The Fourth Wall
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Forestry
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minimum of two times. Dr. Craig
Houghton states, “The more
[practice] the better, but academics
are first so [the team members]
practice as often as his or her
schoolwork allows.”
So far this year’s team has had
certain members compete at the
annual Forest Festival in Brevard,
North Carolina; two teams received
16 and 25 place out of 27 teams at
the Fleming Loggersports Meet in
Ontario, Canada; and some
members participated in a two-day
demonstration at Whitetail Ski
Resort. While in Canada, the two
teams were composed of a men’s
team and a mixed team known as
the Jack and Jill team. The Jack
and Jill team went up against men
due to there being no official Jack
and Jill category.
Upcoming events for The
Woodsmen Team include traveling
back to North Carolina for the Mid-
Atlantic Woodsmen Meet and
possibly going to the 61 Spring
Meet at the University of New
Hampshire.
Yes, he's a lumberjack, and he's
ok-a-y/ He sleeps all night and he
works all day.
While Mont Alto’s Woodsmen
Team members may not all be
composed of lumberjack men who
wear women’s clothing, the team
adds character to the campus.
Ordinarily, most college campuses
do not have axes being through at
targets, people shimmying up trees,
or lumber being chopped; however,
Mont Alto’s got all three.
By Jade Johnson
Staff Writer
On October 30, 2007, Maryland
police were investigating a phoned
in bomb threat to the Hagerstown
Valley Mall in the Regal Cinema’
section of the mall. The cinema that
is located at 17301 Valley Mall
Road, Hagerstown, MD, received
a phone call threatening to blow
up the building. The building was
immediately evacuated, while
police were currently on the scene
investigating.
Four Mont Alto Penn State
students were involved in this
incident: Meagan Jones, Jade
Wendy Cheng. The group visited
Hagerstown Maryland Valley Mall
for a late night movie outing. The
four went to see two new very
intriguing films: Tyler Perry’s Why
Did I Get Married? and Dan in
Real Life. This was the night before
Halloween, which was mischief
night. “All of us was extremely
excited to go to the movies, after a
long day of school work,” Meagan
Jones said. It was about eleven
o’clock p.m., when both of the
movies had started. Jones, Heckard
and Cheng went to see Dan in
Real Life, while Johnson, alone
watched Tyler Perry's Why Did I
Get Married?
“It was not until an hour into
both movies, that the police and
the theatre managers abruptly
evacuated everyone from the
theatres”, said Sarah Heckard.
“They told us to get into our cars
and to flee away from the mall
premises and to not use our cell
phones”, stated Wendy Cheng.
“Maybe this is a joke since
tonight is mischief night,”
exclaimed a Regal Cinema worker
who chooses to remain
anonymous.
No one has been arrested,
no bombs have been found, and
no one has been hurt, though the
call arose to the evacuation of the
building.
The customers seemed
thankful for the evacuation and
their safety, but also very upset
because of the interruption of their
movie. The theater is awarding
those who saw a movie that night,
with free admission passes that will
be good for any movie and any
time.
Clinton
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immigration reform. She came off
looking like she wanted to shift the
criticism to ' ‘the. ‘Bush
administration rather than to
Spitzer and his proposal or to illegal
immigrants.
This places Clinton in a
precarious position. If she takes
this more neutral approach to
immigration, she runs the risk of
losing both sides. Taking such a
position casts her in the light of a
waffler, the same stigma that
eroded candidate John Kerry’s in
the last presidential election.
However, taking a harsher
approach less favorable towards
illegal immigrants, Clinton runs the
risk of alienating immigrant voters,
particularly Hispanics. These
voters could prove quite valuable
in this election, and will most
assuredly prove valuable in the
future. If Clinton makes it into office
without the support of Hispanic
voters, she may find it difficult to
win back needed support in the
future.
Taking a more favorable
approach to immigration also runs
Clinton a sizeable risk. She may find
herself bereft of more conservative
Democratic support, especially
among those who belong to trade
unions. These workers, anxious to
protect their jobs, may cast their
vote for a Democratic candidate
with a clearer conservative position
on immigration.
By not taking a strong position
either for or against, Clinton is
trying desperately to court both
immigration parties
simultaneously. In so doing, it
seems that she runs a greater risk
than enunciating a solid and clear
position. Unless she takes a more
direct approach in the near future,
conservatives will be quick to
construe her as one without a
viable opinion.
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