Ha ha: Golgonooza to bring laughs
Keith Hartman, Copy Editor
April 10, 2012
Pitt-Johnstown Golgonooza is to be presented April 17 and 18 at the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center with three student-written and produced plays that have a comedic theme. “The Feeling Down Check-Up,” written by senior Kayla Pongrac, is being directed by junior Cliff Maloney who also directed... Read more »
Ho hum: public displays of affection
Brianne Fleming, Staff Writer
April 10, 2012
Whether it is a peck on the cheek or a simple goodbye hug between classes, couples on campus share their love visibly. For Tuck Shop employee Darwen Kull, public displays of affection are an everyday occurrence, and sometimes not the most enjoyable thing to witness. “I do see it a lot,” said Kull.... Read more »
Stolen cart fines no laughing matter
Brianne Fleming, Staff Writer
April 10, 2012
As Pitt-Johnstown students go about their day roaming around campus, they are accompanied by golf carts zipping by. Some students may even wonder what it would be like to take one for a spin. However, maintenance workers recommend anyone to think twice before hopping on one for a joy ride. Campus custodial... Read more »
Job hunters can ease search online
Keith Hartman, Copy Editor
April 10, 2012
Symplicity, a new Web program endorsed by Career Services counselors, is now available to all Pitt-Johnstown students and alumni. Students received an e-mail Feb. 1 containing their name and password. The program offers job and internship search options, resume-building and job-fair notifications to... Read more »
Politics may be in student’s blood
Kelly Cernetich, Editor-in-Chief
April 3, 2012
Stephen Torquato is a natural politician – the kind who can’t walk from one end of Pitt-Johnstown’s campus to the other without stopping to greet half of the people he encounters. To some, he is their resident director, others are fellow student senators; a third possibility is that they are part... Read more »
Education supplemented by teaching
Brianne Fleming, Staff Writer
April 3, 2012
Students say they receive valuable experience from being mentors for academic and personal success and supplemental instructors for Pitt-Johnstown professors, leading them to consider a career in teaching. Mentors are students who assist professors with courses. The mentors are some of the top juniors... Read more »
Flocks, once divided, find common purpose
Sean Sauro, Staff Writer
April 3, 2012
Conflicting religious ideologies have been the cause of conflicts across the ages, but some members of the Pitt-Johnstown Campus Ministries have been able to put their differences beside them. Campus ministries consist of both Protestant and Catholic followers who work together to spread a Christian... Read more »
Engineers construct togetherness
Andy Hsiao Chung, Staff Writer
March 28, 2012
Pitt-Johnstown civil engineers March 20 led off a week to celebrate engineering with a banquet hosted by the Altoona Section American Society of Highway Engineers. A society member had contacted Pitt-Johnstown’s civil engineering faculty member Brian Houston, expressing the group’s interest in meeting... Read more »
End draws near, senioritis settles in
Brianne Fleming, Staff Writer
March 28, 2012
With senioritis lurking on campus, some about to graduate seem to lack incentive during their last few weeks at UPJ. Some seniors have been modeling their regalia now that a deadline has passed to purchase mortarboard hats and gowns. Others can repeat advice to hang the gown in shower humidity a few... Read more »
Weather cuts scuba scheduling
Keith Hartman, Copy Editor
March 28, 2012
Pitt-Johnstown’s scuba class is now to be offered only in the fall semester. The change, aquatic coordinator James Hedrick said, is due to the scheduling of the “open-water dive.” The open dive is an exercise where students are to be tested in a natural setting rather than the Zamias Aquatic Center. For... Read more »