music, students will have more fun and more school spirit and pride at different sporting events. The Spirit Committee then laid out a possible budget proposal for a future student section and potential school wide spirit week. It was made clear that nothing was set in stone, but the possible budget totaled to a maximum of $1,550. The goal was to try to engage students and increase school pride and spirit. A motion was passed to use money out of the operational budget to provide lunch at the upcoming Council of Clubs on Sept. 13. The final proposal of the night was another potential budget proposal. This proposal was for homecoming weekend and provided a detailed price breakdown for the homecoming game and dance. The theme for homecoming was revealed to be Hollywood and the total budget was set at an estimated $22,959.12. Voting for all of the fund requests and proposed budgets will all occur at next week’s meeting. The remainder of the meeting was spent running through committee and class reports, and closing comments. All reports and comments showcased that all committees and classes were moving into the new semester smoothly. @wilkesbeacon Sean.Schmoyer@wilkes.edu Beacon Briefs: The happenings on campus -- Sept. 11 to Sept. 17 Compiled by Madelynn Davis Intramural players and workers needed for the fall season If you are interested in either working or playing for an intramural sport, the fall signup deadline is Friday, Sept. 21. The fall sports include flag football, indoor soccer, 3-on-3 basketball, and more. The intramural department is also taking suggestions for sports. For any further questions or if you want to sign-up please email Scott.Robinson1@ wilkes.edu for forms. Chamber Orchestra welcoming new members If you have an instrument and are looking to participate in an extra-curricular activity, the Wilkes University Chamber Orchestra is welcoming members. For any questions or for more information please contact Mr. John Vaida through email at John.Vaida@ wilkes.edu. Family Day set for Sept. 22. Wilkes University will hold its annual family day on Saturday, Sept. 22. The day will provide fun activities for visiting families and students including a home football game against Misericordia University. There will be lunch provided, photo booths, bingo, and more. All students, family, faculty, and staff are welcome on the spirit-filled day. Please check out the Family Day’s Wilkes page for further information and to register for the events. Free Concert being held on the River for Wilkes-Barre Community On Thursday, Sept. 13, there will be a free concert held at River Common Parkthat will be performed by the band Don Shappelle and the Pick-Ups. The concert will start at 6:30 p.m. Upcoming Events: 2018 Fall Semester September 11 SG Petitions available 13 - Council of the Clubs (SG) 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. (club hours) 13 - Family Feud (WUPB) 19 - SG Petitions due 20 - SG Ballots open 20 - General Board bonding (WUPB) 21 - Homecoming Ballots round one 22 - Family Day 25 - SG Ballots closed 26 - New SG Members announced 27 - Bingo (WUPB) 28 - Homecoming Ballots round two 30 - Rosenn Lecture: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar October 4 - Homecoming Pep Rally 5 - Homecoming Dance 6 - Homecoming Game vs. Albright 18 - Fall Fest (WUPB) 19 - SG Fall Event 22 to 26 - Freak Week (WUPB) 22 - Monster Social Monday (WUPB) 23 - Zombie Bar (WUPB) 24 - Mobile Escape Room (WUPB) 25 - Bingo (WUPB) 26 - Scary Place (WUPB) November 1 - Cupcake Wars (WUPB) 6 - Casino Week: Texas Hold ‘Em (SG) 7 - Casino Week: Bingo (SG) 9 - Casino Night (SG) 15 - Wing Wars (WUPB) 29 - Bingo (WUPB) December 6 - Holiday Party: PJs and Pancakes (WUPB) WUPB denotes Wilkes University Programming Board SG denotes Student Government Flu shots available at Passan Hall The Wilkes University Health and Wellness Department has a limited number of flu shots available for students. The flu shots will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. The office is located on the first floor of Passan Hall and is open from 8:30 a.m. to noon, or 1 to 4:30 p.m. Flu shots will cost $20 and can be paid to the University through cash or check. For any questions please contact the Health and Wellness Department. @wilkesbeacon Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu Table of Contents News.................2 Life, A&E............7 Spread (LA&E)..12 Opinion............14 Sports..............19 �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 SORDONI Continued from front page Among his other artifacts is the U.G.R.R book, a book that recounts the history of the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a structure of different routes and safe houses established in the 19th century, for African-American slaves to escape to Canada or the northern free states. The Underground Railroad is one of the American history’s finest examples of the struggle against the institution of slavery. This “invisible” railroad was composed of women and men, both black and white, and persons of all ages. They put their moral beliefs well beyond their personal safety to help these slaves reach freedom, and after the approval of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850, these routes became even more illicit in the eyes of the law. Williams alluded to the fact that slaves played a substantial role in the economic development of 18th century America. One object in particular, an Alabamian $10 bill, demonstrates this point. Though George Washington’s face is seen printed in the bill, one can also see slaves (and their masters) at work picking cotton. “Many American historians consider the periods from 1787 (when the articles of the Confederation were modified to become News the American Constitution) to 1865 (when slavery was no longer legal) to be the second American Revolution,” stated Williams. A seemingly normal black-and-white picture of part of a cemetery was portrayed, however, the meaning of his discourse changes when he indicates that this section was almost exclusive to the freedmen in the area of Arlington, Virginia. According to Williams, this is significant because the African-American people, for the first time, started to leave their mark permanently in the communities that they lived in, even if that took the form of a gravestone. “As an artist the memory of these soldiers has inspired my artistic imagination. The ground they fought on is sacred and an inspiration for all Americans. These sites dispel the myth that blacks were given their citizenship and rights after the Civil War without having fought for and earned them,” he explained. “The act of researching and locating these sites was the starting point for my creative investigation” he said. “The resulting photographs have become more than just documents.” He describes his photographs are story-charged, and hopes the audience is as committed to connect with the pictorials as much as he has been. His photographs have been widely exhibited, including group and solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum 3 of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Smith College. His photographs are in many public collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Baltimore Art Museum; Baltimore County; the Smithsonian, Castle Building; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton University Art Museum; the University of Maryland, The National Gallery; and George Eastman House. “The compilation of this exhibit has been both a journey and a metamorphosis for me,” Williams said. “Though I cannot say I have gathered all of the history of slavery, I can with confidence say that I have given a voice to previously silent characters and places of history.” Williams’ exhibition will be on display until Oct. 7. Upcoming exhibitions include “Loud Silence: Expressions of Activism” curated by Sordoni Art Gallery Director Heather M. Sincavage. This exhibition will be held from Oct. 23 to Dec. 16. This exhibition focuses on works that portray the obstacles of those who live while being women, black, LGBTQ, immigrants, and indigenous. The exhibition features over forty different artists inlcuding Kiki Smith, Judy Chicago, and more. Look for photos and information on William Earle Williams’ exhibit in Life, Arts, and Entertainment on page 11. @wilkesbeacon Freddy.DelRosario@wilkes.edu ‘A Checkerboard of Nights and Days’: Iran Fahmy holds author talk By Cabrini Rudnicki Co-News Editor Despite having a first name that means ‘daughter of Iran’ in Farsi, Irandukht Vahidi Fahmy quickly fell in love with America after migrating to the country in 1957. Fahmy, now 85, went through years of tragedies and triumphs, all of which she shares in her debut memoir ‘A Checkerboard of Nights and Days: A Memoir of My Cultural Journey.’ Wilkes University hosted Fahmy for an author talk called ‘Afternoon Tea and Book Signing with Iran Fahmy’ on Wednesday, Sept. 5 in the Henry Student Center Ballroom. After the talk, students were able to pick up a free signed copy of the memoir. The event featured speeches from Iran Fahmy, as well as her first daughter, Roya Fahmy Irandukht Fahmy spent time to emphasis she was raised in Persia (now, Iran) before the Islamic Revolution of the 1970s. Prior to the revolution, Persia was a Westernized country without Muslim law. “When the revolution happened, we were really shocked,” she explained. “The Islamic Revolution rocked the country. It shocked us, and it shocked the world. Nobody thought there would be an Islamic Revolution.” After the revolution, the country’s government was now controlled by “totalitarian conservative thinking” with Islamic code. “One day, they decided what clothes people had to wear, what they had to eat, where they have to go,” she said. “They controlled the lives of the citizens.” When Fahmy was 24 in 1957 (prior to the Revolution), she was offered a Royal Scholarship from the Persian government for a Masters in Education. She attended the Teachers College of Columbia University in New York. She later found love in an Egyptian man from university, and went on to have three children with him. Fahmy still found time to complete two graduate degrees. After retirement, Fahmy went back to school to complete her doctorate dissertation in education. While Fahmy self-admits she does not believe in organized religion, religion still managed to be a large part of her life. Raised Baha’i, Fahmy faced opposition from her family when she met her husband at university due to his Arabian and Muslim background. Fahmy’s children all married people of different religious backgrounds including Jewish and Catholic, leading the family to celebrate multiple religions’ The Beacon/Cabrini Rudnicki Irandukht Vahidi Fahmy immigrated to the United States from Iran in 1957. holidays. Roya Fahmy, who currently works as Senior Director of Advanced Global Peace at Wyoming Seminary, was inspired and molded by her mother’s story. “[My mother’s] experiences are the human ones of family, love, friendship, courage, tragedy and triumph.” The Fahmy family has strong ties with Wilkes University, with all of Iran’s children attending the school for undergraduate. Wilkes University President Patrick Leahy spoke on his friendship with the Fahmy family, as well as their incredible stories. “It’s my hope that hearing this story can increase cross-cultural understanding in this country,” he explained. “It might enhance our understanding of what it means to be an American. @wilkesbeacon Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 News Faculty and staff honored with 2018 President’s Award By Madelynn Davis Co-News Editor Five faculty and staff members were awarded the 2018 President’s Awards for Excellence at the fall convocation. The awards focused on excellence in key university values: scholarship, mentorship, community, diversity and innovation. The President’s Award of Excellence in Scholarship was awarded to Dr. Zbigniew Witczak, professor and chair member in the pharmaceutical sciences. Witczak was recognized for his outreaching and collaborative efforts to promote and further education to his students through his research. Just being given another scholarship award during the spring semester, Witczak is honored that scholarship is being promoted throughout the campus. He was recognized, not only individually, but for his department as a whole. “I am very, very proud to be involved in every aspect of that type of [scholarship] development,” said Witczak. Associate professor Dr. Deborah Tindell was awarded with the Excellence of Mentorship because of her focus not only on helping students overcome obstacles and realizing their full potential but for also helping mentor her fellow colleagues. Tindell is a part of many different mentorship-focused groups on campus and works to be a mentoring figure as she finds it the most important part of her job. “I want to mentor students in my classes and students for research. I always make sure my door is open if students want to come by,” said Tindell. “I do really and truly believe in the views of mentoring.” Tindell expressed that she is thankful and that there are a lot of very deserving faculty on campus who also focus on mentorship. “I can’t put into words how honored I was to get this award in particular,” said Tindell. The recipient of the President’s Award for Excellence for Community is the Director of Student Development Melissa Howells. Howells was recognized for her work to establish a sense of belonging across the campus for all students. “We are a community, we are better as a big unit and not individual,” said Howells. Howells was humbled with being presented with an award that focuses on a value that is very important to her. “I never expected that I would be recognized Courtesy of Wilkes Marketing 2018 President’s Award winners with President Dr. Leahy at the fall convocation. for building a community that already exists on such a high level,” said Howells. The fourth recipient of the award for Excellence in Diversity was Dr. Evene Estwick, from the communication studies department. Estwick was recognized for her outstanding efforts for embracing and promoting equality, awareness and sensitivity across campus. The fifth recipient of the President’s Award, being recognized for her excellence in innovation, was Dr. Kathleen Hirthler. Hirtler is an associate professor and on the chair for Graduate Nursing. Hirthler was commended for her promotion of ideas and different programs across the Wilkes campus. She has developed the University’s first Ph. D program among four other graduate nursing programs. @wilkesbeacon Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu Cultural Film Series kicks off with ‘The Anthroplogist’ By Madelynn Davis Co-News Editor On Sept. 6, Dr. Linda Winkler kickstarted her annual Cultural Film Series with “The Anthropologist.” The film series is sponsored by the Center for Global Education and Diversity, the Division for Global Cultures and Dr. Winkler herself. “The Anthropologist” is a 2015 film that stars a mother-daughter anthropology team that studies the effects of climate change on people in different areas of the world. Katie Yegorov-Crate is Susie’s 13-year-old daughter who follows her mother wherever her work takes her. Katie at first seems forced to follow her mother, but as she grows older, her interest in anthropology grows as well. The film also offers a parallel to the Crate’s story by providing the similar relationship of former anthropologist Margaret Mead and her daughter Mary Catherine Bateson, now a cultural anthropologist. Mead also taught Bateson about anthropological values by taking her on many of her studies. The story starts off with the Crate duo traveling to Siberia to view and study the effects global warming is having within the community. The essential plant-life in Siberia was hindered by the flooding of global warming on planting grounds causing a decline in agriculture. In Siberia, Katie and Susie feel at home because Susie’s father was from Siberia. The two learn the native language of Siberia and are more dedicated to see how this flooding is affecting those closest to them. In Kiribati, Susie and Katie find themselves at an already wrecked society that is facing the brunt of global warming head-on. This society, as the Crate’s learn, are being forced farther and farther into the island by the rising sea levels. As Susie completes her fieldwork by interviewing, Katie watches along intently listening and understanding the effects that these people are facing. Katie provides a different edge to the film, as a younger “anthropologist in training,” because she isn’t necessarily interested in being an anthropologist. She instead focuses on what she enjoys best, photography and interacting with the people. Katie herself also shows the differences in views of global warming from others her age that is taught by their parents that global warming is a myth and has no effects. The Crate’s final journey, Katie now nearing the age of 18, took them to Peru to see the effects of global warming on those who rely on the glaciers of the Andes 4 Mountains as a water supply. Susie and Katie explore how the people in the area have adapted to the shortage of ice and water provided by the Andes for agriculture. As a subtle sign of maturation, Katie splits from Susie to explore the traditions and culture of the area she is in with an anthropologist much closer to Katie’s Age. In the meantime, Susie hiked to the Andes to retrieve a block of glacier ice for a celebration. Katie gets hands-on, like her mother, in learning how the culture of the area including how to make a traditional dinner and even eating guinea pig as apart of the celebration. Alyssa Cruz, a Wilkes accounting freshman attended the screening of “The Anthropologist” and was focused on the differences in culture to movie provided to viewers as the Crate’s traveled from the Pacific to the Atlantic. “It was very informal of how different our culture here is from other countries,” said Cruz. Mary Silinskie, a freshman nursing student, also liked being able to learn about different cultures through the film. She specifically enjoyed contrasting the experiences of those in global warming- affected countries from lives around here in Wilkes. “I think that it is really amazing to see how other people live because we are so used to seeing around here,” added Silinskie. Here, in Peru, is where Katie learns to follow in her mother’s footsteps and in the credits of the movie, the audience learns that Katie is, in fact, pursuing a career in anthropology, even though she was against it at the age of thirteen. Winkler, the coordinator of the film series, included her input about the movie and why she included it as the first of the series. “I chose it because it involves a series of mothers and daughters and one of the daughters is off to college herself at the end of the movie,” said Winkler. “It seemed as if it might be a great fit for the beginning of a college year.” The Cultural Film Series will continue with the showing of “Big Sonia” on Sept. 27 in Stark 259 at 7 p.m. For any further questions about the film series, please contact Dr. Linda Winkler at Linda.Winkler@wilkes.edu. @wilkesbeacon Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 News Campus changes accomodate record-breaking first-year class By Cabrini Rudnicki Co-News Editor This semester, Wilkes University welcomed the largest first-year class in the university’s history. Along with the pride of being a growing university, the growth came with challenges as the university was forced to answer the logistics of where (and how) to accommodate the students. This year’s class of 2022 features 661 fulltime students, in comparison to last year’s first-year class size of 580 students according to the university’s online factbook. First-year students are required to reside on campus or commute from a parent or legal guardian’s house. Specific dorm buildings are set aside for first-year students. Debbie Scheibler, director of Residence Life, spoke about the process of getting dormitories ready for the large class size. “We were tracking the number of housing contracts we have in relation to the number of students we have attending,” she explained. “When we were seeing we were close to our max-bed, we had several conversations.” Universities faced with maximum capacity problems have the option to start a waiting list, or to alter campus to fit the student’s needs. “We expanded housing. What that means is we identify rooms that are large enough to accommodate additional furniture,” Scheibler explained. “It’s a little tighter, not perfectly ideal, but it’s a bed and a space on campus.” Multiple dorms were expanded by 35 spaces, including Evans Hall, Roth Hall and Pearsall Hall. Students in expanded dorm rooms were given discounts on their housing rates. The school has plans to de-expand rooms as students change their mind about Wilkes. Rooms that were altered into a triple would be re-altered back into a double as space opens up. Rumors floated around campus that Cumberland Hall was being used as additional space for first-year students, however, Scheibler denied these rumors. The hall, which is an off-campus apartment building being rented by Wilkes for oncampus students, housed the Panamanian exchange students last year. This year, the Panamanian students now live in Slocum Hall after the school offered students originally signed up to the hall to move to Cumberland. Another rumor was being spread around the student body of first-year students living in University Towers. This was also denied by Scheibler. University Towers remains for upperclassmen. Residence Life was restructured over the summer before the knowledge of the large first-year class. The department now features 40 resident assistants, as well as two master level professional coordinators. “Even though we have a larger class, we have ample staffing,” said Scheibler. “National RA-to-Resident Student ratio averages are 1 to 48. Wilkes, because of our unique housing offerings, provides ratios of 1 to 12 up to 1 to Breaking Down The Class of 2022 Information courtesy of Wilkes Marketing • 661 Students in total • 91 Students in the Honors Program • 324 high schools including 71 private schools • 21 states represented • Half are first-generation college students • 16 Students join Wilkes EDGE • Nursing, Pharmacy, Biology, Engineering are most popular majors. 5 The Beacon/Cabrini Rudnicki Evans Hall, a First-Year dorm which was altered to fit more students. 50 depending on the individual residential hall.” Scheibler was confident in the school’s ability to maintain a comfortable environment for the students. “While the larger class obviously poses new challenges to the institution, the university is poised to accommodate the students the best we absolutely can,” she continued. “It’s nice that we expanded space instead of putting a student in limbo.” University President Patrick Leahy was proud of the large class size, but did not want students to worry. “The class size is only the largest by a student or two,” he explained. “The good news is that, while I know it is crowding the campus a bit, the amount of students we have at the undergraduate level has not really changed in the last few years.” The school is also in the process of adding parking to campus to oblige the growing population. “Some of this is still in the works due to the area behind the Student Center not being entirely complete,” Leahy said. “Ultimately, there will be more spaces.” The school recently purchased a building on South Main Street to add 40 more parking spaces. “We are trying to ensure our infrastructure keeps space with what I take to be a good sign, that there is more student interest in Wilkes than ever before.” “I hope [the increased class size] is a sign of the increased notoriety of Wilkes University, it might be the new athletic programs,” said Leahy. “It is a mix of a couple things. We have not reduced our standards to get in or anything like that, but things like our new men’s and women’s hockey program are bringing in people from across the country. “I think people are seeing that what they can get at Wilkes is at a higher value than what they could get at a public university.” Although Leahy admits that students living in triples in Evans would say there are ‘growing pains,’ he doesn’t think there are significant issues with the larger first-year class size. “We have added faculty significantly over the last few years,” he said. “I don’t think [the class size] is taxing us academically or leading to larger class sizes.” Kimberly Bellard, a first-year computer science major, lives in one of the renovated room in Evans Hall. Bellard’s dorm room was converted from a handicap single-bed dorm to fit two beds. “It’s really hard because [my roommate] is from farther away, so she brought more stuff than I did,” explained Bellard. “I live only 30 minutes away, so I can bring stuff back and forth as I need to but it’s still pretty rough.” Bellard keeps her hope that more space will open up in the building. “From what I hear from older friends of mine, usually kids will drop out and more space will open up,” she said. “I’m really hoping for that.” @wilkesbeacon Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 News Campus reacts to pastor’s groping at Aretha Franklin’s funeral she had the chance to work at a local pharmacy. “I really liked the work I did,” McCutcheon said. “Both helping patients and what there was to learn in the field of pharmacy was very interesting to me”. McCutcheon had the opportunity to teach as a teaching assistant to pharmacy students, while at pharmacy school, and found it very rewarding. She developed a liking for teaching, as well as for researching, which led her to the conclusion that academia was her ideal occupation. She also has had several opportunities to work as a clinical pharmacist in numerous medical centers. “I was attracted to Wilkes because of the small-class sized environment that it offered,” said McCutcheon. “Having a small class would improve the dynamic between my students and I, and allow for better instruction.” McCutcheon is an avid researcher, her interests being interprofessional education, interprofessional practice, medical Spanish, instructional design and assessment. “I love doing research” McCutcheon said. As of now, she is investigating how and where people from different health care professions can better work, teach and Dr. Livia McCutcheon, an assistant professor in the Pharmacy Practice Department, Nesbitt School of Pharmacy, is one of the newest professors to join the Wilkes University community. McCutcheon, who works in Stark Learning Center, joined the University last August. Hailing from Florida, Dr. McCutcheon attended Florida Atlantic University for her bachelor’s degree in biological sciences. She continued her academic career as she pursued her doctor of pharmacy at Nova Southeastern University, a pharmacy practice residency at University of Mississippi Medical Center, and then an instructional design and evaluation fellowship at University of Maryland School of Pharmacy. Lastly, she attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for her masters in instructional systems development. Prior to teaching at Wilkes, McCutcheon taught at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy. McCutcheon became interested in the field of pharmacy when, as a high schooler, so he could, ‘show her some respect,’ as he placed his hand on her waist, quickly climbing his hand up until it landed on her right breast. Grande was seen as uncomfortable and trying to get away from Ellis on multiple occasions during this brief interaction. The claim falls under the “alleged” category because the pastor has come forward, denying any malicious intent when he had embraced Grande. Ellis has since apologized saying he didn’t intentionally touch her breast, stating he may have crossed the border by being too friendly and familiar with the singer. He said he had to keep the program lively as it was a very long procession and memorial, relating to the jokes about her last name. Because of the “maybes” in his remarks, Ellis is now being criticized for his apology on all platforms of social media. Though Grande has yet to comment on the event, the public outcry has itself maintained the relevancy of this issue afloat. Her fans and supporters on Twitter are sharing #RespectArianna to spread the news of this incident, to gain more support against the pastor. “It has happened to almost every girl or woman I know,” said Lisbeth Nunez, a Wilkes University sophomore. “Friendliness doesn’t Amid the recent allegations the #MeToo movement has help empowered women to make public, specifically in the Hollywood setting, there comes yet another public incident, on a nationally televised event. Ariana Grande performed at Aretha Franklin’s funeral earlier this month to celebrate the deceased singer, but her performance was dimmed by the behavior of pastor Charles H. Ellis III. Ellis is a pastor of the Grace Temple megachurch in the city of Detroit and was the officiant for the funeral. Fans, loved ones, music giants and politicians congregated in the celebration of Aretha Franklin’s life on Sept. 1, Grande just being one of the several performers at the funeral at the Greater Grace Temple. The funeral, televised live internationally, shows the pastor allegedly groping the artist. After Grande had just finished singing Franklin’s hit “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” the pastor called her up to make some remarks. At first, Ellis made friendly and joked about Grande’s last name relating to a Taco Bell menu item. He then motioned for Grande to come closer to him Madelynn Davis and Freddy Del Rosario Co-News Editor and Staff Writter have to involve groping, does it?” Similarly, Ymari Williams, a senior at Wilkes, had her own take about the pastor’s behavior at the funeral, criticizing Ellis for his actions and beliefs. “The fact that he, a pastor, felt comfortable enough to hold her like that shows how deeply rooted it is in him that that’s ok.” Ellis stated that he was consistently affectionate all night to both male and female artists after their performances. He said the church is about love and that’s all he was trying to show through his interactions with the musical acts, especially Grande. The pastor’s apology was not the only part of the Grande Ellis groping incident that was ridiculed on social media. Ariana Grande herself was criticized for what people believed to be her inappropriately short dress. Those against Grande’s choice of outfit felt her dress was too short to wear in a funeral setting. Others on social media responded that people are wrongly caring more about her outfit than the fact that a pastor was touching Grande inappropriately on stage in front of viewers. Similarly, Dr. Andrew Wilczak, an associate professor in the sociology department, sees a problem in blaming Grande for the groping 6 because of her short dress. “That doesn’t have anything to do with it,” said Wilczak. “It’s this repeating rape culture line, that believes ‘if she didn’t want to be groped she shouldn’t have dressed like that.’ No, this pastor shouldn’t have been grabbing her like that.” Wilczak focuses a majority of his classes on women’s and gender studies issues of all kinds and continued to shed his expert opinion and analysis on why men are able to get away with groping and using women, even as they are being televised all over the country. “Men like [the pastor]... still view women as their property or as objects to be used,” said Wilczak. That is how he believes men, specifically the pastor, get away with groping women. “This constant objectifying of women,” is why Wilczak believes, that these incidents like what happened to Grande are still happening. He believes the justification that women are not seen as human, and instead are seen as being men’s objects, are why men are able to feel empowered to behave like Ellis, and many others have. @wilkesbeacon Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu Freddy.DelRosario@wilkes.edu Profile of a Professor: Dr. Livia McCutcheon, Pharmacy By Freddy Del Rosario Staff Writer Dr. Livia McCutcheon research together. While working at Wilkes, McCutcheon divides her time teaching in the classroom, aswell as being both a clinician and a clinical instructor at St. Luke’s Family Medicine Clinic--where she takes students on her clinical rotation. The Beacon/Steffen Horwath Whenever she has free time, she likes to work out, spend time with her family and friends, and watch a good movie. @wilkesbeacon Freddy.DelRosario@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 7 Life, Arts & Entertainment Life, Arts & Entertainment DC Comics to launch new entertainment streaming service By Nick Filipek Managing Editor When you think of comic book characters, and their current take over of the film industry, your mind would most likely go to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There’s good reason for it too, for the last 10 years, the MCU has released hit after hit, seemingly leaving the DC Comics movie making company, The DCEU, in the dust. This would leave many to believe that DC Entertainment, and their parent company, Warner Bros. Studios, are unable to make a well-grounded, character driven, masterpiece like “Avengers: Infinity” but, the truth is, they have been doing just that, for even longer, but in a whole different medium. Warner Brother Animated has been steadily releasing groundbreaking, fulllength animated movies since the release of “Superman: Doomsday” in September of 2007, a full eight months before the MCU kicked into gear with “Iron Man”. Can’t Miss TV Classics: Superman Classic Batman: The Animated Series Superman: The Animated Series Justice League Justice League Unlimited Batman Beyond Young Justice Young Justice Invasion Furthermore, DC has also created some of the most entertaining and loved animated series the comic book world has ever seen. Fanboys from around the world praise “Batman: The Animated Series” as one of the best arcs the character has ever appeared in, and started many a geeks on their way down the rabbit hole into the crazy world that is comic book fandom. Now this fandom is going to morph, and try its hand in breaking into a new medium, the Internet. It’s no secret that “cable cutters” are popping up all over the country, tired of paying for high cable bills, and switching over to pay monthly for streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. These patterns have led DC Comics to be a pioneer by taking all of their entertainment and putting it under one, digital, roof. “DC Universe: The Ultimate DC Membership” will do just that in a few days. Starting on Sept. 15, fans of everything DC Comics (really, everything) will be able to access thousand of hours of entertainment that DC Comics has put out over the decades, in various mediums, through the DC Universe subscription service. These hours will be composed of epic animated movies, legendary films, can’t miss TV classics and must read comics. Even cooler still, the membership will allow hardcore fans to be able to connect with the larger DC community, get exclusive members only merchandise, and enjoy unlimited streaming access to original DC series, which will have new episodes available weekly. So far the only footage we have seen from any of their original programming is a teaser trailer for the live action “Titans” show, and it was generally supported by fans everywhere. The trailer did feature an awesome moment, that set the dark, gritty, theme that will most likely fill the entire show, where Robin drops an F-bomb when referring to his nocturnal mentor. To sweeten the pot even further for those who are still on the fence, DC Universe as an extra enticement for anyone who pre-orders; “Pre-order your annual membership today and we’ll give you 3 additional months free. That’s 15 months of unlimited access for $74.99 or less than $5 a month. Plus, when you join today (or if you’ve already signed up) you’ll get automatic entry into The Unlimited Batman Studio Tour Sweepstakes - which includes a trip for you and a guest to LA, a tour of DC Headquarters, a ride in the Batman Forever Batmobile and more. For more information, or to sign up go to www.dcuniverse.com. Only on DC Universe: Coming this Fall; Titans- Starring Brenton Thwaites, Teagan Croft, Anna Diop, Lindsey Gort, Minka Kelly, Ryan Potter and Alan Ritch Synopsis: A team of young superhoeros led by NIghtwing form to combat evil and other perils. Coming in 2019; Young Justice: Outsiders- Starring Danica McKellar, Jesse McCartney, Nolan North, Khary Payton, Stephanie Lemelin, Jason Spisak and Lachey Chabert Synopsis: Teenage superheroes strive to prove themselves as members of the Justice League Doom Patrol- Starring April Bowlby, Diane Guerrero, Joivan Wade, Brendan Fraser and Alan Tudyk. Synopsis: The adventures of an idealistic mad scientist and his firld team of superpowered outcasts. Swamp Thing- Starring Crystal Reed. Rest of the cast TBA. Synopsis: The series will be based on the popular DC Comics character. Stargirl- Cast TBA Synopsis: Teenager Courtney Whitmore joins the Justice Society of America. Based on the character from DC Comics Harley Quinn- Details TBA @wilkesbeacon Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu Epic Animated Movies: Justice League the New Frontier Batman Under the Red Hood Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths Superman Unbound The Flashpoint Paradox Teen Titans: The Judas Contract Justice League War The Death of Superman Legendary Films: Superman Batman The Dark Knight Trilogy Man of Steel Batman v Superman; Dawn of Justice Suicide Squad Wonder Woman Justice League Must Read Comics: Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985-1986) The Dark Knight Returns (1986) The Killing Joke (1988) Kingdom Come (1996) Superman: Red Son (2003) All Star Superman (2005-2008) The Sinestro Corps War (2007-2008) Batman/Superman: Public Enemies (2009) �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment Starting off the semester: Getting involved at Wilkes By Anna Cluver Staff Writer As the fall semester of 2018 is getting started, several opportunities are arising for students to get involved. The campus holds events that allows students to get involved with different clubs, activities and social events throughout the semester. In case you could not make it to this year’s club day, there are still many ways to get involved. The Programming Board and Wilkes Adventure Education are two examples that anyone who is interested can participate in. The Programming Board puts together weekly events for students throughout the each semester held every Thursday. Some of the events that the programming board is known for hosting are trivia nights, bingo, ice cream and food socials, Family Feud, open mic nights and more. Wing Wars is a specific example of an event held in November where local restaurants send different types of wings for students to try and vote on which ones taste the best. There even is a hot wing eating competition for students to compete in as well. Another event coming up is Cupcake Wars, which programming board is planning to hold later this semester. At Cupcake Wars, students who attend get to decorate their own cupcakes. Each cupcake is judged in different categories by the programming board. In addition, the programming board is holding “Freak Week” which is the week leading up to Halloween. Freak Week is a week of engaging, halloween themed events that all students are welcome to atttend. To get involved, simply attend the events. They are held in lounge of the Student Union Building. Signing up is not required. Each event is organized to be an opportunity to meet new people on campus and to have the chance to make new memories. “We just bring fun, relaxing events to our student body. If it’s a study break and if you need to relax every Thursday night, we have an option to pick which one they would like to do and they’ll just come and just have a good time. We have food and snacks and drinks and stuff like that,” said Kya Lewis, president of the programming board. Wilkes Adventure Education is another way that students can get involved on campus. Jill Price manages the Adventure Education program responsible for weekend trips on outdoor adventures. Some of the trips that are planned for this September include Hot Yoga at Melt on Sundays, hikes at State Parks, and more. These trips are organized in a challenge by choice setting. Challenge by choice is when students have the choice to reach out of their comfort zone and learn from doing what things they are capable of. To get involved, students just need to get in contact with Price and find out about upcoming trips and if there are spots available. Anyone can join and all they have to do is sign up for a trip or join an activity. In October, Adventure Education is also going to Acadia National Park in Maine for a camping trip over fall break. along with open climbs at the rock climbing wall in the McHale Athletic Center. Everyone is welcome to come to the open climbs and try, even if they do not have any previous climbing experience. Adventure Education is always open to new trip ideas and things to explore. If students have an idea for a trip, all they have to do is visit Jill Price’s office located on the first floor of the Student Union Building “Students come to me with ideas and then 8 together we explore how to make the magic. The purpose of experiencental education is so that students learn from doing,” said Price. If you are planning your spring break, Price is looking to plan a trip to Ireland and Scotland. The estimated cost is $500 for a week long trip. She is going to plan the trip around what the students want to see. If sights like the Cliffs of Moher or Blarney Castle where you can kiss the Blarney stone are on your bucket list, contact Price for this chance. For more information about programming board events or if you would like to join programming board, contact Kya Lewis at kya.lewis@wilkes.edu or Leticia Patino Flores at leticia.patinoflores@ wilkes.edu. Programming board meetings are also held on Thursdays at 11:30 a.m.. For more information, to join Wilkes Adventure Education, or to sign up for upcoming trips, contact Jill Price either by email at jill.price@wilkes.edu or stop by her office on the first floor of the Student Union Building in the student lounge. @wilkesbeacon Anna.Culver@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 9 Life, Arts & Entertainment Self care with Sarah: Getting back to the grind By Sarah Matarella Life, Arts & Entertainment Editor Summer break just ended and everyone is trying to get back into the swing of things, whether it be for school, work, a new internship, etc. However, while you are trying to figure out your new busy schedule for the upcoming school year, make sure to pencil in time in your planner for eating. Going back to school and work does not always get easier for many people when summer comes to a close. Everyone receives a new schedule and is often expected to assume their position in a brand new daily routine while continuing to perform at the highest of their abilities. This can become quite stressful, especially when you add in eating three meals. Eating may seem like such a normal, everyday task. However, with fully loaded work and school schedules, it is often neglected. A study conducted by Brad Cardinal of Oregon State University published online in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, compares the eating habits of college students both male and female. The results of the study suggested that both male and female students were not implementing the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables into their diets. People become so consumed with getting their work done, that there is less time to eat in general let alone going to the store and buying fresh produce to cook with. Some college dorms do not even come equipped with full kitchens which makes eating nutritional food that much more difficult. C o n s e q u e n t l y, despite the fact that students are neglecting their eating schedules to do their work, they are actually inhibiting their overall success success in school.“Health is an area being neglected, yet all the available research show that healthy habits and healthy kids can lead to better academic success,” Cardinal addressed in his study. Therefore, students who do not practice healthy eating habits tend to do worse in school. People need a proper amount of nutrients and energy to help them focus and endure long, busy days. Since many students do not always have an adequate amount of time to make food or go to get food from the cafeteria, they often reach for foods that are portable and easily accessible. These types of food normally contain more fat, carbs, and sodium. Cardinal’s study also stated that students often relied on eating out and consumed at least one fast food meal per week. Eating these types of foods can make you feel groggy and sluggish, and thus, unproductive. Some students even skip meals altogether and this can hinder your health more than eating unhealthy meals in some cases. You can become light headed quite easily and even pass out if you are exercising your mind all day long without resupplying it with the energy that it needs to function properly. options that are portable. You can get a salad or sandwich and take it with you. 2. Bring snacks to class or to work with you Granola bars, fruit, yogurt, and pretzels are all examples of portable items that you can bring in your backpack to avoid running on an empty stomach. The Pod also has many different options for snacks as well as a Jamba Juice and coffee machine to get a quick fix. Starbucks is also on campus and has several types of drinks and snacks as well. 3. Tupperware Using Tupperware to bring to the cafeteria to bring food back with you for later or for the next day is a way to avoid skipping a meal as well. You can even use the tupperware to meal prep if you have a kitchen and have enough time With these difficulties in mind, here are a few tips for 4. Remind your friends to eating with a busy schedule: eat too While you are keeping track of your own 1. Use breaks wisely If you have a break between your classes, make sure you either pack a lunch to have during that time or use it to go to the cafeteria to eat. Greens to Go, Which Wich, and Grille Works on campus even offer eating habits, make sure that your friends and roommates are eating as well. keep you full and energized. This new coffee craze is high in calories so that is something to keep in mind when trying it. There are also some arguments that Bulletproof coffee alone does not have enough nutrients to be a whole breakfast replacement but that may be different for each person that is willing to try this. teaspoonfuls and increasing is a good rule to follow. Many people that have tried this superfood recommend using it in tea or lattes but it can be used in just about anything. There can also be a few side effects that result from using turmeric. If you start to get an upset stomach, nausea or dizziness it is recommended to lower the amount you are taking and consult a doctor. For those you that are up for trying new health trends, turmeric might be just the thing for you. Tips for using turmeric: Tea is the most popular and efficient way to use turmeric. It’s recommended that for 4 cups of water you use 1-2 teaspoons of turmeric for just the right flavor. Blend 1 teaspoon into a smoothie can give you just the right amount of flavor and health benefits. 1 to 2 teaspoons in soup, curry, or stew will add a nice golden color to it! We all know mac and cheese is a college staple and adding just ¼ teaspoon will give it a healthy boost. @wilkesbeacon Sarah.Matarella@wilkes.edu Wellness at Wilkes: 2018 healthy drink trends By Natalie Stephens Staff Writer New health and fitness trends are always surfacing whether they are dieting trends or generaltips to live a healthier lifestyle. Drinks in particular has pervaded the health trend scene when it comes to juice, coffee, tea, and lattes. 1. Celery Juice Trend Celery juice has become popular on social media recently with many claiming that drinking it first thing in the morning will aid in digestion, migraines, inflammation, asthma, blood pressure, cravings and potentially reducing the risk for cancer. Celery by itself is low in calories, readily available and can provide our bodies with fiber, vitamin K, vitamin B, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium. It is not known what the recommended amount of celery juice would be, though many say that 16 oz of celery juice would provide optimal nutritional benefit. A counterpoint to the juicing is that you could get all of these benefits by just eating raw celery so is it worth the time and hassle of juicing it? There is not a lot of scientific evidence to say that this juice is going to definitively help with the various health issues mentioned but if you have have a blender or juicer it might be worth a try. 2. Bulletproof Coffee Have you ever thought that butter in your morning coffee would give you mental clarity while still aiding in weight loss? David Asprey did and in 2013 he founded Bulletproof Coffee and it has only increased in popularity since then. The drink is a mixture of butter, MCT oil or coconut oil, and coffee. Asprey recommends using low-mold coffee beans, grass-fed butter, and medium-chain triglyceride oil. The purpose of adding these ingredients to your morning coffee is because grass-fed butter has the omega-3s and other vitamins. The MCT oil or coconut oil has fats that will How to make Bulletproof Coffee at home: 1 cup water 3 tablespoons coffee 1 tablespoon grass-fed butter 1 tablespoon coconut oil 3. Turmeric Turmeric is a yellow colored herb in the ginger family that comes from a plant called Curcuma longa and it has gained popularity because of its vast amount of health benefits. Turmeric can help your body in many ways. It helps your immune system, gut health, brain function and helps fight against inflammation and joint pain. For those of us feeling the stress of the new school year, turmeric has also been reported to help boost your mood and lower depression. Starting at a lower amount of turmeric, 1-2 @wilkesbeacon Natalie.Stephens@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 10 Sordoni Art Galley: Latest exhibition runs through Oct. 7 A Stirring Song Heroic: African Americans From Slavery to Freedom By Catie Lally Staff Writer The Sordoni Art Gallery is currently hosting the exhibition A Stirring Song Sung Heroic: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by William E. Williams. This collection of pieces focuses on historic sites and events, specifically those related to the Underground Railroad from 16191865. William E. Williams is a widely celebrated photographer. His exhibitions have been recognized from Cleveland to Houston, Baltimore to Brooklyn and from the MET to the Smithsonian. Williams is a 1997 Pew Fellow in the Arts, and was awarded artist fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in 1986, 1997 and 2003 along with a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 2003–04. He has also served as a both a member and representative on the executive committee of the national board of the Society for Photographic Education from 1997–2003 and as a past member of the executive committee. Williams’ work also provides an insight into the overcoming of the division regarding civil rights in the United States while also correlating to current issues that are still going on in the United States and throughout the world today. Heather Sincavage, the director of the gallery, hoped this exhibition, inspired by thirty years of research and artwork, would reignite students’ interest and understanding regarding the importance of preserving history. Furthermore, the Wilkes-Barre area also has a connection to the Underground Railroad. According to the Wilkes University News Release A Stirring Song Sung Heroic is an exhibition of contemporary photographic works regarding the exhibition, in 1821, a by William Earle Williams presented alongside related historic objects that together prominent Wilkes-Barre abolitionist, depict the often invisible journey from slavery to freedom in the United States. William Camp Gildersleeve began hiding fugitive slaves in his conversations and allow others to learn store. through each other. In 1839, Gildersleeve hid This exhibition, like all of the Sordoni’s runaway slaves in his kitchen shows has a series of lectures known and would wagon them to the as the Lunchtime Lectures that occur next underground station at throughout the duration of the exhibition. night and was threatened with On September 18 at noon, there will be a hanging for his abolitionist lecture by Dr. Diane Wegner titled In Their activities. Gildersleeve also Own Words: Recovering the History of has a historical marker at 25 Slavery Through Slave Narratives. The final East Ross Street in Wilkes- lecture in the series is on October 2 and is Barre. titled Antislavery Actions in the Wyoming Consequently, Sincavage Valley presented by Dr. Aimee Newell, stated that she often chooses Executive Director, Luzerne County exhibitions not related to Historical Society. the art curriculum. This is The Sordoni Art Gallery is accessible and done in effort to include free for everyone. The hours of operation students of all majors and are Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to backgrounds. Sincavage 5 p.m. Thursday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday stated that “contemporary and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. For corners in our culture and more information regarding the Sordoni how artists are digesting that Art Gallery, contact heather.sincavage@ and spitting it back out” are wilkes.edu or call at (570) 408-4325. @wilkesbeacon types of exhibitions she is Cathryn.Lally@wilkes.edu hoping to host to encourage The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 11 Life, Arts & Entertainment Craft Corner Supplies Needed: • Paint • Paint Brushes • Copper Wire • Rocks • Scissors • Glue stick or pen Instructions: 1. Paint the rocks. (You may need more than one coat.) • Once the base coat dries, get creative! You can add designs, glitter, or stickers to your rocks. 2. Using your scissors, cut the copper wire into at least 12 inch pieces. 3. Wrap one end of the copper wire around a glue stick or pen at least twice, this is what your picture will be held up with. 4. Wrap the other end of the copper wire around your rock. 5.Stick a photo in between the copper loops. -Jordan Fritz, Staff Writer �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment Ajna Prahalad, Nisha Patel, Jasmin Patel and Urmi Patel pose for a quick photo. 12 Josh Eckman and Nick Kourmas look to recruit new members for the Wilkes University branch of Air Force ROTC. Wilkes University Club Day 2018 Photos: The Beacon/Seth Platukis Page Design: The Beacon/Madi Hummer Jess Kroboth and Laura Thompson stand near the Education club table looking for prospective members. Club Day 2018 featured all of Wilkes University’s club. Clubs use the time to showcase their groups in order to recruit new members. �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 13 Club Day featured students wanting to try new things. Students could sign up for a club where no experience was necessary. Prospective new members check out the Study Abroad club. Their most recent trip in 2017 featured a trip to Belize. Wilke<: u,11v _rr;1ty Pmgrarr11n1r1q Board 1• • J -1',l hh W1I~" °'11~«-r 1tyP101J1•tnmlr11Jftr>11rd 11.,~1• 1111 w1 1 I, n,,_.11 I• IY IIIIJI I Deandre DePass, Miranda McKinney and Kyla Lewis hold Programming Board’s social media photo frame. Rachel Seidel, Justine Seymour and Elena Denger stop for a quick photo. �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Opinion Editorial Staff 2018-19 MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Luke Modrovsky Managing Editor - Nick Filipek Adviser - Dr. Kalen Churcher SECTION EDITORS News - Cabrini Rudnicki Maddie Davis LA&E - Available Opinion - Savannah Pinnock Sports - Ben Mandell Kirsten Peters ASSISTANT EDITORS News - Available LA&E - Available Opinion - Parker Dorsey Sarah Matarella Sports - Available DESIGN EDITOR Madison Hummer Interested in joining The Beacon? To learn more about what you can do, contact: Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu or Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu 141 S. Main Street Clayton and Theresa Karambelas Media Center Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 Phone - (570) 408-5903 www.thewilkesbeacon.com Want to advertise in The Beacon? Contact: Nick Filipek at Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu THE BEACON The Beacon Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Opinion 14 Have an opinion or want to write a guest column? Contact the opinion editor: Savannah.Pinnock@wilkes.edu Is society becoming more spiritual and less religious? By Savannah Pinnock Opinion Editor The question of whether religion is prominent in society has been one that has marveled researchers since the dawn of enlightened thought. This inquiry has often led to the question of whether society is becoming more spiritual and less religious. In order to answer this question, one must take a look at societies youngest generations. In the context of America, the youngest generations appear to be the Millennials, Generation Z, and Generation Alpha respectively. With the oldest of Generation Z being 23 and the oldest of Generation Alpha being 8, the Millennial generation would be the best sample group to observe. This is due to the fact that they have lived long enough to express their fully formed beliefs. Throughout American society, the concepts of spirituality and religiosity have come to be somewhat interchangeable. This comes as a result of our fascination with labels and compartmentalizing things in a manner of extremes. In other words, anything that is theistic or even vaguely affiliated with theism will be categorized as theistic, thus the interchangeability of the terms spiritual and religious. Within modern day America, Millennials appear to be fully aware of the distinctions between religion and spirituality. Millennials are essentially the key to understanding the direction of religious prominence America is heading toward. Gaining an in depth understanding of the sociological undercurrents of America is quite interesting but first, what truly is the distinction between spirituality and religiosity? The answer is religion, and one’s subscription to a religion. In its purest sense, spirituality can be described as a philosophy that is not affiliated with religion or dogma. It is founded on looking within; it is the belief that a person is not only physical but inhabits a spirit or soul. A spiritual person acknowledges and accepts the idea of a spiritual realm and the spiritual side of the physical world. A religious person is a person who can be spiritual with the exception of being affiliated with a religion. In order to conceptualize this distinction, it is similar to a rectangle being a square while a square cannot be a rectangle with spirituality being the square and religion being the rectangle. With this being said, why does it follow that Millennials understand the distinction between religion and spirituality? According to Michel Hout, a professor of sociology at New York University, the reason lies within the upbringing of millenials. Hout found that Millennials were often raised by Baby Boomers who capitalized on the importance of thinking for themselves and finding “their own moral compass”. This influence upon the Millennial mind is responsible for often liberal perspectives on the world and their desire to always skip to the beat of their own drum. As a result of such rugged individualism, this generation of adults is less inclined to engage in heavily traditional and conservative religious practices. This phenomenon is not only limited to practices, but to religion as a whole. This is easily seen when Millennials and younger generations define religious adherence as an inherited concept. For instance, many young adults and adults state that they’re Christian, Catholic, or Jewish because their parents are. However, in truly assessing their beliefs it is clear to see that they are often agnostic. Such a phenomenon is heavily prevalent throughout society and gradually increases the younger the individual. David Masci writing from Pew Research elaborates on this point stating that “... millennials (young adults born between 1981 and 1996) are much less likely than older Americans to pray or attend church regularly or to consider religion an important part of their lives”. Following the flow of influence passed from generation to generation, it seems as if the slight indifference toward religion found among millennials will pass to their offspring. If the pattern continues, it is clear that America will become non-religious. However, although the Millennial population is growing increasingly nonreligious, they are becoming somewhat spiritual. In fact, according to Casper de Kuile, a researcher and millennial at Harvard University, “the overwhelming majority of us nones aren’t necessarily atheists”. Kuile asserts that “two-thirds” of Millennials believe in God and twenty percent “pray every day”. These finding suggest that religion is still prominent yet religious practices are on the decline likely due to the fact that this population of people see religious adherence as a hereditary trait of sorts. His findings reveal the underlying mechanisms behind this “I’m Christian because my family is” perspective. He reveals the fact that the numbers are a bit skewed and “millennials are turning away from religion faster than any other age group”. With this in mind, what is the catalyst that is contributing to a Millennial reversion to religion? In short, it is the fact that Millennials do not feel included in religious communities. Kuile states that this population is a “growing group that feel like they have been left behind by religious institutions”. Consequently, Millennials are finding other forms of communities and spiritual philosophies. As a 20-year-old Generation Z woman, I find that this is very true. Throughout social media, my circle of friends, interactions with acquaintances, and life in general I find that Millennials and younger generations are fascinated with New Age concepts. These concepts consist of astrology, Buddhism, looking within oneself via meditation, yoga, and crystal healing to name a few. For this reason I find that society is becoming more spiritual and less religious. If you want to know where a society is going, look at it’s young people, if you desire to know where it has been, look at its older adults. @wilkesbeacon Savannah.Pinnock@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Opinion 15 The long lasting benefits of obtaining a college internship By Nick Filipek Managing Editor While you are going through your college career, there are certain opportunities that you may never come across again in life. This time here allows you the chance to sit in a room and share ideas without the fear of judgement, to stay up all hours of the night figuring out it takes more than 45 minutes to write a term paper, and the chance to work at amazing company in your field, before you even graduate. Internships are a great way for students to enter and explore a possible career path without having to give a lifelong commitment to a job. Most internships last a semester, so if it turn out the work is not for you, it won’t be forever. Some students are fortunate enough to come to college knowing exactly what they want to study, and exactly what they want to be “when they grow up”. Other folks take a bit more time to gather their thoughts and figure out how they want to apply their time and studies. Either way, getting a taste of experience may be the perfect little nudge a person needs to either go forward with their plan, find their plan, or come up with a new plan all together. I was fortunate enough to obtain an internship position this past summer right down the road at Pepperjam. Pepperjam is an affiliate marketing company that has humble roots starting with a Wilkes-Barre native, Kristopher Jones. Since those early days, Pepperjam has grown into a big contender in the affiliate marketing space and has a long history of hiring Wilkes University students for internships in the summer, fall and spring. After completing my summer internship, I was offered to stay on for the fall semester, and jumped right on the opportunity. This is the dream for every student engaged in an internship, the offer for a longer interview. Just like that my plans had changed for the upcoming months but thanks to the training Pepperjam gave me, I was ready to handle the unexpected. That brings up another great benefit that someone will learn in an internship, the ability to be flexible. On the job training never goes as planned. It is often left to the intern to figure out a percentage of their job on their own. This is a radical idea for someone coming from an academic background where they have been told exactly what to do with every minute of their day. That’s another great benefit of obtaining an internship is that they allow students, maybe some who have never had a job, to get experience structure and deadlines past an academic setting. Let’s face it, college is as close to the real world as high school is to college. Some people are going to be in for a world full of hurt when they realize that situations get progressively more complicated and difficult the further away you get from your college time, and internship helps detail that. The experiences and knowledge I have gained through this internship are going to be a huge advantage for me when I enter the workforce. Job offerings often ask for experience upon applying, and this is one of the ways to get said experience. Internships look great on a resume and the more you have the better you look. Furthermore internships give you even more names to list as references, and if you have done a good job, intern mentors will be happy to talk you up to possible future employers. These have just been my opinions though, and the reality of the matter is, I am no expert. I have only ever had this one internship, so I thought it was the responsible thing to do for our readers to get some expert advice on internships at Wilkes University. Sharon Castano is the Director of Internships at Wilkes. Her office is located on the second floor of the Henry Student Center. Castano would love to talk to anyone interested in internships and suggests you either stop by her office directly or you can send an email at sharon.castano@wilkes.edu. Along with providing a definitive list of benefits for our readers, Sharon has also left us with some golden advice for each and every student, and a quote that puts everything into perspective; “I tell this to all of my students, as they decide who they want to be when they graduate from Wilkes University. I ask them to please get involved in extracurriculars and consider an internship even if it’s not necessary for their major; do not graduate and wonder...”what happened?” “There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.” - Mary Kay Ash. @wilkesbeacon Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu Save the date for the next Wilkes University Internship, Career, and Grad School Fair Wilkes University (UCOM) University Center on Main, 1st floor 169 S. Main Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 October 18,2018 11 a.m. 3 p.m. Thanks to Sharon Castano, Director of Internships at Wilkes, here is a definitive list of all the great benefits one can expect after completing an internship. 1. Career clarification, hoping you like what you will be doing upon graduation. It is also a positive experience if you realize you don't like working in that field or with that population. It gives you time to change things, such as major or add a minor; or choose to work with adults instead of children for example. Choose finance instead of accounting for another example. 2. Registering for course credit fulfills a course requirement or an elective in your major. 3. If you do well, (3.5 or 4.0) it helps increase your overall GPA. 4. It is a three-month interview with the current employer, they just may ask you to stay. 5. Exposure to the working world, provides you conversations of real work experiences and the ability to learn professionalism. This is evident to employers when interviewing for first jobs for after graduation. 6. Allows you to network within the company or with other vendors that the company works with regularly. 7. Paid internships satisfy both credit and a part time pay check you may need for college expenses. �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Opinion 16 “Sweetener”: A sweet addition to Ariana Grande’s repertoire By Savannah Pinnock Opinion Editor Ariana Grande is by far one of the most talented singers of today. In fact, she possesses a four octave vocal range which is quite impressive. In comparison to some of the greats such as Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston who possess a five octave range, Ariana Grande is just an octave below which speaks to how talented she is. Ariana’s music is primarily centered around the feeling of love and romance. She also provides her fans with tracks that are meticulously crafted with the intention of inspiring her listeners and motivating them to “keep breathin’”. The 25-year-old, Italian-American singer and actress is by far one of my favorite artists. Her Sweetener album is a testament to how talented and driven she is. Within her fifteen track Sweetener album, Ariana provides her fanbase with messages that promote female empowerment, speak to the sublimity of love, and translate the non-verbal language of romantic emotions into lyrics that are uncannily accurate. Today we’re going to take a look at a few of her songs. In Sweetener’s first track entitled Raindrops (an angel cried), one is introduced to an artistic expression of what it feels like when a romantic interest walks out of your life. The piece emphasizes Grande’s vocal abilities due it’s utilization of acapella. It’s a short, sweet, and angelic piece, no pun intended. Her second track entitled Blazed featuring the multitalented artist Pharrell Williams can be described as a feel good song. Upon listening to this piece, I noticed that it bore similarities with the musical aesthetics of Marvin Gaye with the infusion of 21st century, mainstream pop. The piece is quite soulful and easy on the ears. On her next track entitled The Light is Coming, Grande features the talented, self named, Queen of Hip Hop Nicki Minaj. As I began to listen to this track, I couldn’t help but notice that Ariana utilized an early thousands Missy Elliot-esque musicality met with a Gwen Stefani-like sound. It was like a blast from the past in an exhilarating way. I found Ariana’s voice smooth and crystal clear; it felt like a musical ASMR. The general tone of this piece is one of positivity as Ariana reminds us that “the light is coming to give back everything the darkness stole”. The piece also bears a striking resemblance to the early thousands aesthetic found within Cassie’s music. Later within her song R.E.M, one is bombarded with the phenomenon of having someone take the words out of your mouth. Ariana beautifully describes the mentality of a girl when she has a crush on someone. She exposes how unreal your crush seems and how surreal everything feels in the moment. It is such a cute piece and bears similarities with the musical style of Kali Uchis. However, Ariana’s piece God is a Woman left me speechless, it shook the ground underneath my feet and the glass above my head. The piece is unequivocally sensual and possesses sexual undertones. It opens up a dialogue about female sexuality and seems to work at eliminating the taboo stigma attached to it. It is a revolutionary piece that forms a crack in the glass ceiling of music. It is a sneak peak into the mystery of women and refreshing in light of the rampant and normalized misogyny in the music industry. And of course, it sounds amazing. It’s a nice rainy day song. Her next track, Sweetener which also happens to be the name of her album is definitely sweet and a bit suggestive. In this piece, it seems as if Ariana seeks to celebrate relationships and intimacy. Later her song Breathin’ also peaks my interest as the very fabric of the song is coated in a signature Ariana Grande style. It’s very motivational and a great song to drive to. Last but not least, I find Grande’s No Tears Left to Cry sensational; I constantly listen to this track, it’s definitely one of my favorites. Much like Breathin’ it is very motivational. It is also symbolic to the “rainbow after the rain” concept. Her next song, Borderline, immediately reminds me of House music. Again it has an early thousands Amerie and Cassie vibe. There is also a slight Latin component which is very cool. Ariana Grande’s Sweetener leaves me wanting more. It’s a great addition to your morning commute, work out session, and your life in general. So feel free to go ahead and listen to her latest album, it will definitely sweeten your day. @wilkesbeacon Savannah.Pinnock@wilkes.edu Top five tips for surviving your academic year By Tonya Creasy Staff Writer It’s that time of year again. School’s back in session. Starting a new semester can be really nerve racking for both freshmen and returning students. It can be overwhelming being in a new environment and being surrounded by a host of new faces. This may leave a person lost with the question of how they will survive. If you’re one of these people, don’t be alarmed here are five tips that can be very beneficial to helping you survive your fall semester: 1. Find Your Niche A lot of people say that college is the time of your life. And throughout one’s college experience a person can get to meet a lot of new faces and form close, long lasting bonds. As a result of developing new relationships this year, you will begin to find yourself. High school was a place where almost everyone knew each other. Even if you didn’t interact with someone, chances are they were still a familiar face. When you’re starting college, especially away from home, there aren’t as many familiar faces. This is why it is important to find a niche. Having a group with which you belong is nice because it makes you feel more comfortable. When you feel more relaxed in the environment that you’re in, it becomes easier to focus. The clarity that you will gain is very important if you want to pass and get good grades. 2. Use Your Resources There are plenty of resources on campus for students to use. As Wilkes students we can take pride in resources such as the library, tutoring, the writing center and many others. Also, never be afraid to ask anyone for help. In fact, during my transfer orientation, one of the speakers said something that I will always carry with me. The speaker mentioned that even the most successful people such as celebrities and icons need help along the way so you shouldn’t be afraid to ask for help. The resources are provided for all students because the professors and staff here at Wilkes want to see us all succeed. 3. Don’t Procrastinate Although not procrastinating is easier said than done, it is something that most people need to keep in mind. Waiting until the night before, or even the day of an assignment to study or complete your homework is never good. Professors can easily tell who actually took the time to do the work and who waited until the last minute. Your chances of getting good grades are a lot higher if you put time into doing your assignments. 4. Learn Time Management As college students it is very important to learn time management. Give yourself time to breathe in between classes and assignments. Make sure you allow yourself to have enough time to get your homework done. Rushing is never an efficient way of doing anything. Rushing can lead to things such as stress, low grades, and a negative college experience. So make sure to manage and use your time wisely. 5. Mental Health Breaks Lastly, make sure to give yourself time to refuel. Don’t try to overload yourself with projects. If doing something becomes too much to handle, put it aside for a couple of minutes. Do something to relieve some of that stress. After you regain your focus, go back to your work and try again. Keep these tips in mind throughout the year, and you will be able to survive your fall semester and make it a good one. @wilkesbeacon Tonya.Creasy@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Opinion 15 Meet the Majors This week’s major: English Photos and Interviews by Savannah Pinnock Opinion Editor Every week, The Beacon will offer a chance for majors to be placed in the spotlight. Each student that gets chosen will have a few words to express why they chose the major and how they feel it will benefit them in the future. Emily Banks Junior Brian Vu Junior Emily is an English major and a political science minor. She states that she loves “writing and I am good at it. I also want to be a lawyer and I think English would help in preparation for law school.” In the future she believes “It will help enhance my critical thinking skills as well as professional writing which are both essential when working in any field.” Brian Vu is an English major studying digital humanities with a minor in women and gender studies. He is “inspired by humanities itself. Studying the humanities makes me feel more human and connected with the world. It is something that I feel is important to humanity itself.” He states, “in the future, I plan to be a database administrator or work with computers to make project in digital humanities My major will help me in the long run to understand the humanities on a higher level, which influences my morals and life goals.” Brianna Schunk Junior Brianna Schunk is an English and Individualized Studies in dance double major. She stated that she “took ENG 101 with Dr. Anthony my freshman year and she strongly encouraged me to take up an English minor, which ended up becoming a major. Since I’m also getting a dance major I plan on performing, but I’m hoping to write for a dance magazine or do dance critiques with the English major as well. “I think it will be good to have the English major with the dance major because it gives me something to support myself with while I look for performance jobs, and it also gives me a solid writing/ reading/research foundation to explore within the dance field.” �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Opinion 18 The ambiguity of autumn: When does it truly begin? By Sarah Matarella Asst. Opinion Editor Summer vacation comes to an end as everyone goes back to work and school. The autumn decor is put back onto the shelves and Starbucks debuts the infamous pumpkin spice latte. And sometimes, this all happens well before any of us are ready to say goodbye to summer. When it comes to fall, or any seasonal changes that occur, society pushes for it to happen much sooner than it actually does. For example, businesses in the retail industry promote fall and fall holidays like Halloween and Thanksgiving earlier in order to make the most money from their products associated with these holidays. Therefore, many people use the sight of fall decor in the stores as their own personal starting point for fall. Often referred to as “pumpkin season,” this is also the time when the first ad for pumpkin spice flavoring for Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks coffee pops up on Facebook. It only progresses further from there. Pumpkins fill the shelves in stores. Halloween stores open for business. People are sharing posts about “sweater weather,” the nearest pumpkin patches and pictures of fluffy socks, blankets, and sweaters. It is almost like a culture in a sense when you think about it. There is certain clothing to wear in the fall, a specific color scheme associated with the season, and even food and drinks that are made during this time. You do not usually see your grandmother baking a pumpkin roll in the middle of summer, it’s always during fall. Even places where the weather is warm throughout the year like in California, the people who live there still implement these fall trends into their lives. Furthermore, many people also use the leaves changing as a gauge to judge when the beginning of fall is. That is when it genuinely feels like fall to me: when the leaves are changing from green to bright orange, red, and yellow. The air becomes brisk and there is a consistent, light breeze outside that gently hits your face. And you can usually just get by without wearing a jacket since it is arguably the perfect temperature outside during this time of the year. Fall is also a time when there are a lot of outdoor fairs and festivals since the weather is so undeniably pleasant. The Bloomsburg Fair is one of the most well known fairs and fall activities in NEPA that people travel to from all over to go to annually. Once you go to the Bloomsburg Fair, your idea of fall will change completely. Fall will not be fall without going to the fair at least once. Last but not least, football season begins at the end of summer and occurs throughout the entirety of the fall season. Whether you’re sitting with a bunch of friends or family inside yelling at the TV watching the game or wearing a hoodie and drinking hot chocolate while watching it at the stadium under the huge bright lights, the experience just screams fall. It seems as if the fall is when our individual focused, American culture becomes a bit communal. As a nation, we all decide that fall begins when we begin to grow tired of the summer. It may seem odd, but we do grow tired of seasons after a while. As a nation known for having a fast pace and wanting things as soon as possible, it seems normal for us to want our seasons to be the same. We enjoy when things are neat, and clean cut. Ambiguity is something we’re often unhappy with so if we can somehow shorten a season, even mentally, we can reach that goal. Despite all of these perceptions of when fall begins, the official starting date is Sept. 22, and it lasts until Dec. 21. The end of fall honestly might be even more shocking to me than the starting date. Well before the time comes, the winter holidays will take have taken over the stores and Christmas music will be playing on the radio. Our system of dating seasons can also leave a person to question whether we should change our ideas behind seasons? Maybe we should just allow a season to be a season. @wilkesbeacon Sarah.Matarella@wilkes.edu Is good music dead? A quest to find out what is happening to mainstream music By Parker Dorsey Asst. Opinion Editor Good music is dead. That’s a statement you hear all the time, all over social media. This belief goes hand-in-hand with the notion that mainstream music is bad. Saying it’s bad isn’t saying all of it is irredeemable. Personally, I like some mainstream music. Kendrick Lamar is one of the most talented artists of our generation. Lady Gaga is a multiinstrumentalist and writes music with powerful lyricism. I dare you to look me dead in the eyes and tell me Ed Sheeran is talentless. Modern popular rap, however, does not fall into that category. It has lost almost all semblance of deeper meaning, or any meaning at all. In the 1980s and 1990s we had artists such as Public Enemy, Tupac, Run-D.M.C. and A Tribe Called Quest writing thought-provoking songs about violence, race dynamics and society. Today, with the rise of SoundCloud, the messages have broken down to materialism such as ‘look at all this money’ or ‘look at all these women.’.” A lot of rap has forgotten how to use language entirely. Rappers such as Lil Xan or Tekashi 6ix9ine oftentimes use their voices as an instrument by mumbling into the microphone. Another example of this is pop music. Pop music has become so formulaic that there is one man named Max Martin who has written nearly every number one pop song of the last 20 years. All he does is follow trends, and there is no passion put into the music because he just writes songs that people want to be told. He writes songs general enough where they can apply to a wide audience. While not all music needs passion, there at least needs to be effort. There’s not much effort that goes into mainstream music, which is why most people say ‘good music is dead.’ Mainstream music doesn’t display good music. Good, of course, being very subjective. Good music isn’t dead. Music is in the best place it has ever been. When my parents and grandparents were growing up, they were at the mercy of the radio to receive their music. Occasionally they would find local bands, but other than that they consumed whatever the radio put out there. The only music that they knew was popular music. With the invention of the internet almost every possible niche imaginable can be found in the music realm. Music today is in a better place than it has ever been because of this. If we didn’t have all this access to it then we would have nothing but the radio mainstream to listen to. The streaming application Spotify and its ‘Fans Also Like’ feature enables me to discover new bands and music all the time. Case in point: there is this eclectic band called Skindred which combines “Good music isn’t dead. Music is in the best place it has ever been.” reggae and heavy metal. Or I can talk about Hellhammer, the legendary Swiss extreme metal band that is regarded as one of the progenitors of black metal, only had three demo tapes to their name before they disbanded in the mid 1980s. Were it not for the internet, the chances of me finding bands such as these would be minimal at best. In fact, music discovery is something that has greatly evolved and grown over time. I listen to predominately metal and many different subgenres of metal, and I find it upsetting when I see most metal is hardly popular at all. A lot of the bands I listen to have an audience of almost no one. They’re just making music because they love making music. However, it’s refreshing that I was able to find them, and I would have never been able to find them if it wasn’t for the internet being the way that it is. @wilkesbeacon Parker.Dorsey@wilkes.edu �19 Sports The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Sports Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the Sports Editors: Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu or Kirsten.Peters@wilkes.edu New time for Wilkes Athletics Hockey set to hit the rink By Ben Mandell Co-Sports Editor Wilkes Athletics has seen some drastic changes from the end of 2017 to the start of 2018. There has been almost a complete overhaul of head coaches, dawning a new era at Wilkes. Wilkes has seen new coaches in football, women’s basketball, men’s and women’s swimming, baseball, men’s and women’s tennis and women’s soccer. On top of the new coaching additions, men’s soccer head coach Michael Piranian enters just his second season at the helm, placing a number of the sports teams under new leadership. Each program has their specific reasons for their new mentors, as the University felt it was best to move on from coaches Trey Brown and Chris Heery, who coached football and women’s basketball respectively. After their poor seasons, Brown was replaced by former Hobart College assistant coach Jonathan Drach and Heery was replaced by former Marywood University head coach Tara Macciocco. In addition, men’s and women’s swimming coach Mark Barnes also decided to step down following his fourth season. Barnes has been replaced by former Sewanee: the University of the South assistant coach Thomas Limouze. Through different circumstances, the Wilkes women’s soccer team found themselves searching for a new head coach after former head coach John Sumoski decided to move on and take a job at Franklin and Marshall College. Sumoski led the Colonels for 16 seasons and this past season helped them to go undefeated until the MAC Freedom championship game and a Division III national playoff berth. Following Sumoski’s leave, the Pennsylvania College of Technology’s former head coach John McNichol was named as his replacement. Wilkes baseball is also coming off a great season, making the MAC Freedom playoffs for the first time in years. Interim head coach Brandon Michael lead the team to its best season in recent years, and appeared to have earned the full time position. However, between some off the the field issues and the interviewing process, the athletic department decided to move toward former Colonel and Wilkes alum, Kevin Gryboski. The name may sound familiar to fans of Major League Baseball because Gryboski spent time in the MLB as a pitcher from 2002 to 2006, going 12-8 with 4.07 earned run average and 103 strikeouts. Gryboski’s specialty was producing ground balls, earning him the nickname “Groundball Gryboski.” Gryboski will return to his alma mater this season to try and bring the Colonels back to MAC Freedom glory. One of the more interesting coaching changes for the Colonels involves their most successful coach from recent years. Chris Leicht decided it was time to make the jump, from Division III to Division I tennis following tremendous success at Wilkes. Leicht lead the Colonels men’s and women’s teams on a historic run of sheer dominance, winning 12 straight MAC titles on the women’s side and 11 straight on the men’s. The Colonels have yet to name a full time head coach in Leicht’s absence, but there are still questions surrounding his decision. There has been speculation of late on Leicht leaving to take a Division I or II job for the last couple of years, but despite the speculation, the rumors never seemed to pan out. Some sources close to the team have said that they feel Leicht and the athletic department have been growing apart over the last few years because of the lack of recognition his programs received after tremendous success. Others have speculated that Leicht might have been upset with the funding his program received as well. Adding to Leicht’s reasons to leave Wilkes, he has recently had some personal circumstances develop that might have driven him to decide it was time to move on. Due to these changes in his home/ family life, many of the sources close to the team believe this is why Leicht decided to leave so suddenly. Players on both the men’s and women’s tennis teams say that, in hindsight, Leicht’s SEE ATHLETICS, Page 20 By Tyler Aldinger Staff Writer Just a little over two years ago, Wilkes University President Patrick Leahy delivered some exciting news that all ice hockey fans here at Wilkes were excited about - Wilkes University would be adding both men’s and women’s ice hockey to their Division III selection. Not only is it exciting to be starting a new program, but the Colonels will be playing and practicing at the Toyota Sportsplex in Wilkes-Barre, Pa, where the minor league affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins practice. Several months after this news was released, President Leahy informed the Wilkes community that there would be a delay in the start of the men’s ice hockey program until the 2018-2019 school year. This was the result of trying to finding a coach. Wilkes had their candidate, but unforeseen circumstances prevented the coach from coming to Wilkes. In 2017, Wilkes University announced the hiring of the men’s ice hockey head coach Brett Riley, a man of grit and hockey history. Riley has deep hockey roots, and it all starts with his family. “My grandfather was the coach at Army/West Point for many years and then my father was also a coach at West Point for some time as well,” said Riley. If this is not enough hockey fame, Riley’s grandfather was the coach of the 1960 Olympic USA ice hockey team, whose team won a gold medal. The Riley legacy in hockey continues on here at Wilkes, as Riley follows in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. He is certainly excited to start a new hockey team here at Wilkes, but the program took a lot of time to be put together - 15 months of constant travelling and recruiting. “The key thing I was looking for was players who want to start something and players that not only play the game good, but have hockey-sense,” said Riley, noting that the players need to think about the game thoroughly when playing. Riley noted that putting together the team was like piecing together a puzzle, stating, “We wanted to build a team with depth and plenty of mixture overall.” The long, 15-month recruiting process had coach Riley travelling around North America, from Western Canada and as far south as Florida. The Colonels roster as of right now has 31 players, including four transfers and 27 freshmen from 12 different states and Canada. Although he has recruited his team, Riley wants to refrain from releasing the finalized roster until a day before the Colonels first game on Oct. 26. The plan for this is to prevent other teams from learning who the Colonels are and not allowing other teams to be as prepared for what they’ll bring to the table. Freshman defenseman Michael Gurska said, “We want to be competitive right out of the gate and be ready to compete in our first game.” Riley elaborated, “We want to be kind of unknown to opponents, so they don’t know who we are.” This tactic and skill of coaching has helped along the recruiting process, and helped build the team, especially for Gurska. Gurska was a former player for the Connecticut Junior Rangers hockey club. He played there for two years after prep school ice hockey as a defenseman. Riley was a big reason Gurska came to Wilkes, his dedication to the program and his pride were big factors in Gurska’s decision to play hockey at Wilkes. “I like the idea of coming here because we are starting our own tradition,” said Gurska. “No one else before us has played hockey here and I like the idea that we are apart of something new.” Another player Riley was able to recruit was Taylor Bommarito, a forward who is actually one of the transfers for the team. Bommarito played for Manhattanville last year, scoring 10 goals and having nine assists in 26 games during the season SEE HOCKEY, Page 20 �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Sports ATHLETICS Continued from page 19 HOCKEY Continued from page 19 decision was not so surprising. Apparently, Leicht has been slowly growing distant from his team. With the constant rumors of him moving onto “greener pastures,” they felt that it was only a matter of time before he left. The players collectively admitted that they were not expecting Leicht to leave, but looking back on it, the signs were there. Other parts of the Wilkes Athletics staff were caught off guard when Leicht announced that he was taking a job at Monmouth University. Due to Leicht’s success, he was viewed as one of the better coaches on campus and as a figure Wilkes could not afford to lose. In the meantime, graduate assistant Younes Hidass will be stepping into the interim head coaching position while Wilkes tries to name a new head coach for men’s and women’s tennis. Following the abundance of new head coaching positions, a new era has dawned on Wilkes Athletics as the school year begins. A new wave of coaches look to leave their mark on the proud university and some have already started, with Drach already showing that he is turning the football program around. The 2018-2019 athletic year is looking up for the Colonels and every team is looking to do their part to make it a great year. with the Valiants. Although the full roster will not come out until right before the Colonels first game, there is plenty of talent to be excited about for Wilkes hockey fans. The men’s ice hockey team has yet to start on ice practices, but they have been working hard in the weight room preparing for the upcoming season. The anticipation is building as they approach their first game against SUNY Canton in October, where they will travel to New York for their debut. The Colonels come home to the Toyota Sportsplex for their first home game against Stevenson on Nov. 9. With the players prepping in the weight room and fall practices starting soon, coach Riley and the rest of his men’s ice hockey team could not be more excited to start their inaugural season. @wilkesbeacon Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu Cross Country (Men’s and Women’s) 8/31 @ Misericordia Invitational Men’s 5th, Women’s 4th 9/8 @ Stevenson Invitational Men’s 5th, Women’s 8th 9/15 @ Cougar Classic 9/29 @ Mount Saint Mary 10/6 @ Desales Invitational 10/13 @ Inter-Regional Border Battle 10/19 @ LVC Last Chance Run Fast 10/27 MAC Championships (Stevenson) 11/10 NCAA Mideast Regional (DeSales) Stay tuned for more coverage of the men’s ice hockey team in future editions @wilkesbeacon Tyler.Aldinger@wilkes.edu 20 NFL: Trick play ignites Philly By Nicholas Whitney Staff Writer The ninety-ninth season of the National Football League opened last Thursday when the defending champion, the Philadelphia Eagles, defeated the Atlanta Falcons by a score of 18 to 12. The Eagles running back Jay Ajayi rushed for two touchdowns and quarterback Nick Foles caught a pass in the “Philly Special 2.0.” A trick play ignited the previously quiet Eagles offense to lead them to victory on Thursday night. Originally, the Eagles ran the “Philly Special” against the Patriots in the “Big Game” last year. The game was initially delayed due to weather in Philadelphia, but that didn’t stop the thousands of Eagles fans ready to cheer on their championship team. Though the Eagles escaped with a win, the game did not go as smoothly as they had anticipated. Foles missed his targets on many crucial third-downs, which hurt momentum and even earned “boos” from the crowd. Foles threw 19/34 (55.9 percent), 117 yards (3.3 average), 0 TD, 1 INT, and a 50.7 passer rating. Despite the victory, these numbers should have the Eagles nervous when they face tougher opponents. It is important to note that wide receiver Alshon Jeffery was not in the line-up during the game and his absence was felt on the field. Also quarterback Carson Wentz, who has not yet been cleared for contact, continued to sit on the sidelines. On the other side of the field, the Atlanta Falcons found themselves in an all too Fall Sports Schedules Women’s Volleyball 8/31 @ PSU-Hazleton, W 3-0 9/1 @ Clarks Summit, W 3-0 9/1 @ Lycoming, L 0-3 9/1 @ Penn College, W 3-0 9/4 @ PSU-Brandywine, W 3-0 9/6 vs. Lancaster Bible, L 1-3 9/8 @ PSU-Harrisburg, W 3-1 9/8 @ Shenandoah, W 3-2 *9/12 vs. Manhattanville, 7 p.m. 9/15 vs. Cairn, 10 a.m. 9/15 vs. Wesley, 2 p.m. *9/18 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. 9/20 vs. Clarks Summit, 7 p.m. 9/22 @ Brooklyn College, noon 9/22 @ Rutgers-Camden, 2 p.m. *9/26 vs. Delaware Valley, 7 p.m. 9/28 @ RIT, 6 p.m. 9/29 @ Morrisville State, 11 a.m. 9/29 @ SUNY Cortland, 1:30 p.m. *10/2 @ Eastern, 7 p.m. 10/4 @ PSU-Berks, 7 p.m. 10/6 vs. New Jersey City, noon 10/6 vs. PSU-Altoona, 4 p.m. 10/8 @ Keystone, 7 p.m. *10/10 vs. King’s, 7 p.m. *10/16 @ DeSales, 7 p.m. 10/18 vs. Bryn Athyn, 7 p.m. *10/24 @ Misericordia, 7 p.m. 10/27 vs. Marywood, 10 a.m. 10/27 vs. Rutgers-Camden, 2 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Marts Center familiar position in the season opener. Quarterback Matt Ryan continued to prove that he is not the quarterback he was two years ago, when he won the league MVP. With help from wide receiver Julio Jones, Ryan continually showed his ability to get the ball down the field. But Ryan has consistently been unable to convert a solid drive into a touchdown once he reaches the red zone, which was evident by the fact that the Falcons successfully converted only one of their five trips to the red zone. The game ended almost exactly the same as the Divisional Playoff game last year; the Falcons, in the red zone, fail to score a touchdown as the clock runs out. Though this is only the first game, this win puts the Eagles in a very good position when looking at the post season right out of the gate. This victory gives the Eagles a crucial tie-breaker advantage against another potential playoff team and increases their odds of winning their next two games coming against lower-caliber teams, like Tampa Bay and Indianapolis. They will have the opportunity to rack up more wins while their star quarterback continues to recover. Atlanta, on the other hand, is set to face Carolina and New Orleans next, both of which are potential playoff teams in the division. If they fail to win one of those two games, it will be difficult for them to climb back into a playoff position as the season goes on. @wilkesbeacon Nicholas.Whitney@wilkes.edu Field Hockey x-8/31-9/1 @ Susquehanna L 3-1 9/5 @ Keystone, W 3-0 9/8 vs. Widener, L 5-4 2OT 9/13 vs. Cedar Crest, 9/15 @ Alvernia, 7 p.m. 9/19 @ Moravian, 7 p.m. *9/22 vs. Eastern, 5 p.m. 9/25 vs. U. of Scranton, 7 p.m. *9/29 @ Manhattanville, 1 p.m. 10/3 @ Elizabethtown, 4:30 p.m. *10/5 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. 10/8 vs. Arcadia University, 7 p.m. *10/12 @ Delaware Valley, 7 p.m. *10/18 vs. King’s, 7 p.m. *10/20 @ DeSales, noon *10/24 @ Misericordia 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom x-Connie Harnum Classic Home games @ Schmidt Stadium �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Sports 21 Football clinches first win 30-27 in overtime against LVC By Kirsten Peters Co-Sports Editor Following a 12-game losing streak, the Wilkes University football program finally broke their dry spell with an intense 3027 overtime win against Lebanon Valley College on Saturday, Sept. 8. The victory not only revived the Colonels from last year’s 0-10 season, but it ended a losing streak against the Flying Dutchmen that stretched back to 2010. Although the Colonels came out on top, the game did not start out in their favor. In the first quarter, Lebanon Valley scored on their first two possessions of the game, giving them the early 14-0 lead. However, Wilkes proved to be resilient, as they continued to fight back against the Dutchmen. On the offensive side, junior quarterback José Tabora, Jr. proved himself to be essential to the Colonels’ victory. Tabora led the Colonels down the field on first and goal, allowing freshman running back Kelvin Gonzalez to take a toss to the right side into the endzone for his first career touchdown. With Wilkes trailing 14-7 heading into the second quarter, Tabora continued to lead the pack, driving the Colonels down the field before finding junior fullback Matt Rosi for his first career touchdown to tie the game at 14-14. Despite the Colonels’ ability to tie the game, the Flying Dutchmen quickly responded and changed the momentum of the game once again, kicking a 40-yard field goal to take the 17-14 lead going into halftime. As the second half started, so did the be crucial as the Colonels were able to kick a 22-yard field goal to increase their lead to 24-17 with just under three-and-a-half minutes left on the clock. Beacon File Photo Wilkes football picked up their first win under the Drach era on the road against Lebanon Valley College. Colonel offense. A 14-yard touchdown by junior wide receiver Derek Nelson put the Colonels ahead 21-17 in this back-andforth game. During Lebanon Valley’s next possession, junior linebacker Bud Moyer and sophomore defensive lineman Pat Ricci flew the Flying Dutchmen’s quarterback into the ground for a sack on third and two. Stopping the Flying Dutchmen proved to Women’s Soccer Although the Colonels appeared to be approaching their first victory of the season, the Flying Dutchmen changed the momentum of the game once again and made the Colonels work even harder for the highly anticipated win. With only 22 seconds remaining on the clock, Lebanon Valley was able to score a touchdown, tying the game at 24 and sending them into overtime. The Flying Dutchmen were able to gain the 7-24 lead with a field goal in overtime; however, the Colonels knew that a touchdown would win the game. With just 25 yards to go, the Colonels worked their way to the one-yard line, where Tabora attempted two quarterback sneaks, with the second successfully getting him across the line and into the endzone for the 30-27 win. As a result of Tabora’s remarkable showing, his stat line proved to be impressive. He finished the day 27-of40 for 337 yards through the air with two touchdowns and zero interceptions, accounting for 426 of the team’s 470 yard offense. Tabora’s performance earned him the MAC Football Offensive Player of the Week title as of Sept. 9. The Colonels victory marked the first win for new head coach Jonathan Drach and ended the losing streak that dated back to 2016. This milestone is indicative of the new era of Wilkes football that Drach has been preaching about. “These guys really are all heart and have no quit,” said Drach on Twitter following the game. “They earned it today.” Following their monumental win this week, Wilkes football will look to win back-to-back games next week as they take on Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pa. on Sept. 15. @wilkesbeacon Kirsten.Peters@wilkes.edu Fall Sports Schedules 8/31 @ PSU-Berks, POST 9/5 @ Ithaca, L 1-0 9/8 vs. Marywood, W 3-2 9/12 @ William Paterson, 7 p.m. 9/15 @ Bard, 3:00 p.m. 9/19 vs. Susquehanna, 7 p.m. 9/22 @ Arcadia 9/25 @ U. of Scranton, 7 p.m. *9/29 vs. Delaware Valley, 3:30 p.m. 10/3 vs. Kean, 7 p.m. *10/6 vs. DeSales, 4:30 p.m. *10/10 @ King’s, 5 p.m. *10/13 @ Eastern, noon *10/16 vs. Misericordia, 7 p.m. *10/20 vs. Manhattanville, 3:30 p.m. 10/23 vs. Oneonta, 7 p.m. *10/26 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home games @ Schmidt Stadium Football Men’s Soccer 9/1 vs. Hartwick, L 28-24 9/8 @ Lebanon Valley, W 30-27 *9/15 @ Delaware Valley, 1 p.m. *9/22 vs. Misericordia, 1 p.m. *9/29 @ Alvernia, 1 p.m. *x-10/6 vs. Albright, 1 p.m. *10/12 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *10/20 @ Stevenson, noon *10/27 vs. Lycoming, 1 p.m. *y-11/10 vs. King’s, noon *MAC x-Homecoming y-Mayor’s Cup Home games @ Schmidt Stadium 8/31 @ PSU-Berks, T 1-1 9/3 @ Marywood, W 2-0 9/8 vs. Moravian, L 4-1 9/12 vs. Clarks Summit, 7 p.m. 9/15 @ Keystone, 1 p.m. 9/19 @ Susquehanna, 7 p.m. 9/22 @ Stevenson, 4 p.m. 9/26 vs. U. of Scranton, 7 p.m. *9/29 vs. Delaware Valley, 1 p.m. 10/3 @ Lancaster Bible, 6 p.m. *10/6 vs. DeSales, 7 p.m. *10/9 @ King’s, 7 p.m. *10/13 @ Eastern, 3 p.m. *10/17 vs. Misericordia, 7 p.m. *10/20 vs. Manhattanville, 1 p.m. 10/24 @ Penn College, 7 p.m. *10/27 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home games @ Schmidt Stadium (More schedules on page 10) �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Sports 22 Getting to know... Jeff Steeber Senior Football Player The Beacon: Male Athlete of the Week Aug. 31 - Sept. 7 Why Jeff Steeber was selected: Steeber played a crucial role in the opening game against Hartwick College, recording seven receptions for 107 yards and two touchdowns. Name: Jeffrey Steeber Jr. Year: Senior Major: Environmental Engineering Hometown: Berwick, Pa. High School: Berwick HS Position: Wide Receiver Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? My father is an alumnus here, I loved the academic program, and being close to home is a nice plus. Post-graduation plans in terms of a career? I will be looking into a career that deals with water quality regulations and/or storm water management/permitting. There are so many different routes that I’m not exactly sure where I will end up quite yet. Favorite building on campus? Cohen Science Center. What came first? The chicken or the egg? Egg. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? Continuing to become a better athlete and teammate, and win! Editor’s hi s week’s en by ts Editor's note note:: T This week's Athlete Athlete of of the the Week Week was was chos chosen by the the spor sports staf f. Future elec tions w ill eentail ntail the t s staff mining ttwo wo candidates taff. Future sselections will the spor sports staff deter determining candidate for elec tion who ill the n be pee rs uusing sing aa Tw it ter poll poll or sselection who w will then be voted voted on on by by peers Twitter I @ Wilkes B eacon . @WilkesBeacon. Additionally, nd of mic year, year, we ill post post aa reader poll to Additionally, at at the the eend of the the acade academic we w will reader poll to crow n an crown an “Athlete "Athlete of o the the Year” Year".. The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani When/Why did you first begin playing? I come from a football town, so I grew up around the game. I began playing midget football at age 11. Favorite thing to do during practice? Catch touchdowns and hangout with Derek Nelson (DROC). If you had to choose one thing about your program that you could improve, what would it be? The program is going in the exact direction that it needs to be and I wouldn’t change a thing. Most influential person in your life? Too many to name them all, but definitely my parents and grandparents. If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Lil Peep. He was a very inspirational artist for me. Favorite Professor? The whole Environmental Engineering and Earth Science Department. Favorite meal to eat on campus? I’m happy with any meal that’s in front of me. A quote you live your life by? “Everything happens for a reason.” What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? It means that you present yourself at a high level, whether that be academically or athletically. Striving to be your absolute best. Anyone to give a shout-out to? My offensive line, quarterback, and Playboi Joes. -Compiled by Kirsten Peters, CoSports Editor �23 Sports The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Getting to know... Dallas Kendra Senior Field Hockey Player The Beacon: Female Athlete of the Week Aug. 31 - Sept. 7 Why Dallas Kendra was selected: Kendra recorded her tenth career shutout against Kean Univeristy with 10 saves on 13 shots, earning her fourth MAC Freedom Defensive Player of the Week award. Name: Dallas Kendra Year: Senior Major: Pharmacy Hometown: Mountain Top, Pa. High School: Crestwood HS Position: Goalie Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? I chose Wilkes because it was so close to home, I was able to be a studentathlete, and the homey feel I got when I walked around campus for the first time. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? I still have a few years, but eventually a pharmacist. Favorite building on campus? Library. What came first? The chicken or the egg? The egg. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? Being my last season, I have high hopes for this season. I believe that we have the potential, as a team, to do amazing things this year and I am hoping to go out with a "bang." When/Why did you first begin playing? I first began playing in 6th grade, when my soccer team decided they wanted me to try out for field hockey. When I first started, I was actually a midfielder. I became a goalie in 8th grade, when the varsity head coach said she wanted to see me in the pads, and here I am. Favorite thing to do during practice? Drink breaks. If you had to choose one thing about your program that you could improve, what would it be? A locker room update. Other interests or hobbies off of the field? I love to take pictures. Most influential person in your life? My mom. I hope one day I can be at least half the person that she is. If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Princess Diana. Favorite professor? Dr. Schicatano Favorite meal to eat on campus? Chicken Caesar Wrap from the POD! A quote you live your life by? “Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain." What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? To me, it means to be the best that you can be and don't settle for anything less. Anyone to give a shout-out to? I want to give a shout-out to my fellow seniors on the field hockey team: Haley Gayoski, Megan Kane and Kayla Gronkowski. -Compiled by Kirsten Peters, Co-Sports Editor Editor’s en by ts Editor's note: note: Thi Thiss week’s week's Athlete Athlete of of the the Week Wee k was was chos chosen by the the spor sports staff. s elec tions w ill entail ts staff staf f deter mining two taff. Future Future selections will entail the the spor sports determining two candidates candidate for elec tion who ill then peers uusing sing aa Tw itter poll poll or sselection who w will then be be voted voted on on by by peers Twitter @WilkesB eacon. @Wilke sBeacon. Additionally, year, we post aa reader poll to Addi tiona lly , at a t the the end end of of the the academic academic year, we w w ill ill post reader poll to c row rownn an a n “Athlete "A th lete of o the the Year”. Year". 4 • . Gaetani ... The Beacon/Nicole - �The Beacon - September 11, 2018 Sports Riot Squad coming to Wilkes Student Section this fall! Make sure to check out the next issue of The Beacon for information on how to get involved. 24 The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2018 September 11th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 September 11 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/05e501e087768db042c46c9eb66a4573.pdf 1b44bcb1e353fb511cf14006b9fa3673 PDF Text Text ._ _ _.- IEA CC(O)N THE B EACON The Beacon - Summer Issue 2018 Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 72, Issue 01 Wilkes University - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania FREE Take one The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. Students to return to major campus construction updates With the help of eight different contractors, The Department of Facilities and the support of the city of Wilkes-Barre, Wilkes University’s campus is getting a face-lift this summer as a part of the $100 million campus enhancement plan. This plan, announced by Wilkes President Dr. Patrick Leahy in 2013, started on May 21, as soon as this year’s graduates received their diplomas. To kick-start summer construction, Leahy, state Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski (D-Wilkes-Barre), state Sen. John Yudichak (D-Nanticoke) and guests got together on the afternoon of May 21 to further discuss the construction project at the ceremonial “first dig.” According to Charles Cary, executive director of facilities, construction is “progressing on-schedule” and will wrap up the main renovations mid to late August. Some minor renovations will be completed during the school year, as those will not hinder any part of student life. Construction will not only touch on the main Fenner Quad on campus, but will also help spruce up other components of the campus. The Henry Student Center enhancements will include outdoor seating for students as well as an expanded parking lot and new entrances from the Student Center to South River and South Franklin Street. The East and South Campus Gateway construction is an expansion project that will better connect the Karambelas side of campus to the central campus. This portion of the construction will create the South Campus Gateway, a connection of the Henry Student Center and the Stark Learning Center. “These two Gateways will beautify the campus and support recent renovations to the engineering labs in Stark Learning Center,” Cary said. The E.S Farley Library will receive an electrical replacement to provide cost efficiency and reliability. The ongoing construction of Stark Learning Center is still underway as well as the addition of a new elevator and the reconstruction of the interior courtyard, which has been sectioned off as apart of construction. Residential housing, University Towers and most of the mansions, will be spruced up with landscaping and updated, costefficient electrical work. “These enhancements create a cohesive campus experience that will make Wilkes safer and more attractive, increasing Wilkes’ unique appeal as an American private university that offers the opportunities of a large research institution in the mentoring environment of a small private college,” Cary added about how the enhancements are projected to affect student life on campus. Assistant Director of the International Engagement Office at Wilkes University, Hussain Alrumaym, shared his opinion of the $100 million enhancement plan on campus. “Wilkes has taken a major step with the Nick Filipek breaks down the latest and greatest movies, Page 4 2018 Founders Gala: Cohen awarded President’s Medal, Page 10 By Maddie Davis The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky Co-News Editor The Beacon/Cabrini Rudnicki The site of the Fenner Quad during July showed dirt, rather than greenway. new campus enhancements projects to renovate spaces for the students studying and living experience,” Alrumaym said. “I’m very excited to see how the new enhancements and landscaping will beautify our campus.” Although construction is planned for the summer when a majority of the campus is enjoying their break, those taking summer classes and working on campus have experienced the setbacks of the construction. The center of campus is completely blocked off to revamp the Fenner Quad with a new sidewalk layout, forcing those who wish to enter the academic buildings to use the main streets that surround the campus. Incoming senior environmental engineering major David Heinz finds the construction troublesome with his oncampus experience over the summer. “Construction definitely presents a challenge in getting around campus,” said Heinz. “Many of the routes I typically take to classes have been closed, which forced me to find different routes to class.” Despite the current obstacle the construction forces Heinz to face he is hopeful for the outcome of the enhancement project. “The construction is good though because it will make things even more accessible in the future,” Heinz said. Sophomore history major Megan Graham reflected on the potential benefits for students in the upcoming fall semester. “I think [the finished Quad renovations] will encourage students to hang out outside more often whether it’s to study or just to relax,” Graham said. Leahy assured students that raised university tuition for the upcoming semester is not a result of the enhancement project, as the funds are being drawn from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and university money. “[The various construction projects] are designed to transform Wilkes University into a park-like, residential campus in the heart of the City of Wilkes-Barre, added Cary. @wilkesbeacon Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - Summer Issue 2018 News News 2 Have a breaking story or a press release to send? Contact the either news editor: Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu or Madelyn.Davis@wilkes.edu Welcome letter from President Patrick F. Leahy “There has never been a better time at Wilkes University” By Dr. Patrick F. Leahy University President Dear New and Returning Colonels: I hope that this issue of The Beacon finds you in the midst of an enjoyable summer. Perhaps you are traveling to a favorite vacation spot, getting valuable professional experience at a job or internship, or simply sharing quality time with friends and family after a rigorous academic year. Regardless of how you are spending your summer, I am sure that, like me, your excitement for the coming semester at Wilkes builds with each passing week. There has never been a better time at Wilkes University. We’ve enjoyed a busy summer on campus and I am eager to tell you about the progress we have made since Spring Commencement. Through an ambitious campus development initiative, state-of-the-art facilities are being constructed while historic properties are restored. Just two days after the Class of 2018 received their diplomas, we broke ground on the next phase of our Campus Gateway Project. This section will connect the Henry Student Center to the heart of campus in the same way that the Karambelas Campus Gateway links South Main Street to the Fenner Quadrangle. The project’s generous walkways, gathering spaces, and attractive landscaping will make our campus safer and more pedestrianfriendly. Complemented by a major effort to Courtesy of Marketing Communications Leahy refresh the exteriors of many of our iconic mansions on River and Franklin Streets, the beauty of the Wilkes campus will never be more apparent. When you return in a few weeks, I think you will be particularly pleased with the work that has been accomplished behind the Henry Student Center. A pedestrian plaza, anchored by a seating area and clock, along with sizeable green space, replace driveways and pavement along the perimeter of the student center. By redesigning the layout of this area, we will gain parking spaces and make the entire area more pedestrianfriendly. The east and south gateways converge at Stark Learning Center, Wilkes’ largest academic building. There, an extensive renovation project has created a first-rate facility that will prepare Wilkes engineering students to become leaders in their field. The space now houses nanotechnology, bioengineering, and additive manufacturing flex labs; dedicated areas for 3D printing and high-speed computing; and a microfabrication lab. In addition, a new façade was added to the building and an underutilized courtyard has been transformed into a gathering area for the campus community. The renovation of the engineering facility at Stark Learning Center is just the first step in a multi-phase project that will turn this outdated building into a campus showpiece. Next year, work will begin on the corridor of the building facing River Street, adding academic space and improving resources for the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy. Whether you are a future engineer or simply pass through Stark on your way to get a snack at the P.O.D., these renovations are sure to improve your experience at Wilkes. I hope that you will join me in September when we officially dedicate the engineering center with a campus celebration. These projects, along next year’s complete renovation of the Ralston Athletic Complex, are key components of an ambitious campus development plan that is making Wilkes an even more vibrant place to live, learn and grow. Upcoming Events: 2018 Fall Semester August 24-26 -Welcome Weekend 27 - First Day of Classes 30 -Welcome Back Bingo (WUPB) September 6 - Club Day on the Greenway (SG) 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. (club hours) 6 - Laser Tag (WUPB) 11 SG Petitions available 13 - Council of the Clubs (SG) 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. (club hours) 13 - Family Feud (WUPB) 19 - SG Petitions due 20 - SG Ballots open 20 - General Board bonding (WUPB) 21 - Homecoming Ballots round one 22 - Family Day 25 - SG Ballots closed 26 - New SG Members announced 27 - Bingo (WUPB) 28 - Homecoming Ballots round two 30 - Rosenn Lecture: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar October 4 - Homecoming Pep Rally 5 - Homecoming Dance 6 - Homecoming Game vs. Albright 18 - Fall Fest (WUPB) 19 - SG Fall Event 22 to 26 - Freak Week (WUPB) 22 - Monster Social Monday (WUPB) 23 - Zombie Bar (WUPB) 24 - Mobile Escape Room (WUPB) 25 - Bingo (WUPB) 26 - Scary Place (WUPB) November 1 - Cupcake Wars (WUPB) 6 - Casino Week: Texas Hold ‘Em (SG) 7 - Casino Week: Bingo (SG) 9 - Casino Night (SG) 15 - Wing Wars (WUPB) 29 - Bingo (WUPB) December 6 - Holiday Party: PJs and Pancakes (WUPB) WUPB denotes Wilkes University Programming Board While this short recap touches on some recent highlights from campus, it in no way captures all of the progress happening at Wilkes. We are, after all, a university on the move. And it all starts with you. At Wilkes, you’re experiencing something unique - large-university opportunities in a small-college setting. Unparalleled educational opportunities – both in and out of the classroom – are delivered in a highly personalized manner by mentors who are experts in their fields. As many of you know firsthand, Wilkes students work side-by-side with faculty members to tackle the big issues of our day, including early cancer detection, wound therapies, and Alzheimer’s disease. Through a growing list of athletic teams – both intercollegiate and intramural – and co-curricular activities, you have the chance to follow your passions and become wellrounded individuals. I think that you will agree that the combination of big opportunity offered in a close-knit campus community makes Wilkes a private university like no other. I am so proud that you have chosen Wilkes to be your University and look forward to seeing you on campus in a few weeks. In the meantime, keep up to date on campus happenings by following me on Twitter, @PatrickFLeahy. @PatrickFLeahy Patrick.Leahy@wilkes.edu Table of Contents News.................2 Life, A&E............4 Spread (News)..6 Opinion..............8 Sports..............10 �The Beacon - Summer Issue 2018 News Pre-Professional Society raises money for local charity By Maddie Davis Co-News Editor Wilkes University’s Pre-Professional Society of the College of Science and Engineering promotes the professional development and collaboration of its students and the community. One of the ways the club promotes professionalism and collaboration is through their yearly fundraising for local nonprofit organizations. During this past academic year, the students of the Pre-Professional Society raised $500 for the Catherine McAuley Center of Scranton. The amount raised was one of the highest amounts the club has donated to a nonprofit. On May 15, the club presented Jenny Blanchard, the Development and Volunteer Coordinator of the Catherine McAuley Center, with a giant check for $500. The Catherine McAuley Center is a local nonprofit shelter that provides housing and services primarily for homeless women and children within the Lackawanna and Luzerne County area. The center provides care for those who are stricken with a crisis and who are in need of temporary housing. The McAuley Center aides in education, counseling, life skills, access to health care, employment, and training opportunities, Blanchard said. “This generous monetary donation will support the general operations of the Catherine McAuley House, including physical maintenance and upkeep, as well as household supplies, case management and gifts for the children,” she explained. Morgan Nokavich, senior biology major and president of the club; Zoya Rahman, senior biology major and the Vice President of the Pre-Professional Society; and Ana Rahman, senior biology major and vice president, all volunteered previously at the McAuley Center as apart of an event called the ‘United Way of Caring.’ After volunteering there, the club knew this Center was worthy of a fundraiser. “We had such a good experience with the people at the center that when our club wanted to do a fundraiser, we immediately knew we wanted the proceeds to benefit the Catherine McAuley Center,” said Ana Rahman. “I remember thinking how great it was that the Catherine McAuley Center was providing a safe environment for this family who might not have had any other place to go if not for the Center,” recalled Zoya Rahman about the reason she wanted to donate funds to the Center. To raise the funds, the members of PPS- CSE and advisor Connie Dombroski, created a fundraising event on campus, “A Taste of Pakistan,” as well as several other events. As apart of the fundraiser, the club members sold authentic Karachi street foods, chai tea, and gave Henna tattoos to students, faculty, and staff. “I enjoyed this particular fundraiser because we were able to interact with so many people and make them aware of this amazing nonprofit organization that does so much for families in need,” recalled Ana Rahman. “We put a lot of work into that event and it really came together in the end to be a great success and also a lot of fun,” Nokavich said. The profits raised from “A Taste of Pakistan” and several of their other fundraisers meant much more to the club members than just the amount that was written on the check for the McAuley Center. “The most rewarding part of donating the money was knowing that it was going toward such a great cause,” Nokavich said. “Having volunteered at the center and meeting the people there made it even more meaningful and I know that it will be put towards a great cause.” It was more important to the club to help build a connection and a community to the center, something Dombroski, strives to teach 3 the students in the Pre-Professional Society for their future careers. “The club thinks that it is very important for our students to make connections and form bonds with individuals and organizations so they can absorb as much information as possible,” sshe said. Club members recognized the importance of their fundraising and community efforts in relation to their future career in the health services. “Fundraising the money and building these relationships are not only helping out my local community but it’s also instilling in me the values that I hope to have as a future doctor,” said Zoya Rahman. “As someone who aspires to be a doctor practicing medicine in underserved communities, building relationships with nonprofits, like the Catherine McAuley Center, is very important to me,” said Ana Rahman. “The rewarding experiences I have had and hopefully will continue to have with these nonprofit organizations will only strengthen my desire to help the underserved population.” @wilkesbeacon Madelynn.Davis@wilkes.edu Sordoni Art Gallery, SHINE collaborate for children’s summer camp By Cabrini Rudnicki Co-News Editor Students from the SHINE Summer Camp had an unforgettable experience creating and appreciating art at the Sordoni Art Gallery this summer. The experience was part of SHINE’s second annual College Student for the Day. None of the students who participated in SHINE’s Sordoni Art Gallery program had ever been to an art gallery before. Director of the Sordoni Art Gallery, Heather Sincavage, saw this as an opportunity. “The time we spent with campers was a way to create a positive experience with an art gallery which instills a curiosity about the arts,” she said. “Hopefully, this curiosity generates interest to return, possibly more than once, because they find things that peak their interest.” The Sordoni Art Gallery was only one of the multiple departments who were asked to create an activity for the SHINE students. Other areas includes the radio station with Kristen Rock, nursing with Cathy Hauze, robotics with Dr. Yong Zhu, and several others. Nikki Lewis, assistant director of the gallery, and Sincavage worked together to create a lesson plan for the students. “SHINE reached out to us to ask if we could create an activity and show the students around the gallery,” said Lewis. “We jumped on that opportunity because we don’t usually have a lot of children in the gallery, and that’s definitely something we want to change in the future.” The students participated in a sand casting activity, which allowed the students to make impressions in bowls of sand which were then filled with plaster, to create a sculpture. The gallery had a cast iron exhibit titled “Solid Gone” up when the students had their lesson. “The students loved it,” Lewis said. “They were able to see a different kind of art then what is usually considered art.” This is the first year Sordoni Art Gallery participated in the camp, but the second year of the camp’s existence. Carol Nicholas, the Director of SHINE, spoke about how the camp started. “We wanted to include not only science, literature, but also some art,” Nicholas said. “Since we have such a wonderful gallery right on campus, we thought this would be an experience that the students had not been exposed to.” Many of the students had not even had an idea of what a ‘museum’ entails, according Courtesy of Sordoni Art Gallery SHINE students listen to a lesson from Sordoni Assistant Director, Nikki Lewis. to Nicholas. “We really had to answer questions about what is a gallery, and what kind of respect we have to have for the artists, and where artists come from.” SHINE gives students a real college experience, complete with roving classes on a schedule, a dorm tour, and lunch at the school cafeteria. “Our job at SHINE is to plant the seed,” said Nicholas. “Down the road, we want nothing better than for one of these students to become a Wilkes student because they walked down campus for College Student for the Day.” @wilkesbeacon Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - Summer Issue 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment Life, Arts & Entertainment Nick’s Flick Picks: 2018 Summer Blockbuster Edition By Nick Filipek Managing Editor Welcome back, Colonels. This summer was just as good as any other, if not better, time to hit the movie theater. Over the past few months we have seen some major blockbusters hit the silver screen and out the box office in a frenzy. These are just some of the movies that made big waves this summer. Deadpool 2- Produced by 20th Century Fox/Marvel Entertainment, directed by David Leitch, written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick and Ryan Reynolds, starring Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Zazie Beetz, T.J. Miller and Brianna Hildebrand. The merc with a mouth is back, but not better than ever. Now do not get me wrong, the movie played out well, but it lands right where you think a sequel will. It is hard to top the original and Deadpool 2 just does not hit that mark. The story to the sequel is pretty standard, and honestly laid out entirely in the trailers. Deadpool must protect a mutant with incredibly strong powers from the time traveling man with a metal arm, Cable. Performances were great, Ryan Reynolds was born for this role, and Zazie Beetz and Josh Brolin were exceptional in their roles. This really just seemed like a two hour long commercial for the next installment in this franchise, “X-Force”, but hey, Marvel fans everywhere will take it. Solo: A Star Wars StoryProduced by Lucasfilm, directed by Ron Howard, written by Jonathan Kasdan & Lawrence Kasdan. Starring Alden Ehrenreich, Joonas Suotamo, Woody Harrelsom, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Paul Bettany Thandie Newton and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Lucasfilm’s inaugural attempt at spinning off their characters into their own dedicated movies did not start as well as they were hoping for, but still hit the mark for many. On a personal note, Han Solo was an icon for me growing up, there was no one I wanted to be more. I wore vests for years thinking it would help me look more like the scruffy nerf hearder, so when I heard he was getting his own solo film (pun intended, obviously) I was ecstatic. The movie did not do it for everybody, but I loved it. It had the perfect tone to join the Star Wars Universe and did the characters justice. The audience is treated to the origin story of the partnership between Han and Chewbacca, the famous poker game that won Han the millennium falcon from Lando and so much more. Alden Ehrenreich looks nothing like Harrison Fords younger self, but that honetsly doesn’t mater after he starts talking, because he acts just like Han Solo should. Though fans and box office reaction do not seem to warrant a sequel, many (including myself) would line up happily to the next installment in the Solo story Incredibles 2- Produced by Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios, directed and written by Brad Bird. Srarring Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell. Huck Moner, Eli Ficile, Samuel L. Jackson, Catherine Keener and Bob Odenkirk Usually the Hollywood trend is to strike when the iron is hot, and pump out a sequel to a hit movie, as soon as possible. However Disney/ Pixar chose to go a different way with their superhero franchise, The Incredibles. It has been more than a decade since the original movie premiered in 2004, but that iron was still red hot and led the film to be one of largest the studio has seen yet. The best part about the movie is that it starts literally where the first one ends, in the same way “Back to the Future Pt. II” picks up right where the first one ended. Fans of the original are thrust right back into the action and it would seem as it the 14-year gap was non-existent. Tag- Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures/ New Line Cinema, directed by Jeff Tomsic, written by Rob McKittrick & Mark Steilen, based on the Wall Street Journal article entitled “It takes Planning, Caution to Avoid Being It” by Russell Adams. Starring Ed Helms, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Jake Johnson, Annabelle Walis, Hanibal Buress, Isla Fisher, Rashida Jones and Lelslie Bib The words “based on a true story” get thrown around often in Hollywood, and just like most others, this story gets a bit of a facelift for the silver screen, but deep down I think it holds the spirit of the original story in mind to deliver a fun summer comedy. The movie centers on lifelong friends who have been playing the same game of tag since early childhood. As the years passed the friends grew trickier and more theatric in finding means of tagging one another, but no matter what their one friend, played by Renner, was never tagged. Now before Renner fully retires from playing, the crew must reassemble in order to tag that one untouchable player. The movie is a fun ride of a flick that plays through the motions of a normal “bromance” comedy, but just on a larger scale due to the ensemble cast of some great comedians. The end credits of the movie even show actual footage of the original game that inspired the movie of the real friends showing up and surprising one another with a tag. All in all, it was a fun experience to see in a theater and if you were just looking for a few laughs with a touch of heart, it would be safe to say 4 this is worth watching. The summer is hardly over though and there are still plenty of new movies hitting theaters soon to look forward to before classes start up and that free time goes back to hard work and study time, right? Movies to see before the first day of classes: Mission Impossible: Fallout, (Paramount Pictures/Skydance Media/ Bad Robot Productions) July 27 Christopher Robin, (Walt Disney Pictures) Aug. 3 The Meg, (Warner Bros. 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The event honors not only some university students, but also distributes the highly coveted Presidents Medal to a deserving individual who reflects the aspirations of the university. The Founders Gala was established in 2014. Proceeds from the event are used for the First Generation Scholarship, a scholarship for students who represent the first person in their family to attend college. Every year the gala honors students who were first generation college students. This year Nancy Ramirez, Margaret Galatioto and Joshua Evans were given the opportunity to deliver a speech directly to those who have donated to the university throughout the year. Page Design: The Beacon/Madison Hummer Each student was surrounded by family friends and professors as they greeted the donors around the gala. Nancy Ramirez, a recently graduated criminology major, had always wanted to come to the event. “I always wondered if I was going to get invited,”she said. “I was finally asked this year to be one of the speakers, and now I get to wear a pretty dress and thank all of the donors. Ramierz has a plan to use her degree to continue the cycle of generosity started by the school. Joshua Evans, a nursing graduate and member of the wrestling team, said he was invited because the alumni office knew of his first generation college student story. “It’s a great opportunity and it’s definitely something I’ll remember forever,” said Evans. In his speech, Evans spoke about the opportunities he had while attending Wilkes. “I want to give the everyone a background of my story, the people who have influenced my life, and what my journey through Wilkes has been like.” Margaret Galatioto, also a recently graduated neuroscience major, was given a First Generation scholarship by the university in her freshman year. “The scholarship was part of the reason why I came to Wilkes,” Galatioto said. “It was an affordable option, and I wanted to come to a small university, so it worked out perfectly.” According to Galatioto, being a first generation student made the college experience harder. LAWRENCE E. COHEN President's Medal Photos: The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky Margaret Steele, Executive Director of Development and Alumni Advancement, opens the Gala and introduces the three student speakers. Attendees listen to Margaret Galatioto ‘18 speak about her experience as a Wilkes University student. Galatioto was one of three student speakers. �The Beacon - Summer Issue 2018 7 News ------\7---.~:-?--------------:::--r-~ v f V ♦ V ♦ V q -t~ V ◄r---- The 2018 Founders Gala featured a outdoor tent setting with a glamorous table setting that was enjoyed by all of the guests. “It was hard to do something unprecedented in my family,” she said. “I’ve been very determined the past four years.” Galatioto plans to attend graduate school before eventually attending medical school. This year’s Presidents Medal was awarded to Lawrence E. Cohen, namesake of the Cohen Science Center. Cohen currently serves as Benco Dental’s chairman and chief customer advocate. Cohen has donated to his alma mater, Wilkes University, for years, and currently serves on the Wilkes Board of Trustees. He received trustee emeritus status in 2008. Cohen said he was honored and flattered to receive the President’s Medal. “Some people [donate] like that and think, ‘ah, it’s a lot of money’ but I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever done.” Cohen decided to donate to the university because in his opinion, Wilkes changed his life. “Wilkes changed my opinion about myself,” Cohen said. “It’s always been an important thing in my life.” The Lawrence and Sally Cohen Science Center is a $35 million, 72,500 sq. ft building which opened in 2014. The building features four floors of laboratory classrooms for science majors. Cohen donated $2.5 million to the construction of the building, one of the largest donations in Wilkes history. “Other than [the building], I’m not that special,” Cohen said, humbly. “I’m very suprised at the turnout, as I don’t know a lot of these people.” This year’s Founders Gala had more than 400 attendees. University President Patrick Leahy spoke about what makes first generation students special. “You see, even in 2018, over 50 percent of our undergraduates are first generation students,” Leahy said. “They are chasing a dream, working tirelessly toward a degree that will aid their ability to create a better life for themselves and for their families.” Emphasis at the event was put on Wilkes University’s campus-wide improvement project, which includes the recently opened Karambelas Media Center, as well as the newly renovated Stark Learning Center and South Campus Greenway, both set to open with the start of the fall semester. Past Founders Galas awarded Presidents Medals to Frank M. Henry (2017), Clayton and Theresa Karambelas (2016), John G. Reese (2015), and Joseph Savitz (2014). @wilkesbeacon Cabrini.Rudnicki@wilkes.edu The traditional Wilkes University President’s Medal seal acted as the backdrop for the entire evening. The President’s Medal is the university’s highest honor. �The Beacon - Summer Issue 2018 Opinion Editorial Staff 2018-19 MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Luke Modrovsky Managing Editor - Nick Filipek Adviser - Dr. Kalen Churcher SECTION EDITORS News - Cabrini Rudnicki Maddie Davis LA&E - Available Opinion - Savannah Pinnock Sports - Ben Mandell Kirsten Peters ASSISTANT EDITORS News - Available LA&E - Available Opinion - Parker Dorsey Sarah Matarella Sports - Available DESIGN EDITOR Madison Hummer Interested in joining The Beacon? To learn more about what you can do, contact: Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu or Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu 141 S. Main Street Clayton and Theresa Karambelas Media Center Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 Phone - (570) 408-5903 www.thewilkesbeacon.com Want to advertise in The Beacon? Contact: Nick Filipek at Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu The Beacon Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Opinion 8 Have an opinion or want to write a guest column? Contact the opinion editor: Savannah.Pinnock@wilkes.edu Welcome letter from SG President Hunter Hughes By Hunter Hughes Student Body President Hello, Colonels, My name is Hunter Hughes and I am the student body president for the 2018-2019 school year. I am a junior neuroscience major from Kingston, Pa. I enjoy setting up my hammock on the balcony of Towers and my favorite place to study is the 4th floor of the Cohen Science Center. Welcome to our new first year students. First of all, please pardon our appearance as we work to improve our campus. We are excited to bring many new updates and improvements to make our campus better. This campus is your campus now. Secondly, I urge all the first year students to embrace all that college has to offer. You will never have another time in your life where you can try new things at a low cost and at a low risk. Get out there and make the most of these four (or six for our pharmacy students) years. Join clubs, come out on Thursday nights to see what Programming Board has to offer, and make friends with the people sitting next to you in class. Finally, never be afraid to reach out. Reach out to our wonderful faculty and staff if you ever find yourself not where you want to be, either academically or personally. Professors are more than willing to help you and want you to succeed. My personal experience with my first few days at Wilkes is one that I will always remember. When I first started classes, the first question on my mind was, “Who am I going to sit with?” Luckily I had made a few friends at orientation and spent time with them during Welcome Weekend. Take the opportunities given to you and make those friends within the first few days. They will help you more than you ever know. I had a lot of questions coming in so I will try and answer them here. If I don’t answer yours, reach out to your e-mentor, resident assistant, or academic adviser. My biggest question coming in was “Would I make friends?” Yes, you will make friends and they will help you through some of the best and most challenging times of your life. I also wondered if my roommate situation would work out, and I’m glad to say that mine certainly did, and if it doesn’t for you residence life is always there to help resolve conflict. I wasn’t sure coming into college what the workload would be like. In my experience, it is more than high school but it is a lot more personal responsibility. You may not have homework every night but you still have work to do. Also, my biggest money saving piece of advice is to not buy your textbooks until you have spoken with your professors as they may indicate that the textbook is not required and that can save you a lot of money. I was not sure when I first arrived at college on the best place to settle down and study. This really depends on your personal preference, but if you like quiet spaces, the second floor of the library is a great place to start. When you arrive on campus in August, you will begin the journey of a lifetime. It can go a thousand different directions, and there are no right or wrong paths, just whatever path makes you the happiest. Go out into the Wilkes community seeking happiness and to improve the lives of those around you and I promise you will never go wrong. To the sophomore class, you have learned a lot and will be surprised how much more there is to learn. Many of you will be starting to dive into your majors which for me was the most exciting part of sophomore year. I look forward to seeing your leadership develop on campus and in the community. Remember how the upperclassmen helped you when you were first year students and try to exemplify the example that they set for you. To the junior class, we have to continue to grow into the campus leaders that we are. We have made it through some of the toughest classes so far and now can really explore our majors and interests. Let’s make this year the best year yet. To the senior class, this is your last year on campus. You have done so much so far to contribute to our campus community and it is your time to shine. You have one year left here on campus. What are you going to do with it and how are you going to make the most of it? As a student government, we are setting out to make this year the best year yet. If you are a club leader, please be on the lookout for club day on Sept. 6. We have a full schedule of events including casino night, homecoming, and many more events. If you are interested in joining student government, especially any first year students, please feel free to contact me via email or in person. @wilkesbeacon Hunter.Hughes@wilkes.edu Self care: Summer is the time to take care of you By Sarah Matarella Asst. Opinion Editor Summer is perceived to be a time to kick back and relax. However, this can serve to be untrue for the average person due to their jobs, having to take summer classes, internships, and truly, even vacations can get stressful. Thus, it is extremely important to give yourself a break and recharge. Self care is equally as important year round, but the summertime often makes it much easier to practice. So, seize the opportunity and focus on your body and your mind while you have more leisure time. If you find yourself stuck in a job working long hours, make you you use your vacation time to your advantage. You do not have to take an entire month off, but try to get a few days of vacation here and there to plan a small getaway that is less likely to break the bank, yet still provide you with a sense of relaxation. Furthermore, huge vacations can be stressful. Having to worry about budgeting, booking a place to stay, deciding on a location and finding transportation can become time consuming and even defeat the purpose of going on the vacation. Therefore, a simple day or two of allowing yourself to just do what feels right for your mind and your body can be sufficient for a break: it is not necessary to go somewhere extravagant or even home for the matter to become relaxed. Enjoy the rest of your summer and get ready to get to work on Aug 27. @wilkesbeacon Sarah.Matarella@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - Summer Issue 2018 Opinion Are extracurricular activities a college necessity? By Savannah Pinnock Opinion Editor Extracurricular activities is a term that the vast majority of college, high school or even middle school students is familiar with. The term is closely associated with academia and the potential of obtaining a higher education, yet it is not necessarily academic. In fact, this term has to do with the interests and activities a student enjoys outside of the classroom. Due to the fact that these activities are interestbased, they act as a good indicator of a person’s strengths, weaknesses, ethics and inclinations. For this reason, extracurricular activities dovetail seamlessly with one’s academic performance. However, on a solely collegiate level, is it truly necessary to participate in these activities? The question as to whether academic performance or involvement is more important has been worded in a plethora of different ways, and is likely one of the top ten questions students have who seek to pursue a higher education. For Getting involved for the sheer principle of getting involved is not enough, it’s better to seek an activity you enjoy. In a real world sense this is clear to see when niches and cohorts organically develop as a result of peers getting involved in an interest based activity like the student government, soccer or the environmental club. In fact, Tenhouse asserts that “by identifying with a peer group, that group may influence a student’s affective and cognitive development as well as his or her behavior.” On a socio-psychological level, such an advantage is priceless and has the potential to last a lifetime. Alongside the more cerebral benefits, extracurricular activities can help “students to understand the importance of critical thinking skills, time management, and academic and intellectual competence.” These benefits will in turn manifest into a well-rounded student; this is essentially the “principal goal of extracurricular activities on college and university campuses.” In other words, in participating in extracurricular activities, a student is given the ability to grow in various areas of their lives e.g. emotionally, socially, etc. So ask yourself, are you sometimes flooded with questions regarding graduate school or higher education? If the answer is yes, rest assured that you can check this source of academic anxiety off of your list, as extracurricular activities are always a benefit to you on a personal and academic level. Regardless of whether you desire to further your education after attaining your bachelors or just gaining a bachelor’s, you will quickly find yourself growing on levels you never imagined. College is essentially a bridge from a sophomoric state of mind to a more cultivated and refined state of mind, so be sure to get involved and grow into the exceptional individual that you were meant to be. and inflammatory conditions of pediatric million adults who have other variations rheumatic diseases that can develop in of arthritis. Contrarily, in terms of infants and children, juvenile arthritis impacts only children and teens.” In other words, juvenile arthritis is a 300,000 individuals. In light of the statistics surrounding general term that covers a broad spectrum of diseases that elicit similar symptoms childhood and adulthood arthritis, it is within a child. These symptoms include apparent that childhood arthritis lays in the shadows of other well-known diseases. pain, joint swelling, redness and warmth. Due to the little-known nature of juvenile The diseases are distinct in that they possess distinguishing characteristics and arthritis, the Arthritis Foundation has partnered with a affect an individual in series of organizations different ways. Among “These diseases impact such as CARRA, the various types of approximately 300,000 PARTNERS, and juvenile arthritis are fibromyalgia, juvenile babies and children within PCORI in an effort to advance and lupus, kawasaki accelerate the quest disease, and even the United States.” for new and better juvenile scleroderma treatments – and ultimately to find a cure. just to name a few. However, there appears to be one major In order to understand the gravity of this disease among infants and children, stumbling block in accessing a cure for the one must understand how rare it is. In inflicted, medical services. In fact, according terms of the adult population, it is said that to an article from kidsgetarthritistoo. approximately 31 million adults sustain org, there are currently fewer than 250 practicing pediatric osteoarthritis, the most common type of board-certified, rheumatologists in the country. arthritis. In other words, on a national level there This figure does not include the other 23 are approximately five practitioners for every state. This does not include factors such as the counties as well as if this figure is equally dispersed. Additionally, it is said that roughly “90 percent of those are clustered in and around large cities.” In an effort to combat this issue, the Arthritis Foundation is centered on increasing awareness. If you would like to help the 300,000 infants and children who are suffering from this often debilitating disease, feel free to visit the Arthritis Foundation’s website kidsgetarthritistoo.org. There you will have access to more information and given an opportunity to be an advocate of juvenile arthritis. So the next time you celebrate our nation’s independence, feel free to tell a friend that this month also marks the courage of 300,000 little ones inflicted with juvenile arthritis. college students who are solely seeking a bachelor’s degree, the question is less stressful. On the other hand, to a student pursuing a master’s, a doctorate or further, the question is ever present. In hopes of alleviating this source of anxiety, Amy M. Tenhouse, writing from stateuniversity.com, offers a few definitive statements to aid in this dilemma. According to Tenhouse, extracurricular activities are by no means miscellaneous and can even “positively impact students’ emotional, intellectual, social and interpersonal development.” One might suggest that this is clearly self-evident and may just be a string of hackneyed words that are easier said than visualized. As a student it leaves one to wonder how this manifests in real life, what are the underlying mechanisms? The truth is that being involved on campus has a beneficial impact on all of the previously aforementioned components of a student’s life. On an emotional level one can observe an increase in their mood by engaging in an activity catered to their interests. @wilkesbeacon Savannah.Pinnock@wilkes.edu National juvenile arthritis awareness month By Savannah Pinnock Opinion Editor Within the United States, July 4 is closely associated with patriotism, fighting for autonomy and an almost ethereal sensation of unity followed by a collective sense of pride. In a larger sense, this month is significant in that it is one of the primary months in which the nation embraces the collective over the individualistic. In a similar manner as our beloved country, a lesser known population of individuals is fighting for freedom from a heinous disease known as juvenile arthritis. These diseases impact approximately 300,000 babies and children within the United States. In order to increase awareness about this disease, National Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month is held in the month of July similar to our young nation. With this being said, it begs the question, what is juvenile arthritis? According to an article from the Arthritis Foundation, juvenile arthritis is “an umbrella term used to describe the many autoimmune 9 @wilkesbeacon Savannah.Pinnock@wilkes.edu �Sports The Beacon - Summer Issue 2018 Sports 10 Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the Sports Editors: Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu or Kirsten.Peters@wilkes.edu Football program shifts focus for upcoming season By Kirsten Peters Co-Sports Editor After a losing season in 2017 and six new coaching additions to the 2018 staff, the Wilkes University football program is undergoing some major changes. Under the leadership of new head coach Jonathan Drach, who previously coached at Hobart College for 11 years, the culture of the Colonel Football program is evolving for both the coaches and the players. With an 0-10 season still fresh from last year, the coaching staff has decided to realign their goals for the upcoming season, making numerous changes to better the program overall. According to new wide receivers coach Jack Pfohl, “A few of our main goals are to be successful in the classroom, to improve everyday on the football field and in the weight room, and to be involved in community service and giving back.” Pfohl believes these goals are attainable with the adjustments that are being made both on and off the field. As for football, there have been notable changes with the spring practice regimen. Instead of running practices in the evening, the coaches changed practices to bright and early in the morning, allowing the players to establish discipline. In addition, at the end of workouts players are to complete “finishers,” which Pfohl explains are meant to push the players both physically and mentally while simultaneously bringing them closer together as a team. But with change can sometimes come discomfort, which is exactly why returning coach Tripp Merritt, who has transitioned to being the defensive coordinator and safeties coach this season, was skeptical of how well the players would receive Drach’s new practice plan. “I was afraid that the level of accountability Coach Drach expected was going to be too much for some guys, especially at the nonscholarship level,” said Merritt. “But I was pleasantly surprised with our retention rate and how hungry these guys are to keep working and succeed.” This hunger might be fueled by one of the coaching staff ’s new principles. “I believe our goal is a very simple one – to get one percent better every day,” said new linebackers coach and special teams coordinator Tom Elder. “If our guys continue to buy-in to getting better every single day, then it will immediately impact our success on and off the field.” With the anticipation of two-thirds of the team being freshmen and sophomores, Drach notes that it is crucial for the young players and the upperclassmen to prove themselves on the field, drilling home the “one percent better” mentality. “We really want to focus on the competition piece, where everybody doesn’t have a spot right now, and that’s a really, really uncomfortable feeling and I want our kids to get comfortable being uncomfortable,” said Drach. “I want them to compete every day – that’s how we’re going to get that one percent better – and that level of competition is how we’re going to continually change as we move forward.” In order to achieve this “one percent better” goal, the coaching staff has placed an importance on face-to-face interactions. By investing time into each player, the coaches can ensure that their players are ready not only for every game, but for every test and paper as well. With this hands-on approach, the coaches will be able to satisfy one of their most emphasized goals: quality academics. Although there are major adjustments being made on the field, the coaching staff is not forgetting about the significant changes being made off the field. As for the new tight ends and fullbacks coach Kelvin Cruz, he is in charge of monitoring study hall attendance and grade checks. The coaches have altered this aspect of the program to accommodate each player, creating a study hall schedule that will run between one to five days a week depending on how well each student has done and is currently doing at Wilkes. According to Cruz, “We really want to take pride in academics and setting our players up to be successful in life after college, particularly to be good people in general.” This focus on academics is to ensure that each players’ student-athlete status is being fulfilled, considering the word “student” comes in front of the word “athlete” in that title. This mantra rang true across the whole coaching staff, indicating how the coaches have outlined a specific set of goals that they are focused on accomplishing together. In addition to the new set of guidelines getting the Colonels prepared behind the scenes, their new uniforms will have them looking the part on the field. In the fall, the Colonels plan to sport a new yellow helmet and an alternate blue jersey, creating eighteen different uniform combinations. According to offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator David Biever, these new uniform options are increasing the Colonels’ swag factor. “One change I have seen is in the swag. Yes, I said swag. This adds excitement to the players and potential recruits when you have eighteen different uniform options and two helmets that bounce between new school and tradition,” said coach Biever. Not only are these uniform changes exciting SEE FOOTBALL, Page 11 Fall Sports Schedules Cross Country (Men & Women) 8/31 @ Misericordia Invitational 9/8 @ Stevenson Invitational 9/15 @ Cougar Classic 9/29 @ Mount Saint Mary 10/6 @ Desales Invitational 10/13 @ Inter-Regional Border Battle 10/19 @ LVC Last Chance Run Fast 10/27 MAC Championships (Stevenson) 11/10 NCAA Mideast Regional (DeSales) Field Hockey x-8/31-9/1 @ Susquehanna 9/5 @ Keystone, 4 p.m. 9/8 vs. Widener, 5 p.m. 9/13 vs. Cedar Crest, 7 p.m. 9/15 @ Alvernia, 7 p.m. 9/19 @ Moravian, 7 p.m. *9/22 vs. Eastern, 5 p.m. 9/25 vs. U. of Scranton, 7 p.m. *9/29 @ Manhattanville, 1 p.m. 10/3 @ Elizabethtown, 4:30 p.m. *10/5 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. 10/8 vs. Arcadia University, 7 p.m. *10/12 @ Delaware Valley, 7 p.m. *10/18 vs. King’s, 7 p.m. *10/20 @ DeSales, noon *10/24 @ Misericordia 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom x-Connie Harnum Classic Home games @ Schmidt Stadium Women’s Volleyball 8/31 @ PSU-Hazleton, 8 p.m. 9/1 @ Clarks Summit, 10 a.m. 9/1 @ Lycoming, noon 9/1 @ Penn College, 2:30 p.m. 9/4 @ PSU-Brandywine, 7 p.m. 9/6 vs. Lancaster Bible, 7 p.m. 9/8 @ PSU-Harrisburg, 11 a.m. 9/8 @ Shenandoah, 1 p.m. *9/12 vs. Manhattanville, 7 p.m. 9/15 vs. Cairn, 10 a.m. 9/15 vs. Wesley, 2 p.m. *9/18 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. 9/20 vs. Clarks Summit, 7 p.m. 9/22 @ Brooklyn College, noon 9/22 @ Rutgers-Camden, 2 p.m. *9/26 vs. Delaware Valley, 7 p.m. 9/28 @ RIT, 6 p.m. 9/29 @ Morrisville State, 11 a.m. 9/29 @ SUNY Cortland, 1:30 p.m. *10/2 @ Eastern, 7 p.m. 10/4 @ PSU-Berks, 7 p.m. 10/6 vs. New Jersey City, noon 10/6 vs. PSU-Altoona, 4 p.m. 10/8 @ Keystone, 7 p.m. *10/10 vs. King’s, 7 p.m. *10/16 @ DeSales, 7 p.m. 10/18 vs. Bryn Athyn, 7 p.m. *10/24 @ Misericordia, 7 p.m. 10/27 vs. Marywood, 10 a.m. 10/27 vs. Rutgers-Camden, 2 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Marts Center Men’s Soccer 8/31 @ PSU-Berks, 4:30 p.m. 9/3 @ Marywood, 1 p.m. 9/8 vs. Moravian, 2:30 p.m. 9/12 vs. Clarks Summit, 7 p.m. 9/15 @ Keystone, 1 p.m. 9/19 @ Susquehanna, 7 p.m. 9/22 @ Stevenson, 4 p.m. 9/26 vs. U. of Scranton, 7 p.m. *9/29 vs. Delaware Valley, 1 p.m. 10/3 @ Lancaster Bible, 6 p.m. *10/6 vs. DeSales, 7 p.m. *10/9 @ King’s, 7 p.m. *10/13 @ Eastern, 3 p.m. *10/17 vs. Misericordia, 7 p.m. *10/20 vs. Manhattanville, 1 p.m. 10/24 @ Penn College, 7 p.m. *10/27 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home games @ Schmidt Stadium �The Beacon - Summer Issue 2018 Evolution of MLB analytics By Ben Mandell Co-Sports Editor America’s favorite pastime has gone through some changes. The rules are still the same, but the way the game is managed is no longer what it used to be. The change has been driven by analytics, which is information created by systematic analysis of data or statistics. Many Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises have analytic departments that determine who the team puts on the field, who manages the game, and what the best matchup is for each player based on their numbers. Sabermetrics is what the MLB primarily uses when referencing analytics and numbers. The game has now changed in many ways, such as managers focusing more on lefty batter vs. lefty pitcher matchups. These lefty v. lefty matchups have always been looked at, but mostly later in games when managers would use their bullpens. This movement has stemmed from numbers saying that left handed batters do not fare well against southpaws on the mound. Another big change has been with starting pitchers. Starters used to throw as many innings and pitches as they could if they were pitching well. Managers used to try and avoid using their bullpen, as the arms were not as reliable. Now, teams are built to have strong bullpens. Starters only throw five innings, opposed to seven, as the managers like to try and prevent any big mistakes. The number of innings starters throw is based on pitch count, which managers rarely let go over 100 to try and prevent an injury. The numbers throughout the league say that batters are more successful against a starter once they are seeing him for a third time, too. Not only has pitching changed, but so has the way games are managed. Some differences are how teams build their lineups, shift their defenses and use their bullpen. Lineups are now built based on whose numbers fit best. For example, the second spot in the lineup tends to get the most RBI opportunities in a game. Teams will set up their lineup so their best hitter hits second, which is contrary to the belief that the best hitter should hit third. Teams now look into where players hit the ball. This is mostly used against lefties, where teams will move players out of their routine positions to try and get specific players out. Almost all teams in baseball use the shift, and teams like the Astros will move all but one player to one side of the field against a hitter like Joey Gallo, who tends to pull the ball often. Sports Bullpen use has changed as well, as the format used to be the same for every team. Teams had a closer for the 9th inning, setup man for the 8th inning, a few guys that were able to pitch the 6th or 7th innings, a long arm that could come into the game early in case the starter struggled, and left handed specialists. Now, bullpens will be used in all sorts of ways. This season, teams have used their bullpens to actually start games, closers have been in potentially harder innings, and lefties have been used whenever the opposing team sends up a lefty. Brian Kenny, a highly touted analyst for MLB Network and ESPN is one of the main guys who has helped bring analytics into baseball. “It’s an advancement of knowledge in baseball,” Kenny said. “It helps teams win and it makes it easier to manage teams as they just follow the numbers.” Stats have always been a part of the game and they help everyone judge a player’s season. They help set a baseline for what is above and below average and players have gotten paid based off of that. The issue that people have with analytics and judging the game completely off of the numbers is that it takes away all of the intangibles. Arguments say that team chemistry, locker room presence, momentum and specific traits are taken out of the conversation when talking about analytics. Baseball is a streaky game with players getting hot and cold. All players go through a stretch where anything they hit finds a way to elude a glove, and stretches where it’s the other way around and people make plays. Analytics looks past that and says that following the numbers will prevent that. All in all, baseball is evolving and the evolution of America’s pastime is being fueled by analytics. The game is played much differently now than it was before and it will continue to change. The game will always evolve as teams find new ways to win and analytics are currently helping teams manage and find the best way to win games. Join the conversation on analytics: Follow @BenMandell55 on Twitter and share your thoughts. @wilkesbeacon Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu FOOTBALL, from page 10 for current Colonels, but Biever also touched on how the coaches always have to think about the future of the program and improving the recruiting process. Elder echoed Biever’s mindset, stating, “Recruiting is without a doubt that lifeblood of any football program, and we understand the importance of creating great relationships with recruits and coaches.” Following this mindset, the coaching staff has made recruiting one of their priorities. 11 things that are going to help us succeed.” Werner wasn’t the only player latching on to coach Drach’s new mentality and routine, as junior quarterback José Tabora Jr. expressed his enthusiasm about the changing dynamic as well. “The new coaching staff brings a more serious and winning attitude,” said Tabora Jr. “The whole culture is changing from our meetings to the weight room. Although it is hard to say much before we play, I think I’m right in saying that the whole program is itching to get back.” Although there are several changes being Wilkes Football/Kasey Biever Coach Tom Elder giving instruction during a rainy spring practice. They have expanded their search radius differently than in the past with the hopes of finding the best student-athletes around. By having open communication and a distinct set of goals, the coaching staff is changing the culture of the Wilkes football program. Adjustments to the practice schedule and workout regimen, highlighting face-toface interactions, placing an overwhelming emphasis on academics, getting new uniform additions, having new recruiting strategies, and wanting to mold the players into great young men are the changes that the coaches have clearly outlined to make the program successful. Not only are the coaches excited about these goals, but the players seem to be receptive to these new approaches as well. After being a part of a losing program in high school and here at Wilkes, defensive lineman and junior captain Vinne Werner notes how it’s all about learning from the losses and changing one’s state of mind. “I see the mindset changing vastly as this program moves forward with us already taking steps from where we were,” said Werner. “Coach Drach did a fantastic job of bringing coaches with him who have the same mindset and are passionate about the little implemented, both the coaches and the players seem to be anxious and optimistic about getting back on the field, which coach Drach notes is right around the corner. “Everybody comes in Aug. 10 and by Aug. 15, I think we’ll be in full pack,” said Drach. “Then that’s really going to show who’s going to impress and who’s not going to impress, which is one of the nice parts about having a brand new coaching staff because that’s what first impressions are all about.” With the season getting closer every day, coach Merritt leaves a lasting impression on how the culture of the football program is changing. “This is definitely a very exciting time for Wilkes football, and I know that we’re going in the right direction and that we’re on track to having a good season. It just takes time,” said coach Merritt. “But we’re taking care of a lot off the field and I believe the wins will take care of themselves.” With Colonel Football evolving, the excitement surrounding the season is only increasing as their first game against Hartwick College on Sept. 1 at 1 p.m. inches closer. @wilkesbeacon Kirsten.Peters@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - Summer Issue 2018 12 Fall 2018 Housing Calendar Move In Weekend Classes Begin Labor Day Fall Recess Thanksgiving Break Winter Recess NON-PROFIT ORG US POSTAGE PAID PERMIT #355 WILKES-BARRE , PA Date Move Out Move In Aug. 23-25 Various Times Aug. 27 Sept. 3 Halls remain open Oct. 11-14 Halls remain open Nov. 21-25 Nov. 21 @ 12 p.m. Nov. 25 @ 12 p.m. Dec. 20 24 hours after last *Whichever final exam OR comes first Dec. 20 @ noon* McNichol, Macciocco, Drach, Limouze hired as new head coaches By Ben Mandell & Kirsten Peters Co-Sports Editors Women’s Soccer - John McNichol After former head coach John Sumoski announced he was leaving Wilkes to take a head coaching position at Franklin and Marshall College, the Wilkes women’s soccer team has named John McNichol as his replacement, making him the program’s seventh head coach in 31 years. McNichol has had success as a head coach in the past; he spent his last four years at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. In three of his four seasons, McNichol took his team to their conference tournament. Prior to his time as a head coach, McNichol spent time as an assistant at King’s College. Considering McNichol is replacing the Lady Colonels’ winningest coach, he has some big shoes to fill. The program’s expectations are high as the team looks to build off of last season’s NCAA tournament appearance. Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 72, Issue 01 Women’s Basketball - Tara Macciocco After former head coach Chris Heery stepped down from the position he held for seven years, the Wilkes women’s basketball team named Tara Macciocco as his replacement, making her the program’s 14th head coach in 57 years. Macciocco finds herself right back where she started as she began her coaching career with the Lady Colonels in 2001. She comes to Wilkes following 14 seasons with Marywood University, where the Pacers appeared in 10 straight postseasons. In 201516 and 2016-17, Macciocco was named the Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) coach of the year, where her teams won 19 and 15 games, respectively. Macciocco comes to Wilkes looking to turn the program around and bring it back to the MAC Freedom playoffs. The Lady Colonels’ last appearance was in 1997. Football - Jonathan Drach After the departure of former head coach Trey Brown, the Wilkes football team named THE BEACON I TIBIIE IffiJEACC(Q)N Wilkes University - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. FREE Take one THE BEACON HIRES: WRITERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, EDITORS By Staff Writer n a passio e v a h u If yo gn or ng, desi us! i t i r w r fo in aphy, jo photogr This could be you! Contact: Managing Editor Nick Filipek Nicholas.Filipek@wilkes.edu THE BEACON since the program’s relaunch in the 20142015 season. Limouze spent this past season as the assistant coach at Sewanee: the University of the South, where the Tigers finished fifth at the Southern Athletic Association (SAA) Championships, broke five team records, and ranked in program all-time top 10. Prior to this past season, Limouze spent three seasons as the assistant coach at Swarthmore College, helping lead them to the Centennial Conference Championship in 2017 for the first time in program history. In 2015, he was honored with the Jean Freeman Scholarship for Outstanding Assistant Coaching. Limouze also founded Friends Select Swimming (FSS) at USA Swimming Club in Philadelphia and began his coaching career at Ursinus College in 2006. @wilkesbeacon Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu Kirsten.Peters@wilkes.edu Fall Sports Schedules Football 9/1 vs. Hartwick, 1 p.m. 9/8 @ Lebanon Valley, 1 p.m. *9/15 @ Delaware Valley, 1 p.m. *9/22 vs. Misericordia, 1 p.m. *9/29 @ Alvernia, 1 p.m. *x-10/6 vs. Albright, 1 p.m. *10/12 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *10/20 @ Stevenson, noon *10/27 vs. Lycoming, 1 p.m. *y-11/10 vs. King’s, noon *MAC x-Homecoming y-Mayor’s Cup Home games @ Schmidt Stadium (More schedules on page 10) Freshmen and all majors welcome! THE BEACON Jonathan Drach as his replacement, making him the program’s ninth head coach in 72 years. For the past 11 years, Drach has been immersed in the Hobart College football program, starting out as a quarterbacks coach in 2007 and adding offensive coordinator to his title in 2014. Drach’s credentials speak for themselves, as he coached the Liberty League Offensive Player of the Year in 2007, 2014, 2016 and 2017 and the ECAC Offensive Player of the Year in 2007 and 2016. Furthermore, he played a crucial role in leading the Hobart College Statesmen to six Liberty League Conference Championships, seven NCAA playoff appearances, and three consecutive undefeated regular seasons. Men’s & Women’s Swimming - Thomas Limouze After former head coach Mark Barnes stepped down after four seasons, the Wilkes men’s and women’s swimming program named Thomas Limouze as his replacement, making him the second coach Women’s Soccer 8/31 @ PSU-Berks, 7 p.m. 9/5 @ Ithaca, 5 p.m. 9/8 vs. Marywood, noon 9/12 @ William Paterson, 7 p.m. 9/15 @ Bard, 3:00 p.m. 9/19 vs. Susquehanna, 7 p.m. 9/22 @ Arcadia 9/25 @ U. of Scranton, 7 p.m. *9/29 vs. Delaware Valley, 3:30 p.m. 10/3 vs. Kean, 7 p.m. *10/6 vs. DeSales, 4:30 p.m. *10/10 @ King’s, 5 p.m. *10/13 @ Eastern, noon *10/16 vs. Misericordia, 7 p.m. *10/20 vs. Manhattanville, 3:30 p.m. 10/23 vs. Oneonta, 7 p.m. *10/26 @ FDU-Florham, 7 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home games @ Schmidt Stadium � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2018 Summer-Fall Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 Summer into Fall Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/d1758907d847c451ffdeb6bb292488cb.pdf 0a626aab22e204494e882e616c57bf5e PDF Text Text The Beacon - April 17, 2018 Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 71, Issue 19 IHIIE B BIEACC(O)N T~ HE EACON The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. Women and Gender Studies Conference features keynoter, Guerrilla Girl Donna Kaz Asst. News Editor The Beacon/Cabrini Rudnicki On April 9 and 10, Wilkes University and King’s College collaborated for a seventh year to host the annual Women and Gender Studies Conference, titled “The Art of Activism” at Wilkes University. The conference hosted Donna Kaz, also known as, Aphra Behn, as its keynote speaker. Kaz’s keynote address, titled “PUSH/ PUSHBACK: 9 Ways to Make a Difference with Art and Activism,” focused on her experiences as a former Guerrilla Girl, the process of becoming an activist, as well as shedding light on being a survivor of sexual and domestic abuse. Kaz, at first, focused on the lack of representation of women in the theater arts with a reading from her memoir published in 2016, “UN/MASKED: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour.” She talked about her efforts in 1997 of attempting to bring a women’s committee to the Dramatists Guild of America, which was denied. This denial, to Kaz, essentially symbolized the theater and art world’s discriminatory view of women and set the tone for the remainder of her talk. Kaz went on to discuss the history of the Guerrilla Girls and their efforts, successes, and failures when promoting and fighting to end gender discrimination in theater. The Guerrilla Girls were formed back in 1985 in New York City by seven female visual artists who focused on the lack of representation of women artists all over the country. They are a feminist activist group that draw attention to the lack of representation through posters, stickers and more. The Guerrilla girls are given the names of female artists who have passed away. Donna Kaz’s Guerrilla Girl alias, Aphra Behn, was a female British playwright, poet and spy who was the first woman to make a living from writing. “I thought she was sort of the perfect Guerrilla Girl,” said Kaz. The Guerrilla Girls wear rubber gorilla masks to draw attention away from themselves, thus shifting the focus on the sexism and discrimination that is happening within the arts. However, Kaz presented under her own name and was unmasked. “I decided to unmask to share with you my story and how the Guerrilla Girls effected change in the art world and in the performing art world and beyond with some of our tactics,” said Kaz. Before joining the Guerrilla Girls, Kaz had always had a background in theater, obtaining her bachelor’s degree in theater from SUNY Brockport, which inspired her focus on what she found to be the theater’s long-standing discrimination against women. Kaz also pointed out that no one was talking about sexism in theater. When she joined the Guerrilla Girls, Kaz’s theater background influenced the group to switch gears and focus on the discrimination in theater; from there the Guerrilla Girls took off to sticking stickers on the stalls in theaters, congregating at the TKTS booth in The 18th annual Tom Bigler Journalism Conference, page 4 Spring Dance Concert, page 7 - The Beacon/Maddie Davis Donna Kaz, also known as Aphra Behn, of the Guerilla Girls on Tour, shares her experiences as a former feminist activist with the Guerilla Girls since the 1990s. New York to conjure attention and support, and even protesting the Tony Awards, all with gorilla rubber masks, bananas, and facts about discrimination. Kaz changed gears and talked about the effect of being sexually assaulted by her professor as an undergraduate, being domestically abused by her actor boyfriend, and how it influenced her to become an activist. She said, at the rise of the Guerrilla Girls, The Beacon/Madison Kaminski By Maddie Davis Ready Player One Review, page 16 there were no other activist groups fighting for the same equal rights and treatment of women; there was no push by the theater to accept what the Guerrilla Girls were advocating for, but today there are many groups like the Guerrilla Girls that are dealing with discrimination in the theater. SEE CONFERENCE, Page 3 ? Check out the Beacon Athletes of the Year, pages 22-23 �News News The Beacon - April 17, 2018 Beacon Briefs Compiled by Maddie Davis Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Lecture Postponed Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Max Rosenn in Law and Humanities Lecture featuring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will be postponed until next semester. The original lecture was scheduled for April 29, and has since been moved to Sunday, Sept. 30, at 2 p.m. in the McHale Athletic Center. Registration is free and required to attend the event, and will reopen at on June 1. For any further questions or information about the lecture please contact Rebecca Van Jura, over the phone at 570-408-4306 or through email at rebecca.vanjura@wilkes.edu. Volunteers wanted, Adventures in Science This year’s Adventures in Science, themed “Science from a Submarine” is seeking volunteers. The event will take place April 27, with set-up starting at 7:30 a.m. The event will run until 3 p.m. Around 250 fifth-grade students are expected to attend. Volunteers are needed for positions such as lab assistants, group leaders, set-up and clean-up assistants. Any volunteer hours are appreciated. Volunteers will receive a T-shirt and refreshments. Please contact ashley.wojciechowski@ wilkes.edu or erica.mabry@wilkes.edu for the online sign up sheet or any questions. 2 News Have a breaking story or a press release to send? Contact the news editor: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu Blood drive to be held The Passan School of Nursing will be holding a blood drive on April 23. The event will take place from 7:30 a.m to 1:30 p.m in the ballroom of the Henry Student Center. A table will in the SUB for donors to sign up during club hours. T-shirts will be given to the first 60 people to attend the blood drive. Walk-ins are welcome. Contact Kaitlyn or Alicia at passanblooddrive2018@gmail.com for any questions or to schedule a time. Biology Department Grace Kimball Memorial Lecture Wilkes University’s Biology Department will be holding their Grace Kimball Memorial lecture titled “Of Fire, Floods and Penguins: Earth Observations and Their Use in Public Policy,” by Dr. Ann Bartuska, ’75. Bartuska is the vice president for Land, Water and Nature at Resources for the Future Washington D.C. The lecture will be given at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, in Stark Learning Center room 101. Colonel Mascot applications now available Until April 20, 2018, the Office of Student Development will be accepting student applications for opens sports for the Colonel Mascot. Those interested can visit the link on the Wilkes Today email, fill out the application and paperwork, then bring the packet to Office 103B on the first floor of the Henry Student Center. For further questions or concerns please email Melissa Howells, the Director of Student Development, at melissa.howells@wilkes.edu. table of contents news................2 life, a&e...........7 Wilkes University Student Government notes By Megan Stanley Staff Writer Wilkes University Student Government held its weekly meeting last Wednesday. The meeting began 30 minutes later than usual because the Student Government members joined Kings College on a march to the Victim’s Resource Center to raise awareness of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. President Leahy joined the meeting to deliver a presentation about campus improvements and enhancements. The eight-year project that was started in 2012 with the construction of the Cohen Science building will hopefully be completed with the improvements that will be made to the Ralston Athletics Complex. The upcoming projects were discussed. The Engineering Innovation Center will be opened in the fall, and the Stark courtyard will be renovated. There will be improvements made to the SUB parking lot and a new south gateway installed. The Sports Management Club report was next on the agenda. The club have 10 active members and are planning to be involved in the Big Event. The group have held a t-shirt fundraiser and have attended networking events in Madison Square Garden in New York and the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey. The robotics club request for reactivation was next. The robotics club aims to provide students with an organization that will allow them to participate in designing and completing robotic projects. Reactivation of the club will mean that Wilkes will become the only college campus with a robotics club in the area. The group will go into schools in the local area and are volunteering for The Big Event. They hope to host a STEM night in which students can present projects to visitors from local companies. Next week the government will decide whether to reactivate the club or not. The next item of business was the club recognition request from the Caribbean Student Association (CSA). The club will promote more diversity on campus and provide a platform for expression of heritage and lineage. Event ideas that the club will host include a taste of the caribbean, carnival fever, flag fete, stoplight social, and Caribbean dance classes. The group currently have 60 signatures on their petition. Next week, CSA will return to student government who will decide whether or not to recognise CSA as a club. The Alaska Public Health Outreach fund request was discussed next. For two weeks in the summer, two pharmacy students are travelling to Alaska to help out with public health outreach. The students are collaborating with the Bristol Bay Health Corporation and will visit Anchorage, Naknek, and Kings Salmon. They will be assisting in blood pressure checks, cardiovascular checks, and immunizations. The group are requesting $4532 and they will return next week when Student Government will decide what amount to allocate to the Alaska Public Health Outreach. The IT Committee met this week and reported that the library will be shut for over a month in the summer. All library staff will be relocated and a carrier program will be initiated for students to still access books. A new program for online learning has been purchased. The student and guest WiFi networks will disappear over the summer and only the colonel network will remain. The operations committee also met and reported that the greenway entrances will be closed from May 21, all buildings will be accessible from the external extrances. The south entrance to the SUB will also be closed during the summer. @wilkesbeacon megan.stanley@wilkes.edu spread............12 opinion..........14 sports............19 �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 CONFERENCE, Continued from front page “I am really happy to say that our start in focusing on sexism in the theater world had this impact,” she said. “I really feel lucky that I have been a Guerrilla Girl and remain a Guerrilla Girl.” Kaz urged the audience to support all women artists and artists of color to show directors that the change is supported. Toward the end of her talk, Kaz gave all current and future activists nine steps to make change with activism and art. The steps were: working together in small groups; gathering evidence, like statistics, and utilizing them; thinking like an expert; “don’t forget to use humor;” “queer it up;” go beyond gender norms and be diverse; ambush the opposition; learn how to play defense; practice self-care and embrace fellow activists; and be positive. Kaz urged we will win following these steps. “I charge you now to all become Guerrilla Girls. I want you to go out there and mess things up,” said Kaz. Amy Kulp, sophomore math and secondary education double major, enjoyed Kaz’s keynote address with friends. “I am hoping more people will realize what feminism is and what it is not,” said Kulp. “A lot of people confuse feminism with ‘girls are News better,’ so I am hoping that they take away that it is equal.” Dr. Mia Briceño, assistant professor of communication studies, also attended the keynote address by Kaz. “We had a wonderful turnout tonight,” said Briceño. “She was such an engaging speaker and I think it was enjoyable no matter what your perspective is. “I loved that she sort of used her story to tell the audience about how to do activism,” added Briceño. Briceño is also a part of the Women and Gender Studies faculty committee, and teaches two gender-focused classes: Introduction to Women and Gender Studies and Gender and Communication. “It’s very important to me,” said Briceño. “It’s something I always touch on in my teaching in general.” The title of the conference, “The Art of Activism,” was inspired by the recent efforts to use art to draw attention to the ongoing social issues faced in today’s society; including the Women’s March and March for Our Lives. During the two days, the conference held panels, presentations, and films that focused on topics relating to gender, social justices, and more. Presenters included students and faculty of Wilkes University and King’s College, but also students from Marywood University and the University of Pennsylvania. “There was really something for everyone,” said Dr. Jennifer Thomas. Dr. Jennifer Thomas, associate professor in the psychology department and director of women and gender studies at Wilkes University, was pleased with the outcome of the two-day conference. “I thought it went really well,” said Thomas. The conference also included a poster making workshop with Donna Kaz sponsored by the Sordoni Art Gallery. The poster-making session incorporated the two main subjects for the conference: art and activism. Students and faculty from King’s and Wilkes participated in the workshop and worked together to make their own activist posters, shedding light on issues they feel strongly about or even faced themselves. “The poster session was so inspiring,” said Thomas. “It was very hopeful meeting other people that felt similarly to you. [Kaz] gave us really great ideas of how we can take a message and use guerrilla tactics on campus to effect change.” Heather Sincavage, Sordoni Art Gallery Director and assistant professor at Wilkes University, also performed two art pieces at the conference. Sincavage performed an art piece to honor women who have died as a result of domestic violence in Pennsylvania. This one performance is just a piece of a larger 3 project, where she visits every county in the state to honor each life lost to domestic violence. Sincavage marks each breath made against the glass an hour per victim. At the conference she honored the two lives lost in Luzerne County in 2016. She also performed an art piece where she dragged her own body weight of manure across the Wilkes campus to represent the burden of trauma on a person. “I think our theme was really fun and spoke to college students because all of us can be activists in our own way,” said Thomas. “There are so many ways to be an artist and to have your message heard.” The women’s and gender studies minor is open to all Wilkes University students and focuses on gender, sexuality, and rights. The minor requires 5 WGS courses, which include classes in anthropology, english, communications, and more. Students pursuing the minor are also required to take WGS 301: Introduction to Women and Gender Studies. A complete list of Fall 2018 WGS classes are listed on the women and gender studies website. For any further questions regarding the minor, contact the program director Dr. Jennifer Thomas at jennifer.thomas@wilkes. edu. @wilkesbeacon madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu Director of UNIC holds lecture as part of United Nations Lecture Series By Cabrini Rudnicki News Editor On April 12, the last of the 2018 United Nations Lecture series was held. Robert Skinner, the director of the United Nations Information Centre in Washington DC, spoke in a lecture titled “The United Nations in a Time of Transition: Its Role and Challenges.” Skinner used his lecture as an opportunity to talk about the relationship between the UN and the United States. “There is a perception that the UN works against American interests,” explained Skinner. “This is absolutely and fundamentally not true. If you ask any staff member of the UN, ‘what would happen if the U.S. left the UN?’ they’d agreed it’d be a disaster.” “Everyone recognizes that while there are rising countries that challenge the United States in some areas,” continued Skinner, “the U.S. remains the sole superpower. This may change over time, but between military, economic, and historically diplomatic power, the U.S. is the leader.” Skinner continued to talk about the UN charter’s preamble, which shares the similarity of United States documents with the phrase, “we the peoples.” Skinner went through the main elements of the charter’s preamble. “Saving generations from scourge of war, reaffirming the fundamental need of human rights, and social development are the three legs of the stool that the UN stands on.” He also gave description of what his dayto-day work life was like, which includes acting as hosts for foreign ambassadors, as well as gaining connections with different people in the UN system. Finally, Skinner spoke about the security council, a mega-council which contains 15 members, five of which are permanent, and include China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The council works as the principal decider in changes to the UN charter. “One of the things that is talked about a lot, but a lot is never done about it is, should we change the rules of the security council?” Skinner explained. “It’s 73 years after [the creation of the United Nations], and it’s a fundamentally different place.” Skinner has been the director of the United Nation’s information office since 2015. Prior to this, he was the executive director for the New York Office Operations and UN Relations at the United Nations Foundations where he oversaw partner relations and led communication programs. Dr. Andreea Maierean, an assistant political science professor, introduced the The Beacon/Cabrini Rudnicki Robert Skinner is the director of the United Nations Information Centre in D.C speaker to the audience. Maierean also thanked different members of faculty and staff for their involvement with the lecture series throughout the year. Psychology sophomore student Amanda Imbalzano explained her reasoning for attending the event. “I’m in one of Dr. Maierean’s classes, and we’ve been learning a lot about the United Nations,” she said. “When the speakers come, I think it’s really interesting to hear from their perspective versus the classroom perspective.” Neishmy Rodriguez, a junior international studies student, also described her feelings on the lecture. “I thought it was really helpful for me as an international studies student,” said Rodriguez. “It’s important because I myself want to work for the United Nations, it’s important for me to gain these contacts and connections.” The lecture series has been held every year since the 2011-2012 school year. It is presented in partnership with the Humpty Dumpty Institute’s Higher Education Alliance for the United Nations. Wilkes University is the only Northeastern Pennsylvania school participating in the program. @wilkesbeacon cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 News 4 Communication Studies’ 2018 Bigler Journalism Conference Area high school students visit to learn from local journalism professionals By Cabrini Rudnicki News Editor On April 13, the 2018 Tom Bigler Journalism Conference was held on Wilkes campus. This year’s theme was ‘What IS the news that’s fit to print… or post… or broadcast?’ The conference, which is run by the Communication Studies Department, celebrates journalism activities in high schools across the area. Over 250 students attended. The conference consisted of the Tom Bigler Journalism Competition, which invited high school students to submit writing, photography, design, layout and production pieces for review and awards. The conference also featured a number of speakers and workshops, including the keynote speaker, Kenneth P. Vogel. Kenneth P. Vogel is a reporter for the New York Times Washington Bureau, as well as an author. Vogel previously worked as the chief investigative reporter for Politico. Vogel also has previous experience working for several local newspapers, including Wilkes-Barre’s The Times Leader, covering state and local politics from the newspaper’s Harrisburg bureau. Vogel used his time as the keynote speaker to talk about his experiences working as a journalist, the complexity of choosing stories worthy of publishing, as well as the current state of journalism itself. “Anyone with a twitter account can break a story, as in to publish a story,” said Vogel. “In sexual harassment cases against members of congress, a number of the confidentiality agreements were actually revealed by people who are not traditionally journalists. People who just had a twitter account, and had sources. “However, the people with a big twitter following are able to challenge us, and break our story by undermining us. They begin a line of scrutiny that is in some ways disingenuous. The ability of anyone with a twitter account or a facebook account to be a journalist, it’s not always positive.” The idea of “fake news” was also a common theme among presenters. “There are ways for people with an agenda, with a twitter following, with even a manufactured twitter following from Russian efforts to interfere. The Russians have spent a lot of money and time setting up this networks of bots that are fake twitter accounts to spread these fake stories. “As far as market pressures, there aren’t just competition of all these outlets,” continued Vogel. “There is also competition of ad revenue.” Vogel continued by speaking on the competition of traditional and web-based media, and how advertisers have begun to favor the internet. Along with a speech done by Vogel, the students also had a chance to attend speaker sessions and workshops. One of the speakers, Andy Mehalshick, spoke about his journey to journalism. Mehalshick has been with WBRE since 1985, currently working as the lead member of the Eyewitness News I-Team. Mehalshick is a Wilkes University alumnus. “I really make it my mission as a journalist to not just report the bad things, the ugly stuff, but also the good things that are happening in our area,” said Mehalshick. “I really try to cover things that aren’t getting the coverage they deserve.” Another speaker, Borys Krawczeniuk, a politics and transportation reporter for the Scranton Times-Tribune, used his time with the students to discuss facts and opinions. “The first thing you learn as a news reporter is that your opinion doesn’t matter,” explained Krawczeniuk. “Your opinion will come out as you are writing a news story, but your opinion is supposed to stay out of it. “The real point of this job is trying to find out what the truth is,” continued Krawczeniuk.“But that can make people really mad. Sometimes people have a different version of the truth, or they come away from your writing angry at you.” Students also participated in a number of workshops to test out their media skills. These included workshops based around television, radio, newswriting, PR, and college life. Many students affiliated with the Communication Studies Department assisted with the conference. Logan Rock, a digital design and media art major, spoke about his experience with the conference. “It was a nice experience to meet new people,” said Rock. “I actually had a lot of fun working it.” Tom Bigler, the namesake of the conference, was a professor of communication studies at Wilkes University after an illustrious career of working for multiple radio stations, television stations, and a newspaper. Bigler passed away in 2007, but the conference serves as a memorial to his legacy. Editor’s note: Many members of the Beacon staff contributed to the Bigler Conference. Dr. Kalen Churcher, adviser of the Beacon, organized the conference. @wilkesbeacon cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu The Beacon / Cabrini Rudnicki Kenneth P. Vogel was the keynote speaker at the event. He is pictured above delivering his speech, which was held in the McHale Athletic Center. The Beacon / Cabrini Rudnicki “I try to do stories that impact people, but are also off the radar,” said Andy Mehalshick, a WBRE investigative reporter who held a panel. �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 News Students react to new campus development updates By Megan Stanley Staff Writer Over the next few years the Wilkes University campus will be experiencing several developments. President Leahy attended this week’s Student Government Meeting to present and discuss the up-and-coming campus changes. Over the course of eight years, the $100 million project will see several buildings and areas across campus being enhanced and developed. The project began with the construction of the Cohen Science Center in 2012 and will be completed with the enhancement to the Ralston Athletics Complex. “We want to make sure every piece of campus is being touched,” President Leahy said to Student Government. Currently, the enhancement project has created the Cohen Science Center, the Sidhu School of Business in UCOM, an increase in campus dining options, the Karambelas East Campus Gateway and the Karambelas Media and Communication Centre. The Farley Library renovations and residence hall renovations are also part of the enhancement project. It was acknowledged by Leahy that more work needs to be completed in the library and residence halls. The enhancement project is set to be completed by 2020. Leahy discussed the future projects to be completed. The Engineering Innovation Center, which will be located in the east side of the Stark Learning Center, will be the first project to be completed, and is set to be opened in the first week of the fall semester. “We have to keep renovating it,” Leahy said regarding the fact that when Stark was build in 1957 it was one of the most state of the art buildings on campus. The courtyard in Stark will also be renovated over the summer. There will be a lawn area, a concrete patio and mounted plants. “We live in an urban area. We can’t afford to waste space,” Leahy said in regard to the courtyard being one of the least-used areas on campus. Another enhancement is in the form of the campus gateway project. There will be a gateway created on the south side of campus, opposite and behind the Henry Student Center. The grass and pavements in the greenway will be redesigned with a sidewalk leading from south street, past Kirby and connecting into the side of Stark. The east gateway sidewalk will also be extended so that it connects to the Engineering Innovation Center. The Beacon / Cabrini Rudnicki This brown building, which is located at 182 S. Franklin St., adjacent to Weckesser Hall, was recently purchased by Wilkes. The university is still unsure what will be done with the property. This means that over the summer, the George Fenner Quadrangle, also known as the greenway, will be closed. Buildings will still be accessible from their external entrances during the closure. Access to the parking lot behind the Henry Student Center will also be relocated and the current entrance will be made into a pedestrian sidewalk. There will also be an increase in the number of spaces in the parking lot. Other renovations to Stark include the creation of the "Pharmacy Collaboration Corridor." The archways on the ground floor and seperate doors will become one long corridor with extra classroom space. The space will be predominantly pharmacy, however other subjects will have access to the classrooms. The neighborhood enhancement project will also continue as the sidewalks are improved all around campus. Enhancement to the Ralston Athletics Complex will be the final element of the project. There will be installation of safe pedestrian walkways, replacing the shared road and sidewalk. Astroturf will be installed and new gateways will be placed near the complex. During his talk, Leahy emphasised how all of these projects are either state or alumni 5 funded. However, some students aren’t impressed with the cost of the enhancements. “It’s kind of absurd, it’s money that could be going to something else—there are so many different things,” Dan Nguyen, a sophomore science major siad. Justin Burda, a freshman mechanical and electrical engineering major, brought up the fact that he’s struggling to find an adviser that will help him develop more energy saving projects for the campus. “Yes they’re doing redevelopment but what are they doing to feed back to the university? If they want to focus on engineering they need to find away to turn [the efficiency] around,” Burda said. The university has recently purchased property at 182 S. Franklin St., which is located opposite Weckesser Hall. “Given the building’s proximity to campus … it was prudent of the University to purchase the property when the opportunity arose,” said Director of Communications, Gabrielle M. D’Amico in a statement regarding the recent purchase. “There is no perfect clarification on its use yet, but it’s safe to say Wilkes will make a significant investment in the property and preserve its place on campus and in downtown Wilkes-Barre,” D’Amico added. The Beacon Archives/ Toni Pennello The Karambelas Media and Communication Center opened in the fall of 2017. The center is part of the campus-wide enhancement project. The center holds the communication studies major's activitie,s including a broadcasting studio and a fully equiped radio station. �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 News Profile of a new professor: Ms. Alisha S. Pitchford, chemistry By Maddie Davis Asst. News Editor Ms. Alisha S. Pitchford is one of Wilkes University’s newest faculty members for the 2017-2018 academic year. Pitchford has joined as a part of the chemistry department. Pitchford is originally from Las Vegas, and permanently moved to Northeastern Pennsylvania in 2010 after living in places like Seattle, Florida, and Mississippi. “I’ve lived all over the place, but I like it here,” said Pitchford. “I think it is a good environment.” Pitchford herself was a non-traditional student when she obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biotechnology from Marywood University in Scranton. Before obtaining her degrees, Pitchford was a stay at home mom. She was first exposed to teaching when she was a graduate student at Marywood University. After graduating, she continued to teach at Marywood University and Johnson College. Since being introduced into the world of academia, Pitchford has taught numerous biology, chemistry, algebra and laboratory classes. “I am here for the students because that is what I care about,” she said. Pitchford decided to pursue a career in academia rather than in biotechnology because she likes being able to help students. Being one of the few older, non-traditional students at Marywood University, Pitchford was looked up to by fellow students for help in classes. From that point on, Pitchford has been gladly helping students in anyway she can; simply because she enjoyed helping people get to where they wanted to go. Pitchford had originally planned on entering an aerospace engineering major, and even tried graphic design, before she was derailed by events that had come up in her life, later leaving her to take a break from college. Once her children got older, Pitchford enrolled back into college and obtained both of her degrees in biotechnology in 7 years. “Science has just always been in my roots,” said Pitchford on how she became involved in biotechnology and chemistry. Although some of her classes are relatively larger, Pitchford enjoys the small campus feel that Wilkes offers and finds it important to always be available to her students. Pitchford always has her door open for the students to come in, grab candy and chat. “As a student you need support; whether it be from your professor, or whether it be from your family, or your friends, but it is better if you have all three of them,” she said. “[At Wilkes] we try to do our best for the 6 The Beacon/Steffen Horwath Pitchford students,” said Pitchford. don’t make policies; government officials Pitchford teaches many different and people in private sectors do. chemistry classes for science and non-science “Even if you are not a science major majors. Within her first year, she has taught you need to know about science,” urged “Chemistry and Modern Society,” “General Pitchford. Chemistry I,” and “Fundamentals of Modern Although she has only been here for Chemistry,” on top of organic chemistry labs. almost a year, Pitchford feels welcomed by Pitchford enjoys the opportunity to teach the community. chemistry to non-science majors because “I love the [Wilkes] community,” said of the importance of science in the world. Pitchford. “They just all want to help each She went on to talk about how we need the other.” professions that these non-science majors are @wilkesbeacon in to laern about science, because scientists madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu Wilkes Air Force ROTC visits Arlington National Cemetery By Megan Stanley News Writer The Wilkes University Air Force ROTC Detachment 752 recently visited the Women’s Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C. for Women’s History Month. The Women in Military Service for America Memorial is the only national memorial honoring women who have served for the United States Armed Forces throughout history. “It was definitely inspirational to see all the women before us… within the last hundred, even two hundred years and to see what life was like for women in the military,” said Lindsay Becker, a freshman criminology major who joined ROTC in the fall. “It kind of made us realize that we might take our uniform for granted because we didn’t realize what women had to go through for us to be able to put [our uniforms] on,” said Maura Clarke, a sophomore international relations student who has been a part of the ROTC since her first semester. “It was just interesting to find out a little more about the average service members in the army or the U.S. Marines. Just to learn about the impact that women have had in the U.S. military, especially over the last century or so,” Joshua Eckman added. A freshman business major, Eckman joined ROTC this spring. The artwork at the memorial was praised by Becker. “It was very powerful just seeing it as a drawing and seeing that someone would take the time and go out of their way to draw that. “There was one in particular with a female who was an amputee and it was all a pencil drawing and her prosthetic was coloured in red and blue, so that was very powerful,” Becker said. The memorial also tracked the historical progress of women in the military throughout the years. “You go from a time when [women] have no involvement in the military... to a time where they start fulfilling roles like nurses at a hospital but progressively do more and more. The military has to evolve with the rest society. I feel like that’s a given,” Eckman said. “It definitely put into perspective how much has we’ve gained in the armed forces over time,” Becker added. Clarke also added that the uniforms from across the years on display were a highlight. Detachment 752 spent nearly four days in Washington and stayed in Andrews Airforce Base. The group got a tour of the facilities available those on active duty and attended Courtesy of Wilkes Marketing The ROTC students posing in front of The Women in Military Service for America Memorial. a panel. Atmospheric Administration. “That was interesting because when we’re “Everything in there is pretty classified going in we’re going to be Second Lieutenant’s so it was pretty cool to go in there and hear so hearing their perspectives on what life is what life might be like if you want to go work like when you go into active duty or your first in space as a space officer in the Air Force,” base assignment. It was definitely helpful to Clarke said regarding the tour. hear their advice and ask them how much They visited a lot of memorials on the trip, of what we’re learning in ROTC is going to not only the The Women in Military Service translate, and even just learning about their for America Memorial. career fields was interesting as well,” Clarke “The memorials put into perspective why said. we’re doing this,” Becker said. In Washington, they also toured the @wilkesbeacon Pentagon and the National Oceanic and megan.stanley@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 7 Life, Arts & Entertainment Have a story or want your event to be featured? Contact the Life, A&E Editor: amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu & 5, 6, 7, 8.... It's time for the annual Spring Dance Concert By Shannon O’Connor Asst. LAE Editor Get your feet tapping and your hands clapping because it’s that time of year. Wilkes University presents the annual Spring Dance Concert at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center. The Spring Dance Concert is an event comprised of both faculty and studentchoreographed dances. Faculty pieces have been created, by the professors, over the last semester. Including deciding on a song, choreographing the number, picking costumes and adding together all the last and final touches to the piece. Students in the dance composition class follow a similar process to the faculty when it comes to creating their works of art. Each student involved in the class must design and choreograph a number to be displayed at the concert. This is a requirement for any and all students working to complete a dance minor. Students have the opportunity to showcase all of the techniques and choreography they have learned throughout the semester and perform for an audience. “It has a little bit of all styles of dance that Wilkes offers and it gives the students a fun opportunity to show fellow students what they have learned,” said Justine Seymour, pharmacy major and dance minor. The performances at the concert will range from ballet, tap, jazz and modern. This adds an uniqueness to the show, because no dance will ever be the same. “The the best thing to look forward to is the diversity of the dances. There will be many different styles all in one event,” said Sean Ramsey, an entrepreneurship major here at Wilkes. Each performer at the concert varies in their level of experience. Some students have been dancing for over 10 to 15 years, while others are taking their very first dance class here at Wilkes. Not only does this add to the complexity of the dance routines but it also provides learning experiences for the students who are just starting out as well as the seasoned students. “I have been dancing since I was four years old and I’ve had a love for dance since the day I started. I love dancing with others who have never danced before and watching them gain a love for dance they’ve never had before,” said Rachel Lazevnick, pharmacy major. Many of the students involved in the dance program see the arts as a way to destress and let their mind flow to something other than school and assignments. “I am a dance minor and this is what I enjoy doing in my free time. I audit classes as a way to relax and get away from studying. I have always enjoyed dancing in my free time,” said Seymour. The Spring Dance Concert will be held April 21 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center. No need to buy tickets, because the event is completely free. “Everyone has worked so hard on every dance that is in the concert. There are many different styles for you to see which makes the show even more exciting. You never know what is coming next,” Lazevnick said. “Not only is it fun performing but it is so much fun watching everyone on the stage. There is great music and great dances that everyone is sure to love.” @wilkesbeacon shannon.oconnor@wilkes.edu Graphic by Todd Espenshade The Beacon/ Madison Kaminski Students have been working all semester to display the talents they have learned and share their experinces with the audience . Students and faculty work to put the last finishing touches on their routines as everything comes together for their Spring Dance Concert. �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 8 Life, Arts & Entertainment Recipe of the Week: INSTRUCTIONS: INGREDIENT~: • 1 package frozen popcorn shrimp (about 18 ounces) • 1/4 cup Thai chili sauce • 2 tablespoons mayonnaise • 1 1/2 tablespoons honey • 1 tablespoon sriracha 1. Cook the shrimp according to the package instructions. 2. Combine the Thai chili sauce, mayonnaise, honey, and sriracha in a bowl and whisk together. 3. Toss the cooked shrimp in the mayo mixture . 4. EnJoy. . .. "' Recipe by Food Network Januzzis Pizza & Subs Next to Movies 14 • For Delivery- Call 825-5166 • Wilkes -Barre. Kingston. Plains. Plymouth. Nanticoke $13.95 + tax large 16” 1-topping pizza & 2-liter soda $17.95 + tax $7.95 + tax each for 5 or more large plain pies $11.95 + tax $16.95 + tax 3 hot & cold subs mix &match $23.95 + tax 12- cut Sicilian pizza 12 -cut Sicilian pizza 2 tickets to Movies 14, 1 med- 1 topping & 1 order of wings pizza & 2 drinks $20.95 + tax large 16” pizza & 12 cut tray siclian pizza $12.95 + tax small 12” 1-topping pizza & choice of any sub $17.95 + tax 2 large plain pizzas toppings extra $18.95 + tax large 16” pizza, 1 sub, & an appetizer $20.95 + tax 24- cut Sicilian pizza $28.95 + tax 3 large 1- topping pizzas �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 By Jackie Kurovsky Staff Writer On April 28, the campus will join as an army of Colonels with the goal of giving back to the area. This annual endeavor named “The Big Event” allows Colonels to join in a campus-wide day of community service. Students who sign up for The Big Event will have the opportunity to volunteer at one of 30 sites around the Wilkes-Barre area and do everything from painting, cleaning and gardening to household repairs. “Service is something that our university prides itself on, and The Big Event allows hundreds of students to be a part of that,” said Student Government president Cody Morcom. This year’s Big Event was coordinated by Wilkes student Harrison Eckert. “It is so rewarding to be able to be in charge of something that gives joy to so many and supports the community in which we are a part of,” Eckert said. “It is no Life, Arts & Entertainment secret that Wilkes-Barre has areas that are underprivileged, and being able to positively contribute to these parts of our community are extra gratifying.” Past work sites at which students have helped those in need include Ruth’s Place, CEO Foodbank and Big Brothers Big Sisters. About 400 students typically sign up to donate their time at any work site. Katelyn Jimison served as student coordinator for two years before Eckert took on the role. She said putting this event together was one of her favorite experiences at Wilkes. “It was an amazing experience to see hundreds of students go out into the community and give back as a way of thanking them for the support they give our campus throughout the year,” she said. Clubs and organizations around campus have the opportunity to sign up as a group and do community service together. “Not only does this suffice for required community service hours you may have through various organizations you are a part of,” Eckert said, “[but] participating in an event like this will give you such a feeling of satisfaction and joy. You will look back on this experience and be so thankful that you did it.” Jimison added that her experience as coordinator was paid off by knowing the students enjoyed what they were doing. “I loved seeing the students come back and discussing their experiences, and hearing them talk about how rewarding the experience had been,” she said. “It was a lot of work, but in the end it was always worth it.” Overall, The Big Event’s motive of uniting the Wilkes campus as a family of Colonels is clear. “This event brings together students, faculty and staff from nearly every department and section of campus,” said Morcom. “Football players have worked with chorus members, soccer with biology club and so much more.” After The Big Event will be “The Little 9 Graphic by Todd Espenshade Event” held on the Fenner Quadrangle to give those who volunteered a chance to relax and reflect on their service to the community. “The Big Event is really important to our campus because it brings clubs, departments and athletic teams together to have a great impact on our local community in just one day,” Jimison said. “Beginning at orientation and continuing throughout every year, it is apparent that service is very important to our campus culture at Wilkes.” The Big Event will take place from approximately 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Students can sign up on the student government website wilkes.presence.io. For more information, email bigevent@ wilkes.edu or call 610-349-0594. @wilkesbeacon jacqueline.kurovsky@wilkes.edu Interested in writing for the ~ & ENTERTAINMENT Section? Why not try all three? Contact LA&E editor Amanda Bialek at amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu. �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment CRAFTING WlTH 10 SHA DIY TIDETIE - DYJE DYE SHIRT DN §HIB.'f Supplies needed: •White T-Shirt •Colored Ink in Plastic Bottles •Gloves •Rubber Bands • Cardboard Instructions: 1. Fold and tie your white shirt into whatever pattern you want. 2. Add water to your plastic bottles with ink and shake. 3. After putting down your cardboard and putting on your gloves, place your ink onto your shirt. 4. Wait for your dye to dry overnight. 5. Wash and dry as normal. 6. Rock your new awesome shirt. Graphic by Logan Rock �The Beacon - April 17, 2017 Life, Arts & Entertainment MSC Talent Show 2018 Michael Callagy (left) and Jared Rasmussen (right) performed Vance Joy’s “Riptide.” Kabita Kandel entertained the audience with her traditional Indian dancing. 1st Caleb Lewis sang “Say You Won’t Let Go” by James Arthur. The Beacon/Sean Connelly Jasleen Kaur performed a traditional Indian dance with a rendition of hip-hop. 11 �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 Opinion 12 Seniors from The Beacon staff reflect on their time at Wilkes Graphics designed by Todd Espenshade Photos by Sean Connelly Toni Penello, Editor-in-Chief “I was the most ‘freshman’ freshman you’ve ever seen. I wore my lanyard around my neck for no good reason. I went home every weekend. During the school week, I would lie awake for hours missing home. I did not want to be involved in anything, or talk to anyone. I showed up to class 20 minutes early, just in case. My first day of classes, I didn’t know where anything was. Looking for Kirby Hall, I found myself near the intersection of South River Street and Academy Street. In a panic, with only 25 minutes left until the start of my next class, I asked someone coming out of their off-campus apartment if they could point me in the right direction. I’ve seldom been so embarrassed as when I found out Kirby’s proximity to the SUB (and just about everything else on campus). After a few weeks of homesickness, anxiety and finding myself hopelessly lost somewhere in Wilkes-Barre, I started to find myself here, and I didn’t look back. If my freshman self met me today, she would not recognize me. If you told her that she would study journalism, head two campus organizations, and land a job in the field before she graduated, she would have laughed in your face. But here I am. Not only will I never forget my experience at Wilkes, I will be eternally grateful for my time here and what it has helped me accomplish, both personally and professionally.” “Looking back on the past four years, I never expected to do so much. With an interest in television production, I imagined that I would join the T.V. club, and then work as a reporter in the field. However, I joined The Beacon at the same time as Wilkes Now, which was the very beginning. After reporting on a variety of different Wilkes sports, I became the Managing Editor and the Producer of Wilkes Now. These two clubs helped develop my writing and verbal skills. Once I built that foundation, I joined Zebra Communications and started studying public relations as well. I will be graduating soon as a communication studies major with concentrations in media production, multimedia journalism and strategic communications. On top of that, I was the fall intern for the sports department at the Times Leader. With my unique background, I am excited to see all of the different career paths that I could potentially take. One last note: I would like the thank the Clayton and Theresa Karambelas for donating the new Media Center. Students have become twice as invested, and that is reflected in all of the co-curriculars.” Submitted photo Danny Van Brunt, Managing Editor �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 Opinion 13 “From the moment I stepped foot on campus for my recruiting visit, I knew Wilkes was the place for me. Four years later, that could not be more true. Through Wilkes, I was able to gain the tools necessary to be successful in my concentration, as well as being able to play on the basketball team. And most importantly, it was less than two hours away from home, which allowed my family to visit me often, which I am thankful for. My family is my world and the fact I can make them proud by being the second member of my family to finish college means so much to me. I am thankful for all the lessons I learned, as well as all the friendships I was able to make during my collegiate career. Now I look forward to entering the real world and seeing what life has to offer.” Submitted photo Jacqueline Kurvosky, Staff Writer Andre Spruell, Opinion Editor Amanda Bialek, Life, Arts & Entertainment Editor “It has been a privilege and blessing to pursue my undergraduate degree at Wilkes University. I had so many incredible experiences during the past few years. Wilkes has provided me with experiential learning opportunities that have helped me grow both personally and professionally. Through my involvement with The Beacon, Wilkes Now and Kirby Scholar Program, I have acquired valuable skills and made friendships that will last a lifetime. I am truly grateful to my professors and other mentors for their kindness, dedication and wisdom. Wilkes University, especially the Karambelas Media and Communication Center, has become my second home. There are many wonderful memories I will cherish. I loved the weekend visits with my family, performing at the Darte Center and evenings spent in The Beacon office. Another highlight was taking dance composition where I choreographed my piece “Until We Dance Again,” a tribute to my first ballet teacher. This semester I also traveled abroad for the first time to explore London. I remember how excited I was to begin my journey at this University. Since that first day as a freshman, I have learned a lot and I am proud to say that Wilkes has prepared me to make my mark in the professional world. I’m thankful to be a Colonel, and look forward to seeing this new chapter of my life unfold.” “I began writing for The Beacon during my freshman year after being persuaded by Jane (Elmes-Crahall) who was my advisor at the time. I knew I was good at writing, but had more of an interest in television than print journalism. Even so, I continued to write sporadically for The Beacon before finally becoming an “official” staff writer during my senior year. During the years I wrote for The Beacon, I’ve mostly covered Arts and Entertainment. This is my favorite “beat” because it aligns with my own passion for performing. During my time at Wilkes I performed in the choral ensembles for many semesters. I loved being able to tell the stories of people who had the same passion for performance as I do, especially if I could learn more about a different aspect of performing arts such as theatre. My favorite articles I’ve done have been the spotlights on theatre students and alumni. Even though I plan to go into television, I am happy to have contributed to The Beacon, and to have written about things that really interest me.” �The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Opinion Opinion Have an opinion or want to write a guest column? Contact the opinion editor: andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Voice cOur _______ Editorial Staff 2017-18 MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Toni Pennello Managing Editor - Danny Van Brunt Adviser - Dr. Kalen Churcher SECTION EDITORS News - Cabrini Rudnicki LA&E - Amanda Bialek Opinion - Andre Spruell Sports - Luke Modrovsky ASSISTANT EDITORS News - Maddie Davis LA&E - Shannon O’Connor Opinion - Nick Filipek Sports - Ben Mandell & Alex Kielar DESIGN EDITORS Todd Espenshade - Graphic Designer PHOTOGRAPHERS Nicole Gaetani EDITORIAL BOARD Toni Pennello Danny Van Brunt Cabrini Rudnicki Shannon O’Connor Andre Spruell Megan Stanley 141 S. Main St. Clayton and Theresa Karambelas Media Center Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 www.thewilkesbeacon.com 14 ----=~ Each week, The Beacon’s editorial board will take a stance on a current issue. Should we trust data mining practices? Picture yourself taking a walk along the Susquehanna on a nice, warm day. You take a seat on a bench, see the sun reflect off the water and hear the birds chirping. Without anyone in sight but cars driving over the Market Street Bridge, you start to feel a sense of peacefulness. Suddenly, a loud ringtone blurts out, your leg vibrates and you reach into your pocket to grab your smartphone. You take a quick look at your notifications, put your smartphone away and walk back home. What would you think if someone asked you how your walk along the river was, if you didn’t tell anyone? What if your smartphone was tracking every step you made? What would you do if you found out that your smartphone was collecting your most personal information and selling it? Well, the average person simply continues to let it happen. The average smartphone user doesn’t think of the potential harm that could be caused by the rigorous data mining that occurs across many different platforms, and do not want to put in any extra work to reduce it. CEO and Chairman of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is at the heart of this issue because of Facebook’s recent scandal involving a third-party organization to data mine user’s data from Facebook without approval from the users, nor Facebook. He was invited to Congress to answer questions surrounding this situation, and the ethical issues surrounding privacy online. However, it seemed not everyone in Congress had a great understanding of the issue, and Zuckerberg was deflecting as hard as he could. Zuckerberg was more concerned with keeping his job rather than taking the problem head-on, according to a photographer’s picture of his prepared notes. The problem with this particular situation is that Facebook mines a ton of data already, and that is an ethical issue in itself. Facebook is not in any serious trouble, but the fluctuation of Zuckerberg and Facebook’s wealth shows what kind of turmoil the company is in. In light of the news, a hashtag started to trend on Twitter called: The Beacon/Danny Van Brunt Smartphones are big sources for data mining practices. #DeleteFacebook. but it hides your identity. Instead of keeping It is up to you to decide if you want to a profile on an individual’s name, these continue to be data mined. Companies like switches assign a number to your data profile Facebook, Google and most popular social known as the “Identifier for Advertising.” media sites provide their services for free in After that, go to your Google Chrome exchange for selling your data to advertisers. settings, show advanced settings, go to An ex-Google engineer analyzed the privacy and click “Send a do not track request amount of data that was collected from him, with your browsing traffic.” Some websites and decided to make a comparison between may not honor this, but this stops targeted Facebook and Google to show how in-depth advertisements based on your data. their data mining practices are. The amount On Facebook, go to settings, ad settings, of data was frightening to say the least. click on the button “Ads on apps and websites All users are able to download the off of the Facebook Companies” and then information that has been collected on both scroll to the bottom to select “no.” Facebook and Google. Facebook collected On Twitter, go to settings and privacy, click the equivalent of 300,000 pages of Microsoft “Privacy and safety,” click “Personalization Word documents, but Google was at three and data” and turn off everything. million documents. Google data mines Instagram surprisingly does not substantially more than Facebook. have privacy settings, but every time an There are some easy ways to minimize the advertisement pops up, you can either hide risks associated with being data mined. or report it. The more you hide or report ads, For iPhones and iPads, go to the settings, the less frequent they show up. click on privacy and enable “Limit Ad Technology is constantly advancing faster Tracking,” and for Androids, go to settings, than we can regulate it. Advertisers may not Google, and select “Opt Out of Interest intend to harm us with our information, but Based Ads.” This does not stop data mining, it is important for Facebook to be ethical. �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 Opinion 15 The final countdown to closing out college career By Andre Spruell Opinion Editor Never having to take another class ever again is something students used to joke about in our younger days. Years later, that day is nearing. Going to college is something most teenagers dream of and make a reality, especially if they are able to attend the school of their dreams. When it comes to college, there are things that I have certainly learned along the way. Those ideals are ones I believe the average college student endured. The biggest factor is that after four years or more depending on your major, you grow as a person. Over the course of a college career, change occurs, or as I like to refer to it, personal growth. College provides the opportunity for students to be their own likely for the first time ever in their lives away from their immediate family. Whether it be a short drive or a plane ride away, students being independent is a vital lesson to be learned because after graduating from college, the real world will be knocking, awaiting your arrival. The purpose of going to school for most students is to gain a degree in a field they want to have a career in. Incoming college freshmen are pressured into deciding what they want to specialize in the second they start applying to colleges senior year of high school. While some students have had their mind made up since they were children, others have no idea, and there are even cases in which students change their majors multiple times. Luckily for me, I knew the career path I wanted to take since I was a child, which was to be a sports journalist. Sports is something that has played an important role in my life since I was a child and is something I love. But after four years of going to college, I got practice on non-sports related content and fell in love with the idea of writing in general. Before entering school, I would have never thought that I would be interested in writing about anything other than sports, but that changed. If a student does not experience personal growth after four years, then I believe those particular kinds of students are doing college wrong or should not have attended college in the first place. College is truly not for everyone. So if you are a student that does not believe in the college process and realize it is not for you, it is fine to avoid debt and get a regular job to begin to make your living because you control your own destiny. For those that do complete the college process, controlling your own destiny is something that holds true as well. Controlling one’s own destiny correlates back to the idea of being independent because you have the say in what you want to do. Although people cannot control outside factors like getting fired from a job, gaining an injury and things of that nature, how hard you work is something you can control. One thing college does is force you out of your comfort zone. Whether it be things like “breaking out of your shell” or experiencing a job interview for the first time, there will be times where fear will come into play. Being nervous about things like job interview or about giving a capstone that will determine if you can graduate or not, it is totally normal and okay. Being anxious over things like that show that you truly care. I would bet fear took place when you experienced your first day of high school, and that fear was even higher after enduring your first day of college. As time passes though, you become less nervous and get accustomed to each situation and end up being just fine. That same idea can be applied as you experience life changing events like getting your first job in your career path, getting married, and buying your first house. All of these events are something every college graduate hopes to experience. Just like starting high school and college for the first time, when these life changing events take place, things like fear, anxiousness and nervousness will come to in play. When they do, take a deep breath, and realize you will get accustomed and everything will begin to fall into place and become comfortable. The biggest fear instilled in most college graduates at the moment is getting that first official job. Getting that first job is something that terrifies me as well, but if the passion and work ethic is present in an individual, that job will be there for the taking, even if takes an individual longer than expected. It is fine to not get a job straight out of college and work somewhere else until that job in your career in presented. It is also important to consider that you can end up in a job not related to your career and the next thing you know, you end up being at that particular company for over 20 years. With that being said, the most important takeaway from college is that once it is over, the path is not always straight. The path one takes after college is over is something that he or she likely never thought of taking before. That uncertainty can be scary but it also something that should be embraced. Making connections through college and outside of college after graduating is what is going to get you through life. These connections can be made face-toface, over the internet, and many others. You never know when you can come across someone that can provide you an opportunity that could change your life forever. After graduation, be open to things that you otherwise would not have been receptive to before, take risks, work hard and most importantly, have fun. With all the pressure and stress the real world will bring upon us as the class of 2018, it is important to have that balance and enjoy the good times just as much as getting through the bad times. When it is all said and done, life is short, so it is important to make it what you want and to enjoy the rollercoaster known as life because the last thing you want happen is to grow old and live a life full of regrets. @wilkesbeacon andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! Facebook: The Beacon Twitter: @wilkesbeacon Instagram: @wilkesbeacon �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 Opinion 16 Ready Player One: A Book vs. Movie Review By Nicholas Filipek Asst. Opinion Editor Nick Filipek, The Beacon’s resident movie buff and assistant opinion editor, will review movies each week. Want to hear about one in particular? Email Nick at: nicholas.filipek@wilkes.edu. Adapting novels into motion pictures is one of the oldest tricks that Hollywood has. From “Gone with the Wind” to “A Wrinkle in Time,” movie studios cannot help themselves in taking already successful stories and bringing them to the silver screen for a profit. One of the difficulties that accompanies adaptations, however, is that these stories have already generated legions of fans that eagerly anticipate the big screen debut, only to be dissatisfied by even the slightest change from novel page to screenplay. “Ready Player One” is no exception to this fault, and in fact may have overhauled some of the biggest changes that I have ever seen in the transition from book to movie. Here are just a few of the major changes that occurred as director Steven Spielberg (“Jurassic Park,” “The Post”) took helm of the cinematic version of Clive Owens novel. The biggest downfall that the movie has, which granted happens to all long books that must be made into movies less than two hours long, is a lot of the character development hits the floor. Our hero and main character, Wade Owen Watts, a.k.a Parzival in the online world known as the Oasis, has very little time to establish him in the movie. The book spends the better part of one hundred pages diving deep into whom Wade is in the outside world, compared to his online counterpart Parzival. As a reader, that first huge chunk of the book made Wade somewhat of a hero to already before he tries to save the Oasis. Once the action of the book is in full swing Wade/Parzival also has many other obstacles to overcome than the movie shows. All these actions and risks help build up the character so when we get to the finale, there is some sort of accomplishment for the reader as well. Something along the lines of “we all went on this journey together and it paid off,” where as the movie events made you feel like you, went on a day trip to the arcade. There was lots of flash, not so much substance. Tye Sheridan (“Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse,” “X-Men: Apocalypse) did fit the role perfectly though. None of the above is a knock on him or his performance. In fact the acting was one of the better parts of the film. Though none of the characters were given the full depth of characterization that book gave them, the “High Five” (The five players to advance throughout the game the furthest) were cast perfectly. Art3mis/Samantha Evelyn Cook (Olivia Cooke), Aech /Helen Harris (Lena Waithe), Daito /Akihide Karatsu (Win Morisaki) and Shoto /Toshiro Yoshiaki (Philip Zhao) make up the other four players who team up with Parzival/Wade Watts to save the Oasis from a greedy corporate slime ball, Sorrento, who is played by the brilliant character actor, Ben Mendelsohn. Just in case anyone reading this has not read the book or seen the movie, let me explain the premise a little further so the next section makes sense. James Halliday and Ogden Morrow played by Mark Rylane (“Bridge of Spies,” “The BFG”) and Simon Pegg (“Shaun of the Dead,” “Star Trek”) created the most inclusive, expansive, perfect virtual world, naming it “The Oasis.” Years later after Morrow left the company and on the day of Halliday’s death, a quest was set forth to determine who should be in charge of this cybernetic world. Think “Willy Wonka” meets “Tron.” To find the golden ticket, or in this case an “Easter egg,” one player must solve puzzles to find three keys, and then use those keys to get through three corresponding gates. The gates act as a second challenge, leaving players what are now six challenges to complete in order to win. Not so much in the movie though. The players only had to acquire the keys and the gates just opened, essentially cutting out half of the fun the book had. What hurts more is that the challenges that were featured in the movie were in no way similar to any six of the original challenges set forth in the book. I didn’t expect the movie to go as in depth as the book, but I figured they would keep at least one of the challenges that were mentioned in the book for us super nerds who had thought about what some of these images would look like on the big screen. With all that said, the first challenge in the movie, is still really awesome. The challengers have to race through a city riddled with giant movie monsters like T-Rex and King-Kong, and every racer has a custom vehicle with some pop culture reference. For instance, Parzival’s ride is the DeLorean from “Back to the Future” with K.I.T.T’s laser eye from “Knight Rider” and giant “Ghostbusters” stickers on either door. It’s an schmorgus board of 80’s references all rolled up into one car. The last grievance I have with the movie comes in the form of the secondary villain, I-R0K. In the book, Parzical and Aech both attend high school in the Oasis, and though they are not in the same school, all the schools in the virtual universe are found on the same planet. To combat the mundane school days, the two meet in a chatroom set up by Aech, that anyone he invites can enter. I-R0K is one of those characters that shows up in the chatroom and basically acts as a device to show the reader that Parzival has truer intentions than the other seekers, who are embodied by I-R0K. In the movie however they chose to make I-R0K an actual threat. He is not portrayed as a loud mouth kid who just wants everyone to think he is cool. He is a bounty hunter, though still a bit dorky, who racks up more screen time than some of the other characters who were actually featured longer in the book. At the end of the day the character I-R0K could have been filled in by any random character and it would not have hurt the story. To have the film over develop this character while generally ignoring others is what I think bothers me the most. If you have not read the book, I would absolutely recommend you go out and see the movie. It is absolutely gorgeous, I mean it is Spielberg, and the story is OK if you don’t know just how much better it could be. If you have read the book, still go see the movie, just be prepared that you will not see the exact events you read come to life. Whether or not you have or have not seen the movie, the book is definitely worth the read. Owens did a wonderful job of creating this whole world from bits and pieces of pop culture throughout the 80’s and early 90’s. It is fun, smart, and a real quick read. If reading isn’t your deal though, and you want to listen to the novel, it is available on Audible, and is even read by Wil Wheaton. @wilkesbeacon nick.filipek@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 Opinion 17 Meet the Majors This week’s major: Nursing Interviews and photos by Abigail Tarway Staff Writer Every week, The Beacon will offer a chance for majors to be placed in the spotlight. Each student that gets chosen will have a few words to express why they chose the major and how they feel it will benefit them in the future. Theresa Couchara Senior Mina Koder Senior “I was not really sure what I wanted to major in so I picked nursing. Overall this is a great career to be a part of. It is very rewarding and is a great feeling to see how much of an impact you have on the patients and families that you encounter everyday.” “I always liked to be around people and help them in any way I could and decided that nursing was the best profession for that. My Spanish minor will help me to be able to communicate better with my patients who speak very little to no english.” The Beacon/ Abigail Tarway Kimberly Roman Senior “Nursing is everything I love put into one: caring for others, putting a smile on someone’s face, and moving around on your feet continuously. You are constantly meeting new people and hearing their stories. A career in nursing means endless possibilities because there are so many different opportunities and career paths to pursue. I cannot imagine doing anything else in life.” Umon Jalloh Sophomore “I have always being passionate about helping people and health care has been one of my interests when I was growing up. I wanted to be a family doctor and a surgeon. I believe helping patients will help me better myself.” �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 Opinion 18 The Priest is back; Judas Priest’s new record, “Firepower” By Parker Dorsey Staff Writer It is official. The Priest is finally back. Almost 15 years after vocalist Rob Halford reunited with one of the quintessential heavy metal bands, Judas Priest has finally released an album worthy of their reputation. Their newest album, “Firepower,” is perhaps the most consistent album they have released since 1990’s Painkiller, with an album cover that looks awfully reminiscent of Screaming for Vengeance. New guitarist Richie Faulkner, who replaced retired K.K. Downing in 2011, really makes this album his own. After the Epitaph World Tour, which was the band’s intended farewell tour in 2012, he is credited for injecting new life into the band. The album opens up with “Firepower,” and is a solid and relatively safe track compared to what is yet to come in the album. The lead single, “Lightning Strike,” on the other hand, is filled to the brim with dueling guitar chaos from Faulkner and guitarist Glenn Tipton. “Evil Never Dies,” while a heavy, plodding sledgehammer of a track, has some really cool key changes and sounds inspired by modern-day Accept. “Never the Heroes” has a soaring chorus and a vibrant bass line. “Necromancer” is an absolute riff-monster of a track and sounds like it could pass as a B-side from Painkiller. “Children of the Sun” is a mid-paced rocker in the same vein as “Evil Never Dies,” but has a very bluesy intro and an absolutely killer dueling guitar solo between Faulkner and Tipton. “Guardians” is a short instrumental driven by excellent melancholic piano work by Tipton, hearkening back to the old Sad Wings of Destiny days. This leads into “Rising From Ruins,” a classic patented Priest-style epic that blows the rest of the material out of the water. “Flame Thrower,” while by far the best titled song on the album, is very mediocre and does nothing to stand out from the rest of the material. “Spectre” is arguably the most melodic track on the record, and has beautiful descending scales all over the guitar work. “Traitors Gate,” another phenomenal grandiose-sounding track, begins with clean picked arpeggios transitioning into a fasterpaced masterpiece. This track quite possibly has vocalist Rob Halford put forth his best performance of the album. “No Surrender” is an energetic, catchy rocker that sounds like it could be a staple in future live performances by the band. “Lone Wolf” is a gritty, doomy, slow-paced beast where if it was not for Halford, it could pass as a Black Sabbath song. “Sea of Red” is wispy, rock opera album closer, and a fitting end to a great album. The song writing is the highest point of this album. Guitar performances by Faulkner and Tipton are outstanding, and Halford’s melodic baritone, as well as his signature high-pitched banshee shrieks, are the best he has sounded in a long while. Bassist Ian Hill’s groove is as dependable as always, and drummer Scott Travis has his most technical and precise drum work since Painkiller. The lyrics make subtle metaphors and references to the current political and social issues going on within the world. Although nothing is explicitly stated, the meaning can be found through enough digging in the lyric sheets. The album was produced by Tom Allom, who produced many Judas Priest records in the 1980’s, as well as modern studio whiz Andy Sneap. Speaking of Sneap, he is the current fill-in for Tipton for live performances. Diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease 10 years ago, Tipton recently announced he is taking a step back from touring. If this does happen to be Judas Priest’s last record, it is a phenomenal swansong, and an excellent cherry on top for a legendary 50 year career. Parker’s Picks: “Guardians/Rising From Ruins,” “Necromancer,” “Traitors Gate,” “Spectre” and weaknesses of all your characters. Swordsmen are great for doing damage, but lousy against armored enemies. Club wielding princesses deal less damage but are highly effective against armored enemies. Archers are great at taking down enemies from afar but as soon as they get close it is game over. This goes on for every type of character, because truthfully every type of character feels balanced and designed to contend with certain types of enemies. One pro-tip I would like to give everyone looking at this, though, is to always keep a hairwad on your team. These things are tanks and will literally level enemy teams almost single handedly, as well as, serve as a beefy wall to take damage for your team. Speaking of, you are going to need a beefy wall to take damage for your team, because this game is no joke, despite its humor and visual charm that we will get into later, and this is where my biggest criticism of Pit People lies. This game is notorious for its difficulty spikes during some of the latter quests. There is a difference in a game giving a challenge to the players, and a game being a challenge to get through. Instead of introducing new enemy types to work against, or introducing enemies with higher hp, Pit People reverts to the cheapest way in any video game to extend play time Pit People just throws more and more of the same enemy types at you over and over and over again. The challenge does not feel fair at all, especially when you are limited to having a party of only six people to fight in the pit. There are ways to tweak your team to allow more, but if you want to be prepared for every type of enemy, and you will, this is honestly a hassle and a chore to deal with in the late game storyline quests. I genuinely wonder if they had to rush this game out to meet a deadline or if they could not think of any other types of challenging gameplay because, at least for me, it severely impacted the gameplay and replayability Looking back on a few points I made earlier, the thought of the game being rushed makes me genuinely sad, because this game is also an rpg. In short you are a blue-berry farmer named Horatio, who sets off on a quest to rescue his son from an evil space bear. To accomplish this you undertake missions for rewards in a fleshed out overworld acting as a bridge between each battle. The Behemoths distinctive sense of humor and visual style are on full display in this game, and the characters you meet are charming and unique in their own special ways. I just can’t help but wonder, how much better the story would be later in the game if they had more time to flesh everything out. Once again, many of the later cutscenes and plot points feel rushed, and the animation in the final cutscene is subpar especially coming from a studio comprised of former Newgrounds animators and editors. This does not mean Pit People is a bad game, and this does not mean you should not buy it. It is a fun game with unique visual style, funny characters, and good gameplay. All in all, the game is mostly balanced except for a few late game missions. Keep in mind, I have barely scratched the surface and I just beat the game. There are still many side quests to accomplish, characters to capture, and customizations to unlock for your team. If that isn’t enough for you, there also is an online component, where you can either fight with your friend or battle them to decide who has the better team in the pit The only things holding Pit People back are the obviously rushed storyline and cheap difficulty spikes. However, if you are willing to look past that, Pit People is a fun adventure full of life just waiting to be tackled. @wilkesbeacon parker.dorsey@wilkes.edu Video game guru JM Rey reviews “Pit People” By JM Rey Guest Writer The Behemoth is a small independent game studio known for creating hits like Castle Crashers and BattleBlock Theate. Every game they create usually receives universal acclaim and praise, and this is due to the time and care they put into each of their products. However, what happens when a game studio speeds up their process to get their product on the shelves? Will it still be as amazing as their previous works, will it fail horribly, or will it fall somewhere in between? We answer this question and many more in our review of Pit People. Pit People is, at its core, a strategy role playing game. It’s a strategy game, because the player is placed in charge of a group of characters and controls them as they do battle with other characters on a hexagonal grid. The combat is turn based, so the player moves their units to the desired position, and then the enemy moves their units to the desired position as well. If the player moves their piece next to an opponent, the characters will automatically have a battle to the death or fight until the piece is strategically moved out of range to recover. The true strategy of Pit People lies in knowing where to move your units, and this is accomplished by looking at the strengths @wilkesbeacon jm.rey@wilkes.edu �Sports The Beacon - April 17, 2018 Sports 19 Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the sports editor: Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu BASE: Wilkes wins series finale MLAX: Wilkes tops King’s in against Manhattanville 13-6 By Kirsten Peters Staff Writer KINGSTON/PURCHASE, N.Y. — After winning 16-2 against Penn State WilkesBarre on Tuesday, the Colonels embarked on a three-game series against Manhattanville College this weekend, losing the series 2-1 and putting them at 12-12 overall and 7-5 in the conference. On Friday, the Colonels traveled to Manhattanville for game one, falling 16-15 in a game that was called due to darkness in the bottom of the eighth inning. Senior Joe Champi led the Colonels highscoring offense, going 4-6 with two runs scored and three RBI’s. In addition, quality at-bats by sophomore Matt Reinert, who excelled at the plate going 3-3 with two runs scored and one RBI, and junior Brady Wing, who went 2-5 with one run scored and three RBI’s, aided the Colonels 28-hit and 15-run offense. On Saturday, the Colonels hosted the doubleheader at Artillery Park, losing game two of the series 5-4 and taking game three 13-6. In game two, the Valiants were off to an early 3-0 lead. But in the bottom of the second, the Colonels answered back with three runs of their own. With two outs, sophomore Alex Halladay singled to centerfield to get the Colonels on base. A single to left field for Reinert and a walk for sophomore Tyler Walther put three men on for Wing, who hit a two-run single into left field, tying the game 3-3. The game remained tied until the top of the seventh inning, where the Valiants snagged two runs to put them ahead 5-3. In the bottom of the seventh, the Colonels attempted a comeback. Junior captain Jack Fischer doubled into right field to score Wing, bringing the score to 5-4. But even with the bases loaded, the Colonels were unable to grab anymore runs after the Valiants made their final pitching change of the game. After losing two one-run games of 16-15 and 5-4, the Colonels came out swinging to win the final game of the series, taking the finale 13-6. In the bottom of the first, senior Jay Clymer doubled into left field to score freshman Michael Patrizio who led off the inning with a walk, tying the game 1-1. In the top of the third, Manhattanville was able to tack on three runs to take a 4-1 lead. But a two-run homer to left field by junior Nicholas Capozzi in the bottom of the inning tightened the gap by making the game 4-3. In the top of the fourth, the Valiants scored another run, bringing their lead to 5-3. However, the Colonels had their breakout inning in the bottom of the fourth, gaining the lead 7-5. A lead-off single up the middle for Fischer, followed by a single to right field for Champi, and a walk for Clymer loaded the bases for designated hitter freshman Vincent Uzzi who hit a three-run double off the leftfield wall. A single into left field by Reinert scored Uzzi and gave the Colonels the two run lead. The Valiants were able to tack on a run in the top of fifth, but the Colonels stretched their lead to 9-6 in the bottom of the inning. After Wing got hit by a pitch and Patrizio walked, Fischer moved the two into scoring position with a sac-bunt. An intentional walk for Champi loaded the bases for Capozzi’s two-run single down the right field line, allowing the Colonels to maintain their lead. After a scoreless top of the sixth for Manhattanville, the Colonels sealed the deal in the bottom of the inning, tacking on four runs. Reinert was hit by pitch and Wing and Fischer both walked to load the bases for Champi, who hit a grand slam home run to left field to win 13-6. The Colonels have an action-packed week ahead with six games. On Apr. 18, the Colonels will travel to Penn State Schuylkill for a game at 3:00 p.m. Two days later, the Colonels will host Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham at 3:00 p.m. for game one of their three game series. On Apr. 21, the Colonels will travel to FDU-Florham for a doubleheader starting at 1:00 p.m. to complete the rest of their series. On Apr. 22, the Colonels will make up their doubleheader against Delaware Valley University at Artillery Park starting at 1:00 p.m. Game one -- Manhattanville 16, Wilkes 15 Game two -- Manhattanville 5, Wilkes 4 Game three -- Wilkes 13, Manhattanville 6 @wilkesbeacon Kirsten.Peters@wilkes.edu blowout fashion 12-5 Jaques said. “Carter had a heck of a game making 17 saves, but what is most impressive is that we stuck true to a good defensive game WILKES-BARRE — The Wilkes University plan that they didn’t have an answer for. Colonels earned their first home conference The six out in front of [Whittemore] really win since their program’s revival back in 2016 exploited some weaknesses.” with a 12-5 win. The Colonels started the second half much With the win, the Colonels improve to hotter, scoring three goals in the first three and 6-5 on the year and even up their conference a half minutes of the third quarter, matching record to 1-1. their first half score. It was Kachel (9), Nicholas The Colonels didn’t jump out to the start they Ruggiero (12) and John Wink (15) who found wanted as the Monarch’s Shawn Dickey (14th the back of the net. The Monarchs were able goal of season) scored forty seconds into the to slow play down after that, but Connor Daly game. Wilkes had a strong answer (7) scored with just under though and came through with five minutes left in the two unanswered goals scored by third quarter. The scoring Nico Lorenzo (17) and Jeremy was not done yet, as the Kachel (8). Colonels made one last The first quarter continued rush in the final seconds of with exciting play as the action the quarter. The ball found continued to go back and forth. its way to Wink (16) who The Monarchs answered the cut to the slot and let one Kachel goal with two goals less rip towards the net with than two and a half minutes four seconds left for his apart by Alec Martin (2) and second goal of the night. Dickey’s (15) second of the game. “I’m not sure what the Dickey’s second goal was a very The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani spark was in the second impressive shot that definitely Nicholas Ruggiero looking half,” Jaques said. “For the could have qualified for goal of first time we actually saw the game as he danced by multiple to disrupt the Monarch’s defense and offense find Colonel defenders towards the offensive attack. their clamps and actually slot, and got a blistering shot off put the pressure on.” while taking a stick to the face from Garrett The fourth quarter was more of the same, Armstrong. as Wilkes kept their foot on the gas, as The Colonels, now trailing 3-2, took about Ruggiero (13) and Wink (17) scored before one minute and forty-five seconds to tie the the Monarchs were finally able to beat game up as John Luna (8) scored with on Whittemore. Dickey (16) weaved his way a delayed penalty. The rest of the first half through traffic to complete the hat trick after played out with these two rivals playing a Wink did it on the other end for the Colonels. strong, physical game. Wilkes’ defensemen Ruggiero (14) completed a hat trick of his own, Joseph Papa, Jack O’Connell, James Peaney scoring thirty seconds after Dickey, putting and Armstrong played phenomenal games, the Colonels back up by seven. Lorenzo stepping up in front of goalie Carter (18) and Brett O’Neill (12) exchanged goals Whittemore, who had potentially his best throughout the rest of the game, leading to a game of the season. 12-5 final in favor of Wilkes. “It got to the point where I was treating “We really felt the momentum start to swing it like a perfect game in baseball,” Colonel our way after the first quarter,” Jaques explained. defenseman Gerard Setteducato said. “I was “We were able to clamp down and have some just telling everyone ‘don’t say his name.’ That’s smart possessions. All those little lacrosse how good he was tonight.” IQ things we drill constantly in our practices Wilkes’ head coach Curtis Jaques also had finally came through. These guys were able to high praise for his goalie and defense. feel like they’ve been out here before.” “We certainly rallied around our goalie,” By Ben Mandell Asst. Sports Editor �Sports The Beacon - April 17, 2018 20 Dwight "Doc" Gooden to speak at Wilkes summit WLAX: Towey gets By Alex Kielar Asst. Sports Editor Dwight Gooden, better known as Doc, will be making an appearance at Wilkes University on Friday, April 20, at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. Gooden will deliver the keynote address at Wilkes University’s Pennsylvania Pain and Addiction Summit, where he will discuss his struggles with addiction and his fight for recovery. Gooden pitched 16 seasons in the Major Leagues, 11 of them for the New York Mets. He had a very impressive rookie year for the Mets in 1984, recording a 17-9 record, a 2.60 ERA and 276 strikeouts, leading to him winning the National League Rookie of the Year Award. Gooden would not disappoint the following season, as he went on to win 24 games and would win the National League Cy Young Award. He also finished fifth in MVP voting that year. He would then help the Mets win a World Series title in 1986. However, only a few months after achieving the goal of every athlete, winning the championship in their sport, Gooden started facing problems with drug and alcohol use. In December of the same year, Gooden was arrested for fighting with police in his hometown of Tampa, and came back to Mets training camp testing positive for cocaine. Instead of taking a suspension, he decided to attend rehab from April until June. Gooden still remained an effective pitcher for a few more seasons, but his cocaine and alcohol addiction derailed his career and he was not as effective towards the end. In each year from 199294, Gooden recorded a losing record, and in 1995 he was suspended for the entirety of the season for testing positive to a drug test while already serving a prior suspension. He would then stay in New York, going a subway trip away from Queens, where the Mets play, to the Bronx, to play for the Yankees. In his first season on the Yankees in 1996, he would come up with another career achievement, throwing a no-hitter in May of that season. Gooden would then add another World Series title to his resume, as he helped the Yankees win their first World Series since 1978. After retirement, Gooden would continue to struggle with addiction, which resulted in several incidents leading to his arrest. In 2006, Gooden violated the terms of his probation, as he showed up high on cocaine to a meeting with his probation officer. He would be incarcerated for seven months, choosing prison over extended probation, hoping that incarceration would help him learn his lesson and get over the temptations of addiction. About four years after being released from prison, in 2010, Gooden was arrested for driving under the influence of an undisclosed substance, and endangering the welfare of a child that was in the vehicle with him. He pled guilty to child endangerment and received five more years of probation. Gooden entered a recovery program in the late 2000s and he wrote a book in 2013, titled “Doc”, which depicts his struggle with addiction and his road to recovery as one of the premiere pitchers in the history of the game. In the book, Gooden goes through the ups and downs of his Major League career and his personal life. @wilkesbeacon Alex.Kielar@wilkes.edu Hall of Fame call By Amber Grohowski Staff Writer The women’s lacrosse head coach, Kammie Towey, was recently selected to be inducted into her alumni’s athletic Hall of Fame at Pfeiffer University. She is one of only two female lacrosse players to ever be recognized as Pfieffer hall of famers. “I am completely overjoyed,” said Towey, honored that she had received such great news. In her collegiate career, known by her maiden name, Studley, Towey was considered one of the best goalies in team history. She was able to save a total of 563 balls from whipping past her into the goal. She ended with a cumulative .585 save percentage. Towey owns the women’s lacrosse program record with 168 saves in 2004. She also holds a second all-time high of a .617 save percentage in 2003. Leading her team to an 11-4 overall record in her season, she owns three of five best single season marks for save percentage. 2004 was a great year for Towey; she was named First Team All American and First Team All-Conference. Towey’s induction into the Pfeiffer Hall of Fame will take place in during the Wilkes Homecoming weekend, Sept. 29. @wilkesbeacon Amber.Grohowski1@wilkes.edu Wilkes Spring Sports Schedules Men’s Tennis Mar. 4 Nebraska Wesleyan W 9-0 Mar. 4 St. John Fisher W 9-0 Mar. 6 Methodist L 3-6 Mar. 8 Bridgewater W 6-3 Mar. 8 William Woods L 2-7 Mar. 8 Catholic University W 7-2 Mar. 11 Yeshiva W 8-1 Mar. 29 @ TCNJ L 2-7 Apr. 8 @ Franklin & Marshall L 3-6 *s-Apr. 13 @ Misericordia W 9-0 Apr. 13 vs. Oneonta W 7-2 *s-Apr. 14 vs. DeSales W 8-1 *'s Apr. 14 @ Delaware Valley W 9-0 Apr. 16 vs. Ursinus 3:30 p.m. *s-Apr. 19 vs. King's 3:30 p.m. s-Apr. 19 vs. Lycoming 3:30 p.m. s-Apr. 21 vs. Cabrini 11:00 a.m. *s-Apr. 21 @ Eastern 1:30 p.m. s-Apr. 21 vs. Muhlenberg 2:00 p.m. Apr 22 @ Stevens Inst. of Tech. 12:00 p.m. Apr. 25 @ Bloomsburg 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. FDU-Florham 10:30 a.m. Apr. 28 vs. Goucher 3:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Ralston Athletic Complex s-split squad Record: 12-4 (MAC Freedom 3-0) Women’s Tennis Mar. 4 Nebraska Wesleyan W 9-0 Mar. 4 St. John Fisher W 9-0 Mar. 6 Methodist L 0-9 Mar. 8 Bridgewater W 7-2 Mar. 29 @ TCNJ L 0-9 *Apr. 5 @ Misericordia PPD Apr. 8 @ Franklin & Marshall L 3-6 *Apr. 14 vs. DeSales W 9-0 *Apr. 14 @ Delaware Valley W 8-1 *Apr 18 @ King's 3:30 p.m. Apr. 19 vs. Lycoming 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 21 @ Eastern 1:30 p.m. Apr 22 @ Stevens Inst. of Tech. 12:00 p.m. Apr. 25 @ Bloomsburg 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. FDU-Florham 10:30 a.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Ralston Athletic Complex Record: 8-3 (MAC Freedom 2-0) Men's Lacrosse Feb. 14 Scranton L 5-14 Feb. 21 Marywood L 7-12 Feb. 24 Keystone W 14-3 Feb. 28 Rosemont W 18-5 Mar. 3 Alvernia W 13-4 Mar. 10 Neumann W 18-12 Mar. 14 vs. Moravian L 10-11 Mar. 24 @ Wells W 23-8 Mar. 27 vs. Mount St. Mary L 8-16 *Apr. 7 @ FDU-Florham L 7-11 *Apr. 11 vs. King's W 12-5 *Apr. 14 vs. Manhattanville L 11-16 *Apr. 18 @ Misericordia 7:00 p.m. *Apr. 21 @ Eastern 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 25 vs. Delaware Valley 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. DeSales 1:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Schmidt Stadium Record: 6-6 (MAC Freedom 1-2) Results through Apr. 15 Women's Lacrosse Mar. 1 vs. Immaculata L 9-21 Mar. 3 vs. Maritime W 13-4 Mar. 10 @ Purchase L 7-14 Mar. 13 vs. Keystone L 6-9 Mar. 15 vs. Old Westbury L 5-13 Mar. 17 @ Mount St Mary L 12-17 Mar. 20 vs. Cazenovia W 19-11 Mar. 24 @ Mount St. Vincent L 11-15 Mar. 27 @ Lancaster Bible W 20-16 *Apr. 7 vs. FDU-Florham L 1-13 *Apr. 11 @ King's L 5-17 *Apr. 14 @ Manhattanville L 10-23 *Apr. 18 vs. Misericordia 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 21 vs. Eastern 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 24 @ Delaware Valley 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 @ DeSales 1:00 p.m. Apr. 29 @ Centernary 2:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Schmidt Stadium Record: 3-9 (MAC Freedom 0-3) �The Beacon - April 17, 2018 Sports What you missed: The past week in Colonel Athletics By Alex Kielar Asst. Sports Editor Apr. 9 MVB: The Colonels swept Widener, 3-0, on their Senior Night, as seniors Michael Henne and Brian Schumacher had big matches. Henne tied his career highs in kills and digs, with six kills and 10 digs, and Schumacher led the Colonels in kills with eight and recorded a great hitting percentage at .778. Apr. 10 BASE: The Colonels, scoring nine runs in the first inning, with five players having at least two RBIs, cruised past Penn State Wilkes-Barre, 16-2. Senior Jarret Clymer, juniors Jack Fischer and Nick Capozzi, and sophomore Brady Wing each had two RBIs, senior Joe Champi had three. Apr. 11 SOFT: The Lady Colonels offense was Christina Gambino junior Haley Welker had two RBIs each, sophomores Gracen Staunton and Sarah Gibson and freshmen Britny Jumalon and Megan Magoon had one RBI each. Apr. 13 MTEN: The Colonels picked up their first MAC Freedom victory of the season, as they swept a pair of matches against Misericordia (9-0) and SUNY Oneonta (7-2). BASE: See page 19. Apr. 14 MTEN: Wilkes swept a pair of matches again as they defeated DeSales, 8-1, and Delaware Valley, 9-0. WTEN: The Lady Colonels won both their matches on the day, defeating DeSales 9-0, and Delaware Valley 8-1. Senior Brittany Stanton, junior Erin Volutza, sophomore Laura Zielinski, and freshmen Sarah Malone and Dagney Markle all won both their match-ups on the day. WLAX: Senior Jessyca Held scored six goals for the Lady Colonels, but that was not enough to lead them past Manhattanville, as they fell 23-10. Manhattanville had a 41-25 shot advantage on the day. MLAX: The Colonels could not put a stop to the Manhattanville attack, as they surrendered seven straight goals in the second quarter. Freshman Nico Lorenzo led the offense with 3 goals and one assist. The Colonels would fall to the Valients 16-11. BASE: See page 19. SOFT: Playing at Manhattanville, the Lady Colonels dropped both games in the doubleheader, 7-2 and 8-0. Freshman Jordyn Kondras collected two hits on the day, and sophomore Gracen Staunton drove in two runs in the first game. institution students only, the logo must be customizable to each of the 30+ conference chamipnship/special ATLANTIC C events, along with being customizable to each subconference (Commonwealth and Freedom). The design WOMEN'ST was also limited to two print -2018colors due to t-shirt printing limitations. The winning Todd Espenshade design was seleteced by the MAC Student-Athlete Advisory Committe (SAAC). Espenshade will also receive a $100 cash prize, including a MAC championship t-shirt. Espenshade also participates in Studio 20, the Wilkes University student-run design club. They do work for both internal and external clients. "I give credit to my teachers for pushing us to do that," Espenshade said. "It gives all of us confidence to create things that can win contests." seemingly unstoppable, as it went off for 27 runs in a doubleheader against Keystone. They won the first game 16-4 and the second game 11-3. Freshman Britny Jumalon led the offense in game one, going 4-for-4 with two RBIs, and senior Christina Gambino went 3-for-4 with 4 RBIs. In the second game, sophomore Gracen Staunton led the Lady Colonels with 2 RBIs, as she went 2-for-4. WLAX: The Lady Colonels couldn’t seem to stop the Lady Monarch attack, as they fell to King’s 17-5. King’s scored 13 of its 17 goals in the first half. Junior Kyra Boccio and sophomore Laura Singleton each had one goal and one assist to led the Lady Colonel offense. MLAX: See page 19. Apr. 12 SOFT: The Lady Colonels split a doubleheader at Lycoming, 9-1 and 3-4, with six players getting RBIs in game 1. Senior @wilkesbeacon Alex.Kielar@wilkes.edu The Beacon’s Espenshade design wins MAC logo contest By Luke Modrovsky Sports Editor The Middle Atlantic Conference called for logo submissions and Wilkes senior and Beacon Design Editor, Todd Espenshade, delivered. It was announced on Friday that Espenshade was the first-ever winner from Wilkes of the MAC logo contest. Espenshade, The Beacon's graphic designer, designed the winning logo for the 2018-19 MAC logo competition. The digital design and media arts student submitted his design, with a little push from one of the faculty members at Wilkes. "Our teachers always talked about submitting things for competition," Espenshade said. "They are always trying to get us to enter more contests." There we numerous rules governing the contest including: the contest was open to MAC IIIMAC [CHAM • @wilkesbeacon Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu Wilkes Spring Sports Schedules Baseball Mar. 4 Lehman W 18-5 Mar. 5 Mount Aloysius W 11-0 Mar. 6 Eastern Mennonite W 10-6 Mar. 7 PSU Harrisburg L 1-11 Mar. 8 Penn College L 4-7 Mar. 9 New England L 2-5 L 1-9 Mar. 10 Catholic Uni L 5-15 *Mar. 17 @ Eastern (DH) L 4-8, W 9-5 *Mar. 18 @ Eastern W 8-5 Mar. 19 @ Muhlenberg L 4-10 *Mar. 23 @ Misericordia L 5-8 *Mar. 24 vs. Miseri. W 8-7, L 1-3 Mar. 27 @ Marywood W 12-5 *Apr. 2 @ Delaware Valley PPD Apr. 5 @ Scranton L 8-9 *Apr. 6 vs. King’s W 9-8 *Apr. 7 @ King’s W 13-6 (12 inn.), W 3-1 Apr. 10 vs. PSU Wilkes-Barre W 16-2 *Apr. 13 @ Manhattanville L 15-16 *Apr. 14 vs. Man’ville L 4-5, W 13-6 *Apr. 18 @ PSU Schuykill 3:00 p.m. *Apr. 20 vs. FDU-Florham 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 21 @ FDU-Flor. (DH) 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 22 vs. Delaware Valley (DH) 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 27 @ DeSales 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. DeSales (DH) 1:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home games @ Artillery Park Record: 12-12 (MAC-Freedom: 7-5) Results through Apr. 15 21 Softball Mar. 4 Shenandoah L 2-9, W 10-9 Mar. 5 SUNY Poly W 9-3 Mar. 5 Eastern Mennonite L 0-2 Mar. 6 PSU Harrisburg W 3-2 Mar. 6 Regis W 8-1 Mar. 8 Mary Washington L 2-10 (6 inn.) Mar. 8 Mount Aloysis W 6-4 Mar. 9 Gwynedd Mercy L 0-2 Mar. 9 LA Roche W 5-0 Mar. 23 vs. SUNY Potsdam W 4-3, W 7-4 *Mar. 24 @ Miseri. W 3-2 (9 inn.), L 3-4 *Mar. 27 vs. Eastern W 8-0 W 6-5 Apr. 5 @ Marywood W2-1 W 8-1 *Apr. 7 vs. King’s W 4-1, L 2-14 *Apr. 8 @ Delaware Valley L 6-7, L 5-6 Apr. 10 @ Keystone W 16-4 W 11-3 Apr. 12 @ Lycoming W 9-1, L 3-4 (8 inn.) *Apr. 14 @ Manh’ville L 2-7, L 0-8 (5 inn.) Apr. 17 vs. Susquehanna (DH) 3:00 p.m. Apr. 18 vs. Summit (DH) 6:00 p.m. Apr. 19 vs. Penn Tech (DH) 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 21 vs. FDU-Flor. (DH) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 24 vs. Scranton (DH) 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 @ DeSales (DH) 1:00 p.m. *-MAC Freedom ‘-innings Home games @ Ralston Athletic Complex Record: 17-11 (MAC-Freedom: 4-6) Results through Apr. 15 �Sports The Beacon - April 17, 2018 22 2017-2018 Beacon Sports Staff Athlete of the Year etani The B a ole G n/Nic eaco co e Bea Th n/Kir sten Peter s Junior Basketball Player Marcus Robinson The B eaco n/Kir sten Peter s The Beacon/Kirsten Peters n eaco The B ten /Kirs s Peter �Sports The Beacon - April 17, 2018 22 2017-2018 Beacon Sports Staff Athlete of the Year The B etani eaco a ole G n/Nic o eac The B n/Nic ole G aetan i Sophomore Softball Player Gracen Staunton The B eaco n/Nic etani ole G aetan i The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky The B eaco a ole G n/Nic �SPEND YOUR SUMMER WISELY Take classes for just $520 per credit Many classes are held online so you can enjoy your break from home while getting ahead in your studies. And with start dates in May, June or July, classes conveniently fit your summer plans. Three-week presession May 21 to June 8 Full session May 21 to Aug. 17 Nine-week session June 11 to Aug. 14 Summer session I June 11 to July 13 Summer session II July 16 to Aug. 17 Make an appointment with your advisor and visit www.wilkes.edu/summer. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2018 April 17th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 April 17 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/55e141e9014e000e1d44ec5964297c75.pdf 362f26a7ad964ebf19575ba16a2526f3 PDF Text Text The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 71, Issue 18 ._ _ _.- IEA CC(O)N THE B EACON The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. New Sordoni exhibit opens with the collections of Andrew Sordoni I AM T-PAIN The 18th annual Tom Bigler Journalism Conference, page 3 Selectio11sj, AM ro;;; the So • / • 1,011, c OII . ec/10 11 ERICAN ILLUSTRATION & COMIC ART The Beacon/Toni Pennello The Sordoni Art Gallery’s newest exhibit features items from Andrew J. Sordoni III’s colection of illustrations and comics, including this 1917 illustration by N.C. Wyeth titled “I am Sir Lancelot du Lake, King Ban’s son of Benwick, and knight of the Round Table.” kind of similar art, this is a lot of different stuff put together with a lot of different themes.” “I like how grandiose it is,” she continued. Jennifer Olshevski, a Wilkes-Barre native, joined the opening from Philadelphia. “I think it feels nostalgic, it kind of elicits that emotional response of remembering something from childhood,” Olshevski said. “I am seeing a lot of comics that my parents T-Pain to perform for Programming Board spring concert, page 7 The growing popularity of Latin trap music, page 15 would read together.” The gallery will hold three lectures on April 11, April 25 and May 2, all at 4:30 p.m. For ongoing news and information about the Sordoni Art Gallery, follow the gallery on Twitter and Instagram @SordoniGallery. @wilkesbeacon madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani Submitted photo On Saturday, April 7, the Sordoni Art Gallery opened its new exhibition, titled “Selections from the Sordoni Collection: American Illustration & Comic Art” for the Wilkes community. This exhibition features the collection of Andrew J. Sordoni III, the son of Barney Sordoni, who brought the Sordoni Art Gallery to Wilkes University in 1973, which includes more than 135 different illustrations and comics by more than 100 different artists. Sordoni has been collecting for more that 50 years with pieces dating back from the 1890s to today. The pieces range from advertisements to cartoons from Playboy, MAD, and other well-known magazines. With the help of Heather Sincavage and curator Dr. Stanley Grand, Sordoni’s passion for illustration can be enjoyed by Wilkes community members until May 20. “Mr. Sordoni and Dr. Grand are really trying to show you the dignity and the skill in a lot of these works that are basically made, photographed, and tossed to the side,” said Sincavage, Sordoni Art Gallery Director and assistant professor at Wilkes University. “It’s a special day for the Sordoni Gallery,” she said. “It’s a really wonderful way to commemorate his dedication to the arts and Wilkes University.” University President Patrick Leahy gave a few remarks about the gallery’s impact on Wilkes University and the students. “In my opinion, you cannot be a true university without an enduring commitment to the arts, and this is just the latest manifestation of that,” he said. One of the featured artists, Chris Payne, also spoke at the opening of the exhibit. Payne spoke on his inspirations growing up and how he came to be an artist. Payne is an artist illustrator who has been featured on Time Magazine and MAD Magazine. Payne is also the founder of the Illustrators Partnership of America. “Illustration means so much to me,” he said. “I wasn’t exposed to it and that to me is what is really important about this show,” Payne continued. “It’s exposing the history of cartooning, the history of illustration, to the students who have dreams and want to be able to make a living [from art].” After the remarks from all of the speakers, Sordoni welcomed the crowd to his collection as the curtain revealed a room full, from wall to wall, of comics and illustrations. “It’s just unbelievably fabulous,” commented Rosa Thompson, of Drums, of Sordoni’s collection. “It is incredible what he has put together,” she continued. “The community is very lucky to have him.” Freshman marketing and digital design and media art double major and student worker for the gallery, Jess Morandi, expressed her opinion on the new exhibition. “There are a lot more pieces here than there were in the other two,” Morandi said. “The [Warhol and Fraleigh] exhibits were Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for Univision Asst. News Editor Graphic by Todd Espenshade By Maddie Davis BASE: Colonels sweep King’s in weekend action, page 12 �News News The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Beacon Briefs Compiled by Cabrini Rudnicki Volunteers wanted, Adventures in Science This year’s Adventures in Science, themed “Science from a Submarine” is seeking volunteers. The event will take place April 27, with set-up starting at 7:30 p.m. The event will run until 3 p.m. Around 250 fifth-grade students are expected to attend. Volunteers are needed for positions such as lab assistants, group leaders, set-up and clean-up assistants. Volunteers will receive a T-shirt and refreshments. Please contact ashley.wojciechowski@wilkes.edu or erica.mabry@wilkes.edu for the online signup sheet or any questions. Blood drive to be held The Passan School of Nursing will be holding a blood drive on April 23. The event will take place from 7:30 a.m to 1:30 p.m in the ballroom. A table will in the SUB for donors to sign up during club hours. T-shirts will be given to the first 60 people to attend the blood drive. Walk-ins are welcome. Contact Kaitlyn or Alicia at passanblooddrive2018@ gmail.com for any questions or to schedule a time. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to deliver Max Rosenn Lecture On April 29, at 2 p.m., retired NBA basketball hall of famer, best selling author, and the Presidental Medal of Honor recipient Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will deliver the Max Rosenn Lecture in the McHale Athletic Center in UCOM. His lecture titled “Becoming Kareem” highlights politics in sports, race relations, obstacles facing positivity in everyday life, the importance of STEM education in underprivileged communities, and about the Skyhook Foundation, which attempts to bring STEM education to communities, where Jabbar sits as a chairman. There will also be a book signing by Jabbar following his lecture. Registration is open now to those who want to attend, but space is very limited. To register, visit www.wilkes.edu/kareem. 2 News Have a breaking story or a press release to send? Contact the news editor: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu 12th annual ASME car show at Wilkes On Sunday April 15, the 12th annual ASME car show will be held in the Henry Student Union Building parking lot from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be food, music and different giveaways at the car show as well as the custom, cruisers and classic cars. For those who want to register their own car for the show, there is a $10 fee for pre-registration and a $15 fee the day of the show. To pre-register, visit the ASME Wilkes car show Facebook page. For any questions or concerns email Steven Lee at steven.lee3@wilkes.edu or Tyler Kukosky at tyler.kukosky@wilkes.edu. Sign up for the annual Glow Run The fifth annual Glow Through the Darkness 5k Glow Run/Walk will be held April 13. Registration opens at 7 p.m at UCOM. The run begins at 8:30 p.m from the UCOM and ends on the greenway. Participants are asked to join in the Celebration of Life after the run/ walk. Proceeds from the event will go to suicide prevention awareness through the local chapter of the American Foundation for Sucide Prevention. Please visit community.wilkes.edu/glowrun to register online. Registration is $5 for Wilkes undergraduate students, $10 for non-students. To pay in cash, please email glowrun@wilkes.edu or visit the Glow Run table during club hours in the Student Union Building. Join the Opioid Awareness Walk to Kirby Park On April 19 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. an organized Opioid Awareness Walk, by Generation Rx will take place. The route will begin in the greeen way, lead to Kirby Park and then finish back at the start. Shirts are very limited for the walk and will be given to those who register first. Generation Rx will also be asking for $5 donations to purchase naloxone, a drug used to treat overdoses, for first responders in the surrounding community. Those interested in walking can sign up by visiting the website attached to the Wilkes Today emails. For any questions, concerns, or donations please email Alex Ponce at alex. ponce@wilkes.edu. table of contents news................2 life, a&e...........7 spread............12 Wilkes University Student Government notes By Megan Stanley Staff Writer The Wilkes University Student Government met last week. The first item of business was a fund request for the APhA Institute on Alcoholism and Drug Dependencies conference. A P2 student is attending the conference in Utah, and requested $963 to cover registration, flight and housing. During the conference those attending will have four days of education, personal development, networking and exchanging ideas for disease addiction. Student government decided to allocate $731 to cover registration and flights. The second item of business was the Student Government presidential, faculty, and staff nomination. Currently nominated for Student Government President are Alannah Guerrero, Hunter Hughes, Lexie Panek, Jeremey Tomaine and Ian Valles. Faculty that are currently nominated include political science professor Dr. Miller, psychology professor Dr. Schicatano, psychology professor Dr. Tindell, business professor Dr. Lee, chemistry professor Dr. Bradley, pharmacy professor Dr. K. Ference, biology professor Dr. Steele, psychology professor Dr. Ryerson, sociology professor Dr. Wilczak, and math and computer science professor Dr. Gapinski. Staff currently nominated include Barbara Gimble, Megan Jones, Kelly Peters, Mark Stapleton, Pam Erikson, Connie Dombroski, and Jean Eckert. The list will be sent to student government members to vote for the top five, and the top five list will be sent to the student body to vote upon. In this week’s meeting Biology Club was awarded Club of the Month for March. Member of the Month was awarded to Rima Avasatthi. The Academics Standards Committee met this week and reported that they are hoping to change the rule that a student can’t retake a course if they get a 2.0 or higher, because they understand some students may want to increase their GPA. The Academic Planning Committee also met this week. The committee conducted reviews of campus programs, including the Marching Band, which has increased its membership. The Honors program was also reviewed, and the committee acknowledged that different classes receive different benefits and are hoping to make it more fair in the future. @wilkesbeacon megan.stanley@wilkes.edu opinion..........14 sports............19 �The Beacon - April 10, 2018 News 3 Communication Studies NYT reporter, author Kenneth Department to host j-conference Vogel to visit Wilkes for conference By Mazen Zia Special to The Beacon The 18th annual Tom Bigler Journalism Conference will be held at Wilkes University on Friday, April 13, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. New York Times reporter Kenneth P. Vogel will be the keynote speaker for this year’s conference. Vogel has previously served as chief investigative reporter at Politico, as well as a correspondent for the Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre. The purpose of the conference is to introduce current and prospective students to the world of journalism, as well as other related fields. order to accommodate everyone. “With the new (media and) communications building, I especially expect there to be a higher turnout this year,” said J.M. Rey, a communication studies student and production director for 90.7 WCLH. “For the first time in forever, we are in a centralized location with new and beautiful technology for new and potential communications majors to enjoy.” Students of Wilkes University will be able to come and go from each session as they please, but visitors were required to register online for each session. “With the new (media and) communications building, I especially expect there to be a higher turnout this year. For the first time in forever, we are in a centralized location with new and beautiful technology for new and potential communications majors to enjoy.” ~J.M. Rey, communication studies student “Years ago, the conference focused only on journalism, but we’ve since broadened it to include more radio, television and public relations,” said Kalen Churcher, associate professor of communication studies and the conference coordinator. The Bigler Journalism Conference is open to all high school and college students in the area. Attendees will get a chance to acquire practical information from professionals, as well as discover different opportunities in each field. Different sessions included in the conference are industry professions, a theme discussion of what is considered news, and a workshop session. “Students are always really enthusiastic; they’re involved and energetic,” said Dr. Evene Estwick, an associate professor of communication studies at Wilkes University. Tom Bigler, for whom the conference is named, was a Wilkes University professor who held local positions in radio and television broadcast before becoming a professor of communication studies. His long and dedicated career in journalism warranted the naming of the conference in his honor. Due to increased interest, the conference will be held in the McHale Athletic Center in In addition to Vogel’s keynote speech, there are three scheduled sessions for the conference, with various options for each. According to Churcher, students are asked to pick their top three choices and she tries to place them within their top two. While two of the panels are more lecture and question/answer-based, there is also an afternoon workshop session where students can participate in hands-on activities pertaining to a variety of media-related career options. “In some of the past years’ workshops, students actually created something,” Churcher said. “Sometimes, it was a public service announcement for radio or a brief television news package. Other times, students engaged in a sort of what-wouldyou-do ethics session. “This part of the conference is really designed to get students thinking and acting about journalism and media.” If students are interested in volunteering for the event, they can contact Kalen Churcher by email at kalen.churcher@ wilkes.edu. Volunteers will help set up the event, as well assist in guiding attendees. For additional information on Friday’s conference, contact Churcher at kalen. By Toni Pennello Editor-in-Chief Kenneth Vogel, reporter for the New York Times Washington Bureau and author, will deliver the Keynote Address at the 18th annual Tom Bigler Journalism Conference, taking place on April 13. Vogel joined the newspaper in 2017 after serving as the chief investigative reporter for Politico since the publication’s launch in 2007. He has also worked for The News Tribune in Tacoma, Washington; The Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Connecticut; the Center for Public Integrity; and The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, covering state politics in the local newspaper’s Harrisburg bureau. Now, Vogel focuses primarily on conflicts of interest, lobbying and money in politics, which is the topic of his book, “Big Money: 2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp–on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich Hijacking American Politics.” The theme of the conference this year is “What IS the news that’s fit to print… or post… or broadcast?” On the theme, Vogel plans to discuss “the ways that the media can build and maintain trust when there are so many competing news sources” during his keynote address. “Particularly in politics, which is what I cover, there is a real effort by partisans, on both sides, to attack the media and discredit it when it reports stories that they don’t like,” he explained. One of the “victims” of the competitive atmosphere of media, Vogel said, has been local news, which he is no stranger to, having worked at several local outlets prior to Politico. Vogel highlighted the importance of these local outlets. “The skills that you learn and the instincts you develop in local news are not just applicable in national news, but it’s really important to have people with those skills and instincts at national media outlets,” he said. “There are fewer places for people to develop those skills and instincts that come from reporting on a local community, where you live in that community and the people in that community are really affected in a direct way.” Vogel partially attributes this to advertisers passing up local newspapers in favor of the web, where they can pay less. Vogel grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs and graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It was there that he Vogel Submitted photo “caught the bug” for journalism, as he put it, after writing a few opinion columns at the university’s independent, daily, student-run newspaper. “I just was really excited and energized by the reaction I got and the way it allowed me to engage with the community,” he said. He went on to write news and cover a season of high school basketball for local outlets before landing his first full-time journalism job at the Journal Inquirer. Vogel explained that his current beat came naturally to him after he realized that money played such a large role in government. “I would look for that angle in all of my stories, even though I wasn’t covering money in politics as a beat, and then I sort of got better at it and showed my editors that this was my area,” he explained. “I came to specialize in it and it really became my beat.” Vogel said that he feels the role of, and need for, good journalists is important in the current climate. “This is a time when a lot of institutions and conventions about government and society are really being challenged, and journalists are among the folks that have been most relied upon to sort these things out, and there is a real need for that.” �The Beacon - April 10, 2018 News 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's death commemorated By Cabrini Rudnicki News Editor Wilkes University commemorated the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death with an event on April 5. The event, which took place in the Henry Student Center Ballroom, was a collaboration of the Campus Interfaith office and the Office of Diversity Affairs. The theme of the event was “Shedding the Light.” Multiple speakers spoke at the event, including NAACP Eastern Sectional Director Ron Felton. Erica Acosta, the associate director of diversity initiatives at Wilkes, opened the event. “As we sit here today, let’s shed some light on the grassroots efforts that have been happening across the nation to continue the work that Martin Luther King Jr. started so long ago,” said Acosta. Following Acosta, Josh Shepherd, a musical theatre major, sang both the American National Anthem as well as the Black American National Anthem. President Patrick Leahy read some of the improvised speech Robert F. Kennedy gave in Indianapolis after hearing about the death of Martin Luther King Jr. At the time, Kennedy was promoting his presidential campaign, which never came to fruition due to his own assassination a few months later. “What we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness,” quoted Leahy, “but love and wisdom, compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.” Following Leahy, Dr. Helen Davis read some of Martin Luther King Jr.’s last speech from the day before he died. Davis is an English professor and part of CODIE, the Council on Diversity, Inclusion and Equity. “When I read these words yesterday, I couldn’t help but think about the current moments of the 21st century, where so much has happened, and so much hasn’t happened, and so much has changed, so much has not changed, and how frustrating it can be to feel that your country isn’t going where you want it to go and isn’t making the progress you want it to make,” said Davis. “But then I see the hope in people like Josh [Shepherd], and people like Conroy [Yearde], who are willing to make a difference, and willing to make it work, who are willing to resist.” Davis was followed by the keynote speaker, Ron Felton. Felton was the NAACP WilkesBarre branch president for 18 years. He currently serves as the NAACP Eastern Sectional Director for the NAACP PA State Conference, which he had previously held in 2015 as well. Felton spoke about his own childhood experiences in the segregated south. “I was the only one of my siblings to go to an integrated school in the north so I was not indoctrinated into the system,” said Felton. “However, I do remember going to the movies with my parents, and remembering that we had to sit in the balcony, a place reserved for blacks.” Felton then spoke about how the evolution of Dr. King’s dream in the modern world. “Dr. King’s dream is far from being over. As a matter of fact, many would say that the dream has been accelerated in the reverse direction. The changes of the last 50 years have been greatly dismantled under the leadership of United States attorney general Jeff Sessions,” he continued. Jeff Sessions has been criticized by some for his views on illegal immigration, which many say are too harsh. Felton followed his speech with an excerpt of Dr. King’s ‘I Have Seen the Promised Land.’ Following this, student government president Cody Morcom spoke. “Dr. King, though he is now gone now for 50 years, holds a special place in the hearts of those who have lived during that time period, or those like myself, who have learned about Reece further praised the university on expanding their connections. “I know when I was looking into other pharmacy schools, I noticed that there weren’t many opportunities to transfer from one place to another like you see with med-schools and other majors,” Reece said. “I think this is a great idea and it’s a good reflection on how we want to grow as a school,” Matthew Dacey, a junior pharmacy major added. Neumann University does not have a pharmacy school, so their pre-pharmacy students have to apply elsewhere if they want to continue to pursue a pharmaceutical career. The Wilkes University and Neumann University pre-pharmacy programs are similar and the school has confidence that any Neumann student can complete their pharmacy qualification at Wilkes. “We’re pretty confident in the training they’re getting there having reviewed the curriculum courses that they are going to be taking. We feel that they will be very well prepared to come to Wilkes and succeed here.” Stolte said. The Nesbitt School of Pharmacy tries to leave spots free for any transfer students that may wish to attend Wilkes. “There are a lot of colleges that don’t have schools of pharmacy and there are some really good students out there. We want to have spots for those people who do change their mind and really want to be in pharmacy,” Stolte continued. “We always have a goal each year of at least getting a few transfer students into the program. I think that’s most about getting a diversification of ideas, training and background.” Spaces are created for transfer students by Wilkes pre-pharmacy students changing their majors or failing to maintain grades for the guaranteed seat program that is available to Wilkes pre-pharmacy students. “Every year we don’t know how many [students that will] be, but based on patterns we can sort of project that out. We have spots to accommodate transfers and people interested from other universities every year,” Stolte said. This was the first academic year that the Pharmacy School failed to attract the targeted number of transfer students into the pharmacy class. “This year we did not have enough transfer students to fill the desired number of transfer seats, but that’s OK because we have enough internal Wilkes students to fill the class. I think [the partnership] will certainly help with that,” Stolte said. In terms of other partnerships and formalized connections, Stolte said, “I think there will be other people that will reach out to us ... mostly private colleges who don’t have 4 The Beacon/Cabrini Rudnicki Ron Felton, current NAACP Eastern Sectional Director, spoke at the event. Dr. King in our academic lives,” said Morcom. The vice president of the Multicultural Student Coalition, Conroy Yearde, also spoke briefly at the event. The ceremony was ended with a benediction spoken by Kristin Osipower, the campus interfaith coordinator. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was clergyman and civil rights activist in the 1960s. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Mempis, TN. @wilkesbeacon cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu Pharmacy partnership created with Neumann University By Megan Stanley Staff Writer Wilkes University recently created a partnership with Neumann University in Aston, Pa. The agreement was signed on March 23, and states that pre-pharmacy students attending Neumann University can apply to the Wilkes University Nesbitt School of Pharmacy and be guaranteed an admission interview through a streamlined process. Neumann students are not guaranteed a place in the pharmacy program, however. Dean of the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy, Dr. Scott Stolte, praised the new partnership and discussed what it means for the school. “I think it’s a sign of how well the pharmacy school here is respected across the state, certainly within our region,” Stolte said. “Now I would consider Neumann to be outside of our usual region. They’re a Philly region school and to have a relationship develop with them when there are alternatives in Philly is a nice testament to the quality of our program.” Kayla Reece, a junior pharmacy major, was impressed by the connection made with Neumann University. “It’s nice that we have this partnership, especially with a school down near Philly, because there are so many schools near Philly that could have targeted up on that and they didn’t,” she said. Courtesy of Wilkes Marketing From left to right: Scott Stolte; Anne Skelder; Lawrence DiPaolo, vice president of Neumann University; Alfred Mueller, dean of arts and sciences at Neumann a school of pharmacy and we’re the closest one to them so i think there will be opportunities. “We’ll be very careful with who we select to ensure we have similar values and similar missions. And also making sure the students who come in will be well prepared to succeed here.” @wilkesbeacon megan.stanley@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - April 10, 2018 News 5 CODIE co-sponsors one-man show: “The Trouble with My Name” By Cabrini Rudnicki News Editor Wilkes University’s Council on Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (CODIE) co-sponsored a show on Saturday with King’s College. The event, which was held on King’s College campus, was a one-man production from Professor Javier Ávila titled The Trouble with My Name. The show was free to the public. It was co-sponsored with King’s College’s Interfaith Resource Center for Peace & Justice. Ávila’s show focused on the cultural struggles he faced when moving between Puerto Rico and the mainland United States. Sitting on a stage decorated with memorabilia from his childhood, Puerto Rican flags, and photos of family, Ávila related discussed how race and ethnicity has affected his life. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Ávila considered himself to be white and was shocked to find the United States treated him differently. Ávila now is part of an interracial family having married a white American woman. The two also have a child together, Oscar, who raised on-and-off stage throughout the show, and who Ávila lovingly called ‘whitetino’, an impromptu of white and latino. “That’s when I understood, finally, that race is a construct,” said Ávila. “Yes, we are different but it is created to seperate us. How is it possible for I to be white one day and brown the next day, and exactly the same person with the same values?” Ávila continued by discussing the issues minorities, specifically those with accents and “foreign” names, face. Ávila told a story about a confused neighbor who mistaken him for a gardener, who later spoke to him only because of proof of his academic achievements, which were billboards advertising his PA Professor of the Year award. “Here’s the problem with being a minority: it’s that often we have to prove to the majority that we are not the stereotype they have of us and that could be exhausting,” he said. Ávila also discussed his family’s experiences with racism, including his father’s experience in the United States after returning from fighting in the Korean War and his grandmother’s nationalistic past. Also in the show, Ávila discussed his job as an educator, and what teaching means to him, relating a story of an apathetic student to pet peeves as a professor. Interspersed into his discussion were readings of his poems, including those on his grandmother, racism, and a touching final poem titled Bloodlines, which chronicled his son’s ancestors’ history. Ávila, spoke on the emotionality of his poetry. Do you like to write? Interested in current events? Want to get more involved? Write news for the Beacon. Contact us! The Beacon/Cabrini Rudnicki Dr. Avila spoke in front of a set that featured a chalkboard that said, “I am the future of America.” Also on stage were numerous Puerto Rican flags, as well as family photographs. “Especially with this poem, it’s painful “[The show] was fascinating, humorous, to think about things like that. But I think and also it gave us a lot to think about. There writing is a necessity, it’s something I have to were a lot of things he talked about that I just do. I would feel incomplete if I didnt.” Dr. Linda Paul, a philosophy professor SEE TROUBLE, from Wilkes University, remarked on her thoughts on the performance. Cabrini Rudnicki, News Editor: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu Maddie Davis, Assistant News Editor: madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu Page 6 �News The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Student research presented at annual Scholarship Symposium By Megan Stanley News Writer Last week, the Second annual Wilkes University Scholarship Symposium was held. Students from all majors were invited to present the research that they have conducted over the past year through posters and presentations. The Scholarship Symposium ran across four days, from April 2 to 5. In 2016 President Leahy dedicated $1 million to create the Research and Scholarship fund, which provides financial support to faculty for their work as scholars. Each year, the faculty and students receiving a grant share their work at the symposium. The symposium was opened by a presentation from Political Science Professor Dr. Thomas Baldino, who discussed “the differences between the theory and practice of Pennsylvania’s government in the 21st Century.” In his research, Baldino collaborated with Kutztown University professor Dr. Paula Holoviak. Using data from public sources about elections, budgets, court decision and votes, they hoped to find out if the Pennsylvania government had changed compared to 1968. Three presentation sessions ran over the first day, during which 15 presentations were TROUBLE, Continued from page 5 hadn’t thought about before,” she said. The co-sponsorship was one of the first events hosted by the recently formed Council on Diversity, Inclusion and Equity. The group was formed to oversee and evaluate issues on diversity and inclusion on campus. The council recently sent out a survey to students on diversity in order to get data on where help is needed on campus. Dr. Helen Davis, an english professor and co-chair of CODIE, spoke about the council’s decision to co-sponsor the show. “Dr. Ávila is a speaker who has an interesting creative presentation but also is bringing up really important issues about representation, inclusion and diversity,” she said. “He’s a great example of the kind of things [CODIE] hopes to bring in.” The event was held as an end to the regional AAUP, American Association of University Professors, Conference. The conference was co-sponsored by both Kings and Wilkes. Dr. Ayisha Williams, a neuroscience professor and co-chair of CODIE as well, spoke about how important Ávila’s performance was to bring to college students. “I think students struggle with identity, not just racial identities,” she said. “I think [Ávila’s performance] can resonate with delivered. A Global Cultures professor delivered a presentation discussing the role of British oil companies in post-colonial Africa. Students Alex Hollingshead and Yasmin Aboajila also discussed the effect of WiFi on brain signalling. They presented their preliminary results which showed how Wifi change Beta waves which represent judgement and problem solving in human bodies. Over the course of the next four days more presentation and posters were delivered. On Wednesday, during the two-hour poster presentation session, Holly Arcure, a junior chemistry major, presented her research poster. Arcure explored the synthesis and reactivity of C-3 carbohydrate exo-cyclic enones. “It makes me feel very proud. I like to represent the departments I’m working with and I like to present myself as a chemist and also represent the school,” Arcure said about being able to present her work at the symposium. Arcure also presented her poster at the National ACS meeting in New Orleans. “Being able to show other people what we’re doing here and get Wilkes’s name out, it’s great.” Emily Kamieniecki, a sophomore medical lab student delivered a poster about her them. Bringing someone who can converse with the community in such an innovative way I think will be engaging and be able to highlight important themes that many students struggle with.” Davis also praised the emotional and intellectual prose of the performance. “I think literature is a wonderful vehicle to help us understand other people and ourselves. That’s the great thing about literature, in reading about it and putting ourselves in other people’s experiences. Hopefully you are also learning about yourself and becoming more self aware.” At King’s College the lecture served as part of the Barbara Sabol Memorial Lecture series. Ávila has published a number of novels and books of poetry. One of his books, Different, was made into an award-winning motion picture titled Miente. In 2015, Ávila was awarded the 2015 Pennsylvania Professor of the Year, and in 2016 he was awarded the Hispanic Leader of the Year award by the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce. Ávila currently is an educator at Northampton Community College teaching English. @wilkesbeacon cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu 6 The Beacon/Steffen Horwath From left: Amber Grohowski, Scott Heffelfinger, Michael Kovalick research into parasite communities in short- lot of people have the chance to present their tailed shrews. Her experimentation involved research.” isolating the parasites by either physical The symposium ended on Thursday examination or DNA barcoding. Hundreds evening by a lecture from English professor of parasites have been outlined and tested Dr. Helen H. Davis. from individual shrew’s digestive organs. Delivering a lecture titled “Ambitious On being able to present her research, Women, Then and Now: Charlotte Brontë Kamieniecki said: “I think it’s pretty exciting, to Hillary Clinton,” Davis discussed the it gets more exciting the more you talk about correlations between the books of Charlotte it. I get really excited about the project when Brontë and the experiences of 21st century I talk about it.” women. Kelvin Mejia, a senior biology major who @wilkesbeacon worked on the same project as Kamieniecki megan.stanley@wilkes.edu and said: “It’s just a great opportunity, not a FOR RENT DREAM RENTALS APARTMENTS AVAILABLE FOR JUNE 2018 www.DreamRentals.net Call Jim (570) 288-3375 �y The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment Life, Arts & Entertainment 7 Have a story or want your event to be featured? Contact the Life, A&E Editor: amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu Wilkes Universitt Presents I-PAI~ • at F.M. Kirby Center • Co-written by Amanda Bialek and Shannon O’Connor Students are invited to take a break from all the hard work college brings and join Wilkes University Programming Board for a night of fun featuring the musical styling of T-Pain. On Sunday, April 15, T-Pain will perform for the Wilkes-Barre community at the F.M. Kirby Center. Faheem Najm, otherwise known as his stage name, T-Pain, is an R&B, hip-hop, rap singer from Tallahassee, Florida. The 32-year-old started his career in a group called the “Nappy Headz.” When T-Pain left this group to go solo, he created a personal take on one of Akon’s songs. Akon is a R&B vocalist, songwriter and producer. When he heard T-Pain’s rendition of his song he signed the artist to his Jive/ Zomba-supported Konvict Muzik label. T-Pain is well-known for his autotone styled songs. It creates a signature ripple through the music that has became synonymous with voice modulation. “Keep in mind, you can use AutoTune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song,” said T-Pain, according to the Brainy Quote website. T-Pain has won many awards throughout his career, including Black Entertainment Television (BET), Black Entertainment Television (BET) HipHop and Broadcast Media Incorporated (BMI) Urban awards, to name a few. His most notable awards that he has won was his, not one but two, Grammy’s. T-Pain won Best Rap Song for “Good Life (with Kanye West)” and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for “Blame it (with Jamie Foxx).” IA T-PAIN Graphic by Todd Espenshade Every year, the Wilkes University Programming Board hosts a concert to offer students time away from their studies. Kya Lewis, Wilkes University Programming Board President, said a poll was sent out through social media to see what artist the Wilkes University student body preferred. Students had the option of choosing between four artists. After working out the logistics, Lewis said “[T-Pain] was the best pick.” “I think T-Pain being able to perform for students is amazing. He is a piece of everyone’s childhood and it’ll be such a throwback experience,” Lewis said. T-Pain is back with a refreshing new perspective on music. Known for his “I AM T-PAIN” tour, that has circled the globe from the United States, Australia, Europe and beyond, he is bringing his high-energy enthusiasm to Wilkes-Barre. “I think it’s going to be a great throwback concert for everyone to enjoy,” Gabrielle Butler, junior psychology major said. “When I first found out that T-Pain was performing for our spring concert, I was excited because some of his new songs are really good in addition to his old hits that everyone grew up loving. I am super excited to go to the concert with my friends and have a great girls night,” Kayla Broscious, sophomore pharmacy major said. Long-time fan Jacee Yorks was also excited to hear that T-Pain will be performing locally. “I am most looking forward to the concert on April 15 because I love T-Pain. I was thrilled when I found out he was the Spring concert sponsored by Programming Board,” Yorks, junior business management major said. She has enjoyed listening and dancing to his music since she was a young girl. “I always try to attend the Wilkes University Programming Board concerts. I absolutely love them. A lot of work goes into planning the shows and bringing the artists to Wilkes, so I am super thankful to all the members of Programming Board for their hard work,” Yorks said. Tickets are available for students through Wilkes University. Students can purchase tickets at a discounted price of $10 in the Student Union Building until Friday. For more information on selling dates and times, follow @wilkesupb on Twitter. The general public can purchase tickets at the F.M. Kirby Center box office located at 71 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Tickets are also available online at www.kirbycenter.org or you can charge by phone at 570-826-1100. The cost is $30 per ticket for the public. 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Sponsored by the Office of Residence Life, this annual nighttime event allows participants to splatter themselves with glowin-the-dark paint, wear glow sticks and run or walk a 5K around Wilkes-Barre. The Glow Run began five years ago when the Office of Residence Life wanted to hold an event to raise suicide prevention and awareness. All proceeds from the Glow Run go to the local chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. This organization funds research, offers educational programs and promotes prevention to fulfill their mission of saving lives and providing support for those affected by suicide. Dylan Fox, coordinator for this year’s Glow Run, said putting the event together was a rewarding experience both professionally and personally. “As my third year helping out with the event, it is amazing seeing the suicide awareness that has been generated through the 5K, as well as the donation we are able to provide the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention,” Fox said. Fox said the event continues to add exciting new features each year. Following the Glow Run will be a Celebration of Life event on the greenway with a live band. This Celebration of Life adds to the nature of the event that Fox called “unique and upbeat” to raise awareness about an otherwise solemn topic. Fox added that an important part of the event is the unified feeling among participants who are passionate about its cause. Graphic by Todd Espenshade “The Glow Run is an event where our family of Colonels comes together for a common cause and stands together in support of one another,” he said. Director of Residence Life Debbie Scheibler said her department is “pumped” to be continuing the Glow Run tradition at Wilkes. “Any light we can shine on the issues of mental health awareness and suicide prevention are vitally important in breaking down stigmas and educating folks on warning signs, resources and other avenues of support,” she said. Fox said this event is important not only to the Wilkes campus, but to the Wilkes-Barre area as a whole. “This event also helps the greater community by allowing us to partner with local organizations and resource centers,” he said, “as well as giving back to the community in support of their missions and efforts they do day in and day out.” Partners for the Glow Run include the Family Service Association of Wyoming Valley and the Luzerne County Mental Health and Development Services. The Wilkes-Barre Police Department also provides support for the event. “The Wilkes community has always supported us tremendously,” Fox said. Fox emphasized that along with volunteers and organizations, the core of the event lies in the people who choose to sign up and run or walk for suicide awareness. “This event would not be possible without the participants who breathe life into the Glow Run,” he said. The Glow Run on April 13 will take place at 8:30 p.m. Registration begins at 7 p.m. in the McHale Athletic Center located in the University Center on Main. The cost is $5 for undergraduates and $10 for all others. For more information, contact glowrun@wilkes. edu. Interested in writing for the & ENTERTAINMENT Section? Why not try all three? Contact LA&E editor Amanda Bialek at amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu. �The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 10 Graphics by Todd Espenshade With the end of the semester growing near, the stress levels will begin to rise with finals looming around the corner. Whether you are freaking out about passing that tough class or worrying about getting your life together before you graduate, there is no need to fret. Follow these tips, brought to you by Mental Health America and Psych Central, to stay sane in these following weeks. Remember everything will be okay and you are awesome. Stay calm, and be Colonel. •• ••••••••••• brain needs sleep to repair and rebuild its 1. Create a Game Plan cells to make sure you are functioning at Map out when your assignments are due your best. Recharge your brain cells by and the times and locations of your exams. maintaining a good sleep schedule. Put the By knowing this information, you can book down and get some sleep because your create a schedule of when to study and what grades will thank you later. topics to make your priorities. If you stick to your game plan, you can keep your stress 3. Eat Well under control and make it through finals As much as your brain needs sleep, it also with minimal breakdowns. A planner and needs proper nutrition. Consuming energy sticky notes can become your best friends. drinks and the mysterious old crackers Stay organized by planning ahead and color you found in the back of the cabinet of coding different subjects. your dorm are not the best option. Opt for healthy food choices like vegetables and 2. Don’t Forget to Sleep proteins. By eating well-balanced food, you are giving your body the much needed energy it craves. Take some time to eat and use this opportunity to breathe and catch up with friends. With the rush to get everything done and achieve the best grade possible many people will trade in their “Z’s” for additional study time. This is not the ideal thing to do. Lack of sleep can impair your mood, memory and your ability to retain information. The 4. Don’t Overdo It On Caffeine Caffeine can be your best friend but it can also be your worst nightmare. Studies have shown that caffeine may boost your mood and help with concentration. However, too much caffeine consumption can increase anxiety and make it difficult to sleep. These are the last things you need when it comes to finals week. Be sure to drink in moderation. 5. Make Time For Yourself Taking breaks are important when it comes to studying. Overdoing it creates more unwanted and unneeded stress. When creating your game plan make sure to schedule some time to unwind. This could not the end of the world. The world may be going for a walk, getting some food, have taught you that you need to succeed meditating or hanging out with friends. Try at everything the first time. This is not to stay away from social media and gaming. the case. Failure is a significant part of the These can create unwanted distractions that learning and growth process on a personal suck you in, making it difficult to escape and professional level. Are finals important? from. This also goes for things like Netflix. Yes. Is doing everything you can to get the We all know once you watch one episode best grade possible important? Absolutely. you have to watch another and before you Is it worth risking your mental health and know it, there goes 12 hours you could have overall stability? Never. Everything you do been studying. It is all about self-discipline is for yourself. The only person you have to impress is you. So cut yourself some slack, and self-control. you are already awesome! Prepare for finals 6. Cramming is NOT the Answer and work hard, but do not sacrifice your Even though many of us like to think it mental health for numbers on a test. is, cramming is definitely not the way to go. Cramming can create more stress and build up anxiety for your exam. Instead, stick to your game plan and be productive with the time you have. If you run a little behind schedule and have to cram some topics in, try to remain calm like the Colonel you are and do the best you can to succeed. Never try to cram an entire semester into one night. This is not a “challenge accepted moment.” Studying takes time, hard work and preparation. It is best to space out study sessions over time to avoid the case of “college cramming overload.” 7. MOST IMPORTANT: You are more important than a grade You may think your grades define you and represent your character. Please remember that one bad grade or a few are * 'f * - @wilkesbeacon shannon.oconnor@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 11 Health and Wellness Fair Vicki Prekel (left), from the Victims Resource Center, and Susan Phillips (right), from the Bureau of Blindness and Visual Service were at one table at the Wellness Fair. Wilkes Pharmacy students Arianna Grusso, Meghan Kisela, Dr. Olenak, Kayla Hiryak, and Haley Mesaros presented the APhA Operation Diabetes. 0 - There were plenty of informative booths at the Wilkes Health and Wellness Fair. The Beacon/Madison Kaminski Amanda Machey and Marla Campbell were both representatives from Commonwealth Health who presented information on physical therapy. Graphic by Todd Espenshade �Wilkes Baseball vs. King’s The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Sports GAME Capozzi’s walk-off home run lifts Colonels in game one 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 KING’S 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 WILKES 2 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 Sophomore Matt Reinert holds his position during Saturday’s doubleheader. 1 9 TOTAL 6 1 0 7 1 The Colonels celebrate their walk-off victory after junior Nicholas Capozzi’s home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. King’s out hits, but can’t out score Colonels; Wilkes posts crooked number in 12th GAME TOTAL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 WILKES 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 KING’S 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 Champi’s two RBIs, Amaral’s pitching completes sweep Junior Keaton Allison watches a pitch go by against King’s. By Kirsten Peters Staff Writer KINGSTON and WILKES-BARRE TWP. — This weekend, the Colonels swept crosstown rival King’s College in a threegame series, advancing their record to 1010 overall and 6-3 in the conference. On Friday, the Colonels set the tone for the series in the first inning of game one. Junior captain Jack Fischer led off the inning with a single to right field. Senior Joe Champi followed his lead with a double 12 2 13 6 GAME 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 TOTAL WILKES 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 KING’S 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 into left-center, putting two men in scoring position. Senior Jay Clymer’s single scoring Fischer and junior Nicholas Capozzi’s single scoring Champi, both finding a hole through the left side, giving the Colonels the 2-0 lead. Wilkes was able to maintain this lead until the Monarchs’ offense broke open with five hits in the fifth inning, one of which was a two-run homer by senior Chris Rebar, giving the Monarchs the 4-2 lead. However, in the bottom of the sixth, the Colonels regained their lead by scoring four 0 9 2 Freshman Bryan Nifenecker takes a swing during Saturday’s doubleheader sweep of cross-town rival King’s College. runs of their own. Sophomore Matt Reinert, freshman Michael Patrizio and junior Brady Wing loaded the bases after each being walked. A two-out walk for Fischer, brought in Reinert and a hit-by-pitch for Champi brought in Patrizio. Freshman pinch-hitter Anthony Favor had a first-pitch drive into left-field, scoring Wing and Fischer to bring the Colonels ahead 6-4. A run in both the seventh and eighth SEE BASEBALL, Page 19 Photos: The Beacon/Kirsten Peters Design by Todd Espenshade �Wilkes Softball vs. King’s The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Sports 13 Welker’s blast, Staunton’s complete GAME game score game one win 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 TOTAL KING’S 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 WILKES 0 0 0 2 0 2 X 4 Freshman Sydney Cogswell swings a pitch during Saturday’s doubleheader against King’s College. STRIKE GAME Errors, miscues sink Lady BALL Colonels in game two 2 The Lady Colonels infield huddles at the pitcher’s circle to provide words of encouragement on Saturday. Photos: The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani By Ben Mandell Asst. Sports Editor EDWARDSVILLE, Pa. — The Wilkes University Lady Colonels split their doubleheader Saturday with the King’s College Lady Monarchs, winning game one 4-1, and dropping game two 14-2. The Lady Colonels came into this rivalry matchup winners of eight of their last nine, sporting an impressive 13-5 (3-1) record. The Lady Monarchs came in losers of three of their last four after OUT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 TOTAL KING’S 0 0 4 0 0 1 9 14 WILK ES 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 Junior Caitlin Brown fields a ground ball at third base on Saturday. getting swept by Albright on Thursday. Their record entering the day was 12-8 (1-3). In game one, the Colonels sent sophomore Gracen Staunton (7-1 2.13 era) to the circle, while the Monarchs threw senior Samantha Bloom (5-4 4.42 era). Staunton is the Colonels clear cut ace and proved it as she went out and showed it with a stellar performance. Staunton went the full seven innings, allowing just one run on seven hits and one walk. Staunton looked dominant controlling the Lady Monarch lineup. “She was hitting her spots. If you look at the box score, she did not get behind anyone and she didn’t throw a lot of balls,” Lady Colonels head coach Sarah Leavenworth (Maulorico) said. “When Gracen is doing that, that is when she is at her best.” The scoring started in the second SEE SOFTBALL, Page 19 �The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Opinion Opinion Have an opinion or want to write a guest column? Contact the opinion editor: andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Voice cOur _______ Editorial Staff 2017-18 MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Toni Pennello Managing Editor - Danny Van Brunt Adviser - Dr. Kalen Churcher SECTION EDITORS News - Cabrini Rudnicki LA&E - Amanda Bialek Opinion - Andre Spruell Sports - Luke Modrovsky ASSISTANT EDITORS News - Maddie Davis LA&E - Shannon O’Connor Opinion - Nick Filipek Sports - Ben Mandell & Alex Kielar DESIGN EDITORS Todd Espenshade - Graphic Designer PHOTOGRAPHERS Nicole Gaetani EDITORIAL BOARD Toni Pennello Danny Van Brunt Cabrini Rudnicki Shannon O’Connor Andre Spruell Megan Stanley 141 S. Main St. Clayton and Theresa Karambelas Media Center Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 www.thewilkesbeacon.com 14 ----=~ Each week, The Beacon’s editorial board will take a stance on a current issue. Should College Athletes get paid? The NCAA has been surrounded in many scandals lately with their “amateur” athletes receiving payments from boosters, fans and alumni with ties to their programs. This issue stems from the NCAA’s rules that athletes are not allowed to receive payments in any way, from anyone. Part of this issue comes from the schools and programs recruiting athletes and offering them payment in the process. A recent scandal reported by ESPN involving Arizona’s head basketball coach Sean Miller was talking to a sports agent, which was recorded on a wiretap phone call. The discussion was about a $100,000 payment to get Deandre Ayton enrolled at the school. Ayton played last season with Arizona and was recently declared eligible for the NBA Draft. There have been other violations reported by ESPN, such as Michigan State’s Miles Bridges, who was forced to donate $40 to a charity to regain eligibility after it was revealed that his parents had dinner with an agent and let him pay without Bridge’s being aware at all. Bridges also played the most recent season for Michigan State before declaring for the NBA Draft. The issue that some members of the Beacon Editorial Board have with the NCAA not allowing players to receive any kinds of payment stems from a recent report from USA Today back in early March, which stated that the NCAA brought in close to $1.1 billion during the 2017 fiscal year. While this number is really astonishing, the expense report did come out to around $956 million. There is still a big chunk of money left for NCAA officials to play with, and the issue is that they are a non-profit. Wilkes University’s new head football coach Jonathan Drach shared his opinion. “The NCAA generates revenue from the football and basketball athletes [both popular American sports] who are forced to develop in the NCAA because their sports lack a minor league development system. I believe that college athletes should be compensated for the revenue that is brought in by them, but it needs to be regulated so there is not a recruiting gap between the powerhouse schools and the middle tier programs.” The NFL and NBA both lack minor league systems that the two other major American sports use. The NBA has started the G-League recently, but it is still a work in progress. The lack of minor league systems lead these athletes to the NCAA. The NFL requires athletes three year years removed from high school and usage of your college eligibility. The NBA has the famous “1-anddone” rule which requires athletes to be one year removed from high school, sending most of them to college. A select few play overseas. NCAA President Mark Emmert stated that “I think the other issue is that if you were going to move into a model where you were just playing football and basketball athletes— at least that’s the argument that always comes forward—the way athletic departments are going to do that is they’re going to eliminate other sports. There’s really no other way for them to do it. ... you would eliminate all the other sports that are out there in order to do that and take away opportunities from men and women.” Emmert’s argument is a common one that has worked so far to keep from paying the athletes. But there is still a chunk of money that is missing from the revenue generated and expense statements. They should at the very least be compensated for what they are worth, which is more than their education because most do not stay to finish their degrees. The athletic departments of each school should still have the funds to support the other athletic programs while the Division 1 athletes receive a regulated compensation. Wilkes University’s head strength and conditioning coach Keith Klahold sides with Emmert on this hot topic. “They absolutely should not be paid. One can argue that these athletes are getting paid to begin with. At all levels, college athletes receive benefits that other students do not get like a strength coach for their team, access to a support staff in their coaches, and treatments from athletic trainers. All athletes are equal to each other so everyone should be paid or nobody should.” Klahold’s thoughts are not uncommon, and The Beacon does agree that there will be controversy between athletes from different sports. The thing is, it should not matter if the other sports have a problem with these athletes getting paid. The Division 1 football and basketball athletes make the most money, baseball and softball bring in minimal funds from their respective tournaments due to their popularity. We believe that if the other athletes feel that they should be paid with the football and basketball players, they should see that their sports for the most part are funded by the popularity of these tournaments. Baseball and softball can support themselves, but they do not help the NCAA profit. Therefore they do not need to be compensated for their worth. Our thoughts are that Division 1 football and basketball players should receive payment for the revenue they bring the NCAA. The NCAA should regulate the payment and pay all the football and basketball athletes an equal amount, regulating it to ensure that the bigger, juggernaut programs do not get another recruiting advantage. The athletes getting paid should not be paid a large sum of money, or large compared to the millions of the dollars they would make in the NBA, but a small sum of a few thousand dollars, based on the left over money and what they bring in. Once the NCAA decides to pay their players, fewer athletes will think about going straight to the G-league or going overseas before the draft which will increase the talent pool the NCAA has. This turns into a ripple effect; when the talent level increases, it draws more viewers, which leads to more revenue for the NCAA. It is understood that the amateur status will be lost once the NCAA pays these athletes, but to keep the the game pure, the athletes should still not be allowed to sign with agents and they should not be allowed to sign endorsement deals. The athletes get paid for the revenue they bring in, and they game is still pure. Some people say the game is better because the lack of payment is for the love of the game but the payment is minimal, and the athletes play for future paychecks at this point anyway, which is why they declare for the draft when they do, to ensure they get paid at the best time. �The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Opinion 15 The growing popularity of Latin trap music in the U.S. By Andre Spruell Opinion Editor The genre of rap/hip-hop music is undoubtedly one of the most popular genres in the United States. What if the genre was even bigger, but in a different language? It is not hard to imagine because this is the case with the growing popularity of Latin trap music. Before diving into some of the artists and why it is so popular today, for those unfamiliar with the genre, there were other genres that helped pave the way for Latin trap music. According to the Miami New Times, Latin, or Spanish-language,” trap is influenced by black culture, specifically Southern hip-hop. (The term “trap” comes from slang for places where drug deals take place.) It began with Latin trappers taking known beats and dropping their rhymes on top. Based on that definition of the genre alone, it is easy to recognize why it draws parallels to rap/hip-hop music since it draws its influence from. Elements used in each song include lurching bass lines, jittering 808s and the eyes-half-closed vibe, according to The Fader. This formula has allowed artists in this genre to produce hit after hit. If it derives directly from hip-hop itself, how is it bigger than rap/hip-hop in the U.S.? Simply put, the answer is given through the number of streams these songs have, as well as the hundreds of millions views each song generates. Being a fluent Spanish speaker, I understand what the songs mean and thoroughly enjoy it more than American rap/hip-hop. Although I do enjoy American rap/hip-hop, many people that follow the genre can attest to the fact that the genre just simply is not what it used to be. Nowadays, rap/hip-hop has turned into having a killer beat and a catchy chorus, which puts less emphasis on having the ability to be lyrically good. It has lessened so much so that most rappers today cannot even be understood, which led to the creation of the term “mumble rap.” The lack of quality within the genre has paved the way for something like Latin trap to become what it is today. Aside from American influences like Southern hip-hop, Spanish trap also draws influences from dembow, a Dominican style of hip-hop, and reggaeton, a puerto rican genre that began in the late 90s and dominated American airwaves for Spanish music listeners in the early to mid 2000s. Reggaeton was arguably the most popular hispanic genre of music Bad Bunny before Spanish trap music came into play in my opinion. Due to the genre also gaining influences from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, many of the artists in the genre hail from these two countries. The genre of Latin trap is inescapable for those that listen to Latin music because it is all over social platforms like Spanish radio stations, Spotify and Youtube just to name a few. In my opinion, the biggest artist in this genre is the 24-year-old puerto rican artist known as Bad Bunny. There are many reasons as to why he is the most popular artist in the genre. His style in the way his songs are done is unique because although it is a Latin genre, he often makes American pop culture references in his songs. Making these references creates cross culturalism, which is why I believe so many people are drawn to him. Another reason why he is so enamored by people, even those that do not listen to his music, is because of his fashion sense. Bad Bunny is a fashion icon in the eyes of many people familiar with the artist Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for Univision because he is not afraid to wear bright colors and is not afraid to “push the envelope” when it comes to fashion. Also, streetwear is a style of fashion that has become extremely popular among young adults and is now seen as high fashion. When people tend to think of influential people in the streetwear style of fashion, Bad Bunny is a name that frequently pops up. If you think it is just my personal opinion that he is the biggest and best artist in the genre, Rolling Stone recently came out with a whole article about the artist entitled, Bad Bunny: The FourBillion-Stream Man Leading the Latin Trap Explosion. If Rolling Stone, one of the most famous if not the most famous magazine company in the country backing up my argument is not enough, I do not know what is. The influence Bad Bunny has on the genre can be compared to the influence Drake has on the hip-hop genre. There are other artists that need to be credited for helping propel Latin trap music. Some of the artists include Ozuna, who is known more for his vocals as opposed to his rhymes, and other Latin rappers like Arcangel, Farruko, De La Ghetto, Noriel and Bryant Myers to name a few. Other artists that contribute to the genre that are not exclusively Latin trap artists are J. Balvin, Nicky Jam, Daddy Yankee, and many others. For me, the biggest reason why the genre is so popular is the fact that all of these artists often collaborate with each other to remix one of their fellow artists biggest songs. The group formally known as Mambo Kingz and DJ Luian can be credited with propelling the genre and they are the brains behind producing Bad Bunny and who allows all these artists to do songs together, creating a brotherhood between everyone involved in Latin trap. Based on everything, I believe that the genre will continue to grow and is something that will stick around for a long time. With that being said, the next step for the genre will be to see if it can stand the test of time. @wilkesbeacon andre.spruell@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Opinion 16 Should everyone learn another language? By Savannah Pinnock Staff Writer Language can be defined as an intangible yet cohesive element responsible for vibrations of oneness present throughout society. It is the inconspicuous cause that results in strongly unifying and collective effects. The gravity behind language is immeasurable as it is central to virtually every phenomenon seen throughout society. On an individual level, one can quickly ascertain the extent through which linguistic illiteracy can affect members of society. If one seeks to travel the world, or make connections with individuals from another walk of life, it is nearly impossible to accomplish if one is not fluent or familiar with the language of the other person. Language is a well known concept, yet its significance is often taken for granted. With this being said, it begs the question, is it necessary for everyone to learn another language? The answer to this is a resounding yes, although the extent of exposure may be affected by one’s culture. According to Leonardo De Valoes, an adjunct faculty member writing for Trinity Washington University, on an international level “being unable to communicate in a country is akin to living with a serious impairment; it is very difficult and near impossible, to adapt and get along with new people if there is no way to communicate with one another.” This situation is prevalent around the world within individuals who are unilingual or lack fluency in other languages they be be exposed to. This phenomenon is known as a language barrier and it emphasizes the need for fluency in other languages. Such a situation is manifested in different ways dependent on which hemisphere one calls home. Within the Western world, the vast majority of individuals subconsciously subscribe to a philosophy of rugged individualism. Guiding principles such as the American Dream and an individualistic pursuit of happiness have shaped the Western World. Alongside this air of individualism is a strong desire for autonomy and affiliation with individuals who are similar to you. Often, this is seen in cases in which an individual knows the language of their parents as well as that of their peers, cohort, and remote society. Often individuals find themselves with the ability to speak one or two languages, however as it pertains to intercultural relations, the individualistic person may find that they are lacking on an linguistic level. On the other hand, the vast majority of the Eastern world are subconsciously influenced by a collectivist worldview. Notions of a group consciousness and interconnectedness are stressed in a harmonious way. The result of this is often a desire to learn the language with which one encounters. This desire is fueled by a collectivist love for community and interconnectedness. In other words, the collectivist may possess a natural inclination to learn other languages. If one follows through with this cultural predisposition, the collectivist may soon attain the status of being a polyglot. Subsequently, one needs to evaluate their personal philosophy; if you find that you lack the desire to learn about other cultures, it is essential that you learn another language as your comfort zone lies within your individuality. On the other hand, if you are a collectivistic person, you may already possess an inclination to be familiar and connected with other cultures, especially the language of those cultures. With that being said, it is imperative that the collectivist follows through with this proclivity as it is essential on a universal level. So, when pondering whether everyone should learn another language, rest assured that the answer is a resounding “yes,” as language is central to virtually everything one may encounter. Have an opinion you’d like to share? Email us! andre.spruell@ wilkes.edu @wilkesbeacon savannah.pinnock@wilkes.edu Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! Facebook: The Beacon Twitter: @wilkesbeacon Instagram: @wilkesbeacon �The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Opinion Meet the Majors This week’s major: Sports Management Interviews and photos by Andre Spruell Opinion Editor Every week, The Beacon will offer a chance for majors to be placed in the spotlight. Each student that gets chosen will have a few words to express why they chose the major and how they feel it will benefit them in the future. James Dotter Junior “The major and its courses have already greatly helped me in preparing for my future and I believe they will continue to do so. My sports management and personal and professional development courses have been the most beneficial to me. They’ve helped me with out-of-the class.” Matt Rossi Sophomore “Sports is something I want to do with my life and what makes me happy. I think that I will definitely be able to be happy with my job. With engineering I wasn’t really happy with what I was doing, but with sports management I would be working with something I’m excited about.” 17 �The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Opinion Does technology enhance or get in the way of learning? By Sarah Matarella Staff Writer In an age where technology is constantly advancing, it has become thoroughly interwoven into our daily lives. Therefore, it can have a significant effect on our lives and specifically, have a great effect on the way that we learn. In many instances, technology makes learning more convenient with regard to accessing information. Search engines make it possible to have virtually everything at our fingertips. This can be beneficial in both professional and casual settings whether it encompasses doing research for an assignment or looking certain topics up because they sparked your interest in a conversation with a friend. In addition, technology allows us to have many different forms of sources that we acquire this readily available information from. Sources include scholarly journals, dictionaries, articles, encyclopedias, and other media that can be accessed without even leaving the comfort of your home. In the past, people would have to go to their nearest library to find less than a fraction of the information that is now available 24/7. Furthermore, many people learn in different ways and technology is adaptable to any of these different learning techniques. Prior to the internet and all of the technological advancements, there was truly only one way to learn and that was in the solitary logical style: finding information on your own via mere logic, reasoning, and systems. For some people, it is simply unnatural to learn that way. People can be visual learners, aural learners, and even hands-on learners. There are also people who learn better in when they collaborate; or when there is one on one 18 The options are endless, however, technology cannot only enhance learning. It is also equally as capable of getting in the way of learning. While all of this technology can be very beneficial in the learning environment, having so many options can also take away from our ability to think critically. With all of this information that is presented right at our fingertips, we do not necessarily have to figure everything out for ourselves. In addition, although there are many different types of sources to get information, they begin to become less and less accurate as more become available. With sites like Wikipedia that allow any user to create an account and update information that is displayed on the website, it becomes unclear whether the information on the internet is credible or not. All of the available media technology The Beacon/Nicholas Filipek can also act as a significant distraction while attention as opposed to learning from a lecture. trying to complete tasks. Unlike a library With technology, people can learn no might be used, the internet is not just used for matter the particular learning style they are research and information. The internet is used accumstomed to. Visual learners can use for entertainment, escapism, and other forms Prezi and Powerpoint to develop notes and self gratification. Thus, when tasks need to be presentations that incorporate pictures and completed, it is very easy to lose focus and be graphs into a particular concept that they are drawn into an endless black hole of content trying to learn. Aural learners can listen to instead of completing your obligations. educational podcasts or online lectures to help reiterate lessons they may have learned in a @wilkesbeacon class. sarah.matarella@wilkes.edu Are today’s children receiving too many trophies? By Brandon Belfonti Staff Writer We live in a very “funny” time right now. A time where everyone deserves something. Something for anything and that is dangerous. It’s a scary reinforcer of the upcoming generation. The typical memory of receiving a participation trophy for that fall soccer league rings a bell. Until leaving for college I had all of my trophies lined up on the dresser and now that I think about it, the participation ones looked the same as the time we won that prestiged tournament. Team Arsenal ran the place, a little shout out. The point is that they were replicas and it devalued the world out of what we accomplished from a visual. Yeah, just being there is maybe seventy percent of the work, but that deserves a trophy? It’s as if the reward of the experience itself is being diminished greatly and that mindset is only increasing. There is a reason the best team gets something to separate them from the rest and that is because they were better at whatever was being done. Why does that feel like an insult in today’s society? I’m not really sure. People work at things and become skilled at them and the rewards are as such. An excuse for lesser ability is provided by these equal trophies. It only kills the ability of the entire population. I’ll explain. If everyone gets a trophy for whatever ability they have from the start, then they will be satisfied. There will be no drive to improve because they have the same reward as the winners. Since they do not care to improve and win the actual battle, then the real winners do not have to work as hard to … well, win. There is probably a term for this somewhere, but that is how it goes and it is cynical. It is cynical because we are taking away the basic lesson of what work does. It applies to so much more than a little soccer tournament, even though we will all reminiscence about such things for eternity. “I am not about to raise two boys to be men by making them believe that they are entitled to something just because they tried their best” James Harrison, Steelers Linebacker, once wrote on instagram. If you tried your hardest on that math test, but got a 50 percent, you would not be happy with that reward. You would either say math is not your thing or you would go study harder to raise that grade. Why have we morphed the boundaries for our growing generation? Why have we made it easier? Because we simply can. We control these things. We want kids to be happy and feel accomplished with confidence. It is wellmeaning, to bring a smile to your child’s face. That is now, that is the present, but I can promise you that a lesser work ethic is not. Math scores do not lie and soccer scores do not lie - so why must we treat one as a fake number. Those little trophies are tricky. They represent more than one would like to think. One might argue that it’s just a dumb soccer game and little medal. No, it is a memory, it is real, and it is going to have some psychological impact somewhere because the lesson must be taught at some point or hell, “Why didn’t I get into Harvard? I tried my hardest!” will be a reasonable statement down the road. Here is a take from somebody who knows works and definitely knows winning: “I said, ‘Well listen, get the fourth place trophy, go home. You take the fourth place trophy, you put it up right where you can see it, and when you wake up in the morning, you look at the trophy and you remind yourself of what you’ll never win again,” that is Kobe Bryant, five time NBA champion, telling his kids they can either put that trophy up on the wall for fun or throw it away and learn how to win. It seems that people find this harsh. They are right. Many like to just be there and that satisfies their wants. Those people usually don’t care too much about winning either. @wilkesbeacon brandon.belfonti@wilkes.edu �Sports The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Sports BASEBALL, Continued from page 12 innings for the Monarchs tied the game at 6-6. But in the bottom of the ninth, a leadoff solo homerun on the fourth pitch of Capozzi’s at-bat gave the Colonels the 7-6 victory and freshman pitcher Colin Smith the win after outings on the mound by freshman Matthew Konikow, juniors Matt Maranca and Noah Durnin and freshman Andrew Indzonka. “It was a huge series for us since anytime we face King’s the competition level and emotions are going to be high,” said Capozzi. “All weekend it felt like a playoff atmosphere and it was really great for our team to be able to sweep them.” On a windy Saturday, the Colonels traveled to King’s College to finish their series with a doubleheader, winning game two of the series 13-6 in twelve innings and winning game three 3-1 in a regular seven innings. In the first inning, Patrizio reached first on an error by the Monarchs’ shortstop, which Champi capitalized on with an RBIsingle. A Reinert single to left-field helped to bring in Champi, giving the Colonels an early 2-0 lead. In the top of the fourth, the Monarchs took advantage of freshman Matt Mellinger’s lead-off walk and senior Brad Wilkins’ single to right-field to put two men on, ultimately scoring both of them and tying the game 2-2. When the game remained tied at the bottom of the seventh, Wilkes and King’s embarked on five extra innings to conclude the game. In the top of the eighth, a single by Wing kicked off the Colonels’ rally. After advancing to second on a pitch in the dirt, Wing was able to score off a clutch single by Champi to left-field, putting the Colonels ahead 3-2. However, the Monarchs quickly answered back in the bottom of the inning, tying the game 3-3. In the top of the ninth, Reinert made his way around the bases. He singled to rightfield, advanced to second on a sac-bunt by freshman Bryan Nifenecker, and tagged up on freshman Vincent Uzzi’s fly-out to right-field, putting Reinert on third base for 19 Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the sports editor: Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu Wing’s RBI-single into shallow center-field, giving the Colonels the 4-3 lead. A lead-off double by King’s Rebar continued the back-and-forth game play, allowing him to score and tie the game at 4-4. The game remained tied until the top of the 12th inning when Patrizio led off with a single past second base. After stealing second, Patrizio was able to advance to third on an overthrow by the pitcher. With an overthrow by the centerfielder to third, Patrizio was able to cross the plate and take the 5-4 lead in this heat-of-the-moment action, being the catalyst to the Colonels break-out inning. A walk by Fischer and a single to centerfield by Clymer put two men on for Capozzi’s clutch double to left-center, bringing their lead to 7-4. A single to left-field by Reinert, walks for Nifenecker and sophomore Tyler Walther, an error to second base for Wing, and a double to center for Patrizio allowed the Colonels to bat around the lineup and expand their lead to 13-4. Although the Colonels had a substantial lead, the Monarchs did not go down without a fight in the bottom of the 12th, tacking on two runs to make the game 13-6. A solid five innings on the mound from junior Jeremy Worlinksy followed by three innings from freshman Nolan Ott kept the game close and allowed Smith to improve his record to 3-1 with four innings in relief. After the high intensity of game two, Wilkes and King’s simmered down for a fastpaced game three, allowing the Colonels to win 3-1 and sweep King’s in the series for the first time since 2015. In the top of the first, Patrizio led off with a walk, making his way around the bases and scoring off of Champi’s sac-fly to rightfield, giving the Colonels the 1-0 lead. In the bottom of the first, the Monarchs scored their only run of the game, tying the game 1-1. In the top of the second, the Colonels regained their lead for good after Wing got on with a walk, stole second and scored off of Champi’s single to left. In the top of the fourth, the Colonels @wilkesbeacon Kirsten.Peters@wilkes.edu SOFTBALL, Continued from page 13 inning when King’s sophomore shortstop Mackenzie Yori drove in sophomore Taylor Norris. That would be all for the Lady Monarchs in game one as the Colonels took over, getting on the board in the bottom of the fourth when junior Caitlin Brown drove in freshman Britny Jumalon. Junior Haley Welker followed with an opposite field two-run home run to right field. That was all Staunton needed as she shut the door on game one and the Lady Colonels won 4-1. Game two saw sophomore Celine Podlesney (4-5 3.16 era) and sophomore Kristina Kocher (4-2 4.45 era) toe the rubber for their respective teams. Wilkes was looking to build off of game one and use the momentum from their win in game one to get things going in game two. The game started looking like a pitcher’s duel through the first two innings. Both were perfect until the top of the third, when freshman Gabby Leary hit her first career home run. Podlesney took care of the next two batters, retiring eight of her first nine from the game, but then gave up three straight extra base hits and a single which put Wilkes down 4-0. Leavenworth had seen enough, and swapped her senior first basemen Christina Gambino into the circle. Gambino got the out she needed, but the Lady Colonels continued to struggle with the bats as they waited until the bottom of the fifth to get there first hit when Gamino doubled off of Kocher. Kocher stranded the pinch runner freshman Alexis Kessler and the score remained the same until the top of the sixth when the Lady Monarchs scratched their fifth run across. After a scoreless bottom half of the sixth, King’s came up to the plate ready to swing as the top of their order started things off. Wilkes allowed 13 Lady Monarchs to bat and 9 runs to cross between four errors and nine hits allowed by three different pitchers. The Lady Colonels tried to stop the bleeding by putting sophomore Erika Gerace in for Gambino, but once things didn’t work out, Leavenworth decided to put Podlesney back into the circle to just try and end the disastrous inning. “It was a total mental lapse, it’s something that as we grow as a program and as we grow as a team we need learn how to avoid,” Leavenworth said. “We need to learn how to win and they need to learn that winning the first game doesn’t mean you’ll win the second. They need to learn not to assume.” A plus for Wilkes in game two was that Welker hit her second home run of the day and third on the year in the bottom of the seventh, spoiling Kocher’s shutout bid. “If you look at the power in the bottom of our lineup, it’s insane. The bulk of our home runs come from the six, seven and eight spots,” said Leavenworth. “We are lucky that we do not have a traditional lineup where the bottom half is weak, and (Welker) helped prove that today.” Welker’s home run was a two run shot to dead center, finally getting the Lady Colonels on the scoreboard but it was too little too late. Kocher finished the shortly after, helping the Lady Monarchs pick up the 14-2 win, earning the split. Wilkes still uses the split to improve their record to 14-6 (4-2) which is good enough for second in the MAC Freedom standings behind DeSales 9-9 (6-2). The Lady Colonels will be back in action with two road doubleheaders Tuesday and Thursday against non-conference opponents in Keystone College and Lycoming College. MAC Freedom play resumes Saturday at Manhattanville. The remaining home games will be broadcasted live on WCLH 90.7 FM, Wilkes University radio. For more information, please visit WCLH.org, their Facebook page (WCLH 90.7 FM - Wilkes University) or on Twitter @WCLH_radio or @WCLHsports. @wilkesbeacon Ben.Mandell@wilkes.edu �Sports The Beacon - April 10, 2018 20 3-on-3: Champions need "if" game in charity basketball tournament By Luke Modrovsky Sports Editor WILKES-BARRE -- Team Ball So Hard was faced with adversity in the first annual 3-on-3 basketball tournament hosted by Supporting Autism and Families Everywhere (SAFE). The tournament, held at the Arnaud C. Marts Center at Wilkes University, featured 15 teams competing in a double elimination style bracket. Trailing 19-14 in the winner bracket final, Wilkes senior Mason Gross tried lift his team to victory, as a win would put Team Ball So Hard directly in the final. Gross cut the lead to one with an and-one free throw, but it would be Juan Delarosa of Hazleton to end the game, sending Team 3-Point Shooters to the finals. Team Ball So Hard would win the loser bracket final to set up a rematch with Team 3-Point Shooters. In order to win the championship, Team Ball So Hard needed to win twice. And did they ever. After being defeated 21-17 just an hour ago, Team Ball So Hard took both championship games, including the “if ” game to claim the tournament title. Championship game number one featured a closer affair, but Team Ball So Hard would never trail. Gross scored a beyond the arc in both championship tie to Autism as her oldest son, 4-year-old game-high of 10 field goals to force a final games, as well as several key shots in the Jackson, is diagnosed with a severe form of team’s win in the winner bracket final. the disease. and deciding game. “I have a degree but it feels like I’m In the second contest, a back at school,” said Dragon when Gross layup gave his team a discussing what it is like having to take quick 1-0 lead, but a Angel care of her oldest son, “he changes the Lopez shot from outside the way we see life.” arc took it away just as fast With Jackson being Lindsay’s giving Team 3-Point Shooters motivation for having this event, how a 2-1 lead. it all came into fruition was unique as Tournament rules counted well. regular two-point as one Dragon notes that when it comes to point and shots from beyond having events to help out families whose the three-point line as two. children have autism, it is often difficult Back-to-back scores by to get the whole family involved. Wilkes junior Zach Walser “Basketball is a great way to get the gave Team Ball So Hard a lead they would never look back The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky younger generation involved,” said Dragon. from, as they rolled to a 21-9 Mason Gross shoots over Angel Lopez during Sunday's The younger generation was certainly victory. 3-on-3 basketball tournament hosted by Wilkes. involved as members Wilkes men’s Champions Team Ball The Michigan product is a social worker basketball, women’s basketball, field hockey, So Hard consisted of Gross, junior Zach Walser and freshmen Christie Challenger locally, as well as an assistant coach on local football, men’s soccer, men’s volleyball and high school G.A.R. women’s volleyball were all represented. and Kristie Najdek. All the proceeds from the event were They volunteered for the event in various Second place finishers Team 3-Point Shooters consisted of Delarosa, Lopez of raised for SAFE. The organization to use the roles, such as participating in the actual Hazleton, Chris Cabrera of Hazleton and money to aid the local Autism community tournament, working the concession stand through things like art classes, swimming as well as selling event t-shirts and theme Jessica Garrison of Wilkes-Barre. basket tickets. Garrison carries playing experience lessons, and many other activities. Lindsay Dragon, organizer of the from NAIA Division II Spring Arbor in @wilkesbeacon Michigan. She added a pair of shots from event, is a mother of two who has a close Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu Wilkes Spring Sports Schedules Men’s Tennis Mar. 4 Nebraska Wesleyan W 9-0 Mar. 4 St. John Fisher W 9-0 Mar. 6 Methodist L 3-6 Mar. 8 Bridgewater W 6-3 Mar. 8 William Woods L 2-7 Mar. 8 Catholic University W 7-2 Mar. 11 Yeshiva W 8-1 Mar. 29 @ TCNJ L 2-7 *s-Apr. 4 @ DelVal PPD *s-Apr. 4 @ Misericordia PPD Apr. 8 @ Franklin & Marshall 1:00 p.m. Apr. 13 vs. Oneonta 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 14 vs. DeSales 11:00 a.m. Apr. 16 vs. Ursinus 3:30 p.m. *s-Apr. 19 vs. King's 3:30 p.m. s-Apr. 19 vs. Lycoming 3:30 p.m. s-Apr. 21 vs. Cabrini 11:00 a.m. *s-Apr. 21 @ Eastern 1:30 p.m. s-Apr. 21 vs. Muhlenberg 2:00 p.m. Apr 22 @ Stevens Inst. of Tech. 12:00 p.m. Apr. 25 @ Bloomsburg 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. FDU-Florham 10:30 a.m. Apr. 28 vs. Goucher 3:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Ralston Athletic Complex s-split squad Record: 8-3 (MAC Freedom 0-0) Women’s Tennis Mar. 4 Nebraska Wesleyan W 9-0 Mar. 4 St. John Fisher W 9-0 Mar. 6 Methodist L 0-9 Mar. 8 Bridgewater W 7-2 Mar. 18 vs. Moravian PPD Mar. 29 @ TCNJ L 0-9 *Apr. 4 @ Delaware Valley PPD *Apr. 5 @ Misericordia 4:00 PPD Apr. 8 @ Franklin & Marshall 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 14 vs. DeSales 11:00 a.m. Apr. 14 vs. Cabrini 3:30 p.m. *Apr 18 @ King's 3:30 p.m. Apr. 19 vs. Lycoming 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 21 @ Eastern 1:30 p.m. Apr 22 @ Stevens Inst. of Tech. 12:00 p.m. Apr. 25 @ Bloomsburg 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. FDU-Florham 10:30 a.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Ralston Athletic Complex Record: 6-2 (MAC Freedom 0-0) Men's Lacrosse Feb. 14 Scranton L 5-14 Feb. 21 Marywood L 7-12 Feb. 24 Keystone W 14-3 Feb. 28 Rosemont W 18-5 Mar. 3 Alvernia W 13-4 Mar. 10 Neumann W 18-12 Mar. 14 vs. Moravian L 10-11 Mar. 24 @ Wells W 23-8 Mar. 27 vs. Mount St. Mary L 8-16 *Apr. 7 @ FDU-Florham L 7-11 *Apr. 11 vs. King's 7:00 p.m. *Apr. 14 vs. Manhattanville 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 18 @ Misericordia 7:00 p.m. *Apr. 21 @ Eastern 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 25 vs. Delaware Valley 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. Desales 1:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Schmidt Stadium Record: 5-5 (MAC Freedom 0-1) Results through Apr. 7 Women's Lacrosse Mar. 1 vs. Immaculata L 9-21 Mar. 3 vs. Maritime W 13-4 Mar. 10 @ Purchase L 7-14 Mar. 13 vs. Keystone L 6-9 Mar. 15 vs. Old Westbury L 5-13 Mar. 17 @ Mount St Mary L 12-17 Mar. 20 vs. Cazenovia W 19-11 Mar. 24 @ Mount St. Vincent L 11-15 Mar. 27 @ Lancaster Bible W 20-16 *Apr. 7 vs. FDU-Florham L 1-13 *Apr. 11 @ King's 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 14 @ Manhattanville 12:00 p.m. *Apr. 18 vs. Misericordia 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 21 vs. Eastern 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 24 @ Delaware Valley 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 @ Desales 1:00 p.m. Apr. 29 @ Centernary 2:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Schmidt Stadium Record: 3-6 (MAC Freedom 0-0) �The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Sports What you missed: Colonel Athletics in brief By Alex Kielar Asst. Sports Editor Mar. 27 BASE: In a game shortened to 8 innings, the Colonels took advantage of five Marywood errors, as they won 12-5. Freshman Bryan Nifenecker led Wilkes with 3 RBIs, going 2-for-3. SB: Led by senior Christina Gambino’s three home runs and nine RBIs, the Lady Colonels swept the double-header of Eastern, 8-0 (six innings) and 6-5. Gambino had 7 of the Lady Colonels 8 RBIs in game one. WLAX: Senior Jessyca Held (nine), junior Kyra Boccio (five), and freshman Sierra Duman (four) combined for 18 of the 20 Lady Colonel goals in a 20-16 victory over Lancaster Bible College. MVB: Senior Daniel Sales scored a double-double with 10 kills and 22 assists, but the Colonels still fell to Misericordia in fivesets (26-24, 17-25, 25-19, 21-25, 15-9). MLAX: The Colonels were outscored 8-1 in the second quarter and fell 16-8, to Mount Saint Mary. Junior John Wink registered his 100th career point, unassisted. Mar. 29 MTEN: The doubles team of juniors Jonathan White and Courtney Murphy came up with the only doubles win of the day for the Colonels, as they fell to TCNJ 7-2. White also captured the lone singles win (6-1, 3-6, 10-3). WTEN: The Lady Colonels were unable to come up a victory in any match, as they fell 9-0 to TCNJ. MVB: Junior Jones Mensah set career highs with 14 kills and six blocks, but the Colonels still fell to Arcadia in four sets (2527, 25-15, 25-22, 25-13). Apr. 4 MVB: Junior Jones Mensah led the Colonels with 6 kills and 9 assists, but Wilkes was swept by Messiah 3-0 (25-10, 25-15, 25-17). Apr. 5 SOFT: With game one tied at 1, sophomore Sarah Gibson smashed a go-ahead home run, as she finished 4-for-4 in that game. Sophomore Gracen Staunton shut down the Marywood bats, going the complete game only allowing 5 hits and 1 run, striking out 4. In game two, senior Christina Gambino and junior Haley Welker mashed two-run home runs, as Wilkes won 8-1. BASE: Junior Nick Capozzi came up with a clutch two-run double in the top of the 9th, tying the score at 8, but Scranton walked off in the bottom half of the inning with a SAC fly off sophomore Jeremy Yziek. Apr. 6 BASE: See page 12. Apr. 7 SB: See page 13. BASE: See page 12. WLAX: Senior Jessyca Held scored her 33rd goal of the season, the lone goal of the game in a 13-1 loss at the hands of FDUFlorham. MLAX: Junior John Wink and senior Garrett Armstrong both had nine ground balls, but the Colonels never held a lead, as they fell to FDU-Florham 11-7. MVB: The Colonels sweept CCNY in non-conference action, with match scores 25-23, 25-20, and 25-16. Senior Daniel Sales led all Colonel attackers with 10 kills, 20 assists, and 5 aces. Apr. 8 SB: In game one, the Lady Colonels started out hot, jumping to a 3-0, even stretching it to 6-1, but fell to a late Delaware Valley comeback. Freshman Britny Jumalon tripled in game one. Game two was a near duplicate to game one as Wilkes held a 5-3 lead heading into the bottom of the seventh, but Delaware Valley plated three runs in the bottom of the frame to win 6-5. @wilkesbeacon Alex.Kielar@wilkes.edu WSOC: Sumoski departs Wilkes for Franklin & Marshall After 16 seasons at the helm for Wilkes women’s soccer, head coach John Sumoski will be moving on to Franklin and Marshall College. “It’s been an incredible ride at Wilkes University,” Sumoski said in a Wilkes Athletics press release. “...This decision for me was very difficult. I spent weeks agonizing and while I know my passion will continue for the game and the people I serve, I’m sad to leave because of the very special realtionships that have developed with staff, faculty, student-athletes and the community.” Wilkes enjoyed one of institution’s strongest finishes in school history as the Lady Colonels secured an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament this past fall. The team not only clinched its first overall No. 1 seed in the conference tournament, but also won the first NCAA tournament game in program history. -Beacon Sports Report Wilkes Spring Sports Schedules Baseball Mar. 4 Lehman W 18-5 Mar. 5 Mount Aloysius W 11-0 Mar. 6 Eastern Mennonite W 10-6 Mar. 7 PSU Harrisburg L 1-11 Mar. 8 Penn College L 4-7 Mar. 9 New England L 2-5 L 1-9 Mar. 10 Catholic Uni L 5-15 *Mar. 17 @ Eastern (DH) L 4-8, W 9-5 *Mar. 18 @ Eastern W 8-5 Mar. 19 @ Muhlenberg L 4-10 *Mar. 23 @ Misericordia L 5-8 *Mar. 24 vs. Miseri. W 8-7, L 1-3 Mar. 27 @ Marywood W 12-5 *Mar. 29 @ Del.Val. PPD *Mar. 30 vs. Del. Val. (DH) PPD Apr. 5 @ Scranton L 8-9 *Apr. 6 vs. King’s W 9-8 *Apr. 7 @ King’s W 13-6 (12 inn.), W 3-1 Apr. 10 vs. PSU Wilkes-Barre 3:00 p.m. *Apr. 13 @ Manhattanville 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 14 vs. Man’ville (DH) 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 18 @ PSU Schuykill 3:00 p.m. *Apr. 20 vs. FDU-Florham 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 21 @ FDU-Flor. (DH) 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 27 @ Desales 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. Desales (DH) 1:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home games @ Artillery Park Record: 10-10 (MAC-Freedom: 6-3) Results through Apr. 7 Softball Mar. 4 Shenandoah L 2-9, W 10-9 Mar. 5 SUNY Poly W 9-3 Mar. 5 Eastern Mennonite L 0-2 Mar. 6 PSU Harrisburg W 3-2 Mar. 6 Regis W 8-1 Mar. 8 Mary Washington L 2-10 (6 inn.) Mar. 8 Mount Aloysis W 6-4 Mar. 9 Gwynedd Mercy L 0-2 Mar. 9 LA Roche W 5-0 Mar. 23 vs. SUNY Potsdam W 4-3, W 7-4 *Mar. 24 @ Miseri. W 3-2 (9 inn.), L 3-4 *Mar. 27 vs. Eastern W 8-0 W 6-5 Apr. 5 @ Marywood W2-1 W 8-1 *Apr. 7 vs. King’s W 4-1, L 2-14 *Apr. 8 @ Del. Valley L 6-7, L 5-6 Apr. 10 @ Keystone (DH) 3:00 p.m. Apr. 12 @ Lycoming (DH) 3:00 p.m. 21 *Apr. 14 @ Manh’ville (DH) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 17 vs. Susque. (DH) 3:00 p.m. Apr. 18 vs. Summit (DH) 6:00 p.m. Apr. 19 vs. Penn Tech (DH) 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 21 vs. FDU-Flor. (DH) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 24 vs. Scranton (DH) 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 @ DeSales (DH) 1:00 p.m. *-MAC Freedom Home games @ Ralston Athletic Complex Record: 14-8 (MAC-Freedom: 4-4) Results through Apr. 7 �The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Sports 22 Getting to know... John Wink Junior Lacrosse Player The Beacon: Male Athlete of the Week Mar. 19 - Apr. 1 Why John Wink was selected: John Wink recorded three goals and three assists against Wells College, and one goal against Mount Saint College. Name: John Wink Year: Junior Major: Mechanical Engineering Hometown: Glenside PA High School: Abington HS Position: Attacker Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? Small school with a good engineering program. ILHE Editor’s note : T hi s year’s Athlete of the Week i s nar rowed dow n to t wo candidates by the spor t s staf f. T he t wo f inal candidates are then voted on by pee rs u sing a Tw ite r poll @ Wilkes B eacon Additionally, at the e nd of the acade mic year, we w ill post a reader poll to c row n an “Athlete of the Year” . The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky Favorite building on campus? SUB. What came first? The chicken or the egg? Chicken. Other interests or hobbies off of the field? Hang out with friends and eat a lot. A quote you live your life by? “The only signature you want is at the bottom of a check.” “Scoring Gnos and saucing Apples.” If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Hugh Hefner. Coke or Pepsi? Coke. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? The goal is to win the MAC and get into the NCAA tournament. Favorite meal to eat on campus? The Grillworks chicken cheese steak. When/Why did you first begin playing? 6th grade, I began playing when all my friends on the baseball team left to play lacrosse and told me I should play too and I never looked back. Anyone to give a shout-out to? Big Maxy for teaching me everything he knows. If you had to choose one thing about your program that you could improve, what would it be? Recruit some kids around my area so we can talk about THE CITY….. PHILLY!! BIRDS BY THIRDY!! -Compiled by Alex Kielar, Asst. Sports Editor �Sports The Beacon - April 10, 2018 Getting to know... 23 Christina Gambino Senior Softball Player The Beacon: Female Athlete of the Week Mar. 19 - Apr. 1 Why Christina Gambino was selected: Christina Gambino had a great week on the pitching mound and at the plate, getting two wins and batting .450 in the five games. Name: Christina Gambino Year: Senior Major: Biology Hometown: Basking Ridge, NJ High School: Ridge HS Position: 1st Base, Pitcher Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? The science facilities are really amazing and Coach Matthews at the time helped make my decision easy. The softball facilities are top in the area. I also wanted to play close enough to home so my parents would be able to come watch me play on the weekends. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? I will be attending Seton Hall University to obtain a Masters of Science of Athletic Training. Favorite building on campus? Cohen. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? The ultimate goal is to win a World Series in Oklahoma City. When/Why did you first begin playing? I have played my entire life. My dad was a high school baseball coach and my brother always played baseball, so I just followed the tradition and loved it. Other interests or hobbies off of the field? Hang out with friends, go to the movies, listen to music, play UNO. Most influential person in your life? My older brother, Tom. He has helped me through everything, especially how to manage being a student-athlete and I wouldn’t have made it this far without him. If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Babe Ruth. Favorite professor? Dr. Mullen, she is my academic adviser and encouraged me through out my 4 years. Favorite meal to eat on campus? The Grillworks grilled cheese. Favorite thing to do during practice? We play a game called ‘Defend the line’, a flexible set of rules, but we hit foam balls and try and score points, and the pitching squad is undefeated through the season. If you had to choose one thing about your program that you could improve, what would it be? Offseason, weekly yoga class. A quote you live your life by? “You are stronger than you see, braver than you believe and smarter than you think.” – Winnie the Pooh What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? That on or off the field you represent your team and your school, and anyone can be apart of the team. Anyone to give a shout-out to? Dr. Stratford…I really need help to finish the statistical analysis for senior research!. -Compiled by Alex Kielar, Asst. Sports Editor Editor’s year’s Athlete rowed dow n to Editor's note: note : Thi Thiss year's Athlete of of the the Week Week iiss nar narrowed down to two two candidates t s staf f. The f inal candidates candidates by by the the spor sports staff. The two two final candidates are are then then voted voted on on by by sing aa Tw it ter poll poll @WilkesB eacon.. Ipeers /Jeers u using Twitter @WilkesBeacon Additionally, year, we ill post post aa reader poll to Additionally, at at the the end end of of the the academic academic year, we w will reader poll to ccrown row n an an “Athlete "Athlete of of the the Year”. Year" . The Beacon/Alex Kielar �SPEND YOUR SUMMER WISELY Take classes for just $520 per credit Many classes are held online so you can enjoy your break from home while getting ahead in your studies. And with start dates in May, June or July, classes conveniently fit your summer plans. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2018 April 10th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 April 10 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/fa3a497afe5552c8cafa4c9b96f39227.pdf d62b7b799a73e4bfda5a5d0de6289e70 PDF Text Text w T ~ ~IHIIE ~ B5IEACC(O)N HE B EACON The Beacon - March 27, 2018 Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 71, Issue 17 The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. Students, faculty join ‘March for our Lives’ in Philadelphia On Saturday, March 24, students and faculty from Wilkes University traveled to Philadelphia to attend the March For Our Lives protest for gun safety against the current administration and the NRA. The march was one of almost 900 around the globe to protest gun violence and propose gun safety in the wake of the Feb. 14, 2018, school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida, where 17 faculty, staff and students were gunned down at the hands of Nicholas Cruz and his AR-15. The students of Parkland started a widespread movement “enough is enough,” regarding gun violence, and inspired many Wilkes University students and staff to attend the event. The young students particularly inspired junior secondary education and history major Ian Valles. “I think a debt of gratitude is owed to them, especially Millennials and Gen Z who are doing so much and are apart of the resistance to make sure something like this never happens to our country again,” said Valles. “Truthfully it is our future and we have to actually be alive on this planet to make a future for ourselves.” Valles was joined by 15 faculty and staff from Wilkes University to march from Independence Hall to Penn’s Landing to rally and listen to guest speakers and music about gun violence and change. As thousands marched the streets of ALS lecture, page 4 Philadelphia, Wilkes students made their voices heard, particularly Geraldine Ojukwu, junior political science major, whose chants were repeated by those who marched. “What do we want,” screamed Ojukwu. “Gun control,” replied the mass of protesters. “When do we want it,” asked Ojukwu, “Now,” replied the crowd. Other chants filled the crowd to externally show what they stood for in the wake of the Parkland tragedy. “We’re gonna put one foot in front of the other and lead with love,” sang one group of protestors. Wilkes students had also made signs showing their outward support for gun control for the march. “We are students, we are victims, we are change,” read Ashley Baker’s sign, a freshman criminology and sociology major. “Promises without action are lies that cost lives,” read nursing major, Lauren Coleman’s sign. Gregory Chang, first year pre-pharmacy student, alongside Keira Kuhar, first year student, held a sign with the Wilkes University Logo that read “never again.” The sign depicted many of Wilkes University’s students stance on gun violence in schools, never wanting it to happen again. Chang organized the trip to Philadelphia for those who wanted to voice their opinion and join the march as a Wilkes community. “I wanted to voice my opinion and I wanted to let other Wilkes students voice their opinions because I know this is a very important topic in the country right now,” DJ ForDay! a DJ for a Day page 7 The Beacon / Maddie Davis Gregory Chang and Keira Kuhar lead Wilkes University students and faculty down Market Street in Philadelphia during the March for Our Lives Protest on Mar. 24. said Chang. “I wanted to come here because this is unacceptable with what is happening in this country. It really is just unbelievable how many shootings are occurring, just this year alone, let alone the past 20 years. Something needs to be done and nothing is,” he said. The guest speakers included a diverse group of people; from senators, to survivors of columbine, to students now, and many more, all voiced their difference in experiences of gun violence and control. The message throughout each speaker was clear: there is an imminent problem in this country with guns. Innocent children and adults are dying not only in schools, but on the streets because of these guns. That we as a Indiana Jones Returns to theaters in 2020, page 15 BASE: Champi walks off in game two of Misericordia series page 19 SEE MARCH, Page 3 The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani Asst. News Editor Graphic by Todd Espenshade By Maddie Davis �News News The Beacon - March 27, 2018 Have a breaking story or a press release to send? Contact the news editor: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu Beacon Briefs Compiled by Cabrini Rudnicki Volunteers wanted Adventures in Science This year’s Adventures in Science, themed “Science from a Submarine” is seeking volunteers. The event will take place April 27, with set up starting at 7:30 p.m. The event will run until 3 p.m. Around 250 fifth-grade students are expected to attend. Volunteers are needed for positions such as lab assistants, group leaders, setup and clean-up assistants. Volunteers will receive a T-shirt and refreshments. Please contact ashley.wojciechowski@wilkes.edu or erica.mabry@wilkes.edu for the online signup sheet or any questions. Blood drive to be held The Passan School of Nursing will be holding a blood drive on April 23. The event will take place from 7:30 a.m to 1:30 p.m in the ballroom. A table will in the SUB for donors to sign-up during club hours. T-shirts will be given to the first 60 people to attend the blood drive. Walk-ins are welcome. Contact Kaitlyn or Alicia at passanblooddrive2018@ gmail.com for any questions or to schedule a time. Health & Wellness Fair to be held Sponsored by Health and Wellness Services and BACCHUS with contributions from Human Resources, a Health & Wellness Fair will be held. The fair will be held April 3 from 11 a.m to 1 p.m in the Henry Student Center Ballroom. The fair will feature topics such as certified elder attorneys of law, school of pharmacy, and fitness/sports medicine. Special features such as a bone density screening, blood pressure screenings, and stroke prevention and thyroid screening (which will cost $30 to be paid at the fair) will be held. For more information, please contact Health and Wellness Services at 570-408-4730. Sign up for the annual Glow Run The fifth annual Glow Through the Darkness 5k Glow Run/Walk to be held April 13. Registration opens at 7 p.m at UCOM. The run begins at 8:30 p.m from the UCOM and ends on the greenway. Participants are asked to join in the Celebration of Life after the run/ walk. Proceeds from the event will go to suicide prevention awareness through the local chapter of the American Foundation for Sucide Prevention. Please visit community.wilkes.edu/glowrun to register online. Registration is $5 for Wilkes undergraduate students, $10 for non-students. To pay in cash, please email glowrun@wilkes.edu or visit the Glow Run table during club hours in the Student Union Building. FOR RENT DREAM RENTALS APARTMENTS AVAILABLE FOR JUNE 2018 www. Dream Rentals. net 2 News Call Jim (570) 288-3375 Editor’s note: Due to a campus closure on Wednesday, March 21, Wilkes University’s Student Government did not hold its weekly meeting. Student government notes will continue in next week’s edition of The Beacon. table of contents news................2 life, a&e...........7 spread............12 opinion..........14 sports............19 �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 MARCH, Continued from front page country need gun control, fast. “Congress, we don’t want your prayers, we want gun reform,” said Rachel Steinig, a freshman student leader of the event. Steinig also called out the racial and classist bias in the media coverage of school shootings and advocated for the Black Lives Matter movement. “If Stoneman Douglas had been a poor school in a black neighborhood, the shooting and subsequent movement would definitely not have received as much coverage and popular support,” she said. Another speaker, Mark Timpon is the father of Dominick, a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who survived the shooting on Feb. 14. “Feb. 14 changed my life in many different ways,” said Timpon. Dominick himself passed the shooter in a staircase as he was reloading his gun. “If there was one more round in that 30 round magazine my son might have died that day,” said Timpon. “It took this horrible massacre to change my views and change the way I think now,” said Timpon. “It was 100 percent legal, what I did, and that is one of the problems,” he said about News the gun show loophole, where Timpon purchased his AR-15 under the government’s radar. “The AR-15 is not made for hunting, it is made for killing,” he said. Senator Bob Casey, an alumni for Parkland, and state representative Brian Sims also voiced their opinions on stage. The Wilkes University students reacted to their experience and explained why they joined the Philadelphia March for Our Lives protest. “I marched because I feel like it’s our time to make a change,” said sophomore political science and criminology major Samantha Trobe. “Just arriving at the march today I became overwhelmed with joy seeing all the people from different ethnicities, races, and genders, old people, young people, marching for a united cause,” said Trobe. Robbie Petrovich, a sophomore history, secondary education and political science major also reflected on his experience. “I’ve always kind of been a silent partaker in politics and I just feel like it was finally time for me to stand up for something I really believe in especially me being an aspiring teacher,” said Petrovich. “It was a great experience,” said Megan Graham, freshman history major, “I thought it was great and it was a great turnout.” Dr. Andreea Maierean, political science 3 The Beacon / Maddie Davis Junior secondary education and history major Ian Valles holds up his sign at the march. professor, was one of the two professors who joined Wilkes students in the march, the other being Dr. Ellen Newell, a professor in the Psychology Department. “Today we have seen democracy and student activism at its best. It felt great to be part of a movement that fights for change in a passionate, articulate and peaceful manner,” said Maierean. “In the end, if we manage to leave aside the ideological barriers, it becomes obvious that this student-led movement is all about saving innocent lives through responsible public policy. It is about putting an end to the outbreak of mass shootings that lead 187,000 American students to become exposed to gun violence since Columbine,” said Maierean. “It is about exterminating the contagion of school shootings that does not happen anywhere else in the world except the United States,” she said. @wilkesbeacon madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu Director of non-profit MAVUNO speaks on African sustainability By Cabrini Rudnicki News Editor From March 11 to March 25, Wilkes University hosted the director of a grassroots African sustainability nonprofit organization. Charles Bahati Bitakwate is the director of MAVUNO, a non-profit in Eastern Africa with focus on ending poverty and health concerns in the area. Bitakwate has spent the past two weeks on campus holding lectures for different academic schools, including anthropology, business, and environmental science. Bitakwate also held a talk for the Rotary Club of Wilkes-Barre. Bitakwate held a lecture open to the public on March 19 in Dr. Winkler’s Global Health class titled ‘Talk on Sustainable Vision for Rural East Africa: Projects in Karagwe Water, Development and Community Health.’ In the lecture, Bitakwate discussed the different initiatives and projects his organization are currently employing in eastern Africa. Some of his initiatives include food security, sanitation and health, social welfare, and education. Much of his work is focused on women’s education and the creation of safe water. “Most of our area of concentration has been water,” said Bitakwate. “We’ve also been working on creating toilets, and the distribution of sanitary pads.” “Water is contaminated, continued Bitakwate, “So when the children go to the natural resources, and when they get the water it is very difficult to control. When they are thirsty, sometimes you can’t control that they need to get water. In the end, when they drink the water they get sick.” Much of the health issues in the area have been attributed to diarrhea caused by contaminated water. “We have tried different methods of cleaning the water but now it seems that we have found one that seems to be efficient,” said Bitakwate. “We are now working on using a UV filter.” The UV filter uses solar-radiation to sterilize water when it passes through a filter. “The UV filter helps not only the students in the schools but the community at large,” continued Bitakwate. Winkler, a professor of anthropology, has known Bitakwate, for more than 8 years. Bitakwate’s work is focused in Tanzania, where Dr. Winkler has her long-term health project. Wilkes brought Bitakwate via a J-1 visa, a sponsor visa for individuals to have crosscultural experiences as scholars. He was sponsored by a donor due to his involvement in Winkler’s Tanzanian project. “When we hear about international development we often hear about policy. We The Beacon/Cabrini Rudnicki Charles Bahati spoke to a variety of classes during his time here, including Dr. Winkler’s Global Health course and Dr. Adekola’s International Business course. often hear about United Nations and people criminology major. who are working from the top, but we often MAVUNO, Bitakwate’s organization, has don’t focus on people who are driving it from a vision statement of “Strong communities the bottom,” Winkler said. with ability to control resources for their “What Charles is an example of is sustainable development.” More information somebody who keeps up with policy and about the organization can be found on international economics, but he then mavuno.org. interprets it in a broad local community to @wilkesbeacon help improve the lives of everyone there.” cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu “The lecture was really good and informing,” said Ashley Baker, a freshman �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 News 4 Annual Health,Wellness Fair will emphasize student well-being By Jackie Kurovsky Staff Writer The Wilkes campus will have the chance to learn about all things health inside and out at the annual Health and Wellness Fair on April 3. Sponsored by BACCHUS, a student-run club dedicated to campus wellbing, the event offers a wide variety of educational talks, screenings and services about all aspects of health for the mind and body. BACCHUS Vice President Ashley Weber said the goal of the event is the promotion of a healthy lifestyle and awareness of medical issues. “I think that this event is important to students and staff because it provides education and resources that many people may not seek out,” Weber said. “Last year alone there were several findings that warranted further evaluation.” Screenings offered include those for bone density, thyroid issues, blood pressure and blood sugar. Dr. Julie Olenak of the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy will oversee the blood sugar screenings, working with the Nesbitt school’s chapter of Operation Diabetes. Olenak said the screenings will provide immediate results after participants fill out a risk assessment from the American Diabetes Association. “We then provide individualized counseling to the participant and notify their primary care provider, when necessary,” she said. Other services offered include sun damage tests for the skin, chiropractic adjustments, massages and STI screenings. Along with services for the body come those for the mind. Yoga classes and stress management information will also be available. Information on holistic medicine will be offered as well. BACCHUS club member Romeo Rosario said the Health and Wellness Fair is a very important event to have on campus. “This event gives both students and staff the opportunity to not only become educated on health benefits but also to become educated on ways to increase their overall wellness and well-being,” he said. Also featured at the fair will be informational talks on all things related to health and well-being. 65 tables will be set up, each for a different representative of a health organization or service. The Liquor Control Board, Aids Council, sports medicine professionals and a registered dietician are just a few of those offering information to attendees. The Victims Resource Center which aids victims of crime will also be present. “I think all the attendees could benefit from all the screenings and demonstrations,” said Gail Holby, coordinator of Health and Wellness Services. “Everyone has different concerns.” Some features of the fair will deal with lifestyle choices for college students. The Pennsylvania Treasury Department will be present to discuss savings programs for college students. The Alcohol and Drug Council will also be available to provide information. “We want to do this in a setting that is comfortable for everyone. We also want people to feel better about their health,” Rosario said. Campus clubs will also take part in the event, including BACCHUS which not only helps to organize the event but will have its own educational table. “We encourage our student body to become more understanding of their bodies and [...] to educate themselves of some of the health concerns that we sometimes tend to forget about,” said Rosario. The Health and Wellness Fair will be held in the ballroom of the Henry Student Center from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, contact Health and Wellness Services at (570) 408-4730. Nursing student organization hosts speaker with ALS By Freddy Del Rosario Staff Writer Wilkes University’s Nursing Student Organization hosted a guest speaker on March 19. Paul Miller, a man living with ALS, spoke about his diagnosis and how it has since impacted his life. Miller attributes his diagnosis to the trauma following his son’s death caused by a car accident. Paul J. Miller, his son, died on July 5, 2010, when his vehicle was hit by a tractor-trailer. The truck driver was distracted at the moment of the crash. The symptoms began a year after his son had died. The stress, trauma, and anxiety, that resulted from this tragedy, attested Miller, triggered ALS. According to the ALS Association, the disease can be genetic, and those who carry it have a 50 percent chance to have the disease. ALS, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive, fatal, neuromuscular disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord. Simple voluntary muscle movements, such as breathing and walking, eventually become impossible. Patients with at a progressive stage of the disease, are totally paralyzed. However, their minds generally remain unaffected. “I started to lose balance, and dragging my left foot,” Miller said, as he described how his first symptoms manifested. And after many tests were conducted, and the possibility of having other diseases were ruled out, Miller was diagnosed with ALS, which were crushing news to his wife and daughter. As time passed, he started to lose his ability to do everyday tasks, but it wasn’t until he could no longer drive that he truly realized the complexity of his situation. “Once my doctor found out I drove my way to the medical appointments, she made me promise I will not drive again, which made me feel bad because at that moment I thought of the death of my son.” “It has gotten into my breathing, and I also now slur,” said Miller, as he described his current condition. “For years, until last year, I golfed with my friends,” he said, “and it wasn’t about how good I was, it was about me being out there moving, but I had to give that up because doing that was a continuous struggle.” “I have now a tendency to choke, and the easiest thing for me to choke on is water,” Miller said. Research by the ALS Association has also found that patients with the disease have 2-5 years to live, Miller’s ALS is in slow progress, although he says his quality of life is decreasing. “It was eye-opening to see what living with ALS is really like,” said Nalleyn Nunez, a psychology major who was present for the presentation given by The Beacon / Maddie Davis Paul Miller was diagnosed with ALS in 2011. He, and his wife Eileen Miller, have since made it their duty to educate people across the country about the condition. Paul. high schoolers, and continues to do so. “I have read many studies and heard Paul mentioned how grateful he was to people talking about the disease, but I his wife for his caregiving and expressed feel like it’s difficult to get the full scoop the content he feels when he has the of what ALS does to you until you hear chance to give talks. that from someone that is suffering from “I am sure I will not be able to speak it.” for long, but with the time I have left, I “We started a few years ago,” Eileen want to speak for those who no longer Miller, Paul’s wife of 32 years, said. “We can.” began the outreach to local colleges, and Paul has now shared his story with hundreds of young people.” The Millers have now traveled @wilkesbeacon hundreds of miles to spread a positive freddy.delrosario@wilkes.edu message, and on the side, Eileen is an avid advocator against distracted driving, has given talks to thousands of �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 News Family Business Alliance hosts workshop on selling family businesses By Megan Stanley Staff Writer Last week Wilkes University hosted a workshop organised by The Family Business Alliance. Titled “The Unexpected Opportunity to Sell the Family Business” the workshop covered the thoughts and processes that go into selling a family business. Despite the snow, the event still took place even though 20 registered attendees were unable to attend. Earlier in the day, the same workshop was held at Penn State in Scranton and reportedly was a success. Moderating the panel was Daniel Haggerty, a lawyer with PMJ Business Brokers in Carks Summit. Sharing their story was wife and husband, Maureen Mangan Mills and Bob Mills who sold their company Craft Oil Corporation in 2012. Maureen Mangan Mills joined Craft Oil in 1996 when her father still owned the business. At the time, it which was strictly dealing motor oil, and was making five million in revenue. The business began to grow when they began to invest in industrial supplies to enter an industrial market. Bob Mangan decided to join the business when the couple were expecting their first child and Maureen Mangan Mill’s father went into partial retirement. The couple then discussed their growing success over the decade. From growing their employee count and making 15 acquisitions over the years. The company grew from making five million in to 150 million in revenue. The business was also recognised by Fortune magazine and other publications, Bob Mills told the audience. “People can’t achieve things if they don’t know what they’re achieving,” Maureen Mangan Mills said, explaining how herself and her husband began communicating and interacting with their employees more than when her father owned the business. The business faced issues when the union in Philadelphia sent two people as undercover employees. “It affected us in a negative way […] overnight our world turned upside down,” Maureen Mangan Mills told the audience that the union had bribed their employees for petition signatures and barred the entrances to the buildings of their business. The couple spent $150,000 in legal fees fighting the union over the course of three months. “It’s not about paying people more money 5 The Beacon/Megan Stanley From left to right; Bob Mills, Maureen Mangan Mills and Daniel Haggerty. - it’s about work roles and it’s about being able to sell.” “You have to know your industry and to do what we could to grow the business […] I can’t be hindered by dealing with this stuff,” where it is and you need to know your family Bob Mangan said referring to the court battle. situation,” Bob Millls said. “It’s not easy selling a family business,” After this, the couple decided to sell the business after considering their own future Maureen Mangan Mills admitted, explaining and the future of their children who might be that the sell stills comes up in family conversations, especially with relatives who involved in the business. “We knew the timing was right, we knew we thought their children might be involved couldn’t recreate the deal,” Maureen Mangan someday. Mills continued, “We realised that sometimes you think you are invincible […] that it can’t be @wilkesbeacon your best year that you can beat it, realistically megan.stanley@wilkes.edu it might be your best year and you might want Students, faculty react to recent firings of the White House By Cabrini Rudnicki News Editor In recent months, the American people have been inundated with news of White House staff leaving their position. With recent news of the national security advisor H.R McMaster parting ways with the White House, faculty and students have begun to question why so many have left the Trump Administration. Since the beginning of March, five major staff members have parted ways with the White House. On March 6, Gary Cohn, an economic advisor of Trump resigned over disagreements about steel tarrifs. Following that, John McEntee, Trump’s personal assistant was escorted out of the White House on March 12 for unspecified reasons. On March 13, Rex Tillerson, secretary of state, was replaced by a new staff member. Three days later, Andrew McCabe, FBI deputy director, was ousted from his position hours before his formal retirement. The newest exit from the White House comes from H.R McMaster, the national security advisor, left and was replaced by John Bolton, a former UN Ambassador. Dr. Thomas Baldino, a political science professor at Wilkes, has been following the departures since the beginning. “Donald Trump is currently leading in terms of departures from the administration,” said Baldino. “Typically, presidents come into office and they staff their administration with people who they know personally, people who they know somewhat, and people who they don’t know but finds them highly reccommended,” continued Baldino. “There is an expectation that people who accept the position will stay for a period of time.” “Some of the positions like Chief of Staff are intense, and it’s typical for their to be a lot of turn-over for the position. Typically they stay for a year or two then move on,” explained Baldino. For comparison, Donald Trump has had two Chief of Staffs in the last year and a half. Staff of the White House are expected to agree with the Preisdent in terms of policy. “Trump did not start that way,” said Baldino. “He brought people in who he maybe didn’t know well enough, who didn’t have much in the expertise of the given area that they were assigned, and, perhaps he was unaware of or perhaps he was but he thought he could reconcile, he brought people in who didn’t agree with him.” Catherine Kelly, pharmacy major, remarked on the situation. “I think [the White House] is being mismanaged,” she said. “I think they need a stable environment in our nation’s capital.” Kelly continued on why she thought there was such a large turnover of staff members HNUU I I I I I I I compared to past administrations. “I think the system is a little bit flawed,” she said, “but I think it is Trump’s leadership. If the system was really that flawed there would have been a lot of problems with past presidents, and there’s never been this much conflict.” Rai-Shawn Rinaldi, a sophomore secondary education major, explained his feelings on the UHIIII 11111111 I I I I Graphic by Todd Epenshade White House. “I stopped paying attention to all things White House related because it causes me unnecessary stress,” he said. Although many agree with Rinaldi, the media is all ears to hear the next staff member to depart from the White House. �News The Beacon - March 27, 2018 6 Profile of a new professor: Dr. Joshua M. Blechle, Chemistry By Maddie Davis Asst. News Editor Dr. Joshua M. Blechle, an assistant professor in the Chemistry Department, is one of the newest professors to join Wilkes University this academic year. Blechle is originally from just outside of St. Louis, Missouri. He stuck close to home and earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Truman State University in Missouri. He continued his academic career as he attended Colorado State University for his Ph. D in physical and analytical chemistry. Dr. Blechle then became an adjunct professor at the University of Northern Colorado while still in the final years of graduate school and, from there, traveled to Jamaica, New York, to become a visiting professor at St. John’s University. Blechle reflected on his decision to pursue academia rather than industry. “I had always been interested in teaching,” said Blechle. Blechle had the opportunity, both in his undergraduate and graduate years, to work for the tutoring center, to become a Teacher’s Assistant, and the unusual opportunity to lecture a classroom of almost three hundred students. “I really enjoyed those interactions,” said Blechle. “I really enjoyed helping people understand information.” Blechle’s first opportunity as a graduate student was to lecture a General Chemistry I class, which helped guide him in the direction of pursuing a career in academia. “Teaching that class was amazing,” said Blechle. “I loved doing it.” Blechle was most influenced to study and pursue a chemistry degree because of the positive experience he had in Mrs. Brown’s high school chemistry class. Throughout high school, he was at first convinced he wanted to attend veterinary school, but it was Mrs. Brown’s chemistry class where he decided to pursue a chemistry degree. While obtaining his bachelor’s degree, chemistry was predominantly his favorite among the other sciences and led Blechle to take part in undergraduate research that further guided him to graduate school. When looking for a career in academia after teaching at St. Johns University, Blechle wanted to find a school that was similar to his undergraduate experience; somewhere that had smaller class sizes and the opportunity to do research with undergraduate students. “Wilkes, specifically, offered a lot of that,” said Blechle. During his first year, Blechle’s classes have focused on physical chemistry, general chemistry, as well as chemistry for engineers. Blechle “I’ve really enjoyed my classes so far,” he said. Blechle specifically enjoys teaching general chemistry since it allows him to channel what he loves, physical chemistry, because of the similarities between the two classes. Just as he enjoyed research during his undergraduate years, Blechle is starting his own undergraduate research lab, which he is waiting on the lab space for. His lab is going to focus on his specialty: plasma chemistry. “Plasma is this really complex state of matter. We don’t normally study them [as The Beacon/Steffen Horwath chemists],” he explained. “What I am looking to do here is to get a plasma reactor set up and to help guide students into how do these things work, how do we build them, how do we study them, and then ultimately look at essentially the fundamental chemistry of what drives these systems,” said Blechle. “[Plasma and the work around it] is pretty cool,” said Blechle. @wilkesbeacon madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu TONS OF BRANDS TO CHOSE FROM INCLUDING: BELLA+CANVAS, AMERICAN APPAREL, ADIDAS, JERZEES, GILDAN, IZOD, AND MORE. 4T-SH iRTS·CO M YOUR #1 LOCAL SCREEN PRINTER SINCE 1993! IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ... SAY IT WITH US! ~ FIGshirts fi FIGshirts ~ FIGshirts �Life, Arts & Entertainment 7 Each day in the Karambelas Center, DJs on 90.7 WCLH play their favorite tracks for the Wilkes campus and community. Now, a new program is giving anyone on campus that same opportunity with the chance to be DJ for a day. The newest WCLH program, “The Third Chair,” allows any student, staff or faculty member at Wilkes to play his or her favorite tracks for WCLH listeners. No experience is needed to sit in the third chair, said WCLH Production Director John Michael “JM” Rey. “The show is very informal and conversationally based,” he said. “There is very little pressure for the “DJ for a day” because experienced e-staff members will worry about operating the control board and automation system.” Rey said he encourages students and staff to join the program as it “gives them the joy of being on air without the pressure of hosting a weekly show.” The idea for “The Third Chair” came when Wilkes President Patrick Leahy paid a visit to the WCLH studio in November 2017. While on their air, he shared his own playlist of favorites with the station’s listeners. Rey was one of the DJs sitting in with President Leahy as he explained the reasons behind his favorite songs. He called his appearance a “raging success.” Parker Dorsey was alongside Rey during President Leahy’s appearance and immediately saw potential in the concept of a guest DJ. “We talked to Kristen (Rock) and said how we wanted to do that again, but have a show dedicated for it, and for it to be open to all Wilkes faculty,” he said. He named the show “The Third Chair” as someone new will be sitting in with the two DJs each time. The show’s inaugural airing took place on March 16 hosted by Dorsey and Nick Filipek. Filipek who is also WCLH’s Marketing Director called it “literally the best test run that could have happened.” Dr. Scott Stolte, Dean of the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy was the first to fill the third chair. Stolte’s playlist was one that Filipek called “very eclectic” and ranged from Harry Styles to Disturbed. “He was also a very interesting man Staff Writer By Jackie Kurovsky @wilkesbeacon jackie.kurovsky@wilkes.edu Tuesday through Sunday 5p.m. to Midnight HIP HOP Tuesday through Sunday 4 a.m. to 5 p.m. ALTERNATIVE All Monday Everyday Midnight to 4 a.m. METAL WCLH SCHEDULE: to listen to,” Filipek said. “Incredibly smart with some real deep thoughts on his selected playlist.” Stolte called his WCLH debut a really fun time. “The hour passed very quickly,” Stolte said. “The conversation was easy and I got to expose people to my very diverse musical tastes. [Dorsey and Filipek] were very patient with my inexperience.” While its airtime is currently based on availability, the program will have a set airtime during club hours next semester. “I encourage other administrators, faculty and staff members to take a turn in the third chair,” Stolte said. “It was an experience I won’t soon forget.” Those interested in being a featured guest on “The Third Chair” should contact station manager Kristen Rock at kristen. rock@wilkes.edu. To listen to 90.7 WCLH live, visit WCLH.org. Graphic by Todd Espenshade WCLH program gives all Colonels a chance to DJ Have a story or want your event to be featured? 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Nanticoke $13.95 + tax large 16” 1-topping pizza & 2-liter soda $17.95 + tax $7.95 + tax each for 5 or more large plain pies $11.95 + tax $16.95 + tax 3 hot & cold subs mix &match $23.95 + tax 12- cut Sicilian pizza 12 -cut Sicilian pizza 2 tickets to Movies 14, 1 med- 1 topping & 1 order of wings pizza & 2 drinks $20.95 + tax large 16” pizza & 12 cut tray siclian pizza $12.95 + tax small 12” 1-topping pizza & choice of any sub $17.95 + tax 2 large plain pizzas toppings extra $18.95 + tax large 16” pizza, 1 sub, & an appetizer $20.95 + tax 24- cut Sicilian pizza $28.95 + tax 3 large 1- topping pizzas �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment ‘WEBS’ Club aims to help girls pursue scientific interests By Sarah Matarella Staffwriter The Women Empowered by Science (WEBS) Club at Wilkes University stands to get students motivated to become mentors for girls in the younger generation who are interested in science. The WEBS club is designed to motivate young women who have a sincere interest in the sciences and wish to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to reach their full potential in that field. However, in order for these young women to pursue their interests, they need mentors to show them the ropes. Every month there is a program curated by WEBS where girls from local schools come to Wilkes University after school to participate in a variety of laboratory activities. Several different coordinator positions are available to help with set-up, hands-on activity, clean up, organization, and fundraising. “It’s an awesome opportunity that we don’t want people to miss out on,” said junior WEBS member and Adventures in Science Coordinator, Erica Mabry. WEBS meets during club hours on every other Thursday. During these hours the students involved discuss upcoming programs and fundraising ideas. The club even works with the busy schedules of their volunteers. Volunteer signs ups for WEBS will be sent out via Wilkes Today and placed around campus near the end of March and early April. “We want to grow our numbers to be a bigger club and have a bigger impact,” said Brianna Galvin, Vice President of WEBS. This club also works hand in hand with Adventures in Science, which falls on April 27 this year. This full day of science caters to approximately 250 fifth-graders. Volunteers, again, are needed to assist with labs, guiding the students, set-up, clean up and more. “To see the kids’ reactions to it, it’s just, it’s priceless. And this is why we do what we do. Not only to encourage kids to be interested in science, but to have that courage and confidence to keep going with it and also have fun with it,” said Mabry. From this year forward, WEBS’ main focus will be fundraising. Many girls who are intrigued by WEBS and want to become involved come from less fortunate families who cannot afford to send their children to the program. Thus, the goal is ultimately to be able to sponsor as many girls as possible to attend the programs and summer camps. “Anytime I have seen students get involved with this problem, they are so happy they did. The mentoring is awesome; our students are just incredible mentors ... Be that mentor. Be that person that a young lady can look up to,” said Debra Chapman, instructor of biology and adviser of WEBS and Adventures in Science. For more information about joining WEBS or volunteering for Adventures in Science, contact Debra Chapman at debra.chapman@wilkes.edu or Erica Mabry at erica.mabry@wilkes.edu. 9 DID YOU MAKE A FUN DIY OR RECIPE? SEND IT US AND HAVE IT FEATURED ON THE BEACON WEBSITE! @wilkesbeacon sarah.matarella@wilkes.edu Interested in writing for the & ENTERTAINMENT Section? Why not try all three? Contact LA&E editor Amanda Bialek at amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu. �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 0 o DRY • DIY TERRARIUM • Supplies: Stone Granules Glass Terrarium Succulent (of your choice) Instructions: •Remove succulent from pot and shake off extra dirt. •Place stone granules in bottom of terrarium, almost up to the rim. •Carefully place succulent into granules deep enough that it will not fall over. •Place terrarium in a sunny spot. remember to water once a week. 10 �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 11 Spring Fling Dance 2018 The Wilkes University Student Government hosted their annual Spring Fling on Friday, March 23, at Genetti’s in Wilkes-Barre. The ballroom glistened with beautiful lights from the chandevlier. The Beacon/Shannon O’Connor Wilkes students enjoyed a fun night of dancing with fellow Colonels. Despite the cold winter weather, the tables decorated with flower arrangements brought a taste of spring. Graphics by Todd Espenshade �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 News 12 Biology Club’s Fear Factor Graphics by Todd Epenshade The Beacon / Sean Connelly dent, holds his nose in Tyler Lack, a sophomore stu preparation for the food. The students were forced to eat a variety of smelly cheeses, such as Limburger, Roquefort, and an intense Brie and Stilton, all pictured on the plate above. Daulton Moyer observes the vegemite and marmite spreads on his cracker suspciously. Students prepar e to participate in the canned ve challenge, whic getable h included thin gs like canned canned spinach p eas and . �13 luding squid and sardines, Various canned seafoods, inc dents needed to eat. were among the dishes the stu Cassidy Heid w as shocked by th e taste of the fo event. od at the Zombie Run, an activity Maura Clarke partipates in the und then outrun zombies where a student must spin aro ir sticky notes. who are trying to remove the Alexander Miner drank water to aid in getting rid of the taste of the food. �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 Opinion Opinion Have an opinion or want to write a guest column? Contact the opinion editor: andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Editorial Staff Our Voice 2017-18 MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Toni Pennello Managing Editor - Danny Van Brunt Adviser - Dr. Kalen Churcher SECTION EDITORS News - Cabrini Rudnicki LA&E - Amanda Bialek Opinion - Andre Spruell Sports - Luke Modrovsky ASSISTANT EDITORS News - Maddie Davis LA&E - Shannon O’Connor Opinion - Nick Filipek Sports - Ben Mandell & Alex Kielar DESIGN EDITORS Todd Espenshade - Graphic Designer PHOTOGRAPHERS Nicole Gaetani EDITORIAL BOARD Toni Pennello Danny Van Brunt Cabrini Rudnicki Shannon O’Connor Andre Spruell Megan Stanley 141 S. Main St. Clayton and Theresa Karambelas Media Center Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 www.thewilkesbeacon.com 14 Each week, The Beacon’s editorial board will take a stance on a current issue. A Plea Against ‘Walk Up Not Out’ The Beacon reflects on high school students walking out of class On March 14, one month after the horrific Parkland shooting that shocked the nation, students across the country walked out of schools for 17 minutes - one minute for each student killed in the incident. Millenials have been brought up in a world plagued by mass shootings and are frankly sick of it. Many people, including political leaders and influential celebrities, commended the students for being a generation of change. The day was a sign of the unification of America’s youth, as was it a reminder to politicians that these students will be voting age soon, however, just like any issue in the United States, the event has been met with a separation of groups. A “them versus us” kind of ideology was once again created. More conservative posters on the internet have called the event useless, have tried to suggest that the youth are too naive to have opinions, or like most “pro-gun” posters, say that the issue is not guns but something else entirely. This leads to the newest popular campaign, “Walk Up Not Out.” Posted mainly on social media with the same repeatedly screenshotted post, the paragraph calls out for students to walk up to students who are usually alone. The implication being, that by connecting with someone who you usually don’t connect to, bullying and isolation will decrease, thus leading to less mass shootings. The logic behind it makes sense for a moment, but deeper inspection leads to obvious flaws. Yes, we should be nice to each other. No one is arguing against that basic concept, but to pretend that just being nice will end school shootings is at best an oversimplification, and at worst, extremely problematic. One of the major issues with the initiative is that people will not treat others as the post intends. Bullied and ostracized students will not feel better with pity friends. Most would rather be alone than have people pretend to like them, especially having someone pretend to like them because they are scared of them. One of the Beacon members was bullied in middle school, and remembers being distinctively hurt and confused when a teacher assigned another student to befriend them, only to have the student tell them they were only befriending them “because the teacher told them to.” This singling out of students who are just a little quiet, weird, and leading them to believe that their peers are actually scared of them can be detrimental to future mental health. Even further, if the students enacting “Walk Up” did it with poise and grace, kindness is not a magic cure of mental illness. You can not solve life long issues with depression, or other mental disorders, just with a hug. It’s a pretty concept, and one that surely does lend itself to memes shared by our grandparents on Facebook, but it’s not the truth and it never will be the truth. One of the biggest issues, the issue that brought the most attention to the initiative, is that “Walk Up” victim blames the victims of the shootings. It’s basically saying, “if only the victims were nice to the shooter, then they wouldn’t be dead.” It is not txhe students’ responsibility to maintain the mental health of their peers. It’s yet another way for people in power - school administrations, governments - to put the blame on the students for not doing enough to prevent murder. Students should not be expected to go up to students they deem to be a threat, in order to save themselves from being potentially murdered. The initiative goes from being misguided to straight out dangerous when asking students to be responsible for the violence of their peers. It turns a school shooting incident into everyone’s fault, potentially increasing the already present survivor’s guilt into much, much more. Walk Up is not a solution to gun violence. Walking up is simply silencing a political movement, and finding yet another way to move the discourse of school shootings away from gun laws. Be nice to others, but don’t do it because you are afraid of them or you pity them. Be nice to others, but don’t let anyone tell you it’s your responsibility to save someone. Be nice to others, but don’t feel responsible for anyone’s actions other than your own. �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 Opinion 15 Indiana Jones returns to theaters in 2020 NI CK'S FLI CK Pl CKS Nick Filipek, The Beacon’s resident movie buff and assistant opinion editor, will review movies each week. Want to hear about one in particular? Email Nick at: nicholas.filipek@wilkes. edu. By Nicholas Filipek Asst. Opinion Editor It has been just about a week since director Steven Spielberg (“The Post”, “Ready Player One”) has announced that he will be shooting a new Indiana Jones film and already the internet has lost its mind. In an article written by Dave McNary appearing in Variety, it says that Spielberg made the announcement at the Rakuten TV Empire Awards, which was held at the Roundhouse in London. McNary’s article also included a direct quote from the director himself talking about the upcoming project. “It’s always worth the trip when I get to work with this deep bench of talent coming out of the UK. The actors, and the crew, the chippies, the sparks, the drivers — everybody who has helped me make my movies here, and will continue helping me make my movies here when I come back in April 2019 to make the fifth Indiana Jones movie right here.” Really quick note here, “chippies” is a British slang word for carpenters. Who knew? Disney had announced back in 2016 that Spielberg was slated to return for the fifth installment of the franchise, with David Koepp (“Jurassic Park,” “SpiderMan”) writing. Koep has experience with the character having written the fourth installment, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” The only other piece of information that we are sure about at this point is that Harrison Ford (“Star Wars,” ”Blade Runner) will return as Dr. Henry Walton “Indiana” Jones Jr., professor of archeology and sever sufferer of ophidiophobia. The first film in the Indiana Jones franchise, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” came out in 1981 to critical acclaim. That year at the Academy Awards the film took home, Best Art Direction, Best Sound, Best Film Editing, Best Visual Effects and was awarded the Special Achievement Award for Sound Effects Editing. The film was also nominated in four other categories that year, one of them being Best Original Score. I can not imagine how any of the original three films in the franchise did not win for the best original score, despite being nominated. Composer John Williams (“Jaws,” ”Superman”) has written some of the most recognizable tunes in the movie game. In addition to the fore mentioned movies, Williams has also written and composed music for the original Star Wars trilogy, the first three Harry Potter movies and the first two Jurassic Parks. If you want to listen to the classic theme it is called “Raiders March” and is available on iTunes. The second movie to come in the “Indy” franchise is “Temple of Doom” Though the movie premiered later chronologically, the story takes place before the original movie. This is now called a “prequel” but in 1984 this wasn’t as a fashionable move as it is now. In fact I would place a bet that the idea for doing a prequels was born from this franchise after the film’s success. Though not as big as the first movie, “Temple of Doom” did alright at the box office and warranted a third film. “The Last Crusade” was released on May 24, 1989 and returned Indy to the glory it had seen eight years ago/ “Temple of Doom” was seen as a little too dark and violent compared to the first film. “The Last Crusade” toned down both elements and returned to the more fun loving action/adventure film tone the first one pulled off so perfectly. This film also added the amazing Sean Connery (“Hunt for Red October”,”The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”) to play Dr. Henry Jones Sr. Ford and Connery play a great duo, and this is my personal favorite in the series, and I really wished they would have just left it there. Nineteen years after what some would call the perfect trilogy, the studio got the ever so original idea of rebooting a franchise. “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” hit theaters in 2008 to some pretty mixed feeling. Critically, the movie did well, and in terms of box office results, the movie performed well, but die hard Indy fans were pretty upset. The whole tone had kind of changed and it seemed they wanted to turn the classic character into a new modern kind of bad--. Indiana Jones, to me, has always been more brain than brawn, but could throw some fists if the occasion called for it. Currently the fifth installment for the franchise is slated to hit theaters on July 10th, 2020. Currently the internet movie database (IMDb) has no plot synopsis but that hasn’t stopped us, the collective nerd of the world, from thinking about what it is going to be about. Once again we are sure we will see Indiana Jones getting into another swashbuckling adventure while stopping Nazi’s from doing something evil to the Earth. After “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” I am a bit hesitant for the release of this film. I loved what is not called “the originals” and crystal skull was just weak sauce. It was transparent in its act to tr to bring Indy into the modern movie making experience, but that’s not what we need from this character. In my opinion they should keep with the old school heroics and action packed adventure the first film delivered so well. �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 Opinion Can you be good without believing in God? By Savannah Pinnock Staff Writer Over the course of a person’s lifetime, it is common and completely normal to possess heavily theological curiosities. In fact, the human race is well known for its desire to understand itself in relation to its living and non-living counterparts. Dating back to the dawn of civilization, the human race has possessed a natural curiosity which has led to humanity’s desire to know its place in the cosmos, as well as the origins of life and the universe as a whole. As a species, the human race has pondered a myriad of largely philosophical questions ranging from the existence of God to intelligent design. One of the most well known and commonly debated questions appears to be whether one can be good without God? This question is fascinating although it has an assumptive connotation. The question assumes that morality and the existence of a God are dependent on one another. In other words, God is the source of morality and following this stream of thought, it suggests that without morality there is no God and without God there is no morality. Christian apologist William Lane Craig holds onto a similar view in which he states that “there can be no objective moral truths without God, and since there are objective moral truths, God must exist.” In an effort to clarify the ambiguity and circular reasoning surrounding this question, it must be said that morality is its own concept and God or a higher power is equally its own concept. In the case of whether one can be good without God, does this mean a personal relationship with God or the existential nature of God? If the former is the case, it is clear that this question relates to two groups of individuals, a theist and an atheist. Individuals who subscribe to a religion and believe in a higher power, otherwise known as God, are theists. On the contrary, individuals who do not believe in a higher power or God are atheists. With that being said, if morality is its own concept, the theist receives moral instruction from God, and many practitioners believe in maxims and principles such as “loving your neighbor as yourself”, giving back to one’s community, and not harming the life of another individual. The atheist’s morality however is not derived from a relationship with God which may lead one to ask where a non-believer’s morality stems from. According to Frank Zindler, board member and former President of the American Atheist, “The behavior of Atheists is subject to the same rules of sociology, psychology, and neurophysiology that govern the behavior of all members of our species, religionists included.” In other words, the ethics and/or moral standards of an atheist are derived from known principles understood within society, and studied within the previously aforementioned interdisciplinary fields. Therefore, a theist and an atheist are both capable of possessing morals or being “good.” As it pertains to the second interpretation of whether one can be good without God which has to do the existential nature of God, the same is also true. If God exists or does not exist, it is clear that an atheist and a theist are both capable of possessing morals. However, the subjectively perceived “good works” one does would be highly dependent on if God receives that action as a good deed. In other words, if God exists, a perfect moral code would be solely dependent on if God approves of this code. This is only true if this God is “good” and benevolent. If God happens to be a malevolent God, his views on morality would be flawed and morality would once again be subjective. In short, yes, one can be good without God in virtually every situation depending on a wide range of philosophical factors. Have an opinion you’d like to share? Email us! andre.spruell@ wilkes.edu @wilkesbeacon savannah.pinnock@wilkes.edu Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! Facebook: The Beacon Twitter: @wilkesbeacon Instagram: @wilkesbeacon 16 �SPEND YOUR SUMMER WISELY Take classes for just $520 per credit Many classes are held online so you can enjoy your break from home while getting ahead in your studies. And with start dates in May, June or July, classes conveniently fit your summer plans. Three-week presession May 21 to June 8 Full session May 21 to Aug. 17 Nine-week session June 11 to Aug. 14 Summer session I June 11 to July 13 Summer session II July 16 to Aug. 17 Make an appointment with your advisor and visit www.wilkes.edu/summer. �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 Opinion Artist: TECH N9NE new album “Planet” Review By Parker Dorsey Staff Writer The legendary Kansas City-based rapper Tech N9ne has returned with his brand new album, “Planet.” Approaching 47 years old and being 20 albums in, he is still hard at work at his craft and still has a few tricks up his sleeves. Planet stands among his discography as being one of his angriest yet. The album “Planet” refers to a metaphorical place he named Planet Pyune, an acronym for Peaceful Youth Unit Neutralizing Earth. In an interview with Billboard, he said, “No girl deserves to be ran over by somebody who thinks they shouldn’t be marching in the street. No unarmed man should be gunned down…” The lead singles are “Drink Up,” “Don’t Nobody Want None,” “Bad JuJu,” and “No Reason (The Mosh Pit Song).” The industrial intro to “Drink Up” sounds like Death Grips, and with “Don’t Nobody Want None,” while catchy and dedicated to the b-boy traditions of the 1980s, does not really stand out to me. “Bad JuJu,” which features King Iso, on the other hand, is confrontational and aggressive, and is rife with Tech’s chopperstyle, lightning-fast flow. “No Reason (The Mosh Pit Song),” featuring Machine Gun Kelly and Y2, is similarly acidic. It has an auto-tuned chorus by Y2, which seems like a shot at the record label Strange Entertainment - the label Tech is suing for copyright infringement. The strongest track on the album is also its most experimental. “Brightfall” details Tech reminiscing on the evils he has done in his life and despite his religious practices and doing the right thing, evil always comes crawling back. Throughout the song there is a discordant orchestra that sounds like a choir of angels and is reminiscent of his struggles in spite of his spirituality. In “Red Byers (Say Som’n Do Som’n),” which features Krizz Kaliko, Tech addresses the problems that arise in the hood due to growing up in radically different perspectives. Cops, with their urban prejudices, should not patrol in bad neighborhoods. On the flip side, the youth who have grown up in these neighborhoods are conversely prejudiced and are violent and reticent. However, due to hoods being a place of inequality, violence typically occurs when these two groups meet. As for the other songs on the album, the opener “Habanero,” featuring Mackenzie Nicole, is solid and is reminiscent of “Sriracha” off of his previous album The Storm, albeit slightly lesser. “Fresh Out!,”featuring Swisher Sleep, is a scalding track with Tech’s classic attitude. In fact, later on in the album there is a track “Not a D--- Thing” that is very reminiscent of this same attitude, albeit not nearly as well done. “Kick it With Myself,” while an ode to loneliness, is a track that is just okay. “Comfortable” is a strong track with an alluring, spacey trap beat and is lyrically about who Tech likes and dislikes, who he feels comfortable talking to, and the places where he feels he is respected. “Never Stray,” which features Navé Monjo, has a heavy bass beat and is about him never straying from his path that he has been on the past 20 years. The next two songs also feature Navé Monjo. “My Fault” is about his presumed gripes with Insane Clown Posse, and while not bad, it is not particularly good either. “Leviathan” is another song with a mellow spacey beat. The album closes with “We Won’t Go Quietly,” which features Jordan Omley. It is an uplifting song with a powerful pen game. The album, which contains 15 songs (excluding the deluxe edition which contain three bonus tracks), is not for everyone and is exhausting to listen to in one go despite the 53 minute runtime. The most successful independent rapper in the world has released yet another superb and refreshingly experimental hip-hop album. Parker’s Picks: “Brightfall”, “Red Byers (Say Som’n Do Som’n)”, “Bad JuJu”, “No Reason (The Mosh Pit Song)” cave where he learns what truly happened to his parents. Many years ago, Boss Cass, an evil cassowary, was rampaging through the outback to gather the five talismans to rule over Australia. He was challenged by a brave band of boomerang wielding Tasmanian tigers. The battle was fierce, but the Tasmanian tigers were ultimately defeated when Boss Cass used his talisman to tear open a portal and banish the Tasmanian tigers. However, as Ty’s father was being sucked into another dimension he threw one last boomerang to scatter the five remaining talismans around the outback and foil Boss Cass’ plan. Ty feeling an immediate sense of purpose sets off on a quest to recover the talisman’s, save his parents, and defeat Boss Cass. I can already hear you asking how he plans to do this, and the answer is simple, with boomerangs of course! The main gameplay of Ty the Tasmanian tiger revolves around using your boomerangs to complete various tasks in each level to collect enough thunder eggs to power a machine that can locate the talisman. This might sound like a simplistic game formula at first but trust me it’s not. Each level is full of six missions to accomplish like finding a koala’s missing children, winning a race with a platypus, or evicting a group of bats from a cave. Successful completion of these activities will reward the player with a thunder egg. Likewise, each level also has 300 opals to collect and five bilbies to find, two activities that also reward the player with thunder eggs. Throughout my time with Ty, I can honestly say none of these activities felt boring or forced, because I was always rewarded for the effort I put in for each task with a thunder egg. This reward system in Ty truly makes every mission worth undertaking and brings the player closer to their goals. Another aspect of Ty that makes every mission worth it is his moveset. There is something simply satisfying about throwing a boomerang at your enemies and watching them disappear into a puff of smoke. Ty doesn’t just use regular boomerangs though, and this is where some of the more creative aspects of Ty begin to shine After collecting enough thunder eggs and defeating each zone’s boss, Ty is rewarded with special environmental boomerangs. The flamearang is great for burning spiderwebs, the frostyrang is great for melting fire, and the zappyrang is used to open the door to the final level. Also, another great example of Ty rewarding its players is found in the special boomerangs like the multirang and the zoomerang that can be unlocked by collecting the 10 golden cogs in each level. These boomerangs aren’t required to beat the game, but I definitely recommend them for making your experience much more fun These boomerangs along with Ty’s ability to glide and bite golden cogs to travel short distances make the gameplay of Ty one of the best aspects of this 3d collectathon platformer. In conclusion I fully recommend Ty to gamers young and old. The story is a little silly, but you are a Tasmanian Tiger throwing boomerangs at all your problems, so some suspension of disbelief is required when picking up this game. Once you look past that, Ty opens up to you with its ingenious levels and stellar gameplay. If you are a fan of 3D platformers and some truly fun gameplay head on down to the outback and play Ty The Tasmanian Tiger. @wilkesbeacon parker.dorsey@wilkes.edu Videogame Review:Ty The Tasmanian Tiger By JM Rey Guest Writer In the early 2000s every video game company had a mascot. Nintendo and Sega had their video game legends Super Mario and Sonic The Hedgehog. Insomniac and Naughty Dog had Ratchet and Jak. Even Bungie had an iconic mascot for their Halo franchise with Master Chief. This trend took the videogame industry by storm and even smaller companies began creating recognizable mascots of their own. Today, we are going to look at one of these smaller companies known as Krome Studios, the beloved creators of Ty The Tasmanian Tiger, and we are going to see how his game stacks up today. Ty the Tasmanian Tiger is a 3D collectathon platform that immerses the player into the role of the title character, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger. The plot is fairly simple, but one need to keep in mind that this game was designed with kids in mind as the primary audience. In short, Ty is playing with some bilbies one day when he discovers an abandoned 18 �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 Sports Sports 19 Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the sports editor: Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu BASEBALL, Continued from back cover pitching change from junior Jeremy Worlinsky to junior Noah Durnin. With the 5-3 lead, the Cougars added to their advantage with a solo homerun by second on a wild pitch, put him in scoring sophomore pinch-hitter Sean Lyons. Durnin position for Capozzi’s one-run single to hit the next batter, Jarema, and both teams centerfield. were given pitching warnings by the umpire. In the top of the third, the Cougars An error by Capozzi allowed Jarema to score surpassed the Colonels one-run lead with and advanced their lead to 7-3. two runs of their In the bottom of own. In the fourth, the sixth, a walk by the Cougars tacked Walther, a hit-byon another run when pitch for Wing, and junior Parker Abate, a walk by Fischer, who got on with a hitloaded the bases for by-pitch, scored off of a hit-by-pitch for junior Kenny Jarema’s Champi, bringing in sac-fly to centerfield, Walther. A fielder’s putting the Cougars choice to third base ahead 3-1. for Uzzi scored However, in the Wing and helped the bottom of the fourth, Colonels close the gap the Colonels answered on the Cougars 7-5. back with two runs, A scoreless top tying the game 3-3. of the seventh by With Clymer freshman pitcher leading off the Colin Smith, who got inning, the Colonels The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani his first conference dominating part of Wilkes Baseball celebrates their walk- win, left the Colonels their lineup was up down an attainable off victory against Misericordia. to bat. A double to two runs. A lead-off left field by Clymer, who went 5-for-10 with double down the left field line by Reinert, two walks on the weekend, and a walk by followed by walks for both Walther and Capozzi put two men on for Walther’s one- Wing, left the bases loaded with two outs out single to right field, scoring Clymer. A for Champi. Freshman Michael Patrizio walk by freshman Nick Pronti loaded the went in to pinch-run for Walther, putting bases for the sac-fly by junior Brady Wing, three of the Colonels fastest men on the who scored Capozzi and tied the game. bases. A full-count single to left-field scored In the top of the fifth, the Cougars were Reinert and Patrizio cleanly, but an error by able to tack on two runs after the Colonels’ the left fielder allowed Wing to score from first, giving Champi the walk-off, three-run single to win the game 8-7. “Although we didn’t end up winning the series against a very good, defending champion, Mis team, we played hard and competed until the last pitch in every game, proving that we’re a special group who can compete for a MAC championship,” said Champi. “As for the walk-off hit, it’s definitely a top moment in my Wilkes career and one that I’ll think about years down the road.” In the third game of the series, the Colonels’ lone run was scored in the bottom of the third with a single by Patrizio, who crossed the plate on a wild pitch during a Champi at bat. But their lead didn’t last for long, as the Cougars tied the game 1-1 in the top of the fourth with Lyons, who singled to left, scoring off of a bloop single in shallow centerfield by freshman Adam Concadoro. The Cougars were able to tack on one run in both the sixth and the seventh innings, not allowing the Colonels to score, winning both the game and the series. The Colonels will travel to Marywood University on Mar. 27 for a game at 3:00 p.m. Misericordia 3-2 in game one. “She’s been hitting the ball well,” Wilkes head coach Sarah Leavenworth (Maulorico) said. “That’s who you wanted up in that situation. She was relaxed. She was smiling. She was happy. That’s what happens when you’re relaxed like that. She’s been hitting the ball really well. And it’s just been an extension of that, but that was extra huge.” The twin bill was originally scheduled to be played at Misericordia, but was moved to the Ralston Athletic Complex, due to poor field conditions in Dallas. The Cougars jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead after three complete frames, posting a pair of solo home runs in the bottom of the first and third. Wilkes would light the offensive fire in the top of the fifth when freshman Nicolette Kessler reached on an error to lead off the top half of the inning. Gibson’s single advanced Kessler to third before Celine Podlesney would bring her home on an RBI single. The offensive action would not cease there as the Lady Colonels would tie the score in the next frame thanks to a freshman Sydney Cogswell RBI double, who brought home senior Christina Gambino. Gambino doubled to lead off the inning while senior Sarah Birchmeier moved Gambino to third on a sacrifice bunt. The Lady Colonels have seen several comefrom-behind victories on the young season. Game One: Misericordia 8, Wilkes 5 Wilkes 000 202 001 -- 5 10 2 Misericordia 000 005 30X -- 8 8 2 E -- Jack Fischer, Jarret Clymer, Chad Bell, Billy Kerwien. SH -- Shane Hughes. SF -- Conor Smith, Sean Lyons. SB -- Kenny Jarema, Steve Weisensee, Parker Abate. 2B -- Jarret Clymer, Conor Smith. Pitching: WIL -- Kyle Pokrinchak 5 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 0 SO; Matthew Konikow (L 1-1), 3 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 3 BB, 2 SO. (Pokirinchak faced four batters in 6th.) MIS -- Elliot Forde 5.1 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 5 SO; Taylor Price (W 1-0), 0.2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 2 SO; Kyle Melahn 2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 2 SO; Drake Koch 1 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 SO. Game Two: Wilkes 8, Misericordia 7 Misericordia 002 122 0 -- 7 6 2 Wilkes 010 202 3 -- 8 7 2 E -- Shane Hughes, Jake Kurtz, Nick Capozzi (2). SH -- Conor Smith, Cole Bixler, Parker Abate. SF -- Kenny Jarema, Santo Guinta, Brady Wing. SB -- Jarema, Guinta, Boylan. 2B -- Jarret Clymer, Matt Reinert. HR -- Sean Lyons. Pitching: MIS -- Jake Kurtz 5 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 5 SO; James Magaldi 0.2 IP, 0 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 1 SO; Kyle Melahn 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 SO; Kenny Jarema (L 0-1), 0.2 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 2 SO. WIL -- Jeremy Worlinsky 4.1 IP, 2 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 2 SO; Noah Durnin 1.1 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 2 SO; Colin Smith 1.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 0 SO. Game Three: Misericordia 3, Wilkes 1 Misericordia 000 101 1 -- 3 7 0 Wilkes 001 000 0 -- 1 4 2 E -- Michael Patrizio (2). SH -- Conor Smith, Steve Weisensee, Billy Kerwien. CS -- Adam Concadoro. SB -- Michael Patrizio. 2B -- Jarret Clymer 3B -- Concadoro. Pitching: MIS -- Ian McCole (W 4-0), 7 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 SO. WIL -- Matt Amaral (L 2-2), 5.2 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 4 BB, 2 SO; Andrew Indzonka 1.1 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 0 SO. @wilkesbeacon Kirsten.Peters@wilkes.edu SB: Gibson’s home run powers Lady Colonels in game one By Luke Modrovsky Sports Editor EDWARDSVILLE, Pa. -- Sophomore Sarah Gibson came into Saturday’s matchup against “visiting” Misericordia with an impressive above-.400 batting average. But with the impressive hitting percentage, there was still something missing from her statline. A home run. Gibson left game one of the doubleheader with exactly one home run, but not just any home run, an extra-inning home run. It was also the team’s first of the season. That round tripper proved to be the difference as the Lady Colonels defeated “I prefer to stay ahead, but this team, if you look at all of our games, they have been playing from behind,” Leavenworth said. “It shows the grit that they have. It shows how hard they work, and they don’t give up.” “But I’d like to stop that,” Leavenworth said with a laugh. The teams would trade zeros in the seventh and eighth innings. In the top of the ninth, Gibson would break the 2-2 tie when she connected for a solo home run over the left field wall into the City of Wilkes-Barre. SEE SOFTBALL, Page 21 �Sports The Beacon - March 27, 2018 WLAX: Lady Colonels take non-conference game By Amber Grohowski Wilkes outscored Cazenovia in both halves of the competition. Creating a visual that motivation and determination was The Lady Colonels struck back against consistent throughout the game. Coach Cazenovia College this past Tuesday at our Towey added, “They had some incredible own Ralston Athletic Complex located in shots on goal, found the back of the net, Edwardsville, giving Cazenovia their first and assisted each other.” “L” in the loss column. Head coach Kammie After Cazenovia scored early in the first Towey credits the accomplishment to great half, Wilkes stayed relentless, not allowing field vision and seeing the open man. the Cazenovia Wildcats to dig them into a “We played cohesively and really meshed hole too deep to come out of; the Colonels well on the field,” Towey said. tied the score back up not too long after With this triumph, that. Wilkes Women’s Keeping their lacrosse diced a four momentum, Wilkes game losing streak was able to take and are on their the lead when Kyra way, diving further Boccio scored for the into their season, second time in the continuing to work first few minutes. hard everyday. Sierra Duman Laying out attacked with no everything the mercy, also scoring team had, women's’ twice, making the lacrosse was able score 4-1 at that point to take three more in time. She soon was shots and have fewer The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani able to score another turnovers, overall, to goal, accomplishing Kirsten Jackson (#23) takes the faceoff. hike up the score 19a hat trick, along 11 when the final horn of the game sounded with Burkhardt, who was also able to get throughout the stands and the field. three goals added to the Wilkes side of the Staff Writer scoreboard at Schmidt Stadium. Displaying great teamwork and selflessness, many of the players were followed her direction on the field,” leading the team to success, said Towey. In goal, Sarah Carlini had 13 saves, helping out tremendously on defense, keeping it a low scoring game for Cazenovia College. Coach Towey mentioned, Kylie Bedwell, as being an amazing leader and directing the defense, getting the ball back to the offense when it was needed. Delaney Lukowski was also able to help out offensively, scoring her first The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani career goal. “We’re building upon Freshman Sierra Duman (#2) looks across the field. each game figuring out what given the opportunity to do their part and we need to do to be more consistent and contribute to the win. working well together as a unit for the full The Wildcats were able to get a goal here 60 minutes,” said Coach Towey. and there, but nothing to compare to the Working hard and working together is amount that the Lady Colonels were able setting the tone for the Wilkes Women’s to slam past the opposing goalie. They Lacrosse team this season, setting high topped off with a scoring streak of five hopes for conference play. goals without interruption by Jessyca Held, who had multiple assists, pitching in with the phenomenal win. @wilkesbeacon “I think Jessy’s senior leadership really Amber.Grohowski1@wilkes.edu showed on offense and the freshman Wilkes Spring Sports Schedules Men’s Tennis Mar. 4 Nebraska Wesleyan W 9-0 Mar. 4 St. John Fisher W 9-0 Mar. 6 Methodist L 3-6 Mar. 8 Bridgewater W 6-3 Mar. 8 William Woods L 2-7 Mar. 8 Catholic University W 7-2 Mar. 11 Yeshiva W 8-1 Mar. 29 @ TCNJ 12:00 p.m. *s-Apr. 4 @ DelVal 3:30 p.m. *s-Apr. 4 @ Misericordia 4:00 p.m. Apr. 8 @ Franklin & Marshall 1:00 p.m. Apr. 13 vs. Oneonta 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 14 vs. DeSales 11:00 a.m. Apr. 16 vs. Ursinus 3:30 p.m. *s-Apr. 19 vs. King's 3:30 p.m. s-Apr. 19 vs. Lycoming 3:30 p.m. s-Apr. 21 vs. Cabrini 11:00 a.m. *s-Apr. 21 @ Eastern 1:30 p.m. s-Apr. 21 vs. Muhlenberg 2:00 p.m. Apr 22 @ Stevens Inst. of Tech. 12:00 p.m. Apr. 25 @ Bloomsburg 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. FDU-Florham 10:30 a.m. Apr. 28 vs. Goucher 3:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Ralston Athletic Complex s-split squad Record: 8-2 (MAC Freedom 0-0) Women’s Tennis Mar. 4 Nebraska Wesleyan W 9-0 Mar. 4 St. John Fisher W 9-0 Mar. 6 Methodist L 0-9 Mar. 8 Bridgewater W 7-2 Mar. 18 vs. Moravian PPD Mar. 29 @ TCNJ 12:30 p.m. *Apr. 4 @ Delaware Valley 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 5 @ Misericordia 4:00 p.m. Apr. 8 @ Franklin & Marshall 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 14 vs. DeSales 11:00 a.m. Apr. 14 vs. Cabrini 3:30 p.m. *Apr 18 @ King's 3:30 p.m. Apr. 19 vs. Lycoming 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 21 @ Eastern 1:30 p.m. Apr 22 @ Stevens Inst. of Tech. 12:00 p.m. Apr. 25 @ Bloomsburg 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. FDU-Florham 10:30 a.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Ralston Athletic Complex Record: 6-1 (MAC Freedom 0-0) 20 Men's Lacrosse Feb. 14 Scranton L 5-14 Feb. 21 Marywood L 7-12 Feb. 24 Keystone W 14-3 Feb. 28 Rosemont W 18-5 Mar. 3 Alvernia W 13-4 Mar. 10 Neumann W 18-12 Mar. 14 vs. Moravian L 10-11 Mar. 24 @ Wells W 23-8 Mar. 27 vs. Mount St. Mary 7:00 p.m. *Apr. 7 @ FDU-Florham 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 11 vs. King's 7:00 p.m. *Apr. 14 vs. Manhattanville 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 18 @ Misericordia 7:00 p.m. *Apr. 21 @ Eastern 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 25 vs. Delaware Valley 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. Desales 1:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Schmidt Stadium Record: 5-3 (MAC Freedom 0-0) Results through Mar. 25 Women's Lacrosse Mar. 1 vs. Immaculata L 9-21 Mar. 3 vs. Maritime W 13-4 Mar. 10 @ Purchase L 7-14 Mar. 13 vs. Keystone L 6-9 Mar. 15 vs. Old Westbury L 5-13 Mar. 17 @ Mount St Mary L 12-17 Mar. 20 vs. Cazenovia W 19-11 Mar. 24 @ Mount St. Vincent L 11-15 Mar. 27 @ Lancaster Bible 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 7 vs. FDU-Florham 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 11 @ King's 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 14 @ Manhattanville 12:00 p.m. *Apr. 18 vs. Misericordia 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 21 vs. Eastern 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 24 @ Delaware Valley 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 @ Desales 1:00 p.m. Apr. 29 @ Centernary 2:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Schmidt Stadium Record: 2-6 (MAC Freedom 0-0) �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 Colonel Athletics in brief By Alex Kielar Asst. Sports Editor Mar. 19 BASE: Wilkes played a sloppy game, committing six errors, leading to 8 unearned runs for Muhlenberg, as the Colonels fell 10-4. Freshmen Anthony Favor and Vincent Uzzi, senior Dan Eicher, and junior Nick Capozzi each had 1 RBI each for Wilkes. Mar. 20 WLAX: The Lady Colonels outlasted Cazenovia College, 19-11, led by senior Jessyca Held’s five goals and two assists, and freshman Sierra Duman’s five goals. Two other Lady Colonels also scored or assisted on at least four goals (junior Kyra Boccio: two goals and three assists, freshman Ashley Burkhardt: four goals). Mar. 23 BASE: See page 19. SOFT: The Lady Colonels would use late rallies to propel them to a doubleheader sweep of SUNY Potsdam. In the first game, Wilkes would rally for three runs in the fifth to take the lead. In round two of the double- SOFTBALL, Continued from page 19 The left field wall acts as the boundary line from Edwardsville to Wilkes-Barre City. The split series puts Wilkes at 9-5 overall on the season and 1-1 in MAC Freedom play. Gibson’s home run backed up a strong pitching performance from sophomore Gracen Staunton. Staunton went the distance in the circle, surrendering two runs on three hits. She also threw a season-high eight strikeouts and did not allow a hit in her last inning of work.” “She lives to compete,” Leavenworth said of Staunton. “She absolutely loves it. You watch it in the way she swings, watch it in the way she pitches. She goes full bore everything. She’s strong. As pressure builds she gets better.” Staunton, who has become known for her love for sweet tea, has taken issue in the difference of sweet teas offered between Northeast Pennsylvania and her home state, North Carolina. “It’s not sweet enough up here,” Leavenworth said. “So we have to go down south to get the good sweet tea. Up north, it’s not just sweet enough.” In game two, Wilkes jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead in the first inning. The second end of the doubleheader included a scoreless bottom of the fourth for the Cougars when Jumalon chased down a double at the fence in left center after Jumalon fired to Staunton, who completed a perfect relay thrown to Gibson for the final out. Misericordia found the scoreboard in the Sports header, they would use a sixth inning rally, exploding for four runs to take a 7-4 lead. Senior Christina Gambino pitched a complete game in the first game with five strikeouts, also going 2-for-3 at the plate. Mar. 24 WLAX: Senior Jessyca Held (five goals) and freshman Ashley Burkhardt (four goals) combined for nine goals, but this wasn’t enough for the Lady Cononels to outlast Mount Saint Vincent, as they fell 1511. MLAX: With eleven different players scoring at least one goal, the Colonel’s cruised to a 23-8 victory over Wells College. Senior Nicholas Ruggiero and sophomore John Luna led Wilkes with four goals each. BASE: See page 19. SOFT: See back cover. MVB: Junior Jones Mensah tied a careerhigh in kills (13) and blocks (4), but this wasn’t enough to push Wilkes past Stevenson, as they fell 3-0. @wilkesbeacon Alex.Kielar@wilkes.edu bottom of the fifth with an RBI single to center. The Cougars would tie the contest in the bottom of the sixth with a sacrifice fly to right field. A diving Nicolette Kessler came up with the catch, but the throw would not be in time. Leavenworth did appeal the runner leaving early at third base, but the appeal would be denied. The plate umpire ruled that Misericordia did not leave early on the tag up. Misericordia would walk off in the bottom of the seventh with three consecutive hits with two outs to secure the 4-3 victory in game two. Game One: Wilkes 3, Misericordia 2 Wilkes 000 011 001 -- 3 12 0 Misericordia 101 000 000 -- 2 3 2 E -- Marzzacco, Delong. SH -- Britny Jumalon, Gracen Staunton, Sarah Birchmeier, Butera. SB -- Jordyn Kondras, Alexis Kessler, Holub. 2B -- Britny Jumalon, Christina Gambino (3), Sydney Cogswell HR -- Sarah Gibson, Butera, DeLong. Pitching: WIL -- Grace Staunton (W 4-1), 9 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 8 SO. MIS -- Schmidt 5 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 2 SO; Hoffman (L 1-4), 4 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 SO. Game Two: Misericordia 4, Wilkes 3 Wilkes 100 010 1 -- 3 5 1 Misericordia 000 012 1 -- 4 11 1 E -- Jumalon, Stephani. SH -- Britny Jumalon (2), Birchmeier, Stephani. SF -- DeLong. CS -- Butera. SB -- Holub. 2B -- Jumalon, Holub, Butera, Stephani. Pitching: WIL -- Celine Podlesney (L 2-4), 6.2 IP, 11 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 4 BB, 0 SO. MIS -Moyle (W 2-3), 7 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 6 SO. @wilkesbeacon Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu 21 3-on-3 basketball tournament coming to Wilkes, set for April 8 even more people can participate. Dragon liked the idea so much that she took it and ran with it because basketball is a sport that What better way is their to showcase almost everyone can take part in. skills on the court while also raising money “Basketball is a great way to get the for a good cause? younger generation involved,” said Dragon. This is something that can be The younger generation will certainly accomplished by participating in a 3v3 be involved as members of basketball basketball tournament fundraiser being and football teams at Wilkes will be held at the Arnaud C. Marts volunteering for the Center here at Wilkes. The event by doing things tournament will be held like participating in on Sunday, April 8th from the actual tournament, 9am to 3pm. working concession Supporting Autism & Families Everywhere All the proceeds from stands, and many this event will go to the other ways. Courtesy of SAFE organization known as Though having SAFE, which stands for Supporting Autism younger people help out for a good cause and Families Everywhere. The organization is great, Dragon feels this event will help hopes get money so it can be given to aid fathers connect with their children more. the local Autism community through Dragon said, “This will be a great way to things like art classes, swimming lessons, get dads involved because it is difficult to do and many other activities. things involving the whole family.” The event is being run by Lindsay Being able to do activities to get the Dragon, a mother of two who has a close whole family involved is what is strived for tie to Autism as her oldest son, 4-year-old whenever events like this take place to raise Jackson, is diagnosed with a severe form of awareness for Autism. the disease. It is unique because all the families “I have a degree but it feels like I’m back participating all share the common at school,” said Dragon when discussing denominator of having a child that has what it is like having to take care of her Autism. Having that familiarity goes a oldest son, “he changes the way we see life.” long way in allowing parents to meet other With Jackson being Lindsay’s motivation parents going through the same thing and for having this event, how it all came into allows for children diagnosed with the fruition was unique as well. disease to make friends. Dragon notes that when it comes to Having Wilkes as the location for the having events to help out families whose event is something Dragon is extremely children have autism, it is often difficult to thankful for. get the whole family involved. “We would not be able to have it if it And to further that point, she mentions weren’t for Wilkes” said Dragon, “getting that more often than not, mothers are more the okay from Wilkes really got me excited active at these kind of events more than because it made me realize that this is really fathers because most of the activities that happening.” take place cater more towards mothers than This is really happening indeed and is dads. To get dads just as active as mothers, something all those involved are certainly the idea of basketball came about. looking forward to. When talking to one father in particular If you would like to participate in at a previous event held during Christmas this event, whether to play, donate, time, Dragon proposed the idea of having volunteer or simply for more information, a “dad dunk competition,” with lowered contact Lindsay Dragon via email at hoops of course since the average cannot lindsaymdragon@gmail.com, or via jump high enough to dunk on the regulation telephone at 570-822-7259. sized ten foot hoop. @wilkesbeacon The father instead proposed to Dragon Andre.Spruell@wilkes.edu to have a 3v3 tournament instead, that way By Andre Spruell Opinion Editor �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 Sports 22 Getting to know... Michael Patrizio Freshman Baseball Player The Beacon: Male Athlete of the Week 3/12 - 3/18 Why Michael Patrizio was selected: Michael Patrizio went 3-for4 with 2 RBIs in an 8-5 victory against Eastern. Name: Michael Patrizio Year: Freshman Major: History/Education Minor: Secondary Education Hometown: Belle Mead, NJ High School: Montgomery HS Position: Shortstop Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? My decision to come to Wilkes was driven by the opportunities that this school provides, whether it be athletically or academically. Academically, I always want to be kept interested, which this school allows through class offerings and combinations of majors and minors. Also, the opportunity to come into a baseball program and have an impact right away was a huge deciding factor. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? After graduating from Wilkes, I plan on becoming a high school history teacher and hopefully that will lead me to some opportunities to become a coach. Favorite building on campus? My favorite building on campus would probably be Breiseth. Breiseth is where all the social sciences are. It’s where the cool stuff is taught. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? My hopes for the Colonels this year is to have an opportunity to compete in the MAC playoffs and MAC championship. We are an exciting group of players, with each one of us bringing a special talent to the field. It’s going to be exciting to watch. Editor’s hi s year's year’s Athlete rowed dow wo Editor's note note:: T This Athlete of of the the Week Week iiss nar narrowed downn to to ttwo candidates t s staf f. T he ttwo wo final f inal candidates candidates by by the the spor sports staff. The candidates are are then then voted voted on on by pee rs uusing sing aa Tw ite r poll poll @ Wilkes B eacon by peers Twiter @WilkesBeacon Additionally, nd of mic year, year, we w ill post a reader poll Additionally, at at the the eend of the the acade academic to row n an to ccrown an “Athlete "Athlete of o the the Year” Year" .. The Beacon/Alex Kielar When/Why did you first begin playing? I have been playing for as long as I can remember. The reason why I started was because of my parents and brother. I came from a very sporty family, so it was just something I have always been a part of and wanted to do. Favorite thing to do during practice? My favorite thing to do at practice would probably be catching pop-ups or working on steal breaks and base running. As an infielder, I like catching pop-ups because I don’t get very many in games, so it’s cool when one comes at you. Personally, I just find them fun. Base running and steal breaks are fun because I love stealing. If we win the game as a team and I contribute with a steal, I personally find it to be a great day. Other interests or hobbies off of the field? I love following professional and collegiate football. Football is a big interest of mine. Also, I love just hanging around with my friends, making jokes, and doing something different all the time. Most influential person in your life? My family would have to be the most influential people in my life. My family always supports me in every way they can. My mom and dad are just constantly there for me and shaped who I am. A quote you live your life by? “Mom knows best.” If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? As a history major, I would definitely have to say President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR led the U.S .through some crazy events and I would love to hear the first hand accounts of them. Favorite professor? All the professors here at Wilkes are great. As a freshman, I haven’t had a chance to work with all of them, but Dr. Debbie French in the Education Department is awesome. She is very passionate about her work and knowledge in the education field and she rubs off on all her students in the same way. Anyone to give a shout-out to? Shoutout to all my teammates, our team intern, and our coaches for all the hard work they put in everyday. Also, I would like to shoutout to all of my friends and extended family back home who helped me get to where I am today. The season is underway, time to show people who the Colonels are. -Compiled by Alex Kielar, Asst. Sports Editor �Sports The Beacon - March 27, 2018 Getting to know... 23 Kyra Boccio Junior Lacrosse Player Name: Kyra Boccio Year: Junior Majors: Accounting and Management Hometown: Dingmans Ferry, Pa. High School: Delaware Valley HS Position: Midfield Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? I really liked the small campus and variety of majors since I wasn’t 100% sure of my major going into college. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? I’d like to work in the accounting department for a medium sized company then maybe run my own business. Favorite building on campus? UCOM What came first? The chicken or the egg? The egg. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? Hopefully we can use this season to rebuild, earn some wins and work towards an even stronger team for next year. When/Why did you first begin playing? I started when I was in my early teens because a friend taught me how to play. Most influential person in your life? It’s a tie between my mom and dad. My mom always knows the right thing to say, and my dad reminds to give it my best no matter what I’m doing. Favorite thing to do during practice? Power and finesse. Coke or Pepsi? Pepsi. A quote you live your life by? “Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.” If you had to choose one thing about your program that you could improve, what would it be? I would improve the fundraising so we could raise more money for not only our own trips but for different causes and programs. Other interests or hobbies off of the field? Working with horses and snowboarding. What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? It means that we’re all a team and need to work hard to represent Wilkes. Favorite meal to eat on campus? Tortellini. Anyone to give a shout-out to? My family for always supporting me in everything I do and going out of your way to be there for me, and my teammates. Thank you for always picking me back up and helping me reach 100 points, I couldn’t have done it without you guys. -Compiled by Alex Kielar, Asst. Sports Editor Editor’s year’s Athlete n to Editor's note: note : Thi T hiss year's Athlete of of the the Week Week iiss nar nar rowed rowed dow down to two two candidates t s staf f. The f inal candidates candidates by by the the spor sports staff. The two two final candida tes are are then then voted voted on on by by peers sing aa Tw it terr poll poll @WilkesB eers u using Twitte @WilkesB eacon. eacon . Additionally, year, we post aa reader poll to Additionally, at at the the end end of of the the academic academic year, we w wiill ll post reader poll to c row n an “Athlete "Athlete of the t he Year”. Year" . The Beacon/Alex Kielar �The Beacon - March 27, 2018 Sports Champi walks off in seventh // I/ The Beacon/Kirsten Peters I Senior Joe Champi delivered a walk-off three RBI single to defeat Misericorida in game two of their MAC Freedom series. The Colonels won game two, 8-7. 24 BASE: Colonels take game from defending conference champions By Kirsten Peters Staff Writer This weekend, the Colonels lost the three-game series against the Misericordia University Cougars 2-1, putting them at 6-9 overall and 3-3 in the conference. On a bitter cold Friday afternoon, the Cougars kicked off their conference play with an 8-5 win over the Colonels in the first game of the series. Both teams took some time to adjust to the frigid conditions, having three scoreless innings. But in the top of the fourth, the Colonels’ offense broke-out, scoring two runs and taking the lead. With one out, a single to left field by freshman Vincent Uzzi got the ball rolling for the Colonels. Senior Jay Clymer followed Uzzi’s lead with a double down the left field line, putting men on second and third. A walk by senior Nicholas Capozzi loaded the bases for sophomore Matt Reinert, who singled up the middle, scoring Uzzi and Clymer to put the Colonels ahead 2-0. In the top of the sixth, the Colonels tacked on two more runs. A lead-off single up the middle by Clymer followed by a Capozzi single to right field put two men on. After a fly-out by Reinert, sophomore Tyler Walther came in clutch with a two-run shot up the middle, putting the Colonels ahead 4-0. Freshman pitcher Kyle Pokrinchak was lights-out on the mound until the bottom of the sixth when the Cougars’ offense broke open with a lead-off walk by junior Santo Guinta. After giving up a run, freshman Matthew Konikow was brought in to pitch, but the Cougars’ offense was able to tack on four more runs, taking the lead 5-4. In the bottom of the seventh, another lead-off walk by Guinta set the tone for the inning, allowing the Cougars to expand their lead to 8-4. In the top of the ninth, the Colonels attempted a late-game comeback, with a one-out single to left field by junior captain Jack Fischer. A walk by senior Joe Champi put men on first and second for Uzzi in the cleanup hole, who singled to left field and scored Fischer. However, the Colonels comeback attempt came too late in the game, as they fell 8-5. On Saturday, the Colonels hosted a doubleheader in much nicer weather than the day before with a solid outing of Colonel fans for support, winning game two of the series 8-7 and falling in game three 3-1. In game two of the series, the Colonels took the 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second. A lead-off walk by Clymer, who advanced to SEE BASEBALL, Page 19 Wilkes Spring Sports Schedules Baseball Mar. 4 Lehman W 18-5 Mar. 5 Mount Aloysius W 11-0 Mar. 6 Eastern Mennonite W 10-6 Mar. 7 PSU Harrisburg L 1-11 Mar. 8 Penn College L 4-7 Mar. 9 New England L 2-5 L 1-9 Mar. 10 Catholic Uni L 5-15 *Mar. 17 @ Eastern (DH) L 4-8, W 9-5 *Mar. 18 @ Eastern W 8-5 Mar. 19 @ Muhlenberg L 4-10 *Mar. 23 @ Misericordia L 5-8 *Mar. 24 vs. Miseri. W 8-7, L 1-3 Mar. 27 @ Marywood 3:00 p.m. *Mar. 29 @ Del.Val. 3:30 p.m. *Mar. 30 vs. Del. Val. (DH) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 5 @ Scranton 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 6 vs. King’s 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 7 @ King’s (DH) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 8 vs. PSU Brandywine 3:30 p.m. Apr. 9 vs. PSU Hazleton 3:00 p.m. Apr. 10 vs. PSU Wilkes-Barre 3:00 p.m. *Apr. 13 @ Manhattanville 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 14 vs. Man’ville (DH) 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 18 @ PSU Schuykill 3:00 p.m. *Apr. 20 vs. FDU-Florham 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 21 @ FDU-Flor. (DH) 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 27 @ Desales 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. Desales (DH) 1:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home games @ Artillery Park Record: 6-9 (MAC-Freedom: 3-3) Results through Mar. 25 Softball Mar. 4 Shenandoah L 2-9, W 10-9 Mar. 5 SUNY Poly W 9-3 Mar. 5 Eastern Mennonite L 0-2 Mar. 6 PSU Harrisburg W 3-2 Mar. 6 Regis W 8-1 Mar. 8 Mary Washingston L 2-10 Mar. 8 Mount Aloysis W 6-4 Mar. 9 Gwynedd Mercy L 0-2 Mar. 9 LA Roche W 5-0 Mar. 23 vs. SUNY Potsdam W 4-3, W 7-4 *Mar. 24 @ Miseri. W 3-2 (9 inn.), L 3-4 *Mar. 25 vs. Eastern (DH) PPD *Mar. 29 @ Del. Valley (DH) 3:00 p.m. Apr. 5 @ Marywood (DH) 3:00 p.m. *Apr. 7 vs. King’s (DH) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 10 @ Keystone (DH) 3:00 p.m. Apr. 12 @ Lycoming (DH) 3:00 p.m. *Apr. 14 @ Manh’ville (DH) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 17 vs. Summit (DH) 6:00 p.m. Apr. 19 vs. Penn Tech (DH) 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 21 vs. FDU-Flor. (DH) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 24 vs. Scranton (DH) 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 @ DeSales (DH) 1:00 p.m. *-MAC Freedom Home games @ Ralston Athletic Complex Record: 9-5 (MAC-Freedom: 1-1) Results through Mar. 25 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2018 March 27th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 March 27 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/c6655e7de7e133e1bdca17c41e9d2244.pdf 6071e901f670ef8d4933abf0bb869083 PDF Text Text w T ~ ~IHIIE ~ B5IEACC(O)N HE B EACON The Beacon - March 20, 2017 Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 71, Issue 16 The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. Wilkes offers new majors and minors for undergraduate students Wilkes University is offering a variety of new majors and minors for the current and Fall 2018 semesters. The new majors and minors include a theatre design and technology major, a five-year B.A./ M.B.A. in industrial organizational psychology major, a sports psychology minor, actuarial sciences minor, and a sustainability management minor. The new theatre and design technology major is being introduced through the performing arts division of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Classes for this major include design for theater, stagecraft, and more. Students will work to compile a portfolio and work on their own capstone their senior year. Those in this major will also be able to gain hands on experience by participating in four major shows each year. The five-year B.A./ M.B.A. in industrial psychology is a route offered to students that allows them to not only obtain a bachelor’s degree in psychology but also a master of business administration. This major is coordinated by Dr. Carl Charnetski of the psychology department. Under no additional costs, students through this program will take graduatelevel classes in their senior year in this accelerated program. This program allows students to use elective credits as an undergraduate for their M.B.A. requirements meaning students can finish their master’s in three semesters. “It’s a program where afterwards you can work in a whole array of different business settings or you can work in psychology,” said Charnetski, “you’re gonna have budget knowledge, H.R. knowledge, management knowledge, and marketing skills.” Students in this major are immersed in skills and courses that may place them ahead in the competitive job hunt. Careers include, but are not limited to, human resources, administration management and sales. The new sports psychology minor was also introduced by Charnetski. “Sports psychology is fascinating,” said Charnetski “Number one, it’s fun, and number two, it’s really interesting.” This program allows students to study the different issues of psychology within athletes and how to apply what they learn in psychology courses, but also learning about peak performance. “We’ve got a unique program here,” said Charnetski, “There are only two programs in the state at the undergraduate level in sports psychology.” Students get to learn the different pieces of an athlete’s psyche and how to apply the best possible training for an athlete as well as looking at an athlete’s brain waves in relation to their peak performance through the cutting-edge equipment in the Neuro Training and Research center. The coursework of this program helps SPRING CLEANING Food insecurity lecture, page 4 ‘Tis the season for spring cleaning page 7 students focus on the issues faced by athletes like anxiety and stress. Classes include Intro to Sports Management, Sports Psychology, Peak Performance Coaching and many others. Students will be required to take twenty-two credits. The actuarial sciences minor is a new program coordinated by Dr. Fanhui Kong of the department of mathematics and computer science. “Locally, we don’t have such a minor or major,” said Kong. Students in the minor will focus on subjects like probability, statistics, finance, and economics. Through this minor, there is a possibility of getting internships to help a student use actuarial science in a real-world setting. “I have one student who is pursuing this minor now doing an internship at County Insurance,” said Kong. The minor better equips students for the future as an actuary; a person who uses different mathematics and strategies to analyze the costs of risk and uncertainty in different lines of work, like insurance. The sustainability management minor is introduced by the partnership of the Jay S. Sidhu School of Business and Leadership and the Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Science. Dr. Marleen Troy, a professor of environmental engineering, helped coordinate this program with the help Ruth Hughes of the Business school. The minor offers a newer and modern take on the issue of sustainability management and teaches students different sustainability measures and tools for their future. In the minor, students will learn how to implement initiatives and programs for sustainability organizations. “It’s very rare to have [this minor] at an undergraduate level,” said Troy, “so we are hoping to complement and make students stronger.” Students will take online courses of introduction to sustainability, metrics of sustainability, sustainability implementation, and industry-focused sustainability for the minor. If students finish these classes with a 3.0 GPA or higher, for each class as well as a few more additional credits, they will obtain the minor as well as an online certificate in sustainability management. “Increased awareness and hopefully another set of tools for when they go in the workplace,” answered Troy when asked what she hopes students will gain from this minor and certificate. The certificate and minor itself comes from a partnership with the International Society of Sustainability Professionals, a recognized leader in sustainability education. “It’s a good background to have to make yourself look more marketable,” said Troy. Hopes and Expectations for Sons and Daughters, page 15 Wilkes athletic teams travel on spring break trips pages 19-21 @wilkesbeacon madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani Asst. News Editor Graphic by Todd Espenshade By Maddie Davis �News News The Beacon - March 20, 2018 Beacon Briefs News 2 Have a breaking story or a press release to send? Contact the news editor: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu CYC looking for Volunteers for After-School Program Compiled by Cabrini Rudnicki The CYC is looking for volunteers for their after-school program African American read-in. The program focuses on books by Andrea Volunteers wanted Adventures in Science Davis Pinkley. If you are interested or have any further questions, This year’s Adventures in Science, themed “Science from a please email erica.acosta@wilkes.edu Submarine” is seeking volunteers. The event will take place April Health & Wellness Fair to be held 27, with set up starting at 7:30 p.m. The event will run until 3 p.m. Sponsored by Health and Wellness Services and BACCHUS with Around 250 fifth-grade students are expected to attend. Volunteers are needed for positions such as lab assistants, group leaders, set- contributions from Human Resources, a Health & Wellness Fair will up and clean-up assistants. Volunteers will receive a t-shirt and be held. The fair will be held April 3 from 11 a.m to 1 p.m in the Henry refreshments. Please contact ashley.wojciechowski@wilkes.edu or Student Center Ballroom. The fair will feature topics such as certified erica.mabry@wilkes.edu for the online signup sheet or any questions. elder attorneys of law, school of pharmacy, and fitness/sports medicine. Special features such as a bone density screening, blood pressure screenings, and stroke prevention and thyroid screening (which will Blood Drive to be held The Passan School of Nursing will be holding a blood drive on April cost $30 to be paid at the fair) will be held. For more information, 23. The event will take place from 7:30 a.m to 1:30 p.m in the Ballroom. please contact Health and Wellness Services at 570-408-4730. A table will in the SUB for donors to sign-up during club hours. T-shirts will be given to the first 60 people to attend the blood drive. Walk-ins Wilkes leggings on sale are welcome. Contact Kaitlyn or Alicia at passanblooddrive2018@ Wilkes athletic leggings are on sale. Men’s leggings are $25, while gmail.com for any questions or to schedule a time. women’s leggings are $30. Only small leggings are still avaliable in women’s. Leggings can be purchased from 11 a.m to 1 p.m on Tuesdays and Thursdays. All proceeds benefit the Salvation Army in Wilkes-Barre. Contact DeAndre DePass at deandre.depass@wilkes. edu or Katie Hestor at katie.hestor@wilkes for more information. Sign up for the annual Glow Run The fifth annual Glow Through the Darkness 5k Glow Run/Walk to be held April 13. Registration opens at 7 p.m at UCOM. The run begins at 8:30 p.m from the UCOM and ends on the greenway. Participants are asked to join in the Celebration of Life after the run/ walk. Proceeds from the event will go to suicide prevention awareness through the local chapter of the American Foundation for Sucide Prevention. Please visit community.wilkes.edu/glowrun to register online. Registration is $5 for Wilkes undergraduate students, $10 for non-students. To pay in cash, please email glowrun@wilkes.edu or visit the Glow Run table during club hours in the Student Union Building. March for our Lives The Political Science Department will be hosting a trip to the March for Our Lives march on Sat., March 24. The march, which takes place in Philadelphia, starts at Fifth and Market St. and ends at Lombard Circle. Transportation will be provided. Departure is from the Student Union Building at 7 a.m. The march will take place from 10 a.m to 2 p.m. The cost is $5. Please contact gregory.chang@wilkes. edu or call 570-239-1949 for questions to reserve your spot. table of contents news................2 life, a&e...........7 spread............12 Wilkes University Student Government notes By Megan Stanley Staff Writer The Wilkes University Student Government held their meeting this week. A fund request from Education Club was the first item of business. The group requested $800 for the trip to the Pennsylvania State Education Conference. Those who attend the conference will take part in an outreach project in which they will go to local schools. The fund request covers registration, gas and hotel fees. Student government passed a motion to allocate $800 to the education club. Next was the Wilkes Adventure Education (WAE) fund request. To cover the costs of their Spring Break trip to California the group were asking for $2,000 to cover travel and food costs. To prepare for the trip, the group organized many fundraisers, including a chipotle fundraiser, a mug sale and a bake sale. Student Government agreed to allocate $750 to WAE. The HSC fund request for their “‘Welcome Spring with Color Wars/Holi”’ event was next. The event will take place April 7 between noon and 4 p.m. There will be music and Indian food and is open to all students. The group asked for $600 to cover food and Student Government agreed to cover the food cost. A fund request from ENACTUS was also on the agenda. The group does a lot of community service including students from all majors. They volunteer in medicine, state st professional development and are involved in a hydro-clyde project. The group requested $4,075 for five people to attend and event. Student government agreed to allocate $3,525 to cover hotel, shuttle and airfare for all five students attending. The Block Party fund request was the next thing on the agenda. The event will happen on April 21 between noon and 4 p.m. The theme is beach and relaxation. At the Block Party there will be T-shirts, sand art, inflatables, food and mocktails. Student Government agreed to allocate $15,000 towards the block party. A fund request for the Whine and Cheese event, which will be held April 3 was next. At the event, there will be cheesy snacks and grape juice. The agreed amount allocated to the event was $1,250. - opinion..........14 sports............19 @wilkesbeacon megan.stanley@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 News Wilkes professor publishes text on Hispanic women writers By Freddy Del Rosario Staff Writer Wilkes University’s Dr. Paola Bianco has recently published a book encompassed with the writings of Spanish-speaking women. The book, ‘Mujeres con Voz Propia’ which translates to ‘Women in their Own Voices,’ came as a realization after Bianco discovered her avid interest in Hispanic women writers. “I found myself utilizing many pieces written by Hispanic women in my classes, and thought it would be nice to take on a project that could better represent women writers around the world,” said Bianco. “I am truly excited this book finally came to be,” said Bianco. “I started this quest alone, but then I realized I could use the help of other experts on Spanish literature,” she said. Those experts are Professor Maria Fraser-Molino from Pamlico College, and Professor Emeritus Maria A. Salgado from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “I feel like the story and the piece of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz more or less epitomizes what the entire book is about, which is why I started the book with her.” Bianco is referring to Mexican nun Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz. Born in 1651, she was the first public feminist in Latin America. Being pushed by her father to marry, she chose convent instead, for she knew convent was presently the only way she could get an education. “I’m not focusing much on your typical, famous Spanish female writes, I wanted to write about the lesser known, because I felt that doing so would make this book unique,” said Bianco. Bianco also gives voice to a Filipina and an Equatoguinean Spanish writer. “Because the Philippines and Equatorial Guinea was previously colonized by Spain, I thought it was appropriate to include female writers of those times,” she explained. “At the end, it is all about women issues throughout time and culture, and I think this book could serve as a unification of all women writers.” Each written piece is followed by the background of the author in hopes of clarifying the inspirations behind each text. “I believe this book will be very helpful for all the students in Bianco’s courses, I know she has put a lot of effort into this,” said Dr. Rafael Garcia, professor of Spanish and colleague of Dr. Bianco. All the subjects in the book pertain to woman issues and are organized in categories such as the independence of women and defense of women education. “Not only did I want to write a textbook about women writers who were seen as lesser citizens in a way, but to give a voice to lesser known writers around the world.” Indigenous women who were writers were also given a voice in Bianco’s book. These women were not only poor, but of a thenconsidered ‘lesser’ race in 1600s Mexico. The book deals with issues of identity and what it means to be a woman, and how women slowly began to own the right to define themselves. Bianco’s book will serve as a tool for her to teach in her new class ‘Mapping History of Women Writers’ this fall. The book was published in December last year, by Panda Publications. “It is an anthology of how their own convictions were heard in entirely different times and places.” 3 Love reading the news? Why not try writing it! Join the Beacon team Contact us: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu @wilkesbeacon freddy.delrosario@wilkes.edu Campus welcomes Red Flag Campaign for Abuse Awareness By Jacqueline Kurovsky Staff Writer As Colonels walk through campus in the coming weeks, they may see red for a good reason. During the month of March, Wilkes is holding a three-part Red Flag Campaign to raise awareness about abusive relationships and intimate partner violence. This initiative started by placing red flags around the Fenner Quadrangle, encouraging students to spot the “red flags” in an abusive relationship. The campaign is organized by Samantha Hart, Title IX coordinator at Wilkes. She expressed the importance of raising awareness about relationship abuse and violence, and encouraged others to intervene if they spot any red flags. “Our goal is to foster a community that is intolerant of abusive behaviors and more invested in establishing healthy relationships,” Hart said. A 2011 Knowledge Networks poll on abuse in college relationships noted that 36 percent of college students had experienced this in some form. Many in relationships do not recognize the red flags early on which can lead to physical abuse. The initiative of placing red flags around campus is meant to engage students’ curiosity and preface the rest of the campaign. Director of Residence Life Debbie Scheibler assisted in placing these flags around campus. “I am supporting the efforts of Samantha Hart and her office because I strongly support dating and intimate partner violence awareness,” she said. Beginning on March 19, the second stage of the campaign will begin as posters highlighting the eight warning signs of death violence will be placed around campus. These signs are emotional abuse, coercion, excessive jealousy, isolation, assault, stalking and victim-blaming. The campaign will culminate on March 22 with the event “Colonels Know Their Flags” in the Henry Student Center. Students will be encouraged to wear red to the event to show support and awareness. Attendees will be given the opportunity to learn more about the Red Flag Campaign and resources will be provided for help with dating violence and abuse. In addition there will be photo opportunities and free Rita’s Italian Ice. The Red Flag Campaign began in 2005 and has become a public awareness The Beacon/Maddie Davis The Red Flag Campaign put red flags around campus to bring awareness to ‘red flags’ in abusive relationships, which many do not notice initially. campaign that has spread to campuses has […] largely embraced this campaign.” around the nation. Hart emphasized For more information on the campaign, the importance of this campaign on the contact samantha.hart@wilkes.edu. Wilkes campus. “Wilkes is committed to fostering @wilkesbeacon an inclusive, welcoming and safe jacqueline.kurovsky@wilkes.edu environment,” she said. “Our community �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 News TEDX speaker holds lecture on community hunger insecurity By Megan Stanley Staff Writer Wilkes University hosted Clancy Harrison, a TEDX speaker, author, and food justice advocate, to speak to students, staff and the community about food insecurity on March 15. In a lecture titled “Hunger: an invisible epidemic,” Harrison discussed her personal work as the previous president of the West Side Food Pantry in Kingston and discussed the hunger and food insecurity issues facing the USA. The Campus Interfaith Coordinator, Kristin Osipower introduced the event. “Food insecurity is a national epidemic,.” Osipower said. “No corner of our society is left untouched - including college students.” Food insecurity, Osipower continued, can be “‘a significant barrier for success”’ for college students who may not have the funds to buy nutritious food with many choosing to live off ramen noodles and instant meals. “Wilkes has taken a very proactive approach in addressing the issue by providing different sources of education and resources for the students,” Osipower said. The Colonel Closet, which opened in 2016 for Wilkes University students, providing food for students who need it, but Osipower acknowledged that there needs to be more on campus to reduce stigma. Osipower placed Harrison on the “cutting edge of advocacy” for her work in the local area to reduce stigma. “She has transformed the lives of thousands of people by improving access to nuritioning food in her work with healthcare professionals, non-profit organizations, and universities,.” Osipower said. Harrison began her talk discussing the work the West Side Pantry does. They serve 70 families a week by providing them with four days worth of food. The also hold popup fresh produce stands bi-weekly. The same stand was in UCOM during HarrisonClancy’s talk. Before her work at the Pantry, HarrisonClancy admitted: “I had a lot of misconceptions I wasn’t even aware of. But when I started working everything changed.” “I realized the misconceptions I had were completely wrong,” Harrison continued: “There’s a misconception that people are lazy, that they are using the system. I learned that people often have multiple jobs, they are often patching enough jobs where they are working 1.7 jobs. Most of the children on food stamps have at least one working parent.” Harrison also acknowledged the belief that many who use food services also misuse drugs and alcohol. “In my seven years now of being at the food pantry, I’ve only encountered one person who smelt like alcohol.” Harrison explained that the person in question had anxiety going into public and had consumed alcohol to give them the courage to go to the food pantry. “If you look at the research [drug and alcohol abuse is] actually more prevalent among people with money, however it is more visible in poorer neighbourhoods.” Harrison stated. Harrison is also a consultant for the Women With Children (WWC) at Misericordia University, which is a program that provides single mothers with the opportunity to complete a college degree. It is one of eight programs in the United States that offers such opportunities to single mothers. “We have sixteen mom’s and nineteen children now, we just received our third home,” Harrison said. She also discussed her cooperation with prisons that provide some of the produce use in the food pantry: “It was the best experience of my life. I get beautiful produce from them. The men are so proud it’s like a sense of freedom for them inside of a prison.” Food insecurity, Harrison explained, is when people have limited availability to nutritious and safe food whereas hunger is when an individual experiences a painful and uneasy sensation because of a lack of food. Another aspect of food insecurity, Harrison said explained is eating the wrong The Beacon / Megan Stanley TEDX speaker Clancy Harrison spoke on food insecurity, especially relating to college students. Harrison was brought to campus by Kristin Osipower, campus interfaith coordinator, who also runs the Colonel Closet, a food pantry for students of the university. 4 types of food despite having access to good food. For instance eating instant meals, preprepared pancake mix, and ramen noodles. “This is what you see in colleges, this is what you see in the working poor. They are full, but they are starving on the inside because they are malnourished.” Harrison explained. In the US, 41.2 million people are experiencing food insecurity, with 12.9 million children falling into the food insecure bracket. “Since I’ve been speaking about food insecurity, the rates have gone down, but there’s a bigger gap in people who need more food. So the people who need food, need more and more food than before,.” Harrison said. In the Wilkes Barre area, 28.9% of the population lives below the poverty line, with females aged 25 - 35 and 18 - 24, and males 18 - 24, being the largest demographics facing poverty. Harrison told the audience that this means the college population of Wilkes Barre makes up the highest demographic of poverty. Harrison also discussed the stigma surrounding utilizing food assistant programs. Out of households that are classed as insecure, only 59% of insecure households participated in one of the three3 major federal initiatives such as SNAP, school meals, and WIC. “What’s going on in the other 41%, why aren’t they participating?” Harrison asked. “Stigma is a big issue,” Harrison said as a reason for many people not choosing to seek help for food struggle. Harrison told the story of Jake, a local child in the area who has spina bifida. His mother had to choose between buying baby formula which cost $1,200 a month and food, leading her to receive food stamps and shop at night to avoid shame. “Stigma causes food assistance paralysis,.” Harrison told the audience. Harrison also provided other reasons why people might not be able to get help for food issues. She explained that many can’t go because of conflicting working hours, no transport, and lack of knowledge about services. Towards the conclusion of the talk, Harrison was keen to encourage others to act to help those in need. Harrison told the audience: “Look in your own organization, where you work, find the crack and be the glue. We have a lot of our reach within universities, but what about the inreach? Civil leadership can happen anywhere at anytime by any person.” @wilkesbeacon megan.stanley@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 News 5 Profile of a Professor: Dr. Xiaoming Mu, mechanical engineering By Maddie Davis Asst. News Editor Dr. Xiaoming Mu is an assistant professor for the mechanical engineering department. Mu earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering mechanics at Dalian University of Technology in Dalian, China. When he moved to the United States, Mu earned his master’s degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and in July he received his PhD for Mechanical Engineering from the same school. Mu became interested in mechanical engineering because of the influence of his hometown in China as well as his mother’s influence as she herself was a mechanical design engineer of automobiles. He became immersed in automobiles because his hometown in China was home to the first automobile factory, but he later switched gears to mechanical engineering during his undergraduate years. One of the biggest reasons Mu became interested in teaching at Wilkes was because of 3-D printing and the additive manufacturing lab on campus. He focused on additive manufacturing during his PhD. “It’s my expertise and it’s why I am here,” said Mu, “I am here to get involved and offering new courses.” Mu has published papers from his research with additive manufacturing and photomechanics of materials where he used light to deform the shape of different materials and developed a new way to print porous materials using salt and light for biomedical applications. Mu teached CADD lab, Statics, Strength of Materials, Solid Mechanics in his first year at Wilkes. “There’s a lot of stuff for me to learn in my new role as a faculty member,” said Mu. “I think being a new faculty member gives me the advantage because I care about students a lot,” said Mu, “I was a student half a year ago so I know what students are thinking, what they want, and what they are expecting to get from the lecture.” In the near future Mu hopes to utilize his interests in 3D printing and material study to create a new lab for undergraduates to assist him in. Mu had his first teaching experience at Georgia Institute of Technology as a graduate teaching assistant where he helped grade homework and, to his surprise, even had the opportunity to be the instructor of the lab. “It was really a new experience for me and it started to be extraordinarily interesting and I started to think what if I took on this role as an instructor,” said Mu. Mu was able to expand his background in teaching as he was a substitute teacher for his advisor when he went to conferences. “I enjoyed it a lot,” said Mu, “I decided why not find a job that I can both focus on research and teaching at the same time.” Wilkes’ focus on education and on the students is also what attracted Mu here. He liked the opportunity Wilkes gave him to use his knowledge of research in the classroom. on her experiences at Waller Hall from last academic year. Morrison spoke on the many accounts that her and her fellow residents experienced in the newly renovated Waller Hall. She said there were all types of animals, from wasps to raccoons to mice. “It was like a zoo when we were in there,” said Morrison. “They were running underneath my floor,” said Morrison, “it was all fun and games [with the animals] until I heard a squeak,” said Morrison. Morrison and fellow residents supposedly told facilities, but they didn’t do anything according to Morrison. Morrison even expressed her concern for future students because of the dangerous health risks that could come from river rats entering the hall from the nearby Susquehanna River. “This is disgusting,” added Morrison. Gabrielle D’Amico, Director of Communications, spoke on behalf of facilities on the squirrel situation and denied claims of squirrels. “A call was placed to facilities in December, but the sounds were found to be coming from the exterior of the residence hall,” said D’Amico. “Facilities continuously monitors and reacts to any possible issues in campus buildings, particularly in winter months when squirrels look for a warm place to take shelter,” said D’Amico. “If a squirrel finds its way inside, they will capture and release the animal off campus, and work to close up any possible entry points.” The resident assistant of the Waller, sophomore and political science major Joshua Bradley, discussed the seriousness of the claims. “We have a couple residents here who have reported hearing some things, but they haven’t actually been able to find any squirrels or anything like that as of yet,” assured Bradley,.“I can tell you for sure that Resident’s Life and facilities have been working on this for a long time.” Bradley went into detail about the different precautions Wilkes’ facilities has taken to keep out unwanted animals since the former mansions transformation into a resident hall, like sealing off of the chimney. “They’re not really causing too much of a problem other than some scratching and things like that,” said Bradley. “I personally haven’t had any sort of problems or anything like that.” “We’ve never had a squirrel or anything like that enter the building,” said Bradley. Bradley once again assured that the claims and the problems aren’t serious as there are no diseases being spread from the potential Dr. Xiaoming Mu The Beacon / Steffen Horwath “I know research and I can combine them together when I teach the students about any classes,” said Mu. “I can not only tell them the concept but also I can tell them what will help them in the real life.” Mu also liked the intimacy of the small class sizes that Wilkes is known for. “I am glad I am here,” said Mu. @wilkesbeacon madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu Faculty and students discuss possibility of squirrels in Waller Hall By Maddie Davis Asst. News Editor Squirrel-related noises and incidents have been reported this past year in Wilkes University’s Waller Hall. Waller Hall is a co-ed, freshman honors dorm on campus that holds 20 students and is divided by the North and South side; the North side for the boys and South for the girls. The newer accounts of squirrels in Waller come from this past fall and winter season. There were reported accounts of hearing running and scratching along the third floor attic-based rooms and the ceiling of the second floor on the North side. As it got worse, students notified campus’ facilities. Facilities referred to the reported squirrels as “tree rats” and stated these animals are desperate to get into a warm building because of the cold winter. Facilities told students that they had chewed the siding of the building off, which was the entry point. From there, facilities had reportedly caught the trespassing squirrels and put up different precautions to keep further intruders away from the Honors Hall. After the maintenance, some students still say they hear faint noises but others argue the problem is fixed. As of now, there are no reports this year from the girls’ side of Waller hall, but former resident and sophomore entrepreneurship and hospitality major, Victoria Morrison, reflected 0023428 WILKES-BARRE NT RTME POLICE DEPA Graphic by Todd Epenshade WILKES UNIVERSITY invaders. Dr. Michael Steele, Biology professor, added his own remarks about squirrels with his lab assistant Shealyn Marino. Steele has been recognized nationally for his research on squirrels as well as publishing four books on the topic. Steele blamed the cold weather for the possible intrusion of squirrels and the need to drop their young for the winter. “The best way to do it is live trap them, take them some place and then let them go,” said Steele “If you remove one, there will probably be another one that moves in,” added Marino. WALLER HALL @wilkesbeacon madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 Act Out Theater Group to present “The Women of Shakespeare” By Beacon Staff Reports Act Out Theatre Group will present The Women of Shakespeare beginning March 23 and running until March 25 with performances on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. The reader’s theatre-style show was conceived by Act Out’s artistic director, Dan Pittman. “I wanted to find a way to celebrate Women’s History Month in a unique fashion,” Pittman said, “all the while making it an informative and low-key show that celebrates the strong female characters within many of Shakespeare’s works.” The cast consists of six women as young as 16. The cast includes; Riley Calpin of Clarks Summit, Kalen Churcher of Plymouth, Marissa Moku of the Back Mountain, Laurie Kirk of Tannersville, Erin Reese of Moscow and Amanda Guziewicz of Scranton. The show includes monologues and scenes from various Shakespearean works including; The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew,Richard III, Coriolanus, All’s Well that Ends Well, and many more. Reese, a Wilkes University alumnus, News points to Much Ado About Nothing’s Beatrice as her favorite Shakespearean woman. “I identify with her character so much because I, too, am stubborn and picky on the outside but truly vulnerable inside,” she said. Pittman believes it is important to produce a show like this because he believes peopl are not as inclined to read Shakespeare anymore. “This show is so fun and unique because it’s so many different characters that everyone knows and loves, performed by women of all ages,” Calpin said. “With the variety of shows and characters on display, you’re bound to find a piece or two that really sticks out to you personally.” The Women of Shakespeare runs on the Act Out stage (408 N, Main St.m Taylor, Pa. 18517) from March 23 until March 25 with performances Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. All tickets are $10. Tickets can be purchased by emailing the theatre at actouttheatre1@gmail.com. Tickets can also be purchased at the door. Editor’s note: Dr. Kalen Churcher, The Beacon’s faculty adviser, is involved in this production. 6 FOR RENT APARTMENTS Studio, 1, 2, & 3 bedrooms Available June 1, 2016 www.DreamRentals.net Call Jim (570) 288-3375 TONS OF BRANDS TO CHOSE FROM INCLUDING: BELLA+CANVAS, AMERICAN APPAREL, ADIDAS, JERZEES, GILDAN, IZOD, AND MORE. 4T-SH iRTS·CO M YOUR #1 LOCAL SCREEN PRINTER SINCE 1993! IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ... SAY IT WITH US! ~ FIGshirts fi FIGshirts ~ FIGshirts �y The Beacon - March 20, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 7 Life, Arts & Entertainment Have a story or want your event to be featured? Contact the Life, A&E Editor: amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu It’s time to spring into action and clean your home By Amanda Bialek Life, Arts and Entertainment Editor 1. Dishwasher Duty A great way to sanitize is to shake baking soda on a damp sponge and wipe the dishwasher down with it. This helps removes tough stains and stuck-on food. 7. Pick the perfect broom For indoor messes, be sure to use a broom with fine bristles. This will help pick up small dirt particles more efficiently. For the porch or other outdoor areas, choose a stronger broom with stiff bristles. 2. Disinfect the Disposal 9. Address your drawers and closet Take time to sort through the clothes in your dresser and those hanging in your closet. We often are storing clothes that are no longer worn. Purge what you do not wear anymore. Consider donating it or giving it to a friend. Stink be gone! To freshen up the disposal naturally, drop in some sliced lemons, ice and salt. The lemons will deodorize while the salt and ice will take care of residue. 3. Ditch the Sponge Did you know sponges are a breeding ground for bacteria? To disinfect yours, squeeze it out after using it and microwave it for one minute. When it starts to get smelly, throw it into the trash can. 0 0 12. Clean out the refrigerator 13. Don’t spread the dust Spray all the ceiling fans with furniture polish. Be sure to wipe off the excess and then lightly buff for a nice shine. 14. Use a Diffuser Freshen up your room or home with a diffuser. Lemon and Thieves are great scents that will help eliminate any lingering odors and kill bacteria. Mold and mildew? No need to throw away the liner. Put it in the washer along with bath towels to help scrub it clean and hang it back up to dry. 15. Shine the windows Use a glass cleaner to get rid of those spots and smudges from the winter season. To ensure a great window shine, wash the windows on a cloudy day. 5. Tame the Toilet Make fizzy bath bombs for your toilet. A quick recipe: 1 cup cornstarch; 1 cup citric acid; 2 cups baking soda; 1/2 cup Epsom salt; 1/2 cup sea salt; 2 tsp. water; 1/2 tsp. Borax; 1-2 tsp. essential oil; 2 tbsp. of a light oil such as jojoba or grapeseed. Visit thespruce.com for more details on sanitizing the toilet with do-it-yourself bath bombs. First, pour a pot of boiling water down the drain. Then add in about half a cup of baking soda and let it sit for about eight minutes. Pour a cup of hot water mixed with vinegar down the drain. Cover with the plug and flush the drain out with hot water once more. For all the gamers out there, label your game controllers and attach them to the specific game console with velcro. You will no longer have to search high and low for the controller next time you are ready to play your favorite game. Throw away any old leftovers or outdated food. Combine salt and soda water to make a cleaner. Wipe down the fridge with this bubbling mixture. 4. Wash your Shower Curtain Liner 6. Get the drains unclogged 11. Use velcro to address clutter 16. Toss your bedding in the washer It is important to wash pillowcases and sheets on a regular basis to stay germ free. To keep your bedding smelling fresh, washing it once a month is ideal. Graphic by Todd Espenshade 8. Say goodbye to dust bunnies with the proper dustpan Purchase a dustpan with a rubber edge. Sweep dirt and dust bunnies into the pan with ease and catch every dust bunny that is lurking. 10. Keep the essentials nearby Organize a basket to keep on your nightstand. Fill it with your favorite moisturizer, chapstick, box of tissues and a book. This will remind you to take care of yourself as the season changes. 17. Check out what is underneath your bedding While your bedding is washing, use the crevice tool from your vacuum on your mattress. This will remove dust and skin flakes. Spray some tea tree or lavender essential oils. @wilkesbeacon amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 8 Life, Arts & Entertainment Recipe 01 the week: NGREDIE TS: I INSTRUCTIONS: Nntella french Toast 1. 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Nanticoke $13.95 + tax large 16” 1-topping pizza & 2-liter soda $17.95 + tax $7.95 + tax each for 5 or more large plain pies $11.95 + tax $16.95 + tax 3 hot & cold subs mix &match $23.95 + tax 12- cut Sicilian pizza 12 -cut Sicilian pizza 2 tickets to Movies 14, 1 med- 1 topping & 1 order of wings pizza & 2 drinks $20.95 + tax large 16” pizza & 12 cut tray siclian pizza $12.95 + tax small 12” 1-topping pizza & choice of any sub $17.95 + tax 2 large plain pizzas toppings extra $18.95 + tax large 16” pizza, 1 sub, & an appetizer $20.95 + tax 24- cut Sicilian pizza $28.95 + tax 3 large 1- topping pizzas �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 9 SPEND YOUR SUMMER WISELY Take classes for just $520 per credit Many classes are held online so you can enjoy your break from home while getting ahead in your studies. And with start dates in May, June or July, classes conveniently fit your summer plans. Three-week presession May 21 to June 8 Full session May 21 to Aug. 17 Nine-week session June 11 to Aug. 14 Summer session I June 11 to July 13 Summer session II July 16 to Aug. 17 Make an appointment with your advisor and visit www.wilkes.edu/summer. �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 10 Graphic by Todd Espenshade Spring cleaning isn’t just for your messy room. It’s the perfect time of year to set free all of the gloomy things bringing you down. The process of letting go of anything that brings you negativity in your life is very important to your mental health. Whether it be a bad habit, a toxic relationship or that one friend that is always bringing you down, it’s time to stand up for yourself and let go. Psychologytoday. com gives some tips on how to say goodbye to the old and give a warm welcome to the new! Worry about yourself It doesn’t matter what other people think or what they do, it’s time to start caring about you. What someone else thinks of you should not change your opinion of yourself. You have to believe in yourself and others will respect you for that. At the end of the day, you have the love yourself. Failure is always an option If you make a mistake, don’t worry, you’re not the only one. Don’t let it keep you up at night as you wallow in self pity. Instead learn from what happened and laugh about it. Life will be so much more pleasant if you learn that failure is human and sometimes it can be quite funny. Accept things you cannot change We can’t control everything and sometimes things happen that we wish we could change. As much as we would love to change certain things, we have to let go of that control and move forward. Whether you wish things in the past were different, you need to live in the present and be hopeful for the future. Get uncomfortable Getting out of your comfort zone is one of the best ways to learn new things about yourself. New situations, new people and new experiences can be great for your mental health. Stop living behind “what ifs” and learn what you are capable of. You can unlock unlimited possibilities when you don’t let fear run your life. ~ Forgive The most important aspect of letting go is to forgive. Keeping all of your negative emotions inside allows you live in the past and prevents you from moving forward. The most important thing about forgiving is you need to do it to yourself and for no one else. Forgiving and letting go allows you to grow as a person and become a new and better you. “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” -Walt Disney @wilkesbeacon shannon.oconnor@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 11 Wilkes Internship & Career Fair Many Wilkes students stopped by the career fair to speak with representatives from a wide variety of different career fields. The McHale Athletic Center was filled with many employers for students to visit with. --------= ~ ~ 0 Commonwealth Health wealth commonHealth Registered Nurses Sue Chandler and Michelle Marchetti ‘03 were two representatives from Commonwealth Health. The Beacon/Madison Kaminski Joseph Birden, a student in the Sidhu School of Business and Leadership, speaks with a representative from the Pennsylvania State Police. Graphic by Todd Espenshade �The Beacon -March 20, 2017 Wilkes-Barre Ceasefire By Cabrini Rudnicki News Editor News On March 15, Action Together NEPA and the Wilkes University Sociology and Criminology departments brought different organizations to discuss approaches to violence reduction in Wilkes-Barre. Representatives from gun violence prevention organizations spoke about their separate approaches to lessening violence through means like legislation and community outreach. The event leaders hope to create a Ceasefire Wilkes-Barre using strategies from both organizations. Dr. Andrew Wilczak, a professor of Sociology, brought the event to Wilkes University after the Parkland shooting in February. Wilczak is the chair of the outreach and education committee for Action Together NEPA, an activist organization in the area. Action Together NEPA had previously held a gun control rally in downtown Wilkes-Barre on Feb. 19. “We want to restore people’s confidence in the city, and make Wilkes-Barre and the surrounding cities a safer place,” said Wilczak The event brought representatives from CeasefirePA and Philadelphia Ceasefire, both gun violence prevention organizations. “The two organizations, despite having the names in common, are two very different groups,” explained Wilczak. “CeasefirePA tends to take a legislative and political side, while Philadelphia Ceasefire is more on the ground. As for what Ceasefire WilkesBarre ends up being is really up to us as a community. I envision it as a combination of the two.” First to speak at the event was Jeff Dempsey, the program director of CeasefirePA. CeasefirePA is one of the largest statewide organization for gun violence prevention, with a focus on education and legislation. “Gun violence is much larger than what we typically think of as gun violence,” said Dempsey. “It’s easy to look at something like city homicide rates, but we don’t necessarily think of suicide rates. Suicide counts for so many gun deaths which is why people on the other side of the debate often leave suicides out.” “We also often don’t talk about intimate partner violence, also known as domestic violence,” continued Dempsey. “In Pennsylvania, generally we lose about 100 people a year to intimate partner violence, and about half of them are with guns.” Dempsey continued to speak on the work his organization tends to do. “On top of education, we also do a lot of advocacy work,” explained Dempsey. “We try to take the people that we speak to and pair them with their representatives. We equip them to be better advocates. “We do more legislative work because we believe in the laws that we support, and we believe that in the Pennsylvania legislature quite frankly there are laws that will endanger it and do harm.” Dempsey also began to go through different gun laws that are important to CeasefirePA, including state laws encompassing background checks, open carry, local gun laws. State Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski then chimed in to explain his stance on the issue, explaining his belief that the second amendment is outdated. “The NRA has gone from a sportsman organization to a money making machine,” said Pashinski. He also commended and applauded the Parkland students recent actions to raise support for gun control laws. “Those kids stood up, and so elegantly, brilliantly, courageously stood up and told the truth,” he said. “What did they do in Florida? They passed gun legislation for the first time. “As a legislature, it is up to me to find laws that protect people, that address concerns and address needs.” Representatives from Philadelphia Ceasefire came on stage to discuss their methods of gun violence reduction. The organization was originally created in Chicago by a scientist who noticed the 12 The Beacon / Maddie Davis Jeff Dempsey, of CeasefirePA, and Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski shared the stage as they discussed legislature related to gun control, as well as voting in the next election. clusters of shootings was similar to the spread of cholera in Africa, leading to him speaking about gun violence as a public health issue. The organizations use the Cure Violence model, which uses disease control methods, according to the Cure Violence website. Marla Davis Bellamy brought the organization to Philadelphia after serving as Chief of Staff for the Pennsylvania Department of Health before becoming executive director of Minority Health and Health Disparities at Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple. Bellamy showed a statistic of gun violence, showing that Philadelphia lost 317 victims of homicide while New York City lost 290 victims of homicide, both in 2017. New York City has a population of approximately 8.5 million people, while Philadelphia only has 1.5 million people. “One of the reasons we talk about violence as a public health issue is because it certainly impacts so many people,” explained Bellamy. The Cure Violence model looks at violence as learned behavior. Bellamy explained this model using golfer Tiger Woods as an example. “Tiger Woods has been playing golf since he was two years old, why? Because he was introduced to it by his parents. He was just inundated by golf his entire life, so he’s a great golfer. Now flip the script a little bit. If a child is in a home where there’s guns, violence, whether it’s in communities or schools, that’s all they see. That’s what they are going to become.” Philadelphia Ceasefire hires what they call ‘credible messengers,’ which are people who are known and trusted by the community, who previously had been engaged in gun violence. Their efforts are also focused on high-risk individuals. “If we are in an area that has known gun problems, we are going to focus our efforts on the leader of the gang,” explained Bellamy. “That person has a lot of influence.” The organization responds to neighborhood shootings by having members go to the scene and engage with family members and friends of the victim. The organization also mediates disagreements between individuals to prevent the conflict from escalating to gun violence. There was a decrease of homicides and shooting victims in Philadelphia after the creation of the program. In one district of Philadelphia, in 2011 there were 46 homicides and 187 shootings, while in 2013 there were 29 homicides and 136 shootings. Faith based leaders Dr. Mary Washim and Peter Harris also spoke at the event. Dr. Mary Washim, a pastor and police chaplin, spoke about her approach to stopping gun violence. She works as a prayer coordinator for Philadelphia, and holds a monthly conference call prayer hotline to pray for the city. The conference call includes people across the country. The calls happen the first Monday of every month at 5:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. �The Beacon -March 20, 2017 News 13 Graphics by Todd Epenshade PHILADElPHlt.. CEASEFIRE SS OR C A campaign tt' stop snootmgs The Beacon / Maddie Davis Marla Davis Bellamy, of Philadelphia Ceasefire, with her powerpoint presentation explaining the cause and methods of her organization, which uses the Cure Violence model. E POLIC TO N E LIN OD EN N DO IL E OT STOP CI LO P S OS R C SS OR T NO C SS O R CT ON D O EO IN D E N L IL E E CILO C I L P O P The Beacon / Maddie Davis Dr. Mary Washim, a faith-based leader affiliated with Philadelphia Ceasefire, holds a monthly conference call praying for the city with people from around the country. “I believe all of us are composed of the body, the soul, and the spirit, and I believe all of us have a part in helping with the violence that’s going on. We can work on the body, but what about the spiritual piece? I believe that when we put that part in, we can become complete.” Peter Harris, also a police chaplain affiliated with the organization, gave his perspective on the situation. “We need to connect to each other,” said Harris. “Disconnect is a word that people use a lot, but the fact of the matter is that you can’t disconnect if you were not connected. That’s our problem, we are unconnected. “Ceasefire is working to get us attached, attached to become engaged. Once we are engaged, we will be focused, and we will begin to look at each other in the eyes and we can begin to hear them when they speak, and we can begin to touch.” More information on the organizations can be found on ceasefirepa.org and philaceasefire.org. For more information on the creation of Wilkes-Barre Ceasefire, please contact Dr. Andrew Wilczak at andrew. wilczak@wilkes.edu. @wilkesbeacon cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu The Beacon / Maddie Davis Dr. Andrew Wilczak, a Sociology professor at Wilkes and chair member of Action Together NEPA, hosted the event, inspired by the recent Parkland shooting in February. �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Opinion Opinion Have an opinion or want to write a guest column? Contact the opinion editor: andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Editorial Staff Our Voice 2017-18 MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Toni Pennello Managing Editor - Danny Van Brunt Adviser - Dr. Kalen Churcher SECTION EDITORS News - Cabrini Rudnicki LA&E - Amanda Bialek Opinion - Andre Spruell Sports - Luke Modrovsky ASSISTANT EDITORS News - Maddie Davis LA&E - Shannon O’Connor Opinion - Nick Filipek Sports - Ben Mandell & Alex Kielar DESIGN EDITORS Todd Espenshade - Graphic Designer PHOTOGRAPHERS Nicole Gaetani EDITORIAL BOARD Toni Pennello Danny Van Brunt Cabrini Rudnicki Shannon O’Connor Andre Spruell Megan Stanley 141 S. Main St. Clayton and Theresa Karambelas Media Center Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 www.thewilkesbeacon.com 14 Each week, The Beacon’s editorial board will take a stance on a current issue. Greek Life or no Greek Life? The Beacon reflects on student fraternities and sororities in Pennsylvania When people think about college, things like partying and Greek life are the factors constantly associated with college. These same factors are also costing the lives of innocent people. Recently, a Lehigh University sorority was shut down until 2020 for what was described a “raunchy scavenger hunt.” The scavenger hunt encouraged students to do very inappropriate and illegal tasks to earn points and then become a member. Another incident in particular happened at Penn State University last year in which a student was found dead at a fraternity party. The student drank an excessive amount of alcohol and as he was lying on the floor at a fraternity party, students expressed concern over his wellbeing. Despite concerns, members of the fraternity hosting the party did not seem as worried and allowed the deceased body to just lay there. The fraternity has since been banned by the university. According to ABC News, Pennsylvania prosecutors this past Thursday dropped all assault charges against members of the nowclosed Penn State fraternity in the hazing death of a pledge, sparing defendants the most serious allegations any had faced. Although The Beacon does not agree with this decision, there are still members of the former fraternity that could face charges leaving them in prison for many years. Attending a school that does not have Greek life, Wilkes University students do not know what it is like having to deal with fraternities and sororities on a daily basis. But from visiting friends at universities that do have Greek life, the party culture is extremely different. One member of The Beacon has attended parties hosted by fraternity and sororities, and it did not seem safe. The experiences seemed unsafe because when going to Greek life parties at other schools, each fraternity and sorority encountered seemed to have different rules before even entering the party. Then upon entering the party, it seems like it is easy to take advantage of people because there is an excessive amount of alcohol and drugs readily available. Although fraternities and sororities exist to allow students to have connections for things like jobs once they graduate, The Beacon feels like going to a school without Greek life makes the campus safer. This is not taking shots at students involved in Greek life and is not an attempt to attack the concept of Greek life. Here at Wilkes University, there are fraternities, but they are professional fraternities, and are not the “typical” fraternities that throw wild parties every weekend that would endanger the wellbeing of students here on campus. There many reasons why not having these fraternities has been beneficial to the institution and for other academic institutions that also do not have Greek life. One simple reason is that without Greek life, it decreases the chances of students having alcohol or drug related incidents that could endanger their health. Schools that do not have Greek life definitely still have parties, but since fraternities and sororities are not hosting these parties, alcohol and drugs are not as readily available. This means that since fraternities and sororities generate so much money through things like “dues,” they are able to get excess amounts of alcohol and drugs available for students without charging them. For schools without Greek life, house parties are thrown by students who live offcampus. Since these house parties thrown have to be funded by students without any Greek life association, they do not have nearly the same amount of money that fratenities and sororities do, which means they personally have to come out of pocket to provide alcohol for students. As a result, far less alcohol is provided, limiting the chances of alcohol related issues. Another factor that makes not having Greek life safer is hazing. Having to complete feats in order to have the opportunity to join a fraternity or sorority is something that has been going on for many years. These particular feats vary depending on the fraternity or sorority, but the common denominator is that some of these feats can put students in danger since most of these feats involve things like physical abuse, alcohol, drugs and sex. In all, schools that do not have a strong Greek life presence are much safer than schools that do. With that being said, should other academic institutions look into disallowing Greek life? Or do more incidents involving fatalities have to happen in order for it to happen? �The Beacon - March 20th, 2018 Opinion Hopes and Expectations for Sons and Daughters By Andre Spruell Opinion Editor Having a family is a goal most people strive for, whether it be planned or unplanned. With that being said, does the gender of a child determine how their parents raise them? According to Psychology Today, it is often difficult to do this type of research because parents tend to be reluctant to admit that they treat their sons and daughters differently, especially in an era of greater gender equality. Nowadays, it is common for couples that are planning to have a family to have a gender reveal for a baby that is on its way. The way in which the gender is revealed takes many forms, with the end result being blue, which signifies a boy, or pink, which means the couple is expecting a girl. Due to something like gender reveals, is it safe to assume that hopes, standards and expectations are already being placed on a child before they are even born? Personally, I do not think it is a stretch that couples expecting a child are already placing expectations on their children once their gender is revealed because simply put, girls are treated differently from boys. Something as simple as toys contribute to stereotypes among sons and daughters. For example, boys are discouraged from playing with dolls and makeup, while girls are discouraged to do physical activity and are discouraged to play with “boy” toys like G.I. Joe action figures. Another factor as to why boys and girls are treated differently from each other is the fact that dads are males and that mothers are females. According to Time Magazine, fathers tend to use more analytical language when speaking to their daughters than when talking to sons. In other words, by using more analytical languages towards daughters, it indicates that fathers have more complex types of discussions with their sons as opposed to their daughters. Fathers also talked about sadness more with girls than boys, and they were more likely to engage in rough physical play with their sons than with their daughters according to Time Magazine. Boys engaging in physical play while girls are generally taught to avoid physically demanding activity is something that I believe has always been around in society. This develops the stereotype that since boys are genetically stronger, they are more capable of doing physical activity to the point that it seems girls cannot do the same, which is just not true. This particular idea is evident on the adult level as well, especially back in the early 1900s when men typically went out to work physically demanding jobs, while women stayed at home to tend kids because they were seen as too delicate to work the same jobs as men. According to Time.com, mothers may be more comfortable talking about their emotions than fathers, thus children might therefore think it is more appropriate for girls to talk about feelings. Due to this, daughters were more likely than sons to speak about their emotions with their fathers when talking about past experiences. Since this is the case, another stereotype developed as that women are more emotional. Since fathers and mothers are more emotionally available for their daughters than with their sons, girls tend to be more emotional because they are allowed to be more emotional. On the other hand, boys are generally not taught to be emotional because being emotional is something that is typically not seen as “manly.” According to CBS News, there is a ton of research indicating that it is really good for children to talk about their emotions and so if we’re doing that less with out boys, that’s a good thing to realize. Parents being emotionally available for their children no matter their gender is something I think is truly important. Girls are more emotional, but they are allowed to be emotional, which I like. Girls comfortably having the ability to show their emotions in any situation allows them to express themselves more freely and makes them feel more comfortable in doing so. Boys meanwhile are less emotional because they are taught to not be emotional. Teaching boys to be more emotional I believe is becoming more common today, and is something that is important to do because allowing boys to be more emotional allows them to express their feelings more which is important to their health, especially their mentally health. Being a son to two parents who both have been extremely active in my life, there was a difference in how they raised me. My mother has always been there for me emotionally and always made it a point that if there was something going on to let her know about. She made it an emphasis to be my emotional outlet. Meanwhile, my father taught me toughness and whenever he taught me lessons growing up as a kid, he always hammered home, “I’m raising men, I’m not raising boys.” Having both forms of teaching is extremely beneficial because showing emotion is something that everyone has to do in order to be healthy, but also having that hard nosed upbringing from a father serves as reminder that when the going gets tough, to keep pushing through to find a solution. Through research, it can be inferred that teaching sons differently from daughters also creates different hopes and dreams. While these hopes and dreams may be similar, it can be inferred that the hopes and dreams towards daughter is more emotionally based than a boy’s hopes and dreams. Taking Care of Your Own Feelings Become aware of your feelings- If you’re going to be sensitive to others peoples feelings, the best place to start is to become aware of your own. Learn Coping Skills- When you notice signs of strong emotions, you will need to know ways to maage your feelings so that they dont overwhelm you. Protect Yourself- If you start to feel overwhelmed, its okay to take a break. Can men be emotional? By Nick Filipek Asst. Opinion Editor Can men be emotional? Of course! As long as they show emotion in the stereotypical sense of how a man should act. There is a pressure to be seen as tough and strong while being stern and reserved. Most men want to be perceived as someone who does not complain when they are hurt and keeps everything inside. To be fair, there really should not be categories for how a men or women should specifically act. There are billions of people on the planet, and to simply say to half, “act this way” and the other half “do this” would simply not work. On the other hand, if some sort of genderless alien were to come to Earth and ask 100 people, “How does a man act differently than a women?” there would surely be certain answers that would reoccur. Why is there a need to be seen in this certain image? “You do _____ like a girl” is supposedly one of the biggest insults you can say to a man. You’re told to “man up” all the time as well in situations that require determination and strength. Do women not possess these characteristics? Of course they do, and in my own personal opinion, women are way tougher than men to begin with. Only women can make children, including men, and from what I have heard the process is quite excruciating. This still hasn’t stopped women from doing 15 the job for thousands of years. Also being told “no” for just about as long hasn’t stopped woman from now running huge companies, or even starting up their own money-making endeavors. In terms of the business world men and woman are closer to equals than they ever have before. So why can men not show their emotions? The real answer is that there is absolutely no reason whatsoever for a man to show what he is feeling on the inside. After reading a few articles in preparation for writing my own, I have found out that it is a scientific fact that men feel all the same things women do. We feel the same emotions during the same parts of life to the same intensity. The only difference is that men are better are masking those emotions, feeling we have to keep up the façade of being these “macho men.” It is now time to shed these masks. This is a scary enough world as it is, and to have to be all alone on a metaphorical island, holding all your feeling in would be horrible. It is time men put down this vendetta to be the all star super macho man supreme and got in touch with their emotional side. All that means is that you are trying to undertand why you are acting the way you are acting, or feeling the way you are feeling. It is not about being an emotional man, it is about being people who are in touch with themselves, and therefore have a clear understanding and healthy outlet, for said emotions. �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 Opinion FYF Committee Letter to Beacon By Dr. Edward T. Bednarz III Guest Writer Editor’s Note: This letter is in response to a story published in The Beacon on Nov. 14, 2018. What is the only course that every incoming freshman must take at Wilkes University? Is it English? Biology? Calculus? The answer is an extremely important, diverse and often misunderstood course: FYF 101 or First Year Foundations For the past two years I have been a part of a remarkably dedicated committee that has made great strides for our first semester students. In a nutshell, the goal of FYF is to transition students from high school to college. There are key guest speakers that attend each section throughout the course of the semester from the library, registrar office and student affairs. While each course strives to attain the same goals, it is up to the individual instructor how the course is structured This allows great flexibility and academic freedom, which means that the courses are taught by passionate individuals committed to our students. Topics from past FYF courses have included American Culture and Values, World Politics in the 21 st Century, Be the Change and many more. Some courses are a broader general education experience and some, such as Engineering Design, are more program specific. Regardless of the topic, each FYF course must embody multiple skill areas that are useful to students throughout their college career. The FYF committee has decided upon a “2+2” approach for each course. Mandatory skill areas that each course must teach students are Diversity Awareness and Critical Thinking. Instructors can choose two more skill areas from the remaining four (Written Communication, Oral Communication, Computer Literacy and Quantitative Reasoning). Another successful innovation that the FYF committee has implemented is an FYF Symposium. Last fall, the registrar office was able to schedule a single two hour window during final examinations where each freshman student and their instructors were able to attend. It was a wonderful experience to witness such a diverse group of students exchanging information and mingling. They were able to stamp a “passport” at various stations to encourage visiting multiple sections. Some courses had poster board displays, others had pamphlets and some had physical demonstrations. One of the more popular exhibits was from “Exploring Mars Through Lego Mindstorm Robots”. Students, most of whom had no prior technical background, enjoyed showcasing their robots scurrying around the SUB Ballroom floor. The FYF committee works closely with the FYF coordinator, Dr. Marcia Balester, who does a fantastic job recruiting instructors and keeping an astronomical 35 sections with 24 different professors all on the same page. For all of the dedicated instructors, thank you for your hard work. Regardless if you are an adjunct or full time faculty, we appreciate what you do. For those that are interested in the program, please feel free to reach out to Dr. Balester or myself. To all former students of FYF: please consider “paying it forward.” We are looking for e-mentors to help assist the “newbies” to Wilkes. This is a great program where you would give advice and encouragement to incoming freshmen within your major or for Wilkes in general. Please contact Jason Wagner for more information. Sincerely, ~Dr. Edward T. Bednarz III 16 Have an opinion you’d like to share? Email us! andre.spruell@ wilkes.edu Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! Facebook: The Beacon Twitter: @wilkesbeacon Instagram: @wilkesbeacon �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 Opinion Meet the Majors This week’s major: Environmental Engineering Interviews and photos by Andre Spruell Opinion Editor Every week, The Beacon will offer a chance for majors to be placed in the spotlight. Each student that gets chosen will have a few words to express why they chose the major and how they feel it will benefit them in the future. Jared Novitski Senior “(I wanted) to give myself the opportunity to work outdoors in the field and not be confined to a desk. The increase in demand for environmental professionals finalized the decision. I believe this major will provide opportunities for me to travel throughout the U.S. and even overseas, while impacting the environment in a positive way.” Mark Zayleskie Senior “I chose this field because I love the outdoors and being able to help preserve it while getting people the resources they need. Since this field covers math, chemistry and basic engineering courses, it widens your job search a little by having knowledge in those different from fields.” 17 �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 Opinion Failure being used as a tool for success today By Brandon Belfonti Staff Writer Failing in life is underestimated. We all know failing is a necessity of success - so why does the word ‘fail’ have such a negative connotation? Dictionary.com has the “slang” term of fail as “to make an embarrassing or humorous mistake, be in a humiliating situation.” We do not want to fail out of fear. Fear of embarrassment, fear of being humiliated, or even being laughed at. We need to change our perception of failing to use it as the tool that it is or it will eat our dreams alive. A quick google search of “fail psychology” provides some daunting results. The first link, Psychology Today, says failing makes us view the same goal as unattainable, it distorts our own abilities, it makes you believe you are helpless, and then a recurrent fear of failing is created. Maybe failing was the wrong word to label this as. Failing a test is one thing, but failing a workout or study session? Not so much. This word has blanketed anything that does not reach a certain mark. You fail studying and then you memorize a little more, and a little more, and a little more, and then you fail a little less, and a little less, until you are close to not failing as possible. You work out until your shot is close to not failing, or your speed is as close to not failing, but the truth is, you should always be failing. Isn’t that a funny statement? You should fail the rest of your life ... or else you will really fail. For this explanation I will refer to the highly regarded Jordan Peterson - a college professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and a clinical psychologist (less renowned in the U.S. for he resides in Canada). In his bestselling book/ guide “12 Rules for Life” his primary rule, that everything is based off of, is the timeless yin and yang. The white and black spherical symbol we are all vaguely familiar with. Why this symbol? And how does this relate to failing? The symbol represents chaos and order. There is chaos in order and there is order in chaos. No matter how ordered your life is, you will be paraded with chaos, and no matter how chaotic you think you may be - order is apart of everything we do. So, fail with order. In other words, get better with order. Fail everyday in someway, but only just above your capabilities. P e t e r s o n emphasizes how important this is because if you are failing way below your goal then you will become helpless in a heartbeat, but when you fail just below the mark, it only makes you want it that much more Think of teaching a child to speak. Humans do this funny thing we don’t even realize and that is speaking just above the child’s ability of language in order to improve their linguistic ability. Take notice next time you are around a younger child and see how the parents put mental finish lines just out of reach for their kids - only for them to kind of understand enough to learn more and more each time It is complex, I admit this, but it is primal in nature and beautiful in a Firs t Attempt Is Learning 18 sense. When I first got to this topic of failure in life, one person shot into my mind. Michael Jordan. I will pay him respect, and assume there is no need of explanation for his achievements. Did you know he couldn’t even make his high school basketball team? He was told he was not good enough. A little context here can be appreciated. At one point in his life M.J. was told he was worth nothing with a basketball. He was embarrassed, humiliated, and locked himself in his room to cry for the failure. M.J. is M.J. because he looked at that failure as a mountain and decided he wanted to climb it - to be better. This golden example might be hyperbolized for everyday life, yet it is analogous to the mountains we have a choice to climb daily. Failure is evidently crucial if you want to improve in any part of your life. This is not approval to bomb every test you take, because it only leaves room for improvement. It is a guide on how minimize failure for the next test and the next with failing less and less. So fail often and stop giving fail the symbol of giant red F on that last minute paper. Fail by getting it reviewed two weeks ahead with a lot of small red marks and then a week later with even less red marks and then the big F turns into a big A. The difficulty of being private when using Social Media By Sarah Matarella Staff Writer Social media is often viewed as a gateway into the realm of no privacy. However, while social media networks act as outlets to share information about our lives, they can also be used strategically to create a false image. Social media networks like Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook have a story feature where you can post instantaneously. This can essentially allow people to know where you are and what you are doing at that exact moment. In addition, almost all social media platforms provide a location feature as well to be even more precise about a user’s activities. Many argue that because of this advanced interaction technology, if you post on social media frequently then you have little to no privacy. This would further insinuate that people who do not utilize social media have more privacy. However, that is not always the case when it comes to modern social media use. Privacy can be broken down into two separate categories: personal privacy, and privacy with regard to data mining and exposure to advertisements. When it comes to personal privacy, posting more on social media does in fact give others more of an insight into someone’s life. However, the user still possesses a lot of control with regard to how much and what type of insight. If you take a look at the profiles of Instagram models or people who have jobs in social media, their profiles often look pristine, appealing, and even themed in some cases. Essentially, the user portrays themself as their ideal self or the way in which they want others to perceive them. When the number of followers or clicks on a particular user’s profile increase, the user will naturally want to maintain their current method of posting. Consequently, avid social media users who do not rely on social media for revenue usually still want their number of followers to be higher as well and thus, assume similar posting methods. Posting in this themelike, attractive manner often allows one’s followers to assume that a certain user’s life is perfect. Users will often try to maintain this sense of perfection and thus, hide more intimate details about their life that may include deeper feelings or beliefs. This in turn allows for more personal privacy because even though a user posts a lot, it creates a specific image that usually deviates from someone’s actual character. Furthermore, the more users post on social media, the more they are exposed to data mining and advertising. This is a form of privacy that no matter what someone does, they cannot escape. Networks such as Facebook especially have algorithms that log your searches and interests and display advertisements that relate to them so that you will click on them. Do you have opinions? Do you wish you had a platform to share them? Contact Andre Spruell two write about them and get them off your chest. andre.spruell@ wilkes.edu �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 Sports TENNIS, Continued from back cover Sports 19 Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the sports editor: Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu consistent, she’ll have her own chance to be ranked.” Vasarkovy and sophomore Dana Saliyev compete for court time, seeing spot starts. Varela-Seri/Zielinski and Stanton/ Volutza will hold down the remaining doubles flights for “It’s been a good year so far but we have Wilkes at No. 2 and a lot more to accomplish.” 3 respectively. Expected to lock in for No. 2 and No. While she did 3 singles are senior Artyom Nabokin and say she was focused junior Jonathan White. on the season as a Neidig, junior Braddock Chow and whole, there was one sophomore Chris Maderitz are expected match that Varelato round out the starting singles players at Seri had picked out. No. 4, 5 and 6 singles. Varela-Seri said Sophomore Alec Levin and junior the match against transfer Andrew MacDonald will also The College of compete for court time as upperclassmen. New Jersey (TCNJ) The Colonels also recruited a talent during nonfreshman class including: Matt Angara, conference play is Mike Ellis, Colin Greenman, Jack Maline, one she’s looking Larry Scartz, Isaac Shenton and Ryan forward to. Simon. The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani “Let’s just say I’m Women’s Tennis Senior Courtney Murphy (singles and doubles) hitting a excited for that one,” The Lady Colonels return to Wilkes- forehand winner off the baseline. Varela-Seri said. Barre in search of their twelfth straight will team together for No. 1 doubles. But with both squads, one impressive MAC Freedom title and NCAA appearance. “Dana is strong at the net, and is thing about the Wilkes Tennis program is Last season, Wilkes finished with a school becoming stronger with every match that their ability to compete year after year. record 24 wins, along with a perfect 6-0 she plays, ” Leicht said. Leicht referenced the ability to bring in record in MAC Freedom play. Sophomore Francesca Varela-Seri is strong freshman, particularly this year. They fell in the also returning But it doesn’t stop there, with the grind second round of and captured of both a strong non-conference schedule, the 2017 NCAA her second MAC and minimal breaks, Leicht credits their To u r n a m e n t Individual singles speed and agility program, saying that they to Williams and doubles have done more recently to step up their College, but not crowns in the fall. fi tness. before grabbing She’s expected to “Keith (Klahold) and Jeff (Grear) have a 5-0 victory to play mostly No. 2. done a fantastic job for us, getting us ready Johnson & Wales S o p h o m o r e s year aft er year.,” Leicht said. University in the Saliyev and Laura Th e trip did have one minor snafu as the opening round. Zielinski and initial arrival for the Lady Colonels had a Th winner of the junior Erin Volutza wrench thrown into their plans. MAC Freedom are expected to “We get there, and the codes don’t work,” To u r n a m e n t hold the middle of Varela-Seri said. receives an the order from No. Well, the codes did not work because the automatic bid 3 through No. 5. team was told to arrive at the wrong house. to the NCAA Brittany Stanton, Varela-Seri said that the owner of the The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani Tournament. the lone senior, will house came outside and asked what was One of their Senior Andrew Neidig (singles and doubles) mostly see starts at going on. returners is junior with a backhand retrurn. No. 6, but could be “It was stressful at the time, but looking Jordan Vasarkovy, bumped up as high as No. 4 for certain back at it, it was pretty funny.” the reigning conference player of the year. matches. Vasarkovy will play a grueling schedule at Juniors Courtney McCowan and Nicole No. 1 singles. @wilkesbeacon Gaetani, along with freshmen Sarah “She’s going to play a lot of regionally Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu ranked players,” Leicht said. “If she can stay Malone and Dagney Markle will also SOFT: Lady Colonels head south for Spring Break By Ben Mandell Asst. Sports Editor Wilkes University sent their softball team south to play games in Virginia and South Carolina over spring break in 2018. Spring break was during the first full week of March for the Lady Colonels and they took full advantage of the warm weather playing ten games (6-4). “The trip south for softball and baseball is unbelievably important for both programs. We are in a unique position to play 1/4 of our entire season on Spring Break,” Lady Colonels Head Coach Sarah Leavenworth (Maulorico) said. “If it wasn’t for the trip south we would not be able to get in the full 40 games allowed. This is also a very big deal because we can maximize the number of games played and not miss any class.” With Wilkes University and the majority of the Middle Atlantic Conference being in Northern Pennsylvania, it is difficult for teams to get games in during the early part of their season because of the cold weather and now. For the Lady Colonels to knock out a quarter of their schedule and a big part of their non-conference schedule in a one week span that does not have class helps keep the season moving along. Wilkes did have success on their trip, winning six games and posting a record above .500. “Our trip to Virginia and Myrtle Beach was very good this year. We played some very tough competition and showed some true resilience with 2 comeback wins,” Leavenworth said. “Everyone on the roster contributed throughout the entire week and the 6-4 record really was a team effort.” Spring break proved to Leavenworth that she has team with a lot of depth and SEE SOFTBALL, Page 20 �Sports The Beacon - March 20, 2018 BASE: Colonels play eight games in Myrtle Beach By Kirsten Peters Staff Writer MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — During spring break, Wilkes Baseball took a trip to Myrtle Beach, playing eight games at the Ripken Experience and finishing with a record of 3-5. Under the leadership of new head coach Brandon Michael, the Colonels began their season with an 18-5 win over Lehman College. A solid showing from sophomore Matt Amaral with six innings and four strikeouts on the mound gave Wilkes the upper hand. In the first inning, freshman Vincent Uzzi hit a three-run homer in his first collegiate at-bat, kicking off the week with a bang. Sophomore Matt Reinert went 4-for-4 at the plate with four RBIs and four runs, sophomore Tyler Walther went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and three runs, and junior Nick Capozzi went 3-for-6 with three runs to dominate offensively. In their second game, the Colonels defeated Mount Aloysius College 11-0 with 16 hits on the day. Junior transfer Jeremy Worlinsky pitched six scoreless innings with two strikeouts and gave up zero walks. Reinert was electric at the plate again, going 4-for-4 with three RBIs and three runs. Freshman Bryan Nifenecker went 3-for-5 with two RBIs and one run in his college debut. Junior Brady Wing and senior Jarret Clymer each added two hits to contribute to the Colonels win. With two wins under their belt, Wilkes faced off against Eastern Mennonite University, continuing to trump their competition by winning 10-6. Freshman Matt Konikow pitched five innings, allowing two runs to score on four hits. Outings on the mound by freshmen Colin Smith and Nolan Ott and sophomore Jeremy Yzeik allowed Konikow to earn his first collegiate victory. Offensively, senior Joe Champi and freshman Michael Patrizio steered the Colonels offense. Both batted 3-for-4 with Champi scoring two runs and Patrizio having two RBIs and one run. Reinert continued his command at the plate, batting 2-for-3 with three RBIs, two runs and one walk. Hits by Wing, Capozzi and seniors Jack Fischer and Dan Eicher added to the Colonels dictating offense. “Reinert was the guy all week for us, stringing hits together like it was nothing,” Patrizio said. “Our whole pitching staff collectively did really well, considering it was their first time outside since the fall. The defense was outstanding with everybody making enough plays to help out our pitchers and keep us in the game. “With guidance and support from the upperclassmen, the team really helped out the new guys, like Uzzi who hit two homers and Worlinksy and Konikow who both had a strong week on the bump. I feel like our mix of young guys and older guys is something that is a big factor for us; we all click really well and help each other out. “No matter who was in the lineup, we all supported each other and had the same goal: to go out and compete and win games.” Although Wilkes started off their season successful with three wins, they were unable to snatch another victory during the rest of their trip. Wilkes fell to PSU-Harrisburg 11-1 in their first loss, with Clymer and freshman Nick Pronti being the offensive highlights for the day. Both batted 2-for-4 and Clymer tacked on the only RBI. Freshman Kyle Pokrinchak threw six innings, allowing six runs to score, giving up one walk and having five strikeouts. In their second loss, Wilkes was defeated 7-4 by Penn College. Junior Noah Durnin pitched 5.1 innings, allowing the Wildcats to score four runs on seven hits and one walk. For the remaining 3 2/3 innings, Smith allowed three runs on nine hits and one walk. When facing off in a doubleheader against New England College, the Colonels were trampled 5-2 and 9-1, giving up a combined six errors and allowing seven unearned runs to cross the plate. Despite an exemplary showing by Amaral in game one with seven strikeouts, the errors committed were too detrimental for a comeback. In game two, junior Alex Palmer directed the Colonels offense by going 2-for-3. Champi, Walther, and freshman Anthony Favor each tacked on a hit. In their final game, the Colonels lost 15-5 to undefeated Catholic University. Clymer, Reinert and juniors Keaton Allison and Jay Gonzalez each had one hit. Patrizio helped out the team by walking and having a productive groundout, scoring Reinert both times. Looking back on the week as a whole, sophomore catcher Eric Beideman said, “We have a new head coach and a very large freshmen class, so we were using our trip as a barometer of sorts. After the competition started to rack up, we found ourselves on the losing end, but along the way we were learning valuable lessons about how to win at the college level. It was a great learning experience for the freshmen and a good week to knock the rust off for the upperclassmen.” @wilkesbeacon Kirsten.Peters@wilkes.edu Wilkes Spring Sports Schedules Men's Lacrosse Men’s Tennis Mar. 4 Nebraska Wesleyan W 9-0 Mar. 4 St. John Fisher W 9-0 Mar. 6 Methodist L 3-6 Mar. 8 Bridgewater W 6-3 Mar. 8 William Woods L 2-7 Mar. 8 Catholic University W 7-2 Mar. 11 Yeshiva W 8-1 Mar. 29 @ TCNJ 12:00 p.m. *s-Apr. 4 @ DelVal 3:30 p.m. *s-Apr. 4 @ Misericordia 4:00 p.m. Apr. 8 @ Franklin & Marshall 1:00 p.m. Apr. 13 vs. Oneonta 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 14 vs. DeSales 11:00 a.m. Apr. 16 vs. Ursinus 3:30 p.m. *s-Apr. 19 vs. King's 3:30 p.m. s-Apr. 19 vs. Lycoming 3:30 p.m. s-Apr. 21 vs. Cabrini 11:00 a.m. *s-Apr. 21 @ Eastern 1:30 p.m. s-Apr. 21 vs. Muhlenberg 2:00 p.m. Apr 22 @ Stevens Inst. of Tech. 12:00 p.m. Apr. 25 @ Bloomsburg 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. FDU-Florham 10:30 a.m. Apr. 28 vs. Goucher 3:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Ralston Athletic Complex s-split squad Record: 8-2 (MAC Freedom 0-0) Women’s Tennis 20 Women's Lacrosse Mar. 4 Nebraska Wesleyan W 9-0 Mar. 4 St. John Fisher W 9-0 Mar. 6 Methodist L 0-9 Mar. 8 Bridgewater W 7-2 Mar. 18 vs. Moravian PPD Mar. 29 @ TCNJ 12:30 p.m. *Apr. 4 @ DelVal 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 5 @ Misericordia 4:00 p.m. Apr. 8 @ Franklin & Marshall 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 14 vs. DeSales 11:00 a.m. Apr. 14 vs. Cabrini 3:30 p.m. *Apr 18 @ King's 3:30 p.m. Apr. 19 vs. Lycoming 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 21 @ Eastern 1:30 p.m. Apr 22 @ Stevens Inst. of Tech. 12:00 p.m. Apr. 25 @ Bloomsburg 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. FDU-Florham 10:30 a.m. Feb. 14 Scranton L 5-14 Feb. 21 Marywood L 7-12 Feb. 24 Keystone W 14-3 Feb. 28 Rosemont W 18-5 Mar. 3 Alvernia W 13-4 Mar. 10 Neumann W 18-12 Mar. 14 vs. Moravian L 10-11 Mar. 24 @ Wells 12:00 p.m. Mar. 27 vs. Mount St. Mary 7:00 p.m. *Apr. 7 @ FDU-Florham 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 11 vs. King's 7:00 p.m. *Apr. 14 vs. Manhattanville 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 18 @ Misericordia 7:00 p.m. *Apr. 21 @ Eastern 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 25 vs. Delaware Valley 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. Desales 1:00 p.m. Mar. 1 vs. Immaculata L 9-21 Mar. 3 vs. Maritime W 13-4 Mar. 10 @ Purchase L 7-14 Mar. 13 vs. Keystone L 6-9 Mar. 15 vs. Old Westbury L 5-13 Mar. 17 @ Mount St Mary L 12-17 Mar. 20 vs. Cazenovia 5:00 p.m. Mar. 22 @ Centernary 4:00 p.m. Mar. 24 @ Mount St. Vincent 12:00 p.m. Mar. 27 @ Lancaster Bible 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 7 vs. FDU-Florham 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 11 @ King's 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 14 @ Manhattanville 12:00 p.m. *Apr. 18 vs. Misericordia 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 21 vs. Eastern 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 24 @ Delaware Valley 4:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 @ Desales 1:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Ralston Ath. Complex Record: 6-1 (MAC Freedom 0-0) *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Schmidt Stadium Record: 4-3 (MAC Freedom 0-0) *MAC Freedom Home matches @ Schmidt Stadium Record: 1-5 (MAC Freedom 0-0) Results through Mar. 18 Results through Mar. 16 Results through Mar. 16 �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 Sports What you missed: Colonel Athletics in brief By Alex Kielar Assistant Sports Editor Mar. 3 WLAX: The Lady Colonels came up with their first win on the young season, defeating SUNY Maritime 13-4. Kyra Boccio and Jessyca Held combined for 11 points on eight goals and three assists. MLAX: The Colonels, led by eight different players scoring at least a point, topped Alvernia, 13-4, to improve to 3-2 on the season. Nico Lorenzo scored 4 goals, John Wink scored 3, Matthew Bush and Nicholas Ruggiero scored 2, Jeremy Kachel and Connor Daly scored 1. Mar. 4 MTEN: The Colonel’s opened up their spring break trip in Hilton Head sweeping their first two matches 9-0 against Nebraska Wesleyan and St. John Fisher. Courtney Murphy (6-2, 7-5), Artyom Nabokin (60, 6-0), Andrew Neidig (6-0, 6-1), Chris Maderitz (6-0, 6-1), Ryan Simon (6-3, 3-6, 10-6), and Jack Maline (6-3, 6-0) all won in their singles matches in the first match. The doubles teams of Murphy/Jonathan White (8-0, 8-3), Nabokin/Braddock Chow (8-4, 8-3), and Larry Scartz/Neidig (8-1, 8-2) won both their doubles matches. WTEN: The Lady Colonels opened up its spring break trip by sweeping their first two matches 9-0 against Nebraska Wesleyan and St. John Fisher. Dana Saliyev (6-1, 6-4; 6-2, 6-1), Erin Volutza (6-0, 6-2; 6-0, 6-0), Laura Zielinski (6-1, 6-0; 6-1, 6-2), and Sarah Malone (6-1, 6-1; 6-2, 6-0) all won both their singles matches on the day. Doubles teams of Vasarkovy/Saliyev, Francesa Varela-Seri/ Zielinski and Volutza/Brittany Stanton won both matches on the day. SOFT: Gracen Staunton capped a fourrun seventh inning rally with an RBI single for the Lady Colonels as they defeated Shenandoah 10-9 in the second game of a double-header to open up their spring break trip. Wilkes dropped the first game 9-2. BASE: Led by sophomore Matt Amaral pitching six solid innings and only allowing 2 earned runs, the Colonels beat up on Lehman College, 18-5 to open up spring break action in Mrytle Beach. Ten Colonels had at least one hit in the game with this week’s Athlete of the Week, sophomore Matt Reinert, going 4-for-4 with 4 RBIs. Mar. 5 SOFT: The Lady Colonels defeated SUNY Polytechnic Institute 9-3 before falling 2-0 to Eastern Mennonite University in the second game on the day. Freshman Celine Podlesney pitched a gem, going the whole 7 innings, allowing no earned runs and striking out three in the first game. BASE: Wilkes shut out Mount Aloysius and knocked 16 hits in an 11-0 victory, as junior Jeremy Worlinsky pitched a solid 6 innings with 2 strikeouts. Juniors Matt Maranca, Zach Metz, and freshman Andrew Indzonka, all pitched one shutout inning each. Sophomore Matt Reinert and freshman Vincent Uzzi led the Colonels with three RBIs each. Mar. 6 MTEN: The Colonels dropped their first game of the season, falling 6-3 to Methodist University. Juniors Courtney Murphy and Jonathan White recorded the only singles and doubles victories on the day for the Colonels. WTEN: The Lady Colonels dropped their first game on the season, falling 9-0 to Methodist University. No. 1 doubles team of junior Jordan Vasarkovy and sophomore Dana Saliyev came the closest to a victory as they battled to a 9-7 defeat. SOFT: The Lady Colonels came up with a come-from-behind walk-off victory in their first game on the day against Penn State Harrisburg. With two runners on in the last of the seventh inning, sophomore Kaliyah Moore drove in freshman Britny Jumalon with an RBI single to tie the game. Junior Haley Welker then knocked a change-up to left-center to drive in sophomore Gracen Staunton to walk it off for Wilkes. In the second game, the Lady Colonels knocked 14 hits on the way to a 8-1 victory against Regis College. Sophomore Celine Podlesney, junior Haley Welker, freshman Jordyn Kondras, and Staunton finished with two hits each BASE: The Colonels smashed 12 hits and drove in 10 in a 10-6 victory over Eastern Mennonite. Sophomore Matt Reinert continued his hot start to the season, going 2-for-3 with 3 RBIs. Freshman Matthew Konikow earned the vicotry pitching 5 innings and only allowing 2 runs. Mar. 7 BASE: The Colonels suffered their first loss of the season, falling 11-1 to Penn State Harrisburg. Senior Jarret Clymer and freshman Nick Pronti each smasheed two hits. Clymer drove in the only run for the Colonels when he singled in the top of the fourth to bring home senior Joe Champi. Mar. 8 SOFT: A five-run second inning for the University of Mary Washington doomed the Lady Colonels as they fell 10-2. Freshman Britny Jumalon, sophomore Gracen Staunton, and freshman Sydney Cogswell each recorded one hit, with Cogswell also driving in a run. In the second game against Mount Aloysius, the bats came alive for Wilkes in the fourth inning, as they erased a 4-0 deficit on the way to a 6-4 win. Freshman Jordyn Kondras drove in two runs, freshmen Britny Jumalon and Megan Magoon, sophomores Celine Podlesney and Sarah Gibson each drove in one. MTEN: In their final day of the spring break trip, the Colonels were able to come up with two wins in the three matches, defeating Bridgewater College (6-3) and Catholic University (7-2). All singles matches were won by Wilkes in both victories, with doubles team senior Gabriel Velez and junior Andrew MacDonald having the only doubles win for the Colonels in the final match. WTEN: The Lady Colonels concluded their spring break trip with a 7-2 victory over Bridgewater College. Doubles teams Vas arkov y/ Sa liye v ( 8-5) , Varel a - S er i/ Zielinski (8-4) , and Volutza/Statnton (8-6) all won their doubles matches. BASE: The Colonels fell to Penn College, 7-4, as they surrendered five runs over the last four innings. Freshman Michael Patrizio finished 2-for-3 with two RBIs and one walk. WREST: Senior Matthew Grossman finished his career at the NCAA Championships, as he fell in both matches at Baldwin Wallace University in Cleveland, OH. BASE: The Colonels dropped their final game of spring break to Catholic University, 15-5. WLAX: The Lady Colonels fell 14-7 to Purchase College in their first road game on the season. MLAX: Junior John Wink and freshman Nico Lorenzo combined for 12 points as the Colonels had a huge second half to outlast Neumann University, 18-12. Mar. 11 MTEN: The Colonels dropped Yeshiva University 8-1, as Murphy, Nabokin, White, Maderitz, and Simon won their singles matches. Mar. 13 WLAX: Despite six goals from junior Kyra Boccio, the Lady Colonels fell to Keystone College, 9-6. Mar. 14 MLAX: A late rally by Wilkes fell just short, as the Colonels fell 11-10 to Moravian College. Junior John Wink led all scorers with four goals. Mar. 15 WLAX: Wilkes was outscored in the second half, 6-1, to Old Westbury, as they fell 13-5. Senior Jessyca Held led the Colonels in scoring with three goals. MVB: The Colonels dropped all three matches to Lehman College 25-12, 25-13, and 25-22. Mar. 17 MVB: Junior Jones Mensah’s career-high were not enough in a 3-1 loss at Alvernia (25-15, 25-20, 23-25, 25-21). Senior Danny Sales also posted his fourth double-double of the season with 21 assists and a career-high 19 digs. WLAX: Junior Krya Boccio (3), freshman Ashley Burkhardt (5) and sophomore Jessyca Held (3) combined for 11 of 12 goals in a 17-12 loss at Mount Saint Mary. BASE: The Colonels split a MAC Freedom doubleheader with Eastern. Wilkes took game two 9-5 after dropping game one 8-4. Freshman Nick Pronti blasted a two-run double and a three-run home run in game two. Mar. 18 BASE: In a game moved to Eastern due to poor playing conditions, Wilkes took game three and the series 2-1 by defeating the hosting Eagles. Senior Joe Champi and freshman Michael Parizio hit a combined 6-for-8 with three RBIs and three runs scored in the win. @wilkesbeacon Alex.Kielar@wilkes.edu SOFTBALL, Continued from page 19 21 that she can rely on her entire roster. In collegiate sports, depth is very important for each team as it helps keep players fresh, especially in softball where double headers are very common. It also helps increase a coach’s flexibility throughout the game and play the matchups they like, which can be pivotal down the stretch of a game. “The freshman came out and showed their individual strengths and the returners came out and showed how much they improved,” sophomore Gracen Staunton said. “Spring break was only the beginning, I believe this team can and will go far this season.” Of Wilkes’ losses over their trip, they lost two by just two runs, competing and keeping it close in eight of the ten games. The Lady Colonels will look to ride their momentum from their spring break trip into MAC Freedom play. The Lady Colonels will look to build off of last season which saw them get bounced in the MAC Freedom tournament. The spring trip saw players like Sarah Gibson, Kaliyah Moore, Jordan Kondras, and Britny Jumalon step up. All four players have perfect fielding percentages so far and batting averages over .300. Gibson recorded 24 putouts and has the highest batting average and slugging percentage on the team with hitting .471 and slugging .529%. Moore hit .381 and lead the team with a whopping 35 putouts. Jumalon recorded 21 putouts and hit .348 while Kondras hit .361. Celine Podlesney and Gracen Staunton also had a very good trips, doing it both on the mound and at the plate. Podlesney pitched 27 innings posting a 3.11 earned run average, and hitting .400. Staunton, the Lady Colonel’s ace,earned a 3-1 record, posted a 3.15 era, pitched 33.1 innings while holding opposing hitters to a .250 average and striking out 21. Wilkes will plans to have a big season in 2018 and the team believes that they have the talent to do big things this season. If they can continue to get good production from their lineup and Staunton and Podlesney can prove once again that they are forces on the mound, they will have a very good chance of having success this season. @wilkesbeacon Alex.Kielar@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 Sports 22 Getting to know... Matt Reinert Sophomore Baseball Player The Beacon: Male Athlete of the Week 2/19 - 3/11 Why Matt Reinert was selected: Matt Reinert started the team’s spring break to Myrtle Beach going 11-for-11 and finished with an overall average of .458. Name: Matt Reinert Year: Sophomore Major: Marketing Minor: Management Hometown: Telford, Pa. High School: Souderton Area HS Position: Center Field Driving force to come to Wilkes? The driving force for me to come to Wilkes was the combination of high academic standards of the school as well as the opportunity to play baseball. Being a business student, I felt that Wilkes offered lots of resources to be successful once my baseball career came to an end. There were lots of other things that factored into my decision such as proximity to my hometown. Post-graduation plans in terms of a career? After receiving my degree from Wilkes, my goal is to be hired as a manager in the marketing field. Having the opportunity to be elected into leadership positions at Wilkes University, being a manager is something that I would love to do. Motivating others and helping them reach their goals is something I developed a true passion for and hope to do in my future career. Favorite building on campus? My favorite building on campus would have to be the SUB. More specifically Grille Works. I’m a huge fan of their Chicken Cheesesteaks. If you had to choose one thing about your program that you could improve, what would it be? I wouldn’t say there’s things I would want to improve. Our program is in a really good spot right now. We have a great group of guys who believe in our coaching staff and are hungry to earn a playoff berth. (Some new gear that we could keep wouldn’t hurt though.) Editor’s note : T hi s year’s Athlete of the Week i s nar rowed dow n to t wo candidates by the t s staf f. T he ttwo wo final f inal candidates he spor sports staff. The candidates are are then then voted voted on o by pee rs u sing aa Tw ite r poll poll @ Wilkes B eacon Twiter @WilkesBeacon Additionally,, at nd of mic year, year, we w ill post a reader poll at the the eend of the the acade academic to c row n an “Athlete thlete of o the the Year” Year".. The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani A quote you live your life by? “Limits like fears, are often just an illusion” – Michael Jordan What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? To me, “Be Colonel” means that you should try your best to be a positive role model on and off the playing field. Most influential person in your life? I don’t think I could narrow it down to one person. My family has a huge influence on everything I do. I don’t know where I would be without them as they have pushed me to be the best person I can be. If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? He’s not from the past and he’s not a real person. But it would have to be Michael Scott from The Office… preferably at Benihanas. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? It’s been a long time since this baseball team has made the playoffs. My teammates and I would want nothing more than have a chance to compete for a MAC Championship. The guys are hungry to accomplish this goal and with the leadership of Coach Michael, we are confident that this is a very attainable goal. When/Why did you first begin playing? Sports was always a big part of my family, so sitting around in the summertime was something I never wanted to do. I love being outside so my parents felt baseball was something I would be very interested in. Favorite thing to do during practice? Definitely batting practice, hitting is the best part of baseball. Other interests or hobbies off the field? Anything outdoors. This past summer I spent a lot of time kayaking and fishing. During winter breaks pickup basketball is something I always like to do as well. Favorite professor? My favorite professor would have to be Dr. Woojun Lee. He does a great job of keeping every class engaged and always brings a positive attitude. Anyone to give a shout-out to? Shout out to my teammates and coaches for grinding this offseason. Conference play is about to begin, time to show people who we really are. -Complied by Alex Kielar, Asst. Sports Editor �Sports The Beacon - March 20, 2018 Getting to know... 23 Gracen Staunton Sophomore Softball Player The Beacon: Female Athlete of the Week 2/19 - 3/11 Why Gracen Staunton was selected: Gracen Staunton picked up three complete game victories with a 3.15 ERA during the softball's spring break trip to Myrtle Beach, S.C. Name: Gracen Staunton Year: Sophomore Major: Psychology Hometown: Kernersville, N.C. High School: Northwest Guilford HS Position: Pitcher/Infield Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? I was always intrigued by this state and its history. This school stood out to me because of the small classroom setting and I was able to pursue my passion in softball. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? Go to graduate school for occupational therapy. Favorite building on campus? The MAC because of Starbucks. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? My goal for the season is to always end the season with a win as a whole team. When/Why did you first begin playing? Ever since I could remember I grew up around my brother and sister who were involved in multiple sports. I started playing T-ball around the age of 4 years old. In the beginning I never liked the idea of playing softball, but I started softball at the age of 8. As I got older I began to actually enjoy softball and never stopped playing since. In the start of kid pitch, our team did not have a pitcher so, one day at practice my coach asked who would do it and with no thought behind it, I raised my hand. After my decision my dad would always go in the back yard and work with me and when he saw that I was not going to quit, he allowed me to get lessons with Coach Judy, my pitching coach. This is when I decided that this sport was for me so I continued to get better so I could eventually play for a college team. If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Neil Armstrong. A quote you live your life by? Be bold. Be brave. Be courageous. Favorite thing to do during practice? My favorite thing to do in practice is when we play mini games in which pitchers team up and win the offensive and defensive drills. If you had to choose one thing about your program that you could improve, what would it be? I would continue to do my best to improve my skills each and everyday I show up. Other interests or hobbies off of the field? Play basketball, take car rides around the area and perfecting my napping between classes and practice Most influential person in your life? It is hard to just pick one person who had a huge influence on my life. I believe that my brother, 2 sisters, mom and dad had the most influence on my life. Ever since I went off to school 8 hours away, I can only think how much they have prepared me to go out in the world. I know they always have my back and I will continue to do everything I can to make them proud. What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? To me “Be Colonel” means to be Courageous, Optimistic, Limitless, Openminded, Nurturing, Educative, and a Leader. Coke or Pepsi? Sweet tea. Favorite meal to eat on campus? Waffles with chocolate chips breakfast. for Favorite professor? Dr. Tindell Anyone to give a shout-out to? My family who are all the way in North Carolina and all the people who allowed for me to grow on and off the field. -Complied by Alex Kielar, Asst. Sports Editor Editor’s year’s Athlete rowed dow n to Editor's note: note : Thi Thiss year's Athlete of of the the Week Week iiss nar narrowed down to two two candidates t s staf f. The f inal candidates candidates by by the the spor sports staff. The two two final candidates are are then then voted voted on on by by peers sing aa Tw it ter poll poll @WilkesB eacon.. eers u using Twitter @WilkesBeacon Additionally, year, we ill post post aa reader poll to Additionally, at at the the end end of of the the academic academic year, we w will reader poll to ccrown row n an an “Athlete "Athlete of o the the Year”. Year" . The Beacon/Alex Kielar �The Beacon - March 20, 2018 Sports 24 MTEN & WTEN: Tennis teams travel to Hilton Head, S.C. By Luke Modrovsky Sports Editor Wilkes Men’s and Women’s Tennis teams traveled to Hilton Head, S.C. over spring break for their annual southern excursion. The teams competed in a total 10 matches with a combined record of 7-3. The women left Hilton Head with a near-perfect 3-1 record, while the men went 4-2. “The trip is an excellent way to start spring season,” head coach Chris Leicht said. “It’s good for team bonding. It’s definitely something that has made our program unique.” Leicht said that Hilton Head has become a big spring break destination for tennis teams. This year, over 50 teams from all collegiate levels converged on the island. “This is part of our training to win conference championships,” Leicht said. “The trip is part of what makes our program unique. It’s how we get ready for the grind.” Many of the student-athletes see many benefits in the trip. “Last year when we came back, everyone was much closer,” sophomore Francesca Varela-Seri said. “The same definitely applies for this year’s trip too. It’s good to feel that bond with everyone. It’s all about creating stronger bonds with people. You see them around campus all the time.” “It was a true team bonding experience,” senior Andrew Neidig said, stating that the good feeling knowing your teammates are there,” she said. One of the unique aspects of the spring break trip is the ability to just focus on tennis for the week. Since classes are not in session, the players are able to do so. “The competition is outstanding down there,” Leicht said. “It gets us ready for tough competition back home, especially our tough non-conference schedule.” Men’s Tennis The Colonels return to Wilkes-Barre in search of their eleventh straight MAC Freedom title and NCAA appearance. Last season, Wilkes finished 23-4, along with a perfect 6-0 record in MAC Freedom play. They fell in the second round of the 2017 NCAA Tournament to Williams College, but not before grabbing a 5-0 victory in the opening round against Messiah College. The winner of the MAC Freedom Tournament receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani One of the players expected to make Francesca Varela-Seri returns a ball during a ripple not only the regional level, but perhaps even the national level too. Senior the team’s spring break trip. Courtney Murphy is a returning Alltrip was a “great opportunity that Coach American, and was the first Colonel to ever Leicht and the University provide.” gain that status at the NCAA Men’s Singles Varela-Seri referenced the environment Championships in 2017. The two-time and energy team has when playing. “It’s a MAC Freedom Player of the Year helps the ' Colonels build a strong team from top to bottom. “It’s nice to have one of the top players on your team,” Leicht said. “It pushes everyone down a spot.” But playing No. 1 singles is never an easy task. “He never gets a match off,” Leicht said. “ He has to be ready to go every single match.” Murphy with pair up with junior Jonathan White in doubles action. Senior captain Andrew Neidig looks forward to the upcoming season, of which will be his last. “We all have big aspirations individually, but it’s all about taking it one step at a time,” Neidig said. The senior captain said that he also views his leadership role as important. “My goal is to be a leader on and off the court,” Neidig said. “We have a young team, and it’s all about teaching them and making sure you’re a role model.” Looking ahead, Neidig said there’s is much more to come. SEE TENNIS, Page 19 @wilkesbeacon Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu Wilkes Spring Sports Schedules Baseball Mar. 4 Lehman W 18-5 Mar. 5 Mount Aloysius W 11-0 Mar. 6 Eastern Mennonite W 10-6 Mar. 7 PSU Harrisburg L 1-11 Mar. 8 Penn College L 4-7 Mar. 9 New England L 2-5 L 1-9 Mar. 10 Catholic Uni L 5-15 *Mar. 17 @ Eastern (DH) L 4-8, W 9-5 *Mar. 18 @ Eastern W 8-5 Mar. 19 @ Muhlenburg 3:30 p.m. *Mar. 23 @ Misericordia 3:30 p.m. *Mar. 24 vs. Miseri. (DH) 1:00 p.m. Mar. 27 @ Marywood 3:00 p.m. *Mar. 29 @ Del.Val. 3:30 p.m. *Mar. 30 vs. Del. Val. (DH) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 5 @ Scranton 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 6 vs. King’s 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 7 @ King’s (DH) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 8 vs. PSU Brandywine 3:30 p.m. Apr. 9 vs. PSU Hazleton 3:00 p.m. Apr. 10 vs. PSU Wilkes-Barre 3:00 p.m. *Apr. 13 @ Manhattanville 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 14 vs. Man’ville (DH) 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 18 @ PSU Schuykill 3:00 p.m. *Apr. 20 vs. FDU-Florham 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 21 @ FDU-Flor. (DH) 1:00 p.m. *Apr. 27 @ Desales 3:30 p.m. *Apr. 28 vs. Desales (DH) 1:00 p.m. *MAC Freedom Home games @ Artillery Park Record: 5-6 (MAC-Freedom: 2-1) Results through Mar. 18 Softball Mar. 4 Shenandoah L 2-9, W 10-9 Mar. 5 SUNY Poly W 9-3 Mar. 5 Eastern Mennonite L 0-2 Mar. 6 PSU Harrisburg W 3-2 Mar. 6 Regis W 8-1 Mar. 8 Mary Washingston L 2-10 Mar. 8 Mount Aloysis W 6-4 Mar. 9 Gwynedd Mercy L 0-2 Mar. 9 LA Roche W 5-0 *Mar. 17 vs. Eastern (DH) PPD Mar. 20 @ Lycoming (DH) 3:00 p.m. Mar. 23 vs. SUNY Pots (DH) 4:30 p.m. *Mar. 24 @ Miseri. (DH) 1:00 p.m. Mar. 25 @ Susque. (DH) 1:00 p.m. *Mar. 29 @ Del. Valley (DH) 3:00 p.m. Apr. 5 @ Marywood (DH) 3:00 p.m. *Apr. 7 vs. King’s (DH) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 10 @ Keystone (DH) 3:00 p.m. *Apr. 14 @ Manh’ville (DH) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 17 vs. Summit (DH) 6:00 p.m. Apr. 19 vs. Penn Tech (DH) 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 21 vs. FDU-Flor. (DH) 1:00 p.m. Apr. 24 vs. Scranton (DH) 5:00 p.m. *Apr. 28 @ DeSales (DH) 1:00 p.m. *-MAC Freedom Home games @ Ralston Athletic Complex Record: 6-4 (MAC-Freedom: 0-0) Results through Mar. 18 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2018 March 20th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 March 20 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/356f223790ff5a0ec32748d0b60a8a0a.pdf df85ec17107d79314e2b6d71ebdf3758 PDF Text Text The Beacon - February 20, 2018 EACON Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 71, Issue 14 The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. ~!!!!~, welcomes United Nations Rep. Charles Chauvel to campus Asst. News Writer On Feb. 13, Wilkes University and the Humpty Dumpty Institute hosted Charles Chauvel as a part of the United Nations Lecture Series. Wilkes has partnered with the Humpty Dumpty Institute since the 2011-2012 academic year, and has since brought 27 speakers, Chauvel being their 28th. According to its website, the Humpty Dumpty Institute "is a unique non-profit organization dedicated to tackling difficult global and domestic issues by establishing innovative and strategic public/private partnerships that provide sensible solutions to serious problems:' Chauvel began working for the United Nations Development Programme, or UNDP, in 2013, after his diverse background ofbeing a member of the House of Representatives in the Parliament of New Zealand, where he held many prestigious positions such as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Attorney General. He also founded the New Zealand Chapter of the Global Organisation of Parliamentarians Against Corruption. Through the UNDP, Chauvel is in charge of the Inclusive Political Processes team, where his team hopes to reach societal goals like civic engagement, political participation of women, as well as the eradication of poverty, and much more. During the lecture, Chauvel focused on the Sustainable Development Goal 16, and expressed the goal of the U.N. and the framework behind it: to promote better government around the world. He hoped through this that the governments will be more inclusive and promote more freedoms to rid the world of corrupt governments. Chauvel took the audience step by step through the history of the U.N :s former goals, to establish a blueprint for all countries to base their agendas off of, the first being the eight Millennium Development Goals leading to the 2030 Agenda, to modern day struggles with the enforcement of the goals to make countries more representative and inclusive. "This was the first time, back in 1990, that there was this political conveining of a large number of countries of the United Nations to have a discussion of what the priorities in the system should be;' said Chauvel. Through these goals, and the joining together of the countries, the enforcement of these goals resulted in a decrease in poverty in some countries. Countries now could report back to the U.N. about their progress so the U.N. could gather again and learn from the lessons and obstacles that were faced with the eight goals, later creating a new goal agenda: the 2030 Agenda. "The prime goal of the sustainable development goals of the Agenda 2030 was leaving no one behind;' said Chauvel, which is how it differed from the eight Millenium Development Goals. "You have to concentrate on those who are most vulnerable, most marginalized, and most discriminated against; those are the G I A •s Kl. The Beacon/Maddie Davis Charles Chauvel was a member of the House of Representatives in New Zealand before joining the United Nations Development Programme. first targets if you want to make progress;' said Chauvel. He then focus_ed on the three pillars of the new 17 Sustamable Development Goals: economic growth, social development and justice, and environmental protection. Chauvel emphasized one of the 17 goals of the 2030 Agenda -- Goal 16, which led to new goals of the UN in 2015. "We call it the breakthrough goal because in its fullest text it talks about promoting peaceful and inclusive societies;' said SEE UNITED NATIONS, Page 6 0 C: C: 8 b NICK'S FLICK PICKS "Bla(k Panther n .'\'le\\" and ,111atYS1'.-t, pages I 6, I~ r ,. �.J The Beacon - February 20, 2018 2 News News Have a breaking storr or a press release to send? Contact the news editor: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu Beacon Briefs Compiled by Maddie Davis Intramural Sign Ups Intrmural sports are offering 6-on-6 co-ed volleyball, 5-on-5 men's and women's basketball, and 7-on-7 co-ed indoor soccer. The deadline to sign up for these sports is Feb. 23. For any further questions or interest in intramurals please contact nicholas.doyle@ wilkes.edu. Scholarships Available through the Alumni Association If a parent or grandparent of yours graduated from Wilkes University, you may qualify for the Wilkes University Alumni Scholarship that is· now accepting applicants. Apply through the Wilkes alumni website to see if you qualify before the Feb. 23 deadline. Come out and run in the upcoming.Glow Run On April 13 at 7 p.m, the Office of Residence Life will be hosting "Glow Through the Darkness;' a 5th Annual Glow Run SK which raises proceeds for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Online registration and more information will be released soon. LEAP Program Clothing Drive Wilkes University's LEAP program will hold a clothing drive and collecting all used clothing for those in need. There will be a clothing drop off box in the SUB lounge on the first floor of the Henry Student Union Building. For any questions contact Zawadi through email at Nshimirimana.zawadi@wilkes.edu. Kappa Psi Volleyball Tournament On Mar. 13, from 6 to 9 p.m, the pharmacy fraternity Kappa Psi will be holiding a volleyball tournament that will be open to the entire school. Each team will consist of 6 players and the first place team wins a grand prize. It will cost $5 per player in the tournament; and you can pay with either cash or card. For further questions please email @ashley.hoffman@wilkes.edu. Running Club's Relay for Heat On Feb. 24 at 6 a.m., Wilkes University's Running is holding its 100-mile Relay for Heat. Proceeds from the run will be used to help local families pay for their heating bills. To make a contribution or if you have any questions, please contact the adviser william.terzaghi@ wilkes.edu or the club's president Franco.Balbuena@wilkes.edu Wilke·s University Student Government notes By Megan Stanley . Staff Wnter On Feb. 14, Student Government held its weekly meeting. This was also the first week Student Government used the electronic voting system. Last week, the Society of Women Engineers delivered its club report. Last semester they toured a local industry, and watched presentations by professional members of the Leigh High Valley chapter, and helped with SHINE, an afterschool program headquartered at Wilkes. This semester they will assist Women Empowered by Science, planning the Amazing Race and hope to do another industry tour. The first item of business was the Chemistry Club fun.di. request for its conference in New Orleans. "-t the conference, the group will meet students and professors from other universities, exchange demos and students will present research. The group requested $3,500 from Student Government and they were given $2,618 to cover hotel, registration, and demonstration supplies costs. The Student National Pharmaceutical Association was the next group to return to find out about their fund request. The group will be attending their first ever conference, and will be able to take part in workshops and present their own proposals. The group requested $3,000, and Student Government agreed to allocate $1,928.49 to the group for hotel and registration. The Lambda Kappa Sigma fund request for their July conference in Buffalo was the next item of business. Twelve pharmacy students are attending the conference and will be able to apply for national committees, present research and increase recognition for Wilkes. The group are requesting $1,161 for hotel costs, and will find out next week if their request was successful. The next item of business was the American Society of Mechanical Engineers fund request for their annual Car Show. The event has been happening for 12 years and is free to both Wilkes students and the public. Last year the event attracted 200 cars with even more spectators. The group requested $1,000, and will receive news next week about their request. The Vagina Monologues fund request was next. The group requested $500 from Student Government to cover the cost of student tickets, who got into the performance for free. The proceeds made"from the event go to local charities. Next week the group will find out if their request has been allocated. A fund request from Adventures in Science was next. This year's Adventure in Science will be held April 27, and the theme will be science from a submarine. It will be a campus wide event that will include 230 children from local schools. The total fund request is $2,730 to cover the T-shirts for staff and student volunteers, bags for the school children and safety goggles. The next item of business was the PrePharmacy Club fund request for its trip to a museum in Philadelphia. The group asked for $317, which will go towards a school bus that will transport the group to and from Wilkes. Next was a fund request from Phi Beta Lambda. The group are going to the state leadership conference in April. At the conference, the group will attend an awards ceremony, visit campaign booths, network and attend workshops. The group are ~equesting $1,540 to cover 14 registration fees. Next was the Spirit Committee fund request. There will be a Spring Sport giveaway to get Wilkes students excited about spring sport season. In the SUB, they will be giving away water bottles and · key chains. Student Government agreed to allot $665 to the Spirit Committee. Finally, there was the Casino Week fund request. The request totals $11 ,000 for the three events that go across the week. The fund will be approved next week. The academic planning board met. The honor program and marching band are both up for reviews and the business school is working on editing their finance major. The operations committee met and said that the Stark elevators will be renovated, the Evans Hall laundry room will be redone in the summer and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, an NBA player, will be talking at the university on April 29. sp~a,J.............12 : :'\r ••••••• sports............ 19 �The Beacon - February 20, 2018 News 3 Stu"e~ts, faculty react to White House domestic violence allegations By Maddie D~VIS Asst. News Editor Many Americans have been shocked and disturbed with the recent domestic abuse allegations against White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter. The students and faculty of Wilkes University have since reacted to these allegations. On Feb. 6, The Daily Mail broke the story 1about the abuse allegations from the account lof Jennifer Willoughby, Porter's second wife. The story uncovered a dark account lof one of the Oval Office's most important players: that he was allegedly an emotionally and physically abusive partner who had unpredictable behavior. As White House Staff Secretary, Porter handled confidential files and had direct contact with the president He was up for a promotion before resigning because of the allegations. Colbie Holderness, Porter's first wife, came out in The Washington Post with her own piece about her alleged abusive marriage with the former staff secretary, including pictures of the aftermath of a bruised and swollen eye she said he gave her. Holderness discussed her experience, saying she lived in constant fear of him. She went on to question Kellyanne Conway's description of how she wasn't worried for Porter's now girlfriend, and White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, because she was "strong;' as a guest on Jake Tapper's "State of the Union" on CNN. In March and April of 2017; the FBI conducted interviews with Porter's ex-wives where they gave their accounts of his abusive side. In July 2017, the FBI concluded their investigation of Porter, and turned it over to the White House. They could then use their judgement of whether to give him full security clearance or not, as Porter has been granted the same interim clearance even a year into Trump's presidency, which raises · · the question of whether or not he should be trusted in such a high-profile job. Slowly throughout the past weeks, the · allegations have gained traction, calling to question how the White House wasn't aware of these reports when giving Porter his security clearance to work in the White House. It was confirmed by multiple sources that the FBI indeed had been notified and in contact with his ex-wives with this on his record, but the White House still allowed him to have this prestigious, sensitive job. ,. - ltatH lt■ll11 u ...... 11 ■1111 I I I I I I I I I I I Graphic by Todd Epenshade These allegations have called into question White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and White House Counsel Don McGahn, who had been notified about the FBI's investigation of Rob Porter. They together ignored the allegations as threatening to the White House, and Kelly even came out commending Porter of how great of a man he was and how he has true integrity; Kelly has since taken back his comment and taken a stance against Porter. President Trump sent out his own cryptic tweet supporting not only Rob Porter, but also shaming any allegation as it destroys people calling for due SEE VIOLENCE, Page6 ~!,~~~!§ depart~!~~~~~~.. ~?~~?.'.!!~c.f~~~~t~ve Health Panel Reproductive News Editor On Feb 15, the nursing department held Wilkes University's annual Women's Reproductive Health Panel, discussing and educating members of the community on reproductive health. Topics included STDs, community health services, and contraceptive measures. Dr. Maria Grandinetti, an associate professor in the nursing department at Wilkes University, started the presentation with a slideshow of quick information on reproductive health. Grandinetti's presentation gave information on the different kinds of STDs and contraceptives. "I just want to Iet you know, it's your body and it's your choice. It's your right to say yes or no. You have one life and one future, so think about all these things. Protect yourself.' panel also had a visiting representative from Maternal and Family Health Services, or MFHS. Mickey Davis, a reproductive health educator who works for the Wilkes-Barre office, showcased the services MFHS and Planned Parenthood offer, including things like STD testing, contraceptive treatment, and family planning. The two companies, which often work together, have different goals in dealing with women's reproductive health. Materrtal and Family Health Services is a non-profit that focuses on women and children's health and 1i: 000 a non-profit based on reproductive health. "Planned Parenthood, in my opinion, is more about helping people avoid the things they aren't ready for," said Davis. "I think of them more .as preventive measures. "Many people have the perception that the centers help just women, but both MFHS and Planned Parenthood have services for male and female-bodied people." "[Planned Parenthood] is really good for people with little to no insurance;' she explained. "They are open to literally everyone. In Pennsylvania, people 14 years and older can get reproductive health care from the center without parents' permission:' The presentation also included a representative from Caring Communities, named Sharon Whitegarden. Caring Communities is a public health agency which started from the AIDS crisis of the early '90s. They have multiple offices throughout Northeastern Pennslyvania, including Hazelton, Towanda, Bloomsburg, and Wilkes-Barre. Although they started with AIDS, today they focus on things like STD testing. "We don't do many tests in the offices, most of our tests are done in the community;' she explained. "We were given a contract by the state of Pennsylvania to give STD tests to those least likely to access tests on their own:' The clinic targets particular populations by holding HIV testing clinics in places such as engagement by homosexual people, such as gay bars or Pride Fest. "There was such a demand for testing at Pride Fest last year that eventually we had to shut the operations down and start making actual appointments for people;' said Davis. "People have a tendency to access services when the services are brought to them instead of having the responsibility to go out and access them on their own~ The clinic also has programs such as the Linked Care program, which helps people newly diagnosed with HIV. "There are many people who decide to not receive medical care when they become diagnosed with HIV. This program acts as a way to hold someone's hand and help them process what is going on in their lives;' she explained. "It's a nice program because it's not anything th~t's forced on the individual:' Sharon also revealed that Luzerne County is ranked No. 38 out of 200 counties in the country that are most likely to experience a severe HIV epidemic. "Let's not make that disconnect. When we are talking birth control, you have to make that plan for STD prevention:' "One take home point, as an educator, is don't assume people know things just because you know things;' Davis said. @wilkesbeacon cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu Quick Health Facts Facts and statistics given by experts during the panel: • • • • • 3.2 million unintended pregnancies happen each year in the United States In women 19 years and younger, 4 out of 5 pregnancies are unintended Oral contraceptives are 91 % effective Half of HPV infections happen between the ages of 15 to 24 There is a 50 percent positivity rate for first time testers of Hepitatis-C in Wilkes-Barre, according to Caring Communities r . �- - - - - - - - - - - - - - --- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Beacon - February 20, 2018 4 News Rally for gun control, Parkland victims held in downtown Wilkes-Barre Martha Hart delivered her personal story of assault to the crowd. Hart alleged Staff Writer she was threatened with and abused by On Feb. 18, a rally was held on Public guns during a relationship. Square in downtown Wilkes-Barre to Hart told the crowd: "Call your remember the victims of the Parkland representatives today, and every day until shooting in Florida last week, and to they listen, because I want to live in a demand action regarding gun control. country where people love their kids more The event was organized by Action than their guns." Together NEPA, a group dedicated to Olanda Carter, mother of a son killed promoting community action and political by gun violence in Wilkes-Barre in 2014, advocacy. spoke to the crowd. Dr. Andrew Wilcz~k, a sociology "It's time to call out those we elect to professor at Wilkes University and chair of represent us, and it's time for them to stop the outreach and education committee for siding with NRA. Our children are dying:' Action Together, emceed the rally. Chloe Poorman, a 17-year-old student "This is something I'm very passionate from Wyoming Valley West High School about. As an educator, this is something delivered a speech at the rally about how I think about everyday going to work;' gun control would make her and her Wilczak said. friends safer at school. "My wife works in schools in Wilkes"We're losing innocent victims because Barre, I have a 4-year-old and another on pf some law a couple of old dudes made in the way. So this touches my life in a variety the 1700s. If this is what makes America of ways:' great, I can no longer be proud of my Lorraine Smith, who held a sign that country. Gun violence is out of control and read: "Thoughts & Prayers won't stop the my classmates and I shouldn't be nervous killing:' to go out and get an education. "I have two daughters, one of which "My generation is the generation that graduated from Wilkes, and two has been scared by gun violence the most, granddaughters. We have to stop this and we will be voting a lot sooner than violence. There is so much hatred, it has politicians are ready for:' to end:' - Rod Gerada, of Peach and Justice Roger Lerner, a rabbi from Temple B'nai Center, spoke about the tight alcohol and B'rith of Kingston, began the rally with a drug regulations in comparison to gun prayer. regulations. Lerner boasted a message of leadership "This young man did not act alone, he to the children. "I don't think we adults had accomplices. His accomplices are the can do it. I don't think our politicians can current administration, 52 senators, and do it at this point. I don't think they have anyone that has ever donated even a single the moral courage to stand up and talk dollar to the NRA;' Gerada told the crowd. about the violence of the guns that are in State representative Eddie Day Pashinski our midst and do something about it. I'm discussed the impact that the billion-dollar pleading to the children: I think you have industry is having upon the politics of the to. nation and encouraged people to vote in "People aren't listening. There's too elections. much money involved, but if you get the "Our democracy is being poisoned by children to say it, get them to say it loudly, an infusion of, not millions of dollars, but get them to say it everywhere in this billions of dollars. The dollars that are nation, then they'll have to listen:' flowing are taking care of the powerful at W~es-Barre Police Commander the demise of us, regular folks;• he said. Ron Foy discussed the changing roles Pashinski told the crowd that a forum of principles, parenting and the use of is being planned to make sure citizens feel technology and the impact they have upon safe and have the understanding to vote in children in a controversial speech. elections. Foy also encouraged the crowd to stand "We're scared and we are angry and we up to potential criminals, saying, "Do not are frightened for our love for our children stay silent, if something looks wrong and and our community, and it's because of that makes the hairs on the back of your neck love we are going to fight like hell for our stand up there's a reason:' kids, for our community and for the future His talk prompted reaction from the of Northeastern Pennsylvania;' Wilczak crowd. said. We will fight forever if we have to:' "Assault rifles make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up - you're blaming @wilkesbeacon the victims, the innocent people;• one woman shouted. megan.stanley@wilkes.edu· The T Byl Spc 2 By Megan Stanley V don 44-1 still in ( (Fo Josi 5-4 1 ma Ar an, 23 The Beacon/Toni Pennello Dr. Andrew Wi lczak, of t he sociology department at Wilkes University, is also the chair of the outreach and education committee fo r Action Toget her, which organized t he an C< p< rii 9 ti 1 I< r ,.. The Beacon/Toni Pennello Citizens of Wilkes-Barre held signs supporting stronger gun control, as well signs dedicated to the remembrance of victims of the Parkland shooting. e eacon on, enne Martha Hart delievered a personal story about her own experiences with gun violence and pleaded the audience to speak to their representatives. . �.J The Beacon - February 20, 2018 News : 5 SUNY Upstate Medical College Visting Lecture Series to be hel_d_____, By Megan Stanley St ff Wi •t a " er On Feb. 27, Dr. Dan Tso will visit Wilkes University as port of the SUNY Upstate Medical College Visiting Lecture Series Titled "Plasticity and the Dynamic Brain: Wiring, Injury and Re-writing': Tso's lecture will be available for all students, faculty and staff at Wilkes University. According the SUNY Upstate website, the lecture series is designed to "spark interest in the biomedical sciences and to further awareness among students and faculty of opportunities at SUNY Upstate:' The brochure created by Upstate for the series says that Tso's lecture will detail recent research that has resulted in a greater appreciation for the adaptability of the adult brain when faced with changes in the environment or in response to injury. "We will explore the fixed versus plastic nature of the adult brain and some of the underlying neural mechanisms" the brochure reads. . The Director of Health Science and Student Success centre, Constance Dombroski, was responsible for organising the event. After being contacted by SUNY Upstate Medical College, Dombroski · said she accepted the opportunity to host Tso because "it's a pretty good opportunity, not just for our pr~-med students who want to know what kind of programs are available to them, bu~ also a neuroscience students who are particularly interested in this:' "I think regardless of career interest, I think it's a good and interesting topic for all our students. I think it applies to a lot of different students across Wilkes campus, it is open to e~erybody. It _wo~~ just be a good opportumty for those mdlVlduals to be involved," Dombroski add~d. . At the lecture, Tso will be promotmg courses that SUNY offers to the students that attend. The medical college offers a variety of graduate programs from cell and developmental biology to microbiology and immunology to neuroscience. Dombroski also said that there will be a lunch in which some students, recom~ended by psychology professor Dr. Ed Schicatano, will be invited and will have the opportunity to talk with Tso. Miranda Zink, a sophomore neuroscien~e major, said, "The brain is amazingly dynamic and resilient and I would love to learn more about its ability to bounce back after an injury. It also will be nice as a neuro student to hear about courses I can take and learn about the different options available for me in the future:' FOllOW U s'• "I find the brain fascinating -and chose to be a neuroscience student largely due to the unique properties of the brain including its plasticity," Zink continued. "It's amazing how the brain can change and adapt even in extreme situations, such as people who would have had one half of their brain surgically removed." Zink added, "I haven't decided if to go to grad school yet but speakers like this co~i~g in and discussing specific opportumt1es may help me decide if delving deeper into neuroscience is something I want to dedicate my time too:' According to Dombroski, the lecture series is a first for Health Sciences and Student Success Department. "This is the first event like this through Health Sciences and Student Success. I try to get as many programming opportunities for our students, but it depends on what presents itself.' ''.As far as other outside programming opportunities there's outside faculty members coming but I do have other health schools coming to present on their programming but that's pretty health specific:' The Beacon @wilkesbeacon @wilkesbeacon ~ @wilkesbeacon • megan.stanley@wilkes.edu Prof. elected to Pennsylvanian Pharma~ Associ~tion educational board B M • St I Y eg~n an ey News Wnter Dr. Kimberly Ference, a professor in the pharmacy dep artm~nt, was recently elected to t he Pennsylvanian Pharmacist Association (PPA) Educational Board. Ference has been involved with the PPA for nine years, and said, "I fell in love with the association because it's just got a great energy about it. It's a great place to meet other pharm acists across the state and get involved with state initiatives:' Ference h as b een the adviser for the Wilkes University student chapter of PPA for eight years, an d served on a variety of committees before her election to the b oard. "Wh en I was asked to run on the education board I didn't hesitate at all because of my involvement with the rest of the organization;' Ference added. One of the key missions of PPA is to legislate for pharmacists and educate its members on new and current topics an d to also foster leaders in pharmacy. Last year the association created a new program called "LEAD." Available to pharmacists who have graduated within the last 10 years, those who join th e program tke online modules that foc us on improving leadersh ip skills. "The purpose of this program is to foster leaders and grow leaders that will help serve the association in the future or beyond PPA after they have h elped out _ perhaps some of th e national organizations;' Ference said. Another key t hing the association does is provide grants for research projects. Four grants are given out every year, and they each are around $1,000. "Students an d new practitioners apply fo r grants to help get research off the ground and help ad~ance th e phar~acy practice in the state, Ference explamed. Ference graduated from Wilkes University. After spending fou r years teaching at the University of Oklahom a, Ference talked ab out her return to Wilkes University as a professor. "University of Oklahom a is a division one school with very large class sizes. It wasreally hardtogettoknowthestudents 1 was teaching _ I felt disconnected from my students;' she said. "What I loved about being a student was the mentorship I received and the fact that we had small class sizes _ I knew all of ~y classmates, I knew all of my professors and they knew my n ame, Feren ce contm ued. :Although I had a good experience at th e l!niversity of Oklahoma, I was cravmg t~at environment where I ~eally knew my students well, and thats what brought me back here." At ~ilkes, Ference teaches t_he Foundatwns_ of_ Pharmacy Practice course, which is for P 1 pharmacy stu dents. As part of the course, they lea~n ho~ to advocate for themselves a1:d theu patlent_s, an? talk about leadership and profess10nahsm. She also _teac~es fi n al-year student_s. ~t h~r p~actlce site, at wh~ch she specialises m diabetes and smokmg. This semester, Fe_rence has also taken up _a n~w rol~ as Duector of Care Labs, which is .a skills-based course . Ference is an appreciated professor at t he university. _Kayla . Reece, a junior pharmacy maJor, said that ~he "made class enjoyable, and learmng worthwhile:'_ . " The associat10n_ also holds . a_ isnow Pain Know Garn Competlt10n at the annual conference each y_e ar f~r pharmacy students to take part m. This year Dylan Fox, pharmacy student and future PPA student chapter president, was a finalist. Courtest of Wilkes Marketing Ference ·" Obviously a big congratuiations to Dr. Ference. The PPA education board works really close with us, so it's important we have her as a large voice;' ~ @wilkesbeacon • megan.stanley@wilkes.edu r ... �...I News The Beacon -February 20, 2018 6 Profile of a new professor:·Dr. Bobb Karimi, tectono By Freddy Del Rosario News Writer New to the Wilkes University community is Dr. Bobby Karimi, geologist and an assistant professor. Karimi, who works in Cohen Science Center, joined the university last semester. Originally from the · city of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, Karimi received his bachelor's degree as well as his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied geology, but focused his studies in tectonics. Prior to teaching at Wilkes, Karimi taught in Millersville University, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, _and Colorado College. "I think each one of the colleges I have taught at prepared me in a very unique way to teach here at Wilkes. As a professor, there's always a big variety of students in all the places I have taught at, so I have become very adaptive:' His keen interest in the field of geology led him to the conclusion that academia was a place he could call home. "I knew from the get-go what I was UNITED NATIONS, Continued from front page Chauvel dove further into the issue of the U.N:s inability to make rules and enforcing them on countries to help push the agenda and goals for those countries who were unwilling to cooperate and who were corrupt themselves; _as well as funding issues. The obstacles faced by the 2030 Agenda resulted in a new agenda and initiative in 2015 to establish an online survey, through the platform The World We Want, available to all countries who profoundly answered that they wanted free government and trust in the institutions. Their overall goal, as expressed by Chauvel, is to get "the world we want: honest and effective government:' To get this Chauvel is hoping to make government more inclusive, more gender friendly for more representation in the countries that are now more corrupt and less inclusive. <;;iauver went into further detail about how the UNDP, which he was apart of, supports the countries through developing policy guidance to help these countries reach the desired goals of the U.N .. The UNDP is in constant contact with the 144 countries they have partnered with to make the governments more inlusive and represenative like the country wishes. Through examples like India, Chauvel showed the audience that the history of sustainable goals drafted by different countries apart of the U.N. are helping the world become more inclusive and less getting into when I decided to get my Ph.D, I got a chance to teach while working on my doctorate, and it was very gratifying;' he remarked. Karimi's passion for geology as a student led him to further his education. "I really want to understand how things behave and why do they behave the way they do, in terms of the physics of something;' he said he explained to his advisor. His main focus in his studies of geology is in tectonophysics, which is the study of the physics aspect of plate boundaries. Most of his current research deals with the tectonics and volcanism of Chile, in collaboration with other academics from different universities, for which, so far, patterns of eruption frequency have been identified, as well as a relation to some smaller scale tectonics features. Additionally, he is conducting research that focuses in landslides, and using Geophysics to model landslides and then ~ing Geographic Information Systems and mapping to identify the areas that are in high risk oflandslides. discriminatory and selective. Sophomore psychology major, Amanda Imbalzano, enjoyed Chauver's talk, finding the overall mission of the U.N. most interesting. "I think he did a really good job speaking overall especially bringing up important topics like what the U.N. stands for;' said Imbalzano. "The 17 goals were very interesting; just trying to bring everyone [around the world] together, goal 16 being the most important which included peace and justice;' said Imbalzano, "I think that really shows that we all need to come together as countries:' Joe Teeple, senior psychology major, enjoyed,the presentation as a whole as well as the many others apart of the United Nations Lecture Series. "I thought he did a very good job;' said Teeple. "I thought he was concise but also detailed enough where you could get a picture of the work the U.N. is doing. "The whole moving things from the ground up struck a chord with me really well; I like that the U.N. is moving in that direction and I like that they are bringing that to us so we can go out and do that. "I like the U.N. lecture series as a whole;' said Teeple, "I think the people they are bringing in are interesting and then they're exposing us to sort of the global perspective and the U.N:s perspective on problems that are pervasive here, but more severe in other areas:' ...W @wilkesbeacon ~ madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu The Beacon/ Anthony D'Amico Dr. Bobby Karimi often sits at his office computer analyzing his recent research results. "I think what attracted me the most to Wilkes University was this department" he said. "Because the geology program is so new, we have a lot of control on what we think the experience of students studying geology should be like and having such impact its really exciting." VIOLENCE, kind of take justice into their own hands. "It's a teachable moment to say this is why women don't come forward or are afraid to come forward," said Wilczak. "I am especially fearful of women and children who may be at elevated risk of being victimized because there are millions of people who idolize (Trump), and when he doesn't take these things seriously there is a possibility that his supporters may not take this seriously. "If the president doesn't do it then why should I do it?" Wilczak asked. Hannah Bolacker, freshman education major, expressed her concern for future generations of children who may believe domestic violence is "OK" just because our president is not fighting back against it. "We need to make domestic violence nonexistent in this country;' Bolacker said. "We shouldn't have leaders, officials, anybody in power being able to say that domestic violence is OK:' She made a call to action for America against domestic abuse. "We need to come together to say as a country that with all of these issues, we are on the same page that it is not okay to beat somebody you love;' expressed Bolacker. Vicki Hoffman, freshman biology major, talked about her take on the domestic abuse allegations. "You know how many [people] are against Trump himself, there's a lot that say he abuses women; so why should we trust anything that he says either?" asked Hoffman. "A government who doesn't take this type of violence seriously sends a signal to the rest of the country that you may as well go ahead; that is what really scares me;' Wilczak said. Continued from page 3 process for any future allegation. The Trump administration has had its fair share of allegations that have plagued its credibility and overall approval from Americans. Trump's silence and vague support of Porter and domestic abuse seem to not only go against the #MeToo Movement, that has empowered the coming forth of allegations, but isn't resonating well with Americans, especially those on the Wilkes University campus. Dr. Andrew Wilczak, sociology professor, spoke out against the White House's handling of the allegations and further discussed how the president's silence may affect future generations of women and children. "The administration is refusing to speak out in any meaningful way;' said Wilczak. "Others in the White House who are authorized to speak for the president have said that he doesn't support this, that he is not pro-domestic violence, but we haven't heard it from hilll and that is interesting. "They will never come out and say that they are pro-domestic violence, but the conclusion that a lot of people will draw is that they are;' said Wilczak. "That might conceivably lead to an increase in violence and also a decrease in reporting:' Wilczak further discussed the potential issues that may come from the White House's lack of a stance on domestic abuse. "We already have a major problem with people not wanting to ask for help in general, and so saying that a strong person wouldn't be victimized is bad;' he said. "I would also be concerned of this encouraging people to . �The Beacon - February 20, 2018 7 Life, Arts & E,ntertainment Life, Arts & Entertainment Have a story or want your event to be featured? Contact the Life, A&E Editor: amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu Poco and Jim Messina will bring 50 years of music to F.M. Kirby Center By Jacqueline Kurovsky Staff Writer A Country rock fans will be in for a treat as west coast band Poco reunites with cofounder Jim Messina on Feb. 22 at the F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre. Poco, a formidable pillar of their genre, formed in 1968 led by Rusty Young, Jim Messina and Richie Furay. Success was not an unfamiliar taste - Furay and Messina had just come from the disbanded supergroup Buffalo Springfield, whose final album also featured Young on guitar. Poco's debut 1969 album, "Pickin' Up the Pieces;' is considered a pioneering album of the country rock genre. It paved the way for the newly-emerging Southern California sound that would be the driving force of the genre. This sound took shape in the famous West Hollywood club Troubadour, responsible for the launch of countless careers - Poco's included. Poco's Troubadour shows were often attended by now-legendary · musicians including Don Henley and George Harrison. "We were combining country instruments with rock and roll songs and people were interested;' Poco frontman Rusty Young, now 70, said. The band's lineup shuffled around through the de_cades, with Randy Meisner afd Timothy Schmit both leaving to join the now-legendary group The Eagles. "We knew how talented everybody was;' Young said. "When people left, we knew they were going to be successful:' Through the changes in the band's lineup, Young remained at the helm of Poco's ship. He wrote and sang what would become the group's first number one hit, 1979's "Crazy Love:' · In the years to follow, Young and bandmate Paul Cotton were the driving force of several big hits for the band including "Heart of the Night" and "The Last Goodbye:' Young still leads as the frontman of Poco, now a foursome of musicians. Ellfl'IING -, WITH \ ll FEBRUARY 22 F.M. KIRBY CE TE The treat for Kirby Center audiences will be Poco's reuniting with founding member Jim Messina. After leaving Buffalo Springfield, Messina was with Poco for two years and was a main contributor to the first two albums. He went on _to pursue a career as a record producer, signing with Columbia Records. Messina's career led him to become the producer for Kenny Loggins in the early 1970s. Loggins at the time had no manager and was taken under Messina's wing. Messina's contributions to Loggins' work led to an unexpected sort of success. · Initially planning to stay out of the spotlight, Messina produced The Kenny Loggins Band. He soon found himself back to performing and touring as part of the soft rock duo Loggins and Messina, going on to sell over 20 million albums. Among their hits are classics such as "Danny's Song" and "House at Pooh Corner:' The duo split and pursued solo careers in 1976. Messina took a new musicai direction, with his albums leaning towards latin jazz with a rock and roll edge. He went on to release a succession of solo work beginning with 1979's Oasis. In 1989, Poco's original lineup including Messina took to the road for a successful reunion tour. That same year, the group .would release Legacy, their second release to be certified gold. Messina wrote and sang three of the songs and co-wrote "Call It Love" with Rusty Young on vocals. [The album] was our chance to go back in history and we had a great time;' Young said. Messina had a second reunion tour, this time with former musical partner Kenny Loggins in 2005. Out of this tour came the live DVD and CD collection "Sittin' In Again at the Santa Barbara Bowl:' The pair once again reunited for a tour in 2009. Messina continues to work . in music production and publishing and is creator of "_The Songwriter's Performance Workshop;' an intensive six day workshop for singers and songwriters. Rusty Young announced his retirement in 2013 but is since back on the road. The last member of Poco to release a solo record, he debuted "Waitin' on the Sun'' in 2017. Young's fellow members of Poco are now Jack Sundrud, Michael Webb and Rick Lonow. All are featured on "Waitin' on the Sun" which does not stray from the original Poco sound. "It's hard to divorce me from Poco;' Young said. "You can't get away from it:' Young promises a mix of music in his show with Messina, selecting from their catalog of nearly 50 years of music. "You'll hear all the classics;' he said. "We're going to cover a lot of territory and it's going to be a lot of fun:' Poco and Messina take the stage at 7:30 p.m. with doors opening at 6:00 p.m. Tickets are available at the F.M. Kirby Center Box ~ @wilkesbeacon ~ jacqueline.kurovsky@wilkes. The Beacon/ Madison Kaminski To purchase tickets for "An Evening with Poco;' visit the F.M. Kirby Center Box Office or on line at www.kirbycenter.org. .. r �- ------- ----- _J The Beacon - February 20, 2018 8 Life, Arts & Entertainment 1Jn I bowl. whllktGptherthe flour and C1111, ~.wa.111emlk■-1water. 3J.asdjaddln the a.tel"•saltllltlnoodl. 4·1 1afnlled~ OI medium to ... lleal,pcNI' , _ . 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Colonel Thomas Swain, a Wilkes senior criminology major involved in the AFROTC program, said "For me AFROTC is the main path to the rest of my lifie.,, The Wilkes University AFROTC Detachment 752 has been around since 1973, and was one of the first detachments to allow women to join. In the 1970s, when the evolution of military service went from the draft to all volunteers, women were finally able to become apart of the military. AFROTC Detachment 752 has had cadets graduate and achieve more than anyone could have imagined. Major Melissa Bierma stated: "We have someone that works with the Department of State. We have someone that is the president of a university. We have people that work with the CIA, the FBI. We have people running their ·own businesses. We have people that are test pilots for the Air Force. We have people working at the Pentagon. We have people building the latest and greatest technology. So many different things, and they all got their start here:' Through the AFROTC program, the cadets are able to get involved in their community as well as experience the world around them. Participants work with the .elderly, and raise breast cancer awareness, visit Air Force bases and participate in a two-week intensive training known as field training. "It's a brotherhood that I am proud to _be a part of,' stated King's Cadet Captain Andrew Bonner. AFROTC also provides scholarship opportunities to incoming and established college students. These scholarships range from partial to full tuition and fees. Cadets that receive scholarships also earn a m onthly stipend and an annual book allowance. To receive these scholarships a cadet must be a full-time student, have a GPA of 2.5 or higher, pass the Air Force Officer Qualifying and Physical Fitness exams, meet medical requirements and be enrolled in AFROTC classes. Anyone can join AFROTC, including _ students enrolled in neighboring colleges. Detachment 752 currently has students from ten different colleges and universities in the Northeastern Pennsylvania area. To enroll, a student must register for the class through their adviser, then will be expected to participate in two elective courses, an. academic class, a leadership class and a group fitness session. "If you're looking for something where you 'know you're going to have a career and you want that stability in your life, then come and join ROTC. It is something that is going to change you as a person but it also is going to give you people you know you are going to be able to count on for the rest of your life," stated Cadet Maura Clarke, a Wilkes University sophomore. For more information about AFROTC on a national scale visit http://www.afrotc.com. For more information or to join Wilkes University AFROTC Detachment 752 stop by their office at 169 S. Main St., Suite 112, Wilkes Barre, call 570-408-4860, email rotcdl@wilkes.edu or visit www.wilkes.edu/ rote. DID YOU MAKE AFUNDIYOR RECIPE? SENDIT·us AND HAVE IT FEATURED ON THE BEACON WEBSITE! ' ' @wilkesbeacon sharinon.oconnor@wilkes.edu nterested ·n writing for the , • Section? Why not try all three 7 < Contact LA&E editor Amanda B1alekat amanda . btalek@wil~ s -du. • r �------- ----_J Life, Arts & Entertainment The Beacon - February 20, 2018 Graphic by Todd Espenshade Keeping yourself happy and healthy, not only physically but mentally, is the most important thing you can do. If you're not on top of your mental health game, you will start to slip and slide right into a potential pit of misery. Especially in college, it is difficult to put your well being first. Remember self love is not selfish. This means that when it comes to your well being it needs to be at the top of your list. There are a few tips to help keep your mental health in tip top shape and to always be awesome! used in food, as perfume or in a diffuser. Their multiple uses can be beneficial to you and your mental health. 1. You time Making time for yourself is by far the most important thing for your mental health. "You time" is anytime you crave out of your very busy day to do something you love. This can be 10 minutes, it could be two hours, whatever ~u feel you need. Whether it is reading a book, watching a movie, going to the gym or even taking a nap, take some time for yourself. 5. Don't be afraid to ask for help Never be afraid to ask for help. If you think there is a serious issue going on in your life or you need someone to talk, no matter what it is, asking for help is very important. Mental health is a serious issue and you should always make sure you're on top of yours. 2. Meditate Your mind and body should always be in harmony for you to be able to perform at your best. One way to make sure ~ @wilkesbeacon • you are in harmony and eliminate all the negativity in your life is to meditate or practice yoga. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced yogi, anyone with a yoga mat can practice this craft. Download some meditation or yoga apps and get started on your journey to harmony. 3. Plants Plants are a wonderful way to liven up a dorm and increase your mental health. Sounds crazy right? Not only does having plants mean more oxygen in the air, but it could mean a better routine. Plants obviously need to be taken care. of This adds stability to your life. When everything in your life is all over the place, the one thing you know for sure is that you have to take care of your plants. With spring right around the corner, it is the perfect time to start thinking about what beautiful plants you are going to fill your life with. 4. Oranges This will probably sound crazier than the plants, but oranges and other citrus fruits are said to help boost your mood and increase your overall mental health. There are many ways to feel the benefits of these wonderful fruits. You can eat them, use an air freshener or break out the essential oils. Essential oils can be shannon.oconnor@wilkes.edu �J The Beacon - February 20, 2017 11 Life, Arts & Entertainment Black History Month Program: "Straight Outta History" From leftv: Victoria Kraft, Umou Jalloh, Abie Pessima, Autumn Washington and Conroy Yearde were just a few of the st udents in attendance ready to engage in discussion about the history of rap and hip-hop. Dr. Andrew Wilczak, sociology professot,vv fills in for Santana Velez, who due to unfortunate events could not speak that the lecture. In t elebration of Black History Month, Wilczak and Velez planned an evening on the history of rap and hip-hop and the importance of Black music on American history. The Beacon/ Shannon O'Connor Wilkes-Barre NAACP (branch #2306) is the sponsor of the events taking place throughout this month. President of the branch, Guerline L. Laurore, discusses the importance of Black History Month and why it should be celebrated. Professors Rafael Garcia, Akira Shimizu ar;id Jonathan Kuiken enjoy the "Straight Outta History" event. r �j The Beacon - February 20, 2018 Sports 12 Women's Basketball s the u timeout in their game against Eastern. Freshman Maddie Kelley (#00) looks to pass to one of her Lady Colonel teammates. Photos by Luke Modrovsky & Kirsten Peters Senior • �The Beacon - February 20, 2018 . Sports 13 Men's Basketball Fre attempt during Saturday's game against Eastern. The Colonel Student Section turned out for the game in full force with their usual antics. Day Junior Marcus Robinson (#1 O) drives through the right hand side of the lane during Saturday's action. Freshman Landon Henry (#2) looks to block Eastem's game winning shot at the end of the Photos by Luke Modrovsky & Kirsten Peters r �.J The Beacon - February 20, 2018 Opinion 14 Opinion Each week, The Beacon's editorial board will take a stance on a current issue. 'Another shooting' The Beacon calls on citizens to focus on solutions, not politics NNs - ~ LA&E- Shannon~ m Opinion ;.Nick Flpd( Spo,18-een..-l•tpelal' Todd Espenshade- Graphic Designer PHOTOGRAPHERS Nicol& Gaetani EDITORIAL BOARD Toni Pennello Danny Van Brunt cabriniRudnicki Shannon O'Connor Andre Spruell Megan Stanley 141 s. Main St. Clayton and Theresa Karambelu Media Center WIik~ University WIikes-Barre, PA 18766 www.thewllkesbeacon.com There was another shooting. Last Wednesday, 17 people were killed and at least 14 injured when a 19 year old, wielding an AR-15, opened fire in the Florida high school from which he had been expelled. "Another one?" seemed to be the immediate question when the headlines popped up on T.V. "Wasn't there just a mass shooting?" There surely was. In fact, according to the non-profit organization Gun Violence Archive, there have been 30 mass shootings in the United States so far in 2018. The archive also found that there is a mass shooting in the country, on average, every nine out of IO ·days. This is not the case around the world. Con.com reported, citing research by Adam Lankford of the University of Alabama in 2016, that while Americans make up only 5 percent of the world's population, they make up 31 percent of the world's mass shooters. The report also detailed that The United States has the most mass shootings of any country, by a significant degree. Clearly we are doing something wrong. There is no denying that. However, politicizing the issue seems to be diluting the process. Any helpful discussion is being buried by fiery demands on social media for either increased gun security in our schools or to ban guns entirely. As a country that has a such complex relationship with guns, these kind of drastic demands do little to help fix the issue at hand. Mass shootings have affected our country for years. A solution cannot happen overnight. However, there is no question that gun control must be discussed. Evidence of that comes from research done on incidences in other countries, like Australia. According to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, not a single mass shooting has occurred in Australia since the country reformed their gun laws, banning rapid-fire guns, in 1997. Firearm deaths, in general, also declined. Does that mean the same thing will work in the United States? Not necessarily. But does it mean that, as responsible citizens, we should be considering that it might? Many of us on the Beacon editorial board are inclined to think so. On the other side of the political coin, the organization "Everytown for Gun Safety" has come under fire for reporting misleading statistics about school shootings. The organization, whose name speaks for itself, reported that 18 school shootings have occured in the United States alone in 2018. If that number sounds unbelievable, that's because it is-not entirely accurate. The Washington Post explained that the organization "inflated" that number using instances that many of us would not count as school shootings, at least not in the same vein as Columbine or Sandy Hook. These included an instance where a Michigan man, parked in the lot of a school which housed no students or teachers - it had been closed for seven months - called the police to report that he was suicidal and had a gun. While he ended his own life, the school seems to have had little to do with the incident. Another instance that the organization counted in its inflated number was one where a student fired a few rounds in the school parking lot following an altercation. No one was injured, and it was after 8 p.m. These situations are a far cry from the tragedy that occurred last week. While undoubtedly tragic, these are personal situations that ended up being brought on school property, not deliberate, premeditated attempts to kill as many classmates as possible. To blindly push agendas by sharing misleading statistics is irresponsible, unethical and counterintuitive. So-called "fake news" should not be utilized alongside such a tragic event. It's moments like this when serious journalism needs to come to the forefront and exaggerated messages'that promote a certain agenda need to be in the background. Our first priority should not be the defense of our political opinions in the face of possible issues with them. It should not be to exaggerate an issue that is scary in itself. It should be having an open mind about what the actual best thing is for solving this problem. This is what it means to love your country. If there is clear evidence that there is something wrong, you try to fix it. You explore every possible avenue for fixing it. You do this because you love your country, you love the people in it, and you do not want to see so many people senselessly killed. Perhaps the issue is a matter of gun control. Maybe it's an issue of mental.health. Maybe it's an issue of being able to spot warning signs. It could be some combination of all of these things, but there will be no answer if there is no discussion. If you love your country, you love your country. Not your agenda. �- - - - - - - - - - - ----- 15 Opinion The Beacon - .Eebruary 20, 2018 This week's major: Integrative Media Interviews and photos by Andre Spruell Opinion Editor Every week, The Beacon will offer a chance for majors to be placed in the spotlight. Each student that gets chosen will have a few words to express why they chose the major and how they feel it will benefit them in the future. r. 0 The Beacon/ Andre Spruell Danny Devito Sophomore "I feel it has bene~tted me a lot already. It has taught me many skills that I will need to be a professional in my field and taught me how to handle interactions with clients in the real world. My career goal is to become a professional sports designer. It was an insane.workload, with insane hours, but (that) is where I want to be:' McKaylah DeKay Sophomore "IM has benefitted me by allowing me to take something I love and turn it in to a possible career. This major has also helped me to develop a very strong design foundation that I feel is necessary to thrive in the industry. In the future I hope to use what I've learned here to become a graphic designer:' r �j The Beacon - February 20, 2018 16 Opinion The Cultural Impact of 'Black Panther' By _A~dre ~pruell Opinion Editor Whenever there is tons of hype about something, the greater chance it has to become a bust. In the, case of "Black Panther," it surpassed those great expectations and did so while still preserving African culture. The first time I heard about the movie was through Twitter, as it was gaining tons of praises for being the first all-black superhero movie. With that fact alone, it was hard not to get excited about it because it is literally something that we have never seen before. One way it maintained African culture is by having a true African American takeover with the not only the whole cast being black with actors like Michael B. Jordan, Chadwick Boseman, Foi:rest Whittaker, and more, but the director, Ryan Coogler, is also black. Coogler 's only directed two other fi lms, which were "Fruitvale Station" and "Creed," two films that were also predominantly black and both have won awards and were nominated for even more. The fact that Black Panther is only Coogler 's third film speaks volumes to his talent, especially doing so as a black man at the young age of 31 , since most Hollywood directors are older white males. Another way the movie preserved black culture was by the language used. Although there were a lot of modern jokes made throughout the movie, it is based in Africa, and every actor spoke English with an African accent and even spoke in African dialect at times, which included subtitles any time they did. Something like an accent is something minor, but for me, that went a long way in preserving black culture. The director could have easily just had the actors speak regularly since the cast was already all black. Since each character • oke with an African accent and even in African dialect, it made the movie that much more authentic. Another form of language important to the film was the character of Erik Killmonger, played by Michael B. Jordan. The fact that he grew up in Oakland, Calif., and when he went Wakanda, the place where the Black Panther and his people reside, he stayed true to where he is from by speaking in Ebonics and only speaking in African dialect when he had to prove he is a member of the Black Panther's royal family. This was important because he was noted as being American instead of being from Wakanda, and Ebonics, or Black English, is popular in Oakland, a predominantly black area. By Michael B. Jordan's character speaking in Ebonics, it emphasized that he lived in America his whole life and representing how blacks in predominantly black areas would speak. The biggest way that black culture was represented in the movie was the representation of the different African tribes. Having the element of the different tribes was something that I was not expecting and was pleasantly surprising. It is not that I did not expect any tribes to be in the movie, but the fact that there were so many represented. The scene that stood out most to me in representing the different tripes was when T'Challa, the main character, is being announced as the official Black Panther and when one of the leaders asks if any of the different tribes objected, and there were just so many represented, followed by another tribe coming out challenging the newly appointed Black Panther. Overall, I believe that Black Panther did an excellent job staying true to black culture, while representing it in a multitude of ways that was successful. Another element that added greatly in representing black culture is the soundtrack to the film, which was mostly done under the creativeness of Kendrick Lamar, who is regarded as one of the best artists ever. Based off seeing the movie on its opening night, I believe that "Black Panther" will be remembered as one of the greatest movies of all-time and will certainly be attached to black culture as one of the culture 's most epic pieces of art. @wilkesbeacon andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Rave an opinion you'd lib · Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! Facebook: 1he B-eacon Twitter: @wilkesbeacon Instagram: @wilkesbeacon io share? lmall 111! andre.spruell@wilkes.edu . �L The Beacon - February 20, 2018 Opinion 17 Black Panther claws its way to number one nicholas.filipek@wilkes.edu. By Nicholas Filipek Asst. .Opinion Editor There is not enough room for a fancy intro this week folks; I saw "Black Panther:' and there is much to discuss about its awesomeness. The Story- As promised, the movie picks up where "Captain America: Civil War" left us, with a son who must take his fallen father's place as not only the King of a nation, but the protector of the people. T'Challa is about to inherit a mantle that has been passed down from generation to generation, the mantle of The Black Panther. We enter the city of Wakanda, which we learn was built on the largest vibranium mine on the planet. For those unfamiliar, vibranium is the strongest subs_tance found in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU fo r short. The vibranium deposit has allowed the Wakandans to become the most advanced civilization on Earth. They fear sharing their technology with the world, seeing how man has abused technological advancements throughout the centuries, and hide their city from the outside world, always "watching from the shadows." Somehow a stranger enters their metropolis, claiming to have the birth right to challenge the new King, and become the ruler of the African nation, with a much different agenda. He plans to take the Wakandan technology and put it in the hands of oppressed people everywhere. Subsequently this would expose Wakanda, "forcing" the new world to make Wakanda the capital for the world, over which he would rule. T'Challa must face his fears of being an unready King and hero to do both in order to save his family, friends and country. The Director- This is Ryan Coogler's third film: and at age 31 , he seems to have a better idea of what to do behind a camera than directors twice his age. I highly recommend both "Fruitvale Station" (now on Netflix) and "Creed." Along with directing Black Panther, Coogler also wrote the story, which says a lot about how much of this movie wa·s his complete vision. Said vision is absolutely gorgeous. It was a tall order to develop and create a fictional city in the heart of Africa, which is technology advanced, while making it seem like a grounded real-world setting. It is almost like asking someone to do the impossible, and that's exactly what Coogler did. From scene to scene you believe every aspect of the space these characters inhabit, and very little imagination is needed to believe that it's the same world that we live in. This allows us to fall into complete immersion of everything going on in the film. The settings, the accents and especially the costuming brought the city of Wakanda to life. This real world Coogler created allowed the cast to immerse themselves too, which lead them to bring these characters to life in a way that would make anyone who loves acting melt. The Cast- Chadwick Boseman ("Get On Up;' "42") stars as our hero, the new King of Wakanda and the Black Panther. We met this character in "Captain America: Civil War:'. but we really dive in deep with this movie about what drives T'Challa to be a good king and a just hero. There were scenes where he was able to make me feel the weight of what it was like to have that pressure of balancing between the two personas with just a look. I plan to see much more of Boseman in not only future MCU films, but different leading roles in various genres. Michael B. Jordan ("Fantastic 4," "Chronicle") played the perfect counterpoint to T'Challa and had me actually rooting for the villain. Jordan's character, Erik Killmonger, was not your standard MCU villain. Though not every time, after over a decade of producing 15 flicks, the MCU has given us some' flat "cookie cutter" villains, but Jordan's was by far the best. There was never a point where his motives seemed too crazy or over the top. It was clear that after the hand Killmonger was dealt, he was angry and had a more radical view of how to take care of business than T'Challa, but at the end of the day, they had the same goal. Lupita Nyong'o played Nakia, who could have very easily turned into "the love interest" in the movie, but through her performance, took the character to a whole new level. We meet Nakia as she travels with a group of captured African women on their way somewhere unknown, but you could imagine as being horrible. The Black Panther ends up messing up her undercover mission and she holds no punches in telling him so. Right from the jump we are shown she is a strong, independent person who needs no saving from the hero. That theme carries out through the film , leading her to be one of three strong female leads in the movie. Danai Gurira gets the distinct honor of being the most awesome, most fierce character of any movie, ever. That's right, I said it. With just a look she makes me feel like a scorned child who has embarrassed himself. She oozes confidence, loyalty, pride and patriotism throughout the film. Such a strong love and sense of duty for her country are coincidentally what causes her character, Okoye, to have her biggest conflict in the film. The next film coming from the MCU, "Avengers: Infinity War;' will be the largest event this universe has yet to face. It has people hyped all over the place, myself included. I really did not think there could be anything to get me more excited fo r that movie, but knowing Gurira will return in that film to reprise the role of Okoye, did just that. Finally Letita Wright is the perfect essence of young, fun and playful that compliments her character's extraordinary brilliance and grounds her as to not seem like a geek or know-it-all. Shuri is T'Challa's sister and is in fact the smartest human being who inhabits the MCU, making her smarter than Tony Stark, Stephen Strange or even Bruce Banner, to name a few. Shuri's work is responsible for the tech that powers the nation and especially her brother's suit and gear. She is forever improving on her inventions, never satisfied, saying, "just because soything works doesn't mean it can't work better:' The Summary- The whole experience of going to see Black Panther was extraordinary. From start to finish it is an astonishingly entertaining piece of art that everyone should experience. There was a sense of electricity in the air as the credits rolled. This movie will have an effect on the world. It certainly will have a cultural impact for many who have not been able to see themselves in a title role, until now. @wilkesbeacon nick.filipek@wilkes.edu r �_J The Beacon - February 20, 2018 Opinion 18 How and why faith plays such an impQrtant role in sports By Brandon Belfonti Staff Writer Faith has driven almost any subject in human history. Organisms on the hierarchy chart created by Aristotle were all second to God, education in America experienced its largest split ever because of catholicism, and the highest grossing restaurant per store in our country, Chick-fil-A, is closed on Sundays. No matter how controversial this topic is, it has a place in our world. And no matter how big a presence that is, we must see it. Religion has become a large part of sports. Most recently it was after the Superbowl. Headlines such as, "Eagles' coach and players credit their faith after Super Bowl win" were scattered about and made this prestigious accomplishment something more than the better team. All of the sudden there was another factor at play and it was not one of air pressure or stolen play cards. It was faith. "I can only give the praise to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for giving me this opportunity," said coach Doug Pederson. Jesus Christ put him on the field for that win. "It's all about the faith, it's all about our family, and then it's all about the Philadelphia Eagles, and it's in that order," Pederson then followed with. Faith, family, then the Eagles. Are we supposed to believe the Eagles were meant to win no matter what the circumstances? Some invisible power was going to have them win the game through any possibility? A common denominator of this team was faith. "All Glory to God" seemed to be the phrase of the game. It was used by Eagles Quarterback Nick Foles and leading wide receiver Zach Ertz in post-game interviews, which was then followed by backup quarterback Chase Daniel, who hosted a weekly Bible study, saying the Eagles were "by far the most spiritual team" he has played for. Who is to say if something gave these men an advantage? But it can be said that they were all in a tightly connected mindset with one goal in mind. They did have something to raise them above; or at least they thought they did. I would argue that simply thinking you have some edge actually provides exactly that. In Chris Paul's (highly respected NBA player) senior year of highschool, his grandfather was murdered on the street at sixty-one years old. Two days later Paul intentionally scored sixty-one points to honor his lost loved one. He had a few minutes to spare and could have claimed the fifty year old state record, but he did not want that. He wanted to honor his grandfather. The average high school basketball player would be happy with twenty points. Why did this come so easy for Paul? He was supposed to score those points. It was not just points in a basketball game. That is why he air balled the following shot and fell to the ground in tears. He had done what he was supposed to do and now the emotion had reached him. These players felt something so much more than a game. The sport in which they were competing had so much more value than the satisfaction of a trophy or a win. It was life or death. Jesus dying for them to _be· at, and then win the Super Bowl, or Paul's grandfather's dying age was his number to reach. The stakes were so much greater. Not winning the greatest football opportunity in the world meant letting down their savior and not scoring sixty-one points meant letting down Paul's grandfather, in their minds at least. These actions are a claim to what the human mind is capable of when it sees what must be done. Religion does that. It clears the fog of indecisiveness and creates a much more meaningful reason to do well in sports. When that powerful ~indset can be harnessed as a unifying factor of a team such as the Eagles, the possibilities seem to be limitless. The stories of what religion has done for so many people in so many different situations is endless, but is it religion or is it what was there all along? ~ • @wilkesbeacon brandon.belfonti@wilkes.edu What is the best way to handle the end of a friendship? By Savannah Pinnock Staff Writer Friendships are one of the most important relationships a person can have over the course of a lifetime. ·• It is also one of the most fascinating, as it combines the platonic emotion, and love found from a familial relationship with the exclusivity of a romantic relationship. The duality found within a friendship has been integrated into works of poetry, narratives, and a myriad of other prose. With the gravity attributed to this unique relationship, it is fair to ask: how does one handle the end of a friendship? Well, before answering this question, one must understand the psychological significance of a friendship and the emotionally injurious effects it can have on a person when such a relationship is terminated. Humanity is marked by its capacity to ask intense philosophical questions such as "why do we exist?" "what is the meaning of life?" and a plethora of other questions. With this in mind, it is easy for a person to become engulfed in these questions and to perceive himself as a small, insignificant . speckle against a massive universe. When given an idle moment to think, people tend to consider this existential crisis and a feeling of loneliness can quickly present itself. When it comes to the melancholic feelings that come from humanity's inquisitive nature, friendship can easily be seen as a panacea for this lonely mindset. Saul Levine, writing from Psychology Today says it even better: "People without friends often experience the vulnerability of loneliness, that poignant state which many ofus have felt at some point." With that being said, it can be easily argued that the opposite also holds true. People who do have friendships are less likely to experience loneliness. When a fundamental relationship is terminated, the effects are often negative though the extremity of the effects is dependent on the length and quality of the friendship. If a person has shared a great deal of information and experiences with a friend for an extensive period of time, the individuals may find their lives void of this person, as they meant a lot to them. On the other hand, if the friendship is mostly superficial and short in its longevity, the effects of the loss may be minor or null in significance. In order to cope with either scenario, it is important to evaluate the pros and cons related to the friendship. Were you truly happy with your friendship, and was the relationship satisfying? Many times friendships are toxic, as one party may find that the friendship is beginning to take a toll on their mental health and overall well-being. It is also important to evaluate the lessons you have learned after losing the friendship. For instance, ifthe friendship was negative for any particular reason, evaluate that reason and move forward with that wisdom in mind and pursue beneficial friendships that lack those negative attributes. It is also important to know that friendships, like any non-familial relationship, will come and go. As human beings we are subject to psychological, social, physical, and emotional growth and likewise, our friendships will do the same, and termination or small shifts often follow. So enjoy the moment, and when it's gone, don't linger on it but draw from the experience and continue onto the amazing journey called life. ._a,@wilkesbeacon • savannah.pinnock@wilkes.edu Do you have opinions? Do you wish you had a platform to share them? Contact Andre Spruell to write about them and get them off your . chest. andre.spruell@ wilkes.edu �6 Sports The Beacon - February 20, 2018 19 Sports Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the sports editor: Luke.Modrovs!cf@wilkes.edu MBB: Offense explodes as Colonels rout Monarchs 101-72 By Ben Mandell Asst. Sports Editor :o s. ,gy its hy to nd of ms he sa tlce rhy ion t1re eve mr )n- We >dy stic :ica .s a are ,eat jor, use inst 1ses that ype rest !ad; d. 6 assists. All together the Colonels totaled 25 assists. "I really feel like I'm locked in right now, I know later on in the season these guys count me and the other upper-classmen to step up," Robinson said. "They're just kind of bouncing off of us." The Colonels have officially locked up the WILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- The Wilkes University Colonels put up a season high 101 points in the blowout win over the King's College Monarchs in the 100th meeting between the two rivals. The Monarchs still own a slight edge in the all-time series after this game 55-45. The Colonels came-into this game riding high off the momentum of their win Saturday over Misericordia which put them into the MAC Freedom tournament. The Colonels have gotten a lot of production from Marcus Robinson and Rob Pecorelli, as they have lead the team in scoring all season long. The Monarchs came into this one looking to play the role of spoiler as they had just been eliminated. The game started off with some bad news for the Colonels when Connor Evans drove to the basket and fell awkwardly injured his knee three minutes into the game. "I have not given it too much thought, I just know that it's his knee;' Colonels Head _ _ _ _ __ Coach Izzi Metz said on Connor Evans knee Th e Beacon/Alex Kielar injury. 'Tm not sure if it's going to keep him Wilkes senior Mason Gross drives ouThtlong tedrm:' ( . ) . through Chris Fazzini t o t he basket. e Lan on Henry 7 pomts came m to replace Evans and the Colonels did not miss top seed for the MAC Freedom tournament a beat. The Colonels put up a whopping 49 so they will have home court advantage points in the first half as they continued to throughout the tournament. "There's always an extra push when roll without Evans .. The Colonels did not take their foot off the gas in the second half . playing at home because of the crowd and as they were able to break triple digits for the all of our fans;' Robinson said. "We're just looking forward to getting this win:' first time this season. The other three seeds are still up in the air "Coach always tells us that if someone goes down, the next man has to step up;' Junior as DeSales, Eastern, and Misericordia are Marcus Robinson said. "Landon played very all tied with 9-4 records. Eastern controls well filling in tonight at the point and were their own destiny, as a win on Saturday in their final game will put them in the two only looking ahead to the next game:' Marcus Robinson ( 14 points) recorded a seed due to tie breakers. Misericordia and double-double adding 11 rebounds to his Desales currently sit tied in the standings double digit point total. Mark Mullins (16 and every tiebreaker category, so hopefully points) fell one rebound short (9) from a they create some separation in their final double-double, Mason Gross (15 points) also came close to a triple-double with 6 SEE OFFENSE, assists and 7 rebounds, and Rob Pecorelli (19 points) had a game high point total and Page 21 MBB: Colonels fall to Eastern in heartbreaking fashion on Senior Day By Ben Mandell Asst. Sports Editor WILKES:-BARRE, Pa. -- The Wilkes University Colonels fell in their regular season finale on Saturday, 69-66, against the Eastern University Eagles. The Colonels honored their four seniors: starting Andre Spruell (3 points), Zach Brunner (6 points), Mason Gross (4 points), and John Goffredo (O points). The Colonels came into this game with home court in the Middle Athletic Conference Freedom tournament locked just outside the paint, Chapman grabbed the rebound and sprinted down the· floor. Chapman pulled up outside the fey and drained the go ahead three-point shot with 0.2 seconds left on the clock and gave the Eagles their first lead of the second half. The Colonels tried to throw up a hail mary of a up, so they did not The Beacon/Kirsten Peters hThave muclh to play _for. The Colonels getting pumped up before before their game e Eag es came mto . . Saturday against Eastern. th e game kn owmg a win would put them in the two seed for the shot but it failed and the Eagles grabbed the upcoming tournament. win and swept the season series. The game started with the Eagles jumping 'Tm not too worried about momentum;' out to a 5-0 lead before the Colonels could get Colonels Head Coach Izzi Metz said. "We did a basket, but Brunner and Spruell answered not have Zach Brunner at full strength and to make it a 7-5 game. The Eagles continued we did not have Connor Evans, our starting to surge on the Colonels seniors, as they point guard:' jumpedouttoanll-pointlead.RobPecorelli The Colonels did get some good news then got going for the Colonels hitting four though as Clay Basalyga dressed in his first three-point shots to lead the Colonels charge game since injuring his ankle in practice, back into this game. Wilkes took a one-point Bruriner played 15 minutes after leaving lead into halftime in this one following their Tuesday's game with an ankle injury, and impressive run to get back into the game. Connor Evans, even though he did not dress, The Colonels came out in the second seemed to be walking around normally half strong, as they controlled play for the following his knee injury. most part. Pecorelli continued to knock "[Connor] is day to day;' Metz said. "Zach down threes for the Colonels and they lead gave us good minutes tonight, his ankle was by as many as ten. The Eagles hung around sore but it's getting better and he should be though and continued to slowly chip into the 100 percent for Wednesday:' Colonels lead. The Colonels lead by five with Following all the action on Saturday, the one minute to go, but the Eagles' Antonio MAC Freedom seeds are set. The Colonels Chapman (19 points) took over. Chapman have the top seed and will host the fourth hit a three with 56 seconds remaining, and following a Colonel turnover the Eagles SEE COLONELS, Jordan Johnson made a layup to tie the game up. Following a Rob Pecorelli miss on a shot age p 20 r �_J Sports The Beacon - February 20, 2018 20 COLONELS WBB: Lady Colone_ls fall in Senior Day affair By Kirsten Peters With 47 seconds left in the quarter, Roberts, one of Wilkes's leading scorers for the day with 13 points, made a jump-shot to kickstart the Lady Colonels seven-point run to close out the half. A shot from behind the arc by sophomore Kelsey Yustat and a layup with 89 shots from behind the arc in her four years as a Lady Colonel. Staff Writer In the fourth quarter, the Lady Colonels WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - On Feb. 17, the continued their efforts at making a comeback Lady Colonels were defeated 81-68 in their last by putting 20 points on the board. However, regular season home game against the Eastern the Eagles matched the 20 points Wilkes got University Eagles on Senior Day. with 20 points of their own, not allowing the Before the game got underway, Lady Colonels to gain any ground on their the Lady Colonels honored their lead and closing out the game 81-68. In the MAC Freedom, the Lady Colonels five seniors, Jamie Campbell, Nicole Farrell, Catey McFadden, finished with a record of 0-14 and had an Sarah O'Hara and Emily Sofranko, overall record of 4-21 for the season. for their accomplishments both on Eastern 81 Wilkes 68 Eastern (81) -- Taylor Price 6 6-6 20, and off the court. In the first quarter, Eastern's Amanda Riff 6 0-0 15, Regie Robinson 6 1-2 starters were hot off the bench, 13, Brianna Young-Harris 2 2-4 6, Taylor Azer 2 1-2 6, Da'Naziah Brown 1 3-3 5, Maya Harris establishing a lead from the 21-25, VikiKneis 12-24,NaomiHarris 11-2 beginning and never allowing 3, Sarah Getzinger 1 0-0 2, Faith Gingrich 1 Wilkes to surpass it. In response to the Eagles' early lead, Wilkes' 0-0 2, MaryKate McGloughlin O 0-0 0. Totals The Beacon/Kirsten Peters 2917-2381. Campbell put the Lady Colonels Wilkes (68) -- Catey McFadden 5 1-2 13, first seven points on the board. Seniors Emily Sofranko and Jamie Campbell react Freshman Maddie Kelley tacked . _ , . . Gianna Roberts 6 1-1 13, Jamie Campbell 3 on a two-pointer at the l:l 8 mark to a play during Saturdays Senior Day action. 0-0 7, Alyssa Alfano 2 3-4 7, Kelsey Yustat 2 to close out the quarter for the Lady Colonels, by Roberts finished out the half for the Lady 1-2 6, Nicole Farrell l 3-4 5, Maddie Kelley 2 0-0 5, Chelsea Erkes 2 1-1 5, Emily Sofranko 1 leaving them trailing 16-9. Colonels with a deficit of 13 points. With a fire burning in their stomachs, After the half, the Eagles demonstrated 1-1 3, Sarah O'Hara 1 0-0 2, Sierra Smith 1 0-2 the Lady Colonels got the ball rolling with a their purpose by reaching their largest lead 2. Totals 2611-17 68. Eastern' 16'28' 17'20-- ' 81 three-pointer by sophomore Gianna Roberts of the game at 61-40. But the Lady Colonels Wilkes '9 '22 '17 '20-- '68 only nine seconds into the second quarter. did what they do best and had another hard3-point goals -- EAST 6 (Riff 3, Price 2, Although the Lady Colonels were able to fought mini comeback to end the quarter at decrease Eastern's lead to an attainable four 61-48 with a layup by Roberts and two three- Azer); WIL 5 (McFadden 2, Campbell, Yustat, points, the Eagles offense answered back, pointers, one by sophomore Chelsea Erkes Kelley) primarily with senior Taylor Price scoring 10 and one by McFadden, who tied Roberts with ~ @wilkesbeacon of her 20 points for the night in this quarter, 13 points and whose two three-pointers of the - , Kirsten.Peters@wilkes.edu pushing Eastern ahead 44-24. night tied her for seventh in school history Continued from page 19 seeded Misericordia. The Eagles slipped into the two seed with the win, meaning that they will play host to third seeded DeSales. Both teams will play in the semifinal games Wednesday, with the winners playing for the conference championship. Eastern 69, Wilkes 66 Eastern (69) -- Antonio Chapman 8 0-0 19, Austin James 4 0-0 11, Darius Washington 3 1-1 9, Victor pena 3 2-4 9, Jordan Johnson 4 1-1 9, William Blet 3 2-2 8, Gabe Perez O 2-2 2 Austin Duncan 1 0-0 2, Miles Carter O 0-0 0. Totals 26 8-10 69. Wilkes (66) -- Rob Pecorelli 8 0-0 22, Marcus Robinson 4 0-0 9, Mark Mullins 3 3-5 9, Jack Bova 3 0-1 8, Zach Brunner 3 0-0 6, Mason Gross 2 0-0 4, Andre Spruell 1 0-0 3, Landon Henry 1 0-0 3, Tommy Bowen 1 0-0 2, John Goffredo O 0-0 0, Zach Walser O 0-0 O, Totals 26 3-6 66. Halftime score -- Wilkes 34-33 Three-point goals -- EAS 9 (Chapman 3, James 3, Washington 2, Pena); WIL 11 (Pecorelli 6, Bova 2, Robinson, Henry, Spruell.) ~ @wilkesbeacon - , Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu Wilkes Winter Sports Schedules Wrestlin2 11/3 vs. ~illersville L 24-3 ll/4@King's, 10th place 11/11 ~:: ~.<et~d, L20-23 H t C II WJ 8-6 11/18 H~d:f~ ef.e23-28 @"Mount Uru~n, 'L 9-33 vs. Alma, W, 34-8 ' vs. Baldwin Wallace, L, 3-43 vs. Greensbo~ W, ~1-13 12/2 vs. Souther:n vrrgnna ,W, 35-9 vs. M~Daruel Collew, W25-12 0@J~~~e 9 vs LIU Post, L 3-38' 12/22 Willces Open ' 1/4 vs. North Central L 6-32 vs. ~cago; L, 17-24 vs, Ohio Northern, L, 18-24 1/11 vs. Penn Tech, W, 43-9vs. Lackawanna Col!eg~, W, 41-10 l/20MAC Champ.@Kings,3rdP!ace 1/28 John Reesel)uals vs. Wtlliam & Jefferson, w, 30-19 vs. RlT. w: 22-21 vs. SUNYOneoota,L,20-24 212 (@, College ofNJ, L, 6-42 2/3 Messiah Open 2/9 vs. Ithaca, L, 3-40 2/11 vs. King's, W, 44-6 ~!· • ~f;1 t 2ti1 Men's Swimmin2 10/7 vs.William Paterson, L 98-ffi8 10/14 Colonel Sprint Invite, 1st place *10/20@Arcadi~ L, 44-142 10/2lvs.Mot.mtSaintMary,W,152-97 *10/28 vs. Stevenson, W, 117-20 * 11/5 @Lebanon Valley, W, 128-61 vs. Dickinson, L, 88-106 *11/11 vs. FDU-Florham, W, 126-72 11/18, ll/19Diamondlnvite, 5th place *12/3 @Lycoming, L, 84-173 12/8 vs. PSU-Altoona, W, 110-70 *1/13 @Misericordia, L, 108-139 *1/20 @Messiah, L, 65-125 1/27 vs. SUNY-Cobleskill, W 135-86 vs. SUNY-Delhi, W, 155-37 2/3 vs. King's, L, 68-130 2/ 15-2/18 MAC Championships *-MAC Home meets @ Wilkes-Ba __ Record: 7-7 (MAC: 3-5) ,i,:::::=•-~ Women's Swimming 10/14 Colonel Sprint Invite, 3rd place *10/20@Arcadia, L, 42-136 !0/21 vs. MowrtSaintMary's, L, 79-151 I0/28vs.Stevenson,L,61-104 *ll/5@Lebanon Valley, L, 57-136 vs. Dickinson, 57-111 * 11/11 vs. FD_lJ-Florham_, L, 77-90 11/18-11/19 Diamond Invrte, 9th place *J2/3 @Lycoming, L, 74-164 12/8 vs. PSU-Altoona, L, 85-88 *1/13 @Misericordia, L, 48-199 *l/20@Messiah, L, 4?-114 1/27 vs. SUNY Cobleskill, W, 103-85 vs. SUNY-Delhi, W, 102-36 *2/3 vs. King's, L, 37-155 2/15-2/18 MAC Championships *-MAC Home meets @ Wilkes-Barre CYC Record: 2-11 (MAC: 0-8) • . ..__.__.__..., WREST (Continue2/16 vs. Scranton@Ki-o -, - , -- - 2/17vs.Keysttn: @ Scrantoo, W,46-6 MVB (Continued): *4/4 @ Messiah, 7:00 p.m. 417vs. CityCollegeofNewY<Ik, 11:00am. *-MAC Home meets @ Marts Center Record: 12-15 Results through 2/17 Home matches @ Marts Center Record: 4-11 (MAC: 1-3) Men's Volleyball 1/17 @Lancaster Bible, r:, 1-3 l/19@St. John Fisher, L, 0-3 l/20@Endicott College, L, 0-3 @BardCollege,W, 3-1 1/24 vs. Loras College, L, 0-3 1/27 vs. Wilson College, L, 0-3 vs. Bard College, W, 3-1 *2/3@ Stevenson, L, 0-3 *2/8 vs. Messiah, L, 0-3 *2/lO@Arcadia, L, 1-3 vs. Kean, L 0-3 2/11 vs. Hunter College, L, 0-3 vs. Mount SaintVmcent, L, 0-3 *2/14 vs. Misericordia, W, 3-1 vs. York College, W, 3-0 *2/21 vs. Alvemia, 7:00 p.m 2/23 @ York College, 8:00 p.m. 2125 vs. New Jersey City, 11 :00 a.m. vs. Keuka College, 3:00 p.m. *2/28 @ Widener 7·00p m ' · · · 3/15 @ Lehman_College, 7:00 p.m. *3/17 @Alverrua, 12:00 p.m. *3/21 vs. Widener, 7:00 p.m. *3/24 vs. Stevenson, 2:00 p.m. *3/27 @ Misericordia, 7:00 p.m. *3/29 vs. Arcadia, 7:00 p.m. �Sports The Beacon - February 20, 2018 This P.ast week: Colonel Athletics in B~ief By Luke Modrovsky Sports Editor lo 2/11 WREST: On Senior Day, the Colonels dominated cross-town rival King's College, 44-6. Wilkes took three matches by forfeit, but still outwrestled the visiting Monarchs, 26-6, in contested matches. Seniors Jake Dimarsico (Forfeit), Matt Grossmann (Decision, 6-1 ), Josh Evans (Forfeit) and Bilal Bici (Decision, 5-4) all picked up victories. MVB: The Colonels dropped a pair of matches in the Knights Challenge hosted by Arcadia. Wilkes fell to Hunter (19-25, 19-25 and 20-25) and Mount Saint Vincent (18-25, 23-25 and 20-25). Senior Daniel Sales led the way against Hunter with eight kills, 10 assists and three digs. Senior Dylan Smith paced the Colonels with 10 kills against Mt. Saint Vmcent. 2/13 WBB: Sophomore Sierra Smith scored 11 points, but would not be enough in the CTOs.Ytown rivalry against King's as the Lady Colonels fell 82-49. MBB: See page 19. 2/14 MLAX: The Colonels were faced with a 9-2 halftime deficit and could not recover as the University of Scranton defeated Wilkes 14-5 in the season opener. Senior Jeremy Kachel notched two goals in the lo~s. MVB: The Colonels won their first ever match in Middle Atlantic Conference play as they defeated visiting Misercordia in four sets (22-25, 25-22, 26-24 and 25-23). Senior Brian Schumacher tallied 8 kills in the match and finished with a team-high .357 hitting percentage. The Colonels also took a sweep against York College (25-8, 25-20 and 27-29). Senior Daniel Sales and sophomore Salvatore Purpura provided 18 and 17 assists, respectively. 2/15 MSWIM: Two relay teams took the pool as the 200 medley group of freshman Jared Byrne, sophomore Anthony Stampone, freshman Justin Burda and freshman Nick Martino set a new school record with a time of 1:40.62 and the team's first podium first since the mid-1970s and sophomore Cameron Aspey, freshman Christopher Daley, freshman Mike Petit and freshman Tyler Weatherby finished the 800 freestyle relay with another school record-breaking time of7:52.03. WSWIM: The Lady Colonel team of freshman Abby Keating, sophomore Kyleigh Smeltzer, junior Allie Aspey and junior Morgan Williams touched in 10th place in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:59.16. 2/16 ' MSWIM: The relay team of Bryne, Stampone, Burda and Martno captured yet another podium finish (seventh) by finising the 400 medley relay in 3:42.27, also a school record. Byrne also set a program record of his own by finishing the 100 backstroke in 54. 70. WSWIM: The relay team of Keating, Smeltzer, Aspey and Williams also set a new school record in the 400 medley with a time of 4:25.07. WREST: Freshman Kyle Trout, senior Matt Grossmann, junior Josh Evans and sophomore Kyle Medrow all picked major decisions in the 23-21 lost as the University of Scranton pulled off the upset in day one -of the 2018 Cross County Challenge. Junior John Ritter also added a technical fall in the loss. 2/17 WREST: The Colonels picked up fives victories by forfeit and defeated Keystone College on the second day of the 2018 Cross County Challenge. Wilkes won the contested matches 16-6, while winning the match 46-6. Grossmann, junior Josh Evans, junior Ashton Gyenizs and freshman Moustafa Almeky all picked up victories in the team rout. WBB: See page 20. MBB: See page 19. 2/18 MSWIM: Burda broke his own program in the 100 fly finals with a time a 53.50. He placed 11th in that event. WSWIM: Keating broke her own program record in the 400 IM with a second place finish in the A final in 4:44.85. ~ @wilkesbeacon ~ Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu OFFENSE, 21 Continued from page 19 game. Misericordia plays Manhattanville and DeSales plays Delaware Valley. Wilkesl01,King's72 Wilkes (101) -- Rob Pecorelli 5 6-7 19, Mark Mullins 5 6-8 16, M!1son Gross 7 1-1 15, Marcus Robinson 4 2-2 14, Zach Brunner 6 0-1 12, Tommy Bowen 2 5-6 9, Landon Henry 2 2-2 7, Jack Bova 1 0-0 3, Andre Spruell 1 0-0 3, Derek Heiserman 1 0-0 2, Cooper Chaffee O 1-2 1, John Goffredo O 0-2 0, Zach Walser 0 0-0 0, Conn or Evans 0 0-0 0, Noah Jackson 0 0-0 0. Totals 34 2~1 101. King's (72) -- Chris Fazzini 6 5-7 17, Connor Callejas 6 2-3 16, Tyler Millan 3 6-6 14, Joshua Bailey 4 0-0 10, Lenny Radziak 2 0-0 5, Mike Prociak 2 0-0 4, Noah Tanner 1 0-0 3, Dan Angelo 10-0 2, Jack Bridges O 1-2 1, Pat Mitchell 0 0-0 0, Tony Maloney 0 0-0 0, Noah Pettenati 0 0-0 0, Jack Brewster 0 0-0 0, Victor Nyanway 0 0-0 0, James Willis 0 0-0 0, Devin Ringler O 0-0 0. Totals 2'5 14-18 72. Halftime -- Wilkes 49-27. Three-point goals -- WIL 10 (Robinson 4, Pecorelli 3, Bova 1, Spruell 1, Henry l ); KIN 8 (Bailey 2, Callejas 2, Millan 2, Radziak 1, Tanner 1). ~ @wilkesbeacon ~ Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu Wilkes Winter Sports Schedules Women's Basketball 11/15@ Rutgers-Camden, L, 54-83 ll/17vs. Marywood, W, 70-59 11/18 vs. U. of Scranton, L, 43-78 11/21 vs.PSUWilkes-Barre, W,72-51 11/30 @ Moravian, L, 57-80 12/4@ Rutgers-Newark, L, 43-59 12/5 vs. Valley Forge, W, 89-76 12/7 vs. PSU -Schuylkill, L, 56-61 12/9 vs. Juniata, L, 44-77 *1/3@ FDU-Florham, L, 59-90 *1/6 vs. Manhattanville, L, 38-93 i/8@PSU-Hazleton, W, 93-79 *1/10@ Delaware Valley, L, 71-83 *1/13 @Eastern, L, 79-93 *1/ 17 vs. DeSales, L. 36-101 *1/20 vs. King's, L, 59-75 1/22 @Alvemia, L, 60-65 *1/24@ Misericordia, L, 33-89 *1/27 vs. Delaware Valley, L, 61-67 *1/31 vs. FDU-Florham, L, 63-104 *2/3 @Manhattanville, L, 45-63 *2/7 @ DeSales, L, 46-89 *2/ 10 vs. Misericordia, L, 54-87 *2/13 @ King's, L, 49-82 *2/ l 7 vs. Eastern, L, 68-81 *-MAC Freedom Home games@ Marts Center Record: 4-21 (MAC-Freedom: 0-14) Results through 2/17 Men's Basketball 11/15 vs. PSU-Hazleton, W, 83-58 11/18 @Elizabethtown, W, 86-75 11/21 vs. PSU-WB, W, 74-65 11/25@Marywood, L, 64-74 11/26 @ U. of Scranton, W-52-45 11/29 @ Drew, W, 87-80 12/2 vs. Messiah, L, 64-67 12/5 vs. Clarks Summit, W, 86-64 12/19 @ Albright, L, 65-72 12/28 @ Hiram, L, 85-94 12/29@Norwich, W, 97-74 *1/3@ FDU-Florham, W, 75-52 *I/6 vs. Mahattanville, W, 73-68 *1/10@ Delaware Valley, W 78-69 *1/13 @ Eastern, L, 76-91 *l/17vs. Desales, W, 72-66 *1/20 vs. King's, W, 76-64 *l/24@ Miserirordia, W,87-82(0'D *l/27vs. Delware Valley, W, 58-57 *1/31 vs. FDU-Florham, W, 86-59 *2/3 @ Manhattanville, L, 63-73 *2/7 @ Desales, W, 72-67 *2/ 10 vs. Misericordia; W, 86-72 *2/ 13 @ King's, W, 101 -72 *2/ 17 @ Eastern, L, 66-69 *-MAC Freedom Home games @ Marts Center Record: 18-7 (MAC-Freedom: 11-3) Results through 2/17 r �.J The Beacon - February 20, 2018 Sports 22 K•·eou14 _...._,with._... PfflOll ~ the put, who ~ i t bet Mkhael~ CokeorPepsi! Pepsi rite thing to do during practke? ce when my favprite song$ come on. Favorite meal to eat on campus? Chicken Cheesesteak from Grille Wor,ks. Other interests or hobbies off«the field? Golf, Football, Soccer, Volleyball, 81,ld Video Games. Anyone to give a shout-out to? My family and the Goon Squad. Favorite professor? Dr. Edmonds. -Complied by Alex Kielar, Asst. Sports Editor �L 'lle&,,am:FedlateAtbl WhyeatqWadclen~~~ high 13 points in a loss'~ .~ ~ ' !.' Congratulations. Catey! · · . What head~ Chris Heery sai'1:•Catey is~.i·rour year~ • and ·a senior captain. She .b,as' given h~l'. all to Wilkes~,, ,. Name: Catey McFadden ' If you could haw dbmei:witJa a t.moa. Year: Senior Major. Early Childhood and ~dal Education .Mhior: Reading Hometown: Doylestown, Pa. High Schooh Archbishop Wood HS Position: Guard Qriving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? I knew that I didn't want to go far and I wanted to play basketball. WUkes also has a great education department that I wanted to be a part of. Favorite tbJng to do during pradice? OldFarts and Babies. 'This is a game that we play during the practice hebe every game. 1he game is the freshman and sophomores (Babies) vs. the juniors and seniors (Old Farts). Whic.hever team makes three shots and a halfcourt shot first wim. I must say Old Farts have had the most wins 011 the season. ~ d i c l }'Oil fint begin play,ingt I mi began playing basketball bi 1st " grade. It was jiJSt qne of those~ that everyone played growing up so I decided to try it and realized that I enjoyed it so I person ftoPl ~ put, who....WitW Robin Williams. Favorite · The SUit '" on camputf Ii• Other intere8t.s or hobbies'off o£tJie fidd? . Other than baskttball, I e n j o y ~ Netflix (currently watching Grace and Frankie) (10/10 would recommend). banging out with friends. and going ho to spend time with my family. What came first? 1he cbkken or the 1he chj.cken. #Godisgood Hopes for this season as a Colonel Given that it is the end ofthe season, I make the best ofmylut gameliilnat lJniffl"Sity. I hopetofioishtheseasoo ~note andgettlte,wi with my Mostinflia,ntial pertoain your NickFoles. ~rite meal to eatoa qmpu cli.idcenC~withCudy from Grille Works. stuck with it. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? I plan to move back to Doylestown and work in my home school district in a 1st ' .,,.r A quote you live your life "Life's too short to be taken so seriously. Fawrite professor? Dr. Polachek. or 2nd grade classroom. . What does "Be Colond" mean to you! "Beahlel" meambeingaleaderinewrything that you.do 011 and oJithe court. Itmeam putting in )'Olll"bestdbtand~ something that is more than a Univmi1y. Anyone to gift a shoat-oat to! Nicole Farrell, Jayflo3, Carson Wentz. Complied by Alu Kielar, Asst. Sports Editor •• �.J The Beacon - February 20, 2018 24 DREAM RENTALS APARTMENTS AVAILABLE FOR JUNE, 2018 · .- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2018 February 20th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 February 20 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/69836ffa2b4df8e56506fbb67e04666b.pdf f4a92b57897f683f4612c7415759f7ee PDF Text Text IHIIE B BIEAC T~ HE EAC N The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 71, Issue 13 The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writer Series hosts first speaker News Writer The Beacon/Steffen Horwath Alex Burns discussed topics such as his love for Shakespeare and writing plays. where were we 400 years ago and how have dynamics evolved.” Recently, the director created a contemporary take on the musical “My Fair Lady,” and said that because of the rise of the “MeToo” movement, the play had new complex meanings. “You wouldn’t usually see ‘My Fair Lady’ as a war cry of the patriarchy. It really created this amazing space of ownership of language and the exploration of romance coming out of abuse and the need for abuse in women’s education and is censorship appropriate,” Burns said. Submitted / Michelle Lehman The Wilkes University English Department hosted their first writer of the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writer Series of 2018 last week. Alex Burns, founding director of Quintessence Theatre group in Philadelphia, spoke on Tuesday to staff and students about his journey as a director and his motivations and reasons for creating contemporary versions of classical plays. Burns has directed 30 shows with Quintessence, but has also directed at the Arden Theatre, Trinity Shakespeare Festival and the Shakespeare Theatre. During the day, Burns delivered workshops to English literature and theatre students. Dr. Mischelle Anthony, a professor and chair of the English Department, introduced the writer at the start of the evening event. “Alex Burns is here because at one point, some Wilkes University faculty and students went down to see his production of Othello,” she said. She added, “I wept twice during the (performance) and I’m not an easy crier. So I was shocked I was weeping over the production of Othello that had very minimal staging — the production of that play, it was so impressive. I’m a regular theater-goer now because of Alex’s vision.” At the start of his talk, Burns talked about his experience in a British all-boys school, and how that affected his relationship with William Shakespeare. He continued that his exposure to the theatre in the UK really inspired him: “One of the places I felt most at home was in the theatre. The stories of these plays were exciting and thrilling, the focus was all on the language, not on the acting.” “I never had that moment of thinking that Shakespeare was this thing you had to meet in a classroom as a piece of written text.” Burns continued, “For me it was only something that you just learned and spoke aloud and it was something you felt in your body, the action of the words and the meter was a force, and the beat and the energy.” Burns spoke about his horror when he returned to the U.S. at the age of 16 and his classmates didn’t have the same appreciation for the 17th century playwright: “They thought this was a really boring thing to study, not a blood sport where you can run around in a dress with a sword covered in blood.” The director told the audience that the classics have strong relevance to contemporary times. “Truly none of the questions we are asking and none of the things we are struggling with as human beings and people have really evolved or changed at all since the time Shakespeare was writing, and that’s really sad to say,” he said. Burns added: “During moments of great social change like the one we’re experiencing right now, I think it’s more important than ever to look to the stories of the past and see Professor receives fourth patent, page 4 Wilkes Colonel builds her own business, page 7 In the Q&A section of the event, Rebecca Voorhees, an English major, said: “Your rendition of ‘My Fair Lady’ reminded me of a play which made people very angry at the end. I read an article which just talked about audience, which was disturbing but so important.” Burns responded: “I don’t want to create a theater that doesn’t reflect the world in which we live.” @wilkesbeacon megan.stanley@wilkes.edu The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky By Megan Stanley Meet the Major: Mechanical Engineering, page 17 MBB: Postseason berth locked up against rival Misericordia, page 22 �News News The Beacon - February 13, 2018 2 News Have a breaking story or a press release to send? Contact the news editor: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu LEAP Program Clothing Drive Wilkes University’s LEAP program will be holding a clothing drive and collecting all used clothing for those in need. There will be a clothing drop off box in the SUB lounge on the first floor of the Henry Student Union Building. For any questions contact Zawadi through email at Nshimirimana.zawadi@wilkes.edu. Beacon Briefs Compiled by Maddie Davis Free Tickets for Horward Gospel Choir Students can recieve free tickets to an upcoming performance by Wanted: Interns for Wilkes Alumni Political Campaign the Horward Gospel Choir on Sat., Feb. 17 at 7 p.m. The Interfaith Anthony Bartoli ’15 is looking for those who are interested in a Office, which is located on the second floor of the SUB, has a limited political internship to help with his campaign running for State number of tickets. It is first-come, first-serve basis. Email kristin. Representative of the 118th District. If you are interested please osipower@wilkes.edu for more information. email jon@votebartoli.com and attach resumes and plans to set up an interview. Join SOL for Solo Amor On Feb. 15, from 6 to 9 p.m, the Student Organization of Latinos Come out and run in the upcoming Glow Run and the Multicultural Student Coalition will be holding Solo Amor, On April 13 at 7 p.m, the Office of Residence Life will be hosting an event celebrating self-love and embracing Black History Month. “Glow Through the Darkness,” a 5th Annual Glow Run 5K which The event, which will take place on the first floor of the Student raises proceeds for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Union Building will featuring discussion, food and self-love crafts Online registration and more information will be released soon. and activities. NOTE Fragrances Experience Scholarships Available through the Alumni Association On Feb. 18, Student Development will be taking students to NOTE If a parent or grandparent of yours graduated from Wilkes Fragrances in Scranton to a create-your-own perfume workshop. University you may qualify for Wilkes University Alumni Scholarship A shuttle will leave the Student Union Building at noon. Seats are that is now accepting applicants. Apply through the Wilkes Alumni limited, and can be signed up for at the Info Desk. Sign up is $5. Website to see if you qualify before the Feb. 23 deadline. FOR RENT DREAM RENTALS APARTMENTS AVAILABLE FOR JUNE, 2018 www. Dream Rentals. net Call Jim (570) 288-3375 Editor’s note: Due to a campus closure on Wednesday, Feb. 7, Wilkes University’s Student Government did not hold its weekly meeting. Student government notes will continue in next week’s edition of The Beacon. table of contents news................2 life, a&e...........7 spread............12 opinion..........14 sports............19 �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 News 3 Black History Month lecture series: Straight Outta History By Maddie Davis Asst. News Editor Wilkes-Barre’s NAACP Branch #2306 is bringing Straight Outta History as a part of the black history month lecture series. Partnering with Wilkes University’s Multicultural Student Coalition, Action Together NEPA, and Sociology professor Dr. Andrew Wilczak to bring three events to campus on Feb. 12, 19 and 26 all held at 6 p.m. at the Ballroom on the second floor of the Henry Student Center. “Every night has its own purpose,” said Wilczak. “I wanted to try to come up with a diverse number of topics.” The three events will highlight key aspects of black history that are not focused on in classrooms. “We want people to come away with different things every night,” said Wilczak. The first event, on Feb. 12, will feature Wilkes University’s Santana Velez. Velez will hold a discussion about the history of rap and hip-hop music and how the music has impacted American culture. The discussion will cover the importance of black music from songs of slavery sung to secretly communicate between each other. It will also cover the genre of jazz, influential rappers like 2pac, Kendrick Lamar and more. “Black music has always had this greater political level than a lot of other music in American culture,” said Wilczak. “It’s always drawn attention to social problems.” “[The purpose] is to foster dialogue, things you can identify and relate to like the hip hop discussion, everyone likes music,” said Geraldine Ojukwu, Junior Political Science major. On Feb. 19, the event will screen the documentary 13th that focuses on the abuse of the loophole in the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery, with the modern day mass incarceration of the black population. On Feb. 26, the event will show a biographical drama about a young Thurgood Marshall as a lawyer before becoming a Supreme Court Justice. The story describes the trial where Marshall is representing a black man charged with sexual assault of a white woman. “I think it’s a great opportunity to shine light on black culture,” said Gianna Brown sophomore criminology and sociology major. “The whole point of the event is just to bring attention to certain aspects of popular black culture, like music and what is going on with police brutality,” said Ojukwu. “I think its a cool way for people to get together, have fun, discuss a little watch a little bit of movie and get educated,” added Ojukwu. “We all think black history month or civil rights and automatically think of MLK. Its superficial; it just allows us to kind of skip over the fact that ‘hey there are other ways we can look at culture, appreciate it, and celebrate it,’” she said. Wilczak and those sponsoring the event also plan to have voter registration booths to urge people to make a change. Wilczak has recently found himself driven by injustice and wants those who attend the event to understand they too can make a difference in their community no matter their age. “I hope that the campus community can come away with a sliver of it, a fraction of what I think about everyday,” he said. @wilkesbeacon madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu NAACP WIikes-Barre Branch 112306 Presents ~ii ►lJtA:ii (lljifJ HtSTORV As Part of its Black History Month Serles e♦fj: 13 ►~ :::fJ r;j :!3~ f;l iI!~! :::fJ Wilk:es University Herry Student Center Ballroom Monday Feb 12th ~ 6:00 PM Join us for a discussion of the history of rap & hip-hop an the impcrtance of black music \n Amencan culture. Presented by Santana Velez_ Sponsored by WIikes-Barre NAACP branch u2306, the Wilkes University Multicultural Student Coalition. and Action Together NEPA Courtesy of Dr. Andrew Wilczak The events’ purpose is to bring light to issues of black history. Sordoni Art Gallery holds first ‘Art in Context’ lunchtime lecture By Cabrini Rudnicki News Editor On Feb. 6, the Sordoni Art Gallery hosted the first of its “Art in Context” lunchtime lecture series. The gallery featured Dr. Ellen Newell of the psychology department at Wilkes, lecturing on the topic ‘Sparking Change? A Discussion of the Effectiveness and the Consequences of the #MeToo Campaign.’ The lecture occured at noon in the gallery. The audience was encouraged to bring food and refreshments. Newell’s lecture focused on her and Dr. Jennifer Thomas’ psychological research. “The big question since I started my research has been sexism: how do we deal with it? We have two choices. One, we can ignore it and pretend it doesn’t exist, or two, we can face it head on,” Newell explained. Dr. Newell performed an experiment which gave subjects a test on their belief in the meritocracy, or the American Dream, then made them give an impromptu speech in front of a fake group of judges. One group of subjects was given a judge with a sexist belief system, the other was given a judge with a neutral one. The subjects were tested for biological signs of stress, as well as gendered speech. While the research found a variety of interesting statistics, the main focus was how a high belief in the meritocracy created less stress in women when facing the sexist judge. This lead to a conclusive chart which pointed out that feminism often led to activism, but also led to high levels of stress. “I hypothesize that there is high stress because there’s a charge here,” she explained. “It’s your job to take care of these problems. It opens you up to further discrimination and sexism with people who may disagree with you.” When high belief in meritocracy was added to the chart, there was considerably less stress. However, as Dr. Mia Briceño later pointed out, the belief in the American dream and feminism often do not coincide together. “You have to believe in the meritocracy to feel less stress in the model,” asked Dr. Briceño. “But isn’t that denial?” Due to this, Dr. Newell also found that having a belief of your own sense of control, rather than the belief in the world’s sense of justice, will also reduce stress created through activism. Dr. Newell and Dr. Thomas plan to expand the research to beyond the Wilkes campus and do a survey of NEPA, and then eventually a nationwide study. Students and faculty were amazed by the findings of the research. Junior psychology student Kelly Barnefiher gave her opinion of the lecture. “I wish I had a copy of that powerpoint to show everyone I met,” said Barnefiher. The Beacon/Megan Stanley The lecture, held by Dr. Ellen Newell, was held in the Sordoni Art Gallery. The series was created to provide an about contemporary issues. One of the pieces opportunity to discuss important social is inspired by the Harvey Weinstein scandal.” and political issues related to the current Two more lectures are planned for this art exhibit, ‘The Bones of Us Hunger for semester. On Feb. 5, Dr. Laurie Sterling Nothing’ by Angela Fraleigh, which opened of King’s College will be holding a lecture in January. titled, ‘My Beautiful Fur: Women, Beasts and Heather Sincavage, the gallery director, The Fairy Tale.’ The last lecture will be held spoke of the lecture series. Feb. 27 on ‘(Re)Reading Violence: Intimate “The lecture series in itself were inspired Aggressions in Literature’ by Dr. Mischelle by a lot of [Angela Fraleigh’s] content and a Anthony and Dr. Chad Stanley. All lectures lot of what she looks at for inspiration, and are at noon in the art gallery, and are free to the consideration that she made when she the public. created her artwork.” “If you look around here,” said Sincavage, @wilkesbeacon gesturing around the gallery, “Some of them cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu look a bit historical, but she’s speaking a lot �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 4 News Campus suffers shutdown of video game networks, bitcoin mining By Megan Stanley News Writer Over the past few weeks, the Wilkes University IT system has faced some issues, including a shutdown of the PSN network and potential Bitcoin mining. At the start of the semester the gaming network for PlayStation and XBox went down, leaving students unable to play. Jon Carlin, Director of Network and Technical Infrastructure at Wilkes University, said that a piece of malware, computer software that is intended to damage computer systems, was detected on the network which got the network blocked. “They detected that someone was intentionally [creating malware] or maybe somebody had a piece of malware on their computer that they might not know about. We’re probably leaning to it being a piece of malware because I’d like to hope our students aren’t doing malicious stuff,” Carlin said. During the five days it took to fix the block, Carlin said “There were a bunch of students that were very helpful and emailed me straightaway, we’re greatly appreciative to the students who responded quickly to questions to try to test things out.” “We were on the phone for two days with people from Cisco, and even they were having a hard time trying to figure out the block.” Carlin added. “We’re appreciative that the students were very patient with that.” A student who wished to remain anonymous said “I was starting to get in my groove in Rocket League and when the network went down for so long it really hurt my progress. It was really an inconvenience. We could watch Netflix so it wasn’t too bad but it was really exciting when it [the gaming network] came back on.” While the PSN network is back up and running, Carlin told The Beacon that the issue isn’t quite fixed. Whilst IT now knows how to fix the issue, they don’t know why it keeps happening. “I don’t want to mess with it and have people complain, so I’ll bring my Xbox in and have a look, hopefully we can solve it and if it fails over people won’t even notice,” he said. Recently, rumours have arisen that some students have been Bitcoin mining, which might explain the situation. Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency and worldwide payment system, that has no central bank or single administrator. Bitcoin mining is a process that requires a lot of processing power. Bitcoin miners keep the Bitcoin network secure by approving transactions. According to bitcoinmining.com, this “ensures fairness while keeping the Bitcoin network stable, safe and secure.” However, because the process requires a lot of electricity and WiFi, this presents some potential issues for the university if students are Bitcoin mining in their residence halls. “It is a cost to the university. Is it fair that someone is making money by causing expense which would cause the university to increase revenue somewhere? ... and unfortunately, like most universities, that would be tuition or some other thing,” Carlin said. Connie Lee, a sophomore nursing major who used to use Bitcoin, but did not engage in mining, said “I used it at the time because it was the easiest way to make money, it was the newest fad and I wanted to get involved.” However, Lee’s experience with Bitcoin was not a positive one. “I got greedy and lost a lot of money because it was growing and a lot of countries started regulating it,” she said. Regarding the question of whether anyone is Bitcoin mining on campus, Carlin said it was complicated. “They’re hard to find. We’re looking at it from two folds: is any of the malware coming in used for mining cryptocurrency? If they do get in, how do we make sure those people don’t make money off anybody here? Unfortunately, a lot more new things are coming in in terms of malware and viruses. So, we’ll look into it and see if we see anything,” he said. Carlin wants to encourage students to get anti-virus software on their devices. “I don’t believe we require students to protect from malware and have protection on their computers, but it’s good practice to have stuff like that,” he said. He stated that whilst the university network protects devices connected from malware, once students go outside of campus devices are left unprotected. “Malware is not just targeting Windows, Macs are vulnerable too,” Carlin said. Next year, the university will start using the Colonel network, which is available now for students to use, instead of the Guest and Student Networks. Carlin told The Beacon that the hope is when everyone is on the same network, once a piece of malware is detected on a student’s device an email can be sent to ask that individual to run a security scan on their device, because one piece of malware “is basically giving people back doors to your files.” @wilkesbeacon megan.stanley@wilkes.edu Mechanical Engineering professor patents fourth invention By Jacqueline Kurovsky News Writer A love of creativity and new ideas has led one Wilkes faculty member to patent his fourth invention. Dr. Edward T. Bednarz III, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, recently patented his “System for Identifying the Magnitude and Position of a Load within a Weight Area of a Beam,” also called a force transducer. Bednarz began formulating the invention while working as an engineer for the United States Armed Forces. At the time, he was working towards his Ph.D and developed the invention alongside advisor Dr. Weidong Zhu. Bednarz said the invention went hand-in hand with his dissertation. The concept came about when considering a method for getting tanks across enemies’ bridges damaged by military fire. “The goal [of the invention] was to answer how much force a tank put on a bridge,” said Bednarz. “It’s basically a system that turns a bridge into a scale.” As this invention was part of his dissertation, Bednarz said he did a lot of the work on his own but also worked with a patent lawyer who turned the patent application into “legal speak.” As he was working with engineers, the patent lawyer had a technical background and was able to bridge the gap between the technical and legal aspects. Bednarz said the rest is a waiting game that depends on the review from the patent office. Often, claims in the application will require further explanation. Bednarz said this particular patent application took more than four years to be approved. Because the government owns the rights to this invention, Bednarz does not have control over how it is used. He said he hopes to see it applied to large-scale projects. This concept of giving broader uses to inventions created as specialty items extends to Bednarz’s other patents. These include a safety brace for a radar antenna and a deflection plate for a portable dynamometer. Bednarz has also invented with the help of students. His third patent was for an adjustable wheelchair, which he formulated with four Wilkes students and his wife, Heather. Bednarz says they own the rights to this invention and may look to get it licensed. Bednarz has a patent pending on a fifth invention, the idea for which came from a group of engineering students and his wife. It is a pressure redistribution system for those who are partially paralyzed. The invention was designed to help prevent pressure sores which come from sitting in one spot for too long. Bednarz said he hopes for The Beacon / Steffen Horwath Dr. Edward T. Bednarz III sits with the certificate for his fourth patent. a patent as this system has great commercialuse value. Autumn Warner is one student who worked with Bednarz on formulating this system. She called Bednarz the driving force behind taking it from a school project to a patent-pending invention. “He created an atmosphere that let us all use our strengths with this project and create something that all of us are proud of,” she said. Student Robert Moyer added that a critical part of the project was the guidance and input from Bednarz. Moyer calls him one of the most gifted teachers he’s ever been around. “I think anyone in our group would agree that any time we were stuck ... Dr B’s wisdom and experience got us past any obstacle,” he said. As a young engineering student, it was the prospect of changing the world that led Bednarz to start inventing. This motivation has not faded. “I am absolutely going to keep inventing,” Bednarz said, “probably until I’m 80 years old.” @wilkesbeacon jacqueline.kurovsky@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 News Wilkes welcomes four Panamanian diplomats By Maddie Davis Asst. News Editor Wilkes University and Panama’s Department of Foreign Affairs, or MIRE (Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Panamá), have partnered up to send diplomats from Panama to further their education here in America. As a part of the Latin American and Caribbean Initiative, Wilkes University has built a relationship with the country of Panama and has established the Meduca program within the past two years. This program has helped public school teachers from Panama come to America to learn English and the American culture to use in their schools back home. Since this program has developed to help make Panamanian schools more bilingual, Wilkes and Panama have furthered their relationship to begin a new program to bring Panamanian diplomats in for a semester. Specifically, the diplomats from MIRE expand their english speaking skills here at Wilkes University as well as taking classes that focus on Political Science and international relationships. This spring semester there are four students who have come to Wilkes as a part of this relationship between the diplomatic academy of Panama’s MIRE. Their backgrounds of work and education range from bachelors to masters degrees in various majors. These diplomats come here for professional development purposes to bring back to Panama and use them in their various diplomatic positions. Linda Luque Nunez is a Public Relations Official in Panama and is one of the students who have come to Wilkes University this semester as a part of this program. She has a Masters in Business Administrations. At Wilkes, Linda has also become apart of the Department of Diversity in her semester here. “Here there is a lot of diversity, and I love that,” said Linda. Francisco Javier Marquez Vega is an international analyst in Panama and is in charge of the Diplomacy Culture Department. Francisco has degrees in Tourism as well as Culture from the University of Panama. “For me it’s very important and interesting to understand the American society,” said Fransico, “I am really enjoying this time here, it is very nice because it is my first time in the United States.” Aileem Itzel Mejia Jovane works in the Department of Human Rights and has a masters in International Protection of Human Rights from the University of Alcalá in Spain, and a major in Law and Political Science. “I can share what I learned with my colleagues, and just share the experience [of Wilkes],” said Aileem. “It’s really interesting,” answered Aileem about how Wilkes differs from Panama. Mario Alberto Morales Lopez is the fourth and final student that has joined the Wilkes University campus this spring as a part of the program. Mario has a degree in Law, Courtesy of Linda Luque Nunez From left to right; Francisco Javier Marquez Vega, Linda Luque Nunez, Wilkes University Senior Vice President/ Provost Dr. Anne Skleder, Aileem Itzel Mejia Jovane, and Mario Alberto Morales Lopez. Engineering, and Computer Science and is very experienced in his field. Dr. Andrew Miller, advisor of these students and Wilkes Political Science professor, also takes time out of his summer to teach for a week in Panama as a part of this partnership. “You are able to have students in class, in an International Relations class, that are literally International Relations professionals,” said Dr. Miller. “You try to make it good for them, but also good for Wilkes students to have this opportunity to interact with people that work with international relations out in the field.” “The program is designed so they have full immersion experience on an American campus, the opportunity to learn more; especially on courses that have to do with the American government and institutions to add to their perspective,” said Rosi Ponce Executive Director of International Engagement. The program takes the students to visit UN Panamanian representatives, the Panamanian representative in the organization of American States, and the Panamanian Embassy. It also welcomes them to join many of the opportunities and organizations on Wilkes’ campus. “[The program] is a little bit of the theory from classrooms, but also a program that is enhanced with other opportunities for them to do a little bit more of the practical side of the program.” said Ponce. For the future, Rosi Ponce has a hopeful outlook for the program to help further our 5 relationship with Panama with Dr. Miller and the Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Dr. Paul Riggs to send Wilkes students to intern at MIRE in Panama. “We hope to promote not just students from Panama coming to us, but creating opportunities for American students to be there,” said Ponce. “From my perspective, as a staff member, I think that they have not only benefited from the expertise of Dr. Miller and other faculty that they are interacting with. I believe that one of the most rewarding experiences is being able to make friends and interact with our students. On the flipside it has been a very positive experience for our students and faculty to be working with them as they bring a completely fresh and different respective to class,” said Ponce. “This office is all about empowering and inspiring; we are trying to do our best for the student who come here so they can take the most of this program and other programs that we have,” added Nik Baliakin, Graduate Assistant of the Office of International Engagement. In the Fall 2018 semester there will be two more MIRE diplomatic students who will join Wilkes’ campus. @wilkesbeacon madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu Courtesy of Linda Luque Nunez From left to right; Linda Luque Nunez, President Patrick F. Leahy, Aileem Itzel Mejia Jovane, and Mario Alberto Morales Lopez. �News The Beacon -February 6, 2018 Accounting students offer free income tax preparation Beacon Staff Reports Accounting students will get a little extra industry practice, while students and members of the community will get a little extra free help this tax season through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program. Students will be assisting taxpayers with less than $54,000 in yearly household income file their basic federal, state and local tax returns, according to a press release. The assistance will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Feb. 17 and 24 in Room 134 of University Center on Main (UCOM), at 169 S. Main St. The tax assistance is available by appointment only. Interested parties should call 570-408-4710 and leave a message with their name and number. Taxpayers filing joint returns must have their spouse present. Courtesy of Wilkes Marketing Accounting students at Wilkes are using their skills to administer free assistance to members of the community and students in preparing their tax returns. From left: Daniel O’Steen, Shelby Trumbo, Trudi Casier, Christine Quinn, and Amanda Cohick. ~ W@FIGSHIRTS FOLLP&, US! · . . The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program, often abbreviated “VITA,” is a government program meant provide access to free assistance with preparing tax returns for individuals making less than $54,000 a year, those with disabilities and those whose English speaking is limited. According to the website’s VITA site locator, only one other site exists in WilkesBarre. This will be senior accounting and finance double major Trudi Casier’s second year participating in the program. This year, she is serving as a senior site coordinator, which entails “overseeing and teaching the new juniors how to do everything,” she said. She said that the experience has been enriching -- both from educational and philanthropic perspectives. “VITA is an excellent program for students to get real-life experience doing taxes. I participate because it has been an exceptional learning experience in more ways than just the tax prep, and we are helping out community members,” Casier said. “It really is a win-win for everyone involved.” Casier said that community members are consistently more likely to use the service, but that students need not shy away. “It’s certainly a good resource if any students need their taxes done too,” she said. 6 According to the press release, filers must have the following with them: • A Photo ID • Social security cards for the taxpayer, spouses and dependents • Wage and earning statements (Form W-2) from all employers • Interest and dividend statements (Form 1099) from banks • A copy of the taxpayer’s federal and state returns from last year, if applicable • Bank routing and account numbers (for direct deposit) • Total paid to daycare provider, as well as the provider’s tax identifying number • Healthcare coverage (Form 1095) or healthcare exemption documents • Other relevant information about income and expenses �y The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 7 Life, Arts & Entertainment Have a story or want your event to be featured? Contact the Life, A&E Editor: amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu ti ait Allan P. Kirby Center Spotlight Wilkes Colonel Michelle Rae Lehman builds a business of her own By Amanda Bialek Life, Arts and Entertainment Editor Senior Michelle Lehman began her college career with the aspiration to become a nurse. After her first semester of soul-searching, she discovered her true passion. The field of marketing captured her heart giving her the creative outlet she was looking for. “Michelle is an extraordinary young woman. As a student, she has maintained high academic achievement as an undergraduate and it is my expectation she will excel in her planned graduate studies,” Gerald Ephault, executive in residence at the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship said. “As a Kirby Scholar, Michelle has set a high standard of accomplishment in duties in providing support to the University’s students, staff, faculty and this Center.” Lehman is the Kirby Scholar of Business Development at the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship where she assists with internal and external client business organization, strategy and marketing. “I have complete confidence in her whenever we are meeting with clients or engaging in a networking activity. She is an outstanding representative of Wilkes University and the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship,” Ephault said. Her experiences mentoring various clients with their business ventures is what prompted Lehman to take the next steps in her undergraduate career. “I noticed the enthusiasm clients had as they were turning their business dreams into a reality. It inspired me to take a leap of faith and pursue my passion for entrepreneurship,” Lehman said. Lehman’s love for fashion and desire to help other women led to the development of her clothing business RAE Sleeves. She wanted this brand to be authentic and an extension of herself which is why she used her middle name Rae. The company logo is a triangle which symbolizes spirit, ancient wisdom and harmony. Her sleeve design was meant to solve a problem. She found herself and the women in her inner circle complaining about arm imperfections. Through her research, Lehman found that 91 percent of women are insecure about some part of their body. Whether at a casual dinner or in a professional setting, she realized there was always a level of insecurity present for women wearing sleeveless apparel. Although jackets were the obvious option for arm coverage, the extra layer of fabric hid the clothing underneath. With this in mind, Lehman decided to create a fashionable and functional option that would allow women to feel comfortable wearing their favorite sleeveless top or dress. “It was my goal to create a clothing line that would empower women by making them feel covered and confident,” Lehman said. She started the design process by creating digital renderings of the sleeves. Lehman chose hosiery for the sleeves and spandex for the bodice. After presenting her idea and fabric choices to a seamstress, her design was brought to life. A microgrant from the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship allowed her to invest in her first prototype design. “The supportive staff at the Allan P. Kirby Center along with the experiential learning opportunities I was given as an undergraduate and Kirby Scholar has provided me with the skills and confidence to launch my business,” Lehman said. The first signature line of RAE Sleeves available will be the onyx black sleeves. She plans to also add a neutral line of nude, blush pink and grey; a glam line of gold and silver and an essentials line with dark blue, burgundy and army green. In order for Lehman to mass produce her first 500 sleeves, she needs to raise approximately $6,000. To help raise funds for manufacturing and overhead fees she recently launched her Impact Campaign in January. She created a t-shirt design which is a white crew neck shirt that has a black pocket with the word “impact.” Lehman wanted to offer a product that is true to her brand. She hopes that her supporters feel empowered to make an impact big or small in 2018 when they wear their t-shirt. “My hope is for women to wear my brand and feel empowered to reach their full potential,” Lehman said. For those interested in supporting the Impact campaign, visit www.raesleeves.com to order a t-shirt or email Michelle Lehman at raesleevesapparel.com. To follow along Lehman’s business journey, follow her on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at RAE Sleeves. @wilkesbeacon amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu Submitted photo/Michelle Lehman Visit www.raesleeves.com to purchase an Impact t-shirt for $25. �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 8 Life, Arts & Entertainment Recipe of the Week: Pizza PizzaRoses Roses INGREDIENTS: INSTRUCTIONS: ..... --- • 1 package of pizza dough • 1 package of pepperoni • 1 package of shredded mozzarella cheese • 1 jar of pizza sauce • muffin tin Design by Nicole Kutos .... .,....., r - . - , ......... --- --- ~ r-.-,..... ~ --- .,.. .,....., 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease your muffin tin. 2. Roll out our pizza dough and cut into long strips. 3. Take one strip and one half spread our pizza sauce. 4. Add our cheese and along the top edge of the strip overlap your pepperoni. 5. Take the other half of our strip and fold it over. 6. Roll our strip and place our pizza rose in muffin tin. 7. Bake for 25 minutes. 8. ENJOY! Recipe from youtube.com/threadbanger Januzzis Pizza & Subs Next to Movies 14 • For Delivery- Call 825-5166 • Wilkes -Barre. Kingston. Plains. Plymouth. Nanticoke $13.95 + tax large 16” 1-topping pizza & 2-liter soda $17.95 + tax $7.95 + tax each for 5 or more large plain pies $11.95 + tax $16.95 + tax 3 hot & cold subs mix &match $23.95 + tax 12- cut Sicilian pizza 12 -cut Sicilian pizza 2 tickets to Movies 14, 1 med- 1 topping & 1 order of wings pizza & 2 drinks $20.95 + tax large 16” pizza & 12 cut tray siclian pizza $12.95 + tax small 12” 1-topping pizza & choice of any sub $17.95 + tax 2 large plain pizzas toppings extra $18.95 + tax large 16” pizza, 1 sub, & an appetizer $20.95 + tax 24- cut Sicilian pizza $28.95 + tax 3 large 1- topping pizzas �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment I ff'\,,,/ - - - - . . - ~Ge/fZ!P By Shannon O’Connor Life, Arts & Entertainment Asst. Editor With all the snow coming down, the perfect date is right at your fingertips. Spend the day out in the snow. Having snowball fights, catching snowflakes on your tongue or make a cute pair of snowmen that match you and your partner. Remember, don’t forget the hot cocoa. Grab the popcorn Get your armor What better date night idea than to go an see a romantic movie with the one you love. Romantic comedies like “Forever My Girl” or joyful sing-a-longs like “The Greatest Showman” are the perfect movies to go and see with a bucket of popcorn in one happy and your loved one in the other. With some chairs and blankets the perfect fort can be made. Add glittery lights and pillows and you’ve got a night you’ll never forget. Plug in your laptop and through on your favorite tv show or movie and you are your beloved are set for a cozy night in. Star light, star bright Whether it’s breakfast for dinner or dessert all around, you and your lovebug can spend your night away in the kitchen cooking or baking your favorite foods. Who cares about the calories. Enjoy the night with a full belly. Sweet tooth & c!IJaLe, c5deac!, Arms of steel Flurries of fun Not sure what to do or where to go on Valentine’s Day with your special someone? No need to worry because The Beacon has got you covered. Whether you’re hanging out with friends or taking out your sweetheart, check out these fun and creative date ideas. Happy Valentine’s Day! Love, The Beacon. Take a hike at a local state park and spend the night gazing at the stars. Bring a jacket and some snuggly blankets and see how many constellations you can find. Don’t forget on every shooting star, make a wish for more nights like this. 9 Challenge your paramour to a workout competition at the gym. For those athletic couples, see who really has the game they have been talking up. Don’t be embarrassed to get all sweaty that’s the whole point. Break out the games Invite over other couples or even your friends and have a couples game night. See who knows each other better and pick out a fun and exciting prize for the winner. Who could ever say no to a round of Cards Against Humanity? Hold on tight Ready for a night of laughs and falling on your butt, well then this is the date night for you. Plan a date of ice skating or rollerblading and hold onto your lovebird tight. Be careful not to bring your partner down with you if you fall, but always be there to pick them up. Get crafty with it You and your honey can spend the night creating and crafting some awesome projects as you break out some DIYs. Is there a project your sweetheart has been showing you on Instagram? Well, get some supplies and surprise them with a crafting night. Brew some coffee For you romantic love birds, wake your loved one and grab some coffee and watch the beautiful sunrise come over the mountain. You’ll be all snuggled up and with your favorite person in the whole world as you get to watch the world wake up. DID YOU GO ON A CUTE DATE OR MAKE A FUN DIY OR RECIPE? SEND IT TO US AND HAVE IT FEATURED ON THE BEACON WEBSITE! Interested in writing for the ,a & ENTERTAlNMENT Section? Why not t II h Contact LA&E editor Amand a B",a Ie k at amanda.b,iallek@wilkes.e, . . ry a t ree? d u. I --- �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment •Valentine’s Day Snow Globe• Supplies needed: •One mason jar •One plastic heart •Super Glue or a hot glue gun •Two packs of sequins •One cup of water Instructions: 1. Turn the lid over, and super glue the plastic heart onto the inside of the lid. 2. Grab the cup of water, and pour it into the mason jar. Fill the water to almost the top of the jar. 3. Take the two packets of sequins, and pour them into the water-filled mason jar. 4. Twist the lid back on to the jar. The heart should be inside the mason jar, upside down looking. 5. You can shake your new snow globe and watch the sequins swirl around. 6. Enjoy!! 10 �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 11 Senior First Farewell w WILKES UNIVERSITY The Beacon/ Shannon O’Connor Senior Class President Paige Gallagher gives the Class of 2018 their first fairwell address as their last semester slowly comes to an end. This event is the first event of many in the seniors last semester. From left: Matthew G. Miller, David Stecco, Kaitln Sitch, Natalie Cugini, Patrick Serino and Josh Jarmoski were all set to party as they kick off their last 100 days here at Wilkes. 2018 A great nr,:,::.t turnout t, ornn, ,t of nf seniors c,:,ninrc come rnm,:, all ::.II dressed rlr,:,cc,:,rl up , ,n and ::.nrl ready r,:,::.rl" to tn mingle minnl,:, the th,:, A night away at the Senior First Farewell on Thursday night. Nancy Tina Doshi, Nancy Ramirez, Ramirez, Tina Doshi, Maribel Maribel Rivera, Rivera, Mrasia Mrasia Flores, Flores, Yan Yan Mar Mar Abrueu and Atija Barteu pose while enjoyng the night with their favorite professors. Graphics by Todd Espenshade �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 12 Say OLIVE you this Valentine’s (!!J Thai Thai Price : $$-$$$ Thai Thai features thai food, along with other international cusine. Located at 41 S. Main St. Open Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Closed on Sundays. Bart and Urby’s Price : $-$$ Located at 119 S. Main St., Bart and Urby’s features classic American food. Open Monday through Saturday 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Closed on Sunday. �13 Day with date night! Cafe Toscana Price: $$-$$$ Cafe Toscana is known for their tuscan-style Italian food. Located at 1 Public Square. Open Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturday 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Closed on Sundays. Le Manhattan Bistro Price: $$$-$$$$ Located at 268 S. Main St. Le Manhattan Bistro features french cuisine. Open Monday thru Thursday 4:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday 4:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., and Sundays 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Opinion Opinion Have an opinion or want to write a guest column? Contact the opinion editor: andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Editorial Staff Our Voice 2017-18 MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Toni Pennello Managing Editor - Danny Van Brunt Adviser - Dr. Kalen Churcher SECTION EDITORS News - Cabrini Rudnicki LA&E - Amanda Bialek Opinion - Andre Spruell Sports - Luke Modrovsky ASSISTANT EDITORS News - Maddie Davis LA&E - Shannon O’Connor Opinion - Nick Filipek Sports - Ben Mandell & Alex Kielar DESIGN EDITORS Todd Espenshade - Graphic Designer PHOTOGRAPHERS Nicole Gaetani EDITORIAL BOARD Toni Pennello Danny Van Brunt Cabrini Rudnicki Shannon O’Connor Andre Spruell Megan Stanley Each week, the Beacon’s editorial board will take a stance on a current issue. Keep up the good work, Wilkes Athletics The Beacon praises teams’ support of each other The Beacon Editorial Board wants to commend Wilkes Athletics for cultivating support between teams. Wilkes University has plenty of athletes that play many different sports. As many athletes know, including the athletes on the staff here at The Beacon, games grow and become more intense and those crunch time moments that athletes dream about suddenly become a reality. “When student athletes support each other,” assistant football coach Michael Harris said. “It builds not only a community but a family.” Most athletes do not play for the spotlight, but when there is a supporting crowd at your games, they definitely become much more enjoyable. Support for athletics not only makes the sport much more enjoyable for everyone, but many athletes feel that it elevates their game. “Getting our intercollegiate athletic teams to support each other at athletic contests is something that is crucial on a campus like 141 S. Main St. Clayton and Theresa Karambelas Media Center Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 www.thewilkesbeacon.com 14 The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky ours,” men’s basketball head coach Izzi Metz said. “Where over 30 percent of our student body competes on a team, [we rely on each other’s support].” With the football team having recruits on campus the last few Saturdays, the coaches have gone off-schedule to bring the recruits to home basketball games. “Football is doing its best right now to build the feeling of community by supporting other teams,” Harris said. “When you have the support of other athletes the atmosphere becomes an athletes dream.” The Wilkes athletics community has worked on getting that support and with the coaches and athletes getting involved it seems to be coming to fruition. In the fall, athletes came together in support of the football team, providing a good atmosphere for the football games. Both women’s and men’s soccer received good crowds for their games. Women’s soccer made it to the MAC Freedom championship this year along with a birth and a first round win in the National Tournament. As the year turned and the basketball season has come along, the men’s basketball team has received tons of support, mostly from the other Wilkes Athletics teams. The basketball team has ridden the wave of their hard work and their peers support to a top spot in the MAC Freedom conference and have almost locked up a spot in the conference tournament. “It’s very important for teams to get support from each other,” Colonels sophomore basketball player Rob Pecorelli said. “It creates a level of excitement knowing that other teams and athletes are rooting for your success.” Athletes love to play the game, but the feel of the game changes when there is an atmosphere created by fellow athletes. When athletes feel like the result of their play will impact others, it means so much more. It makes the work every athlete puts in that much more rewarding when it pays off. Athletes live for the opportunity to hit that walk-off home run in the World Series, hit the game winning buzzer beater in the NBA Finals, score the overtime goal in the Stanley Cup, or catch the game winning touchdown in the big game. These moments are dreamt of by athletes because of the atmosphere which creates the world biggest stages. Wilkes athletics teams will not be able to create those kinds of atmospheres with their support, but they can create an environment that inspires a winning culture and an attractive spot for future Division III athletes -- and we feel that this is what they are doing. �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Opinion 15 Unconventional Valentine’s Day movies □ NI CK'S FLI CK PICKS Nick Filipek, The Beacon’s resident movie buff and assistant opinion editor, will review movies each week. Want to hear about one in particular? Email Nick at: nicholas.filipek@wilkes.edu. By Nicholas Filipek Asst. Opinion Editor Valentine’s Day is this week, and with it, every sappy love movie is sure to be on top of the que of flicks to watch. The princess wakes up, Rose never lets go and the millionaire ends up with the “lady of the night” with a heart of gold and a giant smile. It is all a bit old, so this Valentine’s Day be sure to avoid the cliché and check out these unconventional love stories. Chasing Amy (1997)- A bit on the older side for some, “Chasing Amy” is Kevin Smith’s (“Clerks”, “Red State”) third film, and in my opinion, his most touching. After reading a bad review for his second movie “Mallrats” that claimed the director was nothing but a “big softy”, Smith decided to go ahead and pour out his more sensitive side into “Chasing Amy” Now a word of caution, a sensitive Kevin Smith movie has more thought provoking material to discuss, but it still all comes from a certain twisted perspective. It is rated “R” for a reason, but underneath the foul mouths and dirty minds still lays a million dollar heart. The movie stars Ben Affleck, (“Justice League”, “The Town”) Jason Lee, (“Dream Catcher”, “My Name is Earl”) and Joey Lauren Adams (“Big Daddy”, “Dazed and Confused”) It is their chemistry, guided by Smiths vision, that really makes this movie something special. Affleck and Lee play comic-book creators from NJ whose lives collide with Alyssa Jones (Adams) at a comic convention in NYC. Holden McNeil (Affleck) falls head over heels for Alyssa, but has his hopes of a new relationship are instantly smashed when he finds out she’s a lesbian. I won’t spoil the ending, but it is probably not what you think. This movie strays so far from the conventional path that a “standard Hollywood ending”, just wouldn’t be fitting for this movie. It was pretty edgy material for the time, and even by today’s standards has a scene or two you wouldn’t want to watch with your folks, but it still manages to make you feel good at the end while bringing you a better sense of what “true” love is. Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)- Another star-studded cast brings this excellent story to life in what is my favorite romantic comedy of the 21st century. Everything about this movie is just absolutely charming, and always leaves me feeling warm and toasty after watching it. It’s the type of movie that just makes you feel like anything is possible, and this little blue rock in the solar system actually might be worth living on. Steve Carell (“The 40-Year-Old Virgin”, “Little Miss Sunshine”) Emma Stone (“La La Land”, “Easy A”) Julianne Moore (“The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio”, “The Hours”) and Ryan Gosling (“Blade Runner 2049”, “Gangster Squad”) make up the main cast, but really every last actor/actress is perfect in their role. Carell and Moore play characters that have been together since they were 16 and find themselves in a stale marriage. An act of infidelity sets the story in motion and though you may think you know what is going to happen, this is another movie that does not follow the standard. I pride myself greatly on being able to break down movies elements that allow me to predict what is going to happen before it happens, and this movie caught me right on my behind with a twist I really just didn’t see coming. “Crazy, Stupid, Love” may not end in a way you would expect, but shows a different perspective on a love story. Deadpool (2016)- That’s right, the “merc with a mouth” makes the list just one day shy of his theatrical release. Though the movie features hardcore violence, language and nudity, at its core, it really is a romance. Wade Wilson, played by Ryan Reynolds (“The Hitman’s Bodyguard”, “Van Wilder”) falls in love with Vanessa, Morena Baccarin (“Spy”, “Gotham”), and goes to extreme measures by trusting Francis aka Ajax, Ed Skrein (The Transporter Refueled”, “In Darkness”) to cure his aggressive form of cancer. Turns out trusting a guy with an alias in an underground laboratory was not the smartest move, as Ajax (Skrein) goes on to double cross our hero, forcing Wilson (Reynolds) to assume an alter ego of his own, Deadpool, and hunt down the man who crossed him in order to set things right. Through all of this drama Deadpool is able to break the fourth wall, being able to acknowledge the audience, just like in the comics. Not since Ferris took his day off have we seen this many fourth wall breaks, and Deadpool even gives Mr. Bueller a shout out in a post credit scene in which he also teases a sequel. That sequel is practically around the corner now, with its first teaser trailer dropping during “The Big Game”. Though the sequel has not been given an official title yet, it has been given a release date of May 18th 2018. The sequel will be introducing another famous Rob Liefield creation to the movie universe, Nathan Summer aka Cable. Played by Josh Brolin (“Men in Black III”,”No Country for Old Men”), Cable is a time traveling, butt kicking, one metal-armed man from the future who has a long-standing relationship in the comics. If the sequel is half as good as the original, then it is going to be a rip roaring good time. Make sure to go out and watch Deadpool, or any of this week Nicks Flicks Picks to have yourself a Happy Valentine’s Day. @wilkesbeacon nick.filipek@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Opinion The controversial use of steroids in sports By Brandon Belfonti Staff Writer Steroids are becoming a very controversial topic in modern society. Very controversial usually means a strictly defined argument, binary that is. Either you are for the use of such drugs or against. It must be stated that this discussion involves the role steroids play in the aesthetic and self enhancement aspect of society. This has absolutely nothing to do with the medical application of steroids, that is necessary and a completely different discussion. Anabolic steroids, the ones used by abnormally large muscle seeking humans, were first heard of in the 1930s when it was discovered they could increase skeletal muscle in rats. Once isolated, bodybuilders and the like saw an opportunity or even more so, an edge on the competition. This sparked a rage of conflict throughout the playing field of fairness. Next was something that really hit close for people at home, sports. Once the realization came that you could be faster, stronger, and better than your body would ever naturally allow then the choice was simple. Inject and grow to win. The average size of an NFL player in 1950 was 215 pounds (for all positions). Fast forward to today and that number has skyrocketed to 240 pounds (that is on the smaller end of things). Not only that, but the average BMI (body mass index) has gone from 24 to 28 which indicates that these players are obese on the average human body scale. Clearly they are not obese so why is the table of height to weight ratio saying so? Because these men are are doing things the human body was not made to do. A 330 pound man is not meant to move 40 yards in under 4.8 seconds. I took some physics and the force provided by such a mass is nothing shy of inhuman. This example is the exact controversy that such a drug presents us. Now, I am not saying someone with such stats must be on steroids. What I am saying is it takes a lot less reps and substantial less work to do such a thing with the aid of steroids. It is evident that high class and even olympic level athletes are taking these drugs. It is our turn to make a decision on the matter and this is where things become blurred. We give higher regard to certain individuals of society opposed to others, almost as if they do not take body enhancing drugs at all. Arnold Schwarzenegger because he a is walking statue with a smile, Sylvester Stallone because he took out Apollo Creed, and Justin Gatlin because he beat Usain Bolt. Steroids can not be a person to person treatment. They can not be a reflection of what makes us feel better about ourselves. Steroids are nice when it wins your team the Superbowl or your country a gold medal, but they are cheating when it is the russians or Barry Bonds. Clearly put, they should be as legal as marijuana. The social standards are alike and so are the repercussions. Either we see what the human body is capable of or we let our morals choose who is allowed to win. The situation is hypocritical in itself and the longer society wants “their guy” to win, the longer opposing greats will be to blame for the mass act done behind doors. @wilkesbeacon brandon.belfonti@wilkes.edu Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! Facebook: The Beacon Twitter: @wilkesbeacon Instagram: @wilkesbeacon Have an opinion you’d like to share? Email us! 16 �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Opinion Meet the Majors 17 This week’s major: Mechanical Engineering Interviews and photos by Abigail Tarway Staff Writer Every week, The Beacon will offer a chance for majors to be placed in the spotlight. Each student that gets chosen will have a few words to express why they chose the major and how they feel it will benefit them in the future. Natalie Cugini Senior “I decided to specialize in this field because both of my grandfathers were mechanically inclined and I have always looked up to them. I believe that having this major will help me in the future by providing a stable job market as well as many opportunities to continue learning new skills and expanding my professional network.” The Beacon/ Abigail Tarway Coletta Rempe Senior “My decision to specialize in this field was based on the fact that I had phenomenal high school teachers for both math and physics who challenged me and gave me the confidence to pursue an engineering major. I believe that majoring in Mechanical Engineering will help me in the future by providing a wide spectrum of opportunities to continue learning new abilities, improving on current understanding and enhancing quality.” �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Opinion 18 Do attractive people have advantages others do not? By Andre Spruell Opinion Editor As a child, if you wanted something to go your way, you would just throw a temper tantrum. Unfortunately for adults, this does not hold true, unless you are attractive. Attractiveness is something that is held in high regard, especially in American society with things like modeling reality shows, the popularity of acne and make-up products, and many other examples. So what is seen as attractive? According to Business Insider, high cheekbones, fuller lips, big eyes, and a thin chin are associated with sexiness in women, whereas a big jaw and broad chin are preferred in men. The simple question to be answered is: Do attractive people have advantages others do not? Simply put, the answer is yes. The advantages that attractive people have is proven through science. According to Psychology Today, we tend to attribute a number of positive characteristics to attractive people. Also, we perceive them to be more competent, happier, and more successful than the general population. These characteristics associated with attractive people has become somewhat of a norm. As a result, people that do not see themselves as attractive resort to things like getting acne products for clearer skin, starting a diet to lose weight, and even going as far as getting plastic surgery to alter their physical appearance. If gaining advantages just by having a pleasant physical appearances is something that can get you further in life, can you blame people that would want that? One advantage attractive people have according to Business Insider is that beautiful people are more persuasive. This fact is proven to be true through the saying “handsome devil.” A term that has gone hand in hand because the term “handsome” refers to physical attractiveness, while the term “devil” relates to an evil figure known for its persuasive capabilities. A real life example in which attractive people are more persuasive is in job interviews, a situation in which an attractive individual can use their sex appeal, increasing their chances of landing a job over someone that is less attractive but may be more qualified. For men in particular, one aspect that as seen as extremely attractive is how tall he is. According to Psychology Today, in a study conducted by Daniel Nettle of the Open University in Great Britain, it showed that the taller men were, the less likely they were to be single or childless, concluding that taller men are deemed more sexually attractive and more likely to find a mate. The trend of women preferring taller guys is something that I have recently noticed through social media, especially Twitter. I believe the fascination for taller men is something that has developed over time because nowadays, it seems like the upcoming generations of males seem to be getting bigger and bigger than ever before. Another perceived advantage of attractive people is that they are more likeable and trustworthy. According to Business Insider, beautiful people are typically treated better by others. In a study from Harvard University, researchers found that wearing makeup, shown to enhance a woman’s attractiveness, boosted people’s perceptions of that subject’s competence, likability, attractiveness, and trustworthiness. The main advantage that attractive people have that others do not is that it is easier for them to find a mate. This reason alone is why I believe people strive to look their best, especially for people who do not view themselves as being attractive. Attractiveness is something that can get you further in life, and make it easier to find a mate, but if all someone has is looks without any talent, how far can they really go? @wilkesbeacon andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Has cheating been getting worse than it has before? By Savannah Pinnock Staff Writer Throughout academic circles, the subject of cheating has been a wellknown cultural taboo. This cultural taboo is not affiliated with one’s racial and/or ethnic culture, but in reference to an academic taboo. Within the culture of academia, honesty and sincerity within one’s work can be seen as paramount to a student or teacher’s success. It is understood that an educational institution requires a student to have scholastic integrity, though, this also extends to pedagogical integrity. When it comes to the subject of cheating, otherwise known as academic dishonesty, the teacher and the student are for the first time, on the same level. If a teacher strays from their convictions and assists a student unfairly, this can have extremely detrimental repercussions. Likewise, if a student assists himself in an illegal manner, the same holds true. The difference between the teacher and the student lies within what the repercussions of cheating are. Depending on a wide range of factors, teachers who engage in cheating often find themselves terminated or faced with life changing consequences such as suspension, and being reported. As it pertains to the student, it depends on where they are in their academic career. Within a K-12 education, the consequences of cheating are negative but the student will always be able to attend their educational institution. During this student’s collegiate and postgraduate education, the consequences of cheating are deleterious to one’s future career path which can extend to their life. In other words, during this period, cheating is not tolerated and will result in the termination of their career. For the previously aforementioned reason, statistics revolving around one’s academic integrity are minimal college wise but great in one’s high school education. The reason for this appears to be due to a fear of consequences revolving around cheating in college. Therefore, it is clear that in order to know if cheating is prevalent in college, one must look at the students high school career as behavior tends to be linear. According to David L. Jaffe, a professor from Stanford University, “cheating among high school students has risen dramatically during the past 50 years”. This information implies that cheating amongst students who are about to enter their collegiate years has had a positive rise and is continually rising. He then states that “cheating no longer carries the stigma that it used to” due to the fact that these students will do anything that they can to perform well in an effort to go to their college of choice. The connection between cheating and attending college appear to be very close; it begs the question as to why this would end during the students collegiate years? Cheating has always been prohibited, the only difference over academic years has been in the consequences of this act. So, if cheating has risen among high school students over the past fifty years, why would it stop during college if the rules of academic integrity have been ignored before? The answer is that it has not, and cheating is in fact getting worse. Cheating is a growing epidemic and “between 75 and 98 percent of college students surveyed each year report having cheated in high school”. The only difference between one’s collegiate education and their high school education appears to be the growing silence about academic dishonesty and it must be put to an end. @wilkesbeacon savannah.pinnock@wilkes.edu �Sports The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Sports Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the sports editor: Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu MBB: Colonels inch closer to playoffs with win over Desales By Ben Mandell Asst. Sports Editor 19 Bulldogs kept the game within reach until Rob Pecorelli hit two free throws to put the Colonels up by seven in the final minute. “It’s always a big game coming into DeSales, it’s a great shooting gym and I think everyone shot well today,” Robinson said. “It’s just good to stay locked in and get the win.” CENTER VALLEY, Pa. -- The Wilkes University Colonels bounced back with a 72-67 win over the DeSales University Bulldogs. The Colonels came into the game looking to rebound after their modest five game winning streak was snapped on Feb. 3 against Manhattanville. They entered the game tied with the Bulldogs for first place in the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Freedom, both with 8-2 conference records. “One game does not define us,” Colonel Head Coach Izzi Metz said. “We are having an excellent season and we stumbled on the road (in Manhattanville) and we knew we did not play our best.” DeSales came into this game riding high as they had a five game winning streak of their own. The Bulldogs last loss came to the Colonels back on Jan. 17 by a score of 72-66. The game got off to a good start for the The Beacon/Alex Kielar Colonels as Marcus Robinson (18 points) Zach Brunner tries to avoid the DeSales got going early, draining two three-pointers. defense during Wednesday’s road game. Robinson’s hot start was mixed with good Robinson and company have been playing defense and some other nice plays by the rest of the team to put the Colonels on top well all season and the credit belongs to the 14-4 with about 16:30 left in the first half. entire Colonel team between the players and Following a DeSales timeout, the game the coaching staff. The players provide the quickly turned and after a good run for the product on the court but the coaches have Bulldogs, the Colonels 10 point lead turned helped the players reach their full potential. “We knew we needed to play a more into a seven point lead for the Bulldogs. A good surge at the end of the first half though consistent forty minutes, Metz said after helped push the Colonels back on top to the the game. “I did not think we did that in smallest lead possible going into the break, Manhattanville and clearly today I think we did that today.” 34-33. In big games this season, the Colonels have The second half was better for the Colonels as they lead for a majority of the period and had key players step up this season, whether the brief time the Colonels trailed, they it is Connor Evans, Marcus Robinson, Rob did not trail by more than four. Robinson Pecorelli, Mark Mullins, Zach Brunner or continued to drain threes as he hit three even sixth-men Tommy Bowen and Mason more and finished 5-8 from outside the key. Gross. All of these players have stepped up at Rob Pecorelli (18 points) proved to be a huge some point this season to push the Colonels player for the Colonels as well as he matched Robinson’s point total and provided a big SEE COLONELS, defensive spark with two steals. The second half stayed close, as neither team was able to grab a lead bigger than double digits, and the Page 21 MBB: Colonels clinch postseason berth with win over Misericordia Robinson, Zach Brunner (20 points), and Rob Pecorelli (15 points). The Colonels started to Asst. Sports Editor create separation on the scoreboard around WILKES-BARRE, Pa. -- The Wilkes the four minute mark and they were able to University Colonels clinched a spot in put the game to bed with a minute left when the Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom the Cougars Head Coach Willie Chandler was tournament with their 86-72 win over the called for technical foul for arguing with an Misericordia University Cougars. official. “It feels really good to “I knew it was be back,” junior Marcus going to be a hard Robinson (23 points) said. fought game,” Metz “We missed last year and said. “Misericordia is we were there my freshman too good of a team to year, but overall it just feels not come in here and good to be back.” play a good game. Robinson dominated They made their once again Saturday, shots, and it really proving to be one of the took us until the ten premier two way players minute mark in the in the MAC Freedom. second half to get Robinson showed early our defense going.” on in this game why he The win puts The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky the Colonels into is a force to be reckoned with offensively as he was Connor Evans sinks a three-pointer at the MAC Freedom honored for his entry into the buzzer to close out the first half. tournament and with the Colonels 1,000 point two games left to play, club, then hitting his first two threes to start the the Colonels look to lock up home court. They game. control their own destiny, as they sit alone atop The Colonels jumped out to an early lead, of the conference, but they still need to win at but the Cougars stormed back and took a least one more game to secure the home court nine point lead. The Colonels were able to advantage. do what they do best though and kick it into “Of course you’d rather play at home for a lot gear as the first half started to wind down as of reasons,” Metz explained. “You don’t have to they took a 31-29 lead. With four seconds left, travel, you can sleep in your own bed, and it’s The Colonels inbounded the ball and Connor your fans that are cheering behind you.” Evans (9 points) pulled up behind the arc to hit The Colonels have enjoyed their home court a three-point buzzer beater going into halftime at the Marts Center where they boast a 9-1 (6-0 to push the lead to 34-29. conference) record. “When Marcus is going well, the team feeds “[Home Court] definitely means a lot,” off of that,” Colonels Head Coach Izzi Metz senior Zach Brunner said. “But we still have said. “The team loves to see him have success two games left to get there so we’re moving on and it fuels the other guys and they continue to to King’s on Tuesday.” play at a high level.” Misericordia did end up clinching the The second half was controlled by the tournament as well as Eastern and DeSales Colonels for the most part, as the Cougars following the King’s loss, so the four teams were briefly able to grab the lead behind a making up the tournament now will fight for valiant effort from the Cougars Tony Harding higher seeds. (25 points), who hurt his ankle in the first half. Harding’s effort was not enough to slow SEE CLINCHED, the Colonels though as they surged behind By Ben Mandell Page 21 �Sports The Beacon - February 13, 2018 20 MVB: Colonels drop first-ever MAC home opener to Messiah By Kirsten Peters of Messiah’s lead. During this run, senior Brian 80 kills and is second on the team with 81 assists Schumacher and Hefner each had a kill and and 35 digs, started the comeback stretch for junior Jones Mensah had a powerful attack On Feb. 8, the Colonels took on the Messiah down the right sideline, helping to close in on College Falcons in their first MAC home the Falcons’ lead. However, the Falcons picked match, falling in three straight sets (25-13, 25- up steam once the Colonels were on their trail, 17, 25-19), advancing the Falcons’ record to 3-1 pulling out the 25-17 victory. overall and 2-0 in “I think the biggest thing we the conference. took away from that game as a Although the team was that we finally saw Colonels improved the level we have the potential as each set went on, to play at. In the second set, we they were unable to started to get excited and have gain the lead in any a lot of fun with the game, of the three sets. which is something I don’t In the first set, think we really did until that the Falcons started point in the season,” reflected The Beacon/Kirsten Peters off with a six point middle hitter Schumacher. Junior Kyle Price readies his hands during lead, demonstrating “Everyone was confident in Thursday’s match against Messiah. their dominance each other’s abilities and we from the beginning. The Beacon/Kirsten Peters started passing a lot better the Colonels. By working together, the Colonels However, a kill by Colonels congratulate each other and generating some really were able to tie the set 7-7 with an ace by Henne. sophomore Cole good offense. As long as we Yet, this tie was as close as the Colonels would after a play. Hefner got the ball can remember to play with get to tasting victory, as the Falcons responded rolling for the Colonels, putting them on the that same energy, I think there’s definitely still to Henne’s ace with four consecutive points of board 6-1. Later in the set, senior Michael time left to turn our season around and start their own. Although the Colonels had their best Henne had a kill of his own to get the Colonels winning some games.” offensive set of the match, they were unable to within four points of the Falcons’ lead, making With a fire in their stomachs, the Colonels come out on top, losing the third set 25-19. the set 11-7. But the Colonels were unsuccessful ended the match with their best set of the night. Despite losing the match 3-0, the Colonels in making a comeback. In the third set, the Falcons took an early 5-1 had a solid night statistically: Sales recorded In the second set, the Colonels battled back lead, but two kills by Mensah and a kill by senior his second double-double of the season and from a five point deficit to get within one point Daniel Sales, who is third in the conference with the ninth of his career with 10 kills and 11 Staff Writer assists, junior Kyle Price led the Colonels’ digs with nine, Henne had a career-high eight digs, sophomore Salvatore Purpura recorded 14 assists, and Mensah and Schumacher each tacked on four kills. However, Wilkes’s efforts were not enough to overcome the impressive performances of Messiah’s senior Logan Hunsberger who had 11 kills and seven digs and junior Brad Nase who had 30 assists, causing the Colonels record to fall to 2-7 overall and 0-2 in the conference. Come support the Colonels at their next home conference match against Misericordia on Feb. 14, as Schumacher notes, “It was a lot of fun playing in front of some family and friends, so any support from the Wilkes community moving forward this season would mean a lot to us.” Messiah 3, Wilkes 0 Messiah 25 25 25 -- 3 Wilkes 13 17 19 -- 0 Leaders Messiah -- Kills: Logan Hunsberger (11), Aces: Matt Knab (3), Blocks: Jarred Sands (3), Assists: Brad Nase (30), Digs: Hunsberger (7). Wilkes -- Kills: Daniel Sales (10), Aces: Michael Henne (1), Blocks: Brian Schumacher (2), Assists: Salvatore Purpura (14), Digs: Kyle Price (9). @wilkesbeacon Kirsten.Peters@wilkes.edu Wilkes Winter Sports Schedules Women’s Swimming Wrestling 11/3 vs. Millersville L 24-25 11/4 @ King’s, 10th place 11/11 vs. Suny Cortland, L 20-23 vs. NYU, L 6-34 vs. Hunter College, W 38-6 11/18 vs. Heidelberg, L, 23-28 @ Mount Union, L, 9-33 vs. Alma, W, 34-8 vs. Baldwin Wallace, L, 3-43 vs. Greensboro, W, 31-13 12/2 vs. Southern Virginia ,W, 35-9 vs. McDaniel College, W 25-12 12/8 vs. Elizabethtown, W, 24-19 12/10 @ Stevens Institute, L, 16-29 vs. LIU Post, L, 3-38 12/22 Wilkes Open 1/4 vs. North Central, L, 6-32 vs. Chicago, L, 17-24 vs, Ohio Northern, L, 18-24 1/11 vs. Penn Tech, W, 43-9 vs. Lackawanna College, W, 41-10 1/20 MAC Champ. @ King’s, 3rd Place 1/28 John Reese Duals vs. William & Jefferson, W, 30-19 vs. RIT, W, 22-21 vs. SUNY Oneonta, L , 20-24 2/2 @ College of NJ, L, 6-42 2/3 Messiah Open 2/9 vs. Ithaca, L, 3-40 2/11 vs. King’s, W, 44-6 Men’s Swimming 10/7 vs.William Paterson, L 98-108 10/14 Colonel Sprint Invite, 1st place *10/20 @ Arcadia, L, 44-142 10/21 vs. Mount Saint Mary, W, 152-97 *10/28 vs. Stevenson, W, 117-20 *11/5 @ Lebanon Valley, W, 128-61 vs. Dickinson, L, 88-106 *11/11 vs. FDU-Florham, W, 126-72 11/18, 11/19 Diamond Invite, 5th place *12/3 @ Lycoming, L, 84-173 12/8 vs. PSU-Altoona, W, 110-70 *1/13 @ Misericordia, L, 108-139 *1/20 @ Messiah, L, 65-125 1/27 vs. SUNY-Cobleskill, W 135-86 vs. SUNY-Delhi, W, 155-37 2/3 vs. King’s, L, 68-130 2/15-2/18 MAC Championships *-MAC Home meets @ Wilkes-Barre CYC Record: 7-7 (MAC: 3-5) WREST (Continued): 2/16 vs. Scranton @ King’s, 7:00 p.m. 2/17 vs. Keystone @ Scranton, 12:00 p.m. Home matches @ Marts Center Record: 11-14 Results through 2/11 10/14 Colonel Sprint Invite, 3rd place *10/20 @ Arcadia, L, 42-136 10/21 vs. Mount Saint Mary’s, L, 79-151 *10/28 vs. Stevenson, L, 61-104 *11/5 @ Lebanon Valley, L, 57-136 vs. Dickinson, 57-111 *11/11 vs. FDU-Florham, L, 77-90 11/18-11/19 Diamond Invite, 9th place *12/3 @ Lycoming, L, 74-164 12/8 vs. PSU-Altoona, L, 85-88 *1/13 @ Misericordia, L, 48-199 *1/20 @ Messiah , L, 46-114 1/27 vs. SUNY Cobleskill, W, 103-85 vs. SUNY-Delhi, W, 102-36 *2/3 vs. King’s, L, 37-155 2/15-2/18 MAC Championships *-MAC Home meets @ Wilkes-Barre CYC Record: 2-11 (MAC: 0-8) MVB (Continued): *4/4 @ Messiah, 7:00 p.m. 4/7 vs. City College of New York, 11:00 a.m. *-MAC Home games @ Marts Center Record: 2-9 (MAC: 0-3) Men’s Volleyball 1/17 @ Lancaster Bible, L, 1-3 1/19 @ St. John Fisher, L, 0-3 1/20 @ Endicott College, L, 0-3 @ Bard College, W, 3-1 1/24 vs. Loras College, L, 0-3 1/27 vs. Wilson College, L, 0-3 vs. Bard College, W, 3-1 *2/3 @ Stevenson, L, 0-3 *2/8 vs. Messiah, L, 0-3 *2/10 @ Arcadia, L, 1-3 vs. Kean, L 0-3 2/11 vs. Hunter College, 1:00 p.m. vs. Mount Saint Vincent, 3:00 p.m *2/14 vs. Misericordia, 4:00 p.m. vs. York College, 8:00 p.m. *2/21 vs. Alvernia, 7:00 p.m 2/23 @ York College, 8:00 p.m. 2/25 vs. New Jersey City, 11:00 a.m. vs. Keuka College, 3:00 p.m. *2/28 @ Widener, 7:00 p.m. 3/15 @ Lehman College, 7:00 p.m. *3/17 @ Alvernia, 12:00 p.m. *3/21 vs. Widener, 7:00 p.m. *3/24 vs. Stevenson, 2:00 p.m. *3/27 @ Misericordia, 7:00 p.m. *3/29 vs. Arcadia, 7:00 p.m. �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Colonel Athletics in Brief By Luke Modrovsky Sports Editor 2/8 WBB: Desales took control against the Lady Colonels by grabbing a commanding 5128 halftime lead before extending its victory to 89-46. Sophomore Gianna Roberts led the Lady Colonels’ attack with 10 points and eight rebounds. The game was Wilkes’ first that the Lady Colonels did not make a three-pointer. MBB: See page 19. MVB: See page 20. 2/9 WREST: No. 3 Ithaca dominated the Colonels 40-3 as the Bombers scored seven bouns point wins. Junior Josh Evans was the only Colonel to win and did so by a 5-0 decision. 2/10 WBB: Visiting Misericordia used a 29-11 third quarter to fly past the Lady Colonels in a 87-54 final. Senior Catey McFadden led Wilkes with a game high 13 points. MVB: The Colonels dropped two matches against Arcadia (12-25, 16-25, 26-24, 1625) and No. 8 Kean (25-20, 25-11, 25-15) on the first of two days in the Arcadia Knight Challenge. Senior Brian Schumacher tied his career high nine kills in the match against Arcadia and sophomore Salvatore Purpura passed a team-high 15 assists. MBB: See page 19. Sports 21 CLINCHED, COLONELS, 2017-18 MAC from page 19 Continued from page 19 Freedom Conference Continued to victory. These players for the Colonels all The Colonels will continue the journey tohave the same mindset, whether they are wards the top seed in the MAC Freedom as Standings the team’s top scorer in Robinson, or the big they head across town to King’s College in Men’s Basketball: MAC Freedom Conf. Overall Wilkes* 10-2 17-6 DeSales* 9-3 18-5 Eastern* 8-4 13-10 Misericordia* 8-4 13-10 King’s 6-6 10-13 Delaware Valley 3-9 5-18 Manhattanville 2-10 8-15 FDU - Florham 2-10 2-21 *Clinched Conference Tournament Berth Women’s Basketball MAC Freedom Conf. Overall FDU - Florham* 10-2 17-6 King’s 9-3 14-9 Manhattanville 8-4 18-5 Misericordia 8-4 15-8 DeSales 8-4 13-10 Delaware Valley 4-8 7-16 Eastern 1-11 4-19 Wilkes 0-12 4-19 *Clinched Conference Tournament Berth man Zach Brunner. “We’re just trying to get better every day,” Brunner said. “We want to keep playing our best ball so we’re going to go to practice tomorrow and keep getting better.” Wilkes 72, Desales 67 Wilkes (72) -- Marcus Robinson 6 1-3 18, Rob Pecorelli 5 6-9 18, Connor Evans 4 3-5 12, Mark Mullins 5 0-0 10, Zach Brunner 4 0-0 8, Mason Gross 1 4-6 6, Tommy Bowen 0 0-2 0, John Goffredo 0 0-0 0, Landon Henry 0 0-0 0, Jack Bova 0 0-0 0. Totals 25 14-25 72. Desales (67) -- Connor Jones 9 0-0 21, Tracy Simsick 4 4-7 14, Luke Connaghan 3 3-6 9, Kweku Dawson-Amoah 2 3-4 7, Steven Ciotti 0 0-0 0, Ben Pratt 2 1-4 5, Julian Wing 2 0-0 4, Shaundell Fishburne 1 2-2 4, Mike Bealer 1 0-0 3, James Smith 0 0-0 0, Alex House 0 0-0 0. Totals 24 13-23 67. Halftime score -- Wilkes 34-33. Three-point goals -- WIL 8 (Robinson 5, Pecorelli 2, Evans); DES 6 (Jones 3, Simsick 2, Bealer). the “Battle for the Barre”. The Colonels took the first meeting between these two teams 76-64 following an explosive second half from the Colonels. The Monarchs are now officially eliminated from the MAC Freedom tournament but they will still look to spoil the Colonels chances at the top seed. Wilkes 86, Misericordia 72 Misericordia (72) -- Tony Harding 10 1-4 25, Jason Kenny 6 4-5 18, Stone McCreary 5 0-0 12, Noah Rivers 1 4-6 6, Tre’ Fields 1 2-3 4, Tyerell Mann 2 2-3 7, Patrick Douthit 0 0-0 0, Brendan Leonard 0 0-0 0, Bryce Mondorff 0 0-0 0. Totals 25 13-21 72. Wilkes (86) -- Marcus Robinson 5 9-9 23, Zach Brunner 10 0-0 20, Rob Pecorelli 6 0-3 15, Connor Evans 1 6-9 9, Mark Mullins 3 2-5 8, Landon Henry 2 0-0 5, Tommy Bowen 2 0-0 4, Mason Gross 1 0-0 2, Jack Bova 0 0-0 0, John Goffredo 0 0-0 0. Totals 30 17-26 86. Halftime score -- Wilkes 34-29. Three-point goals -- MIS 9 (Harding 4, Kenny 2, McCreary 2, Mann); WIL 9 (Robinson 4, Pecorelli 3, Evans, Henry). @wilkesbeacon Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu @wilkesbeacon Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu Wilkes Winter Sports Schedules Women’s Basketball 11/15 @ Rutgers-Camden, L, 54-83 11/17 vs. Marywood, W, 70-59 11/18 vs. U. of Scranton, L, 43-78 11/21 vs. PSU Wilkes-Barre, W, 72-51 11/30 @ Moravian, L, 57-80 12/4 @ Rutgers-Newark, L, 43-59 12/5 vs. Valley Forge, W, 89-76 12/7 vs. PSU-Schuylkill, L, 56-61 12/9 vs. Juniata, L, 44-77 *1/3 @ FDU-Florham, L, 59-90 *1/6 vs. Manhattanville, L, 38-93 1/8 @ PSU-Hazleton, W, 93-79 *1/10 @ Delaware Valley, L, 71-83 *1/13 @ Eastern, L, 79-93 *1/17 vs. DeSales, L. 36-101 *1/20 vs. King’s, L, 59-75 1/22 @Alvernia, L, 60-65 *1/24 @ Misericordia, L, 33-89 *1/27 vs. Delaware Valley, L, 61-67 *1/31 vs. FDU-Florham, L, 63-104 *2/3 @Manhattanville, L, 45-63 *2/7 @ DeSales, L, 46-89 *2/10 vs. Misericordia, L, 54-87 *2/13 @ King’s, 6:00 p.m. *2/17 vs. Eastern, 1:00 p.m. *-MAC Freedom Home games @ Marts Center Record: 4-19 (MAC-Freedom: 0-12) Results through 2/11 Men’s Basketball 11/15 vs. PSU-Hazleton, W, 83-58 11/18 @ Elizabethtown, W, 86-75 11/21 vs. PSU-WB, W, 74-65 11/25 @ Marywood, L, 64-74 11/26 @ U. of Scranton, W-52-45 11/29 @ Drew, W, 87-80 12/2 vs. Messiah, L, 64-67 12/5 vs. Clarks Summit, W, 86-64 12/19 @ Albright, L, 65-72 12/28 @ Hiram, L, 85-94 12/29 @ Norwich, W, 97-74 *1/3 @ FDU-Florham, W, 75-52 *1/6 vs. Mahattanville, W, 73-68 *1/10 @ Delaware Valley, W 78-69 *1/13 @ Eastern, L, 76-91 *1/17 vs. Desales, W, 72-66 *1/20 vs. King’s, W, 76-64 *1/24 @ Misericordia, W, 87-82 (OT) *1/27 vs. Delware Valley, W, 58-57 *1/31 vs. FDU-Florham, W, 86-59 *2/3 @ Manhattanville, L, 63-73 *2/7 @ Desales, W, 72-67 *2/10 vs. Misericordia, W, 86-72 *2/13 @ King’s, 8:00 p.m. *2/17 @ Eastern, 3:00 p.m. *-MAC Freedom Home games @ Marts Center Record: 17-6 (MAC-Freedom: 10-2) Results through 2/11 �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Sports 22 Getting to know... Kelsey Yustat Sophomore Basketball Player The Beacon: Female Athlete of the Week 1/28 - 2/4 Why Kelsey Yustat was selected: Kelsey Yustat scored a career-high nine points off the bench in a loss to FDU-Florham on Wednesday, 1/31. Congratulations, Kelsey! What head coach Chris Heery said: “Kelsey works as hard as you can ask a player to work and that hard work has been paying off.” Name: Kelsey Yustat Year: Sophomore Major: Nursing Hometown: Hunlock Creek, Pa. High School: Northwest Area Position: Point Guard/Shooting Guard Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? I transferred to Wilkes during my sophomore year to pursue their nursing program and to be closer to home. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? I plan to work in the nursing field and specialize in psychiatric nursing. Eventually I want to go back to school to become a nurse practitioner. Favorite building on campus? Bursar’s office because everyone who works there is fantastic! Hopes for this season as a Colonel? I hope to make a positive impact in every game and that my individual game gets stronger throughout the season. Editor’s hi s year's year’s Athlete rowed dow wo Editor's note note:: T This Athlete of of the the Week Week iiss nar narrowed downn to to ttwo candidates t s staf f. T he ttwo wo final f inal candidates candidates by by the the spor sports staff. The candidates are are then then voted voted on on by pee rs uusing sing aa Tw ite r poll poll @ Wilkes B eacon by peers Twiter @WilkesBeacon Additionally, nd of mic year, year, we ill post post aa reader poll Additionally, at at the the eend of the the acade academic we w will reader poll to row n an to ccrown an “Athlete "Athlete of of the the Year” Year" .. The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky When/Why did you first begin playing? I began playing on a basketball team in 4th grade but my family really got me into playing as soon as I was able to dribble. I come from a family that loves sports so I have grown up around them forever. Basketball has definitely always been my favorite, though. Other interests or hobbies off of the field? Going to the movies, spending time with friends and family, going to amusement parks. Most influential person in your life? My mom A quote you live your life by? “When you trip in life make it part of your dance.” If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Michael Jackson Coke or Pepsi? Pepsi Favorite meal to eat on campus? Grilled cheese and curly fries from Grill Works Favorite Professor? Dr. Grandinetti Anyone to give a shout-out to? Maddo and Jordyroxx -Complied by Alex Kielar, Asst. Sports Editor �Sports The Beacon - February 13, 2018 Getting to know... 23 Rob Pecorelli Sophomore Basketball Player The Beacon: Male Athlete of the Week 1/28 - 2/4 Why Rob Pecorelli was selected: Rob reached double-digits against both FDU-Florham and Manhattanville and led the Colonels in scoring with 17 points in their victory over FDUFlorham on Jan. 31. Congratulations, Rob. What head coach Izzi Metz said: “Rob has had a very good sophomore year. He has emerged as one of our top backcourt playmakers and scorers this season. His positive attitude and enthusiasm for his teammates make him a pleasure to coach and a very popular person in our locker room.” Name: Rob Pecorelli Year: Sophomore Major: Business Management Hometown: Greenlawn, Ny. High School: Harborfields HS Position: Shooting Guard Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? Opportunity for success Post graduation plans in terms of a career? Working in New York City Favorite building on campus? Marts Center What came first? The chicken or the egg? Chicken no doubt Hopes for this season as a Colonel? MAC Championship When/Why did you first begin playing? 1st Grade because my brother was playing and I also wanted to. Favorite thing to do during practice? Enjoying time with my best friends. Other interests or hobbies off of the field? Watching sports, hanging out with my friends and time traveling Most influential person in your life? My dad and brother A quote you live your life by? “Life is short, smile while you still have teeth.” What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? Being the best you can be everyday If you could have dinner with a famous person, who would it be? Post Malone or Kristaps Porzingis Coke or Pepsi? Coke Favorite meal to eat on campus? Omelette for breakfast Anyone to give a shout-out to? My mom and the 6-Pack -Complied by Alex Kielar, Asst. Sports Editor E ditor’s note hi s year's year’s Athlete rowed dow wo Editor's note:: T This Athlete of of the the Week Week iiss nar narrowed downn to to ttwo candiates spor t s staf f. T he ttwo wo final f inal candidates andiates by by the the sports staff. The candidates are are then then voted voted on on by by peers uusing sing aa Tw itte r poll poll @ B eacon.. 'Peers Twitter @ Wilkes WilkesBeacon Additionally, nd of mic year, year, we ill post post aa reader poll to Additionally, at at the the eend of the the acade academic we w will reader poll to crow n an rown an “Athlete "Athlete of of the the Year” Year" .. The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky �The Beacon - February 13, 2018 24 Hobart assistant introduced as new coach By Luke Modrovsky Sports Editor From a total of 247 applicants, Jonathan Drach saw his application rise to the top and is now the new leader for Colonel Football. His experience includes spending the last 11 years at Hobart College. He began as the quarterbacks coach before adding the offensive coordinator title in 2014. The Statesmen saw six Liberty League Conference championships, seven NCAA playoff appearances (two Sweet Sixteens and one Elite Eight), and three consecutive undefeated regular seasons during Drach’s time there. The ninth head coach of Wilkes Football contributed to a 92-24 record over the past 11 seasons. Drach also coached the Liberty League Offensive Player of the Year in 2007, 2014, 2016 and 2017, as well as the ECAC Offensive Player of the Year in 2007 and 2016. Not only did Drach mention the on-thefield aspect, but also said he plans to focus on academic success as well. “I am so thankful to have the opportunity to Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member lead the Wilkes University football program,” Drach said. “I look forward to being a part of such a dynamic academic community that offers students the opportunity to be successful on and off the field.” Looking back on his previous successes, Drach said he has many people to thank for where he stands today, as he mentioned he has not gotten there alone. “I’ve learned a lot and had a lot of really great mentors,” Drach said. “At the same time, to be able to have my own program, Drach to kind of take this in a new direction. I’m looking forward to really getting my hands on these guys and provide a lot of value for them.” Drach hopes to carry over his winning culture at Hobart to Wilkes. “Success breeds success.,” Drach said. “I really want to surround our guys with a lot of successful people from our alumni base, to people on campus and really give them a lot of exposure.” His focus for Wilkes football will be for the team to compete each and every day. “As a team, we will look to continually improve and be process driven as we compete on and off the field,” Drach said. “I am eager to start working with the team and Wilkes Athletics complete the incoming recruiting class for 2018.” “When most of the eastern half of the Commonwealth is celebrating the Eagles and their Super Bowl, we’re having our very own football celebration at Wilkes,” Vice President of Student Affairs Dr. Paul Adams said. President Dr. Patrick Leahy said he was impressed of both Drach’s personal and professional backgrounds. “It’s the combination of the two that makes him such a great fit for what I believe is a University on the move.” Leahy also reflected on the hill next to the east endzone of Schmidt Stadium, stating that he believes Drach’s young children will spend plenty of time there. “Equal to the accomplishments on the field, Coach Drach is committed to student-athlete success off the field, and that was so noted by the players that sit before us,” Athletic Director Addy Malatesta said of the search. According to the Wilkes Athletics website, Colonel Football remains without two key coaching positions, offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator.” Wilkes Football kicks off their season on Sept. 1 at Schmidt Stadium against Hartwick College. @wilkesbeacon Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu THE BEACON The news of today reported by the Journalists of tomorrow. BEACON HIRES: ~ ~RS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, EDITORS This could be you! If you have a passion for writing, design, or photography,join us! Freshmen and all majors welcome! Contact: Editor-in-ChiefToniPennello toniann.pennello@wilkes.edu � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2018 February 13th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 February 13 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/aab1fd8e2e2f176dc476e8730d4885d8.pdf ca6b8e54a0757b506fababcadc0fba9a PDF Text Text THE BEACON The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 71, Issue 15 The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. MBB: Colonels fall in MAC Freedom playoffs Norman By Ben Mandell Asst. Sports Editor WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — The Wilkes University Colonels played the Misericordia University Cougars on Feb. 21, where they fell, 72-58. The game was the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Freedom semifinal where the Colonels came in as the tournaments top seed. The Colonels were able to earn the top seed in the MAC Freedom by going 11-3 play and 6-1 at home throughout conference play. Wilkes came in also beating their opponent Misericordia in both of their meetings. The first time these two teams clashed was in January. On the Feb. 24, the Colonels came into the Anderson SportsHealth Center in Dallas looking to jump the Cougars in the standings. Both teams The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani entered the game with 5-1 records and in a tie for first place in the conference. Wilkes students distract Misericordia’s team at the foul line during Wednesday night’s The game was tight the entire time, and MAC Freedom semi-final. Misericordia won the game 86-72. they eventually would need extra time to create seperation on the scoreboard. The cushion thanks to a three-point buzzer also came into the game knowing they game ended with the Colonels edging the beater from Connor Evans. Wilkes took would have to play their second straight control in the second half and cruised to game without their starting point guard Cougars 87-82. Connor Evans, who injured his knee last The second meeting was not much an 86-72 win. The Colonels came into the game losing different then the first meeting as the two teams battled it out in the Marts Center. a nail-biter on senior day at the Marts SEE COLONELS, The first half was close, but the Colonels Center to Eastern, 69-66, following an were able to take the lead and get some Antonio Chapman buzzer beater. Wilkes Nursing students help fallen student, page 5 Artist Spotlight: Justin Gaskill page 7 By Cabrini Rudnicki News Editor Wilkes University announced a partnership with the Norman Mailer Center to bring writers workshops to campus. The campus also plans to bring more of Mailer’s belongings to the Mailer Room in the E.S Farley Library. The university’s creative writing program, the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, is bringing the Norman Mailer Writers Colony to campus. Wilkes will serve as the program’s new permanent home. The colony includes workshops taught by nationally recognized authors from throughout the country. The program was started by director and author Lawrence Schiller in 2008. The colony was previously held at Mailer’s former home in Provincetown, Mass. Along with the colony, the Norman Mailer Center also offers grants, SEE MAILER, Page 3 The Beacon/Sean Connelly Submitted Photo/Teresa Fallon Page 19 Mailer Center partnership announced Tips for enjoying spring break and sunny weather, page 18 MLAX: Colonels fall in nonconference action page 20 �News News The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Beacon Briefs Compiled by Maddie Davis Art club destress day On March 1 from 12 to 2 p.m. in Kirby Hall, the Art Club is having an adult coloring event to help students relax for their upcoming exams. Refreshments will be provided and all are encouraged to attend this therapeutic, stress-relieving event. Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science needs judges On March 3 the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science is holding their 2018 Science Competition at Wilkes. Judges will be evaluating Northeastern PA high school students. Any student, faculty, staff, or professional who are involved in STEM and the social sciences are welcome to volunteer. The event, for judges, will be held from registration at 9 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. For further information or to sign up to be a judge for the event, please visit www.pjasregistration.com. Student Government’s Spring Fling Dance On March 23 from 6 to 11 p.m. Student Government will be hosting their annual Spring Flip at Genetti’s in Wilkes Barre. Tickets for the dance will cost $5 each and will go on sale in the Henry Student Center on the first floor from Feb. 26 to March 2 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. For any other further questions please email nicole.hughes@ Gold Bar Club Fundraiser at Rodano’s On March 18 from 1 to 4 p.m., the Gold Bar club is holding a fundraiser at Rodano’s on Public Square. Come support the club and help them raise funds while enjoying pizza, stromboli, and drinks. News 2 Have a breaking story or a press release to send? Contact the news editor: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu Kappa Psi Volleyball Tournament On March 13, from 6 to 9 p.m, the pharmacy fraternity Kappa Psi will be holiding a volleyball tournament that will be open to the entire school. Each team will consist of six players, and the first place team wins a grand prize. It will cost $5 per player in the tournament, and you can pay with either cash or card. For further questions please email @ashley.hoffman@wilkes.edu. Spring Career and Internship Fair On March 15 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Career Services will be holding their Career Internship Fair on the first floor of UCOM, in the MAC Gym. Meet with different types of organizations who are looking for employees, interns, or volunteers. Please bring a resume and dress in professional attire for the event. For further questions and information please contact Career Services through email at careers@wilkes.edu or over the phone at 570-408-4060 or stop by Room 215 in Conyngham Hall. Come out and run in the upcoming Glow Run On April 13 at 7 p.m, the Office of Residence Life will be hosting “Glow Through the Darkness,” the 5th Annual Glow Run 5K which raises proceeds for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Online registration and more information will be released soon. table of contents news................2 life, a&e...........7 CYC looking for Volunteers for After-School Program The CYC is looking for volunteers for their after-school program African American read-in. The program focuses on books by Andrea Davis Pinkley. If you are interested or have any further questions, please email erica.acosta@wilkes.edu Wilkes University Student Government notes By Megan Stanley Staff Writer The Wilkes University Student Government held their weekly meeting on Wednesday. The Psychology Club delivered its club report. The group held a scavenger hunt with the Neuroscience Club to help freshmen who join either major. This semester they will volunteer at Blue Chip. They are hoping to host a Gertrude Hawk sale and are trying to organize a Moe’s Southwest Grill fundraiser. As community activities the club had a table in the tailgate tent during homecoming where they decorated cookies with the theme “how do you feel to be back at Wilkes?” In the summer, the group are hoping to water raft as a bonding activity. Next on the agenda was the Lambda Kappa Sigma non-club fund request. The group are attending a convention in Buffalo. Twelve pharmacy students are attending the conference and will be able to apply for national committees, present research and increase recognition for Wilkes. Student Government passed a motion to allocate $1,611 to the group to cover the hotel costs. The next item of business was the American Society of Mechanical Engineers fund request for their annual Car Show. The event has been happening for twelve years, and is free to both Wilkes students and the public. It is organized entirely by students, and attracts over 200 cars. There will be food and entertainment and the group hopes to donate $500 to charity. Student government agreed to allocate $1,000 to the group to help costs. The fund request for Adventures in Science was next. Adventures in Science will be held on April 27, with 230 fifth graders attending the university for a day full of fun science. Student government passed a motion to allocated $2,730 to cover costs for T-shirts, bags and safety goggles that will be used on the day. The Pre-Pharmacy club fund request for their trip to a museum in Philadelphia was next. The 33 students attending the trip will cover the costs of the museum entrance fee. Student Government passed a motion to cover $317 to go towards the cost of a school bus. Phi Beta Lambda fund request was next. The group are attending the state leadership conference in April. At the conference, those who attend will visit campaign booths, take part in business workshops and seminars, go to an internship fair and engage in networking sessions. The group were allocated $1,540 by student government to cover the registration costs. The casino week fund request of $11,000 was also allocated at this week’s student government meeting. The Operations Committee met to report that the Karambelas media and communications center will be shut down in July to complete any work that was not completed when the building was opened at the start of the year. The library will also be closed for six to eight weeks over the summer after commencement because a transformer will be replaced, so all the power will be out. - spread............12 opinion..........14 sports............19 @wilkesbeacon megan.stanley@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 MAILER, Continued from page 1 Courtesy of Wilkes Marketing Mailer awards, and fellowships to creative writers, however, Wilkes will only be bringing the colony to campus. The workshops will be a week long and will feature lectures on different literary genres such as fiction, poetry, nonfiction, publishing, playwriting, and screenwriting. The program will take place two to three weeks each summer, with ten to twelve classes being offered. The program has previously had a number of Wilkes faculty teaching at the colony, including J. Michael Lennon, an Emeritus English professor, former vice president at Wilkes and the writer of the official Norman Mailer biography, “A Double Life.” Bonnie Culver, the co-founder of the university’s creative writing program, also previously taught at the colony. Anyone over the age of 18, including undergraduate students, can join the workshop. According to Bonnie Culver, the classes will be offered at half the price of typical summer residencies, at $575. The program also plans to discount the class price for students if there are empty seats, as well as scholarships for room and board. “The benefit for Wilkes is that we can take some of the empty seats and fill them with our own graduate students,” said Culver. Three workshop faculty members have already been announced: memoirist Beverly Donofrio, best selling author Jacquelyn Mitchard, as well as NPR’s Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan. Corrigan will be teaching a class on how to review a book. More faculty members will be announced soon. Senior english major Elyse Guziewicz spoke excitedly about the colony. “I think it’s the next step towards News legitimizing our MFA program,” she said. “Right now, we only have a low residency program, which is great for certain kinds of people just looking to expand their skills, but if you’re looking to teach, usually you’d go to a high residency program.” The program is named after the late awardwinning author Norman Mailer. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Mailer was one of the founding board members of the creative writing program advisory board. Mailer wrote books such as “The Naked and the Dead” (1948) and “The Executioner’s Song” (1979). Since his death in 2007, the university has continued to honor him in a number of ways, including the Norris Church Mailer scholarship, which is dedicated in honor of his late wife. The Norman Mailer room in the library will also be updated in the next coming months. “Norman had a study in the attic of his Provincetown home which had five to six thousand pieces in the library, including books for research and drafts for a planned trilogy,” explained Culver. “He wrote everything by hand, and he edited by hand, so you can imagine all of the drafts contain his marginalia.” The university now plans to display the library’s collection. The collection will be housed in the Norman Mailer room, which already features some of his memorabilia including first editions, awards and even his old dining room table. The final phases of negotiation are currently taking place. “The Harry Ransom center in the University of Austin purchased the bulk of Mr. Mailer’s paperwork almost a decade ago before he passed,” said Culver. “Wilkes will just be getting a small portion of the last work that he did. “The interest in that is that the scholars studying him will be able to see how he wrote each draft, what he changed in each draft, and his notes for why he changed things,” continued Culver. “Wilkes will be a place for people to come and look at that material. It’s important for libraries to have that kind of archive.” J. Michael Lennon, who wrote an official biography of Mailer in 2013, was excited about the upcoming room. “The room really gives you a full sense of his career as a writer for 50 years,” he said. “It really constitutes the insides of his mind over his life.” The inclusion of Norman Mailer has been criticized by some students on campus for the lack of acknowledgment of his past alleged domestic abuse. Mailer allegedly stabbed his then-wife, Adele Morales, at a party in 1960, according to a New York Times article published that year. He was indicted by a grand jury of felony assault, and received a sentence of probation after pleading guilty. Students on campus have been confused by the absence of recognition of this event. “I think that’s something we need to be aware of at the very least,” said Guziewicz. “It 3 The Beacon/Steffen Horwath Norman Mailer’s own personal dining room table from his house in Provincetown, Mass., sits in the middle of the Normal Mailer room between his awards and first editions of his books. The Beacon/Steffen Horwath Outside view of the Norman Mailer room on the second floor of the E.S Farley Library, awaiting his own personal library collection and drafts. really opens up a discussion of art versus the artist.” The program does not plan on bringing specific attention to the issue. “There is already a biography out there that does that, so we most likely will not acknowledge it in the room. Certainly if there are any personal notes in that collection, we will include that,” said Culver. The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing was founded in 2005. The program grants a M.A and M.F.A in several different writing genres, including fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, documentary films and publishing. @wilkesbeacon cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 News Wilkes holds the Wyoming Valley Undergraduate History Conference By Megan Stanley Staff Writer Last week, Wilkes University hosted the Wyoming Valley Undergraduate History Conference. Students from King’s College, Marywood University, The University of Scranton, and Wilkes University all delivered presentations. Keynote remarks were made by Brian A Pavlac of King’s College and senior Wilkes student Sarah O’Hara. Pavlac discussed the contrast and overlap between historical fiction and history itself, using the Game of Thrones as an example. During his speech, Pavlac said that: “History is written by the winners.” He credited George R. Martin for being able to tell the story of both sides, because as a historical writer he has the freedom to write from multiple viewpoints, and shows that all the characters are heroes within their own narrative. “It’s the reason why it makes such great literature,” Pavlac told the audience. In her final year at Wilkes, O’Hara welcomed the visitors to the campus on behalf of the history department staff and students, she discussed the experience of being an undergraduate researcher. “It’s an opportunity that allows us as student researchers to learn for ourselves, but also allows us to become teachers and to share the subject matter we’ve been researching. It can be difficult and trying at times, but we all know how good it feels when we hand it in and we know we’ve done our best work,” O’Hara told the audience. The conference was split into three panels. The first panel featured three presentations on U.S. History, ranging from the Cold War to the Jesuit takeover of the University of Scranton. The second panel was about women’s history and explored things from witchcraft to the experience of Native American women. The third and final panel was titled ‘European History,” covering events such as the rise of Adolf Hitler to the French Revolution. The second panel, Women’s history, boasted three Wilkes students and was chaired by Dr. Paul Riggs, Dean of Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences of Wilkes University, and the discussant was Nicole Mares of King’s College. Courtney McMonagle, senior history major at Wilkes, discussed her capstone research project, which discussed how court system impacted the way countries would react to witchcraft hysteria, arguing that the stronger the legal system the lower the number of witch trials. Women tended to be the most affected by the witch trials, McMonagle explained, saying that women were usually poorer than men and also worked with women and the sick, which meant they could be easily blamed for anything that went wrong. The reformation also contributed to creating a more unstable atmosphere that impacted the witch trials during the period. “It’s easier to blame witchcraft, rather than the threat of war. It’s easier to blame something you really can’t explain,” McMonagle said. The presentation then moved on to explain the different court systems in Europe, looking at the Holy Roman Empire, Scotland, France, Italy and England. The Holy Roman Empire was split up into several different Kingdoms, with very decentralized power. McMonagle explained that it was the “heartland of the witchcraft craze, instability and centralization of power and all this fear that was already present led to these chain reaction witch hunts ... there was nothing in place to keep back that mob mentality that took over.” Scotland had the highest execution rate in Europe, France had many secular courts with judges that were skeptical of witchcraft, and in Italy the Roman Inquisition was highly concerned with keeping everyone catholic, rather than witchcraft itself. RELEVANT HISTORY WllCHCRArl IRIAlSW[RfUSJ[)ASS(ARI IACIKSION<.Jl\ll()Rf 1111 RIIORMl\11<..)N • QUHI IHlfFARAND00U81 INRHK,IONVIAt0Nl(:-O~ll)Nl)f AltlRilK,111<..I A l(Wl.)li'AWlll.H • COULD HAVI Bf[N SlARll D AND II VI RACLl) BY 80111 IHl1G10US ANDS[<. 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McMonagle credited this to the legal system which included judges and juries meaning that often friends and family members were responsible for deciding if someone was a witch or not. “If you were guilty you were killed, so now thats on your friends, your family, your townspeople who are deciding whether or not your guilty.” Prosecution was also very expensive, which was also given as a reason for low trial stats. Nicole Kolessar, a junior at Wilkes, discussed the impact boarding schools had on Native American females. In the 19th century, Europeans that had moved to America made it law that Native Americans must assimilate into their society. To do this, the government created boarding schools for the Native American children. “It was less expensive to educate Indians than it was to kill them,” Kolessar said. Pupils were striped of their clothing and hair and put in regulated uniforms at the schools. There was a heavy emphasis on domestic sciences, to prepare the children to become housewives and have vocational training for jobs. “Discipline was a major aspect in boarding school education systems, every aspect of student life incorporated strict rules and regulations that students had to follow.” Kolessar told the audience, adding that punishment, including physical beatings, was immediate. Female students were also a target for priests who often sexually assaulted their students. Kolessar explained that after their time in the boarding schools, many pupils experience depression or post traumatic stress disorder. “Assimilation was not completely success, it made Native Americans stronger and prouder of their heritage” Kolessar credited the women who wrote about their experiences so the world could know the truth, explaining that most historians at the time thought the schools were a positive programmes. Mackenzie Egan, a junior English and history major at Wilkes University, also presented during the second panel and discussed how Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe changed the lives of women in the 19th century. Other Wilkes Students who presented at the panel included Mauri Bohan who presented on human rights and ethical concerns during the Cold War. Fast Food in the US was discussed by Robbie Petrovich. Patrick Gilhooley explored how religious and cultural toleration shaped Poland. @wilkesbeacon megan.stanley@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 News Nursing students rescue ill Panamanian exchange student in SUB By Cabrini Rudnicki News Editor On Feb. 15, two nursing students were able to apply their practices and save a fellow student when a Panamanian exchange student fainted. Theresa Couchara and Kim Roman, both juniors, were in the Student Union Building around noon when they noticed a girl slumped on a couch. “I went over and they were taking off her jacket and giving her air,” Kim Roman explained. “I started asking questions but no one spoke English, then out of nowhere someone came to translate.” Couchara then joined Roman at the couches to help assist the girl. “I saw Kim standing there and I was really confused,” said Couchara. “The girl was laying there with her head back, but in nursing school we were taught to sit them up because it promotes better breathing, so I sat her up.” “The student was hyperventilating,” continued Roman. “We just told the translator to tell her to breathe in through her nose and out through her mouth.” Public safety was called while the students were helping her, then the EMS arrived and escorted the student to the hospital. “It was like a miracle,” said Couchara. The two girls described how they usually went to lunch at a noon, but decided to go that day at a little bit later. “It was scary,” continued Roman. “I had never seen anything like that outside of clinical.” “Everyone around us was like ‘Oh, let the nurses do their thing,’ but we didn’t even graduate. We barely knew what we were doing.” According to the girls, the student left to the hospital with better breathing. The Panamanian student, as well as the girl who translated for Couchara and Roman, are unknown at this time. “We aren’t even sure of the name of the girl we saved, or the girl who helped us, but we hope they are both doing well,” said Roman. Wilkes University Passan School of Nursing has over forty years of history. In 2016, the school had the honor of being recognized by the Obama Administration for leading efforts to stop the prescription opioid epidemic. Although it is unknown what program the Panamanian exchange student was a part of, Wilkes currently has a partnership with the MEDUCA-Bilinigual Panama Program in order to bring students from Panama to the United States in order to better their English speaking skills. 5 The Beacon / Cabrini Rudnicki Theresa Couchara and Kim Roman, both junior nursing students, were able to help a Panamanian exchange student, utilizing their years of nursing school education. Profile of a Professor: Dr. Carole Baddour, mechanical engineering By Maddie Davis Asst. News Editor Dr. Carole Emilie Baddour, a mechanical engineering assistant professor, is one of the newest faculty members to join Wilkes University this past fall semester. Before becoming an assistant professor in 2017, Dr. Baddour was a visiting professor in the chemistry department in 2016 and also had a hand in developing a polymer chemistry class at Wilkes. Engineering has always been a part of Baddour’s life, as her father, brother, and uncles were all engineers. The heavy exposure to the engineering field and her father’s labs as a child, as well as the support from both of her parents, all helped guide her interests and helped her become who she is today. After being submerged in the field throughout her childhood, Baddour chose the chemical engineering route because of all of the applications that were possible through the field; specifically nanomaterials and technology. Baddour is originally from London, Ontario, Canada. She obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Western Ontario in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. She also obtained her Ph.D in Chemical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal. After she received her degrees, Baddour did a year of postdoc industry work in London, Ontario, about renewable fuels. Baddour also was a part of many groups who developed patents and publications. With her master’s, she was a part of a team who developed an industry patent with Arkema, a specialty chemicals and materials company located in France. After working in industry for a year, Baddour then realized the place for her was not in industry like she had believed, but in academia. Baddour taught at a junior college in Quebec for three years before coming to the United States to be with her husband, where she found the open position to teach at Wilkes University. Baddour added her favorite parts about the position. “You feel that at Wilkes, anything is possible,” said Baddour. When coming to Wilkes, Baddour loved the overall welcoming atmosphere from the campus. “Everybody is so friendly and you really feel that Wilkes is a family,” said Baddour. Baddour also has taken part in many The Beacon / Maddie Davis Baddour outreach programs, specifically one that has process of setting up her own nanomaterial become one of her biggest passions; Women lab where she hopes to get students involved in Engineering. in her research. “I would like to see more women [in the “Thank you to students and to faculty, engineering field],” said Baddour. “That is staff, everybody for making Wilkes what actually something I am hoping to do here it is,” added Baddour, “it’s been such a because right now in mechanical engineering wonderful experience and I just look forward we don’t have a lot of women students.” to everything that’s to come.” Aside from reaching out and trying @wilkesbeacon to get more females into the mechanical madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu engineering field, Baddour is also in the �News The Beacon -February 27, 2018 Wilkes announces 2017 Business Partner of the Year 6 Power Engineering Corp. honored for work on Karambelas Center, other projects By Beacon Staff Reports This month, Wilkes University named Power Engineering their 2017 Business Partner of the Year. Power Engineering Corportation is a Wilkes-Barre-based mechanical contractor. The firm was selected for their work on several projects at Wilkes, including the design and construction of the mechanical systems in the building housing the Karambelas Media and Communication Center and Sordoni Art Gallery, the university’s newest facility. The award is meant to “recognize partner organizations that demonstrate outstanding quality, value and service to Wilkes University,” according to a press release. University President Patrick F. Leahy said in the release that he was glad to announce the choice. “I am so pleased to honor Power Engineering as our 2017 Business Partner of the Year,” he said. “We continue to make significant enhancements to our campus, and Power Engineering has exceeded expectations with their results and professionalism. They are an important partner and we look forward to continuing our work together.” The corporation was one of five finalists for the award, and Wilkes Vice President of Finance and General Counsel, Loren D. Prescott, said in the document that the choice was not an easy one. “We work with incredible business partners and are in the tough position to choose our finalists and ultimate honoree,” he said in the release. “I want to thank all of the business partners who made this year a successful one at Wilkes University.” Also among finalists were Discovery Education, a media organization based in Silber Spring, Md.; Cocciardi and Associates Inc., a Jessup-based occupational health and safety firm; David Sheydwasser, a Kingston architect; and PNC Capital Markets LLC. All finalists were recognized at an event in January. On behalf of Power Engineering, the firm’s president, Tara Mugford Wilson, and vice president, Tom Fritz, accepted the award. @wilkesbeacon The Beacon/ Toni Pennello Power Engineering Corporation was chosen as Wilkes University’s Business Partner of the Year, most notably for their work on the design and contruction of mechanical systems in the University’s newest facility at 141 S. Main St. Love reading the news? Why not try writing it? Join the Beacon news team APARTMENTS Studio, 1, 2, & 3 bedrooms Avai lable June 1, 2016 www.DreamRentals.net Call Jim (570) 288-3375 Contact us: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu �y The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 7 Life, Arts & Entertainment Have a story or want your event to be featured? Contact the Life, A&E Editor: amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu Artist Spotlight: Justin Gaskill Musical theatre major pursues his passion for the arts at Wilkes By Jacqueline Kurovsky To prepare for this role and others, Gaskill said a “tremendous process” is required. Once the initial abundance of research and character analysis is behind him, he said he takes time for himself when the curtain is about to open. “What I like to do is stand in the wings, close my eyes and listen to either the music or the lines that are prior to my entrance. It helps me feel the mood and enter the new world that I will be a part of,” he said. With Gaskill’s future sights set on Broadway or Los Angeles, he said he feels ready to embrace a job market that likely will be very competitive. “After being here for three years and learning, I have completely evolved into a Staff Writer A natural love of performing led junior musical theatre major Justin Gaskill, 20, on the path to Wilkes. During his time as a Colonel, he not only perfects his craft but is getting an education that will set him apart from the rest. From his youth, Gaskill knew he wanted to act and perform, telling his parents he wanted to be in movies. A native of Somers Point, New Jersey, he attended a performing arts high school where he mainly concentrated on acting before being pushed towards vocal performance. This made Gaskill the first at his high school to double major in advanced musical theatre and advanced vocal performance. It was this combination that became the driving force for Gaskill’s passion: musical theatre. This led to a number of college auditions, with Wilkes being the right fit. “Wilkes Theatre stood out to me because of the inviting atmosphere,” Gaskill said. “I felt as though this was the best place for me to grow as a performer and as a person.” That feeling proved right. Gaskill said his training at Wilkes has vastly improved his abilities in key areas of the musical theatre craft. His initial interest sparked brightest in acting, with singing and dancing to follow. “While training at Wilkes University I have grown tremendously in all three aspects of my major and am confident that with continuous study, I will be ready to hit the bigger auditions,” he said. This immersion in all aspects of his major is complemented by the guidance of the faculty, who he said are a key element in his training, onstage and off. “Our acting instructor is incredible,” he said, “and has helped me immensely with not only acting, but just looking deeper within myself and figuring out who I am as a person and as a performer.” Gaskill said the technical aspect of his major - which includes set construction and stage managing - is not something in which he was initially interested. Now, he said technical better artist simply by being immersed in all aspects of the craft,” he said. “The instructors in the Wilkes theatre department have truly pushed me, and I believe that after graduating next year I will be ready to audition in the big cities.” While Gaskill finds appeal in the idea of performing in the hubs of arts and entertainment, the core of his envisioned future is simply set on doing what he loves. “I quite honestly just want to be able to perform and inspire others through my work,” he said. @wilkesbeacon jacqueline.kurovsky@wilkes. Submitted Photo/ Teresa Fallon Justin Gaskill theatre is something for which he has gained immense respect, and his knowledge of it will set him apart in the future. “While there are many other universities with musical theatre degrees, many do not touch on the technical side of the craft,” he said. “If you declare your major as musical theatre, that is what you learn. I have a basic understanding of almost everything in my field, and for that I am grateful.” Onstage, Gaskill’s acting roles have a purpose beyond entertaining. “I set a goal to learn something from every part I play,” he said. “While every show I have been in has been rewarding and memorable, I have to say ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ takes the top. Seymour was the first leading role I had ever played.” Gaskill’s most recent role was John Proctor in “The Crucible.” This dramatic role saw Gaskill as a man wrapped up in the nowhistoric Salem Witch Trials. He hoped audiences would take away the message of the play, which he called beautiful. “The Crucible is an award winning play for a reason, and I believe the moral of the story holds strong even in today’s society,” he said. Submitted Photo/ Teresa Fallon Justin Gaskill and Melissa Berardelli perform in the Wilkes University Theatre production of “The Crucible.” �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 8 Life, Arts & Entertainment · ■ecipe of lhe ■eek: 11nGREDIEITS: 1nsTRU cr1on1: 1 I •Amug • 2 large eggs .2 tbs[P. milk •¼tsp.Back pe[Pper • Y2 t - p♦ SaU • Dried bas+~ (opt i01 na I) • K. tchu·- , 1.Tak,eyour mug and crack 2 e~S+ 2+With afork, whi-ktog _:th _,rw1th 1 milk, salt and pepper. l Put into microwave in JO second inte rva Is unt iI fu Ily cooked+ orma Ily, about 1minute and 30 seconds,. 4+Top with bas i1-. nd ketchup. t 5 E".1·1ioy1 .. • 1 + DelilJl bg Mmoie Kmo.a Januzzis Pizza & Subs Next to Movies 14 • For Delivery- Call 825-5166 • Wilkes -Barre. Kingston. Plains. Plymouth. Nanticoke $13.95 + tax large 16” 1-topping pizza & 2-liter soda $17.95 + tax $7.95 + tax each for 5 or more large plain pies $11.95 + tax $16.95 + tax 3 hot & cold subs mix &match $23.95 + tax 12- cut Sicilian pizza 12 -cut Sicilian pizza 2 tickets to Movies 14, 1 med- 1 topping & 1 order of wings pizza & 2 drinks $20.95 + tax large 16” pizza & 12 cut tray siclian pizza $12.95 + tax small 12” 1-topping pizza & choice of any sub $17.95 + tax 2 large plain pizzas toppings extra $18.95 + tax large 16” pizza, 1 sub, & an appetizer $20.95 + tax 24- cut Sicilian pizza $28.95 + tax 3 large 1- topping pizzas �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 9 Buy a towel and save an animal: Gold Diggers raise money for SPCA By Shannon O’Connor Life, Arts & Entertainment Asst. Editor With the summer months right around the corner, you’re probably in need of new beach essentials. Well why not represent Wilkes University while cozying up with a fuzzy new beach towel brought to you in part by The Gold Diggers? The Gold Diggers is a freshman IME intro to business class group consisting of five friends looking to change the lives of local animals. Matt Alden, Alyssa Dubose, Alexa Hann, Jordon Jones and Andrew Lessig were given the task from their professor to work together to create and carry out their very own business plan. The Gold Diggers wanted to create a business that would help a cause as well as bring unique merchandise to the Wilkes University campus. The Gold Diggers are currently selling dark blue, fuzzy beach towels with the Wilkes University logo in gold. Each towel is $15 and will be personally delivered to each person that purchases one. The towels will be on sale until March 31. “We noticed there weren’t any towels sold at the bookstore so we decided that was a niche we should fill,” said Dubose. The group decided to donate all its proceeds to the SPCA of Luzerne County. “We all love animals. In the winter, there are a lot of animals that don’t have homes,” explained Dubose. Lessig said, “We also figured that we didn’t just have to donate money to the SPCA. We actually go there and help out. We clean kennels and feed dogs, whatever that they need us to do. We’re there to help out as well as donate the money we raise.” Through this class, the students get to have hands on experience at their future life-goals of becoming entrepreneurs. “It helps show us how to run a small business and gives us experience of how to handle inventory and things such as that,” said Alden. Hann added, “It helps us work with teams. It’s not always easy to work together but in this class, we are always working with each other and we’re always coordinating with each other.” To purchase a towel, for more information regarding the Gold Diggers project, or to join them in helping out at the SPCA shelter, contact them at golddiggers21@ gmail.com. S'AVIN6 ANil'-fAL~ t!::>NE Tt!llNEL AT A 12.,.,,,E... Buy fluffy Wilkes University Towels for $15! EMA I L: GOLDDIGGERS21@GM A TO PURCHASE. WE PERSONALLY DE LIVER IL IT ! ALL PROCEEDS W ILL BEFOR T THE SPCA OF LU ZER N HE BENEF E COUNTY I T OF -~--_____::==================== Interested in writing for the ~ & ENTERTAINMENT Section? Why not try all three? Contact LA&E editor Amanda Bialek at amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu. �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 10 Graphic by Todd Espenshade When is comes to mental health, it can be hard to tackle the struggles when faced alone. It is also difficult for others to step in and help without the proper knowledge of how to handle the situation. These are some helpful tips, provided by Psychology Today and MentalHealth.gov, on how to help your family and friends who may be going through a rather struggling time. Consult these tips before you lend a hand, and remember to be awesome! Do Some Research Don’t Push First thing is first, if a friend or family member confides in you and tells they are struggling with their mental health, do some research. Knowing the ins and outs of their illness can help you understand more of what they are going through. This can also help you not rush into rash judgments and save you from acting like you know everything. Be There for Them If someone is telling you they are experiencing issues, they truly trust you. Don’t take advantage of that trust. Odds are they haven’t told a lot of people about how they are feeling, so be there for them. Being their shoulder to cry, so to speak, can make a huge difference that you may not even realize. Remember, being there for them means that, more often than not, they are going to be there for you. If someone is not ready to talk about their mental health or they are not in the mood to discuss it, then drop the conversation. Talking about mental health issues can be scary and is often very difficult for the person talking about it to open up. They need time and space. Do not pry! Mental health is important and so is seeking help. However, sometimes a person needs to figure out their own feelings before they discuss it with others. Try and Understand Understanding mental health is a huge task that can be very difficult. Often people are quick to judge or even think less of a person suffering from these illnesses. There is no reason to think of this person any differently. They are still the same person you have come to love but now they are in need of some help. You may not fully understand what they are going through but ask them to explain how they are feeling or thinking. This will give you a better understanding of how their mind is working. Always remember, you had respect for this person before they confided in you, never lose that respect over a mental health issue. If There is a Crisis: Seek Help. Whenever someone tells you how they are truly feeling, sometimes they may be in danger of hurting themselves or others. This is when you need to seek help. Whether it be from a hotline (1-800273-8255), Passan Health Services found on campus, or calling 9-1-1. You cannot help someone all by yourself if the situation has reached a serious point. Also, don’t feel like you can do it all by yourself. Seeking help is not a bad thing, nor should you feel like a bad person for doing so. Everyone needs help sometimes. ~ @wilkesbeacon shannon.oconnor@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - February 27, 2017 Life, Arts & Entertainment 11 Rain, Rain Go Away With weather.com showing a lot of rain in the forecast for the next few weeks, students can turn to these photos taken by Beacon Staff Photographer Madison Kaminski for a reminder that spring is coming, and that all weather can be beautiful. The Beacon/ Madison Kaminski Spring weather shows it’s face as Wilkes Univesity sees a day that reaches 70 degrees in February. It’s almost that time of year again to break out the hiking boots and some bathing suits and hit the natural trails the surrounding area has to offer. Take a scenic drive and see the beautiful Pennsylvania conutry side. Even if its a littly snowy out, the view is still breathtaking. �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Sports 12 Wilkes Spring Sports Preview Baseball # Affiliation: MAC Freedom Head Coach: Brandon Michael (0-0), first season Venue: Artillery Park located in Kirby Park Last year’s record: 10-24, noting nine onerun losses with eight of them in conference play. Key returners: Senior: third baseman Joe Champi (.369 avg.); Juniors: second baseman Jack Fischer (.353) and left fielder Brady Wing (.321) What coach says about this season: “This is my eighth year as part of the Wilkes baseball program, four as a player and four as a coach, with this being my first year as the head coach. I have never been this excited to start a season. We have a fantastic group of guys, which includes a handful of upperclassmen and a large group of freshmen that have meshed well together and created a strong culture,” said Michael. “We have definitely had to overcome a few challenges along the way, but I believe those challenges have made every single person in this program stronger and better as both a person and a baseball player.” -Kirsten Peters, Staff Writer Men’s Tennis Affiliation: MAC Freedom Head Coach: Christopher Leicht (456-99, combined), 16th season Venue: Ralston Athletic Complex Last year’s record: 23-4, Lost to Williams College in NCAA Tournament 2nd Round NAME YR. POS. Bat/Throw 0 Nick Pronti Fr. INF 1 Brady Wing Jr. OF 2 Jarret Clymer Sr. OF 3 Bryan Nifenecker Fr. INF 4 Jorge Gonzalez Jr. INF 5 Jared Angerman Fr. INF 6 Rob Iacono Fr. INF 8 Alex Palmer Jr. OF 9 Michael Patrizio Fr. INF 10 Eric Beideman So. C 11 Travis Woolfenden Jr. P 12 Jesse Gerdes Fr. C/INF 13 Keaton Allison Jr. C 14 Alex Halladay So. INF 15 Tyler Walther So. C 16 Nick Malatesta Fr. C 17 Jonah Harder Fr. OF 18 Zach Metz Jr. P 19 Andrew Indzonka Fr. P 20 Colin Smith Fr. P 21 Anthony Favor Fr. INF 22 Adam Martinese So. UTL 23 Matt Reinert So. OF 24 Jack Fischer Jr. INF 25 Noah Durnin Jr. P 26 Joe Champi Sr. INF 27 Dan Eicher Sr. INF 28 Nicholas Capozzi Jr. INF 29 Jack Hines Fr. OF 30 Nolan Ott Fr. P/C 31 Charles Giacometti Jr. Fr. INF 32 Jimmy Oschal Fr. P 33 Jason Tisa So. P 34 Matt Amaral So. P 35 Matthew Konikow Fr. P 36 Matt Maranca Jr. P 38 Zach Adamchick Fr. P 39 Kyle Pokrinchak Fr. P/INF 42 Francis Navatta Fr. P 46 Nicholas Poyer Jr. P 47 Jeremy Worlinsky Jr. P/INF 48 Vincent Uzzi Fr. OF 49 Jeremy Yzeik So. P R/R R/R S/R L/R S/R L/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R L/R S/R R/R R/R L/L R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R L/R L/L R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R R/R L/L L/R L/R L/L R/R R/R R/L Key returners: Seniors: Andrew Neidig and Gabe Velez; Juniors: All-American Courtney Murphy What Coach Leicht says about this season: “We will be trying to win our 11th straight conference title, and earn another invitation to the NCAA National Tourney.” -Alex Kielar, Asst. Sports Editor # NAME YR. POS. Bat/Throw 1 Sydney Cogswell Fr. UTL S/R 4 Gracen Staunton So. P/UTL R/R 6 Haley Boyd Fr. UTL 8 Erika Gerace So. P/UTL R/R 9 Jordyn Kondras Fr. UTL Softball Affiliation: MAC Freedom Head Coach: Sarah Leavenworth (Maulorico) (37-37), third season Venue: Ralston Athletic Complex Last year’s record: 24-16, fell in MAC Freedom tournament Key returners: Juniors: Haley Welker (.357 avg.); Sophomores: Celine Podlesney (.387), Gracen Stauton (.364). What coach says about this season: Coach Leavenworth could not be reached for comment. L/R L/R 10 Nicolette Kessler Fr. UTL L/R 11 Haley Welker Jr. UTL R/R 12 Alexis Kessler Fr. UTL R/R 13 Mia Lussier L/R Sr. OF 14 Megan Magoon Fr. UTL R/R 17 Britny Jumalon Fr. UTL R/R 19 Caitlin Brown Jr. INF R/R 22 Sarah Gibson So. UTL R/R 23 Sarah Birchmeier Sr. UTL R/R 32 Kaliyah Moore So. UTL R/R 34 Celine Podlesney So. P/UTL R/R -Luke Modrovsky, Sports Editor NAME Matt Angara Braddock Chow Mike Ellis Colin Greenman Alec Levin Andrew MacDonald Chris Maderitz Jack Maline Courtney Murphy Artyom Nabokin Andrew Neidig Larry Scartz Isaac Shenton Ryan Simon Gabriel Velez Jonathan White YEAR Freshman Junior Freshman Freshman Sophomore Junior Sophomore Freshman Junior Senior Senior Freshman Freshman Freshman Senior Junior 44 Christina Gambino Sr. P/INF R/R �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 • Last year’s record: 24-1, lost to Williams College in NCAA Tournament 2nd Round Venue: Ralston Athletic Complex Head Coach: Christopher Leicht (456-99, combined), 16th season Affiliation: MAC Freedom Women’s Tennis Affiliation: MAC Freedom Head Coach: Curtis Jaques (4-26), third season Venue: Schmidt Stadium at Ralston Athletic Complex Last year’s record: 4-11 Key returners: Evan Stolicker (faceoff ), Jeremy Kachel, Nick Ruggerio, JT Weitzel, John Luna What coach says about this season: “In year one, we were learning how to compete. Now, we expect to compete. We expect to be in one, two goal games this year. We have a strong foundation and great culture to build on. We are bigger, faster, stronger than we ever been and we are physically tough, which I hope will translate into mental toughness.” Men’s Lacrosse: Ii NAME Nicole Gaetani Sarah Malone Dagney Markle Courtney McCowan Dana Saliyev Brittany Stanton Francesca Varela-Seri Jordan Vasarkovy Erin Volutza Laura Zielinski YEAR Junior Freshman Freshman Junior Sophomore Senior Sophomore Junior Junior Sophomore -Amber Grohowski, Staff Writer Affiliation: MAC Freedom Head Coach: Kammie Towey (7892), 12th season Venue: Schmidt Stadium at Ralston Athletic Complex Last year’s record: 5-10 Key returners: Jessy Held, Kylie Bedwell, Sarah Carlini What coach says about this season: “We have a young team of hard workers who are very motivated for a successful and fun season. I think we have a lot of very strong talent on our team that will come together and should help us to be successful. We are a very tight knit team who has great team chemistry. I am looking forward to rebounding this season from a rebuilding season last year. I think everyone has been working extremely hard and it is definitely showing as we are improving each day.” Women’s Lacrosse: Sports # NAME YR. POS. 1 Kiernan Quinn Jr. A 2 Connor Daly So. M 3 Jeremy Kachel Sr. A 4 Glenn Weist Sr. M 5 JT Weitzel Jr. M 6 Nico Lorenzo Fr. A/M 7 John Luna So. A 8 Mathew Kelly Jr. M 9 Timothy Madden Fr. M 10 James Peaney Jr. D 11 Joseph Papa So. D 12 Matthew Bush Jr. A/M 13 Jamison Shaw Fr. M 15 Cody Geidel So. G 18 Jacob Kadis Jr. M 20 Garrett Armstrong Sr. M 21 Joe Kuchinski Fr. M/D 23 CJ Alevras Jr. D 24 Alex Loscalzo Fr. M/FO 25 Jack O’Connell So. D 30 Max Brown Jr. A 32 Evan Stolicker So. FO 33 Carter Whittemore So. G 34 John Malley Jr. G 36 Michael Gallagher So. M 43 James Copley Sr. FO 44 Gerard Setteducato Jr. D 45 Jack Moyer Jr. M 50 John Wink Jr. A 66 Nicholas Ruggiero Sr. M -Ben Mandell, Asst. Sports Editor Key returners: Sophomores: Francesca VarelaSeri; Seniors: Brittany Stanton What Coach Leicht says about this season: “We will be trying to win our 12th straight conference title, and earn another invitation to the NCAA National Tourney.” -Alex Kielar, Asst. Sports Editor # NAME 2 Sierra Duman 5 Gracie Franko 6 Kylie Bedwell 7 Maura Brownsey 8 Paige Thomas 11 Delaney Lukowski 12 Sophia Gavigan 13 Brianna Sailor 14 Kyra Boccio 18 Ashley Burkhardt 20 Melania Velasquez 21 Heather Lorincz 23 Kirsten Jackson 24 Laura Singleton 26 Danielle McCole 27 Jessyca Held 34 Kayla Gronkowski 35 Natalie Dowd 40 Sarah Carlini 88 Ashley Cadet YR. Fr. So. Sr. Sr. So. So. So. Fr. Jr. Fr. So. Sr. So. So. So. Sr. Jr. Fr. So. Fr. 13 POS. A/M A D A A D/A A/D D M A GK A/D A/M A/D D M D D GK GK Design by Todd Espenshade �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Opinion Opinion Have an opinion or want to write a guest column? Contact the opinion editor: andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Editorial Staff Our Voice 2017-18 MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Toni Pennello Managing Editor - Danny Van Brunt Adviser - Dr. Kalen Churcher SECTION EDITORS News - Cabrini Rudnicki LA&E - Amanda Bialek Opinion - Andre Spruell Sports - Luke Modrovsky ASSISTANT EDITORS News - Maddie Davis LA&E - Shannon O’Connor Opinion - Nick Filipek Sports - Ben Mandell & Alex Kielar DESIGN EDITORS Todd Espenshade - Graphic Designer PHOTOGRAPHERS Nicole Gaetani EDITORIAL BOARD Toni Pennello Danny Van Brunt Cabrini Rudnicki Shannon O’Connor Andre Spruell Megan Stanley 141 S. Main St. Clayton and Theresa Karambelas Media Center Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 www.thewilkesbeacon.com 14 Each week, The Beacon’s editorial board will take a stance on a current issue. The cafeteria dilemma The Beacon asks for more visible vegetarian, kosher and healthy options Trying to eat for a specific dietary requirement at the SUB sometimes is difficult. Even if you just want to eat a little bit healthier, finding the food you want and need can be an issue. Eating in Henry’s Dining Hall, more commonly known as the SUB, is not a terrible thing in itself. The staff members are always friendly and welcoming; the options are always varied; and the salad bar is plentiful. And while we vegetarians love the vegan sloppy joes and falafel the SUB has offered, we don’t feel that the options are always so exciting -- or visible. The seniors of The Beacon Editorial Board remember a time where there was a designated section, every day, with vegetarian options and tofu galore. Now, if you want the vegetarian option you have to ask for it. Located next to the sandwich section, the sign indicates that a vegetarian meal should be served in this section. However, there’s normally only a meat option visible here instead. The vegetarian and vegan options are served near the wall behind this station, but the lack of wonderful, ready-to-eat meatfree options on plates leave some people assuming the only completely meat-free options available are the pizza, pasta and salad bar. Even upon discovery that there is in fact a vegetarian section, the offerings aren’t always that varied, with bean burgers being offered two days in a row last week. While asking for a meal is not necessarily an issue considering people who have gluten intolerances are required to do this, sometimes you can’t help but feel like a burden when someone has to leave their station to go make you a vegetarian meal, sometimes leaving another station empty. Bean burgers can take up to 10 minutes to prepare - this is a long time to wait for such a simple meal. But shouldn’t the vegetarian option be in one of the main serving stations? Vegetarianism isn’t a niche dietary requirement anymore. Nor are you required to be a vegetarian to eat a meat-free meal. According to One Green Planet, 30 percent of Americans are vegetarian, with 6 percent claiming they are vegan. While the Wilkes population might not represent these statistics, it shouldn’t mean that meatfree options are pushed to the back and hidden. If vegetarian meals were part of the main serving area, it’s likely that meat eaters would choose it too -- and that might be in their best interest. The Physicians Committee writes how leaving out meat has many benefits. According to studies done in England and Germany, vegetarian diets reduce the risk of cancer by 40 percent. Less meat also reduces the risk of heart disease and lowers blood pressure. The environment also benefits from less meat consumption. TIME wrote that livestock contributes to 14 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. A vegetarian diet could cut this down by 63 percent. TIME also claimed that vegetarianism could reduce healthcare costs by $1 trillion each year. While the Beacon Editorial Board isn’t suggesting all students adopt a vegetarian or vegan diet, the increased inclusivity of vegetarian meals at the SUB could reduce students’ meat intake, increase health and save the environment. It would especially make the lives of people who are participating in Lent a little easier when they aren’t used to navigating the vegetarian life. Some students have had to opt out of the meal plan service entirely. With the lack of Kosher meals offered, Jewish students are left with little options. One student who no longer has a meal plan said: “I don’t have a meal plan because I wasn’t able to eat there [in the SUB]. Being a Kosher student, there was nothing for them to offer me so I had to opt out.” Luckily, the student who spoke to The Beacon lives in University Towers, so has access to a proper kitchen and cooking equipment. However, what about the students who don’t have access to such facilities in some of the residence halls? While a shared kitchen is handy for snacks and making small meals, it’s not exactly ideal if for cooking every meal. Healthy eating in general can sometimes be a difficult experience. With pizza offered at all times, the large variety of highsugar cereals, and a lack of vegetables at some serving stations, it’s all too tempting to choose an unhealthy option over a nutritious meal. The fact of the matter is, all resident students are required to purchase a meal plan. Freshmen are required to purchase the Colonel Gold plan, which costs $2,785 per semester. For students who remain on campus for the rest of their years, the cheapest meal plan is $2,427. If you’re a vegetarian, or have a niche dietary requirement, are you really getting the most from your money when you have to ask for a meal that should arguably be readily available? �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Opinion 15 Does television need more diversity? By Andre Spruell The Most Networks Opinion Editor Television has undoubtedly become a major source of media consumed by Americans. Based on the programs being aired, is television too white? When we think of some of the more popular shows that are on air today, shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Game of Thrones” may come to mind. Both of which have a predominantly white cast. On the other hand, they are current shows like “Empire” and “Black-ish,” which both are extremely popular and have predominantly black casts. With the respective shows being on two different ends of the spectrum, the question again is posed, is television too white? To answer that question, I believe that it still is white, but has certainly become more diverse. Although television has diversified a lot more over the last couple of years, it seems like shows are still predominantly white casts that are led by white males. In my opinion, television shows have become more conscious of making sure to include people of different racial backgrounds. Variety.com identified 46 lead and colead actor roles, and 42 showrunners and co-showrunners on the 39 new series ordered by the Big Five broadcasters for the 2017-2018 season. Of the lead actors, only 20% were Hispanic or non-white, and only 35% were female. Of the showrunners, 10% were non-white or Hispanic and 29% were female. Based on these facts, females and minorities seems underrepresented, but it is not a bad representation. I am not saying that minority actors need to completely take over television and be the lead or supporting roles in every show, but it is certainly possible to have a better representation. Despite this, there are many shows out today that represent non-whites. Aside from “Empire” and “Black-ish,” there are also shows like “Master of None,” which depicts an Indian man, played by Aziz Ansari, going through real life, everyday problems while living in New York City. What is unique about this show is that although it is centered around an Indian man, it is not solely about him going through traditional Indian customs. It simply involves him living life in the U.S. as the son of first generation immigrant parents. A show like that is an example of one that could have been played by an actor of any race because the storyline is so relatable. Diverse *Non-white/hispanic lead roles from 20172018 season by network 1) CW- 33% 2) Fox- 30% 3) NBC -18% 4) CBS- 13% 5) ABC- 9% Source: variety.com The Beacon/ Todd Espenshade Having a storyline that people can relate to regardless of race is another reason why it is important to keep having non-whites represented. Because of this, the idea of television becoming more normalized seems to be sticking more than ever. Shonda Rhimes, an African American woman who is the creator of shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal,” has been noted for arguing that “normal” should be the new “diversity.” This idea of making television shows more normal can not only put more nonwhites in a position to play more lead and supporting roles, but will also garner a more diverse audience because if more shows become normal, it allows more viewers to relate to shows themselves. Diverse viewership is something that is discussed in a Washington Post article. In the article, Mary Beltrán, an associate professor of media studies in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas offered her thoughts on diverse viewership. Viewership is more diverse, so “it’s becoming more embarrassing when a network has mostly white shows and showrunners,” Beltrán said. “A lot of us are still affected by race and class, and it does a disservice to American viewers to present a world that pretends that that isn’t true.” What Beltrán offers up about a lot of us being affected by race and class is something that holds true and is a vital reason as to why this discussion of television being too white is happening. Back in 1999, the NAACP boycotted television networks, in particular the four major networks – CBS, NBC, ABC and FOX – for having a lack of diversity in their programming. Nearly 20 years following the NAACP’s efforts, strides have been made and will continue to be made as television keeps diversifying. An article from The New York Times puts it best: “This isn’t about less ‘white’ TV, but about putting on other kinds of people than there have previously been.” Twenty years ago, the NAACP fought for the lack of diversity on television networks and in twenty years, I believe television will be so diverse that it will become totally accepted and no longer be seen as “too white.” @wilkesbeacon andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Anders Krusberg / Peabody Awards Aziz Ansari, co-creator and lead role in Master of None �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Opinion How necessary is a college education? By Savannah Pinnock Staff Writer Dating back to the eighteenth century, around the Renaissance period, the topic of education has been an important asset to an individual, and society as a whole. The establishment of intellectual institutions such as Oxford, Harvard, and Yale within the early and late Elizabethan era have been centers for intellectuals to grow and learn about the world around them. Fast-forwarding to modern day society, the role of education has remained the same with the exception of previously marginalized groups being granted the ability to access a standard kindergarten through twelfth grade education, alongside higher education if they so choose. It can also be said that pressures to pursue a higher form of education have increased exponentially, but why is this so? It is fairly common and encouraged on a federal level for a student to receive a prehigh school education as well as a high school diploma. After completing these years of academic instruction, a student is not required to attend college, though, they begin to receive a great deal of peer and societal pressures to attend college. This influence is clearly a carefully implemented marketing strategy administered to the public through the media. Advertisements promoting a wide range of low budget and highly accredited colleges and universities begin to appear at high rates and are geared towards high schoolers, single parents, and those who dropped out of their k-12 years of school and endeavor to go back to school to attain a better life. The idea of a better life has inaccurately been synonymized with colleges and universities giving the majority of these targeted groups the idea that not pursuing a higher education is synonymous to having an inferior life. The question is, are there any truths to such sentiments, and how necessary is a higher education? The answer is simple; it depends on the individual. According to Dawn Papandrea writing from College Covered, “For some students, traditional college may not be the best choice if you want to work in a trade like plumbing or construction.” The same can also be said for an individual who desires to pursue cosmetology or aesthetic endeavors. At the same time, Papandrea also suggests that “attending college is usually a smart decision for students. In fact, for the most lucrative career paths, a college degree is usually a minimum requirement just to get a job.” In relation to the concept of having a better life, college can be extremely helpful, though it may not be if your potential career endeavors do not require a degree. So yes, to an individual with a desire to pursue something that requires a liberal arts education, Papandrea states that “a college degree is not only necessary, but worth the expense.” For a student who seeks to pursue a trade or a career that does not require a bachelor’s degree as a prerequisite, it is not at all necessary. So what would you truly like to pursue? Your path is solely dependent on you. @wilkesbeacon savannah.pinnock@wilkes.edu Have an opinion you’d like to share? Email us! andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! Facebook: The Beacon Twitter: @wilkesbeacon Instagram: @wilkesbeacon 16 �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Opinion Meet the Majors This week’s major: Geology Interviews and photos by Abigail Tarway Staff Writer Every week, The Beacon will offer a chance for majors to be placed in the spotlight. Each student that gets chosen will have a few words to express why they chose the major and how they feel it will benefit them in the future. Submitted photos Emma Sukowaski Sophomore “I love the outdoors and rocks have always interested me since I was a kid. I had a collection of them actually and I continued to add to it. I hope to get a job doing what I love.” Taryn Skinner Sophomore “I would love to be a geologist and possibly move on to teaching some day. I love geology so much and teaching to other people sounds fun. Most people don’t know anything about it or are confused about the contents of studying geology.” 17 �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Opinion 5 ways to enjoy spring break without traveling By Sarah Matarella Staff Writer Spring break is approaching and many people will be using that time for a vacation. However, if it is not in the cards to sunbathe on the beach or tour a beautiful city, there is discoverable enjoyment in a ‘staycation.’ While spring break is often associated with going to the beach, traveling abroad, and taking a vacation, there are still ways to find enjoyment in staying at home. In addition, planning a trip including one or two nights in a hotel can get outrageously expensive, let alone traveling abroad for a whole week. If you are trying to avoid breaking the bank, or you simply just need to take a hiatus from the hectic semester, here are some alternative activities, both leisurely and lively, that you can engage in during your spring break: 1) Relax and Decompress After working diligently throughout the start of the semester, your brain may be due for a well deserved lull period. Sleeping and lounging around during the break can serve as a recharge for the brain from the late nights spent doing homework and studying. To be honest, there is truly no better feeling than sitting on your couch binge watch your favorite Netflix series and without having any uneasiness about uncompleted tasks and responsibilities. 2) Catch up with old friends If you are a college student on spring break, it is likely that you have not seen a lot of your hometown friends in a significant amount of time. The break can serve as an excellent opportunity to exchange stories with your old friends about what has occured the past few months and to catch up on what has been happening in each others lives in general. 3) Spend time with family It can also be difficult to see and talk to your family members if you are in college, especially if you live far away from where you attend school. Sometimes the hasty, five minute phone conversations with your 18 mom in between classes is just not enough. Therefore, spending quality time with your family is often refreshing and comforting, especially when you are at college trying to prepare for the real world. 4) Self Reflect Although it is great to be around your friends all the time and live with roommates, sometimes you just need time to yourself. It is essential to your overall health and wellbeing to take some time to ground yourself and be aware of your thoughts and feelings. This can be quite difficult to do sometimes when you are in a stimulating college atmosphere, which is a reason as to why spring break can be the perfect opportunity to do so. 5) Find a new hobby When staying at home and relaxing becomes too mundane, you can always try discovering a new hobby or passion. For example, a break can be a great time to start a workout regimen that you can even continue to utilize after break. If working The Beacon Archives out at the gym is not ideal, you can try taking a yoga class, a dance class or even take a martial arts or kickboxing class. Another option can be to start journaling and documenting some of the instances that happen in your life. You can even try painting, drawing, or doing DIY projects. These activities are all examples of fun, interactive things to do that do not require leaving the country or driving a far distance. @wilkesbeacon sarah.matarella@wilkes.edu 5 tips for staying safe while soaking up some sun By Katelyn Shaffer Contributing Writer Sunscreen is a great tool to help prevent skin cancer, and it also helps prevent early skin aging and sunburns. The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) recommends sunscreen for anyone who is planning to spend time outside. Below are some helpful tips about how to get the most out of sunscreen to stay safe in the upcoming warm, sunny weather. cause early aging of skin including wrinkles and age spots. UVB rays are considered harmful rays because they cause sunburns. Water resistant does not mean waterproof. Sunscreen that is water resistant will stay on in the water for about 40 minutes. If the bottle says very water resistant, that includes coverage for up to 80 minutes. Water resistant does not mean you do not have to reapply, it just adds extra protection while swimming or sweating. Most people do not use sunscreen appropriately and end up applying only 25-50% of the recommended amount. Sunscreen should be applied on all bare areas of skin exposed to the sun 15 minutes before going outside. The AAD recommends using one ounce, which is one shot glass full, of sunscreen each time you apply. Sunscreen should also be applied every two hours, and after swimming or sweating. There are several types of sunscreens including sprays, lotions, and sticks. Lotions are best because having to rub it into your skin provides best coverage. Sprays are easier to use and take less time, but it is important to follow the directions on the bottle and use enough to benefit. Sticks are good for application around the eyes, and lip balms are also available for the lips. The sun is its hottest from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. In these hours it is best to either seek shade if outside or stay indoors. Covering skin or wearing hats and sunglasses is a good add on method if you need to be outside during these times. Water and sand reflect the damaging rays of the sun, increasing likelihood of sunburns, so take extra precaution while at the beach and use good sunscreen technique. Following these tips this upcoming season will help keep you safe from the sun’s harmful rays and allow for worry-free fun in the sun. 5) Cover skin, and wear a hat and sunglasses in addition to 3) There are pros and cons to 1) Choose an SPF of at least 30. sunscreen. each formulation. SPF 30 blocks 97 percent of the sun’s harmful rays. There is no sunscreen that blocks 100 percent of the rays and coverage only goes up about 1 to 2 percent as SPF increases, whereas cost of sunscreen will increase for a higher SPF. SPF 30 will provide adequate coverage against the sun’s harmful rays as well as save you a little money in the long run. 2) Select “broad” coverage that is water resistant. Broad coverage includes protection against UVA and UVB rays. UVA rays can 4) Apply a generous amount of sunscreen BEFORE going outside. Do you have opinions? Do you wish you had a platform to share them? Contact Andre Spruell to write about them and get them off your chest. andre.spruell@ wilkes.edu �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Sports COLONELS, Continued from front cover Sports 19 Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the sports editor: Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu coming out on top 90-83. The second game, at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pa., was a much lower scoring game with The third match-up, the MAC Freedom the Cougars barely semifinal, played out almost identically edging the Bulldogs to the second meeting, but with the roles 58-57. reversed. This matchup The game started with a great playoff between DeSales feel, as the Marts Center was packed, filled and Misericordia is with students and Colonels fans dressed also a rematch of last in all white for the white out. Both teams years MAC Freedom seemed to have some butterflies as they championship, struggled to get the games first points. where the Cougars Once Misericordia got the game’s first won 78-75. Both basket, both team’s offenses heated up. Rob teams also had to win Pecorelli (16 points) got the Colonels going, road games to get to helping them keep pace with Jason Kenny the championship, (29 points) and the Cougars. Both teams but Misericordia went shot for shot with each other, keeping was home last the half within six points throughout its year. The last two The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani entirety. Going into halftime, Wilkes was MAC Freedom Marcus Robinson (#10) dives for the ball during Wednesday unable to capitalize on the final possession Championships have night’s game. Wilkes was awarded a time-out. of the half so the Cougars lead 32-31. been decided by The second half picked up where the first The game slipped away from Wilkes as three points and the home team has won half left off with both teams continuing to Misericordia went on a 23-7 run between four straight MAC Freedom Championship exchange blows. Around the halfway point the twelve and four minute marks. The games and six of the previous seven. of the second half, the Cougars defense Colonels trailed 66-53 with just under The Colonels’ season may not be over yet found their rhythm on defense as slowed three minutes left. Wilkes tried to fight even though they were eliminated from the the Colonels’ offense down drastically. their way back but without enough time MAC Freedom tournament. The Colonels With Tre and Misericordia still await an NCAA at-large berth or a Fields (7 points) continuing to score, berth into the ECAC tournament. almost entirely the comeback was eliminating Misericordia 72, Wilkes 58 shot down, and the Wilkes’ star Misericordia (72) -- Jason Kenny 9 9-10 Cougars won 72-58. Marcus Robinson M i s e r i c o r d i a 29, Noah Rivera 5 6-8 16, Tony Harding 4 (7 points) for the advanced to the 5-8 15, Tre’ Fields 2 3-4 7, Alec Rodway 1 entire game, and MAC Freedom 0-0 2, Stone McCreary 1 0-1 3, Tyrell Mann Kenny, who was C h a m p i o n s h i p 0 0-0 0, Patrick Douthit 0 0-0 0. Totals 22 named the MAC with the win, where 23-31 72. Freedom player Wilkes (58) -- Mark Mullins 8 2-2 18, they will play the of the year on DeSales University Rob Pecorelli 7 0-0 16, Zach Brunner 6 Thursday 2/22, Bulldogs. DeSales, 0-0 12, Marcus Robinson 2 2-2 7, Landon moving over to the third seed in the Henry 0 0-0 0, Tommy Bowen 2 0-0 4, guard Pecorelli, tournament, beat Mason Gross 0 1-2 1, Jack Bova 0 0-0 0, holding him to the second seeded Clay Basalyga 0 0-0 0. Totals 25 5-6 58. just five second Halftime -- Misericordia 32-31. The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani Eastern University half points. Three-point goals -- MIS 5 (Kenny 2, Eagles. Mullins (#12) holds his follow-through on a While the The Bulldogs and Harding 2, McCreary); WIL 3 (Pecorelli 2, Colonels were three-point attempt. the Cougars split Robinson). slowed down, the Cougars kept their the season series, with the home team foots on the gas as Kenny picked up 18 winning each game. The game at DeSales @wilkesbeacon second half points, along with 11 rebounds University in Center Valley, Pa., was Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu throughout the game to record the double- an offensive slugfest with the Bulldogs double. Noah Rivera (16 points) also picked up a double-double for the Cougars with 12 rebounds. MBB: Metz named MAC Freedom Coach of the Year By Ben Mandell Asst. Sports Editor The Wilkes University Colonels Men’s Basketball team Head Coach Izzi Metz was named the Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom Coach of the Year. Metz lead the Colonels to an 11-3 conference record and the top seed in the MAC Freedom tournament. A humbled Coach Metz gives a lot of the credit to the players. “The Coach of the Year Award is a reflection of how well these players and assistant coaches performed this season,” Metz said. “I felt great to have some of our players be recognized by the conference.” The Colonels had Marcus Robinson (1st team), Rob Pecorelli (2nd team), and Mark Mullins (Honorable Mention) all receive All-MAC recognitions. This season has been a good one for the Colonels and Coach Metz as they will be expecting four of their starters to return, so another future run at the MAC Freedom title is still in their minds. Following the loss Wednesday to Misericordia, Wilkes has been eliminated from the MAC Freedom tournament but they still have hopes of receiving a berth into the ECAC. “A berth to the ECAC tournament would be great for our program,” Metz said. “We really would like to keep playing postseason basketball.” Editor’s note: At production time, the Colonels were still waiting to hear about their posteason fate in either the NCAA Division III Tournament, or the ECAC Tournament. @wilkesbeacon Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu �Sports The Beacon - February 27, 2018 20 MLAX: Colonels fall short in second half comeback By Alex Kielar said. The faceoffs in the contest were one positive to take away in the loss, as sophomore Evan Stolicker, the Colonel’s main player on the In their second game on the season, the face-off, controlled 14 of the 23 faceoffs he Colonel Men’s Lacrosse team never held a faced. Stolicker proved he could be a huge lead, as their second half comeback fell short asset to the team on faceoffs with this stat line, in what ended up being a 12-7 allowing for the Colonels to be able to get to defeat by the hands of the visiting work on offense and try getting something Marywood University Pacers. going. With Marywood holding a “We certainly have some great weapons in 1-0 lead early in the first quarter, the face-off,” Jaques stated. sophomore attacker John Luna Kachel, assisted by Luna, was able to find assisted by senior attacker Jeremy the back of the net once again to make the Kachel, found the back of the net score 11-4 with 1:29 left in the 3rd quarter. with 12:24 remaining in the 2nd But then only two minutes later, the Pacers quarter. You could certainly see the made it a seven point game again, as Maini chemistry Kachel and Luna have scored his second goal of the game. as the attackers for the Colonels The Colonels then sparked a mini comeback on that play. Junior John Wink is attempt in the final quarter as they got within also another key attacker for the The Beacon/Sean Connelly five points with 9:17 remaining in the game. Colonels as they look to build on their chemistry throughout the Sophomore Cody Geidel (#15) dives to collect the Kachel was a part of two more Colonel goals in the three goals that they scored from 11:37 season. to 9:17. He assisted on goals by Luna, his “I’m looking forward to the ball during Wednesday's game vs. Marywood. chemistry of our three attackers (Kachel, scoreless for almost a solid five minutes, but second of the game, and Wink, his first goal Luna and Wink) developing as the season then the Pacers looked almost unstoppable as of the game, with 10:07 remaining. The other goes,” fourth year Head Coach Curtis Jaques they rattled off seven straight goals starting at goal was scored by senior midfielder Nicholas the 5:49 mark in the 2nd quarter, to make it Ruggiero which went unassisted. said. The Colonels were able to keep the Pacers The Colonels would then end up 11-3 with 1:47 left in the 3rd quarter. The Colonels just really weren’t able to scoreless in the final nine minutes of the surrendering two straight goals to start the second quarter, but then were able to answer execute on defense, as they just couldn’t put game.However, they themselves, were held back with a goal of their own as freshman a stop to the Marywood attack. Marywood’s scoreless as well, as their comeback attempt attacker/midfielder Nico Lorenzo found the attack was led by senior Matt Casto with three fell five goals short as the final was 12-7. Both teams finished the day with 31 shots back of the net with 13:21 left in the first half, goals, sophomore Zach Vaughn and senior total, with 14 shots coming on goal for Wilkes. assisted by Luna. The Colonels would then Rob Maini, each with two goals. “We just need to execute better,” Jaques The Colonels were also able to convert 11-oftrail by only one. Three minutes later, after another goal was scored by Marywood, junior Matthew Bush was able to put the Colonels back within one score of the Pacers, as he scored off an assist from junior JT Weitzel. The Colonels were able to keep Marywood Asst. Sports Editor 18 clears to go along with 46 ground balls to Marywood’s 19-of-27 on clears and 36 ground balls. The Colonels will look to continue improving day in and day out as they prepare for the rest of the season. They will also look to keep games closer and come out with close-game victories. “This is all preparing us for a great season and rest of conference play,” Jacques said. “We expect to be in one, two goal games this year.” The Colonels definitely will look to improve on the defensive side of the ball, and try to limit the damage on shots and shots-on-goal. Marywood 12, Wilkes 7 Marywood `3`5`3`1 -- 12 Wilkes `1`2`1`3 -- 7 Scoring: Marywood (12): Matt Casto (3 goals, 1 assist), Rob Maini (2 goals, 2 assists), Zach Vaughan (2 goals, 1 assist), Jeff Johnsen (2 goals), Luke Shedler (1 goal), Austin Maylor (1 goal), Sean Higgins (1 goal). Wilkes (7): John Luna (2 goals, 2 assists), Jeremy Kachel (1 goal, 3 assists), John Wink (1 goal), Nico Lorenzo (1 goal), Matthew Bush (1 goal), Nicholas Ruggiero (1 goal). Shots -- Wilkes 31, Marywood 31. Saves -- Wilkes 9 (Vinny Biancardi); Marywood 7 (Matt Leen). @wilkesbeacon Alex.Kielar@wilkes.edu Wilkes Winter Sports Schedules Women’s Swimming Wrestling 11/3 vs. Millersville L 24-25 11/4 @ King’s, 10th place 11/11 vs. Suny Cortland, L 20-23 vs. NYU, L 6-34 vs. Hunter College, W 38-6 11/18 vs. Heidelberg, L, 23-28 @ Mount Union, L, 9-33 vs. Alma, W, 34-8 vs. Baldwin Wallace, L, 3-43 vs. Greensboro, W, 31-13 12/2 vs. Southern Virginia ,W, 35-9 vs. McDaniel College, W 25-12 12/8 vs. Elizabethtown, W, 24-19 12/10 @ Stevens Institute, L, 16-29 vs. LIU Post, L, 3-38 12/22 Wilkes Open 1/4 vs. North Central, L, 6-32 vs. Chicago, L, 17-24 vs, Ohio Northern, L, 18-24 1/11 vs. Penn Tech, W, 43-9 vs. Lackawanna College, W, 41-10 1/20 MAC Champ. @ King’s, 3rd Place 1/28 John Reese Duals vs. William & Jefferson, W, 30-19 vs. RIT, W, 22-21 vs. SUNY Oneonta, L , 20-24 2/2 @ College of NJ, L, 6-42 2/3 Messiah Open 2/9 vs. Ithaca, L, 3-40 2/11 vs. King’s, W, 44-6 Men’s Swimming 10/7 vs.William Paterson, L 98-108 10/14 Colonel Sprint Invite, 1st place *10/20 @ Arcadia, L, 44-142 10/21 vs. Mount Saint Mary, W, 152-97 *10/28 vs. Stevenson, W, 117-20 *11/5 @ Lebanon Valley, W, 128-61 vs. Dickinson, L, 88-106 *11/11 vs. FDU-Florham, W, 126-72 11/18, 11/19 Diamond Invite, 5th place *12/3 @ Lycoming, L, 84-173 12/8 vs. PSU-Altoona, W, 110-70 *1/13 @ Misericordia, L, 108-139 *1/20 @ Messiah, L, 65-125 1/27 vs. SUNY-Cobleskill, W 135-86 vs. SUNY-Delhi, W, 155-37 2/3 vs. King’s, L, 68-130 2/15-2/18 MAC Championships *-MAC Home meets @ Wilkes-Barre CYC Record: 7-7 (MAC: 3-5) WREST (Continued): 2/16 vs. Scranton @ King’s, L, 21-23 2/17 vs. Keystone @ Scranton, W, 46-6 Home meets @ Marts Center Record: 12-15 Results through 2/17 10/14 Colonel Sprint Invite, 3rd place *10/20 @ Arcadia, L, 42-136 10/21 vs. Mount Saint Mary’s, L, 79-151 *10/28 vs. Stevenson, L, 61-104 *11/5 @ Lebanon Valley, L, 57-136 vs. Dickinson, 57-111 *11/11 vs. FDU-Florham, L, 77-90 11/18-11/19 Diamond Invite, 9th place *12/3 @ Lycoming, L, 74-164 12/8 vs. PSU-Altoona, L, 85-88 *1/13 @ Misericordia, L, 48-199 *1/20 @ Messiah , L, 46-114 1/27 vs. SUNY Cobleskill, W, 103-85 vs. SUNY-Delhi, W, 102-36 *2/3 vs. King’s, L, 37-155 2/15-2/18 MAC Championships *-MAC Home meets @ Wilkes-Barre CYC Record: 2-11 (MAC: 0-8) MVB (Continued): *4/4 @ Messiah, 7:00 p.m. 4/7 vs. City College of New York, 11:00 a.m. *-MAC Home matches @ Marts Center Record: 5-14 (MAC: 1-4) Men’s Volleyball 1/17 @ Lancaster Bible, L, 1-3 1/19 @ St. John Fisher, L, 0-3 1/20 @ Endicott College, L, 0-3 @ Bard College, W, 3-1 1/24 vs. Loras College, L, 0-3 1/27 vs. Wilson College, L, 0-3 vs. Bard College, W, 3-1 *2/3 @ Stevenson, L, 0-3 *2/8 vs. Messiah, L, 0-3 *2/10 @ Arcadia, L, 1-3 vs. Kean, L 0-3 2/11 vs. Hunter College, L, 0-3 vs. Mount Saint Vincent, L, 0-3 *2/14 vs. Misericordia, W, 3-1 vs. York College, W, 3-0 *2/22 vs. Alvernia, L 0-3 2/23 @ York College, W 3-0 2/25 vs. New Jersey City, L 2-3 vs. Keuka College, L 0-3 *2/28 @ Widener, 7:00 p.m. 3/15 @ Lehman College, 7:00 p.m. *3/17 @ Alvernia, 12:00 p.m. *3/21 vs. Widener, 7:00 p.m. *3/24 vs. Stevenson, 2:00 p.m. *3/27 @ Misericordia, 7:00 p.m. *3/29 vs. Arcadia, 7:00 p.m. �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Colonel Athletics in brief By Luke Modrovsky Sports Editor Feb. 18 MTEN: Wilkes had several winners in the Drew Invitational. Double winners in singles action were junior Courtney Murphy (8-5 and 8-1), senior Artyom Nabokin (9-7 and 8-2), senior Andrew Neidig (8-5 and 8-2), freshman Larry Scartz (8-2 and 8-4) and junior Jonathan White (9-8 and 8-3). The Colonels also took eight of 14 matches in doubles action. Feb. 21 MLAX: See page 20. MBB: See front cover and page 19. Feb. 22 MVB: Alvernia swept the Colonels (25-17, 25-20, 25-16) in MAC action. Senior Daniel Sales led the attack with eight kills and a .273 hitting percentage. He also notched a teamhigh 11 blocks. Senior Michael Henne also defended a career-high 10 digs. Feb. 23 WREST: After one day of action at the NCAA Southeast Regionals, seniors Matt Grossmann and Josh Evans scored semifinal appearances. Junior John Ritter, sophomore Matthew Judge and junior Ashton Gyenizs awaited their consolation round battles in hopes of an NCAA qualification. MVB: Wilkes defeated York College (NY) for a second time in 10 days (25-14, 2511, 25-21). Senior Dylan Smith and Brian Sports Schumacher had career high days with 11 and 10 kills, respectively. Senior Daniel Sales rounded out the stat sheet with a season-high 22 assists. Schumacher also posted a career high of three aces. Teamwise, the Colonels also tied their season-high of 15 aces, that was set in their first meeting with York. Feb. 24 WREST: (See page 21 for Grossmann.) Evans posted a top-six finish, but missed an opportunity at an NCAA berth. He began the day with an 11-3 major decision loss to the eventual champion Gregory Warner in the semifinals, but battle back for a pin in 2:26 to reach the third place match. He lost in sudden victory. Ritter and Gyenizs also finished in the top-six, but were also unable to secure a national bid. Grossmann, Evans, Ritter and Gyenizs were all able to secure Academic All-American awards. MLAX: Wilkes scored their first victory of the season in rout fashion against Keystone College (14-3). Senior Jeremy Kachel notched his first career hat-trick. MVB: The Colonels lost a heartbreaker to visiting New Jersey City University (2517, 24-26, 25-20, 14-25, 13-15) in their final tri-match of the season. Wilkes also hosted Kekua College and fell in straight sets (16-25, 22-25, 23-25). The Colonels posted a team best, season-high 50 digs in the five-set loss. @wilkesbeacon Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu WREST: Grossmann gets back to NCAA tournament By Luke Modrovsky Sports Editor One might have looked at the past NCAA Division III Wrestling tournament brackets in the past two years and noticed there was a notable name missing. The 2015 National Champion at 133 pounds was absent from NCAA glory for the past two years. Now, senior Matt Grossmann is back for a second time. “It’s been a journey. There’s definitely been some highs and lows in-between,” said Grossmann reflecting on his past four years. Grossmann will hit the mat for the final time in his wrestling career when he travels to Cleveland, Ohio for 2018 NCAA Division III Championships on Mar. 9 and 10. The journey, however, almost never happened at all. He had reached the semifinal round and was one win away from “dancing” but was turned away. The semifinal match featured a tight battle between Grossmann and Zach Bylykbashi of Washington and Lee. The match would not be without any controversy. After leading 4-2 late in the third period, Grossmann was just seconds away from securing a spot in the finals. Bylykbashi scored a takedown to tie the match, but in a flurry of action, Grossmann appeared to lock up a cradle, scoring a minimum of an escape point, or a reversal, along with back points. The initial ruling on the mat was no points awarded for Grossmann. After a series of boos from the crowd, some of the loudest of the day, the officials took it upon themselves to utilize the video replay system before Wilkes went to challenge. After review, the ruling on the mat stood, which would eventually force overtime. Grossmann lost in sudden victory, 6-4. Grossmann battled back in the consolation semifinals by taking a 5-4 thriller over King’s Jacob Taylor. He won the third place match as well by defeating Zachary Rainess of Greensboro to earn his second career NCAA qualification. “He’s a champion for a reason,” noted Laudenslager. “He found a way to get it done even when he was losing in matches.” Grossman said he looks forward to this year’s preparation with “great workout partners,” senior Josh Evans, senior Jake Dimarsico, senior Billy Bicci and assistant coach Guesseeppe Rea. @wilkesbeacon Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu Wilkes Winter Sports Schedules Women’s Basketball 11/15 @ Rutgers-Camden, L, 54-83 11/17 vs. Marywood, W, 70-59 11/18 vs. U. of Scranton, L, 43-78 11/21 vs. PSU Wilkes-Barre, W, 72-51 11/30 @ Moravian, L, 57-80 12/4 @ Rutgers-Newark, L, 43-59 12/5 vs. Valley Forge, W, 89-76 12/7 vs. PSU-Schuylkill, L, 56-61 12/9 vs. Juniata, L, 44-77 *1/3 @ FDU-Florham, L, 59-90 *1/6 vs. Manhattanville, L, 38-93 1/8 @ PSU-Hazleton, W, 93-79 *1/10 @ Delaware Valley, L, 71-83 *1/13 @ Eastern, L, 79-93 *1/17 vs. DeSales, L. 36-101 *1/20 vs. King’s, L, 59-75 1/22 @Alvernia, L, 60-65 *1/24 @ Misericordia, L, 33-89 *1/27 vs. Delaware Valley, L, 61-67 *1/31 vs. FDU-Florham, L, 63-104 *2/3 @Manhattanville, L, 45-63 *2/7 @ DeSales, L, 46-89 *2/10 vs. Misericordia, L, 54-87 *2/13 @ King’s, L, 49-82 *2/17 vs. Eastern, L, 68-81 *-MAC Freedom Home games @ Marts Center Record: 4-21 (MAC-Freedom: 0-14) Results through 2/25 Men’s Basketball 11/15 vs. PSU-Hazleton, W, 83-58 11/18 @ Elizabethtown, W, 86-75 11/21 vs. PSU-WB, W, 74-65 11/25 @ Marywood, L, 64-74 11/26 @ U. of Scranton, W-52-45 11/29 @ Drew, W, 87-80 12/2 vs. Messiah, L, 64-67 12/5 vs. Clarks Summit, W, 86-64 12/19 @ Albright, L, 65-72 12/28 @ Hiram, L, 85-94 12/29 @ Norwich, W, 97-74 *1/3 @ FDU-Florham, W, 75-52 *1/6 vs. Mahattanville, W, 73-68 *1/10 @ Delaware Valley, W 78-69 *1/13 @ Eastern, L, 76-91 *1/17 vs. Desales, W, 72-66 21 *1/20 vs. King’s, W, 76-64 *1/24 @ Misericordia, W, 87-82 (OT) *1/27 vs. Delaware Valley, W, 58-57 *1/31 vs. FDU-Florham, W, 86-59 *2/3 @ Manhattanville, L, 63-73 *2/7 @ Desales, W, 72-67 *2/10 vs. Misericordia, W, 86-72 *2/13 @ King’s, W, 101-72 *2/17 @ Eastern, L, 66-69 x-*2/21 vs. Misericordia, L 58-72 *-MAC Freedom Home games @ Marts Center Record: 18-8 (MAC-Freedom: 11-3) x-MAC Freedom Semifinals Results through 2/25 �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Sports 22 Getting to know... Mason Gross Senior Basketball Player The Beacon: Male Athlete of the Week 2/12 - 2/18 Why Mason Gross was selected: Mason Gross led all Colonel bench players with 15 points, six assists, and seven rebounds in a win against King’s, and on Senior Day Feb. 17, Mason worked the board once again with 10 total rebounds in a loss against Eastern. Name: Mason Gross Year: Senior Major: Biology Minor: Secondary Education Hometown: Hughestown, Pennsylvania High School: Pittston Area Position: Forward Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? Wilkes allowed me to enter into a great science program while also allowing me to continue my playing career. It also was close enough to home to allow my family to see all of my games. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? I plan on teaching high school biology as well as coaching basketball. The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani Other interests or hobbies off of the court? Playing Fortnite and beating Zach Brunner in NBA 2k18. Most influential person in your life? My parents. Favorite building on campus? The Marts Center. A quote you live your life by? “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.” What came first? The chicken or the egg? The egg. What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? “Be Colonel” means that you are striving to be the best you can be every day. What can you say to reflect on your basketball career now that it’s over? Now that I can look back on my career, I can say I definitely made the right decision to come to Wilkes. I had the opportunity to play for an amazing head coach as well as four other assistant coaches throughout my career that have taught me many things that go beyond the game of basketball. I was also fortunate enough to play with some amazing players who I am lucky enough to call life long friends. Editor’s note : T hi s year’s Athlete of the Week i s nar rowed dow n to t wo Edit candidates by the spor t s staf f. T he t wo f inal candidates are then voted on candida by pee rs u sing a Tw ite r poll @ Wilkes B eacon by peers Additionally, at the e nd of the acade mic year, we w ill post a reader poll Addit to row n an “Athlete of the Year” . to ccrown What are your thoughts on how the program looks now that you are graduating? I think the ceiling for the program is very high. I believe the program has made strides every year Coach Metz has been here and I don’t see any reason that should change. The team still has great players currently and will continue to recruit great players. I expect them to have the same success for many years to come. When/Why did you first begin playing? I have been playing for as long as I can remember. I think the first shot I ever made was on a Fisher-Price hoop. What was your favorite memory from your four years? Hitting a game winning shot against #14 Hope my Junior year in Ohio. If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Randy Pausch. If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Randy Pausch. Favorite meal to eat on campus? Omelette for breakfast Favorite professor? Mr. Richards Anyone to give a shout-out to? Every member of the Bullet Club, the Goon Squad, and Wilkes Basketball’s biggest fans, Buck Schwab and James Emmett What is one last piece of advice you would like to give to the underclassman as you leave the program? Continue to work hard and believe in what the coaches are putting forward. Trust the process. -Complied by Alex Kielar, Asst. Sports Editor �Sports The Beacon - February 27, 2018 Getting to know... 23 Nicole Farrell Senior Basketball Player The Beacon: Female Athlete of the Week 2/12 - 2/18 Why Nicole Farrell was selected: Nicole Farrel led the Colonels in total rebounds with eight in a loss at King's and also totaled seven boards in a loss in the season finale on Senior Day against Eastern. Name: Nicole Farrell Year: Senior Major: Elementary & Early Childhood Ed Minor: Reading Hometown: Blairstown, N.J. High School: North Warren Regional HS Position: Forward Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? Wilkes had a great education department that allowed me to become certified in special education in my undergrad as opposed to graduate school. I also loved the campus as soon as I visited. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? I intend on returning home to New Jersey where I will look for a teaching job in local school districts. Favorite building on campus? Breiseth. What came first? The chicken or the egg? The chicken, obviously. What can you say to reflect on your basketball career now that it’s over? Four years came and went pretty quickly. I made some great friends and had a lot of fun. I’m sad that it is over, but I’m so happy I had the experience. When/Why did you first begin playing? I started playing in third grade. Basketball has always been a big sport in my family so it was only natural that I would at some point too. What was your favorite memory from your 4 years? We won a tough game against Valley Forge this season after losing Catey one of our key players, in the first quarter. We all played really well together and worked as a team. It was one of the most fun games we played, especially since we lost to them last year. What are your thoughts on how the program looks now that you are graduating? There is a lot of talent in the younger girls that will go a long way for the next few seasons. Other interests or hobbies off of the court? Off the court I am usually watching Netflix, hanging out with my friends, or going home to spend time with family. Most influential person in your life? My family is a pretty big influence on me as a whole. A quote you live your life by? Go with the flow. What does “Be Colonel” mean to you? To me, “Be Colonel” means that a person is willing to go above and beyond to help others. If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Dwight K. Schrute Coke or Pepsi? Pepsi all the way. Favorite meal to eat on campus? Buffalo chicken cheese steak from Grille Works. Anyone to give a shout-out to? Catherine Grace McFadden and Jamie Florence Campbell. What is one last piece of advice you would like to give to the underclassman as you leave the program? You won’t remember the score of the game, but you will remember the friends and memories that you have made. Four years goes by quick so just make the most of it. -Complied by Alex Kielar, Asst. Sports Editor Editor’s year’s Athlete rowed dow n to Editor's note: note: Thi Thiss year's Athlete of of the the Week Week iiss nar narrowed down to two two candiates t s staf f. The f inal candidates candiates by by the the spor sports staff. The two two final candidates are are then then voted voted on on by by peers sing aa Tw it ter poll poll @WilkesB eacon. eers uusing Twitter @WilkesBeacon. Additionally, year, we ill post post aa reader poll to Additionally, at at the the end end of of the the academic academic year, we w will reader poll to ccrown row n an an “Athlete "Athlete of o the the Year”. Year". Submitted Photo �The Beacon - February 27, 2018 24 I SPEND YOUR SUMMER WISELY Take classes for just $520 per credit Many classes are held online so you can enjoy your break from home while getting ahead in your studies. And with start dates in May, June or July, classes conveniently fit your summer plans. Three-week presession May 21 to June 8 Full session May 21 to Aug. 17 Nine-week session June 11 to Aug. 14 Summer session I June 11 to July 13 Summer session II July 16 to Aug. 17 Make an appointment with your advisor and visit www.wilkes.edu/summer. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2018 February 7th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 February 7 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/eb9c80d8031e3484718a4161ae3ef496.pdf ab5230f5be6e1a8e0ac4100aee58b9af PDF Text Text IHIIE B BIEACC(O)N T~ HE EACON The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 71, Issue 11 The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. Henry’s Dining Hall fitted with new renovations By Maddie Davis By Jackie Kurovsky Staff Writer The Beacon/Maddie Davis Joshua Shepard, a junior musical theater major, sits with friends in the newly rennovated cafeteria. In the image is the new wooden booth area, fitted with charging ports. Bogdan while criticizing the old lay out. “It comfortable experience for the students and staff,” added Bogdan. was like a high school cafeteria.” “It’s a fresh look at something as we Bogdan explained that Alicia Bond, director of business operations, and progress and we keep doing new things Theresa Cochran, Space Mg/Financial to keep the program moving forward and Supervisor in Facilities, both helped design to make it a better experience for Wilkes the color scheme for the cafeteria’s new University.” “It was kinda like we wanted to surprise look. Phillip Marino, project supervisor, also spearheaded the reconstruction of the you” joked Bogdan on the almost sudden dining hall to serve a fresh new look to change of the dining hall’s layout. returning spring semester students. “My hope is that it makes a better dining SEE HENRY, experience for the students and a more University herbarium added to international registry, page 4 Give the gift of warm socks, page 7 Wilkes University Student Government is looking to improve the campus experience for everyone with a new website that keeps users up to date with all things Colonel. The site wilkes.presence.io is the computer platform for the Student Government app “The Colonel Guide” which became available in 2017. Like the app, the site contains information on all clubs and events on campus from Bingo Night to Zebra Communications. Student Body President Cody Morcom explained how the website and its corresponding app help improve student engagement. “We are the sounding board for student concerns,” said Morcom. “These two tools help us to both hear and see concerns as well as get information to every Colonel in a quick, easy, and less-invasive way than ever before.” Campus events appear on the site’s main screen. Students can click the Organizations tab to see a listing of all clubs and organizations on campus. By selecting a club, they can view meeting times and locations and send a request to join. In addition, any questions the user has can be immediately sent to the inbox of the club’s president. SEE CLUB, Page 3 The Beacon/Kirsten Peters Page 6 Graphic by Todd Espenshade Asst. News Editor Henry’s Dining Hall hasn’t been renovated for more than 40 years, but over winter break, the upstairs cafeteria in the Student Union Building received a new, more mainstream look. The cafeteria was remodeled with fresh coats of paint, new soda dispensers and various new outlets with USB charging ports. New plumbing was installed around the cafeteria as well. Aside from these improvements Henry’s seating plan received a new look featuring a new wooden booth area, high tables and an overall new spacious floor plan. The dining hall’s reconstruction has been in the planning stages since the middle of last year. The remodeling was done successfully bringing a more relaxed and modern touch to Wilkes’ campus. After the planning stages the construction took three to four weeks to complete, just in time for the new semester. Jerry Bogdan, the General Manager of Henry’s Dining Hall, had expressed his interest in the newest renovations of the cafeteria in his third year. “It’s something we’ve wanted to do since Aramark came on campus,” stated General Manager Jerry Bogdan about the reconstruction. The plan for the architect, constructed by Bogdan and others, was to make more seating options to cater to all students. “It was like military feeding” joked Student Government debuts club websites Movies coming out this spring semester, page 14-15 MBB: Wilkes holds first place through first half of play, page 19 �News News The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Beacon Briefs Compiled by Maddie Davis Wilkes University’s Annual Sexual Jeopardy On Tuesday, Feb. 6 from 9 to 10 p.m. the BACCHUS Club is holding the Sexual Jeopardy program in the Henry Student Center Ballroom. The club is currently looking for participants for four teams of four to take part in the game show like event to educate those who come about different sexual conceptions. The winning team will also take home a prize. If you are interested in participating please contact Health Services at ext. 4730. Spring Semester Opening of the Colonel Closet Wilkes University’s Colonel Closet is open and restocked for the Spring Semester. The Colonel Closet is open for students in the Interfaith Office on the second from of the Student Union Building Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Contact Kristin Osipower at kristin.osipower@wilkes.edu or at the ext. 5904 for questions or alternate arrangements. Have a breaking story or a press release to send? Contact the news editor: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu Scholarships Available through the Alumni Association If a parent or grandparent of yours graduated from Wilkes University you may qualify for Wilkes University Alumni Scholarship that is now accepting applicants. Apply through the Wilkes Alumni Website to see if you qualify before the Feb. 23 deadline. Last Call to Attend Winter Creative Writing Workshops Winter creative writing workshops will be offered to all of those interested next semester on campus. Reality and Imagery in Fiction, Social Media for Beginners, and Nonfiction Places and Spaces, among others, are the workshops that are being offered. Registration for these workshops is now open at www.wilkes.edu/cw. For any further questions call (570) 408-4547. Wanted: Interns for Wilkes Alumni Political Campaign Anthony Bartoli ’15 is looking for those who are interested in a political internship to help with his campaign running for State Representative of the 118th District. If you are interested please email jon@votebartoli.com and attach resumes and plans to set up an interview. Wilkes University Student Government notes By Megan Stanley Staff Writer The Wilkes University Student Government held their first meeting of the semester on Wednesday. The Spanish Club and Women Empowered by Science (WEBS club) delivered their club reports this week. The Spanish Club told student government that they currently have 10 active members who meet once a month. They held a table at the Wilkes Halloween Party in October, and participated in the MSC party. The club held a Krispy Kreme fundraiser last semester. In terms of the future, the club hopes to host more fundraisers and activities which all will be discussed. WEBS currently have 58 active members. They meet with WEBS participants from the local area to deliver labs, and the next session will be at the end of the month. Last semester, the group held a Yankee Candle fundraiser and made a $492.40 profit for the club. They are currently planning an event called Adventures in Science that will be held in April. In the future, the club wants to reach out more to the Wilkes community and start social media channels. The first item of business was the recognition of the Table Top Gaming Club. The group hopes to facilitate social gatherings for people interested in role playing, deck building and other board games. The hope for the club is to help other students find and 2 News forge new friendships through the events. The club also hopes to help students who might be experiencing anxiety or depression from college work. The club will be advised by Dr. Andrew Miller, and currently has 15 members. The group will return to student government to find out if they have been awarded Student Government recognition. The next item of business was a fund request from APhA-ASP for their annual conference. The 2018 Annual Meeting and Exposition will provide students the opportunity to network, advocate pharmacy, and learn about issues facing the profession. Attending the trip are 31 pharmacy students, but only the five P2 students are eligible for Student Government funding. The total request for the trip is $3,535, which will cover registration, hotel and flights. APhAASP will return to Student Government next week to see if they have been allocated the funding. Geo-Explore club funding request was the next item of business. The group intend to take a trip to the Big Island of Hawaii during Spring Break. The 15 students attending will receive tours from professional geologists, visit state parks, and experience the history and culture of Hawaii. The trip is associated with a one-credit Hawaiian geology course, and the trip will help promote the new geology major. The entire trip will cost $23,846.07, but due to fundraising and personal funds the group are requesting $6,618 from Student Government to help with the trip. Geo-explore club will return next week to find out if they have received the funding. A Pennsylvanian Pharmacist Association funding request was next on the agenda. The group are attending the Midyear conference Jan. 26 to 28 where more than 10 Wilkes students will present posters. The group is requesting $1,200 to cover the registration and hotel of students attending the conference. Next on the business was the name change for IRHC (Inter-Residence Hall Council). After attending a conference, the group hopes to rebrand by creating a new logo with a new name change. The motion was passed for the group to be renamed to Residence Hall Council (RHC). The final item of business was the Capital Fund Request. In the request was a new three-year contract for Presence, the system that “Colonel Guide” was created on, which helps clubs and events register attendance. There was also a request for a new Club Hub computer and an electronic voting system, which will cut down voting time in Student Government meetings. The fund request totalled $25,069.00 and was passed. Finally, the operations committee met during the week and reported the following: Stark building construction is ahead of schedule and will be completed by the summer, and in the communal lounge of University Towers there will be computers added. table of contents news................2 life, a&e...........7 spread............12 opinion..........14 sports............19 �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 CLUB Continued from front page and send a request to join. In addition, any questions the user has can be immediately sent to the inbox of the club’s president. Morcom said the app is also a way for Student Government to receive helpful feedback. In the Campus Forms tab, students can fill out surveys about campus events. This allows Student Government to have the likes and dislikes of Wilkes students right at their fingertips. The site also allows for demographic analysis to ensure campus events are reaching out to all Colonels. “Students may notice how we use their swipes at every SG event,” said Morcom. “This swipe checks them in and allows us to see [...] their class year, major, if they’re a resident or commuter, ethnicity, and so much more.” Student Government Vice President Katelyn Jimison explained the importance of this feature. “Presence helps us to identify groups of students who we are having trouble getting to attend our events, which allows us to make changes in the future to cater to what everyone wants to see.” Morcom said the website and app News combined will absolutely enhance the experience of Wilkes students. “In the past Student Government has played a big role in event planning on campus,” Morcom said. “Over the course of the past semester and into the future, it has been my mission to ensure we maintain that while also advocating for change and improvements that students want and need.” Any student, faculty, staff member or alumni can easily access the website. Their information is pre-loaded onto the site using a sync system with help from the Wilkes IT department. “[It’s] super complex, but it works amazingly,” said Morcom. “I am confident that my successor, the SG President next year will take it further and help to enhance student life even more,” Morcom said. “There are many new updates that the platform’s company is going to be releasing over the next year, ones that I feel will be extremely beneficial to all students interested in enjoying the awesome social events [our] campus offers.” “The Presence tools allow us to update the club leaders to allow current leaders to have access to all of the old budgets [...] from past events,” she said. “This would also be a great way to track spending when multiple people may be working to plan an event, and easily 3 lVEHfl IIGTDI DOaMKJS Student Club RIIIM1 AJrWJlU '5 ftWIJllfl'tlll'IM. 0 Next Meeting: Tuesday the 23rd atllam Breis316 8""1nfom,o1'o!I Aboul lN-IM5'°"1'W'"""'CUlillO,.....Pllif!!l1"11h~ptnfand~tJ;,trint,0,1'fflfNl'J$d!OOltul'"'.ftllillto.erls~ltl!ftnd.i,,._-..lwlt~ l".flffltf'ICIO;IN"Cont.la"_.ott!Mll/ffotlNUbHll!Wllli«t..._ Courtesy of Tim Lavoie The dashboard of the Pre-Vet Club. Club leaders can edit things like meeting time, meeting location, and basic information from this area for other club members to view. see where your spending is at versus the budget.” Morcom hopes for more clubs and organizations to be added to the site. While the platform is in its early stages, Student Government foresees a successful future. “I think Presence is a great resource for all clubs and students to use, and I’m excited to keep spreading the word about it throughout campus,” Jimison said. Editor’s note: Maddie Davis, the assistant news editor, is the treasurer of the Pre-Vet Club. Rosenthal Herbarium internationally recognized, added to registry By Megan Stanley Staff Writer The Rosenthal Herbarium at Wilkes University has recently been added to the database of Index Herbariorum, an international directory of herbaria. Established in 1982, the Herbarium has a collection of over 3,400 specimens of pressed and preserved plants. The majority of the samples are from Pennsylvania, but some plants are acquired from places such as Florida, California, Texas and Canada. The director and curator of the Herbarium, Dr. Kenneth Klemow, has been interested in plant collection since his undergraduate studies at the University of Miami and contributed to the herbarium at Syracuse’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Klemow established the Herbarium at Wilkes more than 30 years ago using both his own personal collection of plants and those that students collected during his classes. “If you go into the herbarium, you’ll see a lot of plants that were collected in the 1980s, when we were trying to rapidly build up the collection. From there, in the 1990s and 2000s and the past eight years we would add around 100 specimens per year.” “I have around 3,400 specimens in the collection. Many of these specimens are collected by students and many of these students have now graduated and gone off to become alumni. We want alumni to know that their work lives on in our herbaria, and we take good care of it.” Klemow spoke about his reasoning behind applying for recognition from the Index Herbariorium. “I was elected as the president of the Pennsylvania Biological Survey, which is a group of biologists who are interested simply in biodiversity within the state. Being that I’m the president of this organization my collection should be properly recognized.” He further added, “it is something that I always aspired [to], because all the best herbaria are there.” Klemow spoke about the benefits of having a herbarium within the university, such as his ability to use the specimens to teach classes. “Some plants are of medicinal value and we have students that are pre-med orientated and so (the herbarium) can be used to show the relationship between plants and these other areas that are important to them.” He further added that herbaria serve as important “store-houses of genetic diversity and genetic information.” Laura Solomon, a senior biology major and Kirby Scholar, has been working with Klemow in the Herbarium for nearly three years, and is currently conducting a project that involves DNA barcoding of certain species. She spoke about how the herbarium has benefitted her academic research. “We can actually work off any of the well- \ I The Beacon/Megan Stanley Laura Solomon, senior biology major, looking at the corydalis plant with Dr. Kenneth Klemow in the Herbarium. preserved samples, some of the older ones the DNA doesn’t hold up as well as we need to isolate it a certain amount to run the reactions but having the specimens gives us so much access. “In the winter we wouldn’t be able to find certain grasses and plants, but now we can just take a little piece of leaf of the pressed plant samples and isolate that.” Being registered to the Index has further benefits. “It makes us part of a scientific community, and so if people are interested in our database or our plants, they can make requests to borrow our plants or we can borrow other people’s plants, whereas before we weren’t really able to do that,” Klemow said. Klemow spoke about his future aspirations for the Herbarium at Wilkes University. “What I want to see the collection specializing in is plants of Luzerne County. I’d like to see us have one of each species in Luzerne County. Now the question is, ‘how close are we to that?’ And the answer is we’re maybe at 30 percent, so we still have a lot to go yet.” �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 4 News Rare autoimmune disorder to be highlighted at upcoming presentation By Maddie Davis Asst. News Editor On Thursday at 6 p.m., Dr. Edward Schicatano, along with the Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, will be holding a guest presentation titled “Madness” by Emily Gavigan in Breiseth Hall room 320. “Madness” is a presentation by Emily Gavigan who hopes to spread awareness about the rare autoimmune disorder she was diagnosed with while in college. It will feature her account of the journey of finding a diagnosis, her experiences, video clips regarding her illness, and the science behind the rare autoimmune disorder that took her and her family by surprise. Emily Gavigan’s story is also described in the book “Brain on Fire” by Susannah Cahalan. The path to finding a diagnosis was long and filled with many obstacles and doubt, but Gavigan and her family kept fighting to find the purpose of her sudden odd, uncharacteristic behavior and changes against false diagnoses and ignorance by some doctors. It baffled doctors at first, but now Emily Gavigan looks to share her story with Wilkes University to reach out and inform people of the rare anti-NMDAR receptor encephalitis she was diagnosed with. Wilkes University’s Political Science professor Dr. Andrew Miller had been friends and neighbors with the Gavigans for 1more than a decade. He and his wife kept up with the ongoing story of their friend’s daughter’s rare and almost mysterious illness. “It was somebody who was a friend of ours, so we were worried of course,” stated Miller discussing the first-hand account of Emily Gavigan’s journey to a rightful diagnosis. “It’s a combination of being worried about our friend, combined with an incredible story of the diagnosis,” Miller said. “It was an amazing set of circumstances that led to the diagnosis,” described Miller. “One of the things Emily is trying to do is build awareness. When she got diagnosed there were hardly any diagnoses in the country … the only expert in the world on this disease is in Philly.” Gavigan was introduced to Psychology and Schicatano by Miller, having witnessed and experienced Emily’s diagnostic journey. Schicatano and Emily Gavigan’s family soon being acquainted and started sharing the details and the science that appealed to his interests and Neuroscience background. “When I first heard it in person I thought it was really interesting,” said Schicatano. “I had never heard of it.” Schicatano hopes that with this presentation students will become more aware of the problem and disorder Emily was diagnosed with because it is more common than we think. “Some of the symptoms are very common,” Schicatano added. “The more people that hear of it the better it’s going to be detected and diagnosed for others.” “To be aware of how something like this can happen ... it’s a learning experiencing,” he continued. “I think the real lesson here is we don’t know as much as we think we know,” Schicatano stated. “We need to say ‘I don’t know and let’s look and let’s research it.” “We don’t really know all that is happening in the brain,” he added, “it is not as simple as it is in the textbooks.” “You’re going to hear something that is fascinating, eye-opening, and informative,” said Schicatano. Psychology and Neuroscience students have already expressed an interest in hearing the rare story of Emily Gavigan’s journey to a diagnosis including junior neuroscience major Thomas Krutsick. “I find Emily’s story very interesting and look forward to hearing about her experience with anti-NMDAR receptor encephalitis, because it is such a rare condition,” Krutsick said. “The thing that I hope to take away from the presentation is a better understanding of someone who suffered through such debilitating symptoms and recovered,” Krutsick said. “You have to see it to believe it,” said Schicatano. Seats will fill up fast for Emily Gavigan’s “Madness” presentation. Email Dr. Schicatano for any further questions regarding the presentation. Prof. awarded ‘PA Acceleration Educator of the Year’ By Cabrini Rudnicki News Editor A faculty member was recently given a prestigious award. Dr. Rodney Ridley was named a Pennsylvania Acceleration Educator of the Year by the Pennsylvania Acceleration Project. The award was presented on Jan. 18 at East Stroudsburg University. This year’s ceremony was the revival of the awards, which previously existed in the past. “The backbone of the awards is that they are trying to highlight people who they think are in some way shape or form, accelerating technology and innovation throughout the state through their sphere of influence,” said Ridley. Ridley won an award in the category dedicated to the education of technology, along with Dr. Charlene Brennan, the executive director of Colonial Intermediate Unit 20; and Dr. Marcia Welsh, the president of East Stroudsburg University. “My initial reaction was that I didn’t think it was a real award,” he joked. “The email looked like spam. I was close to hitting delete, then I saw the name at the bottom and realized I knew the name: Kelly Lewis, a former Congressman from Stroudsburg.” Lewis, along with Kevin Dellicker, the former adviser to Governor Wolf in technology and innovation, are the leaders of the Acceleration Project, which is a team meant to oversee bringing of broadband internet throughout Pennsylvania. “The Pennsylvania Acceleration Awards are designed to recognize and honor organizations and leaders that are driving technology and innovation across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” according to a press release released by the organization. Ridley is the executive director and a professor at the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. He is also the co-founder of the center’s business mentor program, and the director of the campus’ industry and and community outreach office, the Kirby Scholars Program and the Allan P. Kirby Center’s micro-grant fund. He also serves on a number of area committees and boards, including CAN DO and the Northeast Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center. “It was very interesting how they found me, of all people,” he said. “I had asked who nominated me but they couldn’t tell me, it was confidential.” “We do a lot here in the Kirby Center which pushes the boundaries of innovation, through entrepreneurship, energy transfer, and the bringing to life the commercialization of technology.” Wilkes’ Allan P. Kirby Center is one of the only university-run programs to commercialize innovation, or to have a The Beacon/Steffen Horwath Dr. Rodney Ridley stands with his Pennsylvania Acceleration Educator of the Year award, given to him for his contributions to technology education. technology-transfer office, in the area. “Dr. Ridley is certainly deserving of the award he just recieved. He is very innovative, his vision carries the entire organization through its vision as an establishment of technology transfer,” said fellow faculty member Gerald A. Ephault, the executive in charge of residence of Allan P. Kirby. The office was initially a center to teach and practice entrepreneurship. When Ridley became director in 2014, he switched the center’s focus to the commercialization of university technology. The center takes clients of students, faculty, and for a charge, members of the Wilkes-Barre community, and helps them take their ideas and form them into a business. @wilkesbeacon cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 News 5 Students and faculty react to government shutdown By Megan Stanley Staff Writer From Jan. 19 to 23, the U.S. government shut down over a disagreement regarding the budget for the fiscal year. The measure that failed to pass on Friday was a temporary funding bill that would have lasted until Feb. 16. Created by the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives and the Senate, it suspended several unpopular healthcare taxes with the intention that it would be easier to vote for. The shutdown lasted over the weekend, and on Jan. 23 Congress passed a bill ending the partial shutdown, keeping the government funded until Feb. 8. This is the fourth temporary bill imposed since October because there has been no agreement regarding a long-term budget for the fiscal year. Dr. Thomas Baldino, a professor in the political science department at Wilkes University, explained this further. “This is called a continuing resolution senate, a continuing resolution continues to fund the government at the same level as it had been,” he said. “By its own rules, Congress is supposed to have all of the 13 separate spending bills passed by Oct. 1 because the fiscal year runs through Oct. 1 to Sept. 30. “It didn’t meet the Oct. 1 deadline, so they passed the continuing resolution, then they passed another one, and another one, and now we’re on the fourth.” Baldino further explained the negative impact this can have. “The downside of continuing resolutions is that if a government agency intends to plan to do something more or different that requires additional funding, they aren’t getting it in a continuing resolution because it is basically a flat line,” he said. “The other thing about flat line spending is, depending upon what your buying from the money in the budget you’re receiving from the government, if the price of the item spikes you have to buy less of that item.” The shutdown ended when the Democrats were given assurance of a debate and a vote regarding immigration from the Senate majority leader, Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell. Whilst an end to the shutdown has led to may, especially those who work in government, to be relieved, others have instead accused the Democrats of caving. Liberal groups and some Democrats are sceptical about the promise for a debate and a vote regarding immigration. People turned to social media, and “Democrats CAVED” trended on twitter on Monday evening. Obama’s DACA program, which allows thousands of children who were brought into the U.S. illegally to remain in the country, was cancelled and declared unconstitutional by Trump last year, has been a key point of disagreement between the Republicans and Democrats and has been named as one of the main causes for the shutdown, alongside budget disagreements. If the promise for a debate and a vote falls to the side, the Democrats could easily force another shutdown in three weeks, according to the Anthony Zurcher, writing for the BBC. For Wilkes students, the repeal of DACA was a strong talking point. Sophomore political science major Letty Patino-Flores said: “Repealing DACA is taking such a step back considering our progressive views with immigration. “With the government shutdown, it shows how inefficient a president can be. Both political parties are divided upon the subject, even the Republicans can’t agree and Trump is showing how inefficient he can be.” During a government shutdown, many non-essential federal agencies close down, which leaves thousands of employees on temporary, unpaid leave. Areas such as travel and tourism may shut down, meaning that passport and visa applications may be delayed. National parks and tourism sites, such as the Statue of Liberty, are also at risk of closing when the government experiences a shutdown. National security, electricity generation and air traffic control are all agencies that are required to continue activities under a government shutdown. The last government shutdown was in 2013 under the Obama administration, and lasted for 16 days. During this period, 800,000 federal employees were on unpaid leave, whilst another 1.3 million had to report to work without the necessarily knowing about Do you like to write? Interested in current events? Want to get more involved? Write news for the Beacon. Contact us! Cabrini Rudnicki, News Editor: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu Maddie Davis, Assistant News Editor: madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu payment. The disagreement was regarding legislation for the fiscal year 2014. All members of the Senate and the House of Representatives continue to get paid during a government shut down because their paychecks are written into the constitution. Kayla Reese, a junior pharmacy major, expressed concern over pay regarding the shutdown, particularly for U.S. soldiers. “I feel that it’s insane that Congress ... still continues to get paid whilst military members do not, because they are meant to be the ones keeping us safe. “From what I’ve heard it also affects the hospital staff on base, because civilians can’t work when there’s a shutdown because they aren’t getting paid.” However, some Wilkes students admitted that they didn’t know much about the recent shutdown. Nancy Ramirez, a senior political science major, said: “I’m not informed enough. No one is focusing on the shutdown itself, only how the President reacted, but what exactly is the argument? You can’t find that anywhere.” Kelci Piavis, a senior English major, echoed Ramirez and admitted: “I didn’t know about it until after the day it happened.” Paivis did add, however, that “it just shows Donald Trump is incompetent and a hypocrite,” referring to an interview with Fox News leading up to the impending 2013 shutdown, when Trump made a comment that the blame for a shutdown should always be on the president. �News The Beacon - January 30, 2018 HENRY Continued from front page change of the dining hall’s layout. The new look of Henry’s Dining Hall was a shock for some, but the reconstruction has overall received positive reviews from around campus, like Nilab Mominzada. “I really like the designing,” commented junior management and marketing student Nilab Mominzada, “it looks very brand new.” “I just love it,” she added, “having dinner and just hanging out with my friends.” Mominzada wasn’t the only one who loved the reconstruction of Henry’s Dining Hall. Michael Dennis, third year supervisor of the dining hall, expressed his own personal love for the new layout of the cafeteria. “It’s beautiful, absolutely beautiful,” said Michael Dennis. “It’s streamlined. Students love it, and it just brightens up the whole dining hall.” “It’s a 2018 look,” added Dennis. “It’s more of a relaxed atmosphere than it was before.” “They way we have it set up now it’s more convenient, there’s more seating, and you can get it and get out,” said Dennis. “Making sure the student body is happy, that’s the reason why it was done.They tried making it modern, streamlined, and comfortable for you.” Follow us! The Beacon @wilkesbeacon @wilkesbeacon 6 FOR RENT DREAM RENTALS APARTMENTS AVAILABLE FOR JUNE, 2018 www.DreamRentals.net Call Jim (570) 288-3375 �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 7 Life, Arts & Entertainment Have a story or want your event to be featured? Contact the Life, A&E Editor: amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu Give the gift of warm socks this season to those in need By Amanda Bialek Life, Arts & Entertainment Editor In this season of chilly weather, students can warm the hearts and feet of those in need by donating socks to the Kirby Cares campaign. Socks are one of the most needed items at homeless shelters, but often are the least donated, according to Points of Light. The Kirby Cares campaign, initiated by the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, will run through Feb. 14. New socks can be dropped off inside the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at 65 W. South St. “The premise of the Kirby Center is to give back to the community,” Rodney Ridley, executive director of the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship said. Michelle Lehman, Kirby Scholar of Business Development at the center, was inspired to develop this campaign after some research on the Wilkes-Barre community. She discovered that the United States 2016 Census reported that 28.9% of the population of Wilkes-Barre is living in poverty. “I thought that number was very high and that sparked my attention that we have a lot of men, women and children that are in need of basic necessities. I knew that with this initiative at the Allan P. Kirby Center, we could make a difference even if it was something as small as socks,” Lehman said. With a desire to be creative and a need for socks, the Kirby Cares campaign was born. The goal of this sock drive is to bring together individuals of Wilkes University in a positive way that benefits members of the local community. “She has a very big heart and I know that she is passionate about this particular subject,” Ridley said. A small act of kindness can bring great joy to another person. By putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, you realize the value a pair of socks has. For someone without a cozy home to warm up in, a pair of socks is a true treasure to them. “I look at the Kirby Cares campaign as an active awareness that there are so many people who don’t have the opportunity to feel warm during the winter months. I think it is so easy to wake up on a cold day and put on warm clothing and not really think anything of it,” Lehman said. All sock donations will be given to the St. Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen in downtown Wilkes-Barre. The kitchen serves 300 guests a hot, nutritious meal on a daily basis. “For every problem, there is a solution, and as students we have the ability to make an impact whether it is big or small. WilkesBarre is a strong community and it is important that we continue to take of each other,” Lehman said. New socks can be dropped off at: Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship 65 W. South St., Wilkes-Barre Editor’s note: Amanda Bialek, the life, ========- ========- ========- Iarts and entertainment editor, is the Kirby Scholar of Communication for the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. w @wilkesbeacon amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu The Beacon/Amanda Bialek New socks for children, women and men can be donated until Feb. 14. 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More movement will help you wake up faster and stay awake. 2. Buy a planner. Having a planner in college is essential for keeping track of all of your assignments and upcoming events. Find one that works well with your style. Whether you like simplicity or aim to be bold with bright colors, there is a planner for everyone. You can check out the selections at Michaels craft store or visit Barnes and Noble. Remember to download a coupon on your phone by visiting their websites. Be sure to keep your planner with you wherever you go so you can write things down before you forget. 3. Save those syllabi. A syllabus is your guide for the rest of the semester and important to keep in a safe place. Use a folder to keep all of your syllabi in a designated area. Another option is to put each syllabus in an individual binder that corresponds with every class. 4. Take five and clean. A great way to keep your room and/or apartment tidy is to set aside five minutes a day and clean an area. Whether it is sorting your whites from darks, organizing your desk, cleaning up the kitchen or freshening up the bathroom, you will be glad you did as the semester goes by. productivity. A clear-cut schedule will help you be more efficient and arrive to your classes or other events on time. 7. Use a timer. Take advantage of the timer on your cell phone. Setting a timer helps to accomplish tasks quicker. It keeps you engaged in the work you need to do and can prevent you from distractions like watching television. 8. Download a self-control application. There are a variety of applications that may aid in boosting productivity. SelfControl is available for Mac users and Cold Turkey is an option for PC users. Both of these applications allow you to temporarily block yourself from social media sites and other websites or games that may be addicting. You decide on the time period that you want the websites to be blocked. After setting the time, you will be unable to access the designated websites even if you restart your computer. 9. Use a binder clip for your cords. Keep your wires in order at your desk by using binder clips. From headphones, to the computer cord, cell phone charger and more, your desk can end up becoming a mixture of wires. You can use different sizes and colors depending on the cord. 10. Keep your backpack stocked. Have pens, pencils, notebooks, binders, your planner and a water bottle in your backpack at all times. A first aid kit is also a musthave so you are prepared when you get a headache or need to bandage a paper cut. 11. Color code your calendar. Adding color to your responsibilities serves as a great reminder at what lies ahead. You can use red to mark finals or assignment due dates, green for laundry and blue for appointments. 12. Get sticky-note happy. Head on over to the Dollar Tree and grab a pack of sticky-notes. Write down important due dates for assignments and upcoming meetings or events. Stick them on the wall and remember to take them down once you have completed the task! 13. Charge your phone and laptop at night. Make a habit of plugging in your devices to charge before you go to bed. Waking up to a dead phone or laptop is not a good way to start off the day. While you are recharging with sleep your devices should be charging with power too. 9 14. Learn when to say no. There are so many opportunities in college to participate in activities. From clubs to social events like game night, there is a lot to be a part of. Learn how to politely decline from invites. You will overwhelm yourself if you participate in everything. Prioritize what activities are most important to you. Your schedule will thank you later. 15. Use a door shoe rack. To keep all of your shoes organized, you can purchase a shoe rack. This will eliminate clutter and give you more floor space. 16. Confirm all appointments in advance. If you have a meeting with a professor, dentist or doctor appointment, take the time to send an email or phone call to confirm the appointment. It is wise to do this a day or two prior incase there has been a change in schedule. This is will save you from spending an hour waiting due to lack of communication. 17. Avoid multitasking. Emailing, texting, writing a paper and watching television all at the same time is not going to end well. Too often we get caught up in the world of multitasking. Focus on one assignment at a time and put all of the distractions away. 18. Figure out your most productive hour. Are you an early riser or a night owl? Knowing the time frame you are most productive and take advantage of it. Dedicate those hours to working on your academic assignments. 5. Make to-do lists. A great goal is to make a list of everything you need to do the next day before going to bed. Keep a notebook by your bed or use an application on your cell phone to list all of the work you need to accomplish. When you wake up the next day feeling refreshed, you will have an outline of what you need to do. 19. Use soda tabs to save space in your closet. 6. Create a schedule. Be determined. Set goals everyday. Spread the joy. Have a grateful heart. Smile and say hello. Work hard, and most importantly, be yourself. Consistency is key. It is a smart idea to develop a daily or weekly schedule that you stick to. Besides your academic classes, be sure to designate times for homework, eating, cleaning, socializing and sleeping. Plan your day out ahead of time. An unscheduled day may lead to less Save the tabs from soda cans and hook them on your hangers. This a nifty way to hang up multiple articles of clothing giving you additional room in your closet. 20. Stay motivated and be awesome. Graphic by Todd Espenshade @wilkesbeacon amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 10 Life, Arts & Entertainment r •A New Way to Organize Your Desk• Supplies needed: •Transparent drawers •Colored/patterned scrapbook paper •Scissors •Tape Instructions: 1. Arrange the paper how you would like it in the drawer. 2. Cut the paper to the height of the drawer. 3. If you needed to use multiple pieces, tape them together. 4. Tape the paper to the corners of the drawers. 5. Repeat for the rest of the drawers. 6. Enjoy your newly made over storage! �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment Sordoni Art Gallery opens new exhibit The Beacon/Madison Kaminski The Sordoni Art Gallery opened its new exhibit “The Bones of Us Hunger for Nothing.” The artwork featured in the exhibit was created by Angela Fraleigh, an artist from Allentown. 11 Artwork such as “What care although your beauties break and fall” pictured above, display Fraleigh’s feminist narratives. Her art demonstrates the role of women through her art as they have been depicted in past art, literature and the media. Graphics by Todd Espenshade With her use of primarily oils, acrylics and gouache, an opaque watercolor, she incorporates her knowledge of the role of women from centuries ago to further instill a sense of power into the female subjects of the paintings. “The Bones of Us Hunger for Nothing” exhibit will be open from Jan. 16 through March 2, 2018, at 141 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, in the Karambelas Media and Communication Center. �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 12 Life, Arts & Entertainment Angela Fraleigh -The Bones of “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.” Made from oil, acrylic and synthetic resin on canvas. Co-written by Shannon O’Connor, LA&E Asst. Editor and Sarah Matarella, Staff Writer Wilkes University brings feminism to the Sordoni Art Gallery with Angela Fraleigh’s exhibit “The Bones of Us Hunger for Nothing.” Angela Fraleigh, a local artist from Allentown, started drawing when she was a little girl but found her passion in high school when a teacher encouraged her to continue her art career. Fraleigh was recruited by Stuart Baron, thendirector of the College of Fine Arts at Boston University after viewing her high school portfolio. Fraleigh attended Boston University on a dean’s scholarship where she completely fell in love with drawing and painting. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at BU and later went on to earn her Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. Fraleigh is currently the chair of Studio Art at Moravian College while currently living and working in New York, N.Y., and Allentown. Fraleigh has been awarded numerous grants, residencies and other recognitions, including Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, CORE Artist in Residence Program at the Glassell School of Art, Eliza Randall Prize at the Glassell School of Art, along with a plethora of other accomplishments. Angela Fraleigh is primarily a twodimensional artist. Through her art, Fraleigh hopes to portray both positive and negative emotions. “My work is about how meaning gets made; how we come to believe the stories that we tell again and again and again. Art carries the potential to address, challenge, and change the power dynamics we’ve come to experience in our culture, on the political playing field, and in society at large,” she stated in an interview with Moravian College in 2016. Fraleigh has different creative processes depending on what art work she is working on. However, each piece of art goes through the same basic structure. Fraleigh begins by researching the piece she wants to create. This is normally the longest part of the process. In the research phase, Fraleigh reads a lot and pays attention to what she is drawing her inspiration from. Fraleigh stated, “As part of this research phase, I’m still making paintings and drawings, but they are often awkward and unfocused. I’ll start sketching, playing around on Photoshop, collaging different images together. Once I have the conceptual motivation and imagery solidified, I go straight to the really large canvases. I like being in the painting, being surrounded by the expanse of the canvas. It’s my favorite part. I like getting lost in them.” Fraleigh moves between universal and personal narratives. The artwork featured at Wilkes University demonstrates the role of women through her art as they have been The Beacon/ MadisonKaminski “Saturn’s Moons.” Made from oil and 23kt gold leaf on linen. �13 The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Us Hunger for Nothing depicted in the past in art, literature and the media. With the feminist movement becoming more prominent in society, Fraleigh has been creating these works of art over the past thirteen years. Fraleigh stated, “My work is about how meaning gets made. I’m interested in how narratives become dominant, how power structures evolve, and what roles pop culture, literature, and art history play into this.” With her the use of primarily oils, acrylics, and gouache, an opaque watercolor, she incorporates her knowledge of the role of women from centuries ago to further instill a sense of power into the women subjects of the paintings. She also utilizes 23 karat gold, silver and metal leaves, and glitter along with substances like mica and graphite in her paintings. Fraleigh uses techniques such as dripping, pouring, splattering and pressing to create the textured art that can be viewed at the Sordoni Art Gallery. Curator and Director of the Sordoni Art Gallery, Heather Sincavage stated “Many of the women in Fraleigh’s paintings appeared on the fringes of historical paintings, ornaments for male figures. In her work, she looks to provide the women with agency through placing them center stage, in control of their surroundings.” A series of lectures about Fraleigh’s artwork will be held open to the public free of charge. The first in this series, The Artist Talk and Reception with Angela Fraleigh, will be held on Wednesday, January 31 at 4:30 pm in room 135 of the Karambelas Media and Communication Center. “The Bones of Us Hunger for Nothing” exhibit is open through March 2, at the Sordoni Art Gallery, located at 141 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, in the Karambelas Media and Communication Center. For any additional information regarding “The Bones of Us Hunger for Nothing” exhibition, future exhibitions, or about the Sordoni Art Gallery itself, call 570-408-4325 or email the gallery at heather.sincavage@wilkes.edu. “You weren’t haunted those two days, you were flooded with light.” Made from oil and gouache on canvas over panels. Editor’s Note: All information about Angela Fraleigh was found in an interview with Moravian College from Dec. 15, 2016. @wilkesbeacon shannon.oconnor@wilkes.edu “Something has started to live in you that will live longer than the sun.” Made from oil, gouache and synthetic resin on canvas. “Slight.” Made from oil and galkyd resin on canvas over panel. Graphic by Todd Espenshade �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Opinion Editorial Staff 2017-18 MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Toni Pennello Managing Editor - Danny Van Brunt Adviser - Dr. Kalen Churcher Opinion Have an opinion or want to write a guest column? Contact the opinion editor: andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Spring semester movies to watch By Nicholas Filipek Asst. Opinion Editor SECTION EDITORS News - Cabrini Rudnicki LA&E - Amanda Bialek Opinion - Andre Spruell Sports - Luke Modrovsky ASSISTANT EDITORS News - Maddie Davis LA&E - Shannon O’Connor Opinion - Nick Filipek Sports - Ben Mandell & Alex Kielar DESIGN EDITORS Todd Espenshade - Graphic Designer PHOTOGRAPHERS Nicole Gaetani Interested in joining the Beacon? To learn more about the positions we offer and what you can do, contact daniel.vanbrunt@wilkes.edu 141 S. Main St. Clayton and Theresa Karambelas Media Center Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 www.thewilkesbeacon.com 14 Nick Filipek, The Beacon’s resident movie buff and assistant opinion editor, will review movies each week. Want to hear about one in particular? Email Nick at: nicholas.filipek@wilkes.edu. Welcome back for the Spring 2018 semester, Colonels! I hope everyone had a wonderful break where they got to sit around and watch tons and tons of movies. No? Just me? Well if you didn’t get a chance to get to a theater over break, there are plenty of good movies that will hit cinemas over the coming months of the semester. 1.Winchester The premise of the movie has got to be one of the most original story ideas I have ever heard. If the title doesn’t bring a certain image to mind, let me elaborate before I explain. The Winchester repeating rifle was one of tools that “won the west.” Before this rifle was invented, it would take up to (or more than) a minute to reload your rifle to take a second or even third shot. The introduction of the automatic reload completely changed the firearms game, and everyone at the time had to have one. You can only imagine the number of gunshot victims there were after the invention of this weapon, and that’s where the movie seemingly draws inspiration. Helen Mirren (“RED,” “The Queen”) will portray the heiress to the firearm’s loving family, who believes that she is being haunted by the souls of people killed by the rifle with her name on it. There has been a resurgence of the horror genre’s popularity, but most stories seem more of the same lately. This film, however, is truly an original idea, and with such a talented actress at the helm of this project I really think this flick will be something special. Winchester releases Feb. 2, 2018. 2. Black Panther Easily one of the most anticipated movies to come from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), “Black Panther” will arrive in theaters on Feb. 16, 2018. Following the events of “Captain America; Civil War,” T’Challa, the new King of Wakanda, must return home to claim his right as the King from a would-be usurper. Chadwick Boseman (“42,” “Get on Up”) has already done a beautiful job of bringing the King of the isolated, technologically advanced city of Wakanda to life in “Civil War,” and I am really pumped to see where this character goes from there. Many people have been calling this movie “the first ‘black’ superhero movie,” apparently forgetting that Wesley Snipes brought “Blade” to the silver screen successfully three times, and that is rather fitting considering the character Black Panther was one of the first, if not the very first, African-American superheroes in comic book publications. The cast is one of the strongest the MCU has ever assembled and includes Michael B. �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Spring movies cont. Opinion Jordan (“Creed,” “Fruitvale Station”), Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave,” “NonStop”), Danai Gurira (“All Eyez on Me,” “The Visitor”) and Andy Serkis (“13 Going On 30,” “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”), who reprises his role from “Avengers; Age of Ultron,” Ulysses Klaue. Though I have a feeling this film will follow suit with others in its universe like “Iron Man” or “Dr. Strange” in presenting a formulaic origin story, I still will be one of the first in line to see the movie. Reid, Levi Miller and Rowan Blanchard on an adventure to find the main character Megs (Reid) father, Dr. Alex Murray, played by Chris Pine (Star Trek, This Means War) A big Disney movie, with big names and lots of special effects, it would seem like the perfect equation to make lots of money right? Let us not forget this is the same studio that brought us “John Carter” and “The Lone Ranger” back to back (both HUGE financial flops for Disney). This is not me “hating”, but I am going to be overly cautious before going to spend money on this movie. See “A Wrinkle in Time” in theaters on March 9th 2018. Based off the science fantasy novel written by Madeline L’Engle, “A Wrinkle in Time” will explore the story of three young children hurled into space by magical beings in order to find one of the children’s fathers. Personally I have not read the book so I do not have as much excitement as others, but let me tell you, the hype is real. The general audience seems to be clambering for this movie, and with its amazing cast and visual effects I can see why. Oprah Winfrey (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, The Color Purple), Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde, Walk the Line) and Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project, No Strings Attached) will play the three magical beings that set the story into action sending Storm If “A Wrinkle in Time” is not the book/ movie you were looking for, maybe “Ready Player One” is. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb. com) summarizes the plot considerably simpler than I could: “When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts find the first clue and starts a race for the Egg.” Now anyone out there wondering what the Easter Bunny has to do with the story, or why the movie wouldn’t come out in April, let me explain. An “Easter egg” does not refer to the brightly dyed eggs kids search for on Easter 3. A Wrinkle in Time RAH FREY 4. Ready Player One Sunday, but get their name in this form from the “seeking” aspect of said tradition. Directors, game creators or animators hide these “Easter eggs” in their projects to see who’s really paying attention, or to give a nod to another project they or their studio have done. “Pixar” is notorious for doing this. Secretly slipping the cowgirl doll from Toy Story, Jessie, inside the little girl’s room during “Monsters Inc.” is one of my favorite examples. Steven Spielberg (do I really need to explain who he is?) will be directing, and I really couldn’t think of a better fit. Granted the man could direct anything but this movie seems to be right up his alley. Ready Player One will be in theaters March 30, 2018. 5. Rampage I honestly cannot say why I want to see this movie so badly. This is a pure “popcorn movie” with absolutely no real value to it, but I am still hyped to no extent. Simply put, this movie is about three monsters, an ape, wolf and lizard (all 20 stories tall) going on a rampage throughout the city. The “story” comes from the original 1980s arcade game of the same name, with the same premise. I have no idea what Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (“Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,” “San Andreas”) Jeffrey Dean Morgan (“Watchmen,” “The Walking Dead”) or Joe 15 Manganiello (“True Blood,” “Magic Mike XXL”) will have to do in this movie, but they are three of my favorite actors, so I’m just going to have to go see it. 6. Super Troopers 2 The tagline of this movie says it all: “The long anticipated sequel to the cult comedy hit.” Erik Stolhanske, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Kevin Heffernan and Jay Chandrasekhar make up “Broken Lizard,“ a comedy/film team responsible for writing and acting in the film, with Chandrasekhar in the director’s chair as well. The original “Super Troopers” came out in 2001, and took audiences by storm. Since then the boys have stayed busy making other movies like “The Slammin Salmon,” “Club Dredd” and probably their most well known work, “Beerfest.” The sequel will center on our favorite Highway Troopers (which, if you have seen the first movie, *SPOILERS* ends with them losing said jobs, so I’m wondering how that’s going to pan out) battling Canadian Mounty’s for a stretch of highway each unit has laid claim to. The Broken Lizard team has not disappointed audiences yet, and with the first film being so beloved, I doubt they will start now. Super Troopers 2 comes out on April 20, 2018. @wilkesbeacon nick.filipek@wilkes.edu •HSE WITHERSPOON TIME IS MEOW �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Opinion The Top Four Things to do During a Snow Day By Savannah Pinnock Staff Writer As the heart warming, and awe inspiring holiday season fall further and further into the abyss of pleasant memories, one is faced with the realization that the academic year is in motion once again. For many, this is a fond realization as the holiday break can often grow monotonous and one begins to hear the beckoning of the semester calling them back into an academic routine. For lower and upperclassmen alike, being jolted out of a relaxed delta state and into an active beta state can be invigorating and simultaneously overwhelming. Keenly, nature seems to have a loophole for this dilemma being, the snow day. These happenchance days are like an unspecialized cell that can be programmed to do anything a student needs or desires; but with a plethora of options, what can one truly do? Well, the choices are virtually infinite. 1) Engage in a Mental Health Day A fresh snow day can be one of the most beautiful sights to see as it appears as if the landscape and furthest portion of the horizon is blanketed in a soft, pillowy, layer of white. Such a sight can be aesthetically pleasing, but it can also be a source of gloom. Winter is notorious for cloudy days marked by white to light grey skies, and a feeling of melancholy and constance. In addition to the previously aforementioned phenomenon, according to an article from the American Psychological Association, 61 percent “of college students seeking counseling..report anxiety”, followed by depression at 49 percent, and stress at 45 percent. With such studies reporting high rates of poor mental health, taking advantage of a mental health day is vital to every student as one’s overall well being is on an ideological equilibrium and one should aim to find balance. As part of your day, you can turn on a soft gentle light and listen to peaceful sounds such as rain via youtube and practice breathing exercises. Herbal teas such as chamomile and dandelion are known for their calming effects and can contribute to bringing one a sense of tranquility and peace. Apps such as headspace are also an excellent resource for gaining a peace of mind. 2) Have a Movie Day With the spring semester at hand, it is easy to find oneself missing out on moments to bond with friends as you and your cohort may be fairly busy. A solution to this dilemma can be a relaxing movie day where you and your friends can socialize and unwind. If you’re aware of an impending snow storm, it is savvy to get your assignments done early so that you are free of the looming stress of unfinished assignments. Netflix is amazing in the department of snow days and with the help of warm blankets, hot cocoa, snacks, and good friends, you can make a snow day one of the most enjoyable days you’ve had in a while. 3) Binge, Binge, Binge Yes, you did hear that correctly, during your snow day, binge on the things you enjoy the most. During the semester it is gravely important that you excell and try your best in all of your academic endeavors. Likewise, it is also important to unwind when you can to avoid “burning out” academically. For this reason, I challenge you to take advantage of your snow days and engage in what you enjoy. 4) Go the Extra Mile With a snow day, one has the option of completing freshly assigned assignments as well as getting assignments done early. In fact, it is clear that when you complete an assignment early you have an advantage as well as more time to focus on what you enjoy as well as extracurricular activities. It can also be said that accomplishing tasks early is the key to enjoying your college experience. If you work and study hard today, you’ll have more than enough time to do what you love tomorrow. @wilkesbeacon savannah.pinnock@wilkes.edu Have an opinion you’d like to share? Email us! Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! Facebook: The Beacon Twitter: @wilkesbeacon Instagram: @wilkesbeacon 16 �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Opinion 17 Meet the Majors This week’s major: Political Science Interviews and photos by Abigail Tarway Staff Writer Every week, The Beacon will offer a chance for majors to be placed in the spotlight. Each student that gets chosen will have a few words to express why they chose the major and how they feel it will benefit them in the future. Corrine Bonnerwith Junior Joshua Bradley Sophomore “I specialized in this field because I am passionate about domestic and international issues that affect everyone, every single day. I hope to one day make an impact on those issues myself. My degree in this field is essential to the career I wish to pursue in the Federal Government; by studying these topics now, I will be well-versed in the issues when I have to step-up in a future position.” “I want to use political science/ international studies to make a change in communities across the United States as well as in other countries. I have an avid interest in learning about other cultures and a respect for communities outside my own.” The Beacon/ Abigail Tarway Neishmy Rodriguez Junior “My major has helped me so much get a background in international relations and ways that international organizations deal with specific areas. Here at Wilkes I gained a relationship with my professors and I think they have guided me into what I want to do which is become a government diplomat or work with the United Nations.” Carlie Coolbaugh Junior “I decided to specialize in these fields because of my large interest in politics. I find it very important as a United States citizen to be actively informed and involved in American politics. I believe this mix of areas of study will be beneficial to me at a great level in the future because of the relevance of politics in our society.” �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Opinion 18 Winter break is not really a break for student-athletes By Andre Spruell Opinion Editor Coming back to school after a long winter break is something students often do not look forward to. For student-athletes that participate in sports, the narrative is not the same. For many college students, there is almost no better feeling than finishing that last final and hopping in a car packed with your belongings to head back home for a month without having to stress about any school assignments. For student-athletes that participate in winter sports, a month-long break is more of a one-week break, if that. For many Division I student-athletes that participate in winter sports like basketball, many do not even have the chance to go home, meaning they may even spend Christmas with their teammates as opposed to with their families. Being a member of the Wilkes men’s basketball team, a division III school, our winter break only lasted five days. Although break was shorter for us compared to our fellow peers, it is not as bad as non-studentathletes would think. Even though campus is pretty much dead since everyone else is back at home, our only responsibility was basketball. Being back at school during break gives collegiate athletes a small taste of what it is like to be a professional athlete. Like professional athletes, going to practice and games is what our quote on quote job was, which leaves a ton of free time. No matter whether you are a studentathlete or a regular college student, we are so accustomed to constantly having something to do, that we generally do not know what to do with so much free time. While you are home on a month long winter break, a student can occupy that free time by doing things like hang out with friends and family, play video games, read books, and many other activities. For student-athletes that are on campus during break, it can be even harder to decide what to do with that free time. Whenever we did not have a practice, game, or a team activity, it was hard to decide what to do with so much free time because the cafeteria is closed, and are often alone unless the student-athlete has a roommate that is also on the team. To combat the issue, the school loaded each player with money on their flex dollars, which is a form of money on a student ID accepted at particular restaurants and establishments, and would periodically be given cash that we could use outside of those establishments that do not accept flex dollars. Also, we were given meals before and after games and even practice sometimes. Personally, being at campus instead at home on break is something that is relaxing and gives a sense of independence as you are forced to do most things on your own. roster. That is 1,696 men across the entire NFL platform and the ‘all-star’ game is going to host well above 7 percent of it to represent the best? That number is 5 percent for the NBA and 6 percent for the NHL. The point is that more and more players are being let into a game meant to be exclusive. How are the players chosen? The vote is a third fan based and two-thirds player/coach based. There is an extremely important catch and it is that fans are allowed to vote unlimitedly. Why should that matter? It has disturbing significance because it put the worst punter in the league, Ryan Plackemeier of the 49’s, into the number one spot solely based on a flashy campaign by their own organization. If money is going to buy this showing then it is no better than a political campaign and that is disturbing. Another important piece to this complex puzzle is the date of the Pro Bowl. It is scheduled a week before the Super Bowl. Who in their right mind would risk hurting themselves a week before the greatest moment of their life for this superficial fan fair? It has gotten to the point that an unwritten rule has arose of not going for injury causing or excessive tackles. Obviously, players are not trying to hurt each other to the point of injury either way, but there are extra precautions when they are playing on ice in fear of losing a Super Bowl appearance. Sean Taylor may be the one exception to this rule and if that reference is foreign then I insist you do some form of research into the name. The worst part of the situation is what the Pro Bowl could be. Instead it has become something for the fans which is nice in its own right because that is why football is worth anything, right? For true fans that would love to see acts of sickening athleticism, this game a week before the Super Bowl has become nothing more than a statistic to throw into arguments of who the better players are. Pro Bowl appearances are becoming synonymous with that stack of medals from little league or those soccer tournaments you played in as a little kid. Yeah, they look really cool hanging up and, wow, there are a lot which means you must be good right? Did every other kid who played show you his though? Quality over quantity. Next time you are at home for during winter break catching up on Netflix and have a friend that has to stay on campus for a sport, do not be afraid to reach out to them because like you, there is a good chance they also do not know what to do with all their free time. @wilkesbeacon andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Do you have opinions? Do you wish you had a platform to share them? Contact Andre Spruell to write about them and get them off your chest. andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Is the NFL Pro Bowl even worth watching at all? By Brandon Belfonti Staff Writer Pro bowl or Fan bowl? The NFL Pro Bowl is the most irrelevant event across the entire sports landscape. Plain and simple. For anyone who is unaware, this an allstar game between the two conferences of the National Football League. The National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). Every professional sport has its own allstar game where the most talented at their positions meet to compete at the highest level possible. In its simplest form the concept really is amazing. The fastest, strongest, most cognitively aware humans on the earth meeting head to head for a showdown of true physical ability. If only this could be the case. This ‘prestigious’ honor has become the internal laughing stock for the league. That is for those in it long enough to realize what this all, but stars game is. To dilute the situation even more the rules have changed to allow 125 players into the game this year instead of the regular 88. There are 32 teams each allowed a 53-man @wilkesbeacon brandon.belfonti@wilkes.edu Pro Bowl Facts In 1971, the National Football Conference (NFC) beat the American Football Conference (AFC) in the first Pro Bowl. In 1984, 1989 and 1994, the AFC scored only three points during each game, the fewest points of any Pro Bowl games. In 2013, the NFC team scored the most points of any Pro Bowl game with 62. Larry Fitzgerald (Arizona Cardinals) holds the record for most touchdowns with eight. Source: CNN �Sports The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Sports Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the sports editor: Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu MBB: Colonels top Cougars in OT thriller for pivotal road win though, the Cougars were able to erase the eleven point deficit and keep the game going Asst. Sports Editor back and forth. With nine lead changes in the final minutes, it was fitting that this game DALLAS, Pa. — The Wilkes University was settled by overtime. Colonels continued their winning ways The Colonels came out in the overtime Wednesday night with a huge session and took overtime win on the road at control, capitalizing Misericordia. The win was on the Cougars the Colonels’ seventh in eight missed free-throws games and they now have a 6-1 in overtime. conference record, which puts Combining with them in sole possession of first the Cougars missed place in MAC Freedom. free-throws and the “It’s great right now that Colonels capitalizing we’re in first place,” said Wilkes on their mistakes, Head Coach Izzi Metz. “But we the Colonels cruised have another seven games to through overtime to go.” win 87-82. The Cougars came into this The Colonels sit in game trying to bounce back first place following from their first conference this win but their loss of the season, falling lead is a slim one 90-83 to DeSales. With the game. With seven loss Wednesday night, the The Beacon/Kirsten Peters more games to go, Misericordia Cougars have the Colonels must now lost two in a row. The Mark Mullins (#12) tries to finish a continue to play skid has cost the Cougars their shot during the first half. hungry and finish perfect conference record and the second half they now sit in a of conference play strong to three way tie for continue their goal of striving second with a 5-2 towards a conference title. record. The game Wilkes 87, Misericordia 82 started out very Wilkes (87) -- Mark Mullins well for the 9 3-5 21, Rob Pecorelli 5 2-6 Colonels as they 14, Connor Evans 3 6-8 13, jumped out to Zach Brunner 4 5-5 13, Marcus an early lead in Robinson 2 5-8 10, Tommy the first. It did Bowen 4 2-2 10, Landon Henry not take long for 1 0-0 3, Mason Gross 0 3-4 3, the Cougars to John Goffredo 0 0-0 0, Jack Bova wake up though 0 0-0 0. Totals 28 26-38 87. as they quickly Misericordia (82) -- Jason surged back to Kenny 8 4-7 23, Tre’ Fields 5 eventually take 3-5 14, Tony Harding 5 1-4 the lead. 12, Tyerell Mann 2 0-0 4, Alec The Cougars 0 0-2 0, Stone McCreary The Beacon/Kirsten Peters 9Rodway leading scorer, 1-4 21, Bryce Mondorff 1 0-0 Jason Kenny, 3, Brendan Leonard 1 0-0 3, was a non-factor Tommy Bowen (#4) guards a Patrick Douthit 1 0-0 2. Totals in the first half, Misercordia defender. 32 9-22 82. which forced the Cougars supporting cast to make plays. The Wilkes --`37`36`14--`87 Cougars held the lead for most of the half Misericordia --`29`44`9--`82 once they took the lead, but a late surge in Three-point goals -- WIL (Pecorelli 2, the final minutes of the half saw the Colonels Evans, Robinson, Henry); MIS (Kenny jump out to a 37-29 point halftime lead. 3, Fields, Harding, McCreary, Mondorff, The Colonels came out in the second half with a big three-point shot made by Connor Leonard). Evans (13 points) and followed it up with a Mark Mullins (21 points) steal and dunk, @wilkesbeacon which forced Misericordia to take a time Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu out early in the half. Following the timeout By Ben Mandell 19 MBB: Colonels escape trap game with 58-57 win over Delaware Valley up at 42-42. The Colonels went on to take the lead and did not trail after that. Asst. Sports Editor The sputtering Aggies were able to keep WILKES-BARRE — The Wilkes University the wheels from falling off and continue fight, Colonels won the slimmest way possible tying the game up at 51 with time winding Saturday afternoon, beating the Delaware down in the later stages of the second half Valley University Aggies 58-57. The Colonels thanks to an Alex Matsinye (17 points) three picked up their fourth win in a row and pointer. The win keeps the Colonels in first place hold on to sole possession of first place in the Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom in the MAC Freedom conference and also helps create some separation in the standings Division. The Aggies came into this game flying high following DeSales handing Eastern their first following their huge upset win over Eastern loss. The Colonels, now 7-1 have a one game on Wednesday night and looked to keep lead on DeSales (6-2) and Misericordia (6-2) hopes of a birth in the conference tournament and a two game lead on Eastern (5-3). These four teams currently hold the spots for a alive with a win over the Colonels. The Colonels started the game off strong, birth in the MAC Freedom tournament. The King’s College Monarchs jumping out to a quick sit in fifth place one game lead and controlled the behind Eastern in the first half until the Aggies standings. surged in the final two “We know that we minutes. The Aggies used need to keep playing well great play from Lybryant and we look to use the Robinson, who had a game momentum from this high of 19 points, to hang four game winning streak around in the first half. for the next game,” Metz The Colonels went into said. “You can ask all halftime trailing 28-24. of our players, our next The second half started task is a big home against the same way the first Fairleigh Dickinson.” ended with the Colonels The Colonels will be slumping. The Aggies back in action at home jumped out to an eleven The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani Wednesday at 8:00 point lead with about p.m. when they take on eleven minutes to go Tommy Bowen (#4) holds his Fairleigh Dickinsonin the game. Colonels’ Head Coach Izzi Metz follow-through during Saturday’s Florham Devils in the Marts center. The Devils called a timeout and the game. picked up their first momentum in the game conference win Wednesday, but lost once shifted. “I thought our defense played really well again Saturday to fall to 1-7 in the conference. Wilkes 58, Delaware Valley 57 throughout the game,” Metz said. “But (the Delaware Valley (57) -- Alex Matsinye 5 defense) got us some points and that gave us 6-7 17, Damian Washington 4 0-0 8, Andre some energy.” The Colonels stormed back behind great Butler 2 1-1 6, Austin Chabot 2 0-0 4, Austin play from Tommy Bowen (14 points) and Stoeckel 0 0-0 0, Lybrant Robinson 7 3-3 19, the big man Mason Gross (11 points). Joe Russell 1 1-3 3, Ryan Naccarato 0 0-0 0. Bowen and Gross helped the Colonels with Totals 21 11-14 57. Wilkes (58) -- Rob Pecorelli 5 0-0 11, multiple and-one layups that got the crowd into the game. While the Colonels clawed Marcus Robinson 4 0-0 9, Zach Brunner 3 their way back, the Aggies, who carried a 1-1 7, Connor Evans 1 0-1 3, Mark Mullins 0 2-5 conference record and just four wins on 0-0 0, Tommy Bowen 4 6-7 14, Mason Gross the season into this game, started to sputter. 5 1-2 11, Landon Henry 1 0-0 3, Jack Bova 0 The Aggies turned the ball over and leading 0-0 0, John Goffredo 0 0-0 0. Totals 23 8-11 58. Delaware Valley`28`29--`57 scorer Robinson was held off the board Wilkes`24`34--`58 following the Colonels comeback. Three-point goals -- DV 4 (Matsinye, “We really came out slow, and really lacked energy,” senior Gross explained. “Honestly Butler, Robinson 2); WIL 4 (Pecorelli, Tommy Bowen really set a tone for us coming Robinson, Evans, Henry). off the bench.” Gross also brought some energy to the @wilkesbeacon Colonels bench and crowd with two big andBenjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu one layups, including one that tied the game By Ben Mandell �Sports The Beacon - January 30, 2018 20 Third-year Robinson becomes 32nd Colonel to reach 1,000 points By Alex Kielar Asst. Sports Editor In a come-from-behind victory over crosstown rival King’s on Jan. 20, junior Marcus Robinson reached the impressive 1,000 point plateau on a free-throw at the 6:46 mark of the first half. He becomes the 32nd Colonel in program history to reach this mark in his career. Robinson, measuring six feet, one inch, out of Swedesboro, N.J., finished the game with 14 points and is averaging 14.8 points per game on the season. Being only a junior and reaching 1,000 points for his college career is a very impressive feat to accomplish. “It felt really good, my teammates were really pushing for me to get it,” Robinson said. “It was one of the accomplishments that I was looking to get in high school that I just never got, so I’m just glad I got it on the next level.” For Robinson to reach 1,000 points at the collegiate level is a very impressive feat, especially since he did not do it in high school and he has already accomplished it as a junior. For Robinson to reach this in college, but not high school, shows how much his game has improved since his years spent in high school. “Practice is really the thing that put me ahead,” Robinson said. “I’ve worked on my jumper, attacking the rim, and ball handling to advance my game to the next level.” Robinson has also benefited from talented players around him that have helped him Freedom Conference after their win over reach this milestone. “My teammates are a huge part of my rival King’s. The Colonels’ Head Coach Izzi Metz has success,” Robinson said. “They’re the ones also had a positive impact that find me open shots. on the career of Robinson They also have helped with by trusting him to play, and my mental game. They help helping him by putting him me get over it if I miss a shot in positions to succeed. so they’re big in my career.” “Coach Metz is probably Robinson’s teammates one of the largest individuals were very supportive of him that helped me throughout reaching this milestone and my career,” Robinson said. he couldn’t ask for better “He’s helped me grow as a teammates. The Colonels player both physically and are a tight-knit group that mentally.” only wants to see everyone Good coaches find ways to succeed, especially when bring great things out of good one of them accomplishes players and Metz has been something as big as a very good for the Colonels reaching 1,000 points for and Robinson. Robinson their career. has put in the work to better “They really just himself as a player, but Metz congratulated me and deserves some recognition told me how big of an for how his work with accomplishment it is,” Robinson has paid off. Robinson said. “They were Metz started coaching at really supportive, so I Wilkes University in 2014, appreciate them a lot.” and he recruited Robinson Having teammates that push him and always The Beacon/Kirsten Peters to come play for him in 2015. He knew when he have his back really helped him to get to this Junior Marcus Robinson lines up for recruited him, he could be a very special player milestone. Teams that a foul shot during a game against for the Colonels. are behind each other Misericordia on Jan. 24. “The first time I saw like the Colonels back Marcus tend to succeed. The Colonels found him, I was just really impressed how well he themselves in a tie for first place in the MAC competed on both ends of the floor,” Metz said. “The first time I talked to him, he said he takes pride in his defense, he sees himself as a really good defensive player. That excited me because a lot of guys don’t say that. Just how hard he played and how competitive he is.” There isn’t one day of practice that Metz doesn’t push his players. Day in and day out, he only wants to see them improve and better their game. Robinson works very hard everyday, that Metz doesn’t always have to push him, he usually is able to push himself to get better. “Marcus never really has a bad practice at Wilkes, you can’t say that about a lot of players, not just here but anywhere. Marcus is one of those guys who’s gonna give his best effort everyday, whether he’s injured, sick. His energy level may at times be a little low cause it’s a long season, but he brings it and leads by example.” “It felt really good to be in front of the home crowd, especially with that crowd against King’s,” Robinson said. “It was a huge crowd and they really had it rockin’ in the place.” The Colonels were able to win the game against King’s, so that was also a plus for Robinson to be able to accomplish this feat in a big conference victory. Robinson will continue to improve his game everyday the rest of this season and help the Colonels try for a MAC Freedom conference championship. This is an accomplishment that everyone on the team is looking to achieve. Wilkes Men’s Winter Sports Schedules Women’s Swimming Swimming Men’s Volleyball Wrestling 11/3 vs. Millersville L 24-25 11/4 @ King’s, 10th place 11/11 vs. Suny Cortland, L 20-23 vs. NYU, L 6-34 vs. Hunter College, W 38-6 11/18 vs. Heidelberg, L, 23-28 @ Mount Union, L, 9-33 vs. Alma, W, 34-8 vs. Baldwin Wallace, L, 3-43 vs. Greensboro, W, 31-13 12/2 vs. Southern Virginia ,W, 35-9 vs. McDaniel College, W 25-12 12/8 vs. Elizabethtown, W, 24-19 12/10 @ Stevens Institute, L, 16-29 vs. LIU Post, L, 3-38 12/22 Wilkes Open 1/4 vs. North Central, L, 6-32 vs. Chicago, L, 17-24 vs, Ohio Northern, L, 18-24 1/11 vs. Penn Tech, W, 43-9 vs. Lackawanna College, W, 41-10 1/20 MAC Champ. @ King’s, 3rd Place 1/28 John Reese Duals, 11:00 a.m. 2/2 @ College of NJ, 7:30 p.m. 2/3 Messiah Open, 10:00 a.m. 2/9 vs. Ithaca, 7:00 p.m. 2/11 vs. King’s, 12:00 p.m. 2/16 vs. Scranton @ King’s, 7:00 p.m. 2/17 vs. Keystone @ Scranton, 12:00 p.m. 10/7 vs.William Paterson, L 98-108 10/14 Colonel Sprint Invite, 1st place *10/20 @ Arcadia, L, 44-142 10/21 vs. Mount Saint Mary, W, 152-97 *10/28 vs. Stevenson, W, 117-20 *11/5 @ Lebanon Valley, W, 128-61 vs. Dickinson, L, 88-106 *11/11 vs. FDU-Florham, W, 126-72 11/18, 11/19 Diamond Invite, 5th place *12/3 @ Lycoming, L, 84-173 12/8 vs. PSU-Altoona, W, 110-70 *1/13 @ Misericordia, L, 108-139 *1/20 @ Messiah, L, 65-125 1/27 vs. SUNY-Cobleskill, W 135-86 vs. SUNY-Delhi, W, 155-37 2/3 vs. King’s, 1:00 p.m. 2/15-2/18 MAC Championships *-MAC Home meets @ Wilkes-Barre CYC Record: 7-6 (MAC: 3-4) WREST (Continued): Home matches @ Marts Center Record: 10-11 Results through 1/27 10/14 Colonel Sprint Invite, 3rd place *10/20 @ Arcadia, L, 42-136 10/21 vs. Mount Saint Mary’s, L, 79-151 *10/28 vs. Stevenson, L, 61-104 *11/5 @ Lebanon Valley, L, 57-136 vs. Dickinson, 57-111 *11/11 vs. FDU-Florham, L, 77-90 11/18-11/19 Diamond Invitational, 9th *12/3 @ Lycoming, L, 74-164 12/8 vs. PSU-Altoona, L, 85-88 *1/13 @ Misericordia, L, 48-199 *1/20 @ Messiah , L, 46-114 1/27 vs. SUNY Cobleskill, W, 103-85 vs. SUNY-Delhi, W, 102-36 *2/3 vs. King’s 1:00 p.m. 2/15-2/18 MAC Championships *-MAC Home meets @ Wilkes-Barre CYC Record: 2-10 (MAC: 0-7) MVB (Continued): *-MAC Home games @ Marts Center Record: 2-5 (MAC: 0-0) 1/17 @ Lancaster Bible, L, 1-3 1/19 @ St. John Fisher, L, 0-3 1/20 @ Endicott College, L, 0-3 @ Bard College, W, 3-1 1/24 vs. Loras College, L, 0-3 1/27 vs. Wilson College, L, 0-3 vs. Bard College, W, 3-1 *2/3 @ Stevenson, 2:00 p.m. *2/7 vs. Messiah, 7:00 p.m. *2/10 @ Arcadia, 1:00 p.m. vs. Kean 3:00 p.m. 2/11 vs. Hunter College, 1:00 p.m. vs. Mount Saint Vincent, 1:00 p.m *2/14 vs. Misericordia, 4:00 p.m. vs. York College, 8:00 p.m. *2/21 vs. Alvernia, 7:00 p.m 2/23 @ York College, 8:00 p.m. 2/25 vs. New Jersey City, 11:00 a.m. vs. Keuka College, 3:00 p.m. *2/28 @ Widener, 7:00 p.m. 3/15 @ Lehman College, 7:00 p.m. *3/17 @ Alvernia, 12:00 p.m. *3/21 vs. Widener, 7:00 p.m. *3/24 vs. Stevenson, 2:00 p.m. *3/27 @ Misericordia, 7:00 p.m. *3/29 vs. Arcadia, 7:00 p.m. *4/4 @ Messiah, 7:00 p.m. 4/7 vs. City College of New York �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Colonel Athletics in Brief By Luke Modrovsky and Ben Mandell Sports Editor / Asst. Sports Editor 1/20 WREST: Senior Jake Dimarsico claimed a Middle Atlantic Conference Wrestling Championship at the Conference tournament hosted by King’s College. Freshman Kyle Trout, senior Matt Grossmann, junior Josh Evans and junior Ashton Gyenizs all claimed second place honors, Freshman Dylan O’Connor also secured third place while the team placed third overall. WSWIM: The Lady Colonels fell in a MAC meet with Messiah College 114-46. Freshman Abby Keating placed second in two events and junior Morgan Williams was a runner-up in one of her races. MSWIM: The Colonels dropped their meet with Messiah College on the road 12565. The relay team consisting of freshman Nick Martino, sophomore Tyler Weatherby, freshman Justin Burda and freshman Jared Bryne took first place. MVB: The Colonels split their matches winning 3-1 over Bard College after falling 3-0 Endicott College. Senior Brian Schumacher had a career-high seven kills and three blocks in the loss to Endicott. Senior Danny Sales tallied a career-best 19 kills in the victory over Bard. MBB: Wilkes defeated cross-town rival King’s College 76-64. Senior Zach Brunner (17 points, 11 rebounds), junior Marcus Robinson (14 points, 10 rebounds) and sophomore Mark Mullins (14 points, 10 rebounds) all had double-doubles in the victory. WBB: Maddie Kelley notched her first career double-double in a 75-59 loss to crosstown rival King’s College. Sports 1/22 WBB: Sophomore Chelsea Erkes notched a career-high 12 points in a 65-60 nonconference loss to host Alvernia. 1/24 WBB: Maddie Kelle paced the Lady Colonels with eight points and five rebounds in an 89-33 final against Misericordia. MBB: See page 19. MVB: The Colonels battled hard in a straight-set loss (19-25, 15-25, 18-25) to Loras College, but could not get over the hump. Junior Kyle Price led the defense with eight digs. 1/27 MVB: The Colonels split against Wilson College and Bard College. In the team’s second victory of the year against Bard (25-12, 2426, 25-20, 25-21), senior Danny Sales landed his second triple-double of his career with 16 kills, 13 assists and 10 digs. Senior Brian Schumacher had a career-high nine kills in the loss against Wilson. MSWIM: The Colonels won eight events in two victories against SUNY Delhi (15537) and SUNY Cobleskill (135-86) on senior day. Four freshman, Daniel Mack, Tyler Weatherby, Cameron Aspey and Jared Bryne teamed up to take first in the 200 medley relay in 1:50.15. WSWIM: The Lady Colonels made a splash against SUNY Delhi (102-36) and SUNY Cobleskill (103-85) for their first two victories of the season. Junior Morgan Williams placed first in both the 1000 freestyle (11:50.91) and 500 freestyle (5:51.13). WBB: Gianna Roberts landed a doubledouble (17 points and career-high 16 rebounds), but it would not be enough to lift the Lady Colonels to a victory over visiting Delaware Valley. MBB: See page 19. 21 2017-18 Conference Standings Men’s Basketball: MAC Freedom Conf. Overall Wilkes 7-1 14-5 DeSales 6-2 15-4 Misericordia 6-2 11-8 Eastern 5-3 10-9 King’s 4-4 8-11 Delaware Valley 2-6 4-15 Manhattanville 1-7 7-12 FDU - Florham 1-7 1-18 Women’s Basketball MAC Freedom Conf. Overall FDU - Florham 6-2 13-6 King’s 6-2 11-8 Manhattanville 5-2 14-3 DeSales 5-3 10-9 Misericordia 4-3 11-7 Delaware Valley 4-4 7-12 Eastern 1-7 4-15 Wilkes 0-8 4-15 If the playoffs started today... Semi-final: Eastern @ Wilkes Semi-final: Misericordia @ Desales If the playoffs started today... Semi-final: Desales @ FDU-Florham Semi-final: Manhattanville @ King’s Football coach search ongoing The search is well underway for the replacement of former head football coach Trey Brown. Sources tell The Beacon that a replacement will be named within two weeks. The new hire will be responsible for the direction of the football program, beginning with spring preparations for the 2018 season. Numerous candidates were on campus during the past week to discuss a potential position with Wilkes. Recruit visits are still occuring under the direction of acting head coach David Biever. Biever managed the offensive line under Brown. Numerous recruits were on campus for this past weekend’s open house taking a look at what Wilkes has to offer. It is still unclear if Biever will continue in a role at Wilkes, but most likely depends on the new hire, sources said. Wilkes Football is looking to rebound after a miserable 2017 campaign that left the team winless (0-10). -Staff report Wilkes Winter Sports Schedules Women’s Basketball 1/22 @Alvernia, L, 60-65 11/15 @ Rutgers-Camden, L, 54-83 *1/24 @ Misericordia, L, 33-89 *1/27 vs. Delaware Valley, L, 61-67 11/17 vs. Marywood, W, 70-59 11/18 vs. U. of Scranton, L, 43-78 *1/31 vs. FDU-Florham, 6:00 p.m. 11/21 vs. PSU Wilkes-Barre, W, 72-51 *2/3 @Manhattanville, 1:00 p.m. *2/7 @ DeSales, 6:00 p.m. 11/30 @ Moravian, L, 57-80 12/4 @ Rutgers-Newark, L, 43-59 *2/10 vs. Misericordia, 1:00 p.m. *2/13 @ King’s, 6:00 p.m. 12/5 vs. Valley Forge, W, 89-76 12/7 vs. PSU-Schuylkill, L, 56-61 *2/17 vs. Eastern, 1:00 p.m. 12/9 vs. Juniata, L, 44-77 *-MAC Freedom *1/3 @ FDU-Florham, L, 59-90 *1/6 vs. Manhattanville, L, 38-93 Home games @ Marts Center Record: 4-15 1/8 @ PSU-Hazleton, W, 93-79 *1/10 @ Delaware Valley, L, 71-83 (MAC-Freedom: 0-8) *1/13 @ Eastern, L, 79-93 Results through 1/27 *1/17 vs. DeSales, L. 36-101 *1/20 vs. King’s, L, 59-75 Men’s Basketball 11/15 vs. PSU-Hazleton, W, 83-58 11/18 @ Elizabethtown, W, 86-75 11/21 vs. PSU-WB, W, 74-65 11/25 @ Marywood, L, 64-74 11/26 @ U. of Scranton, W-52-45 11/29 @ Drew, W, 87-80 12/2 vs. Messiah, L, 64-67 12/5 vs. Clarks Summit, W, 86-64 12/19 @ Albright, L, 65-72 12/28 @ Hiram, L, 85-94 12/29 @ Norwich, W, 97-74 *1/3 @ FDU-Florham, W, 75-52 *1/6 vs. Mahattanville, W, 73-68 *1/10 @ Delaware Valley, W 78-69 *1/13 @ Eastern, L, 76-91 *1/17 vs. Desales, W, 72-66 *1/20 vs. King’s, W, 76-64 *1/24 @ Misericordia, W, 87-82 *1/27 vs. Delware Valley, W, 58-57 *1/31 vs. FDU-Florham, 8:00 p.m. *2/3 @ Manhattanville, 3:00 p.m. *2/7 @ Desales, 8:00 p.m. *2/10 vs. Misericordia, 3:00 p.m. *2/13 @ King’s, 8:00 p.m. *2/17 @ Eastern, 3:00 p.m. *-MAC Freedom Home games @ Marts Center Record: 14-5 (MAC-Freedom: 7-1) Results through 1/27 �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Sports 22 Getting to know... Jake DiMarsico Super Senior Wrestler The Beacon: Male Athlete of the Week 1/14-1/22 Why Jake DiMarsico was selected: Jake DiMarsico was selected because he captured the 2018 Middle Atlantic Conference Championship at 133 pounds on Jan. 20. DiMarsico won three matches on the day, including a 10-8 decision, an 11-3 major decision and a 4-3 decision in the championship bout. Congratulations, Jake! What head coach Jonathan Laudenslager said: “Jake has done an excellent job this season on putting himself in position for the team, but more importantly putting himself in a position for the opportunity to qualify for the NCAA tournament in March. If Jake takes every opportunity from each day forward to commit to his goal, I see no reason he can’t be wrestling in Cleveland with the right to represent Wilkes on a national level.” Name: Jake DiMarsico Year: Super Senior Major: Accounting Minor: Marketing Hometown: Thiells, Ny. High School: North Rockland HS Position: 133lbs Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? My mind was set on wrestling in college and I spoke to a few different coaches. Then one day Slager gave me a call and he got me to come take a visit, I got to see how great of a tradition the wrestling program had for the university and I wanted to be apart of it. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? Work in Manhattan in Finance, accounting or stock broking for a few years, then eventually move out west most likely to California so I can snow board or hit the beach whenever I want. Favorite building on campus? Marts Center, where all the hard work takes place! Hopes for this season as a Colonel? All-American. Editor’s hi s year's year’s Athlete it -bas ed. D on’t ag ree Editor's note note:: T This Athlete of of the the Week Week iiss mer merit-based. Don't agree w ith our elec tion? LLet et uuss know it te r : @ WilkesB eacon with our sselection? know on on Tw Twitter: @WilkesBeacon Additionally, nd of mic year, year, we ill post post aa reader poll Additionally, at at the the eend of the the acade academic we w will reader poll to row n an to ccrown an “Athlete "Athlete of of the the Year” Year" .. Full ication ccritera r ite ra and mation can found on Full qualif qualification and more more infor information can be be found on our our website w w. the w ilkes beacon.com website:: w www. thewilkesbeacon.com The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky When/Why did you first begin playing? My career began playing baseball and soccer as a young kid. My two good friends were wrestlers and I had never even seen a match before. One day in 6th grade I went to a high school dual and wanted to try it, so I took off my cleats and strapped on some wrestling shoes and began to write my story. Favorite thing to do during practice? Live wrestling, time just flies when your scrapping. If you had to choose one thing about your program that you could improve, what would it be? How much my coaches hate the music I bump during practice…. Other interests or hobbies off of the field? Snowboarding, Gaming (PUBG and Rocket League), Music, getting after it, and buying SUPREME. Most influential person in your life? My cousin Anthony DiMarsico and my performance coach from back home John Hoke. These men taught me from a little kid what it as like to want to become a champion. A quote you live your life by? “Saddest thing in life is wasted talent” – A Bronx Tale If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Pablo Escobar Favorite meal to eat on campus? As rarely as I wake up for them but the egg sandwich from Grill Works. Favorite professor? Dr. Seeley. Anyone to give a shout-out to? S/O 363, 365, 367 S. River, my Cuzznt Leech, and my Family OTF. -Complied by Luke Modrovsky, Sports Editor �Sports The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Getting to know... 23 Chelsea Erkes Sophomore Basketball Player The Beacon: Female Athlete of the Week-1/14-1/22 Why Chelsea Erkes was selected: Chelsea Erkes came off the bench to score a career-high of 12 points in a Jan. 22 matchup against Alvernia. Erkes had a significant contribution in a matchup where the Lady Colonels came up just short. What head coach Chris Heery said: “Chelsea Erkes has been shooting the ball well in the last few games. She has helped the team by hitting some deep three pointers which helps stretch the defense. She continues to be a great team player.” Name: Chelsea Erkes Year: Sophomore Major: Psychology Minor: Sports Management Hometown: Wernersville, Pa. High School: Conrad Weiser HS Position: Shooting Guard Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? The small campus, relationship with teachers, playing basketball. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? I plan to do something in psychology, and possibly sports. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? I hope that we improve from last years season, and grow closer as a team. Most influential person in your life? My mom, because she has always been there for me, and supports me in everything I do. A quote you live your life by? “With struggle comes strength.” When/Why did you first begin playing? Began playing in second grade, my dad, uncle, cousin, and grandfather all played, just ran in the family. Favorite thing to do during practice? My favorite thing to do during practice is scrimmaging, because it allows us to play as a team and get better as a team, but also as individuals. Coke or Pepsi? Pepsi. Anyone to give a shout-out to? Alyssa Alfano, I see you. -Complied by Luke Modrovsky, Sports Editor E ditor’s note hi s year's year’s Athlete it -bas ed. D on’t ag ree Editor's note:: T This Athlete of of the the Week Week iiss mer merit-based. Don't agree w ith our s elec tion ? L et uuss know it te r :: @ WilkesB eacon with our selection? Let know on on Tw Twitter @WilkesBeacon Additionally, nd of mic year, year, we ill post post aa reader poll Additionally, at at the the eend of the the acade academic we w will reader poll to n an to crow crown an “Athlete "Athlete of of the the Year” Year".. Full ication ccritera r ite ra and mation can found on Full qualif qualification and more more infor information can be be found on our our webwebsite: w w w. the w ilkes beacon.com ~ite: www. thewilkesbeacon . com The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 24 THE BEACON The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. BEACON HIRES: ~ ~RS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, EDITORS This could be you! If you have a passion for writing, design, or photography,join us! Contact: Editor-in-Chief Toni Pennello toniann.pennello@wilkes.edu Freshmen and all majors welcome! � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2018 February 6th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 February 6 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/dc6fc12eef71f8a84a82d3a5d645ce69.pdf ac0bba0f8d403788de649494372563a0 PDF Text Text IHIIE B BIEACC(O)N T~ HE EACON The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 71, Issue 11 The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. Henry’s Dining Hall fitted with new renovations By Maddie Davis By Jackie Kurovsky Staff Writer The Beacon/Maddie Davis Joshua Shepard, a junior musical theater major, sits with friends in the newly rennovated cafeteria. In the image is the new wooden booth area, fitted with charging ports. Bogdan while criticizing the old lay out. “It comfortable experience for the students and staff,” added Bogdan. was like a high school cafeteria.” “It’s a fresh look at something as we Bogdan explained that Alicia Bond, director of business operations, and progress and we keep doing new things Theresa Cochran, Space Mg/Financial to keep the program moving forward and Supervisor in Facilities, both helped design to make it a better experience for Wilkes the color scheme for the cafeteria’s new University.” “It was kinda like we wanted to surprise look. Phillip Marino, project supervisor, also spearheaded the reconstruction of the you” joked Bogdan on the almost sudden dining hall to serve a fresh new look to change of the dining hall’s layout. returning spring semester students. “My hope is that it makes a better dining SEE HENRY, experience for the students and a more University herbarium added to international registry, page 4 Give the gift of warm socks, page 7 Wilkes University Student Government is looking to improve the campus experience for everyone with a new website that keeps users up to date with all things Colonel. The site wilkes.presence.io is the computer platform for the Student Government app “The Colonel Guide” which became available in 2017. Like the app, the site contains information on all clubs and events on campus from Bingo Night to Zebra Communications. Student Body President Cody Morcom explained how the website and its corresponding app help improve student engagement. “We are the sounding board for student concerns,” said Morcom. “These two tools help us to both hear and see concerns as well as get information to every Colonel in a quick, easy, and less-invasive way than ever before.” Campus events appear on the site’s main screen. Students can click the Organizations tab to see a listing of all clubs and organizations on campus. By selecting a club, they can view meeting times and locations and send a request to join. In addition, any questions the user has can be immediately sent to the inbox of the club’s president. SEE CLUB, Page 3 The Beacon/Kirsten Peters Page 6 Graphic by Todd Espenshade Asst. News Editor Henry’s Dining Hall hasn’t been renovated for more than 40 years, but over winter break, the upstairs cafeteria in the Student Union Building received a new, more mainstream look. The cafeteria was remodeled with fresh coats of paint, new soda dispensers and various new outlets with USB charging ports. New plumbing was installed around the cafeteria as well. Aside from these improvements Henry’s seating plan received a new look featuring a new wooden booth area, high tables and an overall new spacious floor plan. The dining hall’s reconstruction has been in the planning stages since the middle of last year. The remodeling was done successfully bringing a more relaxed and modern touch to Wilkes’ campus. After the planning stages the construction took three to four weeks to complete, just in time for the new semester. Jerry Bogdan, the General Manager of Henry’s Dining Hall, had expressed his interest in the newest renovations of the cafeteria in his third year. “It’s something we’ve wanted to do since Aramark came on campus,” stated General Manager Jerry Bogdan about the reconstruction. The plan for the architect, constructed by Bogdan and others, was to make more seating options to cater to all students. “It was like military feeding” joked Student Government debuts club websites Movies coming out this spring semester, page 14-15 MBB: Wilkes holds first place through first half of play, page 19 �News News The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Beacon Briefs Compiled by Maddie Davis Wilkes University’s Annual Sexual Jeopardy On Tuesday, Feb. 6 from 9 to 10 p.m. the BACCHUS Club is holding the Sexual Jeopardy program in the Henry Student Center Ballroom. The club is currently looking for participants for four teams of four to take part in the game show like event to educate those who come about different sexual conceptions. The winning team will also take home a prize. If you are interested in participating please contact Health Services at ext. 4730. Spring Semester Opening of the Colonel Closet Wilkes University’s Colonel Closet is open and restocked for the Spring Semester. The Colonel Closet is open for students in the Interfaith Office on the second from of the Student Union Building Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Contact Kristin Osipower at kristin.osipower@wilkes.edu or at the ext. 5904 for questions or alternate arrangements. Have a breaking story or a press release to send? Contact the news editor: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu Scholarships Available through the Alumni Association If a parent or grandparent of yours graduated from Wilkes University you may qualify for Wilkes University Alumni Scholarship that is now accepting applicants. Apply through the Wilkes Alumni Website to see if you qualify before the Feb. 23 deadline. Last Call to Attend Winter Creative Writing Workshops Winter creative writing workshops will be offered to all of those interested next semester on campus. Reality and Imagery in Fiction, Social Media for Beginners, and Nonfiction Places and Spaces, among others, are the workshops that are being offered. Registration for these workshops is now open at www.wilkes.edu/cw. For any further questions call (570) 408-4547. Wanted: Interns for Wilkes Alumni Political Campaign Anthony Bartoli ’15 is looking for those who are interested in a political internship to help with his campaign running for State Representative of the 118th District. If you are interested please email jon@votebartoli.com and attach resumes and plans to set up an interview. Wilkes University Student Government notes By Megan Stanley Staff Writer The Wilkes University Student Government held their first meeting of the semester on Wednesday. The Spanish Club and Women Empowered by Science (WEBS club) delivered their club reports this week. The Spanish Club told student government that they currently have 10 active members who meet once a month. They held a table at the Wilkes Halloween Party in October, and participated in the MSC party. The club held a Krispy Kreme fundraiser last semester. In terms of the future, the club hopes to host more fundraisers and activities which all will be discussed. WEBS currently have 58 active members. They meet with WEBS participants from the local area to deliver labs, and the next session will be at the end of the month. Last semester, the group held a Yankee Candle fundraiser and made a $492.40 profit for the club. They are currently planning an event called Adventures in Science that will be held in April. In the future, the club wants to reach out more to the Wilkes community and start social media channels. The first item of business was the recognition of the Table Top Gaming Club. The group hopes to facilitate social gatherings for people interested in role playing, deck building and other board games. The hope for the club is to help other students find and 2 News forge new friendships through the events. The club also hopes to help students who might be experiencing anxiety or depression from college work. The club will be advised by Dr. Andrew Miller, and currently has 15 members. The group will return to student government to find out if they have been awarded Student Government recognition. The next item of business was a fund request from APhA-ASP for their annual conference. The 2018 Annual Meeting and Exposition will provide students the opportunity to network, advocate pharmacy, and learn about issues facing the profession. Attending the trip are 31 pharmacy students, but only the five P2 students are eligible for Student Government funding. The total request for the trip is $3,535, which will cover registration, hotel and flights. APhAASP will return to Student Government next week to see if they have been allocated the funding. Geo-Explore club funding request was the next item of business. The group intend to take a trip to the Big Island of Hawaii during Spring Break. The 15 students attending will receive tours from professional geologists, visit state parks, and experience the history and culture of Hawaii. The trip is associated with a one-credit Hawaiian geology course, and the trip will help promote the new geology major. The entire trip will cost $23,846.07, but due to fundraising and personal funds the group are requesting $6,618 from Student Government to help with the trip. Geo-explore club will return next week to find out if they have received the funding. A Pennsylvanian Pharmacist Association funding request was next on the agenda. The group are attending the Midyear conference Jan. 26 to 28 where more than 10 Wilkes students will present posters. The group is requesting $1,200 to cover the registration and hotel of students attending the conference. Next on the business was the name change for IRHC (Inter-Residence Hall Council). After attending a conference, the group hopes to rebrand by creating a new logo with a new name change. The motion was passed for the group to be renamed to Residence Hall Council (RHC). The final item of business was the Capital Fund Request. In the request was a new three-year contract for Presence, the system that “Colonel Guide” was created on, which helps clubs and events register attendance. There was also a request for a new Club Hub computer and an electronic voting system, which will cut down voting time in Student Government meetings. The fund request totalled $25,069.00 and was passed. Finally, the operations committee met during the week and reported the following: Stark building construction is ahead of schedule and will be completed by the summer, and in the communal lounge of University Towers there will be computers added. table of contents news................2 life, a&e...........7 spread............12 opinion..........14 sports............19 �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 CLUB Continued from front page and send a request to join. In addition, any questions the user has can be immediately sent to the inbox of the club’s president. Morcom said the app is also a way for Student Government to receive helpful feedback. In the Campus Forms tab, students can fill out surveys about campus events. This allows Student Government to have the likes and dislikes of Wilkes students right at their fingertips. The site also allows for demographic analysis to ensure campus events are reaching out to all Colonels. “Students may notice how we use their swipes at every SG event,” said Morcom. “This swipe checks them in and allows us to see [...] their class year, major, if they’re a resident or commuter, ethnicity, and so much more.” Student Government Vice President Katelyn Jimison explained the importance of this feature. “Presence helps us to identify groups of students who we are having trouble getting to attend our events, which allows us to make changes in the future to cater to what everyone wants to see.” Morcom said the website and app News combined will absolutely enhance the experience of Wilkes students. “In the past Student Government has played a big role in event planning on campus,” Morcom said. “Over the course of the past semester and into the future, it has been my mission to ensure we maintain that while also advocating for change and improvements that students want and need.” Any student, faculty, staff member or alumni can easily access the website. Their information is pre-loaded onto the site using a sync system with help from the Wilkes IT department. “[It’s] super complex, but it works amazingly,” said Morcom. “I am confident that my successor, the SG President next year will take it further and help to enhance student life even more,” Morcom said. “There are many new updates that the platform’s company is going to be releasing over the next year, ones that I feel will be extremely beneficial to all students interested in enjoying the awesome social events [our] campus offers.” “The Presence tools allow us to update the club leaders to allow current leaders to have access to all of the old budgets [...] from past events,” she said. “This would also be a great way to track spending when multiple people may be working to plan an event, and easily 3 lVEHfl IIGTDI DOaMKJS Student Club RIIIM1 AJrWJlU '5 ftWIJllfl'tlll'IM. 0 Next Meeting: Tuesday the 23rd atllam Breis316 8""1nfom,o1'o!I Aboul lN-IM5'°"1'W'"""'CUlillO,.....Pllif!!l1"11h~ptnfand~tJ;,trint,0,1'fflfNl'J$d!OOltul'"'.ftllillto.erls~ltl!ftnd.i,,._-..lwlt~ l".flffltf'ICIO;IN"Cont.la"_.ott!Mll/ffotlNUbHll!Wllli«t..._ Courtesy of Tim Lavoie The dashboard of the Pre-Vet Club. Club leaders can edit things like meeting time, meeting location, and basic information from this area for other club members to view. see where your spending is at versus the budget.” Morcom hopes for more clubs and organizations to be added to the site. While the platform is in its early stages, Student Government foresees a successful future. “I think Presence is a great resource for all clubs and students to use, and I’m excited to keep spreading the word about it throughout campus,” Jimison said. Editor’s note: Maddie Davis, the assistant news editor, is the treasurer of the Pre-Vet Club. Rosenthal Herbarium internationally recognized, added to registry By Megan Stanley Staff Writer The Rosenthal Herbarium at Wilkes University has recently been added to the database of Index Herbariorum, an international directory of herbaria. Established in 1982, the Herbarium has a collection of over 3,400 specimens of pressed and preserved plants. The majority of the samples are from Pennsylvania, but some plants are acquired from places such as Florida, California, Texas and Canada. The director and curator of the Herbarium, Dr. Kenneth Klemow, has been interested in plant collection since his undergraduate studies at the University of Miami and contributed to the herbarium at Syracuse’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Klemow established the Herbarium at Wilkes more than 30 years ago using both his own personal collection of plants and those that students collected during his classes. “If you go into the herbarium, you’ll see a lot of plants that were collected in the 1980s, when we were trying to rapidly build up the collection. From there, in the 1990s and 2000s and the past eight years we would add around 100 specimens per year.” “I have around 3,400 specimens in the collection. Many of these specimens are collected by students and many of these students have now graduated and gone off to become alumni. We want alumni to know that their work lives on in our herbaria, and we take good care of it.” Klemow spoke about his reasoning behind applying for recognition from the Index Herbariorium. “I was elected as the president of the Pennsylvania Biological Survey, which is a group of biologists who are interested simply in biodiversity within the state. Being that I’m the president of this organization my collection should be properly recognized.” He further added, “it is something that I always aspired [to], because all the best herbaria are there.” Klemow spoke about the benefits of having a herbarium within the university, such as his ability to use the specimens to teach classes. “Some plants are of medicinal value and we have students that are pre-med orientated and so (the herbarium) can be used to show the relationship between plants and these other areas that are important to them.” He further added that herbaria serve as important “store-houses of genetic diversity and genetic information.” Laura Solomon, a senior biology major and Kirby Scholar, has been working with Klemow in the Herbarium for nearly three years, and is currently conducting a project that involves DNA barcoding of certain species. She spoke about how the herbarium has benefitted her academic research. “We can actually work off any of the well- \ I The Beacon/Megan Stanley Laura Solomon, senior biology major, looking at the corydalis plant with Dr. Kenneth Klemow in the Herbarium. preserved samples, some of the older ones the DNA doesn’t hold up as well as we need to isolate it a certain amount to run the reactions but having the specimens gives us so much access. “In the winter we wouldn’t be able to find certain grasses and plants, but now we can just take a little piece of leaf of the pressed plant samples and isolate that.” Being registered to the Index has further benefits. “It makes us part of a scientific community, and so if people are interested in our database or our plants, they can make requests to borrow our plants or we can borrow other people’s plants, whereas before we weren’t really able to do that,” Klemow said. Klemow spoke about his future aspirations for the Herbarium at Wilkes University. “What I want to see the collection specializing in is plants of Luzerne County. I’d like to see us have one of each species in Luzerne County. Now the question is, ‘how close are we to that?’ And the answer is we’re maybe at 30 percent, so we still have a lot to go yet.” �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 4 News Rare autoimmune disorder to be highlighted at upcoming presentation By Maddie Davis Asst. News Editor On Thursday at 6 p.m., Dr. Edward Schicatano, along with the Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, will be holding a guest presentation titled “Madness” by Emily Gavigan in Breiseth Hall room 320. “Madness” is a presentation by Emily Gavigan who hopes to spread awareness about the rare autoimmune disorder she was diagnosed with while in college. It will feature her account of the journey of finding a diagnosis, her experiences, video clips regarding her illness, and the science behind the rare autoimmune disorder that took her and her family by surprise. Emily Gavigan’s story is also described in the book “Brain on Fire” by Susannah Cahalan. The path to finding a diagnosis was long and filled with many obstacles and doubt, but Gavigan and her family kept fighting to find the purpose of her sudden odd, uncharacteristic behavior and changes against false diagnoses and ignorance by some doctors. It baffled doctors at first, but now Emily Gavigan looks to share her story with Wilkes University to reach out and inform people of the rare anti-NMDAR receptor encephalitis she was diagnosed with. Wilkes University’s Political Science professor Dr. Andrew Miller had been friends and neighbors with the Gavigans for 1more than a decade. He and his wife kept up with the ongoing story of their friend’s daughter’s rare and almost mysterious illness. “It was somebody who was a friend of ours, so we were worried of course,” stated Miller discussing the first-hand account of Emily Gavigan’s journey to a rightful diagnosis. “It’s a combination of being worried about our friend, combined with an incredible story of the diagnosis,” Miller said. “It was an amazing set of circumstances that led to the diagnosis,” described Miller. “One of the things Emily is trying to do is build awareness. When she got diagnosed there were hardly any diagnoses in the country … the only expert in the world on this disease is in Philly.” Gavigan was introduced to Psychology and Schicatano by Miller, having witnessed and experienced Emily’s diagnostic journey. Schicatano and Emily Gavigan’s family soon being acquainted and started sharing the details and the science that appealed to his interests and Neuroscience background. “When I first heard it in person I thought it was really interesting,” said Schicatano. “I had never heard of it.” Schicatano hopes that with this presentation students will become more aware of the problem and disorder Emily was diagnosed with because it is more common than we think. “Some of the symptoms are very common,” Schicatano added. “The more people that hear of it the better it’s going to be detected and diagnosed for others.” “To be aware of how something like this can happen ... it’s a learning experiencing,” he continued. “I think the real lesson here is we don’t know as much as we think we know,” Schicatano stated. “We need to say ‘I don’t know and let’s look and let’s research it.” “We don’t really know all that is happening in the brain,” he added, “it is not as simple as it is in the textbooks.” “You’re going to hear something that is fascinating, eye-opening, and informative,” said Schicatano. Psychology and Neuroscience students have already expressed an interest in hearing the rare story of Emily Gavigan’s journey to a diagnosis including junior neuroscience major Thomas Krutsick. “I find Emily’s story very interesting and look forward to hearing about her experience with anti-NMDAR receptor encephalitis, because it is such a rare condition,” Krutsick said. “The thing that I hope to take away from the presentation is a better understanding of someone who suffered through such debilitating symptoms and recovered,” Krutsick said. “You have to see it to believe it,” said Schicatano. Seats will fill up fast for Emily Gavigan’s “Madness” presentation. Email Dr. Schicatano for any further questions regarding the presentation. Prof. awarded ‘PA Acceleration Educator of the Year’ By Cabrini Rudnicki News Editor A faculty member was recently given a prestigious award. Dr. Rodney Ridley was named a Pennsylvania Acceleration Educator of the Year by the Pennsylvania Acceleration Project. The award was presented on Jan. 18 at East Stroudsburg University. This year’s ceremony was the revival of the awards, which previously existed in the past. “The backbone of the awards is that they are trying to highlight people who they think are in some way shape or form, accelerating technology and innovation throughout the state through their sphere of influence,” said Ridley. Ridley won an award in the category dedicated to the education of technology, along with Dr. Charlene Brennan, the executive director of Colonial Intermediate Unit 20; and Dr. Marcia Welsh, the president of East Stroudsburg University. “My initial reaction was that I didn’t think it was a real award,” he joked. “The email looked like spam. I was close to hitting delete, then I saw the name at the bottom and realized I knew the name: Kelly Lewis, a former Congressman from Stroudsburg.” Lewis, along with Kevin Dellicker, the former adviser to Governor Wolf in technology and innovation, are the leaders of the Acceleration Project, which is a team meant to oversee bringing of broadband internet throughout Pennsylvania. “The Pennsylvania Acceleration Awards are designed to recognize and honor organizations and leaders that are driving technology and innovation across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” according to a press release released by the organization. Ridley is the executive director and a professor at the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. He is also the co-founder of the center’s business mentor program, and the director of the campus’ industry and and community outreach office, the Kirby Scholars Program and the Allan P. Kirby Center’s micro-grant fund. He also serves on a number of area committees and boards, including CAN DO and the Northeast Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center. “It was very interesting how they found me, of all people,” he said. “I had asked who nominated me but they couldn’t tell me, it was confidential.” “We do a lot here in the Kirby Center which pushes the boundaries of innovation, through entrepreneurship, energy transfer, and the bringing to life the commercialization of technology.” Wilkes’ Allan P. Kirby Center is one of the only university-run programs to commercialize innovation, or to have a The Beacon/Steffen Horwath Dr. Rodney Ridley stands with his Pennsylvania Acceleration Educator of the Year award, given to him for his contributions to technology education. technology-transfer office, in the area. “Dr. Ridley is certainly deserving of the award he just recieved. He is very innovative, his vision carries the entire organization through its vision as an establishment of technology transfer,” said fellow faculty member Gerald A. Ephault, the executive in charge of residence of Allan P. Kirby. The office was initially a center to teach and practice entrepreneurship. When Ridley became director in 2014, he switched the center’s focus to the commercialization of university technology. The center takes clients of students, faculty, and for a charge, members of the Wilkes-Barre community, and helps them take their ideas and form them into a business. @wilkesbeacon cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 News 5 Students and faculty react to government shutdown By Megan Stanley Staff Writer From Jan. 19 to 23, the U.S. government shut down over a disagreement regarding the budget for the fiscal year. The measure that failed to pass on Friday was a temporary funding bill that would have lasted until Feb. 16. Created by the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives and the Senate, it suspended several unpopular healthcare taxes with the intention that it would be easier to vote for. The shutdown lasted over the weekend, and on Jan. 23 Congress passed a bill ending the partial shutdown, keeping the government funded until Feb. 8. This is the fourth temporary bill imposed since October because there has been no agreement regarding a long-term budget for the fiscal year. Dr. Thomas Baldino, a professor in the political science department at Wilkes University, explained this further. “This is called a continuing resolution senate, a continuing resolution continues to fund the government at the same level as it had been,” he said. “By its own rules, Congress is supposed to have all of the 13 separate spending bills passed by Oct. 1 because the fiscal year runs through Oct. 1 to Sept. 30. “It didn’t meet the Oct. 1 deadline, so they passed the continuing resolution, then they passed another one, and another one, and now we’re on the fourth.” Baldino further explained the negative impact this can have. “The downside of continuing resolutions is that if a government agency intends to plan to do something more or different that requires additional funding, they aren’t getting it in a continuing resolution because it is basically a flat line,” he said. “The other thing about flat line spending is, depending upon what your buying from the money in the budget you’re receiving from the government, if the price of the item spikes you have to buy less of that item.” The shutdown ended when the Democrats were given assurance of a debate and a vote regarding immigration from the Senate majority leader, Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell. Whilst an end to the shutdown has led to may, especially those who work in government, to be relieved, others have instead accused the Democrats of caving. Liberal groups and some Democrats are sceptical about the promise for a debate and a vote regarding immigration. People turned to social media, and “Democrats CAVED” trended on twitter on Monday evening. Obama’s DACA program, which allows thousands of children who were brought into the U.S. illegally to remain in the country, was cancelled and declared unconstitutional by Trump last year, has been a key point of disagreement between the Republicans and Democrats and has been named as one of the main causes for the shutdown, alongside budget disagreements. If the promise for a debate and a vote falls to the side, the Democrats could easily force another shutdown in three weeks, according to the Anthony Zurcher, writing for the BBC. For Wilkes students, the repeal of DACA was a strong talking point. Sophomore political science major Letty Patino-Flores said: “Repealing DACA is taking such a step back considering our progressive views with immigration. “With the government shutdown, it shows how inefficient a president can be. Both political parties are divided upon the subject, even the Republicans can’t agree and Trump is showing how inefficient he can be.” During a government shutdown, many non-essential federal agencies close down, which leaves thousands of employees on temporary, unpaid leave. Areas such as travel and tourism may shut down, meaning that passport and visa applications may be delayed. National parks and tourism sites, such as the Statue of Liberty, are also at risk of closing when the government experiences a shutdown. National security, electricity generation and air traffic control are all agencies that are required to continue activities under a government shutdown. The last government shutdown was in 2013 under the Obama administration, and lasted for 16 days. During this period, 800,000 federal employees were on unpaid leave, whilst another 1.3 million had to report to work without the necessarily knowing about Do you like to write? Interested in current events? Want to get more involved? Write news for the Beacon. Contact us! Cabrini Rudnicki, News Editor: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu Maddie Davis, Assistant News Editor: madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu payment. The disagreement was regarding legislation for the fiscal year 2014. All members of the Senate and the House of Representatives continue to get paid during a government shut down because their paychecks are written into the constitution. Kayla Reese, a junior pharmacy major, expressed concern over pay regarding the shutdown, particularly for U.S. soldiers. “I feel that it’s insane that Congress ... still continues to get paid whilst military members do not, because they are meant to be the ones keeping us safe. “From what I’ve heard it also affects the hospital staff on base, because civilians can’t work when there’s a shutdown because they aren’t getting paid.” However, some Wilkes students admitted that they didn’t know much about the recent shutdown. Nancy Ramirez, a senior political science major, said: “I’m not informed enough. No one is focusing on the shutdown itself, only how the President reacted, but what exactly is the argument? You can’t find that anywhere.” Kelci Piavis, a senior English major, echoed Ramirez and admitted: “I didn’t know about it until after the day it happened.” Paivis did add, however, that “it just shows Donald Trump is incompetent and a hypocrite,” referring to an interview with Fox News leading up to the impending 2013 shutdown, when Trump made a comment that the blame for a shutdown should always be on the president. �News The Beacon - January 30, 2018 HENRY Continued from front page change of the dining hall’s layout. The new look of Henry’s Dining Hall was a shock for some, but the reconstruction has overall received positive reviews from around campus, like Nilab Mominzada. “I really like the designing,” commented junior management and marketing student Nilab Mominzada, “it looks very brand new.” “I just love it,” she added, “having dinner and just hanging out with my friends.” Mominzada wasn’t the only one who loved the reconstruction of Henry’s Dining Hall. Michael Dennis, third year supervisor of the dining hall, expressed his own personal love for the new layout of the cafeteria. “It’s beautiful, absolutely beautiful,” said Michael Dennis. “It’s streamlined. Students love it, and it just brightens up the whole dining hall.” “It’s a 2018 look,” added Dennis. “It’s more of a relaxed atmosphere than it was before.” “They way we have it set up now it’s more convenient, there’s more seating, and you can get it and get out,” said Dennis. “Making sure the student body is happy, that’s the reason why it was done.They tried making it modern, streamlined, and comfortable for you.” Follow us! The Beacon @wilkesbeacon @wilkesbeacon 6 FOR RENT DREAM RENTALS APARTMENTS AVAILABLE FOR JUNE, 2018 www.DreamRentals.net Call Jim (570) 288-3375 �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 7 Life, Arts & Entertainment Have a story or want your event to be featured? Contact the Life, A&E Editor: amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu Give the gift of warm socks this season to those in need By Amanda Bialek Life, Arts & Entertainment Editor In this season of chilly weather, students can warm the hearts and feet of those in need by donating socks to the Kirby Cares campaign. Socks are one of the most needed items at homeless shelters, but often are the least donated, according to Points of Light. The Kirby Cares campaign, initiated by the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, will run through Feb. 14. New socks can be dropped off inside the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at 65 W. South St. “The premise of the Kirby Center is to give back to the community,” Rodney Ridley, executive director of the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship said. Michelle Lehman, Kirby Scholar of Business Development at the center, was inspired to develop this campaign after some research on the Wilkes-Barre community. She discovered that the United States 2016 Census reported that 28.9% of the population of Wilkes-Barre is living in poverty. “I thought that number was very high and that sparked my attention that we have a lot of men, women and children that are in need of basic necessities. I knew that with this initiative at the Allan P. Kirby Center, we could make a difference even if it was something as small as socks,” Lehman said. With a desire to be creative and a need for socks, the Kirby Cares campaign was born. The goal of this sock drive is to bring together individuals of Wilkes University in a positive way that benefits members of the local community. “She has a very big heart and I know that she is passionate about this particular subject,” Ridley said. A small act of kindness can bring great joy to another person. By putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, you realize the value a pair of socks has. For someone without a cozy home to warm up in, a pair of socks is a true treasure to them. “I look at the Kirby Cares campaign as an active awareness that there are so many people who don’t have the opportunity to feel warm during the winter months. I think it is so easy to wake up on a cold day and put on warm clothing and not really think anything of it,” Lehman said. All sock donations will be given to the St. Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen in downtown Wilkes-Barre. The kitchen serves 300 guests a hot, nutritious meal on a daily basis. “For every problem, there is a solution, and as students we have the ability to make an impact whether it is big or small. WilkesBarre is a strong community and it is important that we continue to take of each other,” Lehman said. New socks can be dropped off at: Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship 65 W. South St., Wilkes-Barre Editor’s note: Amanda Bialek, the life, ========- ========- ========- Iarts and entertainment editor, is the Kirby Scholar of Communication for the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. w @wilkesbeacon amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu The Beacon/Amanda Bialek New socks for children, women and men can be donated until Feb. 14. Graphic by Todd Espenshade I �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 8 Life, Arts & Entertainment Recipe 01 the week: INGREDIENTS: · INSTRUCTIONS: ·. t ~ut.orf!he tops oflhe • ~~ Container ofBlueberry . ~=Tthe ft'uit in~ small •HandfUI ofbspberries· . p1eeesand fre_ezeovem~,ght~ .• , Pineaol>te spear . 3~Take ou~ fruit and put !~~ a •Splash .~orange Juice ~,ende~~hyoa,..rt a~JUI~ • Chocolate Chips 4~Blend together and plaee-1n •Chocolatesyrup . bowli .. . _ -~F1~~ Chia seeds1~ ! ~ ~h _c~oJate chips, ~Pt •'.Onllola . flax and ch1a seeds and granola" • 4strl'ff'benies ~·-~EN.JDYJ l Januzzis Pizza & Subs Next to Movies 14 • For Delivery- Call 825-5166 • Wilkes -Barre. Kingston. Plains. Plymouth. Nanticoke $13.95 + tax large 16” 1-topping pizza & 2-liter soda $17.95 + tax $7.95 + tax each for 5 or more large plain pies $11.95 + tax $16.95 + tax 3 hot & cold subs mix &match $23.95 + tax 12- cut Sicilian pizza 12 -cut Sicilian pizza 2 tickets to Movies 14, 1 med- 1 topping & 1 order of wings pizza & 2 drinks $20.95 + tax large 16” pizza & 12 cut tray siclian pizza $12.95 + tax small 12” 1-topping pizza & choice of any sub $17.95 + tax 2 large plain pizzas toppings extra $18.95 + tax large 16” pizza, 1 sub, & an appetizer $20.95 + tax 24- cut Sicilian pizza $28.95 + tax 3 large 1- topping pizzas �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment 20 tips for college students to stay organized in the new year By Amanda Bialek Life, Arts & Entertainment Editor 1. Rise and shine on time. Do you often find yourself hitting snooze repeatedly? Put your alarm clock somewhere in your room that causes you to get out of your bed. More movement will help you wake up faster and stay awake. 2. Buy a planner. Having a planner in college is essential for keeping track of all of your assignments and upcoming events. Find one that works well with your style. Whether you like simplicity or aim to be bold with bright colors, there is a planner for everyone. You can check out the selections at Michaels craft store or visit Barnes and Noble. Remember to download a coupon on your phone by visiting their websites. Be sure to keep your planner with you wherever you go so you can write things down before you forget. 3. Save those syllabi. A syllabus is your guide for the rest of the semester and important to keep in a safe place. Use a folder to keep all of your syllabi in a designated area. Another option is to put each syllabus in an individual binder that corresponds with every class. 4. Take five and clean. A great way to keep your room and/or apartment tidy is to set aside five minutes a day and clean an area. Whether it is sorting your whites from darks, organizing your desk, cleaning up the kitchen or freshening up the bathroom, you will be glad you did as the semester goes by. productivity. A clear-cut schedule will help you be more efficient and arrive to your classes or other events on time. 7. Use a timer. Take advantage of the timer on your cell phone. Setting a timer helps to accomplish tasks quicker. It keeps you engaged in the work you need to do and can prevent you from distractions like watching television. 8. Download a self-control application. There are a variety of applications that may aid in boosting productivity. SelfControl is available for Mac users and Cold Turkey is an option for PC users. Both of these applications allow you to temporarily block yourself from social media sites and other websites or games that may be addicting. You decide on the time period that you want the websites to be blocked. After setting the time, you will be unable to access the designated websites even if you restart your computer. 9. Use a binder clip for your cords. Keep your wires in order at your desk by using binder clips. From headphones, to the computer cord, cell phone charger and more, your desk can end up becoming a mixture of wires. You can use different sizes and colors depending on the cord. 10. Keep your backpack stocked. Have pens, pencils, notebooks, binders, your planner and a water bottle in your backpack at all times. A first aid kit is also a musthave so you are prepared when you get a headache or need to bandage a paper cut. 11. Color code your calendar. Adding color to your responsibilities serves as a great reminder at what lies ahead. You can use red to mark finals or assignment due dates, green for laundry and blue for appointments. 12. Get sticky-note happy. Head on over to the Dollar Tree and grab a pack of sticky-notes. Write down important due dates for assignments and upcoming meetings or events. Stick them on the wall and remember to take them down once you have completed the task! 13. Charge your phone and laptop at night. Make a habit of plugging in your devices to charge before you go to bed. Waking up to a dead phone or laptop is not a good way to start off the day. While you are recharging with sleep your devices should be charging with power too. 9 14. Learn when to say no. There are so many opportunities in college to participate in activities. From clubs to social events like game night, there is a lot to be a part of. Learn how to politely decline from invites. You will overwhelm yourself if you participate in everything. Prioritize what activities are most important to you. Your schedule will thank you later. 15. Use a door shoe rack. To keep all of your shoes organized, you can purchase a shoe rack. This will eliminate clutter and give you more floor space. 16. Confirm all appointments in advance. If you have a meeting with a professor, dentist or doctor appointment, take the time to send an email or phone call to confirm the appointment. It is wise to do this a day or two prior incase there has been a change in schedule. This is will save you from spending an hour waiting due to lack of communication. 17. Avoid multitasking. Emailing, texting, writing a paper and watching television all at the same time is not going to end well. Too often we get caught up in the world of multitasking. Focus on one assignment at a time and put all of the distractions away. 18. Figure out your most productive hour. Are you an early riser or a night owl? Knowing the time frame you are most productive and take advantage of it. Dedicate those hours to working on your academic assignments. 5. Make to-do lists. A great goal is to make a list of everything you need to do the next day before going to bed. Keep a notebook by your bed or use an application on your cell phone to list all of the work you need to accomplish. When you wake up the next day feeling refreshed, you will have an outline of what you need to do. 19. Use soda tabs to save space in your closet. 6. Create a schedule. Be determined. Set goals everyday. Spread the joy. Have a grateful heart. Smile and say hello. Work hard, and most importantly, be yourself. Consistency is key. It is a smart idea to develop a daily or weekly schedule that you stick to. Besides your academic classes, be sure to designate times for homework, eating, cleaning, socializing and sleeping. Plan your day out ahead of time. An unscheduled day may lead to less Save the tabs from soda cans and hook them on your hangers. This a nifty way to hang up multiple articles of clothing giving you additional room in your closet. 20. Stay motivated and be awesome. Graphic by Todd Espenshade @wilkesbeacon amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 10 Life, Arts & Entertainment r •A New Way to Organize Your Desk• Supplies needed: •Transparent drawers •Colored/patterned scrapbook paper •Scissors •Tape Instructions: 1. Arrange the paper how you would like it in the drawer. 2. Cut the paper to the height of the drawer. 3. If you needed to use multiple pieces, tape them together. 4. Tape the paper to the corners of the drawers. 5. Repeat for the rest of the drawers. 6. Enjoy your newly made over storage! �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Life, Arts & Entertainment Sordoni Art Gallery opens new exhibit The Beacon/Madison Kaminski The Sordoni Art Gallery opened its new exhibit “The Bones of Us Hunger for Nothing.” The artwork featured in the exhibit was created by Angela Fraleigh, an artist from Allentown. 11 Artwork such as “What care although your beauties break and fall” pictured above, display Fraleigh’s feminist narratives. Her art demonstrates the role of women through her art as they have been depicted in past art, literature and the media. Graphics by Todd Espenshade With her use of primarily oils, acrylics and gouache, an opaque watercolor, she incorporates her knowledge of the role of women from centuries ago to further instill a sense of power into the female subjects of the paintings. “The Bones of Us Hunger for Nothing” exhibit will be open from Jan. 16 through March 2, 2018, at 141 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, in the Karambelas Media and Communication Center. �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 12 Life, Arts & Entertainment Angela Fraleigh -The Bones of “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.” Made from oil, acrylic and synthetic resin on canvas. Co-written by Shannon O’Connor, LA&E Asst. Editor and Sarah Matarella, Staff Writer Wilkes University brings feminism to the Sordoni Art Gallery with Angela Fraleigh’s exhibit “The Bones of Us Hunger for Nothing.” Angela Fraleigh, a local artist from Allentown, started drawing when she was a little girl but found her passion in high school when a teacher encouraged her to continue her art career. Fraleigh was recruited by Stuart Baron, thendirector of the College of Fine Arts at Boston University after viewing her high school portfolio. Fraleigh attended Boston University on a dean’s scholarship where she completely fell in love with drawing and painting. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at BU and later went on to earn her Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. Fraleigh is currently the chair of Studio Art at Moravian College while currently living and working in New York, N.Y., and Allentown. Fraleigh has been awarded numerous grants, residencies and other recognitions, including Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, CORE Artist in Residence Program at the Glassell School of Art, Eliza Randall Prize at the Glassell School of Art, along with a plethora of other accomplishments. Angela Fraleigh is primarily a twodimensional artist. Through her art, Fraleigh hopes to portray both positive and negative emotions. “My work is about how meaning gets made; how we come to believe the stories that we tell again and again and again. Art carries the potential to address, challenge, and change the power dynamics we’ve come to experience in our culture, on the political playing field, and in society at large,” she stated in an interview with Moravian College in 2016. Fraleigh has different creative processes depending on what art work she is working on. However, each piece of art goes through the same basic structure. Fraleigh begins by researching the piece she wants to create. This is normally the longest part of the process. In the research phase, Fraleigh reads a lot and pays attention to what she is drawing her inspiration from. Fraleigh stated, “As part of this research phase, I’m still making paintings and drawings, but they are often awkward and unfocused. I’ll start sketching, playing around on Photoshop, collaging different images together. Once I have the conceptual motivation and imagery solidified, I go straight to the really large canvases. I like being in the painting, being surrounded by the expanse of the canvas. It’s my favorite part. I like getting lost in them.” Fraleigh moves between universal and personal narratives. The artwork featured at Wilkes University demonstrates the role of women through her art as they have been The Beacon/ MadisonKaminski “Saturn’s Moons.” Made from oil and 23kt gold leaf on linen. �13 The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Us Hunger for Nothing depicted in the past in art, literature and the media. With the feminist movement becoming more prominent in society, Fraleigh has been creating these works of art over the past thirteen years. Fraleigh stated, “My work is about how meaning gets made. I’m interested in how narratives become dominant, how power structures evolve, and what roles pop culture, literature, and art history play into this.” With her the use of primarily oils, acrylics, and gouache, an opaque watercolor, she incorporates her knowledge of the role of women from centuries ago to further instill a sense of power into the women subjects of the paintings. She also utilizes 23 karat gold, silver and metal leaves, and glitter along with substances like mica and graphite in her paintings. Fraleigh uses techniques such as dripping, pouring, splattering and pressing to create the textured art that can be viewed at the Sordoni Art Gallery. Curator and Director of the Sordoni Art Gallery, Heather Sincavage stated “Many of the women in Fraleigh’s paintings appeared on the fringes of historical paintings, ornaments for male figures. In her work, she looks to provide the women with agency through placing them center stage, in control of their surroundings.” A series of lectures about Fraleigh’s artwork will be held open to the public free of charge. The first in this series, The Artist Talk and Reception with Angela Fraleigh, will be held on Wednesday, January 31 at 4:30 pm in room 135 of the Karambelas Media and Communication Center. “The Bones of Us Hunger for Nothing” exhibit is open through March 2, at the Sordoni Art Gallery, located at 141 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, in the Karambelas Media and Communication Center. For any additional information regarding “The Bones of Us Hunger for Nothing” exhibition, future exhibitions, or about the Sordoni Art Gallery itself, call 570-408-4325 or email the gallery at heather.sincavage@wilkes.edu. “You weren’t haunted those two days, you were flooded with light.” Made from oil and gouache on canvas over panels. Editor’s Note: All information about Angela Fraleigh was found in an interview with Moravian College from Dec. 15, 2016. @wilkesbeacon shannon.oconnor@wilkes.edu “Something has started to live in you that will live longer than the sun.” Made from oil, gouache and synthetic resin on canvas. “Slight.” Made from oil and galkyd resin on canvas over panel. Graphic by Todd Espenshade �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Opinion Editorial Staff 2017-18 MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Toni Pennello Managing Editor - Danny Van Brunt Adviser - Dr. Kalen Churcher Opinion Have an opinion or want to write a guest column? Contact the opinion editor: andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Spring semester movies to watch By Nicholas Filipek Asst. Opinion Editor SECTION EDITORS News - Cabrini Rudnicki LA&E - Amanda Bialek Opinion - Andre Spruell Sports - Luke Modrovsky ASSISTANT EDITORS News - Maddie Davis LA&E - Shannon O’Connor Opinion - Nick Filipek Sports - Ben Mandell & Alex Kielar DESIGN EDITORS Todd Espenshade - Graphic Designer PHOTOGRAPHERS Nicole Gaetani Interested in joining the Beacon? To learn more about the positions we offer and what you can do, contact daniel.vanbrunt@wilkes.edu 141 S. Main St. Clayton and Theresa Karambelas Media Center Wilkes University Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766 www.thewilkesbeacon.com 14 Nick Filipek, The Beacon’s resident movie buff and assistant opinion editor, will review movies each week. Want to hear about one in particular? Email Nick at: nicholas.filipek@wilkes.edu. Welcome back for the Spring 2018 semester, Colonels! I hope everyone had a wonderful break where they got to sit around and watch tons and tons of movies. No? Just me? Well if you didn’t get a chance to get to a theater over break, there are plenty of good movies that will hit cinemas over the coming months of the semester. 1.Winchester The premise of the movie has got to be one of the most original story ideas I have ever heard. If the title doesn’t bring a certain image to mind, let me elaborate before I explain. The Winchester repeating rifle was one of tools that “won the west.” Before this rifle was invented, it would take up to (or more than) a minute to reload your rifle to take a second or even third shot. The introduction of the automatic reload completely changed the firearms game, and everyone at the time had to have one. You can only imagine the number of gunshot victims there were after the invention of this weapon, and that’s where the movie seemingly draws inspiration. Helen Mirren (“RED,” “The Queen”) will portray the heiress to the firearm’s loving family, who believes that she is being haunted by the souls of people killed by the rifle with her name on it. There has been a resurgence of the horror genre’s popularity, but most stories seem more of the same lately. This film, however, is truly an original idea, and with such a talented actress at the helm of this project I really think this flick will be something special. Winchester releases Feb. 2, 2018. 2. Black Panther Easily one of the most anticipated movies to come from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), “Black Panther” will arrive in theaters on Feb. 16, 2018. Following the events of “Captain America; Civil War,” T’Challa, the new King of Wakanda, must return home to claim his right as the King from a would-be usurper. Chadwick Boseman (“42,” “Get on Up”) has already done a beautiful job of bringing the King of the isolated, technologically advanced city of Wakanda to life in “Civil War,” and I am really pumped to see where this character goes from there. Many people have been calling this movie “the first ‘black’ superhero movie,” apparently forgetting that Wesley Snipes brought “Blade” to the silver screen successfully three times, and that is rather fitting considering the character Black Panther was one of the first, if not the very first, African-American superheroes in comic book publications. The cast is one of the strongest the MCU has ever assembled and includes Michael B. �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Spring movies cont. Opinion Jordan (“Creed,” “Fruitvale Station”), Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave,” “NonStop”), Danai Gurira (“All Eyez on Me,” “The Visitor”) and Andy Serkis (“13 Going On 30,” “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”), who reprises his role from “Avengers; Age of Ultron,” Ulysses Klaue. Though I have a feeling this film will follow suit with others in its universe like “Iron Man” or “Dr. Strange” in presenting a formulaic origin story, I still will be one of the first in line to see the movie. Reid, Levi Miller and Rowan Blanchard on an adventure to find the main character Megs (Reid) father, Dr. Alex Murray, played by Chris Pine (Star Trek, This Means War) A big Disney movie, with big names and lots of special effects, it would seem like the perfect equation to make lots of money right? Let us not forget this is the same studio that brought us “John Carter” and “The Lone Ranger” back to back (both HUGE financial flops for Disney). This is not me “hating”, but I am going to be overly cautious before going to spend money on this movie. See “A Wrinkle in Time” in theaters on March 9th 2018. Based off the science fantasy novel written by Madeline L’Engle, “A Wrinkle in Time” will explore the story of three young children hurled into space by magical beings in order to find one of the children’s fathers. Personally I have not read the book so I do not have as much excitement as others, but let me tell you, the hype is real. The general audience seems to be clambering for this movie, and with its amazing cast and visual effects I can see why. Oprah Winfrey (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, The Color Purple), Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde, Walk the Line) and Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project, No Strings Attached) will play the three magical beings that set the story into action sending Storm If “A Wrinkle in Time” is not the book/ movie you were looking for, maybe “Ready Player One” is. The Internet Movie Database (IMDb. com) summarizes the plot considerably simpler than I could: “When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts find the first clue and starts a race for the Egg.” Now anyone out there wondering what the Easter Bunny has to do with the story, or why the movie wouldn’t come out in April, let me explain. An “Easter egg” does not refer to the brightly dyed eggs kids search for on Easter 3. A Wrinkle in Time RAH FREY 4. Ready Player One Sunday, but get their name in this form from the “seeking” aspect of said tradition. Directors, game creators or animators hide these “Easter eggs” in their projects to see who’s really paying attention, or to give a nod to another project they or their studio have done. “Pixar” is notorious for doing this. Secretly slipping the cowgirl doll from Toy Story, Jessie, inside the little girl’s room during “Monsters Inc.” is one of my favorite examples. Steven Spielberg (do I really need to explain who he is?) will be directing, and I really couldn’t think of a better fit. Granted the man could direct anything but this movie seems to be right up his alley. Ready Player One will be in theaters March 30, 2018. 5. Rampage I honestly cannot say why I want to see this movie so badly. This is a pure “popcorn movie” with absolutely no real value to it, but I am still hyped to no extent. Simply put, this movie is about three monsters, an ape, wolf and lizard (all 20 stories tall) going on a rampage throughout the city. The “story” comes from the original 1980s arcade game of the same name, with the same premise. I have no idea what Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (“Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,” “San Andreas”) Jeffrey Dean Morgan (“Watchmen,” “The Walking Dead”) or Joe 15 Manganiello (“True Blood,” “Magic Mike XXL”) will have to do in this movie, but they are three of my favorite actors, so I’m just going to have to go see it. 6. Super Troopers 2 The tagline of this movie says it all: “The long anticipated sequel to the cult comedy hit.” Erik Stolhanske, Paul Soter, Steve Lemme, Kevin Heffernan and Jay Chandrasekhar make up “Broken Lizard,“ a comedy/film team responsible for writing and acting in the film, with Chandrasekhar in the director’s chair as well. The original “Super Troopers” came out in 2001, and took audiences by storm. Since then the boys have stayed busy making other movies like “The Slammin Salmon,” “Club Dredd” and probably their most well known work, “Beerfest.” The sequel will center on our favorite Highway Troopers (which, if you have seen the first movie, *SPOILERS* ends with them losing said jobs, so I’m wondering how that’s going to pan out) battling Canadian Mounty’s for a stretch of highway each unit has laid claim to. The Broken Lizard team has not disappointed audiences yet, and with the first film being so beloved, I doubt they will start now. Super Troopers 2 comes out on April 20, 2018. @wilkesbeacon nick.filipek@wilkes.edu •HSE WITHERSPOON TIME IS MEOW �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Opinion The Top Four Things to do During a Snow Day By Savannah Pinnock Staff Writer As the heart warming, and awe inspiring holiday season fall further and further into the abyss of pleasant memories, one is faced with the realization that the academic year is in motion once again. For many, this is a fond realization as the holiday break can often grow monotonous and one begins to hear the beckoning of the semester calling them back into an academic routine. For lower and upperclassmen alike, being jolted out of a relaxed delta state and into an active beta state can be invigorating and simultaneously overwhelming. Keenly, nature seems to have a loophole for this dilemma being, the snow day. These happenchance days are like an unspecialized cell that can be programmed to do anything a student needs or desires; but with a plethora of options, what can one truly do? Well, the choices are virtually infinite. 1) Engage in a Mental Health Day A fresh snow day can be one of the most beautiful sights to see as it appears as if the landscape and furthest portion of the horizon is blanketed in a soft, pillowy, layer of white. Such a sight can be aesthetically pleasing, but it can also be a source of gloom. Winter is notorious for cloudy days marked by white to light grey skies, and a feeling of melancholy and constance. In addition to the previously aforementioned phenomenon, according to an article from the American Psychological Association, 61 percent “of college students seeking counseling..report anxiety”, followed by depression at 49 percent, and stress at 45 percent. With such studies reporting high rates of poor mental health, taking advantage of a mental health day is vital to every student as one’s overall well being is on an ideological equilibrium and one should aim to find balance. As part of your day, you can turn on a soft gentle light and listen to peaceful sounds such as rain via youtube and practice breathing exercises. Herbal teas such as chamomile and dandelion are known for their calming effects and can contribute to bringing one a sense of tranquility and peace. Apps such as headspace are also an excellent resource for gaining a peace of mind. 2) Have a Movie Day With the spring semester at hand, it is easy to find oneself missing out on moments to bond with friends as you and your cohort may be fairly busy. A solution to this dilemma can be a relaxing movie day where you and your friends can socialize and unwind. If you’re aware of an impending snow storm, it is savvy to get your assignments done early so that you are free of the looming stress of unfinished assignments. Netflix is amazing in the department of snow days and with the help of warm blankets, hot cocoa, snacks, and good friends, you can make a snow day one of the most enjoyable days you’ve had in a while. 3) Binge, Binge, Binge Yes, you did hear that correctly, during your snow day, binge on the things you enjoy the most. During the semester it is gravely important that you excell and try your best in all of your academic endeavors. Likewise, it is also important to unwind when you can to avoid “burning out” academically. For this reason, I challenge you to take advantage of your snow days and engage in what you enjoy. 4) Go the Extra Mile With a snow day, one has the option of completing freshly assigned assignments as well as getting assignments done early. In fact, it is clear that when you complete an assignment early you have an advantage as well as more time to focus on what you enjoy as well as extracurricular activities. It can also be said that accomplishing tasks early is the key to enjoying your college experience. If you work and study hard today, you’ll have more than enough time to do what you love tomorrow. @wilkesbeacon savannah.pinnock@wilkes.edu Have an opinion you’d like to share? Email us! Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! Facebook: The Beacon Twitter: @wilkesbeacon Instagram: @wilkesbeacon 16 �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Opinion 17 Meet the Majors This week’s major: Political Science Interviews and photos by Abigail Tarway Staff Writer Every week, The Beacon will offer a chance for majors to be placed in the spotlight. Each student that gets chosen will have a few words to express why they chose the major and how they feel it will benefit them in the future. Corrine Bonnerwith Junior Joshua Bradley Sophomore “I specialized in this field because I am passionate about domestic and international issues that affect everyone, every single day. I hope to one day make an impact on those issues myself. My degree in this field is essential to the career I wish to pursue in the Federal Government; by studying these topics now, I will be well-versed in the issues when I have to step-up in a future position.” “I want to use political science/ international studies to make a change in communities across the United States as well as in other countries. I have an avid interest in learning about other cultures and a respect for communities outside my own.” The Beacon/ Abigail Tarway Neishmy Rodriguez Junior “My major has helped me so much get a background in international relations and ways that international organizations deal with specific areas. Here at Wilkes I gained a relationship with my professors and I think they have guided me into what I want to do which is become a government diplomat or work with the United Nations.” Carlie Coolbaugh Junior “I decided to specialize in these fields because of my large interest in politics. I find it very important as a United States citizen to be actively informed and involved in American politics. I believe this mix of areas of study will be beneficial to me at a great level in the future because of the relevance of politics in our society.” �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Opinion 18 Winter break is not really a break for student-athletes By Andre Spruell Opinion Editor Coming back to school after a long winter break is something students often do not look forward to. For student-athletes that participate in sports, the narrative is not the same. For many college students, there is almost no better feeling than finishing that last final and hopping in a car packed with your belongings to head back home for a month without having to stress about any school assignments. For student-athletes that participate in winter sports, a month-long break is more of a one-week break, if that. For many Division I student-athletes that participate in winter sports like basketball, many do not even have the chance to go home, meaning they may even spend Christmas with their teammates as opposed to with their families. Being a member of the Wilkes men’s basketball team, a division III school, our winter break only lasted five days. Although break was shorter for us compared to our fellow peers, it is not as bad as non-studentathletes would think. Even though campus is pretty much dead since everyone else is back at home, our only responsibility was basketball. Being back at school during break gives collegiate athletes a small taste of what it is like to be a professional athlete. Like professional athletes, going to practice and games is what our quote on quote job was, which leaves a ton of free time. No matter whether you are a studentathlete or a regular college student, we are so accustomed to constantly having something to do, that we generally do not know what to do with so much free time. While you are home on a month long winter break, a student can occupy that free time by doing things like hang out with friends and family, play video games, read books, and many other activities. For student-athletes that are on campus during break, it can be even harder to decide what to do with that free time. Whenever we did not have a practice, game, or a team activity, it was hard to decide what to do with so much free time because the cafeteria is closed, and are often alone unless the student-athlete has a roommate that is also on the team. To combat the issue, the school loaded each player with money on their flex dollars, which is a form of money on a student ID accepted at particular restaurants and establishments, and would periodically be given cash that we could use outside of those establishments that do not accept flex dollars. Also, we were given meals before and after games and even practice sometimes. Personally, being at campus instead at home on break is something that is relaxing and gives a sense of independence as you are forced to do most things on your own. roster. That is 1,696 men across the entire NFL platform and the ‘all-star’ game is going to host well above 7 percent of it to represent the best? That number is 5 percent for the NBA and 6 percent for the NHL. The point is that more and more players are being let into a game meant to be exclusive. How are the players chosen? The vote is a third fan based and two-thirds player/coach based. There is an extremely important catch and it is that fans are allowed to vote unlimitedly. Why should that matter? It has disturbing significance because it put the worst punter in the league, Ryan Plackemeier of the 49’s, into the number one spot solely based on a flashy campaign by their own organization. If money is going to buy this showing then it is no better than a political campaign and that is disturbing. Another important piece to this complex puzzle is the date of the Pro Bowl. It is scheduled a week before the Super Bowl. Who in their right mind would risk hurting themselves a week before the greatest moment of their life for this superficial fan fair? It has gotten to the point that an unwritten rule has arose of not going for injury causing or excessive tackles. Obviously, players are not trying to hurt each other to the point of injury either way, but there are extra precautions when they are playing on ice in fear of losing a Super Bowl appearance. Sean Taylor may be the one exception to this rule and if that reference is foreign then I insist you do some form of research into the name. The worst part of the situation is what the Pro Bowl could be. Instead it has become something for the fans which is nice in its own right because that is why football is worth anything, right? For true fans that would love to see acts of sickening athleticism, this game a week before the Super Bowl has become nothing more than a statistic to throw into arguments of who the better players are. Pro Bowl appearances are becoming synonymous with that stack of medals from little league or those soccer tournaments you played in as a little kid. Yeah, they look really cool hanging up and, wow, there are a lot which means you must be good right? Did every other kid who played show you his though? Quality over quantity. Next time you are at home for during winter break catching up on Netflix and have a friend that has to stay on campus for a sport, do not be afraid to reach out to them because like you, there is a good chance they also do not know what to do with all their free time. @wilkesbeacon andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Do you have opinions? Do you wish you had a platform to share them? Contact Andre Spruell to write about them and get them off your chest. andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Is the NFL Pro Bowl even worth watching at all? By Brandon Belfonti Staff Writer Pro bowl or Fan bowl? The NFL Pro Bowl is the most irrelevant event across the entire sports landscape. Plain and simple. For anyone who is unaware, this an allstar game between the two conferences of the National Football League. The National Football Conference (NFC) and the American Football Conference (AFC). Every professional sport has its own allstar game where the most talented at their positions meet to compete at the highest level possible. In its simplest form the concept really is amazing. The fastest, strongest, most cognitively aware humans on the earth meeting head to head for a showdown of true physical ability. If only this could be the case. This ‘prestigious’ honor has become the internal laughing stock for the league. That is for those in it long enough to realize what this all, but stars game is. To dilute the situation even more the rules have changed to allow 125 players into the game this year instead of the regular 88. There are 32 teams each allowed a 53-man @wilkesbeacon brandon.belfonti@wilkes.edu Pro Bowl Facts In 1971, the National Football Conference (NFC) beat the American Football Conference (AFC) in the first Pro Bowl. In 1984, 1989 and 1994, the AFC scored only three points during each game, the fewest points of any Pro Bowl games. In 2013, the NFC team scored the most points of any Pro Bowl game with 62. Larry Fitzgerald (Arizona Cardinals) holds the record for most touchdowns with eight. Source: CNN �Sports The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Sports Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the sports editor: Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu MBB: Colonels top Cougars in OT thriller for pivotal road win though, the Cougars were able to erase the eleven point deficit and keep the game going Asst. Sports Editor back and forth. With nine lead changes in the final minutes, it was fitting that this game DALLAS, Pa. — The Wilkes University was settled by overtime. Colonels continued their winning ways The Colonels came out in the overtime Wednesday night with a huge session and took overtime win on the road at control, capitalizing Misericordia. The win was on the Cougars the Colonels’ seventh in eight missed free-throws games and they now have a 6-1 in overtime. conference record, which puts Combining with them in sole possession of first the Cougars missed place in MAC Freedom. free-throws and the “It’s great right now that Colonels capitalizing we’re in first place,” said Wilkes on their mistakes, Head Coach Izzi Metz. “But we the Colonels cruised have another seven games to through overtime to go.” win 87-82. The Cougars came into this The Colonels sit in game trying to bounce back first place following from their first conference this win but their loss of the season, falling lead is a slim one 90-83 to DeSales. With the game. With seven loss Wednesday night, the The Beacon/Kirsten Peters more games to go, Misericordia Cougars have the Colonels must now lost two in a row. The Mark Mullins (#12) tries to finish a continue to play skid has cost the Cougars their shot during the first half. hungry and finish perfect conference record and the second half they now sit in a of conference play strong to three way tie for continue their goal of striving second with a 5-2 towards a conference title. record. The game Wilkes 87, Misericordia 82 started out very Wilkes (87) -- Mark Mullins well for the 9 3-5 21, Rob Pecorelli 5 2-6 Colonels as they 14, Connor Evans 3 6-8 13, jumped out to Zach Brunner 4 5-5 13, Marcus an early lead in Robinson 2 5-8 10, Tommy the first. It did Bowen 4 2-2 10, Landon Henry not take long for 1 0-0 3, Mason Gross 0 3-4 3, the Cougars to John Goffredo 0 0-0 0, Jack Bova wake up though 0 0-0 0. Totals 28 26-38 87. as they quickly Misericordia (82) -- Jason surged back to Kenny 8 4-7 23, Tre’ Fields 5 eventually take 3-5 14, Tony Harding 5 1-4 the lead. 12, Tyerell Mann 2 0-0 4, Alec The Cougars 0 0-2 0, Stone McCreary The Beacon/Kirsten Peters 9Rodway leading scorer, 1-4 21, Bryce Mondorff 1 0-0 Jason Kenny, 3, Brendan Leonard 1 0-0 3, was a non-factor Tommy Bowen (#4) guards a Patrick Douthit 1 0-0 2. Totals in the first half, Misercordia defender. 32 9-22 82. which forced the Cougars supporting cast to make plays. The Wilkes --`37`36`14--`87 Cougars held the lead for most of the half Misericordia --`29`44`9--`82 once they took the lead, but a late surge in Three-point goals -- WIL (Pecorelli 2, the final minutes of the half saw the Colonels Evans, Robinson, Henry); MIS (Kenny jump out to a 37-29 point halftime lead. 3, Fields, Harding, McCreary, Mondorff, The Colonels came out in the second half with a big three-point shot made by Connor Leonard). Evans (13 points) and followed it up with a Mark Mullins (21 points) steal and dunk, @wilkesbeacon which forced Misericordia to take a time Benjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu out early in the half. Following the timeout By Ben Mandell 19 MBB: Colonels escape trap game with 58-57 win over Delaware Valley up at 42-42. The Colonels went on to take the lead and did not trail after that. Asst. Sports Editor The sputtering Aggies were able to keep WILKES-BARRE — The Wilkes University the wheels from falling off and continue fight, Colonels won the slimmest way possible tying the game up at 51 with time winding Saturday afternoon, beating the Delaware down in the later stages of the second half Valley University Aggies 58-57. The Colonels thanks to an Alex Matsinye (17 points) three picked up their fourth win in a row and pointer. The win keeps the Colonels in first place hold on to sole possession of first place in the Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom in the MAC Freedom conference and also helps create some separation in the standings Division. The Aggies came into this game flying high following DeSales handing Eastern their first following their huge upset win over Eastern loss. The Colonels, now 7-1 have a one game on Wednesday night and looked to keep lead on DeSales (6-2) and Misericordia (6-2) hopes of a birth in the conference tournament and a two game lead on Eastern (5-3). These four teams currently hold the spots for a alive with a win over the Colonels. The Colonels started the game off strong, birth in the MAC Freedom tournament. The King’s College Monarchs jumping out to a quick sit in fifth place one game lead and controlled the behind Eastern in the first half until the Aggies standings. surged in the final two “We know that we minutes. The Aggies used need to keep playing well great play from Lybryant and we look to use the Robinson, who had a game momentum from this high of 19 points, to hang four game winning streak around in the first half. for the next game,” Metz The Colonels went into said. “You can ask all halftime trailing 28-24. of our players, our next The second half started task is a big home against the same way the first Fairleigh Dickinson.” ended with the Colonels The Colonels will be slumping. The Aggies back in action at home jumped out to an eleven The Beacon/Nicole Gaetani Wednesday at 8:00 point lead with about p.m. when they take on eleven minutes to go Tommy Bowen (#4) holds his Fairleigh Dickinsonin the game. Colonels’ Head Coach Izzi Metz follow-through during Saturday’s Florham Devils in the Marts center. The Devils called a timeout and the game. picked up their first momentum in the game conference win Wednesday, but lost once shifted. “I thought our defense played really well again Saturday to fall to 1-7 in the conference. Wilkes 58, Delaware Valley 57 throughout the game,” Metz said. “But (the Delaware Valley (57) -- Alex Matsinye 5 defense) got us some points and that gave us 6-7 17, Damian Washington 4 0-0 8, Andre some energy.” The Colonels stormed back behind great Butler 2 1-1 6, Austin Chabot 2 0-0 4, Austin play from Tommy Bowen (14 points) and Stoeckel 0 0-0 0, Lybrant Robinson 7 3-3 19, the big man Mason Gross (11 points). Joe Russell 1 1-3 3, Ryan Naccarato 0 0-0 0. Bowen and Gross helped the Colonels with Totals 21 11-14 57. Wilkes (58) -- Rob Pecorelli 5 0-0 11, multiple and-one layups that got the crowd into the game. While the Colonels clawed Marcus Robinson 4 0-0 9, Zach Brunner 3 their way back, the Aggies, who carried a 1-1 7, Connor Evans 1 0-1 3, Mark Mullins 0 2-5 conference record and just four wins on 0-0 0, Tommy Bowen 4 6-7 14, Mason Gross the season into this game, started to sputter. 5 1-2 11, Landon Henry 1 0-0 3, Jack Bova 0 The Aggies turned the ball over and leading 0-0 0, John Goffredo 0 0-0 0. Totals 23 8-11 58. Delaware Valley`28`29--`57 scorer Robinson was held off the board Wilkes`24`34--`58 following the Colonels comeback. Three-point goals -- DV 4 (Matsinye, “We really came out slow, and really lacked energy,” senior Gross explained. “Honestly Butler, Robinson 2); WIL 4 (Pecorelli, Tommy Bowen really set a tone for us coming Robinson, Evans, Henry). off the bench.” Gross also brought some energy to the @wilkesbeacon Colonels bench and crowd with two big andBenjamin.Mandell@wilkes.edu one layups, including one that tied the game By Ben Mandell �Sports The Beacon - January 30, 2018 20 Third-year Robinson becomes 32nd Colonel to reach 1,000 points By Alex Kielar Asst. Sports Editor In a come-from-behind victory over crosstown rival King’s on Jan. 20, junior Marcus Robinson reached the impressive 1,000 point plateau on a free-throw at the 6:46 mark of the first half. He becomes the 32nd Colonel in program history to reach this mark in his career. Robinson, measuring six feet, one inch, out of Swedesboro, N.J., finished the game with 14 points and is averaging 14.8 points per game on the season. Being only a junior and reaching 1,000 points for his college career is a very impressive feat to accomplish. “It felt really good, my teammates were really pushing for me to get it,” Robinson said. “It was one of the accomplishments that I was looking to get in high school that I just never got, so I’m just glad I got it on the next level.” For Robinson to reach 1,000 points at the collegiate level is a very impressive feat, especially since he did not do it in high school and he has already accomplished it as a junior. For Robinson to reach this in college, but not high school, shows how much his game has improved since his years spent in high school. “Practice is really the thing that put me ahead,” Robinson said. “I’ve worked on my jumper, attacking the rim, and ball handling to advance my game to the next level.” Robinson has also benefited from talented players around him that have helped him Freedom Conference after their win over reach this milestone. “My teammates are a huge part of my rival King’s. The Colonels’ Head Coach Izzi Metz has success,” Robinson said. “They’re the ones also had a positive impact that find me open shots. on the career of Robinson They also have helped with by trusting him to play, and my mental game. They help helping him by putting him me get over it if I miss a shot in positions to succeed. so they’re big in my career.” “Coach Metz is probably Robinson’s teammates one of the largest individuals were very supportive of him that helped me throughout reaching this milestone and my career,” Robinson said. he couldn’t ask for better “He’s helped me grow as a teammates. The Colonels player both physically and are a tight-knit group that mentally.” only wants to see everyone Good coaches find ways to succeed, especially when bring great things out of good one of them accomplishes players and Metz has been something as big as a very good for the Colonels reaching 1,000 points for and Robinson. Robinson their career. has put in the work to better “They really just himself as a player, but Metz congratulated me and deserves some recognition told me how big of an for how his work with accomplishment it is,” Robinson has paid off. Robinson said. “They were Metz started coaching at really supportive, so I Wilkes University in 2014, appreciate them a lot.” and he recruited Robinson Having teammates that push him and always The Beacon/Kirsten Peters to come play for him in 2015. He knew when he have his back really helped him to get to this Junior Marcus Robinson lines up for recruited him, he could be a very special player milestone. Teams that a foul shot during a game against for the Colonels. are behind each other Misericordia on Jan. 24. “The first time I saw like the Colonels back Marcus tend to succeed. The Colonels found him, I was just really impressed how well he themselves in a tie for first place in the MAC competed on both ends of the floor,” Metz said. “The first time I talked to him, he said he takes pride in his defense, he sees himself as a really good defensive player. That excited me because a lot of guys don’t say that. Just how hard he played and how competitive he is.” There isn’t one day of practice that Metz doesn’t push his players. Day in and day out, he only wants to see them improve and better their game. Robinson works very hard everyday, that Metz doesn’t always have to push him, he usually is able to push himself to get better. “Marcus never really has a bad practice at Wilkes, you can’t say that about a lot of players, not just here but anywhere. Marcus is one of those guys who’s gonna give his best effort everyday, whether he’s injured, sick. His energy level may at times be a little low cause it’s a long season, but he brings it and leads by example.” “It felt really good to be in front of the home crowd, especially with that crowd against King’s,” Robinson said. “It was a huge crowd and they really had it rockin’ in the place.” The Colonels were able to win the game against King’s, so that was also a plus for Robinson to be able to accomplish this feat in a big conference victory. Robinson will continue to improve his game everyday the rest of this season and help the Colonels try for a MAC Freedom conference championship. This is an accomplishment that everyone on the team is looking to achieve. Wilkes Men’s Winter Sports Schedules Women’s Swimming Swimming Men’s Volleyball Wrestling 11/3 vs. Millersville L 24-25 11/4 @ King’s, 10th place 11/11 vs. Suny Cortland, L 20-23 vs. NYU, L 6-34 vs. Hunter College, W 38-6 11/18 vs. Heidelberg, L, 23-28 @ Mount Union, L, 9-33 vs. Alma, W, 34-8 vs. Baldwin Wallace, L, 3-43 vs. Greensboro, W, 31-13 12/2 vs. Southern Virginia ,W, 35-9 vs. McDaniel College, W 25-12 12/8 vs. Elizabethtown, W, 24-19 12/10 @ Stevens Institute, L, 16-29 vs. LIU Post, L, 3-38 12/22 Wilkes Open 1/4 vs. North Central, L, 6-32 vs. Chicago, L, 17-24 vs, Ohio Northern, L, 18-24 1/11 vs. Penn Tech, W, 43-9 vs. Lackawanna College, W, 41-10 1/20 MAC Champ. @ King’s, 3rd Place 1/28 John Reese Duals, 11:00 a.m. 2/2 @ College of NJ, 7:30 p.m. 2/3 Messiah Open, 10:00 a.m. 2/9 vs. Ithaca, 7:00 p.m. 2/11 vs. King’s, 12:00 p.m. 2/16 vs. Scranton @ King’s, 7:00 p.m. 2/17 vs. Keystone @ Scranton, 12:00 p.m. 10/7 vs.William Paterson, L 98-108 10/14 Colonel Sprint Invite, 1st place *10/20 @ Arcadia, L, 44-142 10/21 vs. Mount Saint Mary, W, 152-97 *10/28 vs. Stevenson, W, 117-20 *11/5 @ Lebanon Valley, W, 128-61 vs. Dickinson, L, 88-106 *11/11 vs. FDU-Florham, W, 126-72 11/18, 11/19 Diamond Invite, 5th place *12/3 @ Lycoming, L, 84-173 12/8 vs. PSU-Altoona, W, 110-70 *1/13 @ Misericordia, L, 108-139 *1/20 @ Messiah, L, 65-125 1/27 vs. SUNY-Cobleskill, W 135-86 vs. SUNY-Delhi, W, 155-37 2/3 vs. King’s, 1:00 p.m. 2/15-2/18 MAC Championships *-MAC Home meets @ Wilkes-Barre CYC Record: 7-6 (MAC: 3-4) WREST (Continued): Home matches @ Marts Center Record: 10-11 Results through 1/27 10/14 Colonel Sprint Invite, 3rd place *10/20 @ Arcadia, L, 42-136 10/21 vs. Mount Saint Mary’s, L, 79-151 *10/28 vs. Stevenson, L, 61-104 *11/5 @ Lebanon Valley, L, 57-136 vs. Dickinson, 57-111 *11/11 vs. FDU-Florham, L, 77-90 11/18-11/19 Diamond Invitational, 9th *12/3 @ Lycoming, L, 74-164 12/8 vs. PSU-Altoona, L, 85-88 *1/13 @ Misericordia, L, 48-199 *1/20 @ Messiah , L, 46-114 1/27 vs. SUNY Cobleskill, W, 103-85 vs. SUNY-Delhi, W, 102-36 *2/3 vs. King’s 1:00 p.m. 2/15-2/18 MAC Championships *-MAC Home meets @ Wilkes-Barre CYC Record: 2-10 (MAC: 0-7) MVB (Continued): *-MAC Home games @ Marts Center Record: 2-5 (MAC: 0-0) 1/17 @ Lancaster Bible, L, 1-3 1/19 @ St. John Fisher, L, 0-3 1/20 @ Endicott College, L, 0-3 @ Bard College, W, 3-1 1/24 vs. Loras College, L, 0-3 1/27 vs. Wilson College, L, 0-3 vs. Bard College, W, 3-1 *2/3 @ Stevenson, 2:00 p.m. *2/7 vs. Messiah, 7:00 p.m. *2/10 @ Arcadia, 1:00 p.m. vs. Kean 3:00 p.m. 2/11 vs. Hunter College, 1:00 p.m. vs. Mount Saint Vincent, 1:00 p.m *2/14 vs. Misericordia, 4:00 p.m. vs. York College, 8:00 p.m. *2/21 vs. Alvernia, 7:00 p.m 2/23 @ York College, 8:00 p.m. 2/25 vs. New Jersey City, 11:00 a.m. vs. Keuka College, 3:00 p.m. *2/28 @ Widener, 7:00 p.m. 3/15 @ Lehman College, 7:00 p.m. *3/17 @ Alvernia, 12:00 p.m. *3/21 vs. Widener, 7:00 p.m. *3/24 vs. Stevenson, 2:00 p.m. *3/27 @ Misericordia, 7:00 p.m. *3/29 vs. Arcadia, 7:00 p.m. *4/4 @ Messiah, 7:00 p.m. 4/7 vs. City College of New York �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Colonel Athletics in Brief By Luke Modrovsky and Ben Mandell Sports Editor / Asst. Sports Editor 1/20 WREST: Senior Jake Dimarsico claimed a Middle Atlantic Conference Wrestling Championship at the Conference tournament hosted by King’s College. Freshman Kyle Trout, senior Matt Grossmann, junior Josh Evans and junior Ashton Gyenizs all claimed second place honors, Freshman Dylan O’Connor also secured third place while the team placed third overall. WSWIM: The Lady Colonels fell in a MAC meet with Messiah College 114-46. Freshman Abby Keating placed second in two events and junior Morgan Williams was a runner-up in one of her races. MSWIM: The Colonels dropped their meet with Messiah College on the road 12565. The relay team consisting of freshman Nick Martino, sophomore Tyler Weatherby, freshman Justin Burda and freshman Jared Bryne took first place. MVB: The Colonels split their matches winning 3-1 over Bard College after falling 3-0 Endicott College. Senior Brian Schumacher had a career-high seven kills and three blocks in the loss to Endicott. Senior Danny Sales tallied a career-best 19 kills in the victory over Bard. MBB: Wilkes defeated cross-town rival King’s College 76-64. Senior Zach Brunner (17 points, 11 rebounds), junior Marcus Robinson (14 points, 10 rebounds) and sophomore Mark Mullins (14 points, 10 rebounds) all had double-doubles in the victory. WBB: Maddie Kelley notched her first career double-double in a 75-59 loss to crosstown rival King’s College. Sports 1/22 WBB: Sophomore Chelsea Erkes notched a career-high 12 points in a 65-60 nonconference loss to host Alvernia. 1/24 WBB: Maddie Kelle paced the Lady Colonels with eight points and five rebounds in an 89-33 final against Misericordia. MBB: See page 19. MVB: The Colonels battled hard in a straight-set loss (19-25, 15-25, 18-25) to Loras College, but could not get over the hump. Junior Kyle Price led the defense with eight digs. 1/27 MVB: The Colonels split against Wilson College and Bard College. In the team’s second victory of the year against Bard (25-12, 2426, 25-20, 25-21), senior Danny Sales landed his second triple-double of his career with 16 kills, 13 assists and 10 digs. Senior Brian Schumacher had a career-high nine kills in the loss against Wilson. MSWIM: The Colonels won eight events in two victories against SUNY Delhi (15537) and SUNY Cobleskill (135-86) on senior day. Four freshman, Daniel Mack, Tyler Weatherby, Cameron Aspey and Jared Bryne teamed up to take first in the 200 medley relay in 1:50.15. WSWIM: The Lady Colonels made a splash against SUNY Delhi (102-36) and SUNY Cobleskill (103-85) for their first two victories of the season. Junior Morgan Williams placed first in both the 1000 freestyle (11:50.91) and 500 freestyle (5:51.13). WBB: Gianna Roberts landed a doubledouble (17 points and career-high 16 rebounds), but it would not be enough to lift the Lady Colonels to a victory over visiting Delaware Valley. MBB: See page 19. 21 2017-18 Conference Standings Men’s Basketball: MAC Freedom Conf. Overall Wilkes 7-1 14-5 DeSales 6-2 15-4 Misericordia 6-2 11-8 Eastern 5-3 10-9 King’s 4-4 8-11 Delaware Valley 2-6 4-15 Manhattanville 1-7 7-12 FDU - Florham 1-7 1-18 Women’s Basketball MAC Freedom Conf. Overall FDU - Florham 6-2 13-6 King’s 6-2 11-8 Manhattanville 5-2 14-3 DeSales 5-3 10-9 Misericordia 4-3 11-7 Delaware Valley 4-4 7-12 Eastern 1-7 4-15 Wilkes 0-8 4-15 If the playoffs started today... Semi-final: Eastern @ Wilkes Semi-final: Misericordia @ Desales If the playoffs started today... Semi-final: Desales @ FDU-Florham Semi-final: Manhattanville @ King’s Football coach search ongoing The search is well underway for the replacement of former head football coach Trey Brown. Sources tell The Beacon that a replacement will be named within two weeks. The new hire will be responsible for the direction of the football program, beginning with spring preparations for the 2018 season. Numerous candidates were on campus during the past week to discuss a potential position with Wilkes. Recruit visits are still occuring under the direction of acting head coach David Biever. Biever managed the offensive line under Brown. Numerous recruits were on campus for this past weekend’s open house taking a look at what Wilkes has to offer. It is still unclear if Biever will continue in a role at Wilkes, but most likely depends on the new hire, sources said. Wilkes Football is looking to rebound after a miserable 2017 campaign that left the team winless (0-10). -Staff report Wilkes Winter Sports Schedules Women’s Basketball 1/22 @Alvernia, L, 60-65 11/15 @ Rutgers-Camden, L, 54-83 *1/24 @ Misericordia, L, 33-89 *1/27 vs. Delaware Valley, L, 61-67 11/17 vs. Marywood, W, 70-59 11/18 vs. U. of Scranton, L, 43-78 *1/31 vs. FDU-Florham, 6:00 p.m. 11/21 vs. PSU Wilkes-Barre, W, 72-51 *2/3 @Manhattanville, 1:00 p.m. *2/7 @ DeSales, 6:00 p.m. 11/30 @ Moravian, L, 57-80 12/4 @ Rutgers-Newark, L, 43-59 *2/10 vs. Misericordia, 1:00 p.m. *2/13 @ King’s, 6:00 p.m. 12/5 vs. Valley Forge, W, 89-76 12/7 vs. PSU-Schuylkill, L, 56-61 *2/17 vs. Eastern, 1:00 p.m. 12/9 vs. Juniata, L, 44-77 *-MAC Freedom *1/3 @ FDU-Florham, L, 59-90 *1/6 vs. Manhattanville, L, 38-93 Home games @ Marts Center Record: 4-15 1/8 @ PSU-Hazleton, W, 93-79 *1/10 @ Delaware Valley, L, 71-83 (MAC-Freedom: 0-8) *1/13 @ Eastern, L, 79-93 Results through 1/27 *1/17 vs. DeSales, L. 36-101 *1/20 vs. King’s, L, 59-75 Men’s Basketball 11/15 vs. PSU-Hazleton, W, 83-58 11/18 @ Elizabethtown, W, 86-75 11/21 vs. PSU-WB, W, 74-65 11/25 @ Marywood, L, 64-74 11/26 @ U. of Scranton, W-52-45 11/29 @ Drew, W, 87-80 12/2 vs. Messiah, L, 64-67 12/5 vs. Clarks Summit, W, 86-64 12/19 @ Albright, L, 65-72 12/28 @ Hiram, L, 85-94 12/29 @ Norwich, W, 97-74 *1/3 @ FDU-Florham, W, 75-52 *1/6 vs. Mahattanville, W, 73-68 *1/10 @ Delaware Valley, W 78-69 *1/13 @ Eastern, L, 76-91 *1/17 vs. Desales, W, 72-66 *1/20 vs. King’s, W, 76-64 *1/24 @ Misericordia, W, 87-82 *1/27 vs. Delware Valley, W, 58-57 *1/31 vs. FDU-Florham, 8:00 p.m. *2/3 @ Manhattanville, 3:00 p.m. *2/7 @ Desales, 8:00 p.m. *2/10 vs. Misericordia, 3:00 p.m. *2/13 @ King’s, 8:00 p.m. *2/17 @ Eastern, 3:00 p.m. *-MAC Freedom Home games @ Marts Center Record: 14-5 (MAC-Freedom: 7-1) Results through 1/27 �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Sports 22 Getting to know... Jake DiMarsico Super Senior Wrestler The Beacon: Male Athlete of the Week 1/14-1/22 Why Jake DiMarsico was selected: Jake DiMarsico was selected because he captured the 2018 Middle Atlantic Conference Championship at 133 pounds on Jan. 20. DiMarsico won three matches on the day, including a 10-8 decision, an 11-3 major decision and a 4-3 decision in the championship bout. Congratulations, Jake! What head coach Jonathan Laudenslager said: “Jake has done an excellent job this season on putting himself in position for the team, but more importantly putting himself in a position for the opportunity to qualify for the NCAA tournament in March. If Jake takes every opportunity from each day forward to commit to his goal, I see no reason he can’t be wrestling in Cleveland with the right to represent Wilkes on a national level.” Name: Jake DiMarsico Year: Super Senior Major: Accounting Minor: Marketing Hometown: Thiells, Ny. High School: North Rockland HS Position: 133lbs Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? My mind was set on wrestling in college and I spoke to a few different coaches. Then one day Slager gave me a call and he got me to come take a visit, I got to see how great of a tradition the wrestling program had for the university and I wanted to be apart of it. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? Work in Manhattan in Finance, accounting or stock broking for a few years, then eventually move out west most likely to California so I can snow board or hit the beach whenever I want. Favorite building on campus? Marts Center, where all the hard work takes place! Hopes for this season as a Colonel? All-American. Editor’s hi s year's year’s Athlete it -bas ed. D on’t ag ree Editor's note note:: T This Athlete of of the the Week Week iiss mer merit-based. Don't agree w ith our elec tion? LLet et uuss know it te r : @ WilkesB eacon with our sselection? know on on Tw Twitter: @WilkesBeacon Additionally, nd of mic year, year, we ill post post aa reader poll Additionally, at at the the eend of the the acade academic we w will reader poll to row n an to ccrown an “Athlete "Athlete of of the the Year” Year" .. Full ication ccritera r ite ra and mation can found on Full qualif qualification and more more infor information can be be found on our our website w w. the w ilkes beacon.com website:: w www. thewilkesbeacon.com The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky When/Why did you first begin playing? My career began playing baseball and soccer as a young kid. My two good friends were wrestlers and I had never even seen a match before. One day in 6th grade I went to a high school dual and wanted to try it, so I took off my cleats and strapped on some wrestling shoes and began to write my story. Favorite thing to do during practice? Live wrestling, time just flies when your scrapping. If you had to choose one thing about your program that you could improve, what would it be? How much my coaches hate the music I bump during practice…. Other interests or hobbies off of the field? Snowboarding, Gaming (PUBG and Rocket League), Music, getting after it, and buying SUPREME. Most influential person in your life? My cousin Anthony DiMarsico and my performance coach from back home John Hoke. These men taught me from a little kid what it as like to want to become a champion. A quote you live your life by? “Saddest thing in life is wasted talent” – A Bronx Tale If you could have dinner with a famous person from the past, who would it be? Pablo Escobar Favorite meal to eat on campus? As rarely as I wake up for them but the egg sandwich from Grill Works. Favorite professor? Dr. Seeley. Anyone to give a shout-out to? S/O 363, 365, 367 S. River, my Cuzznt Leech, and my Family OTF. -Complied by Luke Modrovsky, Sports Editor �Sports The Beacon - January 30, 2018 Getting to know... 23 Chelsea Erkes Sophomore Basketball Player The Beacon: Female Athlete of the Week-1/14-1/22 Why Chelsea Erkes was selected: Chelsea Erkes came off the bench to score a career-high of 12 points in a Jan. 22 matchup against Alvernia. Erkes had a significant contribution in a matchup where the Lady Colonels came up just short. What head coach Chris Heery said: “Chelsea Erkes has been shooting the ball well in the last few games. She has helped the team by hitting some deep three pointers which helps stretch the defense. She continues to be a great team player.” Name: Chelsea Erkes Year: Sophomore Major: Psychology Minor: Sports Management Hometown: Wernersville, Pa. High School: Conrad Weiser HS Position: Shooting Guard Driving force for your decision to come to Wilkes? The small campus, relationship with teachers, playing basketball. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? I plan to do something in psychology, and possibly sports. Hopes for this season as a Colonel? I hope that we improve from last years season, and grow closer as a team. Most influential person in your life? My mom, because she has always been there for me, and supports me in everything I do. A quote you live your life by? “With struggle comes strength.” When/Why did you first begin playing? Began playing in second grade, my dad, uncle, cousin, and grandfather all played, just ran in the family. Favorite thing to do during practice? My favorite thing to do during practice is scrimmaging, because it allows us to play as a team and get better as a team, but also as individuals. Coke or Pepsi? Pepsi. Anyone to give a shout-out to? Alyssa Alfano, I see you. -Complied by Luke Modrovsky, Sports Editor E ditor’s note hi s year's year’s Athlete it -bas ed. D on’t ag ree Editor's note:: T This Athlete of of the the Week Week iiss mer merit-based. Don't agree w ith our s elec tion ? L et uuss know it te r :: @ WilkesB eacon with our selection? Let know on on Tw Twitter @WilkesBeacon Additionally, nd of mic year, year, we ill post post aa reader poll Additionally, at at the the eend of the the acade academic we w will reader poll to n an to crow crown an “Athlete "Athlete of of the the Year” Year".. Full ication ccritera r ite ra and mation can found on Full qualif qualification and more more infor information can be be found on our our webwebsite: w w w. the w ilkes beacon.com ~ite: www. thewilkesbeacon . com The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky �The Beacon - January 30, 2018 24 THE BEACON The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. BEACON HIRES: ~ ~RS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, EDITORS This could be you! If you have a passion for writing, design, or photography,join us! Contact: Editor-in-Chief Toni Pennello toniann.pennello@wilkes.edu Freshmen and all majors welcome! � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2018 January 30th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2018 January 30 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University https://omeka.wilkes.edu/omeka/files/original/9b1be07e54aefcca7884d330ee6feea5.pdf 2aa666bbf85ef99348f0d6d94031ebff PDF Text Text The Beacon - November 14, 2017 EACO Est. 1936 Pa. Newspaper Association Member Volume 71, Issue 10 The news of today reported by the journalists of tomorrow. Student Government launches app FYF Committee seeks changes By Maddie Davis Staff Writer In recent weeks Wilkes. University's Student Government has publicized the new "Colonel Guide" mobile app to help students, faculty and staff to better connect and become involved in the various events Wilkes University clubs and organizations hold. The app is available for Android and Apple devices. The app displays all µpcoming events on the Wilkes University campus allowing users to add featured events to their personal phone calendar and enables students to filter searches through various tags and organizations such as athletics, food, and the type of event it is. "The app is a one-stop-shop for all students essentially to see any event on campus by any organization any day of the week;' described Cody Morcom, president of Student Government and pharmacy student. The app is a partnership between Student Government and Student Development along with Presence, an online platform, to not only make Wilkes' events easily available to students, but to also allow organizations and club presidents to view the demographics of who attended their event. This demographic information is accessible to help improve future events and make them more attractive to the target audience. "It kind of came out of not having a singular place where we can see events because we have all these posters around By Megan Stanley ( Search Staff Writer Colonel Guide • Check I'm Here, LLC ***** • 4+ The Beacon/ Maddie Davis A screenshot of the application in the Apple app store. The app is also avaliable for Android. SEE GUIDE, Page3 Members of Wilkes University's FirstYear Foundations (FYF) committee are encouraging full-time and tenured professors to teach subject focused FYF classes, rather than the current system where the courses on offer are more broad and aren't necessarily connected to a specific major. FYF is a first year 3 credit course students take in the fall semester. Currently, students can choose from around· fifteen FYF courses and the topics currently range from World Politics in the 21st Century to Global Warming to American Culture and Values. According to the Wilkes University website, the FYF program aims "to provide rigorous learning experiences that challenge first-year students to develop the strategies essential for a successful transition into the Wilkes campus community:' Dr. Edward T. Bednarz, an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering, was elected chair of the FYF committee, and since the creation of the committee last year, he has been involved in a number of changes. Berdnarz said that he wants to encourage more full-time faculty members to teach more subject specific courses in the future. Currently, the majority of FYF courses are taught by part-time professors, and are not subject specific. "This year we are piloting two classes that are Engineering Design FYF classes, it was written as strongly recommended for engineering majors but we didn't want to exclude other majors;• Berdnarz said. "I wanted to have a freshman level engineering class to introduce engineering to freshmen who are straight out of high school, and show them the cool stuff of engineering so they aren't just getting bored with the math and other fundamental courses;' he said. "I would really encourage other faculty members from other departments such as pharmacy, nursing, business to try and come up with their own freshman level course too:' A key issue Berdnarz pointed out was that full-time professors don't have the time for FYF classes. "There may be full time faculty members that do want to teach FYF, but their schedule just doesn't allow for it. That would probably have to come from higher aoministration;' he explained. FYF is not only subject based, but also includes guest speakers that teach freshmen how to register for classes, see their advisers and use the library. However, Berdnarz highlighted this as a potential issue as to why full-time professors might not want to teach the courses. "Professors in the past didn't really like that we had so many guest speakers coming in, as it would interrupt the flow of the course. So we really try to whittle that down to the bare minimum of interruptions and try to make SEEFYF, Page 3 •• . r �.J The Beacon - November 14, 2017 2 News News Have a breakin__g storr or a press release to send? Contact the news editor: cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu Beacon Briefs Have an international Thanksgiving Faculty and students are asked to consider inviting one or two international students to their Thanksgiving dinner. This opportunity Complied by Maddie Davis gives people a chance to share an American holiday with someone from a foreign culture. Contact Georgia Costala at the Center for Global Education and Diversity by phone (ext. 7854) or email Take the One Day Stand with Pre-Pharmacy Club (georgia.costalas@wilkes.edu) Pre-Pharmacy Club will host its annual One Day Stand event in the Attend Winter Creative Writing Workshops Student Union Building. The event will take place Nov. 16 during club Winter creative writing workshops will be offered to all of those hours. The table will feature ways to show support to stop smoking interested next semester on campus. Reality and Imagery in Fiction, around campus and free T-shirts. Social Media for Beginners, and Nonfiction Places and Spaces, among Support the Wilkes Baseball team at Chipotle others, are the workshops that are being offered. Registration for On Dec. 6, from 4 to 8 p.m there will be a fundraiser at the Wilkes- these workshops is now open at www.wilkes.edu/cw. For any further Barre Chipotle for the Wilkes Baseball team. Customers must mention questions call (570) 408-4547. Wilkes Baseball or show them a photo of their flyer and then 50 Hats, Socks and Gloves Drive percent of the proceeds will go towards the baseball program. Contact The Interfaith Office is holding a hat, socks and gloves drive for brandon.michael@wilkes.edu if you have any questions all of those interested in helping. Donate unused clo~hing at one of Be an IEP conversation partner the donation boxes scattered throughout campus to help the local The IEP Conversation Partner program is looking for students homeless people in need. Contact Kristin Osipower at ext. 5904 or and faculty to spend an hour or two a week speaking to international kristin.osipower@wilkes.edu for any questions. students involved in the intensive English Program. Participants do Editor's note: Last week's center spread was created by the News not need to plan special activities for their conversation partner, they just need to include them in some of their usual activities. For more section, not the Life, Arts and Entertainment section, as was information, contact Dr. Kimberly Niezgoda, Kimberly.niezgoda. erroneously indicated in the heading. edu. table of _contents news................2 life, a&e........... 7. Wilkes University Student Government notes home. There are two main areas that are keen to hire students: civic engagement and alumni On Wednesday, Nov. 8, the Wilkes Student relations, such as the phone-athon. Government held its weekly meeting. The first item of business was the Jean Eckert, the Student Employment fund request from the Nursing Student Supervisor for human resources, spoke Organization (NSO) so members can to the government about the changes and attend the Nursing Student Organization issues facing work study on campus. A key state conference. At the conference the point that was emphasised was the need 15 students attending will hear keynote for students to wait for clearance before speakers, attend workshops, and meet with working, especially if they are working a . representatives from hospitals. The request federal work study job. If a student works decreased from last week to $3,417.10, before being cleared, Eckert said that the as there was no need for gas coverage university could lose its federal funding. anymore. The requested funds would cover Students are only allowed to have two registration fees, hotel and food costs. The work sWly jobs and Eckert explained student government passed a motion to the reasoning behind this new rule. give the NSO $2,817.10, which will cover She explained that due to labor laws, their registration fees and hotel costs. job numbers have been restricted and The second item of business was the emphasised that the point of work study student initiative forms. The forms will be is that students can help the university get released to the student body next week and specific jobs completed whilst being able to students who complete it will be entered to organize their job hours around classes and win$100. other commitments. The academic planning committee met Upperclassmen are also advised to notify during the past week and are introducing any changes to payroll if their bank went new programs such as sports psychology through a merger recently. This will make and a new math minor. There will be a new sure money will go to the correct bank minor for education which will be for early account and will prevent checks being sent childhood educatfon, and the school is By Megan Stanley Staff Writer partnering with local day care centres. The academic standards committee reported a change to the handbook regarding grade appeals. Most grade appeals are for academic dishonesty, so they are creating separate channels for academic dishonesty and other appeals. Currently, students aren't spoken to regarding this, and the hope is that in the future they will discuss the issue with both staff and students. It was also reported that people who are on ~cademic probation aren't taking their situation seriously, and they are looking for measures to change this. During the meeting it was reported that during the summer the grass on the greenway will be torn up for new plants and the parking garage will be closed. This work is due to start the day after commencement. At the end of the meeting, members of student government sent holiday cards to a young boy in Portland, Maine, named Jack, who was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma five years ago and was recently given a month to live. Over social media, his family has called for the world to send him holiday cards and he has received cards from countries in Europe and Asia. spread............ 12 opinion.......... 14 sports............ 19 to @wilkesbeacon megan.stanley@wilkes.edu w . �The Beacon - November 14, 2017 3 News Students and faculty react to recent Texas church mass shooting By Cabrini Rudnicki News Editor A new tragedy has shocked the nation. On Nov. 5, a gunman entered a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, and fired upon the congregation, leaving 26 dead and an estimated 20 injured according to CNN. Students and faculty discuss their mixed emotions after yet another mass shooting, as well as society's treatment of the perpetrator. The shooting, which left victims ranging from 5 to 72, was the deadliest shooting to occur at a place of worship in American history. Among the dead •included the pastor's 14-year-old daughter, as well as nine people from the same family. The gunman, who was found dead in his car, was a 26-year-old recently fired security guard and ex-Air Force airman named Devin Patrick Kelley. The media's focus of his past criminal records and croblematic behavior, including an escape from a mental facility, animal cruelty, and domestic assault, has led to criticism about society's treatment of mass shooters. Taylor Baslasavage, a senior English major, had strong emotions on how the media has dealt with the identity of the gunman. "The shooter's face is everywhere. All they do is glorify him, and tell me where he FYF Continued from front page them relevant to the course," Berdnarz said. A big change was the new system in which students get to choose their FYF course. Regarding this Bednarz said, "before they would schedule their classes first, and then whatever room was left over meant they would be put in the FYF that fit their •hedule best. "Now it's the reverse, we're giving them the option to choose first and we try our best to schedule the rest of their classes around them:' Berdnarz added, "This really wasn't the case before the committee existed. Students can now read through course descriptions and see which ones interest them:' This year 86.6 percent of freshmen were placed in one of their top FYF course choices, and 51 percent of that figure recieved their first choice FYF topic. "There really has been a lot of complaints about FYF over the last several years: The perception is that it is a broken program, and we want to show that this is a relevant course;' he said. "FYF helps with the transition from high school to college, and it is the only course that specifically does that. "It is also the only course every Wilkes worked, what his issues were, his past history was. I just think we need to get rid of that completely:' · Baslasavage also spoke on the frequency of the mass shooting tragedies plaguing the nation. "We really need to crack down, especially in the media. You can't glorify these people committing these mass murders." Another student, Kelci Piavis, a senior English major, discussed the possibility of political change happening because of this shooting. "What can we do about it? 'Oh, we can put it into legislation; but wait, that's not going to happen;' said Piavis. "He [President Trump) passed a bill that made it easier for people with mental health issues to get gun;' she said, referring to a bill signed in February which undid a regulation from the Obama administration. "He's going on like 'This is a mental health issue; when obviously you don't care:' ,Dr. Dale Hazlak, a psychology professor, discussed the characteristics of mass shooters, which included mental health issues. "What we find in these guys is that they generally have history of antisocial behavior, but not to the degree that it would be diagnosable;' said Hazlak. "They tend to freshmen h~s to take, so it's the only common experience, and we are trying to make it more of a sense of community amongst the freshmen, too;' Berdnarz added. Despite the improvements made over the course of the year, some freshmen highlighted the issues they face within their FYF courses. Although she received her first option, Lindsay Becker, a freshman criminology major who is in the "Exploring Mars Through Lego Mindstorm Robotics" course, said, "Although it is fun, I don't think I've learned anything. The library visits seem forced and so does the entire course:' A freshman political science major, who wished to remain anonymous and is part of the honors FYF course, "Learning Through Leadership;' told The Beacon, 'I think the idea of leadership is a good and popular enough topic to make the class interesting. However, I don't like the fact we have three hours of it once a week based on full-on lecturing. "A couple of times we've done bonding activities and leadership activities, such as rock climbing or cooking, and that is fun and helps develop leadership skills, but the lecturing and the three hours of theory a week really leaves all of us without retaining any of if' ~ @wilkesbeacon ~ megan.stanley@wilkes.edu hold resentment, and they tend to hold anger issues. They have really limited coping skills, especially when they find themselves in a situation where they experience a loss:' Hazlak also spoke about what society can do to prevent future incidents from occurring. "I think we have a really good 20/20 backwards, which is always the case;' said Hazlak. "I think what we really need to look at GUIDE Continued from front page campus and students don't know where to look because there are _so many in one place;' said Morcom. "Essentially it's about getting feedback from students because we want to know what they want so we can improve our events-that's the name of the game this year." Student Government and Student Development hope to help the clubs become a little more active on campus this year. The leaders of Wilkes University clubs and organizations are integrated into the Presence database as administrative users based on if they are considered active. The app allows leadership to add events to the master list available on the app. From here the app features the uploading of images and descriptions to advertise their event better to all users. "We're hoping to be able to understand what part of our student population is going to events, what type of the events they're going to;' added Assitant Coordinator of Student Development Reka Shayka when asked about the goal of the Colonel Guide app. "We wanted to make sure that we were Graphic by Todd E:spenshade is what's happening in terms of socialization skills. We've lost our community base of connectivities. "We need to start spending time with one another, in a way that makes us have some sense of responsibility to each other:' ~ @wilkesbeacon ~ · cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu capturing as many students on campus as possible;' said Shayka, as well as "reaching out to those who aren't yet involved:' "I think the app is a really cool idea because it puts everything in one place;' added senior Nursing student and president of the Choral Club Hannah Eastman. "I definitely am going to use it for our christmas concert, which is great because I think that's a way people will see it when they might not have seen it alreadf' "It might help us reach new members and people who might want to come see it;' said Eastman enthusiastically. "No other school in the country has it;' added Morcom. "It's just unique to Wilkes University:' 'Tm excited right now because it's going really well but I'm even more excited for the future because of the possibility of having so many more organizations on it;' said Morcom, "We're just setting up the foundation right now but it's going to blow up pretty soon:' For any further questions or concerns please either contact student government at studentgovernment@wilkes.edu or attend a Student Governnient meeting Wednesdaya at 6 p.m. in the Miller Room of the SUB. ~ @wilkesbeacon ~ madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu r �J The Beacon - November 14, 2017 4 News ·Speaker discusses 'Religion in Government and Government in Religion' By Isaiah McGahee Asst. News Editor Dr. Donald Grier Stephenson visited Wilkes University on Nov. 9 to discuss and examine the Supreme Court's evolving interpretation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment; specifically, how it relates to religion in government. A former professor of political science, with a specialty in constitutional law, Stephenson is a Charles A. Dana Professor of Government, Emeritus, from Franklin and Marshall College. Stephenson is also a former United States Army Intelligence Officer, attaining the rank of Captain, and was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal. He was assigned as Research Associate to the Faculty of The National War College at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C. "Government. . . religion. When connected, those words remind us of a rock romance which can be strained at best and warlike at worst. Working out a smooth relationship between government and religion is even harder:' said Stephenson. In his lecture, Stephenson discussed that of the 193 member-countries in the United Nations, not one is indifferent towards religion. He further went on to elaborate that if one country had an official religion, it can still maintain religious freedom(s) for all. Stephenson also noted that both religion and government, and constituents who favor either, compete for power and influence. "Government and religion are like opposite sides of a coin. On one side are ground rules imposed by the Constitution. On the other side is religion as one of many forces and factors in politics --- as individuals and groups compete to cot trol the government:' Stephenson said. A common theme was discussed throughout the lecture: duality, which Stephenson articulately notated as a tension between two sets of values: accommodation, the older of two, and separation, the newer of the two. Under the accommodationist belief, the government best serves its own purposes when it encourages religion generally, while tolerating other faiths as well. "This seems to have been the dominant view in most of the American states at the end of the eighteenth century as our Constitution was written and ratified, and for a long time afterwards:' said Stephenson. According to separationist beliefs, adherents believe that both political and religious institutions would more likely prosper if each left the other alone as much as possible in a land where most citizens were also believers. Stephenson also discussed the free exercise clause of the First Amendme~t, one of the only sparse references to religion throughout the Constitution, reinfor~ing that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . ." "The free exerdse clause carves out a sphere of religious _practice free of interference by the government. The establishment clause limits government support of religious endeavors and, more importantly, is designed to prevent government from becoming the tool of faith against others:' said Stephenson. Stephenson highlighted two supreme court cases wherein the government has waded into religious waters. The two cases highlighted were McCreary Countyv. A.C.L.U. of Kentucky, and Van Orden v. Perry. Both cases took place in 2005. "The line between recognition and endorsement is apparently very thin indeed:' said Stephenson. In McCreary County v. A.C.L.U. of Kentucky, the Suprem~ Court upheld a lower court's invalidation of a courthouse display which included the Ten Commandments intermingled with various secular historical documents. Ironically, on the same day that Kentucky verdict came down, Van Orden v. Perry found no constitutional violation in the presence of a monument on which the Ten Commandments had been inscribed that was located on the grounds of the Texas state capitol. Finally, Stephenson highlighted one more decision where the government again wandered into religious territory: Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer, which was decided last June. This case is significant, as it marked the first and only time where newly sworn Justice, Justice Neil Gorusch, participated in a vote regarding religious freedom. Trinity Church, which believed it had been unfairly discriminated against over a dismission of federal funding for updates to a playground, which it provided as part of its daycare, looked to the Supreme Court, which overturned lower courts' rulings, hence allowing the government funding. "The title of my talk poses a question, but my goal is not to tell you what that answer is or what the answer ought to be. I don't intend to tell you what to think, instead I want to suggest how you might think about the subject in the American context, so that you can arrive at your own conclusion and answer that question for yourself,' said Stephenson. @wilkesbeacon isaiah.mcgahee@wilkes.edu fl a.('. I\._,/1t.,,,./;•I" ....,.. V lhcf XC By Kir Staff ' On count Mide: Dicl<i Th earni 01 Sopb ofth, in 2? Fr pers Kevi finis F Seb: KeIJ the 1 ean ( Mc tor Au Su OU The Beacon/ Steffen Horwath Dr. Donald Grier Stephenson, former professor of political science with a specialty in constitutional law and current Charles A. Dana Professor of Government Emeritus at Franklin and Marshall College, discussed the Establishment Clause of th~ First Am~ndment at Wilkes on Nov. 9. ro ha d, fr h, t{ r: I The Beacon/ Steffen Horwath Stephenson points to a white board outlining two court cases involved in the debate of religion in government. Verdicts on McCreary County v. A.C.L:t.J of Kentucky and Van Orden v. Perry were both reached on the same day, but both had differing rulings. �L The Beacon - November 14, 2017 News 5 Hanover Area guidance counselor awarded by Wilkes Michelle Zapotoski, Hanover Area Junior Senior High School, named 'Guidance Counselor of the Year By Shannon O'Connor Asst. LAE Editor ·on Oct. 23, President Patrick F. Leahy presented the Guidance Counselor of the Year Award to Michelle Zapotoski. The recipient of this award is chosen by Wilkes Admissions. Jessica Haczewski, the Admissions Event Coordinator, said, "each counselor selects a guidance counselor who shows commitment to the Wilkes mission and writes up a few reasons as to why they are nominating this person. We then discuss it among ourselves and select the recipient:' Zapotoski was one of many nominated for this award, and when it came down to finally picking the winner, Zapotoski fit the bill. Zapotoski is a guidance counselor at Hanover Area Junior Senior High School for eleventh and twelfth grade students. As part of her job, she handles planning college visits, organizing college fairs and helps her students with their post-high school plans. Zapotoski is also responsible for pre-college testing including the PSSA and PSAT, as well as peer tutoring. · Zapotoski received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Penn State University and her master's degree in elementary and secondary education from the University of Scranton. Working to better the lives of children is a family affair for the Zapotoskis. Zapotoski and her husband, Michael Zapotoski, a Wilkes University graduate, organized a charity baseball and softball game which took place in April. These games were organized for a Nanticoke Area student who is currently being treated for leukemia. Michelle Zapotoski has also worked to introduce her students to Wilkes University. She currently works with the Wilkes Young Scholars Gateway Program that allows high school students to earn a year's worth of college credits by the time they reach their high school graduation. Zapotoski also works with prekindergarten through fourth grade students in the Luzerne County SHINE program at Wilkes. The SHINE program stands for Schools and Homes in Education which is currently serving students in seven different centers. The SHINE program is offered four days a week and is based on a STEAM {Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) curriculum. Zapotoski had 13 of her students enrolled at Wilkes University in the Fall of 2017: When Zapotoski was named Guidance Counselor of the Year, she didn't realize it was her name that was called until her husband had to nudge her and tell her she had just won. "I was so excited and shocked;' she said. "I am one of those people who LOVES what they do. I have been doing this job for 13 years and it has drastically changed since I started. I have found and truly believe that once they have decided what direction they are going to head in, and the earlier the better on that, they are happier, healthier, and more involved students:' Some of Zapotoski's students that now attend Wilkes had some words to say about their guidance counselor. "Ms. Z~potoski fully deserves her award, as she always went out of her way to help her students;' sophomore pharmacy major Mallory Ellis said. "Without her, I'm not sure how I would've made it through high school and progressed onto college;' said sophomore Lauren Coleman. "No matter what time of the day I would go to see her, she would make herself available no matter how busy she was:' sophomore pharmacy major Maryann Chapin said. The Guidance Counselor of the Year award -Courtesy of Wilkes Marketing has been given for three years. The previous Michelle Zapotoski, a guidance winners were Diane Mcfarlane from E.L. counselor at Hanover Area Junior Meyers High School and Jill Saporito from Senior High School, poses with Wilkes Coughlin High School. "The award from Wilkes University was President Patrick Leahy after being - such a highlight in my career and I am so named "Guidance Counselor of the grateful;' Zapotoski said. Year. Cultural Film Series continues with 'Wilhemina's War' Center for Global Education, Division of Global Cultures, Anthropology professor screen film highlighting HIV issue By Maddie Davis Staff Writer On Nov. 6, the Center for Global Education, the Division of Global Cultures, and Anthropology professor Dr. Linda Winkler presented "Wilhemina's War;' the third movie of their Cultural Film Series. This edition of the series shined light on the often undiscussed topic of heterosexually transmitted HIV/ AIDS in black women, particularly in South Carolina. "I think I've picked this one because it was about a cultural community that many students here at Wilkes wouldn't necessarily have been exposed to, in the Carolinas;' explained Dr. Linda Winkler. "It discusses the topic that we often don't discuss, which is HIV/AIDS in the U.S., in a way that is keenly personal:' "In 2009, federal officials cited AIDS as the leading cause of death among black always gives you a different perspective." women," narrated Crystal Johnson in the Wilhemina,' a grandmother from South film, setting the tone of the HIV/AIDS Carolina who took care of her daughter . and granddaughter after they contracted epidemic in the south. The documentary discussed the role HIV, is the focus and the protagonist of of mass incarceration of black men in the the film. She would make sure they get to transmission of the virus, statistics dealing their doctor appointments and make sure with positive tests among black women and they took all their medicine. Her daughter the general population, and the personal Toni contracted HIV during extensive drug · stories associated. use and then passed it onto her newborn The cameras followed the stigma that daughter, Dayshal, when she gave birth. arose regarding the virus and the scarce Dayshal grew up with the social stigma resources available to those with HIV/ AlDS, and lack of resources for HIV. The stigma specifically within Wilhemina's family. resulted from lack of knowledge about the "It was really eye opening;' said Dr. Lin- virus and the belief that it was a more white, da Paul, associate professor of philosophy, homosexual disease rather than black, when asked about the film. heterosexual epidemic. "It's always interesting to see the actual At the time the movie was being people and how it affects their lives rather produced, then South Carolina Governor just hearing statistics about things;' Nikki Haley fought against the $11 billion elaborated Paul. "Statistics are important and opportunity for 140,000 new jobs the for the overall view, but the personal touch Affordable Care Act would grant the state to help combat lack of help for HIV/ AIDS in the communities. After the offer from the Affordable Care Act was declined, the film continued to focus on the communal efforts in South Carolina to diagnose, treat, educate, and prevent HIV/ AIDS in an area that was blind to it. Different HIV/AIDS awareness groups like Positive Voices, of South Carolina, mobilized efforts to change the future of HIV/ AIDS in the south to become more of an understanding and supporting environment for those tested positive for the disease. "We have HIV,' stated Dayshal proudly in the film, "HIV don't have us:' .a-- @wilkesbeacon • madelynn.davis@wilkes.edu r �.J The Beacon - November 14, 2017 News 6 ..President Donald Trump and Twitter: students, faculty weigh in The debate in wake of Twitter employee deleting Trump's account for 11 minutes By Michael Osayi everything that happens in the White House. Like, let that go," said Tyler Martz. Twitter has only been around for 12 years, and Trump is the second president to hold Contributing Writer Editor's note: Toni Pennello contributed to this story. President Donald Trump has spent a lot of time in the spotlight during his early tenure in the oval office. His role on social media has arguably stirred more controversy than his policy decisions at times. The president has been active on his social media accounts during his time in office. In particular, his Twitter account has garnered much attention -- as well as a sudden absence from the social media platform on Nov. 2. On that evening, a rogue customer support worker for Twitter disabled the president's account on her last day on the job, according to the New York Times. Trump's account was down for 11 minutes, and, according to the report, the incident sent users of the website into an uproar. This former Twitter employee felt strongly about Trump's use of social media, and some research indicates she is not alone. According to an NBC poll taken in August, 66 percent of Americans disapprove of the president's Twitter usage. Do the national beliefs of Americans align with those in Wilkes-Barre? The feelings of students seem to be generally consistent. One resounding theme remained prevalent: they think the president should spend less time on Twitter. Subject matter has also come into discussion when talking about how president Trump goes about using his nfltter. "I don't think he should posting The rate of usage between the two is very different. President Obama would tweet far less often than Trump, using the platform every few days, compared to Trump Graphic by Todd Espenshade office during the rise of social media. When attempting to compare others who have held the position, this only leaves President Obama as a source. tweeting multiple times in one day. "I think he used social media a little too much. He should address the public through other media outlets;' said Nick Rhinesmith. There are those who think with the right useage, the president can use twitter as an effective medium for communication. "I think it's a good way to stay in touch with the yQunger generation;' sai~_ Keith Allen. This is could be a strong possibility. According to a 2015 Pew Research Center study, 32 percent of 18 through 29 year olds use the social media site. "I think Trump uses social media as an effective tool to display his opinion ... He's very raw, very true, he's a no B.S kind of guy, and he puts his foot down and he sticks to his guns;' said Jonathan Bender. While both expressed this sentiment, they also said they thought he was on the platform too much. "At the same time he can be using it the wrong way like he is;' Allen expr~ssed. Even citizens who voted for him had some remarks about his use. "Some negative, he doesn't always refrain from what he really means;' said Bender later on. One front rarely mentioned is the policy aspect. "Twitter use by the president is obviously novel but extremely dangerous and damaging, because presidential statements often times have the force of policy;' Wilkes assistant professor of history Jonathan Kuiken said. Trump's use of Twitter is unprecedented, and time will tell whether it will continue to be used in such a way by future White House occupants. . . . . @wilkesbeacon • michael.osayi@wilkes.edu Love keeping up with the news? Try writing it! Contact: News Editor, Cabrini Rudncki cabrini.rudnicki@wilkes.edu • �The Beacon - November 14, 2017 Life, Arts & Entertainment 7 Life, Arts & Entertainment Have a story or want your event to be featured? Contact the Life, A&E Editor: amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu Keller Williams to perform at F.M. Kirby Center By Amanda Bialek and Shannon O'Connor Life, Arts & Entertainment Editor and Asst. Life, Arts & Entertainment Editor Keller Williams, the barefoot, multiinstrumental performer is bringing his acrobatic style of music to Wilkes-Barre this holiday season. His hybrid of folk, jazz and electronica is bound to get audience members grooving to the beat. His appearance to the music scene d\,lring the early 90s brought definition to the term independent artist. Most of his career, he has performed solo. Williams built his reputation on his engaging live performances, none of which are alike. His shows include him singing his compositions and cover songs, while accompanying himself on the acoustic guitar. Williams is known for his unique style of music known as acoustic dance music, or ADG. Acoustic dance music combines alternative folk · with electronic music that is based on live phrase sampling or looping with no pre-recording. "I was playing with an acoustic guitar and a microphone, you know, still focusing on trying to play something you could really head-bop to or really keeping the beat, some kind of backbeat;' Williams said. Williams said he wanted a more organic approach to music that would allow him to _create a dance groove without the use of automated sequencers. His live shows are known for being unpredictable and exciting based on his ability to improvise and develop interesting tunes with the absence of a band. He discovered his interest in music as a toddler. Williams remembers pretending to play the guitar and other instruments. By the age of 14, he was learning how to play chords by listening to the music he heard on • the radio and copying the notes. At age 16, Williams landed his first paid gigs at local restaurants. "It just seemed a lot easier to have fun and play music than to go and scrape mortar out of the cracks of cinder block walls for eight hours and make similar money;' Williams said. Williams has been touring for years across the United States. He often switches from solo to group tours. Most famously, Williams has toured with Michael Franti, The String Cheese Incident and all living members of The Grateful Dead. For Williams, touring with Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart, former drummers of The Grateful Dead, was a dream come true. Growing up, Williams listened to their music. To have the opportunity to perform with renowned artists was an exciting experience for him. "To be face to face with (Kreutzmann and Hart) and being on stage with them is one _ thing but being backstage and rehearsing with them in a small room, that was surreal;' Williams said. Music has become an essential part of his life. It is a form of therapy or release for him. When someone listens to one of Williams' songs or attends his concert, he wants the beat to take them away to a place that escapes the reality of this world. "I think that with so much going on in the world today, my mission is to get people to forget about the outside world and to be entertained for a couple hours. I try to get people to absorb my visuals that I create Keller Williams, creator of acoustic dance music, centered his music career through music," Williams said. Keller Williams spreads his love and around his unique style. Known for his custom guitar and his barefeet, Williams passion for music to all those around him. is bound to make an audiance bop t heir head t o the beat. With today's technology, the music industry is open to endless possibilities and creativity. Every genre of music, artist and song is at the touch of a button. "Play for yourself. Play the things you like. Don't rely on music to pay your bills. Find another way to pay your bills and let music be the escape from that. Create your own scene. Set up for free in a park or a bus or get permission from a local business, without a tip jar. You're not doing it for tips: Get some hours in, spend a little time with it before focusing on the money part;' Williams said. As part of the F.M. Kirby Center's "Live from the Chandelier Lobby" series, the live solo performance by Keller Williams is on Friday, Dec. 8. Tickets can be purchased at the Kirby Center Box Office, by phone at 570. 826-11 00 or online at www.kirbycenter.org. The doors open at 7:30 p.m. with a showtime of 9 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 the day of the show. 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Tap will Cilia n.omrcla alll pamcsan cla:sc. 1 7. lliafar45~...-S. 11.BanApm I . . zza Sub livery- Call 825-5166 • Wilkes - . �The Beacon - November 14, 2017 Life, Arts & Entertainment 9 Allan P. Kirby Center Spotlight By Amanda Bialek and Courtney McMonagle wanted to figure out a way to reduce plastic waste," said Rachel Hodgins, environmental manager ofXenoil, LLC. Life, Arts & Entertainment Editor and Mechanical engineering student at Wilkes Guest writer University, Anthony Prato has always The Allan P. Kirby Enterprise Center enjoyed building things. Growing up with (APKEC) is an initiative of the Allan P. a father who is a business owner, Prato Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and decided he wanted to follow in his footsteps. Entrepreneurship (APKCFEE). Previously, As full-time students who are building a the Allan P. Kirby Enterprise Center was business of their own, Prato and Hodgins located in the Luzerne Bank Building said they are grateful for the opportunity to on Public Square. The center now has a have an office space in the incubator. new home on the corner of Main Street "It's been really beneficial to us. We finally and Northampton Street, upstairs from have a place to settle and do our work and the Wilkes University Small Business put things where they need to be. It helps us Development Center (SBDC). be more organized;' Hodgins said. The enterprise center includes a meeting Before the incubator office space, room, a classroom and six office spaces. .Prato said they were working out of two Each spacious office has two desk areas folders and having to unpack everything allowing for two companies to be housed and repack all of their materials. Now, in the same area. The incubator provides business partners Prato and Hodgins, have office spaces for internal and external a designated work area where they can clients of the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free spread out and allow their ideas to flow in a Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, including thriving environment. student-owned businesses. "Since it's a stage one incubator, it gives One of the office spaces is currently us a feeling that we're an actual entity and occupied by Xenoil, LLC, a manufacturing helps us feel that we have a purpose as a company focused on reducing plastic waste company now that w~ have our own place by creating post-consumer products. to go to," Hodgins said. "I'm an environmental engineering Another office space is occupied by student (Wilkes University) and I always Michelle Lehman, a business marketing had a passion for the environment, and in major at Wilkes University. She founded her high school I got an interest in plastics and I company, RAE sleeves in March of 201_7. The mission of RAE sleeves is to design clothing for powerful women. RAE sleeves designs and manufactures sheer fashion accessory sleeves that can be worn under sleeveless tops and dresses. The uniqueness of the product comes from the flexible and versatile design that allows women to confidently layer clothing. "The incubator has been beneficial for my business because it has given me a creative space to think and implement ideas that I normally wouldn't have the opportunity to do just in a classroom or another space on campus," Lehman said. As a 21 -year-old, full-time student, Lehman said her office space has boosted her credibility as a business owner and allows others to visit her in an area where they can actively observe the work she is doing. Having a collaborative space where she can interact with incubator tenants and bounce ideas off of other entrepreneurs has been very helpful for her. "There is a vast amount of innovation happening in_our community. Within the last ten years, downtown Wilkes-Barre has had extreme growth, and I want to be part of this thriving atmosphere in the future," Lehman said. Lehman said the proximity of the incubator to the heart of Wilkes-Barre is expanding her network and enabling her to grow both professionally and personally. Another office is marked as the Kirby Scholar Suite. The suite houses four Kirby Scholars. The scholars will take turns working at the incubator. This presence allows clients to have access to the scholars for any projects or questions they can offer their ·expertise in. With Kirby Scholars, the Small Business Development Center and other mentors in the Allan P. Kirby Enterprise Center mentor network, the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship hopes to help their incubator clients grow and become more successful. Instead of starting a long email chain and hoping to set up a meeting in coming weeks, clients can now simply walk down the hall or downstairs to receive assistance and mentoring. The center is a reflection of Wilkes University's commitment to support the community by attracting new businesses to the downtown area and retaining individuals to work locally. The Allan P. Kirby Enterprise Center will continue to provide many opportunities for Wilkes students, faculty and staff to create new businesses, work with the center to operational assistance and develop a strategy for commercializing their ideas to establish independent businesses. ~ @wilkesbeacon ~ amanda.bialek@wilkes.edu • The Beacon/ Madison Kaminski Rachel Hodgins, co-owner of Xenoil, is one of several stu~ents utilizing the new incubator space. The-Beacon/ Madison Kaminski Michelle Lehman, owner of RAE Sleeves, works at her desk at the Allan P. Kirby Enterprise Center. r �_J The Beacon - November 14, 2017 Life, Arts & Entertainment Crafting With ~ fhe middle of your chalkboard~ . _.,j,,,jfvf'.:,1111ffijlllnir k 4. gfarting from the middle out, U89 the pencil to lightfy draw the outfineg_ . 5. &age gently if naceggary. 6. Trace your degign in the paint pen. 7. Allow to dry, go it doegn't gmear. 8. t--fang and e~oy your new ~ Qpggign. �L. The Beacon - November 14, 2017 11 Life, Arts & Entertainment 11r11~I{l~S IJNI\TJ~llSI'IY'S (~JISIN() Nlf•l1'1 2() 17 1 Wilkes University students line up as they get ready to gamble the night away at Casino Night. ~~ ~ ~· /7/ I • ,/ ~ I ;- Players put their chips down before another spin at the roulette table. ~ I V '~ ~ . \ \ ( __,,;;->/ , •• A group of students line up at one of the blackjack tables and place their bets. The Beacon/Madison Kaminski Students were able to have the chance to win a wide variety of different prizes at Casino Night on Friday. Graphics by Todd Espenshade . r �The Beacon - November 14, 2017 Sports 12 Wilkes drops Mayor's Cup, 40-26 By Danny Van Brunt Managing Editor Ejections, penalties and turnovers fueled the rivalry in the Mayor's Cup game. The Colonels were out for vengeance, looking to red.aim the cup from last year and tally at least one win on the winless season. In an attempt to overcome a 20-point deficit, Wilkes University capitalized on a series of turnovers, scoring three touchdowns in the third quarter to tie the game. King's bounced back to score two more unanswered touchdowns to win, 40-26. Jeff Steeber put Wilkes on the board with a 12-yard run in the first, while King's mounted a lead before halftime. The Monarchs also opened the third with a touchdown, lifting the deficit to 26-6. At 9:45 in the third, Devon Fink ran a pick-six back from the 5-yard line. Shortly after, Wilkes recovered a fumble and on Waleen Huffin's first play at quarterback. he tossed a 22yard touchdown to Steeber on first down at 5:55. Gabe Allyger then intercepted another Monarch pass leading to a ,1-yard, five-play drive capped off by a 12-yard reception from Huffin to Garrett Armstrong for the score with 3:12 remaining, 26-26. "Obviously it was a rough season, but these guys fight; senior offensive lineman Ryan Bowman said. "They're fighters. We had a lot of injuries, but what can you do? We had a lot of guys step up, even though it wasn't good enough in the end. I wouldn't trade this season or my four years here at Wilkes for anything:' After the final game for the Colonel seniors, head coach Trey Brown decided to thank them for their time and effort. "The seniors are awesome; Brown said. "I couldn't be more proud of them all. I think what happens a lot is attrition that occurs at all schools. I told these 14 guys that what I'll miss the most is not having a chance for them to have that great feeling after a great winning performance:' First-year defensive back Amari Peterson (#11) signals the first Colonel touchdown of the game. Devon Fink (#26) and company celebrate his defensive interception returned for a five-yard touchdown. • . �. The Beacon - November 14, 2017 Sports Garrett Armstrong (#87) caught a 12-yard pass to tie the game in the third quarter. Jeff Steeber (#18) scored another touchdown and was greeted in the air by Greg Albertson (#3). The Colonels found success sending Jeff Steeber (#18) on jet · sweeps to the outside throughout the game. �_J The Beacon - November 14, 2017 14, Opinion Opinion Have an Editor~a~'Staff 2017-18 inion or want to write a _Sl!est column? Contact the opinion ed itor: andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Movies to see over winter break By Nicholas Filipek Asst. Opinion Editor MANAGERIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief- Toni Pennello Managing Editor - Danny Yan Brunt Adviser - Dr. Kale'n Qbur:cher ' ', %; · .. , , t'::;::,; SEc-,;IOM mTQRs .. News ~Cabrini LA&E : Amaf\da Bialek •• Rudnic!l Opinion - Andre ·spnJell Sport$ :. LuRe ~fl?~ Clayton and ThertSa Karambelas Medta Center WIikes University Wilkes-Barre, PA ·18766 www.thewilkesbeacon.com \ . Another semester down. Time flies when you are having fun and I have got to say it has been a blast talking about all these movies all semester. Thank you to anyone who read "Nick'$ Flick Picks" all semester long, and be assured I'll be back next semester, excited to talk about some more movies. Between the time you are reading this, and the time the next issue of The Beacon comes out, a lot of good moves will be hitting theaters. Here is a short list with the flicks I know I will for sure be seeing. Just note that since I have not seen these movies, I can not say for sure what they are about, so I have added the IMDB (Internet Movie Database) synopsis for each movie to give you all a better idea what they are about. Justice League- Nov. ·17 - "Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy." If you want to know more about the Justice League and the four movies that have led them to this point, stop by The Beacon office in the Karambelas Media and Communication Center, room ll8, and pick up the October 3rd edition where I go into full detail. I have my tickets reserved and will be at the 6 p.m. showing on Nov. 16. Wonder- Nov. 17- "Based on the New York Times bestseller, WONDER, tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending · a mainstream elementary school for the first time:' It takes a lot of guts to open up on the same day as a blockbuster event like "Justice League;' but I think it will turn out to be a smart move. Not to try to stereotype, but generally speaking, action movies are for boys while heartwarming comedies are for women. Though there are many exceptions to this "rule;' this is the only reason I could think of as to why they would choose to open the same day as the DC comics juggernaut. I think they're hoping as fathers and sons hit the theatre for "Justice League;' mothers and daugh ers will split ways to go see "Wonder:' Stephen Chobsky is directing. He also did "The Perks of Being a Wallflower;' so that makes me really excited to go see it. I think Chobsky did a beautiful job taking that book and translating it into film, so I am sure he will do the same with this book -turned-motion-picture. The movie will star Jacob Tremblay ("The Book of Henry;' "Room'') as August Pullman with Owen Wilson ("Wedding Crashers;' "Zoolander") and Julia Roberts ("Pretty Woman;' "Eat Pray Love") playing his parents. These types of movies are right up my alley so I am thinking I will have a double screening day on Nov. 17 to see both this and "Justice League:' Roman J. Israel, Esq.- Nov. 21- "Denzel Washing"lon stars as Roman Israel, a driven, . idealistic defense attorney who, through tumultuous events, finds himself in a crisis that leads to extreme action:' �,/I 10 The Beacon - November 14, 2017 Break Movies cont. Next to the Beacon's assistant news editor, Isaiah McGahee, I am the biggest Denzel Washington fan. I think he is a truly incredible actor, but more importantly, he seems like just an incredible human being. Hollywood has a subculture of loving to tear down its idols, to watch them fall, so they do digging at,ld research to find the dirt on celebrities to print in their tabloids and play on the news. Washington has never been involved with any of that. In fact, when his name is in the news it is because he voiced an opinion that has people talking and agreeing with him. This role as Roman Israel seems to be a good fit for Washington and I wait anxiously for more info about the movie. Opinion 15 side. That character in question, Kylo Ren, played by Adam Driver ("Silence;' "Paterson'') has a very unclear role in the trailers. At one point they make it seem like he is now after the destruction of his mother, Leia, played by the original actress, and now late, Carrie Fisher. Whatever comes out of this I know I will be front row center on Thursday, Dec.13, at lOp.m. Pitch Perfect 3 - Dec. 22 - "Following their win at the world championship, the now separated Bellas reunite for one last singing competition at an overseas USO tour, but face a group who uses both instruments and voices:' Probably not the movie that I am looking foward to the most over the break, but I think Star Wars: The Last Jedi- Dec. 14This movie is super secretive and has no synopsis posted for it on IMDB. The trailers make it look like it will be a direct sequel to "Star Wars: The Force Awakens:' From everything I have seen Rey, played by Daisy Ridley ("Murder on the Orient Express;' "Lifesaver"), and Luke Skywalker, played by the one and only Mark Hamill who portrayed the role in the original "Star Wars: A New Hope;' are working together to protect the Jedi way. It seems during their training, Luke becomes worried about the raw emotional power his new padawan has, and says it is reminiscent of his last apprentice who went to the dark Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle- Dec. 25 - "Four teenagers discover an old video game console and are literally drawn into the game's jungle setting becoming the adult avatars they chose:' Unlike everyone else, I am actually excited for this movie. I love the first "Jumanji" with such a passion that I am just happy this is a somewhat sequel and not an overall reboot. It has some of my favorite actors and actresses, like, Jack Black ("Tropic Thunder;' "The School of Rock"), Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ("Fast & Furious 6;' "The Scorpion King"), Kevin Hart ("Central Intelligence;' "The Wedding Ringer") and Karen Gillan ("Guardians of the Galaxy;' "Oculus") so I can not see how the general public is not more amped for this movie. Possible spoiler! Read the rest at your own risk. It has been said that that while the four new characters are stuck in the game world of Jumanji, they happen upon an old tree house that belong to Alan Parish. Alan Parish was the main character from the first movie played by Robin Williams ("Good Will Hunting;' "Patch Adams") and helps tie the two films together, while not having to make it a direct sequel. I will still go see it. I like the characters and am excited to see how they have developed since the last sequel. ~ @wilkesbeacon • nick.filipek@wilkes.edu • Do you nave opinions? Do you wish you had a platform to share them? Contact Andre Spruell to write about them and get them off your chest. andre.spruell@wilkes.edu r �. .J The Beacon - November 14, 2017 Opinion 16 Thanksgiving vs. Christmas: Which one is better? By Savannah Pinnock Staff Writer Within the context of the Gregorian calendar, countries across the globe celebrate a plethora of holidays that are fundamental to their central traditions and/ or belief systems. America is no different in that as a nation, the roots of our most popular and fundamental traditions. are based within a pseudo-religious context. In fact, two of the most popular American holidays are Thanksgiving and Christmas, which have religious origins. This is quite fascinating in that, since the establishment of these traditions, our nation has successfully managed to honor the true meanings of these holidays without becoming theocratic. As it pertains to Christmas, the holiday is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ within a Judeo-Christian context. Likely due to the first amendment, which established the separation of church and state, one can objectively see that the holiday is dually compartmentalized in an effort to provide a great extent of room to honor the Christian tradition for its true meaning as well as the somewhat secular Santa Claus tale. The peace found within such a dichotomy lies on a fine balance that is unquestionably secure. Americans who celebrate the holiday out of reverence for the birth of celebrating the holiday can dovetail seamlessly, and that is often the case. Within the context of Thanksgiving, there also appears to be a dualistic nature present. After the "First Thanksgiving" of Graphic by Todd Espenshade Christ are greatly satisfied, and those who celebrate the holiday due to non religious notions of Santa Claus and providing gifts for loved ones can find comfort in knowing that their means of celebrating the holiday is also respected. One of the most beautiful qualities of Christmas is that the two means of In another sense, the holiday has grown to be a $2.9 billion dollar familial event in which families often celebrate each other. In a more superficial sense, it has evolved into national feast and its historical·ties are alluded to, though the focus has somewhat shifted. Thanksgiving and Christmas are both beautiful holidays in that they are domesticated and comforting. They mark a time of hope, love, white landscapes, warm cocoa, carolling, and sheer happiness for many. These holidays can also be extremely saddening for those who don't have strong ties with family members, are victims of poverty, or perceive the holidays as cases of European reign over indigenous land. There are a multiplicity of pros and cons to each holiday but I find the holidays to be a time of joy and bliss. Of the two holidays, I definitely prefer Christmas as it is a time of soft blanketed snow, warm beverages, winter fashion, Christmas carols, family, and Christmas cheer. October 1961, the nature of the holiday has witnessed a significant shift in having a strict, singular meaning to having a dualistic meaning. In a singular sense, the holiday marks a tradition of giving thanks to the indigenous American natives who displayed hospitality and warmth to the ~ Pilgrims. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram! Facebook: The Beacon Twitter: @wilkesbeacon Instagram: @wilkesbeacon @wilkesbeacon savannah.pinnock@wilkes.edu �8 Opinion The Beacon - November 14, 2017 .., 17 Meet the Majors ____ _______________ -~-~-----~-------- ,,. .....,... This week's major: English Interviews and photos by Abigail Tarway Staff Writer Every week, The Beacon will offer a chance for majors to be placed in the spotlight. Each student that gets chosen will have a few words to express why they ~hose the major and how they feel it will beifefit them in the future. Ashley Bringmann Senior Michael Wozniak Senior "I've always loved writing and reading so it seemed like a natural fit for me. I plan to take up a job in technical writing after graduation so everything I've learned to improve my writing will be extremely helpful:' "My future plans include attending law school upon graduation from Wilkes, and ultimately, becoming a lawyer so I will be pr~sented with no shortage of research, writing, and analytical opportunities. Furthermore, in being an English major, I have developed confidence in my writing as far as crafting and presenting logical arguments as an invaluable skill for attorneys:' Cou rtesy of Wilkes Ath letics The Beacon/ Abigail Tarway Jennifer Baron Senior "The English and Education Departments at Wilkes are absolutely amazing and I am so glad that I am pursuing this career path. Wilkes has prepared me so well in both the areas of English and Education that I feel completely confident in my ability to teach in my own classroom:' Do you want your major featured? Contact opinion editor Andre Spruell at andre.spruell@wilkes.edu r �..J The Beacon - November 14, 2017 18 Opinion Top 5 hip-hop albums to look out for before the end of 201 7 By Andre Spruell Opinion Editor 201 7 has been the year of hip-hop and from the looks of it, the same will hold true up until the end of the ·year. It can be claimed that this is the year of hip-hop because back in March, it overtook rock music as the number one genre in the U.S., according to NY Daily News. Streaming has played a large part in the genre finally being able to claim the number one spot for the first time in its history, but so has the work of the artists themselves. Albums that have dropped this year from hip-hop heavyweights like Culture by Migos, Future's HNDRXX album, Drake's More Life , and Kendrick Lamar's record breaking album Damn have helped make the genre successful, as well as the work of less mainstream artists like Joey Badass, Mike Will Made-It and Run the Jewels to name a few. With that being said, here are some artists to look out for who are scheduled to drop albums by the end of the year. Flickr/ Chad Cooper 5) YG: The west coast native is one of the few rappers that is still keeping gangsta rap alive, which originated from the notorious Compton hip-hop group NWA, the same town that YG is from. Although his name does not ring bells with the average music consumer, YG has stayed relevant in the hip-hop game dropping successful single after successful single. I expect his upcoming album to be extremely solid as he will stay true to his gangsta rap roots and is guaranteed to have a few successful singles off the album. The list is not in any particular order. There are certainly other artists that I did not touch that will also be dropping albums soon but the artists I mentioned are the ones that I am looking the most forward to . If I had to pick which one I am looking most forward to, that would have to be ASAP Rocky's project, especially because every artist in his group, ASAP Mob, have dropped solo albums, except for him. ASAP Rocky 1) ASAP Rocky: I have been a huge fan of this artist since he was put into the limelight back in 2011 due to his wildly successful mixtape Live. Love. ASAP. Rocky's poetic flow along with his unique sense of style has propelled him beyond the realm of hip-hop. All of the work that ASAP is involved in is most likely why it has been two years since he has released a solo album. He has put out two albums this year and last year with his group ASAP Mob which although has been excellent, fans are still waiting for his solo proj ect to drop, which is rumored to drop by the end of the year based on some of his recent interviews. If this proves to be true, m any fans, including myself, will be extremely happy as his album is the one I am looking most forward too. •• 2) Eminem: This name rings bells for music fans in general, not just for hiphop. The run that Eminem had completely dominating the late-90s to early 2000s is something that is truly remarkable and is what has helped him become the icon that he is today. One of his early projects, The Marshall Mathers LP, has been regarded as an alltime project, which I agree with, but his ~ more recent albums like Recovery and Relapse haYe not had the same impact on me as his previous work has. He has also been on that record saying that his Relapse album was probably his worst album. Eminem has made waves with his recent freestyle on the BET Awards Show cypher freestyle session in which he tears apart Donald Trump for four minutes. He has also made splashes by saying he plans to drop another album soon. For the sake of his fans , we hope it drops by the end of the year as it has been seven years since he has dropped an album. I have a feeling that his new proj ect will be reminiscent of vintage Eminem. 3) GOOD Music: Kanye West's label, which is an assortment of stars in the music game, are dropping Cruel Winter, which is a fo llow up to the label's album Cruel Summer, which dropped five years ago . The long layoff between albums can be solely credited to the fact that each individual artist, including Kanye, have been working on solo albums and touring that they simply just have not had the time to meet up and drop another collaborative album. Although it has been five years since the last album, the quality of the work was outstanding and is one of my favorite albums of all-time. If this upcoming album is anything like Cruel Summer, it is sure to be a major success. 4) Travis Scott: There a few artists hotter in the genre right now than this man. His upcoming album, AstroWorld, is set to drop by the end of year and my excitement for this album is on the same level as my excitement for ASAP Rocky's album. Travis has been extremely busy dropping singles and being featured on numerous tracks over the past two years due to the success of his first album, Rodeo, which dropped in 2015, and with hi s 2016 album Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, which I put up there with one of the best hip-hop albums of all-time. Many fans believed that the Houston native was going to drop Astro World after his hometown Astros won the World Series, but to the disappointment of many fans , it was just rumor. It is a safe bet though that his upcoming album will not disappoint. wilkesbeacon - , andre.spruell@wilkes.edu Flickr/Daniele Dalledonne Kanye West �. 6 The Beacon - November 14, 2017 s Sports ht Sports Want your sport covered? Deserve to be Athlete of the Week? Contact the sports editor: Luke.Modrovsky@wilkes.edu ill :h th WREST: Dealing with weight loss, strategies for in-season dieting ty. By Amber Grohowski er ds Staff Writer lil e's 1y, to It, 1e le td in er :y ly 1d ts !S n l, le te 19 "Dieting is a huge part of the sport of wrestling;' said Wilkes Wrestling starter Jake Dimarsico. "A lot of the time, wrestlers struggle with their 'gas tanlc; which is a term wrestlers use to describe their endurance in matches;' he said. "This is because they cut a lot of weight very close to a match. "You can make your life and season a lot easier if you diet the right way and allow your body to remain hydrated;' Dimarsico said. Although dieting is a main focal point during the season, Dimarsico and many other wrestlers don't normally watch what they eat all year round. Dimarsico said, "a lot of the players wait until the first day of the season to turn their diets around:' Dimarsico was cutting a lot of weight for his senior season, therefore he started June 1, nearly a month after the spring semester ended, so he could be ready for Oct. 10, the start of the 2017-2018 season. Senior Nicholas Racanelli said, "I keep track of my diet all year but it is definitely more strict in season than out of season:' He mentioned that six months of holding weight off and eating light is strenuous and he feels it is definitely okay to treat yourself in the off season to foods you normally wouldn't consume in season. "Individuals who plan on losing weight need to do it in a healthy manner which excludes meals high in faf' said Racanelli. Dimarsico described their in-season diet as very strict, sticking to mostly fruits, vegetables, a few carbs for energy, grilled chicken and plenty of bananas. · Sometimes, wrestlers take an unhealthy route of dropping a few pounds, too. "I track everything I eat;' says the senior starter, Dimarsico, using the app called "MyFitnessPal''. Dimarsico was able to drop 27 pounds, starting at 160 and currently weighing in at 133 lbs. "I feel amazing;' he said. The beginning of maintaining a strict diet was difficult for Dimarsico, as it is for most people. "You have to remain disciplined and it will soon become a habit;' he said. ''.As long as one is committed to their plan, they can lose weight safely and healthily;' Racanelli added in. "It is definitely hard to stick to a strict diet as temptations are all around. Friends are always asking to go and eat out at delicious places, especially with holidays in the months of November and December;' said Racanelli, which is prime time wrestling season. "Wrestling is a sport of sacrifices. Wrestlers have to give up things in order to succeed;' said Racanelli. Considering dieting plays a gigantic role in a wrestler's performance, Dimarsico still believes nothing is harder than preparing to step onto a mat to wrestle another human in a seven minute match. Racanelli believes that the right work ethic alongside the right diet regime are necessary to make weight, but from his perspective, dieting may indeed be harder than actually physically working out simply because it directly correlates to how you will perform. A poor diet will result in feeling bad while working out. ~ • @wilkesbeacon Amber.Grohowski@wilkes.edu WSOC: Lady Colonels fall in NCAA Second Round After 45 minutes of play, Wilkes and John Hopkins were tied at zero, but Johns Hopkins outshot Wilkes 9-0. Johns Hopkins continued their relentless · attack during the second half, tallying a total of 19 shots. The Blue Jays used two second half goals from Kyla Persky and Michelle Santangelo to power their way to the Sweet Sixteen round of -the NCAA Divison III Women's Soccer Tournament. Wilkes' lone shot of the contest during the early portion of the second half. The shot from Micaela Oliverio sailed wide of the net. Johns Hopkins 2, Wilkes 0 Wtlk.es'O 'O -- 'O Johns Hopkins'O'O -- 'X Second half -- 1. JH, Kyla Persky, 49:33. 2. JH, Michelle Santangelo (Carly LuptonSmith), 58:52. Shots -- WIL l; JH 19. Saves -- WIL 7 (Courtney Stanley); JH O (Robyn Lipschultz). Comers-- WIL O; JH 10. -Complied by Luke Modrovsky, Sports Editor WSOC: Women's soccer victorious on Oliverio's impressive bicycle kick goal whole perplexion of the Saturday afternoon affair. In the 22nd minute, the Lady Camels Staff Writer came sprinting down the field on a t6nsition The Wilkes Women's soccer team was able to and had a great opportunity to try to find come up their first NCAA tournament victory the back of the net. The whole Lady Colonel in program history in ~.----. sideline took a deep breath their first round matchup ; ~;§:~!~~:-=--;-as the Camels' Michelle defeating Connecticut ~;;:;,..__~ ~llr .t.l~ i:iii~ Medina's shot attempt College, 1-0, on Saturday i....~-1_..illli_,_._.ilij appeared to be heading afternoon at Johns ---~--~ towards the back of the net, Hopkins University. :J.i..-"~111-111'-•""" but ended up banging off the For much of the left post. 1st half, and into the -- ~ ·-,,,. . Another scare happened beginning of the 2nd in the 53rd .minute when half, the Lady Camels Gregoire appeared to kick of Connecticut College the ball into her own net, but seemed to have the it was determined that it hit advantage over the Lady above the net off the football Colonels of Wilkes, as post first. they dominated their Later in the contest, offensive side of the field Gregoire was involved in for most of that time. Courtesy of Wilkes Athletics/ another huge play, as she was Towards the end Adam Planamento given a red card in the 69th of the first half, the . . . minute for a hand-ball. Alex intensitr on the Lady M1c~ela Ohveno ,iooks t~ the ball Bukovac took the penalty Colonels side seemed during Saturdays 1-0 win. kick but Courtney Stanley to pick up slightly. Elena was able to come up with the Denger and Elise Brubaker were able to get off save to pick up her teammate. a couple of shots in the final minutes. Denger's "I honestly didn't really see what shot went high and Brubaker's shot was saved happened... my heart kinda sunk, because by the Camel's goalkeeper Bryanna Montalvo there were moments in the game where we in the final seconds. had a little pressure ... I was getting nervous at Even throughout the whole game, that point when that happened;' Sumoski said Connecticut had more touches on the ball and about both the near own-goal and the penalty. seemed to have the upper hand for much of The Lady Camels saw themselves with the action. They were just unable to capitalize another great opportunity in the 72nd minute on the chances they had. as they had back-to-back shots, with the Going into the 2nd half, the Lady Colonels second one going off the crossbar, this time off started to see momentum shift their way. It the opposite right crossbar. didn't take long for them to capitalize on that, Stanley made two saves in the 78th minute as Catherine Gregoire played a ball into the to hold the 1-0 lead. She finished the day with box in the 57th minute. Oliverio finished on a five saves making some impressive diving very impressive bicycle kick goal that sent the and grinding stops to record her 11th shutout team going crazy. overall on the season. "I honestly thought it was gonna go over Connecticut College, seemingly outplaying [the net], but I said Tm just gonna go for it: Wilkes, outshot the Lady Colonels, 15-5. and it happened to go in, and I was pretty surprised;' Oliverio said. "But I'm glad it went Wilkes 1, Connecticut 0 m:, Wilkes'O' 1 -- ' 1 Head Coach John Sumoski was also Connecticut'O'O-- ' O impressed by Oliverids goal in the victory. Second half -- WIL, Micaela Oliverio "It's hard to put it into words;' Sumoski said. (Catherine Gregoire), 52:10. "The goal was absolutely phenomenal. That's Shots -- WIL 5; CON 15. Saves -- WIL the best goal I've seen here in 16 years:' 5 (Courtney Stanley); CON 2 (Bryarma The Lady Colonels survived a few scares Montalvo). Comers -- WIL 2; CON 8. during the game that could have changed the By Alex Kielar .Ji•_.- •=•·.~.. .•-•illlll! r �_J Sports The Beacon - November 14, 2017 20 'Marts Madness' works to bring athletes, non-athletes together By Ashton Gyenizs Asst. Sports Editor The Marts Madness pep rally for the men's and women's basketball teams was an exciting preparatory event to help build excitement in wake of the start of the 2017-2018 season. Players on both teams displayed excitement as they were introduced to the crowd. They each ran out as their names were called, high-fiving fans and teammates alike. This display of Wilkes patriotism was a microcosm for the The Beacon/Ashton Gyenizs Marts Madness featured a game of knockout with student-athletes and non-athlete students. breaking of barriers between Wilkes environment of the Arnaud C. Marts center student-athletes and non-athlete students. felt energetic from the second the teams Overall, the event helped serve its purpose ran in. There were exciting minute-to-win to bring together and unite the students of Wilkes University. "It's just great for our students that like sports and want to get engaged in different activities and be able to come out and become a part of something like this," said head coach of the men's basketball team, Coach Metz. =-,·--This was the first time that the Wilkes basketball teams have UIL~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~~---~ -...;.......:.i:~ - -J coordinated an event of this kind, but they could not do it Senior Jo~n Goffredo (#l 3) takes a crack at a alone. With help of members of dunk during Marts Madness warm-ups. student-athlete and non-athlete student committees, the vision of the first -it games and a knock out game with nonever Marts Madness became a reality. athletes versus the athletes. The energy • "Coach Metz actually reached out to us was kept at a high level with the loud originally about this, so it automatically and exciting announcers, juniors Romeo brought me back to high school pep Rosario and Kyle Gattuso. rally cheerleader days," said Shyanne With the help of their top notch Barrett, chair of spirit committee. "That commentary of the minute-to-win-it is pretty much what this was, just that challenges and knock out contest, the pep rally to get the teams going. It was a students in the stands and the students lot of contribution from myself, my spirit participating all kept a positive morale that committee and SAAC." was felt throughout the entire gymnasium. Barrett said this event was inspired "It's just a way to kind of have fun by what essentially are pep rallies. The and make a fool of yourself a little bit and participants will get a chance to win prizes," said Barrett. "We have a good combination of students participating and student-athletes to show that we are all one team, we're all one family of Colonels· and we all work together." As the night went on, and more Colonels, both athletes and non-athletes got involved, it was clear that the lines between the two were beginning to blur. "It's great for our guys to feel that big time college basketball atmosphere to kick off their season," said Coach Metz, "At the end of the day, this is Division III collegiate athletics and we are studentathletes first. So the fact that our guys play intercollegiate sports is great, but they go to school just like everyone else and they are a part of the campus community, so . the beautiful thing is our players are not just friends with guys on the team, they are_ friends with people in the campus community as well." Metz and Barrett both said this kind of event is highly beneficial to the teams, students and campus as a whole. It was not only helpful to connect all of the members of the Wilkes University community, but it also helped elevate the overall morale and excitement for athletic events like the · men's and women's basketball games. Wilkes Fall Sports Schedules Wrestlin2 11/3 vs. Millersville 24-2f'° ll/4@King's, 10th L place 11/11 vs. Suny Cortland, L20-23 vs. NYU, L 6-34 vs. Hunter College, W38-6 11/18 vs. Heidel~ 10:00 a.m. @Mount Uruon, 12:00 p.m. vs. Alma, 2:00 p.m. vs. Baldwin Wallace, 4 :oop.m. vs. Greensboro, 6:00 p.m. 12/2 McDaniel Duals, 12:00 p.m. 12/8 vs. Eliz.abethto\\11, 7:00 p.m. 12/10 cal Stevens Institute, 12:00 p.m. 12/22Wilkes0pen,9:00a.m. 1/4, 1/5 NWCA National Duals, TBA 1/11 vs. Centerwy, 5:30 p.m. vs. Penn Tech, 8:30 p.m. 1/20 MAC Champ. @King's, 10:30 a.m. 1/28 John Reese Duals, 11 :00 a.m. 2/2 @College ofNJ, 7:30 p.m. 2/3 Messiah Open, 10:00 a.m. 2/9vs.Ithaca,7:00b.m. · 2/ 11 vs. King's, 12: 0 p.m. 2/16 vs. Scranton@King's, 7:00 p.m. 2/17 vs. Keystone@Scranton, 12:00 p.m. Record: 1-3 Football 9/2 @ Muh!en berg, L l 9-62 *9/9 vs. Lebanon Valley, L 0-36 • 9,, l "" , 15 vs. De aware v~ey, L 14-34 *9/23@ Misericordia, L 14-43 *9/30@ Lycoming, L 7-34 *x-10/7 vs. Widener, L 7-30 *10/21 @FDU-Flomam, L31-49 • 0128 @ lb 'gh 1 A n t, L 23 -26 • y- 11/4 vs. Stevenson, L 12-44 *z-11/1 I @ King's, L 26-40 • MAC x-Homecoming y-Friends and Family Day & Senior Day z-Mayor 's Cup Record:0-lO(MAC0-9) H,ome games @ schmidI stadium Results as ofNov. 11 Women's Soccer Women'sSoccer(cont'd) 9/1 vs. PSU-Berks, T 1-1 (2OT) 9/4 vs. Muhlenberg, W 2-1 9/9@Marywood, W 5-3 9/13 vs Wtlliam Patterson, W 1-0 · 9/ 16 vs. Penn College, W 3-0 9/20@ Susquehanna, L 0-1 9/23 vs. Arcadia, W 1-0 9/26@U. of Scranton, T 0-0 (201) 11 *9/29@Delaware "W2-0 nwey, I0/3 @ Stockton, W 2-0 *10/6 FDU Fl h W3 1 VS. - or am, *10/ 10 vs. King's, W 1-0 • l 0/1 4 @ Desales, L 0-2 *I0/ 18@M·1sencor . d.ia, Wl - 0 * l 0/21 vs. Eastern, T 0-0 (2OT) 10/24@SUNY-Cortland, W 1-0 *10/28@Manhattanville, W2-l Postseason: x-• 10/31 vs. Eastern, W 1-0 (2OT) y-*ll/4vs.Mi<mcmlia,L 1-0(201) z-11/11 vs. ConnecticutCoL, W 1-0 n-11/12 vs. Johm Hq,kin.5, , • MAC Freedom x-MAC Freedom Semi-Final y -MAC Freedom Final z-NCAA Tournament First Round n-NCAA Tournament SeC(Jnd Round Reaml: 14-~3 (MAC-Free. S-1-1) Home matches @Schmidt Stadium �1he Beacon - November 14, 2017 XC: Regionals By Kirsten Peters Staff Writer On Nov. 11, the men's and women's cross country teams competed in the NCAA Mideast Regional Championships hosted by Dickinson College at Big Spring High School. The men's team finished 37th out of 51, earning a total of 1,094 points. Out of the 365 participants in ·the 8k, Sophomore Franco Balbuena, who holds eight of the top nine times in school history, finished in 27:33.5, placing 126th for the event. Freshman Noah Molina ran a 28:02.3, a personal-best to finish 163rd. Sophomore Kevin Singhel ran a 29:58.6, a season-best to finish 270th. Freshman Kevin Long, sophomores Alan Sebastianelli and Ryan Weber and senior Kendrick Schell were the other runners for the men's team. The women's team placed 41st out of 49, earning a total of 1,205 team points. Out of the 351 participants in the 6k, senior Moriah Teed finished 221st with a 26:40.8, the top finisher for the women's team. Freshman Autumn Pedron finished 233rd in 26:53.3. Sophomores Caroline Rickard and Kaitlin Sutton and senior Carmen Hillman rounded out the scorers for Wilkes. Seniors Kaitlin Sitch and Michelle Brenneman rounded out the Wtlkes participants. Brenneman had a season-best of29:33.8. "Being a part of the cross country team definitely made this year one I couldn't forget;' freshman Autumn Pedron said, reflecting on her season. "I couldn't have asked for better teammates to experience the season with. The race today was a great way to finish the season; I think we were all happy with how we did:' Sports. Fall Awards Women's Soccer: 2017 All-MAC Freedom Coach of the Year: John Sumoski First Team All-MAC Freedom: Junior Nicolette Towlen Senior Elena Denger Freshman Niamh Harkins Second Team All-MAC Freedom: Freshman Elise Brubaker Freshman Catherine Gregoire Junior Courtney Stanley Womens Voll_e yball Second Team All-MAC Freedom: Sophomore Jamey Mikovich Field Hockey 2017 All-MAC Field Hockey Team: Defensive Player of the Year: Junior Haley Gayoski Coach of the Year: Head Coach Sara Myers First Team All-MAC Freedom: Senior Marissa Surdy Junior Haley Gayoski Second Team All-MAC Freedom: Junior Megan Kane Mens Soccer Second Team All-MAC Freedom: Sophomore Camry Huff Junior Casey Ritsick -Complied by Alex Kielar, Staff Writer 21 2017 -18 Basketball Rosters Men's Basketball Roster: No., Name, Year, Position, Ht., Wt. 1 Andre Spruell Sr. G 5-11 175 2 Landon Henry Fr. G 5-9 160 3 Connor Evans Jr. G 5-9 165 4 Tommy Bowen Jr. F 6-5 210 10 Marcus Robinson Jr. G 6-1 180 11 Rob Pecorelli So. G 6-3 185 12 Mark Mullins So. G 6-4 180 13 John Goffredo S~. G 6-0 190 15 Jack Bova Fr. G 6-2 170 21 Johnny Bamford So. G 6-2 170 22 Clay Basalyga Jr. G 6-3 200 23 Noah Jackson Fr. F 6-5 200 24 Cooper Chaffee Fr. F 6-6 200 32 Zach Walser Jr. F 6-6 225 33 Zach Brunner Sr. F 6-4 225 34 Derek Heiserman Fr. F 6-6 210 35 Mason Gross Sr. F 6-5 245 Women's Basketball Roster: No., Name, Year, Position, Ht., Wt. 0 Maddie Kelley Fr. G 5-6 1 Emily Sofranko Sr. G 5-4 2 Alyssa Alfano SQ. G 5-3 3 Amber Grohowski So. G 5-6 5 Kelsey Yustat So. G 5-2 13 Gabby Smicherko Fr. F 5-9 ·15 Chelsea Erkes So. G 5-3 20 Jamie Campbell St'. G 5-7 21 Sarah O'Hara Sr. G 5-7 22 Jordyn Garcia Fr. F 5-9 23 Sierra Smith So. G 5-7 24 Nicole Farrell Sr. F 5-10 25 Ashley Caster Jr. F 5-11 30 Catey McFadden Sr. F 5-11 43 Gianna Roberts So. F 5-10 Coaching Staff: Chris Heery Justine Seely Mark Maholick Bill Watkins Coaching Staff: Izzi Metz Head Coach Nick Doyle Assistan,t Coach Owen Wignot Assistant Coach 2017-18 MAC Freedom Men's Basketball Coaches' Preseason Poll: 1. Misericordia, 49 points (7) 2. Eastern, 36 points 3. Desales, 34 points 4. Delaware Valley, 33 points 5. Wilkes, 31 points t6. FDU-Florham, 15 points t6. Manhattanville, 15 points 8. King's, 11 points First place votes in () • Head Coach Graduate Coach Assistant Coach Assistant Coach 2017-18 MAC Freedom Women's Basketball Coaches' Preseason Poll: 1. FDU-Florham, 48 points (6) 2. DeSales, 42 points (1) 3. Eastern, 34 points (1) 4. Misericordia, 32 points 5. King's, 23 points 6. Delaware Valley, 22 points 7. Manhattanville, 16 points 8. Wilkes, 7 points First place votes in () Wilkes Winter Sports Schedules Women's Swimming Women's Basketball Men's Basketball Men's Swimming 10/7 vs. William Patterson, L 98-108 · In · 1 I 10/14 Colone1Spnnt vite, stpace 10/14 Colonel Sprint Invite, 3rd place *l0/ 20 @ Ar d' L 42 136 ca ia, - *10/20 @ Arcadia, L 44-142 10/21 vs. MountSaintMaryW 152-97 *10/28 vs. Stevenson, w 117-20 * b 011 1l/5 @ Le anon Vauey, W 128-61 11/5@Dickinson, L 88-106 . *11/11 vs FDU-Florham, W 126-72 d I ·t @Kin • 11/18 D . '.amon nvi e . g's 11/19 Diamond Invite@Kings *12/3 @Lycoming, 2:00 p.m. 12/8 vs. PSU-Altoona, 7:00 p.m. • I M' · d' 1 13@ 1sencor 1a, 1:00 p.m. *l/20@Messiah, 1:00 p.m. l/27 vs. SUNY-Cobleskill, 1:00 p.m. *2/3 s King's l ·00 v· • · p.m. *-MAC Freedom Home meets@ Wilkes-Barre Catholic Youth Center Record ·. 4 _3 (MAC Freedom·. 3 _1) 10/21 vs. Mount Saint Mary, L 79-151 *10/28 vs. Stevenson, L 61-104 *11/5@Lebanon Valley, L 57-136 kin l l/5 @ Die · son, L 57-111 *ll/11 FDU-Florham, L 77-90 11/18 Diamond Invite@ King's d 1 •t @ Ki , 11119 D' * iamon . nvi e ngs 12/3@ Lycommg, 2:00 p.m. 12/8 vs. PSU-Altoona, 7:00 p.m. *l/13@Misericordia, 1:00 p.m. * I M . h 1 20@ ess1a , 1:00 p.m. l/27vs. SUNY-Cobleskill, 1:00 p.m. *2/3 vs. King's, 1:00 p.m. *-MAC Home meets@ Wilkes-Barre Catholic Youth Center Record: 0-6 (MAC: 0-4) R It ,;u esu s as O; ivov. 4 11/15@ Rutgers-Camden, 7:00 P.M. 11/17 vs. Marywood, 8:00 P.M. 11/18vs. U.ofScranton,4:00P.M. 11/21 vs. PSU Wilkes-Barre, 5:00 P.M. 11/30@ Moravian, 7:00 p.m. 12/4@Rutgers-Newark, 7:00 p.m. 12/5 vs. Valley Forge, 6:00 p.m. 12/7 vs. PSU-Schuylkill, 7:00 p.m. 12/9 vs. Juniata, 1:00 p.m. :113 @FDU-Florham, 8:00 p.m. l/6 vs. Manhattanville, 1:00 p.m. 1/8 @PSU-Hazleton, 6:00 p.m. *l/10@ Delaware Valley, 8:00 p.m. *l/13@ Eastern,1:00 p.m. :11 17 vs. DeSales, 8:00 p.m. 1/20 vs.King's, 12:00 p.m. l/22 @Alvernia, 6:00 p.m. *l/24@Misericordia, 8:00 p.m. *1/27 vs. Delaware Valley, 1:00 p.m. *l/31 vs. FDU-Florham, 6:00 p.m. *2/3 @Manhattanville, 1:00 p.m. *2/7 @ DeSales, 6:00 p.m. *2/10 vs. Misericordia, 1:00 p.m. *2/13 @King's, 6:00 g-m, *2/17 vs. Eastern, 1: 0 p.m. *-MAC Freedom Home games @ Marts Center Record: 0-0 (MAC-Freedom: 0-0) l l/15 vs. PSU-Hazleton, 7:00 p.m. 11/18@ Elizabethtown, 3:00 p.m. 11/2lvs.PSU-WB,p.m. 11/25 @ Marywood, 1:00 p.m. 11/26@ U. of Scranton, 3:00 p.m. _ ll/29@Drew, 7:00 p.m. 12/2 vs. Messiah, 3:00 p.m. 12/5 vs. Clarks Summit, 8:00 p.m. 12/19@Albright, 7:00 p.m. 12/28 @Hiram, 7:00 p.m. 12/29@ Norwich, 3:00 p.m. *1/3@ FDU-Florham, 6:00 p.m. *l/6 vs. Mahattanville, 3:00 p.m. *l/l0@Delaware Valley, 6:00 p.m. :1113 @Eastern, 3:00 p.m. 1/17 vs. Desales, 6:00 p.m. *1/20 vs. King's, 2:00 p.m. *l/24@Misericordia, 6:00 p.m. *l/27 vs. Delware Valley, 3:00 p.m. *l/31 vs. FDU-Florham, 8:00 p.m. *2/3 @ Manhattanville, 3:00 p.m. *2/7@ Desales, 8:00 p.m. *2/10 vs. Misericordia, 3:00 p.m. *2/13@ King's, 8:00 .m. · *2/17@ Eastern, 3:0 p.m. *-MAC Freedom Home games @ Marts Center Record: 0-0 (MAC-Freedom: 0-0) 0 r �1he Beacon -November 14, 2017 Sports 22 • haveverr" =:~~=~, tbinkthato ~and.ha Editor's note: Tli.i.s years. AthJete:t>(,t e W!elt is rnirit-ba;,~d. Dpn't agree ith our selectioh?tet us know 0,11 Twitter: @WilkesBeacon , ' Additionally, 'at the' etu( of the h.cademii: )-leaf, . we wiJJ,'ost a' reader poll ct/ tlutYear". .... " o ,;;rowh ah "Athlete Full qualification aritera and mpre informatian can be toun4, 11i ebsite: www.tliewilkesbeacon .com The Beacon/Luke Modrovsky OUT academic All-American. When/Whydldyoulipt~ '· ". Ib an wre • when I was in • inylm er' �L Sports The Beacon - November 14, 2017 23 What head coach John Sumoski saht: "N'ddd stays on the field fot ut 1-auae she makes something out of nothing, all the time. She's our engine and one ofour hardest workers." Name: Nicolette Towlen Year: Junior Major: Psychology Hometown: Ewing, Nj. High School: Ewing HS Position: Forward Driving force for your dedsion to come to Wilkes? I really liked the team chemistry and the team culture. When/Why did yoa int begla playing? The first time I played I was four in an indoor league and I scored my first goal on my own team. If yoa had to choose one thing about your program that you could improve, what would it be? Our program itself I am very happy with I think one thing that cou1a be improved is student participation, we c<>uld really (use) more fans out there. Post graduation plans in terms of a career? I hope to go to graduate school in hopes to work as a sports p ~ . A quote you Im your life by! "Though she be but little she is fierce." -Shakespeare Favorite bulJfing o,n ?JDPUS? I like the atmosphere in UCOM, whether mJleeda quiet study a busy cotfee shop UCOM has it Editor's note: This year's Athlete of the Week is merit-based. Don't 11gree ith our selection? Let us kn ow on Twitter: @WilkesBeacon Additionally, at the end of the academic year, -we will post a reader poll to crown a11 "Athlete of the Year". Full qu.alification critera and more information can be found on our webite: www.thewilkesbeacon.com r �_J "' The Beacon - November 14, 2017 • � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon Newspaper Collection, 1947-present Description An account of the resource <p>This is Wilkes University's <em>Beacon</em> Newspaper collection, 1947-present. We also have digitized copies of the <em>Beacon's</em> predecessors, <em>The Bucknell Bison Stampede</em>, 1934-1935 and <em>The Bucknell Beacon</em>, 1936-1947 June. It should be noted that Wilkes University does not have a complete set of issues for the Bucknell Bison Stampede and Bucknell Beacon. For researchers who are interested in seeing the complete issues for these publications, please contact <a href="https://researchbysubject.bucknell.edu/scua">Bucknell University's Special Collections Department</a>.</p> <p></p> <p>Missing Issues:</p> <p>1947 August 8th<br />1947 September 5th<br />1947 October 3rd<br />1947 October 17th<br />1947 October 31st<br />1947 November 21st<br />1947 December 19th<br />1948 September 9th<br />1950 April 28th<br />1953 April 10th<br />1962 February 2nd</p> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon staff is comprised of Wilkes University students who are advised by a full-time faculty member of the Communication Studies Department. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1934-present Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright of the Wilkes Beacons is retained by Wilkes University. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Professor Emeritus Harold Cox digitized the collection from 1934-1970 and created a <a href="https://beaconarchives2.wilkes.edu/">legacy website</a>. Digital Archives student John Jenkins digitized the collection from 1970-present. Special thanks goes to Communication Studies Professor Dr. Kalen Churcher, Editor-in-Chief Kirsten Peters, Beacon staff member, Emily Cherkauskas, and other Beacon staff for their help in acquiring digitized copies of the Beacons from 2006 onward. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Wilkes Beacon 2017 November 14th Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017 November 14 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Newspaper Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Communication Studies Department Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wilkes University