Features - Police Blotter
Published 01/20/2010
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Hickory Hall
Noise complaint
Police received reports of a student running in hallways and knocking on doors. Police told the student to stop.
Volleyball Courts
Vandalism
Police officers o...
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Features - Some subtitle authenticity can be lost in translation
Published 01/20/2010
Several Pitt-Johnstown faculty members and students say the inclusion of subtitles in popular American films last year are beneficial to the cinematic experience, as well as one’s understanding of f...
Daryl Walker - Features Editor
Features - Dancer choreography rehearsals set for 'Superstar'
Published 01/20/2010
While walking in the halls of the classroom buildings last semester, it was hard to miss the posters advertising audition times for the spring musical “Jesus Christ Superstar.”
However, there may...
Marissa Grubb - Copy Editor
Features - Second swine shot safer
Published 01/20/2010
Cambria County Emergency Management workers were at Pitt-Johnstown Wednesday offering a free, H1N1 flu vaccination.
The vaccine was an inactive dose, injected hypodermically, as opposed to a live nas...
Jon O'Connell - Editor-in-Chief
Features - Transformation complete for play's actors
Published 10/28/2009
Professor Ann Marie Stewart may be the new director in town, but she brings acting experience and ideas in her attempt to generate student interest with a hip, cutting-edge production called “5 Wome...
Marissa Grubb - Staff Writer
Features - Republican's trumpet heard again at UPJ
Published 10/28/2009
Pitt-Johnstown Republicans have stampeded back to campus, much like their party’s elephant symbol, to revive the UPJ College Republicans Club, which has been inactive for two years.
Twelve students...
Daryl Walker - Features Editor
Features - WUPJ Radio brings bands to Cambria Room
Published 10/21/2009
Pitt-Johnstown students were treated to a rocking concert by student bands, The War Within and A Whisper Rising, at the Student Union’s Cambria Room last Thursday.
WUPJ Radio members sponsored the ...
Daryl Walker - Features Editor
Features - ... and the slam-dancing banana man shows up
Published 10/21/2009
A man with the nickname “slam-dancing banana man” came to Pitt-Johnstown last Thursday to watch and listen to his favorite local band, A Whisper Rising. He arrived as he does to every show, in his...
Marissa Grubb - Staff Writer
Features - Philly dancers who drew 300 to be asked back
Published 04/08/2009
The Philadelpha dance company kicked their way across the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center stage Thursday.
Invited to perform at Pitt-Johnstown by the center managers for the first time, approximat...
Jonathan Weaver - Editor-in-Chief
Features - Major choice difficult scores of Pitt-Johnstown students
Published 04/08/2009
Some students enter college knowing what to major in, but others have a difficult time choosing the degree that is right for them.
For some, it seems to be trial and error to find what degree they ar...
Barbara Keim - Contributing Writer
Features - Some students respond positively to smoking ban
Published 04/08/2009
Pitt-Johnstown students seem to have responded positively to a smoking ban placed in June on restaurants and bars.
“I smoke when I drink. Now that I have to go outside to have a cigarette, I smoke...
Autumn Eckenrode - Contributing Writer
Features - Students to dwell in Cardboard City this week
Published 04/01/2009
Some students joke about living in a box after graduation day, but few aren’t afraid to try a vagabond lifestyle before graduation.
Pitt-Johnstown’s Habitat for Humanity members were busy making ...
Kristin Badoux - Staff Writer
Features - Blues Traveler electrifies UPJ
Published 04/01/2009
Blues Traveler may have welcomed Pitt-Johnstown students and fans to their concert Saturday, but Pitt-Johnstown welcomed the group,too, with an energetic audience at the spring concert.
Blues Travele...
Jonathan Weaver - Editor-in-Chief
Features - Pitt-Johnstown Sodexo chefs whip up victory in cook-off
Published 03/25/2009
Sodexo’s Executive Chef Matthew Majercsik and Living Learning Center Chef Patrick Hussey won a competition Feb. 5 at Pitt-Johnstown that included Sodexo chefs from two other colleges.
The competiti...
Kayla Pongrac - Staff Writer
Features - Pitt-Oakland professor recites her poetry at UPJ
Published 03/25/2009
Lynn Emanuel read her poetry of childhood memories and small towns to approximately 100 audience members March 19 in the Whalley Chapel.
Cherri Randall, a Pitt-Johnstown writing teacher, opened the s...
Nikki Weaver - Features Editor
Features - Some UPJ students find 'World of Warcraft' addictive
Published 03/04/2009
UPJ student Allison Emert said that she has played “World of Warcraft” as long as 26 hours in one session and, like others, finds the game addictive.
The game “World of Warcraft," is a massive ...
Rose Wagner - Contributing Writer
Features - Think Pink game makes $1,000 for breast cancer
Published 03/04/2009
Donors contributed $1,003 Feb. 14 at the Lady Cats Women's second annual Think Pink Breast Cancer Awareness basketball game.
Spectators had a chance to win two Pittsburgh Penguin tickets or an autogr...
Amanda Stocker - Asst. Opinion Editor
Features - Students watch 'Slumdog' take Academy Awards
Published 03/04/2009
Dozens of Pitt-Johnstown film fans attended the WUPJ-TV station’s Academy Awards party on Feb. 22.
The station presented “Go Red for Women,” an event to watch the awards ceremony on a big-scre...
Daryl Walker - Copy Editor
Features - Female engineering students find camaraderie
Published 02/25/2009
Like many college students, junior Emily Babik is busy with classes, homework and interests including soccer and piano. Yet unlike most college women, Babik is a minority because of her major—civil...
Kristin Badoux - Contributing Writer
Features - Eatman enjoys last productions at Pitt-Johnstown
Published 02/25/2009
Some Pitt-Johnstown students contributed to one of the last productions by theater professor Rodney Eatman over the past weekend.
For the cast and crew of “Dancing at Lughnasa” is a play that i...
Amanda Stocker - Assistant Opinion Editor