7 20 186 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Rocket Description An account of the resource Items from Slippery Rock University's official student newspaper, The Rocket. Hyperlink A link, or reference, to another resource on the Internet. URL <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7i8Z3xBwihE" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource SRU Communication Faculty Members Share Messages for Students Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hannah Shumsky (The Rocket) Description An account of the resource This video is a compilation of SRU communication faculty members sharing messages for students. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hannah Shumsky (The Rocket) Relation A related resource SRU Student Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-04-24 SRU Faculty SRU Student The Rocket Video YouTube Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Rocket Description An account of the resource Items from Slippery Rock University's official student newspaper, The Rocket. Hyperlink A link, or reference, to another resource on the Internet. URL <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/68mBQwipizI" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Episode 1: ROCK TALK, AN SRU MEDIA PODCAST Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource WSRU-TV and The Rocket Description An account of the resource Join Samantha Amato and Joshua Peters of WSRU-TV News as they discuss small business, international student living and athletic eligibility during the Coronavirus pandemic in this first episode of Rock Talk, a collaboration between The Rocket and WSRU-TV members. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource WSRU-TV and The Rocket Relation A related resource SRU Student Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-04-03 Audio Podcast SRU Student The Rocket WSRU-TV YouTube Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Rocket Description An account of the resource Items from Slippery Rock University's official student newspaper, The Rocket. Hyperlink A link, or reference, to another resource on the Internet. 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Text Any textual data included in the document Staying home doesn’t have to be boring. Take advantage of this time by doing something you’ve never done or maybe things you haven’t done in a while. Here is a list of 10 activities that will keep you occupied during this pandemic: 1 Exercise Although you can’t go to your local gym, that doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice getting in a good workout. It’s important to stay active and get in at least 30 minutes of activity a day. Whether you follow a physical fitness video, go for a run or create your own workout, getting your body moving will improve your overall energy, health, sleep and mood. 2 Read a book Books can be the windows to amazing stories! Many people tend to watch movies and TV shows, but reading improves one’s mental stimulation. College students often opt out of reading for fun because of the workload for classes they have. With all the spare time we have now, pick up a good book and dive into the unknown. Reading is known to reduce stress, expand your vocabulary, improve focus/concentration and allows you to gain knowledge. So sit down and curl up to a good book; it might surprise you. 3 Play board games Family game nights can be a blast. Dust off that old family favorite and let the games begin. Being unable to go out and do other activities gives us a great opportunity to spend time with our families and make some memories. 4 Cook/Bake Try something new! Dig through your family’s recipe book or start from scratch. Cooking a new meal might surprise you. Baking cookies can be simple, but have you tried to cook them without the pre-made package? Challenge yourself! 5 Spring Cleaning Yes, it’s that time of the year. Time to get rid of all those clothes that don’t fit and those smelly old shoes you’ve had since middle school. Go through your stuff and create a donation pile. This will help you declutter and will benefit a local donation center. Don’t forget to clean. Scrub your home head to toe. Spring cleaning is known for its sense of rebirth and starting new. It will take a load off your chest. 6 Craft Do something artistic, whether that’s drawing, painting or scrapbooking. Let your imagination go wild. This is another activity that reduces stress. Take some time out of your day to doodle and who knows, maybe you’ll discover a hidden talent! 7 Create a bullet journal Journaling is a popular form of expressing your thoughts and ideas on paper. A bullet journal is a place where you can do anything. It’s really easy! It allows you to set goals for yourself and make a schedule. Draw pictures, make bucket lists, make to-do lists or write down your thoughts for the day. The purpose of doing a bullet journal is to let yourself plan and create. In this journal, you can track your habits and help you to be more accountable for your actions. Each bullet journal is unique and all you need to start is a notebook and a pen. 8 Plan a trip Many people use the excuse that they’re too busy to plan a vacation. Now that you may have more time on your hands, you can sit down and plan that perfect trip. Planning trips can be difficult, but if you take your time and do your research, you will be much happier with the results. 9 Clear your storage Every time your phone tells you you’re low on storage, you may ignore it. It’s time to go through all those old photos and videos and erase all those unnecessary doubles and screenshots. Organize the ones you save into albums so you can find them easier. If you want to erase them all, you can get them printed and sent right to your mailbox so that you’ll always have those memories. 10 Redecorate Take that old room of yours and start fresh! Start by taking down all of your pictures and posters. Move around your furniture to give yourself a new perspective. Using things you have at home, create a new vision and then go crazy. Being stuck in the house can often clutter your head. Giving yourself a “new” space can spice up your day and allow you to feel rejuvenated. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 10 things to do while stuck at home Description An account of the resource This story was originally published in the campus life section of The Rocket's website, theonlinerocket.com. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-03-23 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ashley Kaiser Relation A related resource SRU Student Article SRU Student Story The Rocket https://slipperyrockcovid19.org/files/original/f95adb3d3c3aa1fccb6e48917cef8360.pdf 0dafab4161d791689342702f841110ec Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Rocket Description An account of the resource Items from Slippery Rock University's official student newspaper, The Rocket. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document The outbreak of COVID-19 is one of few events that similarly impacts the entire globe, one of such magnitude to which it will leave a permanent mark upon our culture. With events such as these, the creative types in the world (now with more free time than ever before) become inspired to create stories. With the world already feeling apocalyptic, it’s not hard to imagine fictional worlds in worse states than ours or stories about even more radical diseases spreading across the globe. Trends in media are far from a new phenomenon. Zombie and superhero movies in recent times, for example, have had their times in the sun, and the success of a book like The Hunger Games spawned an explosion of dystopian novels. But historical events can also lead to these trends in fiction. Dictatorships and censorship in the early 20th century led to stories such as Fahrenheit 451 or 1984, the moon landing led to a spike of science fiction stories. This pandemic will have a similar impact on stories to come. On Netflix, stories about diseases and the end of the world are already rising to the top of popularity, so new stories to satiate genre fans are sure to come. Here are some types of stories I think we’ll see: 1End of the World stories This one is kinda obvious, and it’s a genre that has been in pop culture for a while, but many of those movies deal with the world ending in big, explosive ways, like a meteor from space or a world war. I think a new type of story will emerge where we follow characters at the end of the world slowly collapsing around them with less of an action focus and more of a character study of people helpless to stop their world from crumbling from a slower threat (like a virus) and how they cope with it. 2Rise of the Younger Generation COVID-19’s mortality is focused on older generations, so what if a virus came that wiped out most of humanity, leaving only the young to fend for themselves? These stories would likely be framed as coming-of-age tales or something corny like that. 3“Humans are the Virus” I’ve seen a few posts on Twitter and other platforms about how coronavirus is helping pollution and climate change in some areas of the world. I think we’ll see some films or novels about how less humans means a healthier planet. Maybe Thanos didn’t do anything wrong. 4Fallen Government Recently, word came out that Senator Rand Paul tested positive for coronavirus. What would it be like if world governments fell to a virus? Would the world fall into anarchy and end, or would the remaining people band together and rebuild? 5Pandemic Teams Stories following a group of specialists battling viruses across the globe. I think this one has a lot of potential for big blockbuster films because there’s potential to have simple stories and big-name actors. This decade’s version of 90’s disaster films about going to space to blow up meteors heading toward earth. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource How COVID-19 will influence future stories Description An account of the resource This story was originally published in the opinion section of The Rocket's website, theonlinerocket.com. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-03-24 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Joshua Peters Relation A related resource SRU Student Article SRU Student Story The Rocket https://slipperyrockcovid19.org/files/original/5d74308c344c40acd038e1272cf27c2d.pdf 33029ca668712ba57177b5fbc157b9cb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Rocket Description An account of the resource Items from Slippery Rock University's official student newspaper, The Rocket. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document TO RENT The Invisible Man (2020) An abusive boyfriend stages his suicide and turns himself invisible to terrorize his girlfriend, played by Elizabeth Moss in a career defining role. NETFLIX Good Time After a failed bank robbery, Constantine (Robert Pattison) must break his brother out of jail in a film that is an electric joyride around New York City. Burning After returning from a trip, a girl introduces her friend to Ben, a mysterious man she met in Africa with a secret hobby that could change their lives forever. The Edge of Seventeen Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), a high school junior, is caught in the worst possible situation: her older, more popular brother begins dating her best friend. Molly’s Game (streaming April 1) Based on a true story, Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) runs an exclusive, high-stakes poker game for a decade before having her life come crashing down before her eyes. AMAZON PRIME Lady Bird While going through all the typical high school moments, a high school senior (Saoirse Ronan) realizes that her mother who she often feuds with may just be as opinionated and loving as her. Midsommar After the sudden loss of her family, Dani (Academy Award nominee Florence Pugh) visits Sweden with her boyfriend and his friends only to realize they are caught in the plot of a pagan cult. The Skeleton Twins Twins Maggie and Milo (SNL alums Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader) come together after near-tragedies and years apart only to discover both of their lives are broken. HULU Parasite (streaming April 8) 2019’s Academy Award winner for Best Picture showcases two families, one rich and one poor, and how their lives slowly begin to intertwine with one another in a twisted, dark thriller. Booksmart Two high school seniors try to fit four years’ worth of partying into one night in an effort to catch up with their peers. A Simple Favor A vlogger (Anna Kendrick) begins to discover secrets about her best friend’s past (Blake Lively) after she mysteriously disappears. DISNEY+ Onward (streaming April 3) After a short run in theaters before the pandemic, Disney has decided to release their story of two brothers on a quest to reclaim the magic and love they miss from their father who was taken from them at a young age. APPLE TV+ Dickinson (series) A fictionalized and stylized version of Emily Dickinson’s life and views on the 19th century world. HBO Euphoria (series) Zendaya stars, alongside an all-star cast, as a recovering drug addict in high school who befriends the new girl at school who changes her life. SHOWTIME Kidding (series) Jim Carrey plays a Fred Rogers-like character with a popular children’s show who deals with the loss of his son and an impending divorce. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource What to watch: Quarantine queue Description An account of the resource This story was originally published in the campus life section of The Rocket's website, theonlinerocket.com. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-03-24 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Dereck Majors Relation A related resource SRU Student Article SRU Student Story The Rocket https://slipperyrockcovid19.org/files/original/fde8cba90daa34b5cee7fd3c102ed447.pdf 13b5d3ecacaf5cc04e27288bb2d47fd6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Rocket Description An account of the resource Items from Slippery Rock University's official student newspaper, The Rocket. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document The Student Counseling Center and Student Support are still operating through COVID-19 in an online setting and over the phone. Any student needing support can still receive the care and support that they need in a non-face-to-face setting. Kenneth Messina, the director of the Student Counseling Center, said that as of Monday, phone services will be resumed for students who need counseling. “The best way to get set up for phone consultation with one of our counselors would be to email [scc@sru.edu] to schedule an appointment,” Messina said. He said that another thing he refers to a lot is the Psychology Today website, where students can find therapists in their local area while at home. There is a “Therapist Finder” tab on the website. “Students can sort through location, insurance, specialty area and other options to find someone who is online,” Messina said. Karla Fonner, the director of Student Support, said that the easiest way to seek student support during this time is through a care report. “Students can go to the university webpage and search for care report and fill out a care referral form that comes directly to us,” Fonner said. “Once we have that, we can go ahead and connect with them in whatever way that they are needing.” Fonner said that students can also email her directly, at karla.fonner@sru.edu. “I am checking my email while working from home, so if a student doesn’t feel like filling out the form, they can certainly just send me an email,” Fonner said. Once emails and care reports are received, student support will reach out to the student. Student Support has been utilizing Zoom, a video communications app, to have face-to-face meetings over the internet with students. “All of our meetings have been happening through Zoom, though, if a student can’t get to Zoom but have FaceTime, we can have FaceTime meetings,” Fonner said. “However we can connect with students, we are, we just aren’t doing any in person meetings.” Fonner said some students are experiencing additional anxiety during this time of uncertainty with the coronavirus, while other students are relieved because their stress comes from interpersonal interactions in the classroom. She said most of the students she is talking to right now are overly anxious about what is going to happen between online classes and financial concerns. Fonner said that other students are back in homes with families that they may not get along with. “Even if you have a really good relationship with your family, that transition back home after the first time away from college can be kind of bumpy,” she said. Fonner said that the students she typically works with are having difficulties adjusting to this change. “A change for uncertainty can be really hard for people,” Fonner said. Messina said that as of right now the counseling center is focusing on phone calls. “One concern we have is we would be meeting with a student on Zoom and then the app would crash because there would be so many people trying to use it,” Messina said. “We decided to go with phone calls to reduce the chance of any problems or for people who don’t have reliable internet connections.” Messina said that a secretary is monitoring emails daily and will connect students with one of the six counselors who are working from home. He also said that the Counseling Center is implementing some new ideas such as a YouTube Channel with common ways to deal with stress and mental health issues, a live counselor on Slack and a weekly newsletter. Students can also follow the counseling center on Twitter @srucounseling. David Wilmes, chief student affairs officer, has created two focus groups for student affairs. Both are in the beginning stages, according to Fonner, but one is specific to student involvement and engagement, and the other is specific to student support and outreach. Fonner said these focus groups may present some different opportunities for students to get educational programming online. The Rocket will stay updated with these plans over the next couple of weeks. Messina encourages students who may be feeling overly anxious, depressed or in need of services to reach out. Anyone who may be struggling can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 24/7 at 1-800-273-8255 or reach the Crisis Text Line 24/7 by texting “START” to 741-741. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Student Counseling Center, Student Support continue operations remotely Description An account of the resource This story was originally published in the news section of The Rocket's website, theonlinerocket.com. 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Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Slippery Rock Area Take-Out and Delivery Guide Description An account of the resource While Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has ordered non-essential businesses to close, restaurants are able to provide take-out, drive-thru or curbside orders. Here are the businesses closest to Slippery Rock you can support during the coronavirus pandemic. Originally published in the campus life section of The Rocket's website, theonlinerocket.com. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-03-26 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hannah Slope Relation A related resource SRU Student Image SRU Student The Rocket https://slipperyrockcovid19.org/files/original/b3ef7b0139e33d9e26a3a107345b2c0f.pdf 07187b3fb91ef22157fe948a09872838 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Rocket Description An account of the resource Items from Slippery Rock University's official student newspaper, The Rocket. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Much like the empty Slippery Rock University campus, The Suite in the Smith Student Center has been closed until further notice, making it more difficult for student organizations to conduct business and function in general. With spring break being extended and a confusion around classes starting back up, student organizations have had to adjust to a virtually-based way of meeting and making decisions. Though less convenient than in person, organizations such as the University Program Board (UPB) have begun to work through Zoom and e-boards. “We’ve never really done virtual event planning,” said University Program Board (UPB) President Celine Halt. “Everything we do, whether it be the concert, a speaker, or a common hour event, they all take place on campus. So this is definitely the first time we’ve had to think outside the box as to how can we entertain our students while still doing those things, just from a different location.” Some organizations, such as the Student Government Association (SGA), are also somewhat uncertain on how to proceed with elections, which, Director of Student Engagement and Leadership Lauren Moran said are typically held toward the end of March or early April. “It can certainly impact from a campaigning standpoint or if people’s elections were during business meetings, what does that look like?” Moran said. That’s where an online elections feature comes in. Moran explained that organizations can enter their own portals within CORE, craft ballots, and post information about candidates and selection of staff online. They can then set permissions to allow members of the organization to vote or the entire student body. In the past, Moran said, this feature has been used mainly for Homecoming and university-wide voting in deciding things such as seats for SGA. “It’s a perfect time to take advantage of something like that feature on CORE, being so far apart from everyone,” Moran said. “But they can still hold their elections semi-normally through that process.” Moran and her office are currently in the process of drafting an email to show student organizations how they can internally conduct their elections. The office has been in steady contact with organizations. “We’ve sort of ramped up our communication with student organizations,” Moran said. “Typically, we do once-a-month emails or [for] the big things. But, since the university extended the spring break, we’ve sent out about four communications to student organization presidents, treasurers and advisors.” Such communications have relayed initial FAQs of event cancellations and planning procedures, support from the office with helpful links, and encouragement to organizations to continue functioning. SGA’s Katelynn Hazlett, Moran added, sent out an email to treasurers about the fall budgeting process, which has been slightly delayed. Moran also plans on sending an email regarding things that organizations can do in a virtual environment. Another feature she pointed out is the online event locations, where student organizations can place a link to Zoom or Google Hangouts in the event details. Her plan is to send a weekly update, just to regularly communicate with the organizations. The biggest obstacle, Moran said, is event cancellations. She added that April tends to be the busiest month for student organization events and that she is leading a committee of staff, with representatives from SGA and UPB, to figure out what student involvement will look like in the rest of the semester. “A lot of people are brainstorming, ‘How can we rethink events that we may have had planned?’” Moran said, later using Fraternity and Sorority Life’s idea of its Epic Bingo event possibly becoming virtual as an example. UPB, Halt said, has explored rescheduling events, or finding alternate locations or different ways in which to hold them. “We’re looking at, if we’re doing our speaker […], do they have dates available?” Halt said. “Do we have dates available? Some of the smaller ones where we’re working within ourselves, like those common hour events or travel trips, those are much easier to re-do.” The process of the Rising Star Awards, yearly honors for student organizations, will be continued and the nomination window has been extended until April 6. Student organization registration for the fall will be opened on April 15. Assuming they continue to work, stipend organizations will be paid. Members of these organizations will have to fill out a weekly report to be filled out with what work had been done that week and approved by their advisor. “Two weeks from now or three weeks from now, I think you’re going to see a very different ‘campus environment’ online, but you’ll see a lot more cool things coming out of student organizations,” Moran said. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Student organizations remain in function during absence on campus Description An account of the resource This story was originally published in the campus life section of The Rocket's website, theonlinerocket.com. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-03-27 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Brendan Howe Relation A related resource SRU Student Article SRU Student Story The Rocket https://slipperyrockcovid19.org/files/original/428b9a952f4737da2b40af5767cdc96e.pdf b0d832a21c890d9fde34528de902dab8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Rocket Description An account of the resource Items from Slippery Rock University's official student newspaper, The Rocket. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Small businesses in Slippery Rock, such as Simplified Meals by Ginger and nonprofits such as Our Angel’s Attic, are still active in helping the community. Simplified Meals by Ginger adjusted their hours of operation to 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. for take out, curbside pickup and expanded delivery, encouraging members of the community to call ahead. Ginger Jones, the owner and chef, said that all meals are $6.25 and include gluten free items. “It allows elderly to have home cooked meals at an affordable price that they are able to eat,” Jones said. Along with the elderly in the community, Jones said that there are college students who are still around, offering Simplified Meals by Ginger as a place for them to eat. Jones said that she reduced the staff to only family members at the moment, not sure what business would be like. “The best thing that I have seen with this community is how supportive they are of the businesses,” Jones said. “We feel like we have a good loyal following.” Jones said that extra precautions are being taken at the store because safety hits home for her. Jones has a son with two autoimmune diseases and said that although she may not be a high risk, bringing the disease home to him is a serious issue. “It may not effect you, but there are a lot of people that it can effect,” Jones said. However, Jones said that the community has come together and are respectful of others decisions to remain in-doors or keep their business open. For smaller businesses that could not stay open or are struggling at the time, Jones suggested ordering gift cards online or searching to see if the business has an online store to help support them. Simplified Meals by Ginger not only offers fresh pre-made meals, but also serves as a local drop-off space for the Feed My Sheep food pantry. Jones said that generosity towards the food pantry has been amazing. “The biggest thing is how good the community is, and how they have been in helping local businesses in a time of crisis when you have a good community like we do here,” Jones said. Similarly feeling the help from the Slippery Rock community is nonprofit Our Angel’s Attic. Patti Bicehouse opened the clothing boutique out of a passion for working in the field of vocational rehabilitation, and has always wanted to have her own business. Bicehouse said that the boutique is the “hub of the wheel” and takes donations anytime the store is open. Our Angel’s Attic is a self-sustainable non-profit, leaving nothing to waste. Although the boutique is currently not working with students and community members in person, they partner with eight different school districts and community programs to set up crews of individuals who have disabilities. These individuals come in with a mentor, usually a Slippery Rock student entering the field. “I work and my volunteers work with [the student and the mentor] to help them learn both soft and hard skill sets depending on their need,” Bicehouse said. Our Angel’s Attic also partners with the music therapy department on campus, where students, free of charge, will teach people to play an instrument. Alongside working with departments on campus, Our Angel’s Attic also plans to bring in a local artisan who owns their own business who will do craft and painting classes for anybody in the community. Bicehouse said that Our Angel’s Attic also partners with organizations outside of the community, such as Pitt and their literacy and drama department. Our Angel’s Attic hosts a book club, and after the book is finished, Prime Stage Theater puts the book into a play that brings literature to life, tapping into learning senses such as experience. “We are now becoming known,” Bicehouse said. “The community sees what we are doing.” However, Our Angel’s Attic is a nonprofit, and Bicehouse said that it was difficult to get everything opened. Bicehouse said that she struggles day by day with nonprofit financials without the ability to make a sale. “I have been reaching out by word of mouth,” Bicehouse said. “They know that we are struggling right now, they know a nonprofit is funded by however they can get the money.” Bicehouse said that she was overwhelmed at the response of the community. “It kind of got out that I may have to close, and people started a GoFundMe page for the store,” Bicehouse said. “A wonderful small entrepreneur female reached out to me and she is doing a 12-day fundraiser for us as well.” Bicehouse said that she called the store Our Angel’s Attic because she wanted the community to think that it was theirs and not just hers. “No matter what happens, someone has your back somewhere,” Bicehouse said. The community and the safe feeling of it is one thing that Bicehouse appreciates about Slippery Rock. “Everyone tells me when you walk in the store you get a feeling of joy,” Bicehouse said. “We have a bell at the door with a set of angel wings and when you leave, you get to ring that bell because you earned your wings by coming in and supporting.” Although nonprofits in the community may be struggling, Bicehouse said that she feels the community supporting her. “I cannot tell you how many times people have thanked us for opening the store,” Bicehouse said. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Small businesses and nonprofits help Slippery Rock community Description An account of the resource This story was originally published in the campus life section of The Rocket's website, theonlinerocket.com. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-03-27 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hope Hoehler Relation A related resource SRU Student Article SRU Student Story The Rocket https://slipperyrockcovid19.org/files/original/39e57bde2d8076ed91c1c238e7a297ff.pdf 68bc01d1d1c19e2c098fc3ae65b27bcc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Rocket Description An account of the resource Items from Slippery Rock University's official student newspaper, The Rocket. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document SRU students will receive a 50% refund for housing, meal plans and select fees as a result of the conversion to online classes for the rest of the semester, SRU President William Behre announced on March 20. Behre said that the rate of 50% was determined based on the number of days students will be unable to access the services funded by the fees. “In this case, as the original end date for spring break was to be March 15 and the original move-out date was to be May 8, that equates to an eight-week period, or half of the total 16-week semester,” Behre said in his statement on March 20. Residential students who are no longer living on campus will receive a 50% refund for housing and meal plans. Students who were approved to reside on campus will not receive refunds for housing or meal plans. The following rates will be refunded at the 50% rate for all students: Meal plans (if applicable) Parking (if applicable) Health services Student life enhancement fee Student activity fee Campus recreation fee STEM-H fee (if applicable if a student was enrolled in course that required this fee) Smith Student Center fee Since SRU will continue to provide educational services through distance education, tuition will not be refunded. According to Behre’s original announcement, the academic enhancement fee and technology fee will also not be refunded. An explanation of each fee can be found on the Fee Descriptions document. If a student added voluntary flex dollars to their account for on-campus dining services, they will be refunded the amount not spent in the spring 2020 semester. The refunds are expected to be posted to student accounts on or around the week of April 6. The refund will first apply to any remaining balances on a student’s account before the refund is sent via an electronic transfer to the student’s account or a refund check to the student’s permanent address. Behre added that the conversion to online classes doesn’t change a student’s classification for financial aid and/or reporting purposes. In response to SRU’s spring break extension and conversion to online instructing beginning March 30, SRU’s Office of Academic Records released a video to explain the prorated refunds of student fees. This video can be seen here. According to the video, the preferred method for sending refunds is via direct deposit. Students who are interested in enrolling in direct deposit are to complete the form on the student accounts page and email the completed form to student.accounts@sru.edu. “Direct deposit is the preferred method for sending you any refund,” according to the video. “It is safe and fast and preferred over the use of a paper check, especially with today’s current circumstances of limited banking access for consumers.” Each student’s individual bank will determine how quickly the direct deposit will process. The student activity fee is allocated to the Student Government Association (SGA) each year to support student organizations and the shuttle bus on campus and alleviate costs of athletic events, lectures, movies, entertainment and publications. Due to the 50% refund of the student activity fee to all students, SGA has decided not to entertain any new payment requests for the remainder of the year, according to SGA Vice President of Finance Kaitlyn Hazelett. “This means all organization budgets will not be available for spending during the rest of the semester, regardless of how much was remaining in them,” Hazelett said in in an email. The remaining balance will not carry over to the fall 2020 semester. Hazelett added that any expenses that were incurred prior to spring break will be accepted but need to be submitted as soon as possible. “Clubs should be aware that if they had any expenses incurred prior to spring break or any that are required to be paid before the end of the semester, to still submit those as they will be covered,” Hazelett said. Hazelett said that the following steps should be followed to submit any remaining payment requests: Go to www.sru.edu/core Go to the SGA portal Scroll to the bottom of the page and select “View All Documents” Go to the “Financial Documents” folder Download the payment request and complete by printing or completing the form online No checks can be picked up at The Suite until further notice. “All checks will be processed as soon as the Cooperative Activity Office staff has access to the office again, so please take this into consideration,” Hazelett said. Other schools in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education have announced similar refunds. East Stroudsburg, Kutztown, Lock Haven, and Shippensburg Universities all announced 50% refunds for housing, meal plans and certain fees. California University will refund on-campus residential students 47% for housing and meal plans and all face-to-face students 40% of select fees. Bloomsburg, Cheyney, Clarion, Edinboro, Indiana, Mansfield, Millersville and West Chester Universities have not posted refund information to their respective websites as of March 27. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Students to receive 50% refund for housing, meal plans and select fees Description An account of the resource This story was originally published in the news section of The Rocket's website, theonlinerocket.com. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-03-27 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hannah Shumsky Relation A related resource SRU Student Article SRU Student Story The Rocket https://slipperyrockcovid19.org/files/original/cbd031732d6118295529faba06cee475.pdf 923e0916768b92b051c4cd7a785c0672 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Rocket Description An account of the resource Items from Slippery Rock University's official student newspaper, The Rocket. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document The global spread of the coronavirus has changed more than daily routines and social interaction — the changes in our daily lives by COVID-19 are impacting the environment and climate change. Dr. Julie Snow, professor of geography, geology and the environment, said energy usage is the largest contributor to global climate change. The burning of fossil fuels produces carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, but travel has decreased dramatically since the spread of the coronavirus began. Because travel has been limited in the United States and internationally, carbon dioxide production has also decreased. “The coronavirus has slowed down the world economy because people are forced to remain at home; they’re not driving cars, they’re not traveling, businesses and schools are closed,” Snow said. “Our energy usage in all of those sectors has dropped.” She said the long-term impact of COVID-19 on global climate change depends on how countries decide to reinstate business. The short-term impact, however, is already very noticeable, according to Snow. “If we look at a more immediate impact, the reduction in air pollution in many of the world’s largest cities is dramatic,” Snow said. “This creates immediate relief for people who suffer from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Worldwide, 4.6 million people die from air pollution a year, so the relief from air pollution will impact many individuals.” According to NASA, nitrogen dioxide levels have dropped 30% since the outbreak of the coronavirus. The reduction in nitrogen dioxide pollution was first apparent near Wuhan, China, but eventually spread across the country. Europe has seen a similar drop in air pollution levels, according to the European Space Agency. “My hope is that we see this change and can adapt to living in a way that keeps this change in place in the future,” Snow said. Though the environment has been positively impacted short-term by the coronavirus, Snow said climate change may cause an increase in the spread of infectious diseases in the future. “We’ve seen an increase in the poleward movement of many tropical diseases,” she said. “That means diseases like Zika, Malaria and Dengue Fever are moving toward the United States from Central America as they follow the increases in temperatures.” Snow said she believes the biggest public health crisis facing the world today is climate change. She added that the world’s lack of preparedness regarding COVID-19 is concerning because the number of public health issues due to climate change is high and continues to increase yearly with rising temperatures. “If you begin to make a list of public health issues related to climate change — heat, disease, air pollution, water scarcity, food scarcity, extreme weather and mental health — you quickly realize that the list continues on and on,” she said. “We need to address the climate change public health crisis today.” Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Climate change impacted by spread of COVID-19 Description An account of the resource This story was originally published in the news section of The Rocket's website, theonlinerocket.com. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-03-28 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Allison Downs Relation A related resource SRU Student Article SRU Student Story The Rocket https://slipperyrockcovid19.org/files/original/bc26c857c6824b9e7666092292de5e41.pdf f9f2fc49aa73ec4ef99bdde10852093b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Rocket Description An account of the resource Items from Slippery Rock University's official student newspaper, The Rocket. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document In the past few weeks, the entire sports world has been turned upside down and nearly completely halted. From major sports like the NBA and NHL to high school sports, everything has been affected by COVID-19. Obviously, this doesn’t exclude Slippery Rock and the rest of the PSAC, which followed suit and decided to cancel all spring sports. Among those sports is softball, a team with only one senior: four-year starter Alexa Guglielmino. For Guglielmino, this isn’t the first life changing thing to happen to her in less than a year. In August of 2019, her father was diagnosed with brain cancer and has been battling since. Because of this, Guglielmino had the dilemma of whether or not to come back to school to play out her senior season. “When it did happen I wasn’t sure what to do, I didn’t know whether I should come back or whether I should proceed with staying at home, but my family wanted me to come back because they knew I had worked so hard for this moment,” Guglielmino said. “I just knew that with them behind me every step of the way, that it would make the decision to come back and pursue my senior year easy.” Guglielmino is originally from Connecticut, which is just a little over eight hours from Slippery Rock. But her decision to come to The Rock turned out to be a good one as she earned the right to start in as a freshman. Before entering her senior season, she had already started 118 games and appeared in 119. “[The coronavirus situation] was very shocking and kind of unbelievable to be honest, you never think anything like this is going to happen and I’m just still in shock right now as I try to figure out what the next steps are,” Guglielmino said. The news that the season was going to be cancelled came while the team was on their annual Spring Break trip to Florida where they play games to prepare for the season. “I wanted to make sure that [the team] was hearing things from me as quickly and as soon as possible, because news gets out fast and the hard thing was trying to stay ahead of it and make sure they were getting good information,” SRU softball coach Stacey Rice said. Getting the information to the team was a little easier, because they were all together and she said that when the Ivy League cancelled their spring sports, they felt that it was coming. “When it came down to the final four games and the last two days there, I said to them, ‘Alright, hey guys, let’s kind of treat these last two days like it’s our final games of the season,’” Rice said. “We always talk about how you never know when your last game is or your four years go by so fast and we always kind of say that and I don’t think everyone believes it, but this is one of those teachable moments where you can show them that life sometimes throws us curveballs but you can handle it with grace, respect and a proper attitude.” The positive attitude is something that Rice didn’t have to teach Guglielmino and something she loves about her. “When it comes to staying positive, that’s all you can do because it’s out of our control; I have a strong foundation with my family and we have a strong faith, and we know that in these situations that there’s always going to be a brighter outcome on the other side,” Guglielmino said. Currently, Guglielmino is looking at all sorts of options and she desires to come back for a fifth year and play out her senior season. “I have been looking into it, possibly doing a year of graduate school and then potentially becoming a graduate assistant depending on which department, whether it’s in my communication department, with my coach or with athletics in general,” Guglielmino said. “It’s a waiting game right now, because we’re still waiting for classes to start again, and I’m trying to process everything and make sure I’m taking one step at a time and focusing on my undergraduate degree because that’s what’s most important right now.” Throughout her career, Guglielmino has been a reliable player at the plate and in the field, as her freshman season was her worst season with a batting average of .216. Her sophomore and junior years, she took giant leaps, however, batting .319 and .241 respectively. With the season cut short this year, she was only able to bat 45 times and had ten hits and three walks. Although Guglielmino was the only senior heading into this season, she wanted to make sure no one on the team took that as it was all about her. “I wanted to make sure that the underclassmen knew they could look at me as an equal, and I think that’s the most important thing when you’re in that leadership role: you want to guide and help,” Guglielmino said. When sports were shut down around the country, late-night Sportscenter host Scott Van Pelt started a segment called “Senior Night” to honor the seniors in college and high school sports who had their seasons cancelled. He made the announcement on Twitter and had people tweet stories at him and among those stories were Alexa’s, which was tweeted by Rock Athletics. “It’s a dream come true to even be tweeted about, that was very surreal and I was very excited to see that when Jon Holtz told me that there was a little chatter about the tweet,” Guglielmino said. “And if this can get my dad’s story out there and show everyone that regardless of the situation and regardless of what you’re going through, you can handle it with grace.” On the first night of the segment, Alexa was included in the picture on the wall in the background of Van Pelt, and she hopes that her story does eventually get told on Sportscenter. “If it eventually gets on Sportscenter, that would be absolutely insane and I don’t think I’d know what to do. And hopefully, it does, because it would another way to inspire people that can get through things as well,” Guglielmino said. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lone softball senior reflects on shortened season Description An account of the resource This story was originally published in the sports section of The Rocket's website, theonlinerocket.com. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-03-29 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Tyler Howe Relation A related resource SRU Student Article SRU Student Story The Rocket https://slipperyrockcovid19.org/files/original/e787d5243be3d18c69d96acec055f322.pdf 403fa430670c3388f1c5aef4e8a0dd23 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Rocket Description An account of the resource Items from Slippery Rock University's official student newspaper, The Rocket. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Three weeks ago, Joanne Leight expected to be back at her office in Morrow Field House, preparing for her classes in the physical and health education department to start again following spring break. But like many professors across campus, Leight has spent this past week assisting her colleagues in managing a task no department at SRU has never done before: moving all courses online in the middle of the semester. As chairperson, Leight joined Zoom calls with her fellow professors in the physical and health education department as they order webcams and microphones for online learning and decide how to modify their most hands-on courses, such as scuba diving, to a new modality. All while leading her own department, Leight offered her help as one of 25 mentors to assist the Center for Teaching and Learning as it helps train faculty members to teach online courses. “We’re trying to support my colleagues in the department as best as we can through emails, through Zoom calls, through resources that I’ve been sending to them, and just trying to find the best way to serve our students because they are and always will be our number one priority,” Leight said. Dr. Leight @Dr_Leight Another day, another online meeting. Super proud of my department. Blessed to be their chair. @slipperyrocku @SchoolWellEdu #PHE View image on Twitter 51 12:04 PM - Mar 18, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy See Dr. Leight's other Tweets Last week, faculty members across all academic departments have begun the process of converting courses online. This mass preparation began after SRU President William Behre announced March 16 that all face-to-face courses for the rest of the semester will be delivered via online instruction starting on March 30 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, SRU faculty have one more week to prepare their courses for online delivery. Since the original announcement of SRU’s extended spring break, SRU’s Center for Teaching and Learning has compiled materials to assist faculty in converting their courses to an online format. Brian Danielson, the director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, said professional development materials were already online prior to the coronavirus pandemic. “A lot of our instructional content and professional development content for faculty is already digital,” Danielson said. “What we were able to do is kind of pull together our entire catalog of instructional videos and online digital resources and kind of repackage them.” The center is also offering Educational Technology Workshops via Zoom, SRU’s virtual classroom and webinar software, for faculty to prepare for online instruction. The two different workshops will focus on Zoom (for synchronous learning) and online lesson creation (for asynchronous learning). The Center for Teaching and Learning also operates a page on SRU’s website concerning faculty professional development and is continuing to develop its resource tab on instructional continuity. According to the resource tab, the Center for Teaching and Learning recommends these basic steps for faculty members to convert their courses to online instruction: Develop a communication plan and inform students Organize instruction by weeks Develop weekly objectives Determine instructional materials needed for each week Upload instructional materials to D2L Determine assessment methods for each week Build assessments into D2L Danielson added that not all five weeks of instruction need to be prepared before classes resume on March 30. For students, D2L technical support will expand to 24 hours each day. Between 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., calls will be answered by the Center for Teaching and Learning. After 4:30 p.m., calls will be answered by D2L technicians. On March 12, the Facebook page for SRU’s chapter of the Association of Pennsylvania State College & University Faculties (APSCUF) shared a call for faculty volunteers to assist with the Center for Teaching and Learning. As of Monday afternoon, 25 faculty members have offered to serve as faculty mentors. These mentors represent all four of SRU’s academic colleges as well as academic services. Jason Hilton, vice president of SRU’s APSCUF chapter, said that some faculty reached out to himself and Ben Shaevitz, SRU APSCUF president, to assist the Center for Teaching and Learning, prompting the union to post a call for volunteers on Facebook. “As we sort of randomly began to collect those things and forward them onto the Center for Teaching and Learning, it occurred to us that if we had a bigger push, we might get even more faculty to identify, but also that we wanted to provide the Center for Teaching and Learning with consistent information about the faculty,” Hilton said of SRU APSCUF’s decision to post the call for volunteers. These “resident experts,” according to Danielson, will assist other professors in D2L, Zoom, PowerPoint, MediaSpace and VoiceThread. The faculty mentors are able to support other faculty members with one-on-one support, a type of support the Center for Teaching and Learning may not be able to provide in its current upscaled form. “We’re not resources with the staff to provide one-on-one support for faculty, so if a faculty member’s never taught online before, they need to sit down with somebody one-on-one to receive some kind of training,” Danielson said. As a former faculty fellow in the Center for Teaching and Learning, Leight said she respects Danielson and his center for their work during the time of the coronavirus pandemic and wanted to help alleviate some of the pressure on them if she was able to do so. “It’s what we do at Slippery Rock,” Leight said. “We step up, we help each other out, and if I know enough to help someone else, I’d be doing a disservice to the university if I didn’t try to help out.” As of last Thursday, Leight said no faculty members outside of her department have reached out for support. For some courses offered at SRU, there are specific concerns about how the courses may shift online. Danielson said that instructional design professionals and faculty members are in “new territory” as they convert to online instruction during the coronavirus pandemic. “There are certainly some things that cannot go online, and so we are working with faculty to come up with ways to manage that,” Danielson said. “This is new territory for everybody, so even instructional design professionals like myself and our faculty are encountering situations that have just never been encountered before. It’s a collaboration that’s requiring quite a bit of creativity, but everyone has an open mind that I’ve worked with so far on trying to find creative ways to make that happen.” In Leight’s own department, students will not be able to receive certifications as part of certain courses, including lifeguarding and scuba diving, since they cannot demonstrate their knowledge of the skills without face-to-face instruction. In those classes, the professors will use videos and online resources to complete the rest of the course. The American Red Cross has given permission for professors to post its exam online for one attempt. “Students will be able to at least take the exam and pass the course, but they won’t get the certification because they don’t have the skills done,” Leight said. “That’s the drawback to this, but that’s nothing that we can control, but we will still give them the information the best that we can.” SRU APSCUF’s Hilton, who has published research about critical dialogue in online courses, commended them for their hard work and engagement while modifying their courses for online. “Never has a college just gone online in the middle of the semester,” Hilton said. “I’m so proud of our faculty because they have just taken after this. We’ve gotten very few instances of pushback, but we’ve gotten so many faculty who have so many ideas and are trying to make the online version of their courses as high quality and as effective as the in-person versions of their courses.” Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Center for Teaching and Learning, APSCUF members prepare for online instruction Description An account of the resource This story was originally published in the news section of The Rocket's website, theonlinerocket.com. 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Text Any textual data included in the document For the past three weeks, SRU students have begun to adjust to a new normal. For many, this means moving home and social distancing from college friends, especially within counties under a “stay at home” order. As SRU students resume classes online on Monday, here are some of the apps and programs students have been using while social distancing. 1. Zoom Some professors may host office hours over video conferencing software such as Zoom, and some on-campus organizations have used Zoom to host meetings remotely. However, Zoom holds a potential beyond these types of meetings. Zoom is the opportunity to safely socialize with your peers. Whether it’s a study session for an upcoming exam or a half hour conversation to catch up, Zoom is a software many students have been and will be using while social distancing. 2. Houseparty Houseparty is a free group video chatting platform. Once the chat begins, users can start games without having to leave the app. Houseparty was originally released in 2016 and is owned by Epic Games. 3. Netflix Party Unlike other programs mentioned, Netflix Party is a Google Chrome extension. Users can watch a movie or television show on Netflix with synchronized playback. In other words, everyone can watch a program at the same time. The extension also has a chat for users and options to select avatars for an adding viewing experience. To start Netflix Party, one user needs to open Netflix, activate the Netflix Party extension and then send the link to anyone who wants to join the party. 4. Game Pigeon For iOS users, bringing back the classic GamePigeon iMessage games is a great way to stay connected with friends in between study sessions. With 24 game options, iOS users can play any game of their choosing with another friend (or two for “Crazy 8,” which requires three plays). 5. Jackbox Games Jackbox Games is well known for its party game packs with different varieties of games for any audience. As long as there is one laptop or gaming system available to operate the game, all players are able to play along with a smart device or laptop. Jackbox Games has made one of its games, Drawful 2, free for a limited time. All of its other party packs and standalone games are discounted as of March 28. Depending on the technology you have at home, you can also stream Jackbox on Zoom, Google Hangouts or Discord. 6. The Sims 4 Originally released in North America in 2014, the classic life simulation game allows users to create a Sims character and control their life experiences. Although the game was released six years ago, this game made the list because of its affordable sale price. As of March 28, the standard edition of the game for PC only costs $4.99, a drop from its original $39.99 price. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Apps and programs SRU students are downloading while social distancing Description An account of the resource This story was originally published in the campus life section of The Rocket's website, theonlinerocket.com. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Hannah Shumsky Relation A related resource SRU Student Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2020-03-29 Article SRU Student Story The Rocket