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The University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown's student newspaper

The Advocate
The University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown's student newspaper

The Advocate
Rachel Logan

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor

  • Graduated High School: 2015, Westfield Senior High School (Westfield, New Jersey)
  • Year: Senior
  • Graduation Date: Spring 2019
  • Major(s)/Minor(s): Computer Engineering/Math
  • Years with Advocate: Four Years
  • Progression: Copy Editor, Opinions Editor, News Editor, Copy Editor, Daily American Correspondent, Our Town Correspondent, Features Editor, Copy Editor
  • Prefers: News
All content by Rachel Logan
A Richland Township firetruck drives down Townhouse pathways last Thursday after wires sparked inside the attic of Woodland Manor apartment 7.

Fizzling wires cause power outage

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
February 27, 2019
About 50 students attended a Feb. 11 student government meeting in the Student Union’s Cambria Room. Emergency allocation guidleines were amended during the meeting, despite concerns from those in attendance.

[Photo] Dissent aired on new rules

Alyssa Coleman, News Editor
February 20, 2019

Emergency fund rules may tighten

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
February 13, 2019
The Library of Things collection is growing, according to Highland Community Library staff Devin Malcolm, who said he helps most with toddlers.

[Photo] Librarians set flower handouts, films

Callie Burgan, Opinions Editor
February 6, 2019
Senior choreographer Kristin Haydt (center) kicks with dancers in “Control,” the only pointe piece performed at Dance Ensemble’s show “Electricity” Saturday night.

[Photo] Haydt

February 6, 2019
Michaela McKay (standing) seems to command the stage in “Lose Control” at Dance Emsemble’s “Electricity” show Saturday night.

[Photo] McKay

February 6, 2019
Catholic Campus Ministry member Becca LaBar (front) weaves a mat out of grocery bags from a recent food drive. | Photo courtesy of LaDonna McCrary

Top organization logs 806 service hours

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
January 30, 2019
Members of local churches organize supplies donated to the St. Vincent de Paul Soup Kitchen. The groceries were given to local this past Christmas season. | Photo courtesy of LaDonna McCrary

Food donating digests $605 in fines

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
January 23, 2019
Program Board members are sponsoring an escape room event on Saturday.

Escape room and Penguins game slated

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
January 23, 2019
Massaro Corp. workers consider their work during July construction of the John P. Murtha Engineering and Science building’s chemical enginnering addition. The construction was to be finished by Jan. 1, but campus officials have said that it will wrap up soon.

Building is set to open soon

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
January 16, 2019

Flu is lurking; student defenses differ

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
January 16, 2019
Minister Brad Dayton urged those attending a memorial service Oct. 31 to act in love and support after a shooting Oct. 27.

Minister: Pray, but then be a change

Rachel Logan, Features Editor
November 7, 2018
Major Bruce Jordan (right) instructs cadets in their one Pitt-Johnstown lecture, covering topics such as weapons systems and land navigation.

ROTC gets 13 cadets, more expected

Rachel Logan, Features Editor
October 24, 2018

Organizations to add spook to season

Rachel Logan, Features Editor
October 24, 2018
Sophomore Grant Shieh prepares a plate at the Living/Learning Center’s Varsity Café, which is soon to be open for dinner hours only.

Café to open at dinnertime

Rachel Logan, Features Editor
October 17, 2018
A Servpro Restoration worker pulls drywall pieces from a Living/Learning Center room through a window Friday.

Mold exile to be stretched out longer

Rachel Logan, Features Editor
October 17, 2018
Sophomores Brittney Cesari (left) and Minnie Jones (right) pack their belongings Oct. 7 out of their first-floor Living/Learning Center room.

Mold comeback anticipated 26 students get a relocation

Rachel Logan, Features Editor
October 10, 2018
(Left to right) Students Jordyn Ford, Kaila Yuazon and Muhammad Quraishy work on math problems at drop-in tutoring in the Academic Success Center last week.

Success center could save semester

Rachel Logan, Features Editor
October 2, 2018
Senior Erin Whyte and sophomores Muneer Al-Busaidi and Laken Burkhardt clear dehumidifiers and buckets from the studio theater before the fall play’s first rehaearsal.

Theater furniture is ruined by mold

Rachel Logan, Features Editor
September 26, 2018

Meal plan choices simplified to four

Rachel Logan, Features Editor
September 19, 2018

Co-ops make students industry-ready

Rachel Logan, Features Editor
September 12, 2018
Gretchen Shepard and Sam Miller (above) were the only student senators to submit a petition to run for student vice president and president.

[Photo] Third times the charm

Tyler McNulty, Editor-in-Chief
February 21, 2018
Mechanical engineering professor Kurt Klavuhn reads a fluid mechanics book. He leads the fluids review session for the Funamentals of Enigneering Exam this year.

[Photo] Many equip for exams enabling futures

Yvonne Nguyen, Contributing Writer
February 21, 2018
Assistant Academic Affairs Vice President Kristen Majocha makes red pockets with change in them Friday for Chinese New Year.

[Photo] Homesickness is a New Year tradition

Lucy Li, Opinions Editor
February 14, 2018
Cambria County Humane Society Executive Director Jessica Vamos accepted 50 cats last month, pushing the no-kill shelter to its limits. Vamos is petting Gemini, one of over 40 Coopersdale cats still awaiting adoption.

[Photo] Many more cool cats at the shelter

Alyssa Coleman, Contributing Writer
January 31, 2018

Capstone class markets city’s rivers

Rachel Logan, Features Editor
December 3, 2017
Senior Jake Hofer play on his cell phone in a Willow apartment.

Three contribute to Guidebook app

Rachel Logan, Features Editor
December 3, 2017
The Cook Family Idea Lab, in 132 Biddle Hall, is a room with ample whiteboard space for students to develop their ideas.

Ideas drive campus entrepreneurs

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
November 15, 2017
Senior Grady Zagorac walks past the newly planted trees near Kunk’s Drive last week.

Northeast trees planted on campus

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
November 8, 2017
Astronomer David Levy speaks about his comet discoveries last Thursday at the Murtha Center.

Amateur astronomer discovered comets

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
October 31, 2017
Derek Leben gives a presentation about his book, “Ethics for Robots: How to Design a Moral Algorithm,” Oct. 18 in the John P. Murtha Center.

Robot program’s purpose is morality

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
October 31, 2017
Senior Demar Watson rides a skateboard with a unicorn head he won from the Pumpkin Hunt sponsored by Programming Board members.

[Photo] New events’ plans to aim for students’ weekend retention

Tyler McNulty, News Editor
October 24, 2017

Shovel of dirt is to be thrown for labs

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
October 24, 2017
Students wait in line at The Daily Grind, a new food and coffee stop that replaced Biddle Hall’s Jazzman’s this semester. The stop is in Blackington Hall’s first floor.

Students can utilize space

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
October 11, 2017
RealWorld Career Services Executive Director Bob Knipple talks with recent Pitt-Johnstown graduate Michelle Penna in the Sudent Union’s Career Service office.

RealWorld Action Program is changed

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
October 4, 2017

Pitt-Johnstown student accused of drunk driving

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
October 4, 2017
A woman walks into the Sheetz store outlet at Richland Town Centre. Sheetz has taken a significant step toward selling beer.

[Photo] Sheetz managers get nod to sell beer

Tyler McNulty, News Editor
September 26, 2017
Senior Sean Robb works on a coding assignment Sept. 15 in a Blackington Hall computer room.

Computer Science in new academic house

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
September 20, 2017
Sophomores Nick Shima and Josh Lind walk past the Delta Chi fraternity where open parties are no longer allowed to be held.

[Photo] Open parties to end at fraternities

Tyler McNulty, News Editor
September 20, 2017
This is the progress so far on the Pitt-Johnstown 90th anniversary mural on a support wall for state Route 56, the Johnstown expressway. Artist Stacie Krupa is painting the mural.

Mural is to commemorate 90 years

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
September 19, 2017

Cherry tree is to top first Earth Week

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
April 19, 2017
Freshmen Delta Chi brothers Justin Gunsallis and Tyler Murray collect money from sophomore Megan Gamber.

Only 1 sorority is left

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
April 12, 2017

Club members reclaim bake sale right

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
March 29, 2017
The site for the new chemical engineering building is located near the Living/Learning Center, the Engineering and Science Building and the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center.

$4M set aside for labs

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
February 22, 2017

Pitt, UPJ react to order

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
February 8, 2017
Junior Bradley Springer and non-student Heather Walker clean off a car at the North lodges’ parking lot.

Misplaced spots studied

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
February 1, 2017
Senior Thomas Plutt helps President Jem Spectar with the new virtual-reality equiptment to be set up in the Zone. Sophomore Nick Marconi (right) and Student Affairs Vice President Shawn Brooks (second from right) monitor Spectar’s experience on a computer.

[Photo] Students work to introduce ‘reality’

Emily Moore, Staff Writer
February 1, 2017
Geography professor Ahmad Massasati prepares to launch his drone Friday. Massasati and students in the Geography Department use the drones to take aerial photos of campus.

Drone use limited by availability

Emily Moore and Rachel Logan
January 25, 2017

Democrats financed for Washington, D.C. march

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
January 18, 2017
Two students board the campus shuttle outside the Student Union that travels to Richland Town Centre every day from 2 to 6 p.m.

Van service falls short

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
December 14, 2016
Senior Kevin Synan and junior Cole Benson prepapre for final exams by studying in a nook in the Student Union.

[Photo] Study site options have increased

Tyler McNulty, News Editor
December 14, 2016

Student charged

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
December 7, 2016
Students disembark in New York City’s Bryant Park Saturday morning.

NYC bus registration takes detours

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
December 7, 2016
Hemlock residents mingle outside their hall, where a resident assistant has been charged with selling drugs and alcohol to freshmen.

Former RA is charged

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
December 7, 2016
The waterfall area is approximately three-quarters of a mile from the north lodges and includes a fire pit and seating areas.

Violent incident clouds waterfall’s atmosphere

Rachel Logan, News Editor
November 16, 2016

Officers charge alleged puncher, driver

Rachel Logan, News Editor
November 16, 2016

Freshmen are charged

Rachel Logan, News Editor
November 9, 2016
The College Park Apartments project is under budget and ahead of schedule.

Off-campus apartments ready to open

Rachel Logan, News Editor
November 9, 2016
The Humanities Division hosted a barbecue at Oct 13. in the Log Cabin.

Cabin more accessible by next fall

Rachel Logan, News Editor
November 2, 2016

Fine assessed

Rachel Logan, News Editor
October 26, 2016

Student takes a trip to prison

Rachel Logan, News Editor
October 26, 2016

Senators propose raise

Rachel Logan, News Editor
October 26, 2016

Sexual assault report options detailed

Rachel Logan, News Editor
October 19, 2016

Citations distributed for theft and alcohol

Rachel Logan, News Editor
October 12, 2016
Freshmen Tyler Brown (left), Casey Atwell (middle) and Bri Fox enter Hemlock Hall where two crime notices are posted on the front door.

[Photo] Police send emergency alerts to those on list

Tyler McNulty, Staff Writer
October 12, 2016

Young adults draw campus police eyes

Rachel Logan, News Editor
October 5, 2016
Construction crews work on the exterior of the Engineering and Science building , building natural-light study areas onto what was the front wall.

Acquire millions; make the dirt fly

Rachel Logan, News Editor
October 5, 2016

Alcohol, drug grinder lead to citations

Rachel Logan, News Editor
September 28, 2016
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton encourages questions from audience members.

Chelsea Clinton campaigns for mother

Rachel Logan, News Editor
September 28, 2016

Man charged for trip

Rachel Logan, News Editor
September 21, 2016
Resident Assistants Jeffrey Adams (left) and Kelly Bisceglia (right) joke with freshman Eileen Schmidt.

RA-student ratio falls

Rachel Logan, News Editor
September 14, 2016

Student ideas to get funding

Rachel Logan, News Editor
September 14, 2016
Freshman Erin Whyte holds an intense conversation with sophomore Grant Kristo.

Junior Devin Parfitt and freshman Samuel Miller intently listen to a conversation

Senior Sadie Sprankle pensively ponders Parfitt’s comments. Right, Kristo stands confidently while addressing another actor.

Freshman Michael Cadden dramatically enters the scene.

The Pitt-Johnstown Theatre Department presented Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” March 23, 24, 25 and 26 in the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center. Pictured here is sophomore Grant Kristo.

Majors are restructured

Rachel Logan, Opinions Editor
March 23, 2016
Senior Victoria Snyder holds collected eggs from the hunt and the prize she received as students collect prices in the background.

Students search for eggs campuswide

Rachel Logan, Opinions Editor
March 23, 2016
Freshman Patrick Cadden (left) and junior Demar Watson (right) hide among costumes in a dressing room at the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center while at a play practice.

[Photo] Theater students perform with passion

Eden Cohen, Managing Editor
February 17, 2016

Spring concert replaced

Rachel Logan, Opinions Editor
February 10, 2016
In Dance Ensemble’s show “Walking on Sunshine” participants dance in “Stomp” (left), “The Show Must Go On” (upper center), “Flashlight” (upper right), “It’s Raining Men” (bottom left), and “Johnny and June” (above).

[Photo] Pitt-Johnstown dancers walk on sunshine

February 10, 2016

Clubs find members with posters, media

Rachel Logan, Opinions Editor
February 3, 2016
From left to right freshmen Kelsey Robbind, Chole Salvatore and Lianne Lapitan play in The Zone.

Arcade’s being updated

Rachel Logan, Opinions Editor
January 27, 2016
Malina Kelemen (left) and Amber Gibbs visit therapy dogs Gracie (left) and Mayla in the Cambria Room last Thursday.

Students give tips for finals preparations

Rachel Logan, Opinions Editor
December 16, 2015
President Jem Spectar speaks to the crowd at the Light-Up event Tuesday, while the Pitt-Johnstown concert choir stands behind him waiting to sing their Christmas carols for the community.

Pitt-Johnstown officials light up Moxham

Rachel Logan, Copy Editor
December 9, 2015
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