IUP Magazine

IUP Magazine, Spring 2005

Chris Higbee started playing the violin when he was seven years old, because he liked a girl and wanted to impress her.

Marek Malopolski and Bartosz Ostrowski exploded onto the IUP swimming scene like Fourth of July fireworks.

IUP women’s tennis opponents in 1974 could identify with the army of Napoleon that marched on Moscow.

A Name in Highlights: Being around beautiful women, catfights, deception, and drama is all in a day’s work for Nicole Frank ’91.
Wealth of Experience: Had they been investing real money last semester, the students in the IUP Finance Association’s trading competition would be sitting pretty today.
Honors College Chronicles: Summertime honors exploration, and no dozing for Missy
In the Cards: Pittsburgh Steelers running back Duce Staley and former New York Yankees stars Graig Nettles and Rollie Sheldon will be signing autographs on Saturday, June 18, at the Harrisburg Area IUP Alumni Chapter’s sports card show.
Letters: Letters to the editor

Securing the Future: Tony Atwater was born in Nashville but raised all over the world. His father was in the Air Force, and by the time he was fifteen, IUP’s new president had lived on three continents.
Super Bowl XXXIX: In Her Own Words: Leslie Saxton Costello ’93, M’97 provided this first-person account of the Super Bowl pregame show, in which Alicia Keys performed “America the Beautiful” with students from the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind.
The Company We Keep: Visitors to IUP and happenings on campus
Ambassadors Make Mud Count: Ryan Renz is out of bed early to help with a new event being held by the IUP Ambassadors, the Student Alumni Association—MessFest, IUP’s first mud volleyball tournament.