THE News ................2-5 Features ...........6-9 A&E ............. 10-11 Opinion ........12-13 Sports .........14-15 Laker Living ......16 MerciadMERCYHURST UNIVERSITY | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 | VOL. 92 NO. 1 NOW OPEN PAGE 5 Online poll results We asked: What are your goals for the fall semester? Balance school and social life (45%) Get at least a 3.5 GPA (37%) 4: Cyber security lab now open Do some community service (12%) Join at least one club (6%) 8: New bee hotel on campus 15: Hockey Canada gives Laker This week’s What is you favorite thing a shot at Development camp about Hurst Day? POLL merciad.mercyhurst.edu PAGE 2 NEWS Wednesday, September 12, 2018 Contributed photo Freshmen, Laker Leaders and iMU professors volunteered all over Erie at places such as Presque Isle State Park, the Erie Zoo and other local sites in the annual Day of Service. Freshman class gives back By Megan Michalski and work for an event that the Contributing writer entire community enjoys. Mikonsky hopes that future On Aug. 20, about 700 new freshmen view the Day of Ser- Lakers traveled to different lo- vice with “an open mind,” and cations with their Introduction have as much fun as he did with to Mercyhurst University (iMU) his iMU group. class as part of the annual Day The projects each year focus of Service. on addressing the five Critical Every new school year, the Concerns of Mercy. freshman class participates in a Hannah Frederick, a fresh- weeklong orientation, in which man Early Childhood and Spe- each student gets to know their cial Education major, centered advisers, their fellow students her experience on Reverenc- and their new home at Mer- ing the Earth. Along with her cyhurst University. Not only iMU group, Frederick helped do the freshmen participate in build pocket gardens on State class bonding activities and fun Street. She picked up litter and events during Welcome Week, Contributed photo cleaned the surrounding area. they set out into the streets of She viewed it as a bonding expe- Erie as well. About 700 freshmen gathered on Aug. 20 to serve in the spirit of the Sisters of Mercy, addressing the five rience with her iMU group. By participating in an all-class Critical Concerns of Mercy with their volunteer work. “It was nice because I made service project, students explore friends while doing it, everyone the community while helping versity, has worked for the Day “I want the students to recog- and the opportunity to really ex- in our iMU group got to know those in need. of Service since she was a fresh- nize that Erie is a beautiful place plore the streets of Erie. each other that day,” said Fred- Starting in May, Bethany Brun, man. After her freshman year, beyond the gates of campus,” Dennis Mikonsky, a fresh- erick. “I just had a lot of fun.” Mercyhurst’s assistant director Brun became a Laker Leader, said Brun. man with an undeclared major, Freshman Day of Service al- of Community Engagement, and led other freshman off cam- Brun acknowledged that some was assigned to work at the Erie lows the freshman class to help works with other service lead- pus on several service projects. of the projects are uncomfort- Zoo, where he painted animals their new community as well as ers to find quality projects for She hopes that the service able, such as cleaning a kitchen for the Zoo’s Halloween party. offers the opportunity to forge the freshmen to work on. Brun, projects encourage new students or painting a fence, but they Mikonsky and his group saved a stronger connection with their a graduate of Mercyhurst Uni- to feel a part of the community. each provided great experience the zoo staff hours of painting new home at Mercyhurst. New archaeology partnership formed By Carlena Bressanelli absence from the court to act as both the Jackson farmhouse and by coordinating on the archival and gain a fuller understanding Staff writer Chief U.S. Prosecutor during the a nearby barn. portions of this project.” of the site’s history and the lives Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war Mary Ann Owoc, Ph.D., An- Rosie Pregler, senior Anthro- of its past occupants.” Over the summer, Mercyhurst criminals after World War II. thropology/Archaeology depart- pology/Archaeology and His- Attorney Greg Peterson, a University’s Anthropology/Ar- The Robert H. Jackson Center ment chair, said work will begin tory major, will be completing co-founder and board member chaeology department signed a was established in 2001 in James- this fall to map and document her capstone senior projects in of the Jackson Center, explained, Memorandum of Agreement to town, New York, dedicated to the the site and to evaluate artifacts both fields with her work on this “We’re hoping to understand the launch an archaeological study former justice’s life, legacy and from the property for potential project under the supervision of life and times of the Jackson fam- of a Warren County homestead contributions to the United States. further study. historical archaeologist Lisa Ma- ily, why they may have chosen that with the representatives of the The representatives of Glen- “We’re excited about how this rie Malischke, Ph.D., and history area to live, why they came back Robert H. Jackson Center on July dorn Land, who are the current partnership will enhance our professor Ben Scharff, Ph.D. to the area and to understand 24. owners of the property over- educational mission as a depart- According to Pregler’s research the environment in which Justice Robert H. Jackson was ap- looking Spring Creek, also took ment committed to faculty-men- proposal, the research aims to Jackson and his family lived.” pointed to the U.S. Supreme part of the ceremony. Jackson’s tored student research, hands-on “conduct a preliminary archaeo- Jackson Center Board Chair Court in 1941 by President great-grandfather settled in student training and public ar- logical investigation of the Rob- Stanley Lundine signed the agree- Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before Spring Creek after the Ameri- chaeology,” Owoc said. “We’re ert H. Jackson Farmstead (Spring ment, along with Owoc and Chris- that, Jackson served as U.S. So- can Revolution. Volunteers had also very glad to enhance our Creek, Pennsylvania) in order to tina Riley-Brown, Ph.D., dean of licitor General and U.S. Attorney already removed brush from the already strong relationship with produce new information on his- the Hafenmaier College of Hu- General. He then took a leave of site, revealing the foundations of Mercyhurst’s History department torical Pennsylvania farmsteads manities, Arts and Social Sciences. Wednesday, September 12, 2018 NEWS PAGE 3 Grand jury report shakes faith By Kristian Biega came the subject of “Spotlight,” a religious communities are, they “It is a betrayal. But life is filled News Editor 2015 film. There needs to are also human institutions and with betrayal from time to time, “Since 2002, the Church tried to are also going to be inflicted with and part of life is dealing with On Aug. 14, Pennsylvania At- respond to this with better rules be something sin and harm,” Forsthoefel said. that,” Forsthoefel said. “We must torney General Josh Shapiro sent and regulations,” Catholic Studies “ “The question is can any reli- let them know that we love them profoundly shock waves through the nation professor Mary Hembrow-Sny- gion have enough honesty and and we understand that they need as he and his team released the der, Ph.D., said. “But this was public in terms self awareness to pull back from distance. The church has to re- largest and most in-depth inves- so excruciatingly egregious and of atonement for self-centered interest?” form itself to regain the trust of tigation of child sex abuse cases the victims were treated so inhu- It has been difficult for religious the people. The church’s long his- within the Catholic Church. While manely. The piece for me that is this sin to help and Catholic studies professors tory has been through many cri- the report is only reflective of six the most salient is the clericalism all of us who are to make sense of the distortion ses before, so presumably it will dioceses in Pennsylvania (Erie, Al- and deeply systemic structure of of the Church’s message in their recover.” lentown, Greensburg, Harrisburg, oppression which ironically ends Catholics begin to classes. Mercyhurst students have been Pittsburgh and Scranton), its find- up being a structure of protection have a little bit of “Can you imagine how difficult struggling to make sense of the ings have made national news for those priest predators.” for us who teach course in social scandal within the Church. over the past several weeks. The diocese of Altoona/John- hope.” justice and ethics, when we talk “I immediately felt sick. My There are profiles of more than stown sparked the latest investiga- Catholic Studies about Catholic teaching on sex- heart broke for the victims and 300 Catholic priests and bishops tion as secret archives containing professor Mary ual morality, the students are like their families,” sophomore Cath- found guilty of sex abuse in the information about previous sex Hembrow-Snyder ‘really?’ The students are somber. olic Devotions leader Allie Sch- near-thousand page report. What abuse reports and how they were You can see the harm that has weiger said. is most shocking about the grand handled were found. Following been done,” said Hembrow-Sny- Members of Campus Ministry jury report is that the specific Altoona/Johnstown, the dio- hoefel said.