By Maurisa Warren

Golden Rams Football

A.J. Long threw for three scores and rushed for another to lead the ninth-ranked West Chester University football team to a 33-10 victory over host Slippery Rock in the PSAC Championship Game last Saturday.

The Golden Rams (10-0) earned their first win in the “State Game” since 1971 while picking up their conference-best 19th PSAC championship in the process.

“I’m just so excited for this group of guys,” WCU coach Bill Zwaan said. “They are a special group.”

The Golden Rams will host New Haven in the first round of the NCAA Division II playoffs Saturday at 1 PM at John A. Farrell Stadium.

Wells School of Music

The Criterions Jazz Ensemble will perform a fall concert on Friday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 PM in the Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre in the Swope Music Building and Performing Arts Center. The event is free and open to the public.

The Criterions is the longest-running university jazz band in the country. Originating in the 1920s, they were a student-led ballroom dance band and provided entertainment for university dances, proms, and post-Friday night games. As times changed, the “Crites” became a faculty-led jazz ensemble by the early 1980s, when the School of Music began jazz curricula.

The 22 ensemble members will perform a variety of classic, big-band, and traditional and contemporary jazz songs made famous by Count Bassie, Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton, Toshiko Akivoshi, and Rob McConnell.

Robert Miller

The Secular Franciscan and Professor of Old Testament at Catholic University recently visited WCU to discuss his book, The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations: An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives.

Miller’s story explores the origins and meanings of a myth that plays a crucial role in the Hebrew Bible and an important role in the New Testament: the biblical myth of Daniel slaying an infamous dragon (or serpent) that the Babylonians worshipped.

Miller is a recognized authority on Early Israel who is also greatly interested in Biblical Theology.

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