A pothole review
By Michael A. Sullivan
In 2010, the Reason Foundation published its "19th Annual Report on the Performance of State Highway Systems." The report lists Pennsylvania as 38th on the list in rakings of quality and performance of state highways.
Some Indiana locals responded that it's not just Pennsylvania's highways that need repair. It's also Indiana borough's streets.
An unidentified male chugs a beer from an IUP glass in the trailer released for "I'm Shmacked, the Movie: A weekend at Indiana University of Pennsylvania." Still photo excerpted courtesy of YouTube.
By Crispin Havener and James Zackal
INDIANA -- Beer-chugging, vodka-slugging, girls making out with drinks in hand, as hip-hop star Lil' Wayne raps about sex, drugs and reckless abandon in the background. Search "IUP" on YouTube and one of the first videos that appears is a trailer showing these antics and more.
The Feb. 7 posting of "I'm Shmacked, the Movie: A weekend at Indiana University of Pennsylvania" shows that IUP's reputation as a party school endures. Even students on the campus refer to IUP's acronym as "I Usually Party."
"I have always known IUP to be a party school," said Mitchel J. Kanagy, an English major, during an interview in the IUP Oak Grove, April 12.
The YouTube video is not the first medium to bash IUP's reputation.
The HawkEar's fourth radio-news show of the spring season featured:
--- How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. Exhibit A: IUP music professor Henry Wong Doe is scheduled to perform a solo piano recital at the legendary New York City music venue on March 26. Reporter: Jeremy "J" Hartley.
--- Church and state: Rob Boston [IUP JRNL '85] is a senior policy analyst for Americans United for Separation of Church and State in Washington, D.C. On March 26, he revisited his alma mater to discuss his career with students at a Journalism Jobs Boot Camp event sponsored by the campus chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. For The HawkEar, he spoke of constitutional church-state issues in the context of the 2012 presidential-primary season. Reporter: Jake Williams.
--- Sports wraps. Reporters: Adam Harring, Chris Galiszewski.
The "resolutionary" new iPad3, "starting at $499." Photo courtesy of Apple.com A review
By Andrew Hesner
I have always been an Apple fanatic. My first computer was a Gateway desktop that lasted 11 months. After that I was given an old iMac, multicolored and teardrop-shaped. It looked like something from outer space. I immediately fell in love with it. It was the best computer for its time.
I still own an iMac, a newer one from late 2008. On its third anniversary, I took it to a shop for maintenance. They told me it was running perfectly. Those words are rarely uttered to a PC user. Not only have I had outstanding success with the iMac, but I am a proud owner an iPhone, an Apple TV and an Apple AirPort Express wireless router.
And now, an iPad 3.
Monica Rizzo, April 25, 2012, Beard Auditorium, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Photo by Andrew Hesner.
By Andrew Hesner
INDIANA -- Monica Rizzo, 1987 Indiana University of Pennsylvania journalism alumnus-turned-senior writer for People magazine, pep-talked an enthusiastic audience of prospective scribes and others in a half-full Beard Auditorium Wednesday-night.
"If you keep telling yourself 'you can do it, you can do it,' you eventually will," the California-based celebrity journalist said.
Rizzo recounted her roots in print journalism -- high-school paper, IUP campus newspaper The Penn, The Indiana Gazette -- en route to her position profiling Tinseltown's beautiful people for the 3.7-million-circulation magazine.
Anthony FrazierThe HawkEar's fifth radio-news show of the spring season featured:
--- Trayvon Martin: A Local Perspective: Indiana, Pa., civic activist, faith activist and radio announcer Anthony Frazier discusses issues surrounding the Feb. 26 shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin by white neighborhood-watch patrol coordinator George Zimmerman in Sanford, Fla. Reporter-producer: Sean Yoder. Live.
--- IUP's first Sex Week, April 9-13, co-sponsored by the IUP Pride Alliance and the Gender and Sexuality Conference. A peek at the week's events. Reporter: Charlene S. Adams.
--- Pittsburgh sports roundup. Reporter: Chris Galiszewski.
Listen to the HawkEar April 12 WAVE.mp3.
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A movie review
By Andrew Hesner
GREENSBURG, Pa. -- "Every shipwreck is a human story," said "Titanic" director, writer and shipwreck explorer James Cameron during his 1995 exploration of the "unsinkable" luxury liner. After embarking on his fifth trip to the wreckage, he started production of the film which the American Film Institute deemed the sixth best epic of all time.
The 3-D "supercharged" 2012 re-release of the 1997 Oscar-winning film proved to be even more visually amazing than the original. Cameron waited for the 100th anniversary of the sinking to resurrect what critics called "the love-story that stole the world's heart," and clearly succeeded.
Cameron's 3-D conversion debuted April 4 and grossed $4.4 million on its opening night. It took in an additional $17.4 million over Easter weekend. The global profits, as of April 10, total $61 million.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania students, many wearing hooded sweatshirts, gathered at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 27, in front of Pratt Hall on the northern end of the IUP campus. Photo by Marlene Rivera.
By Marlene Rivera
INDIANA -- One month after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida, Lauren P. Hamilton, 20, a sophomore psychology major, decided Monday to organize a commemorative hoodie march at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
On Tuesday, thanks to a social-media-assisted promotional blitz, a crowd of more than a hundred showed up at 8 p.m. at Pratt Hall, drawn to the event by banners, speeches, poetry and song.
"No justice! No peace!" marchers chanted.
An Allegheny County bomb squad member approaches what Indiana borough police described as a "suspicious" package on Tuesday in front of the Indiana County Courthouse on Philadelphia Street. Photo by Crispin Havener.
By Crispin Havener
INDIANA -- Borough police closed a section of the main street in the downtown business district for several hours Tuesday after a gift-wrapped package was spotted on the sidewalk in front of the Indiana County Courthouse.
Police also called in the Allegheny County bomb squad to investigate what police called a "suspicious" box shortly after 10 a.m. Borough police closed off Philadelphia Street between Eighth and Ninth streets for more than four hours at midday.
First Amendment author Robert "Rob"Boston. Photo by Charlene S. Wilson-Adams
By Andrew Hesner
INDIANA -- Print news may not be so profitable as it was in the recent past. But the future of journalism is bright, a 1985 Indiana University of Pennsylvania alum and First Amendment activist told a standing-room-only campus crowd at the Hadley Union Building on Monday.
Robert "Rob" Boston, 49, a senior policy analyst at Washington, D.C.-based non-profit Americans United for Separation of Church and State and a 1985 IUP journalism alumnus, spoke to about 80 students, largely journalism majors, about job prospects and career opportunities at an afternoon event sponsored by the IUP chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
"More outlets [are] spreading news, spreading positions and advocating," said Boston, in a tie and navy blazer. "But not all of them have figured out ways to make money. And that certainly is affecting writers."
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