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Thursday, November 15, 2007 Mychal Savage was named Urinetown delivers a steady the Sports Network National stream of musical Defensive player of the week, comedy, page 6 page 8 THE AM The student voBice of A R Youngstown State University since 1931. VOLUME 90, ISSUE 22 J THEJAMBAR.COM THE SIDEBAR YSU YSU Community college may exist outside Mahoning County Robert Smith Broadening horizons Jambar Contributor Youngstown State University is looking to expand its plans for a community college outside the Students ponder life beyond Earth Mahoning Valley. broach the topic in a serious fash - Ohio Board of Regents ion,” he said. Chancellor Eric Fingerhut said, UFO class Graf said he wants students to “Nothing is certain yet, but we come to their own conclusions. may serve Portage County by ARTS & operating there as well.” ENTERTAINMENT separates fact “This is not something that Kent State’s Trumbull and we’re pushing,” Graf said, of stu - Columbiana branch campuses are dent belief in UFOs. “Our job is to also considered for partnership. After being discovered from fiction expose them to the best quality “We are also looking at the poten - on MySpace, Colbie Sarah Sole information we can.” tial in the Mahoning and Choffin Caillat is rising ........ 6 News Editor Students who took the class Career Centers, and the YSU last spring at the YSU Metro Metro College,” said Nathan Ritchey, professor of mathematics While Reuters reported Nov. College in Boardman have NEWS Steve Graf teaches the ETs and UFOs course with help from his at YSU. Classes would be con - 12 that 24 former government formed their own opinions. brother-in-law, Jack Auman. Photo contributed by Graf. ducted in these buildings as well. Report encourages officials and pilots are calling for Prior to taking the class, for - Ritchey said partnerships with teachers to help the U.S. government to resume mer student Tina Fanfer didn’t other universities could save the students get involved UFO investigations, students at bed testimonials,” where people distinguish what was fact and think about life beyond earth. community college money. By Youngstown State University will thought they should set the record what was fiction,” he said. “It was a question I didn’t want using already existing buildings with politics ............ 2 straight. A discrepancy exists between to answer or spend time on,” she such as those at YSU and Kent, be researching right along with there will be no need to invest Much undercover operations the reality of extraterrestrials and NEWS BRIEFS them. said. money into buildings. A single ............ 2 As a psychology special topics dealt with “black budgeting,” a what the media perpetuates about During the class, she and other building for the community col - course, ETs and UFOs teaches process where powerful govern - them, Graf said. While movies students learned about people lege could cost millions of dollars. CLASSIFIEDS .............. 3 students how to distinguish myth ment agents were able to receive like “War of the Worlds” and who experienced contact with “The new YSU business build - from fact. Temple University in funding for projects which “Independence Day” otherworldly beings, Fanfer said. ing was estimated at $30 million Pennsylvania is the only other Congress had no knowledge of, depict extraterrestrials as brutal Students also found events that dollars. We want to avoid spend - EDITORIAL Graf said. Only small cells within monsters, reality points to peace - the press didn’t cover. ing that much,” said Ritchey. university besides YSU that has Finding a building is not Don’t pad your space aliens as a regular part of the agencies were responsible for this ful visitors that do not aim to “It just kind of swayed me into Fingerhut’s primary concern. resume, don’t waste curriculum. kind of research. abduct earthlings or steal believing that this was really a “Buildings are something we The text, “Hidden Truth: Students are encouraged to resources. possibility,” Fanfer said, of the don’t want to worry about. We our time .................... 4 Forbidden Knowledge” is com - find their own research on UFOs Graf said he admits that the class. “It keeps reminding me want to focus on education,” said prised of over 400 testimonies online, where they then can sepa - class will be challenged by skepti - there’s more out there than meets Fingerhut.The money the commu - OPINION author Steven Greer obtained rate the reality from the myth, or cism. the eye.” nity college will save by using as Graf calls it, the spin. The climate of false thinking Some area residents were partnerships will be put into other Is your supper from various government, mili - aspects of the community college tary and corporate personnel, Graf has experienced first - that surrounds the subject of reluctant to share their own testi - such as faculty, lab equipment, and putting you at risk for Steve Graf, emeritus professor of hand the difficulty in separating UFOs often prevents educated monies, Fanfer said. lower tuition for students. superbugs? .............. 4 psychology, said. The individuals the two. He said he researched individuals from becoming “They don’t want to be seen as Ritchey said the original plan were forbidden by their work - UFOs during the late ’80s until involved, Graf said. They don’t being kind of goofy,” she said. was to operate in the Mahoning, CAMPUS LIFE places to talk to anyone about finally becoming discouraged by want their credibility to be ques - After realizing that extraterres - Trumbull and Columbiana coun - ties. knowledge of UFOs, so most of the information. tioned. UFO page 3 Cell phones’ latest “I was so confused by trying to “Academics are not about to “Portage has just recently been the information came from “death talked about. No community col - plot twist .................. 5 PROFILE lege exists in that county,” he said. The Mahoning County com - SPORTS munity college would want to serve all areas that don’t have Student teacher’s sense of humor keeps inner city students alert access to a community college. Penguins seek That is why counties outside of revenge in Mahoning are being looked at, Jeanette DiRubba enthusiasm for reading when YSU needs to have this on file Ritchey said. Jambar Contributor tournament .............. 8 the class read works by in order for student teach ers to The only major community William Shakespeare. graduate and obtain licensure. colleges operating in Northeast Jessica Sampson, “My teacher told me, ‘You “It’s like a large, glorified Ohio are Jefferson, Lakeview and a student teacher at really get this, and you really unit plan,” Sampson said. Cuyahoga community colleges, take well to Shakespeare. I see Sampson’s Teacher Work according to the Ohio Board of Warren G. Harding you helping the other kids Sample includes, among other Regents’ Web site. Each college High School, told around you. Did you ever think information, over 50 pages of serves its surrounding county. her students she about becoming a teacher?’ assessments, students’ work, a There are other political rea - Ever since then, I’ve just want - conceptual factor analysis, cri - sons the community college is would poop on the ed to teach,” Sampson said. tique of student learning, looking outside the tri-county area. floor if they didn’t Working without pay reflection and self-evaluation. Politics play a huge role when stop talking. Monday through Friday at Classroom performance determining what area a commu - Warren G. Harding and work - and teaching experience are nity college will serve, Ritchey ing weekends at her paying job, what count and prepare you for said. “Instead of screaming at Sampson has no days off. the “real thing,” Sampson said. “Jefferson Community College them, I started with the ‘teacher She says a day in her life as Discipline is one difficult has expressed interest in serving stare.’ When that didn’t work, I a student teacher is crazy. factor to incorporate within any Columbiana County,” Ritchey just decided to say something “I wake up at 5:30 a.m., school setting, specifically an said, adding that since Jefferson random and extreme. It made teach all day, and then the bell inner-city school environment, County is south of Columbiana it them stop talking!” Sampson rings. I go home, do everything Sampson said. would be closer for some individ - said. for the next day, grade over 200 One day, her students uals in Columbiana County. A senior integrated lan - papers, prepare things for the pushed her over the edge, and If Jefferson serves Colum- guage arts major at next week, and then it’s time to she started to cry in front of biana, it will be competition to the Youngstown State University, wake up again,” Sampson said. them. new YSU community college, Sampson will be the first in her “You just don’t stop, don’t get “A student was dancing, Ritchey said. Rocky start to a family to graduate from col - any sleep, have huge amounts and I told her to stop. She Still, some say that Mahoning rough season ............ 8 lege. Growing up, Sampson of stress, and I’m not getting flipped out, and told me I was should be the major focus of the said she never thought about paid for it,” she said. just a student teacher, blind as a community college. becoming a teacher, but she In addition to teaching, bat, and I didn’t know what I NOT BY THE BOOK — Sampson takes an Ronald Tabak, professor of always enjoyed reading and Sampson, along with all other was doing,” Sampson said. unconventional approach to her student teaching physics and astronomy at YSU, writing. Sampson’s ninth-grade WEATHER student teachers, needs to com - “I was angry and insulted,” at Warren G.

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