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The Fourth Wall
COURTNEY LABEACH
Thanks to Jalon Alex-
ander, freshman student and
new Student Government
President-elect, Penn State
Mont Alto has added more
minority history classes to
their curriculum. Minority
history classes, such as Afri-
can-American and Hispanic
history will soon be availa-
ble for students as an alter-
native for European history.
Previously, if one
were to browse the history
section of MA’s offered
courses, there were mainly
classes of the European cul-
ture, according to Alexan-
der. “As I.was applying for
classes, I wanted to take an
African American History
class. When I went on AN-
GEL there weren’t any or
any type of minority classes,
except European history”.
The campus also has
little diversity within the
professors. “You look
around on campus, you see
the professors,” says Alex-
ander. “I don’t see one Afri-
can-American professor. I
don’t think the school inten-
tionally discriminates with
who they pick.” He explains
he understands that African-
American professors are
“rare in academia”, but he
feels that adding racially di-
verse professors would give
student new perspectives in
their education.
Alexander spoke
with the Chancellor of Mont
Alto, Dr. David C. Gnage
about his concerns, leading
to the creation of a petition
for new minority history
classes. Only fifteen signa-
tures were needed from the
students or faculty of Mont
Alto, but Alexander re-
ceived fifty-five. Penn State
Mont Alto will have three
new multicultural and racial
classes available to be taken
in the fall of 2012.
Alexander believes
the classes should be availa-
ble to educate students about
the struggles of minorities,
such as the various Rights
Movements in our country’s
history. When asked how
this will change Mont Alto
he simply replied, “It proba-
only few may attend but it
will be good to be available
for the students who are in-
terested in taking multicul-
tural classes.”
CARESSA RICE
The Penn State Mont
Alto’s Woodsmen team will
be competing in the annual
woodsmen competition on
April 21%, Last year they
hosted the event here on
“campus. This year it will be
held in North Carolina.
They will be compet-
ing in many different events
on the college level, includ-
ing tree identification, ar-
chery, log rolling, using a
compass, pole climbing,
firewood splitting, axe
throwing and chain saw
events. This year the
Woodsmen team will have
their top competitor Adam
Wentzel represent them in
the College Stihl Timber
Sports.
“Last year we placed
second, even though it
rained terribly” said Craig
Houghton, instructor in for-
est technology and Woods-
men coach.
This year they are
competing against one
school from Maryland, one
from Pennsylvania, one
from Virginia, and two from
North Carolina. They have
been practicing three to four
days a week to hopefully
pull out a great win.
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Kony 2012 Goes Viral;
ALEX WYPIJEWSKI
What’s the most un-
orthodox way of attacking
the world’s most ruthless
and yet still unheard of war
criminal? Make him fa-
mous. That’s exactly what
short film director Jason
Russell aimed to do in his
30-minute film “Kony
2012.” Jason Russell is the
co-founder of the group
“Invisible - Children,” a
nonprofit organization that
aims to bring to light the
atrocities of Uganda’s war
criminal Joseph Kony and
his army, known as the
Lord’s Resistance Army
(LRA). The LRA is com-
prised of children who
were kidnapped at an early
age and later forced to kill
their parents to show loyal-
ty to the LRA.
The “Kony 2012”
campaign aims to gather
twenty prominent “culture
makers”, and twelve head
“policy makers” to create a
countrywide uproar in or-
Not Without Criticism
der to shine a light on
Kony, and ultimately cap-
ture him and bring him to
justice. Being one of the
twenty “culture makers,”
actor George Clooney has
signed on to “Kony 2012”
saying, “I would like in-
dicted war criminals to en-
joy the same level of celeb-
rity as me. That seems fair.
That’s our objective.”
The “Kony 2012”
program, isn’t without
fault. Recent scrutinizers
of the program say that the
facts that the presentation
gives are exaggerated. An-
other fact that scrutinizers
exposed, was that bill the
promoted “stabilization and
peace in Uganda and areas
affected by the LRA,” ac-
cording to the Los Angeles
Times. This bill would
give extra power to the
Ugandan president, whose
security forces have a
“human rights abuse record
of their own.”